A/N: Hey guys! Sorry for being late. I was kinda busy in reading in Yuri manga and playing Walking Dead. What? Don't give me those looks. I love Yuri manga. I bet some of you too.
Putting it aside, I see there were some review given. And in all honestly, I didn't expect even a single review. But well, that's a good thing I guess. Some of you were asking me how can Alex be god like in DxD with his power. And answer is no. He can't be god like. But like I said, u will find out about it in story.
Anyways, to the story
CHAPTER 1: THE PAST AND A NEW CHANGE
My name...is Alex Mercer.
I'm the reason for all of this.
They call me a killer, a monster, a terrorist.
I'm all of these things.
How much time has passed when it happened? 8 months? Maybe a year?
The Blacklight Virus was almost eliminated from all parts of New York. All the credit goes to James Heller. Heller defeated Alex Mercer, and he removed the virus from Red Zone followed by Yellow and Green Zone...
Alex was standing on top of a building, staring at the crowd of citizens as they emerged from their houses and headed for their workplaces. None of them aware of the virus outbreak a few months ago. All of them happily oblivious.
"Still thinking about that?" came a voice behind him. A woman in her mid twenties, with a boy cut, the same height as Alex.
"How did you figure out where I was?" Alex didn't turn towards the woman.
"I'm your elder sister, remember? Not to mention, you always lost to me when it came to hide-and-seek." Dana Mercer smirked.
"...So what you want? If you are here to reason with me, then i'm sorry but I've already made my decision." Alex sighed and turned to face Dana.
"Do you really want to do this? Remember the last time you pulled this stunt, you almost became a monster." Dana chided almost motherly, crossing her arms.
"I have no other option." replied Alex bluntly.
FLASHBACK
"Alex Mercer, I'm gonna rip you apart!" James Heller roared. The rebellious creation of Alex Mercer. James slashed Mercer with his huge arm blade, but Alex blocked it with his shield.
Both of the strongest virus carriers were fighting on the top of the building in Red Zone. Both ready to die for their own cause.
Alex was sick of humanity. He had decided to erase it and build his own world, a perfect world. But now only thing standing between him and his world was this angry idiot Heller.
"Tell me where my daughter is, or i'm going to kick your muthafucking ass!" Heller snarled, before he turned his arms into a giant hammer fist and attacked at Alex.
"Tell me! You son of a bitch!" James demanded, as he continued his attack.
"I gonna fuck you up so badly. You hear me Mercer?!"
Ah, fuck. Will this guy ever shut up?!
"Not a tough guy now, ain't you?" James taunted, but it had no effect on Mercer. The only thing Mercer wanted was a better world, even if it came at the cost of millions of lives.
"Mercer! I'm gonna stomp your ass so hard that King Kong will shit its pants!"
Wait what? King Kong...shit its pants?! The fuck?! Really?
Great! This guy has both anger management issues, and mental health problems!
Alex could easily exterminate this guy right here, right now. But there was something that was holding him back. He didn't even use his full powers. He wondered why he was restraining himself, but failed to get the answer.
The battle went for another hour before Alex's regeneration finally wore down. He was now on his knees in front of his own creation. His arms were torn off. But it didn't matter-he knew what lay ahead.
Death by his own creation? Who would have thought that it would turn out another story like Frankenstein?
James caught Mercer by the throat as he readied his claws to kill him.
"So I guess that's pretty much it. Hah, welcome to top of the food chain." Alex smirked in his last moments before he was slashed in small pieces and got absorbed by Heller.
Unknown to Heller, a small part of the virus separated itself from Alex's body before Heller could absorb it. The virus slid its way into a room via small crack of the building.
What followed next was the eradication of whole virus. But the small part of the virus was safe. Hanging on the ceiling but safe.
Hours passed. Days passed. Even months passed but the virus was still hanging on the ceiling. Preying on small flies and spiders to survive.
What an irony to see world's strongest virus surviving on nothing but insects.
"Come here you fucking bitch!" came a voice as the door of the room opened with a bang. A blacklight soldier entered before roughly throwing a blonde woman on the floor.
