Chapter 36: We're not in Kansas Anymore
They drove to the island in silence, Annabelle sat in the middle of Leon and Ada.(I'm adding a third seat cause I can! I will go down with this Ship!) Leon looks over at Annabelle as she recrosses her legs and had her arms crossed. Ada glares over at Leon, seeing that he was eyeing her sister. Then she makes a swift turn to the side, the two staggered a little as they were on the side of the island. Ada stood up and the two look at her as she shot out her grafting hook and looks down at them.
"Got some business to take care of," she informs them and as she steps onto the side of the boat. "Ada…" Annabelle warns her as she saw Ada place her foot on the wheel, but she smirks down at them. "See you later," she said and went flying up. The boat went out of control, but Annabelle jumps into the driver seat, took control and she stops the boat from crashing into the side of the island. Leon pants as he leans against his chair. Then he sighs to himself "Women." he mutters, Annabelle rolls her eyes, leans back and crosses her arms, "Men." she mutters, he shot her a look as she was giving him an amused look. Then the both of them just laugh.
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They arrived at the docks, stepping back onto dry land and walks up the path. "So do you know what your sister is here?" he asks her as they walk up the path. She nods "She's after the sample, something she can give to Wesker to further his plan." she answers him. "The sample?" he asks her, they stop, she reaches into her back pocket and pulls out a vial of purple liquid and showed it to him, "She's after the other sample. There's only two left." she answers him and places the sample away. "Wait, you had a sample the entire?" he asks her, she just smirks at him.
"You actually expect a girl to reveal all of her dirty little secrets?" she questions him with a smirk on her face and her hands on her hips. He went to say something, but she places her finger on his lips and silence him, "Don't answer that Leon, you'll only confuse yourself." she informs him, pulling her hand away and started to walk, swaying her hip, Leon smirks to himself and shook his head, "Women." he chuckles, Annabelle heard him and she smiles as he followed after her. But then they both stop when Leon's radio went off. Annabelle turns and walks back to him as he pulls it and answers it. And it was the big man himself, Lord Saddler. "Hate to break it out to you but Salazar is dead." Leon informs him, "And good riddance too." Annabelle mutters. "Yes, it seems that way." Saddler answers him and the two exchanged looks, "Saddler why don't you give up and let Ashley go home?" Leon questions and Annabelle gave him 'Are ya stupid?' looks, he shrugs at her.
She rolls her eyes and listens in, "Perhaps you are disillusioned with overconfidence just because you killed my small-time subordinate?" Saddler asks him. Annabelle shrugs as couldn't find a counter come back. "Saddler, you're small-time." Leon throws back at him. Annabelle smirks as Saddler just laughs. "Writhe in my cage of torment my friend." Saddler said to him and hung up, the two sigh as he places the radio away, "The man's crazy." Annabelle states, Leon nods a little at her. Then they walk down the path, jumping down and walks through a cave. They jump over the gap and walk across the bridge, but Annabelle stops, making Leon stop and looks at her, "What?" he asks and she points at the nothing. "Do you hear that?" she asks him, he listens to the air as there was silence. "I don't hear anything," he answers her. They walk forward as Annabelle was still hearing something. "Are you sure you're not hearing it?" she asks him, he looks at her and went to say something. "HELP! LEON! ANNABELLE!" Ashley screams out. They both stop, "Now do you hear it?" she asks him, he nods and they both ran down the path.
Then stop as they saw a base and Ashley was being carried over one of the ganados shoulders inside the mountain as the door closes behind them. Annabelle sighs and looks at Leon, "Did I ever tell you how much I hate Ganados?" she asks him, he shook his head. "No I don't think you did," he answers her. She then gruffs "Well, I despise them." she growls. Leon chuckles and he shot out the light, the two then jump over and quickly hide behind the crates. Then they went to walk down the way when the ganados notices them and they came at them, but the two aim their guns and fires at them. Then a fat Ganados fires the turret gun and jumps down, "Seriously? Just it was a chainsaw, now it's a turret gun?!" Annabelle shouts then she charges at the Ganados, "Annabelle, wait!" Leon calls out but fired at the Ganados that came at him.
