"Okay….may not have completely thought this plan through." In the abandoned church that the fallen angels were using as a base of operations, James was currently locked in a cell. He..looked worse for wear.

After being battered and bruised for at least 3 hours, the devil was tossed into this cell and left alone. His hands were resting on his knees while he was resting against a wall on the floor, his head tilting back as his left eye was swollen shut and his cheek had a long cut from being sliced by a spear of light. All in all, pretty average.

Now all he had to do now was to wait for night to enact his plan, but how was he going to get out of this cage…? He's tried getting out and all it did was cause the bars to shock him with light. He wasn't going to be moving anytime soon.

"Now what….?" He muttered as his body was beginning to regenerate, finally having the chance to be alone since the very angry Raynare was busy unleashing her wrath on his body.

(Think I can throw in my two cents, James? Or is this a bad time…?) The voice of Alex Mercer would speak in his mind to which James would jump slightly before stopping, making him lean his head against the wall and close his eyes. "Alex? How are you talking to me..?"

(Ddraig told me that i'm able to speak with you mentally and feed you advice, I told you to grab Dohnaseek by the throat when you first met him.) The man known as 'Zeus' would say casually to James as he could see that sight was gradually returning to his swollen shut eye. He nodded his head, rubbing his even messier hair. "Sounds good, so what's the plan…?"

(You have a lot to learn about the abilities that you now possess, James. The virus provides you with a way of becoming the perfect war machine or this case a spy.) James listened to the words that were being said, making sure to catch every detail so that he wouldn't mess up his chance. "What? Can the virus make disguises or something..?" He joked and chuckled, but froze when Alex chuckled with him…

(In a way. I could say that you've had a disguise with you this entire time.) James would watch as he could feel his body was beginning to transform, tendrils completely covering his his eyes completely wide. "W-Wha…" Before he could finish this, the Devil would notice that his voice was different so were his clothes.

He looked around for a mirror, but then he took out his phone and used the screen to do such. The face was….Dohnaseek. "Holy….shit." The fallen angel said with wide eyes as he would slowly begin to stand up, putting his hand up so that he could support himself and removed the hat on his head and looked over it. It was real, completely.

He turned towards the bars and stepped over to the bars, slowly raising his hands before wrapping his fingers around them to feel….they had no burn at all or anything. "Alex? Good to have you back. Ready to raise some hell…?"

(I was born for doing that, but we should wait. I have a feeling that your friends may have something planned. It also gives you a chance to catch the angels by surprise.) Alex's suggestion made Dohnaseek halt his actions before backing up, sitting down on the floor as the tendrils surrounded his body before quickly turning back into James. "You're right, it's only noon, but since we have the time, what else can this virus do?"

The two beings infected by the virus would be talking for hours, but in the middle of their discussion there was a yawn. (Well, well, Ddraig is awake too. Get a look at the surroundings.)

{What do you mean…? Oh, what the hell?} The crimson dragon roared in confusion as the Twice Critical appeared on his right arm, making the two Mercers chuckle. {James, how did you end up in this situation?}

"Well, I met a psychotic priest, almost punched his face in, insulted some fallen angels and now here I am. Keep in mind, this was all for defending a nun that I met yesterday." James said with a shrug, taking out his phone and beginning to play a game on his phone while leaning his head against the wall.

{And why would you do all of this? If you just met her, then why get yourself locked up in this prison?} James's face turned into a grimace as he looked to his phone, continuing to play the game without giving any answer to the dragon's question.

(I can give an answer to that one. James was never a person to let someone else fight his battles and that nun girl, she defended him and even took a blow for him. That sent him….a bit off the deep end. Hell, Ddraig, you've been here longer just have a look through his memories.) Alex wasn't going to be giving a long speech to a dragon who is currently wrapped around the empire state building like a perch.

{I was sleep for most of his life, up until he finally gained access to his powers. Once he did, I woke up to you trying to cut my tail off!} Seems like Ddraig is still a little pissed about that.

(Damn, and I thought you were grumpy when you wake up, James) The young man raised his right hand over his eyes, lifting his middle finger.

"Are you seeing this, Alex? This is what I have to say to you."

After a couple hours, the little bit of light that shined in the window above James began to dim as the sun started setting in the sky. The pawn began to stand up as he bounced on the balls of his feet, his body completely healed with a small smirk on his features. "Alright, Ddraig, what do you mean by 'unlocking my power?' Is there something more than this Twice Critical piece of shit…?"

{How did you deal with this kid….?} Ddraig just had to ask the elder Mercer who was laying on the distant rooftop, letting out a chuckle.

(You'll get used to it.) The hooded man said through his laughter.

{But anyway, yes. There is a lot of power that you don't know about hidden in you, kid and considering that you willingly put yourself in this place, you have the heart for it.} James raised his right arm slowly, watching as the arm would glow until it became a red, claw-shaped gauntlet with yellow accents and green inscriptions. {Boost!} James felt his body become filled with a sudden increase in power, to the point that it even boosted the biomass within him.

"W-Woah...what is this?" James needed to gain control of his twitching body, quickly turning around and slamming his crimson fist into the concrete and watching as the stone shattered under his enhanced might. There was a hole the size of his fist that went up to his forearm.

