Chapter 10

Departure

"Oh no!" Jill muttered as the three of them were seeing such scenery before them. Most of the houses were turned into debris and ashes. They looked to the left as they saw representatives from hospitals carrying stretchers, leading them to rows of bodies covered in blankets. Some people are beside some of the bodies, crying for their lost loved ones that are now nothing but corpses. They tried to look for Angie and Alice from the crowd but they are not to be seen among them. Jill approached one of the representatives that were attending the injured.

"Excuse me. Were you able to trace the bodies of Alice and Angie Ashford?"

"I'm sorry miss but I'm not the one responsible for listing all the corpses' identities. Perhaps you should ask him." the man raised his hand and pointed towards a man from a distance holding some papers, probably the list of the corpses' identities. She approached the man, but he noticed her first because he wasn't really attending to anyone.

"Hello there ma'am, I'm Dr. Abraham Connors, may I help you?"

"I was just about to ask if you were able to find Alice' and Angie Ashford's bodies?"

"I'm sorry but we haven't traced any of those people. I'm really sorry." the man said with a smile as they shook hands making the situation quite awkward.

Caleb approached the two and butts in. "Jill, I cannot find them." then he looked to the man she was talking to. They had an eye-to-eye contact and he knew there was something from that man but he cannot figure out what was it.

"Its ok." it was all Jill could say for the meantime.

The two of them Carlos as the three walked to each other. Carlos said he too didn't find anything from the two. They walked back to their car and drove off from the place. They are now trying to figure out what to do next but were unsure of what to do.

"I'm sure they have somehow escaped." Carlos said to 'break the ice.'

"But who the hell do you think would do that?" Caleb responded with an awkward look on his face. He wasn't sure if he should butt in their conversation.

"I suggest it is Umbrella but how did they knew our exact location?"

"That's the point but do you think they put some tracking device on Alice' body when they tried to regenerate her body?" Jill finally spoke.

"What do you mean by 'regenerate her body'?" Caleb said as he was puzzled by what Jill had said.

"We escaped from Raccoon City by some helicopter we obtained from Umbrella. During the explosion, a metal flew towards Angie but Alice intercepted and got herself impaled from it. It pierced through her body. We crashed somewhere from the Arklay Mountains and left her body there while we escaped the crash site before they could find us. We're sure Umbrella would recover her likewise since she is an experiment like you that was done by Umbrella. Weeks later, me, L.J., Carlos, disguised ourselves as Umbrella employees and helped her escape from one of their facilities. Then a few weeks more, we bumped to you." Jill explained to Caleb as brief as possible.

"Do you think they put a tracking device on me too?"

"It's possible, it's a reason how that killer had come to try and kill you."

"But that would mean that they had retrieved now." Carlos interrupted.

"Yes, it's a good reason but for now, we are going to a store and get ourselves some supplies."

"Why?" the boy asked

"We are moving out of this city."

"What about Alice and Angie?" Carlos butted in.

"They can fend off for themselves."

The car stopped as they saw a store across the street. They turned had park the car in front of the store. The three got out of the car walked towards the entrance.

"I'll get us some food and things that might be useful in our travels. Carlos, get us some ammunition from the gun shop next block. Caleb, get us some drinks."

The three of them left as Jill handed them some money she 'stole' back before he met them. Carlos got inside the gun shop. Caleb and Jill got inside the store. She grabbed two carts but the boy only had one. He spotted a cooler so he grabbed it and put it inside the cart but it didn't fit. So he left it there for the mean time. He grabbed bottled waters and some soft drinks just in case they wanted to have some kind of 'fun.' There were a few cans of soft drinks but most of the cart was filled with drinking water. She saw Jill across the aisle as one of the cart was overflowing with food while the other is almost full. He got back to the cooler and grabbed it on his shoulder. He went to the counter and start giving it to the cashier, while the other person was putting the things in the plastic bags.

Jill approached him as she gave the keys to Caleb and pointed on their car outside the store. Carlos was leaning on car, waiting as he was already done buying ammunitions. The cashier was already done as she asked for the payment. Caleb gave it to her and got the change as he put the extra money in his pocket. He carried five plastic bags full of drinks and approached Carlos outside.

"Wow, that's quite heavy and you lifted it easily." Carlos complimented and smiled on the boy.

"It must have been the fluids that they injected to me."

"Fluids?"

"I'm an experiment escaped from Umbrella, remember?"

"Oh."

Caleb gave him the keys as he opened the locks. He put what he had bought at the backseat while the drinks at the compartment together with the cooler. Jill approached them with two men pushing the carts filled with bags. It seems that it will not fit inside the car. She smiled as the two left and got inside the store again.

She crossed the street as she approached the van. She took something out of her pocket and lock-picked the door of the van. It didn't take a minute before she was able to open it. It doesn't have an alarm system so there was nothing to worry about. She hot wired the van as the engine started as she drove and stopped in front of the two. The door opened and there were two seats at the front. At least two could fit in beside the driver's seat. There were two rows of seats at the middle of the van where at least two people could fit on each seat. There were two seats on the back of the van that were placed on the sides where at least 3 people could fit in it. Over all, it was quite big for them as they put all the things they bought which fit inside and still had spaces left.

The three of them drove off of the place as they are more comfortable now because the space is wider. This time, Carlos was the one who was driving the vehicle.

"So, what did you got?" Jill asked.

"Well, I got two pump-action shotguns, two sniper rifles, and two M4A1's."

"I don't like shotguns." Jill muttered. "I'll have the M4A1."

"Of course I had loads of magazine for handguns, extra magazines for other weapons and shells for the shotgun."

"Can I have the sniper?" Caleb interrupted.

"Why would you think we would let you handle weapons?" Jill reacted.

"I trained at my uncle's shooting range and I played air soft with my uncle since I was like 7."

"I didn't see that one coming." Carlos complimented.

"You mean you know how to handle guns since you were a small boy?"

"Yup."

"How old are you anyway?" Carlos asked

"I'm only 12." the boy answered with a grin on his face.

"You are that young and you have already experience something bad like losing everyone you know."

"Yeah, and the truth was showed to me because of you guys." the boy said as Jill noticed the boy smiling on her.

"You better get some sleep."

The three were interrupted as the phone rang from inside the boy's pocket. He took it out and read the message. "It's from Alice."