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Warning: This is rated M for a reason (blood, gore, extreme violence, language, and possible adult themes/lemons, etc.) Some of the characters will be a little OC.
Now on with the chapter.
The Black Leaves
Chapter 32
The next morning we find Naruto and his two female companions yawning and stretching just outside of the village's massive gate. Baby slept peacefully ontop of Naruto's head. The boy wisely kept his mouth shut when he realized the metroid felt a little heavier than he recalled. They were all just about to head out when an old man with long spiky white hair wearing an old red outfit and old wooden getas strolled up to the group.
They all took note about how his eyes leered pervertedly at Ambush's naked symbiotic body. This seemed to cause said symbiote to growl lowly. Only her Naruto-kun was allowed to give her perverted glares.
"Who might you be?" Samus asked as she crossed her arms underneath her sizable bust. The only man took a moment to tear his eyes off Ambush's bust before responding to the blond woman.
"I am the Great Toad Sage Jiraiya and one of the legendary Sannin. I heard that you all were going to track down my old teammate and thought that I could help."
"How would you being her teammate help us?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow. "Perverted sage." He quickly added just so he could see the vain pop on the old man's forehead.
"Well." Jiraiya started. "I have a vast network of civilians and ninja in almost every village and town within the Elemental Nations. Each one monitoring any and all activity that could be deemed dangerous to this village. So I already know what village Tsunade will be heading to, what gambling halls she will most likely gamble at and even what hotel she will be staying at. Little brat."
Naruto shrugged. "Why not? You can join old perv." He stood and waited for Jiraiya to pull out a map and give them the low down on where they were going. It turned out that the Senju was heading to a rather large tourist village lovingly called Tanzaku Town. According to the male pervert, the village will be easy to spot since it has a large old castle smack dab in the middle of it.
"Everybody ready?" Jiraiya asked before receiving nods from the group. "Then let's go." And they started the trek to Tanzaku town. Baby slept most of the time and only woke up to give a cute squeak and zoom over to someone else's head to sleep on. She avoided Jiraiya for some reason. As was to be expected, Samus tried to get into Naruto's pants with Ambush fighting her off and instead trying to simply reach her hand and grab Naruto's.
Jiraiya had taken a little spiral notebook out of a hidden pocket and was scribbling down individual notes on the events happening. That is, until Baby caught site of this and quickly snatched the notebook out of the old sage's hands. The little metroid started playing with the perverted old man by holding the notebook just out of his reach and letting him make a grab for it and pulling just a tad further away before coming back within range.
This slowed down the group a bit, but a majority of them felt it was worth it just to get a cheap laugh at the old perv's expense. They continued down the dirt path after Baby finally got bored and handed back Jiraiya's notebook and going over to her mother to sleep in her arms.
The walk had become rather quiet and uneventful as both Samus and Ambush had given up in their attempt and nobody had anything to talk about. So, Jiraiya decided to ask a question that was bugging him.
"How do you creatures reproduce?"
"Asexually."
Ambush was quick to respond. She did not was the pervert to start writing things involving her hopefully relationship with her Naruto-kun. Unfortunately, Samus failed to see this and decided to expand on Ambush's words.
"Unless we have a host. Then we just have hours and hours of hot, steamy, raunchy sex." She said with a giggle as Naruto's currently unexpressed face turned a dark shade of red and Ambush glared at Samus.
"We can give live birth or we could lay eggs." And to prove this Samus raised the shirt she was wearing and her stomach became translucent. Inside a large cluster of clear orbs filled with a translucent gel, each was about the size of a golf ball. "These are some unfertilized eggs I just produced a few hours ago." She said huskily while leering at Naruto. "Would you like to help fertilizing them, Lord Venom?"
"How disgusting!"
Ambush nearly shouted. "To blatantly show off something so intimate; and to tempt Naruto-kun with it!"
Naruto would have agreed with her...if he were still human. But having bonded so much with the symbiotic lord had almost completely changes many aspects of his mind. Now to say that Naruto and Venom were one in the same would be like calling copper salt. Many things about Naruto's mind had changed, from the clothes he liked to wear to the food he enjoyed. It just so happened that his symbiotic half really, really enjoyed seeing that cluster of eggs inside of Samus. Seeing the eggs showed how fertile the female symbiote was; and coupled with knowing how strong she was showed the potential for very strong offspring to be born.
