Hello everyone!

I know it's been a long time since I updated, but I hope it's worth the wait! Between life stuff and writer's block, I haven't published new chapters for any of my stories.

I decided to write another multi-chapter arc, based on the new Across the Spider-Verse movie that recently came out! I saw it in theatres and loved it, so I of course had to throw Eddie and Venom into it! The chapters will be shorter to start, but there will be more of them, and rest assured I won't leave you waiting for months for the next one!

Warning, though, if you haven't seen it, you might not understand much of what's happening, or who some of the characters will be.

I hope you all enjoy the chapter!

Adventure in the Spider-Verse: Part One

"Ready for the fireworks tonight, V," Eddie asked, walking up the street towards Mrs. Chen's convenience store.

NO, the symbiote replied moodily. YOU KNOW WE DON'T LIKE THOSE LOUD, FLASHING LIGHTS OF DEATH!

"C'mon, man, I've told you that those things can't hurt you," the teenaged human replied, walking through the door to the store, waving to Mrs. Chen as he headed for the freezers in the back. "I don't wanna be hiding under my bed during the Fourth of July AGAIN this year!"

FIRE CAN HURT US, Venom explained. THOSE THINGS ARE CALLED 'FIREWORKS!' MEANING THEY CAN HURT US!

"Not when they're high up in the air!"

YOU KNOW LOUD NOISES HURT US TOO!

The boy opened the freezer door, grabbing a package of tater tots. "You're being a baby."

WE ARE NOT!

"We have this same argument every year, and it's getting old! Besides, now that Dad knows about you, he can make extra burgers for you instead of me having to ask for thirds like I did last year!" He paused. "Actually, there's a lot of things I can tell him now; he kept thinking I was gonna get diabetes from all that chocolate I kept bringing home."

Suddenly, the hairs on the back of Eddie's neck stood up, and he quickly looked around, not seeing anything. Mrs. Chen was at the counter, finishing a sudoku, and no one else was in the store. However, the alien symbiote stirred, seeming to sense something was off too.

WHAT IS IT, VENOM asked. WE JUST FELT-

"I felt it too," the teenager said, turning back to the freezer. "Wonder what... it... is..."

His sentence fumbled as he saw a pinprick of light appear in the freezer, floating above the frozen burritos. It was quickly growing bigger, becoming a swirling, colorful wheel of light. The lights around them started to flicker, and the floor seemed to be trembling.

"What's going on?" Mrs. Chen had looked up from her paper, gaping at the tunnel of light. "What did you do?"

"I don't know," Eddie yelled, taking a step back. "It just-"

Suddenly, as if being pulled in by an invisible force, the boy felt his feet leave the ground, and he was sucked into the light. Venom shot out a tendril towards a nearby display of chips, but that too got pulled inside. A second later, the light vanished, leaving the store owner staring at the empty spot the kid and alien had just occupied seconds earlier.

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Meanwhile, Eddie was screaming as he flew along a tunnel of reddish light, unable to stop himself or see where he was going. The path twisted and turned like some wild rollercoaster, and the teen was spinning around uncontrollably as the symbiote screamed in his head.

Finally, they stopped spinning, passing through another circle of light. And then they were falling - they were now high above a cityscape, hurtling towards the ground.

"AAAAAAUUUURRRGGGHHH!" Eddie fell past tall buildings, seeing the crowded street below growing closer and closer.

Venom quickly covered his host, growing into a towering black figure. Quickly looking around, he shot out a tendril at a nearby building, holding on as the fall became a swing, preventing them from hitting the pavement.

WHAT'S GOING ON, the boy yelled in the alien's mind as Venom quickly swung between the buildings. Get me down! You know I hate heights!

"QUIET," Venom snapped, looking around at the buildings around him. "WE'RE TRYING TO THINK!" He looked around. "SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT..."

The symbiote noticed how bright and colorful everything was. San Francisco's buildings were mostly grey and drab; here, the buildings were brightly colored, with billboards displaying stuff he had never heard of before, and a lot of them in some language he didn't recognize. Where ever they were, it wasn't the Golden Coast.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL, V thought. WHERE ARE-

Suddenly, lightning-hot pain shot through alien and host, making them both cry out in pain. Venom's body was suddenly twitching and flashing, looking like static on a TV. Losing his grip on the tendril, the symbiote fell, still glitching out as he flew through an alleyway, knocking through lines of laundry that were hanging between the buildings. Finally, he hit the ground with a loud thud, sliding into a dumpster.

The pain suddenly stopped, and Venom seeped back into Eddie's chest, leaving the teen panting and wincing. The boy slowly sat up, rubbing his shoulder.

"Oww... What happened?" Eddie asked. "How'd... How'd we end up in the sky?" He looked around the alley, a confused look on his face. "Why're the buildings so colorful? And... why do they look like something out of a cartoon?"

SEARCH US, Venom replied, starting to heal some of his host's injuries. THIS IS NOT SAN FRANCISCO; EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT, AND WE SAW SOME SIGNS THAT WEREN'T IN ENGLISH.

"Why'd you fall let us fall?" the boy asked, slowly getting to his feet. "Did you swing into a telephone wire or something? Felt like I was being electrocuted."

NO, the symbiote snapped, and the alien's head stuck out of his shoulder, frowning at him. "WE DIDN'T MEAN TO FALL! SOMETHING HAPPENED TO US. WE... WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT, BUT IT HURT. A LOT."

Eddie looked around again. His nose, instead of picking up the smell of a dank, musty alley, was instead smelling something that reminded him vaguely of Mrs. Chen's store. At least that was some comfort, smelling something familiar.

"Okay," the teenager started. "We just need to-"

The pain suddenly returned, making him cry out in pain and fall to his knees. Looking at his hand, he was shocked to see his hand glitching before his eyes, like a computer program fritzing on the screen, but it was his actual flesh and blood.

WE DON'T LIKE THIS, VENOM said. WE NEED TO FIND OUT WHERE WE ARE SO WE CAN GET HOME. WE'LL TAKE US SOMEWHERE HIGH SO WE CAN SEE BETTER.

"Ah... do you have to?" the boy asked, dreading the idea of being someplace up high.

DON'T BE A WUSS, BRO.

"Fine!" The black goo covered him once more. Let's just hurry up and get home before my Dad-

"AIEEEE!"

The alien roared, head jerking back as the high-pitched scream made his ears hurt. Whirling around, he saw a young girl standing a few yards away, looking at him with horror. She wore a colorful dress and something that covered her head, and Venom searched his host's mind for a word to put to it.

A sari, I think, Eddie thought. I know this girl at school who wore one.

The girl in front of them screamed again, running back inside the nearby building and slamming the door behind her.

"UH... SHOULD WE RUN?" Venom asked.

Definitely, Eddie replied.

And on that note, the symbiote quickly scaled the nearby wall, heading towards the rooftop.