Umbrella will pay. I will make sure of that… as will my new friends.

My name is Alice.

1: Tokyo

Ada Wong had never really gotten used to the chilling silence that now consumed the entire city, both day and night. She could still remember its very much alive and crowded days as if it was just yesterday and not five years back… it had been so full of lights, people on the streets, glowing billboards at night that stole the whole show. Tokyo tower peeking up among the tall buildings and billboards, like a watching guardian of some sort. And now, five years after the outbreak had started on the crowded Shibuya square that rainy night, what was left of all that? Most of the buildings were either in ruins or had sunk in with the night, completely lifeless. The billboards followed the same pattern; either broken or lifeless. Tokyo tower had half-collapsed just about two years back (so much for that guardian now). But the worst, again, was that chilling silence… something that was so strange in a city like Tokyo, even after five years of its post-apocalyptic state.

Ada herself had been there that rainy night, at the large Shibuya square, consisting of a large street filled with people walking in many different directions and surrounded by buildings with shining and very much "alive" billboards and even huge screens showing commercials. Ada had been right there on the street, together with her friends, Brad Vickers and Chris Redfield. The three of them had only been visitors in Tokyo and had walked there on the street with their heads up, admiring the many billboards and commercial-screens on the buildings around them.

"Tokyo really is the commercial-capital of the world" Brad commented, as they took their time walking through the large crowd. None of them wanted to leave the square yet… because it was simply such a fascinating sight.

And with no further notice, in the middle of their joy and amazement, it had happened. Someone had started screaming… and then more people had done the same. Ada remembered seeing blood mixing with the rain-water on the street and then those things coming walking right onto the street, like a tidal wave… probably about fifty of them, biting down anyone in their path.

Ada and her two friends had first rushed around on the street, not knowing really what to do and had then seen the "wave" of those things making their way through the street.

The next few days still remained somewhat of a blur to Ada… and to Brad and Chris, as far as she could see. The three of them had hid out in an alley for a while, with none of those things discovering them. Well, then they did… and the three of them were forced back out onto the by then people-empty and dangerous streets of Tokyo. Ada didn't quite remember why, but they made their way back to Shibuya Square, where she suggested they climbed up the billboards and screens.

And so, here they were, five years later, living in a large empty room/storage space with no door, located right behind a commercial billboard of Hello Kitty somewhere at the top of the commercial-covered building they had climbed five years earlier (but then again, all buildings at the square were like that). In the room was only a large sheet, on which Brad and Chris were currently sleeping, while Ada herself was sitting behind the Hello Kitty billboard, peeking out over it and down onto the street of Shibuya Square below. On the street down there was now only a crashed car and some of those undead things walking around directionless. But it wasn't them Ada was interested in… she was interested in those strange black helicopters with The Umbrella Corporation logo on them that kept coming and going. On the building right across the street, right behind the Panasonic billboard at the top of all the other commercials, there seemed to be some kind of hole in the building's roof, where the helicopters kept flying in and out. It had at first seemed like The Umbrella Corporation had some kind of base inside that building… but with the help of some binoculars Ada found (when it had been her turn to climb down to the street and search for food) she quickly discovered that the building itself was hollow… and that the helicopters seemed to go down through the hollow building… and land in some kind of underground Helicopter-parking space. The occasional shakings from below also confirmed to Ada that the base was located underground.

"Ada" Chris' tired voice suddenly came from behind her, making Ada jump and quickly turn around, seeing Chris slowly get up from the bed sheet with a just as tired-looking face, a face as always carrying small, green eyes a large mouth and framed by messy brown hair. Chris and Brad looked nothing alike; Brad having short red hair and big also often red ears. Ada now felt embarrassed, that even after five years, things still scared her enough to make her jump.

"Good morning… or night, actually" Ada responded, trying to sound cold and then turned back to look down at the street with her binoculars. Then she looked up, at the building across the street behind the Panasonic billboard up there… waiting for any helicopter to come out of the roof.

"What are you looking for?" Chris asked as he came down to sit by her side, peeking out onto the street below.

"You need to look up to see what I'm looking for… there, right behind that Panasonic billboard up there"

Chris looked at where she pointed, then sighed. "Still looking for those helicopters you say come out of that roof, huh?"

"Hey, it's not my fault you two always sleep when they appear!" Ada roared and threw her binoculars at Chris, who managed to dodge them. He then smiled somewhat arrogantly.

"Still can't beat my dodging skills" he laughed and put his feet up on the billboard outside. Ada was surprised he wasn't cold, since he was currently barefoot and only wearing a white sleeveless T-shirt and boxer shorts. But Ada was not the one to talk… she only wore a thin, blue dress (Note: like the red Alice-dress, but blue instead).

The two of them sat there like that for a moment, with Ada not taking her eyes of Chris somewhat angrily. After what felt like forever of that, Chris' eyes suddenly widened and he put his feet down, grabbing Ada's binoculars from the floor and quickly looking down on the street with them.

"What is it, Chris?"

"I… I don't really know how to describe it to you" Chris said, handing Ada the binoculars "See for yourself"

Ada looked down at the street… and was, like Chris promised, met with a very strange sight. Down there were several women, all in red dresses and black leather-jackets… and looking exactly alike in physical appearance as well, with red-brown hair and intense blue eyes. The woman leading the group looked the same and wore the same dress and leather-jacket, but her hair was a little different, indicating that she was special somehow.

"What the…" Ada started, shocked and unable to finish the sentence. What the hell was going on down there? Some kind of look alike dress-up in these times?

Shocking Ada even more, the women were suddenly holding guns in their hands and quickly and skillfully disposed of the undead walking the street. In only a few seconds, most of the undead were down on the ground with bullets to their heads. The leading woman with the different hair then went ahead and searched the street for something, appearing to sniff the air and touch the ground all over the place. Eventually, she stopped at one spot, bent down and grabbed the ground… and simply opened up a hatch that had been built to look like part of the street.

"Ah, so there is a simpler entrance to that base down there" Ada said and smiled, glad that the three of them wouldn't need to climb the building across the street to try and get down there. She already had a plan… upuntil now, Ada had not screamed out for the helicopters coming in and out of that roof simply because she was afraid they would think she was one of those undead things and blow her to pieces. But now, a perfect opportunity had showed itself… now she, Chris and Brad could simply go down there through that entrance on the street. All of the women had now jumped down through the hole in the street, with the last to do so putting the hatch back in place as she jumped at the same time.

"Wake Brad" Ada said, feeling Chris' stare on her neck "We may just have found a perfect opportunity to meet with our fellow survivors here in Tokyo"

Author's Notes:

I hope you liked this first chapter of "Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D". I know I have started writing and deleted many stories in the past... but I promise I'll continue with this one, since I really like where it's going. I think you all probably understood that the women down on the street were Alice and her clones... and I decided to have Alice again wear the same stylish dress as the clones.