Disclaimer: Another finished work and another major badass battle! Though today is more of a 'showcase' work on what the infected were and how dangerous Mercer is. That is the first part. The second part resume from the last chapter's action. As you all should know, most of the heroes and villains in the Marvel Universe have both strength and weaknesses and this allows Alex Mercer to pick his fight carefully through trial and error, or else things may turn from bad to worse. I also being getting some negative respond (no flame… so very sad) that I'm doing a fic were generally Mercer just being a pissed off kinda guy and will eventually kill every Marvel heroes and villain without an actual story telling…I will not do a 'Oh I'm super badass Mercer I'm going to kill every Marvel noobs as I wish Trollolololol' kinda story. That kind of absurd story will never exist in my vocabulary, as I put cold hard facts to good use and use these facts as lineament in this fic. Once more, I do not own Prototype or Marvel Universe, but I do own a number of Blackwatch OC that will try (and fail) to kill Alex Mercer.
Note: Mercer have an 'instinct' voice that will always plays part of Mercer's life; it will sometimes asked Mercer to feed, to kill, to consume, and Mercer, if necessary will agree with that idea. This is mark (like this) to indicate his natural instinct's forethought throughout the story.
Note: I added the Marvel Cross Reference to show you how different this version of Marvel heroes/villains from the comic and my fic. Of course, certain perks and ability all included thanks to Marvel wikia!
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To He Who See's: The idea of him (Alex) doing just that (stalking and waiting for Hulk transform) is rather good, but remember that the prologue shows 12 months later after the event of Prototype and the last chapter is merely several days after the event of Prototype. Staying true to the Prototype game, I give all of you the apparent 'ending' first before the real story begins; it allows people who are curious how Alex could even stand against the Hulk when he was staying the heck away from the big green dude for the past few months! Also true to the game, I'm also giving out the true 'final boss' who I introduce you all as Raven, but I will not go any deeper today, as the best news are best kept last. I have seen Hob the (insert random words here) Robot's fic regarding about Mercer and his merry adventure in Starcraft universe Crossover, and to me, an Over Powered and Broken (commonly known as OPB) Mercer is just too unrealistic, and that he would cooperate many of the Starcraft denizens makes him even more obscurely powerful just… not my type. His too broken to the point where he can outfight an entire Zerg swarm all by himself, though generally a good thing, creating a weapon that resembles lance cannon, siege cannon and other weird weapon out of biomass is rather taxing (in my point), not to mention making armies out of his own biomass would resemble making an army of 'little me' when he himself already could destroyed an entire planetary defences all by himself. Besides, Hob the (insert random words here) Robot did say in his/her/its fic that 'there are those in power will intervene your progress' means that they are other 'beings' that is stopping this AU Mercer from entering this realm. Every author who ever writes a story will surely assign an 'OP' god like sentient being to watch over their realm from 'certain' universe, and mine is no exceptional.
WARNING: RATED M FOR MATURE; MASSIVE AMOUNT OF VIOLENT, STRONG LANGUAGE AND POSSIBLE GORY CONTENT, INCLUDING MULTIPLE DEATHS OF INCOMING MARVEL HEROES AND VILLAINS. ALL UNDER 21 AND THOSE TROLLS THINK MARVEL CHARACTER SHOULD DESERVE BETTER SHOULD STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM THIS FIC! I STILL WELCOME FLAMES, SO HEAT ME UP!
Operation Blacklight Purity
Chapter 03 - Against the Blacklight Virus -
-With great power, comes great responsibility- Spiderman.
-How do you draw the commanders out? Simple; you start killing his men- Alex J. Mercer.
-Inside the S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier... several thousand feet above New York City-
The Helicarrier, an aircraft carrier specifically designed to be itself capable of independent powered flight in addition to the standard functions of aircraft carriers, is the world headquarters and signature capital ship of the extra-governmental intelligence/defence agency Strategic Hazard, Intervention, Espionage Logistics Directorate or S.H.I.E.L.D as it is known for (and less mouthful of words), now hold meeting with the US Marine Corps and what is left of the Blackwatch chain of command, along the ride are surviving GENTEK personal which take up their growing responsibility as head scientists. On-board the meeting room, Colonel Nick Fury and his military staff, were given all document from several weeks of Intel related to the cataclysm viral outbreak in New York city, though the Intel of Hope, Idaho experiment and the remodelling of Redlight Virus is not mention. Included in this meeting are several important figure in the US Army officers attend in the crucial meeting, backup with several GENTEK scientist who survived the past 18 days are now presently working for the military government 'black list' command. Despite being in the meeting room the size of a cafeteria compartment and so little CO on the desk, the room is filled with several tens of battle-harden troops and multimillion dollar automaton armed defences on the ceiling around the same room ready to react any trigger happy individual. This shows how serious the meeting is been taking place; every time the unfamiliar US Army officer turn their heads to look around, troops armed with powerful yet unknown looking weapon appear fearsome and ready to fight to their last breath, and these automaton defences are armed with missile of all things, which cause several lower ranking CO officer feel rather frightful for their life being in a crowded room. To Fury, this is a pre-caution action should some superpower mutant or meta-human came in to crash the party (which happen quite a lot in Nick's experience), though it also cause the US officers to feel too uneasy, as if they are not welcome at all.
"So let me get this straight," Nick Fury reply, puffing a mouthful of smoke, looking roughly at his 50s of age, military built and dons blue coloured military uniform and an eye patch, "The US Army had send in over 12 different Company, over 36 Armoured Company and well over 5 Fleet of airborne Apache helicopter on one island? On THE Island?"
