Shortly after the events of Crysis 2. Alcatraz continues to find a way to wipe out the Ceph.... until a strange event occurs involving a rainbow... (This is my first attempt writing a story since the time I was a kid, chances are I'm not going to be consistent with releasing chapters so bear with me. Will this be a triumph for a first-timer who delivers honor and justice for this fantastic sequel of a game? Or shall it be left buried and forgotten by people with a ridiculous alias? I welcome criticism, praise, advice as long as you aren't downright trolling.) All credit for the Crysis universe goes to Crytek; MLP:FIM goes to Hasbro.
(Before I begin, don't expect anything fancy or powerful out of this fan fiction, I consider this to be an experiment on how good/awful I am in writing this, give me an honest response).
Author's Note: For you newcomers to Crysis. Alcatraz is the main character of the game Crysis 2, one of the only few good sequels to games these days. The Ceph are basically an alien race that are hostile to any human in a nutshell. I do NOT own any of the characters from the Crysis franchise or MLP.
"And you are?..." A man named Karl Ernst Rasch, asks the user wearing Nanosuit 2.0
"They call me.. Prophet". Responds a strange being as he stands at the top of a small hill where there lays waste that was once Central Park. All that remained of it was rubble from the ground, red squid-like creatures with multiple, small, glowing, intimidating red eyes, and what seemed to be parts of a metal suit of armor they wore, are now done for.
At least in New York
"Prophet?! Are you still ali.." Alcatraz shuts down the intercom before the question is even asked, he didn't have reason to explain the man on the intercom, as he had a sensation that this would lead to even more confusion and debate with politicians that someone else has possession of Nanosuit 2.0, a powerful suit that covers a human with a black lattice material that covers from torso to toe held by Coltan Titanium plates. The face stood out the most, Alcatraz's eyes were covered with a shining red visor that couldn't be seen through, and the remainder of its head was covered with a hard Coltan Titanium material with a few touches of black from the side and top of his head. This suit could push the human body to its true power and even make a near dying person, into a powerful weapon, was in the hands of a random Marine, which could lead to more bloodshed just to reclaim the suit like before.
Alcatraz then looks upon a towering hill not far, and begins to traverse through the terrain, each step slightly needing more force for the suit to reach the hill, and then the top. Once Alcatraz finally reaches the peak of the hill, he sees a good portion of the "new" New York. It looked devasting but not hopeless, destroyed skyscrapers taller than the hill Alcatraz currently was standing on, littered bodies of Ceph, C.E.L.L. mercenaries Alcatraz slaughthered, civilians, and the Marines who helped evacuate the city and Alcatraz in his journey.
The little hope that remained was because of Alcatraz. The Ceph wiped out thanks to Alcatraz's selfless act to enter the Main alien Spire once standing in Central Park. Equipped with the "Tunguska Iteration" Nanosuit upgrade, that would allow the Ceph's bioweapon turned against them. Despite the risks of death being high, once Alcatraz was transported to a floating Central Park by helicopter, Alcatraz boldly fought his way through Central Park with no assistance (at least in a firefight), slaughtering countless Ceph mainly with a SCAR assualt rifle, and a JAW rocket launcher. Once he reached the Main Spire, he entered the inside and like the previous ones he'd been through to weaken the Ceph, had to struggle as he crawled into the center of the spire which glowed brightly red at every area, as the suit would start to burn with an intense fire, the only difference being that with the upgrade and this being the Main Spire, it would kill the Ceph in New York. When the process was done, not only would this show the lighter side to the survivors, it also was light that the rest of the world would need, once the Ceph awaken from their slumber.
Alcatraz, now done looking at the view, looks below the hill and it was a distant fall. Despite from the looks that fall could kill him even with suit, he simply hops down, hoping for the best.
"MAXIMUM ARMOR" Nanosuit 2.0 uttered when Alcatraz activated armor mode. As Alcatraz starting falling down, he could feel and hear the immense gust of air rushing to him. Despite the fact that the mode would allow a safer landing, Alcatraz took a hard landing and felt as if his entire body has become a mess of gore while he struggles to get back up on his feet. As the suit regenerates the lost energy from impact, Alcatraz now stands fine but a bit shaken.
Alcatraz then inhales a deep breath of air, and breaths it out, relieved to still be alive.
As Alcatraz walks upon the crumbled streets to find former scientist Nathan Gould, hoping to continue working with him to find a way to eradicate the Ceph. He then heard a loud bang behind him, sounding like a huge explosion.
Alcatraz quickly turns his back and his own eyes are shocked to see what appears to be a explosion
Of a rainbow….
The explosion, just a few 1000ft away, starts to head to Alcatraz's way in an alarming rate.
