Part 10: Down by the Creek.

I hope you enjoy this chapter I don't really know where I'm taking this story at the moment but I do aim to crash into the third film at some point but we'll see when that is so for now I hope you enjoy the chapter and as always I don't own resident evil but I do own Echo.

I could just hear the sound of waves crashing up against the edge of the river, I didn't want to open my eyes in case I was looking at my own body lying flat on the river's edge but I knew I had too. I could feel the breeze across my face there was one thing wrong with it but it was also a very right thing aswell, my gas mask was missing, this told me two things I was alive and the other…. Someone nicked my fucking gas mask!

I opened my eyes in a hurry the instant light meant I was blinded for a few seconds but I could hear faintly someone trying to unjam a pistol the constant and repetitive clicks were almost rhythmic, every two heart beats there was another click as the stubborn round refused to leave the chamber, I slowly opened my eyes and I saw everything around me was either wet, green or made of stone. I laid my head back and it smashed into the rocks that were on the bank. Still the clicking continued for about another thirty seconds, I closed my eyes and then heard a pinging sound as the stuck round was finally freed from its chamber with a fantastic ping. It caused me to open my eyes and look over to where the round was falling, I could see it falling in mid-air, every round tells a story every bullet has its tail and this one told and interesting story, it was heavily corroded on the edge where the brass meets the bullet but it was off this wasn't rust as for one brass doesn't rust and neither does lead, it must have been blood but who's I checked myself for holes and there were none, then who's blood was it? I glanced up to where the bullet had come from and I saw Alice sitting on a log with the pistol trying to get it working again.

"Finally awake?" She questioned, I nodded in response, "Good," She smiled back at me reached over behind the log and pull out my gas mask, "I think you might want this back," she told me as she threw my mask back at me.

"If you ever steal this thing again, I'll kill you," I told her jokingly.

"Yeah right I'd like to see you try," she said back with a smile.

I just climbed to my feet, disturbing just about every pebble on the bankside with a massive sift, I took a few steps over to the edge of the river and looked over to Detroit, I then looked down to the river and I saw my face in the river it, I looked battered to shit but the river the water was grey, there was no clean water at all in the river, the grey flowing almost solid mixture made a mess of the river's bank.

I turned to Alice, "What the hell happened?" I asked her.

She pulled back the receiver on her pistol one last time and then walked towards me with a rather confused look on her face, "you really don't remember do you?" she asked me.

"No, should I?" I asked.

"Well it was a pretty big bang so yeah I'd say you should," She told me.

"Why? What happened?" I asked her in a panic.

"The lab went to shit. Some fucker with a bomb tried to blow us to crap, but I stopped him and he only blew the lid off the lab flooding it, I then pulled you to safety. That was about three hours ago," She told me.

"Jesus! I've been out that whole time?" I asked.

"Well you came to a few times but then went straight back every time you got up so I just left you to it," She said with a wide grin on her face.

"You have a fictitious way of pursuing fun," I told her with a grin on my face.

"Thank you," She replied sarcastically putting her hand over her heart with her tongue thoroughly poked out.

"So how the fuck are we gonna get back across?" I asked her.

"Well there is no bridge getting off of this Island."

"What?" I said as I turned as moved closer to her.

"Yeah, well I can't help that but we can't sit around and just wait for help because that ain't gonna happen," She told me with a stern face.

"So what are we going to do?" I asked.

"Well if we move into the village just up the road we can find something to try and get ourselves off this rock," She replied.

"That's a plan then," I got up and put my mask in my bag along with my body armour, "Come on then let's move," I said as I walked over to the tree line.

Alice looked over to me shrugged then holstered her pistol and followed me, "so how do you plan on getting us back on the island?" Alice asked.

"A boat someone around here has gotta have a way off of here," I told her.

"I hope Alec is alright," She said quietly.

"Yeah!" I shouted letting her know I knew what she was saying, I felt the atmosphere become far tenser as I felt like Alice was hiding something from me. But as we moved through the forest towards the village I could hear every twig snap under my feet I could hear Alice making her footsteps lighter so light I couldn't hear them. I tried to listen to her footsteps but it became increasingly more difficult, I felt my heart begin to thump in my chest as I tried to listen to her heart aswell, I could almost hear her heart it was much faster paced than mine but I could hear it and feel it getting more powerful, she was closing in to me. I felt the air move around my body and I turned to see a knee closing in on me so I pulled out my combat Khukuri and slashed at it, I missed and it smashed into my ribs, I fell to the ground causing my Khukuri to fly away from me, I looked up and Alice had a grasp of my shoulder and was readying to swing another blow at me. "Fuck you!" I shouted at her as I gave her a swift upper cut knocking her onto the floor, I grabbed her collar and held her up slightly, "What the fuck are you doing?" I asked her.

"I need to do this on my own!" She told me.

"Well too fucking bad I just wanna get back to the others, now can we cut this bullshit and keep fucking going?" I said to her as I pinned her down.

"Okay just let me go!" She replied in frenzy.

"Good!" I shouted as I slammed her back down, "But you ever pull that shit again I'll fuck you up faster than you could fucking blink! Now let's calmly get to that village."

