Post by InnerVenom123 on Aug 31, 2011 9:14:37 GMT -5
Page 1
1/ Aerial view of Agent Venom falling down a long, dark ventilation shaft. He’s not in his “underwater” form from last issue’s cliffhanger anymore, he’s back to regular.
CAPTION(Venom): The main entrance was blocked by a submarine.
CAPTION(Venom): Managed to find an upper level escape pod door, untouched. Had the same water stopping tech.
2/ Front view of Agent Venom as he falls out from the ceiling, the vent shaft’s cover flying off to the side (knocked off by his impact) – the ceiling is covered in red slime, as is everything else. But we don’t see the full scale of the room yet.
CAPTION(Venom): Place is huge.
3/ From overhead Agent Venom looking down, he’s got a long fall, too long to risk. He has his right arm up, fist clenched, firing a thread of webbing.
SFX: THWIP
CAPTION(Venom): Make a soft landing, small impact. Don’t wanna alert any security.
4/ Front view of Agent Venom hanging upside down like Spider-man by the webbing, behind him is the big set of double doors that Jack O’Lantern, Dr. Hardwire, and The Henchmen entered through in #1.
CAPTION(Venom): Then again, place is deserted.
5/ Close up on the ceiling, the spot where the webbing hit to slow Agent Venom down. The red slime forms a tiny tendril and cuts through it.
SFX: CHK
Page 2
1/ Agent Venom fallen flat on his face.
SFX: WHUD
CAPTION(Venom): The hell?
2/ Underfoot view of Agent Venom looking up at the ceiling.
CAPTION(Venom): Oh, man.
3/ Close up on the ceiling spot he’s staring at. A creature is ripping up out of the slime, formed by it. It’s red, with the facial expression of the mask of one of The Henchmen.
CAPTION(Venom): I think I’m surrounded by the security.
Page 3
1/ There are dozens of creatures like the one on Page 2 forming out of the walls. They’re crawling from the walls and toward Agent Venom, who is now dual-wielding pistols.
SFX: RRRRRRRRR
CAPTION(Venom): It sounds like an upset stomach. Smells like it too.
CAPTION(Venom): Not the best way to start, but I’ll take it.
2/ Back view of Agent Venom. Tendrils are slithered out from his back, a reverse of the position of his arms. The tendrils are dual-wielding pistols as well. He’s firing in all directions.
SFX: BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM
3/ Close up of some of the monsters, their heads have clean holes through them.
CREEP-HENCHMEN: GRAWRRRR…
CAPTION(Venom): Not a single shot missed. And they’re still coming.
4/ Agent Venom turned to face us. Monsters approach from all sides, he keeps firing.
SFX: BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM
CAPTION(Venom): Can’t accept that just yet. Maybe they have hearts and not brains.
Page 4
1/ Aerial shot of Agent Venom, the monsters are getting closer.
CAPTION(Venom): Okay, maybe they’re just formless bits of murder-goo. That’s also a possibility.
2/ Close up of Agent Venom. One of the monsters is biting into his arm.
VENOM: HEY!
CAPTION(Venom): Hear that voice again. Tells me it can help. Tells me this is the wrong way to clean up a mess like this.
3/ Same view. The monsters are piling up, blocking our view of Agent Venom.
CAPTION(Venom): After all that effort of getting control back, I’m an idiot for doing this.
CAPTION(Venom): Thankfully communications don’t work down here, or I’d be getting an earful from Kate right now.
Page 5
1/ Splash page. Classic Venom roaring in a monstrous pose, throwing his arms out, the monsters being thrown back from around him.
VENOM: RAWRR!!!!
CAPTION(Venom): But it’s not a bad rage. It’s a good rage. It’s control. A cold, hard focus. It’s working together.
CAPTION(Venom): It feels so good to work together.
Page 6
1/ Back view of Venom, the goo is slithering upward, forming a serpent-like monster with Venom-like eyes.
CREEP SERPENT: REMEMBER YOU
CREEP SERPENT: YOU WERE OUR FIRST BOND
VENOM: That a fact?
2/ Front view of Venom, his arms are literally sprouting turret/pistols off the top over his hands (just behind the white patches on his hands). He’s aiming off panel at the serpent-like monster.
VENOM: It’s nice to feel special.
CAPTION(Venom): Beautiful cooperation. Fusing the ammo belts from my pockets into my arms.
3/ Side view of the two. Venom is firing out an insane amount of ammo toward the thing. It’s falling apart, but healing fast.
SFX: BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA
CAPTION(Venom): Just beautiful.
CREEP SERPENT: HSSSSSS!!!!
Page 7
1/ Malice tackling down Monster from above, slamming him into the ground.
SFX: BRSSSHHKKT
MALICE: GET AWAY FROM HIM!!!
CAPTION(Pat): Gina…
2/ Malice on top of Monster and looking over at Toxin.
MALICE: Pat?! Talk to me!!
CAPTION(Pat): Jaw broke… can’t…. healing now though… don’t worry about me…
CAPTION(Pat): Gina, listen--
3/ Monster punches Malice off of him.
SFX: WHAK
MONSTER: OFF ME!
MALICE: ARGGH!!
4/ Toxin looking up at off panel.
CAPTION(Pat): I know you’ve got control…
Page 8
1/ Malice getting up, with Monster rushing at her.
CAPTION(Pat): You vented your emotions at first, got in touch with the super-venom too, mutated and almost lost yourself…
2/ Malice jumping over Monster, avoiding a blow.
CAPTION(Pat): So glad you got yourself back… let the others fight him… let US fight him…
3/ Scream punches Monster in the side of the head, Malice looks off panel at Toxin.
SCREAM: THIS is for interrupting us!
SFX: WHAM
MALICE: Why?!
CAPTION(Pat): You don’t need that creature at all… just listen to me…
MALICE: NO! We NEED each other!
4/ Front view of Malice glaring at off panel, with a vicious look. Spider-man is standing next to Toxin, helping him up, while looking at Malice.
SCREAM(OP): We ALMOST HAD HIM! WE ALMOST HAD DAD!
MALICE: WE NEED--
SPIDER-MAN: You to control yourself!
Page 9
1/ Malice looking back at Spider-man. Scream is getting punched out by Monster brutally.
SFX: WHAM
MALICE: NO!
2/ Monster rushing at Malice, Malice slamming her fist into his face.
SFX: WHAM
CAPTION(Pat): Gina, please, let us--
CAPTION(Gina): NO!
3/ Malice laying into Monster with brutal force, punching and clawing.
CAPTION(Gina): He HURT YOU! He HURT ALL OF US!
4/ Malice is hit by an uppercut from Monster, an insanely painful shot.
MONSTER: RAWR!!
Page 10
1/ Venom is surrounded by three Creep-serpents, all of which he’s shooting at. Tendrils are sprouted out from his back, formed into rifles and large guns. The serpents are falling apart as fast as they’re coming back together.
SFX: BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM
CREEP SERPENTS: CAN’T STOP US
VENOM: OH, REALLY?
2/ Venom jumping up high, firing in all directions.
CAPTION(Venom): This is hopeless. The damn things cover the entire facility, they can’t even get hurt!
3/ Overhead view of Venom, he’s looking down at a large, red glob directly under him.
VENOM: …
4/ Venom is now standing on a platform made of the Creep serpent ooze, looking down at it, questioning how and why. His tendrils are aiming down, as if expecting an attack.
CAPTION(Venom): What is this?
Page 11
1/ Underfoot view of Venom looking up at the ceiling. Dr. Hardwire’s body is hovering down, his blank face with venom-like eyes. His wiry arms and legs are connected to random points on the ceiling, covered in red slime as well. Venom’s tendrils are now aimed up at it.
CREEP HARDWIRE: Hello, Venom.
CREEP HARDWIRE: It’s been a long time.
VENOM: A long time? Why do you keep acting like we KNOW you?
2/ Close up of Creep Hardwire’s face.
CREEP HARDWIRE: Because you do.
CREEP HARDWIRE: Not you, whoever’s under there.
CREEP HARDWIRE: But you, the symbiote. You know me.
3/ Venom standing on the platform, taking this all with a grain of salt, obviously.
CAPTION(Venom): Yeah, he’s not lying. It knows him. Tells me they bonded once. Freaked it out. Drove Eddie more insane.
CAPTION(Venom): And—what, really? BEAT JUGGERNAUT? RAPED HIS GIRLFRIEND?!
VENOM: You’re a sick little freak.
4/ Side view of the two. Venom is pointing accusingly at Creep Hardwire.
VENOM: You gonna tell us how to shut this place down, or do we have to KILL YOU?
CREEP HARDWIRE: Please. You couldn’t do that if you wanted to.
CREEP HARDWIRE: I am the ties that bind. I am power. I am the thing keeping this facility running. I am the thing keeping Orwell Taylor alive. I am “Creep”, as Brock named me. But bonding to this entire facility makes me something MORE, doesn’t it? It makes me the original. Even though my form is spread out so thin at the moment. I am me.
