I do not own the Resident Evil series or any of the characters.

Message

I ducked under Carlos's knife, slashing at him and missing. A moment later, Gabriel smashed Carlos into the floor, beginning to smash his fists into Carlos's face. After four hits, Carlos rolled them over then leapt off, avoiding my sword again. He landed lightly, spinning and catching both Janice and Alice by the throat, lifting them. Bad move.

I grabbed him with my powers, pulling him back and Gabriel met him with a two-foot kick to the spine, folding Carlos in half. Carlos crashed to the ground then shouted in pain as his back cracked so loud it hurt my ears and his body righted itself. He stood, picking up his knife as Alice and Janice both aimed at him with one of Alice's scorpions. He narrowed his eyes then looked at his watch, grinning. Then, the tunnel Janice and Gabriel had entered through exploded inward and the same six Las Plagas zombies as had left with Carlos sprinted through. Gabriel spun, charging at them but before he could attack any, Carlos smashing him out through a wall into the swarm of zombies that was fighting Olivia and Kelly.

I blasted two of the Las Plagas zombies back toward the tunnel but ghey stood and started in again instantly. A las Plagas zombie leapt at me and I spun, bisecting it at the waist. Then, I spun, slashing two more and removing an arm on each. The two I had thrown shoved the previous two out of the way, drawing machettes and raised them, then found themselves in several pieces from Alice's machettes. I spun, removing the remaining arm of the second set of Las Plagas zombies just as Carlos's fingers curled in my hair. I pivoted, driving the sword into his abdomen then ripped it out before he could break it, which he tried to do. Then, I spun, surrounding my foot in psyonic energy and kicking him, blasting him into another Las Plagas zombie and hurling both to the tunnel. Carlos stood, his left arm blown into paste by my kick. Then, he whistled. A moment later, the other Las Plagas zombies were around him, any missing limbs replaced by gigantic insect-like limbs. I sighed, lowering my sword then shouted in rage, punching the wall.

"What does it take to kill that asshole!?" I shouted.

"We will," Alice promised. "Next time, we will. Let's head back for now. If the target wasn't here, I'm sure Daniel and Angel probably found him."

I nodded and we went out into the street, me using my powers to crush the heads of the rest of the undead around us. Then, we all headed back to the hideout. When we arrived, we found Luther and L.J. trying to hold Angel back from leaving.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"Daniel's gone!" Angel shouted. "He knocked me out and left!"

"Is it possible he's working with-" Jill began but stopped when the temperature of the room seemed to drop.

"Not a chance in hell," Angel seethed, voice horrifyingly even. "He would never be a traitor."

"I'm sorry," Jill said. "I didn't mean to offend."

"I have a message from Daniel," Alena spoke up, appearing on the hologram in the center of the table. A moment later, she was replaced by Daniel, his eyes bloodshot and with very dark circles below them. He was a mess and looked to have gone a month without sleep.

"Hello everyone," Daniel greeted, voice weak and tired. "By now, you'll have finished your assignments and recovered Angel. You may also have figured out what I have done. So I'll just say this. I hope that you can forgive me for leaving. I hope that you know that everything I've done, and everything I do is for you. I've got Conrad Carver's second in command. I promise you I'll make him talk. And when I do, you will all be the first to know what he says. But...dealing with Carver is something I have to do on my own. Not for revenge, and not for a vendetta. Not anymore. But for all of you. I will keep you safe.

"Angel...I'm so sorry. I lied to you so many times, and broke so many promises. And I've taken so much from you. I don't think we've ever really talked about what happened have we." Tears began to well up in Daniel's eyes and he wiped them, shame forming on his face. "I guess I should say it now. I'm so very sorry. When I saved you from that gang, I had no intention of dragging you into my personal war against Carver. I never considered how you felt during any of that. When Sari died...no...when I killed Sari, I was heartbroken. But, not for the reason I should have been." Daniel wiped at his eyes but the tears spilled over again instantly. "I was devestated that Sari, my fianceé, was dead, sure. But...I was more hurt...I was destroyed by the thought that...that I had taken her from you. I was in more pain than ever before, not because I had killed my own fianceé, but because of the pain I put her sister through. I...I'm so sorry for the pain I caused you...And I'm so sorry that I never apologized when it mattered, when I should have. Goodbye Angel. I'm so sorry."

I looked over at Angel to see her holding fists to her eyes, trying to hold back sobs.

"Track him!" Angel finally pleaded. "Please Alena!"

"I already did," Alena reported. "He's in Las Angeles. The priosn where you all stayed before."

"But...it was overrun," Alice stated.

"Not anymore," Alena said. "I scanned the city. There are still infected in the city but they no longer surround the prison. It has been refortified using vehicles and debris and the infected seem to avoid it."

"They why are we still here?" Angel asked standing and tuening to the door.

"Because we have no way to get to LA," Luther stated. "Unless you have a plane. We haven't seen those wolves since they fought that dog thing."

I closed my eyes and could tell they were alive, though I wasn't sure how.

"They're alive," I reported. "But we shouldn't all go."

"I'm going," Angel stated. "Alone if I have to."

"You don't," Gabriel said. "I'm going."

"So will I," I said.

"Then so are we," Alice said, indicating Janice and herself.

"We'll hold the fort here," Luther said. "We'll wait for you to tell us where Carver and Wesker are and meet up there."

I nodded and turned, following Angel and the others out of the base. We reached the street just as a familiar bark rang out.

"That mother fucker," Angel snarled, specifically remembering Olivia and Kelly reporting the dog dead.

I whistled and a moment later my two wolves arrived. We all climbed on and they sped off away from the city, Alice warning the others that we was still around. Once we left the city, we fell silent.i was kind of interested in how Daniel got halfway across the country in a few hours, but we'd know soon enought.

Read and review.