Tom was casually focused on repairing this mans body. The name of this person was kale, and lost his everything, a jock in high school, who was too bad at grades, a abusive family, and got addicted to drugs at a early age. Now here he was. In a ICU ward, as Tom watched the lights going thru his eyes, as Tom kept the man asleep. 'Eh... detect me... i don't care.' They took blood samples, he frowned as he felt the cells of himself be extracted, but did not care. They would shut off on there own if disconected from the whole. He looked at the liver, and other areas. Eventually... he was stable. Healthy...er... but still. Not perfect. He would need to leave this host at some point, before he died. In truth... he is replacing the stomach right now, filled with black liquid, that is desolving things better then any digestive system. Eventually, he will return it too normal. But right now, it needs him, sense he had forced the man to eat out a olive guarden 1 hour or so ago.
He decided 'this man is a wreck... before i leave him... i will see about helping out...' He needs to be careful, this is not a permenent host, and he could easly leave him in a dependent state, where he needs his presense to survive. But... that is just a problem of work. At least now he has enougth resources, with that binge. So he improved nurological health a bit... incressed nuroplactisity, repaired hormonal systems, made this body better. It would take some time to complete thou, but... if this man was in a hospital, he had time. Hell... 'prehaps someone will notice a real symboyte, and say 'that is a transformed'.' He thinks to himself.
Repairing damaged lung tissue. That man had smoked since age 12. Burned tar in every alveoli. It wasn't pretty. But with enough protein chains, Tom could disassemble the gunk, reconstruct cells, even stimulate local stem cell activity. He didn't just cover damage—he reversed it. Slowly. Carefully. Every process balanced against Kale's weak immune system, calibrated not to trip alarms. Thou in truth... he had already reprogramed Kale's immune system to see him as just a normal human cell. Its one of the first things he does when he enters. Rewrite the core of the immune system.
Eventually, the man awakens. Its normal, all his brain work is done. No need for the man too sleep. Thou... the memorys of his rampage... will be clear in his mind. Kale... woke up slowly. Fluttering his eyes, before shaking. Holding his stomach... he felt... hot... warm, and slightly as if he had a feaver. In truth, its just due to all the internal work going on. He remembers cleanly... with horror... the slime entering him, the voice, and then... that raw, intense hunger, and... the lack of control, the lack of... anything, just eat, before he passed out. Its a blur. That... dark, scary voice. It said 'eat', he remembered it. He looks at his hands in horror. He notices he is handcuffed to the bed. He was unsure why. A voice enters his mind, the dark scary one... 'Because the police found you, and took you here for medical care.' He shook in fear, looking around. "Who... Who are you..." He said outloud. Silence... Tom... did not know what his name should be. Venom... Tom... He eventually says 'I am Venom!' Tom is quite... as he feels the mans thoughts turn, and then... a memory... of the venom movie forms. The man shakes in utter fear.
"You're Venom..." he whispered. It wasn't a question. It was dread confirmation. He'd seen the movies. Everyone had. The black goo. The teeth. The voice. It matched. And now it was inside him, and speaking to him in that same broken baritone. The terror was more than physical—it was existential. Was he possessed? Was he going to turn into that monster? Was he already halfway there? "Why... why me?" he croaked. Tom ansued with amusement 'You came to me,' he joked. 'Druggy delivery! No tip.' Tom regretted the joke the moment he made it, but something inside him purred at the satisfaction. Silence for a time, but Kale is filled with fear. Kale shakes "You... you don't want me to eat pepole do you?" Tom... Venom says 'Not right now... A brain or two would be nice! But i'm pretty good with all that pasta.' A pause. Silence. 'Also... Druggy... YOU WILL call the Narrative Foundation for me!' Tom... Venom's voice was loud, active, emotional... like venoms. It was not intentonal. Its just... his mind felt... so excited to make progress.
Kale is shaken... then stops, goes quite, as a nurse walks in. He does not want to look insane, and he is speaking out loud to a voice in his head. She asked "How are you feeling... you... uh... the police will have you for questioning once you have a clean bill of health. But... our drug tests came with nothing, and you... seem perfectlly health. But... yet you seem to have a feaver? We are still working on it. But... the police... reported... uh... can... uh..." Kale was quite, she clearly was told about... his manic endeavors at olive garden. Venom says in his mind 'Heh... very good at my work Druggy. Be proud i am not eating you... yet. Your liver was so disgusting, it needed to be better... heh.' Kale reacts to something... unseen... at least from the nurses perspective. Thou its clearly just him reacting to Venoms words. One thing... Tom... Venom has noticed... is he can't sense internal thoughts of Kale. Just what he says outloud. His memoryes? Yes. His emotions? Control his entire moter cortext, and plug into him sensory illusions? Sure. But not speach. Its hard to read internally.