This, along with Venom's perverted nature, caused Naruto's mind to be filled with many dirty images of him and Samus with several of Naruto with Payback doing very adult activities. Ambush saw Naruto's red staring face and fumed but kept her harsh words silent.
THe small group silently made walked along the path to their destination until night was close to appearing. Just ahead was a small town that appeared to gain most of its commerce from travelers since most of the building appeared to be built on the main road.
"Let's stop for now and continue our search tomorrow." Jiraiya said when they had reached a small hotel right at the entrance to the small town.
The three symbiotes gave the old sage odd looks before collectively asking. "Why?"
It was Jiraiya's turn to give them odd looks. "Because we need to sleep to build up energy for tomorrow. Don't you aliens sleep?"
"Of course," Samus said. "We just don't need it as much as you humans." The snarky way she said the word 'human' showed that the space lady did not like being called an alien. It was just plain rude.
"Now now Sammy, you know Jiraiya-sama is really old."
Ambush said with a chuckle, causing the other symbiotes to smirk at the old sage's expense. Jiraiya decided against saying anything further and just walked into the hotel. All but Ambush followed, knowing that her walking in would cause more problems then needed. Once they got their rooms they would signal her to come up.
The hotel was packed since there was some sort of big event happening in the next town over, said town just so happened to be the town they were searching for. The group was just barely able to get two rooms for the night. Jiraiya was visibly disappointed when Samus said that she would stay in the same room as Naruto with Baby squealing in agreement.
When they got to their rooms, the old man was hoping that Ambush would be staying in his room. Yet, again he was rejected for the symbiotic lord. Downcast, Jiraiya did what he always did in his free time; check out every bar, strip club, brothel, and hot spring for perverted material.
With the symbiotes all alone in their room, Samus saw it fit to flirt with Naruto some more before it was time to head off to bed. All Ambush did for about an hour was glare daggers at her fellow female symbiote before sighing heavily and heading into the restroom.
As soon as the door was closed and locked, Ambush rushed over to the mirror and gave herself a hard look.
'What is it about that woman that attracts our Naruto-kun?!'
Hinata internally screamed as her eyes dug into her reflection.
'Well we can rule out her behavior and attitude, darling.'
Ambush said with a hot tone. Ambush opened her mouth to look at her long, sharp tongue and many sharp fangs.
'We don't think it has anything to do with our mouth, dear.' A quick breath and sniff revealed that her breath smelled of a mix of cinnamon and chocolate. Far from the stench of Venom's mouth. She looked into the far back of her mouth and saw several teeth were not straight and was quick to remedy that little problem.
'We also doubt that was the problem.'
She ran her fingers through her hair and was not satisfied with the slight split ends she had acquired. A few cellular shifts and another little problem was solved. That continued for a good fifteen minutes with Hinata controlled Ambush picking at every speck of dirt or physical imperfection on her face. It was when she went to the rest of her body did the young symbiote take note of something very important. She had massive tits.
Ambush looked at her self as she jiggled her breasts, lift them up and down, raised them up and suddenly dropped them, along with several other things that would cause any man's pants to tighten. 'Maybe they are too big?' Hinata thought as she poked her nipples.
'Again, that is very doubtful darling. Did you not say that you we were going to woo our Naruto-kun with the amazing power of love and not resort to prostituting ourselves like that old hag?'
Ambush said in a very overly dramatic tone.
'Besides,' She forced her right arm to raise up so that her hand could be seen. The skin that covered her long, sixteen-inch fingers slowly shrank away, revealing the long sharp claws that the skin hid. 'We have the true power of love on our side.' Ambush said passionately.
'We just need to show Naruto-kun what we can really do. And with any luck, by the end of this little mission Naruto-kun should be proposing to us constantly.'
Hinata imagined several scenes of that scenario happening and had to hold back the excited squeal that threatened to explode out of her symbiotic mouth. She took quick and calming breath before exiting the restroom and witnessing both Naruto and Samus creating their own little nests. Ambush walked over to a corner of the room and started to do the same.
