Welcome in the new year 2018. I'm Don Orbit and today I'll begin the new year with a new crossover story of mine. This was one of my early ideas to write when I had finished playing Prototype for quite a while and watched through an entire let's play on YouTube, nut I was unable to make a story without a suitable partner. Then the God Eater anime came out and this idea was born.

There was a certain question in my head. Would an evolved survive in a world where basically everything (safe for humans) would try to gobble that one up? Would Blacklight be able to evolve and overcome even the very gods that had basically taken it's job? (THEY TOOK IT'S JOB!?) Well we will see.

Disclaimer: I don't own Prototype or God Eater. The God Eater game series belongs to Bandai and the anime to Ufotable, while Prototype belongs to Radial Entertainment and Activision.

Now have fun ;)

Chapter 1: Infection

The wind blew over the plains as a lot of dust was blown into the air and carried away from where the grains had rested for the time being. The wind rushed through the empty ruins of old buildings that looked like skeletons of what they once used to be. Once stood here a great city, but now it had lost all it's glory. There were no more lights and people. Only naked stone and sand remained in this desolated place. There were holes and it looked like chunks had been bitten out the concrete of walls and pillars of buildings. Some buildings had apparantly lost their fight against the forces of nature as the erosion seemed have caused them to collapse, leaving them as massive piles of debris. Even within the intact buildings ceilings, pillars and walls had been broken, filling them with holes like a swiss cheese.

On top of one of these buildings stood a lone figure. It looked like a man, wearing a navy blue uniform with a gas mask and blue Highlights where the eyes would be. It indeed looked like some member of a special force team of the military. In fact it was the uniform of one. It was the uniform of a Blackwatch soldier. Blackwatch had been a top secret american task force that had strong connection to a company called Gentek, an organisation that used to experiment on the uses of genetical modification and the creation of biological weapons such as viruses and bacterias. Both organisations had been involved in the events of the outbreaks of the so called Mercer Virus (or how it was actually called Blacklight Virus) back in 2008 and 2010. Now however all those names were nothing, but smoke and ashes on this broken world. There were almost no data left anymore about what had happened in New York City or as it was called after the outbreak New York Zero. The man on the rooftop doubted that anyone of the normal people, that had lived back then still remembered what had happened back then as people were no mostly worried about other Things than some outbreak of a bioweapon in a far away city. It was almost funny. One of mankind's biggest mistakes, that had not only cost so many innocent lifes, but also almost destroyed humanity along with all life on the planet...just to be forgotten with the ashes of the old world order.

Silently he gazed upon this broken world as he heard a loud roar from below. The man crouched down as he looked into the streets below. At the ground walked a large creature through the empty streets. It looked like a monster from a bad horror movie. The face was covered by a mask with two slits and the mouth was filled with dozens of sharp teeth. On the back grew two armored arms with large clawed hands at the ends. The body looked like that of a muscular human and was covered with a dark grayish skin. It roared once more as it plunged it's large hand into the ground. Deeper and deeper disappeared the arm in the soil, before it grabbed something and pulled it up to the surface. It was another inhuman creature. This time it looked like a brownish coloured iron maiden, but with a doll like face on top of it. The avian like monster grabbed both sides of the cocoon like creature and tore it in two half, before starting to devour it.

It is the year 2071. 21 years ago an abnormal, new kind of organisms appeared on Earth, which had almost caused the extinction of all life on the planet. First they had been nothing but monocellular organisms, which had been given the name 'Oracle Cells'. Mankind saw a huge potential in them as they were seen as the ultimate solution of the energy crisis that the world faced during the 21st century due the depletion of natural rescoursee. But as more time passed, the scientists discovered something terrifying about them. The oracle cells evolved at a rapid pace much like old organisms on earth had during the millions of years with the difference, that the more complex formes were 'just' colonies of oracle cells with a central core that acted as the brain and heart of the entire being.

