Answers to reviewers' questions or statements:
Jaeson Chandler: Possibly, but with Peter's spider-sense negated because of the gas in the air, he'll be hard pressed against both Venom and Daken at the same time but he didn't come to this fight completely unprepared.
Mezazra: The Dark Reign is one of my favorite eras in Marvel Comics, I mean the idea of the Bad Guys now running things, what's not to love? Wouldn't mind seeing that be the next era in the MCU after the Infinity War and Avengers 4 movie, it'd be perfect.
Marveldcfan: It's more of Osborn wanting to mold Spider-man into a sort of 'perfect son'. We'll be seeing how others that Peter's close to take him being more or less coerced into Osborn's Dark Avengers as a sort of cybernetic version of Venom. Some will be sympathetic while others will think that Peter has gone turncoat like Ares or Sentry, mainly people that don't know Peter well compared to ones like Wolverine, the Fantastic Four, some of the New Avengers and a few others.
Cosmicspiderking: Yeah the X-men will show up later in the story, particularly around the time that Norman will form his Dark X-men which will have a few changes to it. Yes Peter will have to face down his former friends and teammates, and it ain't gonna be pretty some of the times, Norman will see to that. As for the harem, yeah but for now I'm putting any romance on the back burner, at least until Peter officially 'joins' the Dark Avengers and I introduce another character that will be added to the team.
Spawn Hades: Yeah it will and just forewarning, this story will go to some pretty dark places, like extremely dark, mainly because of the kind of people Peter will be around like Bullseye, Venom, Norman and a host of other sociopaths in HAMMER and the Thunderbolts.
DarkSpyder: In terms of strength, I'd say that the artificial symbiote that Peter will have will be close to Carnage's level of power. As for weaknesses, still working on those but given it's tech based to a degree an powerful EMP could disable it for a time and with it being made of metal, people like Magneto can hurt or control it. There are other ways to fight it, but for now those are like the top two weaknesses it has. As for having some sort of possessive hold over Peter, to a degree I suppose but it's not what I would call sentient like the other Symbiotes so it's not quite the same.
Antihero1610: There will be a harem but it'll be a while till we really get into that and even then... well let's just say that i have no plans to have a happy ending for this story.
90skid4life: What Norman will have Peter do in regards to his teammates and friends will be shown soon, and as for them sitting by and watching Norman try to corrupt him, hell no. After all that they've lost since the Civil War, the fallout and the Secret Invasion, they ain't gonna give Peter up without a fight.
Rider Paladin: Julia will appear quite a bit in this story. Yeah their basically the same with a few differences here and there, but I think the Techno-Organic Virus was created either by Apocalypse with Celestial technology or the Celestials themselves made it from studying the Transmode virus itself and he just happened stumbled across it, they never really gave an actual explanation as to how it came into being. I have no real plans to introduce the Phalanx but I might have them mentioned once or twice. Oh I'll be going places with this story, some pretty dark and disturbing ones thanks to some of the people Peter's going to be around.
Legionoftheweb94: No, sure the good guys may have to make a tough decision here and there but there'll be no misunderstood villains for the most part, at least when it comes to the likes of Bullseye, Norman, or Gargan.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel characters seen, mentioned or used.
Peter let out a pained cough as he pushed himself up from the ground, his ears still ringing a little from the explosion he narrowly avoided. He let out a pained hiss as he pushed himself to his feet and glanced towards what was left of the way he came into this building. The ceiling and part of the wall had more or less collapsed and a small fire was still lit. Peter let out a sigh as he took a step forward before wincing as pain raced up his right leg.
"GAH, sonuva…" Peter hissed as he looked down and could faintly see and feel blood dripping from his thigh and calf "Oh great…"
He applied a small amount of webbing to the wound in attempt to keep himself from possibly bleeding out before he couldn't faintly pick up the sounds of someone running towards his location.
'That would probably be Daken…' Peter thought as he looked around himself for another way out of this place. The windows were all boarded up, at least on this floor but there was no telling if they were being watched by whoever took out the front door or just simply booby trapped.
