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// Chapter 11: Bonding 
// Story: Venomous Uprising 
// by Paco-El-Taco 
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Celestia's sun had risen above the land of Ponyville, and began chasing the darkness to the other ends of Equestria, along with Luna's moon. The sun's rays had begun to cast down the land, awaking many animals and ponies, both readying for another day in Equestria. The rays had also flowed to the palace in Ponyville, one that was housing the first ever human in Equestria. The light had even managed to breach the covers of said human, and had also begun to infiltrate and clear the darkness in his closed eyes, slowly rousing the man from graceful sleep. The man mumbled and stirred, until he split his eyes open a tiny crack. His vision was blurry, but a moment of concentration had allowed him to see a clock on the opposite end of the room, and could see that the time was 8:32 AM.  He pulled the covers off and sat up on the bed, just staring at the floor. 
He began to recall his predicament, the foreign room being a reminder of that. He also remembered the events of last night, meeting the rulers, Twilight allowing him to stay at her palace, giving her a small sample of the symbiote, and welcoming sleep's sweet, warm embrace. He brought his hands to his eyes as he cleared the sleep out of them, and began to stretch his arms and legs with a loud yawn. Eddie stood up as the symbiote converged around him as early morning clothes: lounge pants, long-sleeved shirt, and a house robe. He had to admit, even though they weren't technically clothes, the symbiote still managed to make it feel comfortable. Before he left the room, he asked his other half, "Did anything odd happen in my dreams? I could've sworn I saw Princess Luna."
'Pony princess did come,' the symbiote giggled like a child would pulling a prank on a sibling. 'got to lock her out, though only temporary.' 
Eddie left the room as he looked down both sides of the hall. "What do you mean 'locked her out'?"
'Whenever she entered your dreams, I began to learn more. Began seeing the door, door to your dream. Got to interact with it, and lock it.'
Eddie strode down the direction in which Twilight took him the day before, hoping to find her or Spike anywhere in the large structure. "While I admit that does sound pretty funny," he began to lightly scold his other half, "it's not smart to pick on the one who could get us out of here." 
'It was invasion of privacy.'
Brock opted to let it go, and decided to search if the pony or drake were awake. He would have called for them, but he didn't want to wake them if they were indeed asleep at the time. After a minute or so of exploration, the human and the Klyntar came across the dining area, where they saw Spike on a stool over a stove in a chef hat cooking. The drake heard the footsteps and reared his head around to see Eddie. He greeted Eddie with a smile and a sincere, "Good morning, Eddie!" 
Eddie couldn't help but smirk at the sight of a baby dragon in a chef hat, but wholeheartedly returned the gesture, "Good morning to you as well, Spike." Eddie walked over to the counter and pulled out a stool for himself, but quickly found out that stools made in mind for ponies were far too small for one like Brock. So he decided to lean against the counter as the small dragon prepared a meal. 
"Want some egg casserole? Its got peppers, olives, and some mushrooms as well." 
"Yes, please. That would be nice." Eddie began to scan the room for the missing pony, but found no Princess of Friendship. "Hey, do you know where Twilight is?"
Spike gave a look to Eddie like he just asked what two plus two was. "I dunno what you gave her last night, but this morning I found her still doing some research or whatever on it. And judging by how wacky her mane was, she was at it all night."
Eddie huffed as he said, "That can't be healthy." 
Spike broke out in chuckles as he came to the counter with his and Eddie's egg casseroles. He sat on a chair while Brock held the plate with one hand and used a fork given to him with the other. 
"Please, you think that's bad? You should've seen how long she was at study when some tiny rock from space landed here. She was at it for two and a half days, and probably would've kept going. But to make sure she didn't over work herself, the last batch of coffee I gave her was drugged with some sleep aiding pills." Both the drake and human snickered at that as they enjoyed their breakfasts. 
