Thursday
October 19, 2062

Day 6 - Day of Events/Infected Population: 90%
Hideout - Time: 5:34 AM

"There was at least some bit of hope left in my recovery, and I only had a small amount of time before I finally lost not only my powers, but my health and life. It was slow, but I was sure it would be effective and the only thing to get me back into who I am again, but in doing so there have to be prices I have to pay. I wondered if paying for it would be worth it, but I knew I the answer. There was no question to it. The cure was killing me...But it did before me."

Still lying on the bed, Ashen wakes up slightly but still in pain from the 'cure', but when he did he saw Rachel sleeping next to him while holding his arm. Remember on what happened last night, he smiles and slowly gets his arm out of the grip on her and quietly gets off of the bed so he can put the lost clothes he had on before back on before heading there. But just when he was about to go, he looks at the bathroom nearby and looks at himself to see he was much more paler than before and more veins were surrounding his face now. Seeing this, he puts the hood up slowly and starts walking toward Taylor at the table.

When nearby, he sees her mom. "H-Hey...Did you...Get it done?"

Hearing this made her look and nods while showing him a syringe with a Grey substance inside it. "Yes, this...THIS is it. This should work on curing you of the 'Whitelight' in you. This IS Whitelight v2, a complete copy of it, but not as strong. It's weak to the point where the body will see it just as a cold so the immune system will create antibodies."

"So I just...Put it in me?"

"No, that would kill you even faster. You need this into anything that has a large and strong immune system, or anything that holds a large amount of Biomass, which is energy the organism holds. Put this in..."

"...And the being with it will just create an immune system so I can consume it and have it work for me...And this should cancel out any other sicknesses in me?"

She nods. "That's at least what I hope to expect." After explaining, she starts looking at his face. "...You look horrible. How do you feel?"

He slowly looks at his body, seeing the 'J' on his chest faintly glowing and looking like it's dying. "I'll be completely honest and blunt...I feel like fucking shit and my bones feel like fucking glass...But I'll have to get over it..."

"Are you sure you can handle this? Because this is an antibody to Whitelight, so once you do this you'll be immune to it, and you won't turn back to normal once this is over." Hearing this made him look down at the syringe she was holding. "...Are you prepared to do that? Sacrifice your only chance at being normal to do this?"

It was a thought he never did think of before; The ultimate sacrifice he would have to make. Either lose his chance of being normal again or return to being the PROTOTYPE he was again. Making a decision, he shows it turning arm into the Whipfist after a few attempts. "...If I want this city back to normal, then I have to. Once I get this done, I'm going after Luke and end this once and for all."

She nods and hugs him tightly, with him doing the same. "Stay safe."

"I will...I'll let you know if it works. And keep a watch of both Haley and Rachel." Again, she nods by this before walking away while thinking on what to use the cure for him on, but remembered a perfect host for the antibodies, which was big enough and was a large threat to the city; The Behemoth he was a while back. So, using any of the strength he had left, he ran as fast as he could to find it.

Time: 8:01 AM

"...FIRE! FIRE AT WILL!" One of the Blackwatch soldiers yelled while he and other ones on the ground or in either tanks or choppers started shooting at the large bladed Infected that was rampaging through the city with the large club it has for a left arm, with it swinging and smashing it around, causing it to destroy buildings and some of armed vehicles to be knocked down or destroyed and the Blade arm to slash and kill off any soldiers nearby. "THE FUCKING BEHEMOTH ISN'T GOING DOWN! SEND IN BACK UP! SEND FUCKING BACK-"

Before he could finish, the large blade weapon swishes toward the soldier and anything else in the way, killing anything in its way. In the distance, Ashen watched this with a small smile. "There...It...Is." Using any strength his has left, he sprints up one of the buildings to get away from any of the attacks it did and the charging so he could strategize on where to attack from, seeing that while most of the torso was covered in the Black armor, part of the neck was revealed a bit due to the source of glowing Dark Red veins around there. Preparing to run despite being in pain and the syringe that's to hold the cure for him, he dashes and glides toward it quickly to the best of his ability, which he barely makes due to it constantly moving. "Alright Mom...Let's hope...Let's hope this works." He stabs and injects the substance in it into the beast, causing it to screech loudly and start moving around to get him off, which it was able to. "Alright...Here we go."

Now that its attention was placed onto the dying boy, he starts chasing him down by charging while screeching in pain, which he starts running away from to spare enough time for the antibodies to be created so he can consume it to gain it for himself. But the running begun to catch up to him due to his lack of health and powers, which made him hide out in an alleyway to dodge it, avoiding him completely. After a few seconds, the screeching stopped and he was about to go off to fight it, but he saw the Blackwatch soldiers that were requested rushing through the streets with multiple tanks and choppers coming from all sides of where the Behemoth was at.

When they made it, one of the soldiers in the large group then took command. "FIRE! OPEN FUCKING FIRE!" From every single side avilable, they all started shooting off multiple missiles at it, but the armor didn't break by any means possible, even after multiple attacks from the TOW Launchers on the tanks, which were rectangular. As a counterattack, the beast destroyed the tanks with the large bladed arm, instantly blowing up the vechicle and anyone else within it or near the range. During this, the Black haired boy saw the destruction and saw that the missile launcher on one of the destroyed tanks, which he made for but was also seen. "Jacobs has been spotted! I repeat; Jacobs has been spotted!" Ignoring him and using all of his strength he has left, he grabs onto the sides of the launcher and begins to pull it off, but after ten seconds of trying to, he's able to. "Oh my fucking god...HE JUST TOOK OFF A FUCKING TOW! REQUESTING BACK UP NOW!"

