Before this starts I would just like to mention that this was actually supposed to be like 1 6000 word chapter but I sort of split it up because after Alex's mission is finished in this arc the light will be only on Heller so I want to give him a few more chapters of light before forcing you to look at Heller lol XD


"The fuck you mean it wasn't him?!"

"Starns will you please shut up!" Officer Midori snapped before returning her attention to Heller, "What are you saying Heller? The scans showed a viral source here on Omega in this location, so if it wasn't Alex..."

"It could have been one of the evolved," James replied crossing his arms, "Mercers goons that he made by giving them some of his power... But for one to show up now, well it doesn't make any sense."

"Well regardless we need to track down and eliminate the target," Starns scoffed, "We can't let any of these viral freaks slip away."

"I hate to agree with you Starns, but you're right," James sighed and headed for the back door, "We'll follow the blood trail, they couldn't have gotten far."

"Sounds good, Starns take point."


"So what can you tell me about this agent?" Alex asked as their shuttle took off into the air, heading for the former Exogeni headquarters. A massive stone tower across the sky bridge.

"Well she goes by the name Dr. Eva," Shiala explained as she loaded her Scimitar shotgun, "And she is a very beautiful young woman."

"And why is that part important to mention?" Alex questioned raising an eyebrow.

"Because she looks perfect," Shiala replied simply, "Too perfect for a normal human to look, so I believe she is not. As you humans say, things are not always as they seem."

Alex smirked to himself beneath the hood, "You have no idea..."

It only took a few minutes to reach the desired destination. As the shuttle made landfall and the doors opened Alex stepped out carelessly while Shiala followed behind with her weapon at the ready. She had offered to give Mercer a gun seeing as he didn't have one but the strangely dressed man declined and said he was a powerful biotic, so technically he didn't lie.

"The Data Storage is a few floors up," Shiala stated quietly, "We should head there and wait for her to arrive."

Alex was about to respond when he heard a set of foot steps, he turned to see a rather ominously good looking young woman approaching them from behind.

"Speak of the devil and he shall appear." Alex muttered and clenched his fists.

"Dr. Eva," Shiala narrowed her eyes and aimed her gun at the woman, "You're early."

"Had to get up early," Eva said sharply, "I mean someone had to set the charges before you got here."

Shiala's eyes widened, "You... You knew were coming."

"Of course I did Shiala," She smirked, "You think your weak encryption could slow down Cerberus?"

"Just give us the information we want and none of this gets messy." Alex cut in, stepping forward.

Eva immediately drew her own weapon, a modified Shuriken SMG, and aimed it at him, "You Broker goons made it messy, and now you're both going to die here, you'll never get the intel I've stored here."

Alex sighed shaking his head, "And you think you're capable of getting out of here before the building comes down?" Alex was fully aware that a building collapse would be no problem for him, but Shiala would be killed for sure unless he used his powers to help her.

"Don't think you can talk your way around me," Eva answered calmly, "You have no idea what I'm capable of."

"What a coincidence," Alex chuckled and started walking towards her, "Neither do you."

"Alex stop what are you-"

"Get out of here Shiala," He cut her off immediately, "I'll take care of the doctor and salvage what intel I can."

Eva had her gun traced to Alex's head, eyes sharply narrowed and ready to fire, "You're awfully confident for a dead man."

"Poor fool," Alex chuckled as his body began to glow with biotic aura, "I died a long time ago."

Eva sneered and fired her gun, the burst of rounds deflecting off of Alex's biotic barrier, "Biotics... I wasn't prepared for this." She back flipped away with inhuman grace while loading a new thermal clip into her weapon, "But I can adapt." She smirked and used her omnitool to switch herself to Warp Rounds.

"Hey watch out those will tear through your barrier!" Shiala warned as she raised her gun to fire.

"I thought I told you to get the hell out of here!" Alex shouted at her.

"I'm capable of handling myself," Shiala scoffed, "I was an asari commando you know, I'll get the data you handle her."

Alex grumbled and rolled his eyes, "Fine go whatever." Before turning his attention back to the doctor.

