Fight and Flight

"You ready there rookie?" Michael asked.

"I told you I'm ready and I'm no rookie!" Rebecca snapped back as the helicopter landed and the three of them stepped out into the snowy wasteland of Siberia. It had been 5 years since she had joined the C.I.A. It had taken nearly 4 years to complete her full training. Never the less she had excelled in nearly every area she had been required to train in. In fact the only two things she was not the best at was interrogation. Since Jeremy had fought tooth and nail to get her an exception so she wouldn't have to see what might have happened to her, and sharp shooting. Not to say she wasn't a good shot she just wasn't the best. "It should be less than 1 mile north of here."

"What's the time" asked Sam.

Michael checked his watch "God dammit were already 8 minutes behind schedule.... we better hurry the diversions going to start any minute.... and I don't think I need to remind you of what might happen if we don't reinforce during the diversion." he finished starting to move.

With Jeremy

"and then they made me there chief." Jeremy finished flicking open his zippo lighter for what felt like the 1000th time. "so what do you guy's have in store for me next anyway?"

"I don't know but if it's up to me the first thing there gonna do is cut your god damn tongue out." snarled a guard sitting at a desk a few feet away.

"don't think they'll do that.... then they wouldn't be able to hold onto the fantasy that they can make me talk" Jeremy said standing up and striding to the bars smiling. The room he was in was not very wide 20 feet or so. It was long with around 7 10 foot by 10 foot cells. One of which he was currently occupying. "so now you know about me what about you? How come your playing security guard? Not smart enough to be in the real umbrella military?" Jeremy added cackling maniacally.

"Why you little prick I'll ring your neck." the guard said standing up his fists clenched in rage. "I'd watch my mouth if I were you."

"That is were you and I differ.... you see I always like to talk to people.... figure them out you see..... from what I can figure of you your a insecure runny nosed little coward who is afraid of being inadequate.... especially in special area's" he added with another cackle. His ploy had worked the guard lunged at him attempting to reach through the bars and grab him. He had been ready for this. He seized the guards arm and held it tightly through the bars forcing his face just a few inches from Jeremy's."Big mistake" he snarled smiling. In an instant he had removed the guards knife from the sheath on his belt. He then released the guards arm. The guard blinked and pulled his arm away. He turned to move and radio for help. Jeremy reached through the bars inserted the knife through the side of his neck and pushed forward. There was nothing but a slight gasp and the sound of gushing blood.

Jeremy felt on the guards belt and removed the key's. He opened the cell door and laughed "you would think someone as rich as umbrella could afford an electric lock" he thought silently. He searched and removed the guards revolver. "A Smith and Wesson 6 shooter what the fuck is this the 1880's" he said in disgust examining the revolver. Still he pocketed it and placed the knife sheath on his belt. He looked at the clock. It was still 13 minutes before he needed to start the diversion.... which he figured he needed to give them 5 minutes or so of a buffer. He turned and began entering commands into the terminal on the guards desk...."Dammit the clearance isn't high enough on this computer.... I'll have to find another one" he said aloud as he turned and sprinted for the door at the far end of the room.

With Rebecca

"Who the hell is that" exclaimed Michael. He was looking through the scope on a sniper riffle at the entrance to the base. "They aren't with us."

"Yeah well the enemy of my enemy is my friend" Rebecca said as there was a loud explosion and the door's to the front of the compound came flying off there hinges and the 2 hooded figures disappeared inside. It was several minutes before a siren broke the silence. "Is that Jeremy or them?" Rebecca asked.

"Don't know but were already late we better get moving!" Michael said aggressively handing the gun back to Rebecca. "Chances are your hubby's going to need us to get him out of another tight spot before to long." He added as they charged towards the now open front gate.

"He's not my hubby and he can take care of himself just fine!" Rebecca scorned. They were inside the compound now there were zombies running a muck in the large courtyard. "There" she said pointing at the largest of the buildings. They charged at it weaving in and out of zombies. There ammo was limited this time they couldn't afford to fight unnecessarily. They entered the building through a small side door that took them inside a large stair well.

"Where's the rendezvous point again?" Sam asked

"On the roof near the heliport" Rebecca said her voice echoing slightly.

"Who's that down there" said a gruff masculine voice from several flights up "It''s the intruders shoot to kill!" he roared catching sight of them. Immediately the sound of gun fire and ricochets filled the stairwell.

"I can't get an angle on them" Michael yelled firing blindly up the stairs trying to keep them at bay. "What the hell are you doing?" He spat as Rebecca aimed her gun at the left wall about half way between them and the soldiers.

