What Lies Within
By Rorac the Dragon Knight
"speaking"
"Thinking"
"demon speaking"
"demon thinking"
I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR PROTOTYPE
My name is Alex Mercer. I have been called a killer, a monster, a terrorist. I am all of those things.
Years ago I let a viral weapon lose in Penn Station. I woke up in a morgue hours later with no memory of what had happened. I found myself in possession of strange and terrifying abilities. I could run faster than a normal person, lift object that should have crushed me under their weight, and jump twenty feet straight up in the air. And those are my most harmless abilities. I had become a shape shifter. I could change my arms into claws or blades, allow them to stretch to an outrageous length, or make them so strong that a single punch could make people explode from the force. Even with all that though my most gruesome power was being able to absorb others into my body to heal, and in doing so gain all the knowledge that they had in life.
I used these powers to find out the truth to find out the reason that the virus, known as black light, was made. I discovered the disgusting truth about Hope, Idaho, the other carrier of the virus Elizabeth Green, all the testing that was done with the virus, and the chilling fact that I had become the black light virus in human form.
I stopped the virus from overrunning the city. I stopped the military from using the outbreak as a test for the virus. In the end the man in charge of the military operation decided that he needed to wipe the slate clean. He prepared to set off a nuclear weapon to kill every one on the island and erase everything that happened. With the help of someone on the inside I was able to get aboard the carrier that they were using as a base of operation. I killed the old man as well as the guy that got me aboard when he tried to back stab me. Turns out he was Green's child and had been waiting for a chance to get close and absorb me to make himself unstoppable.
After I dumped the warhead the old man had armed and made it back to land. I disappeared into the crowds. I watch for years as man kind continued to rise to levels never seen before. I saw times of war and peace, tragedy and miraculous events. I saw the best and the worst of man kind. But with this rise came a price. The earth was poisoned, burned, and misused. Man had lost touch with the earth. In the end the earth rose up against them in the form of Nine beasts. In under a month the achievements of man were destroyed and the earth and the creatures on it were renewed.
I watch as man rose up from the ashes of what they had. I saw them reconnect with themselves and the world. I saw the day the sage of six paths discovered chakra and the rise of ninjas.
This brings us to the present, to the reason I'm telling you all of this. After all these years, after seeing mankind rise and fall, after thousand life times of watching as the world passed me by, I can tell without a shred of doubt that I am dieing. After being alone for so long I'm not afraid to die, but before I do I want to leave something behind, a part of myself that will live on after I'm gone. That's what brings me where I am now. This village of warriors, of ninja.
The village of Konoha. The village hidden in the leaves.
Atop the Hokage monument we find a man of great power. Though you wouldn't know it just by looking at him. With brown hair, plain cloths you could find anywhere, and average height is Alex Mercer.
'The one I'm looking for is here. I can feel it. But who the hell is it?'
Days before he came to the village as if drawn to it. Something inside told him that the perfect person to leave his legacy to lived in this village. But days of fruitless searching had turned his excitement into frustration. There were thousands of people living in the village and he was looking for just one person.
Sighing in frustration he made his way down to the street. Determined to find this person.
'I don't care how hopeless it seems. I will find them. I'm not going to fall short when they're so close.'
As the night started to set in he found himself alone on the street. Knowing that his chances were slime to none of finding them at this time of night he moved to find some place to rest for the night.
'Maybe I'll have better luck tomorrow.'
As he walked into a more run down part of the village he heard a commotion in an alley way. With nothing better he went over to see what was going on. What he found surprised him. An middle age man was standing over a blond boy no older than seven club in hand with crazed smile on his face. Large amounts of blood could be seen on the ground, and he knew that all of it had come from the boy.
Walking up behind the old man Alex decided to put a stop to what going on. Seeing someone use an innocent for there own selfish desires pissed him off. It reminded him how he became what he was, all those years ago.
Just as the old man was about to swing his club down and hit the boy once again he felt some one grab his arm. Then he heard a voice behind him.
"I don't know what you think you're doing, and I don't really care. But if you try to hit this kid one more time, you won't live to regret it."
The old man just sneered, "Save your threats. You gotta be new in town if you don't why this.....THING needs to die."
Shaking the stranger off he went to finish the boy off when he was put in a choke hold from behind and his wrist was caught in a crushing hold that made him drop his club and cry out in pain.
As he struggled to get free he heard a voice filled with malice and loathing that haunted him in these last few moments of his life.
"I told you, you would die if you tried that again." Looking at the boy on the ground he knew right then and there that this poor kid was the one he was looking for. "Kid, look away. You don't need to see this."
The boy looked up at him with bright blue eyes, smiled, and passed out from all the pain he was in.
Alex's eyes darkened, "I was going to make this quick, but now I want you to suffer."
With that he started to absorb the man without killing him first. He gave a short strangled cry before the pain overwhelmed him and he knew no more.
After he was done Alex went to the boy and knelt beside him. The memories from the old man told why he was hated and alone. But more importantly it gave him a name
"Poor kid, you've had it rough huh. Well maybe this will help you out in the long run."
With that he pressed his hand to the largest wound he could find. Something black poured from his hand into the gash for a minute before disappearing.
With the task he set out to do complete Alex left just as the ANBU showed up to take Naruto to the hospital unaware of what had just gone on. Alex mercer disappeared never to be seen by another living soul.
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Well this is my second fic and i am going to take my time with it. I plan to update this as often as I can, but i am in the navy and at school learning to do my job so the updates will be speradic. reviews are nice and i appreciate advice but i don't take requests. this is my fic and i will write it how i want. but i do take suggestions so any you have i will take into account and see how they mix whit what i already have planned.
