Hey, Spencer here. Just so you know, many elements to this story belong to nintendo, and some of it belongs to me 'kay?

"Hello, Alex" A voice whispered from the darkness

Alex was startled awake, am I still dreaming, he thought to himself. He took a look around the room, and there standing in front of him was a young ten year boy. He just stood by the bed, holding his hand out. Alex reached out and shook it's hand, oddly it felt as if an electric current was running through it.

"Hi, and you are?" Alex said.

"Oh, right, I'm a little different than the last time we met." The kid responded.

"I don't every remember meeting someone like you." Alex said shaking his head.

"I was the boy in the hotel and at the meeting, you remember that right?" The kid said.

Alex paused to think for a few seconds.

"How can that be? You look at least four years older than the kid in the hotel." Alex said after awhile

"Six actually, but that doesn't matter, I need to tell you something." Said the kid

"Alright, go ahead." Said Alex

"I know this is all confusing, let me explain, I am you, or I represent you, in a way," The kid said pointing at Alex "I change according to your innerself, I age at the rate one part of your mind does basically."

"Okay, so that makes me, mentally, a litte kid?" Alex said.

"Sort of, since you were literally "born" just a few days ago, your body quickly physically matured, but a part of you didn't, the part that all the others don't have." Said the kid.

Alex thought about the kids words for a second. The part that he thought drew him in the most was "others". He thought more about it, and then it hit him.

"So the others would be the rest of the Supramorphs?" Alex said, finally getting it. He knew something was wrong with him, with his mutations and all, but he didn't know he was a monster. Stress filled Alex's mind, what would happen if the others found out? Would I be killed? Would I be forced into experimentation? The list in his head was endless.

"Exactly, and the part they don't have is purity, a free will, your mind is an empty canvas, you choose what I become." Said the kid nodding his head, then it suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Alex just sighed, he didn't know what to feel. It wasn't everyday that you find out that you're a monster, the only purpose you have is killing. Then again, the kid said his mind was like an empty canvas, leaving some hope that he might do something good.

Too distracted by his new revelation, he didn't realize that no other presence was in the room. Shocked, Alex looked around the room and realized that Iota wasn't in the room anymore. Alex looked over to the alarm clock, it read 12:00 A.M.. Strange, why would Iota complain about not getting any sleep, but get up at midnight? Alex thought to himself. He stepped off of the bed and left the room trying to figure out where Iota might have went to. The ship was eerily still in the night, nothing moved, the dead silence made Alex's footfalls sound like loud thuds. He closed his eyes and perked up his ears, listening for any other disturbances in the night. It was the strangest thing, focusing totally on hearing. He could hear the snores of his teammates, the chirps and buzzing from the bugs outside. Eventually he pinpointed one noise, small murmuring voices. Small voices, that were coming from outside.

Alex quickly, but lightly ran down the hallway. Trusting only his ears, he eventually made his way to the entrance of the Atlantis. He followed the voices into the large construction room, as he got closer to the voice, he could tell it was Iota's, and some else that Alex did not know. Slowly making his way over to the stairs, he climbed just as slow and exited the building. Every step he took, the voices became louder and louder. Until Alex was able to make out words.

"I'm going to ask you again, where is the freak?" One voice whispered.

"Why should I tell you? You're nothing but a slime ball if you think you can use these for your own gain" Iota said with a heavy strain in his voice.

"I don't intend on using them, but Bowman does, and our sources say that the freak here is a danger to his plans, so before I am forced to harm you, tell me where it is." The voice whispered.

Alex heard a small "no", then shuffling noise and a loud thump! Followed by Iota's groans of pain. This made Alex move much faster, this guy was probably going to kill Iota. Finally he found the source of the voices.

Iota was tied up to a tree, a man in a black trench coat was pounding him while another man watched. Alex realized that the man in the trench coat was the same man in black that tried to kill him and Kursed a few nights before! Of course, now Alex knew that this man was probably one of the stolen Supramorphs. Silently, Alex moved in on the man in black, totally focused on stealth. Alex could feel a strange feeling in his body as his normal black fur turned into the darkest shade you could possibly get. His claws extended as he crouched down in a pouncing position.

