The New Mutants: Symbiotic Bonds

by ComicsMerger78

Clint Fincham is not a mutant per say but is considered freaky enough to end up in a hospital full of them. He has no memory of how he got there or what happened to him but with the help of an unexpected ally and some new friends together they will embark on a journey where they will find new challanges, form bonds, and face their greatest fears, and do whatever it takes to survive

15. Chapter 14

This chapter took me 3 whole days to do including today also I apologize for any spelling errors or repetitions but the thing is I have come so far and this is my first story that I am going to complete that isn't a one shot and since I've come this far why stop so short. Besides the bigger the better right, also this chapter is about 20k as far as words go so please take to time to read it I put a lot of work and effort into it, enjoy!!

Eddie Brock was the kind of man that didn't really get surprised given he's a reporter finding out the truth is really never surprising in his opinion anyways. But today he was willing to make an exception, given the fact that you find out that aliens actually exist and that during one of his own little schemes to get back at Carlton Drake and expose the Life Foundation's dirty secrets his own nephew ends up getting stuck with one of these…'Symbiotes' the term is explained. And on top of that he finds out that Clint was kidnapped by the foundation and sent to a hospital/prison for 'Mutants' to be weaponized by another corporation. And of course that leads to his own group of friends who are all mutant kids with special powers. But above all the grand finale happened when the alien or as it called itself 'Venom' and apparently he learned in a very intimidating way that Venom doesn't like to be called a 'Parasite' for future reference. If only his sister could see her son now she wouldn't believe how crazy life can become just like that.

Some of the more lesser revelations that seem more within the ordinary are things such as well murder out of self defense and also destroying public property and of course credit card fraud. Which by the way Roberto had burned up not too long ago for obvious reasons since they got to where they needed to be.

The one thing Eddie couldn't help but notice is that when his nephew referred to the small Irish redhead girl Rahne that they had some kind of chemistry going on that Eddie knew anywhere it was the kind that he had or might still have with his ex-girlfriend Anne Weying. So he'll be sure to give Clint 'The Talk' later on at some point. But for now he was just trying to digest everything that's already been dropped on his plate for today.

Sitting at a table in his small kitchen Eddie held a hand to his head slightly rubbing the slight headache that all of this information brought on. To him it was like the worst hangover almost and he might have to resort to Advil or Tylenol if it doesn't get any better.

The others just watch Clint is enjoying this needless to say at seeing his uncle trying to wrap his head around all of this. His uncle the great Eddie Brock utterly surprised and speechless for once in his life. The others are just waiting for Mr. Brock to say something.

Eddie finally removed his hand from his face and his fingers starts fidget with the tabletop tapping it lightly. The expression on his face is least to say unpredictable but wary for the moment. Eddie's eyes scan back and forth from his nephew to the mutants.

"So all of this happens in under two weeks?" Eddie asks. Holding up two of his fingers.

Clint nods, "Pretty much yeah!" He responds.

Eddie finally gets up out of his stool and walks back and forth pacing for a few minutes before he finally stops to face the others.

"So what are you asking me to do about it again?" Eddie asks Clint looking incredulously.

"Look uncle Eddie all we need is a place to hide until the people that Reyes worked for decide to give up looking for us or finally decide that we're not worth the trouble!" Clint simply explains.

Eddie looks a bit skeptical at the plan but he's too overwhelmed to be able to think of a plan or better solution.

Clint notices and gets up out of his seat and onto his feet. "Look Eddie we've all been through like nine kinds of Hell and on the lamb together and the rest of my friends literally have nowhere else to go, their families and closest relatives are either dead, or have legally disowned them as their kids because of their mutations and powers, come on I know that you out of all people would know what it's like to lose everything and everyone you love and care about and have almost nothing to go back to, so please can they just crash here for a while until we can figure something else out, please?" He pleads almost to his uncle.

Eddie looks from his nephew to the others who look hollow due to the trauma and memories that previously flashed through their minds due to the slight mention of their pasts and mistakes and tragedies that had occurred in their lives.

Sighing in defeat closing his eyes and shaking his head, "Fine! Okay I'll admit I'm a sucker for poor cases like me and sister's kid here, but if you guys are living under my roof I have some rules!" Eddie says his voice slightly strict like any other man or woman of the house would be like.

Clint rolls his eyes and brings his hands up before letting them drop back to his sides, "Here we go!" Clint groans.

He knew that there was never a situation where when someone new came into his uncle Eddie's man cave that he just had to give them the lay of the land and hound them about his rules and regulations in his apartment.

The rest of the mutants were introduced to the rest of his humble abode. Eddie Brock didn't live in high style but he did like to maintain a clean living space so he wouldn't be perceived as a slob or lazy ass. His apartment had a small kitchen and refrigerator and one of those mini ovens and a separate freezer by the door, he had a small bathroom and shower and had one spare bedroom that had a queen sized bed that was big enough for two given that a few months back when Clint's mother passed away so technically it was Clint's room but he'd already be willing to share with someone else. Eddie's bed was out in the small living room in the corner behind his dresser that was also a queen sized and of course there was the couch that was a nice comfy leather couch that had a pull out bed. Also there was a small desk where Eddie usually worked during his reporter days for the Daily Bugle. One of the pleasures of this place was the nice big screen TV across from the couch. And that was the tour.

The others really seemed to think that Clint's uncle was quite a decent guy and some of them could see where Clint got his sassy rebellious attitude from. Not that it was a bad thing and for Rahne in particular she found it to be quite attractive in regards to Clint.

Speaking of the small piety Scottish redhead she'd been hanging around with Clint who was introducing her to his room and some of his things mostly old pictures, and kid trophies, and other mementos while she sat on his bed that was quite comfy for the record.

Rahne is smiling to herself seeing Clint so enthusiastic and the picture he just showed her of him and his mom was great given how much talked about her at the hospital the woman in the picture was beautiful and Rahne finally understood why Clint said that she had this particular warmth around her and in her presence but in a small way she envied Clint for God giving him a mother that actually cared about him over her own. The thought of the mysterious woman that was her own mom always brought a sad feeling, but she shook that feeling off remembering where she is here and now. And right now she is in this small apartment with her friends and a boy who is becoming a man in her eyes that cares about her unconditionally despite her mutant status and powers.

What Rahne didn't notice while she was deep in thought that fiery feeling is slowly seeping it's way inside of her taking root into her feelings and senses heating her up.

Clint got lost in showing Rahne his room and his family pictures and accomplishments he didn't realize that he was rambling on for too long, the goal behind all of this was to just try and get her to know about him better than what she already knew based on the way that he described himself and his past to her before. And judging by the smile that is currently plastered on her face looking at him so happily almost dreamily in a was from his point of view.

Clint took a seat his bed next to her on the left slowly and returns the smile back to Rahne. Clint looks down and takes her small hand in his and puts his other one on top of hers. He looks back up at her face sweetly.

"Rahne I know this has been a crazy time for both of us but at least try and relax a little bit they don't know where we are okay you're safe because I'm here, our friends are here, my uncle is here!" Clint reassures her comfortingly.

And I'm here too! Venom mentally sounds out for Clint.

"Yes, and Venom is here for you too, sorry!" Clint exclaims apologizing to Venom.

Rahne couldn't help but giggle at the way Clint and Venom argued considering he was the only one who can hear the alien unless it wants to come out on its own.

"But Rahne my point is sometimes you just gotta take the chance and live in the moment because the truth about reality is that you never know what the future will bring." Clint advises truthfully.

Rahne nods, "I understand Clint sometimes it's easier to prepare for the worst when it's all I've know and fear of lose what good is left in my life." She explains.

Clint shrugs his eyebrows in getting her point, "I honestly don't blame you for that in fact you're the reason why I'm so confident aside from the added strength and power thank to Venom, but everything from you saving me in the bell tower when I first arrived at the hospital to this morning with me waking up with you in my arms is that I can't live in fear otherwise life will pass me by and there's never a guarantee that it'll end up good but at least I know in the end that I tried to make the best of it and go with no regrets, and I don't want you to be one of them Rahne!" He concludes.

A tear of joy runs down Rahne's cheek, only God knew how Clint Fincham could be so bloody romantic. Before even realizing it her lips were already on his that feeling overwhelming her body again but this time the urge to fight it off was weaker and the temptation of just giving into her instincts seems like such a good and easy idea to indulge in.

Clint kissed Rahne back as he let her take control and just like last night at the hotel she had that same feral sense of lust possessing her feeling the hot passion with every kiss she gives him. Then without warning she grabs Clint by his t-shirt and positions him onto the bed with her mounting him straddling his waist before eagerly returning her assault of fiery kisses to his mouth and face and then trails down his neck.

I don't know what's gotten into her, but I like it!! Venom praised to Clint who if he wasn't in a lip lock with his girlfriend would agree, as Venom being a more predatory creature himself could feel Rahne's animalistic nature.

They are both caught up in the heat of the moment to notice a certain parental figure standing right in the doorway in the form of Eddie Brock who looks at the situation smugly. Being Clint's uncle meant he was the one who's always tease and encourage Clint to get himself a girl and show her a good time. But current circumstances prove otherwise at the moment. Letting out an audible cough.

Both Rahne and Clint hear the noise and cease their intimate actions to turn behind themselves towards the entrance to the room where they see Clint's uncle with his arms folded across his chest looking at them with the 'you've just been caught' look that every parent or sibling that walks in on their family member with their boyfriend or girlfriend when they make out or just as they are about to have sex. The thing is Clint didn't know how long his uncle had been watching them which is kind of disturbing when he thinks about it but given Rahne's intensity of her intimacy it was a sore indicator that things were leading up to sex. Hell he hadn't even known Rahne that long and she was a woman of faith that wouldn't just give up her innocence just like that despite her hot behavior with they were alone together. But even his uncle told him the disturbing story of how he and his former girlfriend Anne Weying had got in the sack on their first date. But they were prepared and while losing his virginity to a beautiful woman one day was one of the cardinal life goals on his bucket list he wouldn't be thinking with the wrong head and he wasn't referring to Venom the other head that's down south of the one on his shoulders. So needless to say Clint was slightly mortified to be caught with his pants down…almost.

Rahne broke away from looking at Mr. Brock and noticed that she is currently shifted into her hybrid werewolf form, yellow eyes, red fur, claws, fangs and all. She didn't even feel herself change this time it was something that she was always aware of aside from her eyes maybe but the rest she was always aware of when changing into her mutant form. The mere fact that she doesn't remember is enough for her to worry about the possibility that something is happening to her that she is unsure of. Shifting back to her human form she adjusts and straitens out her clothes and the same with Clint who scrambles to his feet once Rahne gets off of him.

Clint's mouth is open but he can't get any words out with the horror of what his uncle may be thinking overwhelms him. Clint is wishing that he never ended up in this position now or ever again because now he'll never hear the end of it from uncle Eddie.

"Eddie we weren't I mean she was just….we were just…it's not what it looks like!" Clint sputters out.

Eddie chuckles finding the situation very funny he has to bite back a laugh seeing Clint like this believe it or not with his kind of luck Eddie really enjoys a little entertainment every now and then especially when it's as hilarious as this.

"Pardon me Mr. Brock I'm sorry I'll leave you and Clint alone then." Rahne says brushing a loose strand of her red hair out of her face walking past Clint and Eddie gets out of the way so she can leave.

Once Rahne is out of the room Eddie's eyes return to Clint who is waiting and praying for God to strike him down where he stands. Oh please god do me this one favor and prove you exist.

At least I get a front row seat. Venom smugly comments clearly enjoying the situation.

Clint's expression darkens he so wishes that Venom was physically present so he could punch the smug symbiote right in its ugly mug.

Eddie walks into the room and closes the door behind him in case any of those mutants have a good sense of hearing.

Clint takes a deep breath to relax himself.

