Enduring the Evil 2
Disclaimer: This is my second Resident Evil story and the sequel to the previous 'Enduring the Evil' which was requested by a few friends after they said how much they liked it. Of course, I was obviously most likely going to do another one anyway. The story is the Resident Evil plot but due to some changes I have put into it, it is non-canon. All OCs in this story belong to me and my friends, Resident Evil and all of its characters etc belong to Capcom. Story has been updated, all spelling mistakes and errors that I could find have been fixed.
Chapter 9 - One Big Lizard
Raccoon City Police Department, Library, 4:15 AM, 'Leon, Stuart, Marc, Louise'
There was a lot of questions running through everyones heads right now, one of them was, why the hell were there so many things out of place in the police station that forced them to backtrack through several areas? It was a question that ran the most through Stuart and Marc's heads.
They slowly made their way up the stairs in the library to reach the third floor of the main hall, it was some good time that passed after they met up with Nathan, another of their childhood friends. He was way taller than Alex and was probably more built up like Scott, it was no wonder that he managed to survive for so long in this damn nightmare city.
"Hey Leon?" Louise said breaking their silence, her voice echoed when they went into the main halls third floor.
Leon continued to carefully walk along the tight spaced balcony but replied. "Yeah?"
"Why are we up here? I don't think there will be anything up in that room that will be of any use." Louise said.
Leon took a look at the small golden cog in his hand. "Well I have a hunch...I need to be sure..."
"Sure of what?" Louise continued to question.
Leon remained silent.
Louise figured her questions were annoying him and just said one more thing. "Sorry...I know you have enough on your mind right now, you don't have time to trouble yourself with stupid questions."
"No, don't be sorry, I just can't give a straight answer, if I had one, I would reply to your questions immediately." Leon replied as they made their way into a small room, there was a set of stairs that looked like they could have been moved, they already were, allowing them to make their way up the stairs and into a small area with a bunch of cogs on the wall.
Stuart took one look at the stairs and then back to Leon. "I'll take it you have already been up here?"
Leon nodded. "Yeah, but that was before I had this..." He put the small cog in with all of the others and pressed a button, to their surprise, the wall at the end opened up and something fell out.
Marc picked up the object and showed it to Leon. "Some kind of plug of a knight, like some chess piece."
Leon took it and smirked. "This is it! This is the last one I need to open the door back down in the septic pool area!"
Stuart just shrugged. "Ok? I'll take a wild guess that is a good thing."
Leon nodded. "It is, and from the look of this old dust shoot, it might take us right down there."
Marc looked down the shoot. "Holy shit." His voice echoed down it.
Stuart stood behind him and smirked. "Well get going!" He pushed Marc in and listened as Marc screamed while he slid down the shoot.
A few seconds of silence passed, then they heard Marc's voice from all the way down the shoot. "Fuck you man, you could of killed me!"
"Aha but I didn't did I?" Stuart shouted down before sliding down himself.
Leon turned to Louise. "Ladies first."
Louise just looked at the shoot. "I don't know..."
Leon smiled a little. "Come on Louise, Stuart and Marc are all right, you just heard them, don't worry. Look I'll go first, you follow alright?"
Louise nodded and watched as Leon entered and slid down the shoot next.
After a short minute she heard his voice again. "Ok Louise, come down!"
"Are you sure it's safe?" Louise shouted back.
Stuart's voice was heard next. "It is, don't worry, I'll catch you!"
"Ok..." Louise stepped near the edge and eventually jumped down, she was falling fast, holding in her urge to scream as she slid down the shoot, closing her eyes, bracing for a hard impact.
As she felt herself exit out of a tight space and into a wider area, she was surprised to feel she had landed into something soft. She slowly opened her eyes to find herself in Stuart's arms.
"Told you I'd catch you." Stuart said smiling at her.
"Stuart...thank you." Louise said returning his smile.
Marc just rolled his eyes and sighed. "You done?"
Stuart put her down and nodded. "Yeah, let's go-"
"NOOOO! G-GET AWAY!" The words were followed by a scream of pain and then silence followed.
Marc immediately broke the silence. "OK! I think I might just go back up there now if you don't mind."
"I don't think so, follow me, don't worry, I'll keep you all safe." Leon said walking to where the scream came from. The four entered into the cell area and to their shock found someone lying against a wall.
