Hello everyone! Long time no see. This is my first story that I'll try and get update on a regular basis. No promises! ^_^;
I fell in love the Prototype story, being a budding geneticist myself and so from the start I knew I wanted to right a story including it. Being in a college level Biology course helped me to find some loop holes in the story line itself and I actually have legit, biological reasoning for how my plot will progress.
I hope you all enjoy this story and please feel free to comment anytime!
New York had been bad, the single worst disaster in United States history since 9-11. Not only was the city still under quarantine, still riddled with the infection but all the finical markets and everything New York was so famous for had been shut down for three years now. The economy was in the pits and the only thing that didn't seem to be too affected by anything was GENTEK. Shockingly, since they had been the real cause for everything after all.
Blackwatch however had changed for the better, becoming a more focused on helping the city recover than hunting down Zeus.
Alex Mercer had just vanished and left the eye of interest after the bomb. Some believed that he had finally died. However those who had escaped what Blackwatch called the 'final assault' knew he had remained on the deck of the USS Ronald Reagan to fight the supreme hunter. What more, the bombs had been taken away and off shore by someone and it sure hadn't been anyone from the government. That had left only one person.
Mercer.
With less eyes focused on Zeus they were actually able to do the job they were meant to, help the city. Though this time it was to recover from two disasters.
While the city had been mostly spared by the blast, radiation was still an issue and the city had been damaged somewhat.
Luckily a new and very advanced scanning process took over and healthy citizens were able to move out of the city so Blackwatch and the Marines could do their jobs without the worry of civilian casualties.
Within three years, most of the city had been cleaned on the infection. The only places that were still unstable or contaminated being cornered off and attacked. It was amazing to see that most of the city was coming back, people working to rebuild what the bomb had destroyed. Radiation was always a problem though and something that many thought would be the cut throat to the city.
But people continued to work on, though the estimates to when the place would be back and running again had been measured in decades. The deep tunnels and once subways where such good breeding ground for the infection that it was hard to clean out. However by doing a little at a time...progress what being made.
The events had shocked the world, altered it...though GENTEK remained blame free through it all. Not once were they linked to the infection, to anything since...they had, had so many inside people. Greene and Mariah (like Mercer) however remained hushed, very top secret to the point where maybe only two or so people knew of them.
The baby, still in an unknown location had received a heavy guard. Some who remembered the secrets of Zeus worried that...he knew. That he would come and discover on his own once more like he had through the entire Manhattan disaster.
However as the years past many fell back into a sense of ease, most of the country did actually. Feeling as though the disaster was over and the country was safe and secure again.
But...that wasn't exactly the case...
Especially since Mercer WASN'T dead...