The Ganados fired at her, but she just flash-steps dodging the bullets, then slides on her side, kicking the leg out from under the Ganados, breaking it at contact, it cries out in pain, then Annabelle flips back, kicking it in the face and lands back on her feet, pulling out her knife and charged at the Ganados, press her hand to the ground, using her foot and slides around him, stood behind the Ganados and slice it's head right off. It drops dead as the other ganados were dead as well. Leon pants and walks over to Annabelle, "You good?" he asks her, she nods at him and they walk through the camp and to the door, "It's locked." she states, Leon looks over at the light, turns it open and it hits one of the reflects lights, but it wasn't lined up with the second light. "I'll take the one on the far left, you take the one in front." Annabelle tells him, "Okay." he states and they both walk down the steps and separated, Leon climbs the ladder and turns the mirror and it hits the light, then Annabelle climbs onto the roof and turns the second mirror and it hits the panel on the side next to the door.
It beeps and the door slides open, they two jumps down and walk to the steps. They walk through the door and down the hall, but then they both flip back, dodging the boulder that would of flatten them, then they ran forward through the tunnel and fired at the Ganados that stood in their way, then they walk to a ladder, Annabelle climb it first and Leon follows after her.
They were on the cliff side and they fired at the Ganados that came that with when electric sticks, they then ran down the way and to the narrow path, Annabelle turns and ran backward as she fired at them with her shotgun. Then Leon came to a wagon, Annabelle moves out of the way and he fired at it, seeing it on fire and it rolls down the narrow path, running over the ganados. Both them some of the stragglers pop out, "Enough enough of this shit." Annabelle growls pulls out as few grenades and threw them, they explode and burn the stragglers. The two exhaled and they walk to the door, Leon presses the button and the door opens. Then they walk down the path and stop as The Merchant was on the other side of the table. (How?! How the hell did you get from Spain to this island? How?) he shows them the goods they sell a few things and Annabelle upgraded her weapons as Leon upgraded his shotgun and sniper.
The Merchant laughs, thanking them and they hurried down the path, Annabelle went to take out her gun. But Leon place his hand on her shoulder, making her look at him. "I got this." he tells her, pulling out his sniper and he fired at them, he got their attention and they jump down, but Leon fired at their heads and they dropped, Annabelle nods and pats his shoulder, "Not bad," she mutters and stood up, walking to the door. He smirks and followed after her and they walk through the door.
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They walk into the building that looks to be abandon for years, then they make a right turn, walking down the hall. Then stop as they came to a door, Annabelle pushes it open and they look into the room, Annabelle pulls out her sword and walks into the room. Then a growl went out, Annabelle twist and twirls her sword as she twists and was facing Leon. Then ganados steps out, Leon aims his gun at it, but it stops as he head was sliced vertically and it came off.
It then collapsed to its knees and falls to the ground, Annabelle twirls her sword and sheaths it. Then Leon lowers his gun and they walk down the hall, pass the rotten meat, then the oven burst open, Leon fires at it, killing the burning man. They both look down at him and then step over the burnt man and through the door. They were in a hall and then heard a familiar voice. "Help me, Annabelle!" Ashley calls out, "Ash!" Annabelle calls out and took off down the hall. "Annabelle, wait!" Leon calls out to her as he chases her.
"Help, Annabelle! Leon!" Ashley calls out, a Ganagos turns to Annabelle, "Out of my way!" she growls, slicing its head right off, then turns to the bars, firing at the Ganados downstairs and she turns and ran pass the boards. Leon was right behind her as they were at the monitors, looking at one of Ashley as she was banging on the door. "Leon!" she calls out, "Ashley!" he mutters. "Help me, Leon!" she calls out again, but a Ganados walks up to her, she stops and turns, looking at him, he then pulls her away and throws her to the ground. Annabelle clutched her hand as he looks up at the camera. He warns the other, he looks at the camera, then ran to the cable box and cuts the power. Leon scoffs and pulled away as did Annabelle "Amateurs. Just hang in there, Ashley. I'm coming for ya." he mutters, then looks at Annabelle and places his hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry, we will get her back," he tells her, she exhales, calming down and nods at him.
