Disclaimer: I'm done, and having three working fics moving is not fun for the brain, no matter how much coffee I drink. Still, to those who sees blood every day… every now and then, it's probable because [Prototype 2] is coming out for the consoles… I don't have a console yet… so I'll just have to wait for June (hopefully as a birthday present). But for those who is going to play the game without me, don't tell me the spoiler or the ending to me… just don't. I wanna find out the ending by myself and play the game by myself. Still, that doesn't mean this fic is going to slow down, right? RIGHT?
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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. There is also a new addition 'consumption information' highlighted, so that important event, condition or incident will be marked like this while the one with new information regarding his target will be mark like this, Just to make this chapter more original.
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[Prototype] Operation Blacklight Purity
Chapter 03 -Viruses and Symbiote-
"The subject is wanted in connection with treasonous activities against the United States and her allies. As of last night, Alex Mercer is the number one terrorist threat in the United States." ―Lt. John Chen enquiring about Mercer
"Here's what's known: the subject can shift its body structure to an unknown degree. It can fashion portions of its body into a weapon, change its facial features and perhaps even imitate voices and mannerisms.
Long and short: it's a security nightmare." ―Raymond Basiti debriefing the marines about Alex Mercer
The island of Manhattan usually has its fair share of scary moment on movie theatre where diabolical monster or aliens came down and kill everything and the military arrive just a little bit late to put out the fire, and this usually means that whatever the monster or alien it maybe, it would be too weak to fight back, especially after its constant rampage and has been seriously injured by the military. In some movie cases both alien and monster would duke it out and causing massive damage to both unknown monstrous creature that the Earth military can simple walk in and clean up the mess and proclaim themselves heroes. However, this case does not apply on what is going to happen on the island of Manhattan itself.
As both manmade virus and the alien Symbiote creature duke it out, both Alex Mercer and Venom clash together in a brutal fist fight, exchanging blows one after another, all of which both monstrous creature clash each other at the face, slam their body to the ground leaving crater in its wake, smash each other with obstacle that are later turn as temporary weapons and bashing each other with it and crushing each other's body to unimaginable scale of damage at one another. Each exchanging blow made by Mercer against Venom is extremely excruciating to normal human standard, but the dense and yet surprisingly fast moving creature like themselves forego anything despite their sheer size, as multiple hits to the torso or at the head with Mercer's powered arm hinder little against these blue monster, only to have it delivered at the other end. However, the real surprise did not end there; Mercer is shocked to see how Venom can simple materialise weapon out of his own arm, just like Mercer would, but with a whole new level. Venom constantly uses his body 'liquid' form to ooze out potentially large amount of exude body fluid which in turn change part of his 'shadow' as a weapon as it materialise vicious teeth-like 'fish' that is hunger for flesh. Stunned, Alex try to edge out of these 'shadow' attack by sprinting forward and randomly perform various close combat that had pin Venom to the wall. More blows were exchange and more blood spew out from both side, though Venom appears to be getting weaker. By the time Alex had the next opportunity to consume Venom, his Blacklight Tendril acted up and did not seize the moment, allowing Carnage to suddenly ambush Mercer out of nowhere from behind with a mighty claw attack that dig deep into Mercer's body, followed by a massive grapple around Mercer, slamming Mercer with German suplex at least twice before leaving the daze Living Weapon again in his grasp. Before Mercer knew what's going to happen next, Carnage took a huge bite at Mercer's shoulder, spewing massive amount of bloodlike sustains oozing out of Mercer's body. Alex Mercer scream aloud as he wrestle the creature to get off him only to have Carnage pull a huge chunk of biomass (Mercer no longer consider his body as flesh, but biomass), causing the Blacklight monster to yell at the top of his lungs (if he still have lungs). He tries everything to get away from Carnage when the red Symbiote creature to suddenly flee into the shadow allowing Mercer to go free. With the red monster disappeared out of sight, it wasn't long when Venom emerge and continue to confront Zeus and continues its assault, fully healed and more sinister and malevolent than ever. Alex however, is getting frustrated, and angry.
Just like Spiderman, which Mercer recently heard such name from blue monster who identified itself as Venom, it also appears to be well capable of producing large quantity of silk-like sustains from his wrist which is extremely sticky and are as hard as steel, but by an immense scale. Its movement speed is also frightening, considering that Venom can both dodge and strike back Mercer's initial blow is something Mercer had never experience before. Despite how much power Alex had to draw in to actually hit Venom, his hits are either hit or miss situation; at one point Alex manage to land a brutal hit at Venom to the face, only to have Venom return the favour with his own, but when Alex tried again, Venom dodges Alex's hit and counterattack Mercer to the chest. If strength and speed are not a concern enough, then there's Venom endurance. Unlike most infected monster, Venom dense body strength can withstand Mercer's pull drawn strength, and appears only to have an effect if used Muscle Mass ability. This dense defence also double as a regenerating purposes, as Mercer witness how Venom's lost limb are frequent replace just as Alex would, but what makes Mercer's own viral Blacklight Virus pale in comparison is how Venom can generate these healing properties without the use of external biomass to sustain itself, unlike Mercer who had to find some wondering infected to consume in order to keep up against Venom. Despite these healing factors, whenever Venom had sustained heavy damage and fatal wounds, Venom require resting once and for a while since its regenerative power seemed to have limits of its own. To make matters worse, Alex's Devastator, Tendril Barrage Devastator, Groundspike Devastator and even the brutal Critical Pain Devastator has absolutely nowhere near as effective against the Venom; the brutal blue figure monster simple dodge Alex's super with absolute ease, which makes almost no sense how something as huge as Venom can actually dodge the sure hitting Tendril Barrage Devastator.
By the time Alex Mercer notice this unknown traits that his entire arsenal is completely useless against this new terror, Alex is resort to safe his entire Devastator strength and try to battle fight Venom with the best of his ability, morphing both his hands into Muscle Mass powers; Claw and Blade prove ineffective against beings that can regenerate lost limbs.
Of course, Venom is not the only problem Alex had to face; Carnage is always backing up Venom whenever the giant blue monster is taking far too many hits and vice versa. Despite not as huge or muscular as Venom, much less durable, Carnage is fast, more watery sustain than the other monster in blue. Carnage also capable of forming his arms into a weapon, spew webs from his wrist and crawl on walls, but unlike Venom however, Carnage would sometimes turn himself into a biological weapon by itself; while Venom can turn his body into a weapon at some extend, Carnage can outright turn his entire body structure into one, melt away its 'solid' sustains from the scene only to appear right in front of Mercer to deal heavy blow at Zeus in a form of blades or hooks that appear out of nowhere. While Mercer theorise that Venom rely on his brute force and Carnage rely on his overall speed, it appears that both are exact same being, albeit different tactic and constant swapping shows they are not as invincible as they appear to be.
Both utilize the same strategy to bail each other out in a cowardly or genius tactics, and with their regenerating powers, any loses are easily renewed. Mercer initially believe he can edge out if he can hurry on and kill one of them, but like most unfair brawl, Alex did not gain any advantages over this fight, and only suffer more blows from the red monster or the blue Hunter-like creature. While Mercer tries again to counter Venom's attack, Carnage appear just behind Mercer and whip his hand-like tentacle and grab Mercer at the neck, choking the Living Weapon of Mass Destruction while allowing Venom to place a brutal raw punch into Mercer's abdomen repeatedly.
"You're tough, but even you have limits!" Venom bellow with excitement, landing another hit towards Alex's face while being held up by Carnage. "By the time we're through with you, you'll be nothing more than a fated memory!"
(His right, so get you're sorry ass out and try something you haven't tried yet!)
Frustrated, annoyed and angry, Mercer bellow aloud as he breaks free from Carnage's grasped while breaking his own arm to do so. Despite breaking Carnage's hand, the red monster did not yelp or squeal in pain, just looking at it with pure amazement. With Mercer broke free from his captors grasp, Mercer leap into the air, giving him enough room to breathe for a brief of time, only to notice both Carnage and Venom stare in awe; perhaps these red and blue monsters never seen another monster leap this high before?
"Check it out; he jump up like the Hulk… except he can't jump high enough to actually cross country." Carnage said in amazement.
