What if: Venom - Let There Be Carnage (english)

Chapter 9: Final Fight

Anne and Dan were packing because they wanted to escape the city, as Eddie had recommended.

Anne was just locking the cat in his carrier and putting it on the table so that Dan could put him in the car. She took over packing the things they would probably need in the next days and only took the bare essentials, but there was still a lot of luggage. Anne was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't notice when Mr. Belvedere started to hiss and crawled into the farthest corner of his carrier.

She was just turning around and was about to call out to Dan when she noticed that it wasn't him coming up the stairs, but a strange woman in a yellow coat who was now standing in front of her.

»Where's Eddie Brock?«, she asked briskly.

»I'm certainly not going to tell you«, Anne replied with so much fervor that the woman's mood suddenly plummeted.

»Too bad, I had to knock out your fiancé. I didn't want to hurt you too.« Her look and the emphasis on the words revealed that that was a lie.

Anne remained adamant and didn't say a word.

»It's a shame to hurt you. But then hopefully my fiancé will be happy with you for now until your boyfriend comes.«

Anne couldn't even react before she reached out and headbutted her.

Eddie and Venom finally arrived at Anne's home and stormed through the door, which was shockingly open. When they reached the top, they found Dan leaning against the wall, unconscious. Anne was nowhere to be found. Eddie ran up to him, took the glass of water from the table and spilled it in his face. Dan jumped up and looked surprised when he saw who was standing in front of him.

»Eddie...«, he stammered, confused, that was all he could say.

He had to come to his senses first and tried to get up. Eddie held out his hand and helped him up.

»Where's Anne?!« Eddie asked in panic.

»They kidnapped her.« He looked depressed.

»SHIT!« Eddie shouted angrily, causing Dan to back away in shock.

»Do you know where they were going?«

Dan shook his head.

Alex was about to find out. She couldn't stop thinking about the ring the woman had taken. Why did she break into Eddie's house? Was she Kasady's accomplice? Why did she take the ring?

And so she rummaged through the documents again. She noticed the rings again. Next to them was the angel that she had seen in the other picture. Did he want to get married? An angel? What if he meant the woman?

She found the picture with the verse and went through the lines again. A broken angel and a cathedral.

Hadn't she seen a church somewhere earlier? She searched through the whole stack until she found it. When Alex looked at it more closely, it looked much more like a cathedral.

A perfect place to get married.

And wouldn't they need a hiding place too?

Eddie was running in circles while Dan was recovering when suddenly his cell phone rang again. It was Alex.

»Eddie! I've got it. I know where they are now!«

»What, where from?«, he asked, now completely surprised.

»Do you remember when I asked who he meant by the angel?«, she didn't wait for his reaction.

»I went through all the things again and found out that he wanted to marry her, but of course that didn't happen. The woman earlier took the ring with her, so I think that's exactly what they're planning to do now! So I looked for all the cathedrals in the city and found out that Grace Cathedral is currently being renovated and is therefore closed. I assume that they want to be undisturbed and that's why I think that they're there!«