Finale Pt. 2...
"William...what did you do?!" Annette screamed in horror.
He laughed in responce.
"Don't you see the beauty of it?, I have...I have BECOME the G-Virus!, Merged with it!...I AM G!"
Leon, John and Marvin were speechless, as was Sherry.
"All it took..." Continued William, "Was a direct injection of the original sample of the G-Virus, the one WE created Annette, it would only react with a Birkin's blood as you already knew!, I have merged with the virus itself! Now I am no longer a lumbering beast, behold the higher being that I have become!!!"
"You are no higher being!" Marvin defiantly called, "You're a freak!"
Silence fell upon the hulking figure, then a hideous cackle emerged from said silence.
William started walking slowly towards the defiant officer, the arm that was still human looking pulled back and swiped at him, a heavy backhander flung him to the floor, and the the clawed arm pulled back to impale.
But this didn't happen, John took aim and fired at the arm, one of the blade-like digits flew off with a bloody trail following.
"There's...no pain!" Laughed William, with a surprised tone as his talon grew back, "I heal, and with no pain!!"
"Oh...shit..." Leon said in disbelief.
While this horror unfolded, Elza sat against the wall next to the corpse of the officer she adored, his skin cold on her's, she took a look at the gun in her hand, then she thought deeply to herself.
"We could be together again!...couldn't we?" She sobbed, raising the gun to her temple and closing her eyes, "I guess there's only one way to find out..."
William started advancing on the group ready to take them all out with one swipe of his arm, when a large screen overlooking the facility turned on and Albert, the man in shades appeared again.
"Leon! you realise who that is don't you?" Marvin asked, "That's the leader of STARS Alpha team!"
"It is!, What business does he have here?!" Leon gasped.
"Albert Wesker...how good to see you again old friend!" William chuckled.
"Spare me the plesentries Birkin, what have you done?! that was the only original sample of the G-Virus!"
William turned towards the screen fully to look at his former friend, who seemed to have a background with everyone by the looks of it.
"No matter...USS mercenaries are busy tearing your other lab up for your proliminary samples of G..." Wesker said, agression building in his voice, "You have 10 minutes left before this place goes out with a bang, spend your last minutes well!"
The screen went black and a timer appeared, counting down from 09:59.
"Well, if I'm going up in flames, then I see no reason why you all shouldn't!, and Annette my darling, you are first to die!" The scientist-turned-monster laughed, seizing back and jamming his talons into his wife's stomach, lifting her off the ground and throwing her aside.
In a split second, Leon pulled out his Deagle and fired off one of his two remaining bullets into the face of the "Tyrant", hitting him dead on in the eye, seemingly to no effect, but giving him a spare moment to get away.
"Open fire! I have a plan!" he called, running to Annette's body while Marvin and John distracted their enemy.
A quick search gave him the Anti-virus that Annette had quickly prepared.
"L-Leon, correct my mistake, inject him with this...then k-kill him!" Annette wheezed, looking him in the eye, "And promise me...Promise me that you'll look after my daughter!"
"I promise!" He replied, watching as she slipped away and closing her left-open eyes, turning and looking at his enemy, knowing that one slip-up meant that they'd failed.
John and Marvin distracted William with their ineffective gunshots, leaving his back which nursed a huge vein open to Leon. He took a run-up but just before he went to stab the syringe that housed the Anti-virus into the vein, William spun around and smashed him away with his elbow, making him drop the syringe.
"Now now...let's not be doing that again!" Jeered William, moving in for the kill, raising his talons up as with every other intended victim. But before he could bring them even a millimeter down, he froze...
Turning around revealed a blank-looking Sherry, who had quickly rushed in and delivered the killing blow, so to speak.
Within seconds, William's size decreased and he reverted back to human form, but a look in his eye showed he wasn't entirely finished yet.
"You know officer, my G-Virus only reacts with Birkin blood, that's why Annette couldn't be like me, couldn't be a "Tyrant"..." He laughed, beginning to walk backwards towards the door slowly.
"Stay where you are!" Leon answered, raising his handgun up.
