Hey you all! Its Alito again! And I got great news! After going through all the event sets, and doing the challenges of [PROTOTYPE 2] I finally was able to unlock the Alex Mercer skin! WHOO! Finally I can rip shit up with the one and only badass Mercer…only for my copy of [PROTOTYPR 2] to be scratched up from my brother and now it's unplayable. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted I guess. But anyway, enough of my problems, let's get into this!
Now here we go!
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Chapter Nine: The Black Bio-Sekirei, the Birth of a God.
The residences of Izumo inn were all sitting at the table, looking at the television at the horrid news. They saw a reporter woman standing in front of a camera with the back being a large group of government military trucks and armed men standing outside the town that was covered with foggy orange mist in the deeper part of that side of town;
"And right now officials are stating they have no idea as to where this strange orange mist came from or why it has decided to hover over a certain part of the city; however we can honestly tell it is not for the greater good. A military group known only as Blackwatch have quarantined the section of the city carrying the orange fog, and have refused any more questions on the cause of this strange phenomenon or where this Blackwatch originated from. However, due to the language they speak, it's confirmed that they are from the United States. We've recently acquired photos of the madness that's taking place in that orange mist of town."
The television turned to a distorted image of a humanoid creature with glowing eyes and long sharp claws.
Kuu cowered in fear behind Minato while whimpering frightfully.
"Its okay, Kuu." Minato comforted Kuu, "It's not going to get you."
"However, thou art curious as to what indeed this strange occurrence originated from." Tsukiumi questioned, "If I may be so bold to admit it, I do believe all of this began once the one deemed "Alex Mercer" entered into this city."
"So you think Alex-san is responsible?" Musubi wondered. "I mean, if what Matsu told us about NYZ and the Mercer virus is true, then who knows, maybe he is the reason for all this."
"No doubt, it must be him." Homura nodded sternly, "And if he's just as Miya-san explained him to be, then I can only imagine that all of this was part of his plan."
"No…"
Everyone quickly looked towards the landlady in questioning for her response to all this. She simply sat at the table, eyes closed, contemplating everything into account and leading to a susceptible answer; "Mercer, as much as I detest admitting it, is smart. He's not the type to repeat the same plan twice. Whatever this is can't be anything good." Miya then opened her eyes with a troubled look. "However, I don't believe this is from Mercer's hands."
"If not Mercer, then who?" Minato wondered.
"The answer is Minaka!"
Everyone was quickly startled at the ceiling opening up and the orange haired, glasses wearing Matsu appear from inside it.
"M-Matsu-chan! How long have you been there?-!" Minato questioned.
"Just long enough to see the looks on your faces at me popping out." Matsu giggled mischievously. Everyone immediately sighed at her usual strangeness. She then dropped her giggle fit and put on a very grave expression. "Anyway, the reason for this mist isn't Alex Mercer at all. It's all on Minaka this time. Come to my room quickly, and I'll explain what I mean."
XXX
Everyone except Miya and Uzume (who was currently out at this time) sat in Matsu's room which doubled as her sleeping arrangements as well. It was quite dark in the small room save for the computer screens which had different things on each from surveillance maps of the city to opened files on government documents.
"I thought it was rather coincidental that this orange mist would appear the day after Alex Mercer arrives, but it looks like I was being biased." Matsu said while typing on the computer diligently. She brought up a file that had Minaka's picture along with other pictures of foreign scientist and bios. "It looks like Minaka has been doing some past digging on old friends. Any of you remember when I spoke of Alex Mercer, I also spoke of Gentek?"
"Yes. Thou did some acknowledgment to this Gentek organization." Tsukiumi remembered, "What might that affiliation and Minaka share?"
"Well get ready to hold your panties ladies, because this is a big one!" Matsu confessed as she breathed deeply for what she was about to say; "before he actually formed MBI, Minaka, for a short time, was once a scientist under Gentek."
Everyone in the room instantly carried the same expression of shock, but it was Minato who spoke first; "A-Are you serious?-! I mean you did tell us about Gentek from that explanation yesterday, but…to find out someone like Minaka use to work for Gentek…"
Minaka felt his entire body shake up at this news, that Kuu could feel his trembling as she sat in his lap. She looked up to him in worry as shuttered, "Big brother…?"
