VENOM

Shriek

The choice was agonizing. Venom fought against Leo, monster against man, trying to make a decision.
They will never accept us for who we are, boy!
"We need to try. They can wait another day, our family cannot!"
All our enemies in one room, we'll never get another chance like this.
"And what happens when we achieve it, if we lose the people we fought for? We'll be empty, alone." Venom snarled, then fell silent.
Well, what are we waiting for?
Leo grinned, and pressed the button that led to the office floor.

The ride was slow and painful. On top of tbe thunderstorm that was forming outside, they both resented each other. Venom was angry at the decision, but at the promise that they would hunt down their enemies, he relented.
Well, at least the hunt will be thrilling. It wouldn't be so fun if they were all in one room.
"That's the spir-" they got cut off when the door opened, and saw Samantha, Thomas, and Amelia, all strapped to chairs. Behind them, stood Schema, with a syringe in his hand.
"Hello, Mr. Newton. I see you chose to come to the rescue. Unexpected, but a welcome surprise. I was wondering..." he slowly stepped behind Samantha's chair. "..what the effects of Venom would be on a female. We've seen that it turns a man into a raging engine of terror, but what of a woman?" He rested the needle tip against Sam, and she jumped, tears streaming down her face, and her lip quivered as she held in a scream.
"Be strong Sam." They said together. "It'll be okay."
"Oh, I don't think it will be." He sneered, and plunged it into the side of her neck. She let out a soft shriek, followed by a louder one. Venom lunged at Schema and tossed him against the wall.
"We'll rip you apart!"
"Ah, ah ah." He giggled madly. "Who's more important, me or her?" They glanced back at her, she had completely lost control of herself. She ripped free of her restraints, and shrieked in a high pitch, an unholy scream. Venom held onto his head and roared, and Schema quickly made his escape out the hallway.

Samantha held onto her temples and flung herself around. Black and yellow ooze began seeping through the injection site in her neck, and quickly covered her body. Her hair became black and leathery, like a bundle of whips stapled to a skull. Ooze wrapped around her mouth and elongated it into a devilish grin, just like Venom's, with sharp teeth and a long, pink tongue. The two met eyes, and Sam..the symbiote, screamed again at them, and lunged. Thomas and his mother screamed as the two monsters clashed.
"Sam..it's me. It's us. Leo, Venom." The two scratched and grabbed at her arms as she slammed her fists into their chest. Venom was significantly taller and bulkier, but this new symbiote was fast.
"We..we are..Shriek!" The monster snarled, biting at Venom's neck. This made Leo lose all control, as the beast began going on the offense. He kneed her in the face, and punched repeatedly in the stomach until the fresh monster collapsed. Venom retracted, and Leo knelt down.
"Oh Sam..what did he do to you?"

The beast's eyes shot open, and Shriek backhanded Leo, sending him crashing through a window, and down the side of the building, out into the storm outside.
That's it! We kill that thing!
Leo used the symbiote's clawed hand to get a grip on the building, and looked up.
"No, it's just like us, V, she's scared, they both are. We need to restrain her..them."
Well you better come up with something quick, because here they come.
Sure enough, Shriek was missile-diving straight for them, her claws extended and her mouth wide. Leo kicked off the building, and landed onto the rain soaked pavement below in a 'superhero landing' position. The two symbiotes squared off in the torrent of rain and lightning, their white, elongated eyes staring at Leo's dark green.
"Calm down, Shriek." They reassured. "It's normal to be this way, you need to pull back on the reins."
"Shut up!" They snarled, their own voices combined. "You failed us! Failed! Now we're this..monster."
They stood, and approached Shriek as simply Leo in his hoodie and jeans, as Samantha remembered him.
"We can help you tame the symbiote." Shriek slashed at them, ripping a giant hole in Venom. He snarled, and healed, but Leo kept him tame.
"How can you help us? You can't help yourself!"
"We..we're working on it." Leo stepped forward.
"You both just need to relax. Take a deep breath. Venom can speak to Shriek, I'll speak to Sam. Sound good?" The symbiote tilted it's head, then quickly retracted into Sam's neck, and she fell forward, unconscious. As was with Leo, her clothes changed to a simple yellow tank top and black sweatpants. Leo picked her up, holding her head steady, and carried her up to the office floor.

Tommy and his mother were still in the office chairs, strapped in and shaking. They both sighed in relief when Leo walked in the room, but gasped when they saw he was carrying Sam.
"Is she.." Amelia began.
"No, only unconscious." Leo set her down and formed his hand into a blade, slashing the restraints.
"What do we do now?" Tommy asked.
"You come with us." Came a voice. Behind them came a team of soldiers following an agent: Madan. "You did a damn good job clearing out this building, now my boys can get to work on those files."
"So this was your 'reasons', Madan?" Leo and Venom snarled. "What about our family?"
"They will be transported to a safe location, along with you. There, you can prepare for a globe trotting assassination contract on the scientists."
"Dead, or alive?"
"Dead."
"Then you've called the right people, agent Madan."