Chris, Alice, Jill, K-Mart, and several of the other surviving humans exited the inner hull of the Arcadia. Alice felt something inside her that she hadn't felt in a long time as she watched everyone. Hope. When the virus started to spread across the globe Alice had thought it was all over and that from that point on ward it was every one for themselves. She abandoned her friends when they were ambushed by Umbrella Corp. soldiers. As they attempted to fall back one of the soldiers threw a grenade. The blast knocked Jill Valentine clear out of a third story window. Carlos and Alice knew she was dead; there was a horde of infected just waiting outside for fresh human meat. Alice saw a lot of things; terrible things as she traveled alone across the United States on her motorcycle. She answered multiple fake distress calls and paid the price each time. The price being that she wound up creating more zombies with each person she had to kill to stay alice. Alice never stayed in one place for long and she vowed to never stay with a group of people for longer than she needed since umbrella was constantly tracking her. But when she discovered that there was a place free of infection she broke her own rule and joined Claire's convoy after her ride was destroyed. The consequences were disastrous.

Umbrella finally tracked her down and dispatched a newer and faster version of the zombies. The convyo was ambushed in Las Vegas and multiple members of the convoy were lost. Among them being an infected LJ who had to be gunned down by Carlos… Carlos. Alice took the loss of him the hardest. LJ managed to bite Carlos just before he shot him; knowing that they'd never get the anti-virus to save him in time Carlos volunteered to lead a suicide strike on the massive army of infected surrounding the underground Hive base. Right before he left Alice kissed him and wished she could've told him how she felt sooner. But that's Alice for you. She's never been particularly good with words.

His sacrifice wasn't in vain though. Carlos saved all the surviving members of the convoy including K-Mart whom Alice took a liking to. She looked at her as the younger sister she never had. Alice looked at her wrist and smiled at the bracelet K-Mart gave her when they first met. As Alice looked out to the surrounding water she wondered what would be next for her and the others. There had to be some way to reverse this outbreak; to change every one back to normal or at the very least wipe out the remaining infected. They couldn't live in fear forever. As Alice continued to think she heard something in the distance. The noise became louder with each passing second.

"That was fast," she thought thinking it was people responding to the message she sent out just a few minutes ago. Alice looked to the sky and her hope quickly diminished.

"What is it?" Claire asked Alice noticing her change in mood.

"Trouble," was all Alice said as she gripped her shot gun. She wasn't going to let these Umbrella bastards take these innocent people again.

"These guys just don't know when to quit," Chris thought as the Umbrella planes circled around the ship. Several of the survivors watched the planes circling them in horror. K-Mart nervously held onto a shot gun she had taken from the ship. She still felt slightly disoriented from being awoken from that chamber she was trapped in.

"Trapped like rats," the very much alive Jill Valentine thought. "Open fire," she issued to the pilot. He nodded to her order.

"I won't let you bastards hold these people captive again!" Alice shouted with every last bit of fury she could muster up. Something didn't sit right with Claire, however. If they were here to capture them they would've landed immediately.

"They aren't here to capture us," Claire said backing up. The bottom of the planes opened up revealing several large guns. "They're an extermination squad! Everybody get inside!" She shouted to everyone. The survivors all broke in to a fast run. Each person trying to reach the safety of inside the ship; no one caring whom they pushed or shoved to reach it. The ships began to open fire and survivors went down. Alice felt her heart constrict as they all started to die. Some people falling on top of the other making them even easier targets for the ships. "Cease fire!" Jill ordered already aiming a snipers rifle down at the ship. She wanted the pleasure of being the one to silence the 'great' Project Alice once and for all. She had Alice in her sights and fired. Alice felt someone smash into her back and felt her world fall forward. Her face collided with the hard surface of the Arcadia. She saw someone had fallen on top of her and noticed an Umbrella soldier already reloading a sniper rifle. The person on top of her took the bullet for her. It was then that Alice realized who saved her life.

"K-Mart!" She screamed. No! She can't lose her! Not K-Mart!

"Come on Alice!" Chris shouted already grabbing her and half dragging her towards the entrance to the lower levels of the ship.

"No! We can't leave her!" Alice yelled. She was far too distraught at the prospect of losing another friend to fight Chris' grip. As they neared the entrance there was a flash of red past Alice and Chris.

"Claire! What are you doing! ?" Chris yelled at his sister. Claire ignored him and pulled out her gun. Jill saw Claire coming and aimed her rifle at the same time Claire aimed hers. They fired simultaneously; bullets flying past each other. Jill's bullet missed Claire by mere inches and soared directly at Alice's face. The bullet in the end grazed past Alice's cheek; the shot having missed because Jill hadn't sufficient time to aim. Claire's bullet missed its desired target and instead plunged into the pilot of Jill's plane. The pilot went down and Jill grabbed the controls to keep the ship steady.

"Open fire!" She ordered again. Claire jumped onto her feet and scooped K-Mart up into her arms. She ran inside the ship and descended the stairs as Chris sealed the door to the outside shut; the bullets bouncing harmlessly off the metal door. Claire gently laid K-Mart on the floor. She had been shot on the right side of her stomach. She was lucky to still be breathing at all.

"You're gonna be ok K-Mart," Alice said in a shaky tone. "You're gonna be ok." K-Mart was breathing heavily from the gunshot wound. "I think your gonna need this more than I am," Alice said as she started to un-strap K-Mart's bracelet.

"No. Keep it," K-Mart told her; her voice barely above a whisper. "It's gotten you this far hasn't it?" She asked with a weak smile, which Alice returned. The smile quickly vanished and K-Mart began to cough violently.

"We need some help!" Claire shouted out.

To be continued…