Enduring the Evil 3
Disclaimer: This is my third Resident Evil story and is a Prequel and Sequel to Enduring the Evil 2. The story is non-canon, characters are based off of me and my friends, as OCs therefor belong to us , Dante Deco belongs to Experimental Agent 1123, Jerry Troung belongs to firelies69, Rav belongs to Shadowrav, Mia Jones belongs to ChocoMadsAndIrish, Lucas Sunghyun belongs to sonickiller41, Justin Stewart belongs to Stormblaze530, every other character in Resident Evil aswell as Its storyline etc belong to Capcom.
Chapter 12 - Dead Man Running
Raccoon City Hall, Outside Raccoon Press, 12:00 PM, 'Jill, Alex, Bryan, Jamie, Danny, Connor, Lucas, Rav, Justin, Mia, Matt, Rob, Pierce'
Everyone had taken the time to listen to how Matt's life had affected him and made him into the person they all knew right now. An abusive father with a mother who had to work all the time for him while getting into trouble for trying to do good, Matt definitely had it rough, after listening to him explain his life, Jill herself actually understood what he was going through and honestly couldn't blame him. Mia and Lucas patched Matt up with a bandage kit, while Alex didn't require medical attention considering he didn't take as much damage as Matt.
"There we go, your all set Matt." Justin said.
Matt, with a slight growl, managed to get to his feet.
Jill walked over to Alex and the others. "I still can't believe you guys are still alive, I was worried something may have happened to you."
Jamie spoke up. "Well, if it wasn't for Scott we probably would be dead right now."
Jill's eyes widened a little after realising Scott wasn't among them. "Wait, where exactly is Scott? He isn't..."
Alex shook his head. "No he isn't dead, I know Scott, there's no way he would let himself get killed by a bunch of zombies, he's just out there kicking ass right now."
"Well either way I hope he's alright, we could sure use his help right now." Jill replied.
Bryan spoke up. "Right, so where were you headed anyway Jill?"
Jill walked over to the entrance to the Raccoon Press. "Right here, I think we might find something of use inside, but as you already know, that was delayed by the little brawl between Alex and Matt."
"Heh, sorry about that." Alex said with a grin.
Connor turned to Rob and Pierce. "Hey Rob what's up with you?"
"He got poisoned by some insect monster." Matt said as he walked over to the group.
Alex raised a brow at those words. "Insect? I think we may have ran into something like that before."
Rob nodded. "Yeah, the fucker got the jump on me when I wasn't looking."
"We need to find something to treat him otherwise he won't last long." Pierce added.
A monstrous roar echoed in the air, freezing everyone where they stood.
Bryan looked around for the source of the roar. "What...the fuck was that?"
Jill opened the entrance to the Raccoon Press. "Get inside! Quick!"
No one asked any questions and all ran inside.
Jill quickly shut the door and took in a deep breath. Alex, Bryan, Danny, Jamie, Connor, Rav and Justin were all giving her a confused look.
"It was some kind of monster, I don't know what it is but it's been chasing me and the others for a while now, we need to avoid it." Jill explained.
"Ok...?" Alex said. "I'm not gonna push the question any further, I think we should-"
Matt spoke up before Alex could finish. "Hold on, YOU think? Why should we listen to you? Who put you in charge anyway?"
"I didn't mean it that way Matt, I was just going to suggest what we should do." Alex replied.
"Hmph..." Matt put his sunglasses on and sat down. "Suggest what you want, but don't think for a damn second that you command me."
Jill smirked a little. "Same as ever."
Everyone all sat down and rested for a moment. The area was clear so far and they had no doubt it would be a while before they could rest again, better now than later was what they were all thinking.
Rav walked over to the shutter at the corner of the lobby and tried to open it with the nearby switch, but nothing happened. "Jill, is there a power switch around there?"
Jill looked up and saw a power switch at the top of the lobby. "Yeah, I can't reach it though."
Alex spoke up. "How about I give you a boost?"
Jill shook her head. "You're still a little bit in pain Alex, I know you are, if you try and lift me then you'll end up hurting yourself..." She turned to Bryan. "Bryan, let me give you a boost, maybe you'll be able to reach it then."
Bryan raised a brow. "Why me?"
"Umm..." Jill tried to think of a reply.
"This better not be because I'm short, for the last time, I'm not THAT short!" Bryan said, his words earning a few quiet laughs from the others.
Jamie spoke up. "Well let's face it Bryan, you're the least heaviest out of everyone here."
"Dammit..." Bryan said kicking the floor.
Danny and Connor both lifted Bryan up into the air, thanks to this, the power switch was now within reach. "Just turn the power on Bryan."
Bryan cursed silently but pressed the switch, the red light then changed green. "There! Now put me down!"
Jill walked over to the shutter and pressed the switch next to it, however, as it opened, fire shot out from inside causing Jill to jump back. "Whoa!"
"Jill are you alright?!" Mia said running over to Jill.
"I'm fine..." Jill looked inside. "The whole place is on fire..."
Alex spoke up. "Lead the way Jill, we'll be right behind you."
Jill nodded and made her way upstairs, everyone else followed.