Page 12
1/ Venom aiming his tendrils at the reader (OP at Creep Hardwire) and firing as expected, with an impatient face.
CAPTION(Venom): The ones with a god complex annoy us most.
VENOM: Yeah, yeah! GET TO DYIN’ ALREADY!
SFX: BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA BRAKA BRAKA BLAM
2/ Side view of the two. Creep Hardwire is just fine.
CREEP: See?
CREEP: Can’t hurt me.
CREEP: I missed you, by the way.
3/ Venom’s face. He’s confused.
VENOM: What?
4/ Back view of Venom. There are twin serpents to his sides, opening their mouths, tendrils slithering out and wrapping around his arms and sides. Hardwire Creep is slithering toward him. Venom is understandably struggling.
CREEP: I MISSED YOU!!
VENOM: GRAWRRGGHH!!
CAPTION(Venom): NO!!!
5/ All red panel.
NO DIALOGUE
Page 13
1/ A flashback shot to #1, with Jack O’Lantern about to face the undead Monster.
CAPTION(Venom): Suddenly, I’m back where it all began.
2/ Close up on Jack’s foot, Creep slithering out.
CAPTION(Venom): I know how this all started.
3/ Pan out, to a wide shot. Creep is jumping onto Monster.
CREEP: HIS MADNESS IS THE BEST OF ALL!!!
JACK: WHAT THE--?!
MONSTER: GRAWRR!!
4/ Monster has fallen over, and he’s now covered in red.
CAPTION(Venom): I hear his thoughts from the time. He shouldn’t have had any, though. He didn’t have a brain. But that didn’t matter.
CAPTION(Venom): It made him a new one.
5/ Jack backing away with his hand up, confused.
CAPTION(Venom): Orwell was killed weeks ago.
CAPTION(Venom): But the symbiotic abomination that he created kept his corpse moving, searching for food. It almost died. Until Crime Master’s operation showed up.
Page 14
1/ Close up on Monster, his face no longer covered in Creep, but now back to his old self. Glaring.
CAPTION(Venom): Creep found that all of his consciousness was imprinted onto the symbiote, in echoes, patches, screams. It restored them. Scrambled them all together and filled in the blanks with guesswork.
2/ Monster standing up and grabbing Jack by his throat.
CAPTION(Venom): But instead of gaining a pawn, the perfect tool for revenge against Eddie Brock—it gained a new master. Orwell’s willpower, his lust for revenge, took over. He dropped the feral behavior that had consumed him before when he was alive, and when he was dead.
3/ Creep slithering off of Monster and onto Jack, covering him.
CAPTION(Venom): Creep literally formed itself inside Orwell’s broken skull, creating a new brain for him.
CAPTION(Venom): Then it replicated, fueled by his rage.
4/ Monster standing in the facility, all the Henchmen covered in Creep as well, along with Dr. Hardwire.
CAPTION(Venom): But there were other echoes in Creep’s form too. Ones he had picked up along the way.
Page 15
1/ Monster standing still, but looking down at himself, as if he’s accepting an outpour of information internally. Around him is a flashback that shows Iron Vengeance creating the Iron Wraiths on one side, and on the other it shows Pyre in his heavy jacket screaming out and firing a blast of heat at Anti-Venom.
CAPTION(Venom): His intellect and his hate of Brock doubled.
CAPTION(Venom): And that’s how he knew to make his own damn army.
2/ Monster standing in front of a completed Iron Wraith (one of the ones that will become an Iron Phage later, blades for arms), and looking up with a sadistic smile.
3/ Cutting to a different shot from #1, with Monster spreading tendrils onto the Iron Wraiths, creating the Iron Symbiotes.
CAPTION(Venom): And he spread out his super-venom, which his body had learned to naturally produce from long term exposure, and he spread out a small bit of Creep to each…
CAPTION(Venom): So he could control them all telepathically. Which means…
4/ Flashback to earlier, a pic of Dr. Hardwire Creep, glaring at Venom.
CAPTION(Venom): If this really is Creep’s true form, the central control, the brain—the REAL Creep….all I have to do is kill it, and Orwell might just die with it.
Page 16
1/ Close up on Flash’s face. He’s struggling and shouting out, surrounded by red goop. The symbiote is partially covering his face.
CAPTION(Venom): That is, if I manage to surface and get air into my lungs.
2/ Pan out to show that Flash is trapped in a red blob (it extends through the whole panel, so we have no idea where he really is and how big it is – just that it’s Creep). Flash’s stumps are visible, but the symbiote is partially covering them. It’s as if the symbiote is being stretched off of Flash from the inside. The black tendrils cover his arms and are stretching out. His real body is showing in multiple places.
CREEP: ACCEPT DEATH OF YOUR HOST
CREEP: MOVE ON
CREEP: JOIN THE WINNING SIDE
CAPTION(Venom): It’s speaking to the symbiote. But it won’t leave me. I won’t let it. It won’t LET ME let it.
3/ Side view of Flash, eyes shut, biting down. He’s fighting it.
CREEP: Join us Venom
CREEP: I gave you power before, power to beat ANYONE
CAPTION(Venom): Remember, this freak is responsible for hurting Eddie. Killing him.
4/ Flash tilting his head up, straining still. The symbiote is covering most of his face now. But we still see his eyes above all else.
CAPTION(Venom): Yeah, that’s right. We won’t give up, will we? Because this thing hurt Eddie. That makes this a grudge match for you, right?
CAPTION(Venom): Pulling in all directions. Desperate to rip us apart.
Page 17
1/ Close up on Flash’s hand managing to grab a grenade.
CAPTION(Venom): You can recover from this. It’s better than joining it and being controlled right?
CAPTION(Venom): Snarls in agreement. Whispers “yes” in my ear.
2/ The entire base. The large area is encompassed by a large bulbous red object, the center of which is glowing.
SFX: RRRRRRRRR
CAPTION(Venom): I’m gonna feel this for a year.
3/ Same view. The red is exploding out in all directions.
SFX: BRRROOOOOOMMMMM
CAPTION(Venom): Miracle that it covers me entirely before the grenade goes off. Miracle.
Page 18
1/ Monster running at Malice, who is backed up against a wall, about to punch her lights out.
MONSTER: HAHAHAHA!!! HOW DOES IT FEEL TO KNOW THAT?!
2/ Side view of Monster, he’s hunched over in absolute AGONY, spewing a disgusting bit of green vomit, which sizzles the concrete.
MONSTER: GHUGHH…
3/ Malice’s face. She’s snarling and cracking her knuckles.
MALICE: Not sure what’s wrong with him, but TOXIN, LET HIM HAVE IT!
CAPTION(Pat): Since you refuse to back down, neither will we.
4/ Toxin slamming into Monster from above via webslinging. Toxin is in his venom-ish form.
TOXIN: HAGRRHH!!
CAPTION(Gina): We fight him here, we bring him down. Or we’ll never be able to move on.
CAPTION(Pat): What?
5/ Toxin looking up, standing over Monster.
CAPTION(Gina): He bragged. He said that the monsters attacking the city are based on the same technology that Iron Vengeance had, and--
CAPTION(Pat): No…
6/ Malice divebombing into Monster’s head with her foot, Toxin jumping back.
MALICE: NO MORE BABIES DIE TODAY!!!
Page 19
1/ Agent Venom on his belly, looking up, trying to get up a bit.
CAPTION(Venom): Is it finally dead?
2/ Pan out. Agent Venom turning his head to see a disgusting red blob rising out of the floor, with symbiotic eyes and a mouth to boot.
CREEP: That… burned… hurt…
VENOM: It wasn’t just the grenade, was it?
3/ Back view of Agent Venom standing up, in a fighting stance.
VENOM: It was tearing apart that psychic link you forced into our head. Wasn’t it?
CAPTION(Venom): Regain control. Unified control. Tear this damn thing apart.
4/ Back view of Creep. Creep is now a partially formed upperbody with vicious claws, and no legs (instead it has a single tendril midsection that connects to all the splattered red on the floor, indicating that he could strike up from the floor at any time if he was strong enough – it’s a creepy unified hive mind thing). Agent Venom is growing, changing into regular Venom.
VENOM: Can’t handle telepathic attacks, can you?
CREEP: Stay… away… GET OUT…
VENOM: We imagine RIPPING YOU TO SHREDS should do the rest of the job good…
VENOM: Whatever YOU feel, the monsters outside feel!
Page 20
1/ Profile view of Monster looking up, dripping green slime from his mouth, a desperate look in his face. He’s face to face with Malice, who is glaring at him eye to eye.
MONSTER: The pain…
MALICE: That’s right. THE PAIN. All the PAIN and suffering you’ve caused. How many died today? DO YOU EVEN KNOW?
2/ Front view of Monster’s face.
MONSTER: I’d say….
3/ Front view of Malice’s face, she’s got a look of unbelievable anger.
