RESIDENT EVIL 4
- Payback Time –
by Marie B.
After escaping the explosion of Umbrella base in Antarctica, Claire and Chris are heading Paris in a jet.
Chris looked behind him and saw his sister looking by the window, tears in her eyes. "Look Claire…I'm sorry for you…" His sister didn't respond him. She keeps looking by the window sobbing silently. Chris thought that it was better to not talk to her for the moment.
A few hours later, Claire and Chris arrived in Paris. They rented a room in a hotel for a few days. Chris will make plans for attacking the Umbrella Headquarters in Paris. All his friends will help him for that.
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January, 5th 2000, the day of the attack, all were at Chris' room: Jill Valentine, Carlos Oliveira, Rebecca Chambers, Barry Burton and two others S.T.A.R.S. members from New-York: Johnny Phillips and Axel Anderson.
Carlos was in charge of the weapons and ammo, Rebecca for the cures and first aid kits, Barry for the maps and Johnny for the electronic stuff.
"Alright! We're now ready to leave!" said Chris. Claire entered the room. "Chris…I want to go with you…" "What?!" respond Chris. "Since what Wesker said…about Steve…I didn't stop thinking about it…I want to know if he's alive!". Claire's eyes start getting wet. Chris looked at her and sighed. "Claire…you know that Wesker is not working with Umbrella. And, we're going to a Umbrella base."
"Don't forget Chris that Wesker wants to kill you, so there's a lot of chances that he'll be there." said Barry. Chris sighed even harder. "It'll be very dangerous…so, you better watch you ass and always stay with me. Understood?" Claire looked at her brother with a big smile. "Thanks bro!!"
"Okay. Now, we can leave!" said Chris firmly.
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They entered by the backside of the big building. Johnny took control of the cameras. So, they were able to enter without being seen. They walked down a long corridor. They didn't see anyone. The corridor headed to big room filled with capsules. Inside each of them, there was a Tyrant like the one in the Spencer Mansion. All started to sweat. "I hope they won't wake up" said Rebecca, scared. Suddenly, they saw something flying in front of them and crashing on the floor. It was a man. He was covered with blood and he seemed to be dead. A deep laugh started to fill the room.
"Hahahaha!!! I was sure you'll be here, Chris!" On their right, they saw a man wearing black sunglasses that was walking towards them. "Wesker!!" said Chris and his companions in the same time. "Oh Jill…you seem to be in good health." said Wesker looking at her. "And you…you're not supposed to be dead?!" Wesker started to laugh again. "That's a long story. I'm sorry about that, but I have other things to do. So, I'm leaving you…with my new friend…Muwhahahaha!!!!" Wesker disappeared like a shadow.
"New friend?" asked Rebecca.
Suddenly, they heard a door exploding. Someone entered the room. Claire gasped and stepped back when she recognizes the person. "What's wrong?" asked Chris. Claire didn't answer. Chris turned back and looked at the person. It was a young man, around Claire's age. He was wearing the same suit of Wesker. Reddish hair hided his eyes. He was a bit too muscular for his age, like if someone changed his body. He made some steps forwards and looked at the team with bloody red eyes. "Ohhh….that's not good…" said Carlos.
All rose their weapons towards the young man. Before they could touch the trigger, the guy disappeared. Carlos saw him appearing over Johnny. "Watch out!!!" cried Carlos. But, it was too late. The young man punched him on the head with incredible power that made his head exploding. All looked at him in shocked. Carlos in panic, started to fire at him with his assault riffle. But Carlos has almost fell on the floor when he saw that the guy has stopped the assault riffle bullets with his hands. The guy ran towards him and punched him in the belly. Carlos fell on the floor.
"Carlos!!" cried Jill. The young man looked at Jill with his red eyes and was about to attack her when he felt someone attacking him in his back. He turned back and saw that Axel was shooting at him. The young man disappeared again and reappeared behind him. With his arm, he transfixed Axel's torso. Alec fell dead on the ground. Chris and Barry looked at him and saw that the young man punched the floor. They didn't understand why he did that but they felt the building shaking. An earthquake occurred and Chris and Barry fell on the floor. They try to get up but they were too shocked to move. Chris saw Jill laying next to him. She was unconscious.
The young man looked at the last person standing up. Claire was leaning against a wall. She didn't move. The guy smiled and walked towards her. He grabbed her by the throat and lifted her up. Don't touch her, you freak!!" cried Chris. Claire looked at the guy in the eyes. «Oh no…not again..!!» she thought. Long claws got out of the guy's left hand. He lifted his left arm and move it to decapitate Claire's head. Claire closed her eyes. And…nothing…Claire opened her eyes and saw that she was still alive. The guy was still holding her but didn't kill her. He looked at her and started to shake. He put her back on the floor and fell on his knees, putting his hands on his face. Claire tried to catch her breath. She then approach the guy. She crouched and moved his hair on the side. "Steve…?" The guy looked at her. His eyes has regained their original colour, a deep coral green. "Ah…Claire…I am…so sorry…" Claire didn't respond him, she jumped in his arms and hugged him tightly, crying. Steve enrolled his arms around her and hugged her back.
"Can someone explain me what's going on here?!" asked Carlos.
"Hum…no, not for the moment." respond Chris.
"Aww…they are so cute…" said Rebecca.
All looked at Rebecca. "Ahh…sorry…" said Rebecca reddening.
Claire realized that they weren't alone and started to blush. Then she turned to see her brother and his friends watching her and Steve. Claire and Steve looked at each other, shocked, and separate quickly themselves to the other. Claire was really embarrassed. She started to chuckle a bit and try to explain…"Hum…well…this is Steve. I met him on Rockford Island. Then, we escaped from there together. At this time, a lot of things happened. We crashed in Antarctica and then…Steve…" Steve stepped forwards."…died." Claire looked at him and then, at the others "Exactly."
Jill and the others looked at each other, confused. "Woh-woh…Did you just say, that you were dead?" "Yes." respond Steve. "So…why are still alive?"
Steve looked down, searching how he can explain that. "Well…I remember that I died after being transformed into a monster. For a long time, it was all black-out. But, I also remember that I woke up in a laboratory…"
«End of Chapter One. All the characters belong to Capcom. But Johnny Phillips and Axel Anderson belong to me with the story. Soon, Chapter 2 : Resurrection.»