After making their way halfway up, pieces of glass shot out in front of them from a door. "It's alright, keep moving." Jill said and moved on. As soon as they all passed by the door, fire shot out from inside and threw the door at them, fortunately Matt was able to dodge it in time.
"Jeez, this place is fucked." Matt said.
"Be careful Matt." Jill said.
The group continued on until they reached the top, they entered through the last door and made their way through the corridor and into the office area.
A zombie appeared and lunged at them, however their combined efforts quickly took it down within the blink of an eye. "That was close..." Justin said.
"Everyone look around, this place has to have something that will help." Jill said.
All they could find as they looked around the office was nothing but papers and files, some on crimes and some on bizarre incidents, which was familiar to Alex and the others.
Just then, Jill found something on the desk and recognized it. "I've seen this before, Matt come here."
Matt walked over to her and looked at the green gem in her hand. "Isn't this the same as those other gems that we saw in that device next to the gate to city hall?"
"Yeah you're right, this is definitely the same as the others. We can actually use this to get through that gate now too." Matt said.
Jill nodded. "Alright..." Jill turned to the others. "We're heading back, let's go."
Everyone followed Jill out of the office and into the corridor, only to regret the decision after seeing a large monster running at them. "STARS..."
"WHOA DEAD MAN RUNNING!" Connor shouted and leaped out of the way, since they were in the narrow corridor, everyone couldn't do anything but stand their ground and wait until the monster ran through them all causing them to fall the floor.
"Get up! Run! RUN!" Jill shouted.
"STARS..."
The monster looked at Jill and was about to go after her until Connor stepped in front of it. "Hey big man since you can talk I was wondering if you can understand anything that I'm-" The monster threw it's fist at him but Alex grabbed him in time and pulled him out of the way.
"You're crazy Connor!" Alex shouted.
"COME ON!"
Everyone all got to their feet and tried to get away but the corridor was too narrow and the monster was close enough to knock a few of them down.
"Fuck!" Pierce shouted.
"JILL!"
Alex, followed by Bryan, Danny, Connor, Pierce and Matt all jumped onto the monsters back, their combined weight and pressure was enough to bring the monster to it's knees. "Hurry Jill!" Danny shouted.
"Come on Mia!" Jill grabbed Mia and pulled her to her feet.
Rav helped Jill and Mia get away as the monster attempted to grab them and kicked it's hand away successfully preventing it from grabbing them.
Justin and Lucas looked back and forth wondering what they should do, however, Alex yelled for them to run so they did what they were told and followed Jill and the others. It didn't take long for Jamie to run off and follow them.
"We got this fucker! We're too heavy for him!" Bryan shouted.
At first they thought they had it right where they wanted it, however, they were all shocked after the monster managed to get back to it's feet, after which it grabbed and threw Danny off of it, followed by Alex, then Bryan, who was caught by Alex and Danny.
Before it could grab him, Connor let go and circled around the monster until he was near the exit. Pierce and Matt did the same and joined the others at the end of the corridor.
"What the hell is that thing?" Danny said.
Alex took a good look at it and growled. "It looks like that Tyrant thing from months ago, but, it looks different than the last one."
"What are you talking about?!" Matt said. Clearly Matt and Pierce had no idea what they were talking about considering they weren't aware of the mansion incident, but Alex didn't have the time to explain it all.
The monster roared and slowly made it's way towards them.
"Oh shit here he comes." Connor said.
A gunshot filled the air and the monster stopped approaching them.
The group looked at the other end of the corridor to see Rob aiming his gun at the monster. "Guys...go...get out of here!" Rob said.
"What?! Fuck no Rob!" Matt said.
Rob breathed heavily as the monster turned around and slowly made it's way towards him. "I'm a fucking dead man anyway, just go, let me atleast die...knowing I bought you guys a good bit of time."
"Rob!"
Alex grabbed Matt and turned to Rob. "Rob...you got this?"
Rob just grinned and waved his hand, signalling for them to run.
"Come on Matt." Alex and the others made their way through the door and ran to catch up with the others.
"Rob..." Matt and Pierce took one last look at Rob before following the others.
Matt slammed the door shut behind them and quickly made his way down the stairs, as they made their way out, they could hear a few more gunshots, then a loud bang from above.
Everyone else was already waiting for them at the very bottom floor, as they got halfway down, Matt was about keep moving until he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned and was immediately greeted with a punch to the face.
"Ugh...what...what the fuck?!" Matt growled and looked up at Pierce who was smirking at him. "What are you doing Pierce?!"
Pierce continued to smirk at him, afterwards he picked Matt up and threw him into the nearby room that was on fire. "You can stay in there Matt and hold off that monster for as long as you can while I get away, got that?"
Matt's eyes widened. "You backstabbing fuck!"
"You treated me and Rob like shit for a long damn time, you've had this coming for a while." Pierce replied.
"You fucking asshole!" Matt got to his feet and ran at him but Pierce kicked him in the gut and threw him back into the burning room.
"Fuck you." Pierce said with a grin.
"PIERCE...!" Matt fell to the floor again after trying to get to his feet, the clear and obvious pain running through his body after his fight with Alex was still there.
Pierce ran down the stairs as quickly as he could after hearing the monster roar from above, running into the lobby and pressing the switch closing the shutter right behind him.
"Hey Pierce..."
