Resident Innocence

Summary: Lenalee went missing while tracking an innocence in northern Spain, and is most likely captured. Allen and Lavi, your mission: Find Lenalee and recover the Innocence!

Disclaimer: I do not own D. Gray-man or Resident Evil. Please do not copy my story verbatim, it's plagiarism.

Spoiler warnings: Follows the events of Resident Evil 4.

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Chapter One- No Innocence, New Gear

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Trekking through the grey rural countryside of northern Spain in early November was definitely not Lavi's idea of fun, and he voiced his discontent, loudly.

"Allen-kun!" he whined to his partner, "I'm starting to go colorblind from the scenery, are we there yet?"

Allen glanced at the redhead. "I don't know Lavi, you're the one with the maps. You tell me if we're there yet."

"Maa, you're no fun Moyashi!" said Lavi as he pulled out one of said maps. "It looks like we're nearly there, just another mile and a half if this is right."

"Good, maybe we'll get there by nightfall, if we move quickly." replied Allen, glancing up at the darkening sky.

Lavi brightened up immensely and sprinted off, eager to leave the monotony of the road. Allen quickly caught up with him and asked. "Lavi, why don't you just use your hammer? We could have gotten there faster."

Lavi shook his head. "No, Komui specifically said not to use our Innocence unless absolutely necessary. Lenalee may have been captured because of it, we want to rescue her, not join her."

Allen sweat-dropped. "You could have said that before, but I guess that's why he gave us all this stuff," he said, shifting the large pack on his back to a more comfortable position. "But what is all this junk? Camping gear?"

Lavi skidded to a halt, causing Allen to run into his back. "I dunno Allen, he didn't say before he shoved us out the door." he mused, then grinned. "Let's check!" he said as he unbuckled his own pack.

Following suit, the first thing Allen saw inside was a rather thick booklet. Curious, he flipped it open and discovered a note from Komui on the first page.

Allen,

I'm sorry that I could not brief you and Lavi on this new gear, but time is of the essence.

Our Finders have reported that the village you are heading to is the home base of what appears to be a Sadist cult. The people of the village appear to follow this group's ideals and orders rather blindly, and attack all outsiders with no discretion.

While I understand your hesitance to fight and/or kill humans, this may become necessary for both you and Lavi. These people, according to the Finders before we lost contact with them, the villagers have suddenly turned violent. I wouldn't be surprised if you found more than a few corpses about the place. The two of you may very well have to fight your way out in some instances.

The science department has prepared specialty weapons for you two. The rest of this booklet will explain the function and application of each item. Most of your gear was prepared for you alone Allen, so Lavi will not have all the same equipment.

May you both be safe and return home with Lenalee soon,

Komui.

P. S. Don't be too scared by the volatile nature of some of the weapons, use them to your own discretion.

Allen couldn't help but twitch at the man's warnings. 'I don't know whether to think this is a joke or if he's serious,'he glanced at Lavi, who was now rummaging through his pack with a grim expression. 'Whoa, Lavi's actually serious! Guess Komui's note spooked him too, might as well.' He then started his own inspection of the bag's contents.

Eventually he had most of the wrapped parcels laid out in front of him, and holding the largest in his hands. Carefully he untied the cords and pulled away the waterproof cloth, revealing a strange gleaming metal contraption with thick leather strapping and buckles on the underside. He laid that on it's cloth and consulted the booklet for answers. He found the page by the illustration of the piece and began to read.

Armament A001-Right Hand Shot Cannon

The Shot Cannon is designed to be your primary weapon Allen. The apparatus is strapped to the full length of your arm and over the back of your hand. It is fully flexible at the elbow and shoulder, and should be stored folded onto itself. When worn properly, it should not hamper your movement and provide some extra armoring to your arm.

This weapon has four modes: Stun, Cannon, Shot, and Grappler. The Stun mode utilizes a non-lethal electric shock to paralyze the target momentarily. The Cannon mode is an explosive Energy charge ( similar to your Innocence, but with more explosive power ). The Shot uses five types of standard metal bullets and cartridges of various calibers: 9mm handgun bullets, 12 gauge shotgun shells, .45 caliber magnum bullets, .223 caliber rifle rounds ( Sniper Scope is built into this mode, it retracts if you're not using it. ), and explosive mine darts. The grappler function is self explanatory.

Handgun- Primary mode, is the most flexible, and handles similarly to a standard handgun.