"Why are we standing here then?" Venom argue, "Let's chase him now before he starts growing wings!"
"Be patience, Brock, we're just here for our little amusement. What little would it hurt to have a fun over a small painful brawl?"
Despite being so high up (Mercer just leap well over 5 stories high building), he could hear their conversation just as easily as someone whisper into his ear. This gives another good brief of time to gain names, such as Hulk and Brock.
I'll give them a surprise of my own, thought Mercer, as he prepares his destructive Dive Bomb attack.
After a short brief of gliding in the air, he aims down, judging latitude and degree directly at the blue monster named Brock (which Mercer believe to be a human name, the name Venom is an alias for his monstrous being, just like Alex Mercer is being coined Zeus by the military) before he gather all his remaining biomass and launches towards the ground headlong into his target. Before both Symbiote realise that their target is coming at them like a speeding bullet, Venom receive the greatest head bonk ever. Alex and Venom's head both collide at the speed of sound, and in micro seconds Mercer can identified at least 27 bone snap with gruesome fleshy crunch from Venom; his cranium and his entire spinal cord cracks at such impact, while Alex receive none (Mercer has no bone at these point; his entire body is consist of biomass after all). But it did not end there; not only did Mercer 'buried' Venom's head into his own body and soon after buried everything including himself into the ground, massively powerful shockwave occurred and blew Carnage off his feet while smashing the surrounding window as if a powerful detonation has just took place. The powerful shockwave at close proximity had send the red Symbiote creature to collide into a nearby derelict taxi cab before crashing into the wall and onto the ground. Mercer got up from his target, dust himself for a while giving himself a well earn smile seeing how mess up Venom body currently is. There is no way that that blue monster could have survive that; if a Blackwatch Super Soldier meet with a similar position, his head would have reach ground level before his headless body crash into the ground
"One down, one to go," he uttered out, his priority target now locked on to Carnage.
Strangely enough, despite being subject of being collide and slammed into the wall which is nowhere near as damaging as a full blown hit from Alex's fist, Carnage shows great pain, especially his audio receptor, "My ears! Aaarrrgghhh! TOO. MUCH. PAIN!"
Mercer did not see the logic why Carnage is in pain, so long as he is now vulnerable to attacks, he dismiss the possibility of any weaknesses. He fixes his arm a bit as it appear to have dislocated after the dive bomb assault with a loud crunch, flexing about before he clutches his hand to a fist, massing his Blacklight power back into a Muscle Mass. Mercer took a few steps forward toward Carnage when Mercer felt a heavy tug underneath him; something must have stop him from moving. Mercer tilts his head below…
…And saw the giant blue arm, held tight at Mercer's leg. Mercer's eyes trail the source towards the mutilated body of Venom, which to his surprise, is still alive as the Symbiote monster is healing itself using its own restorative power, though not as fast as Mercer would by consumption. The monster in blue colour, despite having its skull crush and its head partially buried into its body beneath the Earth emerge mortally wounded and yet still breathing, impressing Mercer of its survivability that despite all odds had stake against it. Tired, but not beaten yet, Venom still had enough strength, resilience and endurance to stop Mercer from approaching Carnage without falling into a state of shock or fall unconscious. It utters no word, safe for some heavy breathing. Mercer initially believe a good kick to the face would be enough to render Venom down, but after several strikes onto Venom's face did nothing but buying time for Carnage, Alex is compel to forcefully brought down his free feet with his entire strength onto Venom's wrist in an attempt to break free. A loud bone snap and Venom bellow out, but that did not cause Venom to loosen his grip from Mercer. Alex brought down his feet again and again, causing Venom to yelp in pain more and more until the monster in blue finally release its captive victim once it falls unconscious due to sheer pain. With so much damage done, he should have just consume Venom right away, but his own Blacklight Virus still cannot do so for some reason.
(We can't eat that; and not because we're picky eaters! Go after that red monster first!)
Mercer turn his attention to Carnage, who is still bellowing the pain it still endure. Fist tighten and took several steps forward, Alex is ready to throw in a mix bag of punch and kicks against Carnage…
…when suddenly Mercer pauses and stares down at the shadow overshadowing him.
Two people… on the roof?
Alex makes a sharp turn and his lock sight stares straight up, seeing two person that also dressed as spiders like Spiderman (perhaps one of them, as the other appears to be a Symbiote like Venom and Carnage). The two men on the roof who is taking their time studying Mercer's capability knew their welcoming appearance somehow appears overstayed. Somehow for some strange reason, he had not notice these two when he leap up over the building, suggesting one of them may have cloak themselves.
"Uh-oh, bail out! Bail out!" one of them quickly reacts, pulling the other one's hand.
"No, we must help those two!" the opposite respond, shaping its human-like hands to dagger size claws, with a set of razor sharp teeth.
"You must be mad to think you can beat him! Strength in numbers! And his outnumbered us by sheer strength!"
The one that grew razor sharp fangs lament in frustration, "Tsk, I hate it when you're right!"
Though Mercer had little interest in idle chat from the two guys above, he did however notice something that one of them are carrying that looks human. Mercer took a quick look at where Spiderman is before only to find nothing but busted car and crumbling rubble. Alex snap his glare back to the two man on the rooftop, furious and annoyed. They had my lunch; my hard fought lunch!
(NO! Stop them! Kill them if necessary, but we cannot sacrifice our entire time to find him again!)
For once, Alex agrees his inner instinct; if he allows Spiderman to escape again, there will be no chance to learn what kind of military wing by the name of S.H.I.E.L.D may present itself. With his target change to the ones above, both men in dress and appeared like spiders could feel their impending doom.
"Uh-oh, looks like he found out more than us!"
Before Mercer goes after the two unknown assailants, Carnage fully recover whatever it is he is suffering, and he goes on a rabid rampage, slashing its sharp claws bellowing inhuman shriek that would normally instil fear to normal humans. But Mercer isn't a human, not anymore he is. Despite wanting to go after the two guys on the roof and get Spiderman back, Mercer knew he won't go far before these creatures strike him down.
(Forget about that Red monster! Just go after that flesh meat! HURRY!)
Following his inner instinct's direction, Alex sprint across the street and did not stop his speedy traits even though he is about to collide with the building where both men in spider outfit and appearance is. The moment both men sees the Living Weapon about to head-on collide the building, Mercer rushes up the building, displaying his ability to run up the wall, not scaling up it. Each foot he place on the wall produces cracks, as Mercer uses his entire leg power to lift him up as human would for running on the field. Both men were too shock to move, amaze by such skill despite that their doom is approaching. When Mercer finally reach the end of the wall and about to seize Spiderman by force, strong webbing came from below interrupt Mercer's movement and flung the Living Weapon to lose his footing and sending Alex to ricochet off the wall on each opposing streets before landing with a loud thump. Mercer got up, grab hold onto the strong spider web-like silk and tear it with his own bare hands, having enough of being toyed with a fitting anger on his face. He completely ignores his crazy instinct, and launch himself towards Carnage, this time with a surprise in hand. As Carnage drop his webs and charge headlong towards Mercer with his razor talon at the ready with claws and teeth itchy to feel the flesh of Mercer, the Blacklight monster quickly metamorphosis his body into a Full Armour Biomass; a monstrous metallic biomass shape like a medieval black knight armour (if that black knight fall from several thousands of stories high and poorly maintain it) that covers up his entire body from head to toe, appeared insect-like and incredible dense. Mercer didn't particularly like to activate this armour as it sacrifice speed for weight, power and defence, and usually reserve this power against a full battalion of tanks, a pack of Hunters or against a single Hunter Leaders. Carnage mentality did not progress the changes of Mercer's body and when it clawed or sink its teeth into his victim, Carnage is immediately offended by the sound of biomass-like metal grinning into its claw and its razor sharp teeth, causing Carnage to quickly administer its prideful talons. Without giving the monster a rest, Mercer with his Full Armour Biomass quickly execute his attacks with Hammerfist Biomass, slamming Carnage to the ground again and again, burying Carnage as he hits cement, metal pipes and virtually anything beneath the Earth. Carnage somehow display great pain again, especially when Mercer land a blow where metal would collide with his own. Using this apparent weakness, Mercer continue to tenderize Carnage near metal surface, and lift the red monster up just so it could tenderize on another metal surface, weakening Carnage greatly. In fact, at each hit Mercer could see a human underneath that reddish liquid, almost like the Symbiote has a fix host.
