Chapter 7

"What the hell do you mean?" Johnny asked.

"You need to get here as soon as you possibly can, but not before you get the keys to the Osprey. From the roof you're on, you're going to want to get to the building north of your position. Head down stairs two floors and you'll get to the fire escape. Take that fire escape to the building directly across from there. Once there head to the ground floor. Radio me when you get there. Tread lightly, Nemesis is after you primarily now so keep on your toes." Roxxie instructed.

"Roger that, moving out!" Johnny replied. He started for the north end but fell to one knee, coughing, about five feet from the edge. He coughed even harder, Miku knelt down by Johnny and placed her hand on his shoulder. He felt throbbing in his arm and his arm started twitching. He grunted in pain as his arm twitched.

"The virus is really getting to you. You don't have much time, get moving while you're still alive." Roxxie said.

"Is there going to be another trap guarding the keys?" Johnny asked.

"Yes, there will be. But I'll tell you how to beat it once you get to it. You need to move and get here as soon as possible. Get going, before it's too late for you or Nemesis catches up to you." Roxxie said.

"Why is that thing targeting me?" Johnny asked.

"You do have their replacement AI with you, but I don't know if anyone is aware of it yet. I'm going to look into it now. In the meantime, Chris Redfield will walk you two through the area." Roxxie said.

"Thanks, Rox. Johnny out" Johnny said as he got up and went over to the edge of the building. Johnny looked at the gap between buildings and assessed the way to get across.

"Ok, all we have to do is step over, just be careful." Johnny said. Miku nodded and started over. Johnny threw what equipment he had on him, over to the other side and leapt across himself. Upon landing, he collapsed, grunted and clenched his leg in pain.

"GAH! DAMMIT!" Johnny yelled. Miku clasped her hands over her mouth.

"JOHNNY!" Miku screamed.

"AH! DAMMIT, NEMESIS!" Johnny grunted.

"Are you ok?" Miku asked.

"I'll be ok…taking bullets to your leg really complicates things." Johnny said. Miku helped Johnny to his feet.

"Come on, Roxxie said we need to get to her in under an hour or the virus…we need to move. I don't want to see you hurt or even killed." Miku said. Johnny looked to her somewhat confused.

"Why do you care about me so much? I understand you have that coding that makes you much more human-like but you care so much. Why is it?" Johnny asked.

"Because you're doing everything to help me." Miku responded. Johnny looked to her even more curiously and then bent down coughing. Miku looked to him with worry. Johnny stood back up after a minute of hard coughing.

"I need that medicine that Roxxie has…now." Johnny said, out of breath.

"I'd hurry if I were you." A male voice said over the radio.

"Is this Chris Redfield?" Johnny asked.

"Yeah, by the sounds of things, you're not holding on so well. Keep moving to the location Roxxie told you. I'll give you directions from there." Chris said.

"Roger that, we're moving." Johnny said as he went for the door heading into the building. Just before he opened the door, he stopped himself and looked back to Miku. He held his hand out to her as she walked over to him and took his hand. Johnny opened the door, pistol in hand, and they went inside.

Johnny aimed his pistol down the stairwell. Everything was dark inside the building. Johnny looked down and to the nearby doors, nothing. He continued down and pressed against the door, signaling Miku to stand back. He listened with his ear against the door for a moment.

Miku watched elsewhere for any movement. Johnny backed up and kicked the door down, pointing his pistol in. Nothing. Johnny took Miku's hand and went inside. Johnny looked around the room for anything of use.

"Miku, see if you can't find anything, flashlights, ammunition, anything that might be beneficial to us." Johnny instructed. Miku nodded and started searching for anything of use. They searched through drawers finding little more than various saws and other tools. Johnny found two flashlights in one drawer and Miku found a few wires as well as a battery holder.

Miku brought the wires over to Johnny and set them on the workbench nearby. Johnny looked over to her after he found a couple of bulbs and another flash light head.

"Good job Miku. Now all we need is a switch…" Johnny said as he continued to look around. He looked in a few more drawers and in some cabinets. He noticed a few batteries that would fit the holder that Miku found. He looked around a bit more for a switch. After a while he saw a few more wires under a few other objects.

