Okay . . . I not familiar with that term as you used in context, but I do happen to be a tad sleepy right now.
New chapter. Fair warning. The first part will be fairly brutal and dark.
CHAPTER THREE:
Hosting Services
A very angry man was in a secluded location. He had a woman there with hik, and she didn't appear to be there of her own free will. There was a certainly dark way about the situation.
"You
owe me. I gave you a ride."
"No, please . . ."
"Shut up! And come here . . ."
Fortunately, whatever this serial -- uh, you know -- was stopped, when what appeared to be blood red whirling fabric began wrapping around his legs and then up his body. The woman tried to escape, but once the costume was fully on, one backhand from him killed her in the most brutal way imaginable. But the man didn't do it intentionally, his screams were that of pure terror.
The man looked fairly like a blood red Venom, but with dark green markings similar to the.Red Lantern symbol in spidery lines. He was ridiculously, cartoonishly muscled on his upper body to ludicrous proportions, while his lower body was more or less the same size but muscular. He had the "Spider-Man eye" markings as well a large, butcher knife-like, emerald fangs lining his ample mouth. He also had two tendrils on his head look like bull horns.
This new creature laughed, the man within no longer in control, his mind in a place of semi-limbo, with some fleeting moments of lucidity. "I am . . . I am . . . I AM WARPATH!!"
"Very well," Malice had said. "Go. Have fun. Cause chaos."
***
Then Malice came upon a man who had constant gambling problems, as well a drug addiction and a chronic identity thief. He was very much consumed by greed and avarice, and miserable for it. He was living in a rat-infested tenement, which he could barely afford even with his thievery.
He soon found himself wrapped up in the bright orange symbiote. He looked vaguely Venom, but with a serpentine tail instead of legs. His fingertips ended in claws and Larfleeze's insigna appeared in his chest as a pale blue, spidery marking. He had the eyes of Spider-Man, as well as two long, sapphire-blue fangs with smaller fangs of the same color.
He found that he could shapeshift, not just his clothing but his identity. He could imitate people much larger than himself and those younger. But only those that he stole the identities from,which means in order to shapeshift more people, he would have to steal more identities.. But the thief was no more in control that Warpath's host was, and no more lucid.
"Call me," this new being said with a slight his to his voice, like the Serpentine from "Ninjago", "call me Horder."
"Excellent," Malice said. "Go now. Go and take. And take, take, take, take, take."
***
Continuing her search for more host for her symbiotes, she witnessed a town thug, a neighborhood bully, terrorizing the residency of the block. He really thought that he was tough and the best of the best, when in reality, even Rotiart would laugh at him. Like many of the bullying pedigree, he wasn't particularly wise, intelligent, or tactful. He made the mistake, like many if not all bullies do, of believing that you can just muscle your way through life and people would just roll over and let you. He was a coward at heart.
He recieved a shock to discover the pale yellow symbiote wrapping itself around him. He attempted to pull it off of him, but that just made it envelope him even faster. He tried more fervently, terrified for once, and the symbiote wrapped around him more fervently until he was fully enclosed.
Unlike the previous two, this punk teenager had virtually no bouts of lucidity. He never paid any attention to developing his mind. He always relied on his muscles and forceful personality. He was essentially dead while bonded with this symbiote.
The creature looked like if Venom had bonded with a Genonosian, only pale yellow with the Sinestro Corps insigna in deep purple and spidery art on his chest. It possessed the same "Spider-Man eyes" that the others did, and deep purple fangs.
"I am the bump in the night," the creature said. "I am Nameless."
"Nameless? You sure you want to go with that?" Malice said.
"Yes, why?"
"Oh, I thouht you'd want a name of a little more substance." Malice said, airily. "But, no matter, go on then. Instill fear into others."
***
Malice and Mauler spied a police officer, one of which wasn't like the previous three symbiote hosts found. This police officer was noble of heart, pure of spirit, and a RAF-supporter, though not being in it himself. Malice did not have any misgivings, as she prodded the green symbiote to overtake the willful officer.
Despite the officer's fight and resistance, he is overtaken relatively quickly. He looks relatively like the standard Venom hosted symbiote, on its chest emerald green with ruby red markings similar to the Green Lantern insigna. It also had wrist mounted blades, ruby red fangs, and a monk fish-like appendage that ends in a lantern-like lure.
"I am Lethal Force!" the creature declared.
"Huh. Was expecting a single-word name," Malice said. "Now, overpower others. Enforce your will over theirs."
***
Then Malice and Mauler watch the vitriolic sermons of a particularly hateful preacher. Nearly all, if not all, of his congregation were close-minded, like-minded, narrow-minded extremists like himself. Malice did not listen to the man's venomous words, but she could tell he sounded hopeful in his ambition to keep homophobia, xenophobia, and other such vile things would be the norm of the future. It was all very disgusting. But what was more abominable was the deafening "amens" he recieved from the people assembled.
So, naturally, he became the host for the blue symbiote. He resembled Elemental Hero Avian only solid sapphire blue, a Venom-like head with bright orange fangs, and spidery, bright orange markings similar to the insigna of the Blue Lanterns.
"I am . . . I am . . . Hopeslayer."
"Oh! How deliously evil!" Malice said, with approval. "Go then! Go and slay that hope!"
***
From there, it went rather quickly.
The indigo one took over a C-list celebrity who was embittered at this fact. It looked like the standard Venom body type, only indigo, with cephalopod tentacle "hair", big "Spider-Man eyes", dirty yellow fangs, and the Indigo Tribe insigna in electric yellow, spidery lines. She became "Brutality".
The pink one took over a playboy stud whose handsome features were cosmetic only, as it was only a metaphorical mask for the repulsive man that laid beneath such a pretty exterior. He had been known to break hearts brutally and indifferently at the slightest whim. When he was overtaken by the symbiote, he becomes a standard pink Venom -- had the symbiote bonded with Killer Croc. It was pink with the Star Sapphire sigil upon its chest in brown, spidery design. It possessed brown fangs and a tailless saurian physique. It called itself "Heartbreaker".
The black one bonds with the body of a suicidal gravedigger. It appears to be the standard Venom form only with a symbiote-generated grim reaper robe, white fangs, and the Black Lantern insigna in white, spidery form. It is called "Gravesupplier".
Finally, the last one, the chalk white one, bonded with body of a neonatal doctor fired for malpractice. This caused the good doctor to become quite embittered with the whole business. As a costumed symbiote, he is essentially the pallet swap of Venom. It calls itself "Misery".
