Enduring the Evil 3: Nemesis
Disclaimer: Yes, I know, it was most likely quite obvious that this story would be happening. This is my third Resident Evil fic. The story is the Resident Evil plot but due to some changes that I have put in, it is non-canon. Resident Evil and its characters belong to CAPCOM, all OCs in this story belong to me and my friends, Dante Deco belongs to Experimental Agent 1123, Lucas Sunghyun belongs to sonickiller41, Jerry Troung belongs to firelies69, Rav Tsuki belongs to Shadowrav, Mia Jones belongs to Crazzygurl123, Justin Stewart belongs to Stormblaze530. Story has been updated, all spelling mistakes and errors that I could find have been fixed.
Chapter 10 - Unexpected Reunion
Raccoon City, Flower Street, 11:30 AM, 'Dante, Shane, Davis, Alan, Max, Stuart, Marc, Louise'
Dante stood at the entrance of the warehouse and watched as the other swat officers made quick, and very short work of a group of zombies that were trying to break through the barricade. Of course it was a failed attempt, even if the others didn't fire, the zombies still wouldn't have gotten through since the barricades were too strong and heavy for anything to break through, but even then, it was better to be safe than sorry.
A few more gunshots filled the air and the remaining zombies went down.
"Well, that takes care of that!" Davis shouted.
Shane made his way to the ground floor and exited the warehouse followed by the others. "Alright, take a break, McCoy, I want you on watch."
Alan nodded and made his way back upstairs.
"Sir, any word yet from Striker?" Davis asked.
Shane shook his head and sat down on a small crate. "Nothin' yet lad. I told him to go around and look again to see if he can find any survivors, hopefully if there are survivors they'll follow him to this location."
"Of course they will have to get through the zombies first, and who knows what else is out there." Max added.
Dante spoke up. "Sir, if I may make a suggestion, would it not be a good idea to get those other survivors out of here at the moment?"
Shane turned to him. "We could do that but Striker's helicopter won't last three trips, and there's only enough fuel to keep him flying around the city for a good while."
"Dammit." Dante said.
Max took his helmet off and grinned. "Don't worry about it little man, we got this place defended perfectly, didn't you see us just kick those motherfuckers asses?"
Dante nodded and turned away. "Yeah, but that's not what I'm worrying about." He muttered.
"Green, go and see if the survivors need anything." Shane said.
Davis got up and entered the warehouse, Stuart, Marc and Louise were just sitting around a table playing a board game that they found while looking around earlier. "Hey, the captain asked me to come and see if you needed anything, you three good right now?" Davis asked.
Stuart nodded. "Yeah we're good."
"We've got food, water, other supplies, a whole bunch of board games to choose from and a swat team who pretty much has this place covered as an invincible fortress, yeah I think we're good." Marc said with a grin.
Davis chuckled. "Heh, ok." He turned and was about to leave but was stopped when they spoke again.
"Umm, officer, why don't you have a bite to eat." Louise said.
Davis turned to her. "Nah I'm good, we all need to focus on guarding this place so that the-"
Louise spoke before he could finish. "Come on, you and your fellow officers are already working hard enough, please take a break and have something to eat and drink."
Davis raised a brow and wondered what to do. "If she's asking you to take a break then by all means take a break Green, you don't have anything else to do right now lad."
"Captain?" Davis said turning to Shane who was standing next to him.
Shane nodded. "Go on, get some rest, eat, drink, do what you want, if something is about to happen, then I'll let you know." Shane exited after giving Davis the permission he was waiting for.
Davis smirked and sat down on an old couch and began to drink a bottle of water.
"He's a really nice man." Louise said.
Davis nodded. "Yeah, the captain is a great guy, he treats all of us like sons, I'd give my life for him."
Marc grinned. "That's saying a lot then isn't it?"
"Yeah..." Davis replied and lay back against the the couch and closed his eyes, he knew they would escape eventually, he couldn't wait to escape, return to his own home and live in peace, thinking of it, even in the current situation, thinking of it made him feel at peace, made him happy.