Johnny pulled it out and realized it was the switch he was looking for. He stepped down from the cabinet and took the parts to the workbench and started taking apart the flashlights.

"What are you doing?" Miku asked.

"Improvising, I'm making a makeshift helmet light. By doing this, we'll both have our hands free and have light where we need it." Johnny explained. Miku looked curiously as Johnny attached the light bulbs to the wires and refit them back into the lights. After connecting the wires between the bulbs, battery holder, and switch, he found some electrical tape and fastened the light to the helmet.

Johnny wrapped the wires into a bundle close to the helmet, attached the switch to the left side of the helmet, and the battery holder on the outside on the left of the helmet. He flipped the switch and put the helmet on, the lights worked.

"Ok, we're good. Now we can actually see down here." Johnny said. He took Miku by the hand and headed down stairs one more level.

"Hey, how are you two doing, you almost to the next point?" Chris asked.

"We're about to get to the fire escape now. Maybe I should get a helmet cam linked to you so you can see where we are." Johnny suggested.

"If you come across a camera and have the know-how, then do it, but make your first priority getting here. You have only a half hour before it's too late." Chris said.

"Right, we're on it." Johnny said.

"Be careful lieutenant, Redfield out." Chris said. Johnny stepped out the window and helped Miku out onto the fire escape. They headed down the fire escape until they found an open window and entered the building. Johnny pointed his gun inside, looking for any signs of trouble, nothing.

"It's way too quiet…" Johnny whispered. Miku looked around as Johnny advanced to the ground floor. He looked around and saw a small camcorder about five inches long and about an inch and a half wide, all black. Johnny took it and looked around again, making sure there wasn't anything around.

After a few moments, Johnny took off his helmet, attached the camera to it, and attached the wires to his wrist computer. He opened his computer and linked the wireless camera feed to the camera and opened a channel.

"Redfield, I have the helmet cam and it's linked to my computer. I'm sending you the IP address and code to access it." Johnny said.

"Right, Roxxie just received the feed. Now we see everything you do." Chris said. Johnny pulled off the helmet and pointed it towards himself.

"We're at ground level, where are we going next?" Johnny asked.

"Ok, Rox told me that there should be a boarded up door on your east wall. Find it." Chris said. Johnny put the helmet back on and went to the east wall. Johnny found the boarded door and looked around it.

"Redfield, what do I do now? There's no way past it." Johnny said.

"Look for a crack in the wood, a considerably large one." Chris said. Johnny looked around the barricaded door and found the crack, running his fingers across it.

"Found it. What's important about it?" Johnny asked.

"Look through it." Chris said. Johnny looked through the crack and noticed that there's at least a foot of boarding before the next room.

"Great. What am I supposed to do, RPG it? I'd rather save those shots for something big like Nemesis. Other than that I'd REALLY rather not use the remaining four shots." Johnny said.

"No need, use a grenade explosive round." Chris said.

"Is will blow it open?" Johnny asked.

"It might take two. How many do you have left?" Chris asked.

"Three explosive, four flash, four incendiary, and five acid." Johnny said.

"Ok, use an incendiary round first and then finish it off with an explosive if the incendiary doesn't get you through." Chris said.

"Right, Miku stand back." Johnny said as he loaded an incendiary round into the M203 and raised his rifle.

"MIKU GET DOWN!" Johnny yelled as he fired the incendiary round into the door. Miku got down and covered her ears jest before the incendiary round impacted. The explosion of the round blew a hole onto the door but not all the way through, the rest of it was on fire. He loaded an explosive round and brought his rifle up again.

"FIRE IN THE HOLE!" Johnny yelled. Miku got back down, covering her ears. He fired the grenade and it blew the door apart. Johnny walked over and checked the next room. Miku looked up at Johnny from across the room and got up. She walked over to him and took a hold of his hand.

Johnny looked to her and put away his rifle and pulled out his pistol.

"Chris, where are we going next?" Johnny asked.