With no other option than to run as fast as the suit allows him to, Alcatraz runs to flee from what may be the most absurd thing he has seen since Prophet's message to Alcatraz, claiming that he was the only hope against the Ceph. Despite the absurdity Prophet told him, Alcatraz wanted to complete Prophet's dying wish, as he sacrificed himself when he was infected with the "Manhattan Virus" like the other civilians, with no effective treatment or energy left to fight, gave Alcatraz a second chance where they first "met", where Alcatraz's was near dead when the Ceph ambushed him and his marines close at shore, where Prophet was his savior.
As Alcatraz begins to notice he is almost out of energy and the explosion is showing no sign of slowing down towards him and few civilians in the area, who are panicking yet bewildered of a rainbow explosion, assume this might be the last few seconds of their lives.. Alcatraz stops the second his energy is depleted and calmly looks at the explosion which is just a few 100ft from reaching him Slowly closes his eyes, he stands still, expecting hell to await for him.
As the explosion makes contact with Alcatraz. He swore he heard for a second, laughter.
Then, everthing goes dark.
(6 hours later, Twilight Sparkle’s home). "Princess Celestia, what are we to do with a being of another world? We can't allow him stay."
"Twilight Sparkle, my faithful student... As much as this shocks me that Rainbow Dash's Sonic Rainboom could contact another world, and to deal with this as soon as possible. We cannot rid of this being or else the balance of our worlds will be disrupted."
"What should we do then? It’s only a matter of time before he wakes up and finds out that it is no longer in its home."
I shall see to it that I can figure out how Rainbow Dash's sonic boom allowed this to happen. I trust you that this shall not be mention to no one at the moment. We don't want anyone to panic at such a moment. In the meantime, see to it that you keep close watch at it.
Of course Princess Celestia, I'd hate to see anything go wrong.
(As a reminder, don't expect anything AAA quality, at least not yet. I'm new to writing like this and any helpful advice, praise, honest criticism would be great, as long as it isn't downright rude).
As Twilight Sparkle sees Celestia teleport back to Canterlot, she has a uncomfortable feeling about the creature in her home. It never looked like any pony or anything she has seen. It had no hooves, was taller than any pony out there, and looked somewhat threatening.
"I hope Spike comes back from Rarity soon." Twilight says in a unerving voice.
Just then, a knock on the door is heard. Quickly, Twilight heads to the door and opens it. Relieve and happy to see it was her assistant and friend, Spike.
"Hey Twilight. I just finished working with Rarity and because she thinks I'm such an amazing gem collecter, she let me keep this delicious ruby." Spike says holding his reward.
"That's great Spike, I'm glad that you are happy but I need you to do me a favor."
"Sure Twilight, what do you need me to do?"
" Something very important but can you promise me not to mention this favor to anyone?" Twilight says in a now more serious tone
"Ok" spike says in a slightly uneasy tone
"Thank you." Twlight says as she walks back to her bookshelf, finding book/s on abnormal beings
"So.... What do you need me to do Twilight?" spike says as he walks inside, and shuts the door
"I need you to keep a watch on a strange creature I found in my bed a hour ago"
"Creature?!" Spike says shocked "You mean that you're keeping something that you don't even know the name of?"
"Celestia said that this creature isn't from Canterlot, she thinks that it might be from another world. I need you to keep on eye on it so that it doesn't escape or possibly wreck my home. We don't want to risk it hurting any pony out there. Are you up to the task?"
"Will do Twilight!" Spike says in a more heroic tone
"Thank you Spike, I'll be studying on who or what this creature is. If anything gets out of hand or you need help, call me. It seems to be inactive at the moment so there shouldn't be a problem."
"No problem" spike says as he walking to Twilight's room
As Spike makes his way to Twilight's room, he gently opens the door and enters the room and sees the strange creature laying upon Twilight's bed, motionless, almost as it were dead. As Spike gently closes the door. He spots a chair next to the door, and moves the chair just a few feet closer to the creature. He then sits on the chair while laying his precious ruby in his lap and watches the creature for some time.
"That thing is creepy. I could see why Twilight was serious with this task but if Celestia was here a hour ago, wouldn't it be better if she assigned a guard to watch something like this?" Spike says nervously in his mind.
To lighten himself up a bit. Spike gets the ruby Rarity gave him which lays on his lap, and decides to eat it.
"This looks delicious" Spike quietly says drooling on the ruby. As he is about to feast on the ruby, the drool on the ruby and the tight grip makes the ruby slip out of his hands and silently lands close to the creature's hand."
"Rats, it's right next to him" spike says in mind, panicking. The creature remained motionless. Spike was worried that if he tries to recover his ruby, it might wake up.
