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New york zero
a city broken apart by plague.
a plague that devours everything and anything in it's way.
Blacklight.
after the first breakout and eventual widespread of the virus. no one knew who to blame for this.
on one hand Gentek. the biggest company in biological and microbiological studies in the world, were the one who created it.
on the other... Alex mercer. the man who spread it.
A rogue Gentek doctor who ran away in fear of dying after finding out that his colleagues "Mysteriously dissapeared" after word of the project came out. in pure fear and panic, he took the only sample of blacklight and ran like there was no tommorow. and there wasn't. as he was caught at penn station. where he was shot and eventually killed.
but not before breaking the vial in an act of defiance towards blackwatch and Gentek. spreding he virus.
the virus took over his body, recreated it. and used it as it's avatar
When word got out that Alex mercer. a man who supposedly died. came back from the dead.
it wasn't long before people went crazy at this.
"Demon!"
"Monster!"
"Manifestation of all evil in the world!"
"Spawn of Satan!" (this last one was said by a priest)
just to name a few things he was called.
throughout his "life" he accumulated many servants.
with the promise of power, some proved loyal.
others like karen parker proved disloyal due to fearing his powers
he was manipulated. taken advantage of and used by those around him.
but that was Alex mercer.
what lives in alex mercer is not human.
And so after going on a worldwide trip through all of the world.
he concluded one thing.
Humanity would kill itself before anything could.
so he got his mission.
Unite all of humanity and mankind.
how you ask? simple
turn all of life on earth into one big Hivemind
others would laugh at this.
but with blacklight's ever so evolving strengh. those who knew of it's power.
knew it was possible.
but...
we get here
Alex mercer. now nothing more than a sludge of blood on the floor. why?
Sergeant. james heller
mercer's newest servant. or rather biggest fault
Mercer saw potential in him.
he gave him strengh to avenge his daughter and wife
But it was all for naught
Heller's daughter was alive. kidnapped by Gentek and used as bait
After getting her, sabrina galloway. the CFO of blackwatch and mercer's secret servant kidnapped her without his orders.
she was sadly killed before he could get to her.
Seeing this as an opporunity to kill Heller and make his daughter the queen of the new world.
but... as fate would have it.
he lost.
beaten. mutilated.crushed.cut from limb to limb.
Alex mercer died and James heller had rid the red zone of blacklight and cured the infected.
this was his peace.
Alex mercer died happy. knowing fate would catch up to humans sooner or later.
he closed his eyes as James took his life.
and all. went. black.
he floated through the endless black void that was around him contempt with his finale.
"We...it ... the heroes...we will be saved" he heard a voice incoherrently say
His eyes fluttered open only to see a dark unlit room around him.
The room was small and 4 robed figures stood in the gate.
In reaction he jumped up and readied himself in a fighting position.
"Wait! wait! we mean no harm!" the first robed figure said
"Who are you? where am i?" he shouted at them
"Calm down shield hero!"
"Shield hero? i have no shie-" he abruptly stopped after noticing the silver shield on his right arm
"The hell is this?" he shook his arm trying to get it off
"Why won't it budge!?" he shouted pulling harder and harder.
"Shield hero! please calm down" the first robed figure said again.
"Fine! but you better have an explanation for this!" he stated angrily
"We do! we do! just calm down! the king wants to meet you all. he'll explain!"
"You all?" he questioned as he didn't realize there were three other people with him
"Dude you should just chill. the ladies don't like a ill-tempered man" ( you all know who said this. i don't need to explain) the first. a blonde man holding a spear was to answer
"can you blame him? we were just summoned here against our will. it's normal to panic at a situation like this" another blond one answered. though this one was younger looking to be in his teen years who held a bow
" he is right." the third one who held a sword answered. he was kid older than the bow hero yet younger than the spear hero
"follow us. he king awaits." the robed figures said.
after following the robed men. they were presented with a castle unlike what they had ever seen. gold and marble inlaid the walls. red carpets covered the ground and paintings of the kings and queens littered the walls
Alex along with the sword remained silent.
the bow seemed interested but held himself.
the spear... well
"Man these are some hot-ass girls! i can't wait to meet some!" he said with a perverted giggle.
all 3 shield,bow and sword looked in disgust at him
they kept silent untill they reached the throne room.
"the king awaits you great cardinal heroes"
as all 4 entered. Alex noticed how the robe guys were all looking at him with hatred. and anger in their eyes.
it made him livid. 'even in here they still hate me. as predictable of humans' he thought to himself
as they entered throne room. they saw the top floor of it filled with nobles and royalties alike all staring at them with love. greed and happiness
while all who stared at him looked livid. he wasn't going to lie.seeing someone mad at him yet incapable of doing anything made him feel pleasure inside.
he listened closely to them.
