Hey guy's thanks for the reviews I love reading what you people have to say and those reviews really make my day. I just finished watching the very first Resident Evil on YouTube and I just brought Resident Evil: Degeneration which is pretty damn good I may add. Although not a huge Leon fan video game or movie sorry to disappoint those of you who are. Anyway hope you guys enjoy this chapter, once again action scenes appear better in my mind.
God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
And it can't be outfought
It can't be outdone
It can't be outmatched
It can't be outrun
Linkin Park – The Catalyst
XXX
"Were lost," Jill commented from beside Casper.
"I told you not to follow my directions." Casper stated shrugging as he pushed a few more tree branches out the way.
"Ugh can you do anything right?" Jill turned to Casper.
Claire rolled her eyes as yet another argument broke out between the two. She turned to look at Alice who had been by her side for the most part of the walk but had yet to say anything. "You have any idea where we are?"
Alice shook her head, "I have no idea where I am when I'm in the city what makes you think I'd know out here?"
Claire nodded before looking around her surroundings, "Which ways East?"
Alice shrugged, "Forgot my compass." Alice said sarcastically with a smile.
"Sarcasm gets us nowhere," Claire said with a small smile in Alice's direction.
Alice pushed past Casper and Jill continuing to walk ahead, eventually they'd find some sort of civilization if not well…then they knew they were going the wrong way. Alice paused stopping herself and anyone else from going further once she entered a small clearing with a large mansion like house stationed in the middle.
"Not the best place to put a mansion," Claire commented stepping up beside Alice before giving a shrug, "Let's see if anyone's home if where lucky we could get directions."
Casper placed a hand on Claire's shoulder pulling her back and halting her move towards the mansion, "Let's take this one step at a time okay?"
"I'm with Casper, considering where out in the middle of nowhere." Alice finished while looking over the creepy mansion architect.
"How's about we take a peek if anyone's home?" Jill offered up before making her way over to the mansion quietly, deciding not to wait for a reply.
"I don't like this; I think we should turn back." Casper spoke up earning a smirk from Claire.
"Don't tell me you're scared?"
"Why is it that whenever someone says that something bad usually happens around the next corner," Casper raised his eyebrows towards Claire.
"You guys coming?" Alice waved as she followed after Jill who was slowly closing in on the side of the mansion.
Jill rounded the side of the mansion jumping small fences and making her way through large hedges that blocked the majority of view.
Claire grabbed the back of Alice's shirt as they made their way through the large hedges, "If we get lost I'm so kicking your ass." Claire stated in a sharp whisper.
"Ouch damn hedges," Casper rubbed his elbow as he followed the women through the hedges, "Remind me why I listen to you three."
Jill rounded yet another hedge before making her way through a large well cared for garden before flattening herself out against the side of the mansion. Jill waited for the other three occupants to follow in tow before making her way along the wall flat against it.
Alice followed closely behind still in agony over the previous fight with Jill but still just the thought of knowing Claire cared for her was enough to stop the majority of the pain.
"We got a window up ahead," Jill whispered to the group behind her before making her way over to the window crouching just underneath it as she tried opening it.
"Okay now this is just breaking and entering," Casper shook his head, "Not a good thing to have on your record."
"Come on," Jill turned back to the other three as she pulled open the window, "We've come this far might as well go the whole way."
Alice gave a shrug of her shoulders, climbing in through the window after Jill had pulled herself up and inside.
"Please tell me you at least have brains?" Casper turned to look towards Claire who gave a shrug in response before climbing up and inside the first floor of the mansion, "Of course not look who I was asking…why am I talking to myself?" Casper sighed climbing up and inside the mansion.
"Whoa look at this place," Jill whispered to the occupants behind her as she exited the room with the window they had climbed in through and started up the long hallway.
"Who do think lives here?" Alice asked from the middle of the group as she ran her eyes over the hallway.
Claire picked up a wedding photo on the hallway table before looking up and showing the other three occupants, "Little young don't you think?"
"Maybe they inherited the place," Casper shrugged picking up another wedding photo with a blonde lady in it standing next to a young looking man.
"Let's keep looking," Jill piped up as she made her way down the hall.
Alice watched as Casper shook his head but reluctantly followed after Jill. Alice hung back a little waiting for Claire to stop looking at the picture, "Something the matter?"
Claire looked up towards Alice before glancing back down at the picture, with a shake of her head she replied. "Nope it's all good…I think," Claire smiled up at Alice placing the photo back down on the table before following Jill and Casper down the hall with herself and Alice bringing up the rear.
"You okay?" Alice asked quietly as to not have Jill listen in.
