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Queens.
Grace Church, currently under renovation.
Inside the main hall, surrounded by construction scaffolding and tarps, a bizarre wedding was underway.
Under the joint witness of a kidnapped priest, a Skrull girl disguised as Adrian Toomes' daughter Lizz, bound hand and foot, with a smelly sock stuffed in her mouth, and placed in a coffin, and the Carnage Symbiote, drooling at the thought of the priest's head, Francis Barrison, in a black wedding dress, and Cletus Kasady, in a floral shirt, passionately embraced and kissed beneath the cross.
However, just as this brief moment of warmth settled, the church doors suddenly burst open with a loud 'bang'.
"Kasady, you bastard, give me back my daughter!"
Adrian Toomes, with giant wings flapping behind him, let out an enraged roar, his grotesque eyes scanning the hall for his daughter Lizz.
But Lizz was currently inside the coffin behind Cletus Kasady, so Adrian Toomes, unable to see his daughter as he wished, immediately became unusually agitated.
"Toomes, you've finally arrived..."
Cletus Kasady immediately summoned Carnage, and the crimson Symbiote covered his entire body in the blink of an eye. He waved at the other side with the tone of a superior, saying,
"Come, I have something important I want to discuss with you. If the outcome is satisfactory enough for me... I will naturally return your daughter to you!"
"Bastard, if you dare to harm a single hair on my daughter's head, I'll kill you!"
Adrian Toomes roared, flapping his giant wings and charging straight towards Cletus Kasady, who was clearly prepared for a fight.
But just as their figures were about to collide, Francis Barrison, somewhat annoyed by the interrupted wedding, suddenly opened her mouth wide and, on her own initiative, unleashed a sonic blast in Adrian Toomes' direction.
"Buzz—!!!"
Affected by the sonic blast, the Loyalist Symbiote on Adrian Toomes immediately began to 'boil', and his body directly fell from mid-air.
However, Cletus Kasady was also affected.
Carnage, forcibly taking over the body, violently swung his hand, sending Francis Barrison, who was still continuously outputting, flying, ending the sound wave that it found repulsive.
"No, Carnage, you can't lay a hand on my darling..."
Cletus Kasady seemed to want to break free from Carnage's body to check on Francis Barrison, but was immediately pulled back inside by Carnage, who mercilessly warned him:
"Then you'd best make that stinking woman shut her mouth, or next time I'll bite her head off directly!"
Although Cletus Kasady's consciousness was not controlled by Carnage in a fully possessed state, this did not mean that Carnage would completely obey him.
After all, the stronger the Symbiote, the stronger its independent consciousness!
And only when the host and the Symbiote are of one mind can they truly become one and maximize their power!
With that, Carnage charged directly at Adrian Toomes on the opposite side.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—"
The recovered Adrian Toomes charged forward, simultaneously firing countless sharp feather blades from his back wings to harass Carnage, but he failed to inflict any substantial damage on the opponent.
Instead, as he leaped into the air, he was directly impaled through the chest by a spear-like tentacle that materialized behind Carnage, and then heavily slammed to the ground.
As soon as the battle began, Carnage displayed an overwhelming advantage.
He first used two tentacles to bind Adrian Toomes' arms, and then used sharp bone spikes to firmly nail Adrian Toomes' wings and entire body to the wall.
"Pfft—"
The bone spikes pierced through Adrian Toomes' Symbiote body, embedding deeply into the wall. Even though this attack could not truly harm his life, Adrian Toomes, stimulated by the pain, couldn't help but let out a muffled groan of agony.
He struggled with all his might, trying to break free from the two tentacles binding his wrists, and then pull out the bone spikes from his chest and wings to counterattack.
But Carnage on the opposite side simply wouldn't give him that chance.
"Don't waste your breath, Toomes."
Carnage let out a chilling, sinister laugh, then the Symbiote mask on the right side of his face slowly receded, revealing half of Cletus Kasady's true face. He looked down at Adrian Toomes and said,
"We didn't call you here today to fight you, but to invite you to join our plan..."
"I know you've actually been dissatisfied with Void Knight for a long time. How about it, want to team up with me to take him down?"
"That cowardly fellow doesn't deserve to lead us at all. He only dares to hide in the dark and pull off some petty little farces. He's not worthy of being My Lord Knull's servant at all..."
However, Adrian Toomes completely ignored his persuasion, his eyes wide, roaring furiously, "I will never cooperate with a inhumane murderer like you! Give me back my daughter!"
"Tsk tsk, don't be so quick to refuse."
Adrian Toomes, seeing this, didn't get angry. A cunning arc appeared at the corner of his mouth. Then, a thick tentacle extended from his back, like a flexible python, winding its way towards the coffin placed behind him.
The coffin lid slowly opened, revealing the Pirate girl inside, bound hand and foot, with a smelly sock stuffed in her mouth, unable to make a sound.
"Lizz!"
Adrian Toomes' heart filled with joy when he saw his daughter was unharmed. He immediately shed the Symbiote mask from his face, revealing his original appearance, and loudly comforted her,
"Child, don't be afraid, Daddy's here to save you... Don't worry, Daddy will get you out very soon."
However, Lizz in the coffin did not calm down at all because of his persuasion; instead, the fear on her face intensified a few points.
Her eyes were wide, tears welled up and swirled in her eye sockets, and her body trembled slightly from extreme fear.