Using the new weapon he has in his arms, he slowly but surely runs as fast and jumps as much as he could near it and shoots it off, sending the large Infected backwards a bit but made the one who wields it down onto the ground with wounds on his face to the point where it starts showing off a few bones but it started to heal for him, though it was slow. However, the attack threw the giant off balance for a bit, and took this chance to try and change his arms into the Claws long enough for him to slash it while he was being shot at before it disappeared, amputating it of its legs so it can call on its back. Thinking this would be a good time to consume it, the beast just roared again in anger and flipped on its chest using the Club and Blade to start moving.

Seeing this, the dying boy just groans lowly. "You've got to be...Fucking...Kidding...Me." He says in a weak voice before coughing harshly, but he stops this instantly to see the large blade rise itself to slash anything in its way, with him quickly dodging it by running away and rolling into a nearby alleyway while those that were unfortunate to get away from the attack were killed. Once he got away, he breathed heavily while gripping onto the parts that revealed his skeletal system. "This is...Getting me...Nowhere. I have to...End this." Waiting for the beast to pass him while he waited in a large garbage bin after it destroyed a few buildings, which protected him for the most part, he changes his normal arms into Spikes after a few attempts and rushes the large monster and slides under it to use the back of his forearms to cut through the armor, which made it scream in pain until he changed it into the taloned hands momentarily to cut through the opening, disarming it of the blade while it screeched even louder now and Ashen's power finally being lost due to him losing his Blacklight powers. "N-No...Come...ON!"

Looks at his hands, he knew he had little time now, and started to do something he thought would be impossible for him; Using as much of his remaining strength as possible to lift the large arm that holds the blade and slams it after turning, having it go down and cut through the arm that holds the club, rendering it defenseless and weakened. Even though he has the beast now, he slowly walks toward the head while breathing heavily, losing the health he only has left and starts crawling on all fours to get there. When he did, he uses the last of his strength to grab the head and starts trying to tear it off, with small rips being made but the longer he did it the more it started to become noticeable. After a long amount of time, he finally tears it off while blood leaked and tendrils from within the PROTOTYPE started to cover the entire body and the remains, which he's successful at doing and starts yelling in pain due to it, which caused him to collapse on the ground to enter into unconsciousness.

After lying there for a minute or two, the backup of Blackwatch that the soldier requested came by and saw the amount of blood that the Behemoth held but they all took notice of the pale and potentially dead teenager. Unsure if he is, they all prepare their weapons and slowly walk towards him to see. "...A.S.H.E.R appears to be down and potentially knocked out. Standby for-" At that instant, the boy's body starts spazing out while he yelled. "He's alive! OPEN FIRE!"

They all start shooting at him quickly, but something shocked them; The bullets started to deflect while he rose up and the Biomass in his body started to change his look, now much more different than before. He now wore Black sinister body armor that holds a face that holds an engravement of sharp teeth, arms that hold small spikes on it, Dark Red veins that glowed in the same way than his body while in the middle revealed the 'J' symbol now glowing much more powerfully than before that leads to the veins on the arms, back, and legs, while also holding eyes of the same color. But now he held something else along with it; His right arm now held a large sharp blade that was from the Behemoth, which was smaller but big enough to reach up to his shoulder, and the sharp object was connected to his Red Vein glowing arm.

Immune to most damage, none of the attacks even stunned him, with him screaming in sheer rage, prepared the Blade and did a sudden spin to slash all of the nearby Blackwatch soldiers, cutting them into halves. He notices that tanks were too nearby, with them firing at him but he was able to avoid this by jumping up high in the air, not as high as he use to, and preparing the large weapon to slam it down, destroying in instantly, which he does for the others.

Once they were destroyed, the Armor on Ashen slowly returned into his body while the Blade disappeared, revealing his now healed and healthy look once again, showing he was smirking. "...Fuck yeah, I'm back." He pops his neck and takes out his phone to call Taylor about the results. "Mom, it works. The cure worked. The Whitelight you made helped. You're a miracle worker."

"Thank you Ashley. I'm glad it did. I'm guessing you need me to make another cure like that?"

"Pure Whitelight, yeah. It should help bring everyone back to normal. THIS time, for real."

"Alright, I'll get on it. I should be easy to do with the amount of Blood I still have from you since it's still Blacklight." She was about to continue, but was interrupted. "...Rachel wants to talk to you."

"Really? Alright...Let her."

After a few seconds, he hears some rustling. "Ash? Is that you?"

He nods with a smile. "Yeah, Rach. It's me. The cure worked and I'm back to normal."

"That's good...I'm glad you're ok."

"Yeah, I am too...But now it's time to deal with them...Zoe and Luke. If I want to know what that piece of shit is up to, I'll have to deal with her first."

"Are...You sure you want to do that? You loved her bef-"

"Yeah...I did. But not anymore...After how she ditched me to just roll over and die like that, she's not the girl I loved before...Not anymore." He grips his fists tightly. "...I'll call back later, ok?"

"Ok...Please be careful." Rachel then closes off the contact for him.

Leaving him alone, he puts the phone up and uses Hunting Sense to find where his old girlfriend was, making him angry and prepared. "...It's time to deal with you guys once and for all." Using the powers of a PROTOYPE once again, he runs off quickly to get to Zoe, but now faster than he was before.