Unceremoniously venom dropped the still struggling red head and growled at her as he did. "understand. We only saved you because the spider would want us to. But it will only be this once. Next time we'll let you die." Moving away from the girl venom dropped off the roof and began leaping from building to building wanting to put as much distance between his and Mary Jane. He had gotten only a couple hundred feet or so when out of nowhere black cat crashed into him and, sent him hurtling to the ground. Even as he landed venom felt her land beside him. a moment later venom felt himself lifted into the air and slam into a wall. His form vanished and he became a puddle only to reform a moment later. Across from him black cat spoke. "You may not have a host but that changes nothing. The spider is still ours." Venom readied himself for an attack but instead black cat leapt from the ground to the top of a nearby building and vanished.

CHAPTER 8

It didn't take long for venom to make his way back to parker's apartment. But it was made slightly complicated because it seemed like every police officer in town was looking for him. Finally after half an hour of hiding and moving through back alleys, venom scurried up the side of parker's building pushed open the window and reentered parker's apartment. Almost at once he could tell something was wrong. His sense wasn't going off, it was more than that. Slowly venom moved through the apartment, he was expecting to be attacked, but he met no opposition as he moved through the large rooms. But it was when he moved into peter's room that his fears were met. Peter was not in the bed where venom had left him. Peter now lay on the floor, his face, hands and feet were ghostly cold and even as venom rushed to him and picked him up he could feel the boy's heart rate beating erratically. "Parker!" peter shuddered and managed to open one eye. "Venom…….my wrists……they hurt so much….." venom felt helplessness wash over his as peter's eye rolled into his head and his body when limp. He cursed his existence. Here he was holding parker and he wasn't able to merge with him to help. Putting peter back on the bed venom began to try and wake the boy up again. After several agonizing minutes peter's eye opened again. "Parker Tell me how to help." Peter looked around as though unsure of where he was, and then spoke. "Red leather book……… hank McCoy." Venom didn't eve stay to hear if peter said anything else. he threw himself from the room and after a moment of searching found the book peter had mentioned.

Tearing open the book venom tore through dozens of pages before finding the page with hank McCoy's name and number next to it. Venom hurtled back to parker and with trembling hands grabbed the phone from the table next to the bed. Even as he dialed the number he was changing his vocal chords to mimic parker's voice. "Hello?" venom cleared his throat and spoke in a raspy weakened voice. "I'm looking for……..hank McCoy." "One moment." Venom's eyes darted to peter laying on the bed. He had begun to shiver, and it was with a sense of urgency that venom pulled the blankets on top of him to keep him warm. "Hello?" venom's grip on the phone tightened. "Hank?" "Yes this is hank McCoy. Who is this?" "I'm-" venom broke off. What could he say? I'm a former villain who wants to be good now? "if this is some kind of prank I'm hanging up." "NO! It's not a prank. I'm…….a friend of peter parker." There was a slight pause then "the boy who takes pictures of Spiderman? I don't know him personally but-"venom growled and again his grip tightened. "I know parker's secret." Again silence then, "why are you calling?" "He's in trouble. I don't know what's wrong but he's with me right now and he's in pain. He told me to call you. Will you help?" "Yes. Where are you?" A short while later venom hung up the phone and gathered up peter in a small blanket, and carried him up the rooftop. For half an hour venom held peter's limp and barely alive body.

But then noise met his 'ears', a loud roaring. Looking into the distance venom could make out the shape of a plane. Setting peter down on the roof, venom hid and watched as the plane hovered above the roof before peter's body began to float upwards. Venom watched as a small ramp lowed and a women whose forehead was glowing slightly stepped out. A moment later peter floated into her arms and she turned and vanished from sight. As the ramp began to reclose venom moved. Making sure he wouldn't be seen venom moved out from his hiding spot hurled himself upwards and using his skin's adhesive abilities stuck to the side of the plane. Venom shuddered in pain as the plane's engines roared to life and they began to move. But he shut the pain out of his mind. He clung to the side of plane his fingers slightly warping the metal with their grip. Even if he was naturally sticky, he didn't want to risk falling off and not being able to find parker again. For what felt like hours venom clung to the side of the plane unable to know what was happening inside. The city vanished replaced by country side. And then they were slowing down, as the roar of the engines lowered venom watched as they approached what looked like a mansion. Venom watched as the plane came to a stop and hovered over the basketball courts for a moment. Then the courts opened up and the plane began to lower itself down into the hanger below. As the plane landed and the engines shut off venom moved towards them so as not to be seen.