"Ok, I know you've already got a lot on you but you one more thing to pick up. It's kinda big." Chris said.

"Looks like I might have to give Miku my rifle." Johnny said, he took off his rifle and handed it to Miku. Miku took the rifle and strapped it over her shoulder.

"Ok so where are we going?" Johnny asked.

"Head through there, a few doors after, you should find an armory. I don't know if there's any good weapons there but last time me and Rox were there, the place was loaded with ammo for just about everything the departments and S.T.A.R.S. can get, so if you need any ammo I'd restock there." Chris said.

"Roger that, with luck, I'll be able to restock on grenades." Johnny said.

"Doubtful, Rox and me looked through there and didn't find any explosives. We were kind of rushed but we didn't see any. After you're done in the armory, head out the door on the north side and start heading upstairs." Chris said. Johnny and Miku went into the new room and through the next door.

In the next room, Johnny aimed his gun around, looking for any sign of trouble. It was dark and their only light was the helmet light and the flash light on his rifle.

"Miku, it would probably be in our best interest if you were to use the rifle, activate the light and shoot anything in the light that could be a threat. For now, just fire if they're in the light. I'll teach you how to properly use a gun when we're safely away from the city." Johnny said. Miku nodded and shouldered the rifle and turned on the light.

She tried holding the stock under her arm as she aimed the gun. Johnny looked back and sighed.

"Here's a tip, keep the back of the stock against your shoulder, like this…" Johnny said as he adjusted the stock until it was properly flush against Miku's shoulder.

"Why like this?" Miku asked.

"It helps keep the gun stable. You also want to use the sight on top of the gun, line up the sights with the target and you are most likely to hit your target." Johnny said. Miku nodded and held the gun properly.

"Oh and don't hold your eye right against the sight, the recoil of the gun will cause the sight to hit you." Johnny warned.

"Ok, I think I got it." Miku said.

"Ok let's go." Johnny said as he switched to his shotgun. Johnny opened the next door and he and Miku entered the armory. Johnny made sure his shotgun was fully loaded and put it away.

"Ok, Miku, let's find any equipment we can in here, shoulder straps, ammo pouches, anything so that you can hold ammo yourself. The more ammo we can hold the better." Johnny said.

"Ok, I'm on it." Miku said as she shouldered the rifle. She started opening lockers, looking for whatever she could find. Johnny opened a few ammo boxes and pulled out a few clips worth of assault rifle and pistol ammo. Miku dug through the cluttered mess of empty clips and rounds until she finally grabbed a strap. When she pulled it out, it turned out to be a shoulder holster for a pistol with an ammo belt.

"Johnny, I found one." Miku said. Johnny looked back to her and smiled.

"Perfect! Ok take the rifle, the launcher and ammo off, we need to get you fitted for combat." Johnny said as he started taking the RPG rounds off. After Miku and Johnny stripped her of equipment, Johnny put the shoulder straps and ammo belt on her and clipped it. He tightened the belt to fit snugly around her waist and shoulders.

"How does that feel? Not too tight?" Johnny asked.

"No, It's all right." Miku struggled to say.

"Oh boy, better loosen it up." Johnny said, he loosened up the straps slightly and stepped back.

"How about now, can you move easily enough?" Johnny asked. Miku started moving around, testing her range of motion before she finally looked back to Johnny and smiled.

"Comfortable." Miku said.

"Ok, get your equipment back on and get these into your ammo pouches." Johnny said as he gave her the assault rifle clips. Miku took them and stored them in the pouches and shouldered the rifle. Johnny took off the grenade belts he had and handed them to Miku.

"Umm, don't you want to hold onto those?" Miku asked.

"It would be a good idea if you did, just strap them over your chest. You're the one with the grenade launcher so it makes sense that you're holding the grenades." Johnny said. Miku nodded and took the belts and strapped them. Johnny looked around for anything else of use and looked into another locker. To his surprise, he found an M249 SAW light machinegun with about eight belts of rounds for it. He picked it up and set it to the side while he strapped the belts.

