Hey you all! Its Alito again! I admit I was starting to get lost in what I wanted to do with Prototype, but I finally got a good handle on what I want now. So here's the next chapter of this fanfic as we go into Part 2 of this bloody saga!

Now here we go!

Disclaimer; I own NOTHING

Chapter seven: Shinto Teito Z; The Black Sekirei returns

The moon was just about setting as the skies became a light blue color and it was becoming lighter each few minutes had passed. Even so, Minaka's clock tower stood in the way for the sun's rays to hit the city. Standing at the ledge was Minaka himself as his white cape flowed freely in the light breeze. He couldn't help but hold his crazed smirk on his face as he gazed over the city as if he were a king.

He quickly heard the sound of approaching footsteps approaching from behind him as he could feel the dark and menacing chill creep up his very spine with each step that arrived closer to him. Never the less he kept his cool and said, "Ah, welcome back, Karasuba-san."

"Good to have returned." Said a smooth female voice with obvious interest in her tone.

Minaka turned to see a beautiful woman with long grey hair tied in a long ponytail and grey narrow eyes with bags under those eyes. She was dressed in a black tight leather gi-like top, black fingerless gloves, a black tight leather miniskirt with a leather brown utility belt around her waist, and black long heeled boots that reached her thighs. Over her shoulders was a grey kosode with the Sekirei crest on the pecks of the coat. On her waist side was a black long nodachi sword.

"It's been quite some time, hasn't it?" Karasuba said, standing before Minaka with a smirk that would make a snake quiver. "I've been to see my dear friend Musubi in such a long time. How might she be doing?"

"Oh, she's fine. As right as rain." Minaka assured her.

"Then why have you summoned me from my current mission? I was actually enjoying the slaughter of those shitty business men." Karasuba said with her natural evil grin, "So, what big business do you have for me now?"

"Anxious, are we?"

"Very."

There was that chill down Minaka's spine again. "W-Well then, do I have a job for you!"

"Oh?" Karasuba questioned.

"Indeed. You are to go after a man known as Alex Mercer." Minaka went into his pocket and pulled out a photograph and gave it to her. Karasuba took the photo and looked at it to see a black n' white picture of a man in a hood and a leather jacket, looking as dark and sinister as ever. "He is your next target to fight. I want you to try and kill him with all you've got."

"All I've got?" Karasuba said in honest surprise. "Is he really that strong?"

"Oh, trust me; you can't miss him."

Karasuba looked back to the picture and slowly, her twisted and dark smile grew as her sharp teeth bit down on her bottom teeth with excitement and adrenaline entering her bones. She even began to tremble in utter excitement for the battle to come with this hooded man known as Alex Mercer. She was ready to let blood rain. "Where can I find him?"

"Oh don't worry. You'll have your fun soon enough." Minaka smirked, "But first, let me just give you an early notice."

"Of what?" Karasuba questioned impatiently.

"A small…change in the mix." Minaka said sinisterly with a grin.

"Meaning?"

"Oh, I'm sure you know what I mean." Minaka eyed the grey haired Sekirei, "You've been feeling it this whole time, haven't you?"

Karasuba was almost shocked at how quickly Minaka knew about that. Ever since that late afternoon, she's been feeling a strange and unsettling feeling in her chest. Almost as if something important to her has been snatched away without her knowing. She feared that it had something to do with Musubi, but quickly remembered that if anything really happened to Musubi, "she" Would come to her aid without a moment to lose. So what was it? What was this odd feeling she felt within her own body?

"How did you…?"

"I have my own sources." Minaka said, starring off at the city below his tower. "For now, you have a mission that you must complete; I want you to kill Alex Mercer. I don't need to worry about you failing, right?"

Karasuba quickly held a sinister and grim smirk on her face and darkness in her eyes, ready to kill her prey. "You never have to."

And with that, Karasuba walked over the edge of the tower and descended to the lower buildings, where she kicked off the tower's wall, and flew through the air onto a nearby building's rooftop. From there Minaka saw her leap from building to building, deeper into the city.

"Well now, there she goes." Minaka smiled. "Let's see if she can really handle him without any help."

"And what if she dies instead?"

Minaka turned to see his matching white haired assistant appear before him, smoking her usual cigarette.

