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Chapter Seven

Alice and Jill stopped as they heard a message asking for Claire's whereabouts.

"Shit…do you think they've been spotted? Fuck what if they were captured," Jill stated as she turned around.

Alice grabbed her arm," Listen. There fine, if they weren't we would know. Valentine you came here for a purpose, focus on it."

Jill glared at her before pushing her away, Alice was right, they were fine. They had been able to go down two more floors; they only saw two guards in the time and easily avoided being detected. Jill hoped Claire wasn't playing hero because this was a completely different mission then they've ever had.

As Jill opened the door to staircase she immediately stopped as she saw a camera. She focused on it and noticed that its light wasn't on.

"Alice, there's a camera doesn't seem to be working though."

Alice looked in the doorway, her hand slightly twitched. Something was wrong.

"Jill stay out of its sight and make sure to get under it, I think it has a censor."

Jill nodded and carefully slid against the wall to get under it, once she was under it she reached up and pulled one of her pocket knifes out and cut the cameras cord.

"That should do it." Jill stated smiling.

Claire let out a sigh of relief as all three guards left to take a break. As soon it was clear Claire stood up and soon followed by Rebecca standing up by a desk. She smiled and waved and Rebecca glared at her. Claire sighed, it wasn't going to be pleasant when the mission was over. Rebecca would probably lecture her and then not speak to her for a couple of days.

Rebecca decided not to lecture Claire for now, since Claire was standing by a very large computer console. Upon being the first, she was hoping she could use it. She walked over to it and immediately tried to turn it on…nothing happened, it must not be connected to the power source.

Claire watched as Rebecca slightly growled, the computer wasn't working which meant they would have to keep trying all the floors above them. Claire knew if security was increasing, this mission wasn't going to be easy.

"So am I allowed to kill them?"

Rebecca turned and rubbed her chin for a moment while she was thinking.

"Only if we need to and your not going to make that decision I will, got it?"

Claire smiled, "Aww come on Becky, we were ok."

"Don't even start Claire, were not eliminating our enemy, the purpose of this mission is stealth and gathering information from their computer sources. We can kill them if were in any sort of danger."

Claire nodded and noticed that Rebecca pulled out a C-4 and attached it underneath the computer console. She then quickly followed as she headed towards the next flight of stairs.

Jill growled ducked back around the corner avoiding the bullets. Well she never expected their to be four guards in one room. As soon as they entered the next level a bright light blinded them and four guards then approached with their guns readied. Alice quickly took out one and they had the chance to find cover. Luckily none of soldiers had a radio on them. Jill looked at Alice across the way and they both nodded. Both came out from their corners firing, soon the remaining three were dead.

Alice smiled and kicked one as she rested her gun on her shoulder. She looked around the room, there was nothing in it. Not even a single desk, there were no cameras just lights. There was only one door which was straight across from the staircase.

"There protecting something. You ready? There might be a hell of a lot more in the next room," Jill stated smiling at Alice.

Alice nodded at Jill as she walked towards the next door. The smell of blood got her very excited, she slightly shook her head at that thought. She tensed up as she felt Jill touch her shoulder. She could almost hear the pounding of Jill's heart, she could smell the fresh blood emitting from the woman in front of her.

"Hey, you ok Alice?"

Alice smiled, "Yes, I'm fine sorry. Looks like you have a cut on your cheek."

Jill touched her cheek with her hand and saw blood on the tip of her fingers.

"Damn, must have been from the wall, the cement broke away…I didn't notice. You Ready?"

Alice nodded and took the lead once more, she needed to focus on something else. Luckily for them both it was a minor cut.

Rebecca smiled gleefully as she began to download data onto her palm-pilot. After going up a few more levels they found a room with many computer consoles, all of them running. Rebecca was very relieved, this mission could go very smoothly. They were in a small office type area, there was many small cubicles and the office had a window and blinds. Claire decided it was best to close the blinds and stick close to the door.