After he strapped the last belt, he picked the SAW back up and shouldered it and then looked to Miku with a confident smile. She smiled back to him and they headed for the door on the north wall. Johnny Opened the door slowly pointing his light inside. Nothing.

"Let's move." Johnny said. Miku followed closely behind, constantly aiming the rifle. Johnny looked back to Miku, who didn't have a clue what she was doing.

"Well it's better than running around with a pistol as the only thing defending us." Johnny thought.

"Chris, we're heading upstairs, how far are we going?" Johnny asked.

"Head up to the second floor and get onto the fire escape. Head up the fire escape to the highest point and then you'll come across another makeshift bridge. Once there, go across, you'll end up on the fire escape of the warehouse. Head all the way up and you should make it to the roof." Chris instructed.

"Roger that Chris, we're on it." Johnny said.

"Better hurry, you're running out of time. Rox just told me you only have twenty minutes to get to us. If you can't make it to us by then…we'll have to kill you after you get Miku to us. I'm sorry, but it will be too late if you don't make it in time." Chris said.

"Right. We're moving." Johnny said. Once they made it to the fire escape, Johnny stopped and stared off in confusion.

"What is it Johnny?" Miku asked.

"I just realized I'm walking fine. It was about ten minutes ago that I was shot…" Johnny said as he checked his leg. The bullet holes were gone and the wounds were completely healed.

"Chris, tell Roxxie that I healed extremely fast." Johnny said.

"Uhh she asked how long ago did they heal, and how bad the damage was." Chris said.

"It was about ten minutes ago that I was shot by nemesis and the wounds I had are completely healed. It could have been earlier." Johnny said.

"Get your ass moving, Johnny! Get to the roof of the warehouse and hold there! Roxxie is on her way." Chris said.

"Roger that, we're on the way." Johnny said. Johnny and Miku climbed to the top of the fire escape. Johnny was about to take a step onto the bridge when he saw Nemesis down below. He backed up and crouched, signaling Miku to do the same.

Johnny opened the feed to his computer and zoomed the camera in on Nemesis.

"So he has quite a few rounds left for that Gat…wait a minute what's that?" Johnny whispered.

"Johnny whatever you do, don't make a sound. Don't let it see you. Let it wander away before advancing." Chris said.

"Right, but look at the tag." Johnny said.

"What am I looking at? It's a bloody tag." Chris said.

"What did Roxxie say her last name was again?" Johnny asked.

"Addison, why?" Chris asked.

"Look at the tag, I don't know about you but I'm seeing a-d-d-i before the blood." Johnny said.

"Oh god! Johnny, get to Roxxie when you can. Don't say what you're thinking until we can be sure." Chris said.

"Right. Oh it's moving." Johnny said.

"Yeah I see it. Hold position until it's out of sight." Chris instructed. The monster walked around the corner and out of sight.

"Go now! Get to the roof as fast as you can." Chris ordered. Johnny and Miku started running across the bridge and when they reached the warehouse fire escape a storm of bullets started pelting the wall nearby them. Johnny turned back to see Nemesis staring at Johnny as it raised its rocket launcher.

"OH SHIT! MIKU RUN!" Johnny yelled as he began firing his SAW at Nemesis. Nemesis fired a missile and Johnny started running up the fire escape, close behind Miku. The missile blew the bridge from the fire escape and collapsed.

"JOHNNY! WHAT'S GOING ON?" Chris yelled.

"DIDN'T YOU SEE IT? NEMESIS IS ATTACHING AGAIN!" Johnny yelled.

"Oh, whoops, I was away from the computer. Anyway run like hell! Get to the roof NOW!" Chris ordered.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE'RE DOING! IF WE STOP WE'RE GOING TO BE SMOKED BY THAT DAMNED THING!" Johnny yelled.

"Right! Roxxie, you have a fix on their location?" Chris asked.

"I'm almost there! Johnny, just worry about getting Miku to the roof!" Roxxie instructed. Johnny and Miku continued running up the fire escape, only a few feet from the top. Johnny turned around to see Nemesis railing his rocket launcher again. Johnny Grabbed Miku by the waist, picked her up, and jumped over the wall and landed on the roof just before the wall behind them exploded.