He pats her shoulder and they both turn and walk to the door, then they walk through it into a hall, they walk down it and then two Ganados stood in their way. Annabelle pulls out her Machine gun and fired at them, nailing them in the head, 50 times each. Hardly anything remains from their heads and they collapsed against the ground. Leon whispers as Annabelle drops the empty clip and reloads, they walk forward to the door.
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They walk into the hall, then up the flight of stairs, then into the next hall and to the right and through the doors. They entered to a make shift lab and look inside, seeing a dead digested man laying on an operating table. Annabelle remembers being where that corpse was now.
Images of the operation of William's experiments flashed before her eyes, hearing him and his wife talk about her body remembered feeling the cold sharp metal cut her skin open or pierce right through her skin. The pain, oh the terrible pain. She remembers the pain that was inflicted on her, but she was pulled back from the memories as she felt something warm on her shoulder, she looks away from the body and at the person that grip her shoulder in a gentle hold. She looks and saw that it was Leon, he gave her a concerned look, "Annabelle?" he asks her, she just looks at him. "What?" she answers, he pulls his hand back and reaches out to her face and brushes back her tears. She realizes that she's been crying then wipes them away from her tears away. "Sorry, just unpleasant memories," she answers him. He nods at her as she moves away, "Come on, let's hurry." she tells him. He looks at her, seeing that the memories were something that she didn't want to talk about, so he drops it and followed after her. They walk up to the panel and Annabelle presses the buttons, working out the pattern.
Then they panel flashes as she got the puzzle and then they look at it the door, it first was red, then to yellow and finally green, the door opens and the two walk inside the room. Annabelle stops as she notices the notes on the operating table. Leon stops and sees her reading over them, so he walks back to them and reads over her shoulder with pictures of the pictures of the monsters here:
"The hideous creatures such as El Gigante and the Novistadors are merely by–product of the diabolical and inhumane experiments conducted on the specimens that were once human.
But there's one type of creature that clearly distinguished life from the rest. These creatures are called Regenerators. After stealing a sample of the powers from the Original and first host of the G-Virus. Regenerators have a superior metabolism that allows them to regenerate their lost body parts at an incredible speed.
I've seen anything like it, aside from the Host of the G-virus. It is this characteristic that makes them almost invisible conventional weapon.
But like any living, there's a way to kill it. Apparently, there are Plagas that live in its body; somewhat like leeches. They can't be seen by the naked eye. They can only be located through the thermal imaging. To stop its regeneration process, these leeches—like Plagas must be located and then destroyed. As far as I know, most of the Regeneration host a number of leeches—like Plagas. To kill Regenerators, each one of this leech—like Plagas must be killed."
Annabelle pockets the notes and exhales, "Thanks for the tip Luis." she states and they look around the room, trying to find something, Annabelle found ammo, "Annabelle, I found something." Leon calls out to her. She looks over and walks to him, then kneels down seeing that he had a found a key-card off a dead frozen employee. "Well, I don't think he's going to need it anymore," she states, Leon, nods and pockets the key-card. They both stood up and walk to the door and then they heard something out of the room, they step out and saw the Rengenerados step out and to them, "Shit!" Annabelle mutters, Leon pulls out his shotgun and shot at it a few times. It drops and withers away. Annabelle steps forward. "Damn, that's nasty," she mutters. "Well, that certainly don't have your looks." Leon jokes. Annabelle looks at him, he shrugs and she just laughs.
Leon smiles at her, seeing her smile. -She has the laugh on an angel.- he mutters to himself. Annabelle wipes away a tear and nods. "Yeah, I don't think these Rengenerados had pulled off my looks." she giggles, "Come on, let's go find Ashley," she tells him and they both walk off to the door and were back out outside the hall. They walk down the hall and saw two more Rengenerados walking toward them. They stop and Leon pulls out his shotgun as Annabelle pulled out her hand cannon gun, they both aimed and fired at the Rengenerados that was blocking their path. Leon took one down as Annabelle charges at the other, she grips the face and slams it right into the wall. She then pulled back, pulled out her sword and slice the head right off, making the body collapsed onto the ground. She twirls her blade and sheaths it. She nods at Leon and they both walk down the hall. But then stop as more of the Rengenerados walk out to them, they fired at them, backing up away from the Rengenerados. They drop and Annabelle cuts off their heads and they hurried through the gates and walk up to the door, Annabelle touches the handle and immediately pulls away. "It's cold," she states and Leon looks at the lock panel on the side. He pulls out the key-card and injects into the panel.
