The Incredible Drake: His Return

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The train's whistle blew as it reached Manehatten Station. The mares especially Rainbow Dash were happy to come here to meet Spider-Mare. When the train reached the boarding station and the doors opened, Rainbow zoomed out while the others walked out of the train car.

"Rainbow Dash, I know you're excited to meet Spider-Mare. But you need to calm down. Besides, I need to remember where she lives." Spike said as he rubbed his head.

"Well remember faster! I really wanna meet my favorite hero!" Rainbow yelled.

"Spikey, I remember where she lives. If you want to, I can lead us there." Rarity said to her somedragon.

"Please lead Rarity." Spike said. Rarity then took the lead and walked them to an apartment called the 'Seven Star Cabana' which was somewhere in the middle of Manehatten.

"Is this where she lives?" Twilight asked Rarity.

"Yes. Three floors up and the first door on the left." Rarity replied. Spike then went up to the buzzer and pressed on the number of her room.

"Hey, you there?" Spike asked. There wasn't any answer that worried Spike a bit.

"Spike, is she home?" Twilight asked him.

"She should be. I talked to her before we left. Rainbow Dash, go up to her room and let us in." Spike said.

"On it." Rainbow Dash said. She then flew up to the room with super fast speed. They waited a few minutes but Rainbow opened the door and let them in. When the girls and Spike went to her room, they saw Rainbow with a worried look on her face.

"Rainbow, what's wrong?" Fluttershy asked.

"Look in the room." Rainbow Dash replied. Slowly but surely, Spike opened the door and he along with the girls gasped at what they saw. Large claw marks on the floor and wall, a black slime-like substance covering nearly everything, and blood on the floor and walls. Spike felt his heart drop to his feet.

"Spike, we're going to grab our gear. You go and look for Spider-Mare." Twilight ordered.

"Right." He said back. Then with a flash of light, Twilight and the girls disappeared. Spike then began his investigation and looked around the room. Especially the black slime. He wanted to touch it, but he had no idea what it would do to him.

"What is this gunk?" He asked himself as he stared at the slime. He then looked out the window of the apartment and saw that the slime went through an alleyway. Spike then went down the fire escape and began to follow the slime trail.

"Where have I seen this stuff before?" Spike asked himself as he followed the trail. The trail then went into a dark and deep alleyway.

"How can I not have guessed?" Spike sarcastically asked himself in his thoughts. He then began to walk down the alleyway until a flash of light appeared behind him. He turned and saw his friends in their hero outfits.

Twilight or the Iron Mare was wearing her battle armor that she showed Spike back in the lab. It's main spots were purple including the chest, hands and hooves, and the back of the helmet. The other spots were lavender like the arm and legs and the face of the mask. Applejack or Captain Equestria was wearing a blue armor with red and white stripes in the middle section. Her mask had bird-like wings on the sides of the head and her round shield had a combination symbol of the Solar Empire and the Lunar republic on it. Rainbow Dash or Soar had on a black armored shirt and pants with a chain mesh under it. Her boots were silver and metallic and she had a helmet with bird wings on it. In her hand was her hammer Mjolnir. Pinkie Pie or the War Machine was wearing a suit of armor similar to Iron Mare's armor but it was pink, was more plated and it had shoulder mounted weapons like a minigun and a rocket launcher. Fluttershy or Hawkeye wasn't really armored or had a mask but she had a purple chest plate and pants with matching purple boots and gloves. She had a large recurve bow with a quiver of arrows. And lastly Rarity or the Black Widow was wearing a skin tight black suit and matching boots. On her waist was a pistol in a holster which made Spike's heart pump.

"Spike, find anything?" Iron Mare asked.

"Just this black slime." He replied as he pointed towards a pile of it. Iron Mare walked up to it and examined it.

"What'd ya' find?" Captain Equestria asked in a deep voice to hide her original voice.

"Interesting. This slimy substance isn't from Equestria or even Equis. It's...outworldish." Iron Mare replied.

"Maybe whatever took Spider-Mare left slime behind. Like a trail. Which means a trap." Soar said also in a deep voice.

"Well if it's a trap, I'm gonna spring it." Spike said as he began to walk further into the alleyway.

"Don't worry Spike, were right behind you." Iron Mare said. The seven the continued to walk down the alleyway until the trail stopped. When they looked up, they gasped and saw Spider-Mare with claw marks all over her body trapped in a web made of the black slime. Above her was wrote in the substance was 'MADE YOU LOOK!'.

"Spider-Mare!" Spike yelled to see if she was alive.

"S..Spike." She replied in a weak voice. Spike then out of heroism jumped onto the web and began to cut Spider-Mare out.

"Spike. It's good to....see you again. But..you gotta leave..me." Spider-Mare said in pain.

"I can't do that! I've gotta-" He started to say until he felt something stick to his back. He was then pulled away from the web and was slammed into a wall making it crack. He then as he slid down the wall heard a demonic laugh until he sat on the ground.