"Please… no….don't..." the woman pleaded him through choked sobs. The woman hadn't noticed that she was crying until she began struggling to breathe.
"Don't cry. If you play along it won't hurt a bit. I know you're into this kind of thing, I know you're really a dirty little slut. You asked my help from those zombies and now its payment time," He whispered to her in a sickening tone of voice as he was now just few inches away from her.
The woman quickly moved her hand up to her face to wipe away the tears that were flowing freely down her cheeks and made a futile attempt to push him away.
When she put her hands on his chest to push him, he grabbed them tightly and grinned maliciously.
"Stop struggling you pathetic slut." He smirked. The woman couldn't shake the feeling of bile rising in her throat as she saw his member growing inside his pants.
The woman mustered up all of her strength and yanked her hand away from him, quickly getting up and making a dash for the door. But before she could escape, the soldier caught her and before she had chance to move he threw on the floor my back and ripped her shirt open, dragging it down her arms alongside her blazer. The woman was left in only a red and black lacy bra.
"Please, stop it. I will do anything but not this. Please!" she begged but was slapped hard by the man.
"Shut the fuck up!"
Unknown to both of them, the virus was on the ceiling just on top of them before it suddenly dropped on the neck of the soldier.
"What the...what the heck is this?!" the soldier yelled, feeling the virus, and he flailed his arms around. "Get it away from me!"
Before the soldier could do anything, black tentacles started covering his body. Desperate, he moved his hand towards the woman but the woman was too shock to even blink.
The woman watched in horror as the soldier was now engulfed in black and red tentacles. The soldier ceased his struggles as he froze in his position.
What happened was something that one can only see in horror movies. The black tentacles started to disappear but instead of the soldier, it was a young man wearing a black red jacket and black hoodie and blue jeans. From his appearance, the man seemed to be in mid-twenties.
The man didn't even acknowledge the frightened woman's presence and started cracking his neck.
"Ahhh. It feels so fucking amazing to be back." said Alex, feeling contented as he finally had his body back before Alex again shape shifted into the blacklight soldier "My powers are weak. But oh well, something is better than nothing."
Suddenly, Alex heard something behind him and turned his gaze towards the voice. He saw a scared woman with torn clothes barely covering herself with her hands.
No wonder he decided to destroyed humanity.
"Boss! You okay?!" came the voice of another soldier from outside.
"Yeah! I'm...alright. The bitch was struggling too much." Alex, still in his soldier disguise, answered.
"Uhm...boss. We don't want to sound like demanding it but when will we have our time with her?" asked one soldier obviously referring to the poor woman.
Alex turned his gaze towards woman who was looking at Alex with hope in her eyes that he might save her.
"...I have an idea. Why don't you guys join me," Mercer said, much to woman's horror as tears started rolling down her cheeks.
"Really?! Thanks, boss! We are coming." the soldier yelled out in sheer excitement.
It was just a few minutes before three soldiers busted into the room. None of the them bothered to check where their boss was. The soldiers stalked over to the helpless woman in front of them.
"Don't worry, baby. We'll make sure that you remember every second of it." one of the soldier grinned pervertedly.
"Yeah. Just we'll...ugh" he couldn't finish-blood starting flowing through his mouth. The soldiers turned his gaze down only to see a pair of claws pierced straight through his stomach.
"W-what?!" were the only words his comrades could mutter.
The next moment the victim was ripped in half and a fountain of blood spilled everywhere, guts laying all on the floor. The dead parts of the soldier was consumed by several tentacles revealing Alex Mercer standing right behind the soldiers.
"I-impossible! T-that's..." stuttered one of soldier.
"Miss me?" asked Alex with an evil smirk in his face, "Welcome to the Fright Night...for real." He turned his claws into a huge blade.
The next instant, the daily routine of Alex Mercer resumed. The soldiers started firing at Alex, and just like everyday the bullets went straight through his body. And like everyday, the wounds started healing instantly.
Alex ran towards the soldier on the left and swung his blade which cut him in half as a hot knife cut the butter. Turning his gaze towards the last remaining soldier, Alex transformed his blade into whiplash and swung it at the soldiers. The attack was precise enough that it tore the soldier's arm off. And as a reward Alex earned screams from the soldier.
