Chapter 12

Bloodwork

All of us whirled around, our weapons drawn.

I'd recognize that piece-of-shit German accent of Timothy "Able" Cain.

He had the muzzle of a Glock .18 pinned up against Angela Ashford's head.

"Come with me, please." I could tell that the please wasn't meant to be polite, it was we go, or she dies.

We walked out of the chopper, only to find that the security team had captured, Carlos, Wayne, Jill and a fourth man that I didn't recognize, by the door.

But Angie recognized the man, and Cain let her go to her father. With Ashford on his knees, they hugged each other.

"I knew you wouldn't leave me!"

"No, no, never baby, never."

I looked over, and instantly recognized the Darkwing stealth chopper. It was the same chopper that had brought One's team to the Spencer mansion. I heard heavy footsteps approaching us, and snapped my head in the direction of Nemesis, while Alice remained looking at the five.

"What are your orders for us to do with them, sir?"

"Not a goddamn thing, they'll be dead in a matter of minutes anyway. Just enough time for us to finish the last phase in our experiment." He said as-a-matter-of-factly. "The viral outbreak, while regrettable, did provide an excellent test scenario for the Nemesis Program."

"You sick bastard," I said to him, my tone just as deadly as my fists. "You created this whole mother-fucking situation, and you're worried about the goddamn Nemesis Program?"

By now the three of us stood face to face, our hearts beating in perfect unison. For the second time, I felt the recognition emitting from the eight plus foot creature.

"You three showed such promise." Cain drowned, I hated his voice, but he seemed to like it. "But we had to see you in action, and most impressive you've been." He looked at each of us in turn.

"Like brother and sisters. Heightened speed, strength, agility. The same killer instincts." He smiled, and I resisted the urge to punch his nose into the useless peapod he called a brain, only this time I'd kill his ass. "Just in a more attractive package. But under the skin, you're exactly the same. Of course, Ocampo, you were an accident. You were already cured of the virus, but when we reinserted it, all three became parallel strands of research. And now we discover witch of the three is superior."

Throughout, Nemesis remained an eight foot statue, with the exception of his blinking beautifully, familiar blue eye. It seemed misplaced on a creature that had caused so much destruction in one night.

I looked away toward Jill, Carlos, Angie and her father. Almost undetectably, Carlos nodded to me, as if telling me, to do what I had to do. Then I noticed that his arms were moving ever-so-slightly. He still had one more trick up his sleeve, the knife. Stupid me, I hadn't even noticed that he even picked it up.

"Discarded Primary weapon." Cain said, turning to face Nemesis. Nemesis threw down his rocket launcher and rail gun, the sound of them hitting the ground echoed off of the Plexiglas.

"I want you two to fight him." He commanded to Alice and I. looked to him, my eyebrows raised, to show that I wasn't going to take orders from the likes of him.

"No." I said without any form of reluctance.

Un-holstering his Glock, Cain said, "Fight him, or they die."

Damn it.

But wait a minute; he doesn't know if I care one way or another.

"What makes you think I care about any of them?"

Without hesitation Cain pulled the trigger, and Charles fell to the ground in a heap of blood around him.

Angie screamed "Daddy!" In the most blood curdling way, striking my very core, then he turned the gun on Valentine.

"He was a valuable asset to the Corporation. I don't even care about these people."

Grinding my teeth, Alice and I moved to face Nemesis.

"Begin." He commanded, lowering his weapon.

I remember something that my coach told me when I had first started taking boxing lessons as a teenager in Detroit Michigan. It was during my first match, it was round six, and I had been taking beating after beating, but never once fell to the mat. The bell rang, and I went to my corner, where Coach Hartman told me something that I'll never forget. "When she comes at you from across the ring, knocking you senseless, simply smile and hit her with a left and then a right in the gut over and over," he said looking into my eyes. "And right when you feel her losing it, kick her ass out and into next week, with your uppercut."

I went back out into the ring, gloves up. She backed me into a corner, mangling me with blow after blow, when I had finally thrown her off of me, I charged her, pummeling her rock her abs. Then I did just like coach said, I pulled the uppercut. I went on to win my first champion ship, a dream of someday becoming an ultimate fighter champion in my eyes. A dream, of becoming the first girl to ever fight with the guys.

But with the aid of Umbrellas tampering, I had become more than that.

