//------------------------------// // The Spider's VENOM // Story: A Fresh Start // by ultspideyfan //------------------------------// "No! We do not eat the heads of super heroes remember!" VENOM stopped. "But he attacked us!" "Don't eat him!" VENOM growled, but he obeyed his host's wish. "Guards are coming. Better head back home." "He's coming with us." "Fine!" Brock's place, morning "Wakey wakey Petey." Peter's eyes flutter open. Peter looks around until his eyes lay on a stallion. He was an Earth Pony, as Peter couldn't see a horn or a set of wings. That's when reality struck Parker. "How do you know who I am!" Peter was demanding rather than asking. Peter noticed his mask was resting on a table. "Okay, first things first, it's me Eddie! We go way back my friend. And second, you were making weird noises in your sleep so I took off your mask thinking you needed to breathe." Peter sat upright on the sofa. He noticed he was wearing a large jacket. It was zipped up thankfully. "I can breath just fine with the mask on you know." "How the hell am I supposed to know that?" Peter looked away from Eddie. His mind raced back to what he could try and remember. "Say Eddie." "Yeah Pete?" Brock was in his fridge pulling out some leftovers. "What the actual hell was that thing? "Oh you mean VENOM. He's a parasite thing from space. He's stuck with me." "Parasite! Are you fucking kidding me Eddie!" "So what, are you a hero or something?" "I try to be." "Then I'm guessing your also looking into the murder of those train workers." Brock nodded tossing Peter some apple cider. Peter popped the bottle open and drank the sweet liquid. "And then you came along and try to hurt us. We beat your ass, now your here." "Why do you keep saying we and us instead of I?" "Cause that's what happens when you have an alien symbiote inside you for three years." "I'm going to look into the murders some more and try to find out who the killer is. You could be my extra pair of hands." "Sounds like a plan." "We'll help, but please don't make us kick your ass again." "I would've won that fight!" "But ya didn't." Spider-Mane swings through Ponyville, his destination none other than the train station. VENOM was close behind. "I hope Brock's got some form of control over that thing. To be honest, it actually freaks me out." Spidey and VENOM land on a hut. Royal guards were scattered around the train. "You go and check things out. We'll stay up here as look out." Spider-Mane nodded before jumping down. Spidey lands near the train. Once inside he begins his investigation. "Huh? Is that a...scale?" Spidey picks up a scale from the control panel that had a fist in it. As he scans the scale he hears somepony approaching. Quickly he jumps out of the train and onto the perch point. "Did you find anything little Spider?" "Yeah I did." He holds up the scale for VENOM to see. "Is that a dragon scale?" The scan was complete. The scale identified as that of a goblin. "A goblin scale?" Spider-Mane's lense shift. Then it hits him. He's fear has come true. He thought he could run away from him and try to live a semi-normal life. "I just doomed all of Ponyville if he's here." VENOM was still confused. "If who's here? What species does that scale belong to?" Spider-Mane looks at VENOM. The symbiote could feel his fear. "The Goblin has followed me."