Saving the mystery beast

James Heller could not believe he was doing this. Helping one of Mercer’s Evolved breaking into a Gentek facility..

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Heller was looking over the yellow zone, wondering where the next bit of info he’d get was when he got a call. He expected it was from Father Luis Guerra, but was surprised when it was one of Mercer’s Evolved. “Who the hell are you and how did you get this number?” He questioned in that oh so endearing tone he was fond of using.

“Please! I don’t have much time! Come to this location so we can talk.” She asked in a worried tone.

“Why the hell should I?” He demanded.

“Please! Just come! Everything will be explained.” She told him.

He sighed. “Fine. I’ll be there.”

He leapt off the roof.

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James landed on a rooftop elsewhere after some leaping and looked around to see where the Evolved was. After a quick look around, he found her sitting in a corner looking at her blade arm. When she noticed Heller’s arrival, she turned her weaponized appendage back to normal and got up, saying, “Sell your soul to the devil just to look badass, and all you’re left with is regret.”

Heller just looked at her like he did most people before finally asking, “Ok, what the hell did you want?”

She sighed (as anyone dealing with Heller worth their salt would) and told him of a Gentek facility holding a Transdimensional portal and a mysterious creature.

“Why the hell should I help you?” Heller demanded.

“Because you want to screw with Mercer and Gentek right?” She asked

“Wait, the hell does Mercer have to do with this?” He asked.

”Well, he wants it because of the possibilities it could open up for the infected and evolved and Gentek wants it because of the possibilities it could open for them.” She explained.

“And what about you? What do you get out of this?” He asked.

“One simple thing: an escape.” She told him. When he demanded a better answer, much to her surprise, she told him that she had slowly become a Prototype rather than a simple evolved. Afraid that Mercer was starting to notice, she decided to betray him before he did her in.

“Look, I know it sounds cowardly, but I don’t want to hurt innocent people anymore.” She said crying. Heller realised she was serious.

“Fine. I’ll help you. But I’ll need to know your name first.” He said

“Just call me Sara.” She told him. They left for the facility.

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BACK AT THE PRESENT

The two Prototypes landed and scouted the building. “Great. Blackwatch guards.” Sara grumbled.

“How do you want to take care of this?” Heller asked quietly for once, curious as to what she had in mind.

“First, I lure the two guards out by posing as a scared woman and we consume them. Second, we walk into the facility, changing into a new disguise if we need to. We find the portal and the creature, open the portal, the creature and I escape to its home, you smash the portal controls beyond repair, and steal the data from the computers, making sure that they never find that world or any other. That sound good?”

Heller gave a smirk. “Yep. Let’s do it.”

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On the street, two guards stood at attention, looking around, waiting for their shift to end. One of them asked, “Hey, you ever wonder why we're here?”

Before his buddy could talk, they both saw a woman running out of an ally towards them, panicking audibly. “Please! You gotta help me! My friend is surrounded by those things! She won’t last long, please!” She pleaded to the two Gentek mooks.

“Sorry ma’am, we can’t leave our p-” The first guard said, before being interrupted by his friend.

“-Don’t worry little lady, we’ll help your friend.” He said in a Texan accent.

“Hey! We’re supposed to stay here and guard this place!” The one without a stereotypical accent said while pointing at the ground.

“Don’t worry there slick, I’m sure it’ll only take couple minutes.” He reassured his fellow mook before turning to the young woman. “Now, can you take us to where your friend is miss?” He asked.

“She’s this way! Come on!” She said, all the while grabbing his arm and pulling him into a nearby ally.

“Alright, the hell’s your friend” The unaccented one asked as Heller dropped down.

“Right behind you.” He said in a faux-french accent before consuming the man.

“What in tarnation!” Was all the Texan could say before getting consumed by Sara. “Well that was easy. God, where the hell does Blackwatch find these lemmings? Now let’s go find that creature.” She said with the dead man's accent.

“Let’s just get this over with.” Heller groaned.

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They walked around for a short while looking for signs of the creature or the portal. “Damn it! Where the hell is that portal!?” Heller complained in his disguise.

“Calm down man! We’ll find it!” Sara whispered reassuringly to him just as she opened a door revealing a large purple vortex. “See?” She said as she walked towards the portal, but was stopped by a guard.

“Hey! Do you have clearance to be here?” He asked, suspicious of the two mooks in front of him

“Oh, it's right here.” Heller said before bringing out his claws and cutting the guy to ribbons.

“WE GOT EVOLVED! SEAL THE BA--” Another guard screamed before getting cut in half by Sara’s blade.

“Great. We got guards.” She said sarcastically.

“Well, have you ever played a game called ‘highest body count’?” Heller asked.

“Yeah, why?” Sara responded, confused.

“Take a guess.” He said with a smirk plastered on his normally grim face.

It took her a second, but by then, the realization hit her like a tank and she slapped herself in the face for not catching on sooner. “You’re on.“ She said with a grin, slashing a guard’s head off.

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SEVERAL MOMENTS OF GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE LATER

“I win!” Sara exclaimed with a smile.

“Man fuck you! I won!” Heller replied.

“I got fifty-seven. How much did you get?” Sara asked

“So did I. The fuck kind of base has a hundred and forty-seven guards protecting it?” He questioned.

“I don’t know...maybe they didn’t want to lose the portal and the creature?” She replied, rolling her eyes at how obvious the answer was.

“Speaking of, where the hell is it?” Heller asked. It took a couple seconds to realise that the cage containing the creature was literally right behind him. “Is that--” He cautiously asked in fear of being insane (well, more so, anyways).

“--A purple unicorn?” Sara interrupted. “Yes. Yes it is.”

“Huh. You sure they ain’t bloodtoxed this place yet?” Heller asked.