Blue Beetle vs. Venom

## Description

Episode 2 - Marvel X DC - Two human beings with superhero partnerships with aliens square off

## Intro

Julie: Friendship is the best way to kick ass! Nothing like a good dynamic duo, as two heads are better then one! Like Batman and Robin, Like SpongeBob and Patrick, Like Nick and me.

Nick: or like Venom, Marvel Comics’s Lethal Protector and best frienemy of Spider-man.

Julie: And Blue Beetle, The third user of the power of the scarab. He’s Nick and I’m Julie.

Nick: And we give the characters all their powers, abilities and history as they enter the Crossover Colosseum.

## Blue Beetle

Nick: The Reach. A ancient race of cosmic marauders who conqueror any world they set their sights on. To aid them in their concurring, they built bio-armor that act on a hive mind. When they were defeated by Green Lantern Corp ages ago and forced into a truce, the Reach secretly deployed unit across the universe to infiltrate the worlds. They would take over a host making them a weapon the Reach can completely control and take over the world from the inside. One such unit came to Earth around the time of Pharaohs, damaged yet revered as the sacred Scarab. First found and utilised by archaeologist Dan Garret, who gave it to his student Ted Kord for safe keeping.

Julie: But through tons of Chicanery, the Scarab ended up in an unused lot in El Paso, Texas. Enter teenager and Batman fan named Jaime Reyes, who found the scarab and later activated it. But the scarab itself was damaged, and was disconnected from the hive mind, allowing it to form not just a symbiosis with Jaime but a mind of its own - allowing Jaime to retain control of

his body while in aforementioned symbiosis, although the scarab can take charge if Jaime gets incapacitated. The scarab adopting the name of Khaji Dah. This allowed him to become the Blue Beetle. The third one to be exact.

Nick: See, the Scarab will encase its user in a full body armour granting the user superhuman strength, speed and durability. All the basics, the suit even having different setting settings that effect these. However, Jamie’s abilities as The Beetle are to the limits of his own imagination. Similar to that of the green Lantern power ring, anything Jaime can think of the scarab can create.

Julie: Imagination, huh? Thanks for the tip!

Julie: Typically the scarab achieves this through creating certain objects utilising nanotechnology to help fight such as different weapons. Certain parts of the armour can be morphed into different things such as Plasma Cannons, Sonar cannons, Maces, drills - Even allowing Jaime to fly through sprouting wings and Rockets within his boots. The suit is built in with a variety of sensors, can detect if someone is lying, project holograms, translate any language and can interfere with any technology. He can hack into a Xbox and turn it into a terminator.

Nick: The suit can resist telepathy and can produce tachyons that can interfere with time travel. Not that it will help against Venom, but that’s pretty neat. He’s like the Swiss Army knife of Superheroes. Not just with the weapons he can pull out but with the abilities he has.

Julie: Such as   He has a healing factor, Energy absorption ranging from feeding off live wires energy to being able to absorb the energy of the planet, can reconfigure his armour, can temporarily stop Jamie’s heart (that’s not useful just something it can do) and… waste disposal, alright then.

Nick: The weapons he can create truly has no limits from Drones, ice rays to world destroying weapons and nuclear bombs. Guess you could call him Oppen-Jaime!

Julie: Speaking of bombs, Jaime tanked a blast strong enough to annihilate a mountain. And the scarab can cast forcefiekds even the flash can’t vibrate through. The suit is able to produce any countermeasure to any foe - such as producing kryptonite radiation.

Nick: Jaime was mentored by some of the sharpest minds in the DC universe such as Ted Kord and Batman. He stopped a flying truck with a single hand, survived a fall from orbit, and infected and destroyed OMAC Prime who at that time absorbed the powers of most of the Justice League powers including Wonder Woman and Captain Atom. He’s so fast he can create two after images at once. He’s able to hurt Typhoon, who is a being literally made of wind. But where Jaime really shines is in his durability. He’s tanked hits from Lobo who’s so strong he can sing in the vacuum of space! Oh and he can pull a sun that weighs approximately two octillion tons out of the sky. That’s sounds more impressive on paper but the first thing is bordering on cartoon levels of power. Despite being weak against magic, he could disrupt a spell by Eclipso who is the literal personification of god’s wrath.