"Oh, don't be such a worrier, Takami." Minaka assured her. "This is just a fail-safe for me to really test Mercer's valor! If I had sent Heller, the result wouldn't be properly scaled as I don't know how powerful Heller really is, but for Karasuba, I have all my data memorized. And if she does die, then that will only be but a small chip in my plans now."

"How kind you are." Takumi said sarcastically and bitterly. "Well changing the subject of your possible genocide of innocent people if those two fought in the city, we've gotten an update from the Scientific's lab regarding subject 2-C. It appears they've done something in their regeneration's tank and—"

"Brilliant!" Minaka exclaimed joyously, startling Takumi a bit. "Yes! This is just the news I've been waiting for! Finally, after such waiting, she's nearly prepared!"

"Wait, you know what that's all about?" Takumi questioned. "I don't get any kind of heads up on what's going on with those scientist, so if you could, please fill me in on all this!"

"In due time, my dear Takumi." Minaka smiled deviantly towards her. "But for now, I'll say this much to you; our science lab isn't from us."

"Well who are they from?" Minaka said nothing, but could only grin at her and stare into her eyes through his glasses. She was a bit creeped out by the stare in general, but even so she tried to figure out whatever the hell Minaka was planning with those unfamiliar scientists…quite in fact, Takumi remembered those uniforms that those scientist wore…if she remembered correctly, those were the same uniforms that were worn for the scientist who brought Mercer back. But that means those scientists who wore those dark blue coats were also responsible for Mercer's return, and she assumed that…suddenly her eyes widened in horror as Minaka's grin grew wider from her reaction.

"No…You didn't…"

"Oh I did, alright." Minaka said excitedly, "What better people to bring back Mercer…then the very people who turned him into what he is now." Minaka reached for his cellphone and dialed a number on it. He placed it to his ear and said; "This Minaka…ye…release it. Let the city be drowned in it."

XXX

Alex Mercer and his two Sekirei jumped from building to building in a super pakour-like fashion with Alex taking the lead and his Sekirei right on his tail.

"Wow, he's really hyped up, isn't he?" Yashima mentioned to her partner Sekirei.

"Of course he is. He's finally starting to have a little fun with all this." Kazehana replied almost happily. "He's been fighting with this anger and bitterness, but now, he can finally relax and handle things with a positive light."

"I see." Yashima nodded, and looked ahead to her Ashikabi. She did admit that he did look a bit more pepped up and rather nimble as he leaped from building to building. In a strange way, she too was happy that her master was happy as well. It made her actually feel a sense of peace as oppose to her original master whose name she already forgot. Either way, it felt right.

Mercer, himself, was feeling a lot better now. He felt faster, stronger, as if he's really tapped into his powers and has fully become one with them. Now, he truly could become anything he wanted to be. He felt as though nothing could stop him now, not even Heller or his own Ashikabi. Minaka was even closer to his grasp then he at first imagined. He felt nothing could go wrong, nothing at all…

…but he was wrong.

"Huh? Hey, what's that?" Yashima pointed out as they were quickly approaching it as it slowly bean to cover the city. The three of them stopped at the top of a roof that stood a few feet away from the strange anomaly.

"It looks like…orange mist." Kazehana pondered with suspicion. It was indeed that; a thick orange mist seemed to surround a part of the city, with no way of being able to see the other side or even the very ground. It was obvious that authorities have circled the place as helicopters were around, and swat men were walking across the streets, informing the people walking around this late at night to return to their homes.

"Hmm, those don't look like proper swat men to me." Kazehana questioned. She then turned back to the orange mist. "But what is—?"

Before she could even finish that sentence or either of them could question or protest, the hooded Mercer quickly turned on his heel, and ran back the way he came! In the process, he quickly grabbed Yashima, holding her under his arm, and Kazehana, grabbing her in a one armed bridal style, as he leaped at an even higher distance, and landed with a heavy stomp into the roof farthest away from the orange mist.

"W-What just happened?-!" Yashima said worriedly.

"Mercer-chan?" Kazehana said to him, but he simply dropped his Sekirei and let them hit the roof's surface hard.

