Answers to reviewers' questions or statements:

Eventually: Another hero will be on the Dark Avengers team, but I won't say it was capture per say. Kaine will show up, those Scarlet Spider clones of MVP, not so much because they have no connection to Spider-man or even the actual Scarlet Spider other than in name and the modified Iron Spider suits.

Antihero1610: I thought of doing something like that at first when I made this story, but I decided against it, be kinda cool though. The Dark Reign ends only for the Age of the Spider to begin.

Jaeson Chandler: I have to ask now; my curiosity has been regrettably awoken.

cabrera1234: I haven't really thought that far ahead to be honest.

Rider Paladin: Peter's going to soon find out that what he knows about some of the Dark Avengers, even some of his enemies, is the tip of the iceberg.

Batman1998: Let's just say that when this is all over, when Peter looks himself in the mirror, he won't be able to recognize the person staring back at him. Yeah we'll be seeing a few people's responses to Peter 'joining' the Dark Avengers. No Spider-man doesn't have his way of the Spider yet, it'll be introduced earlier than in the comics but that whole event is a long ways off from this era in Marvel comics, like three or so years. Peter will be making a few things during his tenure with the Dark Avengers but not many given that his new suit will be able to do a lot of things on it's own.

90skid4life: Oh Stark will get an earful when he appears, especially when it comes to light that he placed Norman Osborn in charge of the Thunderbolts which eventually led to Norman being placed in charge. It's never been officially stated but Ben Urich believes, and he's usually not wrong, that it was Stark that did it since he's the only one on the Pro-Registration side with the power to pull that off.

Bdawglegacy: Something like that will happen.

Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel characters seen, mentioned or used.


Peter was perhaps experiencing the singular most painful thing of his life right now, and considering what he's gone up against and faced, that was saying something. His entire body ached and burned, as if he was set on fire, his lungs seemed to have trouble taking in air, leaving him short of breath and gasping like a fish on dry land. His vision was blurry and his eyes hurt as if an eye lash were stuck in each of them and he coudlnt get it out. He tried to scream, tried to say anything but his throat had grown hoarse and dry, as if all the moisture had been sucked from it.

And his spider-sense was blaring to the point it was actually hurting Peter, possibly even more so then the previous mentioned ailments.

Peter tried to push through the pain as best he could, but he found his boy largely unresponsive. His limbs felt like they each weighed a ton, and everything seemed to be spinning before suddenly he let a pained scream as he felt some sort of surge in his brain, like a brain freeze combined with a migraine before being kicked in the head by a horse to top it all off.

"AGGHHH!" Peter growled in pain as he clutched his head in an attempt to stem the pain "What the fuck!"

Peter was vaguely aware of Venom climbing back to his feet only a few meters away and through his blurred vision, he swore he could see what looked like Daken climbing back on to the rooftop along with someone else that looked to be dressed up as Hawkeye. Before he could think on it anymore, the pain he was feeling, and the intensity of his spider-sense amplified tenfold and caused Peter to let out a pained scream that could be heard from several blocks away.

"AAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Peter yelled as his voice began to change as his head was completely covered in some sort of silver chrome like substance that began to wash over his body like water.

Deep inside Peter's body, the foreign material that was starting to cover every inch of his body was delving deep into his bloodstream, into his bone and muscle, and bonding with it, changing it to something more cybernetic in nature. For a moment it seemed that Peter was for all intents and purposes being turned into a robot but then, something happened…

As the cybernetic material reached certain parts of the body and began to infect the blood cells, it crossed paths with dormant traces of the venom symbiote from when Peter was bonded to the suit years ago. The dormant Venom cells seemed to spring to life as the cybernetic martial attempted to assimilate them and began to quickly fight back with surprising ferocity before it began to expand over the cybernetic material, as if it were absorbing it before something completely unexpected happened… it began to somehow merge together.

