Longer chapter - mostly because I divided the parts up weird, but it works. Ugh... Don't feel well... I'm going to crawl off to bed soon.

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Travis was awoken by a sudden jolt of pain that ran through his body. He stumbled getting up. He collapsed on the wooden floor of the old dingy shed. He passed out once more only from pain. He felt some shake and call to him.

"Travis get up! Where's Vee?" Leon asked as Travis opened his eyes slowly.

"What?" Travis asked, barely able to comprehend what was going on around him.

"Where's Vee?" Leon asked once more only to have Travis to shake his head unknowingly.

"The last time I saw her, she snapped at me and said she was going to the other shed over there." Travis said, pointing to the shed. He and Leon quickly ran over to the shed only to find it empty.

"Great. Where could she have gone this time?" Leon asked to himself, trying to figure out how this girl thought. He had known Vee for a while but still he didn't understand how her mind worked.

"It's all my fault." Travis said, scolding himself. "If I had stayed awake and watched her like you said to then she would still be here."

"I doubt that. It's not your fault. Vee would have went off on her own with or without you." Leon said. "First we need to find the key and rescue Ashley."

"So that means we'll be crossing the lake right? What about that creature we saw?" Travis asked, knowing that it was most likely dead or gone by now but it was better to be on the safe side than to get eaten.

"I've taken care of it." Leon said, ushering Travis to the dock to where the boat was.

"Just what I wanted to hear." He thought as he sat down in the boat near the many harpoons.

"Leon. How many of these did you use?" Travis asked, having always wondered how an infinite amount of harpoons had fit on a boat.

"How did you know I used them?"

"Uh well you see...it's only obvious that you would use them when fighting something on a boat." Travis replied, quickly thinking up something even if it wasn't really logical.

Meanwhile with Ada:

Ada looked at the scar on her leg where those freaks had attacked her with an axe. She had also nearly been crushed by one of the El Gigantes. It was harder than she thought it would have been to get back to the village. It seemed that the villagers had become more organized in the time she had been incapacitated and they seemed to have learned a few new tricks like sprouting parasites from their heads. "It was all because I tried to save Leon. I guess this is another scar I can add to my collection because of him. I guess I'll never learn. I guess it's true that love hurts." Ada thought as she waited outside the church, knowing she needed to leave as soon as possible before Leon and his other companion arrived to save Ashley and that overly eccentric girl, though she had been acting odd. She couldn't exactly leave though. Wesker had disappeared without a word and she wasn't sure if he had wanted her to babysit the two girls. Just as she thought that, her radio beeped.

"Where are you?" Wesker asked, the village in the background.

"I'm still at the church." Ada said in her usual calm self.

"Why are you still there? Retrieve the sample!" Wesker barked, only to have Ada hang up on him.

"Whatever you say boss." Ada said sarcastically to herself with a small chuckle as she thought about Leon once more before walking away toward the village path, leaving some ammo near the door just in case Leon needed it.

Ashley was cowering in the corner of the room. She hadn't realized that Vee had been joking about the 2x4, at least somewhat joking. Vee felt like she could easily go on a killing spree with her bare hands. She had been changing little by little. "What's happening to me? Is it because I miss my world? Or is it this game? Or have I adopted the attitude that belonged to this world's Vee?" She thought to herself. So many questions were going through her mind but none with an answer.

"Uh...Vee?" Ashley asked in her irritatingly whiney voice.

"What? Can't you see I'm thinking? Do I really have to get a 2x4 to shut you up?" Vee snapped mainly because she was annoyed but she also found it a little funny to watch Ashley cower in fear.

"I'm sorry! Please don't kill me!" Ashley pleaded.

"Have you never seen a horror movie? Mostly every person who begs for their lives gets killed shortly after."

"I don't watch television." Ashley replied, wishing she could fade through the wall just to get away from this lunatic. "I'm usually busy with helping daddy with his campaign."

"You help your father win votes for President?" Vee asked, trying to think of all the things this blonde, useless girl could possibly do. It didn't take her long to think of some things but she figured it was better left unsaid.

"Yes I helped make posters and..."

"Okay shut up I'm tired of talking to you." Vee interrupted, as she turned her cd player back on and turned the volume full blast.

With Wesker:

Wesker had been pushed back into a locked gate. He could have easily jumped over it or punched it down but where would the fun in that be? The noise of chainsaws starting up made him a little uneasy though his expression was just a cold frozen stare at the only path where they could attack him from. He wasn't necessarily worried because he had enough weaponry to take down most threats at this point but the numbers were the only issue. He thought the village had been cleansed by the American agent and Ada but it seems more had gathered to replace him. "Like a gray hair, if you pluck it two more sprout up." Wesker said, speaking from experience as he ran a comb through his hair quickly. Several villagers came running up the path, some carrying dynamite while others had farming tools or nothing at all. Wesker was bracing himself when a shot rang out and hit a dynamite wielder, blowing the whole group up. Ada jumped down from a building holding the semiautomatic rifle.

"I could have handled them on my own." Wesker said blatantly.

"Get over yourself." Ada said, taking out the TMP she had bought from the merchant. "We have more company."

