Uroboros: Resident Evil V
Chapter Thirty Five: Two on Two
Bang! Bang! Ratta-tatta! Opening fire immediately on their enemy, the hail of bullets that the two BSAA agents unleashed would have laid waste to any other target, but not this one. Just like he had done during the mission to find Spencer, the blond man moved so quickly that he appeared to momentarily vanish as he dodged their shots, and then before the Agent even knew what was happening, the weapons were ripped from their hands in a flash of blurry movement, leaving both of them unarmed the blond man tossed the pistol and rifle across the room.
In an effort to surprise his enemy after this, Chris ran toward Wesker while balling up his fist for a wild punch… which the blond man simply tilted his head to avoid. At the same time, Wesker brought up his knee into the Agent's stomach, knocking the wind out of him, before backhanding Chris across the face hard enough to make the Agent stumble backwards and fall down. He got up as quickly as he could, coughing a little from that blow to the stomach, taking another swing at the blond man as he approached, but this time Wesker grabbed Chris's arm and spun him around in order to shove the Agent face first into one of the carved pillars.
"I see you're admiring the ancient carvings." The blond man laughed, dragging Chris's face across the stone glyphs while twisting his arm behind his back. "You know, this looks familiar… when was the last time I had a Redfield in this position? Ah yes, it was your sweet little sister back in Antarctica… all right, Jill, switch partners."
Sheva hadn't been doing much better in her fight against the blonde woman; his partner was tough, and held her own for a while, but apparently Jill had been doing a lot of training over the past two years, because the young woman just couldn't keep up. Although not possessing the same kind of speed as Wesker, the blonde woman stepped back in order to grab Sheva's leg when the young woman kicked at her, and then Sheva cried out when Jill punched her in the ribs. Next the blonde woman hooked her leg out from under her while still holding the other one, before bending down and slugging the young woman in the face just before the blond man spoke.
Wesker continued to hold Chris in place, twisting his arm harder and harder until Jill managed to pull Sheva to her feet by her shirt, hitting her in the stomach once again, before shoving her toward him. At the same time, the blond man swung the Agent around and sent him stumbling over toward Jill, who quickly restrained him by grabbing his arm and twisting it back in order to force him down onto the floor. He tried to get out of it, but the blonde woman was able to put her knee into the back of his, making Chris land face first on the floor.
"Well… are you a cutie?" Wesker said, grabbing Sheva by the jaw and shoving her back against that same pillar. "You should be careful spending so much time around Chris; he has a poor track record of keeping his women safe. I mean, Jill's been my personal slave for two years… and did you know that Chris once even left his own sister alone with me for hours while he was screwing Alexia Ashford? He probably left that part out of the report."
Smack! Letting go of Sheva's jaw after chuckling a bit, the blond man suddenly struck her in the mouth hard enough to make the young woman fall to her hands and knees, and then he placed his boot on top of her back… before pressing her down onto the floor onto her stomach hard enough to make her scream. Sheva cried out, coughing and gasping as he pressed down harder but the only good thing about all this was that Wesker's attention was away from Chris… and his partner's cries were masking the Agent's own efforts to overpower Jill.
The blonde woman was tough as they come, but Chris was a lot bigger and stronger than she was, allowing him to slowly push back against her arm until he was on his feet… before hip slinging Jill so that she landed right on top of the blond man. Since this caught him completely off guard, Wesker was knocked to the ground under the blonde woman's weight, but instead of trying to attack again, the Agent grabbed his partner's arm and pulled her to her feet. Even if they hadn't lost their weapons in the first couple seconds of the fight, there was no way they could win like this… it was time to retreat.
Hopefully the two of them would at least be back through the stone door and on their way back toward the Tricell/Umbrella facility before Wesker recovered, but it was only after passing through a narrow open doorway that Chris realized he was going the wrong way. In all the confusion of what was happening, he had meant to head back the way they came, but had gone sideways into another part of the palace instead. Apparently, this corridor led to a side staircase that went upward, so with no way to turn back now, the Agent pulled his partner along.
The young woman coughed and wheezed, stumbling along behind him as they reached the second floor, and Chris could already hear his enemy's footsteps as he reached the bottom of the stairs, so he pulled Sheva through the first doorway that he came to. This place was filled with decorative stone alters and tables, probably a place of worship for the ancient people who built the city, and right now as he pulled the young woman around a corner to hide while putting his hand over her mouth, he hoped that maybe some of those old gods might help him.
