Chapter 1

Peter glanced down at the chaos surrounding Ravencroft. He sighed as he watched the panic staff and some of the inmates running for their lives. He had a pretty good idea who was causing all of this and he knew that if it were him down there. He would be running for his life too.

"But lucky me, I get to be the hero and save the city from Carnage." He said to himself.

It was only a month ago that venom had escaped from Ravencroft. But unlike his symbiote counterpart, Venom's exit hadn't involved the slaughter of a dozen people. Peter steeled himself for what lay ahead, and leaped from the stone wall surrounding Ravencroft to the ground. As he ran into Ravencroft, he saw that people were staring at him in amazement, but no one tried to stop him as they all ran for safety.

Peter walked down a corridor and into the prison section of Ravencroft where the most dangerous inmates were kept. He paused and stared at the bodies of inmates and staff lying on the ground before him, mutilated and bloodied. He looked over and noticed with revulsion that the words CARNAGE WAS HERE were scrawled in blood on a wall beside the cells. Peter snorted at it.

"No, Really, Kasady? I never would have guessed it was you." He muttered sarcastically.

He headed past the cells stepping around the bodies. He kept looking from left to right and behind him since he knew that like Venom, Carnage had the ability to block his spider sense.

"Alright, needle mouth, where are you?" he muttered to himself.

He wasn't really looking forward to a confrontation, but he knew he had to act fast before any more people were killed. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Peter saw a red blur heading towards him. Trusting his instincts, he quickly did a roundhouse kick and smiled as he caught Carnage right in the chest sending him backwards to the floor.

"You may be able to counteract my spider sense Kasady, but that doesn't mean I'm completely helpless."

"Quit calling us that, we are not Cletus Kasady, we are Carnage." He snarled. "And we are gonna rip you to shreds."

"Take a number and get in line, I've already got a bunch of super villains who are gonna do the same thing." Peter said.

"That may be so, but we will have the honor of killing you first." Carnage said as his hand morphed into an axe.

Peter leaped up as Carnage swung the axe at his feet. He grunted as Carnage immediately followed him and rammed his head into his back. Fighting the intense pain rocketing down his spine as Carnage held on and kept hitting it , Peter let go of the ceiling with his left hand and jabbed his fingers into Carnage's eyes. Carnage let out a howl of rage and tightened his grip on Peter. Peter gasped as he felt his insides being crushed. He looked over his shoulder and saw only one chance to break the hold. Summoning all his strength, he pushed off the ceiling as hard as he could and landed with a smack on the floor. Carnage yelled out in pain and Peter felt him release his hold a bit.

Peter seized the opportunity and broke the hold. He quickly spun around and cold cocked Carnage twice in the jaw while he was still dazed. As he prepared to punch him again, Peter heard a noise and looked up at the end of the room stood a frightened staff worker who had apparently thought the coast was clear and had been making his way towards the exit.

"Get out of here!" Peter yelled out to the man as he stood frozen in shock.

Peter let out an oof as Carnage suddenly brought his legs up and kicked him across the room. As the frightened man trembled, Carnage sneered at him.

"Ah, what's wrong? Did you think it was safe to come out now? Guess this mistake is the last one you'll ever make."

The man's eyes widened as Carnage suddenly leaped towards him, his fingers extended out into razor sharp claws. Suddenly, Carnage's eyes widened as he felt a pull on his legs. He had just enough time to look around and see a web strand attached to each foot before Peter used the strands to swing him around head first into one of the cells.

"Get out of here now, while you still can!" Peter yelled out to the man.

The man hesitated and quickly ran as fast as he could past Carnage and Peter towards the exit.

"I wasn't finished with you, smiley." Peter said, as he raced towards Carnage.

"Same here, Spider-Man." Carnage said as he raced towards Peter.

Suddenly, both of them stopped as they heard voices coming closer. Peter groaned as he thought for a moment that it was more people who thought that it was all clear like the man. But then he realized these people were cops and SWAT members. He doubted very seriously if they would be able to stand up against someone like Carnage. But to Peter's surprise Carnage took one look back at the corridor and over at Peter before he took a running leap and used his arms to bust a hole in the wall above the cells.

"We'll finish this later, web head." He said before leaping out into the air.

Peter quickly leapt up to the hole, but all he could see was a rapidly shrinking red blur as Carnage flew off towards the city.

"We will finish this, Kasady. I guarantee it!" Peter muttered.

"Look at this, Scully." Mulder said as he tossed a newspaper across the desk towards her.

Scully picked up the newspaper and read the headline.

20 PEOPLE DEAD IN ASYLUM MASSACRE

Scully shrugged.

"That's terrible, Mulder, But why are you so interested in it?"

Mulder grinned.

"One reason is because the man that is responsible for it is supposedly part alien."

Scully raised her eyebrows.

"Part alien?" she said.

Mulder nodded.

"Okay, what's another reason?" she said.

"I know who he is."

"You do?"

Mulder nodded as he walked to his file cabinet and pulled out a large file.

"His name's Cletus Kasady. He's an insane serial killer. When I was a profiler, I helped the FBI track him down."

He looked up from the file as he heard Scully snort.

"What?" he asked.

"Sorry Mulder. But the man's name is Cletus? Sounds like he should be on Hee Haw or something."

Mulder nodded.

"Don't let the name fool you though. He's a ruthless, heartless, killer. When the FBI first caught up to him, they had evidence linking him to at least 10 murders and possibly more. He managed to escape from a maximum security prison and was able to commit at least a dozen more murders before they were finally able to catch up with him last year. Seems that Spider-Man was the one who finally nabbed him."

Scully knew all about Spider-Man. Ever since the first reported sighting 6 years ago, Mulder had been fascinated with him. He had a file on him bigger than the one he had on Kasady.

"So now supposedly this Kasady is half alien," she said.

"Yup, supposedly, he shared a cell with a man named Eddie Brock who supposedly is also half alien and somehow Kasady was infected with the alien organism that had infected Brock. Brock is also at large now but unlike Kasady, he doesn't have an extensive criminal record. As far as I can tell, he used to be a reporter with the New York tabloid, The Daily Bugle before he was fired. That apparently was before he was infected with the alien. Now he calls himself Venom.

"Venom? Scully said, amused." Geez, Mulder, remember the good old days when all we had to worry about were flukemen in the sewer and liver eating psychopaths?"

"Aw, Scully. We still have those. We just have to worry about men who are half alien and half spider now too." Mulder said with a grin.

"Lucky us." Scully muttered. "So, what's our plan then. I assume you have one."

"Of course I have one my little red haired beauty." He said pinching her cheek. "First, we go talk to Skinner, then we make arrangements to fly out to New York and then we go after Kasady."

"And how are we going to find him, Mulder?" she asked, folding her arms across her chest.

"In Brock, Kasady and Spider-Man's files, there is one name that keeps coming up. A photographer for the Daily Bugle named Peter Parker. I suggest we interview him first and see what he knows."