My name is Alex Mercer.
I am a living weapon of mass destruction. I am the Blacklight Virus.
I am death.
I am… in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere.
Last thing I remember was the nuke going off a couple miles out from Manhattan. I'm only lucky I was two miles out from the blast or I probably wouldn't even be alive right now.
I thought if I did survive, unlikely as it was, I'd probably end up on the coast, or back in Manhattan. Instead, I appear to be in the middle of a forest. The sun is shining, the wind is blowing through the trees, and everything is simply down right peaceful.
…what the fuck.
Getting up, I figure I might as well get my bearings. Crouching down, I stiffen my legs, and then spring into the air as high as I can go. I do a quick few loops looking around, committing my surroundings to my web like photographic memory. Being a virus does have its perks, even if I have no clue how it works.
I frown and land. There's no signs of civilization anywhere. No smoke, no roads, no skyscrapers in the distance from Manhattan, which by all rights I should still be near.
But no, there's not a single thing around.
Scowling, I do a few quick projections in my head of my trajectory. Considering I'd been flying back towards the island, by all rights I should be in Manhattan. If I was somehow blown past that… then I should be in the middle of the ocean, and even if I washed up somewhere, I should be on the beach, not in the middle of a forest!
In any case, I'm dangerously low on biomass. Taking a nuke to the back would certainly do it. A quick look around using my heat vision reveals nothing, and infected vision does jack for me. I really need a way to find sources of bio mass, like animals, quickly.
As soon as the thought hits, a pain courses through my head. I grab it, recognizing the pain of a new power incoming. My infected vision, or something that looks like my infected vision, flashes over my eyes, and I see a red wave of energy pulse out of my body. Almost in answer, the same energy wave bounces back from a number of different animals in the distance. I can tell immediately that they're sheep and pigs as the returning wave hits me. What is this, some kind of Bio-radar? No… more like a Hunter's Pulse, considering what I'm using it for.
Grinning, I take off, dodging around trees at top speed. Of all my powers, the boost to my reflexes is the best, allowing me to parkour around and over just about anything. There's a certain sense of freedom in being the fastest being around.
Soon enough, I skid to a halt among a small herd of sheep. They all bleat and look at me, then go back to grazing. That's odd. Most animals usually have a sense of when an alpha predator is around, yet these ones… just don't care? Kinda ruins the fun of the chase, but oh well.
It's almost pathetically easy to rip the small flock to shreds. It doesn't even take me more than a few seconds. The other sheep don't even really react to the demise of their herd mates. Are they really that dumb, or just that oblivious? A quick glance through some of the fragmented memories I usually get from animals show that they're really that dumb. All they do is graze, run away from danger, and fuck. They have no pack mentality at all. The only reason these sheep are even in a flock at all is because they hardly move anywhere.
I actually feel a bit dumber just from viewing those memories. I quickly gather the lot up and purge it all. Nothing to absorb and better myself there. They're just walking sacks of biomass. That one flock isn't enough though. I trigger another pulse and track some more animals, glad that any new power I gain I can use almost perfectly by instinct.
Several herds of sheep, a few pigs, and a cow later, I'm quickly back up to my usual mass. I don't even have to bother dodging trees now, since I can simply plow through them without losing speed. I'm not sure what to do at this point though. I've covered a pretty large distance and haven't run into anything yet. I've already tried sending out a hunter pulse to try and locate humans, but I haven't gotten anything back. I think my pulse may have a limited range. The scientist in me has me testing just how far out I can sense a single herd of animals. A few tests later, I can say with a certainty I have a limited range of roughly 20 kilometers. Not bad.
All of this is a distraction from the main goal though. I need to find out where I am. For lack of a better idea, I pick a direction and start running full tilt, often jumping up to glide a fair distance. I pass by the forest, as well as a plain, a swamp, a desert, until I reach some mountains. Reaching the top, I leap as high as I can and take another look around. There's still not a sign of civilization anywhere. I'm not sure what to make of this.
A lot of time has passed. The sun is about to set. I'm still running, occasionally slaughtering animals, even though I don't really need the extra mass. Least I should be able to pull off a couple devastator moves if I want.
It's when the sun falls that things get interesting.
Monsters start popping up from the shadows everywhere. I almost feel a bit of nostalgia, since I was surrounded by monsters in NYZ all the time as well. Same shit, different location it seems. Unlike the animals, these things seem to have a bone to pick with me and start heading in my direction. I grin ferally. Fine by me.
What follows is a night of cutting a swath through more monsters than even I can count. I find it interesting that the green ones can explode when they get close enough. I absorb some, and after getting a few, I end up gaining the ability to cause monsters I inject a compound into to explode with tendrils, kinda like a bomb. I think I'll call it a bio-bomb.
I never did bother absorbing the, for lack of a better term, Zombies. I didn't absorb the skeletons either. I tried with a couple, but there's nothing to gain there. The biomass isn't even worth it. Speaking of worth, on the opposite end of that scale would definitely be tall, dark, and ugly. They seem to freak out as soon as I look at them. The first time one of them teleported out of my attack range, I froze in disbelief. Only one of those blasted green things blowing up behind me snapped me out of it. Freakin things like to sneak up on me, like a creep. I'll call them Creepers.
Needless to say, I started hunting the tall dark ones with a vengeance. I consumed a lot of them, until I'd finally activated the ability to teleport myself. I'd go into the biology of it, but even though I consumed it, it still doesn't make sense. I suppose it doesn't really matter since half the things I'm able to do send the proverbial middle finger at physics anyway.
Practicing my new found teleporting abilities, I quickly realize I only seem to be able to teleport to places I've been already or that are within sight range. I immediately tried to teleport back to NYZ knowing this, but it didn't work. The going hypothesis is I either have a limited range on the teleport, or I have to be able to figure out where my destination is in relation to where I am. Or both. I did pick up a few teleport points from the black things, which seem to refer to themselves as Endermen, from their memories, but looking at the majority of them gives me a headache, and I keep hearing those screams they make when sighted, only far louder.
A/N: …I'm not really sure where to go with this from here. I had an idea of maybe using the memories of the Enderman to teleport into the Nether so Alex can absorb a ghast and a blaze, and combine the two to give himself flight, or maybe have him find a village and have him absorb memories and such to learn how to craft and/or learn the local legends which'll send him hunting for Notch and/or Herobrine, but at that point I've no idea what to do with him, other than probably have him decide that since he can't get home, he'll just infest Minecraftia and raise a civilization of Runners, with him as the head honcho after swallowing the local deities. Other than that, there's nothing here for him to really do that I can think of.