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Author's Note: "I'm Alive! I'm Alive!" (Frankenstein). You're all wondering why I'm quoting this movie but I'll explain later. Right now, I'm going to tell you why I haven't updated in almost a month while playing the world's smallest violin. (Begins playing world's smallest violin) Well you see, I was too lazy to write during February break and when I got back to school, I had another project. When I was writing this story, a virus got on to my computer disguised as Vista Antivirus 2010 and damaged my computer. Luckily all my stories were backed up but I couldn't write until AVG got rid of the problem. (Stops playing the world's smallest violin and throws it away) Anyway, it was getting kind of depressing that not too many people reviewed even though I got a good amount of hits. So I've decided to try a new method of getting people to review. Don't worry I won't be coming to your house threatening you if you don't review and sadly, I can't give you a million dollars if you do review. So I decided to have a little contest for this chapter. There are some famous quotes from both movies and video games in this chapter (I have a list although I may have missed a few). In your reviews, I want you to comment on this story and type down as many quotes as you can find in the text and send them to me. If any of you can find all of the famous quotes or if I get a lot of reviews, I'll reward you with an early update. So I'm going to let you read this chapter and let you go hunting for the quotes but be warned, some of them have been modified like the Frankenstein quote, so it would fit into the story better.

Main Characters: Steve Burnside (Handles tV-Type Tyrant), Claire Redfield, Jill Valentine, Sherry Birkin, Matthew Addison (The Voice and Nemesis-T01 Tyrant)

Secondary Characters: Chris Redfield, Alexia Ashford, Alfred Ashford, Billy Coen, Dedro, Cerrby, Captain Karl Victor, Leon Kennedy

Villains: Captain Joseph Shepherd

Chapter 10: Darkness Falls

Steve woke up to notice that he was no longer on a rooftop but in a hospital room. He quickly took in his surroundings to notice that there was another person in the room. Nemesis was sitting next to Steve's bed staring at him. He was amazed to see how Nemesis looked. You could almost mistake him as a human except for his right arm was a massive claw and that he had a scar where his right eye should be. He was completely bald and his left eye had no iris or pupil so it was completely white. His skin color was greyer than normal humans but not as grey as a zombie.

"You're finally up," Nemesis said.

"How long have I been out?" Steve asked.

"Two days."

"So Nemesis, do you want me to call you Matt?"

"I haven't heard someone use my human name in eleven years."

"So Matt, what happened to you? How did you become Nemesis? How are you still alive?"

"As you know my name was Matthew Addison. My sister, Lisa, and I were trying to expose Umbrella's secrets. I had to sneak into Umbrella's secret underground lab under the Spencer Estate in the Arklay Mountains. What I didn't know was that a viral outbreak occurred in the labs and everyone including my sister was turned into a zombie. I had no choice but to kill them all and in the end I was able to retrieve a sample of the T-Virus and escaped through an underground train. The train was attacked by a Licker and it managed to scratch my right arm. My arm began to mutate into a claw due to the effects of the T-Virus and I was captured by Umbrella Scientists. Dr. William Birkin put me in the Nemesis project along with three other people and turned them all into something like me. I became known as Nemesis-T01 and the others became known as Nemesis-T02, Nemesis-T03, and Nemesis-T04. After the failure of Mr. X who I believed went up against Claire Redfield and Leon Kennedy they sent Nemesis-T02 and I to Raccoon to kill all of the remaining S.T.A.R.S members. Unlike the Nemesis-T02, I had the prototype BI in my body, which was suppose to make me a more efficient Bio Organic Weapon. The BI was suppose to attach to my brain for maximum efficiency but what they didn't expect was that the BI reanimated my brain and allowed me to regain some of my human functions back including being able to speak. Umbrella learned about what happened so they activated the Nemesis-T02 and ordered it to terminate me. I went into the underground cryogenic chamber where the Nemesis-T02 was stored. I put my self in a cryogenic sleep until I could establish a connection to another tyrant. The cryogenic sleep must have allowed me to survive the destruction of Raccoon City and I woke up ten years latter which was when you injected yourself with that B.O.W enhancer which allowed us to gain a connection. The cryogenic sleep made me more human than tyrant but I still couldn't pass of as a human. So I've pretty much lived in Raccoon City and you already know the rest."

