Chapter 1

Venom cradled the limp form of his ex-wife. Ann Weying was dying. During his last fight with Spiderman she had been injured when she tried to intervene. Spiderman had fled believing that Venom was subdued for the moment. Eddie retracted his mask, there had to be something he could do to save her.

There's only one way to save her, the symbiote said to Eddie.

"No," Eddie argued out loud. "We are not going to do that."

Then she will die, the symbiote said.

Eddie was stuck between a rock and a hard place. He had previously saved Ann's life after she was injured by Sin Eater II by allowing the symbiote to bond with her. However, the consequence of this was that it had driven her insane and she had gone on a mad killing rampage.

"Perhaps this time it will be different," Eddie thought to himself.

Eddie set Ann down on the ground. A chunk of the symbiote broke off Eddie and began to attach itself to Ann, but Eddie was left still wearing his costume.

"What are you doing?" Eddie asked the symbiote in a panic.

We are spawning, the symbiote replied inside Eddie's head.

As Eddie watched the new symbiote spread out covering all of Ann's body. The last part of her to be covered was her face. Eddie stood over her worried as she lay still. She looked just like a blue-black wax replica of body with a featureless head. At first it seemed as though nothing had happened, that he had been too late. But then her features began to become more defined. Her body became more muscular and defined, her fingers elongated into claws. A large white spider appeared on her chest, white eyes appeared on her head, first as slits, but then they grew wide open. She looked about and then focused on Eddie.

"Ann?" Eddie asked cautiously. "Are you alright?"

A slit appeared across the mask covering her face. It went practically from ear to ear. It spread a part in a horrid grid revealing countless rows of jagged teeth. Green venom dripped slowly from in between the cracks of the teeth. She opened her mouth to speak revealing a long tongue that was also dripping copious amounts of green venom.

"We've never been better," Ann replied. "What happened?"

"You were nearly killed by Spiderman," Eddie answered as he reverted back to Venom. "He tried to use you to stop me. He needs to be punished for his sins."

Ann stood up and made a fist with her right hand and held it in front of her. "Then together we will crush the spider," she declared.

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Peter Parker returned to his apartment where Mary Jane was waiting for him. His costume was in tatters and he had a few minor wounds.

"What happened Tiger?" Mary Jane asked him.

"Venom," Peter replied simply as he stalked by to change out of the costume.

At that moment all Peter wanted to do was go to bed. His ordeal with Venom had left him rather fatigued and he figured that Venom would become after him for revenge after what had happened to Ann. Mary Jane watched from the doorway as her husband stripped down to his boxers.

"Is there something you want to talk about?" Mary Jane asked.

"Not particularly," Peter replied.

"No, something is bothering you," Mary insisted. "Tell me what it is."

Peter sighed and sat down the bed tossing his damaged costume in a heap on the ground. He stared down at his feet for a few moments before beginning.

"During my fight with Venom, Eddie's ex-wife tried to break it up." Peter explained.

"Oh my god!" Mary Jane exclaimed. "Is Ann okay?"

"I don't know," Peter replied. "I was willing to listen to her but Venom wasn't. Venom attacked me and I threw him away but he hit Ann and she was fell. I'm positive she was still alive. But I wasn't going to stick around, I figured Eddie would help her."

Mary Jane sat down beside Peter and put and arm around him. "It's okay Tiger," she said. "Nobody is perfect."

"It's just that I feel so guilty," Peter confessed to her. "I could have prevented it from happening."

"Everybody makes mistakes," Mary Jane told him. "Be glad that your mistake didn't cost Ann her life."

"I love how you always make me feel better," Peter said.

"And I love you," Mary Jane replied as she kissed her husband on the lips.

"Aw, isn't that touching," A familiar voice said from the window.

Both Peter and Mary Jane spun around on the bed to see the hulking frame of Venom filling up the entire window.

"What do you want?" Peter asked through gritted teeth and he moved to be in between Venom and Mary Jane.

"What do we want?" Venom responded rhetorically. "The same thing we have always wanted; your death!"

Peter stood up to face Venom, who managed to squeeze his way through the window. Peter was absolutely dwarfed by the hulking monster that stood in front of him but he should no sign of fear.

"What happened to Ann?" Peter asked.

"We're glad you show concern for your victims," Venom answered. "But why don't you ask her yourself."

Venom pointed over Peter's shoulder. Peter whirled around to see a female version of Venom standing on the other side of the bed. Black tendrils off her costume had Mary Jane bound and gagged. The mask of the female Venom pulled back to reveal Ann Weying's face.

"Hello Peter," Ann said in a snide tone. "We haven't seen you for a while."

Peter was completely confused at all of this. "What is going on here?"

"It's quite simple spider," Venom replied. "We're going to take her with us. You're going to come down to the docks tomorrow night with ten million dollars, and if you don't, we're going to kill her."

Before Peter could say anything else Venom back handed him across the face sending him flying across the room and crashing into the wall. By the time Peter got up Venom, Ann and Mary Jane were all gone. Peter ran to the window but there was no sign of them. Distraught and outraged, Peter sat on the bed and thought over what had just happened. The conclusion that Peter came to was that somehow Eddie was able to create a duplicate of his symbiote to heal his ex-wife; although Peter wasn't so sure if she was Eddie's ex-wife any more.

However, the how was a question, that while nagging, could wait. What was more important was saving Mary-Jane. The ten million dollars was just a tool to get Peter to fall into their trap, and he knew it. He also knew that he would be at a great disadvantage since there were two of them and neither one had registered on his spider sense earlier. But regardless of the danger to himself Peter had to go, because he knew that if he didn't Mary Jane, his wife, would be killed.

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Oh boy, two Venoms. Will Peter be able to over come them? Find out in Chapter 2 and please review.