After a quite moment. The nurse sighs "I will go and get the police then." Kale sat quietly through the nurse's awkward exit. As soon as the door clicked closed, he whispered, "You're real... aren't you?" Venom said 'Oh yes. Very real. I'm a transformed, Druggy. Trust me when i say, ITS VERY NOT FUN TO GO FROM HUMAN TO A SLIME THAT FUCKING DIES IN AIR.' Kale shakes, quite... as it clicks in his mind... this... thing... was human once. He shakes. Venom then says 'But, hey. At least watching every memory you ever had is fun.'
Kale had noticed slowly... but he felt... alive... better then ever. Strong, clear-headed, and willful. As if given a new lease on life. The air felt more pure, and it no longer hurt to breath. he... then realized with awe 'i don't have a single... pain.' He was unsure... of how? But he could not think much more on it, as a slightly scared police man, and a man in a black suit entered the room. The suited man said casually "You are Kale. You must be the reported transformed, may i ask who you merged with. What charicotr." Kale is quite. "No? I... i'm not... a transformed." But he does not say 'I have a transformed inside of me.', he is scared. The suited man frowns "Don't lie to me. I am with the N.I.R.O.—Narrative Integration and Reality Observation. We are with the US government, and we handle Transformed in the states." Venom says into Kale's mind 'Pretend you remember nothing, say it was a bad trip. I trust the narrative foundation because they are run by a timelord, not these fools.'
Kale is quite, nervous as he says, stuttering "I-I don't know what happened. I think... I think i had something that was laced. I took something, blacked out. Next thing I know, I'm here." The suited man raised an eyebrow. "Laced with what? You came in with a 135-degree fever, no signs of dehydration, and had black tentacles coming from your mouth. That's not fentanyl, Kale. That's Emergence." Venoms voice rumbled in Kale's skull again—closer this time, more intimate. 'Ha, idiot. Whatever, just stay quite. Don't ansure. If we need to get out, we can.' Kale sighs, and says "Tenticles? I... don't remember anything. Im not a transformed thou, i am not a nerd."
The suited man wasn't fooled, though. Kale could see it. His body posture never changed, but his tone shifted slightly—cooler. "You're going to need to come with us for some evaluations, Kale. If you're not a transformed, you'll be cleared. If you are... well. Better to be with professionals, right?" Kale sighed "Can i get a phone call first?" Venom Comments 'Oh! Nice move, give the narritive foundation dudes a call! I remember there number.' The man shakes his head. "That won't be needed." Venom says 'Shithead... Fuck you.' In his head. Then a pause. Venom then says 'Well... we tried your way. Lets get out of here.' Kale says confused, outloud to no one in the room "Wait... what?" Then... his arm breaks the cuffs in one moment without his control. He frowns deeply, as his body locks up, and moves like a flesh puppet, and gets out of the bed, and the man frowns deeply, as the cop aims a taser, as he reaches with no control, and does a full 180, and kicks the cop into a wall so hard, the wall cracks. As he moans in pain. Kale says "Sorry!" In utter panic, as his body begins to run on its own, and then transitions to his own control.
His body didn't feel like his body anymore. It felt better. Like someone had upgraded it without asking. Soon, he ran out of the hospital, in his hospital gown. Then, got out to the open air. Venom says 'We need to get out of dodge... heh... lets head up.' Kale frowns deeply, as his legs emit a black ozze that covers them, and then he runs, and jumps 80m he screams, before, a liquid claw forms, and grabs a wall, before jumping agien. As Kale landed on a rooftop, panting, the ooze retreating just slightly from his limbs, he felt the rush fade—but only slightly. He felt present. Fully in his body in a way he hadn't felt since he was ten years old and riding his bike too fast downhill. He didn't understand the biology, didn't need to. Something was working with his cells now. Boosting him.
