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A week had passed since the encounter with Krauser, Bruce had been treated for his wound, as was Claire, though Chris was pretty upset when he saw that Claire had gotten hurt, demanded that everyone needs to look out for his sister, Claire argues she can handle herself and it was just a freak accident.

Applejack had sat back in her room, her hat clutched in her hooves, she still had moments of worry for her friends and her sister, she wishes she knew where they were.

Bruce had joined her, "You doing ok?"

Applejack nodded, "Just worried about mah friends & family"

"Figures, I know this has been a very unsettling event, being stuck in a world of zombies, nearly getting killed, the death, blood & gore, but ah think you've been handling this well, you've gotten better, your mental toughness has improved"

"Sorta, ah still get really scared"

"We all get scared AJ, even to this day I'm a little scared to do this stuff, but I do it because it's my duty to"

Applejack nodded, "Ah guess, but it's so dang difficult"

"Life's not easy, and as you see you're not the only one dealing with stress, remember Chris's reaction to Claire getting hurt?"

"Oh yeah, he was really mad, ah can't blame him, if Apple Bloom got hurt I'd flip out too, and ah know if either of us got hurt then Big Macintosh would break a few bones"

"Yeah your brother seems like a pretty big dude, explains his name"

"Yeah, he don't say much, but he's still a great brother, and when he does speak, ah always listen, he only speaks when it's something meaningful"

"Words of wisdom kind of guy, sounds cool"

Applejack nodded, "Yeah, ah miss him, though the bright side is ah met you, yer becoming kinda like mah big brother too"

Bruce ruffled her mane, "And yer kinda like a little sister"

Leon went to their room, "Chris is calling for a meeting"

The two got up and followed Leon to the meeting, all the important B.O.W. fighters were there.

Chris appeared at the front desk, "I have a new mission, now this one's a bit different, see normally during these missions we go to find Wesker or his allies, this time they're calling us"

Everyone looked confused, Chris continued.

"We recently got a message from Steve Burnside, telling us what city & town he's in, he's challenging us to a fight it seems"

Carlos raised his hand, "So we're going after him?"

Chris nodded, "Yeah, we are"

Now Sheva spoke, "This could be a trap"

"Yeah suppose Steve's trying to set us up?" Bruce asked.

"I'm well aware of that, but we have a chance to get one step closer to Wesker, we're gonna have to risk it"

Everyone seemed uncertain a bit, but they knew Chris had a point.

"We leave in an hour, get your gear and weapons ready", Chris ordered.

Everyone nodded and went to prepare for the mission.

While Applejack & Bruce were preparing, Rebecca approached the two.

"Hey Bruce, mind if I speak to Applejack for a moment?" Rebecca asked.

"Ah don't see why not", Bruce stood up and walked off, "Have a nice talk"

The girls waved bye before Rebecca sat near Applejack, "Big mission huh? Taking on one of Wesker's men..."

Applejack nodded, "Yeah, Ah feel fer Claire though, Steve was a friend of hers, must break her heart"

"I know all about heartbreak like that, so I can relate, I still miss my teammates from Bravo Team"

"Yeah...so what did you wanna talk to me about? Just this?" Applejack asked.

Rebecca shook her head, "No, there's more to that", Rebecca took a deep breath, "Do you remember a while back when you and I had our 'moment' together?" Rebecca blushed heavily.

Applejack also blushed, "Yeah, I remember"

"Not one of my prouder moments, I still can't believe I took advantage of you like that"

Applejack patted her hand a bit, "It's no big deal, ah didn't mind it too much"

"Still, as a medic I can't let personal feelings get in the way of my work, I violated a very fine line"

"It was the heat of the moment, you looked cute, you found me cute, and nothing bad happened in the end so..."

"I could have been fired for doing that", Rebecca lamented.

"What for? You didn't take advantage of me, I don't feel like you did, we both acted on instinct"

"It's illegal for the Medic to get romantically involved with a patient"

Applejack looked unhappy, "That's stupid, why is that?"

"It's normal for a patient to probably fall in love with a doctor if they saved their life, but the doctor can't take advantage"

"You didn't save mah life, you just checked up on me, maybe it was more me going back for you?"

"I'm not sure, but regardless, I'm really sorry for doing what I did, it won't happen again"

Applejack patted her hand, "Don't rule anything out"

Rebecca nodded as Applejack got up, and grabbed her weapons, "We best be leaving"

Rebecca nodded, "Right"

They each left the room and found Bruce waiting at the end of the hall.