"O-Oh, it's okay Kuu, I'm fine." Minato said with an assuring smile, but on the inside he felt as though he was fighting a losing battle with his nerves.
"Though unexpected, I am not in the least bit surprised." Tsukiumi said with her arms crossed under her large breast. "Minaka has always been a treacherous snake, and if indeed what you say is truth, then that can only lead to a series of misfortune for this city."
"Precisely." Matsu nodded, "Minaka's really gone off the deep end this time, and it's only getting worse." Matsu then brought up put another screen of a radar scanner. On it was a red radiation smudge that was increasing in size slowly but surely. "If you look on this screen, this is the size of what it is now over the district of the city it covers. It's slowly growing and is even spreading with each passing hour. At this rate the entire city will be engulfed by it in less than a week."
"But why would he do this all of a sudden?" Homura asked, leaning on the wall. "He's currently hosting a Sekirei game, and hasn't even made an announcement since phase 2. So what does he have to gain by infecting an entire city and killing off the people to wing Sekirei?"
"I wish I knew for sure, however every time I try digging into their top secret files, all I find is the same name that keeps coming up for every file concerning Minaka's current planning data." Matsu said gravely while typing on her computer. "If that name has anything to do with Minaka, then I fear that the situation has become even more dangerous then I at first thought possible."
"And that name is?" Musubi asked.
"His name…is Pariah."
XXX
Minaka's clock tower stood proudly amongst the city; a perfect target for a certain Bio weaponoid to destroy to pieces. Heller was quickly approaching the tower from leaping building to building, his giant blade activated on his right arm and ready to slash right through the wall. Benitsubasa activated her own hammerfist, while Haihane had her claws out.
"Alright, so we know what to do, right?" Heller commanded, "We don't leave until we see that white haired asshole's head smashed to fuckin' mush, got it?"
"He doesn't stand a chance!" The pink haired Sekirei smirked.
"I wonder how big his brain really is once we rip it open?" Haihane wondered with a mischievous smile, "Guess we'll just have to find out."
"And that time is now." Heller said as they finally got within range of the tower! Heller to one last powerful leap off a nearby building, and with all the power pushed to his feet, and power jumped right at the tower and slammed his way right through the 5th story window! He tumbled into the tower and stood in a dark lab that held test tubes and long surgery tables within it. There seemed to be no one else in the room, at least allowing Heller not to kill anyone who didn't deserve death…which was no one. Haihane and Benitsubasa also entered through the window, keeping silent with the silent atmosphere if this room.
"Why is it so dark in here?" Benitsubasa whispered.
"Because Minaka is just strange like that."
Everyone quickly looked towards the side of the room as the lights shut on and quickly revealed a white haired woman in a white lab coat and a cigarette in her mouth.
"Takami." James said bitterly, "I'm gonna wring Minaka's neck, so don't get in my way or—"
"Good luck then."
All three of them latterly held confused expressions on their faces at the unexpected response that they received from Minaka's associate.
"Minaka's gone too far this time." Takami said, "His games could cost more lives than I thought he was capable of doing. He'll kill everyone here…even my own kids."
That was the complete kicker Heller needed to reduce Minaka into a pile of little wet chunks. It was one thing bring his wife back to life and force him to kill her, but to also threaten to kill another family and millions other dying as they spoke? Minaka was only increasing his suffering.
"Don't worry. That asshole's gonna get his real soon." The African American bioweapon swore.
"But first we gotta find him." Haihane suggested. "maybe we could use video cameras or something."
"No need." Heller said as he closed his eyes and stood perfectly still. The two other Sekirei looked at their Ashikabi, curiously wondering what he was doing, but in Heller's head, he was actually searching Minaka out using a special ability of his known as "hunting sonar". The entire room became a loud yellow and spread all around the room like a sonar scanner, examining the entire room for any trace of Minaka at all. Finally, he saw a "ping" in the room that seemed to point to the ceiling.
Heller opened his eyes again, and confirmed; "He's on the rooftop."