Julie: He even healed from a weapon specifically designed by Maxwell Lord to harm the scarab. And the scarab calculated it could survive an explosion that destroyed mount justice. And I think we can trust it’s word as it had a permanent solution to killing the bottom feeder, a being cursed by the presence to never die. Despite being this powerful, Jaime has many weaknesses. No one else can hear the scarab, so he looks crazy when talking to it! How awkward! Oh that and if the Scarab’s taken away he’ll die.

Nick: Being a teenager, Jaime is relatively inexperienced and the suit can be shut down through magic, best not to fight Batman. If the Scarab believes it’s in danger, Jaime will struggle to control it.

Julie: But at the end of the day, and by the end of school, you can trust The Blue Beetle to save the day.

Jaime: I-I think I cut a bus in half!

## Venom

Nick: Since time first dawned, the planet Kylntar hosted a race of amorphous creatures as a biproduct of symbiote king god - Knull. However one    was rejected from the earth. The venom symbiote traveled across the cosmos before finding earth, and its latest host - Peter Parker. Grade A student and incredible photographer. But he’s also something el-

Julie: He’s fucking spider-man. Who doesn’t know that. Unfortunately Spider-man was in some pretty dark places. Not in terms of writing like he is nowadays, but mentally after his arch nemesis - Norman Osborne also known as The Green Goblin - killed his best friend and girlfriend, Gwen Stacy. And that’s all that ever happened between Gwen Stacy and Norman Osborne.

Nick: The symbiote fuelled his desire for vengeance and rage, to the point it affected Peter as much as the spider. So by playing a bit of Christian rock, he irritated the symbiote right off of him.

Julie: Earlier that day, famed reporter Edward Charles Allen Brock - you can call him Eddie woke up on what was to be the worst day of his life. He published a article placing the blame of who he believed to be the sin eater, the same day Spider-Man caught the sin eater.

Nick: After this, he was fired by his boss, divorced by his wife, disowned by his father who already blamed him for the death of Eddie’s mom and was diagnosed with cancer, given six months to live at best. With no where left to turn, he asked god to take it all away. The response? Venom.The symbiote bonded with Eddie, Giving him powers, healing his illness and fuelling his desire for vengeance. His hatred… for spider-man. And he’d soon cement himself as the perfect villain

Julie: He’s not a villain he just can’t fucking stand Spider-Man. And with his recent run, he’s not the only one. Although for someone he hates so much, he sure did steal his entire shtick. Using the symbiote’s unique traits he sticks to walls, uses webs to capture prey and swing across the air. The only power he doesn’t have is the spider sense but his 360 degree vision does cover that base

Nick: The symbiote increased Eddie’s already impressive strength, speed and durability - his healing factor allowing him to fight against his cancer and heal from grievous wounds such as being stabbed in the chest. He can sprout wings, extra tendrils to serve as extra appendages, or decouples to fake out opponents. The symbiote even has the ability to turn invisible allowing himself incredible stealth. Which may allow him to hit his opponent with a venomous bite that can put down any foe. He can shift himself into any shape including a entire arsenal of weaponsm, decoys of his own body, can spawn spikes from his body and glide

Julie: he’s strong enough to catch and stop trains and this massive Ferris wheel. Measuring its heigh the Ferris wheel must weigh about 200 pounds. He can survive incredibly acidic substances or a sonic wave that can shatter windows within ten miles. Spider-Man has admitted that not only does Venom have all his powers he’s stronger in every way to the point the symbiote can hold it’s own against him without Eddie - but has also fought the Juggernaut and Hulk while living to tell the tale. Both of which have caused near multiversal destruction with mere fist alone.

Nick: He’s even survived the penance stare that killed even Galactus. There’s practically nothing that can put him down.

Julie: Except for the fact both flame and Sound can extract the symbiote from him, leaving him stripped of his powers. But even then Eddie has proved time and time again to be a hero, evolving past the hate his heart once held, even that he held for Parker… usually.

