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Four
The corner of Alessandro's mouth twitched when he saw what this Captain Kennedy called a laboratory. It just looked like a normal cabin in the woods. Their little rag tag group of five had found the cabin just before nightfall, as TK volunteered to do an inside sweep, Christina stayed outside keeping guard. As the man tried to figure out if he would in fact get out of this alive, TK came out, blood smeared on the bottom of her boots and a pale look on her face.
"TK?" Christina frowned, suddenly concerned for her friend. "Is it clear?"
She nodded. "It's clear all right. The son of a bitch who lived here experimented on his family." She came to attention, suddenly going from human to soldier in the blink of an eye. "There's three dead civilians inside, one dead animal-" TK stopped talking as a gigantic brown bear came bounding out of the forest. She could have mistaken it for a regular bear if only it didn't have half its face missing. "INSIDE!" she yelled. "NOW!"
"The fuck is that?" Christina yelled. She helped TK to barricade the door and shook her head before being thrown back by the weight of the bear hitting the door.
"That's not going told hold," TK pointed out. "Alessandro, we need that bookshelf, little help," she ordered, rushing over to the bookcase on the wall. TK went to pull a statue off the bookcase and when she did, the shelf moved, revealing a hidden door behind it. "Son of a bitch," TK whispered. She ran he hands over the Umbrella logo on the metal door. On the floor beneath her feet was a trail of blood.
"Hurry up!" Christina yelled as the bear rammed the door again.
Alessandro's mother clutched Maxwell and was reciting a prayer to god over and over again.
TK looked around for a way to get in, she found a keypad near the door. "Gonna have to hold it a little longer with the door, Chrissie. Alessandro, help her." The soldier shouldered her rifle and pulled a small electrical device from her backpack. With ease she hooked it up to the keypad and started to run the program to get in.
"TK!" Christina screamed as the door gave way. Both she and Alessandro were thrown away from the door as the infected bear forced its way inside.
TK aimed her rifle and fired, hitting it in the shoulder as it moved its head. She swore and the animal charged her, slamming into her like a truck. TK flew through the air and slamming into another bookcase-this one was just books.
Christina jumped to her feet and unloaded her gun into the bear but it still continued its rampage inside.
The old woman darted towards the shattered door, leaving Maxwell alone. She tried to run past the bear only to be bowled to the ground before it started ripping into her. Her screams and blood filled the cabin as she was eviscerated by the bear.
"Madre!" Alessandro shouted.
"Alessandro!" Christina yelled.
TK jammed her knife into its head to catch its attention. The soldier ran outside, the bear following her. Once she was out in the open, she pulled a grenade out of the pocket of her vest, TK pulled the pin and kept a tight hold on the explosive before forcing it down the side of the bear's face that was missing.
She threw herself into the bushes just before the bears head exploded. With a laugh on her face, TK got to her feet as Christina approached her very cross indeed.
TK stood over the dead bear, trying to catch her breath. It brought back memories of trying to kill that damned infected elephant back home in Raccoon City.
From out of nowhere an infected woman burst forth from the trees, aimed straight for Christina. TK rushed at her friend, slamming into her. Christina fell to the ground as the woman got a hold of TK, biting a chunk clean out of her arm.
TK jammed her knife into the infected woman's head ash Christina scrambled to help her friend. The two women stumbled back inside the cabin as more infected came from the trees. Alessandro was standing by the open laboratory door with his face red rom the tears he shed, waving them in.
The door slammed shut behind them, sealing the four survivors inside.
"Alessandro, how are you with electronics?" Christina asked him, putting the hat off commander on her head.
"I am okay," he shrugged.
"Find us a working radio!" she ordered. Christina made TK sit at a desk full of research notes before she tried to find a First Aid Kit. The bit mark was on TK's right arm, halfway up her arm. She extended her arm to Christina so that she could have a look. "Shit," Christina whispered, cleaning the bite mark on TK's arm. "You're definitely infected," she whispered, looking into TK's eyes. "I'm so sorry, Terra."
TK stared at her and suddenly broke out into a huge grin before she started laughing. "Oh Chrissie! You look like someone has died."
Christina's jaw dropped. "Terra-you're infected. How can you be so happy about it?"
"I'm not infected," TK answered. She shrugged her vest off, leaving it on the ground beside her so that she could lift the hem of her shirt up. Several other bite marks littered her skin. "Trust me, this isn't the first bite mark and it won't be the last."
Christina was lost. "I don't understand."
TK lowered her shirt. "It's the reason my death was faked, Chrissie. Did you not notice that I was declared dead six weeks after Raccoon City? It took them that long and four Umbrella kidnap attempts to realise I've an immunity to the T-Virus."
If Christina's jaw could drop any lower they would mistaken her or a snake. "You're immune? How is that possible?"
TK shrugged. "My doctor thinks that it could be because of something Umbrella did. Like maybe injecting their soldiers with drugs under the guise of something else. It would explain it. No one has a natural immunity to this thing."
"We found a working radio!" Alessandro yelled out.
Christina finished with TK's arm and went to try and work the radio.
"Excuse me, Captain?" the boy, Maxwell called out suddenly. TK looked over and found the boy standing in front of a dark window. "Are we going to die?"
TK shook her head.
"TK!" Christina shouted.
"Very popular this time of night," she winked at the kid. TK turned and walked over to Christina who stood in front of a board covered with pictures and notes. "What have you found?"
"The moron who owns this lab was implanting chips into the undead's head," Christina whispered, "Umbrella are trying to come up with a way to control them. They're learning as well-they're removing the teeth and the hands of the undead so they can't attack if it fails."
TK frowned. "Well that explains the geek with no teeth and hands I killed earlier. Get anything light enough to carry," she ordered, looking around for something to carry it in. She found a backpack and threw it at Christina. "Anything that looks remotely important. Okay?"
Christina nodded.
"And get on that radio, I need to set up the explosives," TK continued, "and look for more ammo."
"Explosives!" Alessandro gasped. "You cannot kill us!"
"It's either instant death or death by zombie," TK told him. "Because there's no way out. We're stuck here and we have to make the most of it."
"But why do you get her to collect the papers?" Alessandro asked.
"Because if it comes down to it," TK answered, "Maxwell is small enough to make it to Vatra Dornei and live." The soldier turned and left him the say his last words to his immortal god.