She fired her gun and this time the bullets brought his barriers down to a flicker as Shiala made her way to the corridor leading to the stairs. Alex dashed forward with his own inhuman speed as she left, as long as Eva died here than he wouldn't have to worry about anyone else learning of his abilities.

His right hand morphed into a short spiked dagger, a new weapon he'd thought up, and he drove it hard right into her stomach before the shocked woman could react. His pierced all the way through successfully, she didn't even let out a cry of pain or agony as he disemboweled her.

But Alex's victorious grin disappeared in an instant, looking down he saw that no blood was spilled only a crude black liquid.

"Fool." Eva spoke smugly, her gun pressing against Alex's temple, "I don't know what you are but this ends here."

*BANG*


"Blood spots are getting thinner, either this guy is healing or maybe he's running out of blood."

"I've got motion up ahead!" Midori said suddenly and readied her weapon, "Three targets, two adults and one kid..."

"Alright let's fuck this guy up-"

"No Starns," James cut him off sharply, "I'll take the lead, besides if you two go in and this guy is anything like Mercer you'll just be chopped up for mass."

"Hey I don't take orders from-"

"He's right," Midori interrupted, "Starns this guy killed scores of evolved back in the day, we should let him handle it, we'll be his backup."

James didn't wait for Starns to respond and nodded, "Never thought I'd be saying this to a Blackwatch soldier, but thanks."

"Hey we aren't as terrible as we used to be," Midori chuckled, "Well Starns is still an asshole but the rest of us are... Decent."

"Right right." James rolled his eyes, "Just stay put." Before heading down the next alleyway alone.

At the end of it he could see the three targets, surprisingly enough they were all female. One young asari girl, probably only ten or eleven, one older asari woman... And sitting on the ground with her back to the wall was a human woman, she looked to be around her late twenties with blood red hair, pale white skin and strange black markings all over her visible body. She had a few bullets holes in her chest that were closing ever so slowly.

"I'll be okay I promise," She muttered weakly, looking up at the tear filled faces of her family, "I-I'm sorry I never told you that I was..."

The asari woman knelt down and placed a hand on her bloody cheek, "It's okay... I knew from the moment we bonded."

James watched cautiously from the shadows, still trying to wrap his head around what was going on. The evolved he knew were heartless mother fuckers that would have killed a woman for touching them like that. But this girl? Well this girl seemed nothing like them, and her powers were weak, at least healing wise...

"I-Is momma gonna be okay?" The little girl choked out nervously, "She got hurt... Really bad..."

"I'll be fine Silvy don't worry," The human woman smiled, "But we need... To get out of here, before anyone else shows up..."

"Who were those people Alana?" The asari asked and took the womans hand, trying to pull her up slowly.

"Mercenaries, from what I could tell," She cringed as her body was pulled up, arm over her bond mates shoulders as they began limping down another alleyway, "I'm guessing that... Blackwatch sent them but, well I thought they were gone."

"Unfortunately not."

Alana and her family turned sharply, the moment her eyes landed on James her features shifted to insurmountable fear within seconds, "O-Oh no... Please please no..."

"Leave her alone!" The Asari woman raised a hand at Heller, it glowed blue as her biotics activated, "I don't know who you are but you're not touching her again!"

James raised his hands defensively, "Relax, I just want to talk."

"After you send those killers after her!" She argued but Alana's face took a more troubled look.

"Serene I-"

"You nearly killed her and she hasn't done anything!" The asari rambled with tears in her eyes.

"SERENE!" Alana shouted suddenly, "Please just... Calm down, let me talk to him."

The asari woman looked at her questioningly, "Why would you even consider-"

"He's like me."

And that was all it took to shut her up.

Seeing as the hostilities would hopefully cease for now, James stepped forward a few more steps, "Look uh... I'm sorry that they sent the mercs after you, not my call."

"You're him aren't you?" The human girl asked as she leaned against the wall, Serene took their daughter a little ways away to keep her from hearing anymore than she needed too, "James Heller?"

"Uh... Yeah," He nodded slowly, "How do you know who I am?"