"Look uncle Eddie I know what you're going to say and want to say so I'll save us both a lot of trouble and embarrassment and make it clear that I wasn't going to, I repeat I was NOT going to fuck her!!" Clint abruptly defends waving his hands in denial.

Eddie finally lets out a small chuckle and walks over and sits his ass down on the edge of Clint's bed and pats the empty space to his right for Clint to sit down.

Clint gets the message and plants himself next to his uncle reluctantly knowing full well that there's no getting out of this.

Clint opens his mouth to speak but Eddie beats him to it holding up a finger for Clint to be quiet.

"Okay Clint first off this isn't the kind of 'Talk' that your mama already probably gave you how it works." Eddie explains.

Clint let's our a small sigh of relief at that.

"But it is the kind where I get to tell you to play the game by the rules and when you should know when to do it though!" Eddie interjects which proceeds in bringing Clint back to his expression of horror of embarrassment.

His face drops into his hands and groans annoyingly, "Oh God please come on uncle Eddie don't you think if I didn't know or care about the rules that I would already be out shopping for baby clothes and toys right now!" Clint argues.

Eddie nods in agreement as his nephews sassy attitude. "True but still you never had a girlfriend before so I think that you've never really had the chance for the other head between your legs to do your thinking for you when getting it on with the girls, am I right?" Eddie counters.

Clint should have seen that coming, it was almost impossible to win any argument with his uncle. "How did you know…about Rahne and me I mean aside from seeing us making out that is?" Clint asks curiously.

Eddie gives Clint a skeptical look that says all it needs to say about whether or not that question is a serious one or not, "Haven't I taught you anything kid, remember who you're talking to one of the best reporters in the good old United States of America, you're suppose to see the signals and look for the signs of someone hiding something and you two were giving off plenty that even a blind man could see…figuratively that is. But just tell me this before we get into all the magical stuff, just tell me how serious are you guys?" Eddie asks sincerely.

Clint takes a moment and really thinks about that, "Well I've only known her for about 2 weeks m at least that's what it seems like but she was locked up in Reyes' hell hole for a long time, the reality is we've only know and been together for almost a week, and before you go off about that being too quick for a relationship may I remind you of your little one night stand with Anne that you practically bragged about to me all the time that you guys did on your first date and it's what we've been through that brought me and Rahne together, that and of course a few common interests but I swear to you she's not the kind of girl that just got bored from being locked up with only two other boys and just decides to take advantage of the newest arrival for some fun and pleasure, if anyone that would probably be Illyana who'd do that." Clint claims.

Eddie truly does believe his nephew and honestly he's really happy for him honestly when Kendra died a few months back Clint was devastated and after he was deemed his nephews legal guardian Clint didn't really get out much or interact with others his own age especially ones that he's go on to meet at school starting up shortly in about a month. But not it seems as if there's this huge weight that's been lifted off of his shoulders or something. Eddie doesn't know what that girl Rahne has done to Clint but it's a miracle and it's clear that she is good for him in drawing him out of his shell that he'd been stuck in for so long.

Eddie couldn't help but smile at seeing the kid so happy again his only regret is that Kendra couldn't be here to see this.

"Well I think I've said all I need to say except for two things, the first being if you two get to the point where you want to take things to the next level just make sure you're both covered even Anne and I were prepared on our first time." Eddie says patting Clint's back standing up and Harding towards the door.

Clint looks curious, "Wait a minute what's the second thing?" He asks before his uncle can get out of the room.

Eddie turns back to Clint looking serious yet sincere at the same time, "The second thing is when you two do get to that point make sure it's what you both want because it's special to you and not just some go around for pleasure!" He says opening the door.

"But how will I know Eddie, how will I know when it's special to Rahne?"

Eddie just smiles, "You'll know!" He simply states and is out the door and gone leaving Clint behind to absorb their conversation.

A few hours later everyone has settled down and are watching the TV. Clint and Rahne are snuggled up against each other on the couch Roberto and Illyana are on the right side and Dani is sitting in the small leather chair with her feet up on the table, and Sam pulled up a stool from the kitchen.

Things are going quite calmly for the time being and even more so for Eddie who is watching from the kitchen counter while trying to figure out how to pay his overdue bills and the last fucking thing he needs is his landlord walking on in and discovering a whole bunch of kids living in his apartment and then before he knows it the rent price skyrockets and worst case scenario his landlord finds out that they are not just kids but mutant kids and instead of raising the price he'll be raising his boot to kick their asses out of the building and onto the street.

Suddenly a knock at the door brought everyone's eyes to the other side of the room glued at the entrance. The group looked as if they had just seen a ghost or expecting the grim reaper to walk through that door and put them in their graves.

Eddie turned to the other his eyes wide as ever slowly making his way to the door. He looks through the eye hole and sees a woman in her early to mid thirties who has a a semi pale white skin and shoulder length blonde hair with a man standing behind her around the same age with sun kissed tanned skin not at tanned as Roberto's but still just about there, he has short dark hair with his arms in his coat pockets.

Eddie wanted more than anything to give a little sigh of relief but nevertheless this was his ex-girlfriend Anne and her new boy toy Dan Lewis who was a doctor at the general hospital. Trading up a reporter for a doctor was kind of a cliche in his mind but then again a lot of things were these days for certain women so who was he to judge.

"It is them, did they find us?" Dani asks worriedly getting up from her chair her features covered with fear. But she had to be careful not to reach out and bring anyones fears to life that would certain complicate the situation.

Eddie turns his head back to to the young Native American and shakes his head, "No!"

Eddie unlocks the door and cracks it open just enough for Anne and Dan to be able to see his face and nothing else.

Eddie gives a fake smile, "Hey Anne how ya doing it's been a little while hasn't it." He points out.

Anne gives him a incredulous look, "Eddie you literally came to my apartment just two weeks ago!" She says not really getting the greetings.

Eddie scratches the back of his head and shrugs his shoulders, "Well…it's still a long time for me so….anyways what are ya doing here?" Trying to change the subject.

Anne points behind him, "I forgot some of my things I've looked everywhere for them and thought that I took them out when we broke up but I guess they're still here, so I was wondering if we could come in and check please?"

Eddie's eyes go wide looking behind at the group of mutants plus Clint and his non present alien friend.

"Trust me you don't wanna come in here it's the maid's day off and I have been so busy job hunting that I just haven't gotten to it on my to do list." Eddie claims.

Anne give him a skeptical look tell him how much she actually buys into his bullshit. "Come on Eddie please?" Anne pleads she is so not in the mood for any of his shit and games today.

Eddie cuts the act putting on a more serious face now. "Anne just trust me today is not my day I've already had to deal with things that are giving me the widest splitting headache you could possibly imagine so please, not today!" He complains.

"That's it you can't keep my stuff now we broke up but you don't have to be a-" Pushing past him and walks into the room and stops in her tracks freezing mid sentence to see a bunch of kids standing there looking at her like a deer or in this case a herd of deer caught in headlights.

The mutants just eye the woman cautiously. For Clint this was nothing new to him believe it or not Anne was actually not only very pretty but also super sweet they got along just fine still even after his uncle and her broke up she remained the same old sweetheart. But given the circumstances of the fucked up situation he, his friends, and the alien on his shoulder and almost everywhere else on his body are currently in, Oh Shit! Really comes to mind.

She looks tasty can I eat her? Venom enthusiastically asks Clint who was use to this sort of thing by now but was still no less annoying whenever Venom would whine about wanting to eat something.

No you cannot she is my uncle's ex girlfriend and plus she's too nice to be eaten, you don't believe me watch the reruns on the memory screen! Clint mentally responds. After moving in with Eddie when his mom died, Anne was really supportive towards him and his uncle having to deal with their loss.

Damn it! Venom complains.

Clint is just ignoring him at this point. He walks around from the couch and up to Anne.

Clint puts on his best poker face, "Hey Anne! It's so good to see you again!" Complementing enthusiastically at this little reunion hugging Anne who slowly returns the gesture to Clint, her expression and focus still aimed at the mutants.

"Hey Clint it's good to see you to, um are these your friends because last time I saw you, you weren't really in a socializing mood. Not that it's a problem because I know it's still only been a few months since your mother died and it's natural for you to take all the time you need but still don't get back out there too fast kid!" Anne advises.

Clint just chuckles, "Yeah I got off my fat ass and put myself back out there, spent the last few weeks just wandering around and ran into some new friends that I'm going to be going to school with in a few weeks. That's all so what brings you her-" whatever Clint was about to say next was cut short as his body felt like it was going into shock or completely fatigued. His legs fail beneath him as he goes to his knees feeling absolutely horrible.

His breathing goes ragged and his vision is suddenly blurry. He hears distorted voices in the background.

Anne's iron clad face breaks out into one of complete worry as she bends down to Clint and looks almost as if he is drunk. She swears if Eddie let Clint get into his beer supply she is going to kill him. She puts the back of her hand to his forehead and feels small droplets of sweat starting to form and is burning up like the inside of an oven. "Clint you have a fever are you feeling okay!" She asks concerned for the young man's well being.

Clint turns to the woman almost groggy like, he mutters something under his breath but doesn't get much out as his body shuts down and he collapses onto the cold hard wood floor. Eddie and a few of the others namely Rahne, Dani, and Sam rush to his unconscious form.

Outside Rahne looks like she is scared straight, on the inside there's pandemonium going on and it's starting to eat her up to the point where she looks like she's about to faint herself.

Keeling down to her boyfriend Rahne calls out for him, "Clint wake up, speak to me please!" Her voice broken and shattered at seeing him like this. Stroking the side of his face with her thumb.

Dan comes over kneeling down to the Clint, "Move aside Anne I'm a physician remember!" He goes work checking Clint's pulse, breathing, etc. The others just observe cautiously given their past history when it comes to doctors they aren't the most trusting. But Rahne in particular a moment ago she was on the verge of a complete breakdown and is now about to explode with rage as her face becomes menacing her yellow and black eyes start coming out as she glares at Dan with raw rage seeing how he touches Clint. Clint was her's and her's alone no one else would touch her man. The possessiveness in her thoughts slightly surprises her enough to snap her out of her rage buildup. But a small glance at what Dan does next snaps her back into it as he attempts to pick Clint up.

That does it for her as she shifts into her full wolf form with red fur and paws and even the tail to complete the ensemble, Dan is scared shitless as he witnesses the small red haired girl turn into a giant red furred wolf that literally snaps at him with her sharp white teeth. This causes Dan to drop Clint's body and jump back in complete terror.

Rahne is growling and snarling at the man bearing her canines at him, while she stands over Clint's body protecting him.

"How!….what!….girl…wolf-girl…red…she!" Dan hyperventilates out of his mouth that's working itself open and shut his eyes look like they are about to pop out of his fucking skull. Dan is backed up onto the kitchen counter.

Anne's reaction isn't that far off from his as she herself just saw one of the girls the one stroking Clint's face just turn from a human girl into a ferocious red furred wolf that's currently trying to make a meal out of her boyfriend.

The other mutants have never seen Rahne be this violent before, the others are feeling a mixture of both shock and fear except for Illyana who is kind of impressed.

Dani dares to move closer to Rahne who is currently set at 'attack mode'. "Rahne, calm down!" Dani says warningly not only for her safety but for the others and Rahne's own as well.

Rahne finally comes back to her sense that possessive feeling over Clint lessens and sees the man that is currently taking refuge on top of the kitchen counter from her, the hostile features on her muzzle softens to a more docile expression. Rahne backpedals and slowly changes back into her human form.

By the time she is a human with clothes again which didn't seem to shred to pieces when she changed her form for some reason. But then again some mutants defy the laws of savagery and fashion as well. Fear adorns Rahne's features as she is terrified by her instinctual reflex. She's pushed this feeling growing inside of her off for far too long now. Before it was just strictly just confined to only when she and Clint were being intimate and no one got hurt but now she had come this close to trying to maul a man to death and there was only one man she ever did that to Reverend Craig and he deserved it with God as her witness. But this man didn't nothing to deserve such rage and hostility from her.