"So what is Raccoon City like?"

"Other than the entire place being destroyed and that the locals being zombies, it is just like a normal town."

"Wait, are you telling me that there are still zombies in Raccoon?"

"Do you really think that nuking a city would kill every zombie? Only few zombies survived the destruction of Raccoon City. The radiation from the nuke caused these surviving zombies to mutate. This resulted in the activation of all cell growth, including brain cells, which made the zombies more human. They now call themselves the Damned, for they are no longer considered zombies but are cursed with the T-virus."

"Wow, how could anyone miss this?"

"This part of the story may seem a little fantasy and sci-fi to you but I will do my best to explain. As you may know, tragedies can lead to people unable to move on after death forcing them to be ghosts to walk the earth. Well what happened in Raccoon City was a great tragedy and none of the zombies could move on. As a result all the dead zombies who couldn't move on became known as Nightmares. The Nightmares somehow created an alternate dimension and caused rifts in Raccoon City connecting our world to their alternate dimension. In other words, the Nightmares can use the rifts to enter our dimension. The Damned began to fight of the Nightmares, causing a war between them."

"So they are still in this war?"

"Correct, once a rift opens it is nearly impossible to destroy. The Damned were forced to live in the sewers as the Nightmares dominate the city at night but return to their dimension at day."

"So I'm the only one who can end the fighting?"

"You are the only one who could enter the rift and make it to the other side without being lost in another dimension for all eternity."

"It's because of the B-virus, isn't it?"

"Why would you say that?"

"I have never told anyone this, but the B-virus was in production before Wesker died. I was injected with the B-virus to enhance my abilities and it had no immediate affect. However, later on I began to develop strange traits. I began to phase in and out like a ghost and after that stopped, I gained poltergeist abilities. I never use them because last time I used it; I ended up torturing on of the scientist in a horrific manner causing his entire body to explode."

"You are correct; you were the only one to gain that ability but not because of the B-virus. It was because of the way you were revived. When you died, about half of your DNA was destroyed in the process. Therefore Wesker returned to Raccoon City to collect zombie DNA to infuse it with yours in order to revive you. To keep a long story short, Wesker infused your DNA with those of a Nightmare. They have always been known poltergeist and the B-virus must have activated the production of that DNA. The B-virus was never designed to reconstruct Nightmare DNA, so it failed to modify your body. But I believe it also activated your Tyrant powers in the process, which was the serum you told me about?"

"Yes."

"You are the most unusual Tyrant I have ever seen. With the T-Veronica virus, B-virus, and Nightmare DNA in your body, it could make you the strongest Tyrant of all time if trained properly."

"Wait what do you mean by that?"

"When Alexia has finished training you on the T-Veronica virus, you must return with me. I will teach you to control and use the Nightmare DNA successfully and turn you into a true Tyrant. It will be up to you to end the two nightmares that have consumed our world."

"Wait if the rifts are one of them, what's the other?"

Steve looked around to see that Nemesis was gone, and probably was never there. He quickly got up and looked at himself in a mirror. He appeared normal, but he knew deep inside, he was a monster. Not only does he have the T-Veronica virus in his body but now he his human DNA has been infused with Nightmare DNA.

Steve closed his eyes and began to breathe, calming himself down. When he held out his right hand to examine it, his handgun flew right into his hand before his very eyes. He looked at his Lugar P08 and realized that Claire must have left the gun here. Steve smiled over the fact that Claire kissed him just before he began to hear the voices.

Steve tried to calm himself again but this time the voices returned. Steve fell down on his knees and put his head over his forehead. Instead of trying to hold all of the pain with in him, he let out a cry of pain. Suddenly every glass object in the room shattered causing all of the glass to scatter across the floor.

