100--Anti-Venom by Green-Mamba on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Here it is, character entry number one-freaking-hundred--never, ever, in a million years, did I think I would ever make it this far in this project. But this isn't it yet, still plenty more character entries after this one!

Regarding the character himself, Anti-Venom...

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When last seen, Eddie Brock in his new hybridized form, had been taken out by the Outlaws and taken back into Julia Carpenter's custody. Now not taking any chances, Carpenter got Curt Connors (who was also relatively recently brought back into her custody following Kraven's Last Hunt) to head up a team laser focused in removing that damn suit from him as soon as possible, even if it meant endangering Eddie's life--the shit Eddie had pulled in his stints as Venom and the hybrid... he just wasn't worth the worry any more at this point.

The amount of time Eddie had spent bonded to the black suit had made removal very difficult, especially with the Carnage symbiote and the quasi symbiotes of Carrion and Doppelganger mixed in. It eventually came to light that the hybridized suit had actually bonded so closely to Eddie that it was essentially keeping him alive; Eddie hadn't properly eaten real food or slept any normal amount since becoming Venom during the Revenge of the Sinister Six, and underneath his suit his actual body had been turning withered and frail. Carpenter pushed Connors to remove the suit anyway, and they succeeded in isolating the original black suit components and separating it entirely from Eddie's body, even shipping it out of state just to keep it from him.

Separated from his "other half," Eddie likely didn't have much longer to live, but either way Eddie didn't have much time to ponder thoughts on wasting away in his cell. Only a few days after his suit had been shipped out of the state an enormous commotion started outside of Eddie's holding cell, and the power suddenly went dark, the laser wires keeping Eddie and several other inmates imprisoned dissipating. When Eddie shambled out to see what was going on outside his room, he saw Spider-man in a tussle with a white wraith like figure with black portals all over his body.

Apparently, Spider-man had recently captured the "Spot" and had helped Carpenter's people take him back to their facility, but whatever they had been using to contain him wore off by the time they reached the facility and now he was running amok, as were some other inmates, like the Scorpion and Hydro-Man. Without the suit Eddie didn't think he had any chance to bust out like they were attempting, but before he could react a stray portal was flung his way from the Spot, crashing through his door's window and sucking Eddie into it.

When Eddie came to he found himself in a darkened room with a bunch of creepy men in masks surrounding him, except one. He was Mr. Negative, and he spoke to Eddie. He told him that the Spot prank was actually entirely orchestrated to get Eddie out of Carpenter's claws--apparently one of the scientists working on Eddie under Connors' direction was one of his undercover inner demons, and they had been keeping track of Eddie's condition. His inner demons had absconded with the Carnage half of the suit removed from Eddie, and Negative had his lab workers imbue the symbiote piece with SHATHRA nanites to help Negative exert control over it, but control had eluded them, and bonding the new "anti-symbiote" to both nanite laced inner demons and to normal humans had eaten them alive.

But Connors' work had revealed that portions of the quasi-symbiotes of Doppelganger and Carrion had embedded themselves within Eddie's bloodstream, and Negative's scientists agreed that this could potentially protect Eddie from the anti-symbiote's damaging effects. So they were offering the newly changed suit to Eddie. And Eddie was only happy to oblige--what else did he have to lose at this point?

The white anti-symbiote totally enveloped Eddie's body, and true to their predictions, his body withstood its ravenous appetite, and he stabilized it into a new suit. In fact, he exerted so much control over it that he surprised even Mr. Negative when he attempted to exert control over him, and Eddie did not respond. Realizing the monster he had just created Negative ordered his demons to attack Eddie, but Eddie made short work of them all while Negative escaped. While looking through the building to get his bearings, Eddie found several documents around and realized he was in the basement of one of Martin Li's homeless shelters, and Eddie put two and two together--he knew who the elusive crime boss actually was. Perhaps the only person who did.

Eddie had a long list of new things to take care of, but this suddenly made it more interesting...

--As for the Spot and the breakout, Peter and Carpenter's people succeeded in containing the breakout and containing the Spot, who's not easy to hold in a jail cell, you know? Apparently the Spot had been found by Negative's men after his initial appearance and Negative was able to bring him back under his own control instead of whatever had been controlling him when he transformed the first time.

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So yeah, Anti-Venom. Eddie's still at it. I didn't do much with his design outside of adapting it into my established symbiote design. Maybe I changed the spider symbol a bit on to match my Venom's symbol, but not really much to say here. I guess I also altered his eyes to look more like lenses as I don't really have an established look akin to Anti-Venom's riff on Mac Gargan's Venom design with his visible eyes.

And yeah, I can't believe I actually made it to number one-hundred. Yowza.