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Short Visits
What follows is just a few little trips Alex has taken to various worlds, none of these stays were very long, he was just there to pick up one thing or another or make some quick change before moving on.
Somewhere in Europe in a small church in a village infested with parasitic monsters.
Alex stepped through the Warp Rift into a small room, in the corner was a teenage girl wearing an orange sweater and short skirt, he had almost killed this girl himself several times in the past simply because he was almost certain that she was suicidal anyway; who just stands there screaming while a twenty foot imitation of a cave troll lumbers towards them intent on crushing them like an ant?
"Ashley Graham? Don't tell me you've gone deaf on top of being terminally stupid too." Alex smirked evilly when Ashley jerked her head up to glare at him before realizing that he couldn't be there without coming in through the door, which she would most definitely have heard if it had opened. Having realized that something was off about her visitor Ashley was now even more frightened then usual, that's saying something seeing how she freezes up when a roach scurries across the room.
"Who...who are you?" Alex was surprised the generally spineless girl managed to get that out, he also wondered if she was programed to say that to the first person she saw that wasn't infected.
"Alex Mercer. I'd say it's a pleasure to meet you, but I honestly try to avoid lying whenever possible, and I've never been particularly happy to meet you before, so the odds of it being nice meeting you now are pretty low. Now first off, in about twelve hours a man named Leon Kennedy is going to arrive to get you out of here, try not to kill him by accident or out of shock when he opens the door, if you're still here when he gets here anyway."
"What? Someone's trying to save me?"
"Duh. Forget that you're the presidents daughter? Ignoring your obvious mental deficiencies, I am here because quite honestly I can't stand you, do you have any idea how hard it is for me to watch you nearly get yourself and others killed just because you're too dim to pick up a gun and shoot the zombies, or run when the giant monster tries to flatten you, or do anything other then stand rooted to one spot screaming your lungs out for no real reason at all? If I were a person with less options available to me I would just kill you and be done with it, but I happen to be not only the greatest geneticist in this universe, but I am also the most successful genetic abomination to ever live. While I don't expect you to understand what either of those two facts mean, I hope you at least understand that when you wake up things are going to be very...different."
Alex barely even had to give the equivalent of a mental shrug to knock the, already near fainting, girl out. It only took a few seconds to infect her with a watered down variant of the original Blacklight strain that had brought him into being, she wouldn't have all his powers, he left out the consuming and substituted that with the Zerg limitless cell division and accelerated healing, she only got the Claws instead of all his original weapons, he did leave her with the same strength and speed he had had, along with the agility. He made sure that she still could have kids mainly because he wanted to screw up Wesker's plans, the guy had always gotten on his nerves, what better way to piss him off then set into motion events that would advance the entire human race well beyond simply making one arrogant bastard the god king of zombies? Any children Ashley had would have the same baseline improvements he had given her, given time everyone on the planet would be able to surpass Wesker's own vision of superhuman by a wide margin. Alex would check back later to see how things went.
Once the parasite had been killed by Ashley's improved immune system and he was certain she would survive the rest of the changes, Alex opened a Warp Rift and left his newest "Child" to develop on her own.
Alex views anyone he gives a modified version of his original powers to as his children in a odd nightmarish sort of way. This little trip was spawned from stumbling across a thread about Resident Evil 4, it reminded me how much I hated Ashley while playing that game, if there had been a way to kill her and not get a game over I would have done it.
Anyway, Ashley now has some of Alex's powers and is nearly immortal, not only will this make Leon's life easier, assuming Ashley doesn't accidentally crush him to death, but it really messes with the plans of pretty much everyone in the series. No Ashley wouldn't suffer amnesia from the change, Heller didn't so why would someone infected by this version of Alex? Alex could wipe a persons mind if he felt it would be better for the circumstances, but not this time, he just blurred her memories of talking to him.
On to the next one.
Galactic Sector: N/A Date: N/A Planet: N/A
It was a bit surprising to nearly walk right into the side of a tank half the size of Central Park, but Alex wasn't going to complain, this was one of the things he had come to pick up anyway so no problem.
Shifting to bio-steel, it was easier to consume machines when his cells were already metal to begin with, Alex Blinked onto the top of the mobile weapons platform and sank down into the metal. Alex immediately started converting the vehicle bit by bit into his own mass, it would take to long absorbing it into himself so Alex decided to consume it in reverse. It took only a few minutes to fully convert the massive war machine, Alex had not yet been a real tank in his travels and decided it was amusing if nothing else. Before moving on to find his next target Alex moved all the humans off the tank rather then just consuming them, he already knew everything about the UEF weapon so there was no reason to kill them.
The black and red Fatboy didn't even open fire, much to the confusion of the Aeon patrol, it just kept rolling right at them without slowing down, firing a single shot, or even bothering to communicate in any way. The biggest shock for them was when a black metal tendril lanced out from the vehicle and punched through the armor of a Harvog Assault Bot, this just got worse when the small land unit was absorbed into the UEF vehicle before more then a dozen more tendrils repeated this with other units.