A few minutes later and there were three different colored pod-like nests on three corners of the room. They symbiotes, plus Baby with her mother, quickly got in and sealed their own nests before letting sleep claim them.
The next morning had the symbiotes and Jiraiya leaving the hotel and continuing on towards Tanzaku Town. They walked a short while in silence until they had gone a good distance away from the town they were just in.
"Last night, I found out that this 'event' that the people of that last village thought was going in is probably not real." Jiraiya stated suddenly. "The...people I talked to described that a large group of people in red and black robes had passed through the town. They had apparently been shouting something about their 'time being near' and 'the event shall soon begin'."
"Well, it looks like the Order has got a good head start." Samus said passively.
"Then we had better pick up the pace." Naruto said with a horrifying lack of emotion. Without waiting for the others, Naruto started jumping across the treetops in an effort to get to Tanzaku Town that much faster. Every time he launched himself from a branch, said platform would break. Every time he'd land on the ground, it would shatter.
It only took the group a few short hours to reach the town with them all trying to keep up with Naruto's violent pace. They stopped just outside the large town; the large castle in the center was a dead give away that they were at the right place.
Unfortunately, countless numbers of people wearing red and black robes could be seen wandering around all over the town. All them either chanting incoherently or attempting to recruit anyone that was not dressed the same.
A low and gurgling growl echoed from the back of Naruto's throat as a torrent of saliva poured from his parted jaws. Black tendrils could be seen slowly trailing down the boy's arms as the volume of his growling increased.
"Lord Venom," Samus spoke as she placed a firm hand on Naruto's shoulder. "Please calm down. We still have a mission to complete."
"Yeah. As soon as we got Tsunade on our side; you can have all the fun you want kid." Jiraiya said with a smile. He read the report on the Order and what atrocities they have committed over the centuries. He did not feel the slightest bit of sympathy for the slaughter they were going to soon be a part of.
Ambush decided to hide away outside of the village and wait incase of an emergency along with Baby while Samus, Naruto, and Jiraiya all went into the village to seek out the mythical medic. It took every ounce of Naruto's will to not rip apart every single robe-wearing freak he came across.
They continued to walk through the large town before Jiraiya told them to stop in front of a bar/gambling hall. "Knowing my teammate, she wouldn't dare miss a chance to gamble and drink at the same time." They walked into the establishment and were greeted with the sight of several Order members talking to a busty blond recognized as Tsunade.
Naruto was about to leap ontop of the closest member but another firm hand on his shoulder prevented him.
"Please join our holy cause Miss Senju." The Order member politely said to Tsunade. "You would be very useful in helping us achieve the peace this world desperately needs."
Next to Tsunade sat a brunette-haired girl in a simple purple outfit holding a pig. THe women looked nervously from the busty blonde to the red and black robed man.
Tsunade picked up a bottle from the table she was sitting at and took a big drink. "No." She stated plainly when her lips parted from the bottle. The quick and sudden answer must have unsettled the guy because the next sentence that came from his mouth was filled with nervousness and excitement.
"B-But, please Miss Senju! Please reconsider! You'll be doing an amazing serves for all of humanity!" He sputtered.
"No." This time, the aged medic's tone was much firmer and even held a little aggression. As if to threaten the man to ask again. The man must have gotten the message because he backed away a tad before responding one final time.
"Very well, it appears you need a little time to think this over. We shall let you think about our offer for a while. I and my associates will find you tomorrow after you realize how valuable you are to our cause." He ended with a huff before turning and stalking out of the gambling hall, quickly followed by his fellow Order members.
Jiraiya and his compatriots stepped aside and allowed the disgruntled man and his following to leave before approaching the table Tsunade and the other woman sat at. The blonde failed to notice the new group approach her table, but the other woman did take notice and another nervous expression appeared on her rather cute face.
"As beautiful as I remember." Jiraiya spoke up with a kind smirk on his old face. A vein appeared on Tsunade's hand as she glanced up and say her old perverted teammate.
"And what the Hell do you want?" She nearly barked. She had just about enough of people bothering her for the day; especially after she just lost another big bet.
Jiraiya's face suddenly became very serious. "I would be lying if I said we had not come here for you. But your village and her allies need you."
Tsunade's only response was a grunt and another swig of her drink before actually speaking. "I'll tell you what I told those cloaked guys: No."
