(When I'm Small- Phantogram)
-2 weeks later-
"You'd think that we were used to fighting the same people over and over again we would beat them hm?" I mumbled under my breath as I walk around the building trying to find Kess for the information she said had to report to me. I walk into the training room seeing Venom lunge towards Noir as I quickly jump into action tackling her down as she pushes me off with her full force, I get up ready to take her on again before I am stopped by Noirs hand on my chest.
"Jesus you scared us," his voice is low, a ghostly smile on his lips as I stare at him with a crazed expression.
"I scared you guys? She was about to take you down!" I raise my voice as I turn my attention to Venom, she's slowly lifting herself up the suit around her disappearing leaving her in only some black leggings and a black compression shirt, her haunting hair in her face before she uses her right had pushing it to the back, she lets out a frustrating groan from within her.
"Yeah? Well, that's the point estupido," she mumbles before she turns her back to me walking away in another direction.
That's how it's been between it and me, we barely spoke to one another, she's kept her promise of not causing trouble, well; the occasional arguments of Venom being hungry for more and more of his cravings and the moments of me questioning her. So far we have been tamed, our presence amongst each other causes tense moments. She avoids me like the plague, Like I'm the one with corrupt morals, Like I'm the Monster. I roll my eyes at the woman and turn my attention to Noir, as I point to him "Explain what is going on right now."
"I needed to train," he looks at me like I asked a stupid question.
"So why is she here and not somewhere else?"
"You said she's allowed out with Peter or I here, I'm not sure what the problem is?"
"I would think you would use your brain and keep her away from the one place where we practice our technics, try out our new inventions or upgrades, remember she is a scientist. What if she uses what she learned from us to harm one of us or others?" I questioned.
Noir looks at me with unsatisfied expression "She won't do that," he mumbled.
"You think you know her after what? A few weeks?" I growled.
"I do actually, she has been very open to helping us find her Earth, she has been answering questions openly and she has been adding into the research of others, did you know before she got ahold of the Symbiote she was researching a cure for cancer? Her world is so different to yours Miguel, She has a Peter that is her Best friend, she has the same events as most of us had. One thing that I noticed is that there is no other world that has the name Serafina Fernandez, she does not exist in any other world but hers. She is an anomaly. Her whole universe does not exist in our radar or others. With finding all this out we are getting closer and closer to maybe even pinpointing the next hole that can open to her Earth," Noir looks at me astonished with his new information he had his hands placed together as he moved them around him before walking up to Venom and pulling her softly by her waist, my eyes zeroing on his hand for a split second as I watch them come towards me. "Tell him what you've told me."
Her face was brighter since the last time we saw each other her eyebags not as prominent as before, I let my eyes wander over her features memorizing her expression, her lips pursed they were dry probably from the constant moving she was doing training with Noir, her eyes staring at me with annoyance and a barely visible smirk... barley, only someone that is watching closely can pick up. "What?" She whispered to Noir leaning to his ear so he can hear her glancing at me.
"How you came here, they day, the weather any details that you can think of."
"I already told you though can't you just tell him," she sighed.
"I can tell if you are telling the truth," I grumbled "plus it's easier for us to get some information from the direct source no?" I take a step forward to her as she hold her head high.
"I don't understand, why would I lie?"
"Because you don't want to leave?"
"I thought we made it clear about me trying to cooperate with you guys, so I am Able to get Home."
"Then why don't you cooperate hm?" I lean my head to the sigh with a sarcastic half smile "for someone that has promised to make things easy, you've been causing Me such a hassle."
Venom looks at me before rolling her eyes and sitting down on one of the workout machines that sits in the training room, I follow behind before standing in front of them and crossing my arms over my chest. "It was August 4th, it was raining and thundering the day I was sucked into that portal-."
"And what were you doing?" I asked raising my eyebrow.
She stays silent before sighing "I was having an internal conflict that day and went off the rails..." she pauses looking down at her hands pulling at her skin "I was watching the city with Venom, when I saw him... I attacked him and chased him down," her face darkened as she recalls these events Noir takes a step closer to her rubbing her back softly.
"It's okay we've all had these problems, I sometimes have to use brute force for special villains, it's not something I am proud of or favor to stop some of the people that turned to the life of crime," Noir sighed. I turn my attention to Venom as she stares off into space, her body is shaking ever so slightly; she shunned away from Noirs touch as she takes a shaky breath in.
"The Portal began to suck me in and the next thing I knew I was in an alleyway in the old apartments out the city."
"Which alleyway?"
