Chapter 26

Showdown part 2

Jill and Carlos felt the tremor as the lights blink on and off. The children panicked and their faces were pale. Everyone was in panic except for the new boy. He just looked up the ceiling as it shakes off its dust as more tremors came from somewhere else.

"Jill, it's not safe anymore for us to stay here. We better get ourselves upstairs, or better yet outside. We don't want getting trapped here." Carlos finally said. Jill agreed on as she took the first steps up the stairs.

"It's clear" she said as the others followed her. She ran outside and looked once again into the skies. It was safe from crows and she could now clearly see two area where in the smoke was coming from. She was pretty sure Steve is on his way there.

"I think we should go home now." Max said to her sister. "Lyle and Dad might be…"

"You're right and we have no choice either we have to stay with them if we want to be safe." Nikki replied. "We should ask those two to check if Lyle and dad are ok."

"You're right. But as soon as we know they're okay. We should-"

"No! Even if they're okay it's better to stay here than leave them." Nikki said cutting him off. She knows very well that his brother doesn't want to stay with their half-brother Jordan and she doesn't want that either. However, she also knows the fact that they should think of something to survive too and this is they only way she could think of.

Max settled down as he sat to one of chairs. He looked around as he saw the place was pretty much devastated by the flock of crows. The whole place was pretty much a mess. He looked to the other boy who was standing by the window. He was still quite yet there something different about him. He stepped beside him.

"Hi..." he said but the boy looked at him and stared back into the open space.

He too stared outside and scanned anything gout of familiar. There was smoke coming from two different places. Jill and Carlos were talking outside, looking too at the smoke. He was sure they're thinking of something. Four of their companions were gone and so does Steve to retrieve them. He turned around and went back to her sister sitting on the couch together with Ashley and Angela. Those three are pretty much close together now. But he himself has no one to talk except for her sister. If Lyle was with him by now things would have been better. But if they didn't survive, he would have to accept his new brother.

Echo-five stared at the monstrosity before him. He was definitely huge now but it must have been a mistake. He cannot be as big as that, he was definitely human, not until now. He grabbed back his rifle and aimed at its head. He knew what to do as this monstrosity cannot live anymore longer whether it's his father or not. He doubted it was even him but with a bit of a psycho his father was, it is far from impossible. He switched off the safety as he rolled on the compressor on his rifle. Echo-four saw this but didn't care. She knew too well it would be better if that thing was killed plus she knew it might be a family problem. Echo-five aimed steady at the head as he was ready to fire any second. He was still in doubt but it has to be done. His father always gave him whatever he wanted but hasn't been himself lately especially after the Raccoon City incident. He was on the verge of killing his own loving father but he didn't even know the other side of the story. He was surely in doubt but the mission is the mission. They are to finish the mission in order make a good thing out of this. The last one was considered a failure but their team leader blamed Nero for that. He was about to pull the trigger when the monitor of a nearby computer began to blink.

"Sedative feed. Automatic Shut-off." It says. He was startled.

"IV feed. Automatic shut-off." It said again. He was mesmerized. The others were alert now.

"T-Virus feed. Automatic Shut-off. Anti-Virus feed. Automatic Shut-off. Receiving orders…Icarus 2 Program now activating."

"Shit! Shit! SHIT!" Echo-five said under his breath. This is very bad. He looked again at the monitor as he saw the feed information was rapidly dropping. The huge thing began to stir as it opened its eyes. "Guys, we might want to back-off."

"Proceed to formation 2. Suppressing tactics now!" Echo-one ordered

"Roger that!"

"Affirmative."

