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Quote1 Hey! I'm here. I'm helping. My life is a hot garbage fire and I am here. But you're chasing answers to a question about you and your place in the multiverse, or whatever, that might not be able to be answered on -- on our level. This is all -- it's just a reminder that we really have no real control... Quote2
—Peter Parker

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Reprint of the 1st story from
Spider-Men II #4

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Spider-Men II #4
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Venom #156

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Reprint of the 1st story from
Venom #156

In the sewers of New York, Tana — a pterosaur dinosaur-hybrid — searches for prey, recalling when she had once been a Spanish animal biologist by the name of Julia Fontana. Spotting a rat, she pounces on it and begins to eat, recalling that she had previously been a vegetarian for twenty years before her transformation. Engrossed in her meal, Tana does not notice a knife-wielding man watching her from a nearby tunnel with a predatory smile.

At a Chinese restaurant, Eddie Brock consumes a bowl of dan dan noodles, telling the hungry symbiote that if it's still hungry afterwards he'll get it a steak. A nearby customer turns and asks Eddie who he's talking to, but Eddie glares at him and tells him to learn to mind his own business.

After the meal, Eddie walks home grousing about the man's obnoxiousness. When the symbiote asks why he's mad at an innocent, Eddie retorts that the man was an idiot, then explains to the confused symbiote that just because they save innocents doesn't mean they have to like them. Opening the door to his apartment, Eddie notices a rancid odor and spots saurian footprints on the floor. Entering, he sees Tana huddled next to his bed, having thrown up onto it and bleeding from lacerations to her arm and face. She introduces herself and apologizes for the mess, and Eddie — inwardly lamenting that the day is going to suck — asks her what happened.

At a luxury apartment, Kraven the Hunter stands shirtless in front of a window as his manservant Dmitri approaches and asks if he was successful. Kraven remarks that the Fact Sheet article was indeed correct and that he chased a dinosaur-person through three miles of pipes, observing that despite their reptilian appearance they seem to be homeothermic. Noting that he can't afford to underestimate their strength, he tells Dmitri to fetch his .585 Gehringer rifle, cheerfully proclaiming the hunt begins that night.

At Eddie's apartment, Tana tells him she was chased by a savage man who toyed with her, appearing out of nowhere to cut her every time she thought she'd lost him. Binding her wounds, Eddie asks how she found him, and she states she followed the scent of his symbiote — which notes it can change its smell if Eddie wants. Eddie asks why she came to him, and Tana states it's because he's the Savior, calling the man who attacked her a monster and a terror, and saying that Eddie is someone who stops the terrors. The symbiote urges Eddie to take action and protect the innocent, so Eddie tells her to show him where she was attacked.

In the sewers, Tana shows Venom where she last saw the man who attacked her. Venom asks if she's sure he was human, and Tana states that while he was a relentless beast he was still human. Venom asks if she can't track the man the way she did him, but Tana says the man has no scent. Retracting the symbiote from his face, Eddie laments that she hasn't given him enough intel to go off of, but is interrupted by the arrival of an Ankylosaurus hybrid, who demands to know where Tana has been. Tana explains she was attacked and went to Venom for help, but the Ankylosaurus hybrid scolds her for not going to the community and bothering the Savior with a trivial matter.