Nick: He serves as a lethal protector to the worlds, not just theirs but all of them

Venom: We. Are. Venom.

## Fight

New York City

The loud night of the city was rather quiet in comparison to the jets of the figure that flew across the night sky. He dawned bright yellow eyes, a glowing dark blue scarab across his back and a black and blue colour scheme across his full body armour. It was the Blue Beetle. The third one - to be exact. Jaime Reyes. “Come on! Your on vacation! Enjoy it!” The scarab, Kahji Dah, said. “With a alien serial killer on the loose? I’m gonna have to deal with him sooner or later, might as well get him out of the way.” Suddenly a scream roared out before quickly falling silent. Without another word Jaime flew towards the origin of the screech.

A black web sticking him to the wall, small time crook - Killer Moth attempted to free himself as his former partner - Firefly - was held on his knees, now dead. Something held on to him. A big bulky figure that was completely black. A huge white spider emblem spread over his chest.  White eyes with no pupils, and sharp razor teeth that was currently sunk into Firefly’s head. The monster snapped it’s head back, tearing Garfield’s head clean off swallowing it like a snake. Seconds later, the monster turned its sights to moth, paralysing him with fear. In a single leap he closed the distance between them, it’s tongue  slobbering over his cowl. Quivering in fear, Moth screamed “Who the fuck are you?” The creature laughed.

“We are the monster hiding under your bed. We are your darkest nightmares all in one. We are-“ His stomach rumbled. “We are hungry.” Venom responded before opening his jaw, ready to eat a new meal.

Suddenly, Jaime smashed through the wall and seeing someone who resembled the killer he saw in the black and white picture in the paper, he turned his hand into a giant fist before charging forward.

Fight!

Jaime landed a direct hit to Venom’s stomach, launching them far enough to smash through the wall. Using his other hand he formed a sharp blade cutting Moth free before turning back to a regular hand, placing some sort of device onto his chest. Moth sighed a sigh of relief.

“Thank you man- I really appreciate it.”

“Uh huh.” Jaime responded, tapping into a keyboard on his wrist

“That guy is crazy!”

“You got the address?”

“Affirmative Jaime.”

“Well I got to run.”

“You sure do.” Jaime responded as the device went off, carrying a screaming moth into the air, off to the nearest prison.

“He was ours.” Venom said, crawling through the hole he created as he went flying. “Oh don’t worry. You can meet back up in prison. Jaime responded, striking a fighting stance. “Shit, he’s a hero.” Eddie said to venom. “And? The symbiote asked. “So that means don’t eat him.” Venom sighed. “Fine.” Jaime not hearing what Eddie said asked the scarab “Boy, is this guy crazy or what?”

Venom ignores the statement, forming a battleaxe. They leap through the air, slamming it downwards upon Jamie’s newly created shield. Not a dent. As venom struggles with the assault, Jaime morphs his other hand into a blaster, unleashing a bolt of blue plasma energy that launched through Venom’s stomach leaving a nasty crater as it launches him backwards. Jaime noticing the wound immediately starts to panic. “SHIT! Shit, shit, shit! Scarab, what’s the nearest hospital?” Jaime blurted out as he dashed to Venom’s side.

“Unnecessary, Jaime.”

“Unnecessary!? Are you blind! Well I don’t actually know how you see but-“

“The creature’s tissue is regenerating.”

Jaime turned his attention back to the symbiote pair, watching as they push up onto their feet. Strings of black goo connected together recreating the newly destroyed stomacbreathing started to increase. “What the hell are you!?”

Venom lets out a cackle that bounces off the brick walls. Slightly shook, Jaime tossed three bombs venoms way. Venom leaped with a twirl, perfectly manoeuvring around them. They clutched to the floor, going off with a boom that completely covers Venom. Nothing but smoke and shadow covered Jaime. He summoned two blades for protection. “We are what lurks in the shadows.”

With a quick dash, Venom scratched the back of Jaimes leg forcing him on one knee.

“We are the monster hiding under your bed, kid.”

