Countdown to 'Carnage' begins now…

CHAPTER 12

"Do you think that your scanner can find out exactly what this thing does?"

Felicia was slowly lightening up. "I'm sure it's just a mask, coz I don't think it could fit a microwave oven in there…but I'll check anyway. Oh, and should I email the results to Reed, as well?"

Spider-man thought about it for a moment, then replied. "It'd be wise; that thing might not be dead, and if it comes back, having the Fantastic Four with us may be the best chance we have of winning. I mean, I couldn't keep up with it, and Veno-" Peter stopped mid sentence; Felicia had gave a quiet yelp of fear. Brock must have scared her pretty bad, because Cat doesn't normally get jumpy around super villains, thought Peter, but I can't believe that he actually tried to eat her brain! I thought it was just an empty threat…

When Spider-man had gone to confront Venom, Felicia had done what Spidey had suggested; she had got changed into a bathrobe (please, no references to horny teens and fan fiction stories. Chapter six has been and gone, people!), sat by the fire in one of ten living rooms, and opened up a six pack o' beer. She may have been rich, but she wasn't posh.

However, her nerves had not fully calmed. Venom was in her eyes, on her mind and skin; she still felt his tentacles throttling her as the tongue edged closer to a snack. She shivered violently every time his name was mentioned, and due to news coverage of the past few weeks, she looked permanently cold.

Peter saw the shiver and immediately changed the subject.

"Can you still scan it in pieces, because it's kinda hard to put back together…it's in so many pieces, after all?"

Cat forced a smile, the third this hour. "I'm sure I can figure it out." She paused to read something on the screen, and turned to Spider-man, a look of confusion masking her face. "What the hell do you think that means?" She pointed to a paragraph of extremely complicated scientific Mumbojumbo™. It only took Peter a few seconds to translate.

"D'you remember telling me about the helmet using thermal vision?" Cat nodded. "Well, it doesn't. It enhances it. The eyes of the mask help to make the Predator's near-thermal vision become full-thermal vision; it already sees that way, but blurred. If you were cold, or covered in something that gets in the way of body heat, then it wouldn't be able to see you properly."

Peter pondered his discovery for a minute before Felicia broke the silence. "Don't you mean that it used to help its vision? I mean, it's gone, right?"

Cat's worry grew as Spidey paused, hesitant to answer.

"I…I don't think that it has gone. I'm not sure…there's no spider-sense warning or anything…it's just a feeling. That it's not over."

What's Venom up to, you say? Well…

MEANWHILE, ON THE ROOF

"Right, Miss Hardy", Venom muttered to themselves, "let us finish our businessssssss…….."

Crawling in through the broken window, they could feel Felicia's presence; she was on the floor below. A grin spread from one side of Venom's head to the other.

They were gonna enjoy this.

But what was this? There was someone else there, near by. Spider-man? Possibly.

Possibly not.

Whoever, or whatever, it was, it worried the symbiote out of them. And it was close, and getting closer. And closer.

The gash in the back of Venom's head appeared in less than a microsecond, splashing Eddie Brock's blood into his symbiotic armour and sending a chilling bolt of thunder through his spine as the Carnage symbiote took its first shot at revenge. It was back, and with a new host.

"What have you done? Our own offspring has joined our hate? How dare you betray us! You shall die!" Venom's fury knew no bounds, and they leapt at the monstrosity that stood before them.

Only to miss. A tendril shot from the creatures wrist, ensnared Venom's arm, and lifted him from the ground, then flinging him toward the floor, destroyed the only thing between them and our unsuspecting heroes.

And boy, where they surprised.

Get ready for the final chapters of Venom versus Predator, and the end of my first fanfic. Please, tell me what you thought, what you'd like to see me write in the future, how to improve. INEED FEEDBACK, PEOPLE!