A Second Chance
A/N: Hi all I know I've been gone for a while… Blame school and real life! Anyway I'm a huge Prototype fan and while I liked both games, I hated that Alex died! Yeah yeah I know he killed Heller's family but we all know he's done much worse. so I got the idea that what if after Alex was consumed, a small part of his biomass was blown away from earth and landed on remnant? Shit would be wack yo! so I decided to do a RWBY prototype crossover and I hope you guys like it!
oh p.s. the prologue takes place a little after the fight at the docks.
...Failure…
That was the last thing it remembered before it was eaten alive. It was ironic really, after everything it consumed, it was such a disappointing way to go out, especially when it was by your own creation.
Why did he have to fight against it so hard? It gave him everything! Humanity did nothing but slaughter each other, betray each other! But this organism, what they called a 'disease' created a race that was connected to each other, loyal to each other, it was perfect!
But now all it could do was lay there as a puddle, wherever it was. It couldn't move, it couldn't see, and it couldn't speak. It didn't even know how long it's been there and it might stay there forever.
"!"
Suddenly it felt something similar once again… Biomass!
It finally came in contact with the food source it had become so familiar with, although it was confused as to what would have come here now of all times, not that it was gonna complain. And with that it went to work on whatever creature it was in contact with.
The puddle stretched over the creature completely absorbing it into it's being. It was now aware that the creature was a crow trying to eat it.
If it had a mouth, it would have smirked at it being the second one to save it's life.
The puddle now began reconstructing itself growing into a blob that began to reform the body structure it had become so familiar with. It grew back it's skeletal structure, covered itself up with muscle tissue, finally it spread skin and hair over itself. Next was it's clothes so using it's biomass, it produced a white buttoned up shirt with it's collar up covered by a grey hoodie with the hood up slightly covering its newly grown eyes. Its lower body was covered in jeans and brown dress shoes. Lastly a black leather jacket with a red collar and a red tribal dragon design on the back. The viral creature had finally taken on its most favored form… Alex Mercer
Finally regenerated, Alex let a sneer befall his features. He gave humanity a gift, and they threw it in his face. He was going to be the benevolent father of the new world, give them everlasting peace despite all the sins they have caused!
"I was willing to forgive them for their savagery, make a perfect world where none would suffer. The whole world would be a family, Rah!"
He punched the ground causing it to shatter on impact and a flock of seagulls to fly away.
After a minute of calming himself down he looked straight ahead of him with determined eyes.
"You will pay Heller" he finally said.
"It might take years, maybe even centuries, but I. Will. Make. You. Pay." Mercer swore finally standing up, letting a sadistic grin befall his features, and took in his surroundings.
He was at what seemed to be a boating dock full of ruined crates and scorch marks all around. Clearly there was a fight here not too long ago. There was no infected residue which ruled out a Blackwatch extermination mission. A turf war perhaps? New York Zero wasn't without its share of little gangs that fought together to survive.
Alex found their loyalty to each other admirable. It was the one of the main traits he looked for in his 'chosen'. The other trait was tenacity and an unshakable will which Heller evidently had an abundance of of.
'I'll be sure to snuff it out when I find him' Alex thought sinisterly. Of course right now he needed to focus on where in NYZ he was so he could find the closest hive to regrow his creatures.
He would revel in Heller's shock of realization that he failed…
'Wait no.'
The last thing he needed was to start a panic right at the start. Everyone thought he was dead and for now it was best to keep it that way. He needed to keep his head down and slowly rebuild his army of chosen, he couldn't go rushing in and starting an outbreak with Heller on the watch.
He reached the edge of the docks and saw that there were several police cars which honestly surprised him. The standard law enforcement was rendered all but obsolete ever since Blackwatch declared martial law which begged the question.
"How long was I gone?"
Taking in the buildings of the city, none of them looked like the ruins he had left them in or as a matter of fact, looked familiar at all. His memory was flawless and knew the layout of entire city and the rest of the world. As a matter of fact he noticed that the street lamps were… Holograms?
'Seriously how long was I-'
"Sir!" A gruff voice called out cutting of his thoughts.
Alex looked to the source and saw two identically dressed men wearing white long sleeve shirts, a black vest covering them along with a pair of sunglasses… Even though it was dark out.
"Sorry sir but we're going to have to ask you step behind the yellow tape" one of them said politely while gesturing to the 'caution' tape. Clearly whatever happened here was recent and these men were the cops. Alex needed to know what was going on. Sending out a hunting pulse, Alex could see that the two men were not within anyone else's line of sight.
With a smirk on his face, The viral mutant swiftly forced his hands into the men's abdomens with tendrils quickly shooting out of his body, engulfing and consuming them.
Alex skipped through all their personal memories and got to the basis of where he was.
Flashes of this new world… Remnant, Vale, Atlas, Mistral, and Vacuo rushed into his mind. This world faced a threat called the Grimm. A select few humans and this new animal/human hybrid race called Faunus are trained to combat this threat. They are called Huntsmen.
Alex's eyes widened in complete and utter shock. With everything he's seen, he didn't think he would ever experience that emotion again. He was on an entirely different planet, with a completely history,
!
… And absolutely no record of the Mercer Virus…
Slowly Alex's shocked expression turned to one of glee. Everyone here was prepared to fight the Grimm or this 'White Fang' organization, but nobody here would ever anticipate him.
That was a big advantage but according to these detective's memories, these huntsmen were able to utilize superhuman abilities of various degrees in the form of semblances. He was far from inexperienced in dealing with that, but every inhuman creature he faced was mutated by the virus and this… this was an entirely new enemy he would soon deal with.
He would worry about that later, right now he needed to find the right candidates to evolve.
"Prepare yourself Remnant" He said to himself as he was walking down the streets of vale.
"For your true destiny Is almost upon you"
A/N:I hope you guys like the prologue to A Second Chance. Please follow and favorite and comment on what you guys wanna see.