There was nothing she could do. After all, she wasn't Adrian Toomes' real daughter; she was just an ordinary Skrull girl with camouflage abilities.
She had never seen a situation like this before!
Her previous missions were almost all undercover and intelligence gathering, none of them were this dangerous.
And these two 'monsters' in front of her, with fangs in their mouths and a preference for eating human heads, seemed like demons from hell to her young mind, plunging her into extreme fear.
Waaah, Commander Fury, didn't you say this mission wasn't risky at all?
I'll never believe your nonsense again~~
"Don't worry, Toomes, we never intended to do anything to your daughter, otherwise, her little head would have been gone a long time ago..."
Cletus Kasady grinned sinisterly again, his words full of menace, "We just wanted to use this little beauty to lure you here, after all, if I had found you directly, you probably wouldn't have listened to me properly!"
"How about it? As long as you're willing to cooperate with us, your daughter can leave here safely at any time."
As he spoke, he manipulated the Symbiote tentacle, sharp as a spear at its tip, to circle around the trembling Lizz, as if he might strike her at any moment.
And that was exactly the case.
If Adrian Toomes on the opposite side dared to refuse his proposal, then he naturally couldn't let this father and daughter leave this church alive.
After all, now was not the right time to formally turn against Void Knight; he had to accumulate enough strength first.
Adrian Toomes, pinned to the wall, how could he not guess what tricks the other party was up to?
It's just that compared to the mysterious and powerful Void Knight, he didn't think much of this bloodthirsty maniac in front of him.
Especially when the other party was threatening him with his daughter's life.
But speaking of it, the real reason Adrian Toomes refused was simple.
That is... even the Symbiote on both of them was 'given' by the other party. What could they use to fight him?
Their lives?
Adrian Toomes was not a madman like Cletus Kasady, nor was he crazy to the point of losing his mind.
So, for a plan that was absolutely impossible to succeed, the best choice was to refuse!
"Although I have no good feelings for that bastard who turned me into this ghost..."
Adrian Toomes said with disdain, "But at least he won't threaten me with my daughter's life, so I won't team up with a despicable madman like you!"
"Also, you don't think your little tricks can hide from him, do you?"
Cletus Kasady's face immediately darkened upon hearing this, and he said with some displeasure, "So, there's nothing to discuss, then?"
He shook his head with regret, "What a pity. I originally thought we were actually the same kind of people, the kind of fighters who could never tolerate someone 'riding' on their heads... But now it seems you are much weaker than I imagined."
"My team does not tolerate weakness, so... say goodbye to your daughter!"
As he spoke, Cletus Kasady used a tentacle to directly wrap around Lizz's neck, then lifted her from the coffin into mid-air.
"Ugh... help... help me... Daddy help me..."
Lizz's feet flailed wildly in the air, her hands first reached out to Adrian Toomes in the distance, but then she began to forcefully tear at the tentacle wrapped around her neck. However, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't break free.
The girl's pupils widened constantly with fear, and her breathing became increasingly difficult with her violent struggles. Soon, her face, which was slightly pale from extreme fright, gradually turned a bluish-gray 'deathly' hue—a color that only appears before death.
And Cletus Kasady, the instigator of all this, looked at Adrian Toomes with a mocking expression, sneeringly taunting him:
"Now, I'll give you one last chance. Do you choose to join me, or die here with your daughter?"
Although he said he was inviting, there was no trace of emotion in his utterly cold tone, as if he were discussing an irrelevant matter.
Anyone could see that this guy was deliberately toying with Adrian Toomes.
No matter whether Adrian Toomes agreed or not at this moment, his and his daughter's fate was one and only one: death!
This might be Cletus Kasady's unique, morbidly twisted sense of humor.
"Kasady, you damned bastard, if you dare to lay a hand on Lizz, I will kill you..."
Adrian Toomes struggled violently, trying to break free from the restraint of the bone spikes and tentacles, while roaring hysterically, venting the anger and helplessness in his heart.
His body trembled violently with extreme rage, and finally, he directly opened his fanged maw, bit off the two tentacles controlling his wrists, then swung a punch, sending the caught-off-guard Cletus Kasady flying.
"Ah ah..."
Adrian Toomes gripped a large bone spike piercing his chest tightly with both hands and pulled it out forcefully. With a 'plop', a viscous liquid, whether slime or blood, splashed out from his chest along with the extracted bone spike, dripping onto the ground.
However, he felt no pain at all, because at this moment, his eyes were only on his daughter's safety.
"Lizz, don't be afraid, Daddy's here to save you."
But just as Adrian Toomes lunged towards his daughter, Cletus Kasady, on the side, transformed his arm into a giant hammer and swung it from behind, sending Adrian Toomes flying.
"Bang—"
Adrian Toomes' body slid backward for more than ten meters, leaving a series of damaged grooves on the ground, as well as many shattered benches.
"Cough cough cough..."
Perhaps he was intimidated, for after enduring that heavy blow, the Loyalist Symbiote that had been attached to Adrian Toomes briefly receded back into his body.
No matter how much Adrian Toomes called out, there was no sign of it wanting to reappear.
Cletus Kasady, seeing this, brazenly revealed his human form, leaving only one tentacle strangling Lizz, and walked with her to Adrian Toomes' front.
"Tsk tsk tsk, take a good look, this is what happens when you choose the wrong opponent..."