Jared woke up with an arm over his backside. He pushed himself up off his chest and saw it was that woman who stopped the train; she was face down and unconscious. He gingerly slid out from her grasp and saw a gaping hole in the engine car, torn open from the inside like a tin can.

He knew he couldn't leave her, not knowing if it was her that saved him, or something like that. There was an excellent opportunity to take a peek at her. That tail of hers was green and scaly, the black combats around her limbs torn asunder, showing more greenish scales underneath. Her gloves and boots were also torn open.

It was until Jared flipped Alexis onto her back he saw more than he should. Broken gas mask. Large bust. Perfect hourglass figure… She was something else. He put his ear close to her face, not hearing any breathing. Remembered back to health class, he considered CPR but wasn't sure if it would work on someone like her…

Jared took off Alexis' helmet and couldn't believe what he saw. The woman wasn't human. Her face was covered in green scales, the outside of her mouth and some of her neck were sickly yellow scales. She also had a prominent snout, shorter than a typical dog.

He moved her lips back, and it just got worse from there, she had dozens of fangs in place of teeth. Like they were all canine teeth. He figured it wouldn't be comfortable giving something like her mouth-to-mouth, but he tried anyway. He put his lips around hers and hoped his knowledge in CPR could hold up.

Alexis coughed and sputtered; her dry throat felt like the Sierra Desert. She blinked several times, those flustered golden eyes. "Did you kiss me?"

"Uh..."

Alexis brushed her face, only just noticing it was bare. Her mask was gone, and she was staring face-to-face with an outsider. People who would see her as a freak. People not associated with Umbrella. They were home, keeping the dark outside world at bay, yet, one of the people she feared was staring at her. She dared not to look back.

"Don't look at me!" she snapped. "I'm a freak..."

"No..." Alexis didn't budge, so, Jared gently peeled away her hands from her face. Her golden eyes were glowing, almost mesmerising." I think you're beautiful..."

"No, I'm not!"

"Is this about the way you look? I can see past the tail and your… colour, but… I have an open mind."

Alexis freed her hands from Jared's and covered her face again. "Just… just go… Get your friends and leave me alone! I'm no one..."

"Is it so wrong to find a strong woman with the most beautiful eyes so… well… beautiful?"

"You can't…" Alexis was slowly lowering her hands from her face, showing only her glowing eyes. "You don't even know me..."

Jared smiled. "Well, I wouldn't mind knowing more about the woman who saved us..."

Me? A saviour? A woman? He doesn't see me as a freak? Instead, he cracks on with me? Takes some guts… Alexis sat up, no longer covering her face. "I always thought of you outsiders as savages who spoke a different language. Now one of them is saying I'm beautiful… Why?"

Jared shrugged. "Why not? You're so stunning I could stare at you all day. Those eyes and that hair..." Jared went to feel Alexis' flowing black hair, approaching slowly it as if she was a feral cat. He hummed. "Thick. Feels as good as it looks."

Alexis couldn't let the pup butter her up, but to see that outsiders weren't all created equal, made her think that there were some gold nuggets out there. Gold nuggets her company kept her away from. She felt hot and flustered, thinking not even her boyfriend wooed her with such words before.

She shouldn't have, but in the act of weakness, she suddenly lurched forward and locked Jared into her arms. Her face buried into his neck. She felt his human hands brushing her hair and patting her back. Somehow, he felt better than the likes of Dorian Savage…

Jared was overwhelmed when Alexis pulled back and kissed him. His eyes shot open, not believing anything anymore. Their eyes closed, with their breathing slightly slowed down. His tongue danced with hers, only it felt rough, long, steaming hot. It was strange, but he dealt with it. She felt natural, in fact, better than the women he often fantasised.

Though he wanted a few more memorable seconds kissing such a beauty, he was the first one to pull away. Alexis was smiling, no longer looking like the tough woman that took control of the cab earlier on. Instead, looking more like a casual high school prom queen.

Alexis breathed. "I'm sorry… we shouldn't be doing this..."

"Do you wanna… maybe get a drink sometime-"

Jared felt a nasty prick hit him square in the chest. After he fell back, he saw Alexis get something worse. Some sort of spike came out of her torso, right below her ribs. Her face contorted into pain and agony as her body was lifted way above her head. The culprit was a giant scorpion, scuttling on top of the engine car.

"What the fuck's that?!"

The giant scorpion dangled Alexis on its stinger, before swinging her limp body away out of sight. Jared couldn't save her; all he could do was feel the bleeding wound on his chest. He didn't have any weapons on him; he had to run. He ran to the sounds of his name being called.

"Jared!" Rebecca called, "Where are you?!"

"Here!" Jared called back, squeezing through a gap between the right wall and another destroyed car. "Run! Run! Fucking run!"

Benton came into view from the opposite side of the tunnel; another crashed carriage it seemed. He met with Rebecca and Billy in the open space in front of the door ahead. "Where's my captain? Where is she?!"

Rebecca stopped Jared after he caught some breath. "What's going on?"

"Big fuckin' scorpion… We need to move!"

Billy narrowed his eyes at the sight of something huge, moving its way through the billowing smoke. It snapped its claws as it gazed down from on top of the wrecked carriage in front. "Oh man..." he mumbled, slowly backing away. "We're not out of this yet, stay back!"

The scorpion's armoured exoskeleton was cracked enough to see the pulsing flesh underneath, all across the back and tail. It leapt from the top of the crashed train carriage and landed with a dulling poof, scattering the survivors closer to the door.

The only choice was to fight or flight. Flight was the best option since they could simply turn away. The scorpion taunted with its snapping claws. Rebecca and Benton pulled out their handguns, protecting the other three.

The carriage behind the scorpion was pulled back with a piercing screech of metal, taking away from the arrival of the creature. Then it went upright and fell, landing on the beast. The poor thing wailed in crippling agony with the weight of the entire carriage smushing it into the wet ground.

It all happened safely away from the survivors. The giant scorpion was dead once the pain and suffering ceased. It was almost sad listening to its wailing.

"What the..." Evie patted Billy's back. "Oh, sorry." He let Evie down off his shoulder, letting the girl stand on her own two feet.

A figure leapt on top of the carriage crushing the scorpion; her features coming into view. She was a tall woman in green sporting a colossal bust. She dropped down by the giant scorpion, that's when the nearby fires shed some light on her person.

She wasn't wearing green; she was green. Whatever she was, she looked healthy enough to sport long, black braided hair, with an ample figure. Her golden eyes screamed in pain, with her right arm clutching her chest. She dropped to her knees, exhausted and sore all over.

"Captain!" Benton darted forward and brought Alexis back onto her feet. "Are you okay?" His hand felt the sizeable wound in her chest. "Shit..."

"I'll live..." Alexis shooed away Benton and joined back up the others, Benton following her without question. She smiled at Jared, not before feeling her wound irritating her.

"Are you sure you're okay? I mean, if you need me to help you walk-"

"No," Alexis interrupted." That would just make me feel worse."

Rebecca chewed her lip. "Now that we're all here, we'd best move on. Can't exactly go out the way we came in."

"You took the words right outta my mouth, Officer," said Billy.