It used the ceiling to get about; its massive muscles bulged in and out as it moved toward him, its pink fleshy colour glimmering in the dim light from the edge of the stairs. Billy backed away slowly trying to think what his next move would be, he aimed high and shot out at it a few times only scraping its skin; any other wounds just healed up within seconds again. It suddenly shot across the ceiling like a bullet avoiding the very same thing "son-of-a bitch!" Billy who was quickly overwhelmed as the creature dived at him; it was suddenly blown aside by a random gunshot "Rebecca!" The look on his face told her he couldn't be any more relieved to see someone "C'mon!" She urged as Billy scrambled to his feet, he looked back to see the creature had been incapacitated for the time being. Enrico helped Gene up "Move it!" "There's another one running around in here somewhere." They rushed back down the hallway again; Enrico spotted a stretched inhuman shadow on the wall from around the corner "This way!" he directed them into the first left turning, into a dark narrow passage. They burst through the door entering the staff changing rooms, Billy turned back for a moment to see if it followed them "Don't stop!" Enrico ordered. Bursting into the next room, Gene pulled the huge bar lock across "It ain't getting through here." "Is it still out there?" "What does it matter? We have to get the hell out of this place" "Guys!" Rebecca interrupted, before they each turned around at the eyesore of what appeared to be an armory of some kind, and it was huge.

The lights flickered on automatically to reveal the rest of the warehouse; there were tall rows of steel shelves that seemed to stretch on for hundreds of yards. "Jesus Christ!" Billy said looking around in awe "I think i'll just say this is one serious fucking arsenal?" Gene said "What the hell does Umbrella need with all this?" Enrico asked walking in further in utter shock and awe; Billy chucked the Beretta away "Watch him" "Right!" Gene was forced to guard Billy again "You okay?" Rebecca asked Enrico who seemed unusually more sprightly now "Yeah...I'm fine!" she nodded still concerned but, followed his lead as he staggered across the floor searching for extra ammunition "Take what you can, we're gonna need whatever we can to get out of this shithole!" Rebecca grabbed a duffle bag and began pouring in a few essential items from the shelves. Gene took some extra clips for her Beretta putting them into her items belt, and grabbed a shotgun as back up. Enrico opened up some of the crates with a crowbar from the side, and filled his S.T.A.R.S vest with flash and stun grenades, he also took a combat type shotgun from an open crate. Billy picked up a holster belt for his gun, and strapped it over himself properly but saw an even bigger gun on the shelf in front of them, a military issue dual sig-pro. Adding it to his inventory Enrico opened a locker full of combat vests. They all had 'U.S.T.F' embedded into breast material in white print "Well...we can't have you dying on us." He said before giving one to a rather grateful Billy "Thanks." Now ready Enrico covered Billy while Rebecca and Gene covered each other "I got a bad feeling about this!" "Somethings playing games with us... " They came back out into the west wing of the mansion, the main staff living quarters "watch your asses back there, that thing won't be far just stay alert." Billy saw the door not far ahead of him, left ajar! There was a bloody handprint on the doorknob itself, Enrico pumped his shotgun nodding for Billy to make his entry in. He slowly pushed the door open with the nose of his gun, glancing at an engraving of the Umbrella parasol in the door itself, pushing it fully open to reveal a large billiard room.

Taking a step further suddenly forced to literally freeze in his tracks as there to his horror stood not one but a horde of un-dead flesh eaters "You have to be shitting me!" they stood in the doorway and looked to see zombies occupying the room standing around like lost lambs. Gene moved a step forward accidentally knocking a set of stepladders over with a loud shudder, the others got ready for the worst, catching the attention of every brain dead zombie in there. "Ah shit " "Kill em all!" Enrico looked over the barrel end of shotgun, dispersing shells as un-dead brains were splattered on the jukebox glass; another was pushed into it haplessly. The music started up which, activated the disco lights, Rebecca skilfully whipped out her custom Beretta and started shooting, wild bullets flayed through zombie flesh, zombies staggered about everywhere while others dropped to the floor with bloodied holes in their heads. Another, stumbled around the bar, with its arms out snarling before it saw Billy and lunged angrily toward him. Upon approach the thing was met with rapid gun fire which blew its shirt to shreds from the semi-autos powerful design before literally cutting the zombie in two, more zombies staggered and stumbled about angrily. Some in croupier uniforms, others in busboy aprons. A gambler stomped toward Gene; one of its rotting arms fell off; her shoulders flinched back from the shotguns powerful recoil, blasting its face off and left it with a bloodied mess of flesh for a head, before its limp body crashed to the floor with a thud! An enraged pool played rushed after Enrico, pool cue still in one hand, but was quickly stopped in its tracks as blood burst from its throat and neck; the jukebox continued playing randomly.