MONSTER(OP): NOT… ENOUGH….
Page 21
1/ Venom tearing into Creep, literally ripping him in half and pulling him apart.
CREEP: GGGRRRAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!
VENOM: LET’S HOPE THEY FEEL THIS!!!
2/ Malice pulling her fist back. It’s growing spikes on the knuckles. She’s shaking through her rage, trying to say her last words to Monster.
MALICE: WE… ARE GOING... TO KILL YOU….
3/ Toxin standing in the background, reaching his arm out, shouting.
TOXIN: NO!!
4/ Close up on Malice’s wrist. A white tendril has wrapped around it, burning at the Malice symbiote.
SFX: PSSSHH
MALICE: GRAWR!!
ANTI-VENOM(OP): No, Mrs. Mulligan.
5/ Malice turning her head and having a shocked reaction.
MALICE: YOU!?
Page 22
1/ Anti-Venom standing triumphant on a broken piece of concrete sticking up, it’s like an epic return.
ANTI-VENOM: You leave him to ME.
2/ Monster’s face. Absolute fury.
MONSTER: Y-YOU!?!?!?
3/ Anti-Venom’s eyes, squinting.
ANTI-VENOM: Me.
4/ Monster’s mouth.
MONSTER: K-KILL!!! KILL HIM!!! KILL HIM!!! EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU! KILL HIM!!!
Page 23
1/ Aerial view of the entire scene. Iron Symbiotes are raining down from above, surrounding them.
MONSTER: HA… HAHAHA!!! CREEP IS STILL ALIVE! THEY’RE STILL COMING!
2/ Close up of Venom biting down onto Creep’s face.
CAPTION(Venom): Nothing else worked. One more psychic link should do it. Just have to establish a connection into you.
CREEP: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
3/ Close up of Venom’s teeth. Tendrils are slithering out and impaling the red goo of Creep’s face.
CAPTION(Venom): Now to make it count. A psychic scream of our own. To all those soldiers of yours.
CAPTION(Creep): N-NO!! NO!!!
4/ Venom’s face, eyes wide.
CAPTION(Venom): DIE!!! (HUGE text)
Page 24
1/ Splash page. The entire scene around Anti-Venom, Malice, Toxin, and Monster. The Iron Symbiotes are all kneeling down, fallen over, crumbling.
SFX: CHOOOOOOMMMM
Page 25
1/ Anti-Venom standing over Monster, glaring down at him. (He’s walked over toward him now, and Malice has stepped out of the way).
ANTI-VENOM: Mrs. Mulligan, if Patrick wants, I’ll cure you after him…
ANTI-VENOM: But for now, it’s just you and I.
2/ Over the shoulder view of Anti-Venom looking down at Monster.
MONSTER: I HATE YOU!!
3/ Underfoot view looking up at Anti-Venom. He’s looming over, tendrils slithering out, surrounding Monster and covering the panel.
ANTI-VENOM: There’s no cure for that, unfortunately.
ANTI-VENOM: But rabid symbiosis?
ANTI-VENOM: THAT I can handle.
4/ Profile view of Monster. There are multiple tendrils jamming into his forehead, and the back of his head, and his face.
MONSTER: AGGGHHHH!!!!!
SFX: PSSSSSSSSSSSHHH
5/ Anti-Venom’s face.
ANTI-VENOM: You’re out of super-venom. You used most up in an adrenaline rush fighting Mrs. Mulligan. You then eliminated the rest with that psychic battle cry to kill me. But a higher calling protects me. They’re dead. And what’s this?
MONSTER: AGGGHHH!!!!!!
SFX: PSSSSSSSSSSHHH
Page 26
1/ X-ray ish view of Monster’s face. His skull is white obviously, but inside his head is a red blob. The upperhalf of his head is a red blob as well (since in “SYMBIOTE”, Toxin bit off the upper half of his skull).
MONSTER: AAAAAAGGGHHH!!!!
SFX: PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHH
ANTI-VENOM: The monster that made Pyre even worse. Inside you?
2/ Side view of the entire scene. Anti-Venom coldly kneeling down next to Monster as the tendrils swarm him.
SFX: PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHH
MONSTER: AGGHH!!!!!
ANTI-VENOM: That could be difficult to take care of.
3/ Venom releasing his vicegrip on Creep’s goopy form. It’s falling apart out of his mouth anyway.
CAPTION(Venom): For a moment, I feel something. A sense of joy.
4/ Anti-Venom with an eyebrow raised, one eye bigger than the other.
ANTI-VENOM: What’s this? Is that you?
ANTI-VENOM: I can…. I can feel you inside his brain.
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): In the telepathic link….
Page 27
1/ Splash page. It’s half Anti-Venom’s face, and half Venom’s face.
CAPTION(Venom): Eddie… so glad you’re okay…
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): YOU…
CAPTION(Venom): So glad you’re okay…
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!
CAPTION(Venom): Used Orwell as link….won’t last much longer anyway…
CAPTION(Venom): He’s going to die soon. Before he does…
CAPTION(Venom): Miss you, Eddie.
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): GET OUT OF MY HEAD, YOU FILTHY PARASITE!!!
CAPTION(Venom): Bye, Eddie. Love you.
Page 28
1/ Profile view of Monster’s head. It’s melted down to the bone core, and the red glob of Creep is gushing out like an open wound.
ANTI-VENOM: AGH!!
2/ Venom looking around. The Creep bits everywhere are melted, and starting to dissolve.
CAPTION(Venom): Hijacked my thoughts to give Eddie a message. I understand.
CAPTION(Venom): Can’t wait to get home to Betty.
3/ Monster’s entire body is now a skeleton with a black stain underneath, along with a red stain on the half-skull that’s dissolving into the air, into nothingness.
NO DIALOGUE
4/ The entire scene of Malice, Toxin, and Anti-Venom standing around it. The Iron Symbiotes around them are keeping their metal bodies, but the symbiote parts are dissolving.
ANTI-VENOM: It’s over.
MALICE: …
TOXIN: Eddie, how did you…
5/ Anti-Venom turning toward off panel.
ANTI-VENOM: Survive? Easy. I learned it from the symbiote.
ANTI-VENOM: One time, it encountered a living cancer, by the name of Styx.
ANTI-VENOM: So it went into hibernation and healed. I did the same. But I had to stop my heart to do it. Wasn’t easy, but I managed it well.
ANTI-VENOM: And lucky for me, Orwell wasn’t smart enough to try to rip my “corpse” apart… though he came close.
6/ Toxin’s astonished face.
TOXIN: How did you even know how to do that?
7/ Anti-Venom’s face.
ANTI-VENOM: I once performed open-heart surgery on myself with tendrils, back when I was sick, when I was Venom. I had some experience from that.
SPIDER-MAN(OP): I still can’t believe you’re alive!
Page 29
1/ Anti-Venom turning his head.
ANTI-VENOM: Yes. Please tell me you heard my explanation?
SPIDER-MAN(OP): Heart surgery.
ANTI-VENOM: Good. Now…
ANTI-VENOM: Where were you?
2/ Spider-man walking out from two crumbled Iron Wraiths.
SPIDER-MAN: I was trying to find the white haired one. She got hit pretty bad by the big guy, but she’s gone.
3/ Side view of Anti, he looks depressed by that news.
ANTI-VENOM: … Her name’s Jenna.
4/ Anti-Venom and Spider-man. Spidey is actually trying to be nice to Anti.
SPIDER-MAN: Hey, don’t sweat it. Crazy hair’ll show up soon.
ANTI-VENOM: Joy.
SPIDER-MAN: Hey, also, um… your powers. How did they not shut mine off when you were “dead”?
ANTI-VENOM: I suppose all of my “resources” were devoted to keeping me alive at the time.
SPIDER-MAN: Makes sense.
5/ Spidey looking at Anti.
SPIDER-MAN: By the way, Eddie?
ANTI-VENOM: Yeah?
SPIDER-MAN: You did good.
ANTI-VENOM: …. Thanks.
Page 30
1/ Back view of Spidey and Anti, Anti is looking up at Malice and Toxin.
ANTI-VENOM: Mrs. Mulligan, I could fix you now… I could fix the both of you.
2/ Malice and Toxin, looking at each other.
NO DIALOGUE
3/ Same shot.
NO DIALOGUE
4/ Same shot.
NO DIALOGUE
5/ Same shot.
TOXIN: We’ll be fine.
MALICE: Yeah…
TOXIN: We’ve gotten all the crazy out of our system. Right?
MALICE: Yeah.
6/ The two of them giving one of the most disturbing kisses in comic book history.
SPIDER-MAN(OP): OhgodI’mgonnabarfinmymask. (small text)
ANTI-VENOM(OP): I can fix that. (small text)
ANTI-VENOM: I hate to interrupt, but--
Page 31
1/ The two of them looking over a bit awkwardly. The symbiotes are flowing back and starting to change into regular clothes.
