Hey you all! Its Alito here. I just want to say that I LOVED [PROTOTYPE]! I just knew I had to write a fanfic of it. And after reading the fanfics of "The Clown King of Chaos" fanfics of [PROTOTYPE] and Sekirei, I just had to do one myself. Anyway, this fanfic will feature Alex Mercer obviously, along a few other characters from Sekirei and [PROTOTYPE] as well. Anyway, I'm not sure how much time I'll have to do this, or any of my fanfics as College is coming up for me.

So here's chapter 1!

Disclaimer; I own NOTHING

Chapter one: beginning of the food chain, the Sekirei and the Virus

"Heh. Welcome to the top of the food chain…"

That was the last sentence that the once powerful virus known as ZEUS said to the very creation he made…before he descended into complete pitch darkness. Now the creation has overtaken the maker once and for all. Quite ironic actually. He never thought that he'd be beaten as such, and would continue to live in order to spread the virus once more to create his world…but he was wrong…But why? Why was he defeated? His goals were a noble and just one. Sure a bit crude and sinister on a global level but it was for the good of the humans. Humans were barbaric creatures who choose to fight and kill just to gain something, and take lives simply because they can. It sickened him that humans can be such beast to kill others just to get what they want for themselves and…

Wait…

…Something then popped into his mind that he strangely enough didn't bother to question for himself…how was he any different? Sure he was not human, but how was what he's been doing all this time different from what the humans do? They killed to get what they wanted…so did he…they kill because they can…so did he…they were barbarians…he was worse than one. He began to wonder what the real purpose for his plan was. To infect all the humans in the world and those who lived to be like him would be part of his army? But then how many would actually live? A few one in a million? And the others would either become those retched monsters…or die.

"Was I…wrong…?" ZEUS thought, "My goals…my plans…They were just…selfish wishes…so that I wouldn't be alone…? Fuck…how could I let these human emotions get the better of me…heh, guess I really do deserve to die…"

…

…

"…Is he awakening?"

"Almost. He seems to be rebuilding himself unconsciously."

"Excellent! Once he awakens, we'll begin phase 2, post haste!"

The one known as ZEUS could faintly hear the voices of 2 men and a woman from afar. They sounded very foreign to him. Almost a different language. He couldn't tell what language, but he could distinguish a very annoyingly loud voice exclaiming every word.

"And to think; he was defeated so easily by his own creation! Such a shame that a warrior such as this was defeated in the most retched of manner! But fear not! I will utilize your talents better then you yourself could! So awaken! Awaken to the world once more, ZEUS! Or should I say ALEX MERCER!-!"

That name…that name was all too familiar to his ears…who was that? Who was this Alex Mercer person? Was it someone he knew? Was it someone who has been seen before to him? He couldn't recall anyone right away…but then he remembered a face to go with that name…a face that had short brunette hair and light blue eyes. His skin was slightly pale but he looked in perfect health…but then he suddenly looked a bit sickly and had a bit of shadow under his eyes. He looked so familiar…but why? Thinking about it now, he was starting to see a resemblance to this Alex Mercer and himself…but then it finally hit him.

"That's…That's me…! I'm Alex Mercer…! I remember it all!-!"

XXX

Suddenly, Alex's eyes opened wide to a bright light that shined over him. He felt that his body was floating in liquid and could see the lucid bubbles of water all around him. He felt his mouth being covered by a breathing mask that connected to the outside of the tank he seemed to be in. He looked around and could barely see the people outside the tank as the water was too thick and dark for Mercer to see properly. He tried to reach out to knock and let him out, but he didn't see or feel any hand on the tank's glass. He looked to his arm, only to find that his arms were completely ripped off, and bandages were wrapped around the stubs of bone.

"W-What the hell?-!" Alex thought ferociously, "What the hell is goin going here?-!"

XXX

"Minaka-san! He has awakened!"

"Excellent! Open the tank!"