And in his condition, Peter didn't want to risk it and settled for ducking into a small room and closed the door shut before locking it. He added a thin layer of webbing on it's surface for good measure.
'Won't hold him forever, but it'll but me a few seconds at least' Peter thought as he looked around the room to see that it was mostly empty aside from a few bottles and a couple of dirty blankets. He figured a few homeless people or drug addicts used to stay here.
"Hmmm…" Peter sounded as he picked up one of the blankets and examined it and a few of the bottles on the ground before he glanced back at the door as he could hear someone approaching it from the other side. He then glanced down at his waist and pulled his shirt up a little to reveal his suit's utility built and pulled out a small cylinder device with a glowing red light on it "Hmmm… Idea"
Daken let out a grunt as he kicked the door in after following Spider-man's scent, and blood trail, to a small room not far from the now destroyed entrance. Daken frowned as he saw that the door was somewhat holding together, and webs were seeping through the cracks. He let out a sigh as he unsheathed his claws and sliced through the wood rotted door and web fluid and looked to see Spider-man crouched over a few bottles and a blanket.
The son of the Wolverine unsheathed his other claws and leaped at the wall crawler with a yell before it was cut off as Spider-man suddenly turned and threw a blanket in his face.
"Toro, toro…!" Peter quipped as he ducked under Daken's form as he sailed over him while he tired to rip the blanket off his face but found it oddly sticking to his skin.
"GAHHH! Get this shit off!" Daken growled as he tried to rip it off with brute strength before he raised his claws to cut it off before he felt Spider-man grab his wrist and squeeze it until he swore his bones might break under the pressure they were experiencing.
"Well alright, since you asked so nicely" Peter said as he raised Daken into the air before he slammed him into the ground, causing it to crack under the force of his impact.
Daken let out a pained groan and tired to swipe at Peter with his other claws before Peter stopped them by grabbing that wrist as well. He then began to turn in a circle, raising Daken's half covered struggling form into the air for several rotations before he released the mutant and watched as he crashed into the wall and right through it into another room, this one with it's ceiling filled with plenty of holes for him to climb up through.
"Huh, convenient" Peter said as he picked up several bottles that he was messing with and placed them in a small makeshift web sack he made and raced through the hole he made with Daken before he leaped up through one of the holes in the ceiling and into the floor above.
Peter landed in a couch and surveyed the room he was in and saw that these windows were covered in Venom's black webbing.
"Hmm, could try to bail out through there but gotta assume that all the windows like the doors are being watched by whoever's out there, so either I try my luck through the basement and sewer if it's still accessible or try to make it up top" Peter said to himself as he raced out into the poorly lit hallway and looked around for signs of Venom "Times like this I wish I could teleport, or have a teleporter with me. I mean if Deadpool can get his hands on one, how hard can it be?"
"Very…" a dark voice whispered behind Peter before he felt a large fist slam into his back, right where Daken had stabbed him earlier.
"GAAAHHH!" Peter screamed in pain as he was sent down the hall before he slammed into the wall and on to the floor, dropping the bag filled with the bottles in the process "Okay, ow…"
Peter pushed himself up before he let out a pained hiss as white-hot pain flashed up and down his back and part of his side. He could feel the blood starting to pour from his wound and down his waist. His response was to shoot a small dose of webbing over the wound as he stood up and looked to see Venom slowly approaching him with a drooling maw and both his fists enlarged and outfitted with what looked like some sort of spiked knuckles.
"You know, looking back at it now, why the hell didn't I ever try making that stuff when I had the symbiote?" Peter wondered aloud as he leaned against the wall for a bit of support "Or make myself invisible?"
"Maybe because the symbiote never loved you" Venom hissed before it's raised an arm and shot off several 'web' bullets towards Peter.
Peter pushed away from the wall and leaped towards a partially opened door, hoping to take cover in it's room before Venom extended his arm out and snatched Peter by the chest before slamming him into the ceiling… then the floor…. then the walls…
Peter grunted in pain as he was slammed into the various surfaces of the hall, his suit tearing in a multitude of places including his face, allowing his jaw and forehead to be partially exposed. Venom grinned darkly as pulled Spider-man closer and closer towards him and opened his jaw to sink his teeth into the wall crawler. Peter had t hold back a gag as Venom's barbed tongue ran over his face before he did something that neither Mac nor the symbiote he was wearing expected…
Peter sank his own teeth into Venom's tongue when it wandered too close to his own mouth and held fast despite the fact he wanted to puke from the feeling and taste of Venom spit now in his mouth.