In spite of himself, Steve began to laugh. He was never going crazy upon hearing the voices; it was his Nightmare abilities that caused it. The pain that he was gaining from hearing the voices was due to the fact that he was bottling up his abilities. All he had to do was release that built up energy to stop the pain. All though every glass object in the room was shattered into a million pieces, he no longer wanted to commit suicide. He was now rolling on the floor in laughter and relief.

His laughter was short lived as a doctor walked into the room. He took one step in the room and dropped his clipboard.

"What happened here?" The doctor said.

Steve just looked up at him and the doctor took one step back. Steve's eyes were completely black and he began to listen to one of the voices that were inside his head.

"Can you hear them? They are calling to us. It's beautiful," Steve answered in an inhuman voice.

"What the…"

The doctor didn't have time to react as Steve extended his hand towards the doctor. Steve could tell that the doctor could no longer do anything and he appeared to be in pain.

"You humans seem to be unable to evolve. You are all weak. Let me show you a little bit of our power."

With a flick of his wrist, the doctor was on the floor having a painful seizure. Steve began to laugh over the doctor's pain. As he was about to finish him off he could hear Matt's voice ringing in his ears.

"Don't do it Steve. You can't let the Nightmares use you as a conduit. You must learn to control your power and resist the Nightmares from controlling you."

Steve came back to his senses as his black eyes turn back into his reddish-yellow cat like eyes. The doctor was now trying to recover form the seizure.

"I'm sorry I did that to you, but I sort of lost control of my body," Steve said. The doctor was apparently knocked out. Steve lifted him on the bed and stood before him. He closed his eyes and let the Nightmares' voices come back to him. He was amazed over all of the abilities the Nightmares had. One of the voices happened to tell him something that was very useful to him. He began to spread his fingers out on the doctor's face putting his index fingers on his eye lids. Steve looked at the doctor and said, "I can't let anyone learn about who I am." In a blink of an eye, black electricity jumped out from his hand, to the doctor's eyes, deleting any memories he had of him. Steve than turned to the clipboard and looked at it.

The clipboard contained all of his tests on it. Looking at it, the results show that his DNA was structured completely different. Steve burned the clipboard and quickly put out the fire.

He looked to see Dedro and Cerrby entering the room. He turned to them and said, "Dedro I need your help. Can you clean up this mess?"

"Yes…sir." Dedro replied

"After that, we are going to play a little game." Steve replied as Dedro and Cerrby perked up and began to smile.

While Dedro cleaned up Steve's mess from his little episode. Steve and Cerrby began to explore the place. He soon realized that he was at the B.S.A.A headquarters, so it would be much easier to play their little game. Steve and Cerrby were able to locate the armory with ease and noticed that there were two guards guarding the armory door. With a flick of his wrist, two tentacles sprouted out from the ground knocking the two guards unconscious.

Steve went over to the guards and opened the armory door. While Steve was looking for weapons, Cerrby was standing guard so that no one would come near them. Five minutes later, Steve came out of the armory with a Tavor Tar-21 assault riffle and a RPG-7 NVS. He was also carrying as much ammo as he could carry. Dedro quickly joined the two.

"I…finished…master…and…I…also…got…the…poison…for…Cerrby."

"Good job Dedro. Now we all know the rules so let's find a place to play." Steve grinned as Dedro grabbed the RPG-7 NVS and ammo for the rocket launcher as Cerrby grabbed the poison using his teeth.

As they all quickly ran to avoid being caught, Steve smiled as he knew that this game would be very interesting.

Claire sat in her office impatiently as she waited for the doctor to give her the results on Steve's test. It has been two days since Steve fell unconscious and Claire was miserable. She would lose her sanity if she lost him again, now having expressing her feelings to him. Luckily Sherry was also waiting for him with her as the rest of the group returned to Cloven to prepare for Steve's arrival.

