My notes: Well this was fun to wright! Hopefully I'll have more on the way. Please leave a review telling me what you think, it should help me out a lot. Also, this is not a genocide run story, but please let me know if you would like to see a genocide version of this.
Disclaimer: I don't own Prototype or Undertale, obviously.
The first thing Alex Mercer felt upon awakening was confusion. Had he been knocked out? Was it even possible for him to be knocked unconscious? He highly doubted it. What had happened? Why was he in a cave laying on his back, and why did he smell flowers?
He sat up and looked at the hole in the ceiling of the cave from which golden light streamed, indicating the sun was going down, and accessed his Web of Intrigue in an attempt to recall the last few moments before he went "unconscious". Surprisingly, those memories were exceedingly hard to access. It was as if they were repressed, if he was to use human terms to describe it. He didn't even know he could get repressed memories!
Thoroughly frustrated, his body went stiff as rock as he forced his way into the memories, relentlessly shredding through the mental barrier blocking them. He convulsed slightly as they all came flooding back in a torrential storm of thought that would be completely unintelligible for anybody except for him.
(Flashback)
It was 2 years after the events of the Outbreak and Elizabeth Green. For the entirety of the first year he had hunted down and destroyed the remains of Blackwatch and Gentek, to the very last man. During his attack on their last and most well hidden and secure Blackwatch base he had finally found Pariah, the son of Elizabeth Greene, and destroyed him, though it had vert nearly cost him his life.
Around the beginning of the second year, after Blackwatch and Gentek were completely obliterated, he had considered traveling the world, just to explore and learn more about humanity, but decided against it preferring to stay as close to Dana as possible to keep her safe from any potential threats. A few weeks later she woke up from her coma, and things were relatively normal for a while. Dana got her job writing for the local tabloids back and went back to her studies at NYU, while Alex hunted down and killed gangs and gang members throughout New York and got his money off their bodies.
After letting her readjust for a time, Alex reluctantly decided to inform Dana of his true nature as a living virus, knowing she would eventually find out on her own and that it would be best to just inform her as soon as possible to avoid any unnecessary conflict later. She took it better then expected, and still treated him like her brother, though she never looked at him quite the same after learning of what he used for food. She made rules that he could no longer consume humans unless absolutely necessary, or unless they attacked either her or him first, restricting him to animals and store bought meat (and the occasional gang member, but again, only occasional). Alex accepted these rules without much complaint, he only needed biomass occasionally anyways.
It was now winter break for Dana's college, and she decided to take a vacation to go camping at a large mountain a few hours drive away, and to take Alex with her in an attempt to try to get him how to loosen up and relax. Alex just tried to play along, just to make her happy. He still very much thought of her as his little sister and the only family he really had, and didn't want to alienate her.
The forest was unnaturally quiet. No birds chirped, nor did any other animals make any noises. It was as if they were all hiding. This was likely due to Alex's presence. Animals usually fled on sight, whenever he was around. Rarely, if ever, did they stand and fight and those rare times were only if he had them cornered and they couldn't run.
He looked at the position of the sun in the sky. They had been hiking through the forest for a few hours, and the sun was at it's peak in the sky. They would need to set up camp soon, before it started to go down. It was still the middle of winter, and he didn't want her catching a cold. She was wearing a light pink and blue sweater, but that wouldn't help much when it gets below freezing.
"We need to stop and set up camp soon." Alex stated, giving voice to his thoughts. "I don't want you getting sick out here."
"Uuuggghhh, thanks Dad." Dana teased, earning an annoyed look from Alex. She pulled a map from her pocket and unfolded it. After studying it for a moment she said, "There is a clearing a little ways ahead. It shouldn't take to long for us to get there if we keep walking straight."
They eventually made it to the clearing Dana indicated. Alex set the backpack, holding all their supplies, down by a tree and began unzipping it. "I'll go look for some fire wood while you set up the tent, Alex." Dana stated.
"Fine, just be careful." he called after her, before she walked off. If she heard him, she didn't give any sign of it as she disappeared into the forest.
A few minutes later Alex was half way finished setting up the tent when a loud scream pierced through the woods. "DANA!" He shouted in response, immediately dropping what he was doing and sprinting off in the direction of the scream. There was only one thought in his mind as he bolted full speed through the forest, knocking over trees and jumping over boulders that were in his way as he ran, 'SAVE DANA!'
After about a minute he reached where he heard the scream, and forced himself to a sliding stop, digging a good sized trench in the ground as he did. Looking around he called, "DANA!" Hoping for a response, but getting none. He finally noticed a large hole in the ground nearby. He rushed over and looked inside, the sun illuminating it well enough that he didn't need to use his thermal vision. At the bottom of the hole he saw Dana's unconscious form, laying on her side. "Hold on Dana, I'll get you out of there!" He exclaimed, knowing she couldn't hear him in her unconscious state.
He kneeled down over the edge and morphed one of his arms into something like his whip fist, minus all the spikes and sharp points, designed specifically to be perfectly safe to grab and pull her up with. He began lowering it down, and grabbed her by the wrist. He then began to try to retract the limb, but was met with unexpected resistance keeping the limb trapped in the hole. He pulled harder, and it still refused to budge. He pulled even harder and a glowing white field appeared in the opening of the hole.
Enraged Alex pulled even harder, determined to break whatever was keeping him from rescuing his sister, groaning in effort. Agonizing pain suddenly permeated his every cell as the field of white energy grew even more visible. It felt as if trillions of volts of electricity were coursing through him at that moment, but even still he held on and kept pulling, taking extra care not to hurt Dana.