"The shield hero? what's he doing here? shouldn't he be helping those damned demi humans?" a noble silently yelled
'demi-humans?'
as they continued walking in. they came infront of the king
the king was an old man with grey hair, beard and eyes.
he looked irritated by the appearance of the shield. yet continued
"Great cardinal heroes" he started
"My name is Aultcray melromarc the thirty second" he continued.
"we have summomed you here so that you would save us from the calamities known as waves. as you thr-" he stopped and corrected himself "four are our only hope of survival"
"i refuse"
"i refuse"
"i refuse"
"..."
"Wh-what?! b-but great heroes we-" he was cut off by the sword
" you really expect us to serve you without any rewards ?"
the king looked stuned to say The least he coughed and continued
" I assure you great heroes you will be rewarded greatly for your efforts" The king said
" we will Think about it"replied The how hero
" shall we get on with introductions?"The king asked
the spear hero was The first To step up
"Motoyasu Kitamura. college student"
sword was next "Ren amaki. highschool student"
Then bow "Itsuki kawasumi. highschool student"
then shield "dr.Alexander J.mercer. virologist"
"The hell's a virologist?"
"the shield Hero has gone insane saying weird stuff like that"
"It means i study Viruses you idiots!"
"Such. rudeness to nobles like us. who do you think you are?"
"Ask the shield on my hand. ill gladly have him answer for you. by bashing your skull in"
"Shield hero. i implore you to not overstep your boundaries and kindly stop using stupid unkown terms like viruses" the king said.
"say that to my face again when an incurable illness come to melromarc"
"What do these 'viruses' have to do with illnesses anyway"
face palm* *exhausted sigh* 'im a fucken tyrant who ruled the entirety of new york zero. caused two outbreaks of a world ending plague .became the world's strongest creature on earth and now here i am reduced to nothing more than teaching full grown adults what a fucking virus does' he thought to himself
"with all due respect. The shield hero here is right. as a person who once had an interest in viruses. he is infact right about the illness factor." The bow hero said
"Ah thank you for the explanation master Itsuki" The king said
'atleast someome knows' Alex thought to himself
"Thank you Bow hero" Alex said receiving a nod from the aforementioned hero
"For now rest heroes. for tommorow you shall get your parties and companions" the king Said
"The maidens will guide you to your rooms" The door opened revealing two maidens
all four Heroes made their way to theur rooms.
Inside the rooms*
"man those were some hot ass maids" (you know who said this)
"For the love of god, Spear. stop being creepy for 5 minutes" Replied the sword
"Oh come on! they were hot as hell!"
"Once we get our teams you can do what you want now please.just don't embarass us" Replied Alex
"im not hearing anything from a guy who's only weapon is a shield"
"a weapon is a weapon. even if it's a shield"
"How the hell is a shield a weapon?"
"Do you not know about captain america or something?"
"Who the hell is captain america?"
"excuse me? i know about captain russia but not america"
All four stood silent
"Captain russia? really? Russia lost to the germans in the second world war " said the sword
"Excuse me i know for a fact that berlin fell to the russians in World war two"
"You all must have not paid attention in class. The Germans won the scond world war" said the bow
...
"Could it be that..."
"we might be from.."
"All three..."
"From different worlds." The spear,sword,bow and shield said. respectfully
"Alright let's compare different things from our world to see if it's really true" Ren said
"Alright. did Germany win world war 2?"
shield:lost
Bow: won
Spear: don't know. didn't pay attention to that
Sword:no one won since all the countires signed a peace treaty
"Who started the first world war"
"Germany after the austro-hungarian heir was assassinated"
"Russia after German Terrorists attacked an airport"
"America after Germany attacked west america"
"Who Won the last world cup?"
"Who killed hitler?"
"Who assasinted JFK?"
Several questions later*
"Alright. so we all agree that we're all from different worlds. right?" Said Ren
"It is... fascinating to say the least" Alex said
"What part of this fascinating? we're in a foreign world and we're expected to just help save it?" said Itsuki
"I don't care. long as i get some cuties in my party"
"For fuck Sakes motoyasu"
"What?"
"This is all very tiring. i'm going to sleep" Said Itsuki with Ren and motoyasu following Suit
Alex just sat in the room silently.
"Different worlds eh?" He said as devilish smile crept up his face
"Wonder what new powers i'll get" He paused before staring to giggle.
"This world made their first mistake of summoning me Hehe"
"Heheheehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe"
Alex continued giggling to himself as he thought of the countless new creatures he would find and unimaginable powers he would get.
End of chapter 1
(A/N hi there guys. Tyrondore here. and i just wanted to thank you for reading this.i put a lot of effort into making sure i portrayed alex's character correctly. and i really wanted to have it make sense as to why he's here. and the reason melromarc citizens don't know what a virologist is. is because the first virologist to exist was in the 17th century and melromarc is based on 15th-16th century. Also alex is a virologist bwcause he was the head researcher in the blacklight project)
