Eyes from both Beacon's party and Cinder's darted left and right keeping track of the entire fight that's ensuing right in front of them. Cinder clashed swords with Alex, the scowl on her face visible. It was clear that she was angry, after all she didn't like it when someone halts her plans, of course she had been prepared, she had countermeasures above countermeasures in the event that something got snagged in between the gears of her well-oiled plan.

Yet despite all of this she wasn't prepared for the creature that she was clashing swords with – that made her angry. What made it worse was the ever-present grin on his face while she held a snarl that promised torturous pain. She shifted her blades hoping to unbalance his body, in proved successful as he now stumbled forward. She took his moment of weakness to stab one of the swords on his back. Her eyes widened and she was forced to retract her attack and jump back when his left arm shifted into a spike shield, said shield extended its prongs which was the cause of her moment of retreat.

She wasn't given any amount of respite, with a burst of speed that cracked the concrete beneath his feet he zoomed towards her scoring a sweet knee to the gun, air escaped her lungs as her aura flashed telling her that she just took a huge damage. Her back hit against the wall hard, judging by the way she was still crouched down and the amount of times she's trying to breath, Alex could accept that she's out for the moment. He was about to approach and finish her off when a gunshot wounded his sides.

The wounds of course healed in a matter of seconds, while he did admit that Dust infused bullets stung more than the normal bullets he was subjected daily to thousands of years ago, it was nothing compared to having a nuke blasted on your face. The furious look on her face amused Alex, the man behind the green-haired girl, Hazel, graced a frown on his face. Mercer was about to say a snarky comment but was cut off when out of nowhere pain flared in his entire being. His upper torso sloped to the side while his legs remained standing. Looking down on him was Raven, a look of disinterest in her eyes.

She was about to finish him off when she was forced to back off due to the fact that the legs, which was supposed to stop moving, still moved, it kicked and kicked forcing her to back off, she blacked the occaional foot here and there. When she was a few meters away from Mercer more tendrils grew out of the legs and attached to Alex the tendrils pulled him, the process was quick and efficient, his torso no attached he glared at her.

"Lucky shot,"

Raven didn't say anything, instead she sliced the air forming a portal and entering it. Once she disappeared, Alex scanned the room with observant eyes – looking for anything that was out of place. The air shifted to his side forcing him to act. When earlier the blade cut through him easily now it didn't; his black jacket shifted from black to matte grey, layers upon layers of biomass accumulated around his body forming an extremely thick chitin like armour. The blade dug deep but it wasn't enough to cut him in half again. Before Raven could pull her weapon, Alex grabbed it and with enough pressure, snapped it in two. Raven jumped back narrowly avoiding Alex's newly shifted claws. Raven clicked her tongue in annoyance, it was clear that they didn't expect any of this, so she bid the next best thing. She called out to her companion, Vernal, said girl looked at her while at the same time maintaining Alex within her line of sight.

"We're leaving,". She pressed a button on her sword dropping the broken blade, she placed the hilt back and it made click sound. She pulled it out to see a new blade had been attached on the hilt. With a slice, the blade made a portal.

Just as Vernal and Raven were about to leave a pillar of concentrated fire erupted in between them separating both of them from each other. Cinder glowered upon them with an ever-present anger, "You won't be leaving until I get the Spring Maiden!"

Her eyes flashed with fire as she floated in the air, three streams of flame circled her in a two-meter radius creating something similar to that of an atom with her being the nucleus. The wind started to pick up to the point that even the hand railings on the upper floors of the auditorium detached and flew around wildly, yet despite that Alex barely even flinched. Judging by his analysis, Raven and Vernal were of a different party and are only acquaintances with Cinder and her lackeys. What bugged him though was the man that stood just ahead of him with his arms cross and a frown but curious look on his face; Hazel. The auditorium rocked, and it wasn't the musical metaphor, Vernal tensed her muscles and prepared for a fight that without no doubt would kill her.

"This is getting serious,"

"Can't you do something?"

"I can… but that would expose all of our hard work,"

"I don't care… my friends come first,"

Alex gave out an audible sigh, "You do know what happens, right?"

"I thought you can control them?"

"Direct… not control,"

Despite all of the destruction that's happening in the room, Jaune managed to think through it all. After a moment of contemplating, Alex could feel his host's resolve tighten. Jaune gave a sharp intake of air inside of Alex. "It's fine… do it,"

Cinder Fall, conjured a fireball and threw it at Vernal while was locking swords with Emerald. Just when the fireball would burn her Raven jumped just in time to deflect. Unfortunately, she didn't realise it just now that the direction she deflected it was at the direction of Jaune's friends. Everyone's eyes closed waiting for the impact. Instead of a hard impact and the feeling of burning what they only felt was the intense heat. They opened their eyes to see Alex standing in front of them, his left arm shifted into a large shield that was probably three metres tall and five metres wide.

