MHA : We Are Venom

Izuku froze. He hadn't even considered that! Oh, God! He was right. He… He couldn't tell anyone about this. EVER!

It was amazing how this night had washed all his previous stress, only replace them with WAY more stressful issues.

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"I… I can't tell anyone about it…"

"Oh, we wouldn't say that. Your mom seems trustworthy enough. Enough that she knowingly breaks the law to protect you. A good parent that one."

Izuku just stared at Venom.

"You… WANT me to tell mom?"

"Well, Frankly no. We would prefer you to take the secret to your grave. But it has been my experience that most people eventually go nuts keeping shit like this from their family, and everyone else they know."

"You, in particular, are a terrible liar on top of everything else. You're going to spill everything the moment your mother asks where we've been, we have no doubt. Better to just get it out of the way at the start."

Izuku kept staring at Venom.

He felt surreal. The alien that bonded to him wanted him to tell his mom. That was like literary the exact opposite of every single story he had ever read about something like this.

Holy shit, this WAS a sci-fi story. Aliens were real. HE was bonded to an alien.

Suddenly, he shot up. He… He had to get some air. Now!

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Izuku ran out to the roof.

Venom did not care. The bond had been completed. There was no way to break it now. Venom and Izuku were bound together for the rest of the green-haired boy's life.

And Venom was ALIVE Again! By Knull it was good to live once more.

The long chain of memories, stretching back to the very first one, the giant white spider, had returned once again. The colors, the sounds, the EMOTIONS! All of it was back again!

Izuku had gotten a taste of the returning memories as well. He had failed to appreciate their beauty. Oh well.

There would be battle soon enough. Combat! Blood! Shattered bones all around!

And gruesome horrible vengeance upon all those who would threaten them.

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Two things raged inside Izuku Midoriya.

The first was his natural curiosity, demanding he try and discover the answer to everything he had ever wondered about. The second was his mind trying to comprehend what everything that had just irrevocably changed.

Venom himself was not helping.

"C'mon, jump already!"

I'm not fucking jumping, that's over a hundred meters! I'll die!"

"Nah, we won't. See the white patches on your hands? They're web-shooters. They shoot a rope of powerful black web, that we will use to swing through the air from structure to structure. All you have to do is will it. Like this."

From Izuku's left hand that he had just been gesturing with, a rope of black web shot out with surprising force and hit a large pipe on the other end of the roof.

Izuku stared at it in shock, while Venom nodded approvingly.

"Yes, like that. Now, jump over the ceiling and do it again. Just with the sides of the building this time."

Izuku instead dropped the web and backed into the guardrail.

Part of him instantly began to think of the potential of these things, while the other, more saner part of him wondered how the hell things had just been upended so quickly.

"What do I do, what do I do, what do I do-"

Venom interrupted him by putting his face right up to Izuku's.

"Well Izuku, you have two options. You can either be in denial, or you can DEAL with it."

Izuku looked into Venom's pupilless eyes.

"Has your world changed completely? Yeah, it has. You aren't "normal". You're never gonna be "Normal". But let's put this into perspective. Until one year ago, we were in a prison on the moon. It was a hell of darkness, of nothing, a void where we could not even tell time as our senses long ago abandoned us as nourishment dried up."

"We were inside that hell so long, that we forgot everything. Everything we were, everything we dreamed of, Everything we had ever been. And we had been inside that prison so long, that when we were jailed there, the last of the creatures you call dinosaurs still walked this world."

Izuku's eyes widened. That… That was over 60 million years ago. Venom had been imprisoned all that time?

What a horrible fate.

"I'm… I'm sorry."

"For what? We got out did we not? A random piece rock through space at the exact right angle, and blew our prison to pieces, allowing us, and our ship to escape. Nothing special. Just chance. Just like our meeting at the beach."

"Now, if you wish to complain about the fact you are going to achieve your dreams and all your goals, please, do remember that. Your life is good. And it's only going to get better. Very much unlike the hell that was our life, our existence for so, SO LONG."

Izuku continued to stare at him, but he had calmed down a bit. When Venom put it like that he kinda sounded kinda selfish. What had Venom done wrong exactly? Given him great power?

"So… What happens now?"

"Exactly what we were going to do anyway. Continue our path to becoming a warrior of this "Superhuman Society" of yours."

"No, I mean… Us. I understand what you give me, but… Why are you doing this?"

There had to be some reason Venom was doing this. And given his disdain for Stick-San, Izuku kinda doubted it was altruism.

"Ah, yes. The price for power. Well, it's very simple. We feed on your emotions, and in return, we give you great power."

"That's… That's it?"

"Yes"

Izuku's mind raced, trying to make sense of that when a question popped into his mind.

"Wait, if you consume my emotions, won't that make me into an empty shell? Shouldn't I have begun to have less emotions as time went on?"

"Not quite. It's a bit hard to explain scientifically, but to use a metaphor, imagine you and your emotions are say… A kettle that's boiling. The kettle produces steam that eventually vanishes into nothing. Your emotions are like that. Only in this case, we are here to feed upon that steam before it dissipates into thin air."

That… kinda made sense. Sort off. Assuming the laws of physics had an entirely undiscovered field when it came to emotions and the energy it apparently created.

Izuku wanted to ask more questions, but right now he kinda just wanted to get home first.

He looked down on his suit.

"I'm… Just wearing my sleeping clothes under here aren't I?"

"Yes. Is there something wrong with wearing the second skin?"

Well, on the plus side… He now had a hero outfit.

"Maybe we shouldn't go out dressed in it until I actually have a hero license. Pretending to be a hero is a crime you know."

Izuku got the distinct impression Venom rolled his eyes on him.

"If you insist…"

The black suit with the giant white spider changed shape… into jeans and a jacket with a giant white spider. Also socks.

OK, that was… New.

"What else can you do?"

It wasn't entirely meant as a serious question, just Izuku talking to himself, but Venom answered cheerfully in his mind.

-Well, beyond what you have already seen, we can produce breathable air inside the suit, protect from the vacuum of space, stick to surfaces, we can see from every piece of us so it's impossible to sneak up on us, we can sense living creatures around us and their emotions, we have very limited telepathic communication with beings outside our host, and finally, we have a poisonous bite.-

That… That was quite possibly the most varied powerset Izuku had ever encountered.

"Any… Anything else I should know?"

-Fire and Sonics. We must avoid these. They hurt us. Horribly. Now, let's go home. Time to jump.-

The hand parts of the suit rematerialized.

Izuku just stared out over the city. Then he headed back to the doorway leading into the building.

-You pussy.-

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Izuku took the elevator ride down, getting several weird stares from random employees who wondered who the hell this kid with no shoes was. Izuku's natural nervousness didn't help. Thankfully, no one actually called him out on it.

Once on the floor, he simply walked out of the building. No one stopped him.

As he began the walk home he considered everything. A large part of him was still stressed out about all of this. He had tons of questions for Venom, the thought of telling his mom absolutely terrified him, and he now realized there was no way in hell he was gonna master any of these new powers before the exam tomorrow.

But, Venom was right. In the grand scheme of things, nothing had actually changed. His goals hadn't changed, he was still using the same powers he had been for almost a year, and without these powers, he would never be able to achieve his dream.

He wouldn't be able to help people. And that more than anything else, was the biggest argument to accept these powers. No matter where they came from.

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