"The heartbeat of the animal inside of me is wild, yearning for the opportunity to kill"

"Will you help my urge?"

Chapter Four

The smell of decay hung even thicker the more they descended the staircase. The outbreak hadn't been that bad of an infestation so far, but who knew? Behind any corner could be a whole hoard of mutants just waiting to attack.

"So, how much longer until we reach the computer room?" Ally asked, getting more irritated by the unbelievable silence between them. She felt the adrenaline pump through her veins as she recalled there last fight with that mutated beast from before.

"We should arrive soon my dear heart," he said in a monotone.

"M-kay," Ally stated as a bright light room was before them.

Every sense within her being said 'TURN THE F*CK BACK' but of course she had promised to follow him. Getting closer she could swear her partner could sense the danger by now.

"Stay close and do not make a sound,"

Ally nodded.

Wesker drew his berretta, while Ally drew her pistol only to have it taken by Wesker. Confused, and somewhat paranoid, she looked at him curiously. He took the gun pocketed it and handed her a different gun, "Does more damage,"

Ally looked it over, a samurai's edge. She nodded; the gun had a lot better control and power compared to her standard pistol. Though now she was sure Wesker was training her to be a killer. Even an amateur shot could shoot the head off a zombie with this gun; its stability was just that good.

"Now I expect you to be a better shot,"

"Yes sir,"

As they moved in towards the center of the room, the light finally became accustomed to their eyes. Looking around they discovered the floor was tainted in deep red blood, quite fresh and drag marks leading from it. Ally looked closely, and a blood curdling scream was heard from the south part of the room. Instinct took over and Ally went to investigate.

"Ashford…!" Wesker yelled at the girl whom slid to a stop. Well, she would have if she wouldn't have slipped on the fresh blood on the floor, and slid into the other room…

She smacked the wall with an, "OMFH!" with a groan she shook her head. Going from the bright light to dark was fairly easy for her, but she knew it wouldn't be for Wesker, whose eyesight was horrible in the dark.

Looking around the room, she discovered the bowels of some creatures scattered around the room. Pocketing her glasses, for fear of breaking them, she took a few steps around. She couldn't find the entry of her slipping incident, and she couldn't see Wesker anywhere. She felt her back to discover her own blood, probably from the sniper rifle jamming into her back. She'd recover in a few minutes, but the fresh blood may attract other predators and she wasn't quite ready for 'fight of flight'.

She saw a large creature in the corner of the room, "F*ck…" she cursed, before covering her mouth and going back a few feet.

The creature let out a low growl. She took shallow breaths, it would be better to conserve ammo and run if she could. Looking for an escape she looked upwards seeing a glimmer of something. She then discovered she had fallen into a hole. A freaking' hole…. She shook her head and grabbed onto a low pillar top, and pushed herself off the wall, doing a series of zigzag maneuvers until reaching the top. Once atop she heaved a sigh of relief and chuckled only to be seized up by the front of her shirt, "Yip!"

"If you ever do a thing like that again, or blow our cover, I'll kill you where you stand!"

Ally gave a shaky nod, her feet loosing feeling and her stomach earning a sick feeling in its pit. She soon was put down onto the ground by Wesker, whom then continued his work in searching for the underground lab. Ally let out a sigh of relief, after all she had survived many run ins with Wesker's bad side and lived… but she was only warned once each time, a new death threat to accompany each one. She lifted her samurai edge and followed close behind the older man as they turned the following corner.

Wesker put his hand behind him and it connected with her stomach, "Wait…" he listened. Ally closed her eyes and listened too.

Sure enough buzzing could be heard, "An underground security beam? Wouldn't they have all been turned off during the outbreak?"

"Not necessarily, dear heart…"

Ally cocked her head, he could be right… well, he probably was right… he'd done more missions than she had out of the country. Though was a mission in France likely? Maybe…

"So now what?" Ally asked.

"Follow close and learn," he still sounded a bit sore from earlier. Not that she could blame him or anything because she did act kind of… stupid… though she still remained curious to what the strange yelling was from earlier.

"Right, I'll do that,"

It took about an hour, but the two partners eventually had arrived at the source of the buzzing. A large room was spread out before them, its walls polished to a pristine and perfect shine. The floor was laid the same way, all surfaces so shiny that you could see yourself in them.

Ally's breath was shaky and her palms began to sweat, "I don't like this…"

"Well then, you'll learn to like it won't you?" he chuckled.

"Do you get some sort of pleasure in teasing me or something!?" she squeaked.

"Yes, dear heart, I do,"

Ally huffed, "At least he's honest…" she thought silently.

Both entered the room back to back. It was quiet, very quiet… the room gave off only a silent buzz. Keeping her weapon at the ready and following Wesker's lead, they left the room without much hassle.

"That was weird…"

"Hmm…," was his only reply.

Ally put down her weapon, everything was so calm and yet, this fact alone kept the girl on edge. Wesker rested a hand on her shoulder before glancing down and pointing ahead, "When I tell you, you run understand?"

Ally looked confused, "Run? How fast?"

