Illness and babysitting has delayed this chapter from being finished as well as delayed other works. Long work weeks about to start as well, so for fans of my other works, especially "I was Iron Man", updates will be a while yet sadly, haven't even started the next chapters.

As he slept, the black goo attacked, covering his Spider-Man suit and his body, as Peter dreamt of the night Carradine died, he then found himself outside in the new black suit, remarking how he felt so much more powerful than ever before.

"I'm sorry you're having to relieve it, both then and now." Sersi said, giving a smile to Peter-2 who nodded back to her.

"Thank you."

"I have experience in betrayals." Sersi admitted, casting a glance at Ikaris who firmly fixed his gaze towards the floor as she spoke. Sersi tried to not let a frown take over her face at that. She'd have to pull him aside at some point, to truly clear the air between the two of them.

"Is this what it was like for you, bonding with Venom?" Ned asked Eddie.

"No, not really, I mean, it was definitely painful, but it wasn't quite like this, I mean, I also wasn't asleep during all of it." Eddie stated.

"IT WAS NOT THAT PLEASANT FOR ME AS WELL, EDDIE." Venom huffed.

"What does it feel like?" Natasha questioned.

"It's insane." Eddie said, as Peter-2 nodded his head. "You feel awful, to begin with, and it takes its toll on you, you need to feed, to keep him sated, but the strength you get, the speed, the durability, there's nothing like it, at least not in my world."

"You feel so much power in you, you can swing further, jump higher, punch harder." Peter-2 explained, trying to get across what happened with his version of Venom. "It amplifies negative emotions though, it makes you lash out, act erratic, believe me, it's not worth it."

"I AM PERFECTLY NICE!" Venom protested.

"You are, buddy, kinda, after ages of learning different. The you in that universe though, he clearly didn't learn that." Eddie justified their reasoning to the symbiote, who nodded after a moment, sporting his usual sickly grin.

"I can see why you'd feel so powerful with that." Tony stated, seeing Peter-2 swinging with Venom inside of him on the screen.

He took a sample of the goo to Doctor Connors, who remarked about it and said to Peter that it definitely wasn't from Earth. He told Peter it seemed to like him, but don't let it touch Peter, it seemed to be a symbiote, and these things need to bind to survive and can be hard to unbind.

"Yeah, that's definitely not a part of the animal kingdom." Cindy laughed, seeing the little black blob on the Petri dish.

"I AM AN APEX PREDATOR!" Venom disagreed harshly.

"Sure you are, buddy." Eddie chortled.

"Yeah, bit late for the no touch advice, you think?" Rhodey snorted.

"Sound advice though, especially if he exists in this universe." Peter-2 sagely nodded however.

"Was it hard to unbind?" May asked her nephew softly.

"It was agony." Peter-2 admitted.

"The times me and this guy have tried to unbind, it almost killed us both." Eddie quietly agreed, as Venom ducked his head too. It was truly pain beyond compare.

Getting home, Peter heard a police report of a bank robbery with a sandstorm, grabbing the black suit, he took off after Marko, getting there as Marko headed down a sewer, he was stopped by Eddie who wanted new photos of him. Spider-Man smashed his camera and fled into the sewers after Marko, leaving Brock behind.

"Sounds like Marko is active then." Flash stated.

"Oh God, what is that idiot doing there?" Eddie groaned, seeing his alter was there.

"How did he even find out about the robbery and get there just as Peter did?" Betty frowned.

"Probably listened in to a police scanner illegally." MJ scowled.

"Could see that having happened." Peter-2 shrugged.

"He's going to try make you look like a criminal, especially smashing his camera up like that, isn't he?" Yelena questioned.

"You may just be a prophet." Peter-2 chuckled.

"Alter Eddie is definitely going to be out for revenge on you." Bruce said.

"Oh, he was." Peter-2 didn't further elaborate.

Peter and Marko fought in the sewers and subway tunnels, kicking each other into subway trains, until Peter managed to flood the area with water, soaking Marko and dissolving him, as he faded away, screaming, Peter simply said "Good riddance."

"Damn, you're really going for a horror vibe, disappearing into the shadows, firing webs at passing trains, being far more violent than usual with criminals, even if it's Marko." MJ shook her head. "This isn't Peter Parker, this isn't Spider-Man, and you know it."

"Yeah, it wasn't me, not really. Like I said, the symbiote heightens aggression and negative emotions, it was fuelling my anger more and more." Peter-2 explained. "It made me reckless, but I should have done better, should have been more careful."

"Wait, why is the water doing that to him?" Sprite asked.

"You remember what happens to sand when water washes over it, it becomes clumpy and collapses, just like that." Phastos reminded her.

"It's been a while since I've been on a beach, really." Sprite shrugged. "Or at least since I looked at the sand on the beach, anyway."

"Good riddance? You killed a man!" Peter-3 hissed at his alter. He had taken lives before, sure, and he hated himself for every one of them, Peter-2 was such a nice guy, why was he so uncaring and even happy that Marko was dead?

"He isn't dead." Peter-2 explained. "I was a jerk though, I can't defend that."

Returning home, Peter let the symbiote control his emotions, when Mr Ditkovich asked for rent, Peter yelled "You'll get your rent when you fix this damn door!" before storming inside, Ditkovich remarking Peter was a good boy who must be in trouble, letting it slide as he stood there, shocked.

"Poor Ditkovich." Sam shook his head as Peter-2 winced.

"Not my finest hour, he was a great landlord, and a good man, just like Ursula was a good friend." Peter-2 stated. "I was awful to them back then, and I couldn't apologise enough for it."

"I kinda liked how you flew off the handle, it's odd, but cool, to see this darker tone with you, to see you let a more darker version of yourself out." Yelena grinned as Peter-2 grimaced.

"I was a dick." He simply replied.

Peter then spoke to Aunt May, telling her Flint Marko was dead and Spider-Man killed him. May asked why Spider-Man would, he doesn't kill. Peter said he thought she'd be happy that Marko was dead, May said Ben wouldn't want anyone living with revenge and it wasn't her place to say if Marko deserved to live or die.

"Wise words." May nodded at her alter on the screen.

"Yeah, it's not our place to judge whether someone deserves to die, no matter their crimes." Matt agreed.

"We've all taken life, or at least, most of us have." Kingo replied. "But you're right, nobody should take a life just because they think it's deserved. It should always be a last resort."

Mary Jane then was shown taking a new job as a waitress and singer, before she called Harry, asking if she could come over, he told her to do so then asked his butler to go get some food he could make with her. Peter apologised to Mr Ditkovich for what he had said as he was told to phone Mary Jane, before he put the phone back and walked away.

"It must suck to go back to that job after having escaped that." Flash muttered.

"If she enjoyed it, that's the main thing." Betty argued.

"Well Harry seems happy to see hear she's coming." Abe frowned.

"He was still in love with her, from his point of view, he had suddenly learnt that they'd broken up." Peter-2 reasoned in defence of his old friend. "He didn't know what to do with those feelings."

"It's good you're apologising to him, he didn't do anything wrong." Natasha told Peter-2, nodding at her.

"Yeah, like I said, he's a good man."