Recognizing the old man, Tsunade's friend turned to her mentor and finally spoke. "Tsunade-sama, please. He is your old teammate. We should at least hear what he has to say."
Tsunade just rolled her eyes, grunted in defeat and allowed her perverted old friend to explain. And explain he did, Jiraiya gave almost every detail pertaining to why she was needed and obviously exaggerated key parts in hopes to get the busty blond to come back to the village with little to no confrontation.
After hearing her old friend's plea; Tsunade took yet another swig before speaking. "And why should I care about this 'magic' little girl? Why should I care about what this group of idiots want to do to the world?!" She nearly shouted. Her suppressed anger slowly leaching out behind her mask of calm.
"If the Order gets what it wants. You can say good bye to bars, gambling, drinking!" Jiraiya tried to stress.
"There will be plenty of other shit-holes I could go to." She stated. Jiraiya continued trying to settle things diplomatically with little to no success. Finally, Tsunade had had enough and suddenly stood up.
"Come Shizune, we are leaving." She sent Jiraiya a glare before giving the dark-haired girl a stern look.
"Y-Yes Tsunade-sama!" Shizune said before reaching down and picking up a small, pink pig wearing a little outfit and following her teacher as they proceeded to walk out of the gambling hall/bar. Jiraiya and his two cohorts were right behind her and were about to try another spree of begging when a loud scream followed by something slamming into the ground right in front of the bar stopped them all.
A monstrous scream of pain burst from Ambush's mouth as she hit the hard unforgiving Earth. She turned and saw her comrades; she was about to say something when a large green and silver sword slammed into the ground right between them.
This drew the group's collective attention at where the weapon had come from. A man in a green mechanical suit hovering in the air just a short distance away. His whole body was covered by the green armor with his long-nosed face being the only exception. The most obvious part of the suit was the two dozen large swords that made up the wings on the shoulders of the suit.
Visible electrical sparks leading from the back of the suit's shoulders to the swords leaving a small gap between the actual suit and the massive steel 'feathers' of the wings. The sword that had dug itself into the ground slowly started to vibrate before suddenly pulling free of the dirt and twirling around for a moment then zooming over to the green suited man and joining the other swords in the wings.
He and Naruto suddenly locked eyes and his face slowly scrunched up into a snarl as he recognized the lad. He slowly started to move up and back before angling his body in a dive. The folding of his wings and a blast of fire from his feet sent him into a straight dive for the kid.
In turn, Naruto's face broke into a wicked smile. He'd been itching for a fight the instant he neared the village, and now he was sure he was going to get exactly what he wanted. He quickly shoved aside the two oldest members of the group and stood directly in the line of the suited guy's flight.
Right as the man got within a foot of Naruto, time seemed to slow down for the boy; his symbiotic senses having kicked in. Able to see and react in time to the time allowed for Naruto to both come up with a quick plan and just as quickly perform the plan.
Naruto bent his knees and bent his spine backwards while bringing his tentacled arm up. The arm was able to grab onto the right ankle of the suited dude just as he barely passed over our blond antihero.
Now, Naruto was expecting that his impressive grip on the man's leg combined with his strength would have caused the man to come to a sudden stop and allow him to be slammed hard into the ground. Of course I would not be saying, "Naruto expected..." if that actually happened.
Instead, what happened was Naruto being jerked backwards and forcibly dragged for a few feet before regaining his footing and trying to stay up to speed with e green guy so as not to be dragged again. It would have been rather humorous if it was not for the fact that Naruto was running into and over quit a large number of people.
After getting just the right footing, Naruto dug his heels into the Earth in an effort to slow down and hopefully stop the suited guy. Instead, the man started to speed up that much more.
The women and Jiraiya were about to help their comrade when a very, very heavy object hit the ground behind them. They turned to see one Hell of a sight!
There stood a man of at least thirteen feet in height and about as wide as two small market stands. Every inch of his massive body was covered in pure muscle that throbbed with enlarged veins. The man's whole body, except for his rock hard face, was covered in a skintight gray suit. Section of the shoulders, elbows, knees and stomach were covered in a leather-like armor. A large horn stood proudly atop the man's head, just above his forehead with a smaller horn directly behind it.