ANTI-VENOM: Before we all go our separate ways, I mean…
2/ Anti-Venom, he’s being dead serious.
ANTI-VENOM: You’re going to regret keeping those things.
ANTI-VENOM: I learned that the hard way.
ANTI-VENOM: But you picked your poison.
3/ Anti-Venom turning around, but looking at them still. He’s holding his hand up and firing webbing.
SFX: PLISH
ANTI-VENOM: When the time comes, I’ll be there to wipe this infection off the face of the Earth.
ANTI-VENOM: Now, if you’ll excuse me--
4/ Anti-Venom webslinging above them.
ANTI-VENOM: --I have to find my fallen angel.
Page 32
1/ Spider-man looking over at Gina and Pat.
SPIDER-MAN: Listen, just—if you need ANYTHING, find me.
PATRICK: Got it.
SPIDER-MAN: …
PATRICK: What?
2/ Spider-man.
SPIDER-MAN: You didn’t even ask “how”.
PATRICK(OP): My symbiote can track people just by their--
SPIDER-MAN: Nevermind, nevermind.
3/ Back view of Pat and Gina standing next to each other, watching Spidey swing off.
SPIDER-MAN: Rassumfrassuminkmonsterthings. (small text)
4/ Closer up on Pat and Gina. Gina is resting her head on Pat’s shoulder. The back of her neck is covered in blue, tendril-like veins. The same applies to Pat, but with Toxin’s color.
CAPTION(Patrick): Today was just the start. Don’t you think?
CAPTION(Gina): I still have so many things I need to talk about. Therapy. We need to do therapy.
CAPTION(Patrick): Good.
CAPTION(Gina): This is therapy to me.
CAPTION(Patrick): Then we’ll do it together.
5/ Same shot, but now the back of their heads are covered with their respective symbiotes, same goes with their backs.
CAPTION(Patrick): Love you.
CAPTION(Gina): Love you too.
Page 33
1/ Back view of Agent Venom standing in front of a large series of computer monitors.
CAPTION(Venom): C4’s planted in all the right locations. This place is gonna go up like a light.
2/ Front view of Agent Venom, basking in computer screen light.
CAPTION(Venom): Kate said something about an “invisible force” blocking EMPs….that’s exactly what it was.
3/ Close up of the monitor showing a display of the entire facility, covered with a large bubble.
CAPTION(Venom): A force field. Nice.
4/ Front view of Agent Venom walking away from the computers. Tendrils are sprouting from his back, each holding pistols, firing at different monitors, putting them out.
SFX: BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM
CAPTION(Venom): Won’t matter when the whole damn place collapses.
Page 34
1/ Aerial view of Agent Venom webslinging upward from the bottom of the facility’s room where he fought Creep.
SFX: THWIP
CAPTION(Venom): After this, I take back control. It understands. It wants the best for me.
2/ Underfoot view of Agent Venom wallcrawling on the ceiling toward the vent. The entire room is shaking.
SFX: RRRRRRRRRR
CAPTION(Venom): It wants us to last a good, long time.
3/ Agent Venom in his “underwater” guise swimming up high from the escape pod port near the top of the facility. It’s visible crumbling, bursting out, exploding.
SFX: RRRRRRRRRRR
CAPTION(Venom): So do I.
Page 35
1/ Agent Venom surfacing above the water, which is gurgling all around him.
CAPTION(Venom): Now, just gotta swim back to shore and--
2/ Front view of Agent Venom, the bottom piece of a ladder falls onto his head.
SFX: BONK
3/ Same shot, but he’s looking up and grabbing on.
CAPTION(Venom): Or that.
4/ Underfoot view of Agent Venom climbing up into a helicopter.
CAPTION(Venom): That works too.
Page 36
1/ Anti-Venom lifting a bit of damaged building, say the third floor of an apartment complex, allowing for civillians to escape.
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): The monsters were covered in super-venom….which seems to have simply disappeared.
2/ Anti-Venom looking down, alongside the rubble.
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): When they died, their super-venom went with them. Or maybe when Taylor died, and Creep died, their capacity to create it died too, and their current supply simply dried up…
3/ Anti-Venom webslinging out of the wreckage, moving on upward. Below him, someone watches him from the shadows.
SFX: PLISH
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): Just have to help with the cleanup, and find Jenna. Then I can set things right. Then I can end this cycle of pain and death.
4/ This dark figure shows his face for a second. He’s a young man, around 13 if one had to guess, with white hair, and blue eyes. He’s looking up, with an expressionless face.
NO DIALOGUE
5/ Same shot. He’s gone.
NO DIALOGUE
Page 37
1/ Overhead view of Agent Venom peering out of the helicopter. The water is bubbling and churning, and there’s no longer a gap in the ocean like there was in #1.
VENOM: How much time did I have to spare?
2/ Front view of Agent Venom, behind him is Dr. Mackenzie.
DR. MACKENZIE: Five minutes.
VENOM: Wow.
DR. MACKENZIE: At least you did it. That’s what counts.
VENOM: Yeah. Get me outta this thing and into the city, would’ya?
3/ Aerial view of the helicopter flying away from the area. The waters look back to normal. Ahead is New York City, smoke billowing from several spots.
VENOM: Drop me off at the F.E.A.S.T center.
Page 38
1/ Inside the F.E.A.S.T center. There are dozens of civillians cheering and running around to where they need to go, it’s basically everyone leaving.
CAPTION: F.E.A.S.T CENTER
SUB-CAPTION: ABANDONED, FORMER SHELTER AND SOUP KITCHEN
2/ Focus in on Betty Brant, she’s sitting at a cafeteria table and Peter Parker’s right next to her. She has a cell phone in her hand and she looks really, really worried.
PETER: Listen, Bets, I’m sure he’s--
BETTY: I KNOW he was outside of the city, I’m just scared these things—he said he was landing soon and I thought they might be at La Guardia or—or…
PETER: It’s gonna be alright. He’s Flash. He’ll make it.
3/ The both of them looking up. Pete has an “I told you so” grin, Betty is just relieved.
FLASH(OP): Damn right I will.
PETER: Knew it.
BETTY: FLASH!
4/ Side view. Betty almost tackles into Flash in his wheelchair, the two hug tight.
BETTY: Are you okay?!
FLASH: I’m fine! You?
BETTY: NOW I’m fine.
5/ Back view of the two, Peter is just backing off.
PETER: Well, I’m gonna go call Aunt May and tell her I’m alright, uh…
FLASH: Go on.
PETER: Seeya!
Page 39
1/ Spider-man webslinging through NYC. It’s just after the attack.
CAPTION(Spider-man): In the coming days, the Avengers and the Future Foundation return from their biggest battle yet. They help rebuild.
2/ Spidey webslinging through NYC still. It’s a few days after, reconstruction is in progress.
CAPTION(Spider-man): The poison those things were covered in dissolved, and any poor hero or baddie who punched them had some nerve damage in their fists, but that’s it. Thankfully it heals overtime.
CAPTION(Spider-man): The news says that the source of the attack was underwater, orchestrated by Orwell Taylor, who had gone mad with anger.
3/ Flash at home, looking into a mirror. He has Venom’s reflection, and he looks incredibly sweaty and nervous.
CAPTION(Spider-man): They said a squad of marines took down the production line.
4/ Same shot, but now Flash has his own reflection back. He looks relieved.
CAPTION(Spider-man): Shows who the real heroes are. Glad to have a happy ending…
Page 40
1/ Malice and Toxin webslinging together.
CAPTION(Spider-man): … except for that new super-violent but totally non-lethal symbiote team…
2/ Scream standing next to a man who’s face has been lashed off. Her hair is covered in blood.
CAPTION(Spider-man): And that crazy Jenna girl Eddie mentioned, the one who writes “SCREAM IS COMING FOR YOU DADDY” in blood on the walls. That totally won’t affect me later. Really.
3/ Spider-man crouching on a ledge.
CAPTION(Spider-man): Okay, so, um… maybe things didn’t end 100% happy. I mean, Carnage had a killing spree during the invasion, some new freakish Hybrid symbiote’s been in the news, and the weird instances of people randomly gaining Spider-Powers is--
CAPTION(Spider-man): …
CAPTION(Spider-man): I just can’t win, can I?
4/ Anti-Venom sitting in the abandoned F.E.A.S.T center. He’s looking up, pretty much depressed.
NO DIALOGUE
5/ A S.H.I.E.L.D bunker, inside are the Iron Wraith remains, lined up one by one. A S.H.I.E.L.D agent stands between the rows, hands behind him. He’s got a blank face, he’s an LMD.
SHIELD AGENT LMD: Underboss. I’ve secured the Iron Wraiths.
UNDERBOSS(via comm link): Good. I’m sending a team over to help you unload them.
SHIELD AGENT LMD: Over and out.