Tears begin to well up in the corners of her eyes as she continues to back away to the other side of the room. Dani slowly advances towards her seeing the terror clear as day. By the time she reaches Rahne she finally looks towards Dani her breathing becomes shaky and hollow.

"W..w..w..what's happening ta me?" She breathes out horrified.

Dani's heart goes out to her taking Rahne in her arms hugging the piety redhead soothingly comforting her as much as she can as she softly sobs into Dani's shoulder.

Oblivious to them Dan has gotten off of the counter his eyes still popped out of his skull and glued to the small red haired…whatever she is he was going to say girl but a moment ago she was something else entirely that tried to turn him into dinner.

Anne also looks at the girl in awe. Then almost automatically their eyes scan the other young adults in the room who barely flinched at the events that just played out. Which leads to their eyes landing on the man of the house or in this case apartment himself Eddie who smiles sheepishly at his former girlfriend and Dan.

"Surprise!" Eddie jokingly chuckles softly scratching the back of his head.

Anne turns serious, "Explain, Now!" She demands.

Eddie slaps his forehead, "Trust me Anne I just went through several hours of explanation trying to understand this shit myself, believe me when I say you don't want me to explain it and I'll do you one better you won't believe it even though it's the truth!" He groans out.

Anne crosses her arms over her chest, "I just saw that girl turn into a wolf with red fur which technically doesn't exist, so try me Eddie!" She dares.

Don't say he didn't warn her, "Fine the truth is these kids are really mutants that were imprisoned in a facility somewhere in Northern California to be turned into weapons that Clint made friends with after being tossed in with them himself shortly after his body was hijacked by a alien para-…..alien organism that latched onto him a week ago when a whistleblower decided to leak some of Carlton Drake's and Life Foundation's dirty little secrets to me and Clint tagged along and the rest of course is history, so what do you think?" Eddie finishes triumphantly with a sarcastic smile on his face.

Silence fills the room..well almost aside from the small snorted chuckles coming from Roberto, Illyana, and Sam who are trying so hard to resist the urge to laugh. They were starting to see where Clint gets his sense of humor from.

Anne and Dan on the other hand were taking it a little differently though. They look at Eddie as if he's grown a third eye and their jaws have fallen off with drool threatening to start dripping down from them.

Eventually they are snapped out of their trances. But they look at the group of young adults like you would seeing a blue whale breaching or seeing a real ghost on Halloween. But they didn't seem to mind really.

Anne finally manages to find her voice again, "You know what Eddie why don't you tell the long version on the way to the hospital." She suggests.

Eddie reluctantly picks up lifeless form into his arms, "Fine you win as usual Anne, but it'd better be one long ass ride though.

"You know what honey I'm just gonna go wait in the car." Dan ends up eyeing Rahne the whole time as he heads out of the apartment not wanting her to freak out turn into a red wolf and try to kill him second time.

Eddie and Anne are about to leave and the others start to follow. Eddie holds a hand up to the others stopping them where they stand. "Nah, the rest of you stay here and sit back you guys don't need to go everywhere together do you, trust me Clint is in good hands we'll be back before you know it." He tells them.

"If you don't mind I'd like to come along, I'm so sorry about what I did but I swear I don't know why that happened or what's happening to me all I know is there's something wrong with me and I need a real doctor to help me, please?" Rahne pleads walking over to the doorway with a bit more composure over herself now.

Eddie looks to Anne who nods, sighing deeply knowing he is probably going to regret this, "Fine but only because of your little wolfie seizure you had going on there a minute ago, the rest of you keep your asses here til we get back you hear me!" Eddie says pointing his finger at Dani, Roberto, Sam, and Illyana.

They just collectively nod in response.

Rahne walks out behind Anne Eddie closes the door behind him.

Meanwhile elsewhere in San Francisco a the Life Foundation in a security control room full of more high tech advanced monitors with a bunch of men observing them and some of them even go through the San Francisco.

One of the monitors starts beeping the words 'MATCH FOUND' appear in red. Grabbing his walkie talkie he speak into it, "Treece, you better get up here I think we found him!"

A few minutes later a bald man wearing all black with a gun and taser attacked to his belt walks in. His name isn't really important but for the sake of human history he is Roland Treece head of security for the Life Foundation and Carlton Drake's personal lapdog. Also on a side note the son of a bitch never really smiles and has a slightly sadistic sense of humor at most.

Treece makes his way over to the main control consul. "What have you got?"

The man in the chair that called him up pulls up the security footage that he picked up on. "A few minutes ago we got a hit at the downtown general hospital, we think it may be the subject sir."

The footage on the screen shows Dan, Anne, Rahne, and Eddie carrying Clint's body out of the back of their car. The footage freezes and zooms in on Clint's unconscious body. Then on a separate screen is the security footage from a week ago during the break in security breach showing Clint's face in the containment unit where the subjects were being held.

Treece observes the photos clearly they are an exact match. He smirks to himself "We got him, good job Pollard! Keep me posted if anything changes." He says smugly patting the chair and the man now known a Pollard nods. Treece walks out of the control room and into a different part of the building. Where a man who looked to be in his mid more likely late thirties was in casual wear and clothes.

The man himself was the head honcho the founder and CEO of the Life Foundation, Carlton Drake. Who is in the containment unit just standing in the middle of the hallway his head turning back and forth slowly looking at the dead corpses of his fallen subjects and dead symbiotes that failed to achieve symbiosis with their respective symbiotes, his symbiotes.

Treece quietly approaches behind Drake, "Um excuse me Mr. Drake?"

Drake doesn't acknowledge but answers anyway, "What is it Treece?" He asks almost as if he is mourning the symbiotes.

Treece stops in his tracks folding his hands out front. "The control room just got a hit in the city, we found the subject Mr. Drake, photo I.D. confirms it, it's the kid sir." He informs his boss.

Drake almost jolts turning around to face his right hand man, "There is still hope Treece, our future the future of humanity is not lost yet."

Walking past Treece, Drake exits the containment unit, and Treece follows behind him. "Send a containment team to the subjects location immediately, and be discreet about it we can't afford to falter now, not when we're so close!"

"Mr. Drake if I may ask you've been at these human tests for months but I have to know why is this kid so special?" Treece asks.

"Because he's the only one whose made it Treece, the only one to transcend and evolve beyond what God intended us to become, the next stage of human evolution, and from what I've seen in the security footage from the facility proves that, that's why I had him sent to the black site facility upstate from here as a favor to one of my old friends from the Essex Corporation aside from having to clean up the mess they made here, I had him sent to that facility to learn and observe the limits to which one that achieves symbiosis can accomplish." Drake explains finally facing Treece who looks stoic but still listens intently.

"With all due respect sir I thought that mutants were the next stage of evolution with all of those freaky powers and stuff that they can do?" Treece points out.

Drake looks back at him irritatedly this immediately shuts Treece up as he goes back to listening, "Mutants are nothing but an aberration of nature, if they truly were the next stage of our evolution then we all would be like them, also mutants are designed to survive in our environment but not in theirs but I intend to change that this boy and his symbiote are the only ones left that could be the key to the future, but recently I learned that like all of our other subjects the boy's body isn't strong enough to keep the symbiote alive which is why I ordered Dr. Reyes one of Essex Corp's top doctor's to transfer him back here just this afternoon today only to find the facility nearly destroyed and the doctor herself torn to pieces literally and the subject and my symbiote were gone along with the mutant subjects as well, find the kid and bring him back here….alive! I don't want to take any chances at least until we're able to study his symbiote enough to find a compatible replacement host. After that I'll leave the boy in your capable hands, and Treece don't fail me!" Drake orders.

"What about the other subjects that escaped sir…the mutants?" He asks.

Drake scoffs, "Use your imagination Treece, we have no business with these mutants so if they get in our way they get in the way of evolution and the future of the human race, and if that turns out to be the case…eliminate the problem by any means necessary!"

Treece nods, "Yes sir Mr. Drake!" And leaves walking out leaving Drake there for a moment alone or so he thought.

He walks through the lab and hears someone else there, just then out of the corner of his eye he sees a little girl in a white and pink dress with dirty blonde hair looking at him.

"Hello, are you lost?" Drake asks the little girl carefully walking up to her but she remains passive.

She doesn't respond as he bends down to her.

"I'm not lost!" The girl finally responds but her voice is distorted and inhuman as a flash of grey and little blotches of red fill her eyes.

Reaching out she grabs Drake by the throat as a grey and blob of goo make it's way down the girl's arm and onto Drake's throat as his own eyes flash with a grey and reddish look as he screams in painful agony.

Clint wakes up feeling like he just got hit by a semi-truck. He sees white all around him and isn't wearing his usual clothes but is wearing a hospital gown.

"What the…where the Hell am I?" He asks almost groggy like.

"You're at the hospital, you passed out at the apartment so we decided to bring you here to run some tests and see what's wrong." The voice of his uncle rings through the intercom.

"Uncle Eddie, your here oh so I blacked out, how the hell did that happen?" Clint demands.

On the other side of the room beyond the glass is Eddie, Rahne, Anne, and Dan in a lab coat sitting at the machine consul.

The bunch of them exchange glances of confusion and there are even a few shrugs to go with it.

"Well that's what we're here to find of Clint, so just try and relax and it'll be over before you know it!" Dan explains, adjusting his position in the chair powering up the MRI Scanner.

Clint looks confused, "Relax, where am I exactly?" Clint says with a bit more worry in his tone.

"You're currently in the MRI scanner at the hospital that I work at, so just be as still as you can." Dan requests.

MRI!!! Venom panics mentally.

Clint eyes go wide in horror at the recollection of those three little letters MRI! "WHAT! Oh no you gotta get me out of here, now uncle Eddie don't you remember what I told you about Venom!" Clint yells terrified.

Eddie scratches his head trying to desperately remember but is drawing blanking but then that little lightbulb inside his head goes off.

"Oh shit! Dan wait!" Eddie calls out but it's already too late as he already hit the button on the keyboard initiating the scan.

Searing pain began coursing throughout Clint's and Venom's bodies his screams clearly giving away the agony they both were feeling all too well from the loud noise.

Black veins covered Clint's face coming in and out of the visible spectrum. As the two faces between Clint and Venom went in and out.

The others could only just see his body moving erratically like it was possessed or had a mind of it's not that was just going completely psychotic.

Rahne covered her mouth in horror, "Clint!" She screams out for her boyfriend.

Anne herself is worried for the young man, "Dan shut it off!" She tells the doctor.

Dan doesn't have to be told twice as he clearly sees that Clint is having some sort of violent reaction to the noise. With that he hits another key for the emergency stop function. Which cuts off the noise and stops the scan.

Clint's face returns to normal as both his and Venom's screams of pain cease and he is just laying there panting heavily recovering from the unappealing symphony that just played a moment ago.

Dan hits the button on the wall opening the glass doors to the scanning room and runs in right to Clint's side helping the young man sit up straight, "Are you okay Clint, take a deep breath." Clint does as he's told and his breathing returns to normal.

That's it we are never doing another MRI ever again!!!! Venom declared angrily.

Clint looks to Dan, "Yeah I'm fine I probably should of told you my traveling companion has a sensitivity to loud noise." He explains, Dan nods.

"Did you get what you needed though from the scan?" Clint asks.

Dan nods, "Yeah I am going to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible so I'll send your lab's over as quickly as possible and get back to on that in the meantime if you don't mind I'd like to check on your friend over there?" Pointing to Rahne who Clint didn't know came along and noticing that none of the others aside from his uncle and his ex were here it made him wonder why Rahne came here.

Clint finally notices the hospital gown he's dressed in feeling a little exposed in this thing and not to mention slightly uncomfortable.