"Shoot then!" Answered the next-to-finished scientist, increasing his pace.
Leon instinctlively fired a shot into his shoulder.
"Only a BIRKIN'S blood will react to my G-Virus!" William laughed while clutching his wound, looking at Sherry, who, along with the others, realised what this meant...
"You son of a bitch! your own daughter!?" John shouted as Sherry clutched her chest in pain, obviously reacting to the virus that was previously dormant in her system.
Marvin pulled the switch, reactivating the power, beckoning John and Leon to follow him to the train that would take them to safety.
"What will you do?, leave my daughter to perish, or risk it and take her with you? It's your choice!"
Sherry was only 12 years old, but had the maturity of a person double that, her next statement proved this...
"Leave me...I'm mutating due to my father's doing, do what you must to him, it no longer matters to me..."
"Finish him off! He no longer deserves to live!" John called.
Leon knew he was right, but did he have it in him to kill him? It didn't take long to decide that the answer was yes. He fired the remaining five shots from his handgun, each hitting William with equal force and taking him to his knees. Slowly Leon walked up to point blank range and drew his Deagle for the final time.
"Do you have the guts?" William demanded while looking down the barrel of the powerful weapon and coughing up his blood, "DO YOU?!"
"...Yes" Leon answered angrily, pulling the trigger and finishing off Birkin with a bloody blast.
With a solumn look, he took one last glance at Sherry, who sadly pointed towards the bridge that Marvin and John were already crossing while kneeling next to her mother's corpse.
"I'm sorry, we didn't know..." Leon called.
"I forgive you" Sherry replied, a spasm sending her to the floor, beginning to slowly mutate into a monster like William.
Leon didn't look back and joined his partners.
"Okay, now all we have to do is get that train going and we're home free!" John laughed, exiting the bridge stairs and coming face to face with a grim sight, "Oh god no..."
Leon and Marvin froze in place as soon as they saw it as well: Elza lay dead after taking a bullet to her head, her body lay across Roy's in a pose that could have been looked upon as sweet had the two been alive.
"Come on guys, there's nothing we can do now." Marvin grimly stated, walking through the automatic train door, the image he had just seen burned into his memory forever.
John followed quickly, pulling Leon along with him as he was caught in a trance.
As soon as he was in, Leon snapped back to reality and headed towards the driver's section of the front cabin, hitting various switches that eventually got the train going, travelling down the long and winding tunnel that would lead to the outside world.
"Leon, you did what you had to...just know that" John said, patting him on the back.
"Yeah, I know, thanks John." He replied quietly.
In the backround the rumbles of the lab complex going up in a fireball were felt and heard.
"Hey, those flames arent going to get us are they!?" Marvin called, looking out the window of the back carriage, to see whether the flames were catching up.
"It doesn't matter, I see the end of the tunnel!" Leon called back, as they entered the light of dawn.
But as soon as the train exited the tunnel, the engines cut out and slowly they came to a stop, just outside Raccoon City's boundaries...
Epilogue:
Raccoon city lay in complete ruin, the undead lining the streets, surviviors, if any, nowhere to be seen...
An abandoned police car's radio at first displayed static, the only sound next to the wind blowing and undead moaning, before a voice appeared..
"This is Leon Kennedy sending out an emergency broadcast, I and my partners Marvin Branagh and John Kendo have been through hell and survived, anyone who hears this please respond as we're stranded outside the city...I repeat, anyone who hears this please respond..."
Static befell the radio again before the faint sound of three words: "We made it..."
The End...
Writers note: Well, there we go, Biohazard 1.5: The Forgotten Horror is now finished (about time too!). Thank you to anyone who has read/reviewed this saga and gave suggestions on how to make it better (Maximus Prime in particular)!
This is definately not the end of Leon, Marvin and John, as I have plans for another saga which occurs during the events of this one, charting Jill's experiences during this story's timeframe, but I won't be starting that just yet, I need to recharge my writing mojo after working on these last few chapters!
Cheers again for anyone who has lent support...
-ResiAddict.