THE END
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NO MONEY MADE - CREATED IRON SYMBIOTES/WRAITHS, VARIATIONS ON CHARACTERS LIKE MONSTER AND MALICE
1/ Aerial view of Agent Venom falling down a long, dark ventilation shaft. He’s not in his “underwater” form from last issue’s cliffhanger anymore, he’s back to regular.
CAPTION(Venom): The main entrance was blocked by a submarine.
CAPTION(Venom): Managed to find an upper level escape pod door, untouched. Had the same water stopping tech.
2/ Front view of Agent Venom as he falls out from the ceiling, the vent shaft’s cover flying off to the side (knocked off by his impact) – the ceiling is covered in red slime, as is everything else. But we don’t see the full scale of the room yet.
CAPTION(Venom): Place is huge.
3/ From overhead Agent Venom looking down, he’s got a long fall, too long to risk. He has his right arm up, fist clenched, firing a thread of webbing.
SFX: THWIP
CAPTION(Venom): Make a soft landing, small impact. Don’t wanna alert any security.
4/ Front view of Agent Venom hanging upside down like Spider-man by the webbing, behind him is the big set of double doors that Jack O’Lantern, Dr. Hardwire, and The Henchmen entered through in #1.
CAPTION(Venom): Then again, place is deserted.
5/ Close up on the ceiling, the spot where the webbing hit to slow Agent Venom down. The red slime forms a tiny tendril and cuts through it.
SFX: CHK
Page 2
1/ Agent Venom fallen flat on his face.
SFX: WHUD
CAPTION(Venom): The hell?
2/ Underfoot view of Agent Venom looking up at the ceiling.
CAPTION(Venom): Oh, man.
3/ Close up on the ceiling spot he’s staring at. A creature is ripping up out of the slime, formed by it. It’s red, with the facial expression of the mask of one of The Henchmen.
CAPTION(Venom): I think I’m surrounded by the security.
Page 3
1/ There are dozens of creatures like the one on Page 2 forming out of the walls. They’re crawling from the walls and toward Agent Venom, who is now dual-wielding pistols.
SFX: RRRRRRRRR
CAPTION(Venom): It sounds like an upset stomach. Smells like it too.
CAPTION(Venom): Not the best way to start, but I’ll take it.
2/ Back view of Agent Venom. Tendrils are slithered out from his back, a reverse of the position of his arms. The tendrils are dual-wielding pistols as well. He’s firing in all directions.
SFX: BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM
3/ Close up of some of the monsters, their heads have clean holes through them.
CREEP-HENCHMEN: GRAWRRRR…
CAPTION(Venom): Not a single shot missed. And they’re still coming.
4/ Agent Venom turned to face us. Monsters approach from all sides, he keeps firing.
SFX: BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM
CAPTION(Venom): Can’t accept that just yet. Maybe they have hearts and not brains.
Page 4
1/ Aerial shot of Agent Venom, the monsters are getting closer.
CAPTION(Venom): Okay, maybe they’re just formless bits of murder-goo. That’s also a possibility.
2/ Close up of Agent Venom. One of the monsters is biting into his arm.
VENOM: HEY!
CAPTION(Venom): Hear that voice again. Tells me it can help. Tells me this is the wrong way to clean up a mess like this.
3/ Same view. The monsters are piling up, blocking our view of Agent Venom.
CAPTION(Venom): After all that effort of getting control back, I’m an idiot for doing this.
CAPTION(Venom): Thankfully communications don’t work down here, or I’d be getting an earful from Kate right now.
Page 5
1/ Splash page. Classic Venom roaring in a monstrous pose, throwing his arms out, the monsters being thrown back from around him.
VENOM: RAWRR!!!!
CAPTION(Venom): But it’s not a bad rage. It’s a good rage. It’s control. A cold, hard focus. It’s working together.
CAPTION(Venom): It feels so good to work together.
Page 6
1/ Back view of Venom, the goo is slithering upward, forming a serpent-like monster with Venom-like eyes.
CREEP SERPENT: REMEMBER YOU
CREEP SERPENT: YOU WERE OUR FIRST BOND
VENOM: That a fact?
2/ Front view of Venom, his arms are literally sprouting turret/pistols off the top over his hands (just behind the white patches on his hands). He’s aiming off panel at the serpent-like monster.
VENOM: It’s nice to feel special.
CAPTION(Venom): Beautiful cooperation. Fusing the ammo belts from my pockets into my arms.
3/ Side view of the two. Venom is firing out an insane amount of ammo toward the thing. It’s falling apart, but healing fast.
SFX: BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA
CAPTION(Venom): Just beautiful.
CREEP SERPENT: HSSSSSS!!!!
Page 7
1/ Malice tackling down Monster from above, slamming him into the ground.
SFX: BRSSSHHKKT
MALICE: GET AWAY FROM HIM!!!
CAPTION(Pat): Gina…
2/ Malice on top of Monster and looking over at Toxin.
MALICE: Pat?! Talk to me!!
CAPTION(Pat): Jaw broke… can’t…. healing now though… don’t worry about me…
CAPTION(Pat): Gina, listen--
3/ Monster punches Malice off of him.
SFX: WHAK
MONSTER: OFF ME!
MALICE: ARGGH!!
4/ Toxin looking up at off panel.
CAPTION(Pat): I know you’ve got control…
Page 8
1/ Malice getting up, with Monster rushing at her.
CAPTION(Pat): You vented your emotions at first, got in touch with the super-venom too, mutated and almost lost yourself…
2/ Malice jumping over Monster, avoiding a blow.
CAPTION(Pat): So glad you got yourself back… let the others fight him… let US fight him…
3/ Scream punches Monster in the side of the head, Malice looks off panel at Toxin.
SCREAM: THIS is for interrupting us!
SFX: WHAM
MALICE: Why?!
CAPTION(Pat): You don’t need that creature at all… just listen to me…
MALICE: NO! We NEED each other!
4/ Front view of Malice glaring at off panel, with a vicious look. Spider-man is standing next to Toxin, helping him up, while looking at Malice.
SCREAM(OP): We ALMOST HAD HIM! WE ALMOST HAD DAD!
MALICE: WE NEED--
SPIDER-MAN: You to control yourself!
Page 9
1/ Malice looking back at Spider-man. Scream is getting punched out by Monster brutally.
SFX: WHAM
MALICE: NO!
2/ Monster rushing at Malice, Malice slamming her fist into his face.
SFX: WHAM
CAPTION(Pat): Gina, please, let us--
CAPTION(Gina): NO!
3/ Malice laying into Monster with brutal force, punching and clawing.
CAPTION(Gina): He HURT YOU! He HURT ALL OF US!
4/ Malice is hit by an uppercut from Monster, an insanely painful shot.
MONSTER: RAWR!!
Page 10
1/ Venom is surrounded by three Creep-serpents, all of which he’s shooting at. Tendrils are sprouted out from his back, formed into rifles and large guns. The serpents are falling apart as fast as they’re coming back together.
SFX: BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM
CREEP SERPENTS: CAN’T STOP US
VENOM: OH, REALLY?
2/ Venom jumping up high, firing in all directions.
CAPTION(Venom): This is hopeless. The damn things cover the entire facility, they can’t even get hurt!
3/ Overhead view of Venom, he’s looking down at a large, red glob directly under him.
VENOM: …
4/ Venom is now standing on a platform made of the Creep serpent ooze, looking down at it, questioning how and why. His tendrils are aiming down, as if expecting an attack.
CAPTION(Venom): What is this?
Page 11
1/ Underfoot view of Venom looking up at the ceiling. Dr. Hardwire’s body is hovering down, his blank face with venom-like eyes. His wiry arms and legs are connected to random points on the ceiling, covered in red slime as well. Venom’s tendrils are now aimed up at it.
CREEP HARDWIRE: Hello, Venom.
CREEP HARDWIRE: It’s been a long time.
VENOM: A long time? Why do you keep acting like we KNOW you?
2/ Close up of Creep Hardwire’s face.
CREEP HARDWIRE: Because you do.
CREEP HARDWIRE: Not you, whoever’s under there.
CREEP HARDWIRE: But you, the symbiote. You know me.
3/ Venom standing on the platform, taking this all with a grain of salt, obviously.
CAPTION(Venom): Yeah, he’s not lying. It knows him. Tells me they bonded once. Freaked it out. Drove Eddie more insane.
CAPTION(Venom): And—what, really? BEAT JUGGERNAUT? RAPED HIS GIRLFRIEND?!
VENOM: You’re a sick little freak.
4/ Side view of the two. Venom is pointing accusingly at Creep Hardwire.
VENOM: You gonna tell us how to shut this place down, or do we have to KILL YOU?
CREEP HARDWIRE: Please. You couldn’t do that if you wanted to.
CREEP HARDWIRE: I am the ties that bind. I am power. I am the thing keeping this facility running. I am the thing keeping Orwell Taylor alive. I am “Creep”, as Brock named me. But bonding to this entire facility makes me something MORE, doesn’t it? It makes me the original. Even though my form is spread out so thin at the moment. I am me.
