It has been a week since they left the facility, Sen has been taken to a safe house in a remote area during this time. Widson comes by every once in awhile to make sure she's alright. During her most recent visit, Sen asks "Widson, when will I go see them?"
"Them?... Oh yes, the others, Eden is trying to find them."
"If I help, we can find them faster."
"No, it's safer for you to stay here until we say it's safe, okay, sweetie?"
"...Okay."
Widson gives Sen dinner and a kiss on the forehead before leaving. Sen knows she's in the place called Africa, but after her last expedition, she needs someone to accompany her.
Sen sees the dream world as she drifts into sleep, all she can see is darkness. The sounds that normally torment her haven't appeared. She suddenly hears rumbling, and feels it, almost like the ground itself is moving her towards it. A light soon appears, it grows brighter, and brighter, and brighter until she finally awakens. Something feels off, she can feel her weight go to her head. She tries looking up but soon realizes she's upside down. She looks up to her feet to see she's hanging in some kind of butchery. Fear overwhelms her, but she stays silent as noises start to happen. She plays dead, but keeps one eye open towards a curtain door. From outside, a giant creature walks in.
His body is bloated and riddled with sewed up wounds. He wears blood stained pants and a rubber, blooded smock. His head is hidden by a burlap sack with a giant rod sticking through one end and out the other. But the most terrifying feature is as he walks, he drags a giant axe, one side the blade, the other a massive meat tenderizer. He struggles to drag this weapon by both hands. He walks over to Sen and cuts her down, dragging her to a table in the open. Sen could see strange buildings. Exploded barrels and walls destroyed show a fight took place here. Soon, all her attention goes to the giant as he swings his axe up, ready to chop her in half. In a flash, Sen springs up into the air and spin kicks the inhuman monster in the face.
He drops the axe and stumbles back.
Sen runs as fast as she could to a destroyed gate at the other end of the town. Suddenly, a nearby metal tower falls and blocks her path. Sen sees a transformer, still active and making the tower an electric fence. She turns to see the monster coming back to kill her. Sen runs to one of the buildings up to the roof, but the monster swings his axe and bashes down a wall, causing the building to collapse. She falls to the ground, along with a portion of the building. She finds her foot caught in the rubble. The monster regains control and aims for her head. Sen struggles to free herself, but with no success. As she sees the axe, her life flashes before her eyes. Suddenly, a large figure comes out of nowhere and tackles the monster into the electrified tower. He screams as his body fries and soon slumps to the ground.
She notices the blow didn't come. She looks up to see who saved her, Ruven.
"R-RUVEN, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK…," Sen repeats.
"Yeah yeah, hold still," he stops her
He lifts the rubble and throws it to the side, soon to receive a tight hug from Sen. She only comes up to his stomach when she does.
Ruven prise her off, but soon looks back to the buildings. Sen turns to where he's looking to see humans, their skin a dark color and eyes blood red. Ruven unsheathes his machete, but stops as they start to back away. He sees them backing away from Sen more accurately.
"What the… what's wrong with them?" he asks. The sight of this causes Sen to call back to a certain memory.
"They're acting like those ganados from my home."
"What?"
"I'll explain later, I wanna leave please."
Ruven looks back at the people, who change from hostile to terrified. He looks down at Sen and picks her up, bridal style, and runs out. Ruven runs for a great distance, only as far as entering marshland before he finally stops. He carries Sen over the tall weedy grass. He sets her on semi-dry ground in front of a camp, a large fish sits over a fire in the center. "Stay here, I'll be right back," Ruven says.
"Okay," she replies.
She walks to one of the tents and watches as Ruven disappears into the grass. Sen thought "Jacob, is he here, maybe if…" , she stops and starts hearing noises from one of the tents. She slowly walks over to the opening and peeks in to see Jacob, sleeping on a pile of leaves. He hears noises and awakens to see Sen, simply looking in on him. Both were speechless until something behind Sen grabs her and pin her to the ground.
"WHO ARE YOU?!" the figure screams.
Sen looks up and sees a girl about her age, but appeared very mutated. Her skin a light blueish-green, parts of her body covered up in green plant-like growths. Even her hair looks like leaves as they cover her right eye. Sen is surprised to meet someone more like her, maybe a female friend. Jacob shoves her off. "No, GET OFF HER, ALEX!"
The girl, Alex, falls to the side, she looks as Jacob pulls Sen up and struggles to talk to her. "Sen, is it really…," he stops when she wraps her arms around him, giving him a tight hug saying "JACOB, I'M SO GLAD TO SEE YOU AGAIN!"
Jacobs cheeks turn a strange reddish orange. Alex asks "Who is she?" in a more fluent and soft voice.
"Alex, this is Sen, I met her a few years ago," he pauses to release himself from Sen and continues. "Sen, this is Alexia, Alex for short, a… old friend from…"
"From What?"
Alexia comes in between and says to her "He means I'm his special friend," in a gloating voice with a cocky look, until Jacob interrupts. "No your not, you were more off a bunk mate at the facility."
"Sharing one bed."
"We had two beds far from each other."
"The other not used."
"... Shut up."
Jacobs moves around Alex towards Sen. "Listen, 'she' was just like me and Ruven, stuck in a facility."
"Wait… what happened to you and Ruven?"
"That… is a long story."
Suddenly, a large fish flies out from the grass. Ruven soon appears behind it, having brought it. "Well, let's talk about it while we eat." he says.
As the sky turns dark the group of four sit around the fire to eat their cooked fish. Alex tries to sit next to Jacob, but he moves next to Sen with Ruven as a brick wall for the other side. Sen asks in a annoyed tone "Well, care to explain Jacob?"
He takes in a deep breath. "Okay, about a year ago, me and Ruven were captured as specimen."
Ruven continues for him. "Only for about a week, but long enough to get her stuck with us."
Jacob continues. "Alex says she use to be part of Umbrella, storyforanothertime, but well…"
Alex continues. "Funny thing, actually. The last thing I remembered back then was being killed. The next moment, I found myself in this body. They somehow brought me back."
"I was stuck in a cell with her for all that time, I couldn't escape her, so please don't be mad," Jacob pleads to Sen.
"I'm not mad, I'm just happy to see you again," Sen replies.
"...Really?" Jacob asks.
Alex says "Wait, so you don't find me competitive at all?"
"No, but we could be friends if…wait, what do you mean 'competitive'?"
Alex gives a grunt. "You took the fun out of the game."
Ruven stares of into space and thinks "... Why… why the hell do I have to be stuck with more to watch? (sigh)"
The atmosphere becomes quiet until Jacob says "Well I'm done, I'm going to bed."
Sen doesn't see anymore tents and asks "Can I sleep with you?"
"N-no?!"
Alex steps in. "I'll give her my tent so we can…"
"NO?!"
Ruven says "Okay, how about I just sleep outside tonight?"
"NO…,I mean YES?!"
Ruven gives a sigh of grief and just falls to his back and sleeps, the ground shakes for a moment. Before Jacob goes to bed, Sen grabs his hand and says "I'm happy to see you again."
"...Me too."
Sen reluctantly lets go and heads for bed, Alex gives her an annoyed stare before going to bed herself. Everything is quiet and peaceful… except for Ruven's snoring.