"We all know who you are," Those words peaked Jame's interest immensely, "You were the one who made all of this possible."

Heller raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms, "What the hell are you talking about? Where did you come from anyways?"

She smiled warmly at him and placed a hand over her heart, closing her eyes and muttering something too quiet for him to make out, "Praise the Maker, for I have been given the opportunity to teach this soul."

Shit starting to sound like some freaky ass religious bitch, James narrowed his eyes, "Yeah sure whatever, look I came here looking for Alex Mercer if you have any idea where he might be it would be appreciated."

"You seek the Maker!" She gasped, eyes wide, "Then it is true, the anonymous pulses we've been feeling did not lie," A bright grin spread across her face.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?" James demanded, "I want a straight answer, what do you know about Mercer?!"

"I can only tell you this Heller," Her wounds were fully healed and she stepped off the wall a little shaky, "The Maker has returned."


Fuck... My head, I hate getting shot in the head. Alex sat up slowly, his ears ringing as his head recovered from the bullet. It didn't do any real damage but recovering from a bullet through the head always left him a little worse for wear.

"Doctor Eva!" He suddenly remembered and got up quickly, looking around he saw that she was gone, "Dammit!"

Alex's cursing was interrupted by the sound of gunfire upstairs. It was coming from the same direction Shiala went. Wasting no time he sprinted up the stairs, jumping over an extra on each step until he reached the correct floor. He made his way towards the ExoGeni Towers data storage room when he could hear them talking as he approached.

"Foolish little asari," Eva gloated, "It is simply laughable how weak your biotics are."

"C-Curse you... Damn A.I monster!"

The only sound that followed with a gunshot, quickly behind that came a cry of pain from Shiala. Alex cursed and charged in, seeing Dr. Eva standing over Shiala who had several bullet wounds. One through her leg and one in each arm. Eva herself was still sporting that hole in her stomach and from this view Alex could clearly see that she was some kind of mechanical being.

"Hey bitch!" Alex called out as he ran towards her. Eva turned towards him with wide eyes.

"Impossible I killed you!"

"I thought I already told you," Alex cocked back one hand as it morphed into the studded hammerfist, Eva fired the last few bullets in her gun, they ripped into Alex's body but didn't even come close to slowing him down, "I'm already dead!"

And Mercer slammed that bitch right across the jaw, the blow totally unhinging her bottom jaw and ripping off much of the skin that covered her robotic face. She was thrown through the air spinning from the force of the blow and slammed hard into the wall.

Stepping back Alex looked down at Shiala who was watching with a confused and horrified expression, "Uh... I can explain this..." Alex managed, realizing what he'd done in plain view and changed his hand back to normal.

"I-I'm sure you can," Shiala panted, her wounds still leaking blood, "B-But you'll have to tell me later, I've got the data on my omnitool we need to get out of here."

"Alright hang on," Alex knelt down, bringing up his own tool and applying medigel to her wounds, "You got a medic back at the colony?"

"H-He just left to take a few critically wounded to the Citadel." She answered as she struggled to get up.

"Dammit," Alex sighed and helped her up, "Looks like you're riding with me back to base..."

"The Brokers base?"

"That's right."

"You're not going anywhere!" Eva hissed as she stood up, her damaged body repairing itself rather quickly. She brought up her omnitool and pressed a few buttons, "You die here!"

Before Alex could stop her the Towers foundation was rocked by powerful explosions near the base. Everything started shaking and Alex could feel things starting to tilt. He was about to chase Eva as she jumped out a window but stopped himself as he remembered the injured asari beside him.

"Come on we gotta move!" He picked her up without waiting for an answer, carrying her bridal style as he ran up the stairs.

"Why are we going up!?" She asked fearfully.

"Because-" Alex was cut off as more shockwaves rocked the building, "She's got explosives on every floor from what I'm hearing, we gotta reach the roof and jump before this place collapses!"

"JUMP!?" She exclaimed, tightening her grip on him.

"We'll never survive a jump from the top are you out of your mind!?"

"Kinda."