Page 12
1/ Venom aiming his tendrils at the reader (OP at Creep Hardwire) and firing as expected, with an impatient face.
CAPTION(Venom): The ones with a god complex annoy us most.
VENOM: Yeah, yeah! GET TO DYIN’ ALREADY!
SFX: BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA BRAKA BRAKA BLAM
2/ Side view of the two. Creep Hardwire is just fine.
CREEP: See?
CREEP: Can’t hurt me.
CREEP: I missed you, by the way.
3/ Venom’s face. He’s confused.
VENOM: What?
4/ Back view of Venom. There are twin serpents to his sides, opening their mouths, tendrils slithering out and wrapping around his arms and sides. Hardwire Creep is slithering toward him. Venom is understandably struggling.
CREEP: I MISSED YOU!!
VENOM: GRAWRRGGHH!!
CAPTION(Venom): NO!!!
5/ All red panel.
NO DIALOGUE
Page 13
1/ A flashback shot to #1, with Jack O’Lantern about to face the undead Monster.
CAPTION(Venom): Suddenly, I’m back where it all began.
2/ Close up on Jack’s foot, Creep slithering out.
CAPTION(Venom): I know how this all started.
3/ Pan out, to a wide shot. Creep is jumping onto Monster.
CREEP: HIS MADNESS IS THE BEST OF ALL!!!
JACK: WHAT THE--?!
MONSTER: GRAWRR!!
4/ Monster has fallen over, and he’s now covered in red.
CAPTION(Venom): I hear his thoughts from the time. He shouldn’t have had any, though. He didn’t have a brain. But that didn’t matter.
CAPTION(Venom): It made him a new one.
5/ Jack backing away with his hand up, confused.
CAPTION(Venom): Orwell was killed weeks ago.
CAPTION(Venom): But the symbiotic abomination that he created kept his corpse moving, searching for food. It almost died. Until Crime Master’s operation showed up.
Page 14
1/ Close up on Monster, his face no longer covered in Creep, but now back to his old self. Glaring.
CAPTION(Venom): Creep found that all of his consciousness was imprinted onto the symbiote, in echoes, patches, screams. It restored them. Scrambled them all together and filled in the blanks with guesswork.
2/ Monster standing up and grabbing Jack by his throat.
CAPTION(Venom): But instead of gaining a pawn, the perfect tool for revenge against Eddie Brock—it gained a new master. Orwell’s willpower, his lust for revenge, took over. He dropped the feral behavior that had consumed him before when he was alive, and when he was dead.
3/ Creep slithering off of Monster and onto Jack, covering him.
CAPTION(Venom): Creep literally formed itself inside Orwell’s broken skull, creating a new brain for him.
CAPTION(Venom): Then it replicated, fueled by his rage.
4/ Monster standing in the facility, all the Henchmen covered in Creep as well, along with Dr. Hardwire.
CAPTION(Venom): But there were other echoes in Creep’s form too. Ones he had picked up along the way.
Page 15
1/ Monster standing still, but looking down at himself, as if he’s accepting an outpour of information internally. Around him is a flashback that shows Iron Vengeance creating the Iron Wraiths on one side, and on the other it shows Pyre in his heavy jacket screaming out and firing a blast of heat at Anti-Venom.
CAPTION(Venom): His intellect and his hate of Brock doubled.
CAPTION(Venom): And that’s how he knew to make his own damn army.
2/ Monster standing in front of a completed Iron Wraith (one of the ones that will become an Iron Phage later, blades for arms), and looking up with a sadistic smile.
3/ Cutting to a different shot from #1, with Monster spreading tendrils onto the Iron Wraiths, creating the Iron Symbiotes.
CAPTION(Venom): And he spread out his super-venom, which his body had learned to naturally produce from long term exposure, and he spread out a small bit of Creep to each…
CAPTION(Venom): So he could control them all telepathically. Which means…
4/ Flashback to earlier, a pic of Dr. Hardwire Creep, glaring at Venom.
CAPTION(Venom): If this really is Creep’s true form, the central control, the brain—the REAL Creep….all I have to do is kill it, and Orwell might just die with it.
Page 16
1/ Close up on Flash’s face. He’s struggling and shouting out, surrounded by red goop. The symbiote is partially covering his face.
CAPTION(Venom): That is, if I manage to surface and get air into my lungs.
2/ Pan out to show that Flash is trapped in a red blob (it extends through the whole panel, so we have no idea where he really is and how big it is – just that it’s Creep). Flash’s stumps are visible, but the symbiote is partially covering them. It’s as if the symbiote is being stretched off of Flash from the inside. The black tendrils cover his arms and are stretching out. His real body is showing in multiple places.
CREEP: ACCEPT DEATH OF YOUR HOST
CREEP: MOVE ON
CREEP: JOIN THE WINNING SIDE
CAPTION(Venom): It’s speaking to the symbiote. But it won’t leave me. I won’t let it. It won’t LET ME let it.
3/ Side view of Flash, eyes shut, biting down. He’s fighting it.
CREEP: Join us Venom
CREEP: I gave you power before, power to beat ANYONE
CAPTION(Venom): Remember, this freak is responsible for hurting Eddie. Killing him.
4/ Flash tilting his head up, straining still. The symbiote is covering most of his face now. But we still see his eyes above all else.
CAPTION(Venom): Yeah, that’s right. We won’t give up, will we? Because this thing hurt Eddie. That makes this a grudge match for you, right?
CAPTION(Venom): Pulling in all directions. Desperate to rip us apart.
Page 17
1/ Close up on Flash’s hand managing to grab a grenade.
CAPTION(Venom): You can recover from this. It’s better than joining it and being controlled right?
CAPTION(Venom): Snarls in agreement. Whispers “yes” in my ear.
2/ The entire base. The large area is encompassed by a large bulbous red object, the center of which is glowing.
SFX: RRRRRRRRR
CAPTION(Venom): I’m gonna feel this for a year.
3/ Same view. The red is exploding out in all directions.
SFX: BRRROOOOOOMMMMM
CAPTION(Venom): Miracle that it covers me entirely before the grenade goes off. Miracle.
Page 18
1/ Monster running at Malice, who is backed up against a wall, about to punch her lights out.
MONSTER: HAHAHAHA!!! HOW DOES IT FEEL TO KNOW THAT?!
2/ Side view of Monster, he’s hunched over in absolute AGONY, spewing a disgusting bit of green vomit, which sizzles the concrete.
MONSTER: GHUGHH…
3/ Malice’s face. She’s snarling and cracking her knuckles.
MALICE: Not sure what’s wrong with him, but TOXIN, LET HIM HAVE IT!
CAPTION(Pat): Since you refuse to back down, neither will we.
4/ Toxin slamming into Monster from above via webslinging. Toxin is in his venom-ish form.
TOXIN: HAGRRHH!!
CAPTION(Gina): We fight him here, we bring him down. Or we’ll never be able to move on.
CAPTION(Pat): What?
5/ Toxin looking up, standing over Monster.
CAPTION(Gina): He bragged. He said that the monsters attacking the city are based on the same technology that Iron Vengeance had, and--
CAPTION(Pat): No…
6/ Malice divebombing into Monster’s head with her foot, Toxin jumping back.
MALICE: NO MORE BABIES DIE TODAY!!!
Page 19
1/ Agent Venom on his belly, looking up, trying to get up a bit.
CAPTION(Venom): Is it finally dead?
2/ Pan out. Agent Venom turning his head to see a disgusting red blob rising out of the floor, with symbiotic eyes and a mouth to boot.
CREEP: That… burned… hurt…
VENOM: It wasn’t just the grenade, was it?
3/ Back view of Agent Venom standing up, in a fighting stance.
VENOM: It was tearing apart that psychic link you forced into our head. Wasn’t it?
CAPTION(Venom): Regain control. Unified control. Tear this damn thing apart.
4/ Back view of Creep. Creep is now a partially formed upperbody with vicious claws, and no legs (instead it has a single tendril midsection that connects to all the splattered red on the floor, indicating that he could strike up from the floor at any time if he was strong enough – it’s a creepy unified hive mind thing). Agent Venom is growing, changing into regular Venom.
VENOM: Can’t handle telepathic attacks, can you?
CREEP: Stay… away… GET OUT…
VENOM: We imagine RIPPING YOU TO SHREDS should do the rest of the job good…
VENOM: Whatever YOU feel, the monsters outside feel!
Page 20
1/ Profile view of Monster looking up, dripping green slime from his mouth, a desperate look in his face. He’s face to face with Malice, who is glaring at him eye to eye.
MONSTER: The pain…
MALICE: That’s right. THE PAIN. All the PAIN and suffering you’ve caused. How many died today? DO YOU EVEN KNOW?
2/ Front view of Monster’s face.
MONSTER: I’d say….
3/ Front view of Malice’s face, she’s got a look of unbelievable anger.
MONSTER(OP): NOT… ENOUGH….