"Um uh, what's your name again?" Clint almost forgot to ask since he was at the apartment with Anne but didn't get the chance to ask for his name.

"Dan Lewis, well given the situation I'm Dr. Lewis." Clint nods, "Where are my clothes?" He asks not even wanting to know how he got into this.

Pointing to a door on the other side of the room by a door closed door, "Their folded up in the changing room on the other side of the door!" Dan answers.

Clint just nods hopping down onto the floor and walking into the observation room. Where he meets the glances of Eddie, Anne, and his girlfriend Rahne.

Clint walks right up to Rahne and hugs her, she kindly yet quickly returns the gesture. When they both take a step back they look into each other's eyes.

Clint reaches his hand up to stroke the left side of her face gently smiling. "Hey Rahne, I'm glad you came here, but somehow I know it's not just for moral support, what's going on?" He asks her taking her hands into his, "I don't know exactly, but something is happening to me and it's starting to get out of my hands, so I came here for some help." Rahne explains.

Clint takes a moment to look back and almost immediately he recollects their little heated make out sessions specifically the ones most recently where she's gotten so much more dominant and feral like her mutation takes her over completely almost. And judging by the look on her face that even with his new status as her boyfriend still there are some things that don't need to be pushed for further details. And this was one of those times.

Dan walks over to them after finishing the scans on the computer. "Okay so you're up next young lady I'd just like to do a little blood work and a simple check up if that's alright with you?" Dan asks Rahne who looks back to Clint for approval since she's not really good with doctors. He tilts his head towards Dr. Lewis. He doesn't know the man but if Anne trusts him enough to show up right outside his uncle's apartment then that's good enough for him.

They break away from each other and Rahne follows Dan out of the room and Anne follows the girl behind as they leave with Dan closing the door behind them.

This leaves just Eddie and Clint in the room alone. Eddie just stands there in the middle of the room passively, while Clint heads off to get changed opening and closing the door to the side room.

Rahne isn't particularly comfortable, but in a common and yet very normal sense she is nervous about what the doctor is going to find or if he'll find anything at all. He did the regular check up on her such as weight, height, blood pressure, pulse, etc. Then he did a prick on her finger taking only just a drop of her blood and went off somewhere to analyze it of course before Dan left given the story that he heard about mutants from Eddie about what this girl and those other kids back at his apartment really are, can't be too careful so Rahne gave a basic summary of what her mutation is and he's not a mutant hater at all but is cautious about how their biology differs from the natural humans and how in Rahne's case it might be putting him in a difficult position.

Rahne just sat on the hospital bed with the basic paper sheet with her legs dangling off the edge, while in the corner sitting in the chair was Anne watching the girl she now knew as Rahne which is an interesting name. It was obvious she was Irish or Scottish whatever term they use these days over there.

Rahne notices the woman Anne she heard her name was from Clint and returns the look back at her. "What is it?" Rahne asks Anne.

Anne breaks out of her glancing state shaking her head a few times chuckling to herself, "I'm sorry I've just never met a mutant before so I'm kind of new this…you know trying to strike up a conversation without being offensive or disrespectful!" She answers.

Rahne shrugs her eyebrows, she can understand that from a average person's perspective about wanting to make first impressions.

"I also think that we haven't been properly introduced, I'm Anne Weying I knew Clint through his uncle Eddie Brock we used to date but we broke several months back." She says warmly.

Rahne smiles taking a liking to this woman already. "My name is Rahne, Rahne Sinclair I'm Clint's….well girlfriend I guess you could say. I mean we've only been together for about a week but it feels like it's been longer than that given what we've both been through though." She greets back.

Anne smiles, "That's a pretty name, kind of unique I like it, this would be the part where I'd ask you what your mutation is or ability but given what happened back at the apartment it would be a dumb question!" She jokes.

Even Rahne finds herself laughing a bit at that. "I can just turn into a wolf and back to a human again or a hybrid form where I'm both human and wolf, more like a werewolf form I like to call it!" She explains.

Anne nods.

"Also I have night vision I guess you could say since I can see in the dark and also I have heightened senses of hearing and smell, but that's about it really." Rahne finishes shrugging her shoulders.

Anne's features are both showing signs of fascination and awe towards Rahne. "Wow! That's incredible, kinda shows the guys that is girls do have a wolf side!" Anne complements but can't help but and in that joke in the end.

Rahne laughs, and the door opens back up with Dan walking in with a clipboard in his hands with the results of her blood analysis.

Dan coughs into his hand clearing his throat trying to speak eyeing the paper. "So Rahne, I got the results in on the blood sample and from what I can tell is there's no signs of physical or physiological disorders or diseases, but when I got in the body and brain chemical results back they were through the roof I've never seen anything like this your endorphins are extremely elevated, and also I found an extremely high amount of a chemical that shouldn't really exist in the human body well as far as these results go, but your body is mass producing pheromones!" Dan tells her.

Two expression make their way onto her face one being shock and the other is confusion not really understanding what the doctor is telling her and Dan can tell. "Basically endorphins are the chemical that's released when participating in either physical exercise or more intimate activities, and pheromones are a chemical that is often released more commonly in animals rather than humans but these pheromones are rather sophisticated in general pheromones that are released should normally be affecting those of the opposite sex within a certain species but the ones your body have released seem to only be affecting you and your behavior which is odd to say the least in my opinion I mean I don't exactly have a degree in mutant biology. But from what I can tell your reaction back at the apartment was a result of this and considering your animal biology I'm guessing you've inherited something much more than animalistic instincts, Rahne I think you're in heat!" Dan finally finishes.

Rahne's face is about as red as a tomato especially after hearing the words 'in heat' and that did a better job of explaining the situation then the rest of his speech. "So…w-what you're sayin is I'm in heat…which means I need to….I need to…" Rahne can't get the words out considering how big this revelation is.

Dan is more than happy to finish that sentence for her rather stoically, "You need to mate!"

Rahne nods her head in thanks for him finishing what she couldn't.

Thane runs her hand through her red locks trying to absorb this, "How….how did this happen?" She asks almost desperate for an answer looking at Dan.

"Well like I said before I'm not a veterinarian or zoo biologist, I'm just an average doctor but to answer your question I don't really know specifically how but it could be a simple phase you're going through because of your mutant biology or wolf biology, it could be due to you entering into your late teens, or it could be just that time of the month for you! But most commonly it could be due to intimacy or infatuation with someone very recently for the first time!" Dan says grasping at straws for educated guesses.

That last one really seems to grab Rahne's attention, her being intimate for the first time with Clint, thinking back to all the times they were together when it was hugging or kissing she felt that hot feeling rise every time when things got more intense between them it all makes perfect sense. The only questions she has now is what can she do about it?

Rahne clears her throat, "So it's this a phase that will just go away over time like so I need to distance myself from boys or stop being intimate, what do I need to do?" She asks eagerly.

Dan sighs deeply and judging by the reluctant look on his face to share what he knows that Rahne isn't going to like the answer.

"Rahne I'm so sorry, but this isn't that kind of phase, when you're in heat the only thing you can do is to have your physiological needs satisfied, meaning you have to mate from what you almost did to me back at the apartment is only a glimpse of what'll keep happening if you don't mate soon eventually it'll keep getting more and more intense to the point where you'll lose control of your own behavior and try to mate with someone by force and won't even be aware of what you've done until you've satisfied your needs, I'm sorry." Dan doesn't bother sugarcoating the reality of what will happen if she doesn't take action.

Rahne features turn scared and regretful, so basically she has to have sex or she'll keep getting worse but the result is still the same either she chooses to have sex with Clint to get better or she keeps pushing these feelings down until that take her over completely and she forces herself on Clint until she's not in heat anymore.

There was a knock at the door that was opened a moment later with a younger medical assistant from the looks of it judging by his blue medical wear, "Excuse me Dr. Lewis the MRI lab results are back on Fincham and at waiting for you at the front desk." The man says.

Dan nods, "Thank you Gabe, I'll be there right away I just need a minute to finish up here." The man nods and closes the door.

Dan turns back to Rahne and then over to Anne. "Okay so I'm gonna go take a look at Clint's results I'm gonna give you a minute and when your ready Anne here will take you back to the MRI lab, okay." With that Dan exits the room the door clicking behind him as it shuts.

Silence is very much golden in the next few moments that follow between the two women. Anne feels like she should let Rahne have her moment to deal with this before intervening and taking her back to the others.

Rahne is beyond overwhelmed to be honest, she's only 17 which if her memory serves her correctly is underage for California's age of consent law for being legal to have sex. And even worse than that she doesn't know how Clint will take it, what is she suppose to say hey Clint I'm in heat and need you to make love to me like there no tomorrow!

Rahne is finally brought out of her deep thoughts and back down to earth at the feeling of a soft warm hand touching her shoulder, she turns her head and looks up to see Anne looking concerned for Rahne.

"Are you alright, Rahne?" She asks almost above a whisper.

Rahne shakes her head, "Not really I feel like a wench that has to get nasty just to make herself feel better to be honest!"

Anne rubs her shoulder trying to offer some comfort, "It's Clint isn't it?" She asks.

Rahne looks surprised how she knew, "How did you-?" She tries to ask, "It's a girl thing just trust me on that, but I do know what you're thinking and I'm gonna give you some advice that any mother would probably give her daughter when she get to that age when it's time, if you do decide you want to become a woman make sure you're doing because you want to not because you have to especially when it comes to someone special like I can tell Clint is to you, but why don't you just start by telling him!" Anne advises walking over to the door.

"But what if it's too fast for him?" Rahne calls out.

Anne turns back, "You'll never know unless you talk to him about it." She says confidently.

With that Rahne really takes a moment to think about those words, she then proceeds to jump off the bed and follow Anne back to the MRI lab where Eddie and Clint now dressed back in his regular clothes are waiting.

Rahne takes a deep breath and walks right up to Clint taking his hand and pulling him off to the side of the room alone and away from the others hearing distance.

Clint can tell that Rahne has something on her mind and to want to talk to him privately that it must be big, he can just see it in her eyes.

"Hey Rahne what's going on is something wrong?" Clint asks genuinely concerned for his girlfriend's week being.

Rahne shakes her head, "No, well yes but not quite, Clint I need to tell you something." Taking his hands in her own looking him dead in the eye.

Before anything can come out of her mouth the door across the room flies over and Dan waltz's in with a different clipboard in his hand rushing over to the computer. "Clint you need to see this, something's wrong!" Dan says regretfully.

Rahne's eyes widen with fear, this sounded like it couldn't wait if something was actually wrong with him that was first priority.

Clint looks to Dan and begins to walk over but stops for a second and looks back to Rahne who wanted to tell him something. "What was it you wanted to tell me?" He asks.

Rahne waves her hand off, "It can wait until later." She says, while she doesn't know if she'll find the courage to tell him the news. She walked over with the others in the room to hear the news of Clint's results.

"Clint I'm sorry, I got your labs back and it's worse than I thought all your systems renal, endocrine, they're behaving abnormally. I've never seen anything like it. Your heart has atrophied severely you're on the verge of both organ and heart failure!" Dan explains the severity of the situation.

Do not listen to him, I can fix it! Venom cuts in loudly.

"I thought you already fixed it." Clint whispers moving to get a closer look at the images on the screen.

I can heal you!

Clint ignores that last little bit from Venom pointing to Dan. "Can you fix it?" Clint asks worriedly.

"No, Clint I've never seen anything like this whatever this thing is this alien, this parasite."

PARASITE!!!! Venom growls angrily.

Clint backs away shushing Dan gesturing for him to be quiet.

"It's eating you from the inside!" Dan finally gets out.

Rahne takes a step forward and looks at Clint through a different lens now, "You're using him up, Venom!" Rahne says lowly.

No she is wrong, they are all wrong they have no idea what they are talking about! Venom argues.

