The symbiotic half of the villainous Venom makes their MC2 debut in Spider-Girl #5 wherein we learn it has been held in a S.H.I.E.L.D. Maximum Security Facility in Mount Athena, New York for over a decade. We also learn that Spider-Man was involved in the symbiote being separated from it's 'true' host Eddie Brock, who later died leaving it alone and hungry for revenge.
When the symbiote learns of the existence of Spider-Girl, it breaks out the plexisteel container and seeks out another of it's former hosts to re-bond and control: Peter Parker.
After being defeated by Spider-Girl with the help of Phil Urich's sonic abilities, the symbiote is returned to it's confinement at Mount Athena. It would not be seen again in the MC2 until Spider-Girl #82 when Fury, the Goblin Queen crashes Normie Osborn and Brenda Drago's engagement party and bonds the symbiote to Normie as a 'wedding gift'.
Despite the Fantastic Five's efforts, Spider-Girl is the last one standing against Venom and Fury until the vigilante Darkdevil intervenes, only to end up with a hole through the chest for his troubles.
The story continues in Spider-Girl #83 where Spider-Girl seeks the aid of the Avengers to track down Venom. When Mayday becomes frustrated with the Avengers approach, she dons her old black suit and recruits her 'Uncle' Phil Urich aka the heroic Green Goblin to pursue Fury while she confronts Venom.
The story concludes in Spider-Girl #84 where May leads Venom to a large bakery. Wise to Spider-Girl's plan, the symbiote is only stopped when Normie resists the alien's influence. Just as May is seemingly absorbed by the symbiote, Normie and May's combined willpower overpower the creature.
Despite May's assertions they should hand the symbiote over to the Avengers or Fantastic Five, Normie convinces her to let him keep the creature in the belief he can now control it.
Over the next several issues, Normie and the symbiote are seen working on something in secret, suggesting Normie may be slipping back into his former villainous ways. I think the page convey the story far better than I could.
Eventually things become clear in Spider-Girl #93 when a crime is interrupted by a figure riding a Goblin Glider...
However, Normie's choices aren't without a downside, as now Normie and his fiancé Brenda (who was working off her debt to society by working for the FBI's Agent Weadon) will now be in legal trouble again.
In Spider-Girl #96 Normie meets with Agent Weadon and his team to offer his services and negation terms. We learn that Normie plans to trade his services in exchange for a full pardon for Brenda (Spider-Girl #97). Despite projecting confidence and demonstrating control over the symbiote to Weadon and his fiancé, Normie privately confides in his personal assistant (Kristy Watson) that he is relying on her to keep him in check and-should he lose control- contact Spider-Girl to destroy him.
Later while sparring with Kaine, Normie and the symbiote are alerted to the threat posed to Spider-Girl by the Brotherhood of Scriers and their agent, the original Hobgoblin. Soon after, Spider-Girl and Normie discover several allies brutally beaten; including fiancé Brenda Drago (Spider-Girl #98).
After frantically rushing Brenda and the others to the hospital, Normie heads out to help bring down the Hobgoblin (Spider-Girl #99).
The various threads of the ongoing plots in the series come together when Mayday is stabbed by a Scrier's poisoned blade and on the verge of death. Normie aids Kaine in driving off (and apparently killing some of) the Scriers before using the symbiote to heal May's wounds and absorb all the venom (Spider-Girl #100).
Still too weak to carry on alone and losing an internal struggle against her own demons, May is given new hope by Normie who offers the symbiote to her. Normie tells May he has banished the 'Venom' persona that corrupted the symbiote, returning it to it's original state. The symbiotic other will only feed off the emotions of it's host, whether for good or evil (Spider-Girl #100).
Strengthened by bonding with the symbiote, May heads off the find the Hobgoblin. As a parting gift, the symbiote 'cleansed' Normie, removing his scars and hateful tattoos (Spider-Girl #100).
May finds the Hobgoblin battling her father and intervenes to save him, only for the symbiote to be driven off by the Hobgoblin's sonic device. Instead of fleeing, the symbiote continues attacking the Hobgoblin in an attempt to save May and Peter. The symbiote dies in an act of self-sacrificial redemption, with May revealing the symbiote learned these values from Normie. We learn soon after that Normie felt his symbiotic 'other' die (Spider-Girl #100).
The symbiotes death spurs Mayday on to defeat the Hobgoblin in a one on one fight. Despite the symbiotes death, she would appear one last time in Amazing Spider-Girl #29. We learn that before his death Eddie Brock was hired by Norman Osborn. Osborn used cell samples from the symbiote to transform a cloned infant May into a hybrid which possessing both the alien's abilities and spider-powers. Norman planned to use the hybrid clone in an elaborate plan against Spider-Man. After Norman's unexpected death, this hybrid would lay dormant for years until awakened and eventually taking the name April Parker aka Mayhem. But that's a story for another time...
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