Spider-Man Unlimited: Season 2

Author's Note: These stories have been written in outline form so that details wouldn't be such a bother; I know it's lazy, but hey, it's fanfic, so enjoy it for what it is.

Episode 1: Destiny Returned

The episode starts off just after the trigger of Venom and Carnage's Synoptic as millions of symbiotes are shot up into Counter-Earth's atmosphere. As the symbiotes begin taking over the world, they begin to bond to every living being on the planet, human and Beastial alike.

Meanwhile, Naoko and Shane Yamada-Jones are forced to flee their home/medical clinic when symbiotes begin to chase after them. During their fleeing, they do their best to survive from being either bonded by the symbiotes, or being killed as a result of Machine Man fire, who are battling the symbiotes. The Machine Men even go as far as killing those of whom the symbiotes have bonded to, human and Beastial alike. However, when one of the Machine Men are destroyed by the symbiotes, Naoko takes the robot's sonic gun and uses it as a weapon against symbiotes who try to take over her and Shane.

At Lab 272, Spider-Man, John Jameson, Git Hoskins, the Goblin, and Daniel Bromley do their best to battle the symbiotes with their weapons. Spider-Man kills some with his sonic generators, giving himself and the other rebels a window of time to escape the lab in order to get to Castle Wundagore and save Karen O'Malley. But they leave behind the weakened Eddie Brock and Cletus Kasady due to the fact that they're dying without the Venom and Carnage symbiotes.

Meanwhile, Lord Tiger is confronted by the High Evolutionary's wrath because he is aware that he let Spider-Man and the rebels get away. However, before the High Evolutionary can do anything about it, he, Lord Tiger, and all the other Knights of Wundagore are forced to combat their way against the symbiotes to take refuge at Castle Wundagore. Nevertheless, the High Evolutionary, and Sir Ram, remind Lord Tiger that this betrayal will not be forgotten.

In the Basement, where the symbiotes are steadily winning the battle against the Machine Men, Naoko and Shane get some unexpected help from X-51. Though Naoko is wary of X-51, due to his Machine Man nature, she accepts his help since he once saved Shane's life.. So the three of them take refuge toward the Daily Byte, which happens to be one of the few establishments around the world that has so far held its own against the symbiote invasion.

At Castle Wundagore, Spider-Man, the rebels, and the High Evolutionary and his forces arrive. But instead of doing battle with each other, they're forced to work together with Castle Wundagore's security forces against the symbiote invasion. All of the gathered characters make it inside, and the rebels find that both before and during the invasion, the High Evolutionary's scientists have turned Karen O'Malley into a Beastial - that of a large cat, similar to Lord Tiger. The rebels, including Karen, try to attack the Evolutionary for what he's done to her, but Spider-Man stops them both, reminding them that they all have to work together if they're all to survive the invasion and find a way to stop it. But nevertheless, the High Evolutionary reveals why he turned Karen into a Beastial rather than just have her suffer the same fate as she would have as her rebel comrades. It turns out that Karen is actually the High Evolutionary's granddaughter, and that when Karen was born, the Evolutionary attempted to perform tests on her in order to make her into a Beastial. Karen's parents left the Evolutionary so they can go to a place where he would never find her. Everyone is shocked at this revelation, but nevertheless, they go back to finding a solution to the symbiote invasion.

Sir Ram asserts himself into trying to find a solution. He figures that they would need to get someone up into orbit around Counter-Earth to wire a sonic frequency into all of Counter-Earth's satellites via slaving them together. The effect this will have on the planet will be that it'll be able to kill all of the symbiotes, including those whom have already bonded to a host, but the effect will not kill the hosts themselves. Lord Tiger helps out in the situation into revealing the location of Solaris I - in the subbasements of Castle Wundagore. John Jameson agrees to fly it into orbit for the mission, and Spider-Man also insists on helping along to program his sonic weapons into Counter-Earth's satellites. The Goblin also asserts that his expertise will be to find a way to slave the satellites frequencies together and to program Spider-Man's sonic weaponry into them as well. Of course, what a mission like this which would take months to prepare can be done within a few minutes because the High Evolutionary's scientists have been developing as-of-yet untested rockets that can get a large craft like Solaris I up into Counter-Earth's orbit immediately.

Naoko, Shane, and X-51 all make it to the Daily Byte and join the other survivors in New York on the top of the building's roof to put up a last stand against the symbiotes. Even Shane is given X-51's sonic gun for the effort, and X-51 will rely on his conventional weaponry to combat the symbiotes.