"If I don't get back my ruby, he might eat it and I did work hard for it. Maybe if I "carefully" get it back, it won't wake up."
Spike then leaves his chair and starts to walk as quietly as possible to the creature. Just a few feet away from it, Spikes heart starts to race and trembles the more closer he walks towards the creature.
Now next to it. Spike then reaches out his hand slowly and carefully to his ruby and just as he touches it...
"HI TWILIGHT!" which sounds like Pinkie Pie, outside the room.
Startled, Spike slapped the ruby which landed next to Spike's left foot, and his hand touched the creature's hand. Spike then quickly looked at the creature's face to see any signs of movement, the creature remained motionless.
"That was a close one. Might as well get my ruby." Spike says in his mind as he slowly begins to pick it.
"I am one sneaky little guy." Spike said with a chuckle, proud to reclaim his prize.
As Spike walks quietly back to his chair, he then hears a very quiet, raspy voice behind him.
(If you might ask, I removed the third chapter since honestly, it wasn’t what I wanted at all and it was so bad that it makes the constant “love” stories of Twilight and Celestia look like a masterpiece. I have intentions to make more connection between the Crysis universe and Equestria so don’t expect this to be another Action story with the only difference being the Crysis name slapped on it. Hope you enjoy this chapter more than the previous 3rd one and if not, what a shame).
(Author's note: For those who haven't played Crysis 2. Nathan Gould (mentioned in my first chapter, "Aftermath") was a former scientist who worked in Hargreave-Rasch Biomedical (a company that developed Nanosuit 1 and Nanosuit 2), who now works for the United States Military. Tara Strickland is a CIA undercover agent (disguised as a C.E.L.L. Special Advisor during Crysis 2) who lost her father in the first Crysis, and wanted revenge against Jacob Hargreave (founder of the Nanosuit) for not warning the U.S. military about the Ceph in the first Crysis which led to many lost lives. In short these two helped Alcatraz in the events of Crysis 2, to prevent New York from being nuked.)
"I don't fucking believe this! You’re calling the search off!?"
"Look Nathan. Alcatraz is dead, there couldn't be any way he could've survived something like that." Tara bluntly states to Gould
“Couldn’t survived?” That doesn’t make any sense! Colonel Barclay ordered me to vaporize the suit in 24 hours if Alcatraz didn’t respond to us if he made it out alive from the spire. I pushed the damn button and coming from the data in my computer, the suit sure as hell didn’t vaporize!”
“You can’t rely on the data when you got the reality facing you. We’ve been searching for Alcatraz for the past week and by the looks of it. We won’t be finding your friend.”
“I know that this isn’t going so well but be patient. If we lose Alcatraz, we might as well turn ourselves in to the Ceph because without him, we don’t stand a chance.” Gould argued
“I know” Tara quickly added, starting to sound annoyed “But we have a better shot fighting the Ceph now without Alcatraz than wasting our time finding a dead man.”
“He’s not dead” Gould angrily declares “And do you honestly think we have a shot at the moment, even if we fight now? You know our soldiers don’t stand a fair chance against the Ceph. Hargreave went fucking mad and self-destructed the Prism, destroying any chance to recover any research to produce a new suit; we don’t have the time or resources to make a new Nanosuit. If you would just give me more time, I can locate Alca..”
“I’m sorry Gould” Tara cutting of Gould
“Were calling it off, I don’t mean to upset you but it’s the best for all of us, I need to report back to duty soon. If it helps to make you feel better, just find him yourself.” Tara said harshly yet in a moderate tone
Nathan. Seemingly looking as if all will or energy he had within him, was gone. He places his left hand on his forehead while he walked towards his chair and slumped on it.
“”Look at my window Tara” asked Gould, now seemingly more calm
“I don’t see what this has to do wi..”
“Just look” Gould instructs her
Tara starts to walk slowly towards Gould’s large window. As she comes closer to the window, she stops to see the night and below her was destroyed Skyscrapers, and crumbled streets but some buildings remained intact, darkness covers most of her view but it rather looked soothing with the little shining light the moon had. There was no sound of a gun firing, no sound of any aircraft, not even a ground vehicle could she find or hear.
All there was to hear and see was peaceful silence and a let’s just say, an extreme remodeling of New York.