For a short while he waited and listened. He could hear people talking and a short while later the sound of a door hissing open and then closed. Peeking out from behind the engine venom found himself completely alone in the hanger. Dropping down from the plane venom made his way to the only door leading out of the room. Moving into the hallway venom chose to move on the ceiling rather than be completely exposed on the floor. Following the long twisting hallway venom only stopped when he was near an air vent and could hear voices. Pulling the grate from the vent venom began moving through the vent until he could make out what the voices were saying. "Hank what's wrong with him?" a slight pause then. "I won't know until I can run some tests." Then a new voice; this one calm and collected. "Very well. Venom why don't you come out from the air vent? I'm sure you'd be more comfortable in here with the rest of us." Venom didn't move and again the voice spoke but this time in his head. 'Yes I know you're here venom. Come out.' Venom dropped down from the spot he had been on crashed through the grate below him and landed hard on the floor of the room below the vent. Even as he was landing he took in the scene in front of him. Behind him laying in a bed hooked up to a dozen machines was parker, who was still fast asleep. To his left a man wearing a strange visor, and the red haired girl from before stood. In front of him a bald man in a floating chair smiled at him. and next to him…… venom growled and pointed. "Nest disturber." A loud 'sknit' cut through the air a moment later, as metal claws erupted from Logan's knuckles.

Venom took a step forward towards Logan. "We should tear you apart from what you took from him." Logan stepped forward as well. "No one's stopping you bub." But the bald man spoke before venom could respond. "I'm stopping you. If you to want to fight take it into the danger room. But I'll not have you two fighting in here. Not when its obvious parker needs our help." For a heated moment venom glared at Logan and Logan glared back. Then slowly Logan's claws withdrew. "Fine." Venom didn't respond but turned to the bald man. "Who are you?" the man smiled. "My name is profession Charles Xavier. And I already know who you are venom. But what I don't know is why you're here." Venom pointed to the still sleeping form of parker. "Where he goes I go." Xavier nodded. "Odd. I thought you wanted to kill him." venom felt his skin pulse with shame and anger. "Brock wanted to kill him. We wish only to b with him as we once were." Behind him the man with the visor spoke. "And how did you used to be with him?" venom didn't respond but turned back to Xavier who smiled and gestured to the people in the room. "I'm sorry allow me to introduce you to my team. This is Scott summers; jean grey, hank McCoy, and I believe you've already met Logan." Venom didn't respond but turned to hank and spoke. "Can you help parker? Can you make him better?" hank smiled weakly. "I think so. But it'll take time. And we'll need to start soon." Venom nodded and leapt onto one of the walls where he sat watching the people in the room. When no one moved for a moment he spoke. "We'll wait here." Before anyone else could speak Logan shouted. "YOU THINK WE'LL LET YOU STAY HERE?!"

In response venom let out a low aggressive hum that made the air vibrate. "You cant make us leave, nest disturber. And it would be unwise for you to try. McCoy, start your tests." Hank looked from venom to Logan before he began drawing some blood from parker. But he found himself interrupted by Logan who pushed him away from parker. "what's the rush bub? How do we know this is the real parker and not some fake?" venom let out a roar of rage and lunged at Logan from his spot ion the wall. Logan didn't even have time to bring his claws out before venom had grabbed him by the leg. Using all his strength venom lifted Logan into the air and slammed his head against the wall. He had been about to do it again when something hit him full force and send him against the wall. And while it didn't hurt him, it did make his form explode like a water balloon, and splatter all over the walls. As he reformed he could hear Xavier speaking. "Scott take Logan upstairs, venom don't ever try that again." Venom let out a huff as he fully reformed, and soon found himself back on the wall watching as Logan was led from the room, and hank continued drawing blood.

LOGAN'S/XAVIER'S POV

Logan stormed through the mansion and just about tore the door off of the library. Behind him he heard Xavier sigh. Stopping in his tracks Logan wheeled around and glared at Xavier who only looked back at him. He wanted to scream to shout but Logan forced himself to speak as calmly as hecould. "do you have any idea how dangerous Venom is? Do you have any idea how much damage he could do if he wanted to?" Xavier nodded. "Yes I do Logan. And that is why he is staying here. I may not be able to fully read Venom's mind but what I could see tells me he only cares about peter. He has no intention of harming us or anyone else in this school." Logan chuckled. "Look Charles I trust your judgment most of the time. But you're wrong about him." Xavier sighed and laced his fingers together in front of him, after a slight pause he spoke. "Why does he call you nest disturber?" Logan growled and turned away from Xavier. "You can read my mind. So why ask?" Xavier sighed. "Because I want to hear you say it. So you'll know exactly what you did." Logan sighed and spoke. "I slept with the boy's wife." Behind him Logan heard Xavier sigh again. "Logan, I think it would be best if for a time you weren't here at the mansion." Logan turned slightly alarmed. And while Xavier's face didn't show anger it showed something far worse, disappointment. "Why?" Xavier shook his head. "It's obvious the boy is going to be here for a while. And I'll not have you and Venom getting into fights around the school. So for the time being I think you should be somewhere else." With that Xavier turned and left Logan in the library.

