Welcome to my second attempt at a story if you came from my other. I am still writing that one. I just wanna get this one down as I can't find any like it which I find sad but understandable. As with my other story, expect the characters to be a bit ooc.
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A virus's attempt at human life
Alex woke with a start his body hurt. It was as if he had been ripped apart and thrown back together again his vision was woozy and his arms and legs just felt wrong to thin and too short. Alex stands up wobbling barely conscious. He looks around and sees that he is on a beach and that it was night time. His memories were hazy; the last thing he remembers is the nuke. It exploding, the heat, the feeling of Being ripped apart by the explosion. It was the worst pain he had ever felt. As deaths go, death by nuke was his worst. He starts walking to the hill and to the town he sees. He wondered if his sister was ok even if she wasn't 'his' sister she was still important to him really she was the only human he cared for. He gets to the street and activates his thermal vision he sees there are only roughly one thousand humans here. He smirks. "This might be a good place to lay low for a bit." He says to himself.
Alex groans as the voices all start yelling louder he thought he had gotten used to them by now but it seems the nuke has left him even weaker than he thought. Alex walks to a small dinner on the side of the street called the 'three whales dinner'. It was a nice little dinner though Alex thought it was rather large as if giants used it. Maybe it's because it's named after a whale. Alex walks in and immediately notices that it's not the dinner that's big but him that is small as all these humans are much bigger than him. He rushes to the bathroom and after climbing the too big sink he looks in the mirror and is shocked it seems he lost far too much biomass in the explosion because he was now a 5 year old Alex mercer baby fat and all. He knew this was bad and that he needed to absorb some more quickly as in this state he would be defenseless… or maybe he could play it up for now and slowly build back up his biomass. The government was looking for a 29 year old man after all, not a child it could work. though he'd need 'parents' ones that would treat him well, perhaps he could find a police station and try the system… No Alex's memories remember that special hell he won't subjugate himself to that. so that left trying to get a human to take pity and adopt him he could do that.
He leaves the bathroom and sits at a booth. A blond woman with a name tag that reads 'Joyce' on it walks up with a gentle smile but a wary glance as if looking for someone. "Hey hun, where are your mom and dad at?" This 'Joyce' asks. Alex bites his lip he didn't have those yet dammit he just wanted to stock up on a bit of biomass before looking for some. "O-oh eh haha i don't have any." He says trying his best to play the nervous child. not his favorite role especially when he didn't have any memories to work off of but he may be a virus and has killed hundreds but he won't kill and absorb a child it would not help him and they are innocent. Joyce for her part just stares at this little roughed up boy with sand all over him and gives a sad smile. "Oh I see , well I know a great policeman that can help his name is Angus. He's a great big funny fellow." She says. Alex bites his lip again shit he didn't want the system it didn't work it was hell! He clamps down on the Mercer part of him that was freaking out; he needed to stay calm. "Oh that's ok miss I um… d-don't want to go back the last mommy and daddy they gave me h-hit me i-it's why I ran away." He says looking down trying to look both scared and sad. Joyce gasps as the very thought makes her sick this poor boy was abused and was hurting no wonder he was covered in sand he properly was homeless now ordinarily she would never even think this but something about this boy screamed out that he needed a parent a good parent and she and william had wanted a second but her body just couldn't take it. So Joyce smiles and says. "Well then hun how about I adopt you I have a little girl around your age she's the sweetest little thing and i can promise never to hit you ok?" Joyce askes she knows it's a long shot but something in her just cries out to help this boy. Alex looks her over using his enhanced vision, seeing her muscles and organs. She isn't lying, which is a surprise… yes she will do and having a sister again sounds like an even better cover who would think the blacklight would play house. Alex puts on his best awed face and nods. "Ok miss I'd like that a lot." Alex says he then immediately curses himself for failing to make that believable but Joyce just giggles oblivious to it. "Ok hun well my shift is over in a few minutes so my husband William will be here soon so what can i get you to eat?" Joyce asks. Alex smiles, it looks down right evil but Joyce isn't one to judge based on appearance. "meat." He says he needs the biomass after all. Joyce smiles at the answer and writes it down then walks behind the counter to tell the cook.
Alex waits taping his fingers against the table impatient to start healing his body he can feel his tendrils under his skin wriggling as he waits. It feels like forever but it was only a few minutes when Joyce walks back over and hands him a plate of sausage and bacon. "Here ya are hun eat up now." She says as she sets a chocolate milk down on the table and walks off to deal with other customers. Alex digs into his food, absorbing it with his tendrils through his mouth to make it look like he was eating as humans do. After he finishes his meal he sips his chocolate milk. It was surprisingly good, much like the meal itself. It seems this dinner had a very good chef.
Joyce walks up with a smile after he is done. "Are ya ready hun my husband is here for us haha and boy will he be surprised." Joyce says with a kind smile. Alex nods and holds Joyce's hand as she leads Alex to a truck with a man getting out. The man smiles and looks at Alex with a confused face. "He hony what's with the little biker kid?" William asks. Joyce smirks. "Well hun he is our son now." She says shoving Alex lightly in front of her. Alex looks up at the man assessing him. He didn't seem bad. William chokes on his own spit at those words. "W-what?" He asks. "You heard me William we are adopting Alex here you said you wanted two and his parents are a" she looks away with disgust. "Non issue." She says. William sighs and nods it was clear they would be talking about this in private later that night. William drives them all to the police station and files out the work only for them not to find a Alex mercer in the files it was as if he never existed but being friends with the cops helps and they start the process to make him a digital identity it won't be over night but the cop Angus assures the couple he will get it done as fast as possible and that they can take Alex home for now. Alex sees his new house and is shocked it was bigger than he thought it would be. They get inside and Alex sees a small 4 year old blond girl staring at him along with a 3 year old brown haired girl and an older 20 something brown haired woman presumably the little brown haired girl's mother. "Chloe, this is Alex, your new brother." Joyce says then all hell broke loose as the little girl utters three words. "don't want it." Chloe says with a little stomp.
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And that's chapter one so if you made it this far i hope you enjoyed my stupid Brian child as i have gotten back into playing the first life is strange and i have always loved the first prototype so i figure if no one else will try to combine them i would. I will say trying to Wright Alex is hard as he is not exactly human and he is not even remotely a good person. I hope I do him justice along with Max and Chloe. As they will be the three main people and this will have time skips so don't worry they won't be kids for long.