They each heard slow hoof steps approaching from behind them. They turned around to see a frazzle-maned Twilight Sparkle with the sample of the symbiote held in a small vial within the grasp of her telekinesis. Despite her physical appearance, she sported a grin one would find on a foal at Hearth's Warming Eve. She saw both Spike and Eddie and exclaimed, "Ah, you two are up! That's good!" She turned her excited gaze to the man whom lent her the sample, "Thank you again for the sample! I've studied many organisms in the past, but never have I seen anything like this! These symbiotes have to be the most incredible forms of life I have ever witnessed!"
Spike offered Twilight some breakfast, which she graciously accepted. The trio finished their meals relatively fast, Eddie being curious of what that day had in store for him and his other half. During that moment, however, Eddie chose to remind Twilight on something. "Are you still using that?" He pointed to the vial that had the sample, at which Twilight released a small sigh. 
"While I would like to look at it more, I understand you need it back, or the symbiote in you." She popped the quirk off and hoofed the vial to Eddie. Both Spike and Twilight gasped lightly as they saw the seemingly immobile tar like sample immediately shoot right for Eddie and disappeared within him. 
Twilight began to pick on something previously unnoticed to her and her assistant. "Hey, since when did you have those clothes with you?" Spike, too, began to notice the clothes Eddie hadn't had on before. 
"Yeah, I didn't see those the other times."
Eddie smirked as he held his arms out wide. "Here's something I bet you didn't get from that sample, Twilight." The curious drake and alicorn found themselves shocked when the false clothing darkened to a pitch black and unraveled to tendrils. The tendrils came back down, and to the surprise of Twilight and Spike, morphed a simple white T-shirt, blue jeans, and a pair of black shoes. They also noticed the famous white spider symbol on a round black patch on the right shoulder of the shirt.
Twilight shook herself out of her stupor and rushed up to the buff man and began to inspect the false clothing on him. "That's incredible! Not only does it look like real clothes," she rubbed a hoof against the shirt, checking for any odd textures or surfaces but finding none, "but they feel just like it as well!" 
"It definitely comes in handy."
Spike thought aloud, "Gee, what Rarity wouldn't do for something like that." Eddie didn't know what he was referring to, but that remark brought a chuckle from Twilight. 
Twilight looked up at Brock with an eager smile as she said, "I was thinking, since you might be here awhile, I could show you around town. I know you already saw the town a bit, but..." 
"It was in chaos from pissed animals from the Everfree forest." finished Brock. 
Twilight brought a hoof to the back of her head as she continued, "Yeah.... Anyways, I thought it would be nice to show you around on a calm day, get better accustomed to the area." Eddie realized that day was the first real calm day for him ever since he arrived in that land, and would be best to spend it; besides, he was curious about the town, and thought that taking a small tour would be enjoyable. He agreed, and the two got prepared. 
Twilight offered Eddie to use one of the showers in the palace, which he graciously accepted, he hadn't realized how long he had gone without one. At the reminder from Spike, Twilight combed her mane and tail back to its usual straight and orderly self. Spike decided to stay back to catch up on his napping during his day off. Soon after, the two came ready for what that day had in store. 
The two exited the grand doors and were greeted to Celestia's sun as it bestowed upon the town its golden rays. Eddie embraced the cool, crisp air in a large breath, and exhaled back to nature. "Well, Eddie," Twilight began as she waved a hoof across the trees, buildings, ponies, and many other elements that made up the town. "Welcome to Ponyville." Eddie took in the scenery, it being one akin to an old fashion village. He saw carts with vendors, foals playing on the streets, birds in the air and chirping a merry tune, and many small but colorful buildings. 
They continued onward as Eddie spoke with a small smile, "I admit, when its not under attack by savage animals, its actually quite nice." Twilight chuckled with as they approached a stand with newspapers stacked on it. She plucked one within her magical grasp as she squinted her eyes at the front cover, then shone a small smile. 