"Come on, Chris, don't hide." Wesker's voice taunted as it got closer. "I know you're embarrassed because now everyone knows you fucked a BOW, but at least no one thinks you're gay anymore."
Keeping his hand over Sheva's mouth was the only way to keep her quiet while Wesker's shadow appeared in the open doorway, and even the Agent was shaking a little when it got closer and closer, before suddenly turning away. Now the blond man could be heard ordering Jill to stay down in the main hall in case they somehow got past him, and then Wesker let out an angry huff as his shadow moved away to start searching. There was another doorway on the other side of the room they were hiding in, so if they couldn't go back and couldn't stay where they were… maybe it was possible to stay hidden until their enemy lost interest.
"Are you okay?" Chris whispered after letting go of her mouth. "Come on, we gotta keep moving."
The young woman nodded that she was all right, even though she was still gasping a little with each breath, and then he took her hand while crouching down to be as quiet as possible as they moved toward the other end of the room. Stopping at the open doorway and peeking out, the Agent sighed with relief when he didn't see any sign of Wesker, and then the two of them ducked into another long room that was filled with… long stone coffins and urns? Was this some kind of family crypt?
"You must be dying to know why Jill is blonde now, right?" Wesker's voice continued. "I'd love to say that I made her do it to look pretty for me, but truth is it just kind of happened during the very invasive and painful experiments I performed on her in those first few months. So what do you think? Will your new partner turn blonde too when I do the same thing to her? I'm pretty sure Claire will."
Even with the echoes making it impossible to tell which direction the blond man's voice was coming from, Chris could tell that it was getting closer, so he started leading the young woman toward the room's other door… when he stopped after realizing that this room didn't have another door. Oh shit, the Agent thought as the footsteps got even closer, there was nowhere to go… and they were unarmed… and the only usable thing in there was a bunch of old golden urns.
Wesker's shadow was starting to appear in the doorway now, so Chris did the only thing that was available; he picked up one of the larger urns, pulled the top off just as the blond man was coming around the corner, and threw all of the contents right into his sunglasses wearing face. Except there were no contents… instead of a blinding pile of ancient ashes going right into the blond man's eyes, there was only a tiny bit of dust that puffed out like a little cloud, and now Wesker was just standing there with an eyebrow raised.
"Run, Sheva!" Chris yelled, tossing the urn into the blond man's hands. "Get outta here, warn the BSAA!"
As soon as Wesker caught the urn, the Agent rushed at him, staying low to grab his enemy around the waist, and causing the golden artifact to fall to the floor as he drove him back out into the main corridor. Out of the corner of his eye, Chris saw the young woman take off running, but then the blond man twisted his body, allowing him to toss the Agent down the hallway as if he weighed nothing. Rolling and bouncing to a stop against the wall at a junction, Chris scrambled to his feet, not having any idea where this path led as he took off running to the left, but after rounding another corner he found himself on the upper floor of the palace's main hall… just before running right into Jill.
The blonde woman kicked him in the stomach, making the Agent stumble back a couple steps, before she took out her pistol and pulling the trigger. Bang! The bullet would surely have hit him right in the chest if Sheva hadn't come out of nowhere at the last second, knocking Jill's arm out of the way so that the bullet went wild, and then tackling the blonde woman against the stone guardrail… which broke apart under the strain. Chris reached out to try and stop them from going over, but was stopped when Wesker grabbed his wrist from behind, allowing both women to crash hard to the floor below.
"Sheva!" The Agent called, pulling to try and break the grip. "Wesker, you…
His words were interrupted when the blond man slugged him in the stomach with his free hand, and then picking Chris up over his head like he weighed nothing. The Agent cried out in fear when Wesker turned and tossed him over the guardrail, knocking the wind out of him and sending a dull throbbing pain shooting across the whole right side of his body, while everything that had been left inside his pouches went spilling out onto the floor. From where he was laying, Chris could see that the two women were still alive, but then his eyes returned to Wesker, who was stepping onto the guardrail to… leap off?
Yes, the Agent watched as the blond man leapt off the guardrail, going a short distance up into the air as he flew across the room, and then coming down. Down with a fist pulled back for a strike at the same time that Chris was trying to get out of the way, but in his weakened state this was impossible. Wham! The impact caused the Agent's vision to turn gray and tilt to the side as he was slammed back down onto the floor, and Chris was dimly aware that he was sliding… hearing an awful ringing sound in his ears as everything went black.