"As fast as you can,"

Ally nodded and readied herself in a starter's stance. Wesker meanwhile drew his berretta and prepared to shoot. Ally wondered what the man was up to as she prepared herself.

"Now!"

Ally bolted forwards, and used her night sensitive eyes to detect the things around her. "What is the purpose of this exercise? What is he planning?" Ally thought.

Wesker shot a bullet in her direction, hitting the wall causing some creature to fall out onto the floor. Its body was covered in what appeared to be roaches. Some of the creatures fell onto the floor and scuttled away, while others just crawled back onto it. Ally stopped running and looked back, 'Was that what I was running from?' she thought to herself.

She watched as Wesker skillfully shot at the creature, which once may have been a man, in vain. The roaches that had taken over his body had protected it from any sort of blow.

"Keep running!" she heard him bark his order.

So she ran, for what reason she didn't know…

She turned when she reached the other side of the room and discovered why. A large panther creature like the one before had begun to give chase after her. She panted wiping sweat from her forehead 'Now what?' she wondered.

Meanwhile Wesker was having problems of his own. He back flipped away panting heavily as the roach man attacked again, "How the hell could they control roaches…?" Wesker asked. He was personally astounded, p*ssed and fascinated all at once. But his fascination didn't keep the roach man from attacking.

Wesker felt something crawl onto his arm and he looked to see a roach. Batting it way he saw they were slowly crawling onto him. Letting out a growl he made a few dash attempts to knock them off, "Never thought I'd see the day zombie roaches existed…" Wesker smirked, seeing as he had shaken the roaches off now.

Putting himself in a karate position, he took a step back before coming forwards and slamming his hand into the monster knocking it back a few feet. Wesker pushed his sunglasses up onto his face more and looked back at it, "Well, I did receive a report from Ada about you so I came prepared…" he pulled out a small white hand grenade and bit off the pin before tossing it towards the creature as fast as he could. With a loud 'SQUISH!' sound, Wesker had managed to wedge the grenade into the roach mans' stomach. He gave a smirk and took a few steps back. As Wesker did so, the man began to swell, his body bloating like a balloon as the roaches followed the example and began to swell as well. The beast made one movement and exploded. Wesker made a face as some of the roaches entrails landed upon his shoe, "A slight miscalculation…" he frowned, before turning his attention to Ally.

Ally whip kicked the tiger creature back a good ten feet as she panted. She couldn't run for much longer, having run at maximum speed for over ten minutes. She tossed a flash grenade and covered her eyes as the animal staggered backwards and started to rub its head onto the floor. Ally took this opportunity to kick it back several feet again, and then pulled out her samurai edge. She took a deep breath, it was like when father had gone hunting for rabbits… just now she was shooting a once illegal to kill creature.

Ally steadied her hand and gulped down a breath, while the creature had regained its' composure and now charged Ally. She took a few shots and missed.

"The first kill is the hardest Ally dear…" her fathers' voice rang in her ears, "Don't be afraid, for you are a hunter and these maggots your prey,"

But Ally didn't feel that way. She felt her fingers grow cold as she took another shot too late. The tiger slashed open her side.

"Are you worthy to be my partner?" now Weskers' voice ran through the young girls head.

"I am worthy to be your partner… I am worthy… I'll prove it!" filled with a new sense of worth she aimed the gun carefully and shot the tiger in a second mid jump before rolling out of the way. She panted feeling her hands shake, she'd killed it… a direct shot to the head…

"Good job Ally, seems your worthy enough to be my partner after all…" she heard Wesker tease in an impressed voice as he approached the young girl.

"I told you I'd prove I was worthy…" she panted, the blood from the wound not clotting yet.

"Here…," he rose up the young girls shirt and sprayed some of the first aid spray onto the wound, "This is why I told you to bring it. Because of the virus around here, we'll recover from there attacks like a normal person. This virus is a deadly one to the T-Virus and the XY-virus under stand…?"

"Which is why you brought me here… so I would learn to kill or be killed, right?"

Wesker smiled, "Strength isn't your only skill. Good observation Ally,"

"Your welcome sir," she smiled, wanting to leap for joy.

Why she wanted to leap for joy was a small matter, but an easy one to understand. He gave a complement, he respected her more, but most importantly… he called her by her fist name.

"Come along Ally," Wesker stated briefly, wanting to continue the mission.

"Yes Albert," she smiled.

She heard him scoff, as he turned and raise an eyebrow.

"Is… it ok if I call you that?"

Wesker seemed to remain silent for a long time before giving a quick nod, "When we are alone you may, but in front of the other employees call me by my respective title. If you don't there will be consequences dear Ally,"

Ally gave another smile, "Alright Al," she chuckled.

Wesker gave a chuckle.

"What's so funny?"

"Haven't been called that in awhile,"

"Really? Who did?"

"Now Ally… your asking too many questions. Stay quiet before the other mutations hear,"

Ally blushed as she looked towards the man again and followed suit. She felt closer to him now and always would be close. Even if it took till Wesker ruled the world or hell even if it took till Armageddon. Ally would always be by his side.

With a quick look back Wesker chuckled, "We've reached the basement level fives communication and computer room… now things get interesting…"