Chapter 3

I'm back! Welcome everybody to the third chapter of 'In my Veins'. I am not going to lie, I love the support this story is getting and that motivates me to keep updating it. So, here we are. And for the pairing, the winner is...

Momo Yaoyorozu with 23 votes!

Mei: 17

Toga: 7

Mina: 6

I was surprised when Momo took the advantage by that much. Mei had 15, she had 12 and then... BOOM! Momo is on top. Anyways, in next chapter she will appear. And in this one, two people that most people like will appear, a hero and a villain. So get ready, because the chapter is starting now!

Legend:

"Talking."

'Thinking...'

'Symbiote Talking in Izuku's Mind.'

"Venom Speaking."

Chapter 3: Our Justice

'Partner, wake up.'

Izuku turned around on the small bed "Just... give me a moment or two..." He said half-awaken.

The Other sighed 'In a moment or two we might end up dead. We need to move.'

"You are over-reacting. We had been in this motel for a month or so. And nothing had happened." Izuku said sitting up and stretching his arms. One-month has passed since the 'incident' and Izuku and the Other are having an underground life, saying in one way.

They became what the public call a vigilante. 'The Black Spider' is the name that the social media gave them.

Even though there isn't enough evidence to prove that they exist, rumors are circulating due to one criminal that survived and gave the description the best he could.

Their lives had changed. In day, they walk across the city, trying to avoid the attention and to buy food. In night, they become Venom. They hunt down any type of crime and eliminate it.

Permanently.

Izuku still can't understand why no other hero does this. This is a better solution that just put villains behind bars. This takes them out of the map!

'Because they are afraid. They have an image to maintain. If they kill someone, villain or not, in front of a group of people, that image would go down the gutter. We don't have that fear.'

"Because we still don't make it bigtime. The only thing about us, are those videos of 'The Black Spider: Is he real?'." Izuku said as he stood up and put on a white sleeveless shirt and his underwear.

'I hate that name. Who in his right mind came with that name in the first place? Is it too hard to just think of our real name?' The Other complained.

"Well, we can't just go to them and scream 'We are Venom, call us by that!'. That would reveal us to the public. And the police are still looking for anyone similar to us. So, the lower our profile is, the better." Izuku said as the symbiote morphed into his clothes. A black hoodie and black jeans. He put on his red shoes and walked out of the motel room they were in, ignoring the corpse that was in the bathroom.

"Why did we kill him again?" Izuku asked The Other.

'He was scamming people with fake drug.' The Other reminded Izuku that nodded.

"Fair enough."

*Grocery Store*

"What should we buy?" Izuku asked and The Other didn't hesistate.

'Chocolate.'

Izuku released a sigh "Besides that."

'I don't care. I need that chemical that is in the brain to survive. But because you bitch a lot when we eat a brain, I need to eat chocolate instead.'

"I let you eat 'that'. Only that I also need more food besides chocolate and 'that'."

'Didn't you like Katsudon?'

"I do. But we don't have enough money to but the ingredients, or a kitchen to cook them, or the knowledge to make Katsudon." Izuku explained and the Other grumbled.

'We can always kill and stay into someone's rich house...'

"That's too obvious. If a guy with an actual job disappears, they are going to his house to check on him. Then we are screwed. Besides we-"

"Oi kid; with who are you talking?" He heard someone ask him and he quickly turned his head to the owner of the voice. It was a man with a muscular build, black messy hair that covered his eyes, red eyes and a flat face due to his lack of nose. He was in a stand in a hunched way.

Izuku glared at him as he grabbed three bars of chocolate. "With myself. Now get lost." He said and walked to the side of instant food. His senses went high, when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Y'know; it isn't normal for a kid to be talking alone." The stranger said as Izuku shook his hand off his shoulder.

"It is normal for us." Izuku simply said as he grabbed two instant ramen recipients.

He went to pay and the man followed him "Let me pay for ya." He said and Izuku glared at him.

"I already told you; Get. Lost."

The man didn't bother. He handed the lady that was working as cashier the money that Izuku's food was worth. "Hey, We're paying that!"

"Drop it kid." The man said as he handed the bag of goods to Izuku that snatched it from the stranger's hand.

"Thanks. We guess." Izuku said and the stranger nodded.

"You're welcome kid. Name's Akaguro Chizome."

*Night time*

"And here we go with another night of job." Izuku said as he was sat on the railing of a building, over watching the city. He had his suit except for the head as he was eating his last bar of chocolate.

