Prologue

The air inside the room was chilly and unbearable. It was poorly dim; the only illuminations inside the room are coming from the computer screens which provided nothing but a little radiant glow. Then slowly, rampant exchange of voices, reverberated through the walls.

"Threshold Dose increasing!"

"Aura level is also increasing,"

"Someone gas him with gas chloroform!"

"We've ran out!"

Ten men, all clad in white lab coats, were dashing and running around the dark room in panic, they're all clueless on what was happening right now and what will they do next. And then suddenly they all stopped dead on their tracks as the whole room was enveloped by an ear piercing scream.

All of them darted their eyes on the observational windows on the wall that separated them from whatever was on the next room.

"GAHHH!" the scream of a man echoed again and then died down until there's nothing but silence.

"Status?" one of them asked, nervously.

"Boy A…organ all stopped, threshold dose is gone…it's dead."

A grumbled of grimace escaped from their lips and echoed.

"Subject Boy A, I mean, Heller, is dead. What should we do, Professor Hilda."

From the dark corner of the room, a person walked out slowly and looked through the glass with her blue eyes, observing. Her blonde hair ruffled as she put her hand on her lab coat and think.

"Send a report to him; I'll take full responsibility on this…" Such a waste…she thought disappointingly as she walk away and think hard for her next move. However a loud beeping echoed suddenly within the room, stopping her bereaving thoughts.

"Ma'am, Geiger-Mueller Counter is spiking,"

"Threshold dose rising, aura is spiking up." she turned around, wide eyed in shock.

"There's something in there…" one of the scientists said dreadfully as she moved closer and peered on the window, suddenly a loud disembodied scream echoed from the room.

It was a man's but it wasn't the subject's voice, it was different. She slowly made a dark smile for she'd guessed who it was.

"Long live the new King," she muttered, astounded, under her breath.

It was so dark…a voice of a man echoed throughout the darkness.

Cold…he thought again as his skin felt the coldness of the place.

This is hell…he rested his head as he felt that he was floating on an empty, vacuum-like, dead space. Then all of a sudden a bright light appeared on the distance.

It was warm light and it was moving towards him, confused to what it was, he slowly tried to reach it but the light eventually enveloped him.

Aughh…a painful groan escaped from the man's lips and echoed throughout the whole room. The man slowly opened, revealing his blue-silver eyes and glance around the room.

He was in a hospital room, there're tables in the corner filled with scalpel and surgery tools, BP monitors on his right that were beeping ominously, and IV tubes standing upright to his left, its small tubes were connected on his hands, ingesting some drugs on his body.

"Where…am I?" he spoke, his voice croaked dry, dazedly. "What…am I doing here?" he stared at the white wall, confused and lost, and then as if someone answered, his head suddenly ache and his vision started to spin.

"What is happening…?!" he weakly pressed both of his hands on his head, but the pain fought back, and then he saw images flashed in his mind.

He watched the images rushed back and forth and it was all horrible images of a city burning, and horrible monsters crawling everywhere. And then he saw himself, standing on rooftop of a building, with his hands shaped in a horrifying black thing, outstretch. And then he saw his face and then his hideous red eyes.

"Agh!" he grunted, agonizingly, and then he stopped. Those are my…memories, I remember…slowly he opened his eyes again, this time it was in reminiscing.

"I am…Alex J. Mercer," he muttered, disoriented from the pain, "I'm already dead," before he looked down to his brown hands, confused.

What am I doing here then? Why am I alive…he cut his thoughts suddenly as he heard the door opened. The man named Alex hid his hands and closed his eyes.

He sensed the person move closer to him, probably checking his BP. Alex wasted no time, he growled and then immediately lunge at the person who yelped in shock.

"You! You're going to tell me everything!" Alex pinned the man who was a male nurse on the wall and scowled at him. "What the hell is this place, how was I revived and who revive me?"

The man winced in fright and stuttered; Alex clicked his tongue mentally and said. "Fine, I'll consume you instead," and grunted as he summon his skill before, but nothing happened.

Startled at first, he grunted again, gritting his teeth, but his ability to consume didn't activate.

"What the fuck…" unsettled to his missing skill, he grip the neck of the male nurse again, and tried to summon another ability of him, this time he felt his left hand change.

His left hand blackened as the Blacklight virus morphed it to a large menacing blade.

Heh good thing my old blade is still here he thought gladly and stabbed the male nurse right into his chest. The man coughed blood, splattering some on Alex's face and his white hospital gown, Alex let go of the body, and glance at the mirror hanging on the wall, to his right.

"My clothes…they're not the same as before." he muttered. "Tch, they revive me weak." Then he returned to the slumped body of the male nurse. He lean down and looted for any object that could aide his escape.

"An I.D. this would be good." He took the I.D. of the man and then after making a one last look around the room, he opened the door and went out silently.