"We knew that you couldn't ressissst trying to help Sspider-Mare. How pathetic are you?" The demonic voice asked. He and the super mares looked up onto a rooftop and saw a monster. It was solid black like the slime, it had a large white spider symbol on it's chest, and on it's face were white eye-like objects like on Spider-Mare's mask and in the mouth area was large serrated fangs and a long tongue. It then all made sense to Spike. the slime and the room made sense.

"Who in Odin's beard are you?!" Soar asked angrily.

"I'm the poissson to Sspider-Mare. I'm her toxin. I'm her.....VENOM!" The creature roared as it's tongue swung around and saliva flew from it's mouth.

"More like She-Venom. Girls, you try and get Spider-Mare out of that web, I'll take care of this thing." Spike ordered.

"Alright. Come on!" Captain Equestria yelled. The six mares then ran to the web while Spike stared at the monster called She-Venom as it leaped down and landed in front of him.

"We're ready to play. How about you?" She-Venom asked. Spike's eyes then began to glow.

"I'm ready." He replied as his voice grew deeper. She-Venom snarled as she watched her prey grow in size and in strength. Spike then when he was done transforming roared at the monster. She-Venom roared back making Spike take precautions.

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Spike started the fight by charging at She-Venom, but she dodged it with lightning fast speed.

"Misssed us." She-Venom hissed. When Spike turned around, a tentacle made of slime lashed out of her arm and smacked Spike in the face making him stagger.

"Damn she's quick. I might have a challenge with her." Spike thought to himself as he held his jaw. While this was happening, Iron Mare was using the torch in one of the fingers in her gauntlet to cut the web Spider-Mare was held in. After she cut the last one, Spider-Mare fell from the web but Captain Equestria and Soar caught her.

"Easy soldier." Captain Equestria said as she helped Spider-Mare onto the ground. When she was laying on the ground, she was barely breathing but at least breathing. Black Widow removed her mask and they saw a Unicorn mare with a bloody lip and a black eye with some scratches on her face.

"Are you okay?" Soar asked the mare.

"I'm okay. T..thank you." She replied as she coughed up blood.

"What's your name?" Iron Mare asked.

"I..it's Lensie. The name's Lensie." She replied.

"Nice to meet you Lensie. Can you tell us what our comrade is fighting?" Captain asked.

"Believe it or not, that's..a normal pony." Lensie replied.

"Oh. What happened to her?" Hawkeye asked.

"A few weeks ago, a symbiote found me in my apartment and transformed itself into a black suit like the one I'm wearing. It felt...good to wear it. But little did I know that the suit did things to you. It fed off your emotions and the longer you wore the symbiote, the more angry and bad you become. I lost friends and nearly my family to that thing. So I went to the church and tried to remove it. I was able to but little did I know that a friend I lost to it named Ellie Brock was in there as well. So the symbiote attached itself to her and with all that anger and hatred inside of her, she morphed into that thing. She became She-Venom." Lensie replied.

"How did you remove it? We can probably help her." Soar said.

"I...can't remember. I'm sorry." Lensie said back.

"It's fine. We'll get you to a hospital." Iron Mare said.

"But can you take me to my apartment first? I don't want to go there in this." Lensie said with a little smile.

"I understand. Soar, War Machine, take Lensie to get clothes then get her to the hospital." Iron Mare ordered.

"We're on it." Soar said as she grabbed Lensie with War Machine. The two then began to walk Lensie back since flying could make her worse. The remaining four looked and saw Spike as he slammed She-Venom into the ground.

"Strong prey you are. We could use you." She-Venom said as she grabbed some slime off her arm. The slime then began to crawl up Spike's arm but he ripped it off of him.

"What is she planning?" Spike asked himself in his thoughts. But as he was distracted, She-Venom delivered a blow to his jaw sending him flying off of his feet. She-Venom then leaped onto Spike's chest then raised her claws and was about to deliver the final blow.

"Stop!" A voice yelled. She-Venom looked and saw Lensie holding her ribs.

"We don't want weak prey! We want a challenge!" She-Venom yelled.

"But come on, don't you miss me? Don't you want me back?" Lensie asked the creature.

"Why would we go back to you? You rejected our giftsss and left ussss. This new one lovessss our giftsss and accepts ussss." She-Venom said angrily.

"I know and I'm sorry. I've regretted throwing you away. Please come back to me." Lensie begged as she went onto her knees. The symbiote then began to leave it's host which was a blonde Earth Pony with light fur who must've been Ellie Brock.

"No! Don't leave me!" She screamed. Ellie then fell to the floor unconscious. But then before the symbiote touched Lensie, Spike stuck out his arm. The mares gasped as the watched the black creature devour Spike's body as he screamed. But then the symbiote crawled into his mouth. When it fully devoured him, he covered his face with his dark hands.

"Drake, are you okay?" Black Widow asked as she slowly walked towards him.

"Drake'sss not here." He replied in a demonic voice. "Only we are here. We are......VENOM DRAKE!"