Zero awoke to the sound of a piercing roar. He suddenly got up and looked around, confused and unaware of what was going on.
"I didn't think you'd ever wake up, man.", Cloud chuckled. He was sitting on a tree stump, waiting impatiently for Zero to awaken. Cloud had been up since about 5 AM, and it was currently 6:13 AM.
"Ugh...Cloud, what the Hell happened? Where is everyone?", Zero was very drowsy, he wasn't sure exactly what happened. Cloud stood up and looked to the sky, and then he looked back down at Zero.
"Well, from the looks of it, Bolt and White just plain aren't here. I found all of Bolt's equipment within the debris of the chopper. White's equipment was gone, so I guess he took off or something. Who knows? I'm just about as clueless as you are.", Cloud replied. Zero got to his feet and looked at the wrecked chopper and shook his head. He grabbed 2 submachine guns (MP5s to be exact), with plenty of clips and ammo. Both men had Berettas, so he grabbed some bullets for them too. He looked around for some heavier weaponry, but the grenade launcher was gone, and so was the Bazooka. He assumed Bolt and White took them, or they were destroyed or lost in the crash.
Zero approached the other side of the wrecked chopper, to find what looked like what were White's handprints in the dirty, suddenly he noticed footprints and a trail leading deeper into the forest.
"Cloud, I think I have a trail. White has larger hands than Bolt, their pretty distinct. It looks like his hands in the dirt, and it seems like he crawled a few feet. See those footprints? They must be White's. There's a small path leading into deeper into the forests of wherever we are. If we follow that path, then we are bound to find something there.", Zero ordered Cloud. Cloud just let out another sigh and shook his head.
"Whatever man. I guess it's logical. But then where does that put Bolt?", Cloud asked curiously. Zero just gave him a loot that said "I don't know". Cloud just smirked.
"Alright, well, hand me that equipment and I guess we'll go search for em'. We're bound to find someone I guess. I just want to know where we are.", Cloud said. Zero handed him the weapons and Cloud loaded the pistol and just packed the MP5 on his back. The two agents followed the path, with no idea where they were, or what was going on. They knew nothing about the Tyrant or the T-Virus loose in Brighton, or that the very forests they were in were infested with those zombies...They didn't know that White was dead, or that Bolt was currently in the sewers. All they were concerned about was to find someone, anyone.
"So where do you figure that the sample is? Or that monster? Pretty crazy stuff back there, man. Crazy stuff.", Cloud asked Zero. Cloud was always making jokes, and never took things as truly seriously as they needed to be. Zero realized this, and was amazed how Cloud could stay so calm and collective all the time. Cloud was an ideal person, but his sarcastic careless attitude was not desirable in the Umbrella Special Task Force. Zero and Cloud continued walking, and Zero simply replied...
"Well, it fell over some city, and it can't be too far off from where we are. Hopefully the samples didn't leave that case, and hopefully that monster died from the fall. Who knows what might happen if that sample got out into the population...", Zero said. But Zero knew what would happen. Whatever city the T-Virus was released in would be filled with zombies and other creatures. But he wasn't sure if he should tell Cloud, it might alarm him, but he wanted Cloud to be informed and prepared.
"Cloud, you may want to know that..."
But right as Zero began to talk, Cloud spotted something important.
"Hold on. Look! Two bullet shells on the ground.", Cloud exclaimed. He leaned next to them and picked them up to examine them. Zero just assumed that he'd tell Cloud about the T-Virus later. Zero watched Cloud examine the bullets closely.
"So are they from White's gun?", Zero asked. Cloud stood up with the bullets in his hand. He looked over to Zero and shook his head.
"Well, if my memory serves me correctly, these are not White's bullets. Why, you ask? The Umbrella Special Task Force's standard issue gun is a Beretta pistol, with an optional silencer. Correct?", Cloud asked Zero. Zero nodded.
"As I recall, you, Bolt, and myself use the Beretta. White and Trigger on the other hand, do not. White uses a standard Glock and Trigger uses a Socom. Meaning that rather than being White's bullets, they are Bolts bullets.", Cloud looked at Zero, making sure what he said sounded correct. Zero squinted his eyes.