Iota looked face to face with his captor, this was possibly going to be the end of him. He tried to remain consious as the strong creature in front of him pummled his body. Iota was about to give up when he heard a soft whoosh. The man in front of him was swept away as as invisible hands broke Iota's bondage. Dazed and confused, he didn't know what was going on, the man in front of him was mercilessly getting the beating of a life time by a hazy figure. The other man let out a high pitched whistle as other black figures emerged from the woods. They had all set their sights on the blur. Iota snapped out of his dizziness and reached inside of his boots. He pulled out two small metal rods and with the flick of his wrist, bright yellow sparks had burst from the tips as the rods extended into a dagger length weapon. Using his weapons illumination for light, he attacked the dark creatures with all of his might.

Iota jumped up and brought down his shock rod with a crushing blow to the creature nearest to him. With a loud crunch, the man collapsed to the ground. One of the others noticed Iota and pounced in his direction. With lighting reflexes, Iota thrust the shock rods into directly in front of him and impaled it. Pulling upwards, he ripped the rods from the creatures torso out of it's shoulders, leaving two huge gaping holes into the creature's torso. It fell to the ground, writhing as the electric current quickly left it's body. The blur was moving swiftly from one creature to another, blood spurted out as it moved away from it's targets. Iota pointed his weapon at one behind the blur and shot a huge bolt of electricty from the rod straight into the creature. The creature was frozen in place by paralyzing electricity. Iota ran over and with a powerful slash, he lobbed the creatures head off.

Alex was locked in a grappling postion with his oppenent. It began to over power him as three others jumped onto him, Alex was about to give up. Then he saw it. A wraith like creature stepped from the trees. In one swift motion, it smoothly glided over to Alex.

"You have power beyond your wildest dreams, embrace it." The creature hissed.

It shoved it's bony, clawed hand into Alex's chest. Slowly, Alex's mind filled with the most extreme hate and rage he had ever experienced. Everything stopped moving. Red filled his vision, Alex could feel his body bending and twisting, feeling stronger and stronger. With everything around him stopped, he took advantage of the situation and with a flurry of slashes, he unleashed his power on the creatures around him.

Iota saw the blur had disappeared and the creatures just froze in their position. Iota walked closer to the frozen creatures, their stupefied looks still frozen on their faces. A few seconds later, Alex appeared out of nowhere. The creatures around him collapsed into themselves, becoming nothing but red mush.

"Alex!?' Iota ran over to his team mate, but instantly recoiled. Alex had become much different. His body had become thicker, more muscled, he now towered over Iota. The only thing that hadn't changed was Alex's ice blue eyes.

"I..o..ta?" Alex mumbled with a sickly growl.

"What did you do to yourself?" Iota said now approaching Alex.

"I…ca..can't feel…my legs." Alex said falling to his knees. Iota was close enough to touch Alex now.
"Hold on, it's okay, just, um…" Iota didn't know what to say, he didn't know if Alex was calm or not. And if he wasn't, he wouldn't even know how to calm him down. Alex slowly turned to Iota's direction. Iota now started to back off a little, What do I do now? He thought.

"Iota…every thing's red." Alex said with out a pause now, Iota could see that Alex was starting to lose consciousness.

"Whoa big guy, don't faint on me now, try and stay awake, come on snap out of it Alex." Iota said running up to Alex. He definitely knew that he couldn't carry this new Alex on his own. But, Alex didn't stop, Alex fell on his hands, until he fell over onto his side.

The world had turned to hazy red, Alex could barely make out Iota's voice.

"Whoa big guy, don't faint on me now…snap out of it…" was all Alex could make out, the rest was garbled gibberish. Alex looked around and let go, and fell into unconsciousness. Alex woke up in the hospital bed, back in the Katina hospital. Standing by his bed was the kid from before, well to be specific he was now a teenager. Alex sighed with relief
" Thank goodness you're here, you probably know more about what's been going on. Every thing's been a red blur to me." Alex said

"I know the answers, but I don't know if you'll like them." The kid said worried.

"Just go ahead and tell me kid." Alex said sitting up.

"Alright, you've been mutated further." The kid said.

"What do you mean by that?" Alex said, now he was worried.

"Well, during the last stages of Project Alex, Jack installed an "evolutionary" part to your brain." The kid said. "Of course it's harmless alone, but another side, other than me and you, controls it."

"You mean that wraith?" Alex said remembering his battle in the forest.

"That's him, he wants you to mutate to your fullest, become an ultimate dominate species." The kid answered.

"So if we control it to, why can he mutate me?" Alex said.

"He attacks only when you are on the brink of unconsciousness, or when you have strong emotions." The kid answered. "I brought you here because it's a temporary sanctuary, I can only hold him down without you for so long."

