File #10

A Literal Final Boss Fight

Xander continued laughing while I stared at the empty syringe in horror. Dad must've noticed because he ordered "Jade, get Claire and Kimi out of here. Now!" I heard movement from behind me as Xander stopped laughing.

"Oh this is fantastic, here I was hoping to just kill Chris and Zack…but now I get to kill the ENTIRE Redfield bloodline. Isn't this one big family reunion!" Xander said and began to change. I fired a few shots into him but they had no effect. He laughed again.

"No no no, Zacky. I injected myself with the fully optimized Red-Virus. It is perfect. I perfected it myself while on my B.S.A.A. sponsored vacation. Right now I am inheriting-" BANG! I shot him in the mouth.

"Will you shut the fuck up?" I said. "While you're at it, go ahead and find where I asked." Xander spit the bullet back at me…at full speed. I'll admit. I wasn't expecting that so it grazed my already injured shoulder. Xander's face was starting to bubble and pulsate. He still had that wicked grin on his face. I turned to Dad for orders but none of them had any weapons. This turned out to be a bad idea because I was then grabbed by Xander and lifted into the air. Everyone else in the room made an effort to save me but Xander used his other hand to chuck tables at them. Dad took a chair to his already injured body and it knocked him back a few feet and out of the room.

"Chris!" Mom yelled and rounded on Xander with her teeth bared in sheer anger. Then I saw her face change. I managed to turn my eyes on Xander (while still struggling to breathe). He looked completely like Dad now. Like the spitting image of Chris Redfield from 2009. He even possessed Dad's physique from back then too.

"Hello son," Xander said…in my father's voice too. "Ah ah ah, any more movement or I will break Zack's neck." Xander looked around the room at everyone else. None of them listened but Xander didn't seem to be done toying with me. He ripped up pieces of the goddamn floor and hurled them at everyone. Everyone managed to escape but the concrete pieces of the floor now blocked both doors. Mom and Laura were the only ones that didn't get out.

"Son of a fucking bitch! Oni, get some explosives or a drill or something! Banshee, find a way to wake up Commander Redfield with your aunt. Now!" I heard Reaper shout at the ones on the other side of the rubble. Mom and Laura rounded on Xander ready to fight him to the death. Xander noticed, smiled wickedly at me and then proceeded to hurl me full force at the wall. I slammed into it hard. Hard enough for it to stun me momentarily.

"Zack!" Mom yelled.

"Aww it's ok Jill. After I kill him, you and I can just make another one! After all, I am your husband," Xander said rather insanely.

"What do you hope to accomplish?!" Laura yelled at him but I saw him round on her and pick her up by the neck. No!

"I intend to take the place of Chris Redfield! He has been a thorn in my side for years!" Xander shouted at her.

"How?!" Laura choked. I could see she was doing a good job in keeping Xander's fingers from squeezing her windpipe. I myself was struggling to remain conscious. Mom's face came into view.

"Stay with me Zack. Stay with me," she was saying to me and lightly slapping my face.

"I'll tell you how little girl, I am determined to continue the work of the great Albert Wesker" Xander shouted and laughed. Hearing that revelation gave me a second wind. Wesker? That piece of shit motherfucker that had nearly killed my parents multiple times? Xander was a sympathizer of WESKER?!

"This explains the wearing of sunglasses indoors," I managed to say weakly. I needed to keep him busy until I had more of a plan. At least the feeling was returning to multiple parts of my body as this whole nightmare started to unfold.

"Always a smart mouth on you huh Zack," Xander said. "It doesn't matter, soon enough you'll be dead!"

"Why follow the ideologies of that maniac?!" Mom asked.

"Easy Jill Valentine. He believed that humanity was too weak and decided that only the strong should remain. That was the whole point of his Uroboros project back before you and Redfield decided to become a thing. I share the same sentiment as did Quentin Wesker, also known as Grim. While not directly related to Albert in any way shape or form, he was obsessed with his work on the t-Virus, took on the great doctor's last name and came to me with a proposal and told me about Wesker's plan. He wanted me to help him develop a new virus using the blood from the poster boy of the B.S.A.A., Chris Redfield and use it to turn those who were worthy into more clones of Redfield. So I had Grim's people capture Chris and take him to the Esmark Mountains to extract his blood. I had the brilliant idea to combine the Redfield AND Wesker bloodlines with the t-Virus! And it seems to be working! I can feel the power flowing through my veins! What's also great is that I can use my new identity to kill Redfield's children first," Xander explained. It was so fucking weird to hear my dad's voice say these words. "It's perfect really," Xander continued and I saw him start to squeeze on Laura's windpipe. She struggled against his grip as I began to stand. Mom tried to stop me, but I pushed her away.