Alex, his body no longer recognizable as the unit he had originally consumed, found the last of the targets he was seeking easily enough, Seraphim have a distinctly different mental signature from humans, they hadn't wanted to be found and were not happy when the giant mass of living metal descended on their small base.
A massive Warp Rift opened in the sky of the planet, Alex, now the size of a small moon, flew through the breach in the fabric of reality completely ignoring the volley of weapons fire aimed in his general direction.
Yes, Supreme Commander. Yes Alex did eat an ACU from each faction. How? I have thoughts on that, but the point is that he did. I know that this wasn't much but I don't know enough about the universe to write more, I just liked the idea of Alex eating tech that makes a lot of sci-fi stuff look like toys by comparison. The exact universe he was in is based off some of the more impressive mod videos I have seen on Youtube, so Alex ate a few flying warships and naval units as well. On top of the units, Alex also ate at least one of every building from each faction. Obviously experimentals didn't escape him either.
I don't doubt that the factions in Supreme Commander could take out this version of Alex, but they, like most other worlds he has visited, didn't know he was around or even have any clue what he was before he had already eaten some of the most powerful weapons in their arsenal.
There are a number of ways I could explain how Alex is able to consume machines, most of them involve long drawn out jumps around the multiverse eating different types of organic nano-tech until he could figure out how to munch machines, instead of that though I am just going with: Alex got Colossus's power from a Marvel universe and the fact that he could then shift all of his mass into an organic metal state allowed him to consume metal and other inorganic materials just as easily as he consumes flesh, blood, and bone.
Now on with the show.
Location: Milky Way Galaxy/Sol System/Planet: Earth/Continent: Britain/City: London. Date: October 31, 1990.
An out of shape man was walking down the street worrying over a number of small unimportant things, all of his worries were selfish and arrogant, this was the sort of man that thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, he was actually important, that people really gave a damn that he was alive. This man was of less importance then one might think given his position in the government, but the fact was that a slightly retarded monkey could do his job a thousand times better then the self-centered fool.
Alex blurred into being ten feet behind Cornelius Fudge, the current Minister of Magic, he had already dealt with the others who wouldn't be missed and would be major problems in the future. The universe hopping abomination's goal visiting this version of that particular world was to see how things would go without the government doing everything it could to keep the truth buried just because it would mean that they had to actually do something other then point out to people that they were this or that in the ministry.
"Cornelius Fudge, I need to have a word with you." Alex suppressed a laugh when the mans heart nearly stopped, he knew he was likely going to have to kill him anyway, but that he had almost died of shock was somewhat amusing given the circumstances.
"Who are you? You shouldn't sneak up on people in the middle of the night!" Fudge almost let go of his wand, still hidden in his coat.
"You may as well just feed that silly little twig to a beaver Fudge, I guarantee no spell you cast will do more then annoy me." Fudge nearly jumped again.
"You're a wizard? I'd be lying if I said you looked it."
"Not a wizard, but I do know all about you and your little fantasy world. I have no personal animosity towards you, but I do have to insist that you resign from your position and that you have no part in choosing your successor."
"What? How dare you! Why should I do something so ridiculous?"
"Because if you don't I'm going to kill you in a very unpleasant manner."
"STUPEFY!" Fudge, to his credit, managed the spell almost instantly, and even had his wand out only a second after Alex voiced his threat. The red bolt of light did absolutely nothing on impact with the viral monster.
Alex gestured to his right, telekinetically trowing the frightened man down a dead end alley until his progress was stopped by a wall. Alex walked down the alley, ignoring the various spells that sailed passed him, and only vaguely noticing the spells that hit him, the last on was identified by the green light it gave off; the pathetic spell was nothing compared to taking a Death Coil to the face from the Lich King himself. Alex let his eyes begin to glow an angry red.
The mass of tendrils Alex had just thrown at the terrified man now held him suspended in the air, slowly pulling him in five different directions. Alex had never used this ability in Manhattan because it was so barbaric and no one he met there really deserved such an unpleasant end, but having already checked this worlds future Alex knew that this version of Fudge more then deserved it. The biomass that the tendrils were made of would dissolve once their job was done.
"Good bye Mr. Fudge, you really should have listened." Alex vanished just as the first limb was painfully separated from the mans body.
Okay so there's that. Alex took out everyone he could that would be more trouble then they were worth later on, the pink toad, Fudge, the guy that impersonated Moody, and anyone else that I forgot. The reporter bitch was found in her office staring at the ceiling and babbling about lobsters. This does leave the more villainous people around, Malfoy and such, but they would be much less dangerous without Fudge letting them get away with everything.
Alex may or may not have left a mental suggestion in some of the characters that they should examine Ron's pet rat very closely, and he may or may not have hidden a few prank suggestions in the twins brains.
Next.
On the planet Reach one Catherine Elizabeth Halsey had just received a very large package. The container standing in the warehouse was ten feet in height and three feet wide on all sides, it had no markings of any kind and no one could recall it having been brought in, nor could they find any mention of such a delivery being made in the past or one being planned in the future. The only reason anyone knew to get Dr. Halsey was because there was a data pad on the outside of the container that would respond to every attempt at accessing it with: The contents of this case are the sole property of Catherine Elizabeth Halsey, in the event that this delivery arrived while she was off-world please contact her as soon as possible and bring her to this location immediately.
