Che-low everyone!

So i this is another new idea iv'e been thinking about lately. Prototype is a very good and great game, with Alex being both, a hero and villain is pretty cool too. I must say, the more i think about this idea and pairing, the more and more i love it. So i know i said i wasn't going to write any more stories but i had to do this one.

Cause Alex gets a lot of shit in the second game and while i don't blame them, Alex could use a little more love. Who better to help him, then a certain little Rose? How will Remnant handle with this mass murdering, monster consuming monster on the the prowl?

Only one way to find out! As always i don't own anything!

So please read, review and "What the fuc-BOOM"

Prologue: Evolution

In biology, evolution is the change in the characteristics of a species over several generations and relies on the process of natural selection.

The theory of evolution is based on the idea that all species? are related and gradually change over time. Evolution relies on there being genetic variation? in a population which affects the physical characteristics (phenotype) of an organism. Some of these characteristics may give the individual an advantage over other individuals which they can then pass on to their offspring.

What is natural selection?

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution states that evolution happens by natural selection. Individuals in a species show variation in physical characteristics. This variation is because of differences in their genes? Individuals with characteristics best suited to their environment are more likely to survive, finding food, avoiding predators and resisting disease. These individuals are more likely to reproduce and pass their genes on to their children.

Individuals that are poorly adapted to their environment are less likely to survive and reproduce. Therefore their genes are less likely to be passed on to the next generation. As a consequence those individuals most suited to their environment survive and, given enough time, the species will gradually evolve.

Natural selection in action: the Peppered moth

Before the industrial revolution in the mid-1700s, the peppered moth was most commonly a pale whitish colour with black spots. This colouring enabled them to hide from potential predators on trees with pale-coloured bark, such as birch trees. The rarer dark-coloured peppered moths were easily seen against the pale bark of trees and therefore more easily seen by predators.

As the Industrial Revolution reached its peak, the air in industrial areas became full of soot. This stained trees and buildings black.

As a result, the lighter moths became much easier to spot than the darker ones, making them vulnerable to being eaten by birds.

The darker moths were now camouflaged against the soot-stained trees and therefore less likely to be eaten.

Over time this change in the environment led to the darker moths becoming more common and the pale moths rarer.

What have genes got to do with it? The mechanisms of evolution operate at the genomic level. Changes in DNA? sequences affect the composition and expression? of our genes, the basic units of inheritance?

To understand how different species have evolved we have to look at the DNA sequences in their genomes. Our evolutionary history is written into our genome. The human genome looks the way it does because of all the genetic changes that affected our ancestors. When DNA and genes in different species look very similar, this is usually taken as evidence of them sharing ancestors. For example, humans and the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, share much of their DNA.

75 per cent of genes that cause diseases in humans are also found in the fruit fly. DNA accumulates changes over time. Some of these changes can be beneficial, and provide a selective advantage for an organism. Other changes may be harmful if they affect an important, everyday function. As a result some genes do not change much. They are said to be conserved. Different types of evolution:

Convergent evolution

When the same adaptations evolve independently, under similar selection pressures. For example, flying insects, birds and bats have all evolved the ability to fly, but independently of each other.

Co-evolution

When two species or groups of species have evolved alongside each other where one adapts to changes in the other. For example, flowering plants and pollinating insects such as bees.

Adaptive radiation

When a species splits into a number of new forms when a change in the environment makes new resources available or creates new environmental challenges. For example, finches on the Galapagos Islands have developed different shaped beaks to take advantage of the different kinds of food available on different islands.

But none of this matters, as the Blackvirus goes beyond this.

You see, the Blacklight virus, later renamed the Mercer virus is an evolutionary chimeric mutation-causing infectious agent that can reproduce only inside the living cells of other biological organisms.

"[The Virus] enters, re-purposes and changes the cell. The new cell replicates with formerly dormant non-encoding regions active, causing drastic biological changes."

After infection, the virus "plugs in" and activates the 'junk' DNA in its victim, resulting in several biological changes that create (and recreate) sentience within the infected creature's cellular makeup. It acts by affecting the protein encoding regions of the promoter introns in each cell. As a retrovirus, it contains both RNA and the reverse transcriptase enzyme, allowing it to insert its own genetic codes into the host's cells. It enters, re-purposes and changes the cell, replicating previously dormant non-coding segments of the organism's DNA.

More often than not, these changes are too drastic and 99.99% of all infected organisms die from massive organ failure and cell saturation. However, few variants have yielded other beneficial results, endowing the infected organisms with incredible superhuman genetic prowess that greatly increase their natural abilities to levels far exceeding human capability; these variants include DX-1120 and DX-1118 C.

Thus, enter Alex Mercer.

A group of scientists led by Dr. Alex Mercer managed to synthesize a new virus strain which they named 'Blacklight'. They were trying to use it to cure global diseases such as cancer (unbeknownst of the real goal, to engineer a new version of the Redlight virus that could copy and combine genetic traits to re-write living creatures). The scientists soon became suspicious, noting that a large portion of virus variants had deadly effects on the test animals.

The Blacklight virus' effects are variable and far more infectious than the Redlight strain. The Blacklight virus outbreak does not follow the pattern of the Hope outbreak: it causes too many infections, spreads over too wide an area, and leaves very few 'clean' entities. The mortality rate of the Blacklight virus is lower than that of the Redlight virus, and the incubation period of it is much longer. The full capabilities of the Blacklight virus were unknown, even to the scientists who synthesized it.

Thankfully, the Blacklight virus is incapable of crossing large water bodies, leaving it stranded on Manhattan Island. The Blacklight virus can make Walkers, the most common of the infected creatures created by the virus.

Dr. Alexander "Alex" J. Mercer, also known as The Prototype or by his codename Zeus, was the former head researcher of the Blacklight project at Gentek. After learning that those affiliated with the project were being systematically murdered, Mercer attempted to flee the city with a sample of his research contained in a vial. Cornered at Penn Station, Mercer smashed the vial and unleashed the deadly virus into the surroundings. This triggered a viral outbreak that eventually covered all of Manhattan Island.

After awaking at a Gentek facility with no recollection of his past, Alex Mercer escaped the building, and soon discovered his new powers and abilities, granted by the virus he unleashed. He began to utilize his powers to learn more of his fragmented past, as he scoured all of New York for those responsible.

However through a series of events, caused by his own interactions with people and those responsible had caused Mercer to lose his faith in humanity as a whole and when he tried to infect everyone but ultimately failed.

But his story didn't end there, as Mercer is given a chance at Redemption. Transported to another world entirely, Mercer is given a simple task, one that would ensure his new world must survive:

Protect Ruby Rose.

Will Ruby be able to reignite Alex's faith in humanity and allow him to regain what he has lost or will he remain what has became of him:

A monster.

Only one way to find out.

Done.

Devil out!