The following day, Daniels and Fenrir went to the area he destroyed the two buses. His mission was to scavenge anything left for one cannot have too many food in the apocalypse. He looked around and saw the cans that must have fallen when the carriers were fleeing. He grabbed them and tossed them inside his storage bag.
"Good news, Fenfen, looks like you are off the hook of being my emergency food supply. I have enough canned beans to give me gas for a whole month," Daniels said, making Fenrir growl at him indignantly. "Don't be like that, I'm sure you would have tasted delicious." Daniels ruffled the big dog's fur, making it look away, giving him a cold shoulder. "But, we need to get more. The only clean water we can drink for now is one in a water bottle. I saw some inside the store, let's hope not many have been destroyed." Daniels started lifting the rubble from the store in search for the bottles and as luck might have it, he found ten bottles with five gallons worth of water still intact.
Daniels put them inside the bag too then looked around for more food. He found some cookies, barely fresh fruits and some soft drinks in plastic bottles. He stored them all as well and was about to get out when he saw the dead Shrieker near the door. It must have died due to the shockwave shattering its organs. He then remembered something which made him smile. Fenrir saw the corpse too and it started digging for the heart with fervor. Although it had eaten enough hearts the previous night to give it a bloated stomach, he had motto, too many hearts is still not enough. When it had its meal, Daniels took a tissue sample, put it inside a reformed cookie container and stored it.
"Let's go," Daniels told Fenrir and they walked out of the destroyed store.
"Freeze!" someone suddenly shouted from behind, making both of them to stop. Fenrir was growling in irritation but Daniels stroke his head to calm him down.
"I saw you looking for food, five me everything you have," the man shouted.
"Everything in the store has either gone bad or has already been looted," Daniels said then slowly did a 360 turn. "And as you can see, I don't have any bag on me."
"What about that gun. It looks fancy enough. Drop it on the ground and slowly walk away," the man commanded. Daniels looked at the HK assault rifle in his hand and scoffed in mockery before throwing it down and started to walk away, Fenrir's hair clutched in his left hand to make sure he doesn't go after the man. Once they went round a building, Daniels punched a hole into it and they both ran up the stairs all the way to the roof, any zombie in the way smashed to a pulp with one punch. On the roof, they both looked down to see what their mugger was about to do.
"I remember him, he is one of the survivors," Daniels said as soon as he saw him. He was one of the carriers from the other day, must have come back for the food. "Guess now we can know where their base is. If we attack them, we can get one of those sweet cars they have remodeled." The man had picked up the rifle in amazement, cocked it then aimed at something and fired. What happened was hiralious to Daniels. The man never expected the recoil to be something only someone who can bench press twenty tonnes to handle and he was thrown backwards, his back hitting the charred bus behind and he passed out, his right hand shoulder blade smashed to a pulp. Daniels laughed for a whole two minutes before they went to retrieve him.
"What a dumbass," Daniels cursed as he picked up his rifle, slung it on his back then put the man onto his shoulder and they headed to their building.
Martin woke up slowly, his brain going through everything that had happened twenty fours prior of his blackout. He remembered his mission then the split head, the sound that seemed to be something breaking the speed limit, the store been destroyed, their buses been destroyed, him running away then coming back to the store, robbing a man and his mutated dog off of his rifle then firing it. Suddenly, he felt a sharp pang of pain that made him scream out loud.
He awoke the hornet's nest as more shrieks came from all around him, making him ignore the pain temporarily and look around, only to see he was surrounded by zombies, chained zombies though, each one of them wanted a piece of him. He scrambled backwards in fear but this brought back the pain from his shoulder, making him howl much louder, making the zombies howl even louder.
"Its awfully cheerful down there, huh buddy?" Martin heard a familiar voice say from above. He cranked his head up and saw a the man from before looking at him with a mocking smile on his face. "Did you mother never tell you not to take gifts from strangers?"
"You...You Motherfucker! You gave me a faulty gun!" he screamt.
"The gun's not faulty, your candy shoulder couldn't handle it. Anyway, the reason why you are still alive right now is because I want information from you. I know you are one of those people I shot at yesterday..."
"That was you?! Son of a bitch, you killed my sister! She was one of the gunners inside the second bus!" Martin roared as he endured the pain and got up, glaring at Daniels.
"Your sister, huh? That means you hate me enough not to tell me what I want. What a pity that is," Daniels said as he aimed the assault rifle to a zomvie and fired. The bullet hit the chains on it, freeing it and in return, it pounced on Martin, devouring him infront of the other 'envious' zombies. This all happened in the ground floor as Daniels spoke from the second floor, the stairs and elevator had been broken by him to make sure nothing goes to the roof or even the first floor. Using a rope, he climbed up to the roof where Fenrir was waiting.
"Turns out the guy had a sister in the bus, who knew," Daniels said as he sat down. He then fished out the tissue sample from his bag, bit his finger so that th blood droplets would pour into the sample then rubbed it, making it appear on the blue screen.
"Time to make myself OP," Daniels said as he looked at the screen with red eyes.
1. The virus in this tissue will change into Brightlight Virus with the following characteristics.
a) It will give me enhanced strength with each evolution.
b) With each body mass consumed, my body will become more powerful.
c) I can transform into any body mass I have consumed or have some of its features.
d) I will have enhanced healing property that won't take any energy that even when my body is turned to ash I will still be okay.
e) After consuming a certain amount of biomass, the Virus will evolve, making me five times as powerful as before. Each biomass needed for the next evolution will be increased.
2. The Brightlight Virus will not be harmful to my body but to anyone else it will be leathal.
3. The Brightlight Virus will make me bra able to climb horizontal objects without any issue.
4. The Brightlight Virus will make me immune to anything detrimental to me.
5. The Brightlight Virus will make my sense more sharper with each evolution.
"Alright, I could have done better with more options but this will do. Alex Mercer, thank you for being a psychopath," Daniels said then put the tissue inside his mouth. He immediately felt like vomiting because of his enhanced sense of taste and smell but forced himself to swallow it. He immediately braced himself for the pain but unlike the movies where one would fall sick immediately, he felt fine.
"Must be a gradual thing," he said to himself. He shrugged then took out a can of beans, opened it with his fingers then kindled up the fire and started cooking.
"I wish I had some salt," Daniels sighed.
Suddenly, his stomach let out a loud growl as a sharp pain soon came from his abdomen, making him fall over onto his back. He clutched his stomach as he writhed in pain.
"Fuck! I feel like I'm dying!" Daniels groaned, clutching his stack even harder. Fenrir was barking at him worriedly until he passed out from the pain.
Inside his body, foreign cells were spreading all over his body, making his cells change and evolve more and more. His muscles were getting bigger then being compressed over and over again. His brain was like a chemical explosion as it too was enhanced. His bones were becoming more studier each passing second and his skin became harder and harder but more flexible.
Two days later, Daniels woke up from his comatose state and immediately, he could feel everything was different. Before, he was just a super soldier with the capabilities of an average Spiderman. His senses were frightening before but right now, his former self couldn't hold a candle to him. He felt his whole body filled with power and it wasn't an illusion.
"This is so freaking amazing," Daniels said as he clenched his fist. He then look around and saw Fenrir just looking at him. He must have felt his change and was observing to see if he was a threat.
"You, Fenfen, now that I have evolved, I can eat zombies too. Your heart supply will be determined by how fast you eat them because I can eat them whole," he mocked the dog who stood up and barked at him. "You want to put your words where your mouth is, huh? Fine then, let's go hunting." Fenrir jumped around happily for he had been watching him for two days without anything better to do.