Silence

Silence's History

Following Knull's defeat, Scream resumed searching for Demagoblin until she came across the Doppelgänger in the middle of escaping from Alchemax, which had taken to performing cruel and unethical experiments on captured extraterrestrials and monsters. Subduing Doppelgänger, Scream was attacked by one of Alchemax's Guardsmen, disarming and interrogating him as to why he was targeting them. As a broadcast of Senator Peter Krane's interview was played over a set of televisions on display at a nearby store, the Scream symbiote sensed an odd thrumming sound that only it could hear, but which made Andi feel nauseous as it increased in volume. As Andi struggled to process what was happening, the Scream symbiote began behaving erratically - ranting that it was being called by its family and couldn't resist. Confused and alarmed, Andi decided to retreat into a nearby sewer to figure out what was going on.

The Scream symbiote and Andi were abruptly pulled into the Symbiote Hive-Mind by Carnage, the source of the overwhelming urge that the Scream symbiote had felt. Silencing Andi, Carnage informed the Scream symbiote that he was planning on putting together his own Hive to rival Venom's and intended to recruit the other Life-Foundation symbiotes into it. To Andi's shock, the Scream symbiote willingly embraced Carnage's influence, allowing him to take over and causing it to assume a Carnage-ized form and go on a rampage while puppeteering Andi's body. Her consciousness trapped in the Hive-Mind, Andi berated the Scream symbiote for its betrayal, saying she thought they were family, but the Scream symbiote retorted that Carnage was its true family. To put an end to the Carnage-Infested Scream's slaughter, Andi revoked its immunity from her Hell-Mark and blasted it with hellfire until its hold on her mind was broken. As Andi lamented that she thought they would be together, demanding to know why it would betray her after everything they'd been through, the Scream symbiote - enraged and spurred on by Carnage - accused Andi of lying to it and betraying it. As the Scream symbiote tried to kill her, out of desperation Andi blasted it with an explosion of hellfire, burning away Carnage's corruption but seemingly killing it in the process, leaving her sobbing in despair as it sloughed away from her. While mourning the Scream symbiote and begging it not to be dead, Andi was placed under arrest by a squad of Guardsmen.

Captured by Alchemax, Andi learned from astrobiologist Dr. Steve that the Scream symbiote could possibly be resuscitated from remnants taken from her skin and blood. Contained in a holding cell, Andi was attacked by Phage, who had been corrupted by Carnage and sought to avenge Scream. Andi attempted to vanquish Phage with her Hell-Mark, but was overpowered and thrown through a wall just as the recently resurrected Agent Anti-Venom - who had learned of her arrest and come to rescue her - arrived. Before Andi or Agent Anti-Venom could do anything, Phage impaled Andi through the chest with an arm-blade. Agent Anti-Venom rushed the mortally-wounded Andi to Dr. Steven's lab, where he revealed he's spliced the Scream symbiote's remains with a sample of Anti-Venom to create a new gestalt symbiote. Delirious from blood-loss, Andi mistook the new symbiote for Scream and bonded to it. Introducing itself as Silence, the symbiote then took over Andi and easily trounced Phage using its cleansing touch.