What the hell is this place…Alex thought, as he crouched down on a corner, irritably and took a peak on the CCTV hanging above, at the end of the corridor in front of him where a large close door stood, he had a huge hunch that he was in some kind of a military facility.

His hearing then picked up two sounds of footsteps far from him. At least my ears works half smiling he then proceeded to test his next ability.

"Let's see if there's someone on the other side of that large door," he said and tried to summon his ability to see enemies beyond the door, but nothing happened.

"Damn!" he silently cursed, the infected vision was also gone, but he remembered another ability of him and tried to activate it. "Here goes nothing." He mentally recalled it and then the virus within him activated.

His whole surroundings became blue and his vision passed through the huge dual doors, letting him see what's inside.

This doesn't help much but…hmm?The whole place had become blue in his thermal vision, and he could see a large rectangular red orange, standing upright at middle of large room.

"What the hell is that-"

"You there!" A voice suddenly rang out from behind him. He suddenly sprang up and turned around. Two soldiers, wearing an all-black military suitand gas masks to cover their faces, stood several meters away from him.

He was found, he clicked his tongue in disappointment.

Shit! And then he remembered one of his ability. "Hope this one didn't disappear!" he shouted in frustration. He recalled one of his offensive ability which move the Blacklight inside and morphed his right hand into a long black colored whip that has extendable appendages and a sharp blade on the end.

Alex smiled wickedly, he still has one of his best offensive, and swung it with force.

The two soldiers panic, and tried to fire their rifles but Alex reached the one on the right and decapitated it. The soldier on the left winced in fright and tried to run but Alex's whip moved swiftly and wrapped its bloody appendages of the soldier.

Alex growled as he pulled the soldier and threw him towards the CCTV at the end of the corridor, smashing it.

"Heh…now that was easy." Alex murmured triumphantly as he walked towards the soldier who moved and tried to crawl away. But Alex had reached and stood with predatory eyes locked on him.

"Hey you alive?" he asked in a placid manner, as the soldier barely move but his eyes were screaming in fear. "Barely, I guess," Alex scoffed off as he morphed his right hand into a large blade and stabbed the soldier on the neck. Blood gushed out.

Alex then fished out the I.D. of the soldier. This must be a key he thought plainly as he glanced on the side of the door and swipe the I.D. on the door's key card slot, and the door made a loud thud followed by an electronic voice booming.

SLATE CHAMBER NOW OPENING

"Slate chamber, just what the hell is this place," annoyed and still clueless he only rumbled in thought as he watched the door opened that would lead him to 'Slate Chamber' suddenly a loud blaring alarm filled his ears and the same electronic voice boomed in again.

WARNING BIOHAZARD DETECTED! SLATE CHAMBER EMERGENCY CLOSE DOWN

Alex became alert as the door suddenly pause its ascent and then swiftly it began to slide down, he grunted and quickly commanded the virus within him. His hands quickly morphed into a black mass with four talon blades.

He swiftly caught the door before it fully close and lock, and grunted.

"Tch! No there might be an escape route there!" he shouted as he forcefully lifted the door. He slowly went under it and with an exasperated breath he let go and dropped down to the floor as the door closed one him, enveloping him in darkness of the Slate Chamber.

"Great…" Alex slowly stood up as his eyes stared at the closed door. The whole chamber was dark and quite, now for the exit of this wretched hole- and then something made him paused his thoughts.

He saw his shadow, which was slowly forming on a solid wall, he turned around towards the source of the light and then he was startled.

An large round rock was towering before him, it possess lines and well detailed shapes and strange words that looks like Latin language which gave an idea to Alex that the thing was already million years old. Other than that, it was glowing brightly in different colors.

"What the fuck…?" astounded, he watched as the rock's hue changes from blue to red, green to gold, and gray and many more. He gulped down; he felt a strong presence from it.

This is what I saw earlier, he slowly approached, curious, "What is this-" and then as his left four wedge claw, touched the surface, he let out a painful scream.

The rock suddenly flashed its color and then it sent an electric jolt to Alex who grunted and winced.

"GAH! Shit! What the hell!" Alex tried to back away, but his left claw was stuck. The rock seemed to magnetize it towards it. Alex howled and grunted as he tried to pull away and then when he tried to use his right claw, to cut his left limb free, the rock pulsated again and a force suddenly drag his right claw towards it surface.

Alex felt the pain tremendously; the Blacklight within him had gone haywire also. He couldn't speak in anguish as he only shook up in agony. And then suddenly, the rock pulsated for the third time and released a forceful wind, sending him towards the wall.

"Fuck…" Alex cried painfully as he tried to stand up. He faced the rock again with a haggard eyes, confuse to what had just happened.

"Interesting…so it chooses you." Hearing an another voice, he darted his eyes in alarm and landed on a figure standing on the dark, beside the huge glowing rock, and then immediately he used summoned his whip fist and swung it towards the figure.

He caught the figure by his waist and then immediately he tugged the figure and throws him towards him. The figure landed on the floor in front of him, and he was startled for it was a woman clad in a white lab gown.