"O-Ow…That still hurts…" Yashima mumbled as she massaged her but from the pain of landing on the ground hard. She then got up along with Kazehana, as both looked towards Alex in confusion. They saw that Alex was walking to the edge of the building they were on and over-looked the strange orange mist that filled part of the city ahead of them.

"Mercer-sama?" Yashima called out.

No response.

Something was immediately wrong, and both Kazehana and Yashima obviously knew that the orange mist has something to do with Alex as he didn't move an inch from where he stood as he looked over at the orange mist slowly circling the part of the city it had control of.

"Mercer-chan?" Kazehana called to with as much worry as Yashima.

"You two…stay here." Mercer said to them without turning to see them. He was too focused on what lies ahead.

"What…? But why?" Yashima asked.

"Just stay here, and don't move from this spot, got it?"

"But Mercer-chan—"

"STAY HERE OR YOU'RE DEAD!-!" Alex yelled bitterly, startling Yashima to death, and confusing Kazehana to no end. But even so, neither of them said a single word and instead did what their Ashikabi told them to do. He looked over his shoulder at them, seeing their worried faces, and then sighed deeply to say, "Trust me…it's to keep you two safe."

"Safe from what?" The raven haired wind Sekirei asked.

Alex turned back to the orange mist surrounding the small area of the city. "…From what lies in there."

And with that, Mercer quickly leaped from that very building and was headed straight for the orange misted area that was ominously waiting for him, while his Sekirei looked in worry as they saw their Ashikiabi run right into epic danger without them there to aid him. They knew that Alex Mercer was powerful on his own, but even so that didn't mean they weren't worried.

"What's that all about?" The brown haired Sekirei wondered.

"I don't know…but I do know that it has something to do with Mercer-chan." Kazehana made note of in concern and questioning, "Something from his deep past has come to haunt him once more."

XXX

Alex ran from roof to roof, off to the orange mist that was waiting for him to enter. As he was getting there, all he could do was hold a scowl on his face and anger building up in him the closer he got to the dark misted city.

"Fuck…Fuck…! FUCK!" Alex exclaimed. "Why?-! Why here, why now?-!"

Alex quickly stopped at the ledge of one of the buildings. From there he discovered a single platoon treading from a heavily armed checkpoint from the mist area. It appeared that they had done their shift, and judging by the way they walked, and all the army men were intact, it seemed that it wasn't too bad.

"Looks like the virus isn't too bad…yet." Alex mumbled to himself, "Guess Blackwatch has been getting tougher since my absence. Great…"

It seemed getting in the old fashion way of walking was impossible as the Blackwatch men that left, were replaced with another platoon went right into the orange colored jungle. He had no choice but to continue running from roof to roof to enter into the orange mist. The second he went through it, an all too horrid feeling washed over him along with the horrid stench of death following right behind that. Even so he continued running and jumping over obstacles to get to higher buildings.

"Damn you Blackwatch…!" Alex exclaimed, "Damn you Gentek…! Damn you all to HELL!-!"

XXX

Their jobs were a simple one; kill anything that wasn't Blackwatch personal. Such is the orders of all Blackwatch army men. And that was just the case in this darker part of town where cars were abandoned with the lights still on, and the street lights were the only real light left. About five men were stationed out to scope the area. They were dressed in black military uniform with bulletproof vest, black utility belts, black gas mask helmets with goggles on them for night vision, and they all were armed with different heavy-hitting automatic rifles at the ready.

"This is White Shadow 228 to ground, what is your status as of now? Over." said a transmission from one of the Blackwatch men's helmets in English. The solider replied, "All clear here. Stand by for further development. Over."

"AHHH! Please help me!-!"

Suddenly the army men caught sight of three people suddenly running towards them in both hysteria and disorientation. It turned out to be a male, female, and a young boy, all seemed to have been through hell by the small cuts and bruises on their bodies and their clothes being ripped up a bit.

"Freeze!" One of the army men called out as they stopped in the arms of one of the army men as a comforting man to help them.

"Oh, thank god, you're here!" said the husband desperately in Japanese.

"We ran as fast as we could from them!" The wife cried. "But, they just…! T-They just…!"

"Mommy! Daddy! Look!"