Satisfied that Tana will be safe among her people, Eddie prepares to leave, but the symbiote warns him of incoming danger. A high-caliber bullet punches through the Ankylosaurus hybrid's neck, killing him, and Venom turns to see Kraven the Hunter taking aim at Tana. As Venom lunges claws-first at him, Kraven tosses the rifle aside and pulls out his hunting knife, bemused by the unexpected challenge. Slamming into Kraven and pinning him, Venom demands to know why he killed the Ankylosaurus hybrid, but Kraven responds by stabbing Venom in the side. Roaring in pain, Venom recoils and Kraven gets up, remarking he'll make better prey than the dinosaur-people. Venom blocks Kraven's slash with his arm, and the Hunter escapes down the tunnel stating he didn't realize there was another apex predator lurking in the sewers. When Venom protests that he protects the innocent, Kraven sneers that if he is not a predator then he is prey. Noting Venom's similarities to Spider-Man, Kraven leaps over a conspicuously-arranged pile of garbage, adding that Venom is more impulsive and not nearly as smart when he barrels through the pile and triggers the massive bear-trap hidden underneath. As Kraven states his intent to claim Venom's head, Venom snares him with webbing, laughing as he declares he's going to eat Kraven. Kraven cuts himself free and slams into a pipe before fleeing down a ledge. Freeing himself from the trap, Venom lunges after Kraven with his jaws gaping and tongue protruding, only to take a high-caliber bullet point-blank in the shoulder as Kraven retrieves his previously-discarded rifle. Smashing the gun with a tendril, Venom flees, bleeding profusely from the wound. Eddie exclaims that he thought the symbiote was bulletproof; but the symbiote corrects him, saying its biomass can be penetrated by large-enough projectiles. Kraven vows to be ready for a rematch, while Eddie partially retracts the symbiote, noting the bullet is still in the wound. The symbiote extracts it and states it will heal him, but Eddie tells it the damage is too severe and to get him to a hospital before passing out from the pain. As Venom emerges from the sewers in an alley, the symbiote notes Eddie is unconscious but can't remember where the hospital is. The symbiote vows to save Eddie, frightening a couple with its increasingly monstrous appearance.

At his lab in Alchemax Tower, Dr. Steven enjoys a blue Pikachu look-a-like-themed bowl full of cereal while watching Fact Channel news, remarking that he doesn't like the new anchoress and preferred J. Jonah Jameson. The anchoress reveals that an article published three days prior in the Fact Channel's new sister paper, the Fact Sheet -- claiming that a community of humanoid dinosaurs is living in the sewers and tunnels of Manhattan and the Bronx -- has proven true. Dr. Stevens remarks that this isn't good news, and is immediately confronted by a worse situation: hearing a window shatter behind him, he turns to see Venom sitting on a pile of broken glass, the symbiote degenerating into an amorphous mass of fangs and tendrils as it tells him to help it.

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Reprint of the 1st story from
Venom #157

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Venom #157

Outside New York City Hall and on the television in Dr. Steven's lab, recently-elected Mayor Wilson Fisk proclaims the law and order of the city is his number one priority before discussing the conformation of rumors that a community of humanoid dinosaurs has been discovered living under the city. Eddie Brock laments that Dr. Steven has made a mess of things, and Dr. Steven rebukes him for letting the community of dinosaur-people live freely in the sewers when they could lead directly back to Alchemax. Eddie remarks that he was referring to Dr. Steven's stitching of the bullet wound in his shoulder, saying he expected a chemist to have steadier hands. Protesting that he's not a chemist, Dr. Steven says he'd told the symbiote to keep Eddie unconscious - which it hadn't - and that he gets nervous when people are staring at him. Eddie remarks that he didn't expect Dr. Steven to stitch him up, asking why he didn't take him to an infirmary, and Dr. Steven replies that Eddie's arrangement with Alchemax is a secret, the frequent Venom sightings and associated negative press are making Liz Allan angry, and he doesn't know anyone not on the floor.

Eddie growls that his arm will heal but what he'll do to the person who stabbed him won't, prompting Dr. Steven to ask who hurt him. On the television, Fisk introduces Police Commissioner Chris Rafferty, who in turn introduces Sergei Kravinoff, who he states is a donor to the city's parks and wildlife preservation efforts. Kraven proclaims that he's dedicated his life to the study and preservation of the natural world, pulling out the severed head of the dinosaur-man he'd killed and pledging himself to protect the city and its helpless children from the monstrous threat. Dr. Steven remarks that Kraven's physique is impressive for his age, attributing it to a diet of lion meat.

