Well, didn't think that I was gonna leave it there, did ya?

INTERLUDE

The Elders were furious.

Their warrior had returned to them empty handed. Not only that, but it had also broken some key rules of the hunt.

Firstly, it had changed its target without informing the Elders first. This was punishable by banishment from the alien's clan for fifty earth years, and was a serious dent in that hunter's reputation. But because the rule had been broken on a mission as crucial and new as this, the time given could be up to seventy five years.

Secondly, it was willing to harm an innocent person, one unable to fight back. By this, it meant Spider-man. From previous battles with the human, it had appeared to the Predator that the human known as the Spider-man was too easier target and unable to keep up with the Predator. That is why it switched to Venom for a target. So when it had attacked Spidey on the roof at Felicia's, it had attacked an unworthy opponent. This had knocked the sentence up to one hundred earth years.

And, finally, it had let itself get seen by a large number of people. Earlier that day, when it had attacked Spider-man and the new human, Black Cat, it had been seen by several hundred witnesses, and was mentioned in news reports, on television, and had been sketched for newspapers all over New York, all of which had been accurate, except one paper called The Daily Bugle. Luckily, it had remembered to cloak that night, as the injured Predator had made its way back to its ship, but the first sighting was enough to expose it to the whole city.

The Predator had been uncovered. It had been recorded in the pages of news history, forever to be remembered.

The punishment for this was clear; if a member of the clan had been spotted by many, and had also disobeyed several other rules before, it was to be executed.

Immediately.

The Predator knew the procedure; it had seen the same thing happen to other members of its clan before. It knelt before the head of its clan, purred in hopeless apology, and removed its upper body armour and netting.

The Predator couldn't help feel that this was Venom's fault; if he hadn't shown up, the Predator would have continued to hunt Spider-man instead, thus only receiving banishment. Nothing but pure loathing for the symbiotic creature filled the Predator's veins as he realized that he would never be able to get his revenge and die with a sense of accomplishment, die a winner.

He was going to get that revenge. With the help of another.

The Carnage symbiote in the containment unit observed the Elder aiming his plasmacaster at the Predator and mutter a few word-like growls. But what was bothering the symbiote was the level of hatred oozing from the Predator, a hatred it shared with the creature.

It is unknown what motivated the symbiote to do what it did, but the two theories are this: the first suggests that the hatred the Predator shared for Venom inspired it to breakout of containment, whereas the second says that it had planned revenge on Venom already, and was executing its plan.

The glass-like containment tube that the Carnage symbiote was held in shattered into thousands of pieces with a great explosion of strength and power. Taking the Elders by surprise, the symbiote shot across the room and did the most unexpected thing imaginable.

Merging with the hunter, sharing thoughts of revenge, the duo brutally slaughtered every Elder on board the craft, leaving no one alive. The deaths were so gruesome that I cannot go into great detail; all I will say is that Chucky would be jealous of the creature's work.

A small explosion was later reported in Central Park, but it was said to have appeared from out of thin air, damaging nothing but the quiet of the area.

They were long gone by then, half way into the city. They were on the prowl, together, hunting their ultimate prey.

The Predator was back in New York City, and with a powerful new ally. And nothing or nobody could stop them now.

END INTERLUDE