"Well, look who's Mr. Popular." She floated the papers over to Eddie as the man picked it up with a quirked brow. The front page was nearly dominated with a picture of Venom swinging across the massive structures at Canterlot with a flaming pegasus battling him in the air. The headline read, "Monstrous Battle at Canterlot!" He read further and saw the paper did indeed recognize Venom from Manehattan, but what stood out was the picture of Eddie Brock off the side with the symbiote crushing the scrap that once was a blazing threat. Eddie read some, hummed, shrugged, and handed the paper back to Twilight. 
"Whoever was the journalist for that was alright, but he could've done the writing a bit better. Kept repeating 'huge' and 'epic' a lot." 
Twilight rolled her eyes at the remark as she trotted next to the human. "Well, why don't you try to do better? I heard journalism isn't as easy as one might think. 
Eddie gazed down at the purple alicorn with a deadpanned look. "Twilight, I did journalism for a living, and was one of the best at it. I still am, but depending on how long I'm here... well, I don't think my boss will take 'I was stuck in a land of talking magical ponies' as an excuse." 
Twilight's eyes brightened up as she asked Eddie, "You're a journalist? I wouldn't have taken you for a journalist." 
"Looks can be deceiving." When they walked through the crowds, the two began to notice that Brock was becoming a magnet to the eyes of many ponies. The ponies that had their newspapers with them glanced down at their papers and back to Eddie with a cautious look, and repeated the process over again. Ponies were halting whatever activity they were doing, both adult and child, and either stared at Brock with curiosity, trepidation, wonder, even amazement, or were whispering to others about him. 
Eddie could pick up the poorly whispered conversation of a mare and stallion, with him as the topic. "Hey, that's the thing in the papers!" 
"Yeah, but where's the other thing? Y'know, the scarier thing?" 
"Didn't you see the other pictures? I think he is that thing." 
Eddie payed no mind to the stares or chatter, but Twilight tried to reassure him, "Don't worry about that, they're just curious, is all." He nodded in understanding as they strode past a building that looked like a massive gingerbread house; it appeared like something out of Candy Land. 
Eddie rose an eyebrow at that with, "What the hell?" 
Twilight didn't understand what hell was, but knew Eddie was confused about the building he was staring at, "Oh, that's Sugar Cube Corner, where my friend Pinkie works, the one who asked you food related questions yesterday." 
"Right, the one who could bounce on her tail." Right as he finished that, a familiar pink party pony came out of the doors and went bouncing out of the building with a platter balanced on her head holding two vanilla cupcakes right at the two. 
She shouted merrily, "Hiya Twily! Hiya Eddie!" 
Twilight welcomed her with, "Hi Pinkie! Not to be rude, but how come you're out here and not in Sugar Cube Corner?" 
"I'm only out here to give these puppies," she pointed a hoof to the cupcakes above her, "to Eddie and Mr. Symbiote!" She brought a hoof to her chin as she thought aloud, "Though I think it could use a nickname. Maybe Bob? No, too simple..." Pinkie continued to mumble to herself as Eddie looked at the cupcakes with a small smile. 
"So that was why you asked what flavored icing we like. Thank you, Ms. Pie, I haven't had one of these in a while." 
Pinkie exited her self-rant and waved a hoof at Eddie as she informed him, "Please, Ms. Pie is my mom, just call me Pinkie!" Seen only by Eddie's eyes, the symbiote appeared as a skinny humanoid figure about the size of a pony, staring up at the cupcakes with a grin similar to Pinkie's. 
'Food, Eddie! More food!'
Eddie went to retrieve the cupcakes as he spoke to his other half aloud, "You already took most of the breakfast from me, pal, try not to take my cupcake either." 
Pinkie continued with her cheerful demeanor while Twilight looked at Brock with confusion. Her eyes shot up when she realized exactly who Eddie was talking to. "Oh! Are you talking to your symbiote? What's it saying?" 
Eddie took a bite of the cupcake before saying, "Well, it definitely likes your cupcakes, Pinkie." 
"Well thanks, symbiote!"
Eddie took more and more bites with satisfaction as he said, "As for me, one of the better cupcakes I've had, thanks."
She waved a hoof with, "No problem!" She began to trot back to Sugar Cube Corner as she looked back at the two. "I have to go back now, see you later!"