He swung at me with a right, and I dodge him and hook him with a left, causing him to buckle slightly. Sizing the opportunity of weakness, Alice did a roundhouse kick, but then, he grabbed her foot, throwing her into a wall as if she were a rag doll. I drove my fist into his rock hard body, wanting revenge for him throwing Alice. But then, as my moves became more and more defensive, he backed me into a wall

Cornered.

A giant fist went for my head, as I ducked just in time, then, I dove behind him, and with a-leap-of-faith, I managed to wrap my strong arms around his neck and with my knees in his back, I began choking him, all before the dry wall, from were his heavy fist collided with the wall, even had time to crumble.

Alice ran for him, and pummeled her foot into his chest, clearly knocking the wind out of him. But that didn't do it, he moved his massive hands behind his head, then grabbing me, he threw me against the wall, pain rippling down my spine, as I slid to the ground.

Anyone's back would have snapped from the force, but I wasn't just anyone.

Momentarily dazed, I laid there, catching my breath. As, the monster that I was compared to, tore off a ten-foot piece of support beam, and went after Alice with it. Opening my eyes, I saw Alice on the ground. Nemesis, facing me, he raised the beam high over his head as if it were a sword, and began to comedown on Alice. Leaping to my feet, I charged the massive tank on legs, and placed a well aimed spinning heal-kick to his face.

When I landed, I looked over at Alice, she was on her feet, and welding two nightsticks that I had no clue were she had gotten them from. Throwing one to me, we charged the massive beast. It seemed to have turned into a sward fight without the swords.

Instead of taking a defensive position, this time we took an offensive one and immediately attacked Nemesis.

He immediately jump at Alice, slamming his new weapon to her head. But she gracefully blocked it with the nightstick and swung to his chest. He blocked it with extreme precision and speed before turning his blade on me.
I made a back flip, but when I landed, he kicked me in the face, making my nose bleed. Gripping my weapon, I sent it right at my attacker, this time; it made contact with his head, but only momentarily knocked him senseless.

Alice smacked his gut with the nightstick, as he hunched over, she kneed him in the face. Then I saw it, the piece of metal were he broke off the pillar. Both of us throwing our artillery aside, continued to bombard him with blow after blow.

I slammed, punched, kicked and countered with an incredible force. He was no longer any match for Alice and I. I had lost some focus, but let the anger flow from me and into him with each punch. I thought of J.D., Morales, Peyton, I felt, anger and sadness at the same time.
Then I thought of Matt. I locked eyes with the monster, and then with an unspeakable realization, what, more like who I saw….. Matt!

I stopped, sickened at what I had tried to do, what Umbrella had done to Matt. He was no longer the same blue eyed, raven haired beauty he had once been. That time felt so far away now.

"Matt." I faintly whispered, backing away from my friend. "I'm so sorry Mattie, I had, had no idea." He looked at me pained, his blue eye wincing as the broken support beam skewered his midsection.

Alice must have saw what I did, for at that very moment, she too backed away horror-struck. "I'm so sorry Matt!"

"Finish him." Cain ordered, and once again, it pissed me off.

"No." Only this time, Alice said the words for me. I turned, and started toward Cain, Alice at my side.

The morons that worked for Cain raised there guns, thinking that they were going to kill us, but "The Boss Man" ordered them down.

"Don't you two understand how important you are to me? To the Corporation? That creature is one thing, but you two? You bonded with the T-virus on a cellular level. You adapted it, changed it. You became something magnificent.

"We became freaks!" Alice retorted. Cain probably didn't pick up on it, but I detected the deep wounds in her voice.

But Cain shook his head. "You're not mutation, your evolution!"

"Mutation is a part of evolution you idiot!" I snapped with a smirk.

But he simply ignored the comment by shaking it off before he continued. "It took five million years before we even stepped foot out of the trees, and you too the next step in less than five days. With our help, just imagine what you can achieve!"

"What about him?" Alice indicted behind her toward Matt.

"Evolution has its," He paused, as if deciding what word to use. "Drawbacks. Now, finish this, put him out of his misery, it's what he wants. Come; take your places at my sides."

Neither Alice nor I moved, at his side was the last place I wanted to be, and it didn't take enhanced skills to know were Alice stood as well. Apparently Matt as well, with my sensitive hearing, I picked up on Matt moving himself off of the broken plate.