"Alright, so what was the damage done?" Alex asked.

"Well you're full of questions, just look for yourself." The kid said pointing at a mirror.

Alex walked over to the mirror, expecting the worst. Only a glance shocked him, now he knew this wasn't good. When he finally got a good look at himself, there was no hiding it now, the monster within had been exposed. Alex shook his head.

"That can't be me, this is only a dream, it can't be me." Fear had taken over his emotions, not really fear for himself, but fear for what he could do.

"We need to see Jack, he can get rid of the other side for you, just hope we can prevent him from causing anymore damage." The kid said.

"How do I get back?" Alex asked solemnly.

"Just think about where you were before this, remember, you were with Iota in the forest outside of the CSA." The kid said.

Alex closed his eyes and thought about the forest and Iota. He could feel the sterile hospital environment change to a mossy forest. Alex could feel someone tugging on his legs. He opened his eyes and saw Iota dragging him, or trying at least.

Iota was struggling with his load, he had to get Alex back to the base, there he and the rest of the team could figure out what to do. Then he stopped cold, he felt Alex began to stir. Iota let go and jumped back as Alex stood back up. Iota quickly pulled out his shock rods and pointed them at Alex.

"What do you think you're doing?" Alex said to Iota.

At this Iota lowered his weapon, he hoped Alex was back to himself, mentally at least.

"I'm trying to get us out of here, we need to get back to the CSA and tell them we have intruders." Iota said running back to the main building.

Alex just followed close behind, he didn't want any surprises on the way back. When they reached the building, Iota ran inside and triggered the alarm. Within seconds the whole base had been in an uproar. Iota and Alex ran straight back to the Atlantis, Alex mentally prepared for the confrontations.

Kursed shot out of her bed, the alarm had been triggered, she ran to her closet and slipped into battle gear. She froze as she heard some one walking down the hall. Kursed listened to it, whatever it was didn't sound like anyone she knew. Slowly, she crept over to the door and pressed the open button. When the door sprang open she jumped out of the room and delivered a round house kick, to what felt like a rock. She fell to the ground in pain, clutching her sore foot.

"Hey no need to do that, it's just me." Said Iota bending over to help Kursed up.

"How did you do that?" Kursed asked.

"Do what?" Iota responded.

"Send me to the ground like that." She shouted. "How did you do that?"

"That wasn't me, that was Alex right here." Iota said pointing to the space next to him.

"I don't see anything." Kursed said

"Oh, right, I'm in camouflage, hold on a sec." Alex said. He let go of the stealthy feelings he had before, slowly, his fur changed back to it's normal black. Kursed took one look and jumped.

"What happened to you?" She asked

"I'll explain later, we need to get out of here, there's been a breach, there are Supramorphs on the island." Alex said. "We need to wake everyone up, if they haven't been already."

"Maybe we should do it, without you, you even managed to freak me out, so let's not find out what anyone else thinks yet." Kursed said.

Alex just sighed, he knew it was true.

"Alright, I'll meet you guys in the cafeteria." Alex said as he walked on.

Iota and Kursed just nodded an ran on to go get the others. Alex waited for about five minutes before he began to see people walk into the room. He decided to hide himself until Kursed and Iota made it back. His teammates around him were asking if anyone knew what was going on. Finally everyone was in the cafeteria, Kursed went to sit down while Iota stood at the front of the room.

"Alright team, this is very important, the base has been breached by Supramorphs, we need to get this ship out of here." Iota said.

Iota was interupted by the sound of gun fire outside of the ship, everyone got up and looked out of the window. Dark shapes were moving in and out of soldiers, ripping them to shreds.

There was no doubt now, Supramorphs had invaded. Alex sat up and ran outside, he had now shifted from camouflage to attack in seconds. Everyone was shocked to see this towering figure grab the shapes and throw them to the ground. Alex managed to rip one of them in half. With his new mutations, he was able to handle more than one easily. Each one of them had eventually fallen. But, as Alex knew, they weren't dead yet.

"Oh jeez, now it's coming for us." Lucy shouted as she pulled out her gun.

Alex had began to walk back to the ships cafeteria, little did he know that everyone had their guns out. When he stepped into the room, all he saw was a bright flash of green light before he was pinned against the wall.

"People have a weird way of saying "thank you" around here." Alex said as he picked himself up. The burns in his chest quickly disappeared.

"Alex!?" they all shouted.


A/N: I planned on finishing the training chapter, but then I had a better idea, so there is no training part 2