Suddenly an alarm was sounded and the tank was suddenly opened wide, letting all the water within it pours out right away across the ground. And as it all finally poured out, so did Alex as he fell to his knees, panting restlessly. He couldn't properly stand as he still felt weak from being in that tank for far too long. He needed food. He needed to feed.

Upon further examination of his location, he found that he was in a large room with only that tank inside it. The room itself was a pure white with the lights only bringing out the almost clean and unscaved room. There was no one else besides him in the white room, which meant the people he saw before were probably his mind playing tricks on him, or they were there, but left…fearing that they'd be his awakening snack. He looked down at himself to find he was indeed naked and was absent of any clothes at the moment.

"Remove the oxygen mask." Said a voice on an intercom above him.

The oxygen mask that was connected to the tank itself recreated into a small exhaust hole and was coming off of Mercer's face, but as it did, something from his throat was also being pulled out as a longer tube was forcefully being yanked from his esophagus and out of his throat. It finally evacuated from his mouth and Mercer coughed and hacked up his own vomit in the process. He was able to recover well enough, however upon further speculation, the fluid he hacked up wasn't vomit at all, but instead it was black ooze that seemed to have a small pulsating red glow within it.

"What the hell…?" Alex coughed.

Suddenly, that black ooze jumped on too Mercer's chest and seemed to spread to both sides of his shoulders. Then the black ooze extended where the stubbles of his missing arms were and materialized into arms by itself. Finally it formed the entire arms, fingers and palms, and with that transformed into his normal human arms and skin tone.

Alex clenched his fist and felt them once more. He could once again feel his grasp return to him.

"Excellent, Mercer-san! You've successfully regrown your arms!"

The voice on the intercom seemed to be speaking a language he didn't understand and was wondering what he was saying.

"As a result of you being awake once again, here's a special treat for you!"

Suddenly, the door behind the tank opened and entering inside the tank was a single man who wore a military suit. He seemed to be trembling and breathing heavily upon entering the room. His sweat masked his frightened face and his black hair was short enough so Mercer could see the fear in his eyes.

"Itadakimasu~!"

The soldier could only stand there in fear as Mercer slowly trudged to him with a dark and menacing aura surrounding him in a very evil sense. Just the very sight of him was enough to make him almost pee himself as he tried to back away. But he knew. He had seen the security tapes on Mercer. He knew what he was capable of.

"P-Please…! S-Spare me…!" The soldier said sorrowfully.

Alex couldn't help but grin at this feeble attempt at begging for mercy. It was almost laughable. "Heh, good one…"

XXX

Within a monitoring room that was completely dark with the exception of the screens light, two people sat there in their chairs, viewing Alex's feeding frenzy in all its gory splendor.

"Are you sure it was a good idea to bring him back like this?" Said a female woman with white short hair dressed in a lab coat and business clothes under that coat. "I mean, what makes you think he's going to just join you right away?"

"Have faith, Takami! I'm sure he'd agree." The man said. This man had pure white long hair spiked to the side, and wore glasses as well. He also wore a long white cape with the long collar turned up, and under this cape was an all white suit and white gloves as well. He held a wide grin on his face in sheer excitement as he saw Mercer grab the solider by the neck. "Alex Mercer is said to have single handedly been the cause of Manhattan's quarantine many months ago, and was an unstoppable foe to be dealt with even by the most trained of soldiers! What an excellent toy to play with once he's done with his meal!"

Takami looked back at the screen only to see that Mercer was indeed done with his "meal" as not one single trace of body parts of the solider was left. However, there was a ton of blood splattered across the ground where Mercer stood.

"How civilized…huh?" Takami then noticed something strange about Mercer. She saw that he was clutching his head in pain and was hissing at this pain. After a few seconds of him clutching his head, he then started to let go, and seemed to have recovered from the terrible headache.

"What just happened to him?" Takami questioned while lighting a cigarette. "Did he have some sort of migraine?"

