San Diego, Alex's home, July 23, 2026, 6:30 AM.
(Alex Carter Pov)
The sunlight coming through the window hits Alex's eyes and illuminates the rest of his room.
The bookshelves are full of manga, light novels, comics, figurines and on the walls are posters of Makima,Yuno gasai,Esdeath and Maki.
He then looked at his gaming stand seeing his PS5, PC, and his leather notebook.
Alex blinks while looking around his room he then pulls the blankets over his face as he winces from the stinging sensation in his eyes.
'I love it when I forget to close my curtains before going to sleep. It's really a great way to get flashed by the sun got to love the sun in my eyes. It really makes me want to go back in time to strangle myself like who thought that was a good idea but now that is enough bitching.' He thought
Alex then pushed himself up, peeling off his blankets then reach for his phone to check the time 6:30 am.
'Nice i woke up early i can make breakfast workout a little and then check on my cosplay i have to make sure everything is fine on that front after all i spent way too much money and time on it for it to fail on me now.' He thought satisfied
Alex got out of bed, opened his door to go to the bathroom and brushed his teeth while looking at himself in the mirror, his black hair hazel eyes and clean shaven face happy at his progress.
'You know working out was the decision I ever made. After all I used to be close to 400 pounds of fat but now though I'm closer to 200 pounds of muscle. Well i guess that is what happens when you systematically workout for years straight man i love being 6'2 and fit compared to being fat mm I should have some spinach eggs and toast for breakfast.'
-(AN: This is from personal experience working out is great it's really helped with myself image)
After Alex is done brushing his teeth he walks out of the bathroom to the kitchen grabbing a non-stick pan putting it on the stove on medium heat to let it heat up as he grabs spinach, eggs and butter from the fridge.
He then put the butter into the pan, allowing it to melt. After it was melted he put in the spinach and stirred it with his spatula, waiting until it's properly cooked to put the eggs into the pan.
Then Alex's phone got hit with a barrage of notifications so he opened it with one hand to check them,while keeping his eyes on the eggs and spinach so they don't burn. Noticing it was a bunch of emails from his landlord and one about his college debt feeling his blood pressure spike out of anger as he reads them.
' What do you mean that my apartment now costs $2400 and my college debt interest rate is rising soon. I'm barely going to have enough money to feed myself because of the rising costs. Don't you just love the economy Alex Where the gas is now $20, a gallon and where just getting some chicken. Now costs $30 And the politicians and media still have the gall to say that we're not in the middle of a recession , the GDP is going up , they say that means the economy's fine what a massive fuckin lie. now, I have to crack the eggs now so the spinach doesn't burn.'
He then cracks three eggs into the pan and then scrambles them into the spinach. After the are cooked he puts salt and pepper on them.
He the used his spatula to put his eggs onto the plate he grabbed along with the ingredients he then put on some garlic and onion powder alongside a little more pepper on the eggs.
Then he grabs some bread to toast on the pan and then after a real quick toast,He puts the toast on his plate of eggs and starts eating his breakfast.
'I love cooking. It's a great way to take my mind off things like World War 3, which is currently ongoing. Who knew that using AI in the military would lead to drastic consequences? It's not like Skynet and AM were already ideas years ago. It's almost like they didn't watch a single terminator movie. It's partially the reason why there's barely going to be anybody at the con today. Going outside right now is dangerous because of the attacks that are currently being conducted right now. But well if I die, I die at least I pursued my goals wholeheartedly and maybe things will be less boring after all what comes after death is unknown or if there is anything afterword.' Alex thinks apathetically
Alex then gets up from his seat after eating going to his crafting room to check on his cosplay making sure all the measurements are correct for every part.
After checking the measurements he check on his 3D printed armblade and other parts making sure they fit together after this he looks at the LED wiring making sure everything's good and that all the lights glow red/orange like there supposed to on the back of the jacket and the parts that are supposed to look like creeping tendrils of blacklight especially on the armblade part that has the most LED lights after looking everything over he puts his hands on his face.