"What a waste, all that strength, but no will to use it. You're such a disappointment to me."

"You have no idea how happy that makes us." My words were just dripping with pleasure.

"Very well then." Cain sighed as he turned toward the pilot of the whirly bird. "Prepare to take off."

Looking past us, he told Nemesis to kill us. Two of his soldiers came to stand on either side of us.

Matt moved past us, and picked up the rail gun. I held my breath. Even though the heart was Matt's, the mind was no longer of his control. I closed my eyes, as the scream of the rail gun pounded in my ears, but shockingly, none of the bullets had beat into me.

I opened my eyes, only to find that the loyal soldiers had been killed, and laid next to Alice and me.

He missed us! He was now turning on Them!

He was no longer the obedient soldier Cain was so stupidly, lead to believe. I looked over to see that Jill and Carlos were free of there restraints.

But that didn't mean we were safe.

The stealth helicopter had taken flight, and was now perusing us down. I ran through the wreckage of the building; trying to find refuge from the bullets in the building across from me, glass shattering were only moments before, my feet pounded in a deadly sprint.

Then finally, covering my face with my arms, I dove into a glass door, and rolling to my feet, I saw two of the guards in my way.

Both of them pointed there MP5K's at me. "Drop the weapon."

I held in my clutches my .45 Colt. When I didn't do anything he tried more forcefully. "I said, drop it."

"As you wish," I let it fall from my hands, in less than a second, dove, fired and killed the two guards. "Now, stay down!"

Suddenly, there was an earth shaking explosion behind me. Turning on my heal, I found Matt standing in front of Alice, holding a smoking rocket launcher on his shoulder.

I watched in terror, as the tale rotor broke away from the fireball and plummeted toward Alice and Matt. As fast as the three of us were, none of us could beat the flying rotor, or the rest of the crashing vehicle.

Matt pushed Alice away, and into safety of the wreckage, as Matt was buried in debris, burning metal, exploding fuel, and shattering pavement.

"NO!!!" I shrieked, at the sight playing out before me. Before I knew it, I was at Alice's side, trying to get her to snap out of it. Matt had pushed Alice away, but not far enough away so the some of the fallen debris didn't hit her. But what she was muttering had nothing to do with that, she was in shock at what had just happened to our friend.

"Come on Alice, get up." I cried, my tears falling on her bloodied face. "We have to go. We have to get out of the city. Give me your arm."

I reached down; surprisingly she reached up, and took it. "Now, up over my shoulder." Tears fell from my eyes uncontrollably, as I remembered something Matt had done so similar to this…

I couldn't stand the silence. Not one of us spoke since the gunshot we heard come from within the sewers. It was Matt who now guiding me down the vent. Normally I would have told them to go fuck themselves, but I didn't trust my vision. Kaplan was braver than I had given him credit for; he had killed himself for us.

There was a grate above Alice, as she slowly opened it, my Colt at the ready. She emerged, Spence following.

"Come on," he called down to us.

Matt climbed out first, and then reached down for me.

"Give me your arm."

I reached with all my strength up toward him, my bloodied arm shaking from lack of strength.

"Now, up over my shoulder."

I pulled myself up, but a sudden wave of queasiness hit me, only this time, I couldn't fight it. I fell forward, and threw up, coughing and hacking repetitively until I stopped.

"Thanks." I said, my voice even horse and tired, it was a true miracle that I was still even here. "I'm sorry I smacked you around back at the Mansion."

Matt smiled. "It wasn't nothing I didn't already have coming to me."

As I vaguely looked around, I began to recognize my surroundings. It was the glass labs we passed; only now since the Red Queen had been shut down and tampered with, the water had drained, which had set the dead mother fuckers free. Now it was seemingly deserted, and presenting us with an eerie feeling.
I felt Matt breathe a sigh of relief, turning his head to look down at me, "We'll be out of here yet Rain." He managed a smile, his blue eyes twinkling.

I smirked up at him. I couldn't wait, to leave here. My heart seemed to thump harder at the thought of finally getting out of here. "When I get outta here, I think I'm gonna get laid."
Matt chuckled, giving me a slight squeeze, "You might want to clean up a bit first," he teased; Spence had heard our conversation and the three of us chuckled. I blinked as Matt and Spence stopped all of a sudden. I looked up at Matt questioningly. He turned us around, I managed to look up and see Alice peering into one of the labs, muttering some bull shit.
"Blue...Blue and Green. Antivirus… Rabbits… T-virus. Blue is the Virus. Green..."