"Who knows; though I find it interesting that this only happened after he consumed somebody." Minaka said with a grin of enthusiasm, "A very interesting weakness at that."

XXX

Mercer looked back at the door that the solder came from to see it was closed once more. He knew exactly where to go and decided now was the best time to bust out. Though that human he consumed wasn't as powerful as he wanted, he was at least strong enough to allow Mercer to recover something crucial to his person; his clothes. He first materialized his black shoes from the black ooze and then appeared his plain dull blue jeans. His torso area of ooze materialized him a white buttoned up shirt with the collars, a plain grey sleeveless hoodie, and finally a black leather jacket with red interior, and red tribal design on the back.

"Good to be back in uniform." Alex smirked as he finally put the grey hood over his head, and once again, Alex Mercer had returned. "Now then, let's see how I get out of here."

"Ah, anxious to escape are we?-!" Said Minaka excitedly on the intercom. "Don't you want to stay and have a little chat with me?"

Now that Alex had consumed that Japanese Solider, he now had the memories of who he was speaking to and also the ability to speak Japanese as well. "Minaka Hiroto: Chairman and founder of MBI and the reason I'm here. Am I correct?"

"Ah! You can speak Japanese now? Amazing!" Minaka said with interest, "So then, am I to assume that you have the ability to take the memories and even the language of those you eat? Almost like a new born baby learning new things and absorbing them into their tiny little mind. However you are not a baby. You are a weapon created by Gentek!"

Gentek. Just hearing that name pissed Alex off. He wanted to have no affiliation with Gentek nor did he want them to continue to stay alive and well. He hated that he was lumped with them all of a sudden. "Listen up, you white haired freak-!"

"Oh, and you even know who I look like?-! That memory eating is no joke!" Minaka exclaimed excitedly.

"Enough of your shit!" Alex yelled while looking around for a sign of whoever was talking, "How the hell did I get here? Better yet, how am I even alive?"

"Oh, don't worry. All your questions shall be answered soon." Minaka said excitedly once again, "Though I must say, your reputation precedes you, Alex Mercer! I look forward to learning more and more about you once you join me! How you function, what makes you tick, all of that rot!"

"And give me one good reason why I should join you?" Alex demanded as he crossed his arms.

"Simple. Because you and I want the same thing." Minaka explained, "We both want to change this boring and cruel world for the better. We both want to add a little bit of fun into it and give the people a reason to respect us. Don't you see? We're both destined to be the gods of this world!"

Alex thought about that; a god? He remembered he would love to receive such a title such as that. It fit perfectly with what he was aiming to be. In fact it was the perfect title for him; "God Mercer". It had a nice ring to it to his ears as he changed the world for being so selfish and uncaring…but then he remembered what he was thinking within the tank…what would it prove if he did decide to go through with his plan? How could he possibly be a god if he can't even go a day without killing or consuming something? All he did was kill just as the humans do. He closed his eyes in a deep sigh, and finally opened them to say, "No deal."

"Huh?"

"My plans back-fired on me, because I let my own selfishness get the better of me." Alex said, "I always assumed the world was evil and would never change. In a way I was right…but I didn't consider one thing; I'm no different from the humans who fight and kill." He then faced the door that the solider walked into, "So I decided on a new plan; I won't kill all the humans in the world anymore…" He then looked up at the camera of the room and smirked with a sinister grin, "…just bastards like you who give humans a bad name."

And with that, Alex cocked back a clenched fist as black vine-like ooze surrounded it and Alex finally let it thrust forward and with that, the door to the white room was knocked off its hinges and clanked onto the street across from where he was. He walked out of the room only to find himself in a city in the middle of the day with other people walking around. However around Mercer were caution tape and guards men patrolling the room, that was, upon Mercer's examination, a large white box that held the room in it. The city people stopped and stared in awe at the hooded Alex suddenly punch out of the box while the guardsmen held their guns at the ready to fire.