XXX
Driving through the city of Shito Teito was a rather dull experience for a certain young man. He would stare as the insignificant buildings passed him by while leaning on the door in boredom to the point that he even yawns. This young man was in fact a teenager with light brown shaggy hair, brown eyes, and wearing formal white wealthy attire.
"Jeez, it's so boring in this city." Said the young male. "I wish Minaka would hurry up and set something up with this Sekirei game."
"Calm yourself, Mikogami." Said a man sitting in the back seat. This man had messy silvery hair and grey eyes. He wore a black suit with an opening in the middle, an orange scarf, black fingerless gloves, and black boots. On his hip rested a tsuba-less long ninjato. "We should be patient for any development from Minaka.
"Aw, but I want something cool now!" Mikogami complained, "I mean with no real Sekirei game going on, there's no real need for you guys anymore."
"I-I'm sure something will occur." Said woman who also sat in the back seat. It was a young beautiful woman who had a blank depressed expression on her face. She had brown short hair and brown eyes, wore a white kimono that revealed her cleavage and chains wrapped around her neck and going down between her large breasts with a single small chain holding her kimono together.
"Oh, calm down Akitsu. I didn't mean that literally." Mikogami sighed, "Anyway, We might as well head back home. There's nothing to do in this city any—huh? Driver, stop."
The driver slowly stopped at the sight of something strange before the car; it was a hovering orange fog that engulfed the city ahead of them. None of them were able to see through the fog at all and didn't see the other side at all.
"Ugh! What now?-!" Mikogami said irritably.
"It looks like there's some strange fog that's covered this part of the city." The ninja-like Sekirei confirmed. "We should turn around and find another way through."
"There's no time for that!" Mikogami disagreed brashly. "I don't wanna spend another hour in this limo being bored! Let's jest ride through it."
"But, Mikogami—"
"Driver, you heard me! Go!" the brown haired teen ordered.
The driver did as he was told, and drove through the fog at normal speed. However as he did, the fog seemed to be actually causing a sort of turbulence for the car to drive through. This obviously made Mikogami fearful, but made Mutsu have a troubled feeling about all this. Akitsu was also in a state of worry, but her expression wouldn't show it at all.
Finally they were able to push through the mist, and appear within the other side of it, but as they did, they were met with the inside of the city completely barren and nothing but a wasteland of destruction and fear. The buildings were damaged severely and the ground torn out of place with cars toppled over along with windows broken into.
"W-What…W-What happened here…?" Mikogami said in terror. "How did the c-city get l-like this?"
"Something must have happened here." Mutsu pondered with a troubled expression. "It appears that a great battle took place here recently. I'm curious as to what could've caused all this…excuse me, Mikogami." Mutsu then grabbed his sword and opened the car door.
"Huh?-! Wait, you're going deeper into the city?-!" Mikogami exclaimed as Mutsu came the driver's window. "You can't do that, Mutsu! You might die in there!"
"Drive him back home. Akitsu, take care of him for me, got it?" Mutsu asked Akitsu.
Akitsu nodded once in understanding.
"Good. Now go." Mikogami ordered the driver, and with that, the driver quickly turned around and drove off out of the orange mist, leaving Mutsu alone in the destroyed city to investigate. Mutsu quickly felt the despair and strong scent of blood that littered the very streets, but even so, stood his ground.
"This city is crawling with death…" Mutsu thought, gripping his katana tightly, "If Mikogami had gotten any deeper into this city…he would surely die."
Mutsu then leaped off the ground and onto a nearby building to get a better view, only to find more destruction and damage upon the poor city, with no way for anyone to survive under such conditions. However, in the far distance, Mutsu could hear that sound of metal clanging against each other, and judging by the intenseness and flow, it appeared to be a battle waging on. It was there, that Mutsu had to go.
Mutsu was just about to go over to see what was going on, however he was immediately stopped by a single hard object slamming into him and making him soar into another building brutally! He tumbled into a darkened office room but was able to get on one knee and only receive a bleeding bruise to the side of his head.
"Wh-what the hell was that?" Mutsu uttered in shock.
"Well now, look at what's decided to come to me."
Mutsu looked up at the hole that he created to see a man standing in front of it. The most peculiar thing about this man was his strange massive inhumane fist that seemed to glow red and the skin extending to his shoulders.