"That is correct, Colonel Fury." said another man, who is a weathered man, also in his 50s, but he wears the standard US Military uniform garb; he appear overweight, has a rather furious outline facial expression with a goatee, and has a horrific scar across his neck.
"And how in the world did those great numbers reduce to a few pockets of banded together marching bands?" Nick Fury asked, as he sees the overview of New York city (which the military now coined it as New York Zero) military control area, showing increase military presence here in the first week enough to drown the entire island, then within the next two weeks or so, it is reduce to several operational base outline of the island, with the inner military base are either overrun or under heavy attack by an 'unidentified monster'. As Nick Fury continue to study the document and data he acquire through Black Widow AKA Natalia Romanova, a Soviet defect KGB, it is clear whatever it is, it may be a threat even Avengers will have to deal eventually, "If it's a zombie outbreak like that zombie universe, we really should get ready; Rick Richards have already warn us of their impending arrival-"
"This isn't just an extra-terrestrial zombie universe outbreak Colonel," The same US officer quickly cuts in, "Despite holding the truth like a goddamn lollipop candy with a fragile tendency to break apart, the news regarding about it are closely controlled, and will technically broadcast any nearby news station that it is all but a terrorist attack that was unleash, crippling the home country with a highly dangerous viral outbreak of biohazard proportion. All video link to this incident are instantly taken down and being tracked down here in New York. It comes to no surprise why people panicking on their beloved city would easily speculate for a zombie attack. No, it should be any otherwise."
"Somehow I sense a 'but' along those sentence," the man with an eye patch said.
"The virus," the military man point out, using power point files to open the file with a picture, "not only devastates much of the island population, but also physically altered from any known viral outbreak in many of age. It was unleashed by this man; Alex J. Mercer, and according to his personal record, his dead."
"And?"
"Came back to life with a force to fight off two separate army, both the US Army and the infected monsters," the man with the long neck-scar pause as he sips a very expensive wine, "and guess what; HE WIN."
"Something like what Magnetto, or Dr Doom would want." Fury quickly concludes, rubbing his chin. " A living weapon of mass destruction; I bet my entire courier that whatever it is this monster is after something more."
"Not exactly true," a geeky, scientist looking person, who is beside one of the US Officer spoke up, and to those who brought attention to this nerdy looking scientist, the person they are staring at now is one of the GENTEK Scientist that has replace McMullen since his death. "Mercer... I mean Zeus, appear to be more stationary than seeking new potential targets. It's been but a few days now and with Zeus, last sighted on the Red Zone at the centre of the island haven't acted yet by anything other than unusually large quantity of regular troops deployment."
"And?"
"Well... we believe that Mer… I mean, Zeus for the past 3 weeks has the tendency to mark a single target straying afar from the group, even though we encourage the troops not to; he prey and feeds on these men who were not on sight with the rest of the group, most specifically are the officers in charge of the operation. Fortunately, we have not seen any sort of hostile movement related to him… I mean IT, other than the growing number of infected humans and monster, something even Mercer… Zeus, is trying to fight against."
"The major problem now is not the creature known as Zeus, but rather the infection itself; without a leader role, the infection will eventually become a problem so severe that..." the scientist gulp as he gives a quick stare at the officer around him, "... that the infected maybe trying to coup up with Mer... I mean Zeus's lethal level."
Nick puff a smoke, trying to understand the situation, "which means...?"
The US Officer continue before the scientist could reply, "In other words Colonel Fury; that these infected infectee is evolving through spilt genes and circular structure, at a staggering rate."
As quickly as the officers reply, several slot of picture now display on the screen for all the staff to see, and shows the horrifying reality most people would denied to acknowledge. The first picture shows a normally everyday healthy human in one of the many Blue Zone, and living with everyone else in the same zone. The second picture shows the first sign of infected human in the quarantine territory from the yellow zones, held down by several US Marine with protective mask, gear and gloves, forcing the creature to slumps down as the infected virus got hold on its human host and victim; these things were also shown on the next picture on how the mutate creature looks like when it stood up straight. The creature still wears proper clothing though appear like a hobo, pale looking and its eyes are dull and white, jaw open with erratic teeth. Three out of five fingers appear claw-like than finger, slump forward. It is these things and other mutated civilian and citizen whom the military is fighting against, coincidentally coin it as 'infected civilian' than 'zombies'. However, these aren't the worst infected monster yet, as these things are as fragile as average zombie variant, albeit cannot be killed simple by shooting at the head.
While the first one were called 'premature mutation', the second mutation were much gruesome; before these so called infected victim mutate even further, they appear human, perhaps even more so if it wasn't either riddle with bullet hole or because of the clothes that they were wearing haven't gone out the window. The next evolution tree are much more disturbing as the infectee evolve further into the gruesome Walkers; a mix bag of sci-fi monster movie creature; just take a zombie, an tall alien, a deep sea monster from the 80s that had been sunbathing too long and a pinch of military experiment gone wrong into the blender and you get the Walker. In other words, the creature no longer appear human, at least physically speaking, with its gloating head, jarred jaw (or no jaw at all), razor sharp premature blade hand and skin so ragged and almost scale-like it is completely resistance of any known human made projectile, such as small firearm.
And that is not the worst yet, as the military man shows even more.
Several specimen creatures known as Hunter (which surprising caught alive and were placed in quarantine for the GENTEK scientist to study) were also shown on the file, and these silver looking monster is twice higher than average human being when these creature stood up on two, and for some reason, despite being rather fleshy creature, they are immune to small firearm and are resistance to both heavy ammunition and explosive shells. Hunter Leader, like its namesake, control these patch of monster as a pack leader; this monster is already rather high when crawling on four, and can reach three times the average human height should it stood up. It appears to be reddish in colour, and unlike average Hunters, Hunter Leaders has immunity to all but artillery barrage fire, and astonishingly carries two brains and two separate spines instead of one. Unlike the normal Hunter, Hunter Leader is pretty much too powerful to be captured alive, and are as heavy as the Bradley support armour tank currently in service. Several picture shows almost a dozen or more Blackwatch Super Soldier manage to capture one alive and were place in quarantine to study, but only for a few days and the containment field were sabotage, causing the quarantine base is left to ruin by the continuous artillery shells and A10 bombardment.