"What the hell?" Alex wondered.

He then heard the hysterical laughter of the white haired sociopath from the intercom inside the room, "You didn't think that I would hold you in my building, did you? I obviously had to take heavy procedures just in case you try anything! Now it is time, Alex Mercer! Just try and search me out! You won't find anything from that solider as I made sure he was a fist day guard that has no idea where my building is located. You'll have to search high and low for—!"

"It's that tall clock tower building isn't it?" Alex pointed straight at the towering castle of a clock tower afar from where Alex's box room was. Judging by how Minaka didn't responding quickly, Mercer could only smirk at how right he was. "Right. I'll be there shortly to rip you to pieces."

Alex waited for no response and began walking to the tower. That is until he's stopped by the shouting of military men pointing heavy duty rifles at him.

"Don't move! Or we'll shoot!-!" One solider yelled.

"Really?" Alex smirked as black vine-like ooze began to form on his arms, leaving the military men trembling in their boots. "If I were you, I'd be careful what your next choices of words are."

XXX

"Shit! How did he find us?-!" Minaka exclaimed as he stood in true confusion and a bit of fear.

"Gee, I don't know. Maybe it was from the obvious tall clock tower that over-looked the city would be the first and obvious place to look for a person whose head of a corporation." Takami said insultingly, as she stood up as well and exhaling a cigarette, "only you would believe you're hidden from people."

"Oh well then." Minaka said with a toothy grin on his face, "It makes no difference. Let him come! For once he arrives, he won't be able to get too me that easily!"

"And what makes you say that?" Takami felt she just had to ask.

"Simple, my dear Takami…" He looked towards the white haired woman with a more sinister grin that slightly put a chill down her spine. "…I've got a powerful weapon of my own."

XXX

"God! I swear you're so freakin' useless."

"I-I'm sorry…"

That was all she could say. That's all she could ever say. She felt as though no matter what she does or what she says, she'd never know true peace anymore. She would always have to suffer greatly at the hands of this brute that'd talk badly about her or would abuse her when she didn't do what she was told. It was almost sad to see such a cute girl be constantly abused by this jerk of a man she has no choice but to stay with. Such is her duty in this game she plays.

But even so, what she wouldn't give to have a moment's peace from all this pain that she's forced to go through. If it wasn't verbal abuse, it was a new bruise on her cheek. The more she stayed with him the more things escalated to the worse degree as the game she played was starting to get worse. And that meant more bruises and more abuse.

This pour girl seemed no older then her early 20s with light brown short hair and a blue ribbon woven in. Her eyes were a depressed light blue and her skin was a pale complexion. Her outfit was a white, thigh length, tight dress with a blue collar patch like a sailor school uniform, along with black long gloves, black stockings, and white boots. In her hands was a massive hammer that looked far too heavy for her to swing. Hell, it looked far too heavy for any human being to swing.

The tan male had dark brown short hair and very narrow brown eyes. He was dressed in a green hoodie, white khaki pants, and brown shoes.

The two were simply walking in the city passing through people who got a good look at the horrible abuse that poor girl was receiving. But then again, they were more amazed at how she could lug such a heavy hammer with little ease.

"Don't fuckin' tell me sorry!" He yelled at her. "We keep losin' because of you, and you think you can just say "sorry"?"

"N-No Junichi-san…I-I just—Agh!" Her words halted into painful groaning as she felt her hair be grabbed forcefully by the hands of Junichi with no mercy in sight.

"What? So you were gonna say it's my fault now?-! Who the fuck do you think you are?-!" Junichi exclaimed angrily as he harshly slap the poor girl in the face. She could feel the horrible sting radiate off her cheek, but tried to hold her tears at bay.

"I-I'm sorry, Junichi-san!" The girl begged.