The man stared down the group with beady little black eyes before giving an animalistic snort, lowering his horned head, and charging with a surprising amount of speed. Samus quickly leapt in front of the charging behemoth while her right arms quickly transformed into her arm cannon. Said cannon opened along the sides to reveal a purple and yellow light.
She held her arm up at the man's face before the light coming out of her arm grew brighter and a large purple, yellow, and green orb of energy appeared at the end of her arm cannon. Just as the man was about to reach the group, Samus unleashed the charged energy.
The man stopped in his tracks when the orb smashed into his face and exploded into a storm of electrical spark. His body twitched and spasmed heavily as visible strings of electricity arced across his body and limbs.
"Wave Beam always slows 'em down." Samus said to herself before turning to the Sannin, and Shizune, and her fellow symbiote. "Ambush, go and get them out of here. Keep them safe. We don't think the Order likes us taking what they want."
Ambush did not question her senior and quickly pushed her wards away from the rhino-man. She was able to get them just around the corner when they were suddenly surrounded by a large number of Order members. All of them wielded some sort of weapon, be it a real weapon or a makeshift one, they were all ready to fight.
"Look!" One shouted loudly. "The Healer has sided with the Demons! Kill them all!"
Ambush turned her head a smidgen. "We hope your ready for a fight!" She drew her claws and leapt into the mass of humans while letting loose a feral scream.
Near the center of town, Naruto finally let go of the green-suited man and landed rather hard on his feet. The man flew up a few feet before stopping and twirling to face Naruto. The blond in turned growled deeply before holding his tentacled arm straight out and flexing his body.
In a matter of seconds, the tentacle grew and twisted around until reforming into an exact replica of the arm that once was there. Naruto quickly looked at his new limb before flexing it while opening and closing his new fingers.
"Good as new." He growled to himself. He looked up just as the man thrust his wings forward and several of the massive sword-like feathers launched directly towards Naruto. Naruto dodged a majority of the blades before quickly grabbing one and giving a short spin, using the kinetic energy, and throwing the weapon right back.
The man smiled as the blade went right back to it's original spot, along with all the others. He was about to try the attack again when a food cart came whizzing just over his head. He did not have time to look at where the cart landed as a section of roofing came flying towards him right after the cart.
He quickly dodged the debris and glared down at the guilty party, who currently had several tentacles sticking out of his back and grabbing anything that was or was not nailed to the ground. The instant a tentacle wrapped around something, the appendage would jerk and toss the object at the green dude. The object ranged from lampposts to pieces of wall and Earth.
Naruto tossed another large junk of Earth directly at the man, who simply flew over it only to receive a nasty black blob of symbiotic goo courtesy of Naruto's mouth. The glob smacked right into the man's face and stuck fast.
The man threw his hands up to his face instantly and started pulling at the glob in an effort to remove the sticky substance. As he struggled with it, the man started to slowly ascend with each hard yank and pull. He felt something wrap around his ankle, but before he could try to kick it away and boost a good distance, he felt Naruto land on him and grab his shoulders.
The boy's claws dug deep into the man's green armor as several tentacles wrapped around his target. Naruto opened his mouth and let out an angry roar just as the man was able to yank the goo off his face.
Naruto lunged forward and snapped his jaws in the man's face only to be blocked by the man's elbow jamming itself into the blond boy's chest. Naruto's claws dug deeper into the green armor as he tried to pull the man's face closer to his still gnashing teeth.
The man's face slowly got ever closer before Naruto was just about to bite off the man's long nose. The only thing stopping him was the sudden green fist making contact with the side of Naruto's head.
The force of the punch was strong enough to shake off one of Naruto's hands and allow the man to reach down to his waist and pull out a small round object. Naruto quickly shook off his daze and made another attempt to snap off the guy's face, only to have the object jammed into his open jaws.
Venom's host blinked his eyes in confusion for a moment before the sound of rapid beeping alerted him to what the ball really was. He quickly tilted his head to one side and spat out the object, which exploded violently just before impacting the ground.
Naruto glared at the man while giving a massive smile. "You did not honestly think that would work, did you?!" He then re-acquired his grip on the man's shoulders before suddenly tilting his body backwards. The sudden uneven distribution of weight caused the green man to tilt forward and for the two to quickly start plummeting to the ground headfirst.
