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"Handgun bullets" Normal talks
"A Dining Room" Thoughts
"S.T.A.R.S..." Transformed but still talks
Chapter 4: Nemesis the BDSM Master Stalker
We are back on the streets again Nemesis just right behind us grabbing a bus to throw at us... Wait?! Come again! I turn to Jill and see her already running ahead... Craaappp! I hurriedly chased after her, the screeching of the bus getting closer and closer. I saw a barricade in front of us but Jill used a car to used as a platform to wall run over the barricade without thinking I did the same thing, I stumbled a bit but a manage, just barely mind you, to crossover the barricade and not be squished by a bus.
We stumbled from the rough landing but we scrambled back to our feet. We saw through the broken windows of the bus Nemesis stomping towards us with his customary declaration of "S.T.A.R.S.". We turned around and about to escape when Jill spotted six people that looks like they were from the military. "Run!" Jill shouted at them while we running away making them follows us.
"What is that?" one of them asked while firing away with their rifles to clear a path in the throng of rampaging undead while another, the big one asked. "What the fuck is chasing us?!"
"A 9 foot tall dude with a tentacle and S&M fetish that's what's chasing us!" I couldn't help but answer him.
"What?!" the big guy said bewildered making me smirk.
"Ignore him! Just shoot through them! We can't slow down!" Jill shouted dodging and shooting through the zombie hordes. I increase my pace to catch up to her while she navigated through the twist and turns of the streets and alley but a wrong turn made us meet face to ugly face with Nemesis.
S&M Guy (sound like a perverted super villain that I don't want to meet in a dark alley) fired a tentacle at Jill putting her in a choke hold. I and three of the military guys who I highly suspect are the Echo Six fired at Nemesis while the other three fired at the zombies moving towards us. The attack forced Nemesis to let of Jill giving her an opportunity to escape to an alley from Nemesis' left we immediately followed but it was a dead end filled with zombies.
"So, who can walk through walls?" The Big Guy (who I think is Harley) asked. "I don't think that ugly thing will take no for an answer. Anyone got any bright ideas?" while he fired at the zombies to keep them at bay.
Jill turns and spotted a ramp but it's connected to the framework of the building. Jill sent several shots at it making it fall down giving as a way to escape.
"Hehe, I like her." Harley said while we followed Jill up towards the building rooftop that's behind the RPD. I saw another ammo box nearby I rush towards it and resupplied my severely depleted supply of ammo.
"We have to keep moving." Jill said to them opening the rooftop door to enter the building.
"You mind telling us what that thing is?" a female member (who I guess might be Tweed) asked Jill with clear agitation in her voice.
"I don't know what it is but he does." Jill nods her head towards me. "And nothing seems to stop it." After that we run down the stairs killing the zombies there. We finally reach the bottom floor and exit the building and onto the back alley we jog towards the streets when Echo Six stopped I think they're going to fight Nemesis.
"That'll only slow it down. We gotta keep moving." Jill said to Harley then she was about to keep moving when Harley grabs her arm.
"Hold on, who are you?" Harley asked Jill with his gruff voice.
"Jill Valentine, I used to be with S.T.A.R.S." Jill said taking a couple of steps to the side.
"And you, who are you?" Harley turned towards me.
"John Macias, just a guy with some information and here's a freebie. The thing that's chasing us is called a Tyrant. A Model T-103 Nemesis-T Type to be precise, it is also called 'The Pursuer' and develop by Umbrella's European Branch." I said to them with a straight face.
"So Lemme get this straight... That thing's one of Umbrella's creations." He said to her.
"Yeah, we're not exactly Umbrella's favourite people. We've been investigating some of their more questionable activities for a while now." Jill answered.
"Command, are you getting this." Harley said to his com-link.
"..." After a while he asked Jill. "Uh, where are you off to?"
"Out of town, you should do the same." Jill told them.
"Not quite yet, love. We've got civilians to rescue first." Tweed (I strongly suspect it's her.) said to her.
"There are no survivors beside that guy." Jill points at me and I cheekily wave at them. "They're all dead. And you guys don't look like any rescue team I've ever seen. Look, I can't stay. But if whoever's holding your leash cares about what happened here, I'd start with City Hall. You'll find Intel on Umbrella there. But If I were you, I'd get out of Raccoon City while you still can." Jill suggested a course of action for them.