He spotted another zombie still standing behind the croupier table, it glanced over to Enrico but had his head blown off like a rotted watermelon, kings, queens, and aces flew all over the place. Billy's finger began to sting from squeezing the trigger dispersing rapid three round bursts tearing suits and uniforms to mere bloody shreds, unaware of the zombie crawling up behind his legs toward quietly through the smoke and muzzle fire. Snapping its teeth the zombie lost his meal after a much distracted Billy moved out of the way just in time "Over here!" screamed Rebecca, Billy swung around and saw the legless moron stare up at him with a snarl, sealing his mouth shut preparing for impact, as several bullets cut through its skull leaving it to hit the floor like a bowling ball. A few more still wandered about aimlessly, one down the steps "Reload me!" Billy urged Rebecca who came to his aid frantically rummaging through the duffle bag and passed him another clip; the gun although more accurate; sacrificed rapid ammo consumption compensating it with firepower. Rebecca clicked the gun releasing a spent magazine and quickly slapped another one in, Billy now taking lead and swung around at a 180 degree angle blowing the living shit out of zombie limbs, bloody shreds of clothing flew all over the place, the last zombie lunged for him, but fell forward having one leg blown off by Enrico; placing his foot down on the creatures throat, it stared up into the barrel end of a twelve gauge shotgun!

The jukebox music cut off after the socket fuse shorted, Enrico pumped an empty shell from the weapons chamber, Rebecca and Gene holstered their guns, and Billy stood down. They looked around the billiard room now engorged with limbs, torsos and entrails lay strewn everywhere!

"Let's move!" They rushed through the next-door leading into the south hall,

Enrico and Billy stood right by the door "do you think it's still out there?" Gene asked "I don't know!" Enrico answerd "Well I for one wouldn't want to be the first to find out" Billy and Enrico returned looks "Okay, count of three " " One, two" "Three!" Billy dragged the lock aside allowing Enrico to pull the metal door that, opened with a loud creak, Billy peaked out with the barrel end of his gun first, quickly switching its torch before showing his face "We're clear!" "Alright go, I got you covered." Billy cautiously stepped out first with Enrico following suit watching his back, Rebecca and Gene followed. The four of them wandered down the dark passage, with their weapons at the ready there wasn't a sound except that of their boots clipping across the cement. The candle lights sitting on the wall in the main corridor flickered, while others had fizzled out, the team came out to see a mass of destruction left by the creature. The pillars now reduced to rubble, and there was nothing left of the wall separating the corridor and main parlour apart from the pile of ground mortar "Jesus!" "Look at this place!" the parlour was filled with dust and smoke which meant it had been recent.

A black and white surveillance camera hidden in the corner of the ceiling followed them, a dark mysterious figure stood in the monitor room. His radio bleeped, it was Wesker who grabbed the radio from his pocket "Go ahead 3412!" Wesker waited for a reply as he held the microphone to his mouth "Sir we have a major problem, the cargo onboard got out" a soldier replied through the transceiver "What?" "The transportation capsule has been completely destroyed Parasol 13 has escaped " "GEMINI? Active already, that can't be, are you sure?" Wesker interrupted. The final team of soldiers stood somewhere in an abandoned warehouse, the rain was coming down hard blowing in through the smashed windows with strong gusts that whistled spookily, A soldier stood by the transport "We're holed up in the abandoned production facility, fierce weather conditions." Weskers voice came through by radio "Are you certain it has developed to stage two?" "I've just lost thirteen good men so yes Captain I'm pretty certain!" Wesker covered the microphone for a second and looked at William "It's already in active stage two." "But I don't understand how that's impossible unless " He paused and looked back at Wesker who slowly nodded at him with a small grin, he took his hand off the microphone again "Go ahead with the evacuation, but leave a two of your men posted outside. We're on our way down, over and out!" "Yes sir!" he switched the microphone off turning to face Birkin with a grin on his face "With GEMINI already in stage two, and those fools running around in the mansion this might give us the privilege of witnessing Parasol 13 entering its full adult stage."