"I told you don't feed me that shit!" He said as he slapped her once more on the cheek. The people around didn't do a thing to try and stop him. Not with the hidden gun handle that poked out of the pocket of his jeans. "Now I swear, if you ever lose to another Sekirei again, I'll dump you to the side and let you die. You got it?-!"

"Y-Yes, I swear!" She cried.

"That's what I thought." Junichi scoffed as he tossed the brown haired girl so hard that she fell to the ground painfully. "Now get up, Yashima! We got some Sekirei to kill!"

"Y-Yes, Junichi-san…" Yashima replied meekly as she grabbed her giant metal hammer and walked slowly behind Junichi.

Though she knew that this is what it meant to having an Ashikabi, she couldn't help but feel so miserable about it. Every day was like this for her. She'd win some fights, she'd lose some fights, and when she lost, the beating would commence from Junichi on her own injuries as well. But even though he threatened to toss her aside like nothing, he never did. She thought that this was his sign of actual affection, only to discover it was because he didn't want to lose the Sekirei battle, and if abuse and pain was the only way he saw that worked then it was that.

Suddenly, she was pulled from her own safe haven of her mind by the sound of people running and screaming in horror the opposite way of where the two were walking.

"Huh? The hell's going on?" Junichi questioned. "Let's go. It might another Sekirei. And this time you better not fuck up, understand?-!"

"Yes, Junichi-san…" Yashima nodded meekly.

"Now c'mon!" Junichi exclaimed as he and Yashima ran ahead to see what all the fuss was about. However once they actually arrived at the scene, the fuss was more of a blood bath of military men chopped and ripped to pieces and their blood painting the very streets in red. There were missing limbs on cut up corpses and even a burning helicopter that fell from the sky into the ground on the side of them.

"W-What is this shit?-!" Junichi exclaimed fearfully.

Then from afar, another lifeless corpse flopped across the ground and stopped right at the feet of Juichi. He of course was fearful of who had thrown the dead body and looked ahead to see something beyond what he could comprehend at the time. He saw a man in a black leather jacket and hoodie walk to him and Yashima from a fire that was burning harshly behind him. But the strangest part was that his arms were now black claw arms. The arms were a black spiky material that seemed as hard as iron, while the long blades that acted as fingers were three-fingered, one-thumbed talons appendages.

"Well now. What do we have here?" Alex smirked as he stood a few steps away from the two. "You two here to clean up this mess? Go ahead, and get a mop."

"H-Heh, who the hell do you think you're, huh?" Junichi smirked nervously, "You better learn your place, you emo freak!"

"Emo? No. Person who's gonna rip you a new one if you don't shut that mouth of yours? Definitely." Alex grinned while holding up one of his claws playfully. "So what's it gonna be?"

"Ha! You?-! Kill me?-! I'd like to see you try that!" Junichi challenged, "With a mouth like that, and claws like those, you gotta be a Sekirei! I don't like having some weirdo as another Sekirei, and since you're still unwinged, this'll be easy!"

"Unwinged?" Mercer wondered, "And what's a Sekirei?"

"Yashima! Go!" Junichi called out to the brown haired hammer carrying girl.

Yashima nodded obediently and walked forward to challenge the walking virus. She held her giant metal hammer at the ready and was lifting it like it weighted little then what it looked like it did. Mercer cocked an eyebrow at this, but shrugged it off to prepare for a battle.

"Number 84, Yashima, moving in!" She said with a small amount of confidence.

"Cute." Mercer sighed, "Look, I really don't have the time to waste on you two so I'll make this quick. There's a building that's begging for my claws to rip through."

Alex wasted no time as he ran right at Yashima with great speed, bulleting towards her! Yashima brought her hammer high into the air and proceeded to slam it down on Alex Mercer to end the virus once and for all. However, Alex simply side stepped just in time for the heavy hammer to hit the ground with a loud and thunderous blast!