"BEN!" Leon shouted and ran over to Ben's side.
Louise was staring, wide-eyed at Ben, he looked like he had been ripped apart, there was so much blood everywhere she was revealing hints of wanting to scream.
Stuart covered her eyes. "Don't look Louise..."
"Stuart..." Louise held onto him for dear life.
Leon kneeled down next to Ben and tried to get a reply from him. "Can you still hear me? Come on, answer!"
Ben managed to reply. "Damn...I don't believe this! I almost got the story!" Ben coughed, blood was dripping from his mouth.
"Ben..." Leon said as he observed his wounds.
"Ha...ha...bitter irony, the chief of police, co-conspired..." Ben handed Leon some papers and coughed again. "G-Get that scum...make him...pay."
"Hang in there Ben!" Leon replied.
Ben's eyes widened and he fell over on the floor with a thud and died.
The door behind them opened and Ada appeared, for a short second she had her eyes on Stuart and Marc but ran over to Leon. "Leon!" She kneeled down next to him, together, they read through the papers.
It was chief Irons mail, from someone named William Birkin.
Stuart, Marc and Louise just stayed back and watched Leon and Ada read through the papers.
Louise quietly whispered to Stuart. "That man...he's dead isn't he?"
Stuart whispered back to her. "Yeah..."
"Will that happen to us too?" Louise asked.
He shook his head. "No way, never. I'll protect you from whatever did that to him."
"Promise?" Louise asked.
Stuart nodded. "I promise."
Ada stood up and was about to run off until Leon's voice stopped her. "Where are you going Ada?"
"To the chemical plant, I have a feeling that's where I'll find John."
Leon tried to stop her. "Ada wait! Hey!" Ada was already gone by the time he finished.
He stood up and sighed. "Jeez, first Claire doesn't listen to me and runs off to the sewers and now Ada runs off. Damn, why doesn't anyone ever listen to me?"
Marc grinned. "Yeah, someone is definitely having trouble with the ladies."
"It's not that!" Leon quickly replied.
Stuart spoke up. "Enough, look Leon, let's just go, you said the plug we found earlier can open a door near here right?"
Leon nodded. "Yeah, let's get going, our business in this station is done." The group made their way out of the cell and Stuart finally took his hand away from Louise's eyes, after all, he knew she would probably scream herself to death if she saw someone die right in front of her.
The four made their way through a few other doors and down a ladder into a small sewer area.
"This, place, stinks." Marc said, his voice echoing a little.
Leon looked around the corner and saw a giant spider crawling on the walls. "Shit!"
Marc raised a brow. "What is it?" He looked around the corner and his eyes widened. "Holy shi-" Before he could finish, he felt Stuart grab him and covered his mouth.
Leon smirked and turned back to the spider, he fired off a few shots and managed to take it down no problem. "Ok got it."
Another spider appeared from the other side and started crawling towards them.
"Oh fuck this shit!" Marc said escaping Stuart's grasp and started opening fire at the spider, Stuart joined in, then Leon and together the three managed to easily take the spider down.
"If Bryan or Jamie saw that, they would freak out." Marc said.
Leon looked at him. "Who are they?"
Marc turned back to him. "They're a couple of friends of ours. They were with four others when all this shit started." He explained as they made their way up a small set of stairs taking them out of the small sewer area.
"Six of them then?" Leon asked.
The others nodded. "Yeah."
Leon stayed silent for a moment.
"Leon? What's wrong?" Louise asked.
Leon lifted his radio up to his mouth and spoke into it. "Claire are you there?"
Silence followed, but eventually a reply came from the radio.
"I'm here Leon, what is it?"
"Claire, how many survivors did you say were with you again?"
"Umm, there's...six, why?"
Everyones eyes widened.
"Well I ran into three other survivors, they said they know six others who were wandering around when everything started."
Silence again, this time Leon heard a different voice on the radio.
"Leon right?"
Leon replied. "Yeah..."
Stuart turned to Marc. "That voice...is that who I fucking think it is?"
Leon gave the radio to Stuart who immediately spoke into it. "SCOTT! IS THAT YOU?!"
"Stuart? You're alive, I take it Marc is with you too?"
"Yeah, Marc and Louise, holy shit man I cannot believe you're still alive! This is amazing!"