Greatly weaken and its auditory hearing on a brink collapse, Carnage with its final ounce of strength manage to slip past Mercer to the side and latch on top of the Living Weapon, its sharp talon continue to claw into Mercer's head with little to no effect. Carnage continue to attack his enemy knowing, it no longer think rational and only acted in instinct, and notwithstanding the fact that it is losing. Having piggyback for the last time, Carnage who is latching on top of him after much swinging and wavering around like a predator idiot forced Mercer into his own hands, literally. After a precise German Suplex on Carnage cranium, Alex Mercer quickly works fast and hold him around its neck, ensuring that the red monster do not escape while giving a wonderful choke across its neck. Carnage continue to lash about, arms and legs swinging around and its speech are completely alien, though most likely due to the sheer strength Mercer has applied around its neck. Having enough of the red creatures antic attacks, Mercer and his captive creature in hand decides to give Carnage a free ride by wall-running towards the nearest building while deactivating its armour biomass to ensure his weight does not hinder his speed, and up Mercer went and continue running upward with the helpless Carnage continue to trash about while gasping for air. By the time Mercer ran out of place to run up, Mercer took another big leap into the air, morph back his armoured Biomass and his duel arms back to Muscle Biomass form before finally gives Carnage a brutal Piledriver to Earth.
Carnage, meet cement. Cement, meet Carnage.
The effect is instantaneous. The two men on the roof watch in awe as Mercer decides to Piledriver Carnage all the way down from several hundreds of feet in the air and down to the ground in less than 5 seconds. Massive explosion of blood, gore and dust soon followed.
Two men on the roof had their jaws drop open, seeing how the red Symbiote were brought down towards the ground by the Living Weapon in the most cruellest ways possible. Mercer didn't simple pulverize Carnage into the ground like what Mercer did to Venom via skull bashing headbutt; Mercer utterly destroys Carnage. In fact, when Mercer Piledrive Carnage into the ground equivalent of a speeding artillery shell, the red Symbiote retreat to parts unknown, leaving the human form of Carnage to take the blunt. The human form of Carnage, known as Cletus Kasady only took a full 3 seconds notice on what's going on before the last thing he sees is his last. While in the messes of blood and gore, limbs and inner organs splatter across the crater, Mercer lift up what appears to be Cletus's remaining head, his cranium cracks might hole and brain matter ooze out of his ear, left eye dangling out of its socket and the other eye moves around in rapid speed with his mandible hanging in a gruesome position, and Mercer admired his work, smirking evilly. Soon after Mercer did what was natural to him, and to the horror of both men, the Living Weapon of Mass Destruction utterly consumed it. Almost immediately after consumption, Mercer's head begin to pound violently, with new information to feed on.
-Cletus Kasady AKA Carnage Point of View-
The memory of us had is very blurry at best, but Venom and I had been battling for the last 2 weeks nonstop against zombie hordes of monster who had intrude into our underground territory. Monster from various sizes had given us entertaining and yet challenged moment as a supervillain, and I don't really think we could do much better as it is. Giant monstrous Symbiote-like beings with tiny eyes but equally sharp fangs and claws made us believe that these creature is a Symbiote in nature, except that these monster is nowhere near as powerful as we are, or resilience. They do however appear very organized unlike us Symbiote, but Venom and I are willing to look past that.
I do not seem to remember when we had a break, as more of these fleshy intruders begin to flood our path for too long. We claw our way and munch down a few of them, despite being rotten meats to begin with. They also seemed to be carrying viral outbreak viruses, but the Symbiote which held us up consumed that matter nonetheless. It gives us strange temporally powers, and the things we can do is brief, but we resort not to overstuff ourself with their kind; we Symbiote had pride for being the only pure breed of alien virus.
Strange how these monsters serve another being who call herself MOTHER. She appears human, look appetizing (though maybe because of Venom strange habit to consume woman that had inhabit some god-awful traits into me during birth), and she has the WORST dialogue line ever. All she wants is her son, her revenge and her children, and that these infected monster is part of her children. We did worst things in our entire career as villains, but this bitch takes the cake… literally.
We were about to murder that bitch when massive amount of bloody red mist cloud the entire underground network; Venom blame this on me just because I'm red in colour, but the origin of that mist came from above ground. If this is Spiderman's idea of getting us out, well he had to try better. MOTHER didn't like the red mist though, and she keeps on banging the underground vault so hard that the ceiling cracks and sunlight drove in. Several big body Symbiote monster escape up above and we can hear cannon fire and gunshot very clearly. Venom and I agree we should get out before that military bastard comes down in full force.
We hid most of the time underground, though Venom blame it all on Spiderman and his clone for no reason. Scarlet Spider had nothing to do with this, but it all makes little sense not to kill them.
We sense another Symbiote… on the surface. Toxin didn't evacuate? Perhaps it's time we end this rivalry once and for all.
As we approach the surface, we can feel heavy tremor pounding up above, we could sense heavy fighting above ground all the way down here. What on Earth is going up there?
Then we both saw Peter once again dress as Spiderman on one of those service dump gate, fighting someone with grey hooded jacket. Venom reacted violently.
This is so going to be exciting.
-Carnage's Point of View Ends-
Mercer gasps for air as the information from Cletus hotwired into his brain as well as his decease informer's mental scream that tried to penetrate his skull, as if in an effort to escape. Despite having consume so many people, innocent or otherwise, new information regarding about his target is never stress-free, though it did without any lack of benefits. As he finished gasping for air, the grey hoody figure rose up from his kneeing position offered a straight face to himself. Alex Mercer also noticed that Carnage linked Spiderman as Peter Parker, as if both men are the same person he is trying to consume. Perhaps this information would prove useful indeed.
Mercer stood up and notices something else which is entirely new to him; it appears that Cletus remaining head held a bit of these so-called Symbiote matter, and after consumption, spore two large appendage at the back of his body. These two black tendrils with reddish pulsing glob end with a bone-like spear as long as his hand (perhaps longer, since he only thinks it's the same length as his hand) and a medium size hook on the tilt. This version of tendril is as big as his own arm and twice as long move like most of his lesser known tendril that spore out to feed, though this one seemed to give off a thick layer of ooze coming from the tip of spear, black and greenish in colour. Both tendrils had these dangerous looking bone blade, and as Alex experiment a bit, it acted like an independent arm which he had little to control, but focusing them to move is quite simple by applying his will over it. In more ways than one, Alex Mercer had gain 2 additional arms spore out of his back, more if he choose to apply his accumulated evolution mass into it. His additional limbs would sometimes hang over his shoulder, giving an appearance of two giant snakes giving off an intimidating look over his enemies.
Mercer likes it already.
But other than gaining new limbs to play with, he also have two new names to call out; looking upward again, those two men on the roof had not move away or flee when they had the chance, and both descent towards the ground empty handed, both on their combat stance, ready to fight against Alex Mercer. The grey hooded man-made monster smirks at them, not because he is overconfidence, but because both of them left Spiderman broken form on the roof. Mercer is going to get hold on his primary target once he finished with them, killing them through brutal force or tenderize them for consumption. He also knows that just like Spiderman, these two had some kind of spider powers similar to the mask hero in spider uniform. Any additional powers would very be unlikely. His mind replays the detail of Cletus life, and eventually knew who to call them.
"Toxin… Scarlet…" Mercer said openly, "Give me what I want, and I'll forget what happen here."
"Forget what happen? You just killed more than a dozen troops, destroyed armoured tanks and you just happen to kill Carnage, a supervillain!" Scarlet said in protest, pointing his finger filled with authority, "Not to mention you just EAT his head! That's messed up! If we let you go and do whatever the hell you do, you'll end up doing the same thing! I cannot tolerate such notorious activity in MY neighbourhood!"
"I maybe young and despite being a host of a fellow officer, everything I see you scream out discrimination! Despite having more than my share of brutal fights and encounter, you are the worst thing I've seen in my entire time." Toxin also shares his views, growing talons and claws out of his hands and mouth respectively, "Despite that Carnage is dead, his legacy will live on in me!"