From there, Alex brought one of his claws up to slash Yashima into ribbons, but Yashima was able to roll out of the way along with her hammer. She recovered her footing and charged at Mercer, hammer at the ready, as she swung the metal beast at Mercer with great control and skill, but Alex was one step faster as he dodged all the attacks effortlessly.

"How dull…" Alex sighed, "Tell me; have you always been this weak?"

"N-No!" Yashima exclaimed with every swing of the hammer. "I…am…not…weak!"

"Yes, you are." Mercer said sternly. He then finally stopped dodging and grabbed Yashima's hammer by the rod with his clawed hand while his other claw was held under her chin. He then sharply looked deep into her eyes with a deep and stern aura about him. "As long as you keep hanging around this guy, you'll never get stronger. You'll always be weak unless you fight for yourself and not for others for once. Especially not that shit stain over there." He pointed towards a very angry Junichi who wanted Yashima to kill the guy already, but that seemed to be taking way to long.

Mercer finally pushed the hammer-carrying Sekirei away from him and prepared for more of her to return to fight. But he didn't have to prepare much since after her earlier display of skill with that giant hammer, he could tell that killing her would be no problem at all. Then he could focus back on his original goal of Minaka's head.

Yashima held her hammer to the side as she actually thought hard on Alex's words; could she truly be stronger then she thought she was at first? Could it really be her own Ashikabi who was holding her back from becoming a stronger Sekirei? She always thought that as long as you had a Sekirei you'd be strong. Though he did abuse her on a verbal and physical level, could that be the reason she hasn't tapped into her full potential?

"Hey! The hell're you doing?-!" Yelled Junichi to Yashima with a furious tone, "Quit fucking around, and fight the guy already!"

"I-I'm trying!" Yashima begged her master.

"Che! Not trying hard enough, damnit!" He walked over to Yashima, who heard his footsteps and almost assumed he was going to surrender for her. "Stop dragging your fuckin' feet!" But that wasn't the case as he once again slapped her across the face with no restraint. This time he had hit her so hard that she fell to her knees from its impact. "Shit! You're so fuckin' weak! I gotta do everything around here!"

Junichi then grabbed Yashima by the hair and yanked her up to meet him face-to-face and without warning, kissed her harshly and roughly.

Suddenly from her back appeared these strange long light blue wings that seemed to increase in size from what Alex was seeing. He was confused and also puzzled as to what he was witnessing right before his eyes. "What's that all about?"

After Junichi finally released his lips from hers, she breathed harshly as he pushed her back into the field of battle with no concern for her well being. "Now finish this already!" Juichi demanded.

"Y…Yes…" Yashima nodded as she regained her breath and chanted "Hammer of my contract, crush my Ashikabi's enemies!" Suddenly, she pointed her large hammer right at Alex and soon her entire body, including her very hammer, was immersed in a light fiery aura that shined brightly.

"So you've finally shown your true power, huh?" Alex said with a bit of disappointment in his tone, "Once again, you're still pretty weak. You'll never be able to stand up to foes with this kind of power."

Despite the harsh words, she paid them no mind. All that mattered was pleasing her master, and that's what she intended to do for all eternity. Though it would be a horrible life, she knew that this was her destiny. She ran right at Mercer with the hammer at the ready and her aura glowing fiercely. She noticed that Alex did not move at all and only stood there keeping an eye on her. She then jumped into the air to let the weigh to her giant hammer carry her down and slam the hammer into the ground with her move called; "Gravity Hammer!-!"

"How pitiful." Alex said coldly as he made his claws vanish and instead appeared a new weapon just in time to catch Yashima's hammer strike with a heavy, ground breaking struggle for dominance! The weapon Mercer appeared to have been a long thick blade attached to his black armored right arm and a smaller blade in the back of the giant blade.