"You…you're an authorize personnel here weren't you?" Alex asked as he grab the woman by her neck and lifted her up, strangling her.

"Yes-"the woman scientist coughed and wheeze, "and I'm also-the one who revive you"

"How!? I remembered I died that day, I was consumed by a man named James Heller."

The woman scoffed off and smile, startling Alex, "Oh him…we took him, and killed his last remaining family, so we can resurrect you!-" the grip around her neck tightened as Alex scowled at her.

"We-extracted you from his body, using that stone!" Alex then let her go, half gladdened that he know that the man who killed him was already dead, but mystified.

"How could the stone, be responsible for my resurrection…just what the hell is it?" Alex asked, coldly, as his right hand tightened and morphed into a blade and pointed it at her neck, "don't you dare lie tell me." He added, warningly.

The woman chuckled, earning her a dark glare from him, and slowly stood up. "I can't explain it clearly…but I can show you how it resurrected you." She moved towards the rock and touched its surface and she began to glow in radiant black aura.

Alex judged him coldly and she saw she was sincere, despite her impish smile on her face.

"It shock me."

"It is its way of saying 'hello,' come on…touch it." Alex extended his left hand, keeping his right hand in a blade form so he could stab the woman immediately if she was lying to him. His left hand touched the surface and then immediately he felt its power channeled throughout his whole body.

And then suddenly his whole body let out a strong aura of a color black.

"Oh…" he shivered in awe. The aura that he was letting out was powerful than the woman.

"We called this the Slate and it was an ancient alien artifact that fell together with the same meteorite that extinguished the dinosaur. We don't know its origins but it simply gives powers to any living beings with a strong mental complexity." The woman explained as Alex's cold glare returned.

"That's just bullshit."

"It's true, this rock was found lying on the Bermuda, and it causes a lot of disturbances within the area," she paused as her grey eyes observed Alex if he's listening, "when we caught Heller, the Slate reacted and started to degrade his cells, we don't know what happened. But I guess… 'it called' you."

Alex rolled his eyes, skeptical. He wasn't expecting the rock to be some kind of fantasy object but, ironically, he was also half curious.

"And what does this thing really do?" he asked half curious.

"Well it chooses you, it gave you powers. I don't know what kind of, but there was a term that was created to men or living beings that the Slate chosen." The woman smiled wildly in excitement.

"The term was Extra Alpha but usually we use the term…'KING',"

"King?" Alex muttered and scoffed in woman then continued.

"Yes, your majesty." The woman then suddenly bow, slightly surprising the man, "and I Viktoria Hilda, is here to serve you forevermore, King Alex Mercer!" her tone wavered, deranged. Alex looked at her unfeelingly.

This woman is strange…but then she was somehow correct. Alex was still bathed in his blackish aura, feeling the power in his veins, he smiled.

Even though I've lost some abilities, I felt I'm complete just what's this power and what it can do "Hey, why did you revive me?" he asked as he stopped his thoughts. The woman slowly looked up to him, eyes burning passionately.

"Your Majesty…I've heard of you before, when you unleash the virus, and your purpose of doing so…" Viktoria's smile grew wider and narrated obsessively, "Humanity is Stagnant, dying. With their death, there'll be no more conflict, no more disease, no more sufferings"

Alex eyes widened in nostalgia, he recognized those words and he said it on the day that he was killed. Slowly a smile formed in his face as he felt his long lost desire had sparked bright.

"So were you, Viktoria…you're stagnant and dying." He said cruelly.

"Yes, I am…and with that, me and several people who had heard and like your cause, would support you," Viktoria stood up and flicked her hand in the air, majestically. "And thus you'll have your own army!" the door behind Alex suddenly made a loud thud and started to open.

Alex readied his blade but his eyes sharpened, threateningly, as he saw a group of soldiers standing on the door way. The soldiers, however, didn't attack instead their next action surprises him.

One by one, they kneel and bowed their heads down.

"We're your 'clansmen'. Your Majesty! And we will support you through the end!" Viktoria shouted in jubilant and kneeled again to him, "now let the whole world tremble again."

Alex Mercer stared down in confusion at them and then slowly he smiled menacingly.

An army, a new power, and an absolute freewill. He thought as he turned to the soldiers in black military suite, who will be his army, and then to the woman, Viktoria Hilda, oh…I can feel it. This time I can succeed!

In euphoria, the man chuckled deeply and then he laughed loudly like a crazed person. "Oh I don't know if I would hate you or not!" he looked down to Viktoria. "But then I shall use you all so I can recreate this world one more time!" and then he laughed and laughed as his black aura grew larger and larger and the 'Slate' glowing ominously at him.

A new King was born and the whole world will tremble once again.

Yay! A new story! I hope you would like it, I just finished playing Prototype and I really like it! Now I'm going to do a story with it! Feel Free to send reviews. Sorry I don't beta-reader for this one, ignore the gramma.