Mordor Infection

Talion had managed to reach Cirith Ungol as he sensed the location of Celebrimbor nearby, he saw dozens of orcs on garrison.

"I'm not sure if I'm able to take them all on yet, although I received the previous me's memories, I'm not yet sure if I'm gonna be able to perform the same moves." He said to himself, as he for now avoided direct combat.

As Talion jumped up onto a wooden platform, he saw an orc on the edge.

'This may be good practice for me to stealthily kill them.' Talion thought as he slowly moved behind the orc, grabbed his mouth and slit his throat to which the orc fell, unmoving.

He continued moving from platform to platform while killing orcs and some Uruks, until he saw a dozen orcs on the ground while blocking the path to a cave.

"I can feel Celebrimbor's there but I can't move through them without fighting." He steeled himself as he jumped down, using his elven powers, he'd fell without making much noise.

He slit the throat of a nearby Uruk as the other orcs and Uruks became alerted, they pulled out their swords, spears, and axes as they charged at Talion.

Talion blocked one of the attacks and sweeped the orc's legs as he fell then, he then rotated his sword to be held like a dagger and stabbed the downed orc.

He twirled his blade again and blocked another attack, he bent backwards and punched the Uruk's face.

Before he could finish the Uruk off, the other orcs and Uruks jumped him and tried to attack him at the same time.

Talion rolled to the side and sliced off an orc's legs with his head as well soon after.

He then slashed at another Uruk as his sword got halfway through his skull and decapitated him.

The Uruk he punched recovered as he attacked along with the other last living orc.

He blocked both of their attacks as he punched the Uruk again while he kneed the other orc on the shin, he then sliced at his shoulder but not cutting much as he tried again which cut the orc in half.

He moved to the downed Uruk as he unsheathed his son's broken sword which he now uses as a dagger and stabbed the orc in the head.

"It's weird not having to pant after my actions, is my body that athletic?" He questioned as he shook his head and ran towards the cave.

He saw a small opening, big enough for him to shimmy in.

After he entered, he saw Celebrimbor with his bottom part enshrouded in dark mist. A female voice suddenly spoke which has an echo to it.

"You've kept us waiting..." She said as Talion unsheathed his sword in a hurry in case she attacks.

Talion saw a gigantic spider behind Celebrimbor on the wall, the spider slowly went down to the ground as it turned into dark mist, revealing a pale white woman in a black dress.

'The only spider as big as this is Shelob from what I've seen...' He thought.

"I called you here for a reason." She said while Talion just looked at her.

"Give him back to me, now." He pointed his sword at her as he said this, she then clenched her which seemed to be connected to the dark mist around Celebrimbor as his body squeezed.

Their conversation then lead to Shelob trading Celebrimbor for the ring he had.

Talion, with having Celebrimbor be the only key to be able to figure out what's going on had accepted.

Shelob took the ring from his finger as a slit on his throat and fell to the ground, the shroud of mist disappeared as Celebrimbor panted heavily as he disappeared, "Took you long enough..." He said as he merged back into one being, an influx of memories assaulted both of them as Celebrimbor's knowledge of the game transferred to Talion while Talion's memories were shared to Celebrimbor.

"Shelob! I will take the ring back one day." Talion declared and left as the crucial knowledge which he could've gotten from her was already given to him by Celebrimbor, he made his way to Minas Ithil hastily.

"It appears we're both reincarnators." Celebrimbor said while Talion was running quickly, "Yes, was the knowledge I've received true?" Talion asked to Celebrimbor.

"Indeed but no need to worry, I've seen the end of the game and I can't defeat Sauron without you." Celebrimbor confessed, knowing full well he and Eltariel are unable to brand Sauron.

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"Fight on, my brothers! Push the orcs back!" Idril shouted to the Gondorian soldiers, corpses littered the battlefield with most being orcs and Uruks.

Weirdly to Idril, the orcs are being pushed back out of Minas Ithil.

They had managed to capture half of Minas ithil strangely, Idril grew suspicious of how they easily managed push back the orcs when Mordor is notorious for having an essentially unlimited army.

She then saw from a distance as orcs fought off other orcs, with the former fighting with weapons while the latter using their hands and walking weirdly.

"Zombie orcs...? What happened?" She wondered, seeing this not in the game.

It's possible that it's necromancy but the game's necromancy still gave them intelligence and didn't infect others, she proceeded to quickly to go to Minas Ithil's tower to alert Baranor while leaving it out from Castamir as he aimed to betray them.

Her plan for now was to gather allies against Castamir and attempt to convince him from giving information to instead send false info.

"Talion should be on his way by now, how will he deal with those zombie orcs?" She muttered while staring at the zombie orcs which blocked the orcs that attacked Minas Ithil from retreating.

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Talion arrived at Minas Ithil, finding orcs fighting each other.

"Something happened different from the game... We should investigate it for now, the Gondorians seem safe with no orcs besieging their city." Celebrimbor suggested to Talion as he'd agreed.

He found a lone worm orc (In the game they're info provider for captains, and for taunting them as well.) as he placed his left hand to which his palm glowed.

"What happened to the other orcs?" Celebrimbor interrogated.

"I-I don't know, those traitors suddenly attacked us and their attacks killed us from a hit!" The worm said with panic present in his voice.

'No useful information then.' Thought Talion as he grabbed their necks and clenched as their heads exploded.

"We should see ourselves to what happened to them." Decided Talion as he ran to the battlefield, but he was cut off as five orcs were in front of him.

"Oi! It's the gravewalker!" An orc alerted the others, "I thought he was dead!?" An orc asked, "He is!" another orc shouted.

Talion then made a spiritual bow in his left hand, similar to Bleach's Quincy bow but less bright.

He fired five shots in quick succession on their heads which killed them immediately, however he no longer had any arrows as he has to wait for arrows to regenerate.

Talion quickly ran and spotted the bridge to see orcs falling and spasming while coughing blood as they rose up again and began attacking the others.

"It seems they're like zombies.." Observed Talion, an infected orc suddenly charged at him as he cut off it's arm and decapitated it.

"Gravewalker!" A voice called out to him while massacring the infected orcs, "You will be good sustenance for my pet Caragors as they tear your flesh out!" The Uruk captain announced, as he charged with his twin axes.

'A berserker, is it true that they are able to catch my attacks from the front?' Talion thought, as he dodges the attack from the Uruk captain and cut off his right arm along with his right leg and left foot, he then twirled his blade upside down and stabbed the captain's stomach and killed him.

Infected orcs suddenly swarmed him as he massacred them, until one hit him and they moved back to attacking the orcs.

Nothing happened however, the virus having no effect as his body is already dead.

"This virus seemed to not affect me." Talion said as he continued killing the orcs and infected alike.

Unknown to him, something was growing in his body.

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Blue particles suddenly parted away as it revealed a person.

"So this is what world travelling is like..." Said the man as he looked at his hand.

"To think I'd get teleported to another Middle-Earth world though..." He muttered as he unsheathed his sword, which appeared to be Anduril.

He also appeared to look like Aragorn, with his armor as well.

"I've managed to stop Sauron before, I can do it again, but I should also know what this is." He concluded as he was the same as Talion's knowledge to which he only watched the movies, he found himself in a cave.

He walked outside to see Gondorian walls and a bridge which orcs fought, he also saw a man similar looking to he is. Same hairstyle, same beard and everything, but only a wider, older looking face and a bigger body.

He saw him killing multiple orcs with ease, "His agility is similar to that of what I've seen from elves, his agility is quite similar to Elrond's when I saw him fight except it's significantly superior.

"I should go help him." He decided as he ran up to the bridge.