She climbed up and brushed off her clothes which were now covered and soaked through from the water in the leaf litter but atleast I knew she wasn't going to try anything like that again. I kept walking towards the village while Alice tried to keep up but I think that my upper cut had given her a bit of a shake-up, but we made it to a clearing just before the village, it looked deserted for the most part but I kept scanning for human life I couldn't see much. I couldn't see anyone it was a ghost town. I ran up to the first building and looked in through the window, it was a wooden shack with a rug on the floor much like one you'd see in the country but this was just on a random island in the middle of nowhere but the house had a fire going inside much like any other but it also had a stove cooking over it which told me someone had to be around. Alice joined me in looking through the window.

"Well someone's home," Alice said sarcastically.

"Let's go see who's home," I told her as I moved around to the front of the house and straight into the centre of town, "How is this even possible that no one is around?" I asked Alice.

"I don't know but it's not good," Alice replied.

"Awwww, you afraid?" I asked her sarcastically.

"No, I just think before I go nuts deep in a situation," She replied.

"Fair point but if I didn't none of us would have got out of Raccoon City," I told her bluntly.

"Raccoon City?" A voice questioned from behind us, followed by a click as someone chambered a twelve gauge shotgun.

"Aw shit," I said to myself as I turned.

"I thought I recognised you're face, you're one of those fugitives from that place."

"Yeah you got us so what are you going to do?" Alice asked him.

"Turn you in they put out one mighty reward on your asses and well as you could see I'm not rolling in money."

"Is that so?" I asked him, "So would you even believe me that the reason why the water is grey is because Umbrella just blew the Det-Windsor Tunnel?"

"Nope!" He said.

"Then check your TV," I told them.

"What the hell are you on about!" They said as they walked into their house, Alice and I followed them but we still didn't have a face on them only a voice, but as we followed them into their living room there was a little girl sitting on the couch with her eyes glued to the TV, "I don't believe it." The man told us, "You weren't shitting me," He said as he turned around, he was cleanly shaven like he was expecting someone but his hands told the story of a man who had literally built his home bare handed worked his way through, the house didn't show the touch of a woman so I guessed he needed something to do after his wife died and his daughter was a way of holding on to her.

"Nice house," I told him.

"I built it myself," He sat down next to his daughter, "You want a beer or a drink?"

"What beer do you have?" I asked.

"Coors-light."

"I'll take a water," I said with a grin, he chuckled and looked at Alice as if he was hinting that it was her turn to answer.

"I'm good," She said in response.

"Amy can you go get the man a glass of water and then go play," The man asked the child.

"Yes, Daddy," She said as she skipped into the kitchen, a few seconds later she came back with a glass of water, she handed it to me and then skipped away.

"Thank you." I said as I turned to look at the man.

"So how did you know about the tunnel and why do you think it was Umbrella?" The man asked.

"First, who are you?" Alice demanded.

"Who am I?" The man questioned.

"Yeah," Alice said with a stern look on her face.

"Well aren't you a fist full of fire?" He asked with a smirk across his face, "Well, I was like you once, young and full of fire, but then I had to settle down got married had a kid, a story just like everyone else my wife died four years ago so Amy and I moved here I built us a house and now we live here, outa sight and outa mind."

"Bullshit!" I told him, "You just lied through your teeth to us."

"And what makes you think that?" He asked us.

"Because that shotgun you have is Neostead NS2000, one of if not the most expensive shotgun on the market and you're life you just described you wouldn't even get close to getting one of those." I told him with a mercilessly straight face, "But an Umbrella USS operative would have access to one, I think you're Darius Reinher, the Umbrella operative who killed James Marcus, along with Albert Wesker."

"You really think that could have been me?" He asked.

"Yeah," I smiled back.

"And what would you do if I said it was me?"

I walked slowly around the room towards him closing in on him like a tiger on its prey, I could hear a swing outside creaking while the little girl was swinging on it, it was almost in time with his heartbeat, I could feel it pound as he lost the upper hand on the situation, "So you killed the boss then?" I asked.

"Yeah," He replied.

"Well then," I began, "you have my respect you took down the tyrant but it didn't play out to well for you did it?"

"No it didn't, I thought that in doing it, I would end my contract with Umbrella, but apparently Wesker had other ideas he used me as a scapegoat, I went to the shopping mall one day with Amy, I came back to see my wife dead on the kitchen floor, single bullet to the head, nine mil no collateral, definite Umbrella hit."

"So you ran to save her?" Alice asked.

"Yeah, I did I thought killing Marcus would end it but in fact it just put a more ruthless Albert Wesker at the CEO position which meant I was fucked and anyone I knew was dead!" He said losing control.

"Well you're not the only one who has a score to settle with Umbrella," Alice told him.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"They have experimented on us two and fucked our lives up not caring for us or the people around us we are money that walks but this money learnt to run," I told him, "So you want to help us expose Umbrella to the world for what they really are?"

"Yeah, I'm in," he told us.

"Good," I said just as I did though the TV blared out something which disturbed me.

"Breaking News, Violent attacks are breaking out all over North America, these unexplained and violent attacks seem to be concentrated in towns closest to Raccoon City but they are spreading rapidly."

"We better move!" Alice told us.

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