Tendrils appeared from his body, thrashing violently from the pain as he pulled even harder, cutting near by plants to shreds and tearing massive gashes into the hard ground around him. "DAAANNNAAAA!" He shouted, his voice deeper and more distorted then normal, as he pulled so hard he began physically sinking into the ground, unimaginable pain tearing through every fiber of his being. His eyes turned bio-luminescent orange while both crimson and orange bio-luminescent splotches began popping up all over his body. The pain alone would have long sense killed him if he was human.
He tried pulling even harder, the limits of his strength unknown even to him. He could practically feel the barrier keeping him trapped about to shatter under the force of his strength, when finally a bright flash filled his vision and hellish pain engulfed him, before everything finally went black.
(End of Flashback)
"Dana!" Alex realized, immediately bolting upright. Looking around the cave he saw nothing, at first. Until he heard a small groan next to him. Looking down he saw her laying on her back on a flowerbed, unhurt despite his exertions in trying to get her out, meaning she still had all her limbs and none of them appeared to be broken. He immediately went to his knees and picked her up and hugged her tightly, again being careful not to harm her. Normally he wasn't one to express his emotions like this but, he had been so worried. He couldn't lose his sister again, not like this, not after Greene had captured her and put her in a year long coma.
"A-Alex?" Dana asked groggily, just waking up.
"Easy Dana, you had quite the fall and ended up getting knocked unconscious. You should be fine now though."
Something was wrong though, he realized, something Alex hadn't noticed when he first woke up. He grabbed her gently by the shoulders and held her out in front of him. Her clothes were completely intact, he didn't smell any blood so he knew she hadn't gotten any cuts or scrapes from the fall, she wasn't exhibiting any odd behavior that would indicate she had a concussion. Then it hit him.
She had gotten much smaller, her muscular and skeletal structure had changed as well, and her voice was more high pitched then normal, almost child like... He froze.
"Alex, what's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?" Dana asked nervously, now fully awake. Having a living, man-eating, virus -even one that thinks of you as a sister- looking at you so intently would be a bit more then a little creepy for anyone. This was only compounded when Alex's eyes started glowing dimly as he switched to his thermal vision.
He studied her body temperature and searched through the memories of every one with even a slight medical background that he ever consumed, which numbered in the thousands. Each and every one said the same thing about what he was seeing. This was not what an adult should look like through thermal imaging, in fact Dana's thermals matched that of someone around eleven to fourteen years old.
This couldn't be. It was a biological impossibility, hell it broke the laws of physics! A human could not age backwards, let alone so rapidly! It had to have been only a few hours as the sun was still up and Dana showed no signs of dehydration or malnourishment, and such a process, were it possible, would take weeks.
There were cases in nature of certain species of animals being able to essentially reverse their ageing by turning their old and aged cells into young cells, but that phenomenon couldn't explain this! How had Dana become smaller? She would have had to have lost mass in the process or become very dense, matter doesn't just disappear! Such an event would break the physical law of conservation in that, neither matter nor energy could be created nor destroyed only converted to a different from.
It just couldn't be, and yet the proof was staring him in the face. How the hell would he be able to explain this to her? Was this even her? It had to be. Was any of this real, or did that strange field actually manage to kill him? He honestly doubted it but at this point who could tell.
"Uh... Shit. This will be hard to believe, but your going to have to believe me, okay?" Alex told her, releasing her shoulders and standing up.
Dana stood up as well "Oookay. What is it?" she asked curiously. "Holy shit! Why are you so big?" She exclaimed, noticing their now more pronounced height difference as she stood up entirely.
"That's, uhh... That's what I wanted to explain. Your kind of... a kid again. Around eleven to fourteen to be exact." Alex stated bluntly, not knowing how else to explain.
"Alex, I know your basically a super virus and are immune to most if not all drugs, but I am pretty sure your high right now." Dana deadpanned, crossing her arms.
"I'm not high, and I'm not joking. Get out your cellphone and look at yourself." He told her.
"Fine, whatever." Dana huffed in annoyance. She reached into her pants pocket and pulled out the remains of her cellphone. It was in ruins, crushed by the fall. "Son of a bitch! That phone was expensive, damn it!" Dana raged at the sight of the ruined phone. She threw the pieces full force at a wall and leaving them there. "I guess that plan wont work." She growled.
Alex sighed and morphed his arm into a larger version of it's sword form to act as a makeshift mirror. "Here, look." he said frustratedly.
"Fine, but I don't see what you hope to achieve by keeping... this... up." Dana stopped, her face going completely blank as if trying to make up her mind on how to react. In Alex's sword arm she saw her self wearing her pink and blue sweater, but that's not what shocked her. She was now looking at a younger version of her self.
"Wha... how... why?" Dana struggled trying to understand, not really upset but more confused. "Huh. Looks like you weren't kidding. How did this happen though?" She asked him. For a second time she surprised Alex by how well she reacted to strange and traumatic news and events.
Alex morphed his arm back into it's base form. "I don't know, but I promise we'll find a way to fix this, but first we need to get out of here." Alex stated. Thinking back though, he remembered the flash just before his cells shut down in what he assumed to be a self defense mechanism knocking him out, in a sense. He got the feeling that it must be some how responsible for his sister's transformation though as to how, he had no idea.
She stared at him in confusion. "Can't you just pick me up and jump through that hole in the ceiling?" she asked.
"Unfortunately not. There is some kind of energy field preventing anything from exiting through there, making it essentially a one way entrance. I tried pulling you up through it and... well... lets just say that's how I ended up down here with you. Though I do have a feeling it may have something to do with making you a kid again, but I can't honestly be sure. So were going to need to find another way out." Alex explained.
"Fuck. Things always just go from bad to worse." Dana groaned. Looking to the side she noticed a rather large path forward. "Looks like we'll have to go through there. Come on Alex, we might as well get going."