We swung his arm turned axe down, but Jaime met it with his blade. Now knowing where venom was, he formed another blaster with his other hand. He wasn’t prepared for Venom to swing his left arm turned axe - shattering the blade in two. The force of the swing brought Jaime to the ground - to be met tomee to the face. This launched Jaime back onto his feet. He staggered backwards as venom didn’t relent. “WE!” Forming a sledgehammer, Venom struck him in the chin sending him on to his back. “ARE!” Jaime leaned up with two blasters - launching a pair of large beams of energy. Leaping over them, Venom uses the momentum of his leap to crush down onto Jaime’s stomach. He raised his foot into the air. “Venom.”

He slammed it down into Jaime’s head. The momentum smashes the skull into the stone floor creating a giant crater. After checking he was still breathing, Venom assumed the battle was done and started to walk away. Jaime’s eyes snapped open. With a burst of adrenaline, he leaped up for it to ware off immediately, falling to his knees. Venom let out a long sigh without even turning to his opponent. “DI-er. Go down already! He snapped charging forward - his arm forced into a kitana blade leaping forward while both of Jaime’s fists transformed into balls of spikes to got on the defensive. With his right hand he batted the blade away, and with the left smashed venom in the chin and sent them backwards. Jaime’s wings sprung from the scarab before dashing upwards with a right arm blade slashing upwards through his entire torso. With a in air spin, Jaime Forms a giant fist punching venom to the ground creating a small crater. With a battle axe for a hand, Jaime aimed to slam down into venoms chest. Venom rolled out of the way, forming a axe of his own to swing into Jaime’s back.

To their surprise, the scarab shot out a leg of a beetle catching the weapon and tossing him away. The venom layed crouched on all fours in a mix of fear and caution. “That scarab…”

“What about it? Eddie asked.

“A weapon of the reach… how could I be so blind.”

“The fuck is it?” Eddie asked as well, while venom leaped out of the way of several energy blasts.

“A weapon of world destruction that takes its hosts body and soul for its own.”

“Oh shit.” Eddie worried. “How do we help the kid.”

Venom frowned.

“We can’t. We can only… free him.”

Solemnly, the symbiote formed a blade and charged forward, dodging a swing from Jaime’s newly formed sword aiming directly to penertrate the scarab only for it to be intersected by two more beetle legs that spun the pair into the air. As the symbiotic began its descent, Jaime launched a fierce kick to their stomach sending them crashing directly through a brick wall. Venom picked themselves up to the screams of a elderly woman. “Don’t panick citizen, but you should evacuate for-“

Venom very suddenly realised he had been left alone as the old lady was nowhere to be seen. “Fit for her age.” Venom commented before being thrown off his train of though and face first into the concrete from a blast sent by a now air borne Jaime. Venom leaps continuously out of the way of the barrage until one finds a target blasting a streetlight at the base sending it falling to the ground. Seeing the light fade and the shadows emerge gave Eddie a idea. Tendrils spawned from his back and in multiple quick slashes the street had been completely claimed by darkness. The scarab tries to find the symbiote but had no luck tracing him as massive tendrils formed from the shadows to attack him. Jaime’s blasts kept them at bay, blasting them apart dodging out the way until he felt the sharp blade pierce through his back and through his stomach. Venom, dawning large demon wings and a large kitana charged forward holding Jaime captive as he glided towards the street. He tossed Beetle at the dark blue open lid of the dumpster. The collision caused it to slam shut after Jaime had hit the bottom of the freshly emptied bin.

In mere seconds, venom had the lid webbed tight to the point not even the power of the scarab could force it open. Venom slammed both his hands together and together created a massive black sledge hammer. He swung it down at with incredible velocity and might. Jaime tried to prepare for this by forming a shield that managed to stop the hammer from crushing him, but the pressure was increasing by the matter. He felt the dumpster give way beneath him to the point he was practically lying on his back. The dumpster atop him was so crushed it practically served as a second layer to the hammer in attempting to flatten him. Solemnly venom remarked, “Sorry kid. You don’t deserve this.”

