Chapter 3

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"Project Alice… so many years chasing you & you just decide to give yourself up? Just like that?" Wesker said, Alice shrugged defiantly, that trademark smirk spread across her beautiful face. "Got tired of running." She said flatly. "We searched the Island & we found no trace of the Arcadia or the other survivors, where are they. Alice?" "I don't know what you are talking about." She replied in her trademark cold, smug fashion. "oh, I happen to think that you do. Why else would you turn yourself in?" Alice sighed." "Too many innocent lives have been lost because of me & besides, if my blood holds the cure to the virus & will restore humanity, then so be it. Sacrifice a few to save many…. You know. isngt that the slogen of this company?" She said. "She's all yours, Dr. Mika." Wesker said, smiling triumphantly as a team of lab techs took her away.

In the months following, Alice spent most of her time barely conscious, strapped to a gurney with transfusion IV tubes running to a machine that pumped her blood, she was at the mercy of the scientists who treated her like a dairy cow, taking liter after liter of blood, leaving only enough to barely keep her alive. Her vision failed her, she was too weak, but she could make out some of what they were saying. "Sir, if we take any more, we'll lose her." One of the techs said as they ended another milking session. "Okay, allow her to recover, as she will quickly, we'll restart the process as soon as we can." He said as they injected her blood directly into one of the test zombies there was an immediate change in the creature's behavior. Gone were the carnivorous tendencies, the creature completely ignored the severed arm & leg on the table in front of it & went straight for the objects to its left which consisted of a camera, cell phone, a book & a simple puzzle. Just like the first specimens Dr. Isaacs had worked with, these knew what they were & used them accordingly. But the huge difference became apparent when they came to the puzzle; these also became frustrated when they couldn't find the square hole for the square piece, but they listened to reason & learned when they were shown how to do it right. Mika & the scientists who worked for him & even Wesker were astonished. Now there was the task of administering the serum to the world's population of zombies.

In time, the scientists found that what the undead lost in carnivorous tendencies they gained in aggressive tendencies towards their fellow untreated undead & amazingly they seemed to know the difference. Dr. Mika set out to find a way to alter the virus that was already in the system of the undead to transmit the cure made from Alice's blood.

"Carlos, we all want to save Alice, but running in there hell bent for leather, without a plan would be suicide & spending your days & nights pacing & fidgeting is driving us all CRAZY!" Claire said as she gripped him by the shoulders. In the months following Alice's surrender, everyone including Carlos was certain she was bluffing Umbrella, 'allowing' them to take her in just to escape later like she always did; like they knew she COULD. There could only be one reason; she didn't WANT to escape….. but why? They all looked at one another, all on the same track of thought, they had to find out.