The door clicks and they walk inside. Annabelle immediately shivers as she wraps her arms around her shoulder and looks around the room. "What the h-h-hell?" she shivers and the two walk over to the side and found a card re-writer. Annabelle looks at the card in Leon's hand, she took it and places it inside, then out pop a waste disposal key card. "Well, this might help," she mutters and places the key away, then rubs her shoulders. "I should have brought a coat," she mutters. Leon pats her shoulder and walks up to another panel. Then he presses the button and the freezer was turned off. They walk out of the small room and into the back room, Leon opens the shelve and pulls out a scope. "This could be useful," he mutters and places it away, then they both heard a click and look out the room. "Tell me that wasn't what I think it was?" Annabelle asks and they heard a thud, "Oh it was what you thought it was." he tells her, taking the scope out and combines it to his sniper rifle.
They both walk out and to the door was and they turn seeing the Rengenerados as it stood up, Leon aims at the Rengenerados, seeing the heat signatures of the parasites, he fired at them, taking out the regeneration and then he took out the leg, he falls and then jumps at them, Annabelle pulls out her sword and thrust it right through the Rengenerados mouth in mid-jump. He twitches and went limp, she pulls her sword away and spun it. Then she looks down at the body, "Let me borrow this." she states and took the scope right off and looks down at the body, seeing the last parasite, she walks over, and thrust her sword into the parasite, it squeals in pain and was dead. Annabelle pulls her sword out and quickly steps away from the Rengenerados as it withers away, they both exhaled and then look at the door as it clicks, they exchange looks and walk through the door.
The two step back out of the freezer and then make a right, then walk down the hall and were outside a door, they look and saw a key-card panel, Annabelle pulls out the key-card that she made and then inserts it, the door clicks open and they walk through it.
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They walk down a hall, Annabelle collected ammo as they step to the door, Leon kicks it open and they walk into the room, Annabelle looks out the window and saw Ganados outside, guarding the door, Leon looks down at the crane operators, then an idea struck him, Annabelle walks over as he took the controls, operating the crane. He then moves the crane over to the side, carefully moving it to the right a little more than opens the crane, it goes down and picks up two of the Ganados, pulling the crane to the side and drops them down into the abyss.
The two Ganados were alerted and took cover, but Leon pulls the crane to one hiding behind a dumpster, the crane picks him up, pulls over to the gap and drops the Ganados into the abyss, then Leon pulls the crane right over, picking up the last Ganados from the ground, he struggles as the crane moves over to the side and drops the Ganados into the abyss below. Leon moves away from the controls, they both then walk to the door, Leon kicks it open and they walk through the door, jump down the ladder, walk around the dumpsters and to the door, up the stairs and into an abandoned office of sorts, the two look around, finding no information to give them an advantage over the Los Illuminados. Leon walks to the door with Annabelle following after him and they went through the door.
They both walk down the hall and stop as they heard the familiar cry for help. "HELP!" Ashley shouts as she bangs on the door, they hurried down the hall. They made a turn and two Ganados pops out of nowhere. Annabelle gasp and fired at one of the Ganados in surprise, taking their head off and the other Ganados' shoulder, with his entire arm, Annabelle pants as one fell to the ground and the other stumbles back, Annabelle growls as she walks forward and pulls out her sword. "Never mistreat a lady," she growls and with one spin, the red went flying off. Annabelle huffs and walks to the cell. "You okay?" she asks her, Ashley pants and nods at her, then Leon looks at the door, "Damn, it key-card locked." he states and Annabelle looks back at Ashley, "Hide and stay there until we get back, okay?" Annabelle orders her, Ashley nods and ran back into the room. The two look at each other and they ran to the door.