3 HOURS LATER

VENOM'S POV

Time had lost all meaning to him. He could have hung from that wall for an eternity and a half and he wouldn't have noticed. All he could do was hang there and watch as hank ran test after seemingly endless test to see if parker would be ok. Every once and a while hank would look up at him and then back down to his work. Venom had stopped talking to him long ago, and now hung there on the wall like some strange black 'wall tumor'. Hank's wristwatch was the only indication of time passing. Venom watched as the hands lazily went around the face. 6 O'clock……..7 O'clock………8 O'clock………..9 O'clock. Venom watched parker closely. His was still pale but he was no longer shivering and it certainly looked like he wasn't in any pain. Finally after 10 O'clock hank stood up and called Xavier down to the lab. Xavier smiled lightly to Venom who didn't smile back but turned to hank who spoke. "He's mutating. But it's like nothing I've ever seen. If I had to put a label on it I'd say he's becoming more feral, more spider like." Xavier nodded. "Understandable since his powers do seem to be spider based." Hank nodded. "I though so but still the level of mutation is enormous. Come have a look." Hank gently grabbed parker's arm and pulled it out from under the blankets, moving parker's shirt sleeve away from his wrist hank indicated a strange patch of white on parker's wrist. "As far as I can tell his body is now producing its own bioorganic webbing. It's as strong as a titanium suspension wire, yet as flexible as fishing line. Not only that but he seems fully capable of producing huge amounts in a few seconds. See these?" hank indicated a few raised sections of parker's wrist. "They look like small lumps you'd get if you bumped into something. They're not. They're actually new organ's growing in his wrist. I took some X-rays so I could get a closer look." Hank turned a switch and the x-rays lit up so they could be seen.

"The boy's got over 50 spinnerets in one wrist." Xavier nodded again. "Fascinating, the boy's mutations are moving to the next evolutionary stage." Hank nodded. "But its gets even stranger, it seems his entire body is being effected in someway or another. His teeth are getting tougher, and his jaw muscles are getting stronger, his eyes seem to be compounding even though there is no visible change to them, and his muscles are getting denser. It's like his mutation is taking over, but keeping itself in check." All this time Venom had been listening but now he spoke. "Will he be ok?" hank nodded. "Oh yes he'll be fine now that he's here. Here we can monitor his progress and help to correct anything that might go wrong. You did the right thing by bringing him here. But for now we must let him rest. With his mutations working as fast as they are his body needs 3 times the amount of everything, food, water, and rest. He's on 4 IV drips as it is. For now let him rest. He'll get better as his mutations slow down. Don't worry he'll be fine." Venom nodded and moved back to his spot on the wall. Xavier looked up at him. "You know you don't have to stay here Venom. We have rooms in the mansion to spare. We could easily lend you one until peter is better." Venom shook his head. "No. we……we need to stay here. We need to be here if and when he wakes up. Last time we…….left him……….this happened." Venom gestured to the sleeping human. "We'll not let that happen again." Xavier nodded. "I understand. I'll have someone bring you food from time to time." Venom nodded. "Thank you." Xavier smiled. "You're welcome." As Xavier and hank left they turned out the light and Venom's world of sight was plunged into darkness.

JAMES'S POV

James sighed as he looked out the plane window. Things didn't look good, not only for the rachni but for hero's as a group. Not only did it seem like the registration act would pass, but several of his contacts in New York had told him the parker had been taken to the Xavier mansion for some kind of medical emergency. Sighing again James rubbed his eyes, and looked down at the small piece of paper in front of him. Peter's old home address looked back up at him. James sighed again. He really was getting old, and soon he would have to die so the new generation of rachni would not be burdened by old ways. As he sat there James found himself thinking back to the rachni's most sacred rule. 'one generation cannot live while the other grows.'

AN: WELL FOLKS CHAPTER 8 IS UP AND DONE. I HOPE EVERYONE LIKES IT. SO JAMES IS BACK. WHAT'S HE UP TO?

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