Back at Castle Wundagore, Spider-Man, John, and the Goblin are all ready, complete with spacesuits (except for Spider-Man, whose digitized suit provides him life support in the vacuum of space) for the launching of Solaris I into Counter-Earth's orbit. All of the roofs of Castle Wundagore are opened up so that Solaris I will be able to make it into space. However, during the launching preparations, the security around Castle Wundagore is breached via the destruction of all of the security Machine Men by the invading symbiotes. So the rebels and the High Evolutionary's Knights all have to work together to fight the symbiotes and make sure that they don't sabotage Solaris I's second mission. Thanks to their efforts, Solaris I is successfully launched into Counter-Earth's orbit. With John piloting, Spider-Man and the Goblin step out into Solaris I's hull and Spider-Man uses a web to snag over a passing satellite in orbit nearby the spaceship. Goblin is then put to the task of rewiring the particular satellite's configuration so that it's slaved to the other satellites in orbit around Counter-Earth. Unfortunately, the trio's task is complicated as dozens of symbiotes that have made it through Counter-Earth's atmosphere during the Synoptic's activation begin to attack Solaris I.

Three individual climaxes take place; Naoko, Shane, and X-51 with other survivors, battling symbiotes on the Daily Byte rooftop; the Human Resistance and Beastial forces battling the symbiotes beneath Castle Wundagore; and Spider-Man warding off and killing the symbiotes with his sonic weaponry so that Goblin can complete his task of slaving all of Counter-Earth's satellites together. Even John is forced to jump out of Solaris I to use his own weaponry to help Spider-Man, leaving the ship in a fixed orbit around Counter-Earth. Down on the planet, however, both the human and Beastial forces in the subbasements of Castle Wundagore are overcome and enveloped by the symbiotes as unwilling hosts.

Back in orbit, the climax in space culminates as Spider-Man and John successfully kill all of the symbiotes in orbit around the planet just in time for the former to give Goblin his sonic weaponry. Goblin inserts the weaponry into the slaved satellite, and starts the program that brings sonic noise all around Counter-Earth. Every last remaining symbiote on Counter-Earth, bonded or not, is instantly wiped out by the noise, while the survivors and hosts are spared. And with that, everyone on Counter-Earth, human and Beastial alike, rejoice at the symbiotes' defeat.

With the symbiotes all dead, Spider-Man, John, and Goblin head down back toward Counter-Earth's surface for Castle Wundagore. There, with the rebel and High Evolutionary's alliance done thanks to the symbiotes' downfall, both parties, who are just waking up as Solaris I returns to the surface, are inclined to get back into war with one another. And Lord Tiger even sides with the Human Resistance because he knows that the High Evolutionary would kill him for letting the protagonists get away (the rebels don't mind him joining them in spite of what he is). But Spider-Man, John, and Goblin stop the feud when they reveal that, on the way down to Counter-Earth's surface, the humans and Beastials have all cheered together in unity as fellow sentient beings rather than rival species. This is because of the alliance that brought them together with the symbiotes' invasion. Spider-Man concludes that if humans and Beastials would be so willing to work together in an hour of need and survive as a civilization, then humans are not an inferior species as the High Evolutionary thought, and Beastials are not the animals that the Human Resistance have deemed them.

The High Evolutionary decides to see this for his own, and journeys out with his Knights and the Resistance, and finds that, indeed, both humans and Beastials around the world have acknowledged that they are equals. If Beastials are able to put their grievances aside for humans, and vice versa, then both species should be allowed to live as one united whole. The High Evolutionary sees Spider-Man's point, and later that day, he declares to all of Counter-Earth that the discrimination with which humans have had to endure is over. Now both humans and Beastials can work together as a whole to repair the damage done to the world by the symbiote invasion, and in the end, both species will coexist as equals.

Then the High Evolutionary apologizes to Karen that he turned his own granddaughter into a Beastial, and she says that his apology is not wanted; she has already forgiven him, and she is proud to be a Beastial. Lord Tiger is also found to be redeemed in the Evolutionary's eyes, and finds that if anything, he was the strongest among the Knights of Wundagore, because he was always the one who saw the wrongs in the crimes committed against humanity. Sir Ram is rather reluctant to allow the permanent truce between humans and Beastials to happen, but regardless, he has no choice but to follow in the High Evolutionary's orders of alliance with the humans. Bromley is as reluctant, but manages to shake hands with Sir Ram and they subsequently put their differences aside. Lady Ursula is willing to side with the High Evolutionary's new orders, and Lady Vermin is actually quite ecstatic, especially since she and Spider-Man no longer have to be enemies. Nevertheless, Spider-Man turns her down because of her rodent nature. Spider-Man asks John if he's ready to finally come back home to Earth. John smiles and says he is. But before they decide to go back home, Spider-Man tells John that he needs to be somewhere.

Spider-Man returns to the Basement as Peter Parker to find that Naoko and Shane have survived the symbiote invasion. Peter then tells Naoko that he'll be leaving now, and he doesn't really know whether or not he'll ever see Naoko and Shane ever again. Then Naoko's ex-husband, Norman Jones, shows up, ignoring Peter and telling Naoko and Shane that he's been worried about them, and is glad to see that they're all right. Naoko is only too glad to find that her beloved one has come back to her, forgets about why their relationship ended as it did, and Shane is always happy to see his father back to him. Seeing the Jones family happy, Peter takes his leave as Spider-Man to leave Counter-Earth with John.

However, the episodes ends on a cliffhanger when we find that Venom and Carnage lurk in the sewers of Counter-Earth New York…