"What sort of trick is that?" Mutsu questioned, while standing up. "You're not a Sekirei."
"You'd be correct. I'm not." Said this man with a toothy grin on his lips, "My name is Robert Cross—The Specialist. And it looks like a rogue Sekirei's decided to poke his nose into official business. Now that just won't do."
"I see you won't allow me to pass through any further. Very well." Mutsu said as he unsheathed his sword and threw the sheath to the side. "Then I'll simply cut through you to go further."
Cross chuckled, and held his massive fist at the ready. "You can try, ninja boy."
XXX
Deeper within the infected city, The two Mercer Sekirei were leaping from building to building in search of their Ashikabi's location, but so far, it seemed hopeless for them to even find a trace of him.
"It doesn't look like he's anywhere to be seen." Yashima said with worry, "I hope he's not in this mess."
"I doubt that." Kazehana said with a smile, "Besides, do you really think our Mercer-chan would die in a place like this?"
"I guess you're right." Yashima giggled.
"But…this place…it's so depressing." Kazehana said with a solemn and concerned expression on her face. "What kind of monster would do such a thing to a city like this? Oh, wait, never mind, I know just the monster for the job." She said angrily.
Yashima was about to say his name, but restrained from doing so, not wanting to upset the raven haired woman with her, seeing as how she already had wind forming around her body.
"Huh, hey look over there!" Kazehana pointed out, letting the wind around her falter. Yashima looked as well to see someone leaping high into the air with a giant blade attached to his arm very far away from where they stopped. Instantly they recognized the black jacket and hood as it slammed down into the city ground!
"It's Mercer-sama!" the brown haired Sekirei confirmed happily. "He's alive!"
"Told ya." Kazehana smiled as well. "We should get over there, but we probably shouldn't let him see us. I'm sure he's gonna be pretty heated if he finds out we came here against his order."
"Y-Yeah…" Yashima nodded in fearful agreement at what Alex Mercer would do if someone disobeyed him. "Let's do that."
XXX
Alex Mercer had successfully pushed away the grey haired swordswoman by swinging his sword at her and pushing her back a few feet. Karasuba stood in exhaustion as she held her sword meekly, and was panting harshly. This was the first time in a long while that Karasuba was actually getting tired. She didn't expect such a battle to leave her exhausted and with many cuts and bruises on her body. However no wounds hit any of her vital spots, meaning this hooded virus humanoid was simply toying with her all this time.
"Had enough?" Alex smirked as he held his Blade on his shoulder. "I could literally do this all day, Y'know."
"Heh…you wish…" Karasuba smirked while panting. She then held her sword at the ready once more. "I won't be stopping any time soon…not until I defeat her."
"And who is this 'her' you speak of?" Mercer asked with interest. "And don't bother feeding me that 'you won't live long enough to find out' bullshit. I think we both know who's not gonna live long in this case."
"True…I guess if someone is to know of my goals, I might as well be someone who could exhaust me to this amount…" Karasuba said, as she lowered her sword, but still held it, ready to strike if he tried anything. "There is a certain girl I want to defeat who has taken refuge in another girl's body. Through this other girl can I only be able to see her, and fight her once and for all. I swore to myself that I would never let myself be defeated or let that other girl be defeated until she and I were the last Sekirei in this game. And there…there will we decide who is truly the strongest."
"And what about the other girl? You think she'll be okay with this?" Mercer questioned.
"Sacrifices must be made." Karasuba smirked, "I'm sure you know all about that, don't you?"
Alex Mercer couldn't lie. He did know all about sacrifices. Hell, he almost sacrificed an entire city as a starting point for his new world plan, which failed greatly because of a certain bald black dude who was running around with the powers Alex, himself gave to him. "I got some battle scars."
"Then you must understand why I must defeat her." Karasuba said with a more serious tone. "She was the one person who could easily subdue me and I swore to fight her one day. So in order to do so, I must live to see her in the final days of the Sekirei."