Pierce turned to see everyone giving him a suspicious look. "What?"
"Where's Matt?" Jill asked.
"Matt went back to hold the monster off, he's probably dead now." Pierce said.
Almost everyones eyes widened at those words. "Matt too?" Justin said.
"Jill we need to go back!" Mia said.
Jill shook her head. "No, as much as I want to, we can't let that monster get another one of us, it already got Rob and Matt, we can't let anyone else die. We have to go..." Jill exited through the entrance.
"Matt..." Lucas said looking at the shutters.
"Come on Mia..." Mia looked at Rav who put her arm around her.
Mia just gave a slight nod and exited with Rav.
Alex just gave Pierce a slight glare.
"What's that look for?" Pierce asked.
Alex sighed and went on after the others, everyone else followed.
Pierce just looked back at the shutter and chuckled before following the others.
Raccoon City, Flower Street, 12:05 PM, 'Dante, Shane, Davis, Alan, Max, Stuart, Marc, Louise'
"Time has passed by like seconds, as if it hasn't really been long since this all started, of course though, I clearly remember it's been two days now. I wonder what happened to Brad, I wonder what happened to Marvin, I just hope they're alright, we've lost enough officers to those monsters. I just witnessed another attack on our position, but Captain Miller and his team managed to take the zombies down with little effort. I know they have this area under perfect protection, but I honestly hope we move out soon, there's no telling what else might be heading our way, and there's definitely no telling when or if that monster will show up and attack us like it attacked my team. Our resources here are many but limited, as for the zombies, their numbers are unknowingly large, that much is obvious, hopefully the captain gives the order to move out soon, it's only a matter of time until we end up making a fatal mistake, or if something worse finds us."
Shane fired his MP5 at the last remaining zombies and took them down, he lifted his hand up into the air and signalled for the others to move down to his position. "Area clear, let's clean up lads."
The other officers quickly made their way to the ground level and immediately headed outside and started stacking all of the bodies in a pile.
"How many people do you think survived?"
Dante turned to Louise. "Hm?"
Louise sat down next to him and repeated her question. "How many people do you think managed to make it?"
"I don't know..." Dante replied and turned away and watched the officers throw all of the bodies into a pile. "A part of me thinks there are no other survivors left, but another part of me believes there may just be others out there that are on the move trying to escape."
Louise nodded. "Yeah, I think, no, I know, I know my friends are out there somewhere right now trying to get out of here."
Dante gave her a confused look. "Aren't you worried that they'll escape without you?"
"No, I'm sure we'll come across eachother eventually." Louise replied.
Dante shrugged. "That's some faith you got there..."
"That takes care of that..." Shane said throwing the last body onto the pile.
The officers waited for Max to set the pile on fire before returning back inside.
"We good?" Dante asked.
Davis nodded. "Yeah, all zombies have been taken care of and are now burning with the rest, they won't be bugging us again."
"If we keep this up, we'll have the entire city cleaned up in no time." Max said with a grin.
Shane sat down and reloaded his MP5. "Don't get too cocky son, we ain't even close to clearing a quarter of the place, let alone the whole city, we still got alot of work to do."
Louise just looked over at Shane and smiled, his scottish accent, his calm personality, his caring tone and such, he reminded her of Alex.
"Somethin' up lass?" Shane asked.
Louise noticed he was talking to her and quickly shook her head in reply to his question. "N-No...it's nothing..."
"Hm..." Shane got to his feet and looked up at the sky after hearing a helicopter starting up and leaving the roof above them. "Striker, go around this part of the city and look for survivors. You've already searched the further parts of the city, take a look around Carter Street, Ennerdale Street, Warren Street and Fission Street. While your at it, take a look around City Hall, I'd bet all of my money that if there are any survivors, that's where they would be heading." Shane said talking into his radio.
"Got it mate!"
Striker flew off into the distance again, he had already refueled the chopper on the roof while the others took care of the zombies during the time that passed. Hopefully this time he'll find survivors Dante thought.
"Alright, everyone get some rest, McCoy, I want you on watch." Shane ordered as he walked by everyone.
"Yes sir!" All officers said and went back inside.
Louise turned back to Dante. "Aren't you coming inside?"
Dante shook his head. "Nah...I've gotten used to being out here."
"Alone?" Louise replied.
"Yeah..." Dante said with a nod. "Besides, an extra guy on watch is better than one."
Louise raised a brow. "I think you just want to keep away from everyone..."
Dante turned to her and gave her a questioning look. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"You're always so quiet, and you barely talk with anyone, it's like you're trying to distance yourself away from everyone else, something's bothering you isn't it?" Louise said.
Wow, Dante never thought he'd get this kind of talk from anyone, to be more precise he was surprised she even cared, why does she? It's not her problem, it's not like it's a burden that she's enduring or trying to endure he thought to himself.
"You shouldn't punish yourself for things that aren't your fault." Louise got up and walked back inside.
Dante just looked up at the sky and thought about those words. "Shouldn't punish myself for things that aren't my fault..." He repeated her words to himself. He just groaned and sat back. "Yeah right...if only it were that simple..."
"Talkin' to yerself again lad?"
Dante shook his head. "No sir..."