Hydra were shown next, and before Nick Fury can question about it, the KGB woman gives a quick confirmation that this creature is also in fact an infected civilian which devolve at a close clustered environment that their entire body turn into horrifying monster that tunnel at the ground and emerge forcefully like a worm of sort. It is not known if that creature is in fact a head, or body, but powerful weapon such as the one found on the Thermobaric Tank seemed to have an effect against it, or tons of cluster missiles found in the Apache also remedy its threat. Bullets merely tickle the damn creature.
Then the picture of the supposing deceased Alex J. Mercer. He wears at least three layers of clothes: the first is a button up white shirt that's not buttoned all the way up, the second is a plain grey hoodie that he always keeps up, and the last is a black leather jacket with a red tribal design on the back. On his lower body he wears plain blue jeans and plain black shoes. Whenever he appears on the scene, he makes his present known almost immediately. His blue jeans, jacket and hoody glory has been caught both on camera and military footage so many times that it is apparently too hard not to forget. Though not a Redlight horror monster lookalike like what Nick and his staff are brought to acknowledge as he appear more like a thug than a super villain, the video showcase his astonish power and combat efficiency both the US Army and the Infected quickly astonished the remaining staff, and at the same time, horrified by Alex's capability. It also question Nick's lingering question on what the officer meant by 'feeding lone soldiers' as the video also shows how Alex could easily consume a victim he hold as a whole, but not after he breaks them down to mangle corpse and bloody mess first.
The US military continue to put more info for Nick Fury to swallow down his throat on the danger of Mercer; whenever Mercer or Zeus consume a living human being, military or otherwise, not only did he gain biomass from his consume victim, but also gain a secondary 'disguise', capable of fooling even the closes friends or partner with the owners initial 'designs'. Detecting Mercer using simple voice, fingerprint and retinal detection scanning method were ineffective to counter this. As Mercer continues to consume more than his share of diet, he gain not only their personal identity, but their lifetime memories as well. To date, Mercer has killed probably half of New York estimate population both citizen and civilian, infected or not as well as a large sums an untold numbers of military personal, gaining unknown amount of knowledge in the process. This explains why Mercer initially have no military training could somehow operate and drive a tank, operate Apache helicopter, or enter into a secure military zone undetected. When he consumes higher ranking officer, he gains their secrets, their military might and sensitive files. He can enter military compound posing as the consumed officer entering 15 digit of keypad password as easily as keying down the password through an email address. In other words, if you have a top secret base half across the world and he had 'accidentally' consumed on whom had the only access code, he is probably defence security's worse nightmare.
After the 'freak show' video and camera footage, it is clear they are dealing something far completely out of this world, "GENTEK scientist coined that within a year or so, the entire viral outbreak will become so severe, that it will hit mainland if this virus are allowed to continue to evolve and expend, and within the following year or so, if the military did nothing to stop it, the entire United States will be in knee deep. These things aren't invincible, but for every one creature we kill, ten more will takes its place." the US Officer point out, "As for Zeus, let's just say we throw almost anything we have within authorization level; even General Randall ordered a nuclear strike against Zeus-"
"A nuke!?" was exactly the word that makes Nick Fury and his loyal staff jumped off their seats, "So that nuclear explosion off coast of New York were you're doing?"
"No...General Randall had approved Operation Firebreak but dare not use it initially. It was only when NYZ became so severe that Firebreak had the green light. He wanted everything to be vaporised to the ground, along with many stranded civilian, stationary troops, infected monster, and Zeus with the cover story of the terrorist Alex destroy the entire city when the US Marine finally cornered him. The end result? Zeus infiltrated our highly protected USS Reagan despite heavy airborne defences, took the nuke for a ride out in the open sea and let it detonate safely from the sea, with him along with it."
"But you said..." Nick Fury try to piece together what he can, "that Zeus is still around..."
"We fairly certain the powerful nuclear detonation should have killed Zeus, but it was within a couple of days later that the picture of Zeus begin to flooded the base." the GENTEK scientist said with wits of iron, "We conclude that someone or something may have stumble upon the leftover of mangle flesh of Zeus, and were consumed outright by that said piece of rotten meat. Our earlier hypothesis shows that Mer... Zeus is practically immune to all but our heaviest weapon thus far, so saying that Zeus survives a nuke at point zero is highly unlikely."
Several picture of the recently captured picture of Alex Mercer walking away from the blast in the Blue Zone were soon filled the screen, "Our troops may encounter Zeus nowadays when they venture deeper into the Reds, but so far the monster appear to perfectly sitting in the Red Zone, with reasons even we have trouble knowing why."
"Heh, if I were that man's shoes," Nick pause as he breath in his cigar, before letting a big huff horizontally, "I would probably trying to recruit a lieutenant within my ranks, in case someone as smart as Randall decide to fire nukes again on NY."
Nick's answers makes several present US Officer to suddenly discuss about the possibility of such idea, with the man with eye patch appear to look rather dumbfounded, "Did I said something wrong?"
"No sir," the Russian turncoat agent, Black Widow reply, "But it would appear zat such an idea could be most possible."