Shotgun- Wide-shot mode, immobilizes the wrist due to recoil and requires both hands on the weapon. You use your left hand to slide the reload like a pump-action shotgun. Note: successful strikes are rather messy, best for crowds when stealth is not an option.

Magnum- Grande mode, partially restrains both wrist and elbow due to recoil. This is the most powerful option for precision in semi-close quarters combat.

Rifle- Sniper mode, fully immobilizes wrist and elbow for stability. Has far greater range than all other modes. The sniper scope gives a live video feed into your headset, but the cable must be attached first.

Mine darts- Guerilla mode. Virtually silent, best for sneak attacks. Restricts all motion of your wrist. The darts explode after three to five seconds if in contact with flesh, or when remotely triggered. Note: not intended for terrain targets like wood, rock, and metal.

Innocence- Cannon mode, has fairly long range, and the greatest payload. As said, it is explosive, so use with caution if your partner is in range.

The Grappler fires a grappling hook that should penetrate many materials easily and reel you to it or something to you, useful for rapid movement over tall or far obstacles. Careful though, the hook is sharp and barbed.

You have been provided with ammunition for each mode of the Shot Cannon and a spare grapple hook, follow instructions for loading and learn to recognize each type.

Allen sweatdropped at the descriptions. "Good grief, that man is a sadist for designing this thing! Lavi, what did he give you?"

The redhead laughed nervously as he held up what appeared to be a collapsible, straight bladed ax and a set of three guns, a handgun, a sawed-off shotgun, and a revolver. On the ground was a harness and several holsters with small wrapped packages that Allen assumed to be ammunition. "He said that the ax fitted how I use my hammer, he called it a 'Lance Cleaver'. I don't disagree with the guy, but it's a bit disturbing how sharp this thing is" he replied, eyeing the weapons. "The other end has a weight, so it's actually a balanced weapon, it'll take getting used to. He said something about working in tandem with your weapon, some kind of firearm with multiple ammo types, what'd ya get?"

The white haired exorcist counted them all out mentally. "Five kinds of ammo, a grappling hook, something similar to my Innocence cannon, and a stun gun, so that's eight."

Lavi sputtered. "W-what?! What extra kinds did'ya get?"

"Sniper rounds and mine darts, apparently." Allen returned to unwrapping the other packages. He ended up with a harness similar to Lavi's, a knife and sheath to strap to the harness, a first-aid kit, a spare handgun and leg holster, several boxes of ammunition, a new pair of armored boots, a fingerless glove for his right hand and a new armored glove for his left. With the gloves was a wireless headset with a lens over his right eye.

He jumped as Lavi gave a loud groan. Turning, he saw the apprentice Bookman staring in horror at could only be a set of explosives and grenades. Wincing in sympathy, Allen called to him. "Guess we both ended up with things we don't like, are those that new kind of grenades with that napalm stuff I heard River talking about?"

Lavi nodded without saying anything. With that, the two began to strap on the various harnesses and holsters, grateful for the new uniforms and their added mobility. Both had received new boots, a knife, a spare handgun, and a headset, though Lavi's lens was over his uncovered left eye and added a metal plate over his right. The headsets were kept in place by headbands to keep their hair out of their eyes, Allen had to tie the longer back portion of his hair into a ponytail, having let it grow out somewhat lately.

When they had all of that set, Lavi helped Allen strap on his new main weapon. As one final touch, Lavi's new ax collapsed and the straight blade was easily sheathed in it's harness next to his shotgun, but required time to get out and ready it for combat though, so he tried it once then kept it out. They loaded their guns and tucked the remaining ammunition and first-aid kits into cases at their waists.

"Maa, we look like we're going to the battlefront against giant robots, not people." Lavi said with a shudder, then with a nervous smile. "Well, now that that's all set, shall we raise some hell?"

Allen nodded grimly. His weapon was rather heavy, but it was almost like having his Innocence claw on his right arm, and it somewhat comforted him. "This is going to take getting used to Lavi, but I get the feeling we're going to be in for a long haul. Let's hope we can find Lenalee and get her and the Innocence out safely."

They wrapped up whatever they had discarded into the packs and hoisted them over their shoulders, heading closer to the village as the sky darkened rapidly above them.

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Allen and Lavi came to a broken bridge just as the last of daylight faded over the horizon. Lavi peered into the gap below, and spotted two recently destroyed vehicles on the other side.