"That's some dedication…and it appears you are strong enough to want to make such a goal come true..." The hooded man thought it over for a bit and put into consideration her skill and raw power. Not to mention her insatiable thirst for battle occupied with her own goals seemed perfect. She was indeed a rare find of Sekirei that actually had the same characteristics as him…and he was loving her. "…Yes…you definitely need to be my Sekirei."
Karasuba looked towards Alex Mercer in surprise of his sudden decision. So much so that she could only laugh at such demands. Her laughing died down and she only held a mocking smile on her face. "Your Sekirei? You think that just because you defeated me, you can just put your hands all over my body, kiss me, and I'm yours? Is this how you lure poor young maidens into your hands?"
"Well I got those two up there on my side." Alex said, pointing to the roof of a nearby building to the left of them. He then held an annoyed expression on his face as he said strictly, "You might as well come out! Now!"
The two were quite startled to hear such an angry voice from Mercer, and quickly leaped out of hiding and landed on the street level with the two. Karasuba was honestly surprised to see one of the two Sekirei walk to them. "Kazehana? You're one of his Sekirei?"
Kazehana giggled as she put one hand behind her head comically, "Yeah, I guess you can say I'm hooked to the guy."
"So…it seems you two are bad at following orders." Alex said with anger seeping through his voice as he stared towards the two Sekirei before him with piercing red eyes. This frightened Yashima greatly, and slightly put Kazehana on edge."After I specifically told you NOT to enter with me, you go behind my back and do it anyway!"
"Aw, but we couldn't stand another minute being away from you, Mercer-chan." The raven haired Sekirei smiled as she wrapped her arms around his waist, and getting dangerously close. "As Ashikabi and Sekirei, we have to be extremely close to you at all times. And I can't be away from someone as handsome as you are, now can I?"
"First of all; that's the most weakest way to beg for forgiveness I'd ever seen, and secondly; get off me." Alex sighed as he removed Kazehana from him with a light push and his red eyes returned to normal. He turned his blade back into his regular arm and folded his arms. "Alright, I'll forgive you this once. But next time, you disobey, there's gonna be hell to pay, got it?"
"Y-Yes, Mercer-sama!" Yashima said with quivering.
"Sure thing, babe." Kazehana winked.
"Quite the team you got there." Karasuba smirked.
"Shut up." Alex sighed. He then turned to her again to continue his conversation. "You know, my offer still stands. Would you rather work for the person who's gonna be dead in a in a short amount of time, or would you rather work for me, who'll last forever. It's your choice."
Karasuba really didn't have anything better to do now that she thought about it. Since her original Ashikabi was dead anyway, she was free to choose who was her new Ashikabi or not. If Alex does kill Minaka, then she'll only have to fight the woman she wants to battle with and finally she'll fight Mercer since he's the strongest. And what better way to know your opponent then being with him? It was the perfect way to know who you're dealing with, and was fool proof as well. Karasuba sheathed her katana and smiled slickly. "It seems like I don't have a choice at all, do I?"
Alex walked up to Karasuba and put his arm around her waist and brought her close. "Nope."
And with that, Alex placed his lips to hers, and suddenly, Karasuba felt something course through her and seep into her body with such force that she thought she would actually faint. She could feel immense power coursing through her veins and the ability to just about dominate anything that stood in her way was now in her very grasp to use as she pleased. Suddenly from her back, her wings formed as black ones, however there were veins coursing through them as well. The wings finally disappeared as Kazehana's clothes changed color; the black dress remained the same, but the belt became blood red, and the coat over her shoulders became black with the interior being red. The insignia of the Sekirei was replaced with the insignia that Alex has on the back of his jacket. Her nodachi also changed and was now had biomass covering half the handle, while the tsuba was talon blades circling the blade into a tsuba.
Karasuba quickly grabbed her blade and slowly unsheathed it to reveal the blade being two times sharper then it was before, and it resembling one of the talons from Mercer's claw but a nodachi's length now.
Without warning she quickly swung the sword down with great strength and suddenly a sonic wave shot right from the edge of the blade and soared right through one of the buildings with a destructive cut that almost split it in two!
Karasuba looked at her sword, a quickly smirked with interest in her new weapon. "This is gonna be fun to use." She then sheathed her sword, and turned back to Mercer. She placed her hand on her chin and looked at Alex in deep thought.