Meanwhile back in the train garage, the fires had fizzled out from the heavy rain and strong winds leaving only the burnt out carriages, and a body count with blood and guts thrown everywhere. Blood and entrails oozed down the walls, the alarm lights now covered in blood and dog chains still flashed furiously! The bodies of soldiers lay strewn about the place; suddenly they started twitching moving about slowly one by one they gradually split open in the same fashion of unzipped body bags, as each mutant began to hatch from their hosts. The walls darkened with inhuman shadows and dancing tendrils, the place was filled with banshee like screams as the monsters each took leave! They rushed out straight across to the abandoned warehouse, sniffing out humans; an unsuspecting soldier posted outside was the first victim. His body was thrown straight through a window tumbling into the warehouse; more glass went everywhere "Go! Go! Head straight for the heliport" another one yelled as the truck started up with an angry growl, the headlights lit up brightly as the trucks tires scrambled across the gravel in a hurried exit, some of the team sat in the back of the truck. The warehouse lit up by angry muzzle fire and filled with screams of fallen soldiers soon replaced by that of the creatures who made quick work of the place,as their whails echoed through the woods.

Enrico and the others wandered slowly through the dark west hall, Billy took steps cautiously "Be careful, that thing still might be out here somewhere!" Enrico took that in mind and pumped his shotgun, as they continued down the hall; their footsteps echoed through the place. "This place just seems to get bigger." "Okay...we need to find a way out of here, so we should split up for now, that way we'll cover more ground but, if you find anything report back" they nodded in comprehension "I'll go this way " Billy pointed to Rebecca "You're with me!" Enrico said bursting his bubble "I don't want you out of my sight for the time being. We'll take the east wing...Watch your backs!" He nodded to Rebecca and Gene took to their routes, Enrico with Billy hurried down the hall toward the east wing. A black oak door opened with a creak, Enrico and Billy entered the main corridor of east wing, Enrico who took charge with his gun drawn forth and looked around suspiciously. The two wandered through the corridor with only the sound of heavy rain beating down on the windows and small flashes of lightning accompanied by faint rumbles from the clouds; with only the moon just peeking through. The lights were out and only the half crescent moon shone through the blurred windows, Billy stayed close behind Enrico watching his back and checking behind momentarily just in case of anything lurking about! "You see anything?" "What you mean besides us? No not really, relax we're good nothing's gonna happen to us yet!" Billy said in an unconvincing tone "Thank you Billy, that's very comforting".

Meanwhile Rebecca wandered through a narrow but well carpeted corridor; there was a line of doors on either side, all numbered. It was the staff sleeping quarters, a small table stood against the wall between two doors with a small potted plant and a telephone on it; the plants leaves were all brown and shrivelled up obviously not being tended to for quite some time. She picked the phone up about to put it against her ear, but soon noticing the blood and saliva oozing from the bottom speaker piece in laces she shrieked; she dropped it again in disgust. Rebecca looked underneath the table she'd checked to see the cord was cut so carried on cautiously down the hall. Gene wandered around the north hall as ordered, looking around cautiously her eyes switched from left to right in the darkness! Her issued shoes clicked lightly on the marble floor with each foot step echoing from corner to corner; she came up to a door labelled 'COMMUNICATIONS SECT. SECURITY PERSONNEL ONLY, BEYOND THIS POINT' printed above the frame, taking grip of her custom Beretta before entering. Billy and Enrico came into the next corridor, which split two ways; one lead left back towards the main lobby while went diagonally leading into an unknown area, "where the hell are we?" "Err, that way leads back to the parlour I think, so we go this way!" Enrico pointed in the direction of the diagonal corridor, they walked slowly down the diagonal corridor and going round following its shape. The walls were a thick fusion of blurred marble and glass tiles; suddenly there was a noise that seemed to come from behind, the two of them swung around on alert "you hear that?" Billy whispered "Yeah!" they looked back suspiciously, suddenly jumping back and hid at the side "Holy shit!" "What?" "It's back! Did it see you?" "I don't know." They saw the shadow close in on them, Billy took a deep breathe and made a cross prayer on his chest