Two Bella Sisters and a Dr. Salvador came running after them.

"They're completely innocuous." Wesker said as if he were invincible.

"We'll see when your head falls to the ground." Ada replied without hesitation. She wasn't afraid to disagree with Wesker.

"Now's not the time for this, though if I get lucky, they'll at least cut your tongue off."

As the chainsaw wielders came closer, Ada and Wesker both changed into a combat stance, their weapons aimed.

With Ashley and Vee...Again:

Vee had turned her back to Ashley for the blonde's perfect video game body irritated her. Vee heard Ashley move about or whimper every now and then but she didn't bother to turn around and look. As the cd that had been playing finished, Vee was hit over the head with something heavy. She watched as Ashley scurried out of the room. The last thing that Vee heard before passing out was a click from the door being locked. "Great." she mumbled and passed out. Ashley ran out of the church as fast as she could. She didn't know where she would go but she knew she had to get away from where she was now. She ran down the cemetery pathway, hoping that she wouldn't encounter any monsters.

Meanwhile…

Leon and Travis had crossed the lake, Travis getting completely soaked in the process from a combination of the rain and lake water. When the boat was docked, Travis climbed out and shook himself off, getting most of the water that was on him all over Leon, whom wiped the water off of his face and began to walk towards the door. They'd be at the waterfall soon, and then back to the church where they'd been in the first place, to pick up the president's daughter.

As they walked, at first along a path and then across a rushing river, Leon got wondering to himself where Vee kept going off to… And why.

He knew from experience that girls went through moods from time to time, so her behavior hadn't seemed completely bizarre, but that didn't explain why she kept disappearing. Even if she had wanted to be alone, she wouldn't isolate herself in any place remotely dangerous, least of which this crazy place.

They made their way down the side of a cliff slowly to the dock system, and a little while later, after much jumping around, climbing and shooting, they made their way into the cave that had been behind the waterfall.

"I'd assume this is the key to the church, since its shaped like the indentation in the door," Leon said, calling up Hunnigan really quick. While he was talking, she seemed more interested in looking at his surroundings, as well as his young companion.

"Where's the other one?" she asked out of curiosity, noticing that there was only one person with him.

"Around," he replied. But exactly where was 'around'?

Back in the church, Vee had come to with quite a migraine. She laid on her back for a while, hoping that her head would stop hurting, but knowing it would take a while. That was the part about headaches that sucked the most.

"Dumb bitch," she muttered "I'll get her back for that."

She looked over at the door. "No windows in here… I wonder…"

Slowly, Vee got up, feeling a little unsteady on her feet. She walked carefully over to the door, taking the doorknob in a tight grip and rattled it a little. It wasn't on there so secure, meaning that either someone had managed to disjoint it, or the person who put it on had no idea what they were doing. She had some experience with the latter; the man her mother co-owned their house with hadn't read the directions when he'd put a new doorknob on her bedroom door, and the first time she'd attempted to turn it, it came right off. Maybe that could work here.

Vee continued to rattle the knob for a while, and when nothing changed, she slammed into the door with her shoulder, which didn't do anything either.

Reconsidering her options, she looked around for her .50 cal, picking it up and bracing herself against a wall since she still felt a bit light-headed, before taking aim.

"Ha!" she said when the doorknob landed on the floor a few feet away and the door creaked open, "Score one for the psycho!"

She made sure she had everything, and then wandered back out, determined to find Ashley and take her back to Leon and Travis, even if she had to drag her. When she got downstairs, she paused. "Maybe I should leave a note on the altar, just in case they get here before I do…"

She pulled out a pen, scrawled something onto a piece of paper from her pocket, and left it there, hoping they'd find it. With that, she stepped outside, closing the door behind her, and looking around through the relative gloom. Vee knew that Ashley probably wouldn't take the bridge, considering the huge gaps, so she would have gone back towards Pueblo.

She started down the path, cracking her fingers idly, and listening to Ace of Base.

Down in the tunnel, Ashley had gotten lost and had been wandering around in circles for what felt like hours. So far, she hadn't run into anybody, which on one hand was a relief, but on the other hand, if no one was around, then how was she supposed to be rescued? She remembered that the crazy girl, Vee, had said she was a friend of the guy her father sent to get her… Her father wouldn't have sent anyone as doubtlessly hazardous as Vee to get her out of here, would he? Even so, if being rescued meant that she'd have to be around that whacko again, then she felt that maybe she'd have a better chance staying with the cult.

Making a random turn, she found herself in front of a ladder, leading up into a building. When she was about to climb up, a voice spoke behind her.

"Yo."

She turned abruptly, almost screaming when she saw who it was. Vee stood there looking at her very critically, obviously feeling bitter about getting hit over the head. When she took a step closer, Ashley backed away until she was up against the ladder, trying hard to stay composed.

"You have a five second head start," Vee said maliciously, "Better commence running now. 'Cause when I catch you, you're going to wish that your father was a janitor."

Ashley didn't need to be told twice; she immediately got up the ladder, and bolted through the house, stumbling outside into the darkness. Before she had gotten more than five yards from the front door, Vee tackled her, pinning Ashley on the ground and holding her arms down.

