Flash Thompson enlists in the army after graduation in fort wainwright base (Alaska) he gets deployed to Afghanistan. He meets a girl named Betty Brant who falls in love with him but during deployment he gets his legs shot and they have to amputate them. He gets very angry and suffers PTSD after getting honorably discharged, they separate but they don't forget each other He tries to go through life but suffers from PTSD and depression and tries to kill himself. MJ Watson, a girl that reports for the Daily Bugle is curious of this man and pursues the story. She meets up with him and she starts to dig into his personal life and he randomly flips out and almost kills her, spider man swoops in and saves her while trying to calm flash down he webs him up and does not recognize him. Flash gets put in prison for 10 years but while they are transporting him the military is testing a symbiote bond on people from a federal funded program to grow amputees parts back. This is not known to the public, they decide to test it on him since he was a hero gone crazy. It works his legs grow back but he goes insane, he immediately goes after New York and starts tearing it apart before Spider man fights him. Venom almost kills him before Gwen now in Spider form swings in and absolutely destroys venom. She is Spider Gwen. She also has negative effects.