Before any more serious discussion are made much further, several troops in black uniform, accompany by a black and white Elite officer with a helmet that looks like an eagle walk in into the meeting room without authorization or any polite matter, causing automaton machine and guards to take aim at them. A number of Nick Fury's guard wanted to intervene when the Elite Blackwatch don the eagle-like helmet simple walk pass the guards while middle finger the automaton defences, caring little of these so called 'higher agency of the government'. The Elite, bearing the name Raven walk towards the neck scarred officer and whisper softly in his ears. Nick Fury narrow his one and only eye right, trying to hear what the man is whispering about, though Black Widow already covered that; being a KGB and a spy for the S.H.I.E.L.D is her most joyful moment, setting up a small hearing implant just below the officers desk even before the meeting started were worth it. The scarred officer listen to the soldier's whisper with full attention when the scarred officer to look alarm; his eyes wide open and mouth hang open, fierce facial expression.
"What!?" the officer cried, "Zeus is in the Daily Bungle!?"
"Yes," the man dons the eagle helmet reply, "We should get a video feedback now."
The scarred US Officer forcefully took the remote off the staffs hand and channels the live video onto the main screen.
-Meanwhile... Within the Red Zone Area... Daily Bungle Military garrisons-
Spiderman quickly launch several quick punches against an unknown enemy that appear to materialize weapon out of his arms like Mr Fantastic or Sandman, or any other super mutant costume entity that could shift their body into a lethal weapon with successful hits, but the man that took Spidey's punch quickly cause pain to Spidey's hand as if he just punch a concrete wall. Though Alex felt that punch, it was less damaging than what the Walkers could have offered with their own bladed powered punch. Alex attempt to return the favour with his own lethal punch, but Spiderman's spider sense safe the webhead from such blow, avoiding Alex's inhuman punch and counter it back with a his own lethal kick to the face.
Alex staggered for a bit, and tries again to give the same beating as the webhead did to him. Spiderman jumped a short distance away as he avoid Alex's attack, and after a good distance away, he quickly encase Alex with his powerful webs that ensnare the hoody man into a cocoon, before he snare the surround object like tables and oversize paper printer and had it crush Mercer in between. Enraged by the same, yet ingenious tactic, Alex bust open the cocoon-like web despite being extremely durable. He rapidly move closer towards the mask hero with a sprint causing Spiderman to quickly escape the man's incoming wrath by websling himself towards the window exit and escape. Alex growl angrily seeing his only meal and information node are escaping.
(What are you doing? You are losing him! Get him!)
Alex half agree, half irritated; as the man known as Zeus gave chase towards the window, he soon notice the man dress as a spider actually can cling walls, as if the man is a spider.
Okay, if the man dresses as a spider and shots web from his hand, it is only natural that he can also cling to walls like a spider.
Alex jump out of the window, his free hand dig at the surface of the wall to slow his descent in order to catch up with the masked hero wannabe instead of simple nosedive into the ground. As he draws closer with the man who wears himself as a spider, Mercer shifts his other free arm into a whip-like fist. Spiderman knew the unknown man is coming for him, and it's the reason why he needed the man to come out of the building and force the man to fight him outside, where Peter needed that extra space to get away from Mercer if possible. Initially Spiderman believe he can beat him, but after seeing how he can do at close-quarters and his ever morphing arm into weapons makeshift, Spiderman begin to have second thought of fighting this hooded man inside a crowded room filled with random objects.
However, exiting towards the window to catch up with Spiderman had drawn Mercer into unlimited attention by the military.
US Army Apache, respond by the retreating (and fleeing) US Marine a while ago had radio contact that Zeus is inside the Daily Bungle, and when the Apache hover down to investigate, Mercer jump out of the building to catch up with a guy wearing a suit that looks like a spider. The fly boys recognize the man dress as an arachnid as Spiderman, but they also immediately recognize Alex Mercer and his Whip Fist Biomass which is slowly descending towards the New York folk hero. Without warning the swarm of Apache fire their heaviest weapon against Zeus from the 30mm M230 Chain gun to their AGM 114 Hellfire anti-tank guided missile. Half annoyed and half expected, Alex ignore those pesky US fliers thingy as he attempt to get the mask hero.
His meal were denied by a barrage of 30mm fired by more than half a dozen flock of Apache helicopters against Alex's location and his likely next position
Spiderman quickly took action to help out the military by firing a few rounds of his powerful webbing to render Alex immobilize; he web Alex into a cocoon again and blind him with the same webbing as well. This cause Alex to lose a full 5 seconds just to get himself free from Spiderman's accursed webbings, but such seconds lost were a lifetime opportunity for the Apache pilot as they open fire virtually all available weapon they have on their commanded Apache. 30mm munition punched through the web, missiles slam hard and detonate, it was the Fourth of July kinda fireworks display, and all of it is on Mercer. Several explosion later and Spiderman can see his would-be opponent is now falling off the building, though for some odd reasons, sustain only minor to not so serious wounds as Spiderman initially believed; for a guy that got hit by miniguns and rockets, it should be more like Swiss cheese or charcoal steak. Nonetheless, Spiderman can't have that man to plunder to the ground to his death, despite being a villain.
(Hmm… that military is busting our meal; take them out first! The best meat should always go last!)
Alex is a bit sceptical to the point where Mercer had to dispute his own beasty inner instinct, since it makes no sense to take out those bothersome military than to go after the man in a spider suit. He did however agree that if the military continue to pound him much further, he will lose too much biomass to sustain himself. Alex Mercer hastily correct himself in mid-air and performs what appears to be an air stomp as he zooms down like a meteor towards the ground floor, which quickly alarmed Spiderman at such questionable lunacy attitude.