The boy pointed in horror at the approaching sound of screeching coming from the alleyway in which the family came out of. Suddenly something came running from the other side of the alley, running at the army men in full sprint, and soon after, a whole bunch of the same beings came storming towards all of them. They looked inhumane and their clothes ripped up brutally. Their skin turned pale and decomposed as no sign of human life existed in their cold clawed fingers.

"Shit! Get into position!" The lead Blackwatch man called out as he pointed his automatic rifle at the approaching infected, along with the other army men as well. Once in position, the lead man exclaimed, "Open fire!" And soon, a barrage of bullets filled that alley way with the dozens of infected that were charging at them quickly laid out one by one by the constant bullet barrage going at them! Finally, all of them fell dead to the ground with no signs of life in them anymore.

"All clear." Said one of the Blackwatch mean as he turned back to the family, who were on their knees in exhaustion and relief that they made it out of there alive. "Them too."

The family quickly looked in horror as they saw guns pointed at them. The army men pulled the triggers, as all three of them fell to the ground dead.

"Well, that takes care of—huh?"

One of the army men were suddenly distracted at the sight of someone suddenly appearing in front of them a few steps away. A car light shined on him only to find a man in a black leather jacket, and a grey hood over his head. He slowly looked towards the Blackwatch men with a cold stare aimed right at them.

"Who is—Oh shit! It's Alex Mercer!" Yelled the Blackwatch man as he readied his rifle to fire.

"Hey boys. Miss me?" Alex smirked as black ooze formed on his arms, and manifested into his black armed, long talon bladed claws, and charged at the Blackwatch men like a predator to its prey! He first slashed through one of them, severing that man's body, the spun around to slice through the other soldier's legs and kick him away! From there he uppercut one into the air and sliced right through him like butter as he too fell to the ground. One decided to be a hero and run at Mercer, shooting, but Alex simply grabbed that fool by the head with his claws and quickly consumed him with black ooze consuming him and disappearing within Mercer's body along with the ooze.

He then slammed one of his claws into the ground, and from the few steps one of the army men was standing, that army man was instantly hit and stabbed repeatedly by the ground spike ability of long black spikes shooting from the ground under him! The spikes retreated back into the ground as Mercer released his claw from the ground and instead walked to the last army man that was left. He was backing up from the hooded killer while sitting on his ass, hoping to somehow be spared.

"P-Please…! S-Spare me…!" The Black watch man cried out, dropping his gun in surrender.

But Mercer was the type of man who didn't know the word "Mercy", even though it does sound like his name. Mercy was the last thing this solider was going to get from Alex Mercer. Alex arms quickly transformed from his usual claws into his regular arms. Alex grabbed the Blackwatch man by the collar and lifted him up.

"Talk." Alex demanded threateningly, "Who's responsible for all this Blacklight, and why are Blackwatch and Gentek here?"

"P-Please, just don't hurt me a-and I'll tell you everything!" The army man pleaded.

"Then talk." Alex said with a dark and angered voice with his red eyes glowing from under his hood impatiently.

"I-It was this crazy guy named, uh, uh, Minaka! Yeah that's his name! H-He's the one you want, not me!-!"

Minaka. That name was slowly but surely pissing him off the more he heard it. It's because of him all this is happening, and people will be dying quicker then he wanted them to. Mercer was honestly surprised that Heller was okay with all this…? no. He must not know about this yet, or he's being bribed. His daughter maybe? Either way, Alex knew just what he needed to do, and had to do it quickly. Minaka was now at the top of his list of people who get a taste of Mercer's "How to gruesomely murder" recipe.

"Well thank you." Alex said with a grin, "But before you go, I'd like you to do something for me."

XXX

"You're insane! Do you have any idea how many lives you'll be killing?-!"

Takumi was furious at the plans that Minaka was plotting. As they still stood on the roof of the clock tower, seeing the sun shine behind this glories tower itself,, masking the city in the silhouetted darkness of his tower.

"Oh, Takumi, you should know that not everything can be peachy perfect!" Minaka grinned hysterically "If you want victory, sacrifices must be made!"

"But an entire city is the result of your victory?-!" Takumi yelled angrily.