"Alice?" Matt asked, upping a brow in question. I too looked at Alice questioningly, had the gal finally lost it?! For crying in the name of hell, she was going on about colors and a rabbits, just like Elmer Fhudd would about Bugs Bunny. Matt told Spence to hold me, as he approached Alice.
"Blue is the Virus. Green is the Anti-Virus..."
'What is she getting at!?' I almost told her to cut the bull shit and to get a move on when she finally looked back at us, the excitement showed on her face.
"There's a cure! The process can be reversed! Blue is the Virus, Green is the Anti-Virus! We can get the antidote for you Rain!"
I looked at Alice in disbelief. Was she shittin' me? But she sounded completely serious. And I actually smiled. "I was beginning to worry."

My heart caught in my throat, my mouth agape, peering up at Alice, searching her gaze. She smiled back at me brightly, a warm glow in her eyes.
I was completely blown away. They were risking their time and lives to help me. I was a nobody, a bitch in black fatigues who couldn't give a shit about anyone.
Well, that wasn't entirely true.
"I know exactly where it is," Alice's gaze stayed locked on mine. I grinned, though a weak one, mouthing a silent thank you to her. Alice nodded and stepped by us, "This way."
My heart was pounding, the adrenaline pumping through my body, but I knew it was a waste to get all worked up about it. Wasn't the Virus still being studied? How could we be certain it would work? But we didn't have the time to think about it now.
Alice almost burst through the door, us entering the lab soon after. Alice went down the stairs into knee deep water. A dim light hovered, not much but manageable. It was also deathly silent, save for Alice's splashing. I shuddered; silence usually meant that something would be jumping out at us later. I was God damn sure of it.

The place was a wreck. Glass was shattered all over the counters, papers floating on the surface of the murky pool, a few sparks showered from the ceiling nearby, a chill in the air making me shudder. Spence let me go and Matt leaned me up gently against the railing. I still felt terrible, the queasiness in my stomach seeming to grow. I was now finding it harder to keep my head up. I was weak, I was useless, I was turning...
Fuck, Alice I hope you're right.

"This is where they kept the T-virus."

"How do you know all this?" Matt asked.

"Because I was going to steel it!" she turned to face him, to look him in the eye. "I was your sister's contact."

Matt's eyes went wide. "You betrayed her!"

"I don't know!"

"You caused all of this!"

"I can't remember!" she started away, but Matt grabbed her by the arm.

"I want the truth."

"I don't remember the truth!" Alice said with all honestly, years of training had taught me to read voices, and hers was one of truth. But yet, she wasn't looking into his eyes either.
Instead, Alice was looking over the room, finally approaching a containment area in the wall, her eyes scanning the inside; her face fell, and then drew into anger, hitting the side in frustration "I don't understand!"

She waded back out to us, and looked at me. "It's gone. It's gone, its not there."
I slumped against the rail, my gaze downcast. I knew it was a waste of time to get my hopes up, another dizzy spell hit me and I gripped the rail tightly. I heard them talking again but I couldn't make out the words, my body shivering, but not from the cold. I looked up and gapped.
Spencer had a gun aimed on Matt and Alice.
What the Fuck!? I moved to get up, but I was too fuckin weak to move on my own. Shit! I couldn't stand being this helpless. The only two people who seemed to care for my well being were in trouble and I couldn't, not because I didn't want to, I couldn't help them. I looked at Alice who was staring coldly at Spence, and that's when the whole story was revealed.

"We can still get out of here. Come with me. We can have anything we ever wanted! The money's just out there waiting-you wouldn't believe how much!"

"Was that how you thought all my dreams where gonna come true?" Alice scowled at Spence.
I glared at Spence fiercely, he had no intention of the rest of us escaping, perhaps planned to kill us when we reached the transport, I wanted to jump the mother fucker and beat the shit out of him, but I knew that was impossible, I could only glare at him. Cursing myself inside. One had been too trusting of these two, and he was dead now. Everyone else was dead. Fuck, how I wanted to beat the fuck out of him, or at least bite his ass when I turned.
Matt tried to grab the gun, but Spence was too quick to notice, and turned the gun on him.