"B-but how? The records said that you were dead." the solider stammered as Alex walked slowly towards him before grabbing him by the throat.
"How many times, do I have to tell everyone that i'm no longer bound by life and death." Alex rolled his eyes as he break soldier's neck before consuming him.
"Now that's what I call a proper meal." he laughed as his biomass was filled before using his thermal vision.
"There is none of the infected nor soldier in the surrounding 500 metres. Its safe right now. So you better go." Alex turned to the woman.
"Huh?"
"I said go. Its safe now. I don't like to repeat myself." replied Alex.
"Thank you. Thank you so much for saving me." she grinned, and stood up. Without losing a moment, she ran outside, leaving Alex in a daze.
Alex was surprised to hear that. In his entire life, Alex has killed thousand of people, wherever he went he was called a monster. But it was the first time someone thanked even after knowing what a monster he is.
Life really is full of surprises.
END OF FLASHBACK
"Yes, you have many choices here. You can start your new life." said Diana.
"No, this city has suffered enough due to both Alex Mercer and me. I don't want to let it happen again." said the blacklight virus.
It was all over now. The virus, the zombies, blacklight, everything. Even though Alex could again start to build his own world, but he didn't. He finally realized that it won't improve the nature of humans. Heller was a living example of it. Its better for the world to go as the way it was.
"So where are you heading now?" sighed Diana finally giving up.
"I don't know. Maybe Japan."
"Japan? That's something more creative than new world bullshit." said Diana earning a chuckle from Mercer. "Anyways, if you feel alone, remember there are people out there who will be willing to accept you regarless of your past, at least I am. Be sure to call me, okay?"
"You sure you do know how to lecture someone." replied Alex with a smirk on his face.
"I'll miss you. Take care." said Diana as she hugged Alex tightly. Alex was surprised by this for a moment but eventually hugged her back. Even though Alex Mercer was dead and he was a virus, but he still considered Diana as his sister and still cared for her.
"My flight is in fifteen minutes. I have to go." Alex gave the girl a last wave before leaping from one building to another.
JAPAN NATIONAL AIRPORT
The flight was quite comfortable, at least far better than gliding all the way to Japan. The sun was almost disappearing as the night falls on. Alex was quite impressed by the technology and infrastructure of the Japan. He was outside the airport. If he was lucky, maybe he could find a job here. And you know, be normal. Maybe for a while.
Suddenly, a weird flying machine came in front of Alex. The machine seemed quite familiar... It started beeping and making loud noises.
Wait a fucking second. Wasn't that one of those virus detecting machine made by Gentek?
So that means...
"Freeze. Don't move!" Alex was surrounded by several guys wearing black combat gear such as boots, protective vest, and fingerless gloves, with military olive-drab colored full bodies "skin" that resembles a durable wetsuit.
Great! Fucking Blackwatch! In Japan?! Oh how he missed these jackasses!
Without paying any heed to their warnings, Alex dashed away from the airport at supersonic speed. He knew what will follow next and right now he wasn't in a mood for that.
Turning his gaze behind him, Alex saw a dozen of tanks and helicopters chasing him. He didn't want to create a huge mess right now. He needed to escape. A civilian disguise would do the job. But he couldn't do that in front of a huge crowd.
The chase went for another two hours. It was night. Alex finally was able to hide from Blackwatch but the troopers were still searching from him. Not to mention he still need a disguise to end this chase.
Seeing a clear path, Alex ran from his hideout to a nearby park. Just as Alex reached the heart of the little park, he was surprised to see a boy laying unconscious in a pool of blood. Halting he approached the boy. The boy was in early teens with messy brown hair. It seemed that he was a high student, but what caught Alex's attention was a large hole in his stomach. The boy was breathing very faintly even if someone took him to hospital, there is no chance this boy can survive.
Whomever did that must have really hate this boy.
"Did you find him?" Alex heard the troops heading towards his direction.
Oh great, he almost forgot about them. He need to escape now.
Wait a sec...
Maybe this boy can be useful to him.
Without spearing any second, Alex grabbed the boy before his tentacles started absorbing him.