"Believe it...I'm putting Alex on."
"Alex?" Louise muttered quietly, she didn't really want to believe at first, being in the situation they were in right now, but the next voice surprised her.
"Stuart? Marc? Holy shit am I glad to hear your voices!"
It was Alex.
Louise grabbed the radio out of Stuart's hand and spoke into it. "Alex! Is it really you?!"
"Louise? Is...is that you?"
"Yes! It's me! I'm right here with Stuart and Marc!"
"Louise...you're alive."
"Yeah...I'm glad to hear that you're still alive too Alex..."
"I guess we'll be seeing each other again real soon then won't we?"
"Yeah, we will." Louise replied before giving the radio back to Leon.
"Alex is it? Don't worry, I'll look after Louise and the others for you."
"Thanks...Leon."
Leon put the radio away and smiled. "Looks like your friends are all right, you guys will be reunited soon."
Stuart returned his smile. "Thanks Leon, you really helped out there, now that we know Alex and the others are alive, we know we have a purpose to keep trying to the best of our ability, come on let's go."
"What about Nathan?" Marc asked.
"Well what about him?" Stuart replied.
Marc just raised a brow. "You serious? Do you really expect Nathan to find this place all by himself and actually be able to make his way through all the other zombies to meet back up with us?"
Stuart nodded. "I've known Nathan a long time, I KNOW, he will find a way."
"You better be right." Marc said before turning back to Leon. "Ok let's go, I've spent more than enough time in this place."
"Right." Leon said opening the door into the septic pool walkway.
They made their way to the middle of the room but to their surprise, they saw someone approaching them.
"Another zombie!" Marc said aiming his weapon followed by Stuart.
Leon observed the zombie as it limped towards them, it supported itself by holding onto the ledge on the sides. "This isn't a normal zombie, I think it might give us a tough fight."
Marc grinned at him. "Oh come on, it's just another zombie like all the others, what could it possibly do against the three of us?"
The zombie yanked a pipe off of the ledge and glared at them. Blood started spraying out of it, suddenly, it got much, much bigger, its giant monstrous arm revealed an eye which stared at the group. The monster let out what could of been an almost human roar.
"Oh...shit."
"FUCKING BLAST IT!" Stuart shouted as he immediately started shooting his gun at the monster, followed by Marc and Leon, the monster however, slowly walked over to them, barely fazed by the bullets.
Sewer B2, Service Tunnel, 4:20 AM, 'Claire, Alex, Jamie, Bryan, Danny, Connor, Scott'
"I don't like the look of this." Jamie said as he followed everyone else down the slightly lit tunnel.
Connor just laughed. "Hahaha, you don't like the look of anything here bro."
Scott stopped walking and turned to the small red light on the wall, next to it was a gas cylinder. "Hmm..."
"What is it Scott?" Bryan asked turning back to him.
Scott took a close look at it and faced the others. "If there are any zombies here, I can't have the risk that we might accidentally shoot this and blow the whole place to hell. I'm gonna stay back here for a minute to make sure nothing's following us."
"Got it, catch up when you can." Alex said moving on.
Jamie whispered to Alex as they walked on. "Are you fucking insane? We need Scott!"
Alex smirked. "Come on Jamie, this is a tunnel, I can't possibly imagine any zombies attacking us here, we're perfectly safe."
The group continued around the corner of the long tunnel and saw an opening at the end, Claire sprinted over and looked inside to see a dumping area on the other side. Lying down at the other end of the dumping area was an unconscious Sherry.
"SHERRY!" Claire shouted.
"Sherry?" Alex said with surprise, just as he and the others were about to run over to Claire, something shook the area.
Claire looked around, before she knew it, something huge leaped out of the dumping area and attacked her, but she managed to dodge it just in time.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!" Jamie shouted.
Claire took a few steps back and joined the others, they took a second to observe the giant thing that attacked Claire. "Is that a crocodile?"
Connor just stared at it with widened eyes. "If it is, then that is one big lizard."
"It FUCKING IS!" Bryan began shooting the giant crocodile with his mp5 but the crocodile continued to slowly crawl towards them, not even the slightest bit fazed by his bullets. "Are you guys just gonna stand there and watch me waste my ammo on this prick?!"
Everyone began firing at the giant crocodile, but not even their added on attempts changed anything.
