Rated T+
Page 1
SPLASH PAGE:
Scream using her hair tendrils, which are wrapped around a street lamp, to smack Creep with said lamp. Creep is backing up and his head is jerked back.
SFX: WHAK
SCREAM: HE-IS-OURS!
CREEP: WRAGH!
Page 2
Panel 1:
The middle of the street lamp’s structure, it’s bending inward as the tendrils are trying to snap it in half.
SFX: RRR
SCREAM: Well!?
Panel 2:
Same view, but now it’s snapping in half.
SFX: RRKK
SCREAM: Do you GET IT?!
Panel 3:
Side view of Creep’s chest as the ends of the street lamp are jammed in, partially impaling.
SFX: BSSHKT
SFX: BSSHKT
SCREAM: WELL!?
Panel 4:
Close up of Scream’s face. Visibly show Jenna’s eyes.
CAPTION(Jenna): We—I couldn’t talk clearly a second ago. What—what’s happening?
CAPTION(Scream Symbiote): We’re bonding. Embrace it.
Page 3
Panel 1:
Creep’s face, snarling.
CREEP: Hrrr…
CAPTION(Scream Symbiote): Or Eddie dies.
Panel 2:
Close up of Creep’s hands, in fists. The red symbiotic/viral goo is pulling back, revealing Pyre’s hands, which are glowing.
CREEP: NO!
Panel 3:
Side view of Creep, holding out Pyre’s hands and firing bursts of heat energy out.
SFX: CHOOM
CREEP: NOW GET OUT OF OUR WAY!
Page 4
Panel 1:
Back view of Scream. She’s jumping up to avoid the blast of heat. Her feet and legs are reacting as symbiotes do to heat, but the rest of her is holding together.
SCREAM: YYYAGGH!
Panel 2:
Aerial view of Scream webslinging over Creep. Creep’s looking at the spot where Anti-Venom was just sitting.
SCREAM: ALMOST got us there! Nice work!
CREEP: GRRAGGH!! NOW BROCK’S GONE!!
CAPTION(Jenna): WHAT?!
Panel 3:
Front view of Scream landing on the street in a crouch.
SCREAM: We can keep this up all day! EDDIE—IS—OURS!
Panel 4:
Creep’s face.
CREEP: WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT!?
Page 5
Panel 1:
Side view of Scream’s face, she’s yelling at Creep.
SCREAM: He KILLED OUR SIBLINGS! That was OUR JOB!
Panel 2:
Side view of Creep’s face.
CREEP: He ABANDONED US and RUINED MY LIFE!
Panel 3:
Close up/front view of Scream’s face, curled up in a snarl.
SCREAM: You sound JUST like how he did as VENOM, you know!
SCREAM: His personality rubbed off?
Panel 4:
Close up/front view of Creep’s face, roaring.
CREEP: SHUT UP!!!
Page 6
SPLASH PAGE:
A truck’s grill slamming into Creep from behind, his eyes bugged out as he lurches forward.
SFX: WHAM
ANTI-VENOM(from off panel): I concur! SHUT UP!
Page 7
Panel 1:
Over the shoulder view of Scream looking at Anti-Venom, who’s standing a distance away.
SCREAM: YOU!!
ANTI-VENOM: That won’t keep him down for long, get OUT OF HERE until I can beat him!
Panel 2:
Same view, but a red tendril has lashed out from off panel and around Anti-Venom.
SFX: SHLLK
ANTI-VENOM: ARGGH!!
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): Camouflage isn’t gonna help me now—dammit!!
Panel 3:
Front view of Creep lifting the truck up and standing up from under it.
CREEP: THAT’S IT! We’ll just CRUSH you till your GUTS COME OUT OF YOUR EYES!!!
Panel 4:
Upside down view of Anti-Venom in the tendril’s hold.
ANTI-VENOM: HRRRGGG!!!
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): BONES—STARTING TO FRACTURE—HURT--
Panel 5:
A twisted, single strand of Scream’s hair, forming a sharp hook at the end, lashing out in one direction.
SCREAM: Not if WE HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT!
CAPTION(Jenna): What are you doing?!
Page 8
Panel 1:
Side view of Creep. The tendril’s are massive and thick the closer they are to off panel, but once they reach Creep’s chest, they thin out, and the end of the tendril, ripping out through Creep’s back, is the thinnest strand. Creep’s eyes are all wide.