Toomes was able to knock away the boy before the two could hit the ground and both righted themselves before landing on the ground. Not giving Adrian any time to get away, Naruto dived straight for him and slammed his shoulder into the man's stomach before attempting to force him to the ground. A blast from the man's feet forced Naruto back before he could get burned and Toomes was able to get off the ground and back into the air.
Adrain once again got a good distance up and away before shouting. "Where the Hell is my back up?! Take this freak down?!" Before launching another barrage of sword-feathers. Naruto tried to dodge the attack again, but a mass of red-robed bodies blocked him and several of the swords were able to slash into his flesh. One of said weapons was able to impale itself directly through the young host's right side; directly underneath his ribcage.
Naruto quickly yanked out the weapon and used it to slash at the mob of Order members blocking his path. He was able to cleave one member in two before throwing the weapon away and returning his attention to the green guy. Instead of jumping up at the man, Naruto launched a barrage of tentacles at the man and was easily able to grab him.
Adrian tried to boost away but only caused the thrusters on his feet to overheat and almost blow out. Again, Naruto launched himself at his target, but instead of impacting as expected, Toomes used the boy's momentum and was able to throw Naruto through the roof of a close by building. Instead of waiting for the youth to exit the building, Adrian threw a half dozen of his bombs into the hole Naruto created.
The bombs began beeping before entering the hole and one second later caused a large explosion that caused a majority of the building's roof and large sections of it's walls to collapse. Seeing the dust and smoke rise, Toomes decides to throw more explosives at the remains of the building and watched with a smile as the rest of the structure collapsed.
Once the dust and smoke cleared away, all that could be seen was the rubble of the building. This sight caused a large number of the Order members to start cheering and shouting out words of praise to Adrian Toomes.
A name slowly started to echo along with the cheers and started to mesh into the words of praise. 'Vulture'. Soon all cheering had replaced Adrian's name with the new name, Vulture.
The loud cheering drowned out the sounds of the rubble of the destroyed structure shifting. Only one poor twenty-seven year old Order member noticed the sudden shift of wood and saw to it to investigate the movement. The continuous shifting of the rubble drew the man closer to spot until he was standing just a few inches from a plank of wood that was slowly moving.
"Hey!" He shouted. "I don't think it's de-ACK!" His sudden strangled choke drew everyone's attention back to the destroyed building and the massive claw that had gone through the guy's throat. The claw dug so deep the it had reached a point where with just the slightest twitch, the few remaining strands of flesh holding the man's head to his body would easily snap.
And snap they did, causing the man's severed head to roll away as his body was flung aside by the massive hand the large claw was attached to flicked it's wrist. Another hand quickly shot out of the rubble and, along with the first, slammed into the pile and began to press down as they hefted up what they were attached to.
Slowly crawling out of the rubble was the new form of Lord Venom. His posture had changed from its slight hunch to being completely straight, leaving him at approximately ten feet tall. Venom's skull had extended past his bottom jaw and two new sets of white eyes had appeared on the extended skull, in front of the original and larger set.
His long and sharp tongue had split completely into two individual appendages as well as his fangs showing a small sense of order and correct dental work. That being, they were mostly in line. The most glaring change however, was that Venom's once bulky and massive frame was now much, much leaner. Not skinny, but had all that muscle suddenly compressed and tightened into the sleek form of an Olympic athlete.
His primary set of arms were obviously more leaner than his previous forms as well as each finger sporting the same dark purple claws as before. His secondary set had obviously grown much larger than before. So large were the claws that it was surprising that Venom had not fallen over on either side. His legs had grown longer as well as starting to walk on his toes, much like most quadrapedic creatures. Venom's feet in question had changed into more human looking except a little more rectangular and with the obviously dark purple claws on each toe.
The large spider symbol that adorned Venom's chest had begun to pock out of his flesh, revealing its legs to be made up of several ribs and the spider's body to be Venom's sternum. That, coupled with his now revealed spine did not make Venom anymore pleasant to look at.