'Fuck me this cost $1500 to make because i just had to make it super detailed if things don't go well I'll be homeless because of this fuck up who would have know that my psych masters would be useless in getting a job because of the current job market with AI in it and now i have to work overtime every week and even than i still have to rely on TikTok and other social media platforms for extra money by cosplaying. I figured that I might as well turn my passion into something I can get money from not knowing it could be an even bigger money sink and the other things like the stalkers. But i have to deal with the consequences of my actions fuck me.' He thought stressed
Alex then takes a deep breath and counting to three then releasing it calming his nerves he then starts putting on his cosplay.
'I can't worry about things I can't control. I need to focus on what I can control instead of what I can't after all what happens happens. I can only walk forward one step at a time no matter what happens after all things could be so much worse for me isn't that right Allen Walker so i can't complain too much i can only move forward.'
As he thinks about the rest of the world and what is happening he finishes putting on almost all his cosplay except for the armblade.
Alex then walks to a full body mirror looking at the cosplay, the black leather motorcycle jacket with a red shirt collar,two horizontal white bands around each upper sleeve and a red tribal winged dragon design embroidered across the shoulder blades.
'Now its time to test the LED lights come on work' He thought with anticipation turning them on.
Alex watches as the winged dragon on his back starts pulsating red like veins looking like it was alive as the LED turns on and off in a rhythmic pattern.
"YES finally it worked getting the lights synced together it took forever but I got it finally" He said to himself.
Then Alex starts checking the rest of his cosplay.
A plain dark grey hooded sweatshirt underneath his leather jacket ,underneath that was a partially unbuttoned white button up dress shirt, a pair of faded dark blue jeans and black shoes.
He nods after looking everything over happy with what he sees.
'This design is a mixture of Alex Mercer's outfit from the first and second games. It came together really well. Time to take some pictures of it to post on my socials.'
Alex thought as he grabbed his phone, opening his camera to take some photos of his current cosplay .Afterward he grabbed his armblade and started putting on the final piece of his cosplay.
'Now this is the part that better work if it doesn't ill have to rewire the LEDs again for the fifth time' He thought anxiously.
Alex after he put on the armblade started moving it first making sure his clothes weren't being pinched by the moving pieces of the blade and at the same time making sure it was comfortable to wear as he's going to have it on him for hours at the Comic-con.
Then after that was done he proceeded to the final test the LEDs.Alex turns them on watching as the Armblade starts pulsating red except unlike the leather jacket the LEDs are not rhythmic no this time the lights flow together from one place to another on the armblade making it look like it was pulsating in hunger.
'Nice I have everything ready then now lets take a few photos of this to post alongside the ones i took earlier'
Alex thought with a smile on his face as he grabbed his phone taking the photos he wanted.
After he took the photos Alex started taking his cosplay off because this was just him making sure everything fits and works on it. After all the con starts in four hours not now so when he was done taking off his cosplay.
Alex walked back to his room grabbing a pair of workout clothes putting them on.He then grabbed his wireless headphones turning them on making sure the headphones were charged enough for his workout.
After making sure the headphones were charged he uses his phone turning on one of his favorite workout playlists to listen to.
Alex then walks into his living room while listening to the music ready to start his workout.
- - 5 hour time skip to Comic-Con brought to you by Yuno Gasai Staring deeply into your eyes- -
Time:11:30 am Location: San Diego Comic-con
Alex smiles as he walks through the comic-com having driven there after finishing what he wanted to do like finishing his workout playing some Resident Evil Requiem and making some posts.
'Walking around in this cosplay isn't as bad as the bad other ones where I was dying because of the heat. I am sweating a little bit though after all I'm in three layers of clothes .'
As Alex was walking when he heard yelling and stopped, looking around to find where the yelling was coming from.
He found where the yelling was coming from Megatron and Optimus Prime cosplayers were arguing while the rest of the Deceticons and the Transformers stood to the side, a friend group?
Alex got closer so he could hear some more of what's going on because this was too interesting to just walk away from and from what he could by looking around at the other people gathering around the argument, some even recording it with their phones .