Twilight and Eddie both waved bye as they went forward. The symbiote spoke in the back of Eddie's mind, 'Cupcake is good. But not sufficient. Need food, Eddie. Need meat.' 
'I know, I've been relying on your metabolism too much. I'll get you some soon.' 
Their mental chatter was silenced when Twilight spoke up. "So, Eddie," she turned to look at him, "You come from a world with real superheroes and villains? Heck, you yourself are one. Could you tell me what some of them are like?" 
Eddie nodded as he began, "Well, Earth has a group called the Avengers, they're full of heroes and highly skilled agents meant to take on threats. Some of the more famous ones are those like Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and so much more. Unfortunately, there are just as many villains, like Doctor Doom, Galactus, and again, more. There are a lot, big and small, good or bad."
Twilight flashed a grin at Eddie, "Well, I bet your world views you and your friend as one of the greatest heroes."
She saw Eddie's face falter for a moment, but his face quickly returned to its calm state, "Well, some people have seen us as monsters. Both when we started and even recently." 
The purple alicorn spun to Eddie with shock etched all over her face. "What!?! But you two have done nothing but good since you got here! Sure, you two look terrifying together, but still! You guys said you do this a lot back at your home. Why don't they like you?" 
Eddie shook his head with a sigh, "Because, people never forget, and rarely forgive." He walked ahead as Twilight pondered over those words, but couldn't draw them to what Eddie was talking about. 
The symbiote picked up on something, and advised its host, 'Eddie, behind us. We are being watched.' He took its word and turned around to see, sure enough, a small crowd a few yards away. When the crowd realized Eddie was staring at them, they quickly spun their heads in any direction but his, and whistled a tune to try to appear normal. Key word being try. Twilight looked where Eddie was looking and saw what he saw. 
She sighed, and spoke apologetically, "Sorry, Eddie. They're just really curious, is all." 
"It's fine. Everyone always gets curious when something new pops up." 
They walked further into town as they ignored the slowly growing mass only a few yards behind them. Eventually, they noticed a familiar yellow pegasus, barely pulling the blatantly heavy bag of food with her teeth across the ground. Eddie sped his approach to her as he said, "Allow me." Fluttershy was too concentrated on moving the bag to have noticed Brock or Twilight, and stumbled back with an audible gasp. Eddie hefted the bag over his shoulder as Twilight helped her friend up. 
Fluttershy looked at the two with a low, "Oh, sorry, you two. I didn't hear you from trying to pull the bag of food." 
Twilight waved her hoof, "There's no need to apologize, Fluttershy. Feeding the animals, huh?" 
Fluttershy nodded with a small smile, when she looked up to see the buff man carrying the bag of food over his shoulder. 
She wore a worried look as she spoke with concern, "Can you carry that all right? It's okay if it's too heavy." 
Eddie walked past her as he chuckled. "I think you're forgetting who you're talking to, ma'am." 
Fluttershy's face flushed a bit as she spoke in an even quieter and softer tone, "Oh, you don't need to call me that. Fluttershy is fine." 
"All right, Fluttershy," he waved an arm for her to lead on, "lead the way."





The trio made it to Fluttershy's cottage in good time. They were inside, and Eddie was impressed at how many animals the rather shy pegasus was willing to take care of; it was practically a zoo. He set the bag down where Fluttershy requested it. She went to her kitchen to make tea along with Twilight while Eddie observed the miniature jungle that was the home of Fluttershy. There were many animals scurrying along, even some that most would consider pests. Like the ponies in the town, though, most of the animals were staring at him. Their expressions were a bit harder to read, but he was willing to bet they were the same to what the ponies before were thinking. He also noticed a white rabbit giving him a hard glare, but never confronted him. From what Eddie figured from his time in Equestria, the animals there weren't quite sapient, but seemed to have more spirit and emotions in them than most animals on Earth. It intrigued him, but it also fell perfectly into the category of shows for kids as well. The animals that used their sense of smell more than the other four senses seemed to sniff the air around him a lot as well. There was even a bear watching him with narrowed eyes through one of the windows. 
