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PROLOGUE:

Peter Parker and Eddie Brock were once childhood friends. Their
fathers were gifted scientists that committed their life's work to finding
the cure for cancer. To achieve their goal, they created 'The Venom Suit',
a protoplasmic bio-suit capable, in theory, of healing any injury or
disease while enhancing the wearers strength and natural abilities. They
hoped to help the world with their creation, but their employer Trask
Industries, saw the 'Venom Suit' as a powerful military weapon and took
the project away from them. Weeks later, while preparing to take Trask
to court for ownership of their creation, they were killed in a plane crash
under mysterious circumstances. Peter and Eddie were sent to live with
living family members, and contact between them was cut off for many
years.

Fast forward to today. Peter is now 15 and living with his Aunt. He goes
to midtown High School in Queens, works as a web designer at the Daily
Bugle, and has a relationship with Mary Jane Watson. But in between,
he protects New York as the costumed super hero Spider-Man. One day,
while going through his things, he finds an old tape of a reunion between
his family and the Brock's. Remembering his childhood friend Eddie
Brock, he attempts to locate him and discovers he works as a lab
assistant at Empire State University. Meeting up with each other, Peter
and Eddie catch up on old times and rekindle their friendship. Feeling
that he can trust Peter, Eddie brings Peter to the lab, where he introduces
Peter to their inheritance, the 'Venom Suit', which  resides In a beaker
inside a freezer. Eddie explains to Peter how the suit works and
everything that their parents went through in their legal battle with Trask
industries. Feeling enraged at Trask for what they did, Peter decides to
perform his own experiments on the 'suit'. Sneaking into the lab as
Spider-Man, Peter attempts to take a sample, only to have the liquid spill
on his hand. Within moments, he liquid covers his entire body, encasing
him in a black bio-suit. Finding that the suit has increased his strength
and abilities, and that the suit can produce it's own 'webbing', Peter
decides to go on a spree of nightly crime fighting. He is almost
unstoppable, even taking a bullet in the shoulder, only for it to heal
within seconds! But later, when he attempted to stop a robber from
getting away, he lost control and the suit transformed him into a monster
with sharp teeth and a long tongue. Fighting the suit's influence, Peter
discovered that the suit was attempting to devour him. In a last ditch
effort, he flung himself onto some power lines, burning away the suit
and knocking him unconscious. 

After coming to, Peter headed back to the lab to destroy the suit, only to
be caught by Eddie. Peter revealed to Eddie who he is, and what had
happened to him. Peter explained that the suit is dangerous and needs to
be destroyed, which a somber Eddie reluctantly agrees too. After
agreeing to talk more later, Peter takes the beaker to an industrial
furnace, where he drops the beaker down a smokestack, incinerating it.

Meanwhile, back at the lab, Eddie feels angered and betrayed by Peter.
He opens another freezer, and reveals another beaker of the Venom suit.
Eddie willingly puts his hand in the beaker, where the suit overtakes him
and transforms him into the same monster Peter had transformed into,
where he proceeds to murder and absorb a cleaning lady and security
staff. Driven completely mad by the suit, Eddie, now Venom, makes his
way to Peter's high school with the intent to murder him. Facing off on
the football field in the middle of a thunderstorm, Peter, in street clothes
and a hoody, faces off with his former friend. The battle is fierce, and
makes it's way into the city. Venom is clearly stronger than Peter, and
starts off on the offensive. But halfway into the fight, the suit begins
feeding off of Eddie, which weakens him and allows Peter to fight back.
In a last ditch effort, Venom attempts to absorb Peter, who manages to
break free, sending Venom into an electrical pole that snaps one of the
wires. The police show up and begin opening fire on Venom, which has
little effect. As Peter watches from a building, the snapped line strikes
Venom, which lights up the entire area. When the flash cleared, Venom
was gone, with only a smoke cloud in his place. Assuming his friend
dead, Peter attempts to move on with his life.

PRESENT DAY:

Peter's life is about to take a turn for the worst. Despite what he believed,
Eddie Brock survived, and is completely possessed by the Suit.
Completely insane and driven by revenge, Venom has returned, and he's
more dangerous than ever. The city now becomes a battleground as two
former friends are turned bitter enemies. Spider-Man now faces the
greatest challenge of his life as he struggles to protect the city from an
enemy that seeks his death, and will stop at nothing to get it.