Alex reach to the ground hard, his entire leg buried into the ground, sending powerful shockwave equivalent of a several payload of C4 detonation, causing any nearby electronic devices to explode and troops outside the said radius to be blast off their feet by the powerful shockwave that slammed against their chest. Those who were inside the radius however were toss into the air like a ragdoll. Alex quickly pull his leg out from the ground, grab the closes soldier that landed next to him, and in Spiderman's horror, consume the said soldier who is crying for mercy.
"No! Stop! Your fight is with me!" Spiderman reacted almost instantly seeing the hooded man just killed a living human being.
Spiderman's voice did not reach to Mercer's ear.
As Spiderman try to reach towards the ground level to help the US Army as fast as he could, he is helpless to bear witness the hooded man goes on a killing spree; Alex took the fallen weapon of M16 and unload the entire magazine against the US troops much more effective than the soldier who bravely serve the States despite many more of the same weapon used by the military is used against Mercer with ill-effect. Once emptied, Mercer toss the empty weapon against a US marine so hard that it shattered the poor guy's head to pieces, shocking the soldier next to his fallen ally. Alex continue to massacre the following troops, either brutally tear off their limbs in a spectacular gore fest and bloody glory, toss the limbless but alive soldier into the nearby helicopter bladed fan, which instantly kill the poor soldier and cause the Apache Helicopter to crash to the ground due to the bladed fan separated from the body. Alex were continued to be assaulted by more heavy gunfire which he turn his attention to one of the soldier closes to him, who foolishly believe he could take on a monster. Alex does a short sprint and karate kick that particular soldier to the ground, and to add insult and gore, Mercer turn the same soldier into a human surfing board, with blood and guts splatter all over the street before Mercer dislodge the mangle corpse towards the fellow soldiers.
"For the love of god, what have you done!?" Spiderman could only yell to himself seeing his opponent is far worse than any other villain he had faced.
As Spiderman finally reach to the ground floor, Mercer has killed almost half of the detach platoon of troops; US soldier all ran away screaming in fear were slowly picked off by Mercer Whipfist, nearby derelict car were picked up and toss to a nearby Apache to the ground, killing more US marine who would bravely engage Mercer with their crude but ineffective weaponry, slowly and brutally making their miserable life far worse than death, or outright consume the soldier as a whole without feeling remorse or pity. Several powered tanks moves in to attack Mercer, splitter Alex in half with its powerful Thermobaric cannon, though the wound quickly close up allowing Alex to switch his target to those powerful tanks. More cannons were fired, most of them missed Mercer by a hair, and eventually the only over powerful Thermobaric tank are either destroyed almost in seconds in Alex's hand (or in Spiderman's perspective, Blade) or by hijacking the tank and turn the military greatest weapon against themselves. Apache dives in in order to destroy the captured tank, only to be brought down by the all mighty Thermobaric cannons.
(Our meal didn't leave; it appear he is too concern of the well-being of the troops! Kill the last patch of reinforcement! A running meal is always good to taste!)
It wasn't long when 5 Blackwatch Super Soldier enter the playing field, and these version, covered in black, white and strips gold are new to Alex, as he had never seen a gold strips on any Super Soldier before. As soon as these Blackwatch monstrosities arrive, all 5 Blackwatch Super Soldier wastes no time attacking the Thermobaric Tank hijack by Mercer with their fist and legs. Surprisingly these attacks actually makes a dent to the tank than the previous version only did so little damage, and with five of them swarming the slow lumbering tank, Mercer had no choice but to exit out of the tank before the tank blows up and hastily distance himself away from those brutes. Explosion were assured, but with Alex manage to distance himself, he wondered if those brutes sustain any damage. From the looks of it, they appear unscathed by the explosion as they appear from within the burning inferno, no surprise there.
These types, as Mercer tried to recall within the memory node of a random scientist he had previously consume, memories pop out like downloaded information, with the bonuses' of his kills' painful scream; these were the next version GENTEK Super Soldier Project D-code, but they appear much more superior to the one he had last encountered. He could speculate that the version he fought before were a prototype stage of Blackwatch Super Soldier, and this version of Super Soldier must have been administered even more dosage of controlled Blacklight virus, augmented bones and cybernetically enhance brainwave to fully control the user before they turn their allies into sandbag practice, since their arms resembles Alex's own Muscle Mass. Their height alone is quite intimidating, and their limbs and body appeared to dwarf the regular Super Soldier Alex fought before. However, these version of Super Soldier appear to have the same problem with the last; their limited control over the Blacklight virus means they can go ballistic as easily as any infected being, and having that cybernetically enhancement on their head means the Blackwatch who volunteer to become these so called Super Soldier have to severely restrain themselves to limit their overall progress in order for them to remain on the Blackwatch side, and as such, gain little to zero mutation advantages found by the original Blacklight virus such as Alex J. Mercer.
Fighting them is like fighting the average Blackwatch Super Soldier; only they are far superior to the last version.
(Hmm… do we really have time to play Tango? Nope; JUST KILL THEM!)
Believing himself capable of helping these giant behemoth despite being fierce looking, Spiderman hop off from the wall of the Daily Bungle and landed himself on a ruin taxi cab piling up to form a wall of sort at the closes right most Blackwatch Super Soldier. The Super Soldier responded Spiderman's arrival, but did not respond hostilely against him; the Super Soldier's primary task is to wipe out all infected mutant and monsters in the area, and Spiderman isn't among the list.
Well, not now.
(Lookie; our meal is helping those baby soldiers! What is he; a super hero or something?)
All five Super Soldier sprint towards Zeus, each of them are ready to tear or maim Alex with close-quarters attack moves while Spiderman at the background leap into the air, landed himself on the top of the lamp post and support the soldier with his irritating webbings. Alex once again caught by these strong, durable alloy-like web, but he had work out how to easily tear these silk-like web with either Muscle Mass and Blade Mass. What he really feels annoyed is that his meal not only is now getting harder to reach, but also is helping those Super Soldier.