"Fine," Claire gave a small smile to Alice.
"If you want to get out of here just say so."
"No it's not that…it's just," Claire paused figuring out how to word what she wanted to say, eventually deciding against it, "Nevermind let's just keep moving."
"Bedroom's now?" Casper asked Jill once she had opened up a door leading to a large – probably main bedroom – that was pretty bland looking.
"Well my apologies I don't have a map to the chocolate factory," Jill rolled her eyes as she scanned the room; "You'd think a bedroom would have more flare to it."
Claire shrugged as she made her way through the room, "Little weird don't you think, this mansion isn't on any map I've ever seen of Raccoon City."
Alice moved over towards a dresser draw and pulled it open, "Is it just me or does this sound hollow?" She asked the young man standing somewhat behind her as she tapped away at the draw before shuffling through it.
"Okay you people just get weirder," Casper rolled his eyes focusing on the draw Alice was shuffling through.
Alice reached the bottom of the draw and with one quick motion she grabbed the corner of the bottoms edge and pulled it up leaving only a glass frame full of guns left behind. "Well that's new," Alice commented earning yet another roll of Casper's eyes as she turned to face them. "Maybe your right and we should get out of here," Alice shoved the bottom board of the draw back in as quickly as possible before shutting the draw all together.
"You think?"
Jill nodded agreeing once she had pulled open a draw with weapons in it no draw boards in place, "That doesn't sound like a bad idea." She thumbed towards the door grabbing Claire and pulling the redhead along with her.
"As I said it's just for a few months."
Alice halted at the male voice but being in the middle of the hallway was no definitely not the place to be hanging around, so with a quick glance around, Alice yanked open a door before pulling the other occupants inside. "Quiet," Alice put her finger to her lips motioning for them to remain quiet.
"Your few months turn into years Spence."
Claire remained rooted to the ground until the male and female voices disappeared into the distance their voices fading the further they got away, "Why are we hiding again?"
"Because this is Umbrella property."
Claire jumped and spun around hitting the occupant who had scared her in the shoulder, "Rain you mind not sc-" Claire paused for a split second, "Wait what are you doing here?"
"Well I got lost during the paint ball thing and stumbled across this mansion," Rain waved her hand about, "So on and so on and what happened to you two?" Rain pointed at Jill and Alice.
"They got into a fight over Claire," Casper shrugged earning glares from the three women, "Oops."
Rain shook her head dramatically, "Doesn't matter we have to get out of here."
"Where's the fire?" Jill asked slightly worried by the fact Rain's voice seemed almost urgent.
Rain took a moment to think this through before shaking her head once more, "Look I'll tell you all about it later but right now we have to get out of here be-" Rain's sentence was cut off by voices outside the door once again.
"Lock down the perimeter and make sure no one gets in or out."
"They could be long gone by now."
"I don't care just do it."
"Uh crap," Casper reached down to the door handle giving the small lock a little twist as the door handle turned.
"I'm guessing that's not good news," Alice spoke up sarcastically as the door started rattling.
"Move!" the female voice ordered from the opposite side of the door.
"Get ready to run," Casper spoke before unlocking the door and slamming it open with a loud bang as it impacted the two occupants on the other side causing them to stumble back into one another. "Run!" Casper called back before making his way down the hall and down the flight of stairs.
"Spencer call security," the female occupant ordered the man before getting back to her feet and running down the hallway.
"Freeze!"
Alice spun around once she reached the base of the stairs that lead to a doorway between the stair room and the lounge room. Alice focused her attention on the group of Umbrella logoed security officers that resembled the group she had only seen a couple of days beforehand at Casper's place but this time well armed with shotguns and assault rifles and their little side arms – not exactly inviting –.
"Wow now that's what I call instantaneous back-up," Casper finished sarcastically as glares were shot his way.
Claire glanced down at her watch and took a quick glance out the window as the female occupant of the voice from before finally reached the base of the stairs. So familiar. Yet so different. Claire shook her head now was no time to contemplate.
"Don't move," she held out her hand to the group before retracting the hand, "On the ground!"
"This may be stupid but I think I got an idea," Claire piped in with a whisper as she stood in the door way between the stair room and lounge room, ignoring the familiarity of the female voice.
"Well right now I'm game with stupid," Casper retorted.
Alice watched in the corner of her eye as Claire reached over flicking of the light switch off pitching the lounge room and stair room into complete darkness, she waited all but a few seconds, giving her eyes only a short time to adjust to the sudden change – now was definitely a good time to get out – Alice reached over grabbing hold of Claire's arm before dragging her along with her, past the security and up the stairs.