"Venom can show us. He was the one that moved my body since I was unconscious," she coughs lightly before standing up "we can go now."
Noir's watch began to beep; he sighs deeply before shaking his head "you'll have to go with Miguel okay? Let us both be civil," he glances at me quickly "the faster we are able to solve this problem the faster we can send you home okay?"
Venom crosses her arms over her chest and nods.
"I'll come back as soon as I'm done, and after patrolling okay?" he ask her too much if whatever he does is okay, like he needs her permission for whatever reason.
Noir has been attached to the hip with her for the past 2 weeks, Peter B has been in the society every now and then, even some of the other Spiders have taken a common ground on Venom; but, there is another side of the us that do not trust her, I've had a few come up to be on the first 3 days arguing of her existence to us means. To us she was an anomaly, to the universe she was something that should've never existed, and I'm trying to play nice as much as I can so once we find their Earth we are able to end it. Having it would just cause all of ours to disappear for it's existence, she has caused an uneasy feeling in my chest since we found out she does not exist in any other universe, she herself was something wrong and repulsive. Her world was wrong and an accident, her spiderman was even more so. I will admit not knowing them for this long has not caused us any hassle in our own lives, but the mere chance that it can cause unreversible damage in the future means it has to be snipped at the bud before anything. If that portal never opened we would've never known of them and maybe... maybe we would have lived our lives normally. However, that is not the case with the portal opening, with her name being in none of our universes, this is not something I'll be looking over.
I know Noir hasn't told her what little we've learned about her, he knows as much as I do that she'll make a run for it. She'll figure things out sooner than later I know it, she's suspecting us with every passing moment, but I have nothing to hide from her. I've made my thoughts clear as day when I first saw her and that isn't going to change no matter what pleas she will beg.
SERAFINA'S POV-
You would think these men think I'm an idiot.
God they are so easy to trick. Yeah I have mental problems, that's true. Though I wasn't born yesterday, you'd think I'd trust Noir after knowing him for 2 weeks. He thinks I believe that they'll let me go, maybe Peter and Noir believe that; but, whenever I catch a glimpse of Miguel I can tell he has no plans of setting me free like some of the others wish to do. They assume that as soon as they separate Venom and I, that I'll be grateful for their help and I can go back to living a normal life like every other person they saved, but that's the thing, I never had a normal life. It has been tainted and ruined since childhood, and it just had gotten worse as I aged. I tried.
I tried to live normally, I got a good job, a best friend that I adored and another who loved her as deeply if not more than me, I had a fiancé, then... it was taken away from me ruthlessly, they got torn from my grasp one by one. Then comes to find out the one person that I had left, the last good thing I had left was the one that watched them get ripped away from me, that he lied to me, that they both did for His secret, for His lies and the destruction He causes everywhere he goes. For me to know and still not hate him fully after everything he has caused me, to want to beg for forgiveness to the dead but yell at them at the exact same time. Yeah I tried the normal life even after them, I went out and remembered them, He would be at my side making sure I got home each time I did, I got fired from my job for stealing an alien species that showed me love and acceptance in my own madness, appreciated my twisted brain and fed into it, but always kept me at bay. I tried so hard to live day by day, but when I saw him swinging around like nothing, getting awards and the keys to the city over and over again after everything I couldn't take it anymore, I couldn't stand him and his existence. Now I hate it even more.
Because he knew... he knew what was attached to me and didn't try to stop me, he knew Venom has infiltrated me and he accepted it. He was kind enough to let me have the last thing I'm trying to hold on for dear life, he loved me enough to let me have someone that he didn't approve of for my mental health. He loved me enough for that.
I can't live normally after all this, and he knows it, with his red eyes glaring at me like he can read me like an open book, he knows I can't go back to normal after all this. Miguel knows I won't let no one get their hands on Venom, and... he's right.
But I know this goes deeper than just Venom and I.
They have some rules here that I've noticed, things I've heard from other Spider-Men, the rules of an anomaly. The worlds that aren't supposed to exist and the people that "Aren't real."
I'm fucking real, very real and so is everyone on my earth. My Peter is real. Olivia, Dante, and my dad were real.
I hated playing a hero because I never was, but if I can push back them finding my world I'll try my hardest to make this delay last as long as I can even if it meant staying with a bunch of insects.
"My free buffet cannot be going instinct," Venom thought as I try my best to hold in a smile.
"No se como estos crean que son Heroes cuando están quitando universos de otros, creo que eso es algo horrible," I thought back to venom as he hums in response.