Shane sat down next to him and looked up at the sky. "You know, the wee lass has a point, Ian's death, your whole teams deaths, it wasn't your fault. It's impossible, deaths are caused by mistakes, rash or sacrificial actions, heck, you could basically say there's like over a hundred ways to die. But them dying because of you is not a possibility, they knew the risks during this mission for survival and they went with it, they were ready for the killin' blow."
"No sir..."
"Hm?" Shane raised a brow at his words.
Dante looked at him. "I fucked up real bad sir, worse than you could possibly imagine, this was clearly my fault, I just don't know how to put it. You'd definitely be disappointed if you found out everything that happened..." A tear was sliding down his face but Dante quickly wiped it away.
Shane sighed and put an arm around Dante, then to Dante's surprise, Shane pulled him into a small hug. "Relax son, if you want to cry then go ahead and cry, no one's watchin' if it makes it easier for you."
Dante was surprised by his actions and words, he was such a father he thought to himself. But then, he didn't remember the last time someone comforted him like this before. He sighed and remained silent for a few more seconds before releasing more tears.
Raccoon City, Central Street Station, 12:10 PM, 'Carlos, Jerry, Mikhail, Nicholai'
Carlos returned to the cable car with nothing again, he already went out and looked around several times for Jill, Rav and Justin, but couldn't find them anywhere. Listening to the zombies cries echoing in the air, Carlos was beginning to assume the worst, he was actually afraid something may have happened to them.
Just then he heard gunfire around the corner as he made his way back. "Stay the hell away!"
"Jerry!" Carlos sprinted as fast as he could and made it around the corner to see Jerry shooting at a group of zombies that there closing in on him.
Carlos fired his assault rifle and quickly took down four zombies with shots to the heads, giving Jerry enough time to reload as the zombies turned to Carlos.
"Hold on Carlos!" Jerry shouted as he reloaded his weapons.
Carlos carefully aimed his weapon at the zombies and fired one bullet at a time at each of their heads, eventually getting rid of them all before Jerry could fire off another shot. "Dammit."
"Heh, looks like you can't do anything without me eh Jerry?" Carlos said.
Jerry put his guns away and raised his brow at him. "Well, I took a few out."
Carlos grinned. "Right, by few, you mean one?"
Jerry just remained silent.
"Relax I'm just kidding, anyway let's head inside, it doesn't look like we'll be dealing with anymore zombies for now." Carlos said entering the front car, Jerry followed.
Nicholai was doing the same thing he had been doing for the past couple of hours, looking around and trying to start the cable car back up with his hands but as usual, it didn't work.
"No luck Nicholai?" Jerry asked.
Nicholai stood up and turned to the two UBCS mercenaries. "The cable car is missing several components, unless we get them, it isn't going anywhere."
"Why use it though? What's your plan sir?" Carlos asked.
Nicholai turned his back to them and looked outside. "I'll explain later, go and check on Mikhail and leave me so I can think in peace."
They didn't question him any further and moved to the back car. "Jeez, seriously that guy has a problem." Jerry said.
Carlos sat down next to the unconscious Mikhail and sighed. "He's probably just stressed out trying to think of way out of here, I don't blame him, with just a few of us left and being trapped here, I think I can understand why he's so moody."
Jerry gave a slight nod. "I guess I can agree with that...anyway, we gotta start thinking of a way to get out of here, we can't stay here forever and expect a helicopter to just pass by and pick us up."
Carlos looked outside and looked around for any movement, nothing so far, except for a few zombies that weren't really aware of their presence or anywhere near their position, they were ok so far, but for how much longer?
Raccoon City Hall, 12:15 PM, 'Jill, Alex, Bryan, Jamie, Danny, Connor, Lucas, Rav, Justin, Mia, Pierce'
After inserting the last gem into the device, the gate split and moved sideways until it disappeared into the walls, revealing the large green double doors, which allowed them to get through and go and explore new areas.
Jill entered, followed by everyone else into the City Hall Gardens, and to no surprise, it was all messed up just like every other area they had been at so far.
"It's too quiet, I don't like it." Jamie whispered to the others.
Jill walked on ahead. "Relax, we'll know if an area is dangerous or not, just listen for anything that isn't us." The group followed Jill through the gardens and made it to where the area split into two directions.
"Which way do we go?" Justin asked.
Rav turned to Jill. "Jill?"
Jill turned to the left path. "We'll head this way, if we can't go any further then we'll head back and go down the other way."
No one objected and followed Jill down the left path, walking on until they made it to the door at the end. However as they all entered into the alleyway, a zombie immediately appeared and grabbed Alex.
"ALEX!"
Alex was already exhausted from his earlier fights, his drained strength allowed the zombie to easily close in and bite him, fortunately though Rav and Justin grabbed the zombie and threw it off of him just in time before it could sink its teeth into him.
"Thanks Rav, Justin..." Alex said breathing heavily with relief.
"Don't mention it." Justin replied.
The zombie growled at them and got back to it's feet, Rav shot it in the head taking it down quickly, however, more zombies appeared and began to limp towards them. "Shit, any more ideas?"
Bryan unloaded his MAC-10s into the zombies, the almost endless supply of bullets dropped all of the zombies to the ground but it wasn't enough to kill them.
Jill decided to take advantage while the zombies were down and took Mia's hand and ran through the alleyway, everyone else followed.