(Oh brother, this hero/villain thing is getting old; we don't need to hear all of this!)
"I love to stay and chat," Mercer reply to his inner self (though both superheroes believe he is talking to them) "but I guess you're right. I'll make this quick."
Mercer end his speech while massing his Blade Biomass on the left and Claw Biomass on the right power while adding Full Armour Biomass to fully protect himself, his extra limbs (which he now calls it Tendril Spear Biomass due to the nature of its appearance) prepare itself for the fight, "I'll give you one last chance; surrender Spiderman and I'll forget what just happen here. He is my ticket-"
Mercer did not finish his sentence, as the fully healed Venom bellow out from his position and spew massive amount of web against Mercer. The grey hooded monster is once again caught off-guard and quickly became cocoon in matters of seconds while Toxin and Scarlet Spider jumped upon seeing Venom resort on spewing webs against Mercer. Even with such powerful webbing, Venom can see how Mercer reacts by attempting to break the cocoon that imprisons him. Venom switches his view towards the two heroes on the streets, snarling aloud as if he is considering his choice. Both Toxin and Scarlet Spider froze at the snarling monster, thinking that Venom is going after them, but what Venom roars out surprised them.
"What are you pukes doing!?" Venom bellow again, spewing out greenish saliva, "Help me keep this guy in place!"
Toxin and Scarlet is a little dumbfounded, but quickly nod to each other and did just that; three webbing coming from different sources help restraint Mercer in place. Despite having superhuman strength, it is almost impossible for Alex to free himself even with Muscle Biomass power due to having three costume heroes and villains doing the same thing against him. The other nasty disadvantage being cocoon is that the massive amount of web that had trap Mercer in place is slowly cooking him up, causing the Living Weapon of Mass Destruction to become more ferocious to freeing himself for his own survivability.
"Venom…" Toxin said, trying to search for suitable word. All he can come up is only one. "Thanks…"
"We're not out of the woods yet…" Venom reply with a loud cough, his right hand is place on his hips, "we should get out of here, before that thing bust out with a fitting rage."
Scarlet did not respond, even if he did, it won't be funny at this point; Venom had made temporary alliance before in their struggle for survive to take down powerful foe, and it won't be the last. With all of his jokes toss aside and his humour barely toss out of the window, Scarlet simple nod at Venom's opinion, "We need to get Spiderman off the streets and to a hospital nearby…"
"Assuming there is a hospital which is not crawling with those infected monsters." Venom response.
"What should we do about this… guy?" Toxin remarks, pointing at the massive cocoon that held Alex Mercer for the moment, "Shouldn't we be dealing him?"
"You're not an idiot Toxin, even that host officer he so willing to imbue with you would agree with that," Venom point out, "It takes two full grown Symbiote to squeeze this grey hoody guy out, what can a less-matured Symbiote and a clone of Parker can do against him?"
"…Point taken."
Meanwhile… inside the Helicarrier...
Every key officer and those who were deeply involved in this operation who is now watching the live feed using the military spy drone bear witness the living horror walking known under the guise of the deceased scientist Alex Mercer, who the military had now alienate him as the most dangerous terrorist in the world under the codename 'Zeus'. The live feed video broadcast at the giant monitor to all US officers and Blackwatch operative in the room displaying the massive mayhem on Manhattan Island with Mercer as the main antagonist who happen to have just murdered almost all of the overall garrison team as well as those from the strike team that were send in. The destruction of the entire platoon last for as long as 5 minutes; 5 minutes is all it takes before everything turn to absolute total chaos; demoralize US troops runs away from the hopeless fight, most of them who were station at the central of Manhattan flees without a thought. Fellow officers who is still alive on the scene fair no better than their lackey counterpart; their chain of command were lost due to the demoralize troops in the area, most of these fellow officers request permission to retreat rather than asking permission to get more troops in. With tons of voice requesting to retreat only increase conflicting orders between battle-harden troops and those who were freshly deployed on the Red Zone, forcing the Blackwatch troops to take the difficult battle without the aid of the US marine. Multimillion dollar equipment and firepower were destroyed to an unrecognized scrap, tanks that were on the scene are quickly hijack by Zeus and turn everything upside-down as it turns the military greatest asset against themselves.
Almost everything the military men who were train for months in their barracks in both close combat and range combat did not help them to prepare this kind of intense battle; most recruit who were send into the hot zones to battle terrorist and defending a distance country in the name of America always consider themselves fighting a tough and rough battle, but this battle in their own turf in these proud United States of America becomes alienate that even those who enter the most brutal training camp are not prepared for this kind of assault, especially against a Living Weapon of Mass Destruction. If there are some freshmen who survive Zeus's wrath, they might feel envy to those who station on the eastern country, where it looks like paradise compare to the horror they all had to face here,
To everyone's surprise however, the city folk hero Spiderman was, as per say, around the neighbourhood when the battle occurred, and the man in spider uniform try his best to outfight the man who had just kill well over a battalion worth of man and military hardware before knowing that this is way out of his league. Still, like most costume heroes, Spiderman resist the idea to surrender to fate or run away from a potential villain that is tearing his neighbourhood to two. Nick Fury and his fellow officers, as well as a number of US officers is rooting for Spiderman's victory in their heart, though they all know that Spiderman lack the necessary power to go toe-to-toe against Mercer. The only member who is scratching their head on who this mask hero is is the Blackwatch goons, who had alienate the current culture of mask hero in bright, if not colourful costume who would save the world from certain destruction.
Basically, the Blackwatch members have been living under a rock.
Nick Fury who among many officers witness how much destruction Zeus possessed, and as the live feed continues to air, the 5 fast moving Super Soldier, which belongs to the Blackwatch agents moves in to battle Mercer. They were fairing rather well against the LWMD, even with the assistance of Spiderman. Despite the Super Soldier's best performance, Mercer escape for a brief moment before slamming himself against Spiderman, as the US officer soon realize that the man wearing a spider costume were the primary target Zeus had set up. Even though the five Super Soldier did arrive in time to rescue the man in a spider uniform, Mercer outsmart all of them and kill all four Super Soldier in the progress using one of Mercer's signature super attacks. That is where the spy drone is destroyed as the drone is too close with Mercer's Devastator attack, effectively cutting the video link.
Almost everyone who watch the live feed knew well enough the danger which Zeus represent as he is not a fictional character made up by the Blackwatch; his very existence is a threat that must be remove or risk untold millions of lives lost by Mercer alone as well as other infected monster. The scarred overweight US officer begins to discuss with his fellow US officers regarding their available option to quickly end Mercer's threat as well as whatever infected monster in the Reds, which all of them agreed to use any nuclear weapons as a possible option to end this threat once and for all. This option for using nukes to destroy Mercer however did not meet the agreement from Nick Fury and his fellow officers, as the use of nukes is usually the final resort if the solution did not present itself favourable and it required to evacuate civilians away from immediate nuclear explosion blast, something which Blackwatch would generally disagree on for they fear of those infected civilian may contaminate other populace outside of the quarantine zone.
"No, the use of nuclear weapons is not an option. There is a much better way to reclaim an intact city than to raze the city to ashes just because of one man and a horde of horror freaks." Nick Fury quickly intervene, puffing out smoke from his favourite Cuban cigar.
"It is the only option we have, and we will gladly initiate Operation Firebreak again if the situation did not improve. We will simply tell the media the same spinning story we always do, and they'll believe it even if we had to nuke Washington DC if the outbreak goes too severe." The scarred US officer angrily reply. "If we cannot contain this threat with conventional weapons, it is high time we introduce one that could!"
Nick Fury didn't like one bit regarding those lines, as if this officer had something in his sleeve and had plenty of good cards to drop. The problem is, is any of these cards which the officer hold are any good, and if so, is any of it a trump card? Nick Fury had already known that one of these so called cards is nuclear weapon, and he does not want to know what the other cards may hold.
He need to introduce some other equally powerful allies that may go toe-to-toe with Zeus, or perhaps even more so that would hinder the military from going nuclear barrage on poor little New York.