It came to incidents with the new lifeforms and people began to disappear and die, however the military organisation Fenrir had kept them secret from the people to prevent panic. Until it was too late. They appeared everywhere on the planet at once and began to devour all kind of matter that they could find. No matter if it was organic, mineralic or synthetic they devoured everything and brought mankind to the brink of extinction. And once there was nothing else to eat anymore they started preying upon one another. These creatures were called 'Aragami' or 'Raging Gods'.

Immune to any kind of weaponary that existed back then, an enourmous potential to adapt to any environment and an unsatable desire to consume everything made these creatures to true monsters, that defied all logic sense. No one knew why they did what they did, but it was sure that if they were not fought there would be nothing but death. Suprisingly Fenrir managed to develop technologies and weapons that were efficient against the exponentially increasing threat of the aragami. Soon the entire world was dependent of Fenrir's weapons, but even with those was it a lost battle. In the end human society collapsed all around the globe and only few human settlements remained intact on the world. All of them under the protection of Fenrir.

Several years later, after lots of sacrifises and researches the Aragami Extermination Special Force: God Eater appeared. With weapons made of the same cells as the aragami, the god arcs, and being injected with the same these super soldiers were indeed capable of fending the aragami off. But no matter how much mankind struggled, humans remained humans after all and so their fight against the always evolving aragami was simply what one could consider the last twitches of a freshly killed animal. Still even if their desperate fight for survival would end in their ultimate defeat mankind didn't cave in and kept fighting.

The blackwatch soldier cared little about this as he still looked around the broken city. Like a drone his head moved slowly from left to right as if he was scanning the environment, looking for something.

"Welp better find that damn thing already. The Blackwatch base must have been around here somwhere, but if they really did had a base here in Japan they wouldn't have made such big buildings like back in New York Zero. So it must have been something less big and suspicious." The man on the rooftop said as he used his enhanced senses to scan the area, but not with his eyes or ears. It was almost like the trick that bats used to do when they used echolocation to find their prey in the middle of the night. Once the ping was sent out the man remained on the oof motionless, waiting for the ping to return, but it didn't come. "Huh? Still out of my reach? Great...just what I need..." The man groaned while facepalming. "It's getting dark soon." Looking up he saw already at the horizon how a massive wall of sand and dust rolled towards his direction. "And a sandstorm is coming. It couldn't get any worse." He said sarcastically while walking off the rooftop. As he did another step the Roof collapsed right where he had stepped on. With a loud thud he fell on thefloor beneath the roof, before picking himself himself off like nothing happened he tilted his neck twice to loose the tension in it. "Of course that would happen." He said to himself.

With that he returned to his search for something that he didn't even knew if it was there in this desolated world.

A few days later, several miles away from Fenrir's East Branch Headquarters

In the remains of an old, long abandonned warehouse sat a pair of teenagers against the wall. One was a young man with black spiky hair and forest green eyes, wearing a green cloak and white pants. The other was a young woman just a few years older than the young man. She had brown hair in a ponytail. She wore a red top and blue jeans. These two were Lenka and Iroha Utsugi.

Their settlement had been attacked several days earlier by the aragami. Everyone died on that day, including their father and all they knew was destroyed. If it had't been for an old motocycle, that their father had found in the remains of the old world, they probably wouldn't have been able to flee at all. However just as they fled, Iroha had been scratched by an aragami's claws at the leg. The siblings had bandaged the wound, but it got infected a few days ago. Iroha's strength depleted with every day. She got weaker, could barely eat or even walk. She sweated a lot as well and finally she had collapsed from the exhaustion. Lenka had carried her into the old warehouse and had done the best that he could to take care of her.

Lenka undid the bloody bandages to examine the wound. The cut was still open, blood stained the usually fair skin of his sister and maggots were crawling in the wound, nagging on the flesh of the weak human. Iroha felt their bites as well like thousands tiny needles that burned into her flesh. She knew that this was the end of the line for her. Even if she would continue to travel with her brother she would only slow him down and eventually everything that she and her parents believed in would have been for naught. Closing her eyes, she held up her compass.

