Author's Note: HEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE. We finally have Venom. I own nothing.

41. Lost Secret

Harry tried to scream but no sound came out. He watched as Piper backed across the room as much as she could away from him, away from Venom. How had everything gone so wrong so quickly? Why hadn't he realized that the thing he'd found in his house had been the same thing that had attacked Piper at his party? The answer came slithering into his ear in the same hissing slithering voice that had echoed in his dreams for weeks.

"Becaussse I didn't want you to realizze it." It was the voice of the symbiote, Venom's voice.

"I needed a hossst, you were jussst what I needed. Now I can kill the Ssspider, the one who betrayed me. Ssshe refusssed to bond with ussss." Harry watched as Venom made to lunge at Piper but she slapped her wrist and suddenly there was a glove around her hand, a metal glove. A blast of light sent Venom flying into the door of the janitor's closet which groaned but miraculously remained standing. Venom roared as Piper aimed both gloved hands at the ceiling above him.

Sam, Danny, Ava and Luke froze as a roar shook the school's foundation. Chaos erupted in the classroom as the four of them ducked out the door.

"Where's Webs?" Sam called out over the din that had taken over the school building. The building shook again and this time there was the distinct sound of lasers. Then the crash of the roof caving in a nearby room. The team rushed outside just in time to see something distinctly female blasting out of a hole in the school roof. Her Black Widow hoodie was zipped up and the hood pulled up and miraculously staying in place despite the wind blowing around her as she took off on her rocket boots through the Queens skyline. Something large and black and very frighteningly familiar pulled itself out of the hole and roared, swinging after her. Sam looked around at the others before nodding to himself and grabbing Danny and Ava by the arm. He dragged them through the crowd to an alley behind the school. Luke followed them. Ava frowned as Sam flipped up one of many hidden panels SHIELD had installed around the school to help them get to their equipment should they need to.

"What are you doing?" Sam glanced around before speaking as he typed in his access code.

"We're going after her."

Piper hadn't had much choice but to use the gift Tony had given her a few days ago to get out of there. She really hoped no one had seen her face. She'd pulled up her hood at the last minute before she'd activated the boots and taken off out of the hole she'd blasted in the roof. She had no bout she'd be getting an earful about that later, if she lived. She had a very irate symbiote chasing her across Manhattan after all. And only three minutes left on her boots, if her dad had been right about the time he'd given her. But she needed to keep Venom's focus, otherwise that thing could and she had no bout would, run rampant on the people of New York. The people currently snapping photos from below her before realizing that there was something dangerous chasing her. She had never been more grateful for her ability to selectively stick to things. That meant that despite the wind shrieking in her ears her hood wasn't going anywhere. She was also glad that she liked hoodies a few sizes too big for her. The shadow cast by the hood would, hopefully make identifying the hoodlum with Tony Stark's tech nearly impossible.

Piper whirled as her Spidey sense went crazy. She fired a blast from her glove and struck Venom directly in the face spinning midair to avoid a web line and kicking her heels together to put on an extra burst of speed. She pulled her phone out of her pocket and slipped the earpiece out of the case and into her ear.

"Jarvis!" The British AI responded immediately.

'Yes Miss Parker.'

"Open the window, west side twenty fifth floor hallway. Now please! And evacuate the building, except the Avengers." Alarms began to blare as Piper dove in through the still opening window knowing Venom wasn't far behind.

'Miss Parker, I am afraid the Avengers are away on a mission. They are not expected back for several days.' Piper swore loudly and dove into the lab just off the hall. She slammed into a computer hard but managed to somehow keep from destroying it as she furiously overrode the quarantine system and set it around the three levels of labs that were now empty thanks to the quite expedient nature of the evacuation protocols Tony had put in place ever since super villain attacks had become a regular occurrence. She slammed her hand into the execute button just as Venom came crashing into the lab. Piper leapt over the console and blasted a hole in the vent near the floor before baseball sliding into it narrowly missing Venom's talons. She heard Venom shriek in rage as she raced through the vents. She knew exactly where she was going and with no one left in the building she was free to use her super strength with impunity. She wasn't sure if Harry would remember any of this but she couldn't let him find out that she was Spider-girl. The good thing about this situation, really the only good thing about it if she thought about it, which she was trying not to, was that Harry already knew that Tony was her father. But these were things she needed to worry about later, after she made sure he would survive this ordeal. She kicked in a vent and dropped to the floor of the room below switching off and tossing aside the gloves and boots Tony had given her.

This was one of the Labs almost no one had access to, if only because it wasn't technically a lab anymore. It was technically an equipment room. It housed all the extra equipment the Avengers normally didn't need or were still perfecting. Piper had to think fast, Venom could be here any second. She'd managed to kill the thing once but she wasn't sure if it would work a second time without hurting Harry. She didn't really have much of a choice though if she wanted to survive. She snatched up Natasha's spare Widows Bites, the electrics she kept around her wrist and used to stun opponents. Piper fixed them around her wrists and frowned slightly. The problem with those was she would have to get close to use them. She snatched up Clint's spare quiver and checked the arrows. There were three incendiary, one regular tipped, one boxing glove arrow and blessedly four shock arrows. She snagged his spare bow and slung the quiver across her back just as the ceiling began to rattle. She just managed to get the last piece of equipment she needed on before it gave way and Venom roared snarling down at her.

Piper pulled an arrow and fired, a blast of fire covering Venom's face just long enough for her to power up the boots and blast off through the hole Venom had created. She took off, flying down the hall away from the beast that had been her friend. She had to get to her dad's main lab if her plan was going to work. She just prayed they'd both survive it.