"Clint we need to get you into the ICU now!" Dan says urgently.

"You're killing him!" Rahne pleads.

Clint raises his hands and waves them for everyone else to be quiet. Then points to himself, "Me, Clint, am I dying?"

No, you are not they don't know what they are doing! Venom answers.

"Clint we don't have time for this!" Dan says moving to take Clint to the ICU personally, but is grabbed by a large black arms and oversized hand with white veins gripping Dan by the throat lifting him off the ground.

Clint looks at his own arm horrified that is now possessed by Venom who is squeezing the life out of Anne's new boyfriend.

"Oh my God he's killing you, I'm killing you! I'm so sorry!" Clint cries out.

Eddie runs over to help Dan but is grasped by Clint's unoccupied hand that is now matching the other one lifting his uncle off the ground by his throat too by a large black limb.

Clint is now twice as scared, "Uncle Eddie, Jesus Christ what's happening to me?"

I've had enough of this shit I'm getting us out of here! Venom declares.

The remaining two aside from Clint that is that are still on the ground Rahne and Anne watch the display with horror. Until Anne gets to the keyboard and initiates the MRI scan.

The noise from the scan fills the entire room as Clint's body starts shaking violently forcing him to drop his uncle and Dan, his body begins fading in and out of black erratically his screams distorted with Venom's as their faces switch in and out. Unknowingly Clint kicks a medicine shelf continuing to cry out in pain. Until it reaches a point when this black ooze jumps out of Clint's chest and onto the wall blasting Clint back into the other room sliding on the floor, Dan quickly hits the door lock button closing the thick glass doors to the scanner room.

Rahne is over to Clint's side in a split second keeling down to him. "Clint I'm sorry we just had to get him out of you." She says apologetically helping Clint back to his feet.

Clint felt slightly better not having Venom inside of him anymore but that extra power and strength was gone and he could feel it. Which isn't so bad considering what he just went through.

However Dan and Eddie were observing the black blob of goo that was said alien symbiote. That was quickly jumping all around the room until it jumped right at the glass door separating the two rooms.

Clint takes a moment to get a good look at his mystery alien in its raw and true form. "So this is what you really look like huh, you were killing me, what happened to 'we' not 'I', 'we', yeah look at that now your dying too, we're done you got it!!" Clint says defiantly. With that he walks to the exit, "Clint where are you going?" Rahne calls after him.

"I just need some fresh air of freedom from him!" Pointing at Venom who is still persistently trying to get through the glass, with that Clint walks out of the room.

A couple of the others in the room yell for Clint to come back and they all hear the door slam behind him.

Eddie to be specific speaks up, "Don't worry I'll go after him I'll be back as soon as I can with or without him." And Eddie is out the door and down the hall and gone.

What everyone doesn't see is while they are preoccupied with Clint, Venom jumps off the door and climbs the wall up to the ceiling and through the air vent and is gone completely.

Anne and Dan are in the middle of an argument at the moment and that leaves Rahne to just watch and observe from afar. That is until she looks into the MRI room to see the hostless symbiote gone like the wind.

"Guys, where is it?" Rahne asks breaking Anne and Dan out of their overlapping chatter. They both turn their heads and their eyes roam the room searching for the symbiote but is no where to be found.

In another room in the hospital is an only man asleep and resting comfortably in his bed with his wife also asleep in the chair to his right, and to her right on the ground is a little foggy bed with a small dog laying in it, the dogs head perks up and jolts towards the air vent on the ground heating something banging around inside. The dog gets out of the bed and walks over to the vent seal and growls as a black ooze slowly flows out of the cracks and swipes the dog off to the side and out of sight.

Elsewhere stumbling down the hallway is Clint who is a bit out of it from having the bond broken. Not far behind him is Eddie closing in fast calling out for his nephew who isn't really listening at the moment.

Eddie finally catches up to Clint as they both reach the elevator, "Clint what are you doing?" He asks.

Clint scoffs, "I'm getting as far away from him as possible that's what I'm doing!" He answers.

The elevator bell dings and the doors slide open, only to reveal a bunch of mercenary looking thugs dressed down in black probably private security for hire.

"Mother-!" Clint groans but before he can get out so much as another syllable the man out front, Treece raises his weapon and pulls the trigger hitting Clint square in the chest with a taser dart causing him to fall to the ground flat on his back.

Eddie raises his fist to throw a punch at the man but the thug to his right quickly aims and pulls the trigger hitting Eddie in the stomach sending his ass to the ground as well.

Treece and the goon squad walk out of the elevator with a smug expression of satisfaction on his face. "Tsk, tsk, tsk, kids what are you going to do with them, and I see you've brought a nice extra along for the ride!" Treece mocks the unconscious forms or Clint and Eddie.

The men drag Clint and Eddie into the elevator while down the hall is the little dog that is currently unbeknownst to them is possessed by Venom who is watching the situation from a distance.

Knowing what he has to do using the dog's body he walks down the hall and a few turns her and there and finds himself coming face to face with Rahne who see the dog and it's pitch black eyes staring her down and beginning to turn and flash bits of white. Immediately she gulps and knows who it really is.

Clint finds himself under a blinding light or two overhead lights by the looks of things he feels like complete shit right now to be honest. Well let's recap what happened today shall we I woke up in the arms of a beautiful Irish/Scottish redhead mutant who has the ability to turn into a wolf or werewolf, I reunited with my uncle after a several hour bus ride from Northern California, Laytonville. All the way down to San Francisco then I proceeded to tell my uncle about how within the last week I've managed to commit several crimes ranging from murder all the way to credit card fraud which I think is a federal crime possibly but that doesn't matter. And then I run into my uncle ex and her new man that my girlfriend tried to make dog meat out of from what I was told that is because my ass passed out and to top it all off I find out that the alien parasite or symbiote that use to be inside of me was killing me all along so much for healing and keeping my ass together. Which of course leads all

The way up to my present situation where I have most likely been kidnapped and taser which hurt like Hell by the way. So I am currently waiting for the creepy motherfucker who runs this joint to get his ass down here so I can kick it all the way to the moon and then some.

Treece walks up to Clint bending down their faces a few feet away, "You have been a real pain in the ass for me kid but that shouldn't be a problem for too much longer though since you won't be around much more in the future." Treece taunts.

Clint groans both out of annoyance and a bit out of grogginess rolling his eyes to complete how much he doesn't really care. "Awww! God! Please save all threats for later thank you very much if you want to kill me you might as well get on with it because I'm dying anyways so it's only a matter of time now, so go ahead and get your little perverse geeky fantasy over with bauble head!" Clint complains to Treece who now has smoke coming out of his nose not literally but you get the figurative meaning.

Treece grabs Clint by his collar bringing his face mere inches away from his, "I'm not gonna just kill you that wouldn't be any fun, no no no no I'm gonna rip that fucking tongue out of your face!!" He threatens with a maniacal gleam in his eyes as he says it.

Clint takes this opportunity to head butt him hard sending Treece stumbling back quite a few feet gripping his nose hard as the corners of his hand starts seeping with blood that starts dripping in droplets down onto the floor.

Clint feels an adrenaline rush which is something that he could really use, "Whoo! That's more like it I really needed that!" He says thrillingly.

Treece takes his bloody hand off of his face and balls it into his fist and reaches back ready to deliver a hard blow to Clint's face.

"Stop! You are bleeding all over my lab, go go!" Another voice rings out, causing Treece to stop in his track and out of the darkness comes Carlton Drake. Oh this should be good.

Treece reluctantly follows his bosses orders his nose dripping blood and leaves along with all the extra goons in the room leaving just Clint strapped into the chair and Drake who eyes the young man as if his intent was to burn a hole through him.

Silence passed between the two of them for the remainder of the next few seconds Clint finally brought his glance to meet Drake's who seemed unpleased more so than any other usual billionaire son of a bitch.

"Where is he?" Drake asks simply starting to walk around Clint.

Clint immediately knew who he was talking about but decided to try and buy as much time as possible and wear Drake down. "Who are you talking about?" Clint asks sounding oblivious to who Drake was referring to.

"I take it you don't know who I am then Mr. Fincham!" Drake chastises as he stops walking folding his arms looking rather sharply at Clint.

He just arches an eyebrow in concentration actually pretending like he doesn't know who he is, "Well your face seems familiar but the rest doesn't really seem to be sparking any recognition, you do seem like that billionaire bastard that took in the weak and homeless for illegal human experimentations not really caring whether those people lived or died, what his name again, oh yeah Carlton Drake!" Clint answers his tone a mix of sarcasm and defiance.

Drake chooses to remain impassive, "So you do know me then, then I think it's safe to say you know about who and what I'm referring to then Mr. Fincham!" Drake responds resuming his pacing walk circling Clint.

Clint sighs deeply, "Fine if you want to cut out all the fucking bullshit so be it I'm game, I'm telling you I am absolutely positively one hundred percent down with that so let's start by me saying that I have no goddamn clue where he is and even if I did I wouldn't tell you for two reasons one being I don't trust you and the other being that you are completely and totally insane!" He says proudly not bothering to sugarcoat the truth or at least the truth that he has learned about Carlton Drake and what he did here.

Drake stops and puts a hand over his chest pretending to be hurt, "That hurts a lot!" Drake says carelessly.

Clint snidely smirks, "The truth is suppose to hurt isn't it!" He remarks.

"You are being dumb Fincham I'm not insane what's insane is the way that people choose to live today, here now in the present think about it all we do is, take take take, it can't go on forever we've nearly depleted our natural resources, and overpopulation is on the rise, war, famine, etc. all that are caused by our own mistakes they we constantly choose to make without the slightest regard for the consequences to come in the future. In short we've brought our planet to the brink of extinction, we're like parasites and you are a perfect example all you do is take. You took my symbiote, you take cheap shots and your uncle take potshots at a great man trying to get something done."

"Who? And where is my uncle?" Clint asks praying that Drake isn't referring to himself as a great man because great men don't stoop to the lowest levels like he has, and Clint himself knows he isn't a saint given everything he's done in the last week, but at least he's not a monster like Drake.

Drake sighs giving Clint his own version of a smug look, "Oh don't worry your uncle is perfectly fine he's actually filling out his signature to my insurance policy to ensure that you tell me where my missing symbiote is, or I can tell you where to find your uncle Brock's body once my men get done with him." Drake says.

Clint's face becomes contorted with rage trying to explode tugging against his restraints struggling to break free. "You better take your time choosing the next words that come out of that blowhole you call your mouth because they might be the last fucking words you ever say again!" Clint growls lowly and very very darkly.

Drake chuckles not feeling threatened at all. "You know it's kind of amusing making empty threats to me, it once again proves my point of how you are insane, what I am trying to initiate is a whole new world a whole new species, human and symbiote combined are the next stage of our evolution!" He explains sounded like he's high on his own pride.

Clint let's put a chuckled snort "Let me tell you something because speaking from experience of spending a significant amount of time with one of these creatures up my ass, it's not a lot of fun aside from the power boost and enhanced senses and strength that come with the symbiote, but on the low side you constantly are fighting for control over your own damn body and having to deal with them who being in your head twenty four seven, and then in the end I find out all along that they're killing you slowly until you've got nothing left!" He argues.

Drakes expression turns impatient and irritated, "This is the last time I'm asking you Fincham, where is he? where is my symbiote?" Drake demands.

Clint just shrugged unsure for real, "How the fuck should I know, we got separated!"

What happens next almost scares the shit of of Clint as Drake's body and face disappear dissolving into a silverish grey mass with little red veins all over its body and white eyes and dirty thin fangs and a muscular figure that is towering over Clint that is mere feet away from him.

"WHERE IS HE, WHERE'S VENOM??" The symbiote demands.

Clint takes in that it's another symbiote, Venom said that there were more of them but he didn't say they were here yet.