He gave a low whistle. "Man, those things are still smoking Allen-kun, couldn't have been more than five hours ago, and one's a police car!"

"This is bad Lavi. Someone else has come here. We need to search for survivors if at all possible." said Allen quietly. He reached to the underside of his new weapon and switched it to it's Grappler mode with three solid clicks. "Hold on to me, I'll get us over."

The redhead complied, taking a firm hold on a handle set into the shoulder of the weapon. "Fire away."

Allen fired, and the barbed hook dug into a wooden post on the other side with a satisfying thud. Giving it a sharp tug, the weapon reeled the two over with a lot more force than expected. Thankfully they both managed to land on their feet before they were slammed to the ground.

"Yikes, that was rough...let's do that again Allen!" said Lavi, waving his ax in the air dangerously close to his partner's head.

"Watch it Lavi! That thing's sharp, you could kill me!"squeaked Allen indignantly. "We'd better get moving."

Lavi seemed to deflate slightly, but perked up as he spotted a nearby cabin. "Let's check in there, see what's up."

The two stepped inside slowly and rounded the corner to the left, then froze.

They gagged violently as the horrid stench of a rotting corpse reached them, but were stunned to see the very corpse twitching! The thing rose from the floor, congealed blood dripping from it's face and chest.

"Ah, Lavi, is that supposed to happen?" Allen asked.

He got no response as thick, red tentacles ripped out the cadaver's torso. Lavi jumped and brought his ax over his head, bringing it down on the thing's head with so much force he cut it in vertical halves.

The now bifurcated corpse fell to the floor with a squelch, blood and a strange yellow slime oozing everywhere before the entire thing dissolved into a puddle of rapidly congealing fluids.

"Gross."

"Allen, that is notsupposed to happen." said Lavi as he shook some of the mess from his axblade, his face pale enough to rival Allen's hair. "I can't make a proper hypothesis unless we find more evidence, but I can say this looks like bigtrouble."

Allen looked into the fireplace in front of them curiously, trying to identify what had been burning before, but gave up. He then peered into the stairwell through a door to the left of the hearth and valiantly resisted the urge to throw up.

Under the stairs in an alcove were the piled skulls and bones of what could only have been several people, and the most of them children. There was still a great deal of rotting flesh on the bones, they had apparently been stacked on top of each other gradually, as a thick dark ooze dripped from the bottom of the pile through bare, older bones.

He turned around and walked out of the cabin stiffly, fighting not to throw up then and there. Lavi seemed to notice his distress and followed him out.

"What is it?" he asked Allen softly, rubbing his back.

Gasping slightly Allen managed to tell his partner. "They...they've killed so many Lavi. Don't go back in there."

"I understand kiddo, let's move on and pray they haven't done the same to Lenalee." he told him quietly. "We've got to get going. There's only way to do this, and that's to go deeper. I don't we're going to like this, but we may have no choice."

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True to his word, Lavi led the way in deeper to the village. They eventually made their way to a large metal gate set with a strange insignia, it was locked.

"Allen," Lavi asked. "Think we can just jump it?"

He got no answer save for his partner leaping up and well over the gate, taking Lavi with him.

Lavi landed in a heap on the other side. "Geeze Allen! Warn me next time." he grumbled as he picked himself up and dusted off his backside.

At that precise moment the sound of a gunshot and the slam of a metal door rang out from the opposite end of the little village. The exorcists glanced at each other then leapt forward to investigate. Threatening shouts in Spanish reached them, and Lavi blushed slightly at some of the choice words.

"Ahh, I don't think these villagers were very well taught Allen. Violent, filthy, murdering and foul language."

Allen sighed. "I don't want to know."

He was about to continue when more gunshots sounded, and a sickening splurch reached their ears right below the roof they were standing on.

"Ano, Allen, you don't want to look down...s-someone just shot off a man's head."

Despite the warning, Allen looked aver the edge in time to see tentacles rip out from the decapitated body at the neck. They were nearly half as long as the man was tall, a long bladed tendril whipped about dangerously and a throbbing sort of head wormed it's way through the writhing mass.

The only thing Allen could think of through his shock to call the monstrosity was a single word

"P-parasite!" he gasped, automatically pulling off his glove and activating his Innocence, swiping his long black claws at the grotesque head. It died with a high screech and spattered Allen's claws in a mix of blood and ooze.