Whether this was a result of the Symbiote's unique biological nature, the radiation in Peter's blood having long since altered the dormant Venom cells or something else entirely was uncertain, but was certain was that the virus that was spreading over Peter's body had been halted if only for a second before the now awoken symbiote cells bonded themselves to this new material.

The entire process happened within the span of several seconds before this altered strain began to spread, infecting the parts of the body that were still free of the cybernetic material before it too began to fall victim to this highly aggressive new entity…

Muscles were shredded only to be just as quickly rebuilt more powerful then before, bones cracked and healed at the same time as the unknown entity washed over them. Peter's organs which many were on the verge of shutting down or already had begun to spring back to life with renewed energy as they were altered on a cellular level, his heart which was beating far beyond what a human, even a super human like him, was capable of grew slightly as what could only be described as organic circuity began to spread along its surface before it spread into the veins and flowed throughout the whole body.

And Peter throughout it all, felt it every bit of that change as he clenched down on his teeth so hard that they began to crack under the strain before he slammed his fist into the ground, cracking it and causing the entire rooftop to shudder in response as he let out another pain scream that sounded more like a roar of an inhuman creature than a man.

"RAAAAAAHHH!"

San Francisco…

Standing in the middle of Golden Gate Park stood a towering two-thousand-foot-tall golden Celestial, a cosmic robotic god for all intents and purposes. It's name or what could be classified for a name for a being like it was Tiamut, the Dreaming Celestial.

It has remained quiet for some time now, observing humanity's progress through unknown means to decide whether if they were worthy to allow to live. For some time now he has remained unmoving, even when the residents of the city had turned him into a tourist attraction, a rather successful one mind you. As people crowded at his feet everyday by the hundreds, he did not react, still staring off into the distance. Even as satellites and spy craft both manned and unmanned from S.H.I.E.L.D. and now H.A.M.M.E.R. observe and attempt to scan his form, he did not react. He didn't even so much as blink as the High Evolutionary removed an item from it's head that was later used to return Magento's powers.

And then just as it seemed like another day without activity would pass, the god like being did something so subtle it was barely noticed…

It's head ever so slightly, turned towards New York City as it sensed a man with amazing and spectacular powers was ever so slowly turned into something different, something never before predicted even by the Celestials…

'Interesting…'

"Uh, is that supposed to be happening?" Daken asked as he watched as Spider-man violently wither on the ground as the metal seemed to change color from silver and chrome to black with what could only be described as red lights began to spread throughout certain parts of his body, mainly the arms, legs, and with the largest concentration being on the chest and back.

"How the hell should I know?" Bullseye asked with a frown.

"You shot him with it, don't you know how it works?" Venom asked with a quirked head towards the assassin.

Before the false Hawkeye could answer, Spider-man suddenly stopped moving as his body seemed to finally settle with only labored breathing emanating from him. After several moments, Spider-man slowly stood up on shaky legs, his entire body still trembling as he held up his clawed hands and two glowing red lenses similar to his spider suit's widened in shock as he spoke in an altered voice that sounded both electronic and animalistic at the same time but still had the lightness of his own voice from before.

"What… what did you do to me?" Peter said as he stared at his hands and arms and then took in his body's state.

It for a second looked like Peter was wearing his black suit again but with several distinct changes.

The first and most noticeable was that the spider symbol on his chest and back was red and instead of being a solid shape it looked to be made out of hundreds of small lines that somewhat resembled circuity. This same circuity like design was also on his arms and legs and seemed to be pulsing with some sort of electrical glow. The second notable feature about Peter's suit was that it didn't look to be mad of fabric like all of his others have been in the past, instead it seemed more metallic, more armored. Particularly around the torso, arms and legs. The third and final thing that Peter noticed about his new look was more of how everything was seen by him.

It was like looking at things in ultra HD, crystal clear quality with this odd red boundary light at the very edge of his vision. He could even make out the individual beads of sweat and blood on Daken's form and the small creases in both his and Bullseye's uniforms and if he looked any longer, his vision seemingly zoomed in on them before he would blink and be zoomed out.

