I'm gonna do this for my own sake. Enjoy Reading! ;)
She grunted as her claws bit into flesh and fabric of another swarm of BLACKWATCH troopers, automatically switching to her shields just as another couple of rockets failed to stun her. Bolting, she executed some flips and spins a pro gymnastic could pull off, jumping over a bus and unleashing her blade, making it drive it through another trooper just as she hit the ground. Poor guy didn't have time to scream. Ducking in time, she did a butterfly kick, catching the other three by surprise and without looking behind, her foot made hard contact with the concrete and ground spikes barely missed her as it sprouted backwards, fucking up the APC that had its aim dead on her. Her rosy lips stretched in a smile, blade disappearing, and she slowly turned, acknowledging the sheer violence. And she did it by herself.
For some reason, she wanted to embrace this new person with inviting arms. Seeing the city crumble second by passing second... That was painful. She knew if she was to save it, she'll have to change. She calls it her inner demon, her wrath, her little helper. They call it POISON. Though it may have similar traits to BLACKLIGHT, this serum is more resilient and much more tougher, letting her master the balance between infected and robotic. It allows her biomass to not manifest the wiring but work alongside it. But her main purpose, The League has told her, is to eliminate her chosen targets including ZEUS. She agreed but made a promise that if anyone got in her way, she will kill them. Well, looking at this, she wasn't lying.
She started walking through the carnage, spotting an officer with his leg stuck under dead, heavy armour. Tilting her head, she halted and clicked her fingers and the guy's scream of torment fuelled her, the Brawler growling quietly at his meal and it waited for the 'Finish him' before ripping him to ribbons. The earth shook violently, a shockwave blasting vehicles back and amazingly, she lazily slapped a car from her point of view. This guy. This thing caused the city to fall on its knees, praying that it doesn't infect more than it can consume. Crimson eyes sparkled under his hood and he looked up, no emotion printed in his face as a group of people walked in a line behind him. "You don't know what you're doing, Jessica," he said softly.
"Of course I do! You caused this... I made myself a better person. They made me a better person."
"They made you a monster."
"No... You've made yourself a monster. Nobody held a gun to your head and said 'I want you to kill everyone responsible.' You didn't have to kill people to find the answer."
"Don't try and make me feel like I did something bad. For fuck sake, I lost my fucking memory."
"Well, that's a fucking shame..." She gestured to the environment. "Look at what you did, Mercer. You... Did this. Except for that, I did that but you... You caused this."
"Phase..." He wanted to shout at her but as much as it angered him, she was right. It may not have been him but Alexander Mercer done this to ZEUS and Alex. Alexander caused the city to go from full of life to full of the undead. But then again, if it wasn't for him, the city would've been a clone of Hope, Idaho. "Phase... I don't want to hurt you."
"Of course you don't... I mean, we're long-lost friends... But I wanted to change all this. All this. So... It starts from killing the host. Once I kill you, every single cell of BLACKLIGHT will wither and the Evolved shall suffer without the help of their leader."
"Jessica, you don't want to do this."
"I'll do this to save the city... And save my friend. You, Alexander J. Mercer, are not my friend." She started running, blade following her from behind and Alex instinctively copied her, mirroring her action. He expected her to attack him with her rendered weapon but she fooled him, Whipfist snatching a chopper from the sky and slamming it on his body. "Pathetic..." She murmured as she watched him kick the aircraft off him, getting up and dusting his clothes.
He blurred, another car thrown hard in her direction and she flipped backwards, metal barely scraping against her skin. She reached for him and missed, instead latching onto a random civilian and she thought hard, poking his neck with her index. Just as ZEUS ran up to her, she dashed him and the Bio Bomb detonated, almost catching the virus by surprise. "Faster," she teased, projecting her own vehicle and watching them collide together to the ground and he flipped the car off his body.
He attempted to strike a punch, but a split second later, decided it was the wrong move to make. She dodged and kicked high, toes hitting his jaw and he was launched backwards. In mid-flip, his Whipfist snagged her fast, whipping her high in the air. Just as she landed, he stomped his foot and ground spikes shot upwards and impaled Phase. She just laughed and as the spikes seeped back down, his arms reaching out to catch her and blood leaked everywhere. "You're much more advanced than before."
"Just learning from the best, coach."
He put her down and crossed his arms as she parted from him and drew in her longest breath. When she was ready, her mouth opened.
Her ear-splitting scream drilled through the concrete, smashing windows and causing an earthquake to the buildings around her. Vehicles were thrown about, passers-by covered their ears as blood dribbled down their jaws, and Alex was pushed off his feet, the sound waves ripping shreds of his clothing off. A truck beeped at her and instead of moving off the road, she picked it up, judged the weight and trajectory and tossed it.