Stuart spoke up. "Hey Marc, you still got your phone right?"
Marc nodded. "Yeah, I've been trying to reach Alex several times for a while, I'm starting to worry something might have happened."
"Don't worry guys, I'm positive Alex and the others are alive, they've been through this before and survived, I have faith that they can do it again." Louise said.
Stuart sighed. "I hope you're right Louise..."
Raccoon City, Ennerdale Street, 11:35 AM, 'Alex, Bryan, Jamie, Danny, Connor, Scott, Lucas, Rav, Justin'
Everyone sat in silence while keeping an eye out for zombies, Bryan, Danny and Lucas were sitting by an unconscious Alex, unconscious because Scott knocked him out not long ago. Alex had most likely taken things the wrong way and blamed Scott for them almost dying not too long ago, the argument between both of them resulted in a fight which ended after Scott knocked Alex out with a powerful uppercut. And to no surprise, everyone, even Connor, were keeping their distance from Scott, if he was still pissed off himself then they clearly didn't want to be near him at the moment, and after seeing what he did to Alex, they didn't doubt for a second that he would break any of them that got on his bad side right now.
Finally, Alex began to regain consciousness, he slowly opened his eyes and let out a quiet groan. "Ugh...what...what...what the hell happened?"
Bryan spoke up. "You got your ass kicked, that's what."
Alex slowly sat up, Lucas helped him. "Easy there man."
Scott walked over to him, Alex looked up at him and sighed. "I guess that's what I get then eh?"
"Yup." Scott replied.
Alex sighed again and got to his feet, he took a deep breath and then stared at Scott, who stared back. "Sorry..." Alex said.
Scott tilted his sideways and shrugged. "Yeah yeah me too." They both shook hands. "I guess it was stupid to go on without making sure everyone was together."
Alex nodded. "I guess it was also mostly my fault for not moving when you guys were."
"Hm, let's just put all of that behind us and focus on the now." Scott said turning away.
Alex nodded and turned to the others. "How long was I out?"
Rav spoke up. "Just over half an hour."
"And where are we?" Alex asked.
Justin looked around. "We moved on, Scott carried you here to Ennerdale Street, luckily no zombies have appeared yet so we just rested here and waited until you woke up."
Alex nodded again. "Alright, let's get a move on then, and make up for lost time." Alex moved on.
Justin snickered. "Hehe, moving on already? Talk about not wasting time eh?"
Everyone else followed until it was just Rav and Scott who were left.
Rav spoke up. "Tell me the truth, were you really holding back the entire time?"
"Hmph..." Scott walked on, Rav followed, not expecting a reply, but eventually she got one as they walked. "If I didn't hold back, he wouldn't be alive right now."
Rav just stared at him, at first she was thinking he had a big ego, but the thought went away when she remembered how he was fighting Alex. He spoke words, and he could back them up easily.
"Hey Alex, are you all right?" Jamie asked.
Alex nodded. "Yeah I'm fine, don't worry, I can still feel a bit of pain in my body, but it will go away eventually."
"Let's hope so, we need everyone to be ready to fight when we run into more zombies." Danny said.
Justin turned to Lucas. "So, how long have you guys known each other for?"
Lucas faced him and replied while they were walking. "Actually, I've only known them for a short while, I met them just a couple of days ago."
"Oh, I see, well that's fine then." Justin said.
Lucas nodded. "Yeah, in fact, I actually know Alex and Danny a bit, Alex was a teacher at a Bare-Knuckle Boxing school, I was a pupil there, and Danny was in the same music school as me, although you could say I don't really know them aswell as they know each other."
Justin smirked. "Heh, right, it's a coincidence that you happen to find them again eh?"
Lucas shrugged. "You could say that."
The group continued to walk on in silence, the only sound filling the air were the cries of the zombies that echoed throughout the city, no matter where they were, they would hear those cries.
"Zombies!" Bryan shouted.
The group stopped walking and saw a large group of zombies approaching them.
Alex looked around and pointed to an alley. "Guys, if we climb over that barricade and cut through that alley then we'll end up near city hall, let's forget these zombies and move on."
