AN: For the fourteen of you who read the first chapter, thank you. I hope you enjoyed it and will continue to read. I certainly plan on writing it, because I have already wrote the story boards and It is a personal thing for me to finish my work. Big thanks to Celgress for once again reading and reviewing.

Chapter 2

The Avengers quinjet soared over the desert of Arizona at a blistering pace. The heat of the setting sun beat down onto the red rock below. The hues of the earth, glowing brilliant red and orange now, would fade as the night progressed. Inside the flying vehicle, the hero's prepared for the upcoming conflict.

Agent Venom had bonded with the alien symbiote that was the source of his powers. The black, liquid life form had formed into a second skin with armor across the upper body of the soldier, and an iconic white spider across his chest. This was from the sybiote's first human host, the hero Spiderman. Venom had outfitted himself with more terrestrial weapons though that he had trained with namely a .50 caliber Desert Eagle, and a number of grenades, flashbangs, and other assorted explosives.

Valkyrie wore armor from her time as an Asgardian warrior. The black and grey armor covered her modestly and protected vital parts of her body. Though she wielded more primitive weapons, a spear and shield, than Venom, her superior strength and agility as a goddess allowed her to more than compensate for their lack range.

The two were looking over a tablet that described the situation in depth that was occurring at The Catacombs. From an overview of suspected ULTIMATUM objectives, to the contents of the equipment that The Catacombs housed, every possible threat and concern was spelled out for them to prepare for. And the list was disturbingly long, and it had Agent Venom worried.

"Our enemy is most likely to target the arms room in order to continue their misguided attempts at establishing a world order by force." Valkyrie stated.

"Radical terrorist are always trying to get more toys." Venom responded grimly.

"What weapons are stored at this location?" the warrior goddess asked.

Venom scrolled through the tablet. "According to the inventory list, even though it is trying to be vague, there mostly seems to be mostly high powered energy weapons. There are some biological and chemical agents though. Annnnd….oh boy." Venom finished worried.

"What bothers thee?" Valkryie asked showing concern.

"There are also a few sonic generation weapons as well as incendiary devices." Venom said somberly. Fire and sonic weapons were the biggest weakness of the symbiote. Because the creature spent much of its time in the vacuum of space, it never developed a defense to such armaments because of the lack of air molecules.

'Dangerous' a voice inside Venoms head said.

'I'll handle it Flash though back.

The biggest danger to Agent Venom wasn't the biggest danger to Flash underneath. Because the symbiote bonded to him both physically and mentally, they were able to communicate through thought. Whenever Flash wore the alien, his biggest fear was that he would lose control of his own body. The symbiote had tried many time to do just that. Sometimes it had succeeded.

"Will you be Okay?" Valkyrie asked.

Flash snapped back to being Agent Venom. "Dangerous weapons are just an occupational hazard. I'll be fine, and if not, you'll be there to back me up."

Valkyrie smiled. "But of course. It is the duty of a warrior to defend their fellow fighters.

Venom and Valkyrie read through more details of the facility. Their covered the design, layout, and history. This was important to know this for environment dangers that could hinder them in the conflict. The next biggest problem that they discovered was as they were reading through the personnel list. There was one person listed as a detained person labeled as Kasady, Cletus.

'CARNAGE!' the symbiote yelled in anger.

'I see it.' Flash said. "We have a notable issue" Agent venom said aloud.

"What is it?" Valkyrie asked.

"Well there is a man here named Kasady who will certainly be a problem if he escapes."

"Why?"

"Short version. Cletus Kasady was just your average sadist and psychopath. Then he bonded with an alien symbiote that is the spawn of my own. Now he is a super powered sadist and psychopath named Carnage whose symbiote has some serious daddy issues with my own." Agent Venom explained quickly.

Valkyrie stated at him dumbfounded. "You have a child?" she asked confused.

"What? No. The symbiote apparently reproduced asexually, and that bonded to Kasady. I didn't bond to this sybiote until years later." Agent Venom explained worried while raising his hands up defensively. Not for Carnage at the moment, but for what Valkyrie might do to him.

"Good." She stated. "I was worried that I would have to chase off some harlot from taking the man I am courting, and punish said man for his infidelities."

Venom sighed in relief. "Anyway. My guess is that because Carnage comes from an alien symbiote, that is why he was detainee here with all of the other alien stuff." Venom reasoned. Valkyrie hummed her agreement.

The rest of the flight went by in relative silence. The quinjet had a programed flight path, so there was no real need to pilot the thing unless there was some kind of emergency, in which case Venom was a perfectly capable pilot. Valkyrie sharpened the head of her spear and a small dagger. Venom modified a HK 417 battle rifle with an ACOG sight, angular foregrip, and canted iron sights. Eventually the computer gave the two an audible warning that they would be landing soon, and they attached all of their gear to various harnesses.