SFX: GUSHKT
CREEP: HGGHH…
CAPTION(Jenna): AGH!! BURNING—MAKE IT STOP--
CAPTION(Scream Symbiote): We can feel his heart beating through that strand… ripped it to shreds… horrible pain….
Panel 2:
An X-ray-ish view of the inside of Creep, and the inside of Pyre inside of Creep. The tendril is impaling him through the heart completely, but melting inside due to the heat at the same time.
CREEP: GHHH…
Panel 3:
Side view of Creep, the end of the hair snaps back, severing the strand from that tendril to Scream.
SFX: SHK
CREEP: Huhhhkk…
Panel 4:
Anti-Venom slamming into the ground on his side.
ANTI-VENOM: RGH!
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): Oh, no…
Page 9
Panel 1:
Creep, slithering away rapidly, like a tendril jumping from one spot to the next. Pyre’s body is leaking blood, and his color has returned to his regular Caucasian skin. Death was apparently his only cure.
CREEP: DAMMIT--
CREEP: NO GOOD DEAD--
CREEP: BRAIN STOPPED BEING MAD STOPPED WITH THOUGHT--
CREEP: BE BACK SOON EEEEDDDIIIEEE
Panel 2:
View of Scream dropped to her knees, her hands gripping her head.
SCREAM: MMMURRRRRRDDDDDDERRRR….
CAPTION(Jenna): YOU MADE ME KILL HIM! HE—HE COULD HAVE BEEN HELPED! EDDIE COULD HAVE HELPED HIM!!
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): It—it took her innocence…
Panel 3:
Back view of Anti-Venom, sitting up and holding his hand out. Scream is slamming her face into the concrete.
ANTI-VENOM: Jenna….
SCREAM: NNNNOOOO….MMMMOOORREEEE…
CAPTION(Jenna): M-MY HANDS… BLOOD…DADDY…
CAPTION(Scream Symbiote): It’s just what daddy would have done. Just what Eddie would do if he could touch us.
Panel 4:
Scream looking at Anti-Venom. Her colors are starting to change. Her hair is halfway white, and changing.
CAPTION(Jenna): Eddie’s JUST as bad as him. He—he hurts people… like he hurt me….
CAPTION(Scream Symbiote): That’s right, he’s a BAD man.
CAPTION(Jenna): MAKE IT—MAKE IT GO AWAY!!
CAPTION(Scream Symbiote): Stop resisting…
Panel 5:
Anti-Venom’s hand, tendrils slithering out.
ANTI-VENOM: Jenna, I’m going to set you free… just hold still…
Page 10
Panel 1:
Side view of Scream snarling. Scream’s face is now purple, with black stripes down her cheeks (mirroring Jenna’s makeup), and a red scar-like zig-zag pattern around her neck, almost like a necklace or a bruise from strangulation, the rest being purple down. The white hair is straight and not like tendrils, more resembling Jenna’s hair, and is partially covering her eyes. Her mouth has pure white teeth, dripping red saliva.
SCREAM: You…. always taking what I wanted…
CAPTION(Scream Symbiote): Yessss….. let the change happen….
Panel 2:
Front view of the new Scream jumping to the left of Anti-Venom’s finger tendrils. Her upperbody is purple with black stripes across her chest, mirroring both her facial “makeup” and the Venom insignia(it wraps around her back as well, not connecting in the middle) – the rest of her body is purple, and her claws are sharper than ever.
CAPTION(Scream Symbiote): Perfect…
SCREAM: ALWAYS DENYING US what we NEED!!
Panel 3:
Back view of Scream. Her white hair has adjusted to flow just past her shoulderblades, a short hair look for the former length, which was down to her knees.
SCREAM: Every single time I wanted to SHOOT UP, or LEAVE you, QUIT your lackey business… quit being your “ANGEL”… you STOPPED ME.
SCREAM: IT WAS ALL I COULD DO--
Page 11
SPLASH PAGE:
Back view of Anti-Venom. Scream’s hair has wrapped around a car and slammed it into him, and then a building’s wall.
SFX: BRRSHHKKT
SCREAM: —NOT TO SCREAM!!
Page 12
Panel 1:
Side view of the building. Anti-Venom sticking his head out from the rubble.
ANTI-VENOM: WAIT, JENNA--
Panel 2:
View of the entire place. Anti-Venom is saddened.