"Fuck this!" he jumped out of his hiding place ready to face it but the thing was nowhere, suddenly he looked up in horror to see it stare down and let out a frightening showing its teeth. Billy fired out recklessly with his gun, ripping away at the ceiling plaster and the walls, as broken marble and plaster crumbled all over the place. Billy; pushed back by the impact, as the creature seemed to evade every bullet that flew its way. Enrico quickly partnered his gun fire with Billy's, the revolting beast scurried across the ceiling in pursuit of them both but was pushed back with a shotgun shell to the head; it squealed out in pain. Its open wound dripping with blood, but still it came at them again using its tendrils to feel around and move from wall to wall, another shell quickly removed it from the ceiling; the creature hadn't time to save its fall as it hit the floor with a loud wet thud. It wiggled about the floor in a frenzied fit; throwing its tendrils everywhere in a violent flurry, suddenly several more shadows appeared from the other end of the corridor "Here come the rest of them." Billy stood his ground with his gun ready for them, the creatures clawed their way across the walls toward them both, hissing and screaming some were different in appearance to others in different stages of growth "We have to go now!" Billy fired a wild array of bullets which seemed to hit nothing except, the walls that were quickly filled with bullet holes with plaster and rubble blown apart, still the creatures chased them avidly with vicious manner. Enrico grabbed his partners shoulder "Come on!" they ran down to the end of the diagonal corridor and came up to a huge steel blue door, Enrico tried the handle but it was locked "Goddamn it!" he used all his might to barge at it a couple of times before finally breaking through. Billy kicked the door shut again, and leant against it to take a breather but moved away overhearing the creatures on the other side scrape and beat the door down trying to get through "That won't hold them for long, we gotta keep moving!" They ran down the hall into an empty maintenance room, it was filled with nothing but disposal units, brooms, and other disused objects. The walls and floor were pure grime stained concrete and an enormous pillar in the centre that supported the ceiling, about twenty feet up. Enrico pulled out his radio "Rebecca, Gene anyone come in over" his radio bleeped from a response "This is Rebecca, Enrico where are you?" the alarms were tripped suddenly, and the room was filled with flashing red lights.

Rebecca stood on the landing of the third floor above the now destroyed lobby/parlour, her radio fuzzed only able to receive a patchy signal "Rebecca were trapped in the maintenance need you to get down here right now, find Gene and get to the maintenance tunnels should know where it is just go we'll try and meet you there!" just barely understanding the order Rebecca nodded "Got it over!" she switched to the next channel so she could contact Gene.