A zombie grabbed Bryan's foot as he ran, causing him to fall to the ground. "FUCK!"
"Bryan!" Danny stopped running and went back to help.
"Get off of me!" Bryan killed the zombie after firing his MAC-10s into it's head, however, the other zombies got up and began limping towards him. "Oh shit!" Bryan tried to get up but the zombies hand was still wrapped around his foot. "Let go you fuck!"
Danny arrived just in time to shoot the zombies back with his assault rifle, but his help didn't last long when another zombie smashed through a shop window next to him.
"Whoa!" Danny fell back and dropped his assault rifle and growled at the amount of glass that shot his way and most likely cut him in several places. The zombie grabbed him but he managed to kick it away, holding it off for a few seconds.
Bryan fired his MAC-10s at the other zombies but his eyes widened after his guns clicked. "ALEX!" Bryan shouted.
Alex immediately arrived to help just in time, obviously after hearing the gunshots that alerted him that they were in trouble.
"Fucker! Get away!" Danny kicked the zombie away again and got to his feet, the zombie once again lunged at him but Danny pulled out his machete and instantly decapitated the zombie.
Alex shot a few of the other zombies in the head, keeping them away a little longer. Danny helped Bryan free his foot from the zombies hand and helped him to his feet. "Come on Bryan!"
The two ran on, Alex shot the remaining zombies in the head before following.
All three of them ran through the gate at the end and moved through Lonsdale Yard, not stopping at all until they reached Central Street Station where everyone else was. However, the moment they arrived, they found the others under attack by a group of zombie dogs.
"Mia get behind me!" Jill said.
Mia did what she was told and stayed behind Jill, after seeing everyone lifting their guns up, Mia covered her ears and closed her eyes and listened to the faint sound of gunshots filling the air.
One dog leaped at Justin, he was about to dodge it until Rav moved him aside and aimed something sharp and pointy at the dog. The long bladed weapon went through the dogs head as it got to them, killing it immediately, another one closed in but Lucas fired his shotgun several times at it, blowing it to pieces. Jill took down the remaining dogs and immediately reloaded her weapons. "Everyone ok?"
"I'm good..." Lucas said.
Justin nodded. "Yeah, same here..." He turned to Rav. "Thanks for the help Rav."
Rav shrugged. "It's nothing..."
Jill removed Mia's hands from her ears. "We're ok Mia, let's go."
Mia looked up at her and nodded. "O-Ok..."
Connor looked at Alex. "She reminds me of you."
"Who? Jill?" Alex said with a confused look.
Connor nodded. "Yeah, you two are so much alike."
Alex just looked at him for a moment before walking on. "Whatever..."
"Wait a minute, I almost forgot about this place." Justin said.
Jill faced him. "What are you talking about?"
Justin pointed to the cable car up ahead. "There's a couple of those mercenary guys holding out over there, we were found by them around this area before not long ago."
Rav nodded. "Yeah I remember, Carlos should be there too if I'm not mistaken."
Jill returned her nod. "Got it, let's get moving."
"Carlos, the guy we met before?" Pierce asked.
Jill nodded. "Yeah, the same mercenary guy from before."
The group made their way over the small barricades and around the corner at the end of the cable car. Another zombie dog appeared and ran towards them, luckily they heard it approaching and all shot it at the same time, their combined firepower was enough to quickly get rid of it. Jill caught a quick glimpse of someone inside looking through the window at them, she was easily able to tell that it was Carlos, his hair and uniform gave it away, she sighed with relief knowing it was safe and turned to the others. "Come on, let's get inside, we should be safe here for now." Jill said and entered the cable car, everyone else followed.
As they were about to look around, they were immediately approached by someone, a mercenary in a UBCS uniform that was similar to Carlos's uniform, no doubt he was his teammate.
"You're one of the survivors from the rescue team right? I just ran into your teammate Carlos." Jill said.
The mercenary just looked at them all, a small surprised expression crossed his face before he turned back to Jill. "How did a group of kids like yourselves manage to survive?" He said in a russian accent.
"Good to see you again too Nicholai." Justin said.
Pierce raised a brow at Nicholai's words. "Kids? Really?"
Jill raised a brow at his words, he almost reminded her of Matt, but she kept her cool and replied. "Hey, I'm no ordinary civi. I'm a member of STARS, and these so called kids are under my protection."
"STARS? You mean the RPDs special force team?" Nicholai replied.
Before they could exchange anymore words, someone up ahead groaned, Nicholai didn't bother exchanging anymore words and walked away. "Hey, is someone wounded back there?" Jill asked, but Nicholai didn't reply and kept walking until he entered the front car and disappeared from their sight.
The group walked over to the injured mercenary, Jill kneeled down next to him and examined his wounds. "Oh...this looks bad."
"Tell me about it, Mikhail has been like this for a while now." Justin said.
"Ugh...they're coming. Get ready...! Ugh...agh, fire...fire...! Stay together...!" Mikhail said, most likely thinking he was still fighting on the streets with his allies.
"Calm down, you're safe now..." Jill said putting her hand on his arm. "Everything is gonna be ok." Jill stood up and turned to Mia. "Mia, do you still have that bandage kit?"