ANTI-VENOM: -- please…
Panel 3:
Side view. Anti-Venom sitting on a chunk of debris.
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): My angel…
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): My angel has fallen…
Panel 4:
Side view of Anti-Venom’s face.
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): And it’s all my fault…
-- NEXT SEGMENT --
Page 13
SPLASH PAGE:
Toxin slamming his feet into Iron Vengeance’s chest, leaning in on the blow with his entire body, the both of them smashing into the concrete street, Iron Vengeance’s back taking the blow of the fall. Toxin is in his fully raged out Venom-ish form.
SFX: BRRKSHKTKT
TOXIN: GRRRAWWRRRR!!!
IRON VENGEANCE: OOGH--!!
CAPTION(Patrick): He killed my son. MY SON.
CAPTION(Toxin): Your son.
CAPTION(Patrick): My baby boy.
Page 14
Panel 1:
Upperbody of Toxin. Toxin is slamming his arm down in a devastating punch.
SFX: WHAM
CAPTION(Patrick): He wasn’t even two years old.
CAPTION(Toxin): An innocent.
Panel 2:
Same view of Toxin, but with his other arm being slammed down in the same fashion.
SFX: WHAM
CAPTION(Patrick): NOT EVEN--
Panel 3:
Close up of Iron Vengeance’s neck, with Toxin’s claws wrapping around.
CAPTION(Patrick): TWO YEARS OLD!!
Page 15
SPLASH PAGE:
Back view of Toxin as he throws Iron Vengeance by the neck. There are tendrils from Toxin’s shoulderblades wrapped around Iron Vengeance’s right gauntlet arm, and as Iron Vengeance is flying back, the gauntlet is ripped off, exposing Iron Vengeance’s real right arm complete with a silver undersuit (think Tony Stark’s undersuit).
SFX: SHHHKK
TOXIN: YOU’LL PAY!!!
Page 17
Panel 1:
Side view of a building’s wall, for reference its Gina and Pat’s apartment building, Iron Vengeance slamming into it and through it.
SFX: BOOSHKT
IRON VENGEANCE: GRRGHH--
CAPTION(Patrick): First I’ll break him.
Panel 2:
Side view of the interior, an empty apartment, Iron Vengeance slamming through it.
IRON VENGEANCE: --GAGHK--
CAPTION(Patrick): Tossing him through a couple dozen floors of building should do the trick, with his bare arm exposed.
Panel 3:
Underfoot view of the first floor of an apartment building, in a large entryway. Iron Vengeance collapsing downward (toward our view) from above and through the ceiling.
SFX: BRRSHKT
CAPTION(Toxin): And then…
Page 18
SPLASH PAGE:
View of the entire apartment first floor, there’s a big set of glass doors in the background. Iron Vengeance in a crumpled mess of debris and all kinds of items from the various apartments falling onto him, water included. Toxin is rushing through the glass doors, bursting through them like tissue.
SFX: BSSHHKT
CAPTION(Patrick): I commit first degree murder. And regret nothing.
Page 19
Panel 1:
Toxin standing over Iron Vengeance, glaring down at him. He couldn’t look more like Venom if he tried – his hatred knows no limit at the moment.
TOXIN: Gonna ENJOY this.
Panel 2:
Iron Vengeance’s smashed and battered faceplate. Dented and partially showing a gray colored eye.
IRON VENGEANCE: “An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.”
Panel 3:
Side view of Toxin’s face, as he morphs into Patrick.
PATRICK: Don’t try it.
IRON VENGEANCE: You didn’t let me finish.
Panel 4:
Side view of Iron Vengeance’s face.
IRON VENGEANCE: It’s a meaningless bunch of words. We both know that.
IRON VENGEANCE: End this. You’ve won.
Page 20
Panel 1:
Show Patrick. His right arm is green and symbiotic. He’s looking to be in deep thoughts. Deep, dark thoughts.
PATRICK: You’re in some serious pain.
CAPTION(Toxin): Just give me the word, Patrick.
Panel 2:
Iron Vengeance’s right arm. Mangled and twisted.
PATRICK: …
CAPTION(Toxin): Pat?
Panel 3:
Gina walking into the scene, back view of Patrick as he turns his head to see her.
PATRICK: … You’re going to stay in that agony.
IRON VENGEANCE: What?
CAPTION(Toxin): Pat?!
Panel 4:
Close up of Edward’s body. Covered in a blue blanket, stained red.
