Dear Warthog Flammarion what do you mean "by how to call a soldier who met Hydra.
What his name is or what? If that's it you'll find the answer in this chapter
Any who in this chapter Alex Mercer gets some answers from hydra
Also I need some ideas for the name of the infected in this chapter
Hydra and everyone else
Alex Mercer
Infected thing
Throwing an infected through a wall hydra looked around. There were no infected left after that one. He listened for the tell-tale growls and moans of the infected.
Hearing none he checked for soldiers or civilians.
Seeing none he decided to sleep. He didn't need to but it was better than standing out here all night.
He slept in the shipping containers by the construction. Why? So he wouldn't wake up to being chewed on by an infected or taken away for study by Blackwatch.
He had seen Blackwatch spooks come and take infected from his pile for study.
He didn't want them to hear about him through a soldier so he made sure they were gone before he slept.
Turning to go he saw a figure standing a short distance away.
"Who are you?"
"Where did you get your powers?"
"Why do you want to know?"
The figure held up his hand.
"What are you trying to flick me off?"
His eyes widened with interest as red and black tendrils wound around the hand. In rapid succession it changed from a large rock-like thing to a heavily muscled arm to a claw to a long blade.
He held out the transformation from claw to blade so the middle claw was larger and longer than the others.
"Now I'm flicking you off." He said with a smirk.
"Who are you?"
"Alex Mercer"
Hydra immediately jumped back and raised his arms.
He had heard soldiers talking about him.
How he took out entire battalions of soldiers. How he walked into the labs where supersoldiers where made, destroyed all their defenses and annihilated the alpha soldier.
Mercer raised his hands causing the other to tense
"Relax; I'm not going to hurt you…as long as I get answers."
"Fine." He said though still tensed "what do you want to know?"
"Where did you get your powers?" he repeated.
"I have absolutely no idea." He said blatantly
"Do you at least remember what happened?"
"Yeah, I was looking for my dad when one of those bloated infected stabbed me through the chest.
After that it ran off somewhere. I crawled into an alley when it came back. It looked like it was going to kill me but a passing tank shot at it.
Not the machine gun but a fucking shell! All for that one fat little bastard."
"Anyway."
"Well after they the shot everything in the alley went flying.
I ended up stuck under a dumpster for 5 days. "
"Why didn't you push it off?"
"Well the shell melted the bottom to the ground. So I was stuck in a dumpster filled with bodies."
"Bodies?"
"Yeah Infected, civilians, Military, and even Blackwatch.
"I would have died but one of the military bodies had a pistol that I used to shoot air holes. It ran out of ammo though, so I couldn't shoot enough holes to escape."
" After 5 days in hell I couldn't take it anymore! I thought I was going to die anyway so I was at least going to try."
"Then I pushed, heard a ripping and crunching sound scared the crap out of a survivor and I was free."
"What happened after that?
"I was in shock; I had thrown a dumpster 16 feet into the air.
And I was incredibly weak at that point.
So what's your story?"
"Take me to this dumpster."
A/N this copout will be fleshed out in the next chapter. Now we skip ahead to when they return.
Pausing hydra looked around. There weren't any soldiers around and there were bloodstains along with the 2 halves of a soldier on the ground.
Suddenly a red blur flew past him and slammed Alex into a nearby shop. It bounced back and hit him, sending him flying into a shipping container.
"What is that thing." He said to himself.
"Some kind of infected." Said a voice
"Ah" he yelled in surprise as he jumped back into a crouch. Seeing the marine he saved yesterday he relaxed
"How did you get in here?" he asked half expecting him to point at a smaller hole in the container and say "same way you did"
"I took cover in here."
"What exactly happened?"
"We came down to our post and noticed dead civilians lying around. our commander ordered us to search for the cause. Then it appeared. It took out half our squad before our commander ordered a retreat. We tried to make it back to base but the forerunners were cut down. So we took cover in the containers. "
"ok then I got to go, what's your name?"
"Private Devon Gadniez"
"Well that's nice to know." He said.
He jumped out the hole to rejoin the fight.
Alex had gotten up and was whipping his arm, which had become black and had 4 short claws.
Whipping it out the infected caught it and yanked sending him flying into a steel bar. Moments later Alex Mercer hung upside down tied to the bar with his own whipfist.
Running hydra tackled it and caught it off guard slamming it down. Bringing up his fist to strike he found himself flying through the air.
Twisting around he landed in a crouch and jumped towards the infected.
It dodged and seemingly disappeared.
As he was about to change direction he had an idea.
Landing he reached towards the end of the whipfist and pulled it out of the bar. As the infected tackled him it was suddenly grabbed by the whipfist.
Slamming it to the ground Alex changed his other arm into the claw.
As it was just about to be cut in half it kicked the claw embedding the spikes into a bar.
Cursing Alex threw it attempting to pull out the spikes.
Hydra charged towards where the infected landed. Seeing a hole in a container he rushed over.
Stopping suddenly he stared, horrified at the hole. "What" Alex said having finally gotten his arm out of the bar. Stopping he too stared.
It was like a miniature hive, there were cocoons in the corners and floor.
Where the infected had landed a lump had ruptured sending an underdeveloped version of the fast infected stumbling around before it died.
The infected they had been fighting had been knocked out from contact with the fluids from the pod.
Walking over Alex raised his arm and cut its head off.
"The infection is Evolving, Adapting."
Well there it is. I know I'm not that good at dialogue. Seriously I need a name for that infected.
Here's a preview for the next chapter after the flashbacks: hydra fights an infected with one of mercer's powers that didn't make it into [Prototype]