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They hurried down the hall and kick the door open, a Ganados rush out, but Annabelle tiger palm him and sent him flying back and he smashed up against the wall. Leon fires at the others as Annabelle charges forward and slice off their heads. She then stops and looks at the X-rays on the wall. -What the, is this the parasite from the legend?- she questions then shot her hand forward into the Ganados' head, it went limp, she pulls her sword back and looks at the stairs as Leon walks forward firing at the Ganados, Annabelle followed after him as they quickly move down the steps.
They walk down and look around for a key-card, but found none and so they ran to the door, Leon kicking it open and they walk through the hall, then stop as the side door. They both hurried into the room, then into the back room and look up at the monitor. It was the hallway. it open and out steps a Rengenerados, but with spikes litters all over its body and on its hip was the key-card. They both look over at the Rengenerados, Leon pulls out his sniper rifle and aims at it, taking out the four parasites in the front of the body. Annabelle then fired at the leg, taking it out and he drops. Leon then aims at the last parasite and the Rengenerados withered away. Annabelle walks forward and picks up the storage key-card. "Okay, I got it," she assures him, as she pockets the key-card. Leon nods at her they jump into the lab, pass the parasites that have been tested and they hurried to the door.
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They were back outside and heard a caw, Annabelle pulls out her Machine gun and they walk across the rail, but stop by the merchant. He shows them the goods, they sold the jewels, buying more upgrades. The Merchant laughs, thanking them. Then they continued down the catwalk. They both step into the lift and headed up to the communication tower.
They make it to the top and then they walk around on the catwalk, Leon kicks the door open and ran inside, Leon hurried to the communications panel, he and Annabelle pressed away at the buttons and turns a few nobs. "I'm getting a faint signal." she said getting a static signal, then he grips the mic and whispers into it "This is Leon. Request backup. I repeat, request backup." but all he got in response was just static. "Damn it!" Leon mutters, shoving away, "Shit." Annabelle slammed her hand into the panel, "Guess we're going in blind." she states and pushed away from the panel. "Yeah, guess so," he mutters. They turn back to the door, kicking it open and walk around the catwalk then to the lift. They step inside and went back down to the bridge. They quickly hurried through the door.
Leon and Annabelle hurried through the lab, past the monitors, and to the door. Then they hurried through the room, down the hall, into the next room, fired at the Ganados that were guarding the way up. Their heads blew off and parasite tentacle pops out, Annabelle pulls out her sword, flash-steps right at them, they stood still as Annabelle was standing behind them with her sword drawn they drop as the tentacles withered away. She then slices at the other as Leon hurried up the stairs, Annabelle kicks the last Ganados in the face then slice his head right off. Then they hurried to the door, she kicks it open and they ran up the hall and to the door.
The two turned and they ran back into the hall and in front of the storage room door, Annabelle uses the key-card and unlocks the door, then she pushes it open and they both step inside the room, Ashley wasn't in sight, so Annabelle walks into the back of the room, through the hall created hall as Leon followed her. They look at the little spot and saw Ashley sitting in the back, her head buried in her knees. She then lifts her head up, seeing the two. "Leon. Annabelle," she mutters, getting to her feet and ran to them, Annabelle wraps her arms around her, comforting her. "You okay?" Leon asks her. Ashley pulls back and nods at him. "Come on, let's get out of here," he states, the two nod at him and they ran out of the back room.
But then stops as a letter flew in through the window and lands gently on the ground. Annabelle walks up to it and saw there was a red lipstick kiss mark on the wing. She inhales sharply and then unfolds the paper, reading her sister's letter:
"Perhaps you have it figured out already, but you might be able to get out of here, using the waste disposal vent."
Annabelle exhales and crumbles the letter, "Jeez Ada, thank you so much for your sisterly advice. I am filled with joy." she mutters in a dull tone, Leon steps up to her, "What was that?" he asks her, she pockets the letter. "Nothing, just nothing," she answers. "Come on, let's get out of here," she tells him and walks to the door. Leon looks at Ashley, who just shrugs at him.