"Please don't hurt me!" she whimpered, and Vee seemed to give it some thought, looking up at the sky meditatively.

"I don't know… You did try to harm me, after all."

"I'm sorry!"

"Uh-huh. Someone like you?" she shook her head, and then grinned deviously, eying Ashley like a terrier might a rat. "I think I'll start by breaking your legs…"

Ashley started to sob before Vee mused further, "And then I'll cut off one of your thumbs…"

The blonde was a weeping mess by now.

"And to finish it off, I'll take a long, sharp instrument and position it just above your left eye," Vee illustrated this by placing the tip of her pointer finger against Ashley's forehead, "And then hammer it into your brain with a mallet."

Ashley let out a shrill whine that made Vee cringe momentarily, and then take on a more serious tone.

"If I don't, will you cooperate?" she asked, and Ashley nodded vigorously, still in tears.

Vee gave her a smile. "Don't cry, I won't actually hurt you. I feel much better now."

Ashley sobbed harder, partly because she was relieved that she wasn't about to die, but more because she was upset that someone would actually joke around about something like that. "How could you do that to me?"

"Hey, that's what you get for knocking me out. Next time, I won't be as generous to just use wordplay," Vee cautioned. "You're lucky I know the mechanics of putting on a good act."

There was some talking nearby, and Vee looked over her shoulder, sighed and then whispered to Ashley, "Don't move, and don't say anything."

Wesker came walking towards them, looking a little bloodier than usual from the encounter with the villagers not very long ago, while Ada went on her way.

"What happened to you?" Vee asked, getting to her feet, but keeping a watchful eye on Ashley, "You look like you just committed a mass murder."

"I should be asking you the same question. You were just on top of the President's daughter," Wesker said, giving her a weird look.

"Funny," Vee replied, "She attacked me, so I chased her down."

"He's that guy who was at the church," Ashley said quietly to no one in particular, and Vee gave her a sharp look.

"Don't speak unless you're spoken to. Speaking of churches, you should be getting back there. Get going."

"Just me?" Ashley said worriedly, getting up.

Vee nodded, having thought better of going back there with her. "Yup. I'm going on ahead, so I'll be seeing you later."

"But what if - "

Vee got right in Ashley's face. "Just do it. And if you tell anyone that I was with somebody - " She drew an invisible line across her throat with her thumb.

"Okay, okay!" Ashley replied, hurrying back towards the insignia door without further ado.

"Where exactly are you heading?" Wesker asked in a suspicious tone, and Vee thought about it for a moment.

"That house… By the big gates… That you have to go through the farm to get to," satisfied that that was a suitable description, she added, "I'm going to wait for my companions there."

"I'll escort you," he said decidedly, "It's probably full of ganados."

"I didn't know you cared, Wesker," she said, grinning.

"I don't."

"Sure you do. You're like Ted Kazcynski on the outside, and Elmo on the inside!"

He stopped, and turned to her, raising an eyebrow. "Who raised you?"

"The news and PBS."

"That explains it all," he said, continuing on.

They headed towards the farm entrance, surprisingly not encountering any ganados. Feeling that maybe there weren't any around, Vee took the liberty of opening the door herself. "Seems pretty vacant."

It was really dark beyond that point, and taking a few steps forward, Wesker right behind her, she ran right into something – make that someone.

"Jeez!" Vee shouted, jumping into Wesker's arms, at which point he dropped her flat on her ass.

"Don't ever do that again," he warned.

She, of course, was too busy figuring out whom it was in the shadows to pay attention. "Oh, it's only the HUNK of junk."

HUNK, coming into a patch of dim light, crossed his arms, probably frowning (of course, only he can be certain). "Not exactly the sort of greeting I would expect."

"What do you want?" Wesker said, and HUNK pointed at Vee, who was getting to her feet.

"Her," he replied, "The Ashfords are seeking reprisal."

"Oh, snap! Dawg, you didn't see nothing!" Vee said, hiding behind Wesker.

"Look," Wesker said seriously, "She works for me now. If they want her so bad, they can come and get her, not some haz-mat emissary."

HUNK sighed. This was going to be a hell of a lot harder than he anticipated.

"Hey, HUNK…" Vee said suddenly, peering around Wesker's shoulder, "I'll arm-wrestle you for your gas mask… They don't call me 'Arnold Arms' for nothing."

In the meantime…

Leon and Travis had made it back to where they had started, in the corral thingy with the three huts. Travis knew what was about to happen, and tried to prep himself.

"It's just like being at a zoo, except you're in the same cage as the animal," he thought, and Leon came to a halt in front of him.

The gates had been closed, and a whole bunch of villagers came running in, pulling on ropes that were tied to something still out of sight. They fought with it for a while, and then an El Gigante stomped in, taking a moment to smash every last villager, before focusing its attention on them.

"Yikes, that thing is huge," Leon said, briefly forgetting they could die.

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"HUNK of junk", huzzah! I love calling him that, but I don't know why... And yes, I was raised by the news and PBS. I still kinda am, for that matter.

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