"Then may I suggest calling some favours?" Nick begins, smiling at the scarred officer, taking the liberty to place two of his feet on top of the table.
The scarred officer watches with great disgust, "Favour? What favour?"
"This is S.H.I.E.L.D after all, and unlike you US military or your Black goons, we have our own Living Weapon of Mass Destruction that doesn't involve killing civilian or ruining multimillion dollar equipment's. Instead, they are more like heroes with extraordinary powers."
"You're referring to those?..." the black and white uniform Blackwatch Elite soldier with a helmet that looks like a falcon spoke out, addressing at the picture frame of Spiderman. "Professionally speaking, even a newly administered Super Soldier can do better and fair much more than a man in a stupid spider uniform."
"Ah, but they are others, more lethal than the man in spider," Nick Fury reply with great confidents, "some wield the power of cosmic itself, while few have the power change weather, freeze target or even become more powerful overtime. Spiderman here is praise for his swift movement and quick strike, so it's understandable that he wasn't up to task against an actual living atomic bomb."
"You make them sound like they could pop out from some jack-up comic book any minute." The man with the falcon helmet reply, crossing his arms, generally frowning at such ridiculous idea, "surely someone in this station understands that brute force is the only option we have left-"
"Hold that phone Mr Bird," Nick quickly reply, since he did not get Raven's name, he simple address it by appearance, "but before you actually start putting your mouth in some guys lap, I suggest you shut you're pie hole and listen to my proposition."
"Oh, I'm listening," the Elite Blackwatch men said, before pulling his sidearm and aim it at the Colonel, causing the guards and automaton system to react. The Elite Blackwatch slowly glares around his surrounding, seeing the frantic movement of the sentries and the troops aiming at Raven. The man merely smiles under his eagle-shape helmet, "Unfortunately, my gun disagree with whatever jackass idea you had. Hero or not, if it isn't human, it's my damn business to put them all to sleep, in a body bag."
"Pretty gutsy for a guy to pull a gun and pointing it at me."
"Heh, what can I say? I love my job; I get to point my gun and shoot civilian to the face, dance around his sorry corpse before putting more holes in it before I blame it all to those sorry ass Marine next to me."
Nick Fury didn't particularly like his reply; either he is joking or being truthful is a frightening question hanging in his mind. After what Black Widow could gather about this enigmatic military branch that even the pentagon or the President of the United State has no knowledge of its existence, the Blackwatch military branch is anything but pleasantry. All they know is that the Blackwatch is some kind of military branch which specialise on dealing with biohazard abnormally, and these branch will be willingly to kill anyone they all believe to have infected with any and all known and unknown source of infection. Nick shudders as a mere infection would likely be your last; anyone got a nasty fever? Bullets in between the eyes! Anyone got an AIDS? More Bullets, make Swiss cheese out of 'em! Anyone got a nasty biohazard infection? Grenade Launcher, no need to send to ER! Anyone got a nasty biohazard infection that could spread like wildfire? Artillery Bombardment just to be on the safe side!
The more Nick Fury thinks about it the more ridiculous it sound.
"Captain, lower your gun, please! This is no time for a standoff!" One of the GENTEK lab scientist urge, "General, if we hurry, we can test out one of our captured pet creatures for testing against Zeus."
Nick turns his attention to the geeky scientist, the what?
"No," another scientist quickly object, "the creature is still too unstable for field testing, let alone taking daily test without getting my junior scientist killed every so often, and even with so much administrated drugs injected into it, we have no clue if it will trash the Yellow zone like the one happen days ago. No one wanted to perform such horrid job even if we put plenty of zero's in their pay check."
"Then have the creature tested before we release its leash," the scarred overweight commander reply, "we must make sure the creature stayed on our side, rather than it start trashing about in our test sites. We'll just send in more Super Soldiers squad and hopefully weaken Zeus to buy us more time; that should be enough to slow his progress for us to release the experiment once and for all."
"As for your earlier proposal..." the scarred overweight commander continue, turning his attention to Fury, "do these... costume powered heroes have anything against the military, perhaps a thorn on their side?"
Nick Fury quickly reply, "No, in fact, many heroes will gladly give a helping hand against a threat that could potentially end all life as we know it; I'm sure none of them have any kind of thorny side against the military."
"Good, we'll grab whoever we can, and pray to god they could match against... IT."
-Back on Manhattan Island, Red Zone-
15 minutes of struggle later, Mercer finally snaps open the cocoon with sheer strength and immediately gasping for air, despite not having any kind of air for 15 long minutes, though thankful to be alive (or whatever it is that would distinguish Mercer as alive) due to his biomass that is keeping him alive. Mercer hazily look around, sees absolutely no one on the streets. Mercer jumps up into the nearby building and survey the rooftop area when he noticed that Spiderman is not there. Alex Mercer assumed that Toxin, Scarlet and Venom had made another temporally alliance (the memory of Cletus within him suggest Venom had done so a few times before) and ran away with Spiderman. His inner instinct went furious.
(AAARRRGGGHHH! We lost Spiderman! Our hard earn meal!)
Mercer worried little about the loss of one important meal would disappear too; in fact, he had a treasure trove of knowledge where to find Spiderman… and how to get Spiderman to him.
"Relax, our meal isn't going too far." Mercer said to himself, looking around when a crack of smile appear on his face, "Besides, I think it is a good time to test my additional arms of mind on those testing dummies"
Mercer shot a glare at the incoming military forces coming towards him. Slowly but surely, a dozen armoured tanks, a sizeable batch of infantry and apache attack helicopter is coming packing the same heat as always, and to Mercer's surprise, no Super Soldier in sight. Maybe they are some moving in the back, he wasn't sure. Still, with his additional arm latch on his back itchy for action, Mercer did what is natural to him; with another crack of smile, Mercer runs up the apartment wall again and approaching fast towards the incoming military forces. The US Army and its combine Blackwatch forces respond in kind, "Shit! Zeus incoming!"
Oh, how Mercer love the sound of that.
As always, after the military identify the target and took aim, the military let loose whatever weapons they have in hand; ammunition, tank shells, ballistic missiles, virtually anything that could hurt Zeus are thrown at. Mercer in respond leaped into the middle of the group with a loud thump, crushing a lone US army soldier under his own weight. Before Mercer could start mowing down the surrounding soldiers with his own biomass, his rear Biomass, the Tendril Spear powers are already at work mincing down the US troops at frightening and horrific way. Mercer's new power acted like a bodyguard that attacks enemy where Mercer can't see, and the Tendril Spear power behave like his Whipfist Biomass in a lot of ways. Mercer could even feel it's tendril had a mind of its own to protect its master, as it snag an incoming missile and throw it back to its point of origin. It also had some kind of habit to perform its own brutal fatality to sustain plenty of Biomass for Mercer and itself to sustain, though it did not however give any information to add into, as the Tendril Spear Biomass merely attack and kill its target then consume it's said target without extracting vital information. As the fighting press on, tanks and helicopter neglect their allegiance and open fire their own unholy weapon of destruction against Mercer, even if there are troops among the chaos. To makes the party even livelier, infected monster such as Hunters and Walkers comes to play, hearing the roar of action from far away. Hunters jump from the building rooftop and got themselves hanging onto the Apache Helicopter as it crawl its way into the cockpit. Walkers emerge from the alley scare the Marines shitless, staring at the walking abomination while taking account of dealing Zeus. A number of armoured tanks turn their turret to point at incoming Walkers emerge from the alley are caught in-between other obstacles that prevent the tank to fully rotate its long nose turret. Apache Attack Helicopter is immediately swarmed by incoming barrage of leaping Hunters, whom are unafraid of the rotating helicopter razor blade that keeps it afloat. The military forces here are now having a divide attention to either fight the horrid crowd of monster or against the king of all monsters.
Sadly, abandoning one or another had serious consequences, and all the military forces could only uttered the infamous "FUCK!" when two things becomes a major headache… and their death.