Eddie transforms and hisses at the TV as the reporter states that the cannibalistic monster called Venom has been seen in the catacombs as well and is believed to be hunting alongside the dinosaur-men. Dr. Steven concernedly states the police are looking for him, but Venom retorts that the police have always been looking for him, part of the reason why his arrangement with Alchemax was kept secret. Dr. Steven asks what's stopping the police from following Kraven - a renowned superhuman hunter - to the dinosaur-people and then to Alchemax, and Venom grimly replies that they can't follow Kraven if he's dead. On that note, Dr. Steven asks Venom if he actually eats people, but instead of answering Venom asks if Dr. Steven has any weapons, poison, or serum to prevent the symbiote from going berserk. When told no to each, Venom notes that Dr. Steven isn't very useful, prompting him to remind Venom that he saved his life with his shoelace. Web-swinging into the night, Venom tells Dr. Steven not to let Liz know he was there. Dr. Steven says he won't, morosely turning to watch the TV as the reporter asks for people with knowledge of Venom's whereabouts to call the police.

At the New York Corrections Supermax Facility for Superhuman Incarceration, Lee Price meets with his lawyer who tells him that two of the men Price attacked in the cafeteria died. Unmoved, Price coldly asks if his lawyer came all the way down to the prison to tell him bad news, but the lawyer instead unfurls a copy of the Daily Bugle proclaiming Venom's resurgence, saying it's the opposite.

In the sewers, Venom incapacitates and impersonates one of the members of the NYPD SWAT team sent to assist Kraven, learning their plan, perimeter, and which entrances are being watched. Noting that sooner or later they'll find the village, Venom de-activates traps set by Kraven, using his invisibility to follow him and avoid detection. When satisfied that Kraven is unaware of his presence, Venom snares him with tendrils. Kraven remarks that he expected Venom to make it through his traps, and Venom replies that in that case Kraven shouldn't be surprised by what's about to happen next either. Kraven reveals he can't hear what Venom is saying due to wearing industrial strength ear protection, remarking that a contact of his introduced him to an old enemy of Venom's with powers uniquely suited for combating him: Shriek. Stepping into the light, Shriek blasts Venom with a sonic attack, slamming him into the wall of the chamber and dispersing the symbiote. Kraven tells Shriek to blast Eddie again, but instead she targets the roof of the tunnel, causing a massive cave-in that collapses the aboveground residential area. Venom tries to stop the cave-in with webbing but is overwhelmed and buried. As they flee the debris, Kraven berates Shriek for robbing him of the chance to claim Venom's head as a trophy. Gleeful at the devastation she caused, Shriek replies that Kraven wanted Venom dead so she killed him. Remarking that he'll just have to enslave some dinosaur-people to excavate Venom's corpse, Kraven loads his rifle and tells Shriek to stay out of the way, as the hunt is about to begin.

At the Dinosaur-People's village, Tana argues with a dinosaur-man named Heno, saying that it's too dangerous to send out foraging parties. Heno retorts that Tana said the Savior drove off the one who attacked her, but Tana replies that Venom was hurt and Longo was killed in the process, and they don't know for sure if her attacker was truly driven off.

Watching from a tunnel above them, Kraven tells the leader of the SWAT team to fall back and not interfere. The sergeant protests, saying they should at least deploy tear gas, but Kraven refuses and says the dinosaur-people are his to engage, and that his bait will be arriving shortly. Heno tells Tana they have no choice but to forage since they're running out of food, just as a horde of rats run into the chamber.

Buried beneath tons of rubble, Eddie regains consciousness and realizes that several of his ribs and one leg are broken, and that under normal circumstances the symbiote would heal him but that it's still in shock from being blasted by Shriek's sonic attack. Feeling alone for the first time since their reunion, Eddie notes that he can sense its fear, and beneath that a growing rage and bloodlust that he won't be able to keep in check without the treatment, which he's overdue for. Without the treatment the symbiote will die and leak from his pores, but before that it will degenerate into a feral monster driven by a mindless fury. As the symbiote covers him, Eddie dejectedly notes they only have a few hours left before they both die.

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