Hazard

Stressed university student Zachary Zhang has always overworked himself to the bone to try to meet his parent's expectations. He's never once considered his own interests and desires, and the same trend holds true all the way up to the night of his 20th. Instead of going out to celebrate, Zach choses to work late at his internship at Alchemax Tower. Never in a million years would he ever have suspected that something... would choose him that night.

After being drawn into a dark universe, Hazard finds himself being hunted down by a fearsome lycanthrope Spider.

Hazard's adventures in other universes have caught the attention of the Spider Society on Earth-2099. Despite his insistence that he is not a Spider-Man, in lieu of an active Spider-Man on his verse, Hazard is enlisted as an honorary member in the Spider Society.

Fortunately for Hazard, Detective Jeongmin's campaign against him has yet to have any serious consequences for him, and Haz has taken to the streets again. Though he's decided to keep himself out of trouble for now, it seems trouble still has a way of finding him. As luck would have it, there is a Spider in this verse after all... and even worse, it's a Spider-woman.

For some reason, the new Spider-woman seems to have a grudge against Hazard, but fortunately, she's not much of a match for the now experienced symbiote. But the identity of the new annoyance in his life is a concern to Haz, especially when a girl who looks just like Xochitl, the Araña Azteca, transfers into his program.

Late one night, Hazard is attacked by three hunters. Unmasking one of them reveals that none of them are human... they are alien Skrulls, and they're here on earth searching for Hazard's parent symbiote, which used to be bonded to a former Skrull warlord. His daughter, Lakr'r, seeks to restore her defeated father's honor, but to do that she believes she needs the power of the symbiote, and she's willing to burn all of the East Coast to get it. This threat is too big for Zach and Quynh to handle themselves, but they're not alone, either.

If it's war they want, then war they will get...

SHE SURVIVED.

After Quynh’s death, Zach struggles to cope with the overwhelming emotions he feels about her death. Frustrated by his inability to cope, Zach chooses to baseline his neurochemistry, taking away his ability to feel strong emotions.

His new, unaffected personality causes some worry among his friends in the Spider Society, but Haz finds their concern irritating. Hazard, desperate for them to feel something again, suggests they try to find some sort of interesting experience, which accidentally inspired Zach to once again seek violent and risky encounters.

With little opposition capable of stopping him, the Nightmare of NYC hunts once more.

When Zach revived, much to Hazard’s relief, he was back in his apartment bed, safe and sound. Neither symbiont could believe that they had barely survived the ordeal, but they quickly realized that the danger was not over.

They quickly realized they had to take a leave of absence from school and go into hiding until they could figure out how to mitigate this new threat. Viper knows what Zach’s face looks like, so there's no choice but to disguise themselves...

After much campaigning, the newly formed Life Foundation has finally won the bid to house and research the Malice symbiote. Haz knows that whatever they find out about Malice could prove to be dangerous to him as well, so he takes the initiative to infiltrate the Foundation by posing as one of its researchers.

Zach falls into a deep depression after Hazard is taken away from him. Alone and hopeless, Zach is surprised by an unexpected savior who is willing to risk it all to rescue Hazard.

"I never would have expected that it would be you, of all the people in the world, that would make me whole again."

These last few years have been so action packed that somehow both Hazard and Zach have forgotten that symbiotes reproduce asexually... and are compelled to do so.

There ain't no rest for the wicked, after all...