His arm shifted back to normal and looked back at the group, Qrow had a suspicious look in his face – the same goes for Oscar. Everyone else had mixed looks; curiosity with a tinge of fear.

"Cover your ears,"

They gave him looks of curiosity after that but the look on his told them to listen otherwise. With reluctance they followed his wishes. When he was finally sure that they were covered looked back at the conflict that's happening; Emerald had just kicked Vernal in the face only for Vernal to counter with a low sweep which caught the illusionist off guard. In the distance the entire area was charred black, flames licked the walls, the surrounding air bent due to the intense heat that Cinder was generating, yet despite this Raven didn't seem affected. Meanwhile in the side Hazel still observed Alex with a calculating look. He grinned, He's seen Mercury Black's memories so of course he knew who Hazel was along with Tyrian, Watts and of course Salem.

When he saw Salem, for some reason something sparked in Alex. And that spark was the spark of competition. A battle for the top of the food chain, judging by the 'regal' look of Cinder's mistress he was confident to say that she held the top while he was away for quite some time.

Unfortunately, he held the top longer than she had.

The pores on Alex's skin secreted red smoke that started to slowly spread. With a slow deep inhale, he roared.


The sound wasn't that hard to miss. It was so loud that even Adam paused his fight with Sun and Blake just to feed his curiosity. Just when they were about to continue the ground shook.


The fight between Raven and Cinder and Vernal and Emerald was put on hold so that they could all look at Alex. When his roar had finished the ground shook, and it shook with magnitude of an angry god. Then another sound entered their ears, the sound of thousands if not millions of guttural roars that responded to Alex's. Cracks started to from on the floor and what came out was only something that everyone could imagine in an apocalypse-based novel. Standing at a whopping 50 ft, its two bladed mandibles expanded and closed. More of its kind came out forcing everyone to back off lest they wanted to risk the creatures' ire.

The windows of the academy shattered and what entered the room was a monstrosity that not even the Grimm could compare, muscles rippled across its body, its arms were equally muscular as the body and were armed with razor sharp claws. More windows shattered and more of its kind swarmed the school.

Ruby and her friends brandished their weapons cautious of the new type…Grimm? The muscular creature tensed its muscles was about to pounce on them were it for an arm being raised. They all followed the arms and to their shock it was none other than Alex. The creature seemed to follow his orders and settled for a menacing roar of threat.

This gesture was not missed by anyone else. Cinder had a look of anger and from what Alex could sense the tiniest feeling of fear. While this was happening, Raven took the chance to escape, slicing a portal open she gestured Vernal to follow. The both of them disappeared and what was now left is Leonardo Lionheart which looked the opposite of his name sake, Emerald, Cinder and of course Hazel.

Alex pointed a finger at Cinder and spoke his words.

"Kill her,"

All hell broke loose


A/N: Is this too OP or is it the right amount of OP? frankly I don't know. From what I've observed Alex should have the ability to create an entire army of infected and direct them. This was proven when Alex backed away from Heller when he discovered that he couldn't consume him; so, he sent in a goliath. Another time was when it was moments before Father Guerra died. A Blackwatch radio chatter told the player (you) that they saw Alex Mercer exit the area where Father Guerra resided, coincidence I think not! Aside from that it was also one of Heller's abilities "Pack Leader" if Heller could call multiple of them why shouldn't Alex call more than what Heller could deliver?

For the whole 'Alex can control the infected' all I got is his conversation with Captain Robert Cross after killing Elizabeth Greene.

[Captain Cross: Look at your handiwork now

Alex Mercer: Oh yeah. They're headless. An infected army without a leader… It's only a matter of time before they're wiped out.

Captain Cross: And if there are other leaders out there?

Alex Mercer: No… they're all dead. All dead. Except me.]

So that put the nail in my coffin that Alex CAN control and direct the infected, I mean he even consumed Greene so shouldn't that mean something? I hope you all liked this and without further ado let's read some comments!

forthose8675309: Well you got your wish… this might probably be a small series though. I'll see how it goes.

MultiverseOmniverse104: You'll just have to wait… cause I'm contemplating on whether I should kill her or not.

XxPokemonMasterxX: I don't want to sound rude but I'll be honest. I don't see Alex calling himself Zeus anytime sooner, sure he might make references to him being called that but other than that I don't really see it. Besides it's too cringy or chuuni for my taste.

Thanatos413: For some weird reason I kinda see Nora saying that in front of Mercer with no hesitation whatsoever.

Anyways I hope you all like this chapter and with that I bid you all adieu

Peace~