Targets

Alex slowly opened her eyes only to shut them immediately. The sun had shone right into them, making her feel like her eyes were in pain. This was actually because her muscles in her irises were on their last edge contracting so that they can allow less light in. She groaned softly as she rubbed her eyes.

"Where am I?" she asked herself as she got up. She opened her eyes once again and saw she was in the middle of an alley. The buildings showed a modern era humankind of architecture which made her sigh in relief. She then looked down on herself and realized she was not wearing any clothes.

"All things considered, it is a nice body if one forgets that it's made of just a huge biomass of virus!" she joked, poking her abdominals. When she had her fun, she conjured a viral biomass clothes, the same Alex Mercer wore in the entirety of Prototype 1. "It fits like a glove." She checked herself out and nodded in satisfaction.

"Now, let's see where the hell I am," she said and walked out of the alley.

She was inside a city which she immediately recognized as New York City. This was more good news for her but she did not count her chicks yet. She sent a viral sonar, one of James Haller's predatory skill of locating a target. She was looking for a vulnerable target that would not be missed.

'Gotcha!' she rejoiced once the sonar located the person. She immediately headed to the direction, making herself an inconspicuous as possible. Finally, she reached the target's proximity which was actually an alley.

'Fate must be enjoying this,' she chuckled to herself once she remembered she was just in another alley. Smell of blood made her snap back. So sniffed the air and a predatory smile perked up on her face. She followed the scent to a bleeding young man hiding in an dumpster.

"Fuck you!" the young man cursed as he swung a tire iron towards her head only for Alex to get hold of his wrist.

"You are indeed fucked," she chuckled savagely before pulling him out of the dumpster and onto the ground. "I have two sets of memories from my two predecessors and what them both could admit, their first was the best. Thank you for being my first."

"Are you going to rape me?" the young man asked in terror. Alex did not answer but smashed his boot onto his head, smashing it open. Black trendrils quickly slithered out of her body, covering the body beneath her boot and consumed the young man's biomass, adding it to her already massive biomass. Memories immediately started being sorted into her mind, giving her the information she needed.

"So I'm in Marvel, huh? Captain America is still presumed dead after his plane crashed into an iceberg in 1944. There were textbooks and a whole History chapter dedicated to him and his entire squad of the Howling Commandos.

"Stark Industries became a multi billion enterprise thanks to Howard Stark and Tony Stark who looks exactly like Robert Downey Jr. Hammer Industries was trying to catch up and facing miserably which is quite funny actually. The man thinks he can outsmart Tony Stark and Obadiah Stane in business. The latter might be an upcoming villian, but his business senses are great.

"The boy has not heard of SHIELD but Hydra exist. They say Captain America defeated them but I know better. This boy was a member of the Kingpin underground gangs and he had just been killed by a member of the Tracksuit gang, a Russian affiliated gang. Dare Devil was starting to create trouble for Kingpin and he is actually good. Only he underestimated just how big Kingpin's manpower is. But the most interesting news was that Tony Stark has already been kidnapped with this being the first month since," she recounted before starting chuckling.

"This is good. I'm almost 90% sure I'm in MCU. Even if I'm not, I'm sure the Ancient One has already noticed my arrival here. I need to be fast and nab my first target, Shang Chi. Due to his excellence martial arts skills taught by his father, he will complete my vast knowledge of armed and unarmed combat. With his knowledge, I can find where his father is located and when I consume him, I can be assured my plans go quite swimmingly." She quickly thought of what to do before thinking of an idea. She took the phone laying inside the trash bin and dailed 911.

"911 what is your emergency?" the operator asked.

"Please help, I just saw someone stab a young man and threw him in a trash bin! Hurry or he'll die," she said, using a male's voice, one of the thousands she had compartilized in her mind. It belonged to a man who decided to mess with Mercer.

With bait set, she jumped onto the roof of the building with a single bound and looked down. She had not hang up so the police traced the phone fast. A police cruiser parked at the entrance of the alley and two officers got out. They had their guns ready for anything an they crept towards the bin with the phone.

"There's nobody inside!" one of them groaned in frustration.

"Wait, there blood in here, fresh blood at that!" his partner said, making the two look inside curiously. Alex took this moment to glide down from the roof, landing behind him silently. She grinned as her two hands transformed into two wicked looking blades. With no hesitation, she stabbed the two through their stomachs, causing them to freeze as the pain flooded their bodies.

"Nothing personal, officers, you just picked the wrong shift," she consoled them before she consume them both.

"Ah, there it is," she moaned as their memories got into her mind a d got sorted. She transformed into one of them and headed to the cruiser. Police cruisers had a portable laptop inside that is connected to their respective stations. In there, one can access the national database that had all the information on a person from his type of car to the address his great grandmother lived in!

"Alright, just log in and search Shaun Chi," she hummed to herself as she worked on the laptop. It did not take long for the name to prop up. "That was fast and it really is him!"

She took a notebook and a pen from the car's glove box compartment where she wrote down Shaun Chi's address. He caught a lucky break for the man was inside New York where he worked at a five star hotel as a valet.

'It's not quite far, I can drive the cruiser there. Besides, I've ways wanted to drive a cop car before," she chuckled as she slid to the driver's seat. She switched on the engine and reversed out of the sidewalk. 'Time to become a martial arts star!'