"You'd think that a bunch of Umbrella security wouldn't be so stupid," Rain piped in once Casper and Jill had jarred the door with a dresser.
"That's not going to hold them long," Jill stated already hearing a pair of footfalls making their way up the stairs and towards the door.
Alice pushed the window open before leaning outside into the growing dark cold air, "Once we make it to the ground we need to make a break for it."
"No there are vehicles around the front of the property," Rain shook her head as she spoke, "All we need to do is find some keys."
"Good luck with that," Casper rolled his eyes taking a look out the window for himself, "Long way down."
"I can hotwire it," Claire piped in.
"Good," Alice managed to finish as the door and dresser jolted.
"Well I'm not waiting any longer," Rain spoke up before moving to the window and pulling herself up and onto the frame, "Well here goes." Rain jumped from the window dropping to the ground below with a roll.
Alice turned to the door as it was booted roughly open leaving the dresser to scratch loudly against the floor boards. It was instinct Alice would swear by that as the loud bang and whistle from a bullet leaving its cartridge and sailing through the air to its target could be heard. Alice swore time slowed down as she watched the bullet sail towards her splicing through the air at tremendous speeds before halting its movement bare inches from her head.
Alice focused her complete attention on the suspended bullet watching as it hovered in mid air. She could feel more than see the looks of surprise she was getting from the other occupants including the female Umbrella security officer whose bullet it belonged to and to tell the truth she herself was surprised. Alice almost on instinct again dropped the bullet leaving it to make a small clattering noise once it hit the floor before turning to face the dresser and by some unknown power drove the dresser into the female security officer hearing only a small squeak due to scratching. The dresser impaling the female security officer into the white painted wall.
Casper shook his head snapping himself out of it first before turning to Jill and Claire, "We have to go."
Jill nodded snapping herself out of it before dragging Claire to the window, making her jump first before launching herself out the window.
"Go," Alice called back suspending the dresser against the abdomen of the Umbrella security officer. She was grateful when no resistance came and he clambered out the window leaving her to back up against it as she heard pairs and pairs of footfalls closing in. Alice released whatever hold she had on the dresser before launching herself out the window landing with a sideways roll to break her fall.
Jill held out a hand to Alice who gave a small smile and took the offered hand with no hesitancy, Jill pulling the woman up with ease. She might hate Alice to bits and pieces but now was not the time to hold grudges, "We need to keep moving."
Rain waved a hand over to where she was standing with her back against the brick wall, "There's four vehicles in total, two being private flashy vehicles the other two being Umbrella Hummer security vehicles." Rain relayed once the group had reached her and flattened their backs against the wall.
Claire leant around the corner noting the four vehicles in total and the Umbrella security officers guarding the front of the mansion, while flashlights lit the rest of the garden indicating security was looking for them, "Hold on a second," Claire turned to face Casper, "Doesn't your uncle like own Umbrella?"
"Point being?" he questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"Point being…why don't you just tell them who you are?"
"I don't think these people are the reasonable type," Casper replied.
"It doesn't matter now, all we know is there shooting on sight." Alice spoke up leaning around Claire to lean around the corner, "This is serious guys we could get shot."
"What are you talking about? We should be dragging your dead body around right now." Jill spoke up finally allowing the curiosity to get to her.
"What?" Rain asked now curious as to why the woman should be dead.
"Look I can't explain wha-"
"Forget it, right now we need out of here and the only way out looks to be by vehicle." Casper pointed over to where torches where skimming over forest and garden land.
"Mascot mans right," Rain nodded leaning around Alice and Claire to lean around the corner, "Question is how?"
"Hold up," Jill whispered sharply shutting the group up as the security woman made her way down the front steps.
"Let them go."
"Major Cain has just given us orders to find them and shoot on sight."
"Their teenagers Spencer, fucking teenagers you can't shoot teenagers."
"As head of security you will shoot when ordered to Miss Abernathy."
"Miss Abernathy?" Jill turned to face Alice for an explanation earning nothing but a shrug of the woman's shoulders.
"Look it doesn't matter right now," Claire replied for Alice instead, "We have to grab a vehicle and move like lightning."
"Excellent plan," Casper nodded, "Any ideas how we do that?"
Rain slid silently along the cars exterior body, Casper to her right and Claire to her left. "Door opens?"
Claire reached up pulling on the door handle until it popped open, "Were good to go, when Alice and Jill are ready."
Rain nodded relaying the information back to the young man behind her.
Jill fiddled with a metallic weapons case trying to find a way to break the lock but having no success, "Damn thing won't open," Jill gave a tug on the lock barely moving out the way as a fire axe skimmed down past her impacting the lock and breaking it in two.
