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S.T.A.R. Labs

"Am I… without symptoms?" Gwen asked.

"No traces of symbiote in your body." Caitlin assured. "As far as we can tell, you are perfectly healthy."

Gwen smiled as Peter relaxed, relieved. "Thank you. You've saved my life. All of you. Where's Brock?"

"We saw him burn into ashes." Barry said. "Well, Eddie Brock was a good man from what Mary Jane told us…"

"…but good riddance on that symbiote." Peter said, about to open the file, with his girlfriend Felicia Hardy at his side.

"Are you sure about this, Pete?" Felicia asked.

"I need to know." Peter said as he opened the file.

Ten years ago, OsCorp

"This is not a weapon. It's supposed to be helping cure people." Richard said. "You never told me the symbiote might devour the host—"

"It is unfortunate but it was necessary in the next step of the evolution." Norman said.

"You're insane. I'll tell the world what you've done." Richard glared.

Norman smirked. "You have two choices, Richard. Work with me or be known as a criminal."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Richard demanded.

"Selling corporate secrets of OsCorp to other companies. Markovians. Terrorist organizations." Norman said.

"That's ridicu—" Richard stopped as it hit him. "You're setting me up."

"That depends on you. It's your choice. What's it going to be?" Norman asked and Richard sighed, realizing Norman got him.

Richard sat down and turned on the camera. "Peter, I have all these things I have in my head… things I wanna say, things I think as your father you will need to hear. You're going to find that there are people in this world, people, who you are going to look at and say, 'Why is this person like this?' I found myself surrounded by people, who will do and say anything, just for the appearance that they're better than they are…"

Present

"My Dad was going to tell S.H.I.E.L.D. everything." Peter said.

"His contact was Jasper Sitwell. He was Hydra." Felicity read as all the pieces suddenly fell together.

"Osborn worked with Hydra on Venom and who knows what else." Barry realized.

"They sabotaged the plane on which my parents were. There were three survivors of the crash. They all witnessed the same thing." Peter read as he showed them a portrait of Venom. "It burned to death. And one of the witnesses was my mother." His eyes then got wet as Gwen and Felicia held him by his shoulders. "She died in the ambulance."

"At least Osborn is going to face justice for his crimes." Barry assured.

"We'll see if we can find a cure for his son. He'll be in good hands here." Caitlin said as they looked into the camera, where Harry Osborn was in a stasis cell in the labs.

"I'm more worried about Brock. He's out there. Somewhere. With Venom. I'm honestly not sure if I'm worried about him… or for him." Peter said.

"We'll find him." Gwen assured.

New York

Eddie Brock was buying himself some food before he saw a mugger aim a gun at the elderly Asian vendor, asking for cash. The woman, in fear, collected the cash, before suddenly, the mugger's hand was covered in some tentacle that was formed from some black goo as a tall muscular humanoid creature covered in black goo with white eyes and a giant monstrous jaw neared the mugger, who paled.

"You come in here again, in fact…" Venom grabbed the mugger by his throat. "…you go anywhere in this city preying on innocent people, we will find you and eat both your arms and then both of your legs. And then we will eat your face right off your head. Do you understand?"

The mugger shook his head, trembling in fear. "Please, no."

"Yes." Venom said. "So, you will be this armless, legless, faceless thing, won't you? Rolling down the street like a turd in the wind. Do you feel me?"

"What the hell are you?" The mugger whispered.

Half of Venom's face revealed Eddie Brock's face underneath black goo. "We… are Venom." The gap closed as the monster smirked. "On second thought…" Venom opened his jaw wide open as the mugger screamed.

"Please. No! No!"

As Venom ate the mugger, Eddie turned normal, wiping his mouth as he turned to the vendor, who just stared in shock. "What… was… that?"

"Oh. I have a parasite. Goodnight." Eddie said as he walked out of the store.

"Parasite?" Venom demanded.

"Yeah, it's a term of endearment, that's all." Eddie said as he walked down the pavement.

"Apologize!"

"No."

"Apologize!"

Eddie sighed. "Fine. Fine. I'm sorry. So, what do you wanna do now?"

"The way I see it, WE can do whatever we want." Venom said gleefully.

Later, A.R.G.U.S. Detention Black Site

Norman Osborn was in his cell before a guard entered. "Mr. Osborn. I've been looking forward to this."

Norman looked up to face Eddie, who was disguised as a guard. "Brock? I can't believe—"

"I'll tell you what I can't believe. I can't believe that after all the things you've done, that all you get is few years in a cell. The thing is, you lock up an animal, it gets angry." Eddie said, his voice turning into an inhuman snarl.

Norman paled. "You can't do anything to me in here! The guards—"

"…will not help you!" Venom opened his jaws wide open.

"Noooooo!" Norman screamed.

"What the hell happened?" Lyla asked as all that was left of Norman Osborn were tatters of prison suit and bones.

"We're not sure. Someone disguised as a guard came here and killed him. Then he vanished, like a ghost." Rick Flag said as he showed Lyla the footage of a guard covered in some black goo, who vanished into the shadows.

"He also devoured another prisoner, who's dead now." Steve Trevor explained.

"Who?" Lyla asked.

"Eobard Thawne. That thing broke into his cell and ate him." Trevor said.

Lyla shrugged. "Good riddance."

S.T.A.R. Labs

"I'm glad you guys let me stay here." Gwen said.

"No problem. We could always use someone as smart as you." Barry said.

"It's a little weird to be with Wells here. I mean, another Wells." Gwen said.

"You'll get used to it." Caitlin assured.

Harry Wells was in the workshop, working on some device as lights flickered and he looked confused before going out and looking around. "Hello? Ramon! If this is a prank, then it's not funny." He looked into the shadows and saw red eyes and a vibrating shadow.

Harry barely had time to scream as the red-eyed ghost rushed at him.

Hope you liked the backstory of Peter here. In comic books, the mainstream one, Earth-616, Peter's parents Richard and Mary were CIA agents, who Red Skull had murdered by sabotaging their plane. In Ultimate comic books, Earth-1610, Richard Parker worked for Bolivar Trask and worked on Venom suit with Eddie Brock Sr., Eddie's father but the suit was unstable and Richard and Eddie were forced to hand over Venom because of the contract. Richard, Mary and Eddie wanted to fight over the rights for the suit in the court but Trask found out and had their plane sabotaged.

Hope you like Gwen officially joining Team Flash. I thought, "Oh, why not?"

Those who have seen Season 6 of The Flash can guess what happened. This cliffhanger is actually going to be a part of the bigger sequel I have planned, which is going to be set in in Infinity War now.

There is a theory that Thawne actually cannot die and can exist formlessly as negative tachyons, that could possess a body. In Season 6, considering that Thawne assimilated Earth-1 Harrison Wells's DNA and took on his likeness, he actually became Harrison Wells, hence how was he probably able to take over Nash's body after all the Wellses merged with him after the Crisis. As Cisco would say, Thawne has become "a red-eyed pissed off Voldemort looking for a new body".

See you in the next story and once again, thank you to Aragorn II Elessar for his permission to let me continue his "The Devil and the Hood" series.

Please review and let me know if you have enjoyed the story to its end.

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