Kale fell to his kneas... shaking... "What the fuck!". Venom replies 'What? We needed to get out, and get a phone! That dude was probobly going to dissect you anyway.' Kale yells "Dessect! You don't know that!?" Venom replies 'eh... but it was fun! First time i had to make someone jump like that!' He wrapped his arms around himself, curling tighter as the chill of the night crept through his thin hospital gown. "What the fuck do you want from me?" he whispered. The voice in his head was slower this time. Less sharp. Almost reflective. 'Nothing much. I just can't live without a host, and i need a better host. You are a stepping stone, and i want to see if this narritive foundation will help. Ive heard good stories of them, and they are run by a crazy moral, imortal supergenius. A transformed from a story where morality is there key trait. So i hope they will help. That is all... thou... i will continue to eat the bad guys. They deserve it. Just i dislike the fact you will die in 40 days if i stay inside you.' Kale's eyes go wide in horror. "WHAT!"
A long... quite. "Your... killing me." Venom says 'Hey, hey, druggy, not by chouce. I kill everything i touch, unless its a perfect match. You... even with my fixes, are not.' Kale shakes "Why tell me?" Kale whispered, his voice hoarse. "Why tell me I'm going to die?" Silence. Venom says 'Its not my plan for you to die. I will leave you for another host before you do! Now! GET MOVING! GET A PHONE!' Venom forces him upwrite. He slowly walks, and sees the roof. 'Jump'. Venom says. "Fuck no!" Venom says 'Pussy. We are jumping!' His legs are controled, and they fall, as liquid claws grab the side of the building, as he slides down with a scream. Only to breath... hair wild, as he lands safely on the ground of the allyway.
He calmed, and then walked out. Filed the existential dread under "deal with later." And whispered, "Okay. Let's find that phone." Eventually, he arrived at a 7/11. As he typed into it a phone number '5... 4... 3...' as Venom says it too him. The call goes thru. "Hello, this is the Narritive Foudnation Emergency Line! What is your emergency." Venom says 'Reapeat what i say. Hello, I am a host to the Venom Sybyote... and he wants your help, because he is tired of killing his hosts, and does not want to deal with this shit. Say that.' Kale gupls, and says "Hello... uh... I... uh... I got... i think... a... the venom Sybyote in me... and he wants help... uh..." The lady says "Uh... one... second..." The lady says "Tom... Hardy? The Actor for Venom is dead... are you sure... he..." Kale says "Yes... im sure..." The lady says "One sec, stay on call. I will trace your location." The woman then said "Ah... ok... uh... is your name Kale?" He is suprised "Uh... yeah..." The lady sighs "Fits... tenticles and all that... close proximity to Tom Cardy's cadavor... yeah... Ok... stay where you are, we will send a extraction team. Seems N.I.R.O. is sending a contaiment team... so be careful." The call cuts off.
Eventually... he just sat down... at the 7/11. Its cold as hell out, and all he is wearing is a medical gown. He frowns. He checked the street. Quiet. Empty. For now. "Venom," he whispered. No reply. "You still there?" Venom says 'Yeah, idiotic druggy. Im alwase here.' He nods, and sighs. Then... a van drove, and parked in front of them. They frowned... unsure. Then... *RING*, a loud ass sound, high frequency, as Kale screams in pain, as the black goo emerges from his skin. he falls to the ground, screaming in pain, as he feels it leave his body, as he feels it strugle, and scream into him, before... its out of him, crawling on the grund twards him. Trying to get back into him, as the sound stops. Military men with NIRO uniforms run out, and capture the goo in a containor. Kale screams "No! FUCK! VENOM!" Venom is stuck in the glass tube, as the men arrest him, and hold him, and drag him into the can with the containor. He hit the ground hard, as he saw the containment chamber with that black, sentient sluge moving within. As they hooked it up to a device, as a man in a suit said "Remove the air, air kills symbyotes. They can survive indefnately in a vacume." Soon, they move the tube... into a car seperate from him.
As they begin to drive. Worry filled his mind... Venom... he was so... detailed... talked so much... so human... and yes... he was alien too... he was killing him... but it was not his fault. Now... he was stuck in... a tube, unable to do anything. He cried. He could... not imagine what that was like... being unable to do anything... none seeing you as a person. Just a monster alien parasite in a jar. He remembered... what Venom said... 'I'm a transformed, Druggy. Trust me when i say, ITS VERY NOT FUN TO GO FROM HUMAN TO A SLIME THAT FUCKING DIES IN AIR.' He... sounded so angry, tired, and frustrated. A slime that is stuck killing its only way to exist, while still having a human inside all that, a mind. That shook Kale utterly.