"Please-I wouldn't want to shoot you." he grinned. "I might need the bullets."

Matt backed off, in a quiet voice Alice said. "I won't take any part in this."

"Okay, but you just can't wash your hands clean of everything; we work for the same company."

"I was trying to stop them!"

"You really think people like him," he indicated at Matt. "Are going to change the world? Well I hate to break it to you sweetheart, but nothing. Ever. Changes."

"Where's the Antivirus?" I asked, my voice Ragged.

"It's on the train," Spence chuckled again. "Where you found me. You couldn't have been standing more than three feet from it. I so nearly made it out, but I had no idea that the bitch computer had defensives outside of the Hive."

Alice glanced at something over his shoulder, but said nothing, looking back at Spence with a cold gaze; I looked behind Spence to see that a zombie had risen from the pool and was approaching him from behind. I watched as the zombie drew closer. That's it...a little closer. Bite the mother fucker. Let him deal with all this shit.
Spence turned to Alice. "So, are you in or out?"

Alice was quiet, she turned her head to look at me then back again while he repeated the question. "In or out?"

"I don't know what we had," she finally said. "But it's over." Spencer cried out as the zombie grabbed him, it bit into his flesh with a sickening tear, he growled, pushing it away and shooting it, Alice moved in but Spence quickly had the gun back on her.

"Back! Back the fuck off!" Alice glared, if looks could kill, he would have been dead long ago.
Spence backed out towards the door. "I'm missing you Already!" He then slammed the door shut. Alice rushed up the steps and tried the door. The fucker had locked us in.
It was over. I leaned against the rail, defeated. We were all going to die and there was nothing we could do…

Chapter 13

Escape From Hellview

I snapped out of it, as we entered the Helicopter. It was wired how I held on to those few moments down in the hive, and yet how much I wanted to be rid of the mother fuckers. Jill was walking Cain towards the cargo door.

"Take her!" I yelled to Carlos. I knew she would be okay, but right now she was weakened, and needed help.

Jill handed a helpless, weaponless Cain to me. I roughly grabbed him by the collar of his jacket, and hulled him to the edge of the door. We were now up about fifteen, sixteen feet in the air, it wouldn't do much, but break his legs when he landed.

That was fucking great enough by me.

"Killing me, wont put things right." He pleaded, it seemed as though he now wanted forgiveness for his wickedness.

"No…" I whispered as I let my grip loosen, Cain began relaxing slightly, then I gripped him heard, bringing his ear close to my mouth, I wanted these words to be the last he'd ever hear. So in a stern voice, I yelled into his ear. "But it's a good mother fucking start."

I threw him out of the cargo hold, watching with satisfaction as he landed. He looked stunned for a moment, before picking up his fallen gun. He managed to kill three, before turning the gun on himself.

It was empty.

I had never enjoyed watching a person die, especially these past days. But I took great pleasure in watching a horde of the undead swarm in, and eat him alive.

If there was one thing that the bustard had done to her this was by far the worst. They had turned her into a monster that took enjoyment in watching another being die.

I looked west and saw the contrails of the missiles as they approached the City. I hoped that the Fucking small ass chopper was faster than it looked.

I looked back and the vastly shrinking city hall.

Matt deserved better than this. We all did, but Matt did most, because all he had wanted to do was take down the Corporation. The Corporation that One's team, the Hive workers and Alice served so loyally for so long.

I turned away, and walked over to where Alice was now buckling in Angie, cursing Spence, glad that he was now dead, but wishing that he could have suffered, and went through the same shit I did.

Blood poured from the gaping wound in Alice's chest. The rotor was what had hit her, I finally realized. Had she been normal, she would have died on impact.

Then again if we were normal, we probably wouldn't have gotten as far as we did.

"Are you going to be alright?" The child asked Alice.

Alice nodded her head with a reassuring smile at the girl. But I knew better. I could hear her heart beat, and it was fading, fast.

We had reached the outskirts of the City, but we were still a lot closer than I would have liked.

I had taken my seat on the other side of Alice, and was fastening myself in, when I looked up. Just in time to see the two missiles so close to one another.

"HANG ON TO SOMETHING!" I screamed, and then the loudest explosion I had ever heard in my life had taken place seconds later. It was the hottest thing I ever felt, that even includes the flaming of the Licker on the train. I felt as though some one was holding a 1000 degree torch inches away from my face.