And ignoring these Super Soldiers can be a drag, seeing as their improve performance on strength, agility and durability is unquestionably high.
Mercer ignore his insane and useless instinct it dwell within him; Zeus sprint towards the Super Soldiers, with the same Muscle Mass and Blade Mass still up as fast as he can. The webhead who station himself between Mercer and the Blackwatch Super Soldier continue to spew more webbing against Mercer, causing the LWMD to evade it left to right. Zeus makes a big leap towards Spiderman position, only to have the Super Soldier intercept Mercer and grapple him in mid-air before the monstrous human ground pound Mercer hard on the ruined road. The Super Soldier waste no time to give Mercer a breathing space and continue to grapple him on the throat and slam in further to the ground multiple times at random direction before tossing the still alive Zeus towards his fellow Super Soldier members.
Alex needs to think of something fast before these Super Soldier break more than bones within him. Quickly with his free hand, he morph his hand back to whip and randomly whip towards the direction not crowded with Super Soldier. His action saved his life as the Whip Fist Biomass impale a lone soldier who was hiding the entire fight to the chest, and with a slight pull, causes Alex to change direction by swinging towards the lone soldier's direction. Reacted to Zeus's sudden action, the 5 Super Soldier sprint forward in hope to engage Mercer once he touches ground, while Spiderman tried his best to stay clear of the Super Soldier's 'ideal' mission.
Zeus made it on the ruin road, while consuming the poor lad who got impale earlier, but one bloody meal isn't enough to recover his loss Biomass. With the approaching 5 Super Soldier and the man who dons as a Spider, chances are the man in spider uniform will make a run when things get sour. Having consumed the greatest mind both scientist and military, he had to do the only thing he knew.
Alex Mercer turn tail and sprint into the streets leaving behind damage road left by his heavy footprint. Mercer sprint at an astonish 90mph, which amaze Spiderman but not the accompany Super Soldier. Despite being built like a tank with super human ingenuity, the Super Soldier's ain't an athlete type, and fail miserable to even try catching up on Mercer by foot. As the hooded man slowly fated into the horizon, Spiderman, who was catching up on the man in hood (thanks to web swinging the ruin streets) slow down as he waits for the Blackwatch troops to catch up; he wasn't sure if the Super Soldiers could even catch up with the folk hero of New York, let alone that man in a hood, so he took his own action and pursue this over powerful mutant of a freak.
It was then at the distance something hurling coming towards Spiderman. His Spider-Sense rang aloud like the siren blown from the lighthouse, but he wasn't ready at all; Spiderman got struck at this boulder-like rock, slam into his chest hard. At that moment Spiderman saw the man in hood again up close and personal, and this time his entire arms somehow transform into the boulder that slammed Spiderman hard. Landing at the street level with Mercer's heavy arm on top of Spiderman wasn't actually painless, and of course causing the hero of New York City came screaming in agony. Spiderman bit his lower lips to endure the pain he is experiencing, and after collecting enough strength, Spiderman spew web directly into Mercer's eyes, blinding the LWMD on the spot. Alex Mercer trash about flailing with the webbing spew by Spiderman buried deep into his retinal. Cursing aloud, Mercer was about to get this accursed webbing off his eyes, only to sense that Spiderman is making a run for it. Tearing the webbing out with demonic force (and literally gore out his eyes), the absolute furious Zeus move closer to Spiderman's likely position and punch the man don in spider hard on the face. The single overpowered punch renders Peter Parker speechless, and collapse to the grown, coughing out blood.
After having his eyes regenerate, Alex J. Mercer shows absolute no remorse on his down hunted victim; he pin Spiderman on the ground with one hand, and pound him with another. Despite using full strength, the man in spider uniform is surprisingly more durable than those puny human soldiers who can't take even his full drawn strength. Placing his meal hard on the ground and 'tenderizing' him on the shrapnel street had had cause severe pain to Peter Parker, unleashing agonising scream that echoes across the streets. His scream quickly alerted the approaching Super Soldiers, who quickly found Zeus 'preparing' his meal on an open street. One of the Super Soldier quickly intervene Mercer from claiming his prize with a stinging inhuman punch to the face, followed by a massive grapple by the same Super Soldier dealing significant damage before tossing Mercer off the street and ricochet off the wall of a ruin building. Quickly Mercer got u to his feet in order not to get caught unprepared as all five Blackwatch Super Soldier closes in. Out of five Blackwatch Super Soldier, one of them spotted the wounded Spiderman, and despite being a ruthless Blackwatch operative, this one Super Soldier carries Spiderman on both arm and turn to the opposite direction as the Super Soldier is making the run for it; his meal is about to be taken away, and the other 4 stood near Mercer like a formidable wall, ready to pound him more to the ground.
Completely enrage by the interference of the Super Soldier, Mercer was about to beat every single one of these Blackwatch nuisance with his sheer strength when he notice they are all closing in at all direction. He pause for a while when a sinister looking smile that hides rather well underneath the hood creeps across his face, The Blacklight Virus within Alex Mercer knew of his intention and immediately stir up massive amount of biomass across his body as if Mercer appeared to physically hurting himself when as quickly as it happen, brutal explosion-like effect effectively burst out releasing swarms of sharp tendrils by the hundreds. Caught right in the point of impact, the Tendril Barrage Devastator penetrates all four Super Soldier with a heartbeat. There was no warning, no alarm whatsoever as the 4 Super Soldier who were foolish enough to stand so close to Mercer were loudly tore apart by hundreds of extremely sharp and durable spear-like tendrils. The sharp tendril forcefully enter all four Super Soldier's body with little difficulties, tearing through their uniform and tore through the thick skin and cybernetic augmentation and exit out of their body to pierce through the air. Once the Tendril exceed maximum range, Mercer withdraw hundreds of tendril back, causing the near dead Super Soldier to suffer even more as the tendril drill back to Mercer; many of the Super Soldier were tore apart with limbs, organs, head and torso ended up at the different street all together.