Alex was expecting to see the memories of a normal high school student but what he saw was something far extraordinary that surprised someone even like himself.
A black haired girl with black wings on her back hiding a spear of light was standing in front of the boy. It was matter of seconds before girl threw the spear at him. The spear pierece right through the stomach of the boy before it all went black.
"What the heck was that?" mused Alex as he returned to his senses.
"Oi, kid." said one of the two soldiers as they reached him, "what the fuck are you doing here late in the night?"
"Hey, easy there. He is just a kid." said another soldier as he kneeled down, "What's your name, boy?"
"Issei...Issei Hyoudou" replied Alex, searching said boy's memories.
"Issei, did you see any hood wearing white guy about 5'10?" asked the soldier to Alex nodded and pointed his finger towards east.
"The target has moved towards the east. I repeat the east. Secure all perimeters. Cancel all the international flights. Tell all the civilians to inform Blacklight officials if they saw any suspicious hoodie guy near them." said the soldier through his communicator.
How much control did Blacklight have over Japan? Just how deep the roots of Blacklight has spread over Japan that they are capable of such actions?
"Its best you head back to your home, boy. It's not safe here." one of the soldiers informed him before they headed towards the east.
As if the things weren't bad enough, now he can't even walk around in public in his real form.
"You!" came a female voice. It belonged to a beautiful young woman who appears to be in her late teens with white skin, blue eyes and long beautiful crimson hair that reaches down to her thighs, with a single hair strand, sticking out from the top. "But how?! I was sure you were dead!"
From Issei's memories, Alex recognized the girl as Rias Gremory.
"What do you mean by that, Rias? How did you know if I was...dead?" asked Alex in a serious tone startling Rias.
"It's because you summoned me when you was on verge of death?" replied Rias.
"I summoned you?" asked Alex.
"Yes. Look, I know you have many questions but I can't answer them all right now. It seems that military is on high alert today more than ever. Meet me at Occult Research Club tommorow after school. I will tell you everything there." Rias answered as she walked away from Mercer.
"First Blackwatch, then black winged girl. Something is really off with Japan." muttered Alex, "well, at least now I have a place to live in."
HYOUDOU'S RESIDENCE
Alex was right now laying on the bed of late Issei's room. Even though he wasn't a man who stayed at one place for long period of time but if he has to find out what's going on in Japan, he had to remain in this disguise for the time being.
Well, its his room now and it certainly needed some modifications to meet his taste. First task is to clean up the garbage.
Having all the memories of Issei, Alex collected all the porn comics hidden in the room before bringing them downstairs.
"Issei, what you're doing with those comics? You know if your mom finds about it, she will be very mad." told Issei's dad.
"I'm going to burn them all." replied Alex bluntly.
"WHAAAAAATTTT?!" that reply was enough to shock his dad as he froze in his place.
"Honey, what's the matter?" asked Issei's mom as she approached his dad.
"I-issei, he...he is throwing away his...henati comics away!"
"WHAAAAAATTTTTT?!" the mom had the same reaction as dad.
"Issei, you...you finally have grown up. I'm so proud of you, my son." said Dad as comical tears flowed down his cheeks.
If Alex was still a human, he surely would've sweat-dropped by now.
"Whatever, I'm thro-"
"Wait it a second. We need to take a picture of this special moment." Dad grabbed Alex's arm before dragging him along with him to take the photo.
If Diana was watching this, she would definately die laughing. How did he exactly end up in this situation?
This Japan trip is something far more than what he bargained for.
A/N: Okay, folks, the first chapter is finished. And I have made sure that Alex isn't out of character. I hope the story isn't too weird for your taste. And after reading this chapter i guess now you might have a little idea how Alex is going to be God-like.
Hint: Isn't the sacred gear of Issei relies on the stamina of owner? ;)
Also, for those of you may think that Alex is a loner type of guy and is not in the love matter, I have to say you are severely wrong. In Prototype comics, after the events of Prototype 1 Alex fall in love with a woman. Yes, he did. So I don't think why he can't like to have a harem.
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Eu Sunt Dracul1 out for now.