If you want to know just how overpowered Alex is, and his powers check out this site. alex-mercer/4005-58219/forums/alex-j-mercer-respect-thread-outdated-1705459/I do not own this site.
'I am the virus' these words rung in Ozpin's head like a bad case of migraine, "I'm sorry could you repeat that it almost sounded like you said that you're a deadly virus that could mutate" Ozpin said with a chuckle hoping that he was wrong that he had miss heard him.
"I am Black-light it's not a hard concept to understand I am a virus that currently inhabits Mr. Mercer, though now that I say it out load…" But before Alex finished Qrow had put his hand on his sword and was about to pull it out but he was suddenly stopped.
It was as if fear itself manifested and was pinning his body denying him of movement. "Now mister Qrow I'm sure you feel my dangerous presence now that I have revealed who I am, and I know you're the type of person to stare danger head on without thinking of the consequences, but choose very wisely because you're next, move could just get yourself and the team I work with killed since I would have to disappear, and I'm sure you wouldn't want your nieces to die for your mistakes." Alex said with a smirk that would put the devil to shame.
"How do you know about them?" Qrow asked while snarling at Alex's earlier remark "I hear them talk about you and how you trained Ruby, and how you're the sister to Yang's mother," Alex answered while waving his hands in a circular movement.
"Well now that I have your attention I will continue. As I the virus took over Mercer's body and regenerating it till I woke up and broke out of Gentek. Now I could go into detail about how I killed thousands if not tens of thousands of people but I'll save it for a later date.
But what you really need to know is that I am the very definition of evolution, I adapt and overcome any obstacle, If I am meet with a situation that requires strength my body will adapt and gain the ability to use super strength, or in this cause wings, as Qrow saw." Alex said before smirking directly at Qrow.
"No normally person could be able to detect me in that form so how did you?" Qrow asks as he is still visibly angry at the threat of his nieces, "Qrow I feel like you're not understanding me I am EVOLUTION! I can beat what cannot be beat, I can see what cannot be seen and I can think like no-one can think. My abilities allow me to consume any biological matter and absorb Its traits, but I can also absorb its intelligence as well so right now i have the IQ of 4 thousand doctors with high medical degree, 131 Military personnel of high ranking and ten or more thousands of civilians so any plan you have against me I have thought of It and ruled it out.
"What abo- "
Nope fire won't work
"Or a re- "
"Nope I'll adapt to and reverse engineered virus"
"What ab- "
Nope I already survived a nuke I can do it again.
"Now that I have told you what you're up against, here's what I want." Alex said Before stopping to look at the time. "I want to stay in this school." Alex said as he looked at Ozpin and Qrow, they were both visibly shocked but Ozpin's shock was less obvious but Alex could still feel it, his fear, his anxiety. "Why would you want to stay in the school that you just revealed your identity?" Ozpin asked trying to get a read on the situation. "If you wanted money you could just steal from the Bank and no-one would be able to find you."
"Well for two reasons, First and the lesser reason, this gives me leverage over you and Qrow and anyone else you work with. It always me to move around and do what I want without hindrance from you.
Secondly I kinda grown attached to my team, they seem to be clearly ignorant of life and the dangers of the World or at least Ruby is, so I made it my personal mission to protect the last true innocence of the world." Alex said as he made his way to the elevator. "Well I would love to chat but I've grown bored of this conversation Good-bye" Alex said before getting in the elevator and pressed the ground floor button closing the door.
"Ozpin what do we do? I know I could slow him down but I doubt that I could stop him, in fact I don't think any person in this building could." Qrow said as he took a sip from his flask.
"We do nothing, you heard him he can predict our movements before we think of even making them, so for now we will let him do what he wants and hopefully we may be able to learn his weakness." Ozpin said before drinking his coffee his hands were still shaking but truly what can we do? Ozpin thought to himself.
"I think I let them know what their up against" Alex said to himself, the elevator opened and as Alex stepped out a woman with blond hair entered but stopped the elevator door from closing.
"Hello Mr. Mercer I have not properly introduced myself I am Glynda Goodwitch and I'm am Ozpin's second in command," she said before extending her hand, to which Alex shook it. "Well I was on my way out after my talk with Ozpin he just wanted some information.
"So did you give the info to him?" Glynda asked. "Yeah he got the information and a little more, he'll probably address it with you." Alex said as he moved passed her. "I'll see you later." Alex said as he turned the corner.
In the tower with Ozpin
The door opened and Glynda stepped out to see a scared Ozpin and a shivering Qrow, then she looked down and saw that Qrow had set his flask next to him. "What in Oums name happened that Qrow stopped drinking and you are shaking Ozpin?" Glynda asked as the elevator door closed.
"Well we just had a very interesting chat with Mr. Mercer." Said Ozpin, "Yeah he told me that you had something to talk to me about, so what is it?" Glynda asked worried about the look on Ozpin's face. "it's about Alex he Is-, Well it's best to start from the beginning, so take a seat." Qrow said with such seriousness that he had never shown before.
Back with Mercer
Alex could hear them, even though he was leagues away in forever fall forest, he could still hear them if he focused his senses, he could feel the air around them, he could practically cut the tension in there with a butter knife.
Alex was hunting Grimm infestations when he came across the two beowolves he had already infected with a strain of the virus they had mutated into growing larger spinal cords and their claws were sharp enough to cut through steel.
"I wonder what kind of damage I could do with these?" Alex thought to himself, but he quickly dismissed the thought when a new plan came to mind, "If Ozpin is afraid of Salem, and it seems like she controlled the Grimm, my next course of action would be to infiltrate this Salem's ranks and find out where she is and then consume her." Alex said to himself.