"Lenka take this." She said. Her brother looked at her surprised.

"Tell me sis, what is down south?" He asked.

"Fenrir." Iroha said weakly. Her strenght left her body rather quickly. Every breath she drew was just to draw out the unavoidable.

"Fenrir? With the god eaters?" Lenka asked.

"They'll let you in. Your came out of the test positive." Iroha said. Fenrir had once distributed tests to show who was able to wield a god arc and therefore become a god eater. People with a positive test and their families were allowed to live inside Fenrir's wall safe from the aragami. But others than that wouldn't be tolerated. Lenka looked shocked at this. He had thought that all of his family including himself had been negative and therefore were not allowed there.

"Then why? Why didn't we go there much sooner?" He asked.

"Because not all of us could go." Iroha said.

"What do you mean? If we..." Lenka tried to argue.

"It is because we are not related to you." Iroha said, making Lenka gasp. In the same moment a trio of aragmi entered the building. The had an ostrich-like body with a shark-like head, which was encased by a white bone armor. Their skin was dark gray and their powerful legs had two sharp claws like those of an ostrich. Their dinosaur-like bodies were balanced with a long tail with a broad and flat crest with spike at the end and on their back grew a spiky brown fur almost like that of an hedgehog. These were ogretails, a relatively small kind of aragami, yet they were as tall as a grown man and they were the most common kind of aragami. After having caught the scent of the blood they swarmed out like wolves as they looked for their next meal. "15 years ago, we took you in when you were a little baby."

"I'm not your brother..."

"THAT'S NOT TRUE!" Iroha yelled as tears formed in her eyes. "We couldn't let you go and be seperated from you. We are family." She said as one of the ogretails came around the corner of the building, growling at the pair of siblings. Quickly Iroha grabbed Lenka's hand and pried her compass into it. "Lenka you got to go. I can't walk any further." She said in a pleading manner. She wanted him to run. To leave her behind so that at least he could survive.

"Are you crazy? There is no way I'd leave you! Big sis!" Lenka yelled as he wrapped his sister in a tight hug.

"Such a hopeless brother." Iroha said as she grabbed the knife at Lenka's belt and plunged it into the left side of her neck. Blood spilled like a fountain from the artery at the nek as she smiled. For Lenka everything happened in a timelapse just as his instincts kicked in an caught her sister's body from falling backwards. Immediately he pressed his hand on the side of the neck that Ihora had cut open.

"Big Sis!?"

"This was the only way...to make sure you would leave." Iroha said weakly. Lenka could feel how the blood streamed out her body, staining the floor and his fingers in the red liquid. "If anything would happen to you...I'd make sure you'd be safe. All we wanted is a family."

"All for me..." Lenka said as his eyes began to tear up as well. Iroha touched his cheek gently with her hand.

"Back then you were just out there in the mud, but to me...oh to me you were the lotus flower, that brings light and beauty to it." She said as she smiled at him brightly. "Did you know it was me who decided on your name?" She said as she withdrew her hand from Lenka's cheek, who began to let the tears fall. "You've got to go Lenka. Grow strong. Prayers are useless in a world with no god. Now you go. Change this world and make it better." With that Lenka started to dash off, crying openly at his loss as the ogretails walked closer and closer towards Iroha, who looked after her running brother.

The ogretails closed in for the meal as suddenly one of them hit the house with the face-like crest on the tail, that had been the inspiration for their name. The entire construct shook and from above a vial with a red liquid rolled first from a toppled over suitcase above towards the edge of the floor where it stopped. It was like a bird of prey, thiking about the risks and chances of diving down to catch it's prey. The ogretails were only a few steps away from Ihora. Their mouths were opened wide like those of sharks to sink their teeth into her flesh.