"You two ready for action?" Bruce asked.

Both girls nodded, Bruce grinned, "Good"

Applejack went ahead, Bruce then asked a question to Rebecca, "Everything ok with you and AJ?"

Rebecca nodded, "Yeah, everything's fine"

"Good, don't want any more trouble now", Bruce said, earning a confused glare from Rebecca.

"Trouble how?"

"Leon seemed pretty upset at something you did the other day, shortly after I left your medic area, and Applejack looked like she was blushing about something, if I asked her about you she had a tendency to stutter her speak"

Rebecca looked nervous, "That so?"

Bruce sighed, "I'm not sure, maybe I'm just being a bit overprotective, but promise me nothing will happen to Applejack that might mess with her emotions"

Rebecca nodded, "Sure thing Bruce"

The groups then boarded the Helicopters and flew over to the city where Steve made his challenge, upon arriving there, the city was a wreck, buildings were burning, people were running, several B.O.W.s loose, attacking and killing any civilian they find.

There were Zombies, Manjini, Hunters, Lickers, Web Spinners, Cerebus Dogs, Crows, Chimeras, almost every type of B.O.W.

"Holy shit! This is a war!" Bruce shouted.

"Kill all the B.O.W.s! Get the civilians on the choppers!" Chris left his chopper and opened fire on all the monsters.

The team shot all the monsters they found, a lot of monster shots actually saved the lives of a few civilians, they quickly got the civilians on the choppers as they took on the B.O.W.s.

Several Manjini transformed, showing more insect qualities, most of those were killed by Leon & Chris cleverly throwing flash grenades.

The choppers started leaving with survivors, so the anti-B.O.W. people were gonna be stranded for a bit, but they could handle it.

While they were fighting, Steve watched from a distance, "So they fell into this little trap, sweet, I'll be able to pick them apart, that'll make Wesker pretty happy"

Krauser then appeared by him, "Better hope this works out for you"

Steve nodded and once enough B.O.W.s were killed, Steve made his presance known by approaching everyone.

"Hey, glad you could all make it", Steve said.

Everyone aimed their guns at Steve.

"Steve, where's Wesker!?" Chris asked.

"He's not here if that's what you're wondering", Steve answered.

"What is Wesker up to?" Jill asked.

"He wants to take over the world and become a God, man do you people always ask the typical hero questions? Be a little unique will ya?"

Leon approached, "Don't smart mouth us! If you don't come peacefully, we're taking you down by force"

"See there's another thing, what makes you think I'll go peacefully?"

"Just shoot the fucking kid!" Chris shouted, everyone opened fire at Steve but he simply grabbed a hunter's body and used it as a shield while he ran for cover.

"He's getting away!" Billy said.

"Get him!" Jill said.

The group went after Steve as he ran through the burning city.

While he ran, some more hunters came to attack the agents.

This attack caused a separation since the group had to split to create space with Sheva, Billy, & Carlos going off in one direction, Rebecca, Bruce, Fong Li & Applejack going another, Leon, Chris, Claire & Jill stayed in the middle.

Steve waited in the middle, "Sup people"

Claire approached him, "Steve, it's me, Claire, why are you doing this?"

"I'm just doing what I'm meant to do, Wesker has taught me so much, the world is filled with horrible people, some people just deserve to die"

"But this stuff took away your family"

"No...that was Umbrella, horrible people, Wesker isn't like that, he's a great mentor!"

Chris approached him, "Don't be a fool, he's using you like he uses everyone else"

"Wesker said you'd say that, either way it's now time for me to prove myself to Wesker", Steve grabbed some Golden Guns, similar to those he had at Rockfort Island, "I'll start by taking you down"

Steve opened fire but everyone moved out the way and shot at Steve, but he dodged out the way and continued to shoot.

As they shot Chris managed to shoot Steve in the arm, Steve bent over seemingly in pain.

"Is that all you got?" Chris asked.

Steve grinned and tossed some blood at Chris which turned into fire, luckily Chris managed to dodge.

"Damn...must be The Veronica Virus!"

Steve grinned and continued to shoot and toss some blood.

Meanwhile Applejack & the others tried to go find the others, then they were shot at from nearby.

Bruce turned to see who shot at them, "Krauser!?"

Krauser grinned and rushed at them with his knife, but Applejack managed to shoot him with her shotgun, the others folling up with gun shots.

Krauser rolled out the way and hid from sight, the others looking around.