"So, what are you thinking exactly?" Miguel's broke me from my train of thought as he takes a step closer to me as I shrug.
"Nothing."
His eyes travel all over me before they land on my eyes "don't get any ideas of running off while we are out."
"Wouldn't dream of it," I mumbled sarcastically.
"Follow," he growled lowly.
...
"We've hit every alley way you said but none of them seem like the right one?" Miguel looked at me, anger filling his eyes as I sigh shrugging.
"Well, I mean I was disorientated, I traveled from a whole other world and hit my head on cement," I rolls my eyes taking a few steps in his direction looking around the alleyway trying to pinpoint where exactly I am at.
"And Venom? He was awake through all this, no?" Miguel sighed his hand gesturing to me.
"He doesn't want to answer to you right now," I cross my hands over my chest giving him a 'you know damn well look.'
"I make a comment about him being a dumb ass and he acts like this? Childish," he grumbles.
"I don't know what's your problem, but you can't speak to us like that it's not fair."
He turns to me with wide eyes "are you kidding me right now? ¿Tengo caro de pendojo o qué?" His finger points at his face as Venom and I turn away laughing "You forget you aren't a human no more; you aren't someone I care enough to worry for your emotions, you eat people, you vandalize property and tried to kill one of our own-."
My laugh hasn't stopped as I turn my attention back to the man seething with anger at his own words "please Your own? My Peter will never stand for what you believe in, nor will he follow half of these ridiculous rules of yours, My Peter isn't an asshole like you, so don't even come for him as what? Your own? Get the fuck outta my face," I smile waving my hand to him.
"Oh, Your Peter? So, you know his identity? How close were you to your Spider-Man? Is that why he left you to do whatever you wanted in your Earth? Is that why you think what you are and what you do are okay?" He walks over to me making me face him, his chest meeting my eyes as I look up at him with a smirk.
"God I don't need his approval for whatever I did back at home, I know what and who I am and I don't need a cheap knock off to tell me that."
"Just because you don't have a conscious for the wrongs you've committed-."
"Then please Miguel, Please tell me what I've done wrong besides eating people?" I open my arms looking around "What I ate Doc Oc? Wasn't he a 'villain'-."
"You've eaten regular civilians! Venom has taunted us about drinking their blood and using the bones of their fingers at toothpicks! -," he raises his voice as I roll my eyes.
"Please you've never heard a joke before?"
"That wasn't a joke though," Venom thought as I shake my head of his voice.
"You think murdering innocent people is okay? To take them away from their families?" anger is seething from his pores, his chest taking deep breathes in and out.
"Innocent?" I scoff "half of the things I fed Venom deserved every bone crunch while they were still breathing," I began to taunt "every bite we took they deserved, ever cut I made with my nails should've been deeper. They all deserved what was coming to them in the end," I shrug.
Miguel becomes rigid "I don't know how they see you fixable..." he begins to walk away from me when suddenly the ground begins to shake, I turn to look at which direction it came from, out of no where a blast is shot at me some blue and white light blinded my vision for a second as I land on the ground. The electric shock waved over my body as I felt it begin to shake vigorously, pain surged through me as I try to take a deep breath in as I turn to look for Miguel who was laying only a foot away from me as I see a neon blue android floating in the air the electrical charge that looked like sparks surrounded his body. I tried to gain the feeling of my toes and fingers first before I felt the hurt slowly fade away to numbness.
"Pinche smurf," I grumbled annoyed standing up.
"My, little lady I'm very sorry you were in the way of my actual target," his voice boomed as I turn to Miguel still laying on the floor of the dirty alleyway.
I felt Venom's goo surround my body causing a shiver to run down my spine like it always does, the thing looks at me it's eyes raising lightly "well well, seems like you got to him before me hm? We can share him yeah? I'll let you take your favorite piece of him," I cringe in disgust to his comment.
"Like fucking hell we want to taste him," Venom's voice boomed as we take a step closer to Miguels body in a protective stance.
As much as we hate this man guts, there's one thing useful about him, and that's his brains to help us go back home. Maybe we can get some brownie points to get him off our back if we were to eat and kill this thing in front of us.
"Don't waste your wish on something that won't change Sara," Venom whispered as I sigh.
"So what venom are you? The ones that live in their radar or the ones that want to eat everyone in the world?"
"We are none of your concern."
"You're one of the ones that side with the Spider-men then."
I ignore it's comment and shrug "maybe I am maybe I'm not."
"Then let's get this over with."
"I would love to eat something different than pop tarts today," Venom laughed.