"What?" Alex asked.
"If I am going to be with you, I prefer you dress a little…darker." Karasuba asked. "Maybe dress in darker clothes like the rest of us."
Alex looked at her, then at Yashima and Kazehana, and finally at himself. They did have a point though; compared to his Sekirei, he was a coloring box in his opinion. He then chuckled and said, "I think I can fix that."
Suddenly a bit of biomass covered his entire body head to toe. A few seconds later the biomass dissipated and all of a sudden his clothes turned darker than they were before; his shoes were now black, and his pants were a darker blue color. His shirt was still white, and his jacket was still black with red interior, however his hoodie/vest was now a pure black color. (Basically his clothes are the same color as it was in the Prototype 2 cutscenes when it's black n' white)
"That's more like it." Alex smirked in admiration. "Guess black really suits me."
"So then, what now fearless leader?" Karasuba asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Alex said with a smug grin on his face. "It's now black vs. white in this city…And guess who the one in white is?"
XXX
The wind blew lightly through Minaka's white hair and cape as he stood before the edge of his tower, overlooking the city afar being covered in the Blacklight fog. He had no fear of it anymore, and decided that it might as well be let out to the world…now that he had his insurance.
But such thinking had quickly come to an end as he heard and felt the explosion from far behind him. He then heard three feet sets of feet landing to the ground and smiled sinisterly at the arrival of them all.
"Well now, isn't this a surprise. Heller and two of my disciplinary squad members; red and blue." Minaka said, "What a glorious surprise."
"Yeah well this surprise is gonna rip out your fuckin' guts in a few seconds." James said angrily as he held his giant blade at the ready.
"Oh, how terrifying." Minaka mocked, "And I assume you two as well will be after my head as well?"
"We could care less about you." Benitsubasa said tightening her hammerfist. "As soon as we're done with you, we go after our real vengeance."
"This is just more of a detour for now." Haihane said with her claws open and ready to kill.
"I see. So Alex Mercer is your real target, is he?" Minaka said in interest. "May I ask why?"
"What do you mean, why?-! Because he killed Matsuo!" The pink haired Sekirei yelled.
"Mercer killed Matsuo? Now that's a surprise!" Minaka smiled as he looked over his shoulder. "Because from what I remembered, the real killer was—"
By the time Minaka turned his head completely around, he had seen that Heller was already close enough to carve through Minaka with his giant blade and was about to be successful in doing so…Only for his blade to hit something hard instead of a body. Heller looked at what he hit and was in complete shock at what he discovered; he instead hit a massively large blade that replaced Minaka's arm and his entire arm covered in tendril-like red glowing veins!
"What the fuck?" Heller uttered in shock.
"That's right Heller…" Minaka said with a grin of pure evil, "I am now beyond life, and death. I am a Bio weapon! I am a Prototype!"
Minaka swung his blade away, and pushed Heller back, but he was quickly able to regain his footing and stand at the ready with his Sekirei joining him.
"Hahaha! Yes! Yes! I can feel the virus merging within my body!" Minaka said while laughing hysterically, "It feels as though so much power is pouring within my body all at once! It's so invigorating, that I could just explode with raw power at my disposal!-!"
"How did he even get that power?" Haihane questioned.
"Good question, ex-Disciplinary blue." The white haired man grinned, "You see, when Heller killed his wife, a small mist of her Blacklight genes came hovering over to my grasp due to her and my genetic code being the same."
Genetic code?" Benitsubasa questioned. "You mean…you put your own genetics into Heller's wife?"
"Precisely, and in doing so the Blacklight mist became accommodated with Collette's DNA and anyone within a 100 mile radius who shares that same DNA code—meaning me. I simply tested it on Heller's wife to see if it would actually work." Minaka grinned, "And that's not even the most interesting part! You see, when Heller killed Collette, he also allowed some of his own viral cells to transfer from his body into Collette and thus also form within the mist of Collette's DNA. Now that power flows through me, which means…"
"…You stole my genetics…!" Heller said in shock once more. "…you copied my powers!"
"No James Heller…" Minaka said smugly, "…You gave them to me. You have created me. You are my God. And now…it's time I murder my maker."