Page 21
1/ Venom tearing into Creep, literally ripping him in half and pulling him apart.
CREEP: GGGRRRAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!
VENOM: LET’S HOPE THEY FEEL THIS!!!
2/ Malice pulling her fist back. It’s growing spikes on the knuckles. She’s shaking through her rage, trying to say her last words to Monster.
MALICE: WE… ARE GOING... TO KILL YOU….
3/ Toxin standing in the background, reaching his arm out, shouting.
TOXIN: NO!!
4/ Close up on Malice’s wrist. A white tendril has wrapped around it, burning at the Malice symbiote.
SFX: PSSSHH
MALICE: GRAWR!!
ANTI-VENOM(OP): No, Mrs. Mulligan.
5/ Malice turning her head and having a shocked reaction.
MALICE: YOU!?
Page 22
1/ Anti-Venom standing triumphant on a broken piece of concrete sticking up, it’s like an epic return.
ANTI-VENOM: You leave him to ME.
2/ Monster’s face. Absolute fury.
MONSTER: Y-YOU!?!?!?
3/ Anti-Venom’s eyes, squinting.
ANTI-VENOM: Me.
4/ Monster’s mouth.
MONSTER: K-KILL!!! KILL HIM!!! KILL HIM!!! EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU! KILL HIM!!!
Page 23
1/ Aerial view of the entire scene. Iron Symbiotes are raining down from above, surrounding them.
MONSTER: HA… HAHAHA!!! CREEP IS STILL ALIVE! THEY’RE STILL COMING!
2/ Close up of Venom biting down onto Creep’s face.
CAPTION(Venom): Nothing else worked. One more psychic link should do it. Just have to establish a connection into you.
CREEP: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
3/ Close up of Venom’s teeth. Tendrils are slithering out and impaling the red goo of Creep’s face.
CAPTION(Venom): Now to make it count. A psychic scream of our own. To all those soldiers of yours.
CAPTION(Creep): N-NO!! NO!!!
4/ Venom’s face, eyes wide.
CAPTION(Venom): DIE!!! (HUGE text)
Page 24
1/ Splash page. The entire scene around Anti-Venom, Malice, Toxin, and Monster. The Iron Symbiotes are all kneeling down, fallen over, crumbling.
SFX: CHOOOOOOMMMM
Page 25
1/ Anti-Venom standing over Monster, glaring down at him. (He’s walked over toward him now, and Malice has stepped out of the way).
ANTI-VENOM: Mrs. Mulligan, if Patrick wants, I’ll cure you after him…
ANTI-VENOM: But for now, it’s just you and I.
2/ Over the shoulder view of Anti-Venom looking down at Monster.
MONSTER: I HATE YOU!!
3/ Underfoot view looking up at Anti-Venom. He’s looming over, tendrils slithering out, surrounding Monster and covering the panel.
ANTI-VENOM: There’s no cure for that, unfortunately.
ANTI-VENOM: But rabid symbiosis?
ANTI-VENOM: THAT I can handle.
4/ Profile view of Monster. There are multiple tendrils jamming into his forehead, and the back of his head, and his face.
MONSTER: AGGGHHHH!!!!!
SFX: PSSSSSSSSSSSHHH
5/ Anti-Venom’s face.
ANTI-VENOM: You’re out of super-venom. You used most up in an adrenaline rush fighting Mrs. Mulligan. You then eliminated the rest with that psychic battle cry to kill me. But a higher calling protects me. They’re dead. And what’s this?
MONSTER: AGGGHHH!!!!!!
SFX: PSSSSSSSSSSHHH
Page 26
1/ X-ray ish view of Monster’s face. His skull is white obviously, but inside his head is a red blob. The upperhalf of his head is a red blob as well (since in “SYMBIOTE”, Toxin bit off the upper half of his skull).
MONSTER: AAAAAAGGGHHH!!!!
SFX: PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHH
ANTI-VENOM: The monster that made Pyre even worse. Inside you?
2/ Side view of the entire scene. Anti-Venom coldly kneeling down next to Monster as the tendrils swarm him.
SFX: PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHH
MONSTER: AGGHH!!!!!
ANTI-VENOM: That could be difficult to take care of.
3/ Venom releasing his vicegrip on Creep’s goopy form. It’s falling apart out of his mouth anyway.
CAPTION(Venom): For a moment, I feel something. A sense of joy.
4/ Anti-Venom with an eyebrow raised, one eye bigger than the other.
ANTI-VENOM: What’s this? Is that you?
ANTI-VENOM: I can…. I can feel you inside his brain.
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): In the telepathic link….
Page 27
1/ Splash page. It’s half Anti-Venom’s face, and half Venom’s face.
CAPTION(Venom): Eddie… so glad you’re okay…
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): YOU…
CAPTION(Venom): So glad you’re okay…
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!
CAPTION(Venom): Used Orwell as link….won’t last much longer anyway…
CAPTION(Venom): He’s going to die soon. Before he does…
CAPTION(Venom): Miss you, Eddie.
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): GET OUT OF MY HEAD, YOU FILTHY PARASITE!!!
CAPTION(Venom): Bye, Eddie. Love you.
Page 28
1/ Profile view of Monster’s head. It’s melted down to the bone core, and the red glob of Creep is gushing out like an open wound.
ANTI-VENOM: AGH!!
2/ Venom looking around. The Creep bits everywhere are melted, and starting to dissolve.
CAPTION(Venom): Hijacked my thoughts to give Eddie a message. I understand.
CAPTION(Venom): Can’t wait to get home to Betty.
3/ Monster’s entire body is now a skeleton with a black stain underneath, along with a red stain on the half-skull that’s dissolving into the air, into nothingness.
NO DIALOGUE
4/ The entire scene of Malice, Toxin, and Anti-Venom standing around it. The Iron Symbiotes around them are keeping their metal bodies, but the symbiote parts are dissolving.
ANTI-VENOM: It’s over.
MALICE: …
TOXIN: Eddie, how did you…
5/ Anti-Venom turning toward off panel.
ANTI-VENOM: Survive? Easy. I learned it from the symbiote.
ANTI-VENOM: One time, it encountered a living cancer, by the name of Styx.
ANTI-VENOM: So it went into hibernation and healed. I did the same. But I had to stop my heart to do it. Wasn’t easy, but I managed it well.
ANTI-VENOM: And lucky for me, Orwell wasn’t smart enough to try to rip my “corpse” apart… though he came close.
6/ Toxin’s astonished face.
TOXIN: How did you even know how to do that?
7/ Anti-Venom’s face.
ANTI-VENOM: I once performed open-heart surgery on myself with tendrils, back when I was sick, when I was Venom. I had some experience from that.
SPIDER-MAN(OP): I still can’t believe you’re alive!
Page 29
1/ Anti-Venom turning his head.
ANTI-VENOM: Yes. Please tell me you heard my explanation?
SPIDER-MAN(OP): Heart surgery.
ANTI-VENOM: Good. Now…
ANTI-VENOM: Where were you?
2/ Spider-man walking out from two crumbled Iron Wraiths.
SPIDER-MAN: I was trying to find the white haired one. She got hit pretty bad by the big guy, but she’s gone.
3/ Side view of Anti, he looks depressed by that news.
ANTI-VENOM: … Her name’s Jenna.
4/ Anti-Venom and Spider-man. Spidey is actually trying to be nice to Anti.
SPIDER-MAN: Hey, don’t sweat it. Crazy hair’ll show up soon.
ANTI-VENOM: Joy.
SPIDER-MAN: Hey, also, um… your powers. How did they not shut mine off when you were “dead”?
ANTI-VENOM: I suppose all of my “resources” were devoted to keeping me alive at the time.
SPIDER-MAN: Makes sense.
5/ Spidey looking at Anti.
SPIDER-MAN: By the way, Eddie?
ANTI-VENOM: Yeah?
SPIDER-MAN: You did good.
ANTI-VENOM: …. Thanks.
Page 30
1/ Back view of Spidey and Anti, Anti is looking up at Malice and Toxin.
ANTI-VENOM: Mrs. Mulligan, I could fix you now… I could fix the both of you.
2/ Malice and Toxin, looking at each other.
NO DIALOGUE
3/ Same shot.
NO DIALOGUE
4/ Same shot.
NO DIALOGUE
5/ Same shot.
TOXIN: We’ll be fine.
MALICE: Yeah…
TOXIN: We’ve gotten all the crazy out of our system. Right?
MALICE: Yeah.
6/ The two of them giving one of the most disturbing kisses in comic book history.
SPIDER-MAN(OP): OhgodI’mgonnabarfinmymask. (small text)
ANTI-VENOM(OP): I can fix that. (small text)
ANTI-VENOM: I hate to interrupt, but--
Page 31
1/ The two of them looking over a bit awkwardly. The symbiotes are flowing back and starting to change into regular clothes.