"What…?" Yashima uttered as she could see the cracks to her hammer staring to be visible to the naked eye. Her powerful hammer was beginning to shatter right before her eyes and she couldn't even try to prevent it at all. Alex could see this as well as he finally decided to push a bit of strength into his arm blade and with a natural dose of power, he was able to brutally slice through the metal massive hammer and destroy it into completely shattered pieces scattering all across the street! Yashima herself was tossed across the road and fell to the ground finally, to simply lie there, struggling to get back up again. Her clothes slightly ripped up, and her body holding heavy bruises.

She tried to stand back up once more, but suddenly felt a foot slam into her back forcefully. It wasn't as harsh as Juichi would usually deliver, but this time it was a bit softer in comparison. She looked up to find that the hooded opponent Alex Mercer was the one who held a foot over her back.

"Don't get up." Alex ordered her as he pointed his massive blade at her neck, "I'm not gonna fight some woman who's just doing what her abusive and cunt-faced boss said and simply doing it just to have some sort of affection from him. It's shameless to even call you a person for simply kneeling over and taking a smack to the face…in fact…wait here."

Alex removed his foot from Yashima's back and made his arm blade turn back into his regular hands and walked slowly to Junichi, who was trembling in complete fear of this dark hooded man with very unnatural powers. Juichi was shaking all over with each heavy step that Mercer took. Like every step was a countdown to his utter demise.

"G-Get the fuck away from me!-!" Junichi yelled as he tried to run off from the scene, screaming frantically.

"Oh no you don't!" Mercer exclaimed as he ran at him, jumped high into the air and stuck his foot out in order to descend across the air and slam his foot right into the thug's face, ala, flying kick! Junichi's body flopped onto the pavement and flat on the ground. His face was bleeding heavily and his arm seemed to have been broken from the intense tumble he took. Juichi struggled to get back up again to run off farther from him despite his obvious injuries and broken arm he had.

But that was only a wasted effort as Juichi suddenly felt a hand grasp the back of his hoodie and lift him right off his feet and into the air! He was now face-to-face with a cold, dark, and menacing stare from the shadows of his hood. It was as if the devil himself was under that hood, staring into Junichi's soul and seeing all the evil he has done in his life.

"Y'know, it's bastards like you that create the true monsters of human life." Mercer said in a dark and threatening tone "It's because of barbaric primitives like you that there's war, violence, evil corrupting the world, and finally death." Alex then smirked as he raised Juichi a little higher as Junichi was starting to panic and scream hysterically, only proving how pathetic he really was. "One less of your kind wouldn't hurt."

"W-Wait!" called out Yashima from afar. She had tears forming within her eyes as she struggled to stand once more, to Alex's chargin. "Please don't kill him…! I-I need him…!"

"Excuse me?" Mercer questioned.

"Y-Yeah! Don't kill me!"Junichi yelled excessively, "I-If I dies, she dies too! That's the way of an Ashikabi and his Sekirei! Ashikabis use their Sekirei!"

"Ashikabi?" Alex questioned, "So that's what you are, huh? You don't want her to die and so you don't want to die either, right? I guess you're not a complete waste of human resource after—"

Alex's words were halted by the sudden loud popping sound that came from his torso area. Mercer looked down to find that this punk Ashikabi had shot him in the stomach with a handgun that he had with him. The barrel smoked with the release of the bullet into Alex's rib as the shot left a hole and blood dripped profusely from the wound.

"H-ha…Hahaha! Serves you right, you fuckin' freak!" Junichi yelled as if he was victorious, "I couldn't give two shits about that useless girl! I'll see your bitch ass in Hell—huh…! W-What…?-!"

Junichi's laugh of victory was cut short as he noticed that the blood from that wound has suddenly become a black oozing substance that instantly shot back into Mercer's wound from the ground and materialized into the fixing of his clothes from the bullet's path.

Junichi trembled fearfully at such a sight. He felt as though nothing could kill him at all. He couldn't even dare to look back into his eyes, fearful that he would stare right into his soul. But he could feel it; that dark and looming stare of his was piercing him with deathly rage.