He caught a flying car at the corner of his eye and dive-rolled out of the way, letting his Evolved take the blow instead. "You could've stopped that," Jessica suddenly pointed out, straightening up. "You could've caught that and thrown it back at me... But I guess you care about yourself more than anyone else."
"Take that back."
"Why should I? You're playing everyone, even the perfect incarnation of you. Every single person here is going to either get killed, captured, double-crossed or consumed by the guy they thought they trusted."
"I said take that back!" He darted at her at light speed but she watched carefully, blades causing sparks to fly as she blocked and parried swiftly. His other arm shape-shifted into a Hammerfist, where he charged up before beating it on the ground and the shockwave forced her back, sending her tumbling on the road. She glared down blankly and watched her biomass melt out of her body and she cursed, unable to camp any longer as ZEUS struck again. She jumped lightly over his blade and rolled off his back, cutting low at his midsection and he hissed in anger. She stumbled away from him, red coating her hand and he gestured with a coy smile, blade behind him. She sprinted flat out towards him, thinking that she was victorious until they collided and a small sigh escaped her lips as she moved closer to the Demon, looking up at him with sincere, abiding lime eyes.
"For a virus," she whispered, arm draped off his shoulder as she stared immensely at his scar. "You have a flaw and that is letting human emotions take over your system. You smile, you laugh, you get angry... Why? Because you want to fit in with them? Of course every person you consume has emotions but you need to master that..." He twisted the blade and she cried out, blood painting her lips and she balled his jacket in her fists. "You're not a virus, Mr. Mercer. You're a virus trapped inside Alexander's body, the person who made your life and Manhattan Island a living hell. Before you kill me, think about that. Who are you? What are you?" When she knew he was lost in thought, she gently pulled out his weapon and gritted her teeth as she done so, staggering to one knee.
"What am I?" He finally asked, delicately taking hold of her jaw and she dropped her guard. "I'm the BLACKLIGHT Virus. Who am I? Well, that's for you to decide." In mid sentence, his Evolved joined him as well as PARIAH, who stood casually by his side. She watched her life crumble with cold eyes as tentacles grew off the child's body and as if the tips were heads, they moved about like snakes and searched for her with the eyes it didn't muster. When it did, though, it surged themselves under her skin and Jessica shut her eyes at the right moment, holding her breath.
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As they flew over Linden Park, Dana peered down at the little ant people well known as BLACKWATCH waste their time taking down a Brawler, who was batting them away like flies. "Do you see him, Heller?" Alex asked, as he directed the chopper past buildings and over the park several times.
"Yeah, I see that asshole," he commented, 'pinging' once more to pinpoint his glowing target before leaping out of the cockpit and diving forward, the woman beside him not even having the chance to catch the former Sergeant on time. The ground cracked under his boots as cars and civilians were thrown in random directions, the team of troopers already shooting him in shock and fear. He smirked, veering his Whipfist behind him and letting the claws hook into the jeep sitting metres away, before smashing it into Lieutenant Dennis Wayne.
A laugh bellowed from the jeep before it exploded from the ground, and in it's place was an armoured trooper with thin, elongated dual blades for arms. "James Heller, you're about to become dust."
"In your dreams, you ugly fuck." Dana landed on the left side of the black man with claws for hands, Alex on the right with Hammerfists.
"Look at what we have here. Three stupid Prototypes thinking they can kill me. Try all you want but I'm just like you. But even better."
"But dude," Alex informed him, amazed by his own opening sentence, as if he's actually trying to be informal. "You can't be better than me. You might be better than me but you're sophomoric."
"Sophomoric? Man, even you sound stupid when you use big words. On your dying breath, you better thank me for making killing you seem simple."
"Cheeky little fucker, isn't he?" Heller whispered to Dana and she couldn't disagree with him. He did have a valid point.
"Tell me about it." Just before she finished talking, already Alex was crushing the lieutenant with his rendered weapon and the black man was surprised at how he wasn't the first to teach Dennis a life lesson.
He pounded him tediously into the ground several times before he blinked, A Hydra with its red exoskeleton and snake-like body blossoming behind its leader as if it heard some sort of viral song. He swore, trading the Hammerfists for his Blade and managed to steal a couple slashes before flipping backwards. "Plan: Heller, you're gonna deal with this dick. Dana, you're gonna look out for any military units that try and gatecrash."
"And you?" She inquired, turning her head slightly to hear the sound of the synchronised heartbeats of many.
"Gonna go deal with these Hydras. But whatever you do, don't stop moving. They'll either throw random shit at you or pull you closer."
"Got it."
Sorry for ending the chapter like that, education's hitting me in the face again.