Catherine was uncertain what to do, security teams had checked the crate in every way they could without opening it, they had tried to open it in fact, that led to several people being rushed to the medical facility on the base with severe burns and mild cases of shock. As far as anyone could tell the container wasn't a threat to anyone who didn't try to force it open, but it was still unclear what was in it and how it had arrived. Halsey took a deep breath and walked up to the data pad.
"Greetings Doctor. Please sign here." A line appeared on the screen, the rather uncomfortable woman did as requested. "Thank you. Beginning DNA confirmation." A flash of light came from the screen, before anyone could react to the sudden event the data pad detached from the crate and practically threw itself into Catherine's hands.
Once the commotion in the warehouse had settled down, Catherine took the, now handheld, portable computer to a meeting room to show what she had found on it to those in charge of the Spartan program, since this was very clearly related.
On the computer were blue prints and schematics for ships, armor, and weapons, all of them complete and ready for use. The most interesting thing to Catherine was the ARS system that was incorporated into a finished version of the as yet prototype MJOLNIR armor, the cooling system was so advanced that the Advanced Reaction System could be maintained at maximum output for two hours straight, during that time the already superhuman capabilities of the Spartans would be enhanced to almost impossible levels.
Along with the ARS was a shield system that would allow the wearer of the armor to survive a direct hit from a tank at close range and be virtually unharmed, according to the information on the computer the shield could survive up to seven such impacts before it would give out.
A piece of technology that all those present could see great potential for was the B.L.A.D.E weapon system. The piece of equipment could be used by anyone, not just Spartans like the armor, it would allow any soldier to scan and duplicate any weapon they could need at a moments notice and would even allow them to convert any raw materials in their environment into ammunition for those weapons. According to the data the B.L.A.D.E had only recently been perfected, previously it was apparently only able to replicate three weapons at once and it could not manufacture ammo the way the new version could, now it was able to make anything from bullets to energy cells of various kinds for use in lasers and other energy weapons, as well as being able to store the information for up to thirty different weapons.
The designs for ships and a manufacturing system that would allow them to build full battleships in half the time it currently took them was easily enough to convince the military officials present that while it was a risk taking this information at face value, it was a risk they couldn't afford not to take. When the crate in the warehouse was opened, by Dr. Halsey, they found a completed and fully equipped example of the armor and several weapons along with a fully functioning and currently blank B.L.A.D.E.
The last piece of information on the computer was disturbing, it was a message informing them that "If the rings are lit then all life in the galaxy will perish." No one had any clue what this meant but they chose to take it as a warning and keep their eyes open for any sign of what this could mean.
The identity of the individual or group responsible for this was still unknown, the only form of identification given at the end of the message was the word Blacklight.
And that's that. Alex just handed the Halo universe the perfected versions of the most advanced toys from the Vanquish universe, considering what the ARS system allows an ordinary human to do when it's working with all it's limits released I think Chief and the other Spartans are going to be a lot more of a problem for the Covenant in this universe, and with the improved versions of the ships from Vanquish that Alex gave them plans for, these ones have better weapons, an FTL system that could get them around even faster then Covenant ships, and shields that can survive a nuke, only one but still a freaking nuke, the Covenant isn't going to have nearly the same advantage in space as they do in canon.
There were a few other trips I wanted to write out but preparation for Thanksgiving is messing with my head so I have to stop here, though there will be other little things like this in the future.
If you do review this could you give more then just a "Good" "Bad" sort of review, like what you think of the ideas themselves rather then just the overall view of things. On a similar note, what did everyone think of Alex making Hermione into a variation of Kerrigan? Also, which of these do you think I should separate from the others and post in the correct categories, I don't mean I would only post one of them, but which one or ones do you think should get posted on their own, I could post them all.
Alright, to those who would like to see this version Alex kicking around DC characters, which ones and why? If he does it there should be a reason, so if you want someone to get their ass kicked and can think of a good reason for it to happen let me know, and if you have a specific way you would want them to get royally stomped then please mention that too.
I have a portion of a story about Alex beating the Justice League half to death for their own good already written, but am having trouble with it so I thought listening to other peoples ideas might help, and if I get to write short stories using those ideas then so much the better.
I also have a story about Alex tinkering with an Infamous universe set up, I just need to double check things and make sure I have the events in the right order. Related to this, which end for Good Karma Cole would you rather see? As is Alex can upgrade his powers one more time elevating him to god level, or he can just go fight John as is and Alex will help mess with the RFI so that it saves everyone instead of just wiping out the potential and active Conduits. The first end would be kind of bitter sweet with Cole unable to really have a life anymore, but he would be able to protect the people he cares about and he could save everyone without needing outside help beyond what Alex had already given. Let me know what you think of the two choices, I wrote that part to have the two different but still Good Karma choices because in the games you only get one of each choice at any given time even though there are other ways things could be done and still follow the same Karma path.
Okay seems that's all I have for now, thanks for reading.
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