Soon, Krauser attacked from out of nowhere with a knife strike to Rebecca, but she managed to block, Fong Li ran in and did a dive kick to his face and then shot him a few times with his machine gun.

"You're the best Fong Li", Bruce said.

Krauser simply ran in and kicked her back, enraging Bruce.

"Hey, no one does that to my girl!" Bruce shot Krauser, Applejack joining.

"Yeah, no one does that to Bruce's girl!"

Krauser transformed is arm and attempted to slash them, but they each moved away, though Krauser snuck out a knife and stabbed Rebecca in the leg and then kicked Bruce back.

Applejack ran in to ram Krauser down, Fong Li grabbed her gun and shot him.

Krauser tossed down a flash grenade to blind them and allowed him to escape.

"Coward", Fong Li said, then noticed Bruce & Applejack checking on Rebecca.

"How bad he get you?" Bruce asked.

"Pretty bad, it's gonna be hard to walk", Rebecca said.

Soon Billy arrived with his allies, "What happened to Rebecca?"

"Krauser did", Applejack answered.

"Son of a bitch", Billy helped up Rebecca, as did Carlos.

"Take her back to the Helicopter drop off, wait for Josh & Barry to return", Sheva said.

Billy nodded and got Rebecca away with Carlos.

They then heard gunfire nearby and saw all of Steve's blood fire, so they immediately followed it.

Steve had his enemies pinned, once the allies arrived, Steve tossed some blood fire at them as well.

During the distraction, Leon managed to shoot him with a shotgun blast to knock him back.

Out of nowhere, Krasuer arrived near Steve and opened fire at Leon & the others, Chris tossed a grenade at them, causing Krauser to grab Steve and evade, then he used his mutated arm to attack again.

Applejack had noticed a fallen wire and had an idea, she used it to form a lasso and then as Krauser went to attack again, she lassoed his arm and pulled him down, allowing him to be a sitting duck for gunfire.

Leon then ran in and stabbed and slashed Krauser several times, only to get shoved back, Jill followed suit, then Chris, and Sheva.

Krauser knocked them all back but had a lot of damage done to him.

Leon then whipped out a Magnum Handgun, which he saved for special occasions, and he fired a few shots at Krauser, hitting him directly in the chest.

Krauser then squirted out blood and fell over, blood spilling out of him.

"He's finished, now for-" Leon was interrupted when some blood got on his arm, causing it to catch fire, luckily he was wearing a jacket but it was a struggle to get off and he felt like he had gotten burned.

Steve walked over to attack but felt a little woozy, "Did I use up too much blood? No that shouldn't mean anything, Wesker said Alexia handled it just fine", Steve then fell over, panting a bit, "What's going on?"

Jill approached him, "I think your virus is unstable, you shouldn't even be able to handle this, it takes over a decade to come into affect"

Steve shook his head, "Wesker said he gave me something so that wouldn't be a big deal, he worked around it!"

"Looks like even Wesker couldn't help you there"

Steve growled and aimed his gun, "I swear, I'll kill you right now, and then-" Steve felt a gun shot, he looked to see Claire.

"Steve..."

Steve growled, "Claire...you did this to me...you got me killed!" he ran at Claire only to be shot again by Chris, causing him to fall over.

Chris approached him and stomped him, "Don't you ever blame my sister for something that she tried hard to prevent"

Steve laid on the ground still in pain.

"We're done here, let's go", Chris ordered.

As everyone walked off, Steve stood up slowly and aimed a gun at them, "It's...it's not over yet...I'll kill you bunch of-" he then received a flurry of Assault Rifle shots, courtesy of Bruce, taking him down.

"I don't think so", Bruce walked off with his group, leaving behind the bodies of Krauser & Steve to potentially burn in the city fire.

The group took a Helicopter back to HQ, Claire looked a bit depressed.

"Steve...he shouldn't have been in this...not on Wesker's side at least"

Chris pitied his sister, "Pain's bad, I know, but we mustn't let it drag us down...we know what we must do, and we know who to blame for this"

Claire turned to her brother and nodded, they all knew they had to deal with Wesker soon.

Applejack was checking on Rebecca, who brought Applejack in for a comforting hug, Bruce noticed it, wondering if there's more to Rebecca & Applejack's friendship than he knows about.

Later at Wesker's HQ, he was alerted of the failures of Steve & Krauser.

"This will not do...", he grabbed a radio, "Ada, get in contact with Nicholai, we're gonna need a little more assistance"


More enemy fights to come