Mia nodded. "Yes?"
"Ok, do you think you could take care of his wounds?" Jill replied.
Mia nodded again. "Sure, I'll need someone to help me though."
"I'll help." Bryan said sitting down next to the injured mercenary.
"Alright..." Jill turned to the others. "So you have already been here?"
Rav nodded. "Yeah, we were here not too long ago, but we went out to look around, that was when we met Alex and the others."
"Alright, get some rest, I'll handle the talking." Jill said.
Jamie sat down and sighed. "Thank god."
Everyone else all sat down except Alex and Rav, who followed Jill into the front car.
"Ah, more survivors."
Carlos turned his sight from Jerry to Jill, Alex and Rav. "Ah Rav, good to see you again, I'm glad you made it."
Rav sighed and sat down. "Whatever..."
Carlos chuckled before turning to Jill. "So Jill, did you decide to help us out? It looks like we're the only ones who survived, we should work together."
Nicholai shook his head. "No, we can't trust them."
Carlos and Jerry gave him a confused look. "Why? But sergeant we need their help, our unit's down to you, me, Jerry and Lieutenant Mikhail, that's it, and Mikhail's hurt bad. If we don't cooperate, we won't be walking away from this mission."
Silence followed now and everyone was looking at Nicholai, waiting for a reply, after thinking for a few seconds, Nicholai replied. "Hm...fine, then let's go over our plan. We're moving to the clock tower area which is the designated landing zone for the extraction chopper, once we get there and give the signal, the chopper will fly in and pull us out."
"That's a lot of ground to cover, I...I don't think we can make it on foot." Carlos replied.
Nicholai continued. "The main problem we have is that the landing zone is cut off from here by the fire, so we have no choice but to use this cable car to navigate through it. Fortunately we can also use it as a moving shield to get us through the worst areas."
Carlos nodded. "That works for me, good plan, sir."
Jerry nodded also. "I second that."
"Yeah, I agree, it's a good idea and it'll save us the trouble of having to deal with the zombies." Alex said.
"Ok people, let's get moving." Nicholai said before exiting the cable car.
Carlos turned to Jill. "Jill, put this on."
Jill took the utility belt from his hand and put it on.
"Let's have a nice friendly talk later, eh Rav?" Carlos said with a friendly grin.
Rav just watched him leave and then shook her head.
Jerry snickered. "Hehehe, well he sure has his hopes up, speaking of which, I need to get my rifle back from Justin." He got up and went into the back car.
Jill, Alex and Rav followed him into the back car.
"So, what's the plan Alex?" Lucas asked.
Alex turned to Jill. "How about you explain it all Jill."
Jill nodded and faced the others. "Ok listen up everybody, here's the plan, we're going to start this cable car up and use it to get to the Saint Michael Clock Tower, after which we're gonna let the others signal a rescue chopper, once they've taken care of that the chopper will fly in and get us out of here."
"Oh finally, I thought we would never get out of here." Jamie said.
"Sorry Jerry but the rifle is out of ammo." Justin said as he handed Jerry his rifle.
Jerry just threw the rifle away and glared at him. "Well thanks alot, now I'm stuck with these pistols..." He turned to Jill. "Jill was it? We can't use the cable car yet, it's missing several components, so until we find the missing pieces, we're still stuck here."
"What is it missing?" Rav asked.
Jerry sat down and thought for a moment. "Umm, well, I'm sure it's missing a power cable, and it sure as hell needs a fuse, plus I think the damn thing needs mixed oil, so we have our work cut out for us."
Rav took something out of her sling bag and showed it to the others. "I found this cable while me and Justin were looking around, I found it before we ran into Alex and the others."
Jerry took it and nodded. "Nice, very nice, yeah this will do."
"So what else do we need to get?" Justin asked.
Jerry stood up and went over to the small panel at the end and opened it, there was a broken cable inside. "Well, we need mixed oil and a fuse. The oil will be easier to get so I suggest we go for that first."
"And...how do we get it exactly?" Danny said.
Jerry replaced the broken cable with the new one he got from Rav and turned to them. "The STAGLA gas station isn't far from here, we can get machine oil from there, and if we head to the pharmaceutical sales office uptown we should find some oil additive that we can mix with the machine oil, that'll get us the oil we need."
"Got it, what about the fuse?" Jill asked.
Jerry sat back down and shrugged. "That, I don't know yet, but we'll deal with the fuse later, let's just take care of the oil problem."
Jill nodded. "Got it, I'll head to the STAGLA gas station right now and then I'll head uptown..." Jill was about to leave but Rav stopped her.
"I'll go with you." Rav said.
Jill shook her head. "No, you stay here Rav, you will all be safe if you stay here."
"Sorry but I can't let you go out there by yourself Jill, I'm going." Rav replied.
Justin spoke up. "I'm going too..."
"Me too..." Lucas said standing up.
Jill sighed but nodded. "Ok ok, fine..." She turned to Mia. "Mia, you stay here and look after Mikhail alright?"
"Ok..." Mia said as she finished bandaging up Mikhail.
"Well I'm staying here." Jamie said.
Jill nodded. "That's fine, I don't expect anyone else to come with us."
Pierce shrugged. "Normally I'd go, but under these circumstances, I'm staying right here."
