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Chapter 9

Venomous Intentions

Mary Jane glanced around her dark bedroom. She was worried about Peter. He could have been caught in the bombing or ran into one of the aliens. She tried to put it out of her mind, but he still wasn't back.

"Hey."

She yelped in fright and spun around to face the voice. Peter was standing in front of her still wearing his costume, but without the mask, which was clutched in his hand.

"What took you so long?" Mary Jane asked.

"I ran into Venom and his new host," he replied when he saw her eyes light up with concern he quickly added. "It wasn't too bad though. I managed to escape while Venom went down in flames."

"You were close to the bombing?" she asked looking worried.

"Yeah, why'd they bomb half the city like that?" he asked his tone becoming sharp.

"There was an announcement on TV earlier," Mary Jane replied. "Some medical corporation was responsible. They're planning on using the aliens to try and create some new wonder drugs. When the aliens escaped they told the government and they evacuated that section of the city and then bombed it."

"Well, at least everything is okay now."

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Venom hissed in irritation as he watched Peter talking with his wife. He paced the side of the building roof he was standing on. "That miserable human manages to escape us and gets back to his nice warm home and his nice warm wife. Well, we have been soundly defeated. We're the only surviving xenomorph on this planet for all we know."

He halted his ranting and slammed his fist into the concrete, letting out some of his frustration. It would be impossible for him to rebuild the alien population because he couldn't metamorphous into a Queen because the symbiote couldn't have something that large as its host.

Still growling to himself, Venom prepared to leave, but stopped as something caught his attention. A vague presence that the alien's telepathy could sense, turning back to the Avenger's Tower he zeroed in on it. There was definitely an alien inside that building, or more accurately an alien egg. The symbiote smirked as a plan began forming in its mind. Still smirking, he jumped and fired a strand of webbing toward the tower.

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"Let's go tell everyone I'm back," Peter suggested walking toward the door. "I'm sure Tony will want to now where I've been."

Mary Jane got up to follow him as he opened the bedroom door, but the shattering of the window as something large and black crashed through it and into her stopped her. She was instantly knocked out by the collision. Hissing, Venom turned and faced Peter who had a look of fear on his face.

"Get away from her!" Peter yelled as he jumped toward the black figure. He collided with Venom's fist and was sent flying backwards.

Venom reached down and picked up Mary Jane into his arms. He jumped to the window and turned back to face Peter. "Bring me the alien egg you have or I don't think I need to tell you what will happen to her." Then he jumped out the window as Peter made one last grab at her. "Come alone," Venom called back over his shoulder as he swung away.

Spider-man pulled his mask on and jumped out after him, but the symbiote-bonded alien had already vanished. Never the less, Peter circled the block in anguish, but didn't find a trace of them except for occasional strands of webbing. Reluctantly he turned back toward the tower. He swung back into his room where the rest of the Avengers were gathered.

"What happened?" Tony asked him.

"Venom kidnapped MJ," Peter said breathlessly. "He wants to trade her for that alien egg we have."

"We have an alien egg?" Luke Cage asked.

"Did he say where to meet him?" Tony asked calmly.

"No," Peter shook his head. "I guess he's going to call. Tony, you got to let me have that egg, if not he's going to… to…" He shouldn't even think of that.

"All right, you got it," Tony nodded.