"Well since she gave you some useful information I may as well give some too. When dealing with The Pursuer aim for its head anywhere else is just a minor irritant to it, that long coat of his acts like an armor or Kevlar suit so a headshot is the only option of you damaging it but unlike a regular infected a singular shot to the head won't kill it as demonstrated from when we encountered it earlier. When it will give a loud roar be ready it's going to charge at you, when it's start charging dodge to its right or to your left, it's left handed. Do not, I repeat DO NOT get caught by its left hand, you will either be impaled by the tentacle jutting out from its right hand, your head being crush into a bloody pulp or be thrown like a ragdoll which is the best outcome among the three. And try not get impaled by the tentacle even if you survive it you'll be infected and end up being a zombie anyway. Well that's all I'm going to give you and it's a lot already, so ciao." We then jog towards a nearby door where Jill kicked it open.
After a couple of minutes and we were out of sight of Echo Six Jill turned to me and ask. "So who were they? I know that there not a military rescue squad." She looked at me intensely.
"... Special Operations Team known as Echo-Six their main directive is to find evidence and information to implicate Umbrella and shut them down." I said without preamble.
"Is there anything else?"
"That's all I think but I bet that their mission will get updated to add more to it... Hmmm, I think were now in Downtown area of the City." I said looking around and spotted a burning fire truck.
"..." Jill then sighed. "See anywhere we can go."
"I see that door." I then approach and tried to open it. "Tsk, locked. Can it be lock-picked?" I ask her stepping aside.
"It couldn't hurt to try." She pulling out her lock-pick and started working on the door until a faint click was heard. "There it's unlocked." She said pocketing her lock pick and opening the door.
We entered a nice and quiet hallway. Walking cautiously we turn a corner and saw a dead body at the end leaning on the wall we approach it and tried to investigate the body when out from the corner of my eye something scurrying quickly out of the broken window we just passed.
"What was that?!" I quickly turn towards the window trying to locate the creature.
"A dead body..." she deadpanned.
"Not that! The thing that scurried out of the window just a couple seconds ago, didn't you see it?" I insisted.
"No I didn't, you must be seeing things." She dismisses my claim and started re-examining the dead body.
"I was not seeing things and if what I saw what I just think I saw then we're going to meet a new nasty monster in the near future." I said as she stood up and pocketing some handgun ammo and a file.
"And what will it be, per se?" she indulges me.
"An overgrown flea, a really overgrown flea..." I answered vaguely.
"Right..." She said with a raise brow at me and then headed to the door at the end of the hall and entered it making me chase after her.
Now where back in the streets again and got surrounded by a pack of zombie dogs. "Is that a poodle?" I couldn't help but asked when I saw one of the zombie dogs and the style of its fur even though it was matted with blood.
Unfortunately when I opened my pie hole to ask that question, it also prompted them to attack. Thanks to my "unnatural" and Jill's "natural" reflexes we were able to dodges the series of lunges and run away in a zigzag patterned towards a garage.
Inside the garage we immediately closed the door so that dogs won't get in but the problem is... THERE ARE DOGS ALSO INSIDE! We knew this because we heard growling behind us, turning around quickly we spotted one looking at us in with its teeth barred and a mixture of blood and drool is dripping from its rotting face and mouth. We where momentarily frozen in place which made it charge at us. Jill was the first to get her wits back and with a quick draw of her gun fired three consecutive shots at the beast killing it instantly but the sound of gunfire attracted another zombie dog, it appeared running from the corner and as it was about to turn I shot its head.
We cautiously move forward making sure that nothing nasty will pop up unexpectedly. Reaching the car I took the cable from it and then we continued toward the office. We encountered no problems in the office so we exit out the other end of the office and back on the streets again.
On the streets we dodge some more dogs until we reach the end of the streets and entered the door. Now we are at a fork of some sort. I saw Jill looking at a map on the wall after that she took it. Moving forward we found another dead body when suddenly something jumps down from above. We were able to dodge the surprise attack and got a good look at the creature.
"Believe me now, I told you it looks like an overgrown flee." I said as we slowly back away from it.
Jill gave no comment as we back away from drain deimos. Jill saw that it was now under a large crate, drawing her gun she aim it at the rope holding crate making it fall on the drain deimos squishing it. Now having a clear path we ran to the left of the fork and exited through the door at the end.
Back in the open streets again, and we quickly turned to our right when we heard gunfire and saw someone firing at a zombie (déjà vu anyone?) then he turns around and ran after killing it. We tried to follow the guy until we reach a restaurant. Seeing that there is no other way he could go but inside we entered the establishment.