He ordered them to infiltrate Salem's legion and find out the weak chain in the link, he sent them off but not before changing their pelt color to the original Black, so that they wouldn't be traced easily.
Alex check the time on his scroll and saw that it was already 4 PM, "I guess story time took a lot longer than I expected, well what can you do." Alex said as he went back to the academy to check up on Ozpin and if he made his decision.
Then Alex's eyes narrow as he senses someone hiding in the tree 5 meters away, as if they thought he wouldn't notice someone following him, then again it's not everyone that knows who he is and what he can do.
"You can come out; you're not fooling anyone" Alex said a teen with silver hair walked out along with a girl with green hair. "So did Ozpin send you?" Alex asked.
"Never mind don't answer that, I don't care. So what are you here for?" Mercer asked with no hint of patience in his voice." We come with a proposition, if it's power you seek than, I have an associate who shares your ideals." The male teen said with a smug look on his face.
"Well I desire power but not in the way you think, see you probably want the kind of power that comes with force, and not saying that it is bad but it's pretty useless without the proper knowledge.
"The power I desire is knowledge the infinite mass of never ending knowledge that comes only for the smartest being alive." Alex said while studying the people in front of him, the male teen seemed to be confident, arrogant and selfish just from the way he stood, but Alex knew he probably had some traumatizing experience at one point in his life.
The girl was his polar opposite, her posture alone showed that she was smart enough to know what person she talked to or be wary of people she had never seen, she reminded him of Black watch soldiers especially captain cross.
"Well we might be able to get what you want." The silver haired teen said, "I highly doubt it, but your boss may be able to, I realized Ozpin didn't send you once I sniffed the air, though I can't quite pinpoint it, it seems familiar, well it won't matter once I consume you two I'll know for myself." Alex said as his hand morphed into muscle-mass he then rushed toward them, but instead of attacking head on Alex quickly upped his speed dial and appeared behind the teens and leg swept both of them.
The teen with silver hair was barely able to jump as Alex floor swept behind them, his companion was not so lucky as she fell from Mercer's leg sweep. Alex then grabbed the girl's hair and threw her at a tree knocking her out.
The silver hair teen tried a high kick for his head, but only for Alex to grab his foot at the last second and crushed his it. Normally Alex wouldn't torture people before their death but he knew the kid had a metallic substance on his feet, and they look of his face pretty much confirmed that he had no feeling in his leg as the teen was not shocked.
Alex then brought his blade overhead, and brought down only to nick end of mercury's boot as the teen swiftly pulled his leg back, Alex backed away for some breathing space. The silver haired kid quickly shot 3 consecutive rounds to which Alex just casually dodged each one.
From Alex's back the girls brought her kami in a downward slash but only for Alex to catch it between his fingers then he broke off the tip, "You're gonna have to do better than that" Alex said teasing them, the joke had done its job and the silver haired teen attacked even more wildly than before.
"By the way I never caught your name." Alex said as he dodged a slash from the green haired girl's kami while simultaneously punching the silver haired teen's nose causing him to bleed.
"Emerad and mercuy-." The silver haired teen started and was barely able to say right due to his broken nose, "But it won't matter, you'll be dead anyway." The green haired teen finished his sentence for him.
Alex had decided to end this, he grabbed Emerald's head and threw it ate mercury, the teen lost balance as he tried to catch is teammate, Alex exploited this, and morphed his hand into Hammer fists and slammed the ground causing spikes to them to ensnare the teens.
"Did the person who sent you know just how outmatched they are and sent you as pawns or was that person truly and idiot." Alex said mocking both of them. "Just what are you?" Emerald said as she was trying to stand up.
"Well I would rather not tell you fully be just so you know to back off when we meet in school." Alex said before morphing his hand into a Blade. "How do you know were in the school?" Mercury asked while still in fear of Alex's hand.
"Oh I didn't truly know, I assumed that you came from the school because I have only told my story to Ozpin and I can see your student ID card, but back to my point you asked what I am well-."
Alex started, but then he had a better idea, he raised his sword and chopped off his arm, then from the arm the cells multiplied forming a body then legs and finally the full body of Alex.
Mercury and Emerald stared at the duplicate of Alex that had been made from Alex's appendage, then they moved their head to look at Alex stub, but only to see it finalizing its regeneration.
"Well I think I went a little overboard with that, anyway yo get my point, I will not stop you but know this if you harm my teammate in that moment I will declare you an enemy and start to hunt you down then you better Keep your eyes open. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I'll find you, and then you'll be crow food.
Now go to sleep, your nervous system should be shutting down now, my punches not only packed a punch due to some beowolves they also a deadly amount of poison courtesy of the death stalkers, the dosage can be manipulated,
hence why you will only experience the shutdown of your nervous system and your heart will be slowed down to the point that you will not die but you'll be knocked out." As mercer finished saying this the duo fell asleep instantly.
Alex looked as his duplicate, he didn't know if it would work he got it after eating the king Taijitu, he didn't have the time to try it out earlier. Alex was mid thought as his scroll went off, he pulled it out and read the message.
We're off to find Blake met us in town. Alex turned off his phone, he hadn't realized that time had passed during his fight with Mercury. So he degenerated his duplicate and formed it back into his skin and started to walk off towards town.
It has come to my attention that some people think my work is bad, know i don't care in the sense that i still respect your decision but it does not do much, but if you are thinking of writing a bad review then make sure you write how i can improve, don't just comment on what i did wrong tell me how to make it a better story for everyone.
Also i am doing Q&A just to clarify somethings in the story
as lazy as an excuse as this sounds i got grounded i won't be able to write for some time, just thought i'd warn ya