Chapter 10
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Mary Jane was wandering the streets looking through the mind of the symbiot finding out everything it would let her do. Most impressive in her mind was the fact that she was 10 times stronger then Spiderman and twice as fast. When she was in her Venom costume she was able to morph anything but her head into anything she could imagine.
As she walked along discovering all this she failed to realize that she was in one of the highest crime rate areas in the city. Suddenly a scruffy man jumped out of a alley and pulled a knife up to her neck, "Come quietly," he whispered into her ear as he pulled her back into the alley.
Once they were off the street he threw her towards the ground and then turned around to see if anybody saw. While his back was turned Mary Jane switched into her Venom costume.
"Now take your clothes off… Holy Shit," the man said.
Venom grabbed the man by wrist until he dropped his knife. She then tossed him easily halfway down the rest of the alley. She bent down and picked up his knife. Venom walked menacingly down the alley. The man scampered to his feet and tried to run away.
"Leaving so soon?" Venom asked, "We don't think so."
She shot a web which hit him in the back and yanked him back.
"Why don't you stick around?" she asked.
She raised the knife in the air and grabbed him and held him up against a wall.
"Please no," the man sobbed.
She stabbed the dagger down catching his shirt and forcing him to hang from the wall.
"We don't need your pathetic weapon to deal with you." Venom said.
The jaw opened up and Mary Jane's furious face came out, "People like you make me sick," she said, "The world has no need for the likes of you."
The mask pulled back over her face. The man was now almost pitch white from fear. She stuck her huge tongue out and licked his face. Everywhere it touched the venom on her tongue burned his skin leaving his face horribly disfigured.
The man screamed in agony, "What the hell are you doing to me?"
"Getting rid of you," Venom replied.
She then grabbed a dumpster on the other side of the alley and shoved it at him. The impact was like an 18 wheeler hitting a mini at 50 miles an hour. Venom looked her victim up and down and then shot a pair of webs up in the air and web slung away.
I know that guy deserved to be killed, M.J. thought to the symbiot, but did it have to be that brutal?
Brutal is what he deserved, the symbiot said, it's how he was planning on treating you.
But I don't want to drop to their level, M.J. replied, I want to stay above them.
The symbiot didn't reply, M.J. felt she had won that argument. The huge twisted mouth of Venom smiled.
Peter knocked on Mary Jane's apartment door and waited. After a few minutes he headed back down the stairs.
"I think I'll go see Doc Conners," he muttered to himself, "I should let him know someone else found that symbiot."
He pulled on his Spiderman costume and made his way over to Doc Conners lab. The scientist was studying some rats when Spiderman came through the window.
"Spiderman," Conners said, "I'm glad you could come. I've discovered something that might interest you."
I guess I can tell him afterwards, Peter thought, I don't think it's that urgent.
"Here look at these rats," Conners said.
He pointed to two rats a black one and a white one. They both looked like normal rats doing normal rat things.
"Two rats," Spiderman said, "What so interesting? I see rats around the sewers all the time."
Conners smiled, "Yes but both of those rats used to be white."
Underneath his mask Spiderman frowned. What was Conners talking about? Then it dawned on him.
"You let the symbiot bond with this rat," Spiderman said pointing at the black one.
"Yes," Conners replied, "Now watch this."
He picked up the white rat and put it into a maze made out of thin wood. The rat scurried about the maze until it found its way out.
"What so great about that?" Spiderman asked
"Just watch this," Conners said putting the black rat in the maze. The rat immediately thrashed its tail about and started destroying the walls of the maze until it could easily get out.
"I've discovered more about how the symbiot works psychologically," Conners said, "The symbiot has very few goals of its own, it more or less does what ever the host organism wants. However the symbiot's purpose of bonding is to help make the host more destructive."
"I can't argue with that," Spiderman quipped.
"The added destructive powers granted to the host makes them much more hostile and likely to become enraged. The symbiot drives them to accomplish their goals with force but they still maintain their personality. Over time I believe that a person's personality will adapt itself to that of the symbiot or a successful balance between the two may be achieved, I don't really know. All I do know is that after one week the symbiot can no longer leave the host or both will die. Now just out of curiosity Spiderman how did you get rid of the symbiot?"
"Sound," Spiderman said, "It doesn't like loud noise. I got rid of it at the clock tower where Eddie Brock was attacked."
"Then the symbiot probably already has a new host," Conners said somewhat frightened.
Spiderman nodded, "According to Eddie it's a woman," he said.
"Do you know who?" Conners asked.
Spiderman shook his head, "No, I don't," he replied, Although I have my suspicions.
"The Eddie Brock attack was just last night," Conners said, "You still have 6 days to find this person and get the symbiot off of them."
"I'm a little worried though," Spiderman said, "The symbiot calls itself Venom and she's out to kill me."
"But you've got one advantage," Conners said, "A person filled with anger usual doesn't think to clearly and their anger takes over, you can use that to lure her to a place where you can get the symbiot off."
Spiderman nodded, "Thanks Doc," he said, "You have no idea how useful your advice is."