{This is the Boosted Gear, kid. You can boost your strength 10 times what is was before, but you can only do it every 5 seconds. You now have the power of the Crimson Dragon Emperor.} James would begin to back up, taking his hand from the wall while smiling to himself as he turned towards the gate and raised his hand to look over the gauntlet.

"I like it.." James now needed of a way to get out of this joint, but that answer came in the form of the door to this prison being unlocked and the handle quickly turning, a smirk formed on James's face as he stepped towards the bars. Time to put his plan into action.

To say that the fallen angel, Raynare was having a good day would be a horribly wrong assumption. Not only did she lose the chance to have Twilight Healing, but she also was now stuck with this smart ass devil that seemed to not feel pain, now above all of this bullshit, the devils way on their way and fucking Dohnaseek is….here?

Dohnaseek appeared to be very angry as he would be yanking at the bars of light while glaring at Raynare. "This isn't as enjoyable as it looks, get me out of here!"

"Dohnaseek?! What the hell are you doing here?!" She asked while opening the cell to let Dohnaseek free to which the old man ran out and towards the door.

"Twiddling my damn thumbs while waiting for you! That Devil broke out and locked me in here, the little shit could be long gone by now! I need to get him." Dohnaseek seemed pretty pissed to be locked up in that cell.

"I should've fed that bastard to that stray devil when I had the chance, lock him in the room with that monster." Raynare chuckled maliciously at those words, seeing as their priests were getting ready to fight, but the crazed one wasn't there. That wouldn't be beneficial to their forces.

Dohnaseek seemed to chuckle at those words, standing at the door with hands in his pockets. He could see the other two angels Mittelt and Kalawarner were waiting for them in silence, mostly because of the sudden appearance of their male group member.

Dohnaseek watched the setting sun with a smirk, putting his hands on the doors. "This is your fault, Raynare. If we actually live past this then you can explain this to the leader!"

The sun soon began to touch the horizon as it fell from the sky, the sky beginning to be filled with darkness as the light died. The leader of the group seemed quite offended by Dohnaseek's words, a scowl forming on her features. "How is this my fault?! If you did your job right, we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place!"

Dohnaseek turned towards her as he removed his hat and ran his hand through his hair. "You didn't tell me that this kid was a damn freak! He's no ordinary devil, hell, he wasn't even a normal human! You seemed to forget to mention that the kid is related to Alex Mercer, the man responsible for 3 million never reaching any kind of afterlife!"

(3 Million?) Ddraig asked Alex who was sitting on a rooftop with arms folded over his chest, listening to the words of Dohnaseek with a smirk on his face.

{That they know about.} Alex chuckled as Dohnaseek put both hands on the doors, watching the sun vanishing under the horizon until the sky became fill with stars.

"They'll be here soon, we can argue about this or focus on the devils. Your choice.." Dohnaseek would then push on the doors until they were fully shut, drawing the confusion of his fellow fallen angels.

"Dohnaseek, why are you locking the doors? What's gotten into you?" The three other fallen were quick to back up at the black and crimson aura that radiated from Dohnaseek's body, spears of light forming in their hands.

"You want to know what happens when you lock someone in a room with a monster…?" Dohnaseek turned towards the other fallen angels, his form visibly changing to that of...James Mercer with his claws extended and his Boosted Gear on his right hand.

"I'll show you!" James roared before lunging towards Raynare, the one responsible for all of the shit that he has done to him. She was the one that wanted to kill him, might as well return the favor.

Raynare would barely avoid a swing from his claws before quickly ascending into the air, but there wasn't much room for movement because of the compact church. James would avoid a spear from Kalawarner and grab her by the face with his right hand, glaring down at her from the shadow of his hood.

"You fucking crows….you bastards did this to me!" James quickly turned, tossing the fallen angel in his hand into a wall with thunderous force before focusing on Raynare and leaping back to avoid a spear of light.

"I didn't ask for this…! I never desired this..!" His head snapped in the direction of Mittelt, feeling a spear of light entering his right shoulder, letting out a soft growl. He reached up and yanked the spear out and crushing it.

"I didn't want to trade one hell, just to end up in a-fucking-nother!" James leapt towards Raynare like a bat out of hell, his arms wide with his claws aiming to cut the angel down.

{He has a lot of demons in him, Mercer. Do you really think that he has the potential to stand for what's to come?} Ddraig could tell by the rampaging thoughts that seemed to be previously dormant in his wielders mind. This happened before at the fight at school, the fight with Freed. Moments where he is cornered or left alone with a group of people that he hates. The pain he's felt since he left New York, the scorn, the hatred that was pointed at him would be something that he may never let go.

(If there was anything that i've learned dealing with James for so long, he is determined and some terms unbreakable. He has to face his demons sooner or later..) Alex would say those words with a grim tone, knowing that all that James has gone through was because of what he did all those years ago at Penn Station.

{Does he really think that it's their fault for what's happened to him..?}

(No, he's talking about me. He just won't accept that he is.)