Johnny looked back at the damage left by the rocket and sighed in relief.

"This is carter, we've made it." Johnny said.

"Good, now get those keys." Chris said.

"On it, we'll hold here and- whoa!" Johnny said as he looked towards the keys.

"Ah, you see your next prize?" Chris said.

"I think so, what is that?" Johnny asked.

"Check it out." Chris said. Johnny walked over to what looked like a high powered sniper rifle. It was the size of the fifty caliber barrette, but had a revolver chamber instead of a clip. Johnny picked it up and shouldered it.

"I see you like the sniper, but first, you need this." The voice of Roxxie said, standing right behind Johnny, holding a syringe. Johnny turned around to see her, wearing a skin tight stealth suit, equipped with a Russian made SVD, twin desert eagles, and a katana. She had red hair in twin ponytails, one on either side. She walked over to Johnny and injected him with the syringe. Johnny barely even flinched.

"I see your training has paid off. You did good getting yourself and Miku here. She's unharmed and you're able to be saved, had you been in stars you would have earned a considerable commendation." Roxxie explained as she pulled the needle out of Johnny's arm.

"As much as I appreciate the compliment, I don't think now is the time to discuss this, we only have…" Johnny said as he looked at his computer.

"…about an hour before the nuke gets here. How,s your other contacts?" Johnny asked.

"They'll make it out of here just fine, for now our primary goal is getting you and Miku out of here." Roxxie explained.

"Ok I can understand the need to extract her safely but why me? I don't have the virus in the canister, nor the anti-virus." Johnny explained.

"Ok let me correct a few things, 1: you DO have the virus in your blood, you might not have the anti-virus but we can find it somewhere else. 2: you have the red queen hard drive on you." Roxxie said.

"How did you know about that? I never mentioned the queen's drive." Johnny asked.

"I've heard your transmissions to Wesker, even the ones when you were inside the hive. And here's the last reason for you to get out of here with her: she trusts you most. And she'd be most upset if you didn't make it, right Miku?" Roxxie asked.

"That's right, after everything he did to get me out of here, I would be really sad if he was gone." Miku said.

"We're not out of here yet, Roxxie, where do we go from here to get to the osprey?" Johnny asked.

"Just follow me, I'll take you there myself-" Roxxie cut herself off when she noticed something in the distance and smiled.

"This seems like a good opportunity to test out your new sniper rifle." Roxxie said. Johnny looked curiously at her.

"There…" Roxxie said as she pointed to the streets about 300 yards away. Johnny shouldered the sniper rifle and adjusted the scope to his liking. After that, he looked for what Roxxie was talking about when he finally saw a few lickers.

"Ah I see what you're talking about." Johnny said.

"Just remember to keep the most of your weight on your-" Roxxie was cut off by the sound of the sniper rifle as it fired. She looked over to Johnny and saw him hit the ground hard.

"…Rear foot…" Roxxie said with a smirk. Miku clasped her hands over her mouth when she saw Johnny go down. He got up and stared at the rifle and then to Roxxie.

"Are you ok, Johnny?" Miku asked as she helped him up.

"Yeah, what did you make this thing out of?" Johnny asked.

"Trust me on this, it's the most powerful sniper rifle you're going to find aside from the barrette. Next time, put at least eighty pounds on your rear foot, or go prone." Roxxie said.

"Right, let's take another shot." Johnny said as he looked through the scope again. When he did, to his surprise he saw one of the lickers left. The other two were nothing more than an explosion of blood, splattered all over the nearby walls.

"Holy Christ…" Johnny whispered.

"Yeah, big man stopper, or in this case, big B.O.W. stopper." Roxxie chuckled. Johnny adjusted himself so the appropriate weight was on his rear foot. He bolted and readied the rifle for another shot, took aim, and squeezed the trigger.

The rifle erupted with fire at the tip as it sent its deadly projectile through the head of the last licker. The recoil threw Johnny off balance but he stepped back to catch himself.

"Nice job, lieutenant. Now, without further ado, let's get moving before that nuke chars us." Roxxie said. Johnny nodded as he strapped his sniper rifle. He looked over to Miku and noticed another grenade belt.