The quinjet touched down on an impromptu helicopter landing pad in the middle of a hastily assembled military staging area. Around the jet, soldiers, Humvees, and other military gear and personnel were moving to set up for what seemed to be a massive operation. As the two hero's stepped of their transportation, a man in a U.S. Army uniform ran up to them. Venom noted that the man wore the rank of a Captain on his chest.

"I'm assuming that you two are the hero's that I was told were coming?" The man said, even though he knew the answer.

"Roger Sir." Venom said reverting back to his old military habits where he was merely a Corperal. "I'm Agent Venom. This is Valkyrie." He said nodding to the Asgardian.

"I'm Captain Nathanson. Glad to have you here. Please follow me." The Captain said as he turn around and started to walk away.

Venom and Valkyrie quickly walked up behind him. "Based on the number of people, you aren't the one in charge here." Venom said.

"No. I'm just in charge of intelligence and security here." Nathanson said. "I'm taking you to General Ross now."

Venom put a hand on Nathanson and tuned him around. "General Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross?" Venom asked outloud.

"Yes. You know him?" Nathanson asked.

"We've met."

"Must have been quite an honor."

"Not really." Venom said with disdain. "Where's he now?"

"The big tent over there." Nathanson said pointing to a large tan tent that was flapping in the breeze.

Venom started walking over to the tent without another word.

"What with him and General Ross?" Nathanson looking to Valkyrie.

"They through a portal into Hell." Valkyrie said simply and followed after Venom.

It took Nathanson a second to close his mouth before he followed after them. After leading them through a security checkpoint, Nathanson brought them into a room in the tent that had a number of tabled, laptops, and maps on boards.

In the middle of it all stood General Thaddeus Ross. The man's steely grey hair and mustache matched his steely gaze and steely cool demeanor. The army officer looked as though he was just the right mixture of calm and angry in order to solve the current crisis. Agent Venom didn't really like the man though. When Ross was the Red Hulk, he tried to detain Venom when he thought that Venom had gone AWOL. In reality Venom needed to go into hiding because the gang leader Crime Master had too much information on his alter ego.

Venom walked up to the general. "General Ross." He stated simply.

"Venom. I haven't seen you since Vegas" General Ross responded. Even though the two worked together to close the Portal to Hell in Las Vegas, the two never really forgave each other for their perceived actions. "Have you been brought up to speed?"

"I read the reports. Just wanted to get any final updates, then well go in." Venom said.

General Ross put a cigar in his mouth and lit it. "Just so you know I didn't want you here. I got authorization from the Secretary of Defense to get a Howling Commando team out here so the headline could say the Army stopped this crisis and not the Avengers in the event this made it to the media. Someone above me thought that was a bad idea though."

"Howling Commandos. Those guys are high speed." Venom said.

"Yeah. And we aren't used to playing back up." A man said sitting at a nearby table. The man had brown hair in a crew cut. He was dressed in camouflage fatigues with black body armor. Had he not made a comment, neither Venom nor Valkyrie would have paid him any attention. "Our authorization is pretty high up the chain, so whoever sent for you must be even higher. That is the only reason I'm not very angry.

"Agent Venom, this is Canine. He is the one in charge the Howling Commando team I sent for." Ross explain.

"Since you and blondie here are the ones goin' into the facility, me and my team will be coving the hanger entrance. Well keep anyone from going in or coming out." Canine explained. "If shit gets FUBAR, we'll go in after you and finish the job."

Venom knew about the primary hanger entrance from the blue prints of The Catacombs provided in the report. "Good to know there is an alternate plan. What plan do you have for Carnage?" Venom was most worried about the threat that particular individual posed at the moment.

"Easy. White phosphorous incendiary grenades. Should phase him long enough to shoot him." Canine said.

Venom knew it was never that simple with Carnage. 'We Must Kill Him' the symbiote said.

'I agree. Bu I'll be the one to do it' Flash thought. It wasn't often that they agreed, but Flash would never willingly let the symbiote take control without specific instruction.

"And ULTIMATUM?"

"Simple. Shoot 'em like any other terrorist." Canine said plainly. "What's your plan anyway?"

Venom had plenty of time to think it out, and it was best to keep it simple. Having too many objectives tended to distract you from the things that absolutely needed to be accomplished. "Resecure and relock the arms rooms. Kill and or capture all hostiles within The Catacombs. Those are our objectives." Venom said.

"Fair enough." Canine said. General Ross nodded his approval begrudgingly.

Venom turned to Valkyrie who had been quit thus far. "Any questions or things to add?" he asked in a friendly manner.

"Your human bureaucracy is a waste of time. In Asgard we would already be fighting." Valkyrie stated with her arms crossed in annoyance.

"We're ready." Venom said.

AN: Since I wrote the first chapter, two more Agent Venom stories were published on this site. Coincidence, I think not. By the way, good luck to Celgress on his own Venom story. It was a well written first chapter and I hope more people are reading it.