'Oh god, this is worse than kissing him. After this, I'm gonna use acid and tar for mouth wash!' Peter thought as he sank his teeth further and further until he swore his upper jaw teeth were toughing his lower jaw teeth.
"GAAAHHHH!" Venom roared as he ripped Peter away, along with part of it's tongue and threw him into the wall with a pained roar as blood dripped from his damaged appendage and jaw.
Peter let out a chocked couch as he spat out some of Venom's tongue that wiggled on the floor "UGH, great now I got Venom coodies… gross"
Peter stood up and glanced around the hall until he finally saw the web sack he made and rushed towards it as fast as he could while Venom's tongue regrew itself. After a few moments, the former Scorpion turned towards Spider-man with a dark glare as his size increased until he was forced to crouch or risk hitting the ceiling. He let out a dark hiss as he began to approach Spider-man who was rummaging around in the web sack until he pulled out one of the glass bottles and dropped a small cylinder like device that he took from his built in it before webbing up the nozzle up and shook the bottle a few times as a faint hissing sound emanated from the bottle.
"Come one, come on, come on, come on…" Peter said as he increased the shaking of the bottle until he felt it begin to crack before he turned and threw it right into Venom's chest and watched as the bottle shattered for a brief moment before a large blast of webbing erupted from the shards and covered most of his torso and head.
"AAHHH!" Venom growled in surprise.
"Cool huh?" Peter snickered as he watched Venom flare about widely as he began to rip the webbing off his body only for the rest to continue to expand and ensnare the large alien behemoth.
"GAHH! What is this shit!?" Venom roared as he slammed into the walls only for the webbing to stick to the surfaces and cause him to become temporarily stuck before Venom used a combination of brute force and tendrils from the suit to rip himself off only to fall into the wall opposite of him and force him to start all over again.
"Those my good sir, are my newly minted 'Web cocktails'. It's made with some of my new very experimental explosive expanding web mines that I've been trying to make for like ever. To get the flavor right they have to be shaken not stirred and come into contact with air. And hey they go great with olives and a bit of Rum to give it that extra kick for when you want to unwind and relax. Just be sure not to web swing afterwards, you're a Spider-man now, even if a crappy one, and have to set a good example for the impressionable youth, like Daken back there. God knows his dear old dad won't"
"I'm gonna enjoy ripping your tongue out and strangling you with it" Venom hissed in anger and pain "Which is noting compared to what I'm going to do to every person you ever knew or loved!"
"Oh well in that case, I know and love the Avengers team you're on, and I especially love Norman Osborn with all my heart, the man's like that sick twisted father I never wanted" Peter beamed.
Venom roared at Peter before it suddenly expanded and expanded until the floor beneath it began to crack and groan under the increased weight. Venom also began to have the symbiote suit expand parts of it's body outwards in attempt to try and push the webbing away until it began to tear in certain places or increased the size of some of the gabs in it. Peter's brows then rose as he then saw Venom suddenly shrink his main body down until he was nearly Peter's size and leap through the small opening he had while the excess symbiote biomass kept the webbing at bay before it collapsed in on itself now that it was no longer connected to Venom.
"Huh, that's… that's actually pretty smart. Guess what they say is true, two minds are better than one though in your case it's one and a quarter" Peter said as he watched Venom glare at him before leaping towards him with a roar.
Peter jumped out of the way and reached into his utility belt and pulled out his last incendiary web cartridge before he dropped it into another bottle along with his last 'web mine' and began to repeat the process of sealing it up and shaking it before he pulled his arm back and prepared to throw it.
"Molotov web cocktail coming right up!" Peter shouted as he threw the bottle as hard as he could at Venom and watched as the symbiote wearing psychopath's eyes widened briefly before the bottle hit him.