CAPTION(Toxin): HELLO!?
Page 21 and 22
DOUBLE SPLASH PAGE:
Underfoot view, our view just behind Iron Vengeance’s head. Patrick is embracing Gina, putting her at his side. His human arm at her side, wrapped around her. She’s looking down at Edward’s corpse. He’s looking down at Iron Vengeance, nuzzling his chin into Gina’s hair. As if he’s looking down at Edward at the same time.
PATRICK: I’m going… to leave you in this pain.
PATRICK: It can’t compare to how you hurt me. But it’s a start.
CAPTION(Patrick): It’s a better ending. For everyone.
CAPTION(Toxin): But—but Patrick--
CAPTION(Patrick): Do what I say. Don’t make me fight you. Please. Please, Toxin.
Page 23
Panel 1:
Close up of Pat’s right arm, clenched in a fist and spraying webbing off panel.
SFX: PLISH
CAPTION(Toxin): …. Fine.
Panel 2:
Iron Vengeance close up, being covered with webbing.
IRON VENGEANCE: MMFFF--!!
Panel 3:
Front view of Patrick and Gina, walking away. Gina is visibly sobbing. Patrick’s right arm is a human color now. Patrick’s in a comforting pose to her, holding her in some way as she holds the body.
GINA: >Sniff<
PATRICK: Shh…
Panel 4:
Show Iron Vengeance almost fully webbed, with just a bit of an airhole over his mask.
PATRICK: He’s in a better place now.
-- EPILOGUE --
Page 24
Panel 1:
A funeral gathering. Numerous people in their attire around the grave.
Panel 2:
Patrick standing next to Gina, both looking down at the grave. Patrick’s right sleeve is rolled up, to keep up appearances with the family. Gina’s got a tissue rolled up in her face, she’s been sobbing as any mother would.
PATRICK: This … this is…
GINA: Pat…
Panel 3:
Close up on Patrick’s face. Tears streaming down.
PATRICK: My fault…
Page 25
Panel 1:
Gina wrapping her arms around Patrick and putting her head on his shoulder.
GINA: It wasn’t you.
GINA: Okay?
Panel 2:
Side view of Anti-Venom webslinging, looking toward a random direction, searching.
GINA: This isn’t your fault. No one’s… no one’s blaming you.
PATRICK: … I am.
Panel 3:
Front view of Jenna in an alley shoving a syringe in her arm, her hair slithering down like tendrils.
JENNA: Mmmmm…
GINA: Pat.
Panel 4:
Side view. Patrick facing Gina. Both of them look terrible, both have been devastated.
GINA: Don’t blame yourself. It’s just what that monster who attacked us w-would want.
Page 26
Panel 1:
Patrick facing Gina.
Panel 2:
Patrick facing Gina.
Panel 3:
Patrick facing Gina.
PATRICK: You’re right.
PATRICK: Just--
GINA: Stop.
Panel 4:
Back view of the two of them, standing with each other, looking down at the grave.
GINA: This is—this is the worst day in my life…
PATRICK: He was our baby boy… and…
GINA: And he’s gone. (small text)
Page 27
Panel 1:
Interior of a hospital room. A man with short hair, Caucasian features, and several casts around him and wires running in and out of his body, keeping him alive. ANDREI ALEKSEEV, AKA, the Iron Vengeance suit’s pilot and creator.
ANDREI ALEKSEEV: Even… we were even…
Panel 2:
Andrei’s face. Covered in bandages and with tubes running in and out.
CREEP: How’d you like to get better than just EVEN?
Panel 3:
Side view. Creep slithering through the window, morphing into a humanoid shape.
CREEP: Felt all that HATE and PAIN and MADNESS coming from a few blocks back, Andrei…
CREEP: Let me make all the pain go away….
Panel 4:
Show Scream forming over Jenna’s face, still with her new look.
SCREAM: I love being with you.
CAPTION(Scream Symbiote): Such promise.
Panel 5:
Gina and Pat looking down at the grave.
GINA: We love you, so…so very much… >snff<
Panel 6:
Anti-Venom looking up and off panel.
ANTI-VENOM: I miss you…
THE END
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A peek at the new Scream thanks to a friend of mine:
(MAKE NO MONEY OFF OF THIS - INVENTED IRON VENGEANCE/ANDREI ALEKSEEV)
Link to #5!
Link to the sequel: WORLD WAR SYMBIOTE!
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