Venom growled lowly before rearing back and unleashing a loud, angry roar and extending his secondary arms out into the crowd of Order members. His primary arms were launched at the Vulture and snatched the man right out of the air before violently tossing him down to the hard Earth. Before he could get up, Venom roared again and started to repeatedly slam his arms down onto the man's body. Pushing the armored guy into the ground.
Any soldier that tried to get close enough to help the Vulture was quickly ripped apart by Venom's secondary set of arms. Eventually, Vulture forced his bladed wings to swing forward and severe both of Venom's primary arms before using the thrusters on his boots to become airborne once again. He quickly gained a few feet and quickly took a look at his options.
Vulture could either A) Be killed and eaten by an enraged Lord Venom; or B) Be killed by the Order. Vulture went with option C) Run his sorry ass out of there, go into hiding and live in a remote area far from Order control.
He quickly threw several of his sword-feathers at Venom before turning away and bolting as fast as he could. Unfortunately for him, Venom's massive claws were able to deflect the blades and said symbiote was hot on his heels. Anyone fool enough to get in Venom's way was stamped into the ground by his stomping feet.
Vulture performed quick turns while ascending to try and loose the monster chasing him. His efforts were in vain since the instant he got past the rooftops; Lord Venom was already leaping from them and getting that much closer. With a final burst from the thrusters on his boots, the Vulture passed the castle smack dab in the center of the town.
Venom leapt up into the side of the castle and quickly crawled up to just near the top. Using enough force to break down the wall he was attached to, Venom jumped off said wall and straight for Vulture. Despite the height and the distance, the black symbiote slammed into the green suited man and quickly grabbed onto and part of the suit his hands could grip.
Shaken, Vulture quickly ascended while trying to fight off the roaring and clawing Venom. They kept going up and up, higher and higher into the sky.
They had just reached one and a half miles straight up when the Vulture struggled out. "Kill me now, and we both die!" As he tried to pry off one of Venom's tentacles that had wrapped itself around his neck.
Venom climbed up until he was at head level with his prey before forcing that man's head to face his. "No, we won't. You, will." And with that, two tentacles sprouted out of Venom's neck and wrapped themselves around the Vulture's wing control nodes. With a wicked grin, Venom's tentacles started to pull out the nodes from the suit, causing Vulture's flying to become very erratic.
Vulture's eyes widened when he realized what Venom was planning and quickly started to stab the symbiote lord repeatedly with his many sword-like feathers. In turn, Venom started to laugh loudly as he watched the fear in the Vulture's eyes grow as he ever so slowly removed the nodes attaching the massive metal wings to the green-suited man's back.
With the sounds of electricity sparking and metal ripping, the nodes were ripped clean from the suit and the wings that they once controlled started to plummet to the Earth below, along with the Vulture and Lord Venom.
Venom shoved himself off of Vulture as the two plummeted downward, Vulture screamed while Venom simply smiled. After the ground became a little more detailed to the eye, Venom suddenly righted himself and spread his secondary set of arms. He spread out the claws as far as possible before the skin on the massive hands stretched over each claw and connected them all together.
Venom's new 'wings' quickly caught the force of his fall and greatly decreased his descent. He was still falling at an incredible speed, but the drag his second pair of arms were creating would at least guarantee he would not splatter upon impacting the unforgiving ground.
He watched as the Vulture plummeted while screaming and clawing at the air in a futile attempt to save himself from his inevitable death. Venom neared the ground and was about to feel his legs shatter when a high pitched squeal along with something's sharp poked onto the sides of his head.
Venom's descent slowed down a great deal as Baby made adorable grunts of effort as she tried to save her falling father. Venom still landed hard enough to shatter the ground and caused his legs to ache violently.
Baby made loud panting sounds as she slowly removed herself from her papa and struggled to stay afloat. Venom gently held the metroid in his hands. Good girl." He spoke with a surprising level of gentleness. "Why don't you go rest and feed while your mommy and papa finish everything here?"
Baby gave a soft titter before slowly leaving Venom's hands and slowly floating up and out of sight over a nearby building.
A sudden sharp tingle in the back of Venom's head warned him of the quickly approaching danger just a split second before the sound of charging feet; loud snorting and low grunting reached his ears.
Venom turned to face the danger but was suddenly and violently slammed into by a massive gray and horned mass. The large horn piercing straight through Venom's shoulder.
"SHIT!"