"Oh shit-" Venom started before he was cut off as the bottle exploded into a combination of glass, webbing and flames "AAHHHHHH!"
Peter watched as Mac flayed about in pain as he tried to put out the flames all the while trying to keep his suit together which was desperately trying to break free through the webbing cocoon only to recoil when it came into contact with the flames. For a moment, Peter almost felt bad for Venom and Mac as he watched the two before he shot two web lines out, one connecting to each wall of the hall and began to pull back until the webbing went taught and it looked like the walls were going to tear before Peter slingshot towards Venom and slammed both his feet into the burning symbiote. The force of the impact sent Venom flying back until he landed on the cracked floor where he increased his size earlier before Peter landed on his chest in a crouch before he reared his fist back and sent it right into Venom's face.
The force of the blow sent Venom's head smacking against the cracked floor which was all it needed before it began to crack and splint before collapsing into the floor below. Peter pushed off of Venom as he fell into the hole, the extra force sending him towards the floor below faster and harder. The result was Venom slamming into the ground before falling through it as well and into the buildings lower levels while Peter shot out a web line and yanked himself back up towards the floor he was on.
"There, that should keep him busy for a while" Peter said as he landed in a crouch and peered down the hole for any signs of Venom. Aside from the muffled roars of anger and pain followed by sounds of things being destroyed, he didn't see any sign of the symbiote wearing maniac.
Peter let out a sigh of relief and looked around for his web sack which still had a few more bottles in it for him to possibly use when suddenly he heard the faintest sounds of someone moving behind him. He turned just in time to see Daken lunge at him, his claws out and ready to skewer his chest. Peter, tired and wounded from his fight with Venom could only bring his arms up as a sort of shield to block Daken's bone claws and grunt in pain as the bony parturitions pierced his arm. Daken growled in annoyance as he tired to push his claws deeper into Peter's arm, causing blood to begin pouring from the wounds before Peter pushed back, sending him flying several meters before he flipped himself in mid air and landed in a crouch.
Peter hissed in pain as he looked down at his arms before he looked back up at a smirking Daken "Out of all of the things you inherited from your father… why couldn't they stop at being small and healing really good… why'd you have to get claws too?!"
"Luck of the draw" Daken grinned as he held his bloody claw up and gave the red liquid dripping from it a sniff "heh, got your scent"
"Is that… is that some sort of come on?" Peter asked, a little weirded out "Because if so, then I'm afraid that your just not my type"
"Funny, I was thinking the same thing!" Daken said as he rushed towards Peter with his claws at the ready and began to send a series of swipes and stabs towards the red and blue clad man.
Peter was for the most part hard pressed to dodge Daken's attacks. With his spider-sense still not working and his injuires starting to catch up to him, he only had his enhanced reflexes and speed left to help. Peter waited several moments as he was pushed back by Daken's onslaught, narrowly avoiding getting stabbed in the gut or chest before Daken overextended one of his arms and Peter grabbed it and pulled the man into a headbutt that emanated a loud crack from Daken's skull.
"GAAHHH!" Daken growled in pain as he stumbled back clutching his head while Peter rubbed his own brow.
"Man, that would've hurt if I did it to your dad…" Peter said as he shot several web lines at Daken with his other arm and watched with a dismayed expression as Daken swiped at them like an animal, tearing the webs to shreds.
Peter hummed at that as he kept shooting web lines with one hand and web bullets with the other at the slowly advancing form of Daken. The claw wielding mutant for the most part was able to cut rough most of the webbing thrown at him at first but soon he was being overwhelmed, for every web line or web bullet he sliced up, two more were able to make their mark on him until he came to a stop, his entire body minus his head and left arm covered in webs, almost like a cocoon. Peter fired off several more web bullets at Daken's exposed face before he shot a glob at the snarling Mutant's mouth, cutting off any insult he may have had.
Peter let out a sigh of relief at this as he changed out his web cartridges "Man, I was beginning to think you'd never stop"
Daken's response was a muffled growl, causing Peter to look up at him with a quirked head "What was that? Speak up kid, I can't hear you over the sounds of you eating my webs!"