The Helicopter shook madly moments before it tumbled from the shockwave of the blast. Then a piece of the C89 tore off and was spinning toward Angie.

It would butcher the poor girl as if it were a dead cow.

Alice threw her body in between the object and Angela. I screamed in horror as the Metal impaled her chest, exacerbating the wound that was already present more. Instantly blood gurgled from her mouth, and I grabbed the limp body, clutching her to me, howling in grief.

"We're going down!" I heard Jill cry from worlds away.

The copter tumbled, and metal bent and broke. It wasn't until I felt myself being lifted from out of my seat did I realize that I didn't clasped my belt. I flew out of the vehicle, and felt my body make contact with the ground, seconds later, and the copter skid over me.

Now it was over, I was finally able to join Alice Abernathy Matt Addison, One, Chad Kaplan, Olga Danilova, Vance Drew, Alfonso Warner, and J.D. Hawkins.

I let every ounce of will that had kept me Alive when I awoke in the hospital, which allowed me to continue on when I was shot down from joining the SWAT team, the same determination and will to live that didn't let me go in the Hive.

I relaxed, my eyes closed, bringing me to darkness.

Chapter 14

Digging Up The Corpses

Carlos's eyes emerged, as he saw the remaining form of the C89. He had a few burses, some cuts, but overall he felt fine, as he began to unhook the belt.

"Angie?" He shouted he began rummaging through the debris. He had no clue why he was only worried about the girl, but he was. The C89 was on its right side, a gaping hole in its left, from the impact. The tale of the Chopper was nowhere to be seen, letting the morning light emit, the settling dust.

"I'm over here." Came her accented voice, inside the copter. Fearing the worst, he leaped into action, and followed the voice to the seat, was Angie sat; she was covered in blood, and cuts, still clutching the lunchbox for dear life. Carlos had the wind knocked out of him form the sight.

"Don't worry, I'm fine." The girl said, realizing how she must have looked.

The commando the remembered what Alice had done, all for the little girl before him.

"Angie, are you okay?"

She nodded, "Yeah, but my face hurts. And I think I have a burse form the belt."

Carlos figured as much, there was a big gash in her cheek, and she was suspended in mid air, all her weight against the restraint. He unfastened her, and helped her out of the horizontal sitting position. "You're going to be okay."

Angie nodded, and then ran over to Jill, who was now stirring. "Jill!" He said, as he made his was over to her. She winced, as she unhooked the restraint.

"I'm fine, where's everyone else?"

"We don't know yet." Carlos replied.

"I don't know 'bout you three dogs," L.J's voice emerged, as he stood up form the floor. "But I, brother feel like I've been hit by a mother fucking train!"

Well now they were only missing two.

"Alice! Rain!" Jill called. "We're are you?"

The dust was now settled, and you could clearly see that they were no longer in the helicopter.

Valentine and Olivera looked at one another, knowing that there was no way that ether of them could have survived.

Carlos gripped two of the broken sides, placed his foot on one of the seats, and pulled himself up. He un-holstered his Magnum, and scanned the area with his eyes. The area was a disaster. Around the copter was debris from it. He looked up, and saw a roaring waterfall and newly fallen rocks at the base. He figured that the C89 had hit the top of the fall, rolling, then landed, and skidded to be it now lay.

But there was no present danger, but there was sign of Alice or Rain ether.

"It's clear, come on up." He called down.

Jill picked Angie up, helping her out of the wreck. Carlos gripped underneath her arms, and lifted her free. Next Jill came followed by L.J, getting out the same way Olivera had.

They all managed to hop off of the chopper, Angie with the help of Carlos.

"Yo, we should find those two." L.J said, as he began to search around the parameter of the plane.

Not wanting to argue, the others followed in suite. But Carlos was the one to discover his fallen comrade, her lower half pinned beneath the chopper, on the opposite side from where they had emerged. Placing his two fingers on her neck, he bowed his head, in mourning.

"I found Rain." He paused. "She's no longer with us."

"Nether is Alice." Jill squatted next to a body that laid five feet from Rain. "Lets get going before Umbrella gets here."

Carlos nodded, then walking over to Angela who stood by L.J, he swooped her up onto his shoulders.