Clint exclaims with disgust, "God that is the ugliest thing I have ever seen!" He whines.

The symbiote's only response is roaring in Clint's face before the dark silver and red symbiote retracts back into Drake who appears again a few feet away now.

"You know what Fincham I think I'm gonna let my men see if they can jog your memory, have a nice life!, Treece he's all yours but don't kill him just yet!" Drake yells leaving the room walking off.

Clint closes his eyes exhaling deeply, "Well isn't that just fucking typical he….has one up his ass too." He says to himself.

Confident that he is now out of sight, Drake speaks to his symbiote. "Your friends, the others I apologize I tried to keep them alive!" He says sincerely.

A silver tendril develops from Drakes back revealing the symbiote's face looking at Drake in the eyes.

"There are more of us, millions more, and they will follow wherever I lead." The symbiote explains indifferently showing no remorse.

"Where we lead?" Drake corrects.

"Yes we, but first me must retrieve them." The symbiote explains.

Drake smiles, "I can take care of that!" He claims.

Meanwhile back at the apartment the others were just sitting around looking for something to do. Well Dani and Sam were actually just watching the TV, Roberto and Illyana were off to the side at the kitchen counter just exchanging shy glances.

They are all startled by the sudden but the door to the apartment flying wide open and Anne rushing in looking like she's out of breath. Anne's eyes quickly skim throughout the room as if they are searching for something from what the others can tell anyways. But for what is the question on their minds. And their first guess comes a second later when they realize that Clint, Rahne, and Mr. Brock or as he preferred to be called Eddie since Mr. Brock made him sound like an old man in his opinion or seemed to remind him of his father. Weren't with her.

Anne still panting trying to catch her breath, "Are Eddie and Clint here or even Rahne?" She asks vividly.

The others get up and walk to her to make sure they heard that correctly.

Sam speaks first, "What are ya talkin about we thought they went with you to the hospital after Clint passed out!" He reminds the woman.

Anne looks at the young Kentucky hayseed with the baseball cap quite seriously, "They were but after everything happened Clint went off to get some air and Eddie went after him and they were gone for a while, Rahne told me she was going to check on them and then she didn't come back, so then I went to check the whole floor and the lobby and right outside the building but they were all gone!" She explains from her knowledge.

The others start to feel a little wave of panic wash over them but manage to keep their cool since they've been through worse together.

"Are you sure they didn't say anything else after they left?" Dani asks Anne who nods.

"I asked Dan to check the security footage at the hospital and get back to me if he finds anything, while I would check and see if they just came back here." She says.

There are a few nods understanding that.

A buzzing noise goes off a moment later in Anne's pocket and fishes out her iPhone the caller I.D. saying 'Dan' on it, she answers bringing it up to her ear.

"Dan what is it what did you find, because they're not here?" She asks quickly telling him the bad news.

Back at the hospital in the security control room with the monitors Dan is still in his lab coat with his phone up to his head viewing the security footage from earlier showing Clint and Eddie getting into the north elevator but showing a whole bunch of men with guns tasing them unconscious and then dragging them into the elevator.

"Anne I found them the security video shows a bunch of guys with guns stunning them and dragging them away to the back exit and into a SUV and are gone, I'm sorry!" Dan explains.

The others overhear the conversation since Anne put Dan on speaker at some point. Another exchange of glances are shared amongst the young mutants.

"Do you think it could be the guys from Essex Corp?" Roberto asks his friends.

Dani shakes her head, "No, I don't think so I mean I understand them taking Clint but why would they take his uncle when they know he's not a mutant?" She points out the others consider this for a moment.

Sam gives his theory first, "Maybe they took his as leverage to get Clint to give them where we are?" He guesses with a small shrug.

Illyana would had chosen to remain silent for the majority of this little debate decides to speak up, "What if they're not from Essex Corp, is there any symbols or I.D. on these men?" She asks Dan over the speaker.

Dan rewinds the footage to the point where Eddie and Clint are dragged into the elevator and sees the breast pocket on one of them and zooms in to see a hexagonal emblem with the words 'Life Foundation' on it.

"It says they're from the Life Foundation on their clothing with a hexagon just above." Dan answers.

Eyes go wide on the other end of the receiver at the sound of those words and a whole bunch of lightbulbs start to go off in their heads. They look at each other for confirmation.

"Life Foundation, isn't that the place that Clint said that he and Venom were sent from back at the hospital?" Sam asks with a bit of worry crossing his face.

The others nod in response, sharing similar expressions on their own faces.

"Yeah they probably found out that Clint escaped and tracked him and Venom down and like Sam said his uncle must've gotten caught up in the crossfire, and they took his as collateral leverage or something!" Dani summarizes.

"I'll bet doggy either saw this or caught their scent and decided to follow them." Roberto guesses. The others agree with this given their relationship.

Dani steps forward towards Anne, "Do you know where the foundation is?" She asks.

Anne nods to the small dark haired Native American girl, "Yeah the foundation is headquartered right across the Golden Gate Bridge near the forest." She answers.

Dani looks back to the others who exchange looks to make sure they are on the same page, and they all almost nod in tandem to her saying that they're in.

Dani turns back to Anne, "Can you take us there please?" Dani practically pleads to the older woman.

Anne gives a sarcastic chuckle, "Are you crazy you're just a bunch of kids even though you're all mutants with powers still I'd never forgive myself for letting any of you go and get yourselves killed!" Anne denies more out of concern for the children's safety. She may not be their mother but she doesn't need to be in regards to their welfare.

"They're our friends we can't just sit back and do nothing!" Dani argues.

Illyana steps forward, "Besides this isn't the first time we've been through shit like this, for me personally I despise men that like to keep others trapped and tortured, so either help us or get the fuck out of our way!" She states deadly serious.

Anne was getting weird vibes from this girl, as chills were sent up her spine. The looks on their faces showed pure determination the kind where the word 'No' isn't an option. She knows she is going to regret this but doesn't really want to fight a group of mutant kids.

Groaning rolling her eyes, "Fine I'll take you there but only because my ex-boyfriend is in trouble and I don't exactly have any special powers myself.

There are a few smirks of satisfaction as they pile out of the apartment and down the stairs and into Anne's car taking off.

Darkness covers the sky with only the stars illuminating the night from complete blackness. Down in the woods walking with his hands up is Clint who is being forced to walk deep into the forest away from the life foundation and his uncle, who was in big trouble no doubt, but not as much as him for the moment. Treece holding Clint at gunpoint keeps barking at Clint to move his ass the whole time.

"So this is your plan, you are going to walk me to death?" Clint comments. Earning a shove in the back from Treece as he and two more goons follow from behind with their guns in hand and at the ready.

"You're not so tough without your alien friend, huh?" Treece taunts.

Clint stops in his track and turns to face the bald man, "Did your mama not love you?" He asks. Quickly attempting to know the gun out of Treece's hands and giving a nice hard left cross to his face.

Unfortunately it's not enough as Treece brings his arm back and hits Clint on the back sending him to the ground, the other two men just laugh finding it amusing that Clint thinks he can win.

Treece riches the side of his face to see a small cut and some blood on is fingers from touching the open wound.

Looking down at Clint, "You little shit!" He brings his leg back and kicks Clint right in the stomach rolling him over clutching his stomach groaning in pain.

Treece grabs Clint by his t-shirt bringing him to his knees. To make Clint see what's about to come next, holstering his gun and reaching behind his belt and takes out what looks like a mix between a taser and cattle prod. And powers it up with a little blue zap in the middle looking down smugly at Clint.

"Mr. Drake gave me orders not to kill you, but he didn't say anything about me making you wish you were dead, so I'm gonna enjoy this, a lot!" Treece informs Clint snidely taking joy in every word.

"Well I hope you enjoy it because this whole thing is something bigger than you or me." Clint informs. Out of the corner of his eye he sees one of the men get dragged away by a bunch of black tendrils so fast he isn't even able to scream.

Clint tries to refrain from a a laugh as he knows what's about to happen next, "This is bigger than any of us." He stalls, as the second man behind Treece is yanked away by those black tendrils as well.

That does it for Clint who can't keep his facade up any longer and honestly he doesn't want to. His face breaks out into a smile, "Karma's a bitch!" He says to Treece letting out a snorted laugh.

Treece's face remains flat, "I don't believe in karma." He tells Clint. But what he doesn't see is Venom sneak up from behind grabbing Treece by the shoulders turning his body around to face him. The last thing Treece sees is one hungry symbiote open his mouth that engulfs his entire head as Venom brings his jaw down on the man's head with a loud crunch decapitating Treece swallowing the little bits and piece of his severed head.

Clint watches both in awe and gives a slight wince at how painful that must be.

Venom throws Treece's headless corpse away like a piece of trash.

Clint now takes in the full view of Venom but instead of the masculine bulging and bulky muscular figure, he appears in the form of a slender curvaceous feminine figure almost that of a woman.

"Hi Clint!" She-Venom says more in the tone of a woman with a slight twinge in the accent as well possibly.

"Woah!" He says in awe.

Clint doesn't move as She-Venom takes Clint by his collar hoisting him to his feet and proceeds to kiss him on the mouth.

Venom climbs onto Clint's body beginning to bond with him as his current and temporary host returns back to her normal size. To reveal the form of Rahne whose eyes are closed and lips locked with Clint as the two of them moan deeply into their kiss. In a weird way it's kind of a turn on to Clint. Venom becomes completely detached from Rahne and back into Clint and on that very cue the two of them break their kiss apart both gasping for air.

Clint sees Rahne looking like she herself just went through an adrenaline rush and looks over to the headless body that is currently leaking out blood from the neck. She gasps horror crossing her face.

"Oh no! I just bit that man's head off!" Rahne whispers in horror. She killed people out of self defense but experiencing what Clint did while being bonded to Venom in his true form while biting a person's head clean off was something she hoped to never experience again.

Clint looks at the dead body and back at Rahne. "It's not your fault I've been there, listen Carlton Drake has his own symbiote!" He tells her, Rahne's eyes widen in shock, another one of these things here on earth.

The one with Drake is Riot! Venom mentally informs Clint.

Clint gives a confused look, "Who's Riot? And where do you get these names?" He asks out loud.

Riot, is what you would call a team leader, he has an arsenal of weapons he is unstoppable, we need to go now! Venom answers.

"Go where are we going?" Clint asks feeling Venom trying to take hold of his body.

Rahne steps forward, "I'm coming with you." She says.

No it is not safe for her, this is going to get ugly. Venom rejects actually sounding concerned for her safety.

"What do you mean no? You know as well as I do that she can fight ugly." Clint defends for his girlfriend.

"Yeah, I can fight ugly." Rahne confirms.

Clint body dissolves into a seven foot black mass of muscle with Venom's face appearing looking down at Rahne, "Not today!" Venom shoots down.

Wait, wait wait I have to tell her something! Clint mentally interjects before Venom takes off.

Venom's head retracts just enough to reveal Clint's head and face with little black veins around the edges. While the rest of his body is Venom's but he bends down Rahne so they are eye level taking control for a moment.

"Listen Rahne, Drake has my uncle trapped somewhere inside the foundation, please can you rescue him if you can and get him as far from here as possible and you too, promise me!" Clint requests but demands in the end not wanting to lose her.

Rahne looks hesitant but nods, "I promise, now you promise that you'll come back to me Clint!" Rahne counters, putting her small hand to the side of his face.

Clint smiles warmly, "I promise Rahne!" He agrees.

Rahne returns the smile with a small chuckle to go with it, "I'll hold you to that." She says giving him a small kiss on the lips.

Clint stands back up straight as his head is replaced by Venom's as they both take off.

Rahne turns to watch them leave and then turns her attention to the building not far off, her eyes turn yellow as she leaps out and shifts into her pure wolf form and runs like the wind out to save Mr. Brock.