A scream further ahead made the two look up from the now rapidly dissolving corpse. A man, probably in his twenties, stood before the iron door of a building shooting at the crazed villagers trying to reach the blond girl hiding behind him. With no hesitation the exorcists dashed to help him. Allen deactivated his Innocence and put his glove back on, switching his Shot Cannon to stun mode and attacking the nearest figure where it dropped, twitching. Lavi lashed out with the weighted end of his ax on another, who dropped without a sound.

The man at the door noticed them, but said nothing until all of the mob were either dead or stunned. With a huff, he ran a hand through his sand-blonde hair, but did not put away his gun. "You'd better finish them off now before they recover, they get up quickly." he said warily, noticing the rose-cross emblems on the exorcist's shoulders. "Just great," he muttered. "More insane organizations to deal with." Then louder, he addressed the two. "You two are of that crazy 'Black Order' aren't you? Are you whack-jobs after Ashley too?"

Allen and Lavi sweatdropped and looked at each other. "Whack...jobs?" asked Lavi. "Why'd ya say that, how do you even know about us, and why would we be after you, whoever you are Miss?"

"Look out behind you!" the girl cried out, pointing to Allen.

He whipped around only to be grabbed by the neck. The man that had grabbed him began to constrict his throat, and Allen saw that his eyes glowed faintly red...before the weight of Lavi's ax knocked the villager's head clean off that is.

"Allen-kun! You okay?" Lavi asked as the body dissolved.

"I'm fine. But that man," Allen trailed off.

"Don't bother. I think all of them are infected, with what exactly I don't know." said the man gruffly. He aimed his gun at the head of the nearest downed man, and fired.

Immediately the head exploded and tentacles ripped out in it's place. Lavi jumped and brought his axblade down before the creature could get up, eliciting a terrible screech from it as it thrashed. He swung his ax once more at the thing, and it screeched once more before going still and dissolving. "Whoa, you're right. Allen-kun, we'd better handle this quickly, they're getting up!"

The white-haired exorcist was about to protest when they all heard a strange "vreee" sound, one Allen had not heard in months.

He felt his left eye change with a searing heat, and his vison went black.

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"Allen...Allen-kun...wake up, moyashi-chan!"

"Ugh, Lavi...don't call me that." growled Allen as he sat up. "Ow, how long was I out?"

Lavi grinned with relief. "Less than five minutes Allen-kun. Man, that eye of yours is a pain sometimes. You didn't see anything did ya?"

"No, just a lot of red lights."

"Wha?"

The blonde man grabbed Allen's shoulder and yanked him up. "What's with that eye?" he asked scathingly, his expression hard.

Lavi waved his hands in a placating gesture. "Easy, Allen-kun's eye is bionic." he said, quickly giving the man what he hoped was a believable story. "He lost his real eye five years ago..."

Allen cut him off. "Three years and nine months Lavi, get it right." with that, the man dropped him.

Lavi chuckled. "Hey, we've only been partners for six months. I don't get everything right all the time."

"Oh, shut up."

The girl giggled at their antics. "You two seem to be good friends, whoever you are."

The redhead turned to her and gave a gentlemanly bow. "Name's Lavi, pretty miss. Lavi Bookman." he said with a perfectly straight face. Giving the two a surname seemed to be the smartest thing to do at the time, only having a given name sounded too much like a codename in this case. "And this white-haired guy is my partner..."

"Allen Walker." Allen finished. "What are your names?"

The girl was about to answer when the man stepped in front of her. "Not until you tell me what you're here for. You guys are of that secretive 'Black Order', the CIA could never get any information on you people, what is your objective?"

Lavi looked the guy straight in the eyes, and his voice became grave. "Simply to rescue a comrade, she had been captured two days ago while investigating the strange occurrences here."

He then smiled. "Anyhow, what are you here for? Can't be a picnic in this weather."

The man narrowed his eyes at the irrepressible redhead. "My name is Leon Kennedy. A government agent. It's my job to get Ashley out of here safely by any means possible."

"Got'cha, you're the knight in shining armor rescuing the kidnaped princess from the evil dragon's keep. Classic." chuckled Lavi. "Care to let us join up for a while? The more the merrier, since the locals don't look that friendly."

Leon nodded. "Fine, but I'm keeping an eye on you two. One wrong move and you're dead."

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AN

I'm sorry for any mixups, but I'm reposting each chapter paired with a second, if anyone noticed.

Again, I ask for your reviews and constructive criticism to help me in my writing.

Later,

Lunan.