just some quick notes: Prototype 2's story line has been adapted by me so that mercer killed Heller however the white-light infected turned on him, The Lone Wanderer doesn't exist and some elements of Resident Evil (mostly characters) have been added. I do not own these characters or the worlds that they come from, they belong to their creators respectively, If you find anything wrong (this being my first story) please notify me comments and reviews are also welcome, I will be attempting to update frequently however I have no clue when Ill continue. Now that all that is out of the way, please enjoy.

Prologue:

My name is Alex Mercer, in the year 2008 I released the virus, Blacklight, at Penn Station in Manhattan. I myself was infected and consumed by the virus. Soon after the initial infection the military divisions of Blackwatch and Gentek attempted to contain both me and the virus by causing a total blackout for the entirety of Manhattan nobody gets in or out, all the media was told was the standard half-truths that the military was famous for "there has been a biological terrorist attack on Manhattan we are doing our best to…" the only flaw in their design was that I didn't want to escape… well not until around the year 2061. I was hunting down some of the military search and destroy squads to find out about some of the events of the outside world. The first three soldier teams didn't know much of anything that I didn't already know. However, a member of the fourth squad was a scientist that worked for something called Vault-tec. After analyzing his memories and consuming a few more scientists also associated with this company, I had come to the conclusion that this company was building "vaults" Preparing for the scenario of a large scale nuclear strike against the USA.

About 3 years after that (2065), monitoring the outside world's news I decided that nuclear war was inevitable I needed to do two things one, I'd need to find the exact location of a vault and two, I'd need to escape Manhattan; The military hadn't been sending as many men lately and the only other things in the city were mutants and zombies and too few at that. Manhattan was stagnant and I needed some fresh meat. After observing their operations for 2 more years (2067) I realized just how far they let the operation fall. They were sending in every military reject they had, giving them a gun and saying "kill everything you find other than military units." Some of them even started a gang which was quickly obliterated by me.

The bridges into the city had been destroyed long ago so the only real way to escape was to either swim or to hijack a helicopter using the highest commanding officer in the area as a disguise. I decided that the second option was my best bet at exiting the area undetected I began my search, not an hour later and I had discovered his location; he was the standard ego maniac type of person that had settled at the top floor of the highest building in Manhattan that was mostly undestroyed, 70 Pine Street, he was located on the 54th floor since the topmost floors were destroyed quite a while ago. He was guarded by 10 military personnel.

I decided to take the blunt approach over the stealthy one as it was faster and I was ready to get out of the ruins once called Manhattan. I morphed my arm into my blade and started sprinting up the side of the wall. I dove through the top window of the building with ease landing directly on one of the guards. One cleave of my arm-blade and five of them were cut in half, another cleave and the other four that were still standing got sliced in two, I simply smashed the first guard's skull with my foot. I walked over to the commander sitting at the desk. Almost, as if he had prepared a speech, he begged for his life. I rewarded him by simply taking his head off in one blow and consuming him, I next set out to find a helicopter. There was one not too far away, it was somewhat damaged but it was able to fly.

I switched myself into the form of the commander I had just consumed and called up the main guard post on the other side of the river, the conversation went something like this: guard: "hey Carter, what do you need?" Me: (acting breathless) "Mercer…Mercer attacked my men, I dove out the window and used the emergency parachute to get to safety I used a nearby damaged heli to get out of his reach, he nearly caught me but I gained too much altitude for him to reach, I need an emergency clearance to get some more men." Guard: "Please transmit clearance code and we'll set things up over here…" Me: "I'll transmit the clearance code just make sure I have a missile free path" guard: "roger that, please transmit last known location of mercer as well." Me: (types in clearance code from the guy's memory and transmits coordinates to 70 pine street) "there you go now can I get a clear path?" guard: "yes sir." I made it to the other side of the river and landed. As I came in I noticed a large military presence, it appeared as if the military had indeed contemplated my escape and had established a large fallback presence.

Scientists with 16 Blackwatch soldiers carrying rocket launchers (not counting the 10 snipers in the surrounding buildings) were there to meet me, I sensed a trap. I had just gotten out of the helicopter when the lead scientist walked up to me. "Welcome back Mr. Carter, we weren't expecting you to drop in so suddenly…" the scientist went on with what was an obviously practiced speech. Something was wrong though, all of the soldiers had guns that would obliterate any normal human, and even the scientists had major fire power. This was one of the most obvious traps I'd ever seen, so I simply cut him off by saying "Nice trap you've set up here, expecting someone?" He simply smiled "yes, yes we are, I believe you know Mercer by now, how he can run at over 200 mph, create weapons of his own body, and…" he paused "…shift into any identity he wants" at this he pulled out his magnum pistol and blew my head off. I decided my cover was blown so I simply changed back into myself and changed one arm into a sword and sliced the guy in half all within 3 seconds.

The other soldiers and scientists immediately opened fire, 16 rockets, 10 sniper rounds and whatever weapons the scientists had, hit me all at once. The impact knocked me off my feet, which was fine because as I hit the ground I sent spikes from my back straight at the soldiers; 15 of them were speared on the ebony black spikes, dead. The one that was still alive along with the scientists kept firing, same with the snipers. I turned my other arm into my long ranged whip-like weapon that I took to calling whipfist. And shot it at the soldier that was currently reloading his rocket launcher, it went straight through his chest. I retracted my arm, he came with it. As soon as he was close enough I used my blade to cut his head clean off and absorbed the rest of the body. Over the years I was trapped on Manhattan I kept gradually expanding my biomass capacity so I had years' worth of flesh just waiting to be turned into a weapon or armor by me however fresh DNA is always good. The others kept firing and reloading as they needed, big mistake, now they were starting to piss me off.