Justin ran over to the barricade and turned to him. "I'm guessing you know your way around the city pretty well eh?"
Alex nodded as he ran over to the barricade. "You got that right, I've lived here for so long, I pretty much know the city like the back of my hand, kinda."
Scott stepped in front of the group and spoke. "You guys go, I'll catch up."
"What?! Are you serious?!" Jamie said.
Justin spoke next. "You gotta be kidding, look! There's like twenty of them, you can't fight that many zombies by yourself!"
Scott threw the bag of guns and ammo at Connor. "Hold onto that Connor, and don't lose it..." He said giving Connor a death glare.
Connor nodded. "S-Sure!"
"Scott!" Alex shouted.
Scott turned to him, Alex continued. "Don't take too long."
"Hm, right." Was Scott's reply.
Everyone climbed over the barricade and jumped into the alley, Rav took one more look back at Scott, who nodded at her before she turned and followed the others.
Scott turned back to the zombies and aimed his shotgun at them. "Ok, let's get this over with."
"Are you sure this is a good idea?!" Lucas said as they ran down the long alley, they could hear Scott's shotgun blasts echoing in the air behind them.
Bryan replied. "Don't worry, Scott will be fine, he always is!"
"Let's hope so, to lose someone like him would be a heavy blow." Justin said.
Raccoon City, Construction Area, 11:40 AM, 'Jill, Mia, Matt, Rob, Pierce'
Jill and the others managed to get as far away from the department as possible, hopefully by doing so, the monster that's been after them won't find them for a while. Although they had the advantage in numbers, that monster was something Jill had never faced before, at first, the monster seemed alot like the Tyrant that she and the others faced back at the mansion, at the same time though, it was far different. Whatever it was, one thing was clear, it was after her. And even though they had the advantage in numbers, she didn't doubt for a second that it would be capable of taking them all out.
"Jill, are you ok?" Mia asked.
Jill nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine, just thinking." She turned to Matt, Rob and Pierce who were walking on up ahead looking around the area.
"Come on, let's go, we're already wasting too much time." Jill said and moved on, Mia followed her until they reached a split path.
Mia gasped, Jill turned to see Matt and the others kneeling down next to a dead body, from the looks of the dead man, he seemed to be another one of those soldiers that came into the city by helicopter. Jill took a careful look and noticed blood leaking out of several parts of the body, he may have just died recently.
Matt spoke up. "I don't think this sad prick was killed by a zombie..."
Jill nodded. "You're right, I can tell just by the marks on his body, it looked more like a lot of his blood was drained."
Pierce shivered at the thought. "Ugh, just the thought of that makes me shake."
Just then, the air was filled by a high pitched roar. "What the fuck was that?" Rob said looking around.
A large insect like creature jumped down from above and snarled at them. "Whoa! No seriously what the fuck is that?!"
The insect creature got up on it's rear legs and ran at them, this caused them all to back away until it fell on it's front legs again. "Shoot it!" Matt said.
Everyone did what he said and began shooting at the creature. After a few seconds, their combined efforts quickly took the creature down.
Rob walked over to the dead creature and examined it. "If you ask me guys, this looks like a flea, a big flea."
Jill thought for a moment. "If you're right, I wonder how something like that could suddenly become so big."
Mia kneeled down next to the dead creature and examined it herself. "Umm, Jill, is there anything about the zombies that we don't know? Like...like anything inside of their blood or something?"
Jill nodded. "Now that you mention it, the zombies do have a virus in them, people who get infected by the virus become zombies, it's a little hard to explain."
Mia turned back to the creature. "If I'd have to guess then, I'd say this flea was probably eating an infected body, which resulted in it getting infected itself, which probably explains why it's this big."
Matt raised a brow. "I'll admit, that's a pretty good assumption. It probably mutated from the infected blood."
Jill kneeled down next to Mia and spoke again. "I'm guessing you worked in a place that tells you a lot about cells and such, am I right?"