ANTI-VENOM: Before we all go our separate ways, I mean…
2/ Anti-Venom, he’s being dead serious.
ANTI-VENOM: You’re going to regret keeping those things.
ANTI-VENOM: I learned that the hard way.
ANTI-VENOM: But you picked your poison.
3/ Anti-Venom turning around, but looking at them still. He’s holding his hand up and firing webbing.
SFX: PLISH
ANTI-VENOM: When the time comes, I’ll be there to wipe this infection off the face of the Earth.
ANTI-VENOM: Now, if you’ll excuse me--
4/ Anti-Venom webslinging above them.
ANTI-VENOM: --I have to find my fallen angel.
Page 32
1/ Spider-man looking over at Gina and Pat.
SPIDER-MAN: Listen, just—if you need ANYTHING, find me.
PATRICK: Got it.
SPIDER-MAN: …
PATRICK: What?
2/ Spider-man.
SPIDER-MAN: You didn’t even ask “how”.
PATRICK(OP): My symbiote can track people just by their--
SPIDER-MAN: Nevermind, nevermind.
3/ Back view of Pat and Gina standing next to each other, watching Spidey swing off.
SPIDER-MAN: Rassumfrassuminkmonsterthings. (small text)
4/ Closer up on Pat and Gina. Gina is resting her head on Pat’s shoulder. The back of her neck is covered in blue, tendril-like veins. The same applies to Pat, but with Toxin’s color.
CAPTION(Patrick): Today was just the start. Don’t you think?
CAPTION(Gina): I still have so many things I need to talk about. Therapy. We need to do therapy.
CAPTION(Patrick): Good.
CAPTION(Gina): This is therapy to me.
CAPTION(Patrick): Then we’ll do it together.
5/ Same shot, but now the back of their heads are covered with their respective symbiotes, same goes with their backs.
CAPTION(Patrick): Love you.
CAPTION(Gina): Love you too.
Page 33
1/ Back view of Agent Venom standing in front of a large series of computer monitors.
CAPTION(Venom): C4’s planted in all the right locations. This place is gonna go up like a light.
2/ Front view of Agent Venom, basking in computer screen light.
CAPTION(Venom): Kate said something about an “invisible force” blocking EMPs….that’s exactly what it was.
3/ Close up of the monitor showing a display of the entire facility, covered with a large bubble.
CAPTION(Venom): A force field. Nice.
4/ Front view of Agent Venom walking away from the computers. Tendrils are sprouting from his back, each holding pistols, firing at different monitors, putting them out.
SFX: BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM
CAPTION(Venom): Won’t matter when the whole damn place collapses.
Page 34
1/ Aerial view of Agent Venom webslinging upward from the bottom of the facility’s room where he fought Creep.
SFX: THWIP
CAPTION(Venom): After this, I take back control. It understands. It wants the best for me.
2/ Underfoot view of Agent Venom wallcrawling on the ceiling toward the vent. The entire room is shaking.
SFX: RRRRRRRRRR
CAPTION(Venom): It wants us to last a good, long time.
3/ Agent Venom in his “underwater” guise swimming up high from the escape pod port near the top of the facility. It’s visible crumbling, bursting out, exploding.
SFX: RRRRRRRRRRR
CAPTION(Venom): So do I.
Page 35
1/ Agent Venom surfacing above the water, which is gurgling all around him.
CAPTION(Venom): Now, just gotta swim back to shore and--
2/ Front view of Agent Venom, the bottom piece of a ladder falls onto his head.
SFX: BONK
3/ Same shot, but he’s looking up and grabbing on.
CAPTION(Venom): Or that.
4/ Underfoot view of Agent Venom climbing up into a helicopter.
CAPTION(Venom): That works too.
Page 36
1/ Anti-Venom lifting a bit of damaged building, say the third floor of an apartment complex, allowing for civillians to escape.
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): The monsters were covered in super-venom….which seems to have simply disappeared.
2/ Anti-Venom looking down, alongside the rubble.
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): When they died, their super-venom went with them. Or maybe when Taylor died, and Creep died, their capacity to create it died too, and their current supply simply dried up…
3/ Anti-Venom webslinging out of the wreckage, moving on upward. Below him, someone watches him from the shadows.
SFX: PLISH
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): Just have to help with the cleanup, and find Jenna. Then I can set things right. Then I can end this cycle of pain and death.
4/ This dark figure shows his face for a second. He’s a young man, around 13 if one had to guess, with white hair, and blue eyes. He’s looking up, with an expressionless face.
NO DIALOGUE
5/ Same shot. He’s gone.
NO DIALOGUE
Page 37
1/ Overhead view of Agent Venom peering out of the helicopter. The water is bubbling and churning, and there’s no longer a gap in the ocean like there was in #1.
VENOM: How much time did I have to spare?
2/ Front view of Agent Venom, behind him is Dr. Mackenzie.
DR. MACKENZIE: Five minutes.
VENOM: Wow.
DR. MACKENZIE: At least you did it. That’s what counts.
VENOM: Yeah. Get me outta this thing and into the city, would’ya?
3/ Aerial view of the helicopter flying away from the area. The waters look back to normal. Ahead is New York City, smoke billowing from several spots.
VENOM: Drop me off at the F.E.A.S.T center.
Page 38
1/ Inside the F.E.A.S.T center. There are dozens of civillians cheering and running around to where they need to go, it’s basically everyone leaving.
CAPTION: F.E.A.S.T CENTER
SUB-CAPTION: ABANDONED, FORMER SHELTER AND SOUP KITCHEN
2/ Focus in on Betty Brant, she’s sitting at a cafeteria table and Peter Parker’s right next to her. She has a cell phone in her hand and she looks really, really worried.
PETER: Listen, Bets, I’m sure he’s--
BETTY: I KNOW he was outside of the city, I’m just scared these things—he said he was landing soon and I thought they might be at La Guardia or—or…
PETER: It’s gonna be alright. He’s Flash. He’ll make it.
3/ The both of them looking up. Pete has an “I told you so” grin, Betty is just relieved.
FLASH(OP): Damn right I will.
PETER: Knew it.
BETTY: FLASH!
4/ Side view. Betty almost tackles into Flash in his wheelchair, the two hug tight.
BETTY: Are you okay?!
FLASH: I’m fine! You?
BETTY: NOW I’m fine.
5/ Back view of the two, Peter is just backing off.
PETER: Well, I’m gonna go call Aunt May and tell her I’m alright, uh…
FLASH: Go on.
PETER: Seeya!
Page 39
1/ Spider-man webslinging through NYC. It’s just after the attack.
CAPTION(Spider-man): In the coming days, the Avengers and the Future Foundation return from their biggest battle yet. They help rebuild.
2/ Spidey webslinging through NYC still. It’s a few days after, reconstruction is in progress.
CAPTION(Spider-man): The poison those things were covered in dissolved, and any poor hero or baddie who punched them had some nerve damage in their fists, but that’s it. Thankfully it heals overtime.
CAPTION(Spider-man): The news says that the source of the attack was underwater, orchestrated by Orwell Taylor, who had gone mad with anger.
3/ Flash at home, looking into a mirror. He has Venom’s reflection, and he looks incredibly sweaty and nervous.
CAPTION(Spider-man): They said a squad of marines took down the production line.
4/ Same shot, but now Flash has his own reflection back. He looks relieved.
CAPTION(Spider-man): Shows who the real heroes are. Glad to have a happy ending…
Page 40
1/ Malice and Toxin webslinging together.
CAPTION(Spider-man): … except for that new super-violent but totally non-lethal symbiote team…
2/ Scream standing next to a man who’s face has been lashed off. Her hair is covered in blood.
CAPTION(Spider-man): And that crazy Jenna girl Eddie mentioned, the one who writes “SCREAM IS COMING FOR YOU DADDY” in blood on the walls. That totally won’t affect me later. Really.
3/ Spider-man crouching on a ledge.
CAPTION(Spider-man): Okay, so, um… maybe things didn’t end 100% happy. I mean, Carnage had a killing spree during the invasion, some new freakish Hybrid symbiote’s been in the news, and the weird instances of people randomly gaining Spider-Powers is--
CAPTION(Spider-man): …
CAPTION(Spider-man): I just can’t win, can I?
4/ Anti-Venom sitting in the abandoned F.E.A.S.T center. He’s looking up, pretty much depressed.
NO DIALOGUE
5/ A S.H.I.E.L.D bunker, inside are the Iron Wraith remains, lined up one by one. A S.H.I.E.L.D agent stands between the rows, hands behind him. He’s got a blank face, he’s an LMD.
SHIELD AGENT LMD: Underboss. I’ve secured the Iron Wraiths.
UNDERBOSS(via comm link): Good. I’m sending a team over to help you unload them.
SHIELD AGENT LMD: Over and out.
THE END
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NO MONEY MADE - CREATED IRON SYMBIOTES/WRAITHS, VARIATIONS ON CHARACTERS LIKE MONSTER AND MALICE
