1 The Void

Dylan felt himself....falling. It was an odd feeling, sort of like when you went to the pool and went underwater. Except when Dylan opened his eyes, there was black. Inky, dark blackness everywhere. Dylan is shocked for a moment, before frantically looking around. He sees the darkness all around him. His eyes then spot a sleeping figure in the distance.

He had pale white hair and his musculature is thin and wiry. He is hunched over and looks to be sleeping. Dylan was about to call out to the vaguely familiar man before a boom shocks the dark space. Bright, unfiltered light fills the area as people step out of it. People would be wrong to use for them though. Gods would be more appropriate.

Standing, they seemed as if they were taller than planets themselves. They were muscular and were adorned in strange, alien armor. Their faces were covered in masks with a weird design, and they carried spears and staffs with them. A word came to associate in his mind for them.

Celestials.

A shriek filled the area and brought Dylan's attention to the thin man. It had also brought the attention of a red Celestial. He cupped the being in his hand and stared at it. The man's face grew animalistic as he looked back. Dylan saw that his eyes, which were all black and had a red swirl in them, glowed. He bent down and placed his hand on one of the shadows in the giant hand. He pulled and out came a sword. The sword was black, black as the void around them. Dylan felt a shock run through him as he finally recognized the person.

He was Knull, the god of the symbiotes.

Knull admires the sword for a second before jumping at the Celestial. The being seemed shocked as the sword elongated. But it had no time to act before Knull cleaved through it necks like butter, resulting in a tsunami of blood. Dylan looked shocked. The other Celestials looked on in horror as their comrade died, before roaring in rage. They sent a multicolored beam of light that lit up the area at Knull. It impacted him causing the area to be filled with white light.

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When Dylan opened his eyes, he was greeted to Knull in a forge. He was banging on a black blade with a metal hammer causing loud vibrations. It might have been Dylan's imagination, but he swore he saw the shadows recoiling with every bang of the hammer. Knull then hefted the rigid blade by the handle and stuck it into the fire. When he pulled it out, it seemed to suck all the light into its lacquer colored blade. Knull cackled, and the scene changed.

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Dylan then saw Knull fighting in deep black armor, against a being with glowing gold armor. Knull's eyes were glowing red to contrast the glowing blue of his enemy. Knull swung his sword, but the gold being parried him with his tri- pronged spear, thus causing him to be unbalanced. Seeing this, The gold being then saw his opening and thrust his spear into Knull's face causing rivers of black liquid to seep down the glowing blade. Knull went limp, seemingly dead, and fell to the ground.

The man panted as he looked at Knull's dead form before taking the black blade and his weapon and flying away. After the man left, Knull rose slowly his black blood dripping around him. A small furry creature approached him before the black liquid fell onto it. The creature squeaked, as the blood wraps around it, turning it black with white eyes and more rabid.

Knull bent down and picked it up. He smiled maliciously, as he manipulated blood and infected the surrounding animals, making them more beastly with a black and white color scheme. Dylan looked at Knull's and gazed into his eyes. He was pulled into their black depths and the scene changed.

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He looked around to see that he was now on earth. There were wooden huts and mountains surrounding the area. People were dressed in Scandanavian attire and were running from something. They shouted things but mainly kept on saying one word, Beowulf. A big roar shook the are, as Dylan turned around. His eyes widened, and a huge dragon symbiote flew above him. It had black, rough skin, and wings. Its eyes had the same symbol Knull had. A white-hot fire spewed from his maw and lit the area and people around it. Its name was Grendel.

As the carnage rolled on, thunder boomed from the sky, lighting up the area. The dragon stopped and turned in that direction. A rainbow light hit the ground and burned it. When it had disappeared, a man appeared.

He had a bulky muscular structure. He had long blonde hair and a winged helmet. His beard was short, and blue eyes pierced the night. It was like thunder was running through them. A bright red cape was connected, to his metal armor. Chainmail covered his arms and legs, and his boots made indents in the ground. A hammer was in his hand crackling with lightning. He spoke.

"I do not know of this Beowulf you pray to, but... perhaps Thor will suffice!"

He spun his hammer inhumanly fast as lighting generated around it. Thunder boomed as it became more frantic. The dragon froze as fear appeared in its eyes. After one last spin, Thor pointed his hammer at Grendel, and in a microsecond, thunder impacted it like a billion needles.

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All across the universe, Dylan saw symbiotes bond to new hosts. They were treated to new experiences, after being separated from Knull's control. They experienced hope, love, will, and trust. They realized the mistakes of their father.

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Dylan then witnessed Knull sitting in a stone throne, surrounded by symbiotes with a swirl symbol on their faces. Knull then screamed and gripped his head in agony. Thunder generated from his eyes, and the symbiotes went still. He shook his head and looked up. he saw his children staring back at him.

"My children, you have become filthy. You have been infected with these disgusting ideas. Let me fix you."