Daken struggled a bit more as he tried to use his semi-free arm to cut at the webbing before Peter was suddenly in front of him and grabbed the limb before forcibly holding it against Daken's chest and covering it in a thick blanket of webbing.
"There we are, wouldn't want to you to hurt yourself swinging those things around" Peter teased as he stared at Daken's rage filled eyes "Aww, you even have the exact same look Logan has when I make him angry. Oh, you're just so adorable. I'm starting to think that's why Norman offered you a spot on his team, every Avengers needs an angry but cute and cuddly wuddly claw wielding manic that smells like cheap liquor on the team"
Daken made an effort to break out of his web prison before Peter leaned against the guy and patted his back "So, Daken, buddy… mind telling me why you and sorry excuse of a venom went to all this trouble to meet with little old me? I mean it was me you were hoping to run into and not someone like say Thor, right? Because if that's true then I'm so embarrassed-"
"RAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Venom's roar cut off Peter's comment and caused the web slinger to look back towards the hole he made with the large Symbiote empowered criminal before he pushed off Daken, causing him to teeth back a little before he steadied himself.
"Well that's my cew to leave" Peter said as he pulled some of the webbing from Daken's cocoon off his suit before he glanced at Daken's furious eyes "Tell norman I said what's up when you see him, thanks"
Peter had just turned to leave before he heard the distinct sound of something cutting through his webs and just barely managed to turn around in time to stop a clawed swipe from Daken's other arm that he had secured against his side. Peter stopped the clawed hand cold before he shook his head in mock sadness.
"Daken, didn't your father ever tell you it's rude to try and stab the guy that's humiliated you in the back when he's trying to leave?" Peter said before he shoved Daken's arm away before he gave the cocooned villain a kick to the chest that sent his web covered form flying down the hall and over the hole that Venom made just a few minutes ago.
"Now to get out of this place" Peter said before he raced down the hall towards and away from the struggling, growling, glaring form of Daken as several black tendrils emerged from the hole in the ground and attached to the walls and ceiling and began to pull something up.
Several moments and half a floor and partially destroyed staircase later, Peter began to realize that trying to find a way out of this building will be far from easy. Every window he passed as he made his way up the structure was covered in that black webbing that Venom makes, and Peter didn't have the strength or the materials to break through it at the moment. Leaving him with his only hope that the roof access was still usable, even though he knew that if it was, it was likely also a trap. This entire fight wasn't random, these guys, or more accurately Norman had planned this, planned for him to be here, the question was, what was 'Stormin' Norman's endgame?
'I'm sure I'll know it when I see it or more accurately, when it hits me' Peter thought tiredly as he reached the top floor after running up the darkened staircase two steps at a time and the door to the rooftop up ahead, and aside from the door hanging by one hinge, it looked to be clear of Venom's webbing and any sort of traps like mines or whatever it is H.A.M.M.E.R. is cranking out under Norman's orders.
The Queens born hero let out a sigh of relief as he raced towards the door before suddenly a large arm broke through the ground and slammed right into Peer's face, nearly breaking his nose and sending him flying back into the wall with enough force to nearly send him through it. Peter groaned a little in pain as he slumped to the ground and cupped his bleeding nose while Venom tore through the hole his arm made followed by Daken who was holding on to the larger man's back before hopping off.
"Nice shot" Daken said as he saw Spider-man kneeling on the ground.
"Hehehehehe… thank you" Venom giggled as his limb returned to it's usual size.
Peter rubbed the spot that Venom hit and winced a little as pain erupted from it before he turned towards the two approaching Dark Avengers with a scowl. His eyes narrowed as he could make out the staircase that led up to the rooftop access just behind the battered duo, achingly close as if teasing him with possible escape. He mentally tallied how much web fluid he had left in his cartridges and how exhausted he and these two might be.
Venom looked to be in pretty bad shape from all of the incendiaries that Peter has hit him with on top of dropping him through two floors while Daken seemed to be fine even though his suit was torn, and he was still covered in blood, some of which was Peter's. Peter himself could barley keep standing and his vision was a little blurry, either from the punches to the head from Venom or the blood loss he was starting to feel from Daken's claws or both.
