Hornet

Hornet is the Bee-verse counterpart to Venom. The Hornet Symbiote was sent to Earth, along with other symbiotes, with the intention of assimilating more hosts into the symbiote hive, and was discovered by Dr. Connors, who asked her brightest pupil, Petra Parker, to help examine it. The symbiote latched on to Petra, causing her to become more aggressive and easily angered, which concerned her friends. However, exposure to Petra's radioactive honey bee blood also altered Hornet. The symbiote was no longer keen on expanding an existing hive; instead it wanted to rule its own hive. After the symbiote was forcibly removed from Petra, it found a new host.

## Powers and Abilities

The Hornet symbiote is dark orange in color, and grants its host the following abilities:

* Flight, by manifesting large wings
* Proportionate strength and agility
* Sharp stingers upon their wrists
* The ability to throw parts of the symbiote, which will latch on and restrain target

The Hornet symbiote will also converse with the host, trying to get the host to assimilate more hosts into their new hive. The Host then adopts a Queen Bee/Alpha Bitch-like personality if they didn't have one before.

## Edith Brock

Edith Brock is the Bee-verse counterpart to Eddie Brock, and is a disgruntled reporter at the Daily Bugle, about the same age as Petra, who was incredibly jealous of Petra and Honey-Bee's popularity. Noticing Petra's recent aggressiveness and belligerence, Edith began to tail Petra, hoping to uncover evidence, get promoted, and maybe rid the Bugle of Honey-Bee once and for all. However, what she found was a pile of alien goo, which promptly latched on to her, causing her to manifest as Hornet's new host.

Edith loses the Hornet symbiote when facing off against Petra and her clones. In a last ditch effort to rid Edith of the symbiote, Honey-Bee and her clones swarm around Edith's body with the intent of overheating the symbiote. In a move of self-preservation, the overheating Hornet symbiote abandons Edith, and escapes, only to be captured by SHIELD. Edith is then taken into custody where she meets with Miss Positive on a regular basis for therapy and rehabilitation.

In the Decoupled Bee-verse, Edith Brock is instead named Vesper Hudson.

## Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson is the Bee-verse counterpart to Flash Thompson. Originally the head cheerleader at Petra's high school, and the most popular girl in school, Flora wanted to be friends with Petra. However, due to her Alpha Bitch personality coming on too strong and Petra's social ineptitude misreading the situation, Petra assumed Flora was bullying her and avoided her and the cheerleading squad for the entirety of high school, with each of Flora's attempts to befriend Petra ending in failure. However, when Flora found out Petra's secret identity as Honey-Bee, the two girls made up and became friends. Flora enlisted in SHIELD in order to assist Petra's heroics, eventually volunteering to become the new host for the Hornet Symbiote as Agent Hornet. While the symbiote was experimented on to try to keep its urges to create its own hive under control, its urges still manifested somewhat, causing Flora's new, mellow personality to roll back to her high school personality.

In the Decoupled Bee-verse, Flora Thompson is instead named Rose Thorne.

## Trivia

* The Venom counterpart in the Bee-verse was originally going to be merged with Scorpion to create Dragonfly. The symbiote would have been experimented on by SHIELD to remove its connection to the hivemind and find its way to the tabloid news agency through a series of under the table deals, and activated during Dragonfly's debut, causing Mackenzie's career to spiral and the tabloid to close.
* Hornet was also suggested to be a full on Scorpion counterpart, in addition to the above Dragonfly concept. However, it was decided that Hornet would work better as a Venom counterpart, considering Tarantula Hawk, the Carnage counterpart, also being themed to a wasp.

## Gallery

A concept art for Hornet, when she was going to be the Scorpion counterpartEdith Brock as HornetFlora Thompson as Agent HornetA portrait of Edith Brock as HornetPortrait of Flora as Agent HornetHornet(Edith) with the rest of the Fiendish Four (Leopard Seal, Radia, and the Line) and their benefactor, CheshireHornet (Edith Brock) and the rest of the Fiendish Four (and Cheshire) targetting CrustacciaHornet (Edith Brock) and her Fiendish Four teammates attacking CrustacciaHornet (Edith Brock), Leopard Seal, and The Line celebrating their victory over CrustacciaHornet (Edith Brock) getting confronted by Honey-Bee regarding the attack on CrustacciaHornet's (Edith Brock's) appropriately fiendish response