"True, it is a bit harsh, but hey, so is life!" The white haired four eyes replied, "Besides, I want the real contestants to enter my little war zone and have a good ol' fashion free for all against one another. Naturally one of my players is already there."

"Players?" Takumi questioned.

"Yes. Players. Let's have a look then shall we?" Minaka then pulled out a small communicator walky-talky and pressed the button for transmission. "This white Ghost base, what is the status of your—?"

"O-Oh god…" Minaka and Takumi could hear the crying and sobbing of a poor man on the other end of the communicator as if he truly feared for his life. "I-I'm so scared…!"

"Read the paper…READ IT!" The two could hear the sound of another man also there who seemed to be toying with the poor army man in his grasp.

"H-Hell-lloo…M-M-Mina..a…a…"

"Read it right, you dumb fuck!"

The sound of someone getting hit was heard as the army man winced in pain and continued reading;

"H-Hello, M-Minaka…I-I'm coming for you…" The army man's voice was obviously in tears of pain as he read this. "Y-You knew this day would come…Y-You knew…I was c-coming for you…S-So be prepared as I-, A-Alex Mercer, rip t-t-through all…y-your lap dog B-B-Blackwatch men…a-and bust t-through your t-tower level by level…I-I hope…y-you've…made peace…with God…B-Because…w-when I get to y-you…I-I'm gonna…O-Oh god…"

"Who told you to STOP?-!"

"Ahh! O-Ok, ok…!" He started to sob but quickly sniffed back his tears and continued in his fearful sobbing voice. "I-Im gonna slam my claws right through your stomach…! T-Then I'll rip you apart down the m-middle a-and watch that white hair of yours t-turn bloody red…! T-Till there's nothing left but y-your ripped apart corpse, a-and your head o-on my wall…! I-Im so fucking scared!"

"You're not done yet, now read!"

"S-So prepare y-your best men, a-and y-your strongest t-tanks and c-choppers...to cover y-your white ass, b-because w-when I'm through w-with you…y-you'll make…t-the Black Dahlia corpse…L-Look like a broken…B-Barbie doll…! N-Now…excuse me…A-As I…kill off this Blackwatch trash—OH GOD NO—!"

But it was too late as the sound of something being dismembered and torn apart could be heard from the receiving end of the communicator.

Minaka simply closed the communicator and threw it to the ground out of pure anger and fear!

"Well now, looks like you put yourself on death's door step." Takumi said.

"N-No matter. My plan will still follow through…" Minaka said nervously, still holding his grin. "For you see, one of my many players has entered the stage."

"And?"

"And now…it's time for my second player to hit the stage."

XXX

"Hey. Hey, Heller!"

The African-American black jacket virus man was already busy with something at the moment, and that was holding up a rogue Blackwatch member by the neck and questioning him. Of course he was screaming frantically, but that didn't bother Heller at all.

Both Benitsubasa and Haihane both were over-looking the strange mist from almost across town. The two were dressed in the same clothes they wore before, only now Benitsubasa's robe was a dark red color with her boots also darker red and her gloves as well, while Haihane's robe was a darker red and her bandaged all black. Her claws were now more organic mixed with black metal talons for each finger.

"What is it?" James said. "I'm busy."

"It looks like there's some weird orange mist on the other side of the city." Haihane pointed out, "Wonder if people are getting seriously stoned over there?"

"Don't be so stupid, Haihane! That's got nothing to do with drugs!" Benitsubasa exclaimed.

Heller finally turned to see what they were talking about, only to discover that there was indeed an orange mist from afar. Automatically his eyes widened in shock and horror at the sight of the familiar mist that was circling a part of the city.

"Oh shit." Heller uttered, "It's back. They're back."

"Who? Whose back?" The pink haired Sekirei demanded.

Heller didn't answer. He simply dropped the Blackwatch man and walked slowly to the edge of the building. "Fuckin' hell. I didn't think they'd come all the way out here…but why?"

He slowly turned the Blackwatch army man and walked right to him as he tried to get up and run away. Heller easily grabbed him by the collar and held him high with him screaming and kicking.

"Sorry 'bout this." Heller said coldly as he hurled the poor Blackwatch man to the ground and commenced on punching and mutilating the poor man's body until it completely disappeared in black ooze and into Heller. As the ooze vanished into him, Heller could feel the all too familiar head ache and suddenly saw visions of the Blackwatch man's memories.