Mia shrugged. "Actually I've been studying abroad, I've been working at a grocery store here in Raccoon City just for extra cash. With all of my studying, I've been hoping to get a masters degree in virology."
Jill smiled a little. "That's a lot to focus on isn't it?"
Mia nodded. "Yeah I suppose, but right now I'm more focused on getting out of this place."
"You're right, we better get-" Before Jill could finish, another insect creature appeared and snarled at them, this one was much different than the other, it seemed a little bigger and was more grotesque than the other.
The others failed to see it in time though as it already had Rob in it's grasp and began attacking him. "Get this fucker off of me!"
Pierce stood back, unwilling to get himself hurt for someone else, even Rob. Matt made his move and fired his two colts at the creature, the impact from the bullets forced it off of Rob and to the floor.
"ROB!" Jill ran over to Rob who was already leaning against the wall with his hand against his shoulder. "Are you all right?!"
Rob coughed and turned to her. "I think that thing poisoned me...!"
Jill helped Rob to his feet and helped him up the small set of stairs and over to the door down one of the paths. Mia and Pierce followed while Matt finished off the creature himself before following.
As they made their way through the door and into another alley, they were immediately alerted to gunshots that came from up ahead out in the street.
The group could see a man just up ahead in the street shooting at a zombie. "SCUM!" The man shouted.
As they made their way down the alley, the man finished the zombie and ran off.
"Wait!" Mia shouted, but the man was already gone.
The group made their way out of the alley and into the street, and to no surprise, it was just like every other place they were at, completely wrecked.
Mia pointed to something. "Up there, the Grill Thirteen Restaurant is just ahead, let's rest in there."
Jill nodded and helped Rob up the street, Matt and Pierce followed while keeping an eye out for more zombies.
They eventually got to the entrance, Jill stopped and turned to Matt. "Matt, can you go in and make sure it's safe first?"
Matt sighed. "Fine." He walked over to the door and quickly entered.
Jill waited a few long seconds, then Matt exited and nodded at them. "It's clear, get in."
"Right." Jill said and helped Rob into the restaurant, Mia and Pierce followed them inside.
"Rest here right now Rob." Jill said and helped Rob down onto a long leather chair.
Pierce looked outside and sighed with relief. "Phew, no zombies at the moment. That means we're good for now."
Matt sat down and took out his two colts and reloaded them. Mia walked over to him, curious as to why she was bothering to talk to him, he spoke. "What?"
Mia replied. "I...I just wanted to thank you, for, for saving me back at the department."
Matt looked at her for a quick second before turning back to his colts. "Hm, whatever..."
She just gave up and walked back over to Jill who was checking her stuff. "Is Rob going to be ok?" Mia asked.
Jill shook her head. "I don't know, probably not, we'll need to find some herbs to get rid of that poison, otherwise he won't last long."
Matt finished reloading his colts and got to his feet. "We better get going."
"Wait. What about Rob?" Pierce said.
Matt turned to Rob. "Pierce, you stay with Rob at the moment, we'll go on ahead and look around."
Pierce nodded and stayed next to Rob.
"Mia, you stay with them too." Jill said.
"That's probably a good idea, I have some medical training that may help anyway." Mia replied.
Matt moved on behind the counter and to the back of the restaurant, Jill followed. Matt examined a closed hatch at the end of the area and turned to Jill. "I'm betting this goes to the basement, we can't open it with our bare hands though."
Jill nodded and went further to the back of the restaurant to look for something of use. There was a small locker at the end, of course, it was locked, but luckily Jill had her lockpick and used it to open the locker, inside was a fire hook. "This will probably help open the hatch." Jill took the fire hook and quickly made her way back around the corner to where Matt was.
"Where did you get that?" Matt asked.
Jill used the fire hook and put it into the hatch. "It doesn't matter, we can open this now." Jill started to pull on the fire hook and tried to open the hatch, she managed to open it a little but just barely, then, suddenly, she could feel someones hand near her own. Jill turned to see Matt grabbing onto the fire hook and began helping her. With their combined efforts, they both managed to open the hatch.