"It's alright Claire, Steve will be fine." Sherry reassured her.

Before Claire could answer, Chris walked into Claire's room. Chris was extremely pale and looked disturbed by something."

"Chris, are you alright." Claire asked worried about her brother.

Chris ignored Claries' question and turned to face Sherry. "Does Steve normally act like this?"

"What?" Sherry asked who was confused about the question just like Claire.

"Well I was walking in the hospital district of the base when I see Steve and Cerrby leaving his room. I couldn't catch them in time so I decided to check his room. All the glass seemed to have shattered and the doctor was on the bed unconscious. Dedro was cleaning the mess and when I asked about it, he blamed the mess on Steve. I then get a call to find out Steve knocked out two of the guards guarding the armory and ran off with a Tavor Tar-21 and a RPG-7 NVS."

Chris turned to find Claire's chair spinning and was no longer in the room. He turned back to Sherry, who was laughing.

"Please tell me that you're laughing at some joke and not the fact that Steve is going to commit suicide."

"I'm laughing because I can't wait to see the look on Claire's face when she finds out what Steve is planning on doing?"

Steve, Dedro, and Cerrby entered the B.S.A.A gymnasium and locked the door. Steve, armed with the Tavor Tar-21, Cerbby, armed with a RPG-7 NVS, and Cerrby, with paws covered in poison, went to opposite corners of the gym. As soon as they were ready, they started to play their little game.

"Say hello to my little friend." Steve said while pointing the Tar-21 at Dedro and began to shoot at him.

Steve felt like he was going to kill himself because he was laughing so hard when Dedro dodged the bullets by break dancing.

"Your…assault…riffle…is…no…match…for…my…rocket…launcher." Dedro replied as he shot the rocket launcher.

There was a huge kick to Dedro's weapon so it sent him rolling on the floor. Steve just stood their and dodged the rocket Matrix style as he bent his back backwards so the rocket would go over him.

"How…did…you…do…that?"

"Elementary, my dear Dedro." Steve smirked as Cerrby head butted Dedro.

Dedro was on his back and accidently shot of another rocket and barely missing Cerrby. Cerrby played dead so that when Dedro got up, he thought that he killed Cerrby.

Dedro saw Cerrby on the floor and quickly ran up to his body and cried, "What…have…I…done? I…killed…my…best…friend…in…the…whole…"

Dedro was quickly knocked on the floor as Cerrby overpowered and began to slap him using his right paw, which was covered in poison.

As Dedro staggered back he yelled, "I'll…get…you…my…pretty…and…your…little…tyrant…too."

Steve began to fire at Cerrby who was running around the gym avoiding all of the shots. They were extremely careful when playing this game and because they all had the T-Veronica virus, they can survive any injuries for a while, thus making the game less deadly for them. But they can only play in an isolated area to avoid any outside causalities.

While Steve was distracted with Cerrby, Dedro pounced on Steve's back.

"Get your hands off me you dirty hunter!" Steve yelped while trying to pry Dedro off him.

"Do…you…feel…lucky? Well…do…you…punk?" Dedro retorted.

Unfortunately for Dedro, Steve was feeling lucky as he knocked Dedro off his back. However, they ended up switching weapons so Steve had the RPG-7 NVS while Dedro had the Tar-21.

"Rangers lead the way." Steve said as he pulled a Ranger out that he was hiding.

"How…did…you…get…that?" Dedro asked.

"That's classified. If I tell you I'll have to kill you." Steve pointed the gun at Dedro's head and said, "Hasta la vista baby." With that Steve pulled the trigger on the Rangers but there was a small clicking sound. Steve pressed the trigger multiple times and muttered to himself, "I probably should have checked to see if there was ammo in the guns."

Dedro smirked as he pointed the Tar-21 at Steve and said, "I…am…the…law. Put…your…weapon…down…and…prepare…to…be…judged."