He could see himself in a white facility lab, much like the ones at Gentek, only this time they were all Japanese and in dark blue coats.

"So then, is everything set up?"

Heller could hear an all too familiar annoying Japanese voice speaking English; piercing his ears through the memory transpiring in his head.

"Yes, of course, Sir Minaka. All is prepared for the release of the Blacklight virus upon the city."

"Excellent! I look forward to working with Gentek and all there amazing work with NY, or should I say NYZ? Either way, we'll be moving our plans further from this point forward!"

"And what of Mercer, and Heller?"

"Let those fools fight amongst themselves. No doubt Heller will discover the truth. And I'll be waiting."

The memory had ended as Heller stood right back up and his head feeling better. But now something new filled him; anger.

"Hey, what's got you all pissed off?" Benitsubasa questioned.

"Minaka." James said bitterly and angrily. "That mothafucka lied to me…just as I thought he would."

"You know Minaka-san was lying to you?" Haihane questioned.

"I had my own gut feelins' that Minaka was lyin'. It just took a matter of time to confirm it." Heller said with his fist clenched, "Now that crazy asshole released Blacklight into the city and is gonna kill hundreds—no, thousands of people! All for whatever fucked up plan he's thinkin'…He lied to me…which means…"

Heller then remembered something that Minaka promised to him that he's been working and killing for. He even wondered whether or not Minaka could bring her back or not. He did bring back Mercer, but Mercer's not even human. She was…

"Come on, you two." Heller commanded as he walked opposite to the orange mist-filled part of the city."

"Huh?-! But Alex Mercer could be in there!" Benitsubasa said angrily. "We have to kill him for Matsuo!"

"Later. Right now, we need to pay a little visit." Heller said as he walked off.

"To who?" Haihane asked.

"You should know." The black man said as he looked over his shoulder, holding pure anger and hate in his eyes. "After all, you two did work for the little shit."

XXX

Minaka wasn't necessarily worried for his life. He was just a bit shaken up by that response on the communicator earlier. He's already taken refuge within the Gentek science department room, and went straight to the main mutation tanks, where held different creatures and humanoid beings. He walked all the way to the back of the room, and stood before a large round tank in green liquid. Inside held Minaka's genuine protection against the coming enemy who use to be on his side.

"Sir!"

"What is it now?" Minaka said to an arriving army man of Blackwatch.

"It's Heller, sir. Our scouters indicate that he is on his way here." The army man confirmed. "Should we evacuate post-haste?"

"No…Let him come."

"Sir?"

"Don't worry. Heller is a monster and a powerful being beyond our control." Minaka turned back to the round tank, as he placed his hand on it with a small grin forming on his face. "But he has one weakness…Yes. I do believe we had a deal to our partnership."

XXX

Alex was simply walking down the infected city streets, hoping not to run into any more interferences, but it seemed as though Karma had other horrid and annoying plans for him…as always. He stopped dead in his tracks as he began to feel a dark and heavy pressure standing behind him. It was just as deathly and demon as…well, him.

He turned around to see this strange feeling, but out of instinct, he quickly turned his right arm into his giant thick long blade and blocked the attack that was soaring at him. But as the attack hit, he then saw that someone was behind that attack; it was a grey pony tailed beautiful woman dressed in black and a grey coat over her shoulders. In her hands was a long katana that clashed with Alex's long blade.

"Well now, you're a tough little Sekirei, aren't cha?" Alex smirked.

"Ah, so you know of the Sekirei huh?" Karasuba smirked as well. "You're no ordinary Ashikabi."

"You know I'm an Ashikabi?"

"On my way here, I was bored and slaughtered a few Sekirei to get here." She said nonchalantly, "They muttered something about the demon hooded Ashikiabi who turned his Sekirei into demons."

"Demons, no. But that name isn't too bad." Alex admitted, "Demon hood Mercer. Now that's nice. Also, those Sekirei you killed off could've made great additions to my team."

"Oh, well. Maybe if you're lucky, you could get me too." She grinned evilly. "If you survive."

"Funny. I was just about to say the same thing." Alex said with a grin of his own.