"Thanks..." Jill said turning to Matt.
Matt just ignored her and was about to go down into the basement, but a sound filled the air and made them stay where they stood.
Jill turned to the source and saw someone crouching behind the counter. "What's that?"
The man stood up and showed himself. "Calm down lady, I'm no zombie. My name's Carlos, corporal of Umbrella's Biohazard Countermeasure Force. What's your name?"
Jill replied as he approached her. "Jill...did you just say you belong to Umbrella's army?"
Carlos nodded. "Yeah, we came all the way out here to save you civilians, but the mission went bad the minute we landed."
Before they could continue their conversation, the three of them heard the door around the corner at the very back of the restaurant slam open and shut.
A familiar monstrous roar filled the air, coming from the very back of the restaurant.
"Oh shit not him again." Matt said.
Jill shook her head in disbelief. "No way, how did he find me?"
They could hear the monsters loud footsteps approaching, Jill ran around the corner of the counter and into the dining area. "Over here!"
Carlos and Matt followed Jill out of the kitchen and into the dining area and took cover behind the counter.
The monster reached the hatch where they stood seconds ago and roared again while looking around. "STARS..."
Jill grabbed the oil-based lamp from the counter and threw it to the back of the kitchen. The monster saw it and watched as it hit the leaking pipes, immediately after, the entire kitchen exploded and engulfed the monster. Jill, Carlos and Matt hid under the counter as some of the fire shot out into the dining area.
"Whoa the fuck is going on?!" Pierce shouted as Rob got up and grabbed him and Mia and took cover behind the front counter.
The entire restaurant shook, eventually it stopped and the sound of the explosion eventually died down.
After waiting for a short minute, everyone got to their feet. "Are you crazy?! You could've barbecued all of us!"
Jill nodded. "Sorry, it was the only way."
Matt walked into the now destroyed kitchen, everyone else eventually followed. They all looked on in surprise and shock as they saw the monster was finally dead. Matt just grinned. "Heh, I should've figured that would of killed the bastard."
Jill saw something next to the dead monster and picked it up, it looked like parts for a gun.
Carlos turned to the others and put on a friendly smile. "Sorry I didn't introduce myself earlier, I'm Carlos, what are your names?"
Matt spoke up. "Matt, that's Rob and Pierce."
"I'm, Mia." Mia replied.
Carlos continued to smile. "Well it's nice to meet you...I'm guessing you're-" Carlos was cut off when Matt spoke over him.
"How about we get a move on before we start conversation." Matt said walking to the back of the restaurant.
"Right, sorry." Carlos replied.
Jill moved on also, Carlos watched the rear to make sure nothing would attack them from behind, it didn't take them long to get to the back of the restaurant and exit through the back door and into another alley.
Everyone all took in a few good deep breaths and rested at the top of the stairs. "Well, at least that thing is dead now, we don't have to worry about it attacking us anymore." Matt said.
Carlos was about to walk on until Jill stopped him. "I need to ask you something..." She said getting Carlos's attention. "Why did Umbrella send your team here?"
"Our mission is to rescue the civilians." Carlos replied.
Jill raised a brow at this reply and continued. "How kind of you, considering Umbrella caused all this in the first place, those liars!"
Carlos gave her a confused look but replied. "Look, we're just mercenaries, hired hands..."
Before their conversation could continue, a loud banging sound came from inside the restaurant, getting their attention for a moment. Carlos continued. "No time for talking, if you can believe me, then join us. Think about it!" Carlos wasted no time and ran down the stairs and made his way down the alley until he disappeared from their sight.
"So...what now?" Pierce asked.
Rob spoke up. "How about...something to fucking cure me...! Of this fucking poison!"
Jill nodded. "Don't worry, we'll find something Rob." Jill made her way down the stairs and walked on, everyone followed until they stopped at another split path. "I say we go that way, it leads to city hall and we can make it to other areas from there." Jill said.
Matt shrugged and walked on. "Fine."
Jill once again, sighed at his asshole attitude, but at least he was going the way she suggested this time. The group then made their way down the middle path of the alley and up a small set of stairs and continued on until they reached the door at the end.