"Watch and learn" she said gleefully firing 3 shot's at the spot she had been aiming at then firing several more at what appeared to them to be random places on the wall. Immediately after she ceased firing the shooting from above stopped.

"What the fuck??" exclaimed Sam in complete shock "how the hell did you-" he left the sentence unfinished as they reached the floor the soldiers had been shooting from. There were three of them all laying dead from Rebecca shot's. "Were the hell did you learn to shoot like that?"

"Were do you think?" said Rebecca impatiently. She was never exactly sure why Sam had been recruited. He wasn't uncommonly smart or talented in many area's. He was a fair shot and of average intelligence but he really had no business being on these kind of mission in her option.

"Oooooh" he said a smile appearing on his face "so was that a pillow conversation or-" he began

"Not the time or the place" Michael said angrily stepping between them "Let it go" he muttered to a very angry looking Rebecca "you know he's an asshole.... well pay him back later." Her expression softened slightly.

"Research is on the 5th floor she announced" moving swiftly up the stares. "Here it is-WOW" she exclaimed as the door flew up revealing a hallway with 5 dead body's in it.

"Looks like were a little late to the party" Michael said laughing as he stepped in front of Rebecca"

"Jesus Christ remind me never to pick a fight with Jeremy" Sam said his eye's widening as he entered the hall. The first dead body appeared to have had it's throat slashed, in the same manner Jeremy always preferred. An old favorite of the marine core. Insert the knife across the neck severing both carotid arteries then pull forward and sever the wind pipe for a silent kill. The next one appeared to have been killed the same fashion. The third had what appeared to be the knife from the first two killings rammed into his left eye socket. The fourth was the least dramatic. There was simply a bullet hole in his forehead. The 5th appeared to have been shot several time's. His gun and knife were also missing.

"We can't be too far behind" said Rebecca stepping over one of the body's and slipping in the copious amount of blood on the floor. "There still warm."

"Then let's try to catch up" Said Michael braking into a run as he rounded the corner.

"Wait up" shouted Sam bringing up the rear.

They proceeded down the hall and into a large laboratory. The room was roughly the size of a high school gymnasium with tubes that spread from floor to sealing containing all manner of biological experiments. There were several tyrants and a few deformed hunter's near the door. Rebecca flinched as she saw the tyrants. She had never completely conquered her fear of the monstrosities, but she could at least keep a clear head when she saw one now.

The room was in disarray there were chairs and tables turned over and papers littered the floor. Though somewhat unsettling was the lack of dead scientists. "Looks like they cleared out of here in a hurry" Rebecca said proceeding cautiously into the center of the room.

"Jeremy get lost between that blood bath and the lab?" Sam asked with a laugh.

"Uhh I'm pretty sure he was here" Rebecca said smiling and pointing at a bullet hole in a empty glass tube. "Probably running low on ammo so he just shot once and the scientists promptly pissed themselves then ran out of here like there asses were on fire." She reached a desk with a computer on it that was close to a large door marked "BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES VAULT" The computers screen had a message flashing across it. "Biological Sample Vault Security Level Red"

User Name: Hunk

Password: *******

Rebecca finished imputing the user name and password as Sam and Michael walked up behind her. "What kind of user name is "HUNK" anyway?" Sam asked with a smirk. He clearly found the unusual codename amusing reinforcing Rebecca's opinion that he shouldn't be here.

"A fictitious one that was implanted in the Umbrella database by C.I.A hacker's you incompetent swine" Rebecca spat.

"A little snippy aren't we? Your time of the month?" Sam retorted grinning foolishly, and stepping back out of arm's reach as Rebecca rounded on him.

"We've got bigger problems and one more crack like that Johnson and were gonna leave you here to burn up with the rest of the base. The larger problem Michael was referring to was that the computer was now flashing "TERMINAL CLEARANCE INSUFFICIENT PLEASE CONTACT A NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR" "Who the hell puts a computer next to a vault that cant open said vault" Michael said angrily.

Rebecca and Sam were still glaring at each other when suddenly without warning there was a rush of air as the vault pressurized and the door swung slowly open. They turned and stared at one another dumb founded. "Jeremy" they echoed in unison.

15 minutes later they had removed all biological samples from the vault and were hoisting them onto there backs in 2 large black duffel bags. "Now we need to get to the access point on the roof" Rebecca announced "we better hurry we only have about 10 minutes before Jeremy activates the self destruct sequence. They stepped back out of the laboratory and almost immediately drew back as 4 umbrella soldiers came running by the door being chased by a man and a women wearing uniforms with the letters BSAA printed on the back. "Who the hell are they?"

