28. THE FINAL REUNION
Alexia opened her eyes wide, then closed them and fell on the floor.
Behind her, with a smoking gun, stood Wesker.
'BOSS!' Matthew jumped.
'MR. WESKER!' Tomoe laughed. 'I knew you weren't dead!'
'Of course. Unfortunately, death is not something that I can achieve easily' he smiled.
'I'm here too!' Valerie showed up as well.
'You… That doctor from the hospital!' Gabriel said.
'Yeah! With me are also Dr. Freebird and…'
'And Dr. Vaughn, too' the surgeon appeared, smiling.
'Great, you're here too. Any idea where the rest are?'
'Dr. Freebird went to look for you. The fact that he's not yet here tells me he's found some of your friends. I also met up with Steve and Claire. They're downstairs'
'I see. Which means we know where everyone except Maria and Dr. Freebird is. We can assume they're together' Erhard noted.
'Yeah'
'Hey, guys, I don't wanna break the line of thought, but… What about her?' Connor pointed at Alexia.
'We need to get her out of the mansion and operate' Wesker said. 'I really didn't want to shoot, but she gave me no choice'
'Why?' Gabe bit his cigarette. 'I thought it was your mission to kill her'
'What?' Matthew yelled. 'Quite the opposite!'
'Doctor, our mission was never to kill her. It was to save her life from the T-Veronica virus!'
'What?'
'We had to prevent her awakening because the shock from fusing the T-Virus would kill her in mere hours after her awakening'
'Yes' Wesker stepped forward. 'After consulting with a few of our scientists, we realized that due to unreliable testing data, Alexia made a mistake in her calculations. The period of complete integration wouldn't be 15 years. It would be 150. And even then, the only thing it'd accomplish would be that she wouldn't die from it at all. A symbiotic relationship without any mutations whatsoever'
'From what I can see, she's already quite mutated' Naomi noted.
'Yes. A 15 year long stasis period would integrate the virus in her, but only partially. Mutations will still occur'
'Uhm… guys…' Hilly said.
'Not now. So this means, since a few hours have already passed…' Gabriel asked.
'Exactly. Even if I hadn't shot her, she'd have succumbed to the Veronica virus very soon'
'Guys…'
'She's been shot through the lung' Dr. Sartre stated. 'We can pretty much say the infection's already mutated all of her organs, so the perforation of the lung would complicate its treatment several times over'
'Exactly. Saving her life will not be easy' Dr. Vaughn stated. 'I don't think a single surgeon can handle it'
'Well, it's a good thing we don't have only a single surgeon in here, right?' Derek smiled.
'That's right! If all of us work together, we can surely save her!' Valerie nodded.
'GUYS!'
Everyone turned to Hilly.
'Look out the window!'
They did.
What they saw was not pleasant.
'Oh God… How did they get here?'
'Damn it… DAMN IT! WHY NOW?' Krauser readied his weapon.
All of the infected people from the village were in front of the mansion doors and were trying to break in.