Jaime struggled to keep it together as he faced death in the eye. He though of his friends. His family. And then he felt it. He felt Khaj struggling against the ground she was being pressed against. He felt her putting all her effort into the strength of the forcefield. He thought of their friends. Their family. He pressed his feet a the side of the dumpster. Fire shooting up out his boot. He replied to Venom’s grievances, although they went unheard. “Yes I do…”

As he flew out, smashing through the side of the dumpster his next comment was heard a lot more clearly. “AND STOP CALLING ME KID.” The suit amplified the sound of it, causing it to echo as it hit the pair. The vibrations of the scream caused the symbiote’s formation to crumble just enough so that Jaime’s punch connected with Eddie rather then Venom. The force of the blow caused his nose to break, causing Brock’s anger. But as the symbiote reformed around him, Jaime saw the nose fix itself. Now the bulking ferocious monster again, venom clamped his arm turned axe down upon another blade from Jaime. It was a struggle that Venom was very much winning. But Jaime had something to say.

“Hey… want to heAR SOMETHING FUNNY!?” With that the scarab transmitted the volume of Jaime to another level. Every grunt from the strain and effort he put in helped turn the tide of battle as it caused the synbiote to melt from Eddie’s skin. The symbiote clung and held the axe in a tight formation, but with a yell of incredible sound he cleaved through it like butter. And from there the symbiote melted completely off eddie. Trying to reform itself with the chunks lost in the struggle. Eddie couldn’t see this as he closed his eyes in pain from the sound, blood starting to ever so slightly trickle from his ears like a faucet. When the sounds stopped and his eyes opened he saw the world covered in a light blue aura. He turned to his left and saw the symbiote expand across the surface of the forcefield like a octopus. To no avail. Jaime walked up to the goop and tore the symbiote off in one pull. Like trash, he tossed it over his shoulder landing in the area of another summoning forcefield. With both captured, he turned to Eddie with a cocky but well earned smirk. But before long it quickly turned to confusion. “You don’t look like your mugshot Cassidy.”

“What?” Eddie replied bluntly.

Jaime realised his question had, ever so slightly undermined the epic quality of his victory. He stumbled to regain the upper hand of superiority but he couldn’t before Eddie asked. “You we’re looking for Carange?”

Jaime saw a opportunity.

“Yeah, duh. We’re superheroes.” He said before blasting into the night sky and heading home for a nice and preferably long nap.

A large awkward silence filled the air between the two cell mates.

“Listen-“

“Hero! Did you hear that!”

“The reach are a real threat! That is what they do-“

“Seemed like a PRETTY NICE GUY TO ME.”

“HE BROKE YOUR NOS-

“Lovers quarrel, eh?” A unidentified voice from the shadows spoke out. Of course the pair identified the voice pretty quickly and practically perfectly. The one and only Spider-Man.

“Sorry I’m late fellas, I was handling and locking away out old buddy Kletus. Real pain in the neck.”

“Yes, yes very interesting Pete. Can you get us out.” Eddie snapped

“Course I can.” Peter said with a smirk. Eddie groaned, lying down as peter got to work. It had been a very long day.

## Conclusion

Julie: WHAT THE! Where’s the sword! The Hammer! The king of symbiote stuff.

Nick: Too unfair and unlikely for him to have at this time. Can’t see him just snatching Mjilnor mid battle with surtur. Anyway this was very close in their base forms. Eddie held significantly more experience then Jaime and was arguably smarter.

Julie: Byt unfortunately that’s where that ends. Jaime’s powers not only allowed fro better Versatilty but power. Creating nuclear bombs is something that far exceeds what Eddie’s taken.

Nick: But not what Jaime has, with surviving mountain scale blasts and scaling to several powerful dc heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman.

Julie: Amd unlike Jaime, Eddie had very exploitable weaknesses. With both sound and flame being key tools of his opponents Arsenal. In the end, Venom wasn’t re-ddie to get blue beaten.

Nick: The winner is blue beetle

## Advantages and Disadvantages

### Venom

+ Smarter

+ More Experienced

- Weaker

- Less Durable

- Exploitable Weaknesses

#### Blue Beetle

+ Stronger

+ More Durable

+ More versatile

+ Could exploit Eddie’s weaknesses

- Dumber

- Less Experience l