"Don't know..... we were supposed to be the only ones here tonight... well us and Jeremy" Michael said "Luck of the draw the enemy of my enemy is my friend... lets go there not our problem." they proceeded down the hall and into a large central room. This room was one large open room that went from the ground floor to the roof. Each floor had it's own separate balcony and the top of the room were the roof should have been looked like glass. This room they had surmised through intelligence was built to allow for radio communication throughout the building. At the bottom on the ground floor was a device that would pick up and retransmit any signal that needed to pass through this room to reach it's destination. Rebecca looked over the hand rail and could see people running in all directions on all the floors bellow. Her attention was immediately drawn to the sound of fighting two floors up.

Jeremy was locked in combat with at least 4 soldiers on the square balcony that ran all around the room 2 floors up. They all three stared as he seized a pistol one of the guards shoved in his face diverted it then punched the guard in the stomach. Before the guard had time to recover he pushed him sending him over the edge to the ground 7 floors bellow. He turned and pointed the gun he had rested from the falling guard. All the other guards ran. They seemed to have gotten the point that this place was done for and they couldn't do anything to stop it. Jeremy turned and looked down towards the ground floor. He pulled a sash off of his chest and dropped it over the edge. It hit the ground floor and exploded. "Grenade belt" Rebecca said staring at the yellow fire now engulfing the first 2 floor's. She looked back at Jeremy who was grinning and waving both arm's foolishly. He then turned and sprinted for the exit at one end of the balcony. "Lets go were wasting time!" Rebecca said suddenly realizing they had been standing there for a full 5 minutes.

They emerged onto the roof just as a cool female voice announced "the self destruct sequence has been activated all person please evacuate the facility"

"Looks like we made it" Michael said mopping his brow. "Jeremy should be here soon."

They walked to the end of roof were a helicopter bearing umbrellas logo was parked. Rebecca climbed into the pilots seat and checked the engine and gages. "Looks good she called" Sam and Michael climbed into the back leaving the second front seat vacant for Jeremy. Several minutes passed with no sign of him. Rebecca started to worry as they herd the female voice say "5 minutes until detonation".

"Should we radio him?" Sam said apprehensively.

"Yeah cause most people let captured C.I.A agents keep radios." Rebecca said sarcastically "still I wonder if something happened to him." she said sounding very worried. If he was much later they would have to take off without him, or else be killed in the explosion themselves.

"! minute until detonation" announced the female voice.

"we have to go without him Becca" Michael said forcefully.

"Lets just wait a few more seconds" she said tensely staring at the door.

"Face it he's not gonna make it!" Sam yelled.

"HA ye of little faith!" Rebecca yelled happily as Jeremy emerged from the building carrying a bag over his shoulder and talking on a radio.

"30 seconds" came the voice.

Jeremy was running full on still talking to someone when he tripped and sent the radio flying. He started to reach for it but immediately decided there was no time. He reached the door and climbed in just as the voice announced "15 seconds".

The helicopter sored towards the sky as the entire base was engulfed in a amazing fireball that would have made the lights in a operating room seem like a child's flash light. They braced themselves as the helicopter shook, but they did not plummet. Rebecca exhaled deeply "thought you weren't gonna make it there for a minute Jer"

"For a minute so did i" Jeremy admitted breathing heavily.

"What's in the bag? Sam asked staring at the black bag Jeremy had by his side.

"Classified" Jeremy said "thats why I didn't tell you 3 about it."

"We have clearance" Sam began.

"If he says he cant tell us then he cant tell us so stop bugging him Johnson" Michael said giving Sam a well deserved slap on the head.

"Alright alright..... so you sure you're the one who flies these Bec's?" Sam asked and Jeremy saw Rebecca's fingers tighten on the control panel. In addition to being called "Bec's" which was not a nickname she particularly liked it was insulting to have her skills challenged by a rookie who could barely keep a car on the correct side of the road. "I just mean I thought Jeremy flew helicopters" he added quickly.

"Jeremy flies small planes Rebecca flies helicopters and I fly both" Michael said with some resentment in his voice. Sam seemed to have received the message and spoke very little the rest of the flight.

"How long till we reach base?" Jeremy said trying to brake the silence "I'm starving...... I wonder if army food is as bad as umbrella prison food." It worked they all began laughing heartily as the helicopter spead east into the glorious sunrise.

Alright sorry it took so long to get this one out.... I had a rather nasty bout with writers block. But here it is hope you enjoy and by the way two things I feel I should mention is 1 I know I am way off the time line I posted a few chapters back.... so what?..... the second is that the base in this scene was supposed to be the the base from "Fall of Umbrella" which was not in Siberia (I don't think anyway) but I couldn't remember were it was so just go with it.