"It doesn't look like it's working!" Danny shouted.
Alex took a step back and looked behind him for a second and then back to Claire. "Come on!"
"What about Sherry?!" Claire shouted back to him while still shooting the crocodile.
"Trust me! Come on guys!" Alex sprinted off back down the tunnel followed by everyone else, around the next corner, it didn't take them long to reach Scott again. "SCOTT!"
Scott turned to them and raised a brow. "What was all that shooting? And what's making that sound?" He said as he narrowed his eyes at the corner of the tunnel where he could hear the loud footsteps.
Everyone except Alex ran behind Scott. "A...A...A fucking giant crocodile man!"
Scott just stared at him, a little bit of confusion in his eyes, but he understood what Alex was saying when he himself saw the giant crocodile emerge from the corner. "Damn, that's one big lizard." Scott said looking at it with narrowed eyes.
"DO SOMETHING SCOTT!"
Scott quickly turned to the red switch on the wall and pressed it, releasing the gas cylinder onto the floor. He put his foot on it and shoved it, making it roll towards the crocodile.
Scott watched as the crocodile picked the gas cylinder up with its mouth, then he immediately fired a shot from his handgun, getting a direct shot into the gas cylinder and blowing it up, making the crocodiles head explode in the process.
Everyone just stayed silent as they watched the crocodile roll over on its side and died immediately.
"Whoa..." Connor muttered.
Scott put his gun away and turned to the others. "Problem solved, let's go."
"Damn, Scott you are good, one of these days I might just kiss you." Alex said.
Scott just continued to stare at him. "You'll have a bullet in your head before you could even try."
Jamie sighed with relief. "Well thanks anyway Scott, that thing nearly had us for lunch."
Scott walked on.
Claire just looked at Alex now. "Ok, what IS his problem? He just saved all of us there and immediately goes back to being an asshole. What is wrong with him?"
Alex looked back at her. "Well, the thing is, Scott used to be in the military for a short time, he could have stayed and became a high ranking member but he left because he wanted to look after us. He is usually like this, but not too much like the way he is now. It's only because of this whole damn zombie outbreak that has him pissed, and he is just stressed with having to protect us, find a way out for us, fight monsters for us, you know what I'm saying?"
"Oh...I had no idea, I never really thought of it that way before, I can actually see what you're saying now, and I think I'm beginning to understand Scott a little more now too." Claire said.
"Come on, we don't want to keep Scott waiting." Alex said moving on.
Connor whispered to Bryan. "Hey, you think this will lead to a way out?"
"I don't know man, all we can do is just keep going and going until we do find a way out."
Danny entered into their conversation. "Bryan's right, it's the only thing we can do, what else can we do?"
Jamie followed into the conversation. "Well, what if we don't find a way out?"
"We will." Danny said.
"But what IF we don't?" Jamie asked again.
Bryan replied this time. "Alex said we will find a way out, so I'm putting my faith in him, what about you Danny?"
Danny nodded. "Yeah, Alex managed to get us out of the mansion last time, he will get us out of the city too."
"Well, it would have to be an equal chance, fifty to fifty, but Alex has never let us down before, I don't think he'll start now, especially now that we know Stuart, Marc and Louise are still alive." Connor said.
They reached the end of the tunnel to find Scott pressing a switch which opened the large door revealing the dumping area. They all jumped into the water and the first thing Claire did was sprint over to where Sherry was.
As Claire looked at the unconscious Sherry, the same monstrous roar they all heard before several times was heard again.
"Come on, wake up Sherry!"
Sherry awoke, and Claire lifted her off of the garbage pile. "M-My stomach...it hurts."
"Don't worry, you'll be fine. Come on, let's go." Claire said putting her into the water.
Sherry nodded and followed Claire to the ladder up ahead.
Scott took one look around the area and saw something small and slimy crawl away, he didn't have time to waste going after it, but his suspicions started to arouse when he took a good guess what the thing may have been, especially after he remembered Sherry saying something about her stomach hurting, he turned and followed the others up the ladder.
Septic Pool Walkway, 4:25 AM, 'Leon, Stuart, Marc, Louise'
"Why won't this thing die?!" Stuart shouted backing away from the monster.
Leon had already used up a good amount of his bullets, but he still had plenty left, at the same time though he had used a lot on the monster and it still wasn't dead.
