Welcome everyone! So, this is a rewrite of my original Spider-Man/Venom/Not really either, but it was sort of story. It's a story I hold rather dear to my heart and while I did like the finished product, the year or so that has transpired since I finished it has led to some thoughts that would improve the story greatly!

Which is why I have commenced the immediate, from scratch rewrite of New Dawn under a new name.

Venom: Resurgence.

When I originally wrote New Dawn, I had set out with a basic idea of: what if symbiotes and nothing else in post-apocalyptic world?

Now though, I have something to tell in this story. An over-arcing theme, if you will. No, I won't be telling you what it is in this story. I will also say that when I get around to completing the master plan, this will be taking New Dawn's place in it. Also, I will not be deleting New Dawn from because I worked on that too long and hard to erase it.

Plus, it'll be interesting to see how I've changed as a writer since I began to work seriously on stories four years ago.

A couple of format things I'm changing this time (Or at least attempting to)

1) Trying to follow through on vaguely alluded to plot-points instead of losing them in the fog of creative madness.

2) Cutting back on vaguely alluded to plot-points to reinforce the actual plot instead of spinning a web with no center.

3) This is more of an addition to the opening bit: We'll be putting more effort into responding properly to reviews! It's a small change, but a good one, methinks, and one worth mentioning.

Creativity: Alright, we get it! Now, shall we begin?

Author: I believe we shall.

True believers, I am proud to present Venom: Resurgence to you all. I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it.

To understand how this all began, we must turn to how it ended. How the age of Superheroes ended, to be specific. In my world, there are no heroes. Not anymore. They all died out when the Invasion began in earnest. It all began with a meteorite, impacting the earth in Nevada. Scientists collected it for research and transported it to San Francisco, soon finding that it was perhaps more than it first appeared.

Aide 1: "Sir, the scans indicate that the meteorite is hollow!"

Scientist: "Hollow? How is that possible?! It should have shattered upon impact if it was hollow!"

Aide 2: "Sir, it appears there is something inside. Initial scans suggest a liquid, composed of no element found on the Periodic Table!"

Scientist: "Get a probe in here! We must extract it immediately!"

The meteorite is placed in a large, transparent box with a large, boxy machine mounted on top. A drill bit descends into the box and begins to spin before touching the meteorite, sending dust and debris flying as it slowly carves its way through the meteorite's shell. Eventually, the drill bit breaks through into the hollow space within the meteorite. Inside, a liquid rippled and bubbled before a strand extended to touch the drill bit. Feeling no danger, the liquid stretches and bundles, pulling itself along the drill-bit until it emerges into the transparent box. The scientists watch in awe as the ebony slime begins to ooze throughout the box aimlessly, assuming they have discovered a new super-fluid. How wrong they are. The slime begins searching for a weakness, a breach. It can sense air movement and knows that freedom is within reach. It only needs to find it. Suddenly, it feels air rushing and it is sucked into a tube. It can see an indigenous creature just outside its prison, holding it in fascination and celebration. It believes that they are contained. However, this prison is far weaker than that box. The tube begins to shake before rupturing, the slime erupting from within and ferociously grappling onto its would-be captor, engulfing it. Bonding with it. The scientists flee the room as the helpless aid is cocooned in the slime, her screams falling dead silent. The slime begins to tighten before taking the appearance of a woman in a catsuit. Two large, chaotic blotches were in the place of eyes, a wide maw of inch-long, razor sharp teeth, and a tongue that could extend to a foot long. It swayed in place before throwing back its head and letting out a guttural wail of insanity. Then it falls to all fours, searching for an escape route. It spies a vent and its maw contorts into a gross approximation of a smile. It skitters up the wall, removes the grate barring its way and makes its way into the air ducts.

From there, almost no one escapes. They are systematically hunted down and captured, dragged into the shadows by an unseen assailant. The few that do escape send for the authorities, but those who enter are never to be seen again either.

Soon enough, this event garners the attention of two sworn enemies. Spider man and Venom. Along with the government, both begin investigating the event, only for the Venom symbiote to realize what is happening and panic. It is revealed that all who were captured have now been taken over by new symbiotes, spawned by the one that arrived via meteorite; A queen who seeks to build a hive.

Soon, the military becomes involved, but they are caught by surprise when the symbiotes emerge to attack them from the shadows, carrying host-less symbiotes with them to add to their number as they tear through the army, destroying vehicles and weaponry, disabling their weaknesses of fire and sound, and forcing Spider man and Venom to retreat, less they be overwhelmed.

Seemingly overnight, the three-story building that had housed the lab is converted inwardly and outwardly into a symbiote hive, where thousands more spawn. The surrounding area is evacuated and quarantined, but the symbiotes grow bold, taking to the buildings around them to hunt down more hosts and expand their ranks. In addition to this, they evolve with exposure to various new forms of weapons employed against them, such as chemical or biological warfare. These new strains develop new abilities, such as enhanced manipulation of their own bodies, corrosive acid, and many others. They continue down into the sewers, taking hundreds, then thousands as the days stretch into weeks, systematically tearing San Francisco to pieces. The nest has now reached the height of a skyscraper, using nearby skyscrapers as a frame to accelerate the building process.

Many who escape the city are in fact sleeper agents, with symbiotes having bonded to them and simply biding their time before they can strike around the world. All the while, Venom, Spider man and many other heroes and villains are trying to combat this hostile takeover, but to no avail. Eventually, it is decided to construct a safe-haven. A fortress that can shelter humanity while they prepare to retaliate against the invaders. Through their combined technologies, the governments of the world construct a city in Nevada that could comfortably house eighty million people, is completely self-sustaining and contains specialized defences against symbiotes, including a sonic projector powered by an Arc Reactor. The governments of earth attempt to get as many people within the walls of the city as they can. They only get fifty million people inside. The heroes and villains of earth fight desperately to save their planet. They all perished, one after another. The last to fall are Spider man and Venom, who made a last stand in New York, where they fall in battle. Some remember Venom as having become a true hero that day. Many others consider him responsible for the calamity that befell them.

In the end, there are only two free nations left. They are Safe Haven, and Wakanda, who's own shield was modified to emit specialized vibrations that are incredibly painful to symbiotes, but not lethal.

Two hundred and fifteen years pass and those who were left trapped outside of Wakanda and Safe Haven have diverged into those who survived and those who fell, becoming little more than rabid beasts. This, is where my story begins. It begins in a world of body snatchers, beasts in human skin, mistrust, desperation and terror. There are no safe places out here. No where to hide, but everywhere to run. And running is how it all started.

So, yeah. I changed it a bit to somewhat resemble the MCU, but it isn't. It's just to explain some of the tech, to include Wakanda (Because Wakanda would definitely survive a symbiote apocalypse) and because it gives a little more weight to it. The Heroes of the world couldn't win against the invaders, with Spider man laying down his life so that others could escape. Same with Venom.

Creativity: I think this time, we're going about it a bit smarter.

Author: Yeah. However, I am not going to try to overstuff it this time. I do feel that's something I did last time; Trying to reach that 100k goal. I doubt I'll get that far this time and I'm perfectly fine with that. I already got 2 100k stories under my belt, one of which isn't quite done yet, so I don't want to overdo it just to try and reach some quantifiable goal. Quality over quantity.

Well, I'll be posting the first five chapters at the same time as this opener, so don't miss it! Right now, this'll just be updated at my leisure, but it will be in sets of five. Just to shake things up.

Well, I think that about covers everything! Please remember to share your thoughts in the review section, I'll see you all soon!