"Roxxie, what are those?" Johnny asked.

"Electro rounds. Don't try sniping with them, the sub-mounted grenade launcher on your rifle isn't meant for long range. You might want to take those." Roxxie said as she headed into the door heading into the warehouse. Johnny picked up the grenade belt and strapped it over his vest. He looked to Miku, walked over to her and placed his hand on her shoulder.

"Let's go, we're finally getting out of here." Johnny said with a smile. She nodded and followed close behind Johnny as he went to join Roxxie.

When they made it to ground level, Roxxie equipped her desert eagles, pressed against the wall, and signaled for Johnny and Miku to do the same. Johnny and Miku got against the wall by Roxxie.

"What is it?" Johnny whispered as he readied his M249 SAW.

"Nemesis, he's just outside." Roxxie responded.

"Great! What are we going to do now?" Johnny asked.

"Just wait…" Roxxie said. Nemesis walked around outside the warehouse, searching for Johnny and Miku.

"Wait for it to go away, after it's out of sight, we'll make a break for it." Roxxie explained.

"Right." Johnny replied. Nemesis walked past the nearby building and everything seemed to get quiet.

"Now!" Roxxie said. She, Johnny, and Miku all went out in a basic combat formation, aiming wherever they looked, in case of trouble.

"Where are we going next, Rox?" Johnny asked.

"Our next destination is the subway network. We can make it to the extraction point from there. In fact the subway network will lead us RIGHT to the chopper." Roxxie said.

"If that's the case, won't someone find it?" Johnny asked.

"You have the keys." Roxxie replied.

"Someone could still hotwire the osprey." Johnny said.

"Not this one, I made sure of that." Roxxie said. Johnny stopped and whirled around for a moment, aiming his SAW. Roxxie and Miku stopped and looked to Johnny.

"What is it?" Roxxie asked.

"I thought I…I thought I heard Wesker." Johnny said. Roxxie aimed her guns elsewhere and so did Miku. Johnny seemed fixated on the area behind them for about a minute before he stood up.

"Let's keep moving." Johnny said. They continued through the city for another few minutes until they made it to the Raccoon subway network. As they advanced downwards into the subway tunnels, Johnny kept especially alert. He felt as if there were eyes watching him from all directions.

Johnny tripped over a pipe sticking out of the concrete, he landed on his front and a picture slid out of his pocket. Roxxie walked over and picked it up. Johnny got up quickly and snatched the picture from Roxxie, quickly pitting it back in his pocket. Roxxie looked at him curiously for a moment.

"Is something wrong?" Roxxie asked.

"Nothing, let's keep moving!" Johnny said as he started walking on. Roxxie looked to Miku in confusion. Miku looked back equally confused and they continued on. After about a minute Johnny started aiming his SAW more carefully.

"What is it, Johnny?" Roxxie asked.

"We're not alone in here, look sharp!" Johnny said. Roxxie and Miku aimed their guns, looking for any signs of movement. As they advanced, they came across a hole in the concrete on the side. Johnny signaled for Roxxie and Miku to hold position as he investigated the hole. He edged closer and closer until finally he stepped in front of it and saw a little girl inside.

She looked Scared at Johnny as he lowered his gun.

"Roxxie we have a survivor!" Johnny said. Roxxie and Miku put away their guns and ran over.

"Hey, it's ok, you're not bit are you?" Johnny asked as he reached his hand to her. She shook her head.

"Hey, we're here to help, come on, we're leaving the city." Johnny said. The girl looked off to the side and saw Roxxie and Miku standing close to Johnny. She reached her hand to Johnny and Johnny helped her out of the hole. Once she stood up, Johnny's eyes shot wide open.

"Danielle?" Johnny whispered. Roxxie and Miku looked confused to Johnny.

"My…my name is…" She started.

"It's ok, we're friends." Roxxie said as she crouched down by the girl.

"My name is Roxxie Addison. What's yours?" Roxxie asked.

"My…name is…Amy…"

End of chapter 7