'What… what's going on…?' Peter thought as he looked down at his hands and flexed them and saw the odd red lights decorating his form pulse ever so slightly in response along with the weird red boarder in his vision.

It was then that Peter heard Norman's voice coming from Bullseye and Daken, there was some static to it, but there was no mistaking his voice.

"Bullseye, what's happened? Did it work?" he asked curiously with the ever so subtle hint of warning.

Bullseye held a hand to his ear and pressed on the ear pierce he had on "Uh, something happened but I don't think it's what you were expecting boss"

"Explain-" Norman began before he was interrupted by a now enraged Peter.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME OSBORN?!" Peter demanded as he took a step towards the three before Bullseye drew an arrow and aimed it at Peter in the span of a second.

"Aw you don't like your new look? Well if it's killing you to look like that, I'll have no problem putting you out of your misery" the infamous assassin smirked.

"He can hear me?" Norman said with some surprise "Interesting, I was not expecting him to be able to tap into our coms so quickly or so easily after changing so quickly… what did I miss?"

In the span of half a second, Peter was before Bullseye and before Daken or even Venom could move, Peter had the man up by the throat and brought in close to his narrowed glowing lenses which now seemed more angular.

"What. Did. You. Do. To. Me?!" Peter hissed darkly as he tightened his grip on Bullseye's neck, causing him to let out a chocked gasp.

As Peter stared into the surprised eyes of Bullseye, Peter felt this spider-sense tingle, but it felt different than before, somehow more sensitive and more detailed. Everything seemed to slow down to a crawl almost and Peter turned his head slightly to see Daken rushing towards him with his claws unsheathed as if he were running through molasses with Venom standing perfectly still behind him, watching the entire scene play out. Peter held Venom's gaze for several moments before he noticed out of the corner of his eye, Bullseye reaching for an arrow in his quiver to stab Peter with.

The web slinger stood there and watched for several seconds as Bullseye went to stab Peter in the chest with the arrow only for the tip to shatter against the suit's armored surface. Bullseye's eyes widened as Peter made a grunting sound and threw the man towards Daken. The feral mutant saw this and narrowly missed being hit by the man by ducking and continuing to sprint towards the wall crawler. Peter watched as Daken sent the first swipe towards Peter which he easily side stepped. Daken, slightly surprised at how fast Spider-man moved, even for him, growled in annoyance as he sent another swipe towards the wall crawler, this time leaving two faint scratches on the armor just above the glowing spider symbol.

Peter backed up slightly as Daken slashed at him several more times with his claws, the re-enforced bones leaving mild scratches on Peter's chest before they quickly repaired themselves, leaving no evidence of there being any damage in the first place.

"Hmmm… that seems familiar" Peter said before he grabbed Daken's hand as it came towards his head.

Peter closed his hand around Daken's fist to the point he nearly crushed the entire limb before Peter lifted him into the air and slammed him into the ground several times before holding up the dazed mutant to his face. Daken stared into the glowing lenses of Spider-man for a second before he spat a glob of blood and saliva into his covered face. Peter responded by slamming Daken into the ground one more time before he looked towards venom who was watching him with narrowed eyes and a dripping maw.

"I'm going to ask one more time… what did you people do to me!?" Peter asked, his voice quieter compared to earlier but still filled to the brim with rage and confusion.

Venom seemed to sense this as he gave Peter a dark grin "I'll tell you… if you can force it out of me that is…"

And at that, Peter attacked with a sound that sound more like a rabid animal then a person. Venom brought his arms up to block the punch from Spider-man and grunted in pain as the wall crawler's punch connected with his arms.

KOOOOOM!

The force of the blow pushed Venom back several meters towards the edge of the building before he stopped. Venom let out a surprise hiss before he chuckled at Spider-man.