'Vultures that are going to post this online for views.'
Megatron was yelling at Optimus "Carl why did I see you at my house in bed with my wife on my cameras."
Optimus/Carl stops moving and goes very still as everyone around him starts staring at him. He replies "...John I don't know what you're talking about, are you sure it's me I would never do that to you man you should know that right."
Everyone could tell he was lying because of how long it took him to answer the question and how his voice sounded nervous.
Megatron/John gets closer as the rest of them move away and replies "Carl I know it's you I have your ass on video and it's also because of your tats. I was there when you got them remember dumbass."
Optimus/Carl turns his head and starts tiring to walk from the group but is stopped by the bumblebee cosplayer and the rest of the Transformers .
Bumblebee says " Carl this is fucked up man why did you do it your already in a four year long relationship with Jessica and you pull this shit you fucking idiot no you don't get out of this you're dealing with this now."
Bumblebee then pushes him back to Megatron/John and hands start flying.
'Huh well then this is a waste of time I thought it would be a good fight or at least something more entertaining then this waste of time but damn I hope John doesnt have kids or he might have a surprise waiting for him at home.'
Alex walked away from the drama that was occurring and to the Resident Evil booth seeing more promotional material for the Resident Evil code Veronica remake and he started getting nostalgic and excited .
'As long as they don't give the game a RE3 treatment and make the knife less overpowered the game is going to be great. I like that Resident Evil has continued till now. It reminds me of my childhood even if the remakes are different. It's still such a good game franchise to play unlike CoD that's shit now.'
He continued walking a little bit, stopping as he heard something behind him revving up. He turned around being face to face with a truck speeding toward him as he turned around and started running as fast as possible.
'WHAT THE Fuck who told truck-kun to spec into a stealth build I couldn't hear it how it's a godamn truck HOW DID It get in here.'
Alex turned a corner seeing a Leon cosplayer in front of him running right past him.
He looked back looking for any sign of the truck seeing nothing at all.
Alex came to a cold realization.
'This is too familiar ive read/watched this exact same scenario too many times this is not normal and there have been multiple reports about a trunk appearing to kill a singular person and then vanishing like it didn't exist over 1000 incidents like this have occurred the last five years.'
'The people targetted never survive and to think I was just joking about my friends about this yesterday about the real truck-kun going around and killing people is ironic.'
'You know what? I'm gonna be paranoid and say that all of this is occurring because of an outside force, because you know, that's usually how this works. You get hit by truck-kun, you wake up in a place and you get reincarnated at least in most fiction.'
'If I get reincarnated I won't care if it's an Outer God that does it or something else. The smallest goal that I will pursue with my continued existence is punching them in the face for getting me killed.'
As Alex stopped to take a breath he heard an Engine revving turning his head he saw truck-kun coming at him.
He felt nothing but a boiling rage at what was happening right now so he did something insane running straight at the truck punching it.
Alex felt the bones in his arms break like twigs as the truck drove forward.
He moved his body forward Uncaring of the pain he was in.
Smiling as the truck hit him feeling all his bones breaking With his final thoughts being.
'I'm going to get back at you for this. I will remember this.'
(Chapter end)
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Interlude: Consequences
(3rd person Pov)
Truck-kun after finishing his work drove off into the distance disappearing.
Leaving Alex's broken body behind as it started to crack red energy spilling out.
As the red light touched the ground around Alex's body, it destroyed it completely and with another pulse, as cracks on the body got larger more energy leaked out devouring the entirety of the comic con.
Every person outside of the event watched in horror as it was gone, leaving behind nothing but a burning red light in its place.
People started running, trying to get away from it as Alex's body cracked more red light coming out in waves of unceasing destruction.
People didn't even have time to blink before the entirety of the state of California was devoured by the light , its expansion continued until finally.
Alex's body completely broke down.
And a much larger wave of light then poured out Destroying the planet Earth and the entirety of the Solar System before it flickered out.
The only thing left behind in its place was an empty void of unstable spacetime.