Alice threw the fire axe to the side before squatting down removing broken pieces of lock before pushing open the weapon case, "Okay I think that's a smoke grenade." Alice said pointing at cylinder like canister.
"Think?" Jill questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"I'm no weapon specialist," Alice shrugged her shoulders, "Plus it has M18 Smoke written on it." Alice shrugged once again grabbing two gas grenades and handing them over to Jill before grabbing two for herself.
"Okay so how are these going to help?" Jill questioned looking down at the smoke grenades in her hand, "Their wearing helmets."
"Helmets not gas masks," Alice clarified as she shut the weapons case lid before moving back to the window they had used to climb in through.
"Still the same thing," Jill followed closely behind Alice, "And these aren't gas grenades anyway."
"One motor cycle helmets have small openings at the base for the occupant inside to breathe and second we only want to blind them temporarily not suffocate them or knock them unconscious." Alice clarified once again as she leant around the corner looking for any sign of the other three occupants.
"Shouldn't we use a flash bang then?" Jill asked slightly curious as to how Alice knew all of this.
"No you see this will create a veil of smoke blinding them but not blinding, blinding them." Alice waved her hands about, "Flash bangs temporarily blind eye sight, smoke grenades are temporary but a little longer temporary, they mask the environment blinding the area around the target not the target itself…don't ask how I know."
Jill rolled her eyes knowing she wouldn't get an answer even if she did, "So how do we know when their ready."
"Wait for it." Alice watched as Casper leant around the vehicle and gave quick thumbs up towards them before leaning back around the vehicle. "Throw them in different spots and then make a break for the Hummer."
Jill nodded leaning around the corner of the mansion and pulling the pin on the smoke grenade before rolling it gently but forcefully towards the front steps where the mysterious Miss Abernathy and young man from the wedding photo plus a few security guards were standing.
"Shit, there still here!"
Jill flinched slightly as the grenade exploded and veil of thick purple smoke filtered the atmosphere, "Purple?" she turned to ask Alice who gave yet another shrug for the day. Turning back Jill hurtled the last of hers before turning to Alice who hurtled hers towards another group watching as it erupted in a veil of blue smoke. It wasn't until Alice pulled the pin and froze did Jill actually start getting frustrated however. "What?"
"Oh crap."
"What?"
Alice looked up towards Jill who was standing beside her awaiting an answer, "I pulled out a frag grenade."
"You what?" she almost yelled at the other woman but lowered her tone, "Fuck it, throw it and let's move." Jill motioned for Alice to launch it before running towards the Umbrella Hummer that had just started up.
Alice did as told and tossed the grenade into the blue veiled smoke before running. Once she reached the Hummer she heard the loud explosion of the fragmentation grenade exploding. Alice jumped inside the passenger side of the vehicle, Jill jumping in the back just as the vehicle took off.
"What the hell was that?" Rain asked popping up between the two front seats where Claire was driving and Alice was heaving for oxygen.
"A frag grenade," Jill answered for the other woman.
"Shit," Casper swore as he pulled down Rain's backseat and shuffled through the trunk.
"What?" Claire asked looking up into the rear view mirror just as the Hummer was rammed in the back sending them jolting forward slightly, "Fuck Umbrella just don't know when to give up."
"Why the fuck is Umbrella even trying to kill us in the first place?" Jill asked watching as Casper continued shuffling through the trunk pulling out files of paper.
Claire watched as the enemy Umbrella Hummer pulled up alongside their Hummer, "Who gives a shit," Claire answered yanking the steering wheel to the left giving the enemy Umbrella Hummer a ram to the side before earning one in response.
"I've got an idea," Casper said before leaning back and picking up the files of paper as well as the flares he had managed to find.
"You may want to hurry because there's two more Umbrella vehicles coming up behind," Claire said urgently as she rammed the side of the first Umbrella vehicle a second time earning yet another ram herself.
Casper nodded scrunching up paper before pressing the button below the vehicle door handle winding down the window before hurtling the paper out the window and watching it get carried away by the wind. "Okay, I need something heavy to weight it down so the wind don't carry it."
Alice popped open the glove compartment, pulling out what looked to be a nine-millimeter, "What about a bullet?"
"Yeah that could work," Casper nodded and watched as Alice ejected the nine-millimeter's clip and went to work on extracting the bullet before handing them over one at a time to him.
"What could you possibly do with a piece of paper and a flare?" Rain asked watching as he wrapped paper around three bullets, giving it some weight.
"MacGyvering our way out of this situation," Casper smiled towards Rain before hurtling the weighted paper out the window watching as it landed on the wipers at the base of the windscreen. Casper picked up a flare, pulling of the top and watching as it sparked to life before throwing it out the window towards the paper.