'Well, bad as things seem… it's not the worse I've been in. Plus, I'd be in even worse shape if it really was Carnage I was fighting all by my lonesome' Peter thought as he cracked his knuckles and rolled his shoulders as he stared at the approaching duo "Just forewarning you Daken, I kicked your father's ass when I was still in college, so don't think I can't whoop yours too in my current state! And Gargan, man you ain't even a decent Venom, heck I'm probably doing Brock a favor by kicking you can back down the hole you crawled out from… get it hole? Cause you were the Scorpion and some species of scorpions live in holes in the ground?"
Gargan's response, was a loud ear ringing oar before he charged with Daken right behind him.
"Guess you don't" Peter sighed as he got ready to move despite the fact his body was screaming at him not to. Upside was, it felt like his spider-sense was coming back as he felt the ever-familiar tingling at the base of his skull again.
…
Bullseye had let out a yawn as he waited for any signs of Spider-man while he fiddled with the specialized arrow head from the briefcase. Venom and Wolverine should have funneled the bug out by now for him to take the shot.
'Though if what I'm hearing's right, their getting their asses kicked' the famed assassin thought with a chuckle before he saw Daken's form fly through a window near the top of the building and fall towards the ground, all the while the mutant Avenger was letting out a string of curses and roars.
'Okay… show time' Bullseye thought as he took aim with his bow and waited for his target to appear, be it on the rooftop or through one of the windows.
He didn't have to wait long before ne heard and saw that a part of the floor of the rooftop suddenly bulged upward as if something underneath it was slammed into it and about to tear through the ground. Bullseye's narrowed as he saw the odd bulge again and again several more times appear before suddenly Spider-man's form came crashing through the ground and into the air for a brief moment before the wall crawler shot a web line out towards the rooftop and pulled himself towards it.
"Alright bug… just hold still for a moment and it'll all be over soon, yeah?" Bullseye grinned as he steadied his aim and watched as Venom emerged from inside the building and began to attack Spider-man again.
Bullseye was half tempted to just say to hell with Norman's orders and just put an arrow in Spider-man's skull now while he had the chance, but Norman was very and he meant very clear in that the bug wasn't to be killed… and for once, the famed assassin didn't feel like pushing Norman, not this time at least.
'Oh well, maybe next time' Lester thought as he saw Spider-man deliver a punch to the exhausted Venom that actually caused the marksman to wince a little "Ouch, that had to hurt… don't worry Gargan, this outta make it all worth it…"
…
Venom let out a pained groan as he laid they're on the roof, the symbiote just barely holding together at the moment as Peter stood over it in bloody triumph. His suit was torn in various places and he had blood dripping from more cuts and scrapes then he could count. Peter studied his beaten foe for a second before he emptied half a web cartridge in securing Venom's arms, legs and torso before he nodded in satisfaction.
'Now I can get out of here and call the oth- Spider-sense!' Peter thought as he suddenly turned and caught an arrow by it's shaft before the serrated tip could pierce his head.
"Whew… that was close-" Peter began before he was cut off by a cloud of grayish smoke exploded from the arrow head and right into his face, causing him to stumble back and let out a cough as his spider-sense went into overdrive.
'What… what was that…?' Peter thought as the cloud was inhaled into his mouth and nose by accident, causing him to start coughing. Not a second sooner it felt like his face was on fire and soon his head, neck and then the rest of his body as he tumbled back until he fell to the ground, his vision growing blurry.
And several hundred feet away on an adjacent building, Bullseye watched the scene with a smirk etched on his face.
"Heh… bullseye"
…
And done.
Next chapter, Transformation…
Okay I feel like I should mention this now but as a lot of people know or should, the Dark Avengers are made up of sociopathic mass murdering criminals who in the past have committed some pretty dark stuff, and that's just the things we know about. At points in this story, these guys will be saying and committing some pretty fucked up things because at the end of the day, that's the kind of people that they are. So I don't want to hear people down the line bitching about 'going to far' with some of these guys who are by in large some of the most dangerous and brutal criminals in the Marvel universe.
Sorry had to get that out now because there will be certain points in this story where it'll get very, and I mean very dark.