"No!" I shouted and started sprinting at Xander and Laura. Xander's face had that wicked grin again and he raised his other fist and brought it back, ready to punch a hole in the woman I loved.

"Let's finish you first girly, I want to see Zack cry before I rip his heart out in front of his mother," Xander snarled but before he struck, I pounced. I rugby tackled Xander and caused him to drop Laura…but the both of us smashed through the window and towards the ground 4 stories in the air. I could barely hear 2 female voices yell "ZACK!" over the howling wind in my ears.

Xander and I landed hard on the ground. Thankfully, I had positioned Xander to take most of the blow but I had landed on my already bad shoulder and heard it pop out of its socket.

"GAH!" I gasped and rolled off the stunned Xander. We had landed in the courtyard that had recently been added to the B.S.A.A. for people to enjoy some fresh air on their breaks. To help you envision this more, imagine the whole B.S.A.A. HQ building as a square donut right? We were in the center. I painfully popped my shoulder back into place with another scream of pain. Xander had recovered and got to his feet. I raised my pistol as some of the old heavy metal songs Dad listened to sometimes started playing in my head. Ever hear of an old 80s band called Megadeth? Specifically them.

"My plan is in its final stages! I will not tolerate delays from a Redfield!" he shouted in my direction.

"Yeah, well you'll find I'm full of surprises," I said and unloaded a few rounds at Xander. I'll admit, I didn't like shooting a gun at my father but I remembered that this wasn't my father. He was a clone of someone that had tried to kill my father and had brainwashed my mother into trying to kill my father…man, talk about a fucked up situation huh? Xander tanked the bullets and kept walking forward.

"You are really becoming quite the inconvenience for me," Xander said menacingly. That caused me to hesitate and eat a backhand to the face that sent me flying a few feet. I needed to get it together. The man I am fighting is not my father! He's currently 4 stories above me unconscious. I had hesitated because hearing Xander say those words in that tone of voice reminded me of the time where Dad talked back to the principal of my old middle school. He had even said something similar. What Dad had said was "You know sir, calling me here is quite the inconvenience for me!" I hit the ground and managed to do a sloppy tuck and roll that didn't cause anymore injury to myself. I came up firing again but Xander tanked my shots once more. He moved with almost imperceptible speed and then knocked the gun out of my hands.

"What do you hope to accomplish Zack," Xander taunted. I punched him in the face with all the force I could muster. That worked. The force of the punch caused Xander to spin around and he now had his back to me. I followed up with a roundhouse kick to the same side I had just punched. He stumbled forward. I winced when he faced me. He no longer looked fully like my father. His original face was now fused with my father's. He looked murderous and threw another punch at my face. I ducked and Xander's punch crashed through the side of the wall I had been standing near. So, he's strong but slow. Got it.

"You'll pay for that!" Xander shouted.

"And me without my wallet, can I write you an I.O.U." I asked sarcastically, knowing my snide comments always pissed him off. This time was no different. He threw another punch at me. I grabbed it and then socked him in the face with my other fist again. This whole song and dance continued for multiple minutes (along with a few more pistol shots too) with neither of us getting anywhere…that is until a bad dodge caused Xanders fist to connect with my injured shoulder. The impact caused me to lose my footing. Xander capitalized on it and swept my feet out from under me. I hit the ground face first and am pretty sure I just broke my nose due to the immense pain I felt in that area of my face.

"Why can't you understand Zack?! You can't beat me alone! Soon I will release the Red-Virus onto cities of the world as Chris Redfield ensuring complete erasure of his accomplishments and labeling him as an international terrorist!" Xander said triumphantly and raised his hand to punch me in the face but BANG! A rifle sounded from high above me and I saw a hole form in Xander's chest. He roared in pain. Like a monster. Oh so this was a whole "shoot or attack the weak spot" kind of thing again was it? I took the opportunity to rip Xander's shirt apart from the bullet hole. He noticed, grabbed me by the shirt and lifted me into the air.

"The entire world will be infected with the Red-Virus and they will blame the great Chris Redfield!" Xander shouted and threw me into the air before he delivered a spin kick to my chest. Again I flew through the air and landed hard against a wall. I even smashed the lights above me on impact surrounding the area in darkness. I landed on the ground next to my gun.