Mercer snarl at the approaching infected and goes to work immediately; he need to at least secure one Blackwatch officers or some high ranking US soldier in order to gain some kind of military planning, especially when these military force don't usually dispatch such a large force without one commanding officer in tow. As Mercer goes to work with his Claw Biomass, slashing infected and US soldiers alike, he notice that by giving a raw willing signal to its rear Tendril Spear Biomass not to kill the Blackwatch officer, it move down much slower and only mow down what appears to be lackey or uninteresting ranking troops. It still keeps its ferocious velocity against the infected though. To the Tendril Spear Biomass, if it has a mind of its own, it probably is having an awesome field day of all time, as well as a generous amount of buffet meal to feed in.
"Command! This is Field Commander Ryan! We need reinforcement; we're getting killed out here!" a piercing voice alerted Mercer, and with a swift turn, Mercer's smile only grew wider. His target, which identified himself as Commander Ryan wears a standard US officer, perhaps Captain or Major ranking officer, though rarely a Lieutenant would show up; not a good source information to pour into Mercer, but it is vital information nonetheless. When the US officer notice Zeus stops and stare at his likely position, Commander Ryan knew he is screwed. No, scratch that, he is fucked!
"No! Stay away!" consume by a fitting fear, Ryan yelp as he sprint away to escape Zeus wrath while unleashing the entire M16 magazine at Mercer, not realizing that his clumsy shots nail several US soldier and Blackwatch soldier who is under his own command, and with their commanding officer on the field panic and unable to perform his duty, the rest of the forces are utterly disarray. Commander Ryan wrestle his way against Walkers, using his depleted M16 as a melee too despite having a more than enough belt of magazine in stock. It merely display how much sheer terror he is experiencing when he is on Mercer's hit list. Despite having escape from the field after a few good blocks away, Ryan catches his breath, reload his weapon and mentally remind himself to retire as soon as possible. Retirement were not his answer as Alex Mercer uses his Whipfist Biomass and shoot at the distance like a whip, traveling a great distance and snag the Field Commander off the ground by the neck, choking him violently. Mercer violently tugs the field officer towards him, and frees his captive held by his Whipfist Biomass to allow his other free arm to grab Commander Ryan in place. The desperate officer stare at Mercer cold dead eyes, the man is sweating beyond belief, as he is going to die by consumption like any other report when Mercer has 'interesting taste' on specific targets. As Commander Ryan held high, he could see two spear-like organisms hanging over Mercer's shoulder, along with the view of chaotic battle. The spear-like organism approach the man Mercer held, as if curious what Mercer need for a man who is nothing more than a meal.
"Please! I'll… I'll tell you everything! Anything at all!" Ryan cried, tears rolling down his cheeks in a desperate call for mercy, sobbing in between words, "I… I have a wife! A child! I haven't even seen my newly born child!"
"Sorry to hear that," Mercer growl, his voice has sympathy tone, "…and I'm sorry for what I must do…"
"WAIT!"
Mercer shut his eyes as he goes to work; as he held the man by the neck, he mentally wills the Tendril Spear to take this man's life. The spear-like organism acknowledge its masters will and uses its hanging two hooks to stabs violently into the man's side head. Ryan scream and gag almost instantly, the mix of pain and misinformation lead the poor man to act funny while the spear is in place, but it did not end there; the spear continue its brutal works by tearing Ryan's head out of its body, Ryan's spinal cord handing below its head as the body spew blood in every direction and the headless body jolt around in indiscriminate movement. Mercer's back spore more tendril to feed the headless body while the spear-like organism works its way into Ryan's brain, consume its pinkish organic substance before it outright consume the entire head as well.
Despite the brutal consumption, Alex is rewarded with new Intel, as the migraine induce pain hammered his head like a violent raging storm.
-Field Commander Major Ryan Shepherd Point of View-
"Sir, why are we sent into the Reds? I thought that place is FUBAR to even the best soldier train on this planet… and that freaking monster on that nesting ground…" the dead man, Major Ryan Shepherd said nervously.
"Son, I know that the area is FUBAR, and by now the military and its entire assets has been taking account even as we speak. Command even have to pull out majority of the forces from Asia, Europe, Russia, Iraq, almost any American forces on reserve are to pull back and send here." The man, which according to Ryan's memory is identified as Field Commander Lieutenant Mark Anderson. "You know I can't share more information about this, but you have been a good soldier and a friend to me."
"Sir… I…"
"I know that you already talk to your wife… and I know you are eager to see your new-born girl. Believe me… I tried reasoning Command…" Mark Anderson pause for a while, "I just wish I could do more than sending you to the Reds."
"So you tried pulling strings, yet it all comes back to me, terrific. I guess being a faithful soldier with a family just proves that you're on the winning side huh?" Ryan critic, before he mumble something that Mark didn't quite catch it, "asshole"
"Major, even as we speak General Chaos is now negotiating with S.H.I.E.L.D about it. The best we could do is pray that your mission doesn't involve grabbing Zeus attention." The Lieutenant reply in kind, and hand in a documented paper to Ryan, "Your mission is to find any survivals on the Daily Bungle, though my reason alone says their all dead by the time you reach there, so make a quick scout and turn around as fast as you can. If you can, don't bother even trying to go to the Reds deeper than it is; makes a U-turn for all I care; I lost too many man and friends already, and I'll be damn if I loose you."
"Why? Why make me go to the Reds only to run back out?"
"Word is they are going to drop another bomb."
Ryan blink, disbelieved, "Shit. Nukes?"
"No…the detail is scarce, but the brass says it's far worse than that. It is called Operation Purifier, and it'll drop its package via aircraft all the way on the stratosphere." Mark reply, and did not say any more than he should as the information is classified.
Ryan knew the secrecy and allows it to go by, though it still strikes fear into him, "Good lord… that's a B12 for all I know… how much time do I have before that thing drop on top of our heads?"
Mark Anderson looks at his expensive wrist watch, military grade. He frown, "4 hours; just go in, check for survivals and get out."
-Commander Ryan Point of View ends-
The migraine ends and Mercer gasping in a knelling position, blinking his eyes a couple of time as the information from Ryan's view strikes cold into his spine; the military is dropping another bomb? What does that guy mean by 'far worse than that'? Is there a weapon out there that could be much, much worse than nukes? Among the entire question that runs in Mercer's head in micro seconds, only one question pop out as the most vital of all, where is it going to drop of all places? Granted, Manhattan Island is huge, and the soldier Ryan talks to tell him to go in and out of the Reds, but to where? Where on earth would they drop it? Will they drop in the centre of the Manhattan Island, at Times Square? Or will they drop at Central Park? Times Square has the largest infection among all, but Central Park smack right at the middle as well…
The chaotic battle once again brought Mercer back to reality when a well place grenade roll next to Mercer and detonate violently. The walking Living Weapon felt the burning explosion, the powered blast and the sharp shrapnel at point impact, but that did not even bother Mercer at all. Instead, after he is being brought back to reality, Mercer did not continue his killing spree. In fact, Mercer simple runs up the building and disappear, leaving the military and the infected contest the street, and without their chain of command, the military is fighting a losing battle.
Mercer didn't care about them.
Mercer didn't care if someone drops a mountain of bombs on this pathetic island.
Mercer didn't care if another atomic bomb is about to drop on his head.
Mercer did however care about his sister.
…And unlike him, she is human.
"Dana, I'm coming!" Mercer could only utter out those words as he sprint pass roof to roof towards St. Paul's Hospital direction; he needs to get her, and Dr Ragland out before the bomb starts dropping!
Several minutes later... after the meeting inside the Helicarrier
While the meeting that took place is shaky at best, it wasn't until the entire Blackwatch officers and their troops goes on board their black Chinook and flew off a good distance away before they start talking some real issue on dealing with the infected.
"What the hell is wrong with you Raven? Can't you for one sweet second not to blow a fuse and start causing such reckless scenes?" The scarred overweight commander scold aloud, who had happen to sit directly in front of Raven, "Our mission is to gain alliance with this S.H.I.E.L.D hobo so that we could focus on our task on dealing against Mercer!"
"I so sorry to upset you fat jerk, but that fuse you mention earlier never did got replace; it was short-circuit when I heard Captain Cross got killed by an infected, and that really piss me off!" The Blackwatch Elite reply, fuming no doubt.
"I heard you and Cross go way back." One of the Blackwatch soldier sitting at the opposite asked, "How did you know the captain?"