Steve dropped both his Ranger and the RPG-7 NVS. Using a trick he remembered Claire using when he saw the security videos at the Umbrella Paris facility, he fell to the ground and shot the rocket launcher at Dedro. Dedro ducked out of the way and the rocket flew past him, heading straight for the wall. Steve quickly went up to the rocket and grabbed it and went up to the basketball basket and dunked the rocket. As it hit the floor and exploded. Steve yelled, "He shoots, and scores. The crowd goes wild."

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT OF BED!" a female voice screamed.

Dedro quickly turned to face Claire so fast, that he accidently pressed the trigger on the Tar-21, shooting Steve in the gut.

"Sun of a…" Steve said as he tried to use the wall for support.

"What," Dedro said as he accidently shot Steve for the second time.

"You're lucky I'm a tyrant," Steve said at Dedro.

"Dedro, stop shooting my BOYFRIEND," Claire yelled

"Boyfriend," Steve asked confused before receiving a third bullet to the gut, "Dedro, stop shooting me!"

"Sorry…master," Dedro said as he dropped the Tar-21, but when it hit the ground it fired another bullet at Steve.

"Just shoot me," Steve mumbled.

"Ok," Dedro said as he picked up the Tar-21 and shot Steve for the fifth time.

"I WAS BEIGN SARCASTIC!" Steve yelled at Dedro.

"Give me the gun," Claire growled at Dedro.

"My…gun," Dedro wined at Claire only causing her to begin to fight for control for the gun.

During the fight Claire accidently pressed the trigger, which Steve got shot for the sixth time.

"God damn it, Claire. Usually when you want to break up with someone, you don't shoot them," Steve grumbled as he fell to his knees unable to support himself any more.

"Steve, I didn't mean to," Claire said quickly.

"Don't…worry…the…gun…is…empty." Dedro replied as he pressed the trigger. Another bullet hit Steve, forcing him to fall on his face, and moan in pained. Dedro pressed the trigger again and heard a clicking sound. "Now…it's…empty."

"You two, out, NOW," Claire sternly said to both Dedro and Cerrby. Both of them took a hint and began to walk out of the gym.

Claire ran over to Steve, who was on the ground. She kneeled down and turned Steve over to find out he was laughing.

"How do you think this is funny?" Claire yelled at Steve.

"I'm a tyrant, Claire," Steve explained, "Like Wesker, I enjoy pain."

"I still hate what Wesker did to you."

Claire looked at Steve and his face was filled with grief. He continued to stare at Claire and said, "Claire I need to tell you something."

"What is it," Claire asked nervously.

"While I was with Wesker, I did something that made Wesker pissed at me. He injected the T-Veronica virus into my sperm."

"What do you mean by that?"

"It means that if we have sex or if any of my sperm gets into your body, you'll become infected."

"Is there any way around it?"

"Not entirely. Unless the person has immunity for it or can tolerate the virus, there is no way it can be reversed."

"Kind of like the Uroboros virus. Wesker said that only a select people like him can survive the Uroboros virus."

"Wait, are you telling me Wesker tolerated the virus?"

"Yes he infected himself to kill my brother."

Steve's facial expressions went from confusion to shock and horror.

"Why didn't I see this sooner?" Steve yelled as he got up and began to limp towards the door.

"Steve you need to…"

"Get everyone in the meeting room now." Steve interrupted as he limped out of the gymnasium with Claire not far behind him.

Ten minutes later Jill, Chris, Sherry, Dedro, Cerrby, Claire, and Steve were all in the meeting room. Sherry looked at Steve's face and was saddened by the terrible damage his body in.

"Steve you need to go see a doctor." Sherry argued.

"This is more important than me going to get seven bullets removed from my body!" Steve yelled.

"You found out didn't you."

"Once Claire filled me in on how Chris killed Wesker, I figured out."

"Hey what are we talking about," Chris butted in to the conversation.

"Chris did Wesker inject himself with the Uroboros virus?" Steve asked.

"Saw it with my own two eyes." Chris replied.