Back inside the foundation in the launch control room that is full up of computers and other people in lab coats and outside the big glass window is a rocket ship on a launch pad.

Drake walks along with the head of the launch division. "This is not a simulation!" Drake informs the man as they walk along.

The man doesn't look too thrilled about this, "Sir the flight crew aren't prepped yet." He informs.

"I'll be piloting the spacecraft." Drake informs him.

The man give his boss a look, "You?" He asks skeptically.

"Yes me!" Drake confirms as they arrive at the command table that oversees the ship's controls to start up the launch sequence.

"How long until we're ready?" Drake asks looking up at the big screen monitor.

The man to his right sitting in the chair with a headset on top looks up.

"Well we're loading the probe and running diagnostics now, but even at fully automated, you can't pilot that spacecraft all alone by yourself!" The man in the chair informs.

Drake just smiles, "I'm not alone." He replies.

A man with grey hair in the row behind Drake hear this and looks worried as he flips open his launch manual.

Back out near the edge of the hillside forest is Venom leaping down and retracts dissolving back into Clint again. Who keeps walking trying to grasp what is happening right now.

"Okay timeout what's going on?" Clint asks Venom making a timeout gesture with his hands before letting them swing back to his sides.

Basically if we do not stop Riot he will come back here with millions more of my kind. Venom explains.

Clint's eyes go wide remembering how when Venom first revealed himself to Clint back at the hospital that they needed Drake's space ship for some reason and up until now Venom hadn't really shared with him what that reason is.

"Millions! Okay hold on, wait a minute let me get this straight, you and your friend were going to take the rocket, go off into space get the rest of you, then come back here with an invasion force, and then were you going to do? Were you gonna go feed on a whole planet like an all you can eat buffet!" Clint says.

Yes! I was and I also admit that I was aware that I was killing you but I only needed you long enough to get me here, and for that I am sorry, but things are different now I have realized that your world is not so ugly and that humans are much different from most species out there in the universe, and besides I rather like you and your mutant friend, so I have decided to stay! Venom confirms while also noting his intention to defect to earth.

"Wow! That's nice that you have such a high opinion of us humans and mutants given that you spend most of the time talking about wanting to eat our heads off!" Clint says ironically.

On my planet I am kind of a loser like you but here, together we could be more? Venom reveals.

"Oh you like us now don't you, you really have grown on me, huh?" Clint asks not so seriously knowing that he sounds as if Venom is hiding something.

Yes, however there will be nothing left to like if we do not stop that rocket. Venom reminds Clint.

"Oh I see, right I get it now that it comes down to the threat of complete annihilation, now it's back to 'we' now isn't it!" Clint says finding Venom to be a real piece of work.

It is 'we' whether you like it or not it is going to take both of us to stop that rocket! Venom states.

At this point Clint has reached the end of the first and can see the rocket and launch pad that looks like it's powering up.

Clint stops for a moment having been fed up with this, "Oh cut the bullshit will you, what really made you change your mind?" He asks dead serious.

Venom comes out as Clint's body and face go under beneath his big black figure. If Venom could look sincere it would be right now.

"You! You did Clint!" Venom admits as truthfully as can be.

With that Venom propels himself far off into the air.

Back inside the building Drake is starting to look impatient, "Scrub diagnostics." He tells the man in the chair.

He looks of unsure of as to why he is in such a rush, "Sir?" He asks making sure he heard correctly.

Drake snaps, "Did you hear me initiate the launch!" Taking control moving the man in the chair aside typing the launch code sequence into the computer.

An automated voice comes over the speakers, "T-minus five minutes, to launch! Auto sequence has been initiated!" The voice says.

The man in the row behind Drake is flipping through his manual and finally finds the right page he is looking for. The page his skimming through with his pointer finger says 'Launch Abort Protocol, Emergency Response'.

Drake's eyes suddenly flash with a bit of dark silver before returning to normal. Turning his head slightly behind him at the man who is clicking away on his computer.

Suddenly a silverish tendril wraps itself around the man's arm forcing it away from his mouse. The man looks up to see Mr. Drake become consumed by the same silver substance that takes the form of a towering muscular structure that replaces his body. And then a set of faded fangs and narrow white eyes consume his head and face to reveal Riot.

The man is utterly horrified, "Oh shit!" He whispers.

Riot uses his free hand turning it into a giant jagged one sided blade that extents out plunging into the man's chest with a small scream from him before he is impaled into the back wall.

Riot retracts his weapon turning back into his regular hand. Growling and snarling at people nearby, the room breaks out into chaos as screams emanate from them as they run away or try to run away in terror.

Riot turns around and looking down at his hands he morphs then into metal one sided swords that are slightly curved at the tips. Winding his arms back he slashes at the rows of tables and computer screens and the very few people that are left standing, they're all swatted away and broken. That way no one will be able to stop the launch.

Riot let's out a deep yet loud roar retracting his swords, his hands returning to normal. He turns towards the window and a few seconds later he jumps out of it shattering it completely into small shards of glass.

Off to the corner of outside of the building is Venom who witnesses his fellow symbiote leap into the railing heading right for the rocket.

Oh Jesus, if we can take a Demon Bear, we can take this guy, right? Clint asks Venom trying to boost their confidence.

"He has got shit you have never seen." Venom warns.

What does that mean what are our chances? Clint asks not liking the lack of positive spirit.

"Hmm, pretty much, zero!" Venom answers plainly.

Aw, fuck it! Let's go save the planet! Clint says.

Venom nods and turns back to Riot and chases after him.

Outside by the entrance of the building people are running out of the building frantically, off to the side out of the trees jumps Rahne who is still in her wolf form observing the pandemonium before her. She quickly shifts into her human form and runs for the entrance to the building. The people are done storming out of the facility as Rahne nears the entrance but stops immediately picking up familiar scents with her nose slightly sniffing the air.

Not a moment too soon a car pulls up and coming out of it are the rest of of her friends with Anne. How did they know she was here or why were they here, she shakes her head it doesn't matter the thing is they're here.

"Rahne!" Dani calls out relieved running up to the redhead and hugging her tightly. Then they quickly break away.

Anne walks up with a not so pleased look on her face, "Where did you go? And how did you get here?" She asks obliviously.

Rahne waves her hand for Anne to be quite, "It's a long story, but bottom line is there's another symbiote that's trying to take the space ship, Clint and Venom are handling him, he said that his uncle is somewhere inside the building and we need to find him now!" She explains.

"Wait a minute, there's another one of those alien things here besides Clint's?" Roberto clarifies.

Rahne nods.

"Come on you guys we need to go find him!" Rahne says, waving for the others to follow her as she runs into the building as she shifts into her werewolf form with yellow eyes, wolf ears and claws. Dani, Roberto, Sam, and Illyana don't even bother to argue as they just follow behind her. Leaving Anne standing there flabbergasted and out of the loop.

On the platform Riot is crawling off the railing heading straight for the rocket. He doesn't manage to see Venom closing in beneath him until he jumps out from underneath the docking platform snarling at Riot stopping him where he stands.

"Venom, get in the rocket!" Riot demands pointing to the ship.

"No, we won't let you destroy this world." Venom refuses.

"Then die!!" Riot responds, his silver hand forming into a massive glob that looks like a ball and chan that turns into metal dripping to the platform as sharp spikes protrude from it.

Venom is taken aback by this, Riot leaps forward swinging the spiked ball connected to his arm attempting to hit Venom who backflips several times out of the way. The ball dissolves as Riot's unoccupied forms into a sword with upside down blade that he tries to stab Venom with just barely missing his face.

HOLY SHIT!! Clint yells in surprise, when Venom said that Riot had an arsenal of weapons he wasn't expecting this. It's both awesome and terrifying at the same time.

"Told you!" Venom smugly says. Backflipping onto his feet facing Riot.

Riot charges on the platform his right arm forming into a jagged sword he swipes at Venom who forms a black shield blocking it. Riot manages to drive him back a few feet while using his regular hand to claw at Venom/Clint's arm drawing blood with several slashes cut into their right shoulder.

Venom retracts his shield, and shoots a tendril out grabbing Riot by the head lifting him up off the platform and roughly slamming him face first into the metal tile bending it. Before Riot has a chance to get to his feet Venom brings his own right to his face connecting with his chin hard sending Riot on his back a few feet.

Almost immediately Riot looks back to Venom almost impressed.

"You have a strong host." Riot admits.

Venom touches the claw marks from Riot's talons made into his/Clint's right arm and heals it quickly turning back to Riot and roaring loudly.

Riot gets to his feet and raises his arms that start forming into drill-like tips.

"But not strong enough." Riot counters, slamming his arms below him as his own tendrils begin to take root and race towards Venom destroying the platform along the way as the tendrils form into stalagmites aiming straight up at Venom who is trying desperately to dodge them flipping back and on the railing.

Venom lands to a stop staring Riot down as he gets up drawing his hand back in its regular clawed form and let's put a roar and catapults himself at Venom faster than lightning. Hitting him right in the chest. The two symbiotes begin trying to dominate one another bouncing back and forth against the railing like a pinball. Eventually Venom manages to get the upper hand putting Riot in a headlock while he is on his back. Riot forms sharp metal spikes all over his back all of them piercing Venom and Clint to the point where they're forced to let go and sent back into the railing dazed.

Riot takes a piece of debris and swings it hitting Venom sending him flying several yards down the platform like a baseball just hit. Bouncing off of the wall and railing Venom finally comes to a stop with Riot's feet meeting his face smashing it into the metal tile denting it beneath. Leaping up wrapping a tendril around Venom's foot, Riot whips Venom into the tower next to the rocket.

Meanwhile inside the foundation Rahne and the others are running along her nose leading the way as she sniffs the air for Eddie Brock's scent and is getting hot on the trail.

Eddie himself who has been out of the loop the most compared to the others who've been in this mess. He's just sitting in a containment cell in a area that he recognizes all to well when he and Clint first broke into this place.

There are at least around ten guards just right outside of his cell, all of them standing there with machine guns and guarding their hostage who they were ordered by Carlton Drake himself not to let loose and that they were to guard him under any circumstances, including the circumstances that they are finding themselves in now that being that the facility has had and emergency breach or at least that is what it sounds like since the alarm's been triggered. Usually they would evacuate and let their guest go but since they have to get their paychecks signed they have decided against it.

The groups finally comes to a halt as Rahne holds up her hand for them to stop she quickly sniffs the air and can practically reach out and grasp the oily, musky scent that belongs to one Eddie Brock that she is sure is on the other side of this thick steel door that seems to be reinforced from their point of view.

"I can smell him he's behind here, that's not all I'm getting at least ten other scents behind this door as well and this is a guess but none of them are our friends!" Rahne says less than pleased as to what their current situation and problem is.

Rahne looks back to the others who are waiting for anyone to offer up a solution as to how they are getting in there without being killed immediately.

"What we need is the element of surprise!" Roberto says.

Almost in sync all eyes and heads turn towards Sam who eyes each one of his friends with a look that says whether they are joking or not. He can tell obviously that they aren't.

"What do you say Kentucky, you wanna knock on the door?" Roberto rhetorically asks, pointing at it with his thumb smiling smugly.

Sam takes off his baseball cap since it's his favorite and only cap and doesn't want it to get ruined in the process of what he's about to do.

"Alright you guys back up give me some space!" Sam says signaling for them to step back which they do against opposite sides of the wall. A purplish pink glow and vibration starts to envelop Sam as he begins to charge up until it gets to the point where he is ready to launch.

Sam smirks to himself, "CANNONBALL!!!!!" He yells blasting into the giant steel door busting it wide open.