Louise stayed behind Stuart and Marc as they shielded her from the monster, luckily for them, it was busy fighting Leon.
The monster swung the pipe at Leon but he dodged it and fired another shot into the monsters head, but it did little damage. Again the monster swung the pipe and this time it hit Leon bringing him down to his knees.
"Leon!" Marc joined in on the fight and fired off a few shots, getting the monsters attention, which was a mistake because now the monster hit Marc against a wall, knocking him out.
"NO!" Stuart drew the monsters attention away from the unconscious Marc by firing at it, but that was a mistake because now it made its way over to Stuart. It swung the pipe at him but Stuart ducked and continued to shoot at it but this time the monster grabbed Stuart with its other hand and threw him aside.
"Stuart!" Louise shouted.
The monster turned to her now.
"Oh no..."
Louise was already backed into a corner as the monster slowly made its way towards her.
"S-Stay back..." Louise said aiming her gun at it but was taken by fear and was unable to shoot at all.
"Alex..." Louise closed her eyes and waited for the monster to take her life but instead, a loud gunshot filled the air.
Louise opened her eyes and looked at the monster, which slowly turned around to the one who fired the shot, Leon and Stuart also turned to the source, to their surprise, they saw a familiar behemoth standing not far away, a shotgun in his hand. "Nathan!"
The monster approached Nathan, who also did the same. They were surprised, thanks to Nathan's great build and height, he was practically about the same size as the monster.
"Come on, let's make this fight more even." Nathan said and threw a powerful punch at the monsters face sending it back a step, much to everyone else's surprise.
The monster glared at him and swung the pipe but Nathan dropped his shotgun and used both of his hands to stop the pipe. This move looked like it only made the monster more angry, but Nathan pulled the pipe his way, pulling the monster towards him in the process and delivered an uppercut which nearly sent the monster to the floor.
"Get him Nathan!"
"You can do it!"
Nathan aimed his other shotgun at the monster again but this time it knocked the shotgun out of his hand and again swung the pipe at him but once again Nathan grabbed it with his hands.
Leon saw the shotgun and quickly rolled over to pick it up and fired a successful shot into the monster, this made the monster take a step back away from Nathan, after which the monster stood near the edge of the walkway and fell off and disappeared into the darkness below.
"Thanks a lot man." Nathan said picking up his other shotgun.
Leon nodded. "No problem, I should actually be thanking you, you did a great job at holding that thing off."
"I was just protecting my friends, nothing more."
Marc woke up and looked immediately at Nathan. "Nathan? When did you get here?"
"Nathan got here in time to kick that monsters ass." Stuart replied.
Marc stood up and noticed the monster was nowhere in sight. "Yeah, I can tell."
"You should've seen it Marc, he totally kicked ass!"
Marc stood up and shrugged. "Yeah I'm sure, it wouldn't really surprise me."
Leon walked over to a large door in the corner of the room and placed the plug of a knight in the little switch next to the door, there were a few other plugs in the switch. After placing it in, the door unlocked.
"Come on, let's go, we've spent enough time here already." Leon said as he entered through the door followed by the others.
The moment he entered through the door, he saw someone drop down from the wall just down the small set of stairs, it was Ada.
"Ada!"
Ada turned and looked up at him.
Leon quickly went down the stairs to her. "What was that all about? Running off like that was reckless and stupid! Those zombies are everywhere, not to mention that thing that got Ben!"
Ada shrugged. "I was there Leon, I know."
Leon took in a deep breath and sighed. "Look Ada, as an officer, it's my job to look out for you, but we're not going to get through this alive if we don't work together, ok?"
"Alright, we'll do this your way." Ada replied.
Ada then set her eyes on Nathan, who just stared back, she could easily tell from the look of his eyes, he was suspicious of her.
Leon jumped down into the water, and everyone else followed, and finally made their way to the sewers.
Authors Notes: Chapter has been updated. I had the crocodile fight last a little less because, let's be honest, even a kid would probably know how to kill that thing if there was a gas cylinder. I showed more of Leon and Ada here mainly because of their lack of parts in the story, so I hope that was enough aswell. Nathan's is stronger than the average human, there's a reason for this and it'll be explained in future stories. The next chapter is where things will start falling apart for everyone.