"Know him? I was trained by him!" Raven reply angrily, "what I did not get is how Cross got killed during service when he had succeed in killing two Runners and mortally wounded Mercer is two different thing!"
"Captain Cross manages to tackle Mercer and live to tell the tale?" The other Blackwatch soldier next to Raven raise a curious reply, "heh, and I thought the story involving him is just a joke to boost morale among us Blackwatch."
Raven stare at that soldier, his eyes flare with anger, "if you think it's a joke," Raven reply before he punch the living daylight out of the soldier, open the rear hatch while dragging the said soldier to the rear entrance of the helicopter before he gives a brutal kick to the chest causing the Blackwatch soldier who talk badly about his mentor out of the helicopter! "Go ask him in Hell!"
"UUAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHH!"
The rest of the Blackwatch soldier watch nervously as Raven had just kicked one of his own out of the moving helicopter, above the Yellow Zone control area at 15,000 above sea level.
He shall be missed.
"Raven, stop killing your subordinates! It is bad that we have to deal with understrength troops, but to rely on US Marine like expendables will likely demoralize their own command structure before they pull out their branch altogether!"
Raven did not reply as he is busy closing the hatch entrance door shut. As Raven took a few steps back to his seats his eye caught something flying pass them at the window view. It took him a while when the soldier dons an eagle helmet gave a reply "More likely they are already pulling out even as we speak." Raven reply, "I'm seeing a dozen Chinook just outside, all marked US army insignia."
"Wha-what?" The scarred general blinked when he too look out of the window and sees with his own two eyes what Raven saw, so as the remaining Blackwatch officer; dozen of transport Chinook is taking flight just below them and all of these Chinook appear to be gathering civilian from both yellow zone and blue zone. More Chinook appear over the horizon, and it appears their intention is also the same as the one presented here.
And it doesn't end there; almost immediately the Blackwatch Chinook transport were suddenly received orders from Red Crown, the Blackwatch temporary base of operation, "This is Red Crown to all Blackwatch station on yellow and red zone, you are hereby to provide assistance to all major US army division in a form of evacuating the civilian on Manhattan Island and into the mainland."
"Sir, should I give a respond?" The Blackwatch pilot officer asked.
"Give me that radio; I need to know who the bloody asshole who ordered these evacuation!" The scarred general argues, "This is Brigadier General Murkin 'Chaos' Freeman; who ordered such evacuation? Give me clearance or-"
"Brigadier General, this order came from the White House itself, and the President of the United States has issue a general order to pull as many civilian as possible, infected or not."
All the Blackwatch troops inside the copter blinked their eyes, unable to comprehend the gravity of such orders; they had to pull out as many civilian as possible, both healthy and those of the infected? That order is blasphemy!
"Listen to me, you slimy piece of crap; I'm in charge of these operation, and you will revert that order now before I-"
Once again, Red Crown cut off whatever line the scarred General had to say, "This order came from Black General Issac 'Purity' Ricardo; and he had just commence Operation Purifier upon arrival. His plans have already been accepted by the President's permission and the order are now on the letter. I repeat; gather all your forces from the Yellow Zones and Blue Zones to meet up in the Green Zone - it is vital that all Blackwatch operative escape within acceptable perimeter to the nearest Green Zone."
The scarred overweight man, now identified as General Murkin 'Chaos' Freeman, blinked, so as the rest of the Blackwatch operative inside the helicopter; The Black General is here?
"What the hell is Issac Ricardo doing in this operation?" yelled General Murkin, "What the hell is that communist doing in my theatre of war?"
"It was General Randall's last orders, should he found himself unable to perform his duty for its country." Red Crown reply, "I know you are eager to serve general, but the order is from the highest ranking officer,"
"But why Operation Purifier?" General Murkin yells at the communication radio, "I thought the weapon is in unassessable to Blackwatch unless…"
"…Unless the situation got worse." finished Raven, gearing up his weapons of choice and sling in a Blackwatch parachute. Raven equipped himself with duel arm weapon attachment similar to that of Captain Cross's own attached weapon, which is fitted with grenade launchers. However, Raven weapon is different than his mentor; while Cross equipped only one arm weapon, Raven prefer two, one which is fitted with the same grenade launcher, and another is fitted with triple barrel machine gun that holds 50 calibre rounds to pierce his enemy. Despite the weapon look heavy for a man who isn't muscular and appear athletic, Raven duel weld the weapon with absolute ease. He also carries a small portable grappling hook like his mentor and carries a collapsible stun baton. Raven carries a Colt Python as a reserve weapon. To some, Raven resembles a walking tank. The Brigadier General turns to see Raven preparing to make a jump when the scarred man stops him, "Stop Raven! What the hell are you doing?"
"What do you think I'm doing?" Raven shoots that question back. "I'm going down there and finished my mission. And it so happens someone from the Cubans decides to fire that 'weapon' all the way from the heaven? I might at least enjoy gather myself a party."
Brigadier General stare at Raven for a while, held the communication radio tight. It didn't take long when the General approve the Black General's order, much of the Blackwatch operative's belief. "Red Crown, this is General 'Chaos'. We read you loud and clear. Proceeding to the nearest Yellow Zone for extraction."
Some of the Blackwatch operatives did not want to protest about this sudden change of pace, though that means they are all forced to do things like babysitting some escapes into the blue zones. A good number of Blackwatch operatives are not happy with it though, and decides to follow Raven in whatever mission he is going to participate; better to kill some infected monster than to babysit some full grown people out of the building. The General did not protest or object their mental judgement. It is the General's best interest that Raven had everything under control, even if he is going into a suicide mission.
The Blackwatch Elite who dons an eagle-like helmet gaze back as these Blackwatch operatives who is uncomfortable with these latest mission update decides to follow his perilous mission; Raven didn't mind, he always needed pawns to do most of his dirty works. Raven opens the rear hatch again and readies himself for the jump.
"Raven," the scarred overweight general spoke up, which the man himself turns and looked, "You know how much time you have… correct?"
"Don't worry about me," he reply, pulling a syringe from his pocket and inject the unknown chemical into the vein of his neck. He grunt a bit, before tossing the needles out the helicopter, "I'm quite capable of dealing the problem at hand."
And with that, Raven jumps out of the helicopter followed by several Blackwatch operatives.
The nearest Blackwatch Operative who sat by the rear shut the entrance door shut, before turning and asked the general what is Raven's original mission he so willing to throw his life into.
"What Captain Cross failed to do," General Murkin reply, "He's out to kill Alex Mercer."
Chapter 03 Ends!
Preview
Chapter 04 Purifier
The military is going to use a method that will wipe out the inhabitant on Manhattan Island! With so many infected on Manhattan, the military is willingly trying to use an unheard of experimental weapon to exterminate the virus and those unfortunate enough who failed to be rescued. Mercer is to escort Dr Ragland from St. Paul Hospital out with the comatose Dana Mercer out of the Red Zones and into the inland, he needs to reach to the other side of the island and away from the island, or all else is lost!
Marvel Cross Reference!
Venom
-I'm Back in Vack!-
Strength:
-Spider-like Powers (self-explained, since Venom Symbiote gain his powers from the super hero Spiderman)
-Superhuman capabilities (Also self-explained)
-Accelerated Healing Factor (Symbiote is capable of healing injuries in the host at a faster rate than normal human healing as well as injuries and illnesses that current human medical care cannot such as cancer.)
-Genetic Memory (The Symbiote possesses limited psychic ability, making it capable of obtaining information from its hosts and even other people and Symbiote simply by touch. It can however, be forced to forget information if the Symbiote is inflicted with heavy trauma)
-Offspring Detection (capable of detecting its offspring, though not sure how far it can actually detects. With effort this ability can be blocked)
-Constituent-Matter Generation (Venom can also use the same substance comprising the Symbiote in the form of constituent black matter or goo, and uses it in this method for lethal force against criminals. Venom can send a part of the Symbiote and direct its movements into a victim's body, smothering them from the inside)
-ESP AKA Spider-Sense (Venom also possesses an extrasensory ability similar to Spider-Man's spider-sense. This response is not as complicated as Spider-Man's inherent sense since the alien costume can detect danger from every direction and conduct Brock in plenty of time. It's a lot more efficient than Spider-Man's spider-sense because it takes less time to sense the danger, and Brock's reflexes are faster than Spider-Man's, because they are enhanced by the alien costume for instance Venom can dodge a gunshot or a barrage of bullets)
-Immunity to Spiderman's Spider Sense (Venom is capable of attacking Spiderman without alerting him, and thus turn Venom into Spiderman's deadliest foe)
-Camouflage Capabilities (The Symbiote is capable of mimicking the appearance of any form of clothing, camouflaging with its surroundings, and even mimicking other people. Brock's preferred form of clothing was a black shirt, jacket and pants)
-Poisonous Fangs (Just because his name is called Venom doesn't mean he can't use his fangs to deliver a powerful venomous bite… right?)
