[Omnivore]

I don't know what happened or how I got in here. The last thing I remember is an excruciating pain akin to needles piercing my skin from the inside out, then I tried to push away my girls from imminent danger and that was it, darkness.

In front of me, the darkness transformed, it was as if my body was floating in a dark world that suddenly turned into a sea of blood and crimson red colours, switching in tones from lighter shades to darker shades. I felt so drowsy, as if at the border of passing out or falling asleep and yet I was unable to do either of those. It was a confusing feeling.

Slowly but surely, what felt like memories started to show up in my consciousness, experiences where I could see things I have never seen, events I have never lived, yet they felt as if I had done so, I could even feel the emotions.

Lieutenant Carlston.

Coronel Rogers.

And many, many more.

Why are these things, these memories… there are so many that my head is hurting.

As I contemplated those memories, in front of me something appeared, like white gales of wind in the dark world converging into two sinister sharp cavities that resembled eyes.

"Who are you?"

"Who are you?"

We said at the same time, I almost felt compelled to say those words but we had different voices... mine was natural, and his was like an eerie monster's.

There was silence for a moment in which the red world around me transformed, taking shape and resembling crimson flesh that palpitated between lighter and darker shades.

"I'm Brand Mercer".

"I'm Omnivore".

Once again we said at the same time, but I gasped in realisation... the one that said 'Omnivore' wasn't him, it was me. It was such an odd name to have.

The one that can devour anything.

"What are you?".

"What are you?".

"Human" he answered straight away with a voice the most devoided of any humanity.

It took me a while to consider and ruminate in my mind before the word came on its own, "...Klyntar".

After the words left my mouth, a huge headache wrecked my mind and the eyes in front of me disappeared. The rush of memories increased a hundredfold until I could no longer distinguish reality from dreams.

...

I was in a dark room filled with screens, I don't remember very well what was in those screens, but the man in front of me had a Blackwatch uniform.

"We have discovered two new possible identities of Brand Mercer. One in China, another one in Japan. Lieutenant Carlson, you're in charge of the expedition to Japan through the Kanto prefecture".

"The mission?".

"Search, evolve the specimen and lastly, contain it… the virus has already been deployed, in no time Japan will be a desert, just like the South of the United States, China and Russia".

…

Another scene, from another perspective.

"Alex Mercer released the Blacklight virus in New York. It is only natural we do the same to the rest of the world. Soon everything shall be cleansed and only the United States of America will live to tell the tale".

…

"The blacklight virus was first created by Gentek using the redlight virus with Dr Alex Mercer as the head. It seems this is a safer version".

"What was that redlight virus, officer?"

"A strand developed by Blackwatch, this is classified information. But that first strand took the genetic code out of a foreign being that we found in a crash site. An alien species that fell from the sky one day… classified documents showed that species to have a goo-like morphology and it was extremely dangerous and hostile".

...

"Elizabeth Greene and Alex Mercer are still out there… now we know from undisclosed informants that he had been experimenting with the virus, the result of that experiment is a boy, Brand Mercer… the highest compatibility with the Blacklight virus so far, perhaps even more than Pariah".

"Develop the subject, the capture, once the weapon reaches its maximum potential, bring it back to our headquarters in Idaho".

With the last rush of memories, there was at last a scene that gave me the vibes of familiarity, it didn't last long... perhaps several seconds.

I saw my mother and my father, I could finally remember how their faces looked, I couldn't move... it was difficult to breathe, perhaps then I couldn't understand the situation enough to know where I was.

Their eyes showcased a lack of emotions that I wasn't foreign to in my first life. I was in a class container, bound.

"Mother".

I struggled to move, eventually placing my hand on the glass only to see that it wasn't a 'hand' it was a tentacle.

*BAANG!*

I placed my 'hand' on the glass too hard, enough for it to crack and start releasing the slimy liquids inside of the capsule. Sirens began to ring as I tried to look at my mother on the other side, but she didn't seem to be as kind as me.

"Increase the sedative. IT is awake!"

'It? I'm a he... why do you say it so coldly, mother? you're just like the other one, so heartless'.

My father entered the picture, he frowned while regarding me and extended his own hand that transformed into a curious reddish appendage that disgusted me, it felt like a copy of my own. He extended it towards a dashboard and pressed a button.

*BAAANG!*

"Let me out, mother! I can't breathe!"

It was futile. My 'hand' transformed into a sword, ready to shatter the pitiful glass that stopped me from attaining freedom, but I felt my consciousness giving away... ending the dream. All I heard before passing away was their muffled conversation.

"It is useless, Alex".

"We must continue... at least until he regains his human form, Yurea. Even if he looks like this, it is still our son. This is the purest lifeform we've created... the most compatible with the vi-"

Darkness again. The next time I woke up, I thought I was dreaming again... perhaps I died.

There was this beyond beautiful woman with wine-red hair, caressing my face with tears in her eyes, she was wearing an odd suit but I could recognise her any day.

"Y-Yuriko?"

"Brand! I was so worried!"

She hugged me with love that the cold hearted bitch of her sister couldn't show me... her eyes for me were warm, not the eyes one uses to look at a monster, instead... the eyes one looks at family with.

After hugging me for a while she caressed my cheeks, I had no words to say other than to marvel at the difference in treatment, I left that cold nightmare and woke up into this warm world... there weren't words to describe it.

"Y-Yuriko-"

I didn't finish, her lips sealed mine right after into a rather passionate yet quiet kiss. Certainly not the sort of kiss a nephew receives from his aunt, but it didn't matter... at least for now, I -Omnivore- am back home.