The two ponies came back into the living room, Twilight levitating a tray with three cups of tea on them. "Thank you again, Fluttershy." 
The two ponies sat down on the couch as the tray was placed down on the table. Eddie stood with tea in hands as Fluttershy replied, "Oh, it's no trouble at all. After all, it's the least I could do for what you've done." As she finished that, the white rabbit hopped over to her, along with some other small animals, and began rapidly chattering to her. Brock rose a brow at the display with Fluttershy listening to the rabbit. She nodded her head after the rabbit stopped, and spoke to it, "Angel, that's Eddie. He and his friend are stuck here, and the princesses are trying to find a way back for them." A skunk approached her and made confused chattering noises which she listened intently on. "I don't smell anything odd with him, your smelling might just be picking up scents better." A squawk from a parrot came from the end of the room. "Oh, well, you see, his friend is special. It's called a symbiote, and it lives inside of him." Excited chatter erupted from the animals from that comment, but Angel spoke a question only she and the other animals could understand, with Twilight awaiting what she would say, and Eddie amazed at the whole ordeal. 
"Oh, what'd he do? Well, not only did he and his friend stop thieves from Manehattan, but they also battled some flying thing that was on fire. He was also here during the Everfree invasion where they battled a hydra." The animals had various, reactions to that, some with fear of what exactly Eddie and his friend were, and others with hints of pride. "Oh, he also saved some of my friends and myself from manticores. Who knows what would've happened if they didn't come in?" 
In that moment, everything in and around the cottage paused. There was no scurrying, no chattering, no movement. At that moment, all the animals were staring intensely at Eddie Brock. Twilight and Fluttershy looked around confused, and Eddie would be lying if he said he wasn't unnerved a bit by the sudden shift to the unreadable looks all the animals were giving to Eddie. 
The symbiote spoke within, 'Did we offend them?' 
'No, we didn't.' 
All of the sudden, those blank faces contorted into happy grins, and all at once the animals all let out a cheer before rushing Brock. Eddie could barely spit out his tea as all the animals converged on him and wrapped their limbs all around him in one massive hug. Even Angel hopped over to pat him on the leg. Eddie's eyes were wide, but before he could question exactly what was going on, he twisted his head, the only part of his body that could move freely, to the sound of a door being knocked down. He watched with an agape jaw and wide eyes as the bear from before was rushing him with an eager grin, ready to give his own literal bear hug. To have avoided being knocked over, the symbiote wrapped around Eddie and gave him the white spider and obvious features of Venom. 
Both ponies stared with wide eyes, but Twilight began laughing at the odd scene while Fluttershy was making an 'aww' at the sight before them. There stood a heavily confused Venom, with all the animals that were in or out of the cottage giving him one massive hug, accompanied by joyful chattering, thankful licking, curious sniffing, or some even resting on his shoulders or head, all the while Venom was staring ahead with large and confused eyes. The bear murmured something which the other animals agreed to. The wicked webslinger clearly didn't understand, which Fluttershy picked up on as she translated, "They say 'Thank you'! They're really happy for what you've done." 
Venom slowly nodded as he gently brought his right arm with some animals still clinging on to it, and patted the bear on the head, still wearing the stunned expression on his face. "Yes, well, there is no need to thank us. Your happiness is reward enough." There are many rare sights with characters of Earth: Spider-Man punching Captain America, the Hulk wearing a maid's outfit, and many other odd and ridiculous things. Venom being hugged by nearly every animal was likely one of them. 
The bear pulled off and went outside, but came back in with a large fish. He handed it in front of the Lethal Protector with a face that read 'take it'. Venom was about to decline, until the symbiote eagerly spoke, 'Food, Eddie! Delicious, sweet, meat!' Eddie realized his other half was right, and thanked the bear while taking the massive meal. He was oblivious to the flash and click of a camera in the hooves of Fluttershy. He also found it interesting how the animals didn't mind or didn't care about the sudden change to Venom, but would welcome it as he chowed down on the fish.   