Claire didn't feel comfortable in the area they were in. There was actually three doors aside from the office. There was the stairway and then a door to far left and right side of that. Since the computers were running it also meant that someone might use this office often. Claire glanced over at Rebecca who was greatly focused on the monitor. They had set quite a few more C-4's on there way up here. She had always been amazed at what the younger girl was capable of.

Claire all of a sudden saw some movement outside the office. She slightly backed away from the window and released her safety on her handguns. Rebecca had stood up as well and as she was about to pull her palm-pilot away a file caught her attention. She stopped and began hacking into heir system to read this file.

"What are you doing, you need to turn that off, the light is going to give us away," Claire whispered as she un-holstered her handguns.

Rebecca knew she should quit but this file was different from the others. She smiled as she accessed the file. The title of the document was "Procedures for the incinerator."

Procedures for the Incinerator: Level one access

Employees must all be aware of steps and procedures for the new hive computer system. In the case of emergency or break out the lower levels of the hive sectors D-H will be destroyed. If you are in these sectors the elevator will close in both sectors D and G. Due to the material in these sectors explosives have been placed. You will have five minutes to reach the normal hive levels if you are not in sector H. If you are not in sector H you will see that if there is any movement other then the elevator turrets will automatically fire upon you. You will need to stay inside of the elevator due to the toxic gas released. If you do not make it to the top in five minutes the gas will be ignited followed by the release of the explosives. Due to the design of this new hive it will take one week before the titanium door in sector D will open. THIS IS A REMINDER TO ALL EMPLOYEES TO FOLLOW ALL STEPS AND PROCEDURES DURING ALL TIMES!

UMBRELLA CORPORATION

Thanks you for your cooperation.

Rebecca had no time to react as the office door slammed open, however gunfire was shortly followed. Rebecca quickly unplugged her palm-pilot and shoved it in her pocket. She glanced over to the body of the soldier on the floor. Claire grabbed her arm.

"We need to leave now!" Claire said frantically as more soldiers began to enter the room from the left door.

Rebecca watched as Claire stepped outside shooting both form her left and right. She quickly ran out and noticed soldiers were coming from the door farthest from them. She walked over to the stairway door and waited for Claire.

Claire noticed they stopped and ran over to where Rebecca was. As she turned towards her she noticed a soldier in the window of the door that Rebecca stood at. She quickly ran over to her.

Rebecca turned back towards the door and time almost stood still. She saw the door opening and soldiers coming up from the stairs. She had reached for her rifle however the door was almost fully opened and she already saw a soldier with his gun readied.

The soldier pulled the trigger however hit another target. Both women hit the floor and many gunshots followed after. Rebecca quickly fired with Claire and soon more soldiers came from the other door across the way. After a few moments the room fell into silence.

Rebecca was standing over Claire with her rifle while Claire had been shooting the ones from the staircase.

Rebecca cursed and quickly helped Claire stand up. However once her hands felt a warm liquid she noticed the blood on the ground.

"Holy shit, fuck! How are you feeling Claire?"

Claire smiled as Rebecca leaned her up against a wall and brought out a small flashlight. She closed her eyes due to the brightness however, opened them once more as Rebecca was trying to see her eyes.

Rebecca quickly looked over the wound, the bullet hit right above her hip. The bullet didn't anything vital however, it was bleeding greatly. She reached into her other side pocket and pulled out a small first aid kit. She needed to stop the bleeding.

Claire and Rebecca both looked towards the ceiling as they felt a slight vibration. Soon the vibration got stronger followed by the sound of men yelling and their footsteps as they ran.

"Shit, must be over a hundred. Rebecca we need to go, patch me up later." Claire stated as she grabbed her hand.

Rebecca nodded; they needed to find safety before she could help her anymore. Claire held onto her waist as they ran into the other room. It was best not to go downstairs or upstairs at the rate the soldiers were coming. Claire began to worry as they footsteps were only a level above them. It could be more then one hundred soldiers…why did they hire soldiers?