Enrico and Billy ran into the Security hut slamming the door shut behind them again, the noise from the alarms quickly became faint as they shut the door. Looking around surprised but somewhat frustrated and bemused at such a constantly bizarre layout of rooms, tunnels and halls "We might be able to use this terminal to try and deactivate the alarms, but I'm not entirely accurately with this so..." He tilted his head for a second shrugging with an unsure look on his face "What difference does it make?" Billy asked "It says here the alarms are only activated in a biohazard emergency; all areas get sealed off section by section" Enrico answered him "I think we can point out this is a pretty big fucking emergency" Billy thought " Were not in the maintenance tunnels, this is the Generator room, the maintenance facility is ten minutes from here!" "How do you know?" "I just do, there's not really time to sit down and explain it all." "Well shouldn't we head for the maintenance tunnels?" "And how exactly would you like us to get there?" Enrico asked as he pointed back outside the security window, Billy looked through the window to see zombies begin lurking out from every corner, some lurked from behind disposal units, others appearing from the tunnel shadows "These bastards just keep popping up!" He continued punching commands into the keyboard until a 3D mapping screen popped up displaying the mansion layout "Alright you've got a job to do, so listen closely!" Billy moved in closer to Enrico looking at the display monitor "The rooms highlighted in blue are on the first floor, the blinking red dots are those things out there. And we're right here in the red square, but the yellow markers...That's the route leading to the maintenance facility" Enrico continued as Billy listened " So..." "So that's where you're going!" Enrico ordered firmly "No, oh no wait a minute you're outta your mind I'm not going back out there!" "It beats sitting in here waiting for them to get in!" Billy thought " Alright, what do you need me to do?" "You're gonna have go by the foot down the tunnel and get to the maintenance facility. When you get there, there should be another security hut with the correct terminals and the emergency system can only be deactivated down there." Another black and white monitor watched them both from the corner of the ceiling! "Once that's done, you can bring the transport back up here and then we can get out of this shit hole" Enrico passed him a printed slip of three codes "What are you gonna do?" He asked "I'll try and contact Headquarters and call this in, hopefully they'll send Alpha team. Just get it done!" Billy nodded once as he went to open the door "Coen." "Yeah..." "Good luck soldier" Billy made a noticeable smile and with a nod he was gone; the rusted door creaked shut again.

Rebecca rushed through the corridor with Gene not far behind, taking the steps back down to the ground floor "What's going on?" "I don't know, Enrico said to meet him in the tunnels, we need to get out of here fast!" a surveillance monitor followed them down the stairs, and switched to the east wing view where hordes of the parasites slithered and crawled around the halls. It zoomed in on them and switched to x-ray mode, one of the creatures scoped the hall out before resonating a frighteningly loud scream as it dropped to the floor! Its tendrils swung and danced around furiously, slowly getting longer; they began wrapping themselves around some of the other parasols pulling them in helplessly; its muscles bulged and pulsated as it seemed to be undergoing an unsightly transformation; its arms and legs grew longer and larger claws began to form. It changed shape almost completely as it was able to stand up on two legs like a person. The other creatures backed away into the shadows watching in fear, its muscles started shaping themselves into arms and legs, and the creatures unlucky enough to get caught within its path had now been absorbed. It grew larger in height and stood upright like a human, it formed shapely claw like hands and feet, its head morphed into a smaller yet more detailed head above its shoulders, no neck but just a head. Muscle mass grew rapidly around its shoulders and arms, still without eyes but instead formed a small opening above its jaw which split open into a mouth full of silver razor sharp teeth; a deep growl formed in its chest before it could let out a bloody great roar.

Heavy panting and boots that scraped and stumbled across the track, as Billy hurried down the dark tunnel with his heart pounding in desperation and hoping he wouldn't bump into anything nasty along the way. He paused to catch his breath and looked back to check how far he'd come. He could just see the light poke through back on the other end and the faint wail of the alarms which followed him down the track! He ran another couple of hundred yards and came out into the maintenance facility; the main power was still on as Billy noticed quickly running up the steps onto the platform. There was a stairwell right which went on toward the left wall leading up the c-shaped upper platform, where the main security hut was; he jogged up the steps onto the upper platform. Quickly he holstered his gun again, as he came up to the door, one of the windows at the side was badly damaged and cracked, there were bloody fist marks all over the door. Billy squeezed the door knob and slowly it turned clockwise with a dull creak, he peered through the gap before entering; he flicked the switch on the wall and the lights flickered on to reveal the rest of the control room. It was larger than the other one, there sat a row of lockers at the far end of the room, as well as various terminals hooked up to a manual generator attached to a series of messy wires were spread all over the floor behind the computers. "Alright, security codes!" he muttered to himself as he marched over to the computer, he could still hear wailing faintly outside, he turned the swivel chair around and jumped at the site of a severed hand wrapped around the right arm rest. "Jesus!" he pried it of the chair and chucked aside like garbage, before sitting down and dragging his chair up to the computer desk, he switched the monitor back on to see the main monitor run a check list of employees, probably some sort of registration procedure as part of the evacuation in emergencies. He pressed escape to return to the main options screen and pulled the code print slips from out of his pocket hoping he'd remember the order in which to type them in.