The Echo team scrambled through the hallway as they began to hear consecutive shots coming from Echo-five's rifle. The door slammed open as Echo-five was literally thrown out of it. He slammed again the wall and dropped on the floor. He was fine and far from being out of the fight but he was barely standing. He began to stir as Echo-three threw a Flash bang grenade into the room. The bomb blew as it released its ear-piercing scream. There was no reaction as the huge thing slammed through the doorway and continued towards Echo-five. He was able to roll in time as the thing slammed through the thick wall. Echo-two quickly threw a High-Explosive grenade inside the huge wall. The loud boom went off as Echo-three rolled in front of the hole and quickly makes an aim. There was nothing there. There was another loud slamming sound as the monster slammed again to the far side of the wall and ran towards Echo-one grabbing him. Echo-three aimed for the feet and started firing while Echo-two, being the most accurate, made aim with his sniper rifle and shot the arm holding their teammate. The bullet went through and at the side of the head, making a minor wound to the monster. The thing growled in pain as it slammed its victim on the wall. It was about pound Echo-one when Echo-four was just in time to through her knife as it hits the right eye of the monster. Echo-one was dropped but they weren't sure if he was fine or not. He was still whole but barely conscious. He was coughing a little as grabbed back his rifle. Echo-five, who is now standing up, threw a flash-bang grenade in front of their opponent's face. It blew off making another ear-shattering scream, making it step back. It was an opportunity as Echo-one rolled towards his teammates as they give him cover fire. They mainly hit the body making it step backwards more. Echo-two make an aim for the knee and fired quickly. The armor-piercing round went through the thing's kneecap making it fall down on one knee.

"Damn!" Echo-one said as he complimented the sheer pain on his back. He grabbed his rifle back and made a hand signature. Echo-two aimed for the head and fired. The thing was knocked back as it made a hard thud on the floor. It was barely conscious but was still moving. Suddenly out of nowhere, a drone popped out of nowhere at started firing at them. The team just dodged just in time and dived for cover, barely hitting the. Echo-four, being the one with the light-weight armor and the most agile made a surprise attack and fired a barrage of bullets at it. Every bullet hit as the drone had a minor explosion at the back of it as it fell on the cold floor. The thing stood up again as the bullet was sitting in a hole on its forehead. It plucked the bullet out as the hole started to close fast. Its body spat out the other bullets on it as the thing began a painful mutation. The muscles on the arm and thighs began growing at fast rate. The arm size was doubled as it grew bigger than its original size. Its mouth grew wider and sharper and bigger teeth were now shown. The head was now more vicious than before as it stood over seven feet now. The light brown mutated flesh became darker in color and the hands grew huge claws and the feet had now talons.

"That's fucking big!" Echo-two complimented.

It roared out a savage scream as it charged for the Echo-team that was at the opposite end of the hall. Echo-four quickly threw an explosive buggy on the floor as it was accidentally stepped by the huge monster. It blew the thing off to the ceiling making a loud thud on the ceiling. It fell down as the ceiling gave out, falling on the huge monstrosity.

"Good work." Echo-one said, complimenting Echo-four's reaction. "We better get out of here. I'm sure the facility is well aware now that people have infiltrated their building. The mission is a failure but it would rather act as a reconnaissance mission because of the new Intel we have."

The other nodded their head as they made their way back to the stairs and head back to the rooftop. The debris rumbled as the huge monster stood up again as they slow sneak out. They saw the monster as it charge aimlessly at them again.

"Fuck!"

Adam stood up as he pulled his elbow so it could mend properly. The pain sent a painful shock throughout his body. He shrieked in pain as he scanned again the area for his enemy. He was still nowhere to be found. Philip was still nearby but unsure whether he should help or not. It's a battle where in he would only be a huge nuisance to his friend. Caleb on the other hand was now completely unconscious as Icarus took over his body. Icarus was watching Adam from a good distance. He had blended well in his surroundings and Adam will have a hard time detecting him. Power rages through his body as he looked up to a good challenge. He was far from losing but he was from winning either. As far as he knows, his enemy was giving a good fight to him. He pretty sure he can't be detected easily. He could have detected him sooner but in his current state he would have a hard time. Suddenly Adam was able to take a good look at him as he reached out his good arm with a firmly closed fist.

He could obviously feel the huge amount of energy being fixed upon his closed fist. There was an alarming amount of aura around him as it rages on with his surroundings. His closed fist began to glow uncontrollably as some of the debris began to float and hover around him. A few more seconds, electric currents began to appear as the power that is being charged in his fist grew exponentially. Icarus was definitely stunned as Adam gazed upon his cold-blooded eyes. He began to move as fast as he could, trying to confuse his enemy with his movement and finally approaching from the side with a bone shattering kick. His enemy was able to dodge as he crouched. The enormous amount of energy was getting to him. Icarus' momentum continued as he spins continuously and delivered more kicks. Adam just backed off quickly as Icarus approached him faster than he could. Icarus was trying to prevent the alarming rate of his enemy's increasing energy. Adam reached out with his other unoccupied arm as Icarus neared him. There was a suddenly flash of blinding light with a good amount of force coming out of it. Icarus was thrown backwards as he was dazed from the flash of light. The energy that was in Adam's fist was now as strong as a nuclear bomb and a meltdown was not far away.