Inside, the place was in complete disarray and there were no visible sign that the stranger was inside. We walk around looking for him, finding nothing we headed towards the kitchen. Where we saw an entry grate towards the basement, Jill tried to open it but couldn't. "There may be something in the back that will help open it." She muttered to herself she then looked at me and ordered. "Wait here."
"Okay." And I leaned on the wall to rest a bit. After a couple of minutes she came back holding a fire hook. She then used it on the entry grate.
As she successfully open the entry great a thud was heard at the far end of the counter. Jill turned around to find the disturbance. "What was that?!" she asked.
"Homo sapiens." I unhelpfully replied.
While at the same time the stranger came out of his hiding place and told her. "Come down lady, I'm no zombie! My name's Carlos, corporal of Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Force. What's your name?"
"Jill... Did you just say that you belong to Umbrella's Army?!" she said taking a few steps back away from Carlos as he approaches her.
"Yeah, we came all out here to save some civilians but the mission went bad... the minute we landed." Carlos answered combing his hair with his hand when the slam of the door closing startled us.
"ROOOOAAAAARRRRR!"
"It knows how to use a door... intelligent monsters are bad business." I said with eyes wide.
While Jill said ignoring my comment. "How did he find us?"
"Find you; it's only looking for you." I point out making her shoot me a dirty look.
"ROOOOAAAARRR!" Nemmy roars now in front of us.
Quickly thinking heads towards the entry grate towards the basement. "Come on this way!" and jumps down Carlos and I quickly followed.
Now we're in the basement went suddenly the water pipes broke and started flooding the place.
"Well this is not good. We either drown or fight tall, dark, and ugly upstairs." I couldn't help but say.
"Thanks for pointing that out Captain Obvious." Jill said irately.
"Hey guys! I think I found a way out!" Carlos called out to us.
"What is it?" Jill asked as we approached him.
'A ventilation hole.' I thought.
"A ventilation hole." Carlos said making me smirk mentally.
"Ladies first." I said with a bit of cheek as Carlos crouch down so Jill can easily reach hole.
Jill just rolled her eyes at me and climbed Carlos back to reach the ventilation and crawled inside then Carlos jumped to reach inside while I was the last to exit using the ventilation hole. The vents it seems led to the back of the restaurant, a forked alley.
"Whew! That was a close one." I said out loud.
"You said it." Carlos agreed with me as he wipes his face with the back of his hand.
"Ahem." Jill coughs to get are attention well more like Carlos since I know what she's going to ask. "I have to ask you something."She said looking at Carlos pointedly.
"I know, you wanna ask me out. All the foxy ladies love my accent, it drives 'em crazy." Carlos said smugly at her making me snicker.
"What?! Keep dreaming." Her face outraged, she then schooled her expression and ask. "Tell me, why did Umbrella send your team in?"
"We're here to rescue the civilians." He answered seriously.
"Don't lie to me! UMBRELLA is the reason why this whole mess began!" She retorted angrily.
"Look! We're just mercenaries! Hired hands! Do you really think the master would tell his dogs why they have to retrieve the stick he just threw?" He said with a frustrated scowl. "If you want answers you should talk to someone else I am notwith Umbrella."
"Mooaannn..." "Groooaaannn..." "Braaaaiiiiinnnnnssss..." The first two sounds startled the two out of their staring contest while the last one made them look me weirdly. "What?! I'm stressed out! And we're surrounded by zombies!" I said as I pointed out the zombies approaching us from the sides.
Carlos just shakes his head to focus and turns away from Jill. "We'll have to finish this later... Believe it or not we're only here to rescue the civilians. If you can trust me then help us think about it!" and then runs away through the path that has no zombie infestation.
"Oh gee, leave us here to deal with the zomb-"when I was suddenly...
"ROOOAAARRRR!"
"On second thought running doesn't sound like a bad idea right now." I said as I heard the roar of Nemesis just around the corner. "Come on!" I said grabbing Jill's hand and ran to the nearest door entering it and catching the glimpse of Nemesis' hand as he turns the corner when I closed and locked the door with a soft click.
I gestured at Jill to keep quiet as I press my ear at the door and heard the 'thud thud' of Nemesis' boots grow fainter and the sound of the door being closed and open. 'Nemesis is the only monster that knows how to used doors properly.' A stray thought passes my brain as I slump on the door in relief and exhaustion. I looked at Jill and asked. "What now?"
"We rest for a while and regain our energies back." She said sitting on the inventory box.
I nodded at her and closed my eyes to rest. 'Another narrow escape from the BDSM Master Stalker'