It would have been simple to kill them but I decided they were much too stupid to get off that easily, consuming Heller years before I had gained his powers however I hadn't used much of the "bio-bomb" as he had called it. I thought that now would be as good a time as any to test that little power out, I was next to one of the scientists in a flash, stabbed his neck, injected the virus into his bloodstream and stepped back. The fireworks that followed were pretty impressive; he bent over holding his head and screaming; one of the other scientists ran over and tried to drag him away. The scientist stopped screaming threw his hands out and sent out tendrils similar to my own but smaller and fewer. The new tendrils stabbed 3 scientists and drew them in, then exploded killing all of them, I smiled to myself, which is something I rarely do but that was defiantly worth smiling for.

I didn't have much time to savor the moment as one of the sniper bullets took half of my newly reformed face off, it didn't hurt of course but it was getting extremely annoying to regenerate my form again and again. Then I saw it, the reason these scientists and soldiers had been firing instead of running; nukes, two of them about 45 seconds till they hit. Since at the time I had no clue how radiation would affect my cellular structure I booked it, I was over the 25 foot high barrier wall in 3 seconds flat and sprinting at about 300 mph. the world blurred around me, the ground exploded with each step I took I caught snap shots of surprised people on the sidewalk and in cars, they'd all be dead soon though. I counted the seconds as I sprinted, 14…15…16… I knew the distance wouldn't be enough as I was guessing at least a megaton of force was being dropped on the Manhattan area 34…35…36… BOOM! The blast had come sooner than I had anticipated; I kept running for another 4 seconds before I felt the massive shockwave slam into me, the force was odd though, much too strong to be an atomic bomb, even a hydrogen bomb wouldn't have the degree of force that this new bomb had.

I rode the shockwave for at least a mile before I realized I couldn't do much to fight it; I spun out of control and what glimpses I got of Manhattan didn't look good; some gigantic bluish-white ball of energy was rapidly growing in place of what used to be New York and Manhattan Island. I also saw cars, bodies and parts of buildings carried along with me, caught in the enormous release of energy that these new bombs carried. I flew for at least another minute, everyone with me was dead, dying, or unconscious, literally being a virus, I was always conscious whether I liked it or not. When the wave started dissipating the buildings were the first to start falling out of the sky, then cars and finally the bodies. Slowing down I could finally get a look at the ground… or water as the case was at the moment however the debris of the explosion, me included were heading for a beach and some land. Calculating the trajectory of the launch I figured it was somewhere near Union Beach which meant that in about 1 minute the explosive force had carried everything over 18 miles, that was one hell of a bomb if that was just the shockwave. The good thing was that they would most likely think I was disintegrated or atomized or whatever those bombs were designed to do in the nexus of the explosion, which helped with my plan to sneak into vault 101 undetected.

Immediately after I recovered from the bomb's blast I went to a TV display store sure enough there was news on all of them, the newscaster was saying that terrorists in the Middle East had launched two unknown nuclear weapons on New York City, and that New York had been wiped off the map and that the city and its surrounding areas were considered to be a fallout zone. To counter this devastation the US had immediately declared nuclear war on Iraq and launched a single nuclear missile at their capital, heh, Blackwatch had been smart; it wasn't too hard to figure out that they had a couple nuclear missiles stored and ready to launch remotely from there playing off of the fear from years before that Iraq had nuclear weapons and were ready to use them at any given time. The newscaster said that if any other nuclear weapons were launched we would have on average, 30 minutes to get to our designated 'vaults'. The nukes didn't fall that day; I never actually found out why but I didn't really care. I found someone living; single, in a house on the outskirts of Washington DC with a pass into vault 101 he was only about 12 miles from the vault whose construction was set to be completed in 2075.

I consumed the man and took over his life. His office job wasn't 'mentally stimulating' enough, so I quit his job and became one of the best hitmen in history, assassinating political and personal targets with ease. Nobody knew my name or anything about me they just paid well, money didn't really matter to me but being a hitman was exceptionally fun, I was even hired to kill the president at one point, a job which of course I executed with extreme precision. This went on until October 23, 2077 I was just finishing up a contract and getting paid by the client when someone ran in the door "sir" the man said "nuclear war is upon us we have to leave NOW!" he turned back to me but I was already gone I was at the vault in about 12 minutes. They were getting ready to seal it when I arrived, "Wait" I yelled and was able to make it inside, and they sealed the door behind me, the nukes fell on DC exactly 7 minutes and 36 seconds after the doors were closed.

I had to simulate aging in order to avoid suspicion and eventually had to consume someone else around the year 2136, and again around 2238. I'm waiting for a chance to get out now, no sense staying here when the radiation should be quite dissipated or gone entirely from the surface no matter what the current "overseer" says, I've been starved of a good meal for over 150 years and I'm starting to feel neglected. The date is 2272; this is the date the vault will be opened. The guards were always way too easy to sneak past, this time being no different as I simply changed my form to their uniform; nobody ever even glanced my way. They did pay some attention to when I activated the mechanism to open the vault; however I was already gone with the door just about sealed behind me. I faced the boarded wooden entrance to the tunnel that led down to the vault, without any hesitation, stepping forward into the unknown. The desert beyond the door was completely lifeless, the only thing that confirmed that I was in what used to be DC was the street sign just a few feet in front of me and the stretch of a highway on two pillars of concrete to the east that had long-since deteriorated.