Icarus began to resort to long distance attacking as he tried to control the natural elements by manipulating the implementation of force, temperature and also with the use of his psychic abilities. He started to run around as he delivered more attacks at Adam. He kept throwing fireballs and water jets coming from broken pipelines. However, the energy was now so massive that his attacks disintegrate before it could even reach its target. Icarus quickly slammed his palm in to the ground repeatedly in different positions as the cracks approach the enemy in an all out manner.

Adam finally opened his palm as he was about to release the massive amount of energy. However, the earth cracks got to him as he fell on one of his knees and the disruption of his plan was a success. Instead of blowing on the spot, the massive amount of energy was shot off upwards towards space. The people all around the city watched in amazement as a blinding light slowly reaches the atmosphere. It was definitely a big mistake because the ball of energy was shot upwards. The two enemies face off once again as light shines on them all.

Jill, Carlos and the kids finally got out of the house as they heard a loud bang coming from a distance. They saw the blinding light as it reaches towards the atmosphere. Jill and Carlos knew this was definitely as bad thing to happen. It was still unknown but a powerful explosion in the atmosphere could cause and EMP bomb-like effect on the ones under it. If every electrical object will be down in the area, they would be force to escape the city on foot and it will be one of the worst things to happen.

"Fuck, this is just great!" Carlos exclaimed.

"Yeah you're right, we better get the hell out of this place before that thing might blow up above. It will be like an EMP bomb and we can't move properly. We have to escape NOW!" Jill said quickly. She was definitely nervous about this one. They might have escaped the Raccoon City incident but this is just the beginning.

"What about the others?" Ashley asked.

"I'm sorry, but they will be considered as MIA"

"MIA?" asked Max asked out of curiosity.

"It means Missing in Action." Carlos said.

"No! It can't be!" Ashley exclaimed as she remembered her brother. "We can't live them!"

"No!" Jill said. "If they're alive and well, they're smart enough to survive since Steve is with them, hopefully."

"What about Alice?" Angela asked.

"She can do it. She's one tough bitch." Jill said with a smile.

Adam fall on his knees as his strongest attack was now gone and it took all of his energy to do that. He was definitely out of it. He was able to dodge the crack as he looked above the light abandoning him. It was his only hope as he was gone. He tried to stand up as Icarus didn't bother to think as he approached him. A few blows were given as he blocked but one definitely hit his stomach. He backed off a few steps as Icarus approached more, keeping up the distance and giving a few more blows. Two hits his face and another one was laid on his stomach. He was definitely in pain. Then suddenly, a kick hit him hard at the side. Icarus spun, throwing more of his previous momentum a delivered an ax kick at the side of his head. He was thrown on the ground as Icarus mercilessly pound him top the ground. He could definitely feel of his ribs crack. He rolled backwards as he tried to stand up again. He can't use anymore psychic abilities but he could still definitely land a few more hits on his enemy. He tried to make a move but Icarus suddenly blinked in front of him with an open palm as a sudden flick of energy was sent out from it. He was thrown upward as Icarus quickly grabbed one of his legs and slammed him to the ground with all of his might. The ground cracked as he threw up a small amount of blood. Icarus pounded him on the ground with a few more hits before jumping in the air and finally hit him with one last pound straight at the chest. Adam coughed up more blood. Most of ribs were broken and there was a huge crater under him. His eyes were rolled upwards and there was a lot of blood came out of his mouth. He was unconscious but still alive. Icarus definitely defeated an experiment. He too lost a vast amount of energy as he could feel his muscles weakening before his body gave out. He lost consciousness as he fell on top of Adam.

The blinding light above finally slowed down as it exploded in the atmosphere. It was as bright as the sun and it shows some hope to some but a failure to a few.