"Hmm… least you'll make this fun SSSSpider-man" Venom said as he flicked his tongue out like a snake before he lunged at Spider-man and sent an enlarge fist towards him.

Peter watched the approaching fist carefully, Venom seemed slower then he remembered as he moved out of the way, the enlarge symbiote fist missing his head by inches. Venom saw this and growled as he sent a flurry of punches towards Peter that were all narrowly dodged until Peter leashed out and jabbed Venom in the head, snapping his head to the side with an echoing 'crack' before Peter grabbed him by the head and lifted him into the air, over his shoulders and into the ground. The force of the impact sent both men tumbling into the shaking building below just as Daken got back on his feet along with a groaning Bullseye.

"What the fuck…?" the marksman said as he rubbed his head.

Daken was about to respond before the building they were standing on shook again, causing both men to nearly stumble to the ground.

"I think we better get out of here before those two jackasses level the entire place" Daken said as he approached the ledge of the building as another tremor shook the structure.

"Right…" Bullseye agreed as he followed after his teammate.

Inside the building, Venom and Peter were both struggling for dominance against one another. Peter, much to his and likely Venom's surprise as well, had quickly discovered that his physical strength was far greater than before, to what extent Peter didn't know but the fact that he could stop a punch from Venom of all beings cold said plenty. The only thing that hadn't changed was that somehow Venom was still immune to Peter's spider-sense, forcing him to once again rely on his other senses like hearing and sight to avoid Venom's blows.

'Which would be easier if I didn't decide to take this fight into a freakin cramped hallway that's slowly falling apart!' Peter thought with a scowl as he received a powerful blow to the head that caused Peter to briefly see stars from Venom before the larger symbiote wearing maniac tackled Peter through a wall and into a barren room.

Peter let out a pained groan as he tired to get back up only for Venom to stomp on his chest, pinning him in place as he had his hand form into a sort of barbed blade.

"Hehehehe… I'm starting to see why Carnage liked making these things" Venom chuckled as he went to stab Peter though the skull only for Peter to suddenly stab him in the ankle with several clawed fingers.

"GAAAAHHHH!" Venom roared in pain as he pulled his foot off and stumbled back while Peter let out a gasp as he stood up and glanced down at his clawed hand and unsheathed 'on' and 'off' several times.

"Huh… didn't think… that would… work" Peter said to himself before he looked up towards Venom and saw that the wound on his ankle had healed.

Venom growled at Peter before he rushed towards the wall crawler in a blur, even with his seemingly enhanced reflexes Peter struggled to follow Garagn's movements until his fist was approaching his face. Throwing up an arm to defend himself, Peter gritted his teeth as Venom's fist made contact with his forearm, denting the armored sleeve slightly before Peter used his other arm and activated the claws before slashing Venom across the chest and leaving four red marks over the white spider symbol.

Gargan roared in pain as the symbiote retracted from the wounded areas, as if it were burned, allowing small rivers of blood to pour out unattended. Peter, not letting up his apparent advantage, then slashed Venom across the face, nicking an eye before he rammed his clawed hand into Venom's screaming maw.

Venom in response clamped down hard on Peter's arm to the point that it was thanks to the suit that his arm wasn't crushed. Peter gritted his teeth as he grabbed a handful of… well he wasn't sure what he was grabbing inside Venom, but it felt fleshly. He secured his grip on whatever it was, maybe Gargan himself, and pulled back with a yell that sounded more like a roar. Venom in response let out a pained yell as Spider-man's arm was torn out of his mouth along with a handful of what looked to be his insides, including his tongue!

Peter dropped the squirming flesh to the ground as he watched Venom, blood pouring from his mouth like a waterfall, stumble around until he backed into a wall with enough force to leave a myriad of cracks throughout it's surface. The symbiote wearing villain glared at Peter as it let out a chocked hiss of anger while Peter's glowing lenses narrowed to slits.

"Are you going to tell me what you people did to me… or am I going to have to rip more of you out?" Peter asked with a growl.