The fifth and final Super Soldier who took Spiderman wounded form run with all his might, carrying the heavily injured folk hero over his shoulder while manages to get away from the Devastator range of effect, and assuming his party of four has been nothing more than mincemeat now. As the Blackwatch Super Soldier pass several streets, run over mutated civilian and almost got himself another fight with a pack of marauding Hunters, the lone Super Soldier finally got a needed wave signal to call in High Command, and immediately try to radio in help, or get some reinforcement.
"Command! This is Super Soldier from the 666th platoon! Our entire squad is decimated! We need immediate support; gunships, artillery fire, orbital bombardment, anything to get that fucking monster off my back!"
"Please hold; artillery bombardment already launch prior to your request."
"Wait...what?" The Super Soldier pause, when he heard thundering sound of artillery fire from one of many Blue Zone area echoed in the air, followed by a loud whistling sound. The nameless Super Soldier raises that question a little too late; as hundreds of explosive anti-tank shell are about to rain down the streets, the lone nameless Super Soldier realize this artillery fire wasn't meant for Zeus.
It was meant for the lone Super Soldier.
"HOLY FUCK!"
Massive explosion erupted like the fourth of July, pounding the Super Soldier and his apparent cargo to the ground. Detonation after detonation, massive explosion erupted one after another, the entire streets are literally filled with fire and death, little would wonder if anything is left alive. To contribute the destruction much further, nearby structure that also suffers the raining explosive shells immediately collapse to the ground drowning the area with fallen debris, fire and rocky shrapnel.
Alex Mercer arrives at the scene, half expected and half irritated that his plans to consume the man who dons as a spider could very well be slim; he wondered if ordering the artillery barrage was actually worth the trouble at all.
(Nice work asshole, now we can't even enjoy a fresh meat from a guy who have information about S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Alex ignores his persistence instinct and focus more on the wreckage itself. After a while his normal vision turns to thermal vision, hoping to scan the place of any life, especially the man.
He struck gold.
Apparently the foolish Blackwatch Super Soldier uses his own body to shield the wounded Spiderman, blocking explosive rounds and shrapnel to boulder size debris away from harm and as a result, both of them are in pretty bad shape, but Spiderman is his ticket to know what this S.H.I.E.L.D is capable off. Since he can't consume the Super Soldier until he knows how to get around, the man of spider may well be his last ticket on yet another brawl.
Shifting both arm into Muscle Mass, Mercer pick up various sizes of rubbles from the size of the study table to the size of a decommission transport bus. Within minutes Mercer eventually dig up the Super Soldier, clinging with his dear life, moaning and coughing.
The Super Soldier saw Mercer and his ghostly pale face and equally ghostly dead eye, and though the nameless Blackwatch man-like monster is grateful, the man still had to accomplish his mission.
Before the Super Soldier could even utter a word, Mercer decapitate the Super Soldier almost immediately with a Blade Biomass, grab his body and toss it aside; Super Soldier are immune to be consume still.
With the massive body of the Super Soldier out of the way, his meal is on full view; severely injured and unconscious, Mercer grab Spiderman by the throat, lifting the unconscious folk hero of New York City above his head.
(Finally! Our tasty meal! CONSUME HIM!)
Mercer hesitates at first, but if he is going to know what kind of threat S.H.I.E.L.D might pose to him, he needed to ultimately consume his victim.
"I know you can't hear me," Alex begins, his voice tone is forgiving, but filled with hate, "but forgive me for doing this; I need to know what you know."
Six sharp spear-like tendril spores at the back of Mercer's body with a clear signal to quell its unending hunger for more equally required biomass to be had, and information to be fed. Just before these sharp tendril could dig into Peter's flesh, the ground shock beneath Mercer, forcing the Blacklight monstrosity to balance himself. His mind curse inward, thinking it could be Hydra that is causing problem again.
It wasn't the monstrous Hydra at all; it was something else, and it wants Spiderman just as badly as Mercer wants him.
Powerful webbing suddenly shoots out from the ground, ensnare Mercer and Spiderman altogether. A giant claw in deep blue emerge from the ground and took Spiderman away, while more webbing are shoot up to ensure Mercer is still in a state of cocoon. Enrage and pissed that his meal is once again taken away by an unknown assailant, Mercer eventually burst open the titanium webbing with all his strength, irritated and annoyed by this accursed sticky webbing and silk strong webs.
What was even more surprise is the person who is responsible for this accursed webbing other than the man wearing as a spider is the creature at emerge from the ground. Though his meal is being overtaken, the creature that had surface earlier with Spiderman under its claws is rather monster like creature with terrible countless sharp teeth with equally disgusting tongue that lashes about around its face appears menacing. While the man who wore as a spider is clearly using clothes to conceal his identity under that spider suit, this one however isn't a suit at all; his entire body has the similarity of the Redlight virus Hunter monster, except this one isn't a Hunter at all. In fact, this one stands just as tall as Mercer, probably a head or two higher.
"You!" The human-like monster suddenly spoke up, "Spiderman is mine! And I will not have you kill off my nemesis without my say so!"
"Spider...man?" Mercer reply in a confuse state, his eyes stare at the man don as a spider under the creature's claw. His also rather surprise that this version of 'Hunter' actually talk.