Alice quickly swung the door fully open and shot two guards on the left while Jill took out the two guards on the right. They entered the room and Jill quickly cut the wires on the two cameras. Jill looked around the room and noticed the metal wall that had a steel door.

"Well…we found something," Jill stated as she walked over to the door.

Alice nodded as the large metal door had three locks plus a keypad for code.

"There's no way in hell were getting through that, look like were done here," Alice said slightly disappointed.

Jill began to laugh and Alice raised her eyebrow, "What's so funny Valentine?"

"I think you're forgetting your talking to a member of S.T.A.R.S. I'm a specialist of Mechanical devices including lock picking. Use to be a member of the U.S delta force. A lock…is nothing, Silly Alice."

Alice watched as an air of confidence came from Jill. She was amused, maybe lock picking was easy; however a lock that starts with a code could be difficult. Alice watched as Jill ran her hand over every single key gently. Soon Jill entered a four digit number and the sound of lock being released.

"Alright that's one smart ass, there's still three more." Alice said slightly amused.

Jill looked at the two metal turn knobs and then the key hole above that that. More then likely the key released a bar that kept the turn knobs in place. Jill opened the backpack and noticed that her pick locks were in the bag. She knew Rebecca would pack those for her, she had requested them earlier. She picked up the case and opened it and removed one metal picklock. She put it in the key hole and smiled as she heard the sound of it unlocking. The other two were fairly easy, as she turned them she could easily detect when the knob would slightly tighten. Going right to left three times with each knob she heard the sound of the last lock being released.

"See Alice, not to difficult," Jill stated as she had a large grin on her face from her success.

Alice shook her head and when the large door was opened she noticed a solid metal door once more, however this one took a thumbprint.

Jill frowned at the sight, this was more advanced then simple locks, more then likely no guard had access either.

"Fuck, any suggestions?" Jill asked.

Alice rolled her eyes, "What your awesome skills can't get this one open?"

"Fuck you, you know damn well this electronic lock will not work if we try to cut wires and it will probably lock us out after three scans of a thumb print and you know damn well none of these fucking guards are going to have access."

Alice smiled as Jill became flustered quite easily. She approached the door, the metal wasn't as thick…so.

Jill became startled as she heard Alice hit the door. She turned around to see a hole in the door with her hand through the metal, the other handle held the pad for the scanner. Alice quickly and simply ripped the door off its hinges. Jill said nothing, if she had the strength to rip a steel door off its hinges…she didn't want to know what she could do to a person.

Alice smiled and threw the door onto the floor ignoring the loud sound it made. She glanced into the small room. It was an elevator. It was a very round elevator, cylinder like.

She glanced as Jill stood beside her; it looked like it only went down.

"Well…it'll be a tight squeeze with two people. Only one way though…I don't think we'll be seeing guards if you know what I mean." Jill stated glancing over at Alice.

Alice nodded and reloaded her gun, she all of a sudden felt a wave a pain and froze as she almost walked into the elevator. She rubbed her temples before she stepped inside with Jill. Indeed it was a very tight space, no more then two could fit.

Jill ignored the confine space as she pressed the button for the door. The elevator door swung around the locked into place. She could almost feel her oxygen depleting and took a deep breath. She now didn't like this elevator, it seemed like it could choke the life out of her.

"God Damn it Jill, get your elbow out of my ribs," Alice stated annoyed.

"Oh shut the fuck up, I'm sure it's not hurting you that much," Jill stated as she pushed her elbow a little deeper into her ribs.

Alice went to push her into the glass when the elevator started to descend. They both stopped pushing each other and as the elevator descended, they went into pure darkness. They couldn't see a thing but easily heard one another breathe. After about three minutes they saw a light below them.

"Shit, thank god, I thought I was going to be stuck in the dark with you for a lot longer," Jill stated smiling.

"Valentine, I am going to kick your ass one day."