[Meanwhile] [A few minutes earlier]

  Felicia Hardy sat at the beach bar, enjoying the gentle sea breeze and the warm, setting sun. The rhythmic sound of waves crashing against the shore created a serene ambiance, a perfect backdrop for her thoughts. Her firaced the rim of her cocktail gss as she pondered over Spiderman's offer to join his team. It was an intriguing proposition. The thrill of the heist and the rush of adrenalihings she craved, but the responsibility and dahat came with being a hero? That was another matter entirely.

  She sighed, taking a sip of her drink. Her eyes sed the beach, watg the children build sandcastles and couples walking hand in hand. It was the usual beach se. It eaceful se, so different from her usual life of chaos aement. Felicia couldn't help but wonder if she could ever find a baweewo worlds.

  The thought of Spiderman made her heart skip a beat. There was something about him, something that drew her ie her better judgment. His offer was tempting, not just because of the excitement but also because of him. She shook her head, trying to clear her thoughts.

  "Get a grip, Felicia," she muttered to herself, finishing her drink.

  Deg she needed a break from her own thoughts, Felicia stood up and headed towards the bar's restroom. She spshed some water on her fad looked at herself in the mirror. She took a deep breath, posing herself. After living the life of a thief, she was used to being on edge, but this time, it was different. Spiderman had offered her a ce to turn her life around and make amends for her past mistakes.

  "Maybe a ge is what I need," she mumbled to herself, but before she could ponder further, something caught her eye. Oop of the mirror, she saw a strange, gooey bck substa pulsed and moved, almost as if it was alive. She'd entered strahings before, but this was he substance seemed to react to her presence, moving slightly in her dire.

  She took out a poison needle that she usually carries all the time and stirred the gooey substance. "What are you?" She asked with a frown. It instantly jumped on her hand. "Shit!" She tried to pull it off, but it stuck to her like glue. Suddenly, the substance began to move up her arm. It felt cold and slimy, sending chills down her spine.

  Felicia panicked, frantically trying to remove the alieure. But it was no use. The substance reading too quickly. She could feel the substance c her arm, theorso, and soon it was enveloping her entire body. Panic set in, but she forced herself to stay calm. She had to figure out what this thing was and how to get rid of it. As the substance covered her face, her visio dark, and she could feel a strange presen her mind. It was like something was trying to unicate with her.

  "Who are you?" she thought, trying to reach out to the presence.

  A deep, guttural voice responded, "I am Venom."

  "Venom?! An alien, I guess? So, would you be so kind to get out of my body?" Felicia tried tain with the alieure. She hasn't heard or seen anything like this before. If it were some alien, she would have definitely heard of it.

  "We are Venom... You are our host now..." The voice replied.

  "Host?!" Felicia excimed in shock. This wasn't good. She had to do something before it was too te. But before she could eve, the substance covered her mouth, sileng her.

  "We'll give you power beyond your imagination, iurn, feed us human brain..." Venom hissed, sending shivers down Felicia's spine.

  "Human brain? What the hell do you mean?" She thought in fusion.

  "A threat is ing to Earth. Home has found us. We o get stroo protect ourselves..." Venom expined.

  "Home? Threat? What are you talking about?" Felicia questioned in bewilderment. This whole situation was getting more fusing by the sed. "Would you be kind enough to speak everything without me asking for every siail?"

  "Fine..." Venom relented. It showed her a glimpse of the Symbiote world and Knull, the God of symbiote.

  "Arrgggg!" Felicia felt a sharp headache as if her head might explode at any moment.

  "Sorry..." Venom apologized, easing the pain. "Human brains aren't strong enough to ehe truth and information that we possess. And sidering you are still scious and haven't died, our patibility is quite high. Host bonding with us won't take long, that is, if you survive it."

  Felicia groaned in agony as she struggled to prehend everything she had just witnessed. It was overwhelming, to say the least. She knew nothing about symbiotes, let alohe God of symbiotes. How could such a thi?

  "Fuck! So, basically, you are the runaway child, and Knull is the God you are speaking ht? And this Symbiote world is going to invade Earth or something? Wait, what do you mean by if I survive?" Felicia's head started throbbing again as she tried to make sense of the situation.

  "Yes..." Venom firmed. "Our previous host has disappeared from this reality due to reality shift, so, we need a new host to survive. Together we'll hunt the rest of the remaining symbiote oh ahem, grow stronger. Oh, not tet brains too... Then, we'll keep eating everyone from home and bee the stro one. So, what do you say, Bck Cat? I read your thoughts aions. You want to do some goht? Save the world, redeem yourself from your past crimes?"

  Felicia sighed inwardly. This alien symbiote was her a ake up for all the wrongs she'd done in the past. It was tempting, but she had no idea if this thing was telling the truth or not, but the burst of power she could feel within her body told her otherwise. It felt invigorating, like nothing she'd ever experienced before. Maybe this was what she o ge her life, to do some good in the world.

  "Okay... But we roll my way. No random killings, no nothing without my sent," Felicia agreed relutly. Venom wasn't giving her much choiyway.

  "Deal..." Venom said, then suddenly it transformed Felicia's entire body into a pitch-bck suit with a white spider symbol on the chest.

  Felicia stood in front of the mirror, her breath catg as she examined her transformed appearahe bck suit was unlike anything she'd ever worn before, sleek and alien, with a distinctive white spider emblem sprawled across her chest. Big white eyes, somewhat simir to Spiderman's mask, and... She opened her mouth and saw the long tongue dripping with saliva and spih like a shark's.

  Felicia shuddered at the sight of herself. It was terrifying. The alieure inside her was giving her immense power, but at the same time, it was scary. She needs a solution, but si read her thoughts aions, Felicia who is an expert iion must think something that the symbiote won't notice.

  She could feel the symbiote's presen her mind, a stant murmur at the edge of her thoughts. It was both exhirating and terrifying, knowing she was sharing her body with this powerful, otherworldly being.

  "A quick question, why do you have a spider symbol?" She asked Venom.

  "Simply because Spiderman looked cool when we saw him on TV," Venom answered holy. "You want another form?"

  "No, this will do."

  "So, where do we start? I'm starving for some feast," Venom said impatiently.

  "Calm down, big boy. First, we o find allies who help us. We 't simply go around killing people no matter who they are. We o approach this matter strategically. And most importantly, we o keep our identity hidden," Felicia expined her pn.

  "Good idea. Eddie should have dohat, but our reality didn't have any heroes or anything like this world, so we were oop of the wanted list. Hahahaha... It was fun. Runniing, and fighting," Venom ughed at the memories of the past.

  Felicia ignored Venom's ramblings and focused on finding someone who could help them. Her thoughts drifted to Spiderman. He was the only person she knew who could help her out of this situation.

  "Let's bee one of these heroes. That way, we won't have to worry about your hunger and we get stronger. With your knowledge and our mind, we do this. Time to find Spiderman," Felicia thought with determination.

  "Yeah! Let's find Spidey. We wao meet him ever since we saw him on TV. His suit looked aybe we should also get our own suit instead of copying. You should ask him to make one for you too," Venom suggested.

  "Maybe ter... First, we o find him, then we ask him about that."

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