Venom's response was a roar as he charged towards Peter with his fists growing several sizes along with what looked like tooth filled maws on the palms while Peter's claws extended out again, this time with the ends adopting serrated edges.

"Looks like I'm gonna have to…" Peter said as he lunged towards the taller man with a growl.

Daken had to hold back a curse as he landed on the ground with a painful crack emanating from his legs. He tired to use his claws to scale down the side of the building but the fighting between Spider-man and Venom inside the structure had caused a portion of the wall that the son of the Wolverine was on to come loose, forcing Daken to fall the remaining three stories to the ground.

"Ouch, that looked like it had to hurt" Bullseye snickered as he lowered himself to the ground with the aid of a grappling arrow.

Daken, who was kneeling on the ground holding a broken leg, glared at the purple clad man with a snarl as he held up two claws "And these are gonna hurt you a lot more if you don't shut your fuckin mou-"

Whatever Daken was going to say next was cut off as both Venom and Spider-man exploded from the second story of the building. Venom let out a roar at Spider-man, spitting a mixture of blood and saliva into his face as Spider-man repeatedly slashed Venom's chest with his claws before the two collided with the ground. Venom let out a pained gasp as his impact created a small crater on account of his weight and size before a recovered Spider-man was crouching on his chest with his fist reared back. Gargan only had time to widen his eyes before the wall crawler slammed his fist into the side of his head, knocking several teeth loose before Spider-man struck him with his other fist.

Bullseye pulled several arrows from his quiver and aimed them at Spider-man as his fists turned to blurs as he continued to punch Venom's face in, something the assassin would be laughing over if it didn't mean with Venom down, he and Daken would be outgunned.

Peter suddenly tensed as he reared his bloodied fist back to slam into Venom's twitching face before he ducked under two arrows flying past his head. Peter looked over his shoulder to see Bullseye notching two more arrows, these ones with explosive arrowheads before Peter looked down at Venom with narrowed eyes.

"Well Venom, congrats, I couldn't force the answer out of you…" Peter then hopped off his chest and grabbed the groaning mass murderer by the broken jaw and flung him towards Bullseye who let out a surprise yelp and rolled out of the way as Venom slammed into the building with enough force to shake the entire structure.

Bullseye glanced back to see venom slump to the ground and had just turned his sights back towards Spider-man when he realized that the man was standing right in front of him!

The deadly marksman sent a kick towards Peter who responded by grabbing him by the shin and pulled the man into a headbutt that nearly broke his nose and would have likely cracked his skull if not for the padding in his mask/cowl.

'Jesus fuckin Christ, is this guy made of fuckin adamantium?!' Lester thought as he stumbled back and made to swipe at Spider-man with an arrow that he was still holding before his arm was grabbed and before he could register what to do next, Spider-man broke it at the elbow.

KRAKK!

"AHHHHHH!" Lester yelled in pain before he was smacked aside by Spider-man.

Peter made to follow after him before his spider-sense went off again and he ducked under a clawed swipe from Daken. Having anticipated this, Daken sent his knee up towards Spider-man who responded by blocking it with his hands before he was slammed to the ground by Daken who drove his elbow into the back of Peter's neck. The wall crawler made to get back up before he was slammed into the ground again, this time by Venom placing his foot on the back of Peter's head, driving it into the dirt.

"Heh, eat dirt asshole" Venom hissed, his tongue having regrown, but blood still continued to drip from his wounds.

Peter would have offered up a retort had his face not been in the middle of being half buried in the ground. He tired to push back but Venom applied even more force to the point that Peter's armored mask began to groan and dent a little.

'Gotta get him off!' Peter thought as he tried to move before suddenly a spider like leg erupted from Peter's back and sliced Venom across his leg, causing the symbiote wearing sociopath to howl in pain as he removed his injured leg from Peter's head, allowing him to get up in time to have Daken slash him across the face, leaving two faint scratches on his lenses.