"Well now…" Alex said coldly with a devilish grin plastered on his face from the shadows of his hoodie. "…Bad move."

Alex then whirled Junichi to the ground as Juichi screamed in agony at the hands of Alex's fist literally slamming into his face and his blood splattering on the street and even some of the buildings on the sides. Some even splattered onto Junichi's very Sekirei from afar as she watched in horror at her Ashikabi be beaten to a bloody pulp. Mercer had punched through Junichi's skull, then his brain until it was juice, and finally his entire face was no longer even there. Alex did the next thing that he was so good at; consuming. He then covered the whole body in black vine-like ooze and commence on fusing with it as the black ooze covered him as well. Finally the ooze vanished from Mercer's body and he then felt a throbbing headache that he'd usually feel.

He saw everything; the Sekirei plan, the part of an Ashikabi, and the all around game that the bastard Minaka had created for the participants. He also saw that the Sekirei were in fact from space who seemed to have crash landed into some unknown island.

Finally Mercer felt that painful headache go away and he stood back up, holding the memories of what's going on in this city. "So that's what you've been planning all this time." Alex said with an irritated expression, "Just wait, Minaka. You'll be the first to face the entire wrath within me. And then, I'm gonna rip your heart out."

He then looked back to the girl, who simply sat there, completely unresponsive to anything. She made no attempt to stand or even try to look up at her master's killer. She simply sat there, looking down with a rather lifeless look in her eyes. Alex walked over to her, seeing she made no attempt to fight back, and kneeled down to her to say, "You can sit here, feeling sad for a dude who'd smack you across the face for the fun of it, or you can just let me end your suffering here and now."

Yashima slowly looked up to the hooded man's face and felt her tears weld up in her eyes. She had no real fear of dying, that wasn't the reason for her tears at all. It was because for the first time in such a long time…she could have a chance of a better life then the living. She didn't know what awaited her in the afterlife, and had no clue what would happen, but she didn't care. Anything would be better than this hellish life she's lived so far.

"Y-Yes…I'm ready…" Yashima uttered tearfully.

Alex helped her stand up and though she struggled to stand at first, she was able to stand fully as she looked up at the dark eyes of the hooded weapon eye-to-eye. She admitted that staring into those cold eyes frightened her a bit, but she didn't let the fear fully consume her. She was all but ready for death to great his dark boney hands to her heart.

"Alright…" Alex said dryly, "let your suffering…end."

She closed her eyes, as she waited for sweet death to approach her once and for all…however death didn't feel as agonizing or as painful as she assumed it was…in fact death wasn't what she was even feeling. Instead it felt like…lips? She quickly opened her eyes, only to find that she was staring into the hooded man's closed eyes as her lips pressed onto hers and his hand on her chin while the other wrapped around her waist. She suddenly felt a strange surge of power course through her body and its strange euphoric sensation filled her in every part of her body. Suddenly from her back, Yashima could feel an almost burning as her wings grew from her back once more, however this time they were a black and had veins infused on them.

After Mercer finally removed his lips from hers, Yashima once again breathed hard as she could feel her very body tensing up. She then looked at her clothes, only to find that she was now wearing a black version of her short dress along with her boots also becoming black but the collar was a blood red along with her ribbon being a grey color.

"W-What…?" Yashima uttered.

"Congrats." Alex said dryly, "You're now my Sekirei."

She looked at the hooded Mercer in shock as to what he had just said, "W-What? H-How…?"

"I did just inject an Ashikabi and has, by logic, taken his DNA biometric to be able to have a connection to you just as he did." Alex could obviously see the confusion on her face, so he dumbed it down for her, "I consumed him, his Ashikabi genes are inside me. And now…"

"…you're an Ashikabi…" She said in astonishment, "M-My Ashikabi…!"

Alex grinned as he spread his arms out, as shadows of his hood held red, almost glowing chilling eyes within them as he said with a dark and sinister tone, "Welcome to the food chain."