Before they could enter however, a sound that echoed far down the alley froze them in their place, a monstrous roar. "STARS..."
Jill quickly opened the door, everyone rushed through before the monster could get to the split path and see them, Jill quickly, but quietly shut the door behind them and took a deep breath. "I really hope that thing doesn't come this way." Jill said.
Matt just growled and kicked the ground. "What the fuck?! I thought that thing was dead! Stubborn bastard!"
Jill walked out into the street and saw a gate up ahead, behind the gate was a door, above it, it said 'Raccoon City Hall'.
Mia checked the device next to the gate. "I think we need to use this to open the gate." Mia tried to use the device but it only beeped. "Hm, I probably did something wrong."
Matt walked over to the device and raised a brow as he looked at it. "Wait a minute, look at all of those gems in it, I wonder..." Matt took something out of his pocket, a small blue gem that looked the same as the others in the device.
"Where did you get that?" Jill asked.
Matt looked at her. "You don't wanna know." He inserted the gem into the device, it fit perfectly, it beeped again however, clearly there was another gem still missing. "Hm, I guess that did no good." Matt said.
Jill shook her head. "No, it did, it actually saved us some time, good job Matt."
"Hm." Matt turned away from them.
Jill spoke up again. "Ok, let's head up there, the Raccoon Press, we might find something there."
Mia gave her a confused look. "But, what will we find there?"
Jill shrugged. "I'm not sure, but if I know reporters, there will be information, and perhaps we might find some over there, maybe even something of use."
Matt nodded. "You know what, that's probably the smartest thing you've thought of all day."
Jill glared at him. "At least I am smart." Jill walked up the street towards the Raccoon Press building which was just at the end around the corner, Mia followed.
"Come on Rob." Pierce supported Rob and helped him up the street, Matt sighed again before following.
As Jill and the others walked around the corner, they immediately walked into another group, everyone all aimed their weapons, however, to Jill's shock, she realised the group they were aiming their weapons at were also aiming weapons back at them.
Just then, Jill recognized the familiar faces and the voice that spoke.
"Jill?"
Jill lowered her gun. "Alex?"
"Jill! You're alive!" Connor shouted.
Everyone all lowered their guns. Jill spoke again. "Alex, I can't believe you're still alive!"
Alex smirked. "Well believe it, I am."
Jill turned to the other girl who was with them. "Rav? Rav is that you? It's been such a long time!"
Rav, to the others surprise, actually had something of a smile on her face. "Jill, it's great to see you again."
Jill and Rav gave each other a slight hug. "I didn't expect to see you of all people here, with Alex and the others too!"
Justin spoke up. "Uh, do you two know each other?"
Rav nodded. "Yeah, but it's a long story."
Justin returned her nod. "Right...I...guess I'll ask later."
"Good idea, we should focus on finding a way out of here rather than talking anyway." Lucas said.
Jill nodded. "You're right."
"Umm, Alex...?" Bryan said.
Alex and everyone else turned to Matt, Rob and Pierce.
Jill gave them a confused look, Matt and Alex were glaring at each other.
"What's wrong Matt?" Jill asked.
Matt remained silent. Alex, Bryan, Danny and Connor were all glaring at him, Rob and Pierce.
The sudden stare down between Alex and Matt persuaded everyone to back away from them. Somehow, they knew a firestorm was on the horizon. But Jill didn't know why, but just then, she believed her question was answered.
"Been a long time...Alex." Matt said.
Alex nodded. "Same here...Matt."
Authors Notes: Chapter has been updated. It looks like Matt is about to be finally put in his place by someone he knows, but how does Matt know Alex? That question will be answered in the next chapter, of course, if you have been keeping track of Enduring the Evil then you might already know the answer. Anyway, this chapter, just like the last, was exhausting, the weather isn't exactly letting off so far, but I got it done atleast. Review please, let me know your thoughts on the current changes of events or the characters themselves, and of course, if you have any, leave Requests in your Reviews.