"What the…THERE'S NO POINT IN HIDING!" Xander shouted and started to look around frantically. His eyes rested on me once or twice until I realized something. His vision must be terrible in the dark. Wait a sec, hadn't Dad once hid from Wesker in a very well lit room for seven minutes? And Xander had some of Wesker's DNA in him right? I smirked and that's when I saw my Dad kneeling on the ground near the smashed window aiming a rifle out of it. From this distance, it looked like my rifle. I saw that he was aiming at me. Not to shoot me but rather to cover me. I mouthed "shoot the lights" and pointed at the rest of them. Even from this distance I saw my dad's look of approval and he proceeded to shoot the lights with 100% accuracy. Man for a dude in his 60s, he still had incredible aim. The funny part was that we weren't even in complete darkness. The courtyard was still illuminated a little by the lights about a story above it. I could still see but not well. Xander however, was completely blind. That's what you get for inheriting part of Wesker's DNA douchebag. You get his weaknesses too.

"You are only postponing the inevitable!" Xander yelled and started walking around aimlessly. I noticed something else on the ground. My scythe shaped knives as well as my night vision shades. Where the heck did those come from? Looking towards my father again I saw Mom next to him now with her arm in sort of a "follow through" motion. Ahh, so it was my mom. Leave it to her to help her son in need. I put the glasses on and turned on the night vision mode. I could now see everything in the area quite clearly.
"AHH! THERE YOU ARE!" Xander said and began to walk towards me. Dammit! The glowing orange eye thing! He totally saw it. Bad news was that I couldn't turn that off either. They must have been damaged during the fall. I turned the night vision off and stepped to the side. Xander growled in annoyance from about 10 feet to my left.

"You can't hide forever!" he shouted before I used his voice to pinpoint his location, turned on the night vision again and gave him a kick to the groin because I felt like it. Above me I saw Dad wince but Mom looked like she had cheered as I turned the night vision off. Xander coughed in pain and took a swing at me. He missed but I still felt the air slap me in the face. I used the quick opportunity to turn on the night vision again and retreat to a safe distance.

"Just accept your fate!" Xander shouted again and I heard him start to smash the bushes. Looking up, Dad was scanning the area and talking to Mom. An idea struck me. What if Dad couldn't see well either? I turned on my night vision again and I saw Xander turn to face me at the sound of its activation.

"AHH! There you are!" Xander said again (almost like a robot and with the same exact inflection and tone as before) and slowly started to walk towards me. Thankfully Dad got what I was trying to do and fired another shot into Xander's chest hitting his heart a second time thanks to the light from my glasses illuminating Xander's body. Xander roared again and started swinging his hands wildly. He picked up something and hurled it skywards. It smashed a window and bathed the area with light. The area which I happened to be standing in.

"ZAAAAAAAAACCCKKKK!" Xander shouted and charged. I got a good look at him for the first time in a few minutes. He looked bad. Battle damaged. Skin was melting off him due to the damage Dad and I were doing to him. The Chris Redfield side of his face was completely gone and was replaced by bloody muscles and tendons along with the fleshy Xander half. He was on me before I could react and we started grappling.

"TIME TO DIE ZACK!" Xander shouted like an insane person and wrapped his hands around my neck. I looked into those insane eyes and started to realize that they were going to be the last things I saw as my vision began to blur. That's when I heard it. The sound of a rocket being fired. Xander did too because he instinctively dropped me and turned to catch it in his hands. The thruster was still firing as Xander struggled against it. I looked up to see who had fired it. Jenna. Of course. She and the others were shouting one thing at me. "SHOOT THE ROCKET!" Deciding to style on Xander just because he deserved it (for some reason that I can't explain), I ran up the nearby wall and jumped off it (again, for some reason that I can't explain), doing an absolutely beautiful backflip several feet over Xander's body. While in the air, I drew my pistol and fired at the rocket. It exploded and it caused Xander to fall to his knees. The explosion didn't damage me but I still felt the heat and shockwave from it as I sailed through the air. I landed on my feet gracefully a few feet in front of him. He was breathing heavily. Noticing I was in darkness again, I turned on my night vision again and drew one of my knives. Xander looked up at me not with disgust…but sheer unadulterated terror.

"No…I can't lose…not to you," he shouted fearfully before a bullet tore through the side of his mouth and detached his jaw. It hit the ground with a splat and I smirked at this pathetic excuse for a man in front of me. Xander was looking at the lower half of his jaw which was now on the ground. I stepped on it with my boot where it made a squelching noise. Xander looked up into my face.