"Well, the animals certainly seemed to love you."
"I'm still finding feathers all over myself, that really was an odd experience." 
The two were walking back to town after Eddie and the symbiote experienced nature's love, literally. That time they stuck to the edges of town to avoid massive crowds, but the buff man still managed to draw the eyes of the ponies. After some time, Eddie recognized the orchard he was at the last time he was in Ponyville. Twilight spoke up, "This is Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack and her family own and run the place." Eddie nodded as they continued down the trail. "This is usually the time Applejack is applebucking, so we might see her somewhere." Sure enough, they soon heard the noise of apple trees being bucked accompanied by many apples falling and landing on a wooden surface. They spotted the farm mare bucking the trees only some yards off, and quickly approached her. 
Applejack heard the approaching steps, and paused to look over at the purple alicorn and buff man. She stopped as she smiled and welcomed, "Well, howdy Twilight and Eddie. What're y'all doin' here?" 
Twilight returned the expression with, "I've been showing Eddie around Ponyville, and thought showing him the place where the best apples are grown would be a good spot to stop by." 
Applejack chuckled as she said with pride, "Darn right. Nopony grows better apples than the Apple family!" She turned to Eddie with the same smile and offered, "Hey, how 'bout ya two try an apple pie? They're just made, and on the house." 
He was about to politely decline until the alien within spoke eagerly, 'More food, Eddie!' 
'Damn it, you already took the majority of my breakfast, and had a whole fish. How hungry are you?'
'...Is good food... you can have some too, if you want...'
'Fine...'
After his mental debate, Eddie looked down at the farm mare, and replied with a cool smile, "If you're offering, lunch is soon anyways." 
Twilight agreed as well, and she nodded as she trotted off to the farm house, Eddie having leaned against one of the many apple trees. He closed his eyes for a small rest, until he heard three, shrill, high voices shout with glee, "Eddie!" 
His eyes snapped open as he saw three galloping fillies he hadn't seen in awhile, the Cutie Mark Crusaders. They screeched to a halt only a few feet from him, and looked up at him eagerly. Scootaloo was the first to speak, "I heard you fought a hydra! That's so awesome!" 
Applebloom was the next to pipe up, "Ah heard ya fought some doohicky that was on fire in Canterlot!" Twilight chuckled at the fillies' antics, as Eddie looked with amusement. 
He noticed, however, that Sweetie Belle wasn't as optimistic as her other Crusaders, and even seemed crestfallen. Eddie decided to find out what was wrong, and asked her, "Is something wrong, Sweetie Belle?" 
She looked up at him with sad eyes, and said guiltily, "We pinkie promised not to tell anypony about your secret, but we told anyways. The adults wanted us to and said it was okay, but I still feel bad, I'm sorry for breaking our promise." 
The other two were infected with her sad state, and began to look down, not able to meet Eddie's gaze.
To their surprise, he softly responded, "It's not your fault, I understand the pressure adults put on their children to tell them something they want to know. All is forgiven." 
The three fillies' heads shot up simultaneously with an unbelievable, "Really!?!" 
Eddie nodded as the Crusaders became relieved again. Scootaloo eagerly spoke up, "Oh, oh! Could you tell us about one of your awesome adventures?" The other two nodded in agreement, and even Twilight seemed interested about one of Venom's adventures. Eddie looked up in thought, as he thought of a suitable story for foals. 
It had to be something quick, so none of the long ones. Something children could like or understand. His team up with the Punisher was something he remembered well, but he was not a character to be associated with children. Spider-Man adventures might have been fine, but they would have likely not understood why Venom was battling a superhero. His team up with Wolverine was one to consider, but also dismissed due to some of the gore in it. The time he and Scream were captured and had to kill a Xenophage was a match to remember, but that might've scared the foals.
And, of course, there was no way in hell he was going to tell foals any story that had Carnage in it, at all. They wanted entertainment, not to be traumatized. 