'Let's try to keep up all the night. Yesterday we were only able to do 6 hours.'

"That's because being Venom takes a big toll on our body. We were lucky we were able to wake up today."

'Whatever. Put on the mask and let's go. I'm bored.' The Other said as Izuku threw the wrapper of the chocolate away and his head was covered by the symbiote. A grin full of sharp teeth appear, accompanied by those two big white-eyes.

Venom jumped from the building he was and started to swing looking for some prey. After some minutes, he heard to some screaming.

Going to the direction, the smell of blood hit him and he landed on a wall where he stayed stuck to see the situation.

It seemed that it was a hero, not one that he recognizes, losing a fight against a villain that his arms were made of stone.

The villain was going for a finishing blow and that's when he decided to act. The villain raised his arm to smash the heroes face, so Venom threw a web to stop him from completing the motion. The villain turned around and Venom threw himself to him, punching him to the face sending him to a wall, for then be webbed to it.

Venom chuckled as he slowly walked to helpless villain. "W-What are you doing?" The hero asked and Venom chuckled.

"We?" Venom asked as he grabbed the head of the villain that was a little out of it "We are simply doing your job. But..." In a swift motion, Venom broke his neck as his tongue licked the now dead villain's head "...Better."

"You... You are the Black Spider!" The hero accused and Venom groaned.

"That name again... We hate that name! We are Venom! And you know too much now."

"No. If I defeat you, I'll become famous." He said as he struggled to stand up "I'll arrest you and become a big-name hero!" He exclaimed before a sword went through his chest killing him. Venom tilted his head.

"What a phony. People like you are the reason this society is dying." A voice said and Venom narrowed his eyes at the figure in front of him.

"You are Stain. Aren't you?"

"It is good that you know me, Black Spider or however you want to be called. That saves us introductions." Stain said as he walked to Venom that got into position if he needs to kill the man in front of him. "I have an offer for you."

"About that, we don't care." Venom said as he spit a little. Stain didn't bother.

"C'mon Izuku. Aren't you interested?" Stain said and Venom glared at him as he looked ready to jump at him. Stain saw this and decided to calm him down "Look kid, I am here to talk. Why don't we go to somewhere more... private?"

Izuku and the Other were fighting in Venom's head to decide to kill the Hero Killer or let him talk. At the end Venom looked at him at the eye.

"Follow us." After saying that, Venom started climb on the wall to the rooftop. Stain, surprising them, keep up and even arrived first.

The symbiote retreated from Izuku's head leaving him at view. Stain could tell he wasn't happy due to the glare he was receiving. "How did you know it was us?"

"The bag I gave you had a tracker. I followed you from a good distance and I saw how you transformed into... that." Stain explained and Izuku looked down while the Other was cursing.

"So, what's your deal?" Izuku asked and Stain grinned.

"Simple. I want you to help me clean this society from the fake heroes." He said as he extended his arms and Izuku raised an eyebrow.

"Fake heroes?"

Stain nodded "Yes. Like the one below. He was only interested in becoming famous. He admitted it. You and I, we just want to help people. We aren't interested in fame and fortune. We are part of the few true heroes!"

"We are not a hero. We are a vigilante." Izuku said and Stain chuckled.

"A license doesn't make you a hero. Your actions do. I know how you operate. You jump into the scene, kill the bad guys and leave. But you never hurt an innocent. Even after they saw you. You care about the greater good. And you know that the end justifies the means." Stain said and Izuku found himself thinking his words.

'At least we have a common thought...' The Other commented and Izuku closed his eyes.

"Your thought is 'kill to have fun'."

"Excuse me?" Stain said not understanding from where did that came from.

"I'm talking to myself." Izuku said "And for your offer, we have to decline. We work better by ourselves and... we don't trust you." Stain narrowed his eyes "But, you aren't our enemy. You are right. The end justifies the means if it is for the greater good. Who knows, we might end up together if we found ourselves in trouble." Izuku said and Stain chuckled lowly.

"You're interesting kid. Take care." After saying that, Stain jumped from building to building, as Izuku watched him.

"You too, Chizome." He finished as the symbiote covered his head and went back to his nightly patrol.

*Some Days Later, Nighttime*

"So, here is the place, huh?" Izuku said as he eyed an abandoned storage.

'The guy we interrogated yesterday, said that the deal was going down here.'