"Boo," I said simply and plunged the knife into his exposed heart and twisted it. Xander let out an inhumane noise as the cold steel of my blade cut the threads of his life. I wretched the knife upwards, threw it aside and plunged both my hands into the open wound and started to tear him apart. The virus must have weakened his physiology to the point where I, a 27 year old man, could do this. I let out a warcry as I tore Evan Xander, sympathizer of the long deceased Albert Wesker, in half. Afterwards, I threw both halves of the body to the side and felt my adrenaline wear off. My shoulder was killing me along with my back. I fell to my knees fighting to remain conscious but apparently I was only going to win one fight right now. I fell face first into the blood pool of my former boss and knew no more.

Earlier…

I opened my eyes to the sight of my sister standing over me.

"Chris! Get up!" Claire shouted and I felt her shake me. I came too and then felt an immense pain in my chest.

"Ow," I said and rubbed it gingerly. "What happened?"

"I don't know! I was following Jade and Kimi and turned to see you flying through the air! I thought I lost you again!" Claire shouted at me and hugged me again. That snapped me back to reality fully. My son had rescued me from my imprisonment and reunited me with the 3 most important women in my life. Especially the woman that was apparently still in the room with that complete maniac Evan Xander. It's bad enough he tried to kill my son but now he was most likely threatening my wife. The last guy who did that got blown up by Sheva Alomar and myself with RPGs. Technically…he brainwashed her to do his bidding for 3 years but that's besides the point. Do NOT. Threaten Jill Valentine in front of me. Leon was nearby too, trying to remove the debris from the doorway with little results.

"Dammit!" he shouted before he noticed I was awake. "You alright?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine," I said. "That only winded me. I've taken punches from Wesker before and that was when I was in my 30s." At that moment I heard my voice say "I am determined to continue the work of the great Albert Wesker!" I flinched. I'm sorry. Did I hear that right? Leon was confused as well.

"Uh…what the fuck?" he asked. I was a little taller than he was and I was able to see into the room where I saw myself from…around 2009 maybe, holding up the young Laura Chambers off the ground. The same Laura I had placed on my son's squad in order to get him to rely on more women than just his sister and mother.

"What the?" I said. Bryce Ferguson and Jin Takeda had arrived with some low grade explosives along with a rifle and a box of ammo. Bryce threw the rifle to me and I caught it along with the ammo. It was my son's rifle. A customized M21. Meanwhile, Jin was priming the explosives on a piece of debris. I heard myself say that I wanted to kill my own children before I saw my son running full speed at the other me. That's when I was hit with a violent flashback. Albert Wesker was holding me in the air by my neck and had just said "Let's finish this!" before he was tackled by Jill and they both fell out the window. Then my mind flashed to my old partner Sheva Alomar looking up at me intending to sacrifice herself to kill Wesker. I was back in the present seeing my son charge full force at Xander. This would not happen again. Not to my son.

"NO!" I shouted as I took aim with the rifle but I was too late. Zack had tackled the other me out the window just as Jin set off the explosives. I shoved him out of the way as well as the now weakened concrete and approached my wife and Laura who were screaming Zack's name out of the broken window. Jill had heard me approach.

"CHRIS! I TRIED TO STOP HIM! HE'S…HE'S…" she shouted and grabbed my shirt. Meanwhile, poor Laura was beside herself with grief. I managed to peer out the window into the courtyard and saw that both Zack and the other me were alive. I breathed easier and motioned to Jill that Zack was alive.

"SEND EVERYBODY! NOW!" Jill shouted but she noticed I had a rifle. "SHOOT XANDER! SHOOT HIM!"

"Why does he look like me?" I asked as I knelt and started to take aim. Every time I thought I had a shot lined up either Zack got in the way or Xander moved out of the way.

"I guess that virus he injected himself was the Prime strand of it. Spectre Team and I encountered some bioweapons that looked like you Commander. Xander's apparently a follower of Wesker's ideology too and he was behind that attack," Laura explained through sniffs.

"That I heard. Son of a bitch Wesker. Never free of that bastard am I…" I muttered to myself as Xander had taken the legs out from under Zack. He then raised his hand, ready to cave my boy's face in. Not on my fucking watch asshole. I have you in my sights. I held my breath and squeezed the trigger. My aim was true and my shot hit him in the chest. Right near his heart which was always the weak point of these bioweapons. Zack caught on and ripped Xander's shirt apart but he picked Zack up by the neck, tossed him in the air and kicked him in the chest.