"Did you live under a rock or something? The man you are about to kill is a folk hero, and I'm his ultimate villain!"
"I have no interest on knowing if he is a hero or not; he is my meal, and you will do well to hand over that man if you want to safe your skin." Mercer counters his apparent opponent, fist tighten.
"Heh, that's really rich; I got threaten by a mere human who thinks he can take on me!"
"Well brother, it only make much more sense if he really did have that set of claws and blade," another voice, coming from behind, alerted Mercer to another present of another monster; this time this monster appear rather skinny than the deep blue brute, looks rather soggy in appearance and in blood red too. It has equally sharp tooth and a menacing appearance, "I say we kill this man, so we can toy with Spiderman for our amusement!"
"A sound plan!"
As Mercer goes into his combat stance, the red ugly alien monster hisses aloud while producing a low chuckle while the blue counterpart toss Spiderman at the far sight of the street, ignoring the fact that Spiderman had existing wounds all over him. As the two alien freak grew closer, the two hideous duos briefly introduce themselves, "My name is Venom!"
"And I'm Carnage!"
"WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM!"
(KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!)
Annoyed and irritated both his primal instinct and the two duo alien freak, Alex Mercer prepare himself against two unknown opponent he had never encounter before. Up above the combatants below stood two human figure on the nearby rooftop looking down curiously at the scene, seeing Venom and Carnage are about to brawl against a living weapon of mass destruction.
"Dude, we should help them!" one of them argues.
"I know you're a little concern, but did you even see how that hooded man fight? He's like your dad Carnage and Sandman combine!"
"Well, we should at least help Spiderman get his ass out!" the previous one cried aloud, "I thought you're his twin brother or something!"
"For the last time, I'm his clone! Tgh, this is so not our day…"
Chapter 02 End!
Preview
Chapter 03 Viruses and Symbiote
It looks like Mercer had to deal with two alien-like Symbiote before he can get his prized meal. Will Earth's deadliest virus prevail? Or will the two alien Symbiote rule over Mercer? And who is that two suspicious man on the rooftop? Find out in the next chapter!
Marvel Crossover Reference!
Spiderman:-
-With great power, comes great responsibility!-
Strength:
-Wall-Crawling (his trademark spider power!)
-Superhuman Capability (Strength, Stamina, Speed, Durability, Agility, Reflexes, etc)
-Spider-Sense (anything from incoming attacks to imminent danger, Peter will receive a headache-induce sense that will warn him of danger)
-Webbing (Durable and stronger than steel, capable of carrying 120 pounds of weight per square millimetre of cross section)
-Aerodynamic evasive action (I'm pretty sure he can score gold medal if he enters the Olympic)
-Resistance to Chemical (but not immune)
-Psychic Blind Spot (Powers from Mindwipe after 'Brand New Day')
Weakness:
-Spider-Sense Disruption (temporally loses his Spider-sense capability as well as behaving rather sluggish in combat, as well as affected his web-slinging.)
-Anti-Venom Proximity (it is the only weakness versus any known Symbiote)
-Ethyl Chloride (highly vulnerable to… Pesticide? Really Marvel?)
History: The greatest hero hail in New York, with a mix of both good and bad reputation. Spiderman AKA Peter Parker gain spider-like power, strength and agility from a radioactive arachnid that later bit Peter when he was a student. The result causes his entire DNA molecule structure to fuse with that of the arachnid DNA resulting Peter Parker to gain arachnid-like superpowers. Initially, he believes that gaining superpower would lead him to quick fortune and fame, but when Uncle Ben died, his world collapse altogether. The last phrase he learn before Uncle Ben died was 'with great powers, comes great responsibility', the phrase which will forever haunt Peter Parker, and at the same time, reshape his way of utilising his unnaturally gifted powers. To this day, Peter uphold that promise he held dear in his heart; it is his moral code and his creed, that whatever happen in any parts of the world, if he is needed, he will do anything to ensure that such power be use responsibly.
VS Marvel Comics: Unlike the comics, this version of Spiderman did not engage the Marvel Civil War (or to be more precise, never happen) and that he had just return home after dealing with Dr Doom with a band of New Avengers (refer to Marvel Ultimate Alliance). He also gain a Psychic Blind Spot powers rather early from Dr Strange, giving the fact the Peter needed to hide his identity more firmly than in the comics. Mary Jane Watson never left nor being exchange for Mephisto and J.J. Jameson still hates Spideman while taunting Peter to get Spiderman doing wrongful act for his popularity (you know, same old J.J) In this timeline, after his battle against Dr Doom and are given permission to go home, he was shock to see his beloved city he help fight crime against has been reduce to a battle zone, occupied by US Army and the enigmatic Elite Blackwatch. To makes matters worse, anyone who enters New York will NEVER leave the island ALIVE.
Worth Taking:
01. Spider-Sense
Seeing how Spiderman are capable to outmaneuver his lethal hits only to receive a badly hit to the face, Alex Mercer has taken quite interest how this sort of thing happen. Perhaps this ability is worth assimilating?
02. Aerodynamic evasive action
Having superhuman capability is one thing, utilize every fibre and bone is another; Mercer is rather kin to learn how Spiderman can dive his sure-hit attacks (such as the Devastator) like a gracing swan, and receive a deadly blow to anywhere but his crotch.
Before everyone is going to mock me again, I've a small spoiler to those who think I'm a little unfair of these character selection; Mercer won't win against two simultaneous Symbiote attack as they are far too powerful as a fighting force, but that doesn't mean he can't defeat ONE. Who will die? I'll let you all to guess.
Oh, and guess who are those guys on the roof. The hint has been given, so the answer is rather simple.
Happy New Year lads!
