Sitting in Rex Strickland's bunker, Dylan Brock pulls out a military field ration and incredulously wonders how he's supposed to eat it.

Reminding himself that he has to prioritize Dylan's safety, Eddie Brock - clad in an artificial symbiote manifested from a dark elf Dreamstone - flips over a Roxxon tank; noting that his suit grows stronger the more negative emotions he feeds it and weakens if he calms down. Focusing his rage on Roxxon for betraying humanity when they could be helping fend off the invasion, Venom bisects the tank with a single blow from his stolen troll battleaxe. As the tank's driver flees, Venom plucks arrows from the Dreamstone symbiote using tendrils and fires them at the fleeing soldier, crippling him. Feeding the artificial symbiote his years' worth of hate towards Spider-Man and his father, Venom brutally kills the soldier, noting he can feel the suit slowly changing as it adapts to him; cutting off all his emotions except rage.

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