"Jill did you always wonder why Wesker didn't kill you when you're imprisoned?" Steve asked

"Yes, why didn't Wesker kill me?"

"It was because Wesker saw that you were still useful, even though he couldn't inject you with the Uroboros virus." Steve replied.

"She was immune to the Uroboros virus." Claire interrupted.

"How did you know that?" Sherry asked Claire.

Claire blushed, causing Sherry and Chris to both stare at the couple. Chris looked at Steve with vicious eyes knowing that they were talking or doing something inappropriate. Sherry didn't look confused at all and probably knew what they talked about.

"How much did you tell her?" Sherry asked.

"Only what she needed to know." Steve replied.

"Can I ask what you two were talking about?" Chris asked sternly.

"We were talking about sex." Steve simply stated with no emotion or blush showing. Claire was amazed about Steve's boldness, Sherry looked concerned about Steve, and Chris wanted to punch Steve's head though a wall. "Go ahead Chris hit me, I don't care."

Chris stared at him confused, "So you're not going to fight back?"

"Chris, your intimidation doesn't scare me. It may work on most boys but not me. Besides you won't kill me and I don't think you would hit me."

Chris was angered about Steve challenging him as a man so he went to punch him in the gut. Chris quickly realized that Steve didn't challenge his manhood when Dedro grabbed his arm and Claire and Sherry ran to push Steve out of the way.

"Chris, you may rely on blunt force, but I rely on strategy." Steve chuckled, "No wonder Wesker is always able to beat you."

"But Wesker is dead!" Chris yelled at Steve.

"You don't get it do you. Anyone who has any other virus in them is immune to the Uroboros virus. Jill is immune because she has the T-Virus in her, Sherry has the G-Virus, I have the T-Veronica virus, and Wesker had the Wesker virus."

"What are you trying to say?" Claire asked fearfully.

"Steve is trying to say that Wesker is immune to the Uroboros virus and it should have hade no affect on him," Sherry explained.

"Which means that Wesker must have cloned himself and the clone was the one that Chris killed," Steve stated.

"But t-t-that means that…" Claire stuttered.

"That Wesker is still alive and he was the one who hired Shepherd the kill Steve," Sherry said, "and once Wesker finds out Steve is alive, he will do whatever it takes to kill him."

Chris and Jill were now stunned and Claire went to hug Steve to reassure him that everything was going to be alright. When Sherry looked up to see Steve, she could see that Steve was smiling to himself and that his golden-red cat like eyes had a tint of black in them.

I don't normally answer review questions at the end of a chapter but I didn't want to put them at the beginning of the story. Yes, The Voice's name is Matthew Addison which is a character I borrowed from the Resident Evil movies. He does appear as Nemesis but I decided that the Nemesis in RE3 and the one in the movies are two different stories. Some of Mathew's story is different from the movie so that it would fit in the story. Also there won't be a lot of action in the next few chapters as it would mostly contain a lot of drama and romance. The next few chapters will also contain a very important piece of Steve's past which is vital to the storyline. I know that in one of my chapters, I told you about Capcom's backdoors for most of their characters. Well I found Wesker's backdoor in Resident Evil 5, so there is a possible chance Wesker can return (Check out the files section of RE5 for more information on Wesker's backdoor, specifically Jill's and Wesker's file). So that is all I have to say so please review with you comment and the quotes for the challenge. I would hope that the StevexClaire fans would attempt to complete this chapter because the next chapter has a m _ _ _ / o _ _ scene (Fill in the blanks, it shouldn't be hard). Also for the next installment of this story, you might want to bring headphones with you and have access to Youtube.

I may have been gone for a month but I still remember to give you guys a glimpse at the next chapter. Steve and Sherry return home, along with Claire, Jill, and an old friend of Billy's (Who could it possibly be?). Claire tries to get some time alone with Steve but with Alexia and her "hired" sidekick Dedro, it gets really hard but in the process she learns about one of Steve's hobbies.