The children grew restless. They charged at Knull, multiplying and burying him under their combined force. Dylan's vision grew black once more as Knull was chained, and disappeared into the inky blackness. Then with a red light, the swirl symbol appeared in front of Dylan, lighting up the black void.

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A vision appeared in Dylan's mind. A man in red and blue, swinging from webs in a populated city. Dylan recognized this man. He was Spider-Man. Spider-Man swung onto a bridge and landed on a crashed space ship. He went inside and picked up two astronauts. Before he could leave, his foot touched a black substance, and it stuck to him.

Then Spider-Man was seen on a rooftop, he jumped off and started to swing away. While he was swinging, the symbiote slowly flowed over him. His suit turned black, and his eyes and the white spider symbol on his chest. He landed on a tall building and stood in his new uniform. A montage was seen of him stopping crimes, but getting more and more aggressive. Then he was seen struggling to take them off.

The human was then seen flowing on a blond-haired muscular human. Eddie Brock. He was then seen in a more musculature caricature of Spider-Man's uniform with a fanged maw and a large white chest symbol. It was then seen fighting Spider-Man. Then the symbiote was seen on various heroes and villains, after separating leaving a piece of each of it in them.

A label was placed over this vision. It read: Earth 616.

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Another vision was seen. A scrawnier Spider-Man was swinging to a university. He changed out of his attire into his normal clothes and met a younger Eddie Brock. Eddie was surprised to see Peter Parker in front of him but quickly shook it off. The scene changed, and the two were inside a laboratory at the University. Eddie went to the vaults and opened one of them.

A large, bottled flask was shown, filled to the brim with a black liquid. Eddie said it was a symbiotic liquid designed to benefit the wearer. He explained to Peter that their fathers created this for medical purposes and that this sample was the last to exist.

This struck a chord with Peter, and later that night he was seen sneaking into the University and opened the safe containing the flask. He was taking a sample of the liquid, but it spilled onto him. He was encased into a husk of the black liquid and broke out of the husk. He was suited in a slick black suit. He went out to stop crimes, but when he saw a robber kill a storeowner he chased him. Peter cornered him and froze at his appearance.

He whispered, "Uncle Ben."

He then roared and shifted into a monstrous version of Venom with a symbol. He was about to attack the robber but broke the suit's influence on him. He ran away from the man and impacted a power line, destroying the suit. He realized the suit was too dangerous for anyone to control. Peter then went back to the laboratory and was confronted by an angry Eddie Brock.

He said that he knew that Peter was Spider-Man, and asked why he put on the suit. Peter tried to explain what he learned about the suit, But Eddie did not listen. Peter shook his head and grabbed the last remaining sample of the liquid. He swung out of the building and disposed of it in an open pyre. He had a sad look on his face.

Eddie was seen driving home, and rushing past his concerned grandparents. He went to his basement and opened a cooler in it. His father had saved one last sample of the liquid. He looked at the flask of the symbiotic liquid, his reflection staring back at him. He then poured the liquid over him.

A roar was heard from the basement. Eddie's grandfather came down to the basement. He saw a huge black monster. It was Venom, sans the spider symbol. He spawned tendrils and pulled his grandfather closer and devoured his life essence, leaving a dead husk behind. He then did the same to his grandmother.

Peter was then seen confronting Venom in a school football field. They started to fight, and the fight escalated to the city. As they were clashing, Eddie stepped on a loose electrical rope, which released a discharge that seemingly killed him. Peter was seen crying as the night went on.

The vision fast-forwarded, and Dylan saw glimpses of Peter and Eddie fighting different people. It all culminated when Dylan saw Peter, strapped to a table, getting injected by a man in a suit. He shrieked as the liquid they gave him interacted with his irradiated blood, and the traces of the Venom suit, to form something new.

A red sludge covered him and reformed his body. He had yellow eyes and a red sharp and skinny body and a fanged maw. He shrilly shrieked and tore out of his restraints. He killed the unsuspecting man, by ripping out his spine and devouring it.

Peter than broke out of the building, and started to cause Carnage. Eddie was near the site and being near to Peter caused him to fly into a rage and he turned into Venom. He charged at Peter and attacked him.

The vision then stopped and a label was placed over Dylan's view. It read: Earth 1610.

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Dylan then saw countless more visions like those two. They all concerned one thing. Symbiotes.

Then Dylan felt himself falling once more. As he fell once more, Dylan saw two things.

A giant red Symbiotic being. It looked the same as when Peter had turned into that red being, but only bigger. It had the Venom symbol on its chest and a swirl on its head. It seemed to be cackling down at him. It was the main Carnage.

Behind Carnage, was Knull grinning maliciously. He was standing over trillions of corpses, and Grendel was seen to be flying around him in space. His black eyes shined with a red glow. It was the last thing Dylan saw before he was engulfed into the darkness.