James would be gutting wave after wave of priests as they were trying to stop him from getting in between him and the fallen angels. He avoided light swords and light bullets, easily cutting them down as he absorbed the wealth of biomass that was filling within him.

His mind was thinking back on the blade of light that he he had earlier, stepping back before he noticed his right arm was beginning to transform into a long blade that seemed as sharp as any normal sword. He began dragging the blade along the floor before pulling it back. "Now to do some real fucking damage…"

James would pounce on the closest fallen towards him and that was Kalawarner, he stepped on the face of a priest before thrusting his blade forward to which they clashed weaponry. The infected man was in a frenzy as he couldn't seem to control his memories of the past and focus on the now. He ducked under a stab from a spear of light and soon impaled the woman with his blade.

He growled softly at the shocked look at her face, lifting her up before yanking the blade out and focusing on Mittelt and Raynare. They watched as their fellow fallen was being absorbed into James to which they stepped back in fear.

"You monster! You ruined everything!" Raynare said as James stepped forward, his hooded head staring at the fallen angel.

The three were about to begin Round 2 when the doors to the church were busted open by a powerful force. It was Koneko and the rest of the peerage as they would soon run in and discover the carnage that just took place.

Bodies of priests were all over the room, some of the cut up in various ways that it seemed like a psychopaths wet dream. Standing in front of the alter with his back to his friends was James while he looked at Raynare and Mittelt, not letting the two of them have a chance of escape.

"Why...would you have me killed?!" James snarled, raising his blade up to impale Raynare through the stomach, but stopped when Mittelt stood in front of her and took the blow. James watched the scene with narrowed eyes, blinded by his hatred before yanking the blade out of the crow and letting her fall limply to the floor.

"James!" The voice of Rias Gremory made the raging beast stop in his tracks, seemingly frozen mid-action. His arm lowered back to his side as his head tilted forward until he was looking down at the floor. He backed away from Raynare as the fallen angel looked to him with fear and anger, he had just killed all of her friends and she couldn't do a damn thing about it.

"You probably should give an answer to his question, why were you targeting him?" James looked to see Rias was questioning the last surviving fallen with the same orb of power that she used against the stray devil pointed at her face.

"We were ordered to do so by Azazel, but the order to kill him came from Kokabiel." Raynare said in a grim tone, having nothing to lose or gain if she didn't reveal anything.

James would look through the memories of the consumed Fallen Angels and would soon find only the image of a….man that looked like the most evil elf in fucking creation. He turned his head towards Raynare and stepped towards her, but was stopped by Yuuto.. "Why..?"

"Because you had an extreme power in you. Azazel said to have you observed, but Kokabiel saw you as a grave threat." Raynare said those words as her eyes narrowed at the direction of James. "And he couldn't be any more right!"

Just as she made a spear of light and was just about to throw it, she would be destroyed by Rias's power. All that remained was black feathers that descended into a small puddle of blood.

James would reach up and pull his hood back, letting his slightly damaged face be seen. "Thank you guys for getting here so quick.." He said softly, looking through the crowds before seeing the face of Asia who looked back at with wide green eyes.

"Asia…" That was all he got out before the blonde ran up to him and hugged him tightly, making him step back slightly. His eyes widened as he raised his hands around her waist, hugging her close to his chest. "So, what are you going to do? Go back to the church..?"

Asia would shake her head before holding on to him tighter, not wanting to let him go. She buried his head into his neck, the shaking told him that she was crying. "A-Asia, why are you crying..?"

The nun pulled back to reveal that she had a small smile on her features before hugging him once more. "You're okay…"

James looked around to his friends who watched the scene with smiles on their faces. "Uh...did I miss something?"

After a few hours the group would be back at the club room where they would be discussing with one another, mostly James trying to explain why he let himself get captured.

"Yeah, that's about it." James said with a chuckle as he leaned back in his seat, his shoulder still in slight pain after having that spear of light thrown into it. He rolled his shoulder with a grimace on his features, but that soon faded when he noticed a green aura surrounding his shoulder.

He gazed at his healer to see Asia, wearing...the kuoh academy girl uniform. "Wait wha-"

"James, you are looking at the newest bishop of the peerage." Rias said as she put her hands on her hips, smiling as James looked between her and Asia with uncharacteristic large eyes. "There is one issue, she has no place to stay, I would allow her to stay with me, but she insists on staying with you."

James seemed to have locked up in his shocked position, that everyone was laughing at him. Even Ddraig and Alex got some enjoyment from the pawns surprise.

Alex soon realized something that James realized as well. He would have to go through the intense scrutiny of Private Investigator Dana Mercer.

"This is going to be the longest day of my life.." James muttered to himself before looking to Asia who smiled at him, making his own smile form on his features.

"Also James, we need to work on controlling that temper if yours. It's putting you in situations that most wouldn't want to be in." Yuuto said as he was sat across from James to which he sighed softly, is head looking down to the floor.

"I know, I know. I'm sorry about that too, everyone. I just...can't stand having people I care for get hurt, even if I know them for less than 24 hours." He looked to Asia and raised his hand, gently rubbing the top of her head with a chuckle.

James thought to himself that maybe being a Devil won't be so bad after all…