Split/Bind

Oof! Out of nowhere Carnage's back arched like a bow as Venom rocketed from his perch into him. The collision turned into a roll that ended with Venom hurling the killer with all the force and momentum he had on his side. The cries and groans were proof that it had hurt.

The debris exploded with a snarl. "That hurt! But boy am I glad to see you! Straight away I'm lookin' for a contender and you show up!"

"Unfortunately for you," said Venom with a nasty smile, "you're going to have to catch us if you want us." The two remained frozen staring each other down. "Tag! You're it!"

With that Venom was off swinging through the city. Carnage gave chase with a merry howl. He smelled blood and was excited at the potential prospect. The two figures kept swinging across the buildings, alleyways, through them, across construction sites, and it was Venom who was the target with Carnage repeatedly lunging in for a killing pounce that would stop the chase. Venom dodged him at every turn despite the fact that he was much bigger.

"Aw c'mon!" he yelled after another failed attempt. "This is getting boring! I wanna fight! I wanna murder!"

"Murder this! Catch!" yelled Venom hurling a manhole cover. When had he managed to snag it was unclear, but it did buy him some space. They were almost there, just a little more distance. Suddenly, Carnage rocketed out of the dust cloud from the impact site and collided with Venom. Quick recovery; must be the surging of adrenaline. Still Venom did roll with it quite nicely.

"Gotcha!" yelled Carnage rearing back to- "HEY HEY! WHOA I SAY! OH-" The ground broke beneath the impact of the two bodies with Venom on top. The lethal defender had cleverly taken advantage of their aerial position to maneuver through the impact and turn it into a pile driver with Carnage underneath him headed face-first towards the pavement. "….Ow," he finally groaned as the dust started to settle.

"If it's any consolation to you," groaned Venom, "that took a lot out of us to." But he grinned all the same. The tide was shifting; he could feel it.

Carnage shook his head to clear the cobwebs. "Okay," he finally growled, looking around. "Where ya hidin'? I got eyes on the back o' ma head so you ain't taken me by surprise." His eyes widened to find Venom just casually leaning on a nearby girder without any apparent concern, casually looking at his fingers. Finally, he looked over at his opponent and smiled.

"Well finally. We were worried we knocked you out. Boxers get up faster than you. Heck, babies even more so."

"Aaaarrrrrhhhh!" yelled Carnage and lunged without hesitation. Venom dodged rather casually, and the serial killer promptly went head-first into the girder actually denting it in slightly. Then, Venom replied with a strong right fist. Carnage hurled a number of darts, but Venom ducked. Then he leapt and collided with his off-balance enemy, rolling over, and promptly biting him in the throat. The killer and symbiote screamed with one voice, and Venom hurled them with nothing more than jaw and neck strength, tearing the two free from his teeth leaving a spurt of blood.

The battle between the two became rather violent as Carnage began to find his balance. Nevertheless, Venom held his own rather well. The half-finished building on the other hand…

Due to Carnage's violent and rather wild way of fighting, the supports met their demise and the rest of the structure came down. Venom was clever enough to prevent Carnage from leaping free. The killer was left to fight desperately to not be crushed while Venom formed a shield and braced himself.

Carnage shakily emerged from the rubble. He looked around with a miserable groan and a black tendril promptly shot out of the dark and slapped on his face. Then he was jerked up off his feet and dashed face-first down. He snarled and attempted to rise. Venom came running out of the dust and tackled him. Then he heaved him up and slammed him down, hurled him away only to yank him back with another clever snag of the tendrils. Carnage's jaw met a mean left. Venom promptly seized him by the "face" and pulled it in two revealing Kasady underneath. The man spat, screaming his defiance and madness.

The two commenced violently lashing out at each other. Anything that could be used as a weapon was. Venom used a broken metal girder like a bat and clubbed Carnage a mean one. Carnage retaliated by seizing the girder and engaging in a vicious tug of war. He then hefted Venom up and over with the girder slamming him in a reversal of their position. He tackled the helpless Eddie Brock and ended up on top. "No more games," growled the angry monster. Then Eddie promptly vomited a black mass on his chest.

Carnage snapped and reared back to remove his head by crushing him into the pavement, but then he began to cough and gag. The black mass, what had it just done to him?

Black tendrils began to erupt and coat his crimson black form. Carnage writhed and screamed as he was torn asunder. This had been Venom's true plan alongside Eddie. They couldn't win by battle, so they instead deceived the killer by supposedly beginning to weaken. Then Eddie would fake being sick in order to remove his symbiote by ejecting Venom so as to permit him to attack from the inside. Carnage, nor Cletus Kasady, were prepared from such an action and the shared bond between the two began to shatter and fray.

Then Eddie lunged up from the ground and headbutted Kasady making blood spray from his nose. Venom lashed out and the two rejoined and began straining, tearing Carnage slowly but surely away from the screaming serial killer who made the mistake of pulling back against their efforts. With a final Snap! Carnage was ripped from Kasady and disappeared into Venom's form as he absorbed it. "Give it back!" shrieked Kasady, wringing his hands. "That's mine! My power!"

"No."

Kasady gave a scream like some mad animal and leapt at Venom, hands like claws, only to be casually backhanded away, and slide across the dirt with a groan, before going limp. Venom then gave a groan and Eddie was left exposed as he collapsed to his knees. "Ugh, dude, problem?"

Absorbing him is a little more difficult than expected. It may make things difficult, but it will not be impossible. He simply is rather desperate. Probably best we take a cab.

"Yeah." Eddie go to his feet and straightened his coat before beginning to walk from the site of the conflict and the unconscious man. "So, this won't impact us in any bad ways?"

If one of my kind "eats" another so to speak, then the survivor becomes even stronger and capable of new things. Adaptation I believe is the word.

"Cool," said Eddie. "Still, probably best we be careful then until everything has 'settled', if you get my drift."

Agreed. He paused. Kit Kat bites. Please?

"Chocolate now?" Eddie finally chuckled. "Sure thing man. Anything for my partner."

With that Eddie walked off into the night.