Death of the Venomverse #3 (2023)

On Earth-71023, Carnage brandishes All-Blood as it exits a city choked with thorny vines. Followed by a swarm of Venomized insects, Carnage nonchalantly kills them and finds itself confronted by a Venomized Man-Thing. Dubbing its opponent "Venoman-Thing", Carnage evades the hulking monster's tendrils and stabs Venoman-Thing in the chest with All-Blood. Enraged, Venoman-Thing grabs it, but Carnage infects Venoman-Thing with its biomass and blows it up from the inside. On Earth-616, Agent Venom explains the situation to Silence, who quips that she might want to work on her pep-talks before noting that Agent Venom is someone other than Flash Thompson. Retracting her symbiote from her face, Anne introduces herself, but Silence interrupts her explanation of the Multiverse by saying she's already familiar with it. As Silence teasingly calls Virus "Death-Metal Iron Man", Anne reiterates that the Carnage of Earth-616 is hunting Venoms from across the Multiverse but that they may stand a chance at thwarting its plans with Andi's unique symbiote's powers. Silence says she's in, though she questions Anne picking her over the real Anti-Venom. As Virus opens a portal, Silence asks if Carnage has killed any versions of herself, Agent Venom sadly stating that he killed a version of her who was still Mania. Processing this, Silence says it's weird to get to avenge her own death. Agreeing, Agent Venom says that Andi won't be alone in the endeavour, and will have plenty of backup. Later, Agent Venom and her Symbiote Squad arrive in an unnamed universe at the gates of a golden medieval-looking city. As Chaos Engine remarks that it looks like something out of Dungeons & Dragons, Dreamstone Venom retorts that they are in Asgard. As Chaos Engine and Venomized Rhino express awe at being in the realm of the Norse gods, Venom: Space Knight says that they're on Earth. Dreamstone Venom states that, much like in his universe, the War of the Realms must have ravaged Midgard and Asgard to the extent that they joined together to recover. Glaring at a group of alarmed civilians, Rhino scoffs that it doesn't seem much different to his own Earth. Dreamstone Venom's reprimand is interrupted by a young woman astride a symbiote-enhanced winged horse. Brandishing a Necrosword, the young woman introduces herself as Asgardia and states that the Norns forewarned her of an impending calamity. Dismounting, Asgardia notes that she senses that the Symbiote Squad means her no harm, but that danger circles them like ravens. Genuflecting, Dreamstone Venom offers his fealty to Asgardia assuming her to be a Valkyrie, though Asgardia says that was her mother's title. Shocked, Venom: Space Knight notes that if Asgardia's mother was Brunnhilde and she has the Venom symbiote her father can only be one person. As Venom: Space Knight retracts his symbiote from his face, Asgardia is overjoyed to see her father somehow alive and well. As the two embrace, Carnage plunges from the sky and attempts to impale them both with All-Blood, mockingly stating that -- touching as this family reunion may be -- this universe's Flash Thompson is supposed to be dead and it falls to it to rectify things. Forming an arm-blade, Venom: Space-Knight snarls that he won't let Carnage hurt his daughter, Carnage retorting that it's not there just for her but for all of them. Chaos Engine blasts Carnage with a sonic guitar riff, horrified that it has no effect. Setting the area ablaze with a torrent of hellfire, Carnage knocks aside Dreamstone Venom and grabs Symbiote Spider-Man, snarling that it's going to wipe the Symbiote Squad out once and for all. Symbiote Spider-Man retorts that Carnage isn't the only one who can bait a trap, Virus and Anti-Venom open fire with Anti-Venom Serum-laced bullets. Silence, a variant of Anti-Venom, and an Anti-Carnage leap into the fray, Andi saying she's gonna have fun putting its new powers to the test and tearing it apart. Evading and parrying their attacks with All-Blood, Carnage says testing its powers was the whole point but that it's surpassed them all by such an extent that there's no point anymore. As Silence boasts she could kill it with a single touch, Carnage recognizes her as the Andi Benton of Earth-616, fondly remembering having almost killed her a few of times. As Silence tries to slash it with her claws, Carnage opens a portal and causes her to lacerate herself, quipping that it's actually happy she's there to witness its apotheosis. Asgardia swoops towards it, but Carnage knocks her off her winged horse and sneers at how powerless even a symbiote-augmented demigoddess is before it. As Carnage prepares to finish her off, Venom: Space Knight forms an arm-blade and lunges, shouting for Carnage to get away from his daughter. Carnage casually impales Flash instead, Silence and Asgardia horrified to witness the impending death of their father-figure/alternate universe father. Lifting Venom: Space Knight into the air, Carnage sneers that their attacks are like pebbles making ripples on the surface of an infinite pond. Virus opens fire with all his weapons in an attempt to save Venom: Space Knight, but Carnage slashes through the suit to reveal it's being piloted by the Dylan Brock of Earth-1051 -- recovered from his coma and returned to his child state. As Symbiote Spider-Man expresses shock that Anne would bring a child -- let alone her son -- into the conflict against Carnage, Agent Venom furiously attacks Carnage. Unfazed, Carnage declares its intent to turn Dylan into a sacrificial lamb to its apotheosis, but is impaled from behind by Anti-Carnage, who says that he intends to atone for the terrible crimes he committed by vanquishing the alternate version of his former self. As Anti-Carnage's symbiote-cleansing powers begin affecting it, Carnage lets out a scream of rage and pain, Silence wondering if they've actually managed to win. Activating the Hell-Mark, Carnage immolates Anti-Carnage with hellfire and assimilates his symbiote, leaving the Symbiote Squad horrified. Standing over Cletus Kasady's burning corpse, Carnage notes that it wasn't sure if that would work but becoming immune to Anti-Venom was worth the risk. As it prepares to finish the Symbiote Squad off now that their only advantage against it is gone, however, Carnage doubles over with a scream of pain as all the symbiotes it absorbed begin bursting out of it; Agent Venom noting that Anti-Carnage is tearing it apart from the inside as Symbiote Spider-Man and Silence ask if they've finally killed Carnage.