"Wimp." Connor muttered.
"Alright, let's go, once we take care of this, we'll almost be out of here." Jill exited the cable car, Rav, Justin and Lucas followed.
Alex turned to the others, but before he could say anything, Connor spoke. "I know Alex...we'll go with them."
"No way, I'm not losing any of you guys..." Alex replied.
Connor put the bag of guns and ammo down and grinned. "Chill man, I'll be alright, come on Danny, let's go and catch up."
Danny nodded. "Right. Don't worry Alex, we'll be back before you know it." Danny followed Connor out of the cable car.
"Ugh..." Alex covered his face with his hand.
Bryan spoke up. "I hope they'll be alright..."
"They will..." Alex stood up and took a shotgun out of the bag. "Because I'm going with them, they're my responsibility, look after things while I'm gone Bryan."
"Ok Alex, be careful." Bryan said as Alex left to catch up with the others.
"He's such a good person, willing to risk his own life to make sure the others are alright." Mia said.
Bryan nodded. "Yeah, he has a lot of good traits, unique ones aswell to say the least, that pretty much explains why we rely on him..."
Mia smiled a little. "Yeah, I understand why..."
Raccoon City, Flower Street, 12:20 PM, 'Dante, Shane, Davis, Alan, Max, Stuart, Marc, Louise'
"Once again, I watched the others take down and burn another group of zombies that tried to break through the barricades, they make it look so easy. In fact, they make it look so easy that, I wonder how we weren't able to do the same thing days ago when we first set out to fight the zombies, maybe we just didn't know what we were up against at the time, it doesn't surprise me really. I wonder, if there really are survivors out there, I'm actually curious as to what they're doing right now, are they holding out somewhere like us? Are they hiding inside a house? Are they stranded on a roof? If there are survivors, they could be doing any of those things right now and more. Davis told me that we will be heading out eventually, I do believe him, but my question is, when? I mean, are we just going to sit here at this one location until we take out just about every single zombie in the city? Or are we going to move once we've atleast ensured safe passage? Well I suppose it doesn't matter, all I can do is hope, and eventually we'll move out, hopefully the zombies didn't get everyone, otherwise we would be wasting our time trying to save people. I think back on the days when I used to still work alongside my old team, Captain Jacobs, Nick, Glen, Henderson, a lot of crimes would go around in the city and when it proved to be too much for other officers, we would be called in to take care of business. That's what we did, we took care of business, we always did, day after day, week after week, month after month, we would be called in to finish what other officers couldn't finish, get done the things they couldn't get done, I guess that's probably one reason why we were one of the most known teams in the Raccoon City Police Department, heck, even a lot of people in the city knew about us. But then, sometimes I think about it, and maybe, just maybe, it was probably because of Captain Jacobs, he used to be in STARS, and he had quite a reputation, other officers were saying that if he hadn't left STARS, it's Bravo Team would probably still be around and all of its members would still be alive. That's how much he was relied on by others, he was a veteran, trained in many different fighting styles and many different firearms, always prepared himself by learning everything there was to learn, he would always have a plan ready, if we were in some deep shit, he would always manage to think of a strategy to get us out, he was the pefect officer. And not too long ago, he just died, just like that, right in front of me, before my very eyes, died within seconds, all of his training, his skills, his knowledge, everything he had worked so hard to achieve, just went away within a few measly seconds, as if it was all for nothing. It was as if all of his superior combat training never improved him at all, a veteran like him, perfected abilities, dead, killed like a normal human being, killed like he never had any of those abilities to begin with. When I think about it, it's the same for all of us, a human life can be taken away just like that, with little effort, I wonder what it's like, to die, does the person just see nothing but darkness afterwards? Heh, I suppose I'll never know, and I don't plan on knowing, I will get out of here, I won't let myself become another one of those monsters."
"You know, if you keep up all of that thinking then you're gonna give yourself a headache Dante." Davis said as he walked over to him.
Dante shrugged. "Whatever, it all really depends on how much stuff I'm thinking about, and I'm not really thinking about a lot right now."
Davis sat down next to him. "No but you're thinking hard about your team and avenging them aren't you?"
"I'm not exactly in the mood to talk about that ok?" Dante replied.
"Ok, but if you keep all of that stuff inside for too long then you're gonna go insane, I guarentee you." Davis said.
Dante nodded. "Right..."
Alan and Max walked over to the two officers. "Hey Deco, there's got to be something for you to do other than just sitting around the whole time, you always look like a fucking statue." Alan said.
"Sorry guys, there's nothing I really can do, besides, I've actually gotten used to sitting that much that I'd rather be sitting than do anything else." Dante replied.
Max laughed and sat down. "Hahaha! Good one kid!"
Alan sat down and shrugged. "Whatever, the Captain told me to tell you anyway that he may have a plan, he's thinking right now so give him a couple of minutes."
Davis nodded. "Got it. Let's hope his plan involves us getting out of here, I want to help as many people as I possibly can, but if the survivors we have inside are the only ones left, honestly, it's better to leave now with a few rather than none."
"I'm actually curious myself if there are other officers still alive out there, I wonder if Marvin and the chief made it." Max said.
Dante shrugged. "Marvin, I hope, but the chief, he's a fucking asshole, I honestly don't give a damn if he's alive or not."