Weakness:
-Sonic attacks (It will cause terrible pain to Venom, especially when banging two metal at once in front of him, or a whole lot of metal bars that will ring aloud.)
-Thermal attacks (Flamethrowers, missiles, grenades… anything that can produce fiery flames is his weakness)
History: Born in San Francisco, Eddie Brock is raised as a Roman Catholic by his father, though both men had some arguments regarding Brock being a little pushy about the subject why his father blames for his wife's death during childbirth. Seeking approval, Brock wanted to excel at school to ask for his father's forgiveness. Though Eddie got a half-hearted encouragement, he did not give up purely because of his grade. He switches to journalism as a courier. He graduates his goal and manages to secure a job on Daily Globe, proving his father that he is highly talented despite his father's disapproval. With his father's disapproval at every turn despite being a successful columnist, Brock did one major mistake; he begin cheating. It wasn't long when Brock is caught cheating by Spiderman that the man's life change forever. Completely obsess and completely give in to hatred, Brock only vision is to see Spiderman six feet under.
Brock got his wish… in a way; when Brock had its wits end and found himself confessing at the church, praying at the altar begging forgiveness for the suicide he was contemplating, Spiderman was fighting another super villain under the Black Spiderman costume near the Lady of Saints Church, Spiderman stuck the bell and cause the Symbiote that had hidden itself as the suit Peter worn respond in kind, causing the alien Symbiote to flee from its pain and found its way to Eddie Brock. To the human host, it was as if God command him to stand tall and do what must be done, and to Eddie, he know just who to vent his anger against.
VS Marvel Comics: Much remain unchanged about Venom in this fic, though it is very unclear since Venom hides in the sewers for extended amount of time before he goes out to feed, or he would move to a more settle location away from the battle that Spiderman had given himself into. He is remain unchanged to say the least.
Worth Taking:
01. Poison:- Perhaps the one thing Mercer lacks is Venom's venomous bites (or tip claws or blade) that could not only paralyze his foe, but killing them as well. Despite having powerful virus in him, Mercer is uncertain if his virus in inflect could result in one man's death… or another man's beginning. The Poison gene will be isolate from the rest of his Biomass in order to control the Virus from absorbing this useful genetic structure.
02. Immunity to Spiderman's Spider Sense:- In order to combat Spiderman and his crazy reflexes as well as his counterattack, Mercer need something from the Symbiote in order to avoid being detected by Spiderman early on. This small but useful gene would be very beneficial.
Carnage
-I'm the ULTIMATE INSANITY! I am CARNAGE!-
Strength: All his strength came straight from Venom, as such, most of Carnage ability is exactly the same as Venom, albeit he is red and has much skinnier body and Venom is blue and rather muscular. He is however much faster than Venom… and perhaps much, much insane.
Weakness: Also same as Venom. All Symbiote had the same weakness.
History: Cletus Kasady is a troubled youth from the start, killed his grandmother, his family dog, and kills the disciplinarian administration, pushing a girl who refuses to date with him in front of an incoming bus and lastly burn down the orphanage… WOW. He was send to prison serving eleven consecutive times when an opportunity of an early parole present to him in a form of his new cell mate: Eddie Brock, the human host to a symbiotic costume once worn by Peter Parker. During Eddie's imprisonment, Cletus decides to share his crime telling story to his new cell mate to entertain him at least; unknowingly that Eddie is waiting for his Symbiote monster that separates him during his clash against Spiderman to spring him free from this prison. When the Symbiote Eddie has been waiting for arrive, the alien parasite happen to be pregnant, and gave birth during its disastrous rescue. While Eddie Brock left the cell with his renewed powers back in his fist, Cletus too soon gain part of the Symbiote powers from the new-born; it bond with Cletus and become a craze lunatic monster who uses lethal doctrine against the innocent; his first victim is Gunther Stein… chosen randomly from a telephone book… Well I guess he had to start somewhere right?
Carnage embark on a citywide killing spree and caught the attention of Spiderman, who came forth and battle Carnage, but not without assistance from the Fantastic Four as well as his hated foe, Venom. The team manage to defeat Carnage and place him in Ravencroft Asylum where no harm can be done. However, Carnage has more tricks up his sleeve and manages to escape.
VS Marvel Comics: Perhaps the only change so far is from Marvel comics and this fic is that Sentry never did tore Carnage to half, or flung him into low Earth orbit…or both. Carnage has been Cletus host for some time and has accepted Venom as his father… even though they still duke it out due to slight change of difference ideals.
Worth Taking:
Much of the properties Carnage has is similar to Venom, and thus whatever Venom has that Mercer wants, he already got it.
New Biomass Powers!
Tendril Spear Biomass
-Tendril Spear is a thin, flexible, multi-directional biomass with a bone-like spear that can cut down foes where Mercer can't see. It's powerful hook underneath the bone-like spear structure can be used to snag victim harmlessly or rib it the shreds. Never leave your rear guard unguarded!-
Consuming Cletus Kasady has allowed Mercer to gain Tendril Spear Biomass as his new powers, these 2 hanging tendril that spore at Mercer's back is twice longer than Mercer's arm and its bony spear tip are quite venomous. This Tendril, like the Whipfist can extend its range towards its target at least triple the length Mercer would with his own. Simply contact to the human skin will burn away its flesh and eats away the bone, but cause no harm on Mercer himself. The Tendril Spear Biomass power acts as a rear bodyguard and had a mind of its own, but will perform specific action should Mercer strongly will the power to his own use. Because the Tendril Spear Biomass has the same similarity as the Whipfist, most of its ability and capability are identical to Mercer's own Whipfist power, though it does give Mercer newer form of attacks once he adapt it well. Mercer can have up to 4 Tendril Spear Biomass.
Passive
-During Passive mode the Tendril Spear Biomass will seek out hostile enemies and will strike them without a second thought. It will not act against innocent bystanders however. If all 4 Spear is summoned, each spear will attack different targets at random direction within the given range. Whenever Tendril Spear actively kills someone or damage someone, small amount of Biomass will be send back to Mercer to feed. Force wills the Tendril Spear will not wield any Biomass back to Mercer.
Abilities
-Poke: don't let the name fool you; once the venomous tip runs into Mercer's unfortunate victim's body bloodstream, the victim will become insane and starts attacking friend or enemy alike in a furious insane state. This can be used for distraction.
-Spike Strike: The Tendril Spear violently stabs its victim hard into its body, causing instantaneous dead. Spike Strike can be perform in air as well.
-Spear Barrage: If Mercer has all 4 Tendril Spear powers on, he can execute this power against his foes; Mercer will swiftly turns around and allowing the Spear he willed to strike one or more foes with a barrage of incoming spear that thrust into the victim's body. Great at taking out bigger enemies. Can be followed up with Mercer's Blade Biomass Blade Frenzy or Whipfist Biomass Street Sweeper
-Catapult: If Mercer has all 4 Tendril Spear powers on, he can execute this power against his foes; Mercer will allow his spear to ram jam into any surface. Mercer can than runs at the opposite direction away from the enemy until the extend of the tendril's maximum length, allowing Mercer to feel the massive pull of his spear. Once Mercer stops to launch an attack, he will be catapulted towards any given enemies like a speeding cannon ball. Can be used on enemy vehicles. Catapult abilities can be put to good use for Mercer in a numbers of ways, such as Cannonball attack.
Yes! I'm done! I'm officially finish this chapter! Ha, take that, mental block!
Now on to the next chapter! *groan*