In the next moment the vial fell down on the ground below and burst open. Drops of the red liquid sprayed on the injured leg of the girl as her exposed wound was hit like the ground next to it. The sound of the shattering glass got the attention of one ogretail, but the others ignored it as well as Iroha who tried to reach out towards where Lenka had run off to.

"I'm sorry...mother" Iroha said as she mumbled something unintelligible. In the next moment one of the ogretails moved in for the kill and ended her life with one bite. The sound of flesh ripping, bones breaking and blood being spilled got even the last of the aragami's attention, who joined in. 'I'm sorry that I couldn't be with you Lenka, but even if I don't want to die here I cannot go on any longer. Please...forgive me...I love you...' Those were Iroha's last thoughts as he brain shut down.

What the aragami didn't notice was that the liquid had landed on the woman's wound and the maggots in the wound had now entered her body. The maggots that had also been sprayed with the liquid and had eaten it from her body started to twist and turn in silent agony as their bodies changed slightly, before being engulfed by small black and red tentacles, that dragged them into Ihora's body, absorbing them.

For a moment nothing happened.

However, just a few seconds after Ihora's death, the body of the young woman twitched and arched as red and black tendrils erupted from the dead woman's body, mainly the injured left leg. The girl's eyes widened and her mouth was torn open to let out a silent cry of pain. She choked and gasped, but no words escaped her throat. The aragami were startled at this event and tried to back away, but the tendrils had already snaked around their ostrich-like bodies, making them trip over the tendrils and fall to the ground. The red and black tendrils dug into the flesh of the aragami and started to rip them into pieces on a cellular level.

Oracle cells were like amoeba. They enclosed their food with their cell plasma and absorbed it almost instantly. Their only purpose was to devour. However viruses were no real lifeforms as they needed to infect other cells in order to reproduce. They entered the oracle cells willingly to dump their genetic information into the cell's core. The worm like cells immediately started to wriggle and trash around as they were the ones that were eaten from the inside out. In their place the virus had grown much stronger and now latched itself on the surrounding cells, while replicating itself several times.

Screaming, roaring and thrashing in pain the ogretails tried to free themselves from their restrains, but it was useless. Even if they managed to bite through a vine, the mass of tendrils just kept expanding and latched itself with even more vigor onto it's prey. After minutes the screams ceased and silence descended once more on the desolated world. In the hollow warehouse laid Iroha's body like she had never been attacked in the first place. The wound on her leg was gone as well and the maggots had shared the same fate as the ogretails. She just laid there, but she still turned and grunted in pain as her eyes moved wildly beneath her eyelids. After a while her body relaxed and silence reigned the ruin once more.

Then something stepped into the husk of the warehouse. A lone blackwatch soldier stepped inside the room and looked at the mayhem that this little incident had caused. He walked up to Iroha, before inspecting her closely. His eyes looked down to the glass shards of the broken vial, before he looked back at the unconscious girl.

"This is quite unexpected..." He said before putting a hand to his chin. "and interesting." With that he continued to watch the sleeping girl as her mind was going through a nightmare.

In that fateful night, a sacrifise was made to protect another life. One that meant to ensure the life of one for the life of another made because of the love that they felt for each other. However fate had other plans for the one who made the sacrifise as her fate changed and with it perhaps the fate of this world.

And that ends the first chapter ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for reading. I hope I cought your attention with this. Now here is something I'd like to bother you with. You see I haven't played God Eater myself though I know what the game is about. However in Prototype you gain new powers like claws, hammerfists and shields by absorbing specific kinds of infected.

The thing I'd like you to do is that you put in your reviews what kind of powers Iroha should get if she absorbs a certain type of aragami like getting the armor power from a Borg Camlann (for those that haven't played the games, but watched the anime: the knight/centaur/scorpion-like aragami in episode 8).

Now then I wish you all a nice day and hope to see you again next time.