"The feeling's mutual." Max replied.
Davis nodded again. "Yeah, anyway, what are you guys gonna do once we get out of here?"
"You mean, IF, we get out of here." Alan said.
"No, I know we will get out of here, it's just a matter of when." Davis replied.
Max grinned. "Some faith you got there kid, but me? Well, I think I'll head home and chill with my wife and kids for the rest of my life, I've been away from them for far too long."
"What about you Alan?" Davis asked looking at Alan.
Alan shrugged. "I'm gonna go back and live with my parents for a while, I might end up getting a house of my own again too, considering the house I used to live in got wrecked by a whole bunch of zombies."
"Yeah, all of our houses in this city got attacked, I can only imagine how many people died when this all started, it actually scares me sometimes." Davis said.
Max spoke up again. "Yeah, speaking of which, what are you gonna do once we get out of here Davis?"
Davis looked at him. "I'm gonna go back and live with my mom and dad. You know something though, if I left the city days ago before all of this started, I wouldn't be in this situation right now, but then..." He looked at the other officers. "I'd be leaving you guys to die, something I wouldn't be proud of."
Max snickered. "Hehe, relax kid, everyone chooses what they want to do, it wouldn't have made you a bad guy if you left, Dante's here, he could have filled in your position if you did, nothing would have changed."
"Haha, I suppose you're right." Davis said laughing with the others.
Shane approached the group of officers. "Awright lads, here's the plan..."
The four officers turned to him and waited to hear his plan. "I'm stupid, I should of thought of this sooner. I just called Striker and told him to return to this location, he's on his way back right now."
"Why? What's going on sir?" Dante asked.
Shane continued. "I'm gonna have Striker fly one of us to the roof of the Raccoon General Hospital, after that, we'll take the rescue chopper on the roof and fly both helicopters back here and get the other survivors out. After that, we'll use the rescue chopper to find and evacuate as many survivors as we can find, Striker will cover us with his chopper while we're at it."
"That's a great plan sir!" Davis said.
Dante nodded. "Yeah, I feel stupid myself that I didn't think of it earlier, it was so obvious."
Shane shook his head. "No lads, it's my fault, I should of thought of it sooner."
"It's alright sir, we know what to do now." Max said.
All officers got to their feet. "Awright, once Striker gets back here, we're gonna-" Before Shane could finish though, he was cut off by Alan.
"Sir!"
Shane and the others turned to Alan. "What is it?"
Alan pointed to something out on the streets. "Over there!"
Shane, Max, Davis and Dante walked over to where Alan was and looked at what he was pointing at.
A large figure in the distance was slowly making its way towards their position.
"What the hell is that?" Shane said.
Dante tried to identify the figure, after the officers remained silent everything was so quiet that he could hear his heart beating. Eventually, as the figure got closer, he started to recognize the long trench coat and the large appearance. As he started to identify it more, he could feel his heart beating faster and faster, so fast that he could almost hear it.
Just then, Dante's eyes widened after his suspicions and worries were confirmed, when the large man spoke.
"STARS..."
Dante clenched his fists and grabbed his gun. "It's him..."
Authors Notes: I apologize for the amount of time it took to get this chapter done, but I'll be completely honest, I felt like the last chapter was a big disappointment so I decided to make up for the last chapter by making this chapter longer than the others. Besides, what better time to upload this chapter than around the time of E3. And yes, I also saw the new Resident Evil 6 trailer from E3 and it looks absolutely amazing, I can tell it'll probably be the best Resident Evil game out of all of them, especially considering it has the combined elements of Horror and Action in the form of seperate story campaigns, with Jake's campaign being all Melee and whatnot, but I hope they show more footage aswell, seeing that new trailer only made me want to see more. Also, I just realised not to long ago about the whole new Image Manager Feature added to the site, a great idea in my opinion and I thank whoever thought of it as it will give other Authors an idea to edit images or create one of their own through any form of art and such and use it as their front cover for their story. If you aren't aware by the way then I have already done this and made a front cover for Enduring the Evil 3, you'll notice as you scroll through the lists of stories or in the story itself, and if you find it then take the time to take a closer look and you'll notice I put the title 'Enduring the Evil 3 Nemesis' on the image, hope you like that aswell. Anyway back on topic, I hope you enjoyed this long chapter, I was actually trying to finish it for saturday but I had a few problems and it prevented me from doing so, but atleast it's done, and I think I will be getting to work immediately on the next one soon so hopefully I get that one finished quicker than this one, Jill and everyone has reunited with Carlos, Nicholai and Jerry and now their trying to start up the cable car. Also if your confused about something then I'll leave you with a little hint, to start the cable car, Jill needs the oil and the fuse, now, the oil is possible, but the fuse is a different story, that being said, I'd like to ask that you take a look through the Character Status after the Authors Notes back on Chapter 10, only one character has the fuse, the fuse that they need to start the cable car up, if you find out who has it then you'll know who will come across eachother eventually. Lastly, Matt and Rob are gone now, Pierce is a backstabbing asshole and Mikhail is patched up, maybe now he will be able to fight alongside Jill, who knows. As usual, please Review and if you have any then leave Requests in your Reviews, I hope you enjoyed the chapter.