Izuku nodded "Then let's get into a better position." Izuku said as he was covered by the symbiote and jumped towards the storage. He got in by one of the broken windows and stick himself to the roof where no one could see him. He waited there until he heard some shuffle at other part of the building.

He crawled there and saw that there was a guy tied up in some sort of bandages. He jumped off the roof and walked to the guy and took off the tape of his mouth "Who did this?" He asked but the guy seemed to terrified to answer.

"That would be me." He heard behind him and saw that from one of the railings the storage had, there was a man dressed in black, with long dirty black-hair, yellow goggles and a white scarf. "Black Spider."

"Don't call us that, Eraserhead." Venom said. Eraser sighed.

"Do you know that vigintalism is illegal. Right?"

"Do you know that the people that piss us off usually dies. Right?"

Eraser seemed annoyed but kept his cool "You know, I should just stop you now and take you to Tartarus." Venom narrowed his eyes at him.

"We would like to see you try..."

"But, for some reason beyond my comprehension, my boss is really interested in you. He actually told us, that if we find you, we should invite you to UA."

Venom snorted at the thought. They in UA? No way that's possible.

"For more tentative that it sounds, we are going to decline. We don't buy for one second that you guys are actually interested in me joining the number 1 hero-school of the country." Venom said and was getting ready to leave when his senses kicked in. He jumped to the side to avoid Eraser's scarf going to him.

"Then Tartarus is it."

Venom laughed as he jumped to Eraser. The pro-hero activated his quirk trying to make him weaker but it didn't seem to have any effect. He dodged when Venom tried to hit him with his claws jumping back.

When he landed, he threw a fist to the vigilante chest that surprisingly, took it. And to add surprises, his chest deformed and trapped his hand. There, venom started to punch him, over and over again, even breaking his goggles. Before Eraser was about to pass out, Venom released his hand and threw him to a wall and webbed him to it.

"You know why you are still alive? Because we like you. We think that you are a good hero. But try something like that again, and we will eat your brain!" Venom warned to the trapped hero that was struggling to stay awake. "And by the way... we are not the 'Black Spider'. We are Venom! And we are here to stay!" After saying that Venom left by the window.

Aizawa could only wonder what a shitty night to be him.

*Next Day*

"Why did you do that?" Izuku asked the Other as they were reading the newspaper.

On the cover there was written in big, bold letters:

*NEW VIGILANTE CONFIRMED! VENOM IS REAL!*

'It was the heat of the moment. Besides, a little bit of attention wouldn't kill us.'

"It might. They might end up linking what happened with Life Foundation with us now."

'Now who is over-reacting?'

Izuku threw the newspaper to the wall "Oh, shut up."

After some minutes of silence Izuku spoke up again "Hey, are we the bad guys?"

'For most people, yes. Heroes, villains and some civilians are afraid of us or hate us. Or both. But probably for the people we saved and maybe Stain, we are... okay I guess. But what matters is what you think. Tell me; Are we the bad guy?'

Izuku shook his head "No. I don't think so."

'Then we are fine.'

Izuku chuckled "For being an alien being that just thinks of killing, eating and surviving, you're a pretty good counselor." Izuku joked as the Other grumbled.

'Shut up.' Izuku laughed as he stood up.

"Anyways, do you want some chocolate ice-cream? It is hot outside." His only answer was that the symbiote to cover his body in his usual clothes. "Then let's go."

*Life Foundation HQ*

"Interesting..."

"Sir?"

"Both sides of the coin want him. I wonder how this will affect the development of the symbiote in him."

"Sir?"

"Keep watching him, but don't do any move to interfere. I want to see, how far they will play hero."

And Done! This was Chapter 3 of 'In my Veins'. As you could appreciate, both Stain and Eraserhead appeared with similar but different intentions. Let me explain:

Stain thinks that Izuku or Venom has his same ideals, so he sees him as an ally. While Aizawa, was following Nezu orders that were too see if Venom would join UA for... reasons that will be revealed soon.

Also, if you are getting annoyed by the Life Foundation segments at the end, it is just to add suspense. Tell me it is working. If not, I'll take them out starting the next chapter.

And this chapter was made, to make Izuku see the different views of justice that are present.

And that's all! Review that it helps my motivation, PM me for any doubt or suggestion Follow and favorite the story and me.

Till Next Time.

Roy D. Harper.

Next Chapter: Storming the Castle