The men in the containment unit barely have any time to react as they see a flash of purple and pink sailing by them. A few of the men are sent flying to the ground trying to take evasive action. Even Eddie sees the foreign object of light cruising past the guards and smashing hard into the wall on the other end of the room sending a bit of dust flying around. The guards that were knocked to the ground get to their feet and the ones that are still on their feet immediately raise their weapons to the source of what nearly made bowling pins out of them. They slowly move towards the wall. Upon their approach they manage to hear coughing and as soon as the dust settles it reveals a young teenage boy wiping the dust with a red baseball cap that he graciously puts back on his head.

Sam coughs a little, honestly he's got to start working on these landings or at least get a better outfit to make the landing a bit softer.

"Damn that's goin to hurt tomorrow!" He says to himself. Then he is greeted by the sight of ten pissed off guards with some pretty serious guns all aimed at him. Sam raises his hands his regular and his casted hand. And chuckles sheepishly feeling like he's in deep shit.

The closest guard flips his safety off and is about to pull the trigger when suddenly out of nowhere is a flash of a blue light revealing Illyana in her armored form and her eyes glowing neon blue and her sword with its blue flame ignited and slices the man's gun in half right down the barrel. And almost immediately she disappears as the other guards whose guns are still intact begin firing off bullets but hit nothing except empty air.

Illyana appears again and this time behind another guard and kick him down to the ground and cuts his gun up too, the another see Illyana who is unaware of this and aims his gun and is about to fire but is jumped on by what at first seems like a large red dog but sees that it looks to be to vicious to be a dog and is in fact a wolf with….red fur that knocks him over but yet he still manages to pull the trigger as the tip of the gun fires off bullets at the ceiling. Rahne snarls and growls biting at the man's arm tearing the fabric of his clothing and into a bit of flesh drawing some blood but not enough to permanently injure the man.

The other guards witness these events and start to feel like this isn't in the job description, a few of them turn on their tails and run for it dripping their weapons the ones that don't and those are very few aim their weapons at the mutants but then almost out of the blue they feel this strange prodding in their heads and a moment later they see a young Native American girl they raise their guns but before they can pull the triggers they both see an army of spiders crawling towards them. Since they both have a natural fear of spiders they back up immediately pointing their guns to the ground at the army of black spiders quickly making their way to the they start shooting capping the insects with bullets but to no avail does it seem to slow them down. They both quickly run out of ammunition as the spider's make their way onto their legs and then their chests and faces. They two men are screaming for someone to get them off. So they run for it out of the room waving their arms wildly trying to get some of the spiders off. Dani's gaze follows them until they are out of sight, the remaining spiders in the room vaporize into back smoke which disappears into thin air.

At this point there is only one guard left in the room that draws his sidearm cocking back the hammer aiming it at Illyana who is completely unaware once again. Right as he's about to pull the trigger a black and orange hand grabs the barrel of the man's gun and then the entire hand and forearm turn bright orange. The man can literally feel the heat pouring off and it's super hot and he know just how hot when the hand bends the entire barrel. He quickly sees who the hand belongs to as a boy with very tanned skin steps out he has bright fiery orange eyes with charcoal black around the edges. Roberto gives the man a smirk, Illyana turns and sees that she would have been shot if Roberto hadn't intervened. The gun becomes too hot forcing the man to drop it and runs like hell. Score The New Mutants 1 - Bad Guys 0.

They all return to their normal appearances and give each other a quick congratulations. Until they hear a knock from over by one of the cells and see Eddie there pounding on the think glass and waves at the group once he knows he's got their attention with and even gives them one of his classy smiles to go with it.

"Hey if you guys are done playing poker over there, I'd really like to get out of this hamster ball right about now if you don't mind?" Eddie sarcastically asks.

They walk over and they take a step back as Sam charges up his good arm and punches the thick glass shattering the cell door.

Eddie walks out over the shattered glass and let's out an impressed whistle, "Well thanks to you guys now I know never to cross paths with mutants!" He comments. There are a few chuckles.

"Eddie!" A voice calls out and Anne rushes in.

"Anne?" Eddie asks baffled, "What the hell are you doing here?"

Anne rolls her eyes and hits him on the shoulder, "I'm here to get your ass out of here!" She states.

Eddie holds up his hands in defeat, "Okay I got it you rescued me, thank you!" Eddie thanks the others for real this time.

However his train of thought comes to a halt when he notices one particular person that isn't here. "Wait a minute, where Clint, where the Hell is my nephew?" Eddie yell immediately worried.

The other share a glance they are also looking worried, but none are as worried as Rahne who remember Clint and Venom went off to stop the other symbiote.

Immediately she runs out of the room and the others follow behind her but Anne decided to take Eddie back to the car even though he wanted to get to his nephew he dare not cross his scorned ex who gave him 'the look'.

Rahne burst through the double doors to the launch control room and sees the place is completely trashed and a big shattered glass window off to the side where a giant rocket ship is and on the monitor she sees Clint in the form of Venom and another symbiote that's dark silver that tosses Venom/Clint down onto the platform from very high up.

"Oh my God, Clint!" Rahne says out of worry for her boyfriend and even for Venom.

Venom is really getting his ass handed to him by Riot who is delivering hard blows to his head. Then he extends the claws on his hand into razor sharp knives and slashes Venom's head hard until Venom slumps to the ground. Riot picks up his fellow symbiote by the head and tears Venom away by his upper jaw to reveal Clint's face.

"Drake, Stop!" He yells out in pain of feeling Venom forcefully pulled from him.

Riot tosses Clint aside once Venom is separated.

Clint rolls over onto his stomach looking at Riot to see Venom in his pure symbiote form pitching and screeching violently as Riot brings Venom to his mouth as if he is going to eat him.

"Give me back my friend!" Clint whispers to himself. With that he gets to his feet and runs right for his symbiote reaching out with his hand Venom reaches out himself and latches onto Clint rebinding with him as his body turns into Venom who snarls and leaps after Riot violently clashing against the wall of the control tower.

The two symbiotes continue to clash with each other as their forms become more fluid and begin to become a mix of black and silver as both the symbiotic and their hosts engage in their own battles going back and forth all over the platform. Until eventually by sheer chance Riot absorbs Venom and Clint completely becoming this mix of black and silver. Riot makes spikes protrude from his entire body in an attempt to get Venom and his host out of him. But doesn't work, letting out a roar Riot begins to climb the rocket itself.

Pain shoots throughout Riot's and Drake's bodies to the point where Venom and Clint get separated again but are also violently screeching in pain from the loud static noise coming from the speakers near the ship.

Back inside the control room Rahne who is now joined by the others is turning up the dial to the volume to the external speakers near the rocket.

"Told you I could fight ugly!" Rahne says satisfied with herself. The others watch the screen as the two symbiotes and their hosts cry out in pain.

They finally reach the breaking point where both Clint and Drake fall off the side of the rocket and come crashing down onto the launch pad and both of their symbiotes go flying off in different directions leaving only their hosts.

Drake throws the fist punch to Clint's face, both of them try to get to their feet but Drake beats Clint to it kicking him in the chest, he reels back for another kick but his leg is caught by Clint who uses Drake's position to his advantage and raises him up and brings him down slamming him into the ground. Drake kicks Clint away onto his back but quickly bounces back up and runs on the angled pad and then jumps back landing a right cross to Drake's face sending him stumbling back right over to the edge of the pad. There Drake sees Riot in his pure form slowly making his way to Drakes hand.

Drake looks up Clint and chuckles, "You're too late this is the next stage of-" he doesn't get the chance to finish as Clint brings his foot to Drakes jaw sending him over the side and gone.

Clint just stands there for a moment sweaty and panting, "You talk too much." He says.

He turns and starts running up the pad towards the rocket. He feels this sharp pain suddenly rip through him and looks down to see a large silver blade sticking out of his chest. Clint can't even find the strength left to stand and falls to the ground on his knees and then onto his side. From behind it revels Riot in his humanoid form, he walks up to Clint's lifeless body and grabs his head bringing it to look at him in his ghost white eyes.

"You are nothing!" Riot says dropping his head and then proceeds to climb the rocket leaving Clint dying slowly with Riot's metal blade impaled through his chest.

Clint desperately reaches out but grasps nothing as his hand falls lifelessly to the cold ground.

Riot and Drake continue to climb the space ship until the reach the top where Riot pulls the level on the hatch opening up the door with it closing automatically behind him.

Back down below Clint is nearly dead as a familiar black blob Venom makes his way towards him flowing up his arm and the rest of his body binding with him working hard to heal Clint and restore his body functions. Venom regains his form over Clint and stands up. The countdown has reached zero as the engine boosters get ready to fire up. Venom pulls Riots spear out of his/Clint's chest with a loud scream of pain quickly healing Clint and himself. Venom let's out a loud groan of pain but also relief at the same time jumping high onto the rocket ladder as the engines fire up flames coming out of the bottom and the rocket takes off.

Venom takes the spear in hand and climbs the tower and leaps onto the rocket where inside Riot by the window snarls at Venom who is still alive.

"Traitor!" Riot sneers.

"Have a nice life!" Venom says letting go of the ship falling down the rocket sticking the spear into the fuel tank release hundreds of gallons of fuel down towards the boosters until the liquid reaches the flames and ignites the fuel causing a chain reacting that causes the entire rocket to explode and inside Drake screams out of pain as both he and Riot burn up and die immediately as the entire ship then explodes.

Venom and Clint continue to fall down as a cloud of raging fire attempts to consume them both burning Venom's form away. Venom retracts from Clint's body and forms into a parachute to protect Clint from the flame.

Goodbye, Clint! Venom says sadly

"Venom, No!" Clint yells out as fire catches Venom and begins to burn until he is gone, leaving Clint falling down into the bay and the cold night water.

Clint rises to the surface gasping for air treading the water around him and starts swimming heading for the shore. He reaches it very quickly and coughs and crawls out of the sand and onto the dry grass as he feels the cool breeze of the night freeze him. Which doesn't sound like a bad idea considering his alien friend just saved his life by sacrificing himself. The more Clint thought about it the more he himself refused to believe it.

He's gone, he's really gone. Clint thought to himself.

Clint is so cold and wet he doesn't even tell the difference or feel the tears falling down his face.

He looks out at the bay that is a mix of flame and debris falling from the sky still.

He sighs deeply, "You know when you first told me you existed I thought of you as nothing more than a curse that I just couldn't break that was wreaking all sorts of havoc on my life. But the thing is as unbelievable as it may sound there wouldn't be much of a life even as far as today's standards go if it wasn't for you. I guess what I'm trying to say is, thank you Venom! Thank you so much for giving my worthless ass a second chance at a life, ad I pray that where ever you are it's a better place, I'll miss you, very much!" Clint finishes looking down gripping his silver cross. Taking a moment to mourn Venom.

Aww how sweet I'm crying, please don't stop there! A very familiar voice of an allegedly dead symbiotic rings out deeply touched.

Clint's head snaps up almost automatically, the look on his face is priceless with annoyance, "MOTHERFUCKER!!!" He yells slapping his pants leg.

Venom chuckles mentally really enjoying this moment.

"Oh that is real funny very funny you twisted son of a bitch!" Clint comments sarcastically.

"CLINT!" A voice calls out from behind.

Clint gets to his feet to see Rahne running towards him and practically jumps into his arms.

She pulls back and takes his face in her hands and plants a warm kiss to his lips that he happily returns.

There is a cough in the background, Rahne and Clint break apart and both of them look behind to see Sam, Dani, Illyana, And Roberto there watching amusedly well except for Illyana who looks disgusted.

"Are you two done because we'd really like to get out of here!" Sam shouts.

"Yeah" Clint says looking out at the bay and them back to Rahne who smiles at him in his arms he returns the gesture. "Let's go home!" He tells Rahne as they walk hand in hand to join up with the others to head home.

There are only 2 chapters left I plan to do one tomorrow and the last one will take place on Saturday at the latest and then after that it's onto the sequel. Also be advised if the if the next chapter has unnecessary length it's because I'm trying to reach 100k as far as word count goes. Please leave your comments about what you think, thank you!