Alice took notice of the paper catching a light from the flare before smoke started clouding the windscreen of the opponent Umbrella Hummer, leaves having gathered up in the grooves causing the smoke to turn black. "Claire ram them again."
Claire did as told and yanked the steering wheel once more to the left ramming the Hummer causing it spill of the side of the road and into a ditch, "One down two to go."
"Gotcha," Casper nodded from the back readying to work on a second paper ball. Casper lost his grip on the flares and papers as their Hummer was jolted forward knocking the flare's all over the vehicle flooring and under seats, "Shit I can't find them in the dark."
"Use something else and quickly."
Casper ducked back inside the trunk shuffling around for anything of use before backing out pulling a large weapon with him.
"We are not using a rocket launcher," Claire shook her head taking a glance off the large weapon in the rear view mirror.
"You got a better idea Claire?" Casper called back looking in the rear view mirror where Claire was looking at him.
"You'll kill them." Claire shook her head, "We can't murder them."
"It's them or us," Casper leant out the wound down window placing the rocket launcher on his shoulder, "Steady." Casper called out from the outside of the Hummer as he aimed the rocket launcher.
Claire watched in the rear view mirror deciding whether or not to aid in the current happenings. Shaking her head Claire decided against it, whether or not Umbrella were trying to kill them using a rocket launcher was just out of the question a bullet was okay but there was no need to take the whole entire street with them. Claire slammed her foot down on the brake pedal before yanking the steering wheel to the right doing a rounded skid, causing the vehicle to turn sharply onto the main road.
Casper dropped the rocket launcher out the window at the sudden jolt and quickly slid back in the Hummer turning to look at Claire, "What the hell was that for?"
"Just shut up and figure out another way to deal with them," Claire commented as she continued driving trying her best to avoid the oncoming onslaught.
Alice ducked instinctually once bullets impacted the back window shattering it into millions of pieces, "Fuck sake." Alice leant out the shattered window that had been smashed when the first Umbrella Hummer had started ramming them. Alice loaded another clip into the nine-millimeter before firing at the Umbrella Hummer.
"So shooting them is okay?" Casper asked sarcastically.
"As long as it doesn't take the fucking road with it," Claire said aggravated and frustrated at the Umbrella Hummer's ramming her vehicle.
Alice fired the remainder of the clip at the vehicle but failed to hit any of the Umbrella Security Officers inside as rain started pouring down around them causing the tires to bring up mud and gravel in the wet environment. Alice dropped back inside the Hummer not before dropping the nine-millimeter to the wet graveled road.
Casper turned to face the second Umbrella Hummer just in time to see an Umbrella Security personnel lean out of the passenger window rocket-launcher on his shoulder and trained at the vehicle, "Err Claire…"
"What?" she ground out between gritted teeth.
"Wanna try telling them that?" Casper spun around towards Claire who was nearing the Arklay Mountains Bridge.
"Fuck," Claire swore swerving the car to the right barely missing the rocket and explosion once it impacted the ground. "Shit," Claire swore once again as she swerved a second time dodging the second incoming rocket.
"Their coming up on your sides Claire!" Rain yelled over the pounding of the rain.
Claire took a glance in her side mirror watching as the two opponent Hummers split each bringing up the sides of her Hummer, "This isn't going well."
"No need to mention the obvious Claire," Casper stated turning to Jill, "You got any smoke grenades left?"
Jill shook her head, "Nope only had two."
"Great."
Alice watched as the ramming began before turning to Claire, "Hit the brakes."
Claire once again did as she was told and slammed her foot down on the brake pedal stopping the Hummer point blank while causing the other two opponent Hummers to ram each other in a failed attempt at ramming her.
"Don't stall keep driving Claire," Alice spoke once they rounded yet another corner, the Arklay Mountain Bridge now in full view.
"Damn it their dropping back," Jill called back once the Umbrella vehicle's returned to the side of their Hummer.
"I got an idea hang on," Claire slammed her foot once again down on the brake pedal sending her backwards and the other Hummers forward before she yanked on the steering wheel taking the Hummer and all its occupants through the guard rail and plummeting into the lake below.
And there we have it although Umbrella may not be full time yet this will start up an interest for our heroes as to why Umbrella was trying to kill them and why there's somebody named Miss Abernathy. I also want you to know the songs I use at the start I listen to while writing the chapter. I don't mind hearing your guys hypotheses on where I plan to take this story so feel free to tell if you want to. Hope you guy's enjoyed, next chapter up in a few hours…hopefully if not it'll be up tomorrow.