He eventually thought of one of his more recent adventures and picked a rather simple, but fun one, "How about the time I fought a community of dinosaur people, and their leader, Stegron the dinosaur man?" The fillies took in breaths of anticipation, they were clearly eager to hear that one. 
So he told of his time of how he started working for Alchemax, how he fought the dinosaur people in the sewers, working together with Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, defeating Stegron, and freeing the dinosaur people from his mind control. 
"Wow, that was so awesome!" 
Applejack appeared with two apple pies, and hooved them to Eddie and Twilight with a, "Here ya go, fresh from the oven!" 
He thanked her, and took the pie. He enjoyed it, the symbiote enjoyed it even more, and the fillies loved the story. 
He and Twilight gave their goodbyes to them and vice versa as the two exited the orchard. 





The day was getting later, and the two were still on a tour around the town. There were much less ponies around than before, but still enough where the effect of stares could be felt by both Eddie and Twilight. That time, they passed by a light purple building that stood at a point, and looked rather fancy. "This is the Carousel Boutique, where my friend Rarity works at and makes clothes." Eddie hummed as they noticed the owner herself towards the entrance and bidding farewell to a customer. 
She noticed Eddie and Twilight and waved them over with her hoof with a cool smile. "Twilight, Eddie, what brings you by this time of day?" 
"Just showing Eddie around town, is all." Answered Twilight. A thought then entered her mind which caused her to snicker. Both Rarity and Eddie looked at her confused, as she looked between the two with goofy eyes. "Hey, Eddie, could you show her the thing? You know, the thing with the clothes?" 
"Whatever do you mean, darling?" Rarity looked over to Twilight with confusion written all over her face, but Eddie nodded, though he didn't see the importance as to why Rarity would be super intrigued by another shape shifting technique of the symbiote. 
Rarity was taken aback as his outfit darkened to deepest of blacks, then his fake outfit unraveled and came back down again, but she could only stare with wide eyes as the black tendrils came to be a brown leather jacket with a badge of a white spider, black jeans, black shirt, and a pair of boots. Rarity couldn't believe her eyes, as Twilight snickered at the sight of Rarity's flabbergasted expression, with Brock having one raised eye brow. She locked eyes with Eddie as she shouted, "Again!" 
"If you insist." The process was repeated, but the clothes formed a buisness suit and tie, the white spider being part of the tie. Rarity slowly came to Eddie, eyes locked squarely on the fake clothing. Eddie allowed her to reach a hoof to feel the suit, as she kept muttering to herself in awe, as if the suit itself were a holy object. 
"Perfect stitching, looks like the material, feels like the material... it's perfect." Eddie understood why Twilight wanted him to show Rarity that, as she still erupted in giggles at the sight. "Oh... how I wish I could get my hooves on one of these symbiotes." Her eyes lit up as she looked at Eddie with a pleading look. "Say, you don't suppose I could--"
"No." Was the firm answer she got. 
"B-but I--"
"No means no." She saw that Eddie was frowning with furrowed brows, obviously not giving into her requests. 
Rarity sighed with a disappointed, "Fine..." She turned her sights at Twilight, and gave her a glare. "You rose my spirits, Twilight, only for them to get crushed." 
Twilight waved a hoof dismissively with a reassured, "Oh, come on, Rarity. You still make the best clothes, you don't need an alien to be with you to get great clothes." 
Rarity lightened up at the comment, and reciprocated it with, "Well thank you, Twilight. You know just what to say to make a pony smile." She turned to head into her abode, as she looked back at the two, "I will see you two later. Have a nice time, Eddie." And with that, the two continued on. 





The two had seen many other places within the town, and Eddie had to admit, it was a nice little town. The day had gotten much later, and the night was crawling over and onto the horizon. Ponies were beginning to call it a night, and the two decided to head back to the palace. It was a silent walk back, nothing much being said between the pony and the man, as well as the man and the Klyntar. 