The action caused Peter to flinch briefly before he shot his arm out and punched Daken square in the gut, sending the shorter man into the air for several meters before gravity forced him back down on to the ground, knocking the wind out of him. Peter used this time to climb back to his feet and glanced back at Venom who was clutching his leg and hissed at Spider-man.

"I'm going to rip your fuckin dick off and shove right through-" Venom started only to be interrupted as Peter rammed his fist into his face again, creating a small shockwave that nearly sent him flying had Peter not suddenly reach out and grab Venom's leg, the injured one, and pull him back into a headbutt that dazed both men briefly.

'Okay, gotta finish this now and bail' Peter thought as he shook his head to clear his senses before he pulled his hand back and formed another fist before he threw it at Venom's snarling face.

The force of the impact created an even bigger shockwave then the previous ones and sent venom once again flying into the building, this time through several walls. The result caused Peter's spider-sense to start to tingle as he saw with his newly enhanced vision cracks beginning to crawl up a good portion of the building's side followed by the sounds of brick, mortar and even wooden breaking.

'Uh-oh…' Peter thought as he began to back away as over two thirds of the face of the building he was looking at begun to fall apart along with several floors that were still connected to the giving walls.

Daken had just pushed himself back to his knees when he noticed the collapsing wall falling right towards him. He let out a growl of annoyance as hundreds of pounds of bricks, concrete, wood and whatever else was in the building collapsed on top of him, breaking numerous bones and gouging out chunks of his body before the rumbling sound of thousands of pounds of building material settle down to a few faint bricks coming loose and falling to the ground.

Several minutes of silence passed before Daken felt enough bones and muscle repair themselves in his arms and legs before he began to claw and push his way out. After using his boned claws to cut his way through a meter or so of brick and concrete, some of which chipped off the end of one of his bone claws, his head broke through and allowed him to take in a lungful of air that was mixed with dust, causing him to cough in response.

The feral mutant grumbled and growled in annoyance as he looked around for signs of Spider-man, only to see the man's form crawling up the side of the building that Bullseye was perched on earlier before disappearing over the ledge.

"Bug's bailing. We're… we're in pursuit" Daken said as he pushed more of the debris off himself and made to chase after the wall crawler despite the pain he was in before Norman spoke through the team's commlink.

"No, disengage and fall back to base" Osborn stated calmly while out of the corer of Daken's eye, he could make out the emerging forms of Venom and soon Bullseye "Your part in this is over"

Daken frowned at Norman's words "But-"

"And I already have a suspicion of where he's going" Osborn interrupted calmly "So you will not be needed to track him down. Hell, you could barely stand from what I'm seeing from our drones"

Daken glanced at an equally battered forms Venom and Bullseye for a moment before he answered "Fine…"

"Man, this is a bunch of fuckin bullshit" Bullseye grumbled as he rubbed his bleeding arm while he glared at the direction that Spider-man fled in "No buddy breaks my arm and walks away"

"Yeah… we wanted to eat him, his brains would have been so yummy…" Venom growled in anger before he glanced down at the claw marks on his chest and frowned as he saw that they were healing far slower than he liked and bits of brick were getting into the wounds, causing them to sting a little.

"If you gotta problem with Norman's orders, feel free to disregard them and chase after the bug" Daken said as he sat down on a pile of bricks and waited for their lift back to the tower arrived.

Lester made a few incoherent sounds as he stalked off to brood while Venom poked at his still bleeding injuries with a hiss. Daken removed what was left of his mask and let out a sigh as he glanced back in the direction that Spider-man fled with a frown as he replayed the last few minutes over in his head.

'Something tells me that this didn't go exactly the way Norman hoped… oh well. Not my problem anymore' Daken thought as he could faintly hear the team's jet approaching in the distance.


And done.

Next chapter, after escaping from the Dark Avengers, Peter goes to the only people that can help him… the Fantastic Four.