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PROTOTYPE: UPGRADED

Chapter 1 Military infiltration

The infected have gotten worse. They're running all around the city now and the local government is starting to completely fall apart, some are either too useless against the threat or too chicken-shit to keep up the fight. Everything is becoming more and more dangerous now, and more difficult. Alex Mercer, however, remains strong against the infected, showing no weakness or limit to his powers.

At least….. not yet.

Alex ran up the building with bullets aimed and fired at his feet, keeping his enemy in sight.

A helicopter was following Mercer all the way to the top of the building, trying in vain to eliminate him. Once the top of the building was reached, Alex's right arm formed into his whipfist, and turned toward the helicopter that was following him close behind. As soon as Alex was in sight, the helicopter fired away a long series of bullets in an effort to kill him. Alex was too fast, and jumped up fifty feet into the air, and with his whipfist, smashed through the helicopter in one attack. As the helicopter burst into flames and split in two, the pieces fel out of the sky, and landed down on the surface below, crushing the streets, civilians, and no doubt the infected as well.

Alex landed back down on the building's roof top and took his whip, which had retaken the form of an arm and a hand, and rubbed his shoulder tightly.

"Damn military choppers. They're still giving me a hell of a hard time." said Alex. He walked toward the ledge of the building and looked all around the city. The streets and a few buildings were falling victim to fires and other people of the infected.

"I'm doing all that I can, but the infected just aren't going down." He looked a little bit longer at the burning city and the smell of gun powdered air. "The city is becoming worse and worse everyday. Sooner or later, the infected will destroy everything and all of Manhattan will be lost." said Alex continuing to look at the sad sight that is now Manhattan. The streets are constantly crowded and chaotic with running and screaming people, and howling infected. Alex took to his far right and got ready to move again.

"I better go see Dana. I hope she's doing okay." he thought. Alex jumped as high as he could off the building and glided towards Dana's and his safe house. Ever since Dana was captured and taken away by the military, Alex had to find a place for him at a different place where they could stay and be safe together. Alex found three places for them to hideout together, and today, Dana and he were supposed to be at place number two: a warehouse by the Hudson River. About ten minutes later, Alex arrived at the warehouse completely unseen by anyone or anything.

Alex looked around and knocked four times with the last knock louder than the rest. As Alex stood outside of the warehouse, waiting for Dana to answer, he heard shuffling around on the inside. Moments later, the door opened from the back and Alex walked in, immediately greeted by his sister.

"Where have you been!? I've been worried about you!" said Dana. Alex put a hand on her shoulder and walked deeper and deeper into the warehouse.

"You know where I've been. Trying to fight off the infected, saving New York City. What have you been doing?"

"Hiding, like you said." said Dana. She looked Alex over briefly. "Seeing as how you hands are empty, you forgot to get food, didn't you?" asked Dana. Alex palmed his hooded head and turned to lean on a table.

"Damn it! Sorry Dana. You know that I've been busy lately, so I guess…." said Alex who was cut off by Dana.

"Yeah. I know. Fighting the infected isn't an easy job." said Dana. Alex rubbed the back of his hooded head and headed towards a wall with a large window n the middle of it. Alex jumped up to the window, and opened it. He looked back to Dana and spoke.

"I'll come back later. Right now though, I need to go get the food I promised you. See you." said Alex. He jumped out the window, leaving Dana in the warehouse alone. As soon as he was out of the warehouse, Alex jumped as high and far as he could and glided back towards the city, where the food was being held. As soon as he made his way over buildings and streets, Alex made it to a military base in the middle of Manhattan. This military base in particular though was the toughest one in all of the city. It had the highest security staff and twenty tanks guarded it twenty four-seven. not to mention the ten helicopters that were on the top of the base and other surrounding buildings. Alex backed away on to the roof of the building and looked through the skies as well. About fifteen of hovering sensors were all over the place, watching every where for Alex. Unfortunately though, the military is transferring all the food they can get into this base and storing it for the troops.

"Damn it! Security is tough around here." thought Alex. Continuing to observe from the building roof top, Alex counted in a split second about a hundred thirty guards. They were looking all around, to try and spot Alex incase he came around. "The only way for me to get in, is to find the base commander and consume him. Damn, in a base like this, consuming will be nearly impossible without being seen." thought Alex. He went back to observe the base and caught sight of the commander, walking down a little ways away from the base, down a block or two. "Perfect…" thought Alex. He left his post on the building top and jumped all the way across the street and ran up the wall of the next building in front of him. He did the same thing once more, continuing in pursuit of the commander, and feel to a small, dark ally.

He walked out of the ally and looked both ways to catch sight of his target. To his right, the commander was slowly coming his way, but had stopped to do a quick check-up with two Blackwatch soldiers who were patrolling the street. Once the commander had finished, he continued walking toward Alex in the ally, unaware of his presence. Alex smirked and backed away into the dark ally where he could not be seen. The commander passed right in front of the ally way and turned to look at the darkness beside him. As soon as the commander looked away, Alex's whipfist shot out of the darkness, grabbed hold of the commander and pulled him into the ally in the blink of an eye.

"Oh shi-!" said the commander who suddenly was silenced when Alex's hands turned into claws and stabbed the commander in his stomach with two of the claw fingers coming out of each shoulder, and one finger stabbed right up the neck through the skull. Alex pulled out his blood drenched claw and sliced the already dead victim roughly across his waist. Once he was cut into two pieces, tentacles came out of Alex's body and took in the remains of the dead commander in a matter of seconds. Once he had finished and the tentacles took refuge within Alex's body, all that was left in the dark ally was a pool of dark red blood. Alex turned into the commander and slowly walked out of the ally and into the street, where no one had seen him do anything. "Time to infiltrate that damn military base." said Alex, retracing the commander's steps back to the base.