“I choose this apartment as my new haven. The view outside reminds me, that if Alcatraz wasn’t here for us, this city would be nothing but rubble.” Gould frirmly but respectfully told to Tara
“You know this doesn’t mean much to me as it does to you, it’s nothing more than a lone gone city”. Sara coldly responded
“Maybe in your view. But out there, families can come out now, no longer hiding like sewer rats. People’s lives that’ve never turned out too well, have a second chance in life to do better for the survivors and themselves. Gould explained
“All because of one random Marine.” Gould ensured to Tara
“Don’t tell me that you were involved in the war just to get payback against CELL.” Gould furthermore added
“I only helped Alcatraz for my own benefit, nothing more or less. I’ll be leaving soon. ” Tara coldly stated as she stopped looking at the view
“If you insist. Then just leave now, I’ll locate him, with help or not.” Gould feeling rather disappointed.
“Then Goodbye.” Tara stated as she left, closing Gould’s apartment door.
Now with no one left to help him. Gould feels deserted. Prophet is dead, the search for Alcatraz called off, the Ceph starting to wake up from their slumber. All of these thoughts went in Gould’s mind, draining much of his hope to see humanity prevail, yet he still has a sensation that Alcatraz is out there, Alive.
“Might as well track Alcatraz’s signal one more time for today before I sleep.” Gould thought as he scooted his wheelie chair towards his computer. As he powered on his computer, he didn’t feel in any way eager to do this since for the past day, he has achieved nothing but seeing that disappointing “unable to locate” text continually.
As the computer finally was booted and Gould typed his password to log in, he was grateful to see that the computer, had all commands set to find Alcatraz’s signal, which normally would take half an hour to program. Thankfully, he managed to keep a copy of the commands in a disk before CELL shot his old apartment to shreds, when Alcatraz and Gould first met.
“At least I can get this over quickly tonight” Gould assumed as he moved his mouse to click the track button icon.
As the computer started to search for any sign of Alcatraz, Gould felt discouraged, arrogantly believing that this was just a small waste of time, which could be for his sleep right now. The scan seem to take forever, the online connection for Gould’s computer seemed rather sluggish, which slightly started to rile up Gould. When the scan was 100% completed, something displayed in his monitor shocked Gould’s eyes, and it was not a “waste of time” as Gould thought.
The computer displayed Alcatraz’s signal active.
To even leading Gould into further shocked, Alcatraz couldn’t be located anywhere at New York, or even Earth for that matter. It seemed like Alcatraz was in a completely different dimension. How the signal works now? Gould has no clue.
“This new monitor must be malfunctioning. How could Alcatraz be out of the radar?!” Gould said bewildered.
Despite what seemed to be outrageous in Gould’s mind, he didn’t allow an opportunity like this to pass by. Gould quickly took the old intercom lying next to the computer hardware, on top of stacks of collected cell information, and switched it on.
“Alcatraz. I don’t know where you are or what’s happened to you. But if you can hear me, find a way back to New York. I’ll give you the coordinates to where to meet me once you're here”. Gould then waited for a response for a minute or two. There was nothing.
Gould then set aside the intercom and left his chair with the computer still turned on with a yawn. He then proceeded to walk towards his bed which just consisted of a single mattress with a blue quilt. He drifts to sleep, hopeful tomorrow will shed some good news.
(Meanwhile………) “SYSTEM RECOVERY. ACTIVATE DEFIBRILLATOR.” Alcatraz initiated the defibrillator, when the suit’s voice concluded its command.
While the suit was re-routing itself, Alcatraz noticed a purple looking figure slowly moving backwards to a brown, square looking figure which appears to be a door.
It then began opening the door in a slow manner, leaving the small room but not before closing the door.
“Twilight!” Something happened that you need to see!” Spike shouted to Twilight, who was reading a book on creatures from other dimensions.
“What is it Spike?” Twilight asked his frightened friend, worried, setting aside her studying.
“I… don’t know! It said recover and activate something, but you need to see this!”
As Twilight races to her room, along with Spike, too scared to stay put downstairs. She then stops on the side of her door, hearing the sound of movement.
“CLEAR TO PROCEED”
“That’s the voice!” Spike expressed in a silent, frighten voice
With a bold look, Twilight quietly opens her door and to her shock. The “creature” begins to stand in a rather awkward position that no pony has done”.
“Do something Twilight! Put a sleeping spell, time reverse, anything to stop this!”
“I can’t. I don’t know what the effects with magic are on a creature like this. Send a message to Celestia, tell her to come right now.” Twilight says hastily but somewhat in a calm tone.
As the “creature” finally stands well, it turns to look at Twilight.
For a moment there was no word from both. Twilight, then tries something quite simple yet absurd to avoid unnecessary conflict.
“Ummmmm. Hello?” Twilight says in a nervous smile
The creature did not respond to her, it instead turned its back while pressing two of its fingers against what she assumed, was the side of its head. Almost as if it were to power something on, like in those spy stories.
“Gould. If you’re still awake or here, you got me as to where the fuck I am.”