Jack O'Lantern showed up at Flash Thompson's father's funeral on behalf of his boss
Crime-Master with a deal that involves retrieving a package for him or see his family suffer. Given the situation, Flash had no other choice but to comply to keep his loved ones safe. This led him to steal the symbiote for himself when
Captain America comes in to shut down "Project Rebirth" the next day and then he flees the facility. Cap gives Flash a chase into the forest and these two fights for control as the former unsuccessfully tries to convince to give up the suit.
Flash managed to best
Captain America in combat and when he got back with the suit, he found himself teaming up with
Jack O'Lantern to a road-trip. Cap then tasked
Red Hulk with a solo mission to retrieve
Venom symbiote and bring it back to base. The following day, Flash and Jack heads straight to Devil's Den Casino of Las Vegas, where they breaks in to get the Toxin symbiote for
Crime-Master but as soon as
Venom senses it, Flash loses control over his suit and things goes way out of hand.
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Whatever control Flash had over the symbiote is gone and tries to eleminate the
Toxin symbiote so that it could not compete with
Venom for a battle of dominance on Earth in future.
Jack O'Lantern breaks in to secure the package and remind Flash to calm down as he puts the symbiote in a container.
Venom completely ignores anything that Jack said and keeps violently pouncing at the villain to get the container back.
Crime-Master suggests Jack to run for his life and he barely made it out of Flash's clutch by threatening his family if the latter doesn't comply.
Flash calls Betty and breaks up with her to cut ties with her and save her from
Crime-Master and
Jack O'Lantern. By the time, he calmed down, General Thunderbolt Ross AKA the
Red Hulk was looking for the symbiote to take it back into custody. Seeing a hostile
Rulk breaking-in, the suit tries to take over him and they blew up a gas station in the ensuing struggle. Meanwhile,
Wolverine's cloned daughter
X-23 gets into the casino tracking the trail of a vial of her blood and discovers a band of Symbiote Warriors cloned in tubes.
Devil's Den Casino owner Mr. Degli and his girlfriend Ms. Oyle goes to a satanic machine with hundred sinful souls to open a black doorway and sensing this, the new Spirit of Vengeance; Alejandra Jones heads to the location, leaving Johnny Blaze in the Nevada desert. While rushing into the scene, Alejandra accidentally helped activate the doorway as demons enters Earth. Mr. Degli and Ms. Oyle reveal them to be
Blackheart and his lover Gari Oyle as
Ghost Rider,
Red Hulk,
Venom and
X-23 appears to fight Hell and Antithesis; the dark counterpart of their own to save Earth.
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Venom – Circle of Four storyline, you can check out the link below.
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"
Circle of Four" is a six-part plotline that ran into the second monthly ongoing comic-book volume of
Venom from
Marvel Comics, written by
Jeff Parker,
Rick Remender (
AXIS,
Captain America – Castaway in Dimension Z),
Rob Williams and drawn by
Julian Tedesco,
Lan Medina,
Lee Garbett,
Sana Takeda,
Tony Moore (
Deadpool,
Punisher). The story is another father-son hatred battle to rise to power in Hell between the demon
Blackheart and his father
Mephisto. As always,
Mephisto found some pawns to do his bidding and gave them something that they wanted in return like a master manipulator.
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This skirmish of Hell also added never before teamed-up characters like
Ghost Rider,
Red Hulk,
Venom and
X-23 side by side to work as a team, which also is homage to the
New Fantastic Four storyline from the 90's. Though it was very hard to match their combined ego to go team but dire objective in hand really motivated them all to act as a group and they had no other choice left. Aside from the unusual alliance formed during the story, characters like
Doctor Strange, Hellstorm,
Secret Avengers member
Beast and
Giant-Man made cameo appearance into it at one point.
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