Saving the World, Saving Hearts

Chapter 25 of my crossover story, enjoy.

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The Invasion Begins

It was late at night, New York however was still lit up and there were still plenty of people around. Standing on a rooftop in Chinatown, observing all this, Venom had a dark grin on his face.

'Now it begins, we, the Dark Emperor Venom, shall reign supreme. This city will be ours and this will be the beginning of our conquest. Now, begin!'

With that he raised his arms and a 'gate' opened behind him, unleashing a torrent of darkness and before long the screams started. As this happened and a section of Chinatown was covered in the darkness which took the shape of a dome, covering that section of the city and within, the people who were inside began to react, convulsing and some of them being covered in the same substance of darkness.

"Our army grows, go forth my creature, stop all who resist!" He called out.

It was at that point the creatures he had turned into his army emerged from the 'gate' and began to make their way down into the city. Venom didn't even bother to turn around, but his smile widened as he felt and heard the approach of two others who stopped behind him, now things were getting even better, his generals had arrived.

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The constant buzzing made Stephanie groan, she mumbled but it still continued.

"Matt, that's annoying, it's-" She mumbled.

They were in his bed together and Matthew woke up, hearing the buzzing.

He reacted at once, hurrying out of bed, making Stephanie groan again.

"Get dressed, in fact, scratch that, get suited up." He told her. "That's the alert, we're in a code black."

Stephanie was instantly awake, they'd worked out a system of alerts to warn the others of what threat level to expect when they were heading out to join in stopping some sort of crime of supervillain and code black was the highest level. So they quickly got suited up, just clad they kept their suits handy at each other's homes. Quickly, Batgirl and Blue Beetle exited through the window and hurried to the location that Wasp had warned them the code black was taking place. Sure enough they found her, just as Spider-Boy, Black Panther and White Tiger arrived.

"No way, what is that?" White Tiger gasped.

Wasp shook her head. "I don't know, but Iron Man and Iron Girl are already there fighting. We're dealing with Symbiotes and...and people who are being turned into them."

"Venom's building an army." Black Panther realized worriedly.

"We've got to help them." Spider-Boy cried out.

"Agreed." Batgirl said.

Blue Beetle frowned however. "We should also make sure that she doesn't get hurt."

That was when they all saw, to their horror, that Speed Demon was present and part of the fight too.

They immediately hurried to the fight, it wasn't easy under the dome of blackness, which strangely seemed to pulsate and seem alive. Nevertheless they fought and managed to defeat as many of the Symbiotes as possible. The main difficult for them was the knowledge that these creatures were once innocent people.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Black Panther yelled at Speed Demon.

Speed Demon glared, dodging an attack. "Don't start, this isn't exactly something we can just ignore!"

White Tiger snarled. "We can't, but you-"

"Guys enough!" Blue Beetle reacted. "Stop being this way, we need to stay focused, we've got other problems."

That was when he revealed something to them all that made all the Avengers worried. Their disappearances from their rooms had clearly been discovered and while their identities were still hidden, the sight of all of their parents standing just outside the danger zone, looking worriedly around, clearly afraid that their kids were caught up in this nightmare.

Wasp grimaced. "Alright, keep it calm, just do our jobs and try to come up with an excuse later."

"Oh, what have we here, some meddling heroes hmmmm?"

They turned in horror to see Venom standing there, he wasn't alone either. Standing on either side of him were two other figures, also Symbiotes. One was another male, with the same evil white eyes as Venom, his sharp teeth black but frequently opening to reveal a flicking tongue, he was otherwise bright red and his claws were curled, as if itching to attack. The other Symbiote was female with the same white eyes and black fangs, a mane of yellow and red hair, matching her overall colouring.

"Carnage." Venom drawled to the red Symbiote, then addressed the female. "Scream...Here are those meddlesome heroes."

The Avengers tensed, wary, unsure what to do, now it seemed Venom had backup from even more Symbiotes, likely already possessing hosts too, judging by their humanoid shape.

Mike couldn't believe what he was seeing, these young teenage superheroes were fighting against these strange creatures and now these ones had returned, the worst of the lot it seemed.

"Mike what is going on?" Nancy asked warily.

She was with Jonathan and had been joined by Steve, his wife Natalie, Robin and Vickie.

It was Will who answered however. "We don't know, Jake wasn't in his room, then we heard this chaos and we worried that one of them was gonna get caught here and end up hurt."

"We thought that too." Dustin and Lucas chorused.

Holly and Dylan, along with Erica were also there and shared their worries but suddenly, they saw something that made them freeze.

"That...those are Demogorgons!" Max cried.

She was right, to the horrors of the Heroes of Hawkins, who were all in a group by the edge of the dome, Jane could only stare in horror as the nightmares of the Upside-Down appeared, in all their glory, empowered by the Symbiotes. Even as they watched the fight resuming it was clear that the Avengers, despite their desperate efforts, were in a tricky situation, but still desperately trying to fight off the multiple attacks.

The Avengers were indeed struggling and now they were getting surrounded.

"This is bad, really bad." White Tiger whispered worriedly.

Black Panther grimaced. "What are we gonna do?"

'This is bad, really bad.'
Spider-Boy thought desperately. 'No, we can't...we're not strong enough, how are we, what…'

It was like his heartbeat was intensifying, growing louder and then, then it happened, he suddenly cried out, shocking his friends but that wasn't the only thing that shocked them, before their very eyes his suit appeared to change and suddenly he stood, clad in a pitch black version of his suit, with a different, larger white coloured spider symbol. Most notably, he was stronger than ever and ready for battle.


End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.