That silence was interrupted with a, "Hey, egghead!" Eddie and Twilight looked up to see a cyan pegasus hover down in front of the two. She looked over to Eddie and gave a nod of acknowledgement, one he returned, then turned back to her purple friend. "How's it going? I just came by and saw you and came for a quick stop." 
"Good so far, I've just been showing--" 
Her talk was interrupted by a loud crash, followed by the sound of galloping hooves. The three spun their heads to see one of Ponyville's shops with a busted window, and three ponies with black masks around their faces gallop off with bags of large sums of various treasures. 
Rainbow Dash was the first to take action as she shouted to the fleeing ponies, "Hey! That's not yours!" She then took off after the three, as Twilight adopted a scowl and flew off as well. 
Eddie sighed, as his symbiotic other questioned, 'Thieves again?' 
The symbiote began to cover him as he said, "Better than super villains, at least." 
The few ponies on the street looked with panicked faces as the three thieves ran past them with stolen loot. 
"Hey, buster!" The thief on the left could barely twist his head to the voice, as a rainbow blur slammed into him and tackled him into the dust. She pinned him down and subdued him as a purple flash emitted in front of the thief on the right. 
His eyes rose in panic as he screeched to a halt, and tried to backpedal from the purple alicorn. It was of no use, as Twilight simply levitated him, and cast a small dome to form around him, trapping him. He slammed his hooves against the barrier in a desperate attempt to escape, but to no avail. She repeated the process on the thief which was being pinned by Rainbow Dash. The ponies on the sides watched and cheered on the two Elements, as the two turned their sights to the last thief.
The thief looked back to see he was the last one, as well as two pursuing Elements. He shouted in defiance, "You'll never catch me ali--umph!" The pony slammed into something hard and bounced back into the ground. 
"Maybe, but we certainly can." 
The thief quickly shook his head, and looked up to see the fierce creature that was Venom. At the sight alone of his teeth that may as well have been daggers, the long twisting and curving tongue with toxic saliva, and the sadistic grin, the thief screamed like a filly and scurried backwards in a futile attempt to escape the Lethal Protector. 
The citizens stared at Venom, some screamed, some began breathing rapid and small breaths, others stared in awe and fascination.  The terrified thief twisted around and tried to gallop off, but with a 'thwip', the back hooves of the thief were covered in webbing and stuck to the ground. Before the thief could do anything in protest, a thick tendril sprouted from Venom's shoulder and knocked him in the face hard enough to cause him to collapse on the ground unconscious. 
Twilight and Rainbow strode over to the defeated thief, with Twilight thanking the Lethal Protector with a smile, "Thanks, you two. Of all the days something had to happen, it had to be today." 
"Well, with this dude around," Rainbow pointed a hoof toward Venom, "they chose the wrong day." 
Twilight collected the sacks within her magical grasp as she turned around, "I'm going to take these back to where they belong. Eddie, or Venom, you can go ahead and head back to the palace, I'll meet you there. Rainbow, could you get the guards to arrest these ponies?" 
Rainbow smirked and saluted before taking off like a rocket, whereas Venom nodded and turned around as he opted to sling across some of the slightly taller buildings via webbing. 
When the area was empty of the three, the civilians had different reactions.
"Why didn't the princess stop that thing!?! It's clearly a monster of some kind!" Shouted a mare. 
One of the other ponies spun in her direction with an aggressive look as he nearly shouted, "Hey! that 'thing' helped stop those thieves, and then some in Manehattan and Canterlot! Show a bit more respect, would you?" Many of the ponies nodded or mumbled in agreement. 
Another pony spoke up, "Yeah, right. Nothing that looks like that could possibly be good. It's probably just a ploy, or something." Fewer of the ponies didn't nod, but considered their words. 
"Oh, now that's just stupid. Didn't anypony ever teach you to not judge a book by its cover? 'Sides, I think he actually looks kinda cool."
Both sides argued whether Venom was truly there to protect, or there for some darker purpose. Whatever the ponies thought, the fact couldn't be changed that he has done very good deeds in Equestria. The ponies hoped it would stay that way.