"NO!" Jill, Laura and Claire shouted as Zack smashed into the wall and broke the lights above him. Zack got up as Xander started looking around for him. He must be like Wesker. Can't see well in the dark… even when it's not completely dark. How he couldn't see me aiming a rocket at him on that Tricell tanker is something I will never fully understand. That's what you get for wearing sunglasses when it's dark outside you moron. Zack was looking at me and I saw him mouth "shoot the lights" through the scope on the rifle. I followed his instructions and shot all of the lights. I realized something as the last bulb exploded, now I couldn't see anything down there. I couldn't really tell Zack from Xander or a plant. Dammit! I heard Jill grunt from my right and saw that she had thrown something in Zack's direction. I looked at her quizzically. Bryce was standing behind her and looked like he had handed her something.

"His glasses and knives," she said, panting. I watched Zack pick both items up and then saw bright orange eyes in the darkness below. Oh! Clever! That's what I call quick thinking Zack! Just like your old man! In the light from Zack's glasses, I saw him kick Xander right in the groin. I winced a little but Jill had screamed "YES! THAT'S MY BOY!" Then I saw 2 orange eyes run across the courtyard and position themselves right below me before they blinked out of existence.

"Where did he go Chris? Where is he?" Jill shouted. I cursed under my breath. I couldn't see either of them.

"I don't know, just relax," I said and immediately regretted it. Leon, who was also nearby had said "Ooh, bad move."

"RELAX?! I WILL NOT FUCKING RELAX UNTIL I KNOW ZACK IS SAFE IN MY OR LAURA'S ARMS! AND THAT MANIAC IS DEAD! I DON'T CARE WHO DOES IT! YOU, ZACK OR ME! I WILL RIP THAT MOTHERFUCKER APART FOR WHAT HE DID TO ZACK…and…and especially you…" she shouted at me but I noticed a touch of real pain in her voice when she mentioned me. It's alright Jill. I'll be in the same bed with you tonight. I sense my arm being asleep relatively fast but it'd be worth it. Laura had put a comforting hand on her shoulder. Jill didn't combat throw her so she must trust Laura.

"Right…right, sorry hon…WAIT, THERE HE IS! Using the light from his glasses to give me a shot! What a guy!" I said, took aim and fired at Xander's chest again. I of course hit him and he yelled in fury again. Then Xander smashed a window from above and bathed the area in light again.

"NO!" Laura shouted as Xander pounced on Zack and lifted him into the air by his neck. Xander shouted something that I could hear from this distance " TIME TO DIE ZACK!" but I heard the sound of an RPG firing very close to my position. I looked to see my little girl kneeling in front of another smashed window with an RPG. She had fired it at Xander's back. Before I could say anything, the Wesker part of Xander must have activated because he dropped Zack and caught the rocket. Again I was hit by a flashback. All of us shouted "SHOOT THE ROCKET!" at Zack. Zack got the picture and then channeled his mother. He ran up the wall and did an absolutely beautiful backflip over Xander's body and shot the rocket in midair. Laura was in complete shock and I totally heard her say "Oh my fucking GOD I love him…" over my wife's screams of joy. I saw Zack land and begin to walk over to the stunned Xander. Xander's mouth began to move and I decided to save Zack from this fucker's voice and fired another shot through his jaw. It detached and fell on the ground. Then I watched Zack plunge his knife into Xander's chest, wrench it upwards and fucking tear a grown ass man in half with his bare hands. Leon and Claire were staring at me in complete shock while Jill had her hand over her mouth. I tentatively put my hand on Jill's shoulder and she looked over.

"Definitely our son right?" I whispered so only she could hear. "Don't come between a boy and his mother." She managed to smile. Words can't explain how much this woman loves our children but especially Zack. I often found the little guy sleeping so comfortably in her arms when he was a baby. I looked over to my little girl and gave her a smile too. She smiled back and walked over to hug me.

"That's my girl," I whispered to Jenna. Jill put a hand on her shoulder as well. She had essentially saved Zack's life. Granted if she had missed…whatever, I don't care. Xander was gone. We were together again.

"ZACK! NO!" Laura suddenly shouted, breaking the silence. Zack had fallen to his knees and then face first into the blood pooling on the ground.

"GET A MEDICAL TEAM TO THE COURTYARD! NOW! DOUBLE TIME!" Bryce shouted into his communicator. "Understood, lassie, your mother's here too." Bryce directed the last comment to Laura. Laura raised her eyebrows but she was the first out of the room followed by Jill. We were not going to let Zack die. Not after everything he had gone through tonight.