"A Beretta isn't just a completely unknown pistol though, its quite a famous pistol actually. So isn't it possible that it could belong to someone else? I mean, there are plenty of hunters around here in England, I'm guessing.", said Zero. Cloud smirked and opened up his palm to look at the bullets again.
"But what hunter goes hunting with a Beretta pistol? Hunters use rifles, chief.", Cloud said, but Zero let out a sigh and look straight at Cloud.
"Well I knew that, dammit! But I'm just saying, many hunters do carry around pistols for self defense.", Zero commented. Cloud shrugged.
"Alright, I'll level with ya there. But I have a sneaking suspicion that their Bolts. Don't ask why, I just think that they are. Possibly White and Bolt were walking around this path and...Bolt fired some shots at something? I don't know. Lets just keep going.", Cloud responded. Zero nodded and they continued
They walked for about 45 minutes before they came across a destroyed cabin...
Bullet shells were strung all over the ground. There was a tree that was split clear in half, some grenade rounds next to a tree, some blood on the ground, and a combat knife with blood on the tip. Zero picked up the knife and looked it over.
"This is Bolt's knife, Cloud. His names scratched into the handle and there's an Umbrella logo. What more proof do we need that Bolt was here?", Zero commented. And Cloud was convinced. Both agents took quick grasp of their pistols and looked around. Zero made another observation...
"Grenade rounds...White must have been here...or something. I don't know of any hunters who shoot deer with a grenade launcher. But what does this mean? Bullets on the ground, a bloody knife, and grenade rounds? They were both here, evidently. But what does that mean? Were they fighting themselves? And what if..."
Zero was interrupted by a load groan, sounding like it came from the heart of the forest. Cloud was alarmed, and signaled Zero to follow him. Zero nodded and Cloud headed for the thick patch of trees. When they arrived, they were not prepared for what they saw.
White was lying on the ground, dead and covered in blood, with a look of horror on his face. Cloud and Zero were both terrified and confused. They continued to investigate the scene, to find to White had apparently been jabbed through the chest by some sort of razor sharp blade. Zero then noticed the huge scratches that tore right through the concrete. There was a giant hole in the ground with a ladder, which Cloud concluded to be a sewer entrance.
The lid to the sewer entrance was completely torn off, it was on the ground next to White.
The grenade launcher was on the ground as well, it looked as if White went down with a fight. But his attempt was in vain. Cloud turned around and was terrified at what he saw.
"Zero! Look! Behind you!"
Zero quickly turned around and was shocked to see a slow moving creature coming at him and Cloud.
"A zombie...", he thought. "Just like the mansion incident...So this is what the T-Virus does...These are the living dead...These are the zombies that I've heard so many rumors about...".
Zero looked over at Cloud and ordered to open fire.
"Cloud, shoot it down, there might be more! The T-Virus has been released somewhere near this forest! That thing was a human!".
Cloud loaded his pistol and began to shoot at the creature.
"What?!?", Cloud screamed. He didn't understand. He shot at the beast about four times before it fell. Cloud then noticed more coming his way.
"Zero, there's more coming! Zero?".
Suddenly Cloud heard more gunshots, coming from behind them. It was Zero, shooting at more zombies, there were 3 coming right at him, they were closing in from about 30 feet away. Cloud and Zero fired at the zombies over and over, but they just kept coming. Soon, there were 10 zombies closing in from all directions, only 20 feet away from the agents.
"Fire! Fire! Don't let them come any closer!", Zero shouted.
Slowly the agents picked them off, one by one, but every time they reloaded, it seems like there were only more zombies, and they were getting closer by the second.
"Get the fuck back! Dammit, Zero! You only see these kind of things in movies, this can't be fucking real!", Cloud screamed while he reloaded.
There were 6 zombies coming at them from both directions, 12 total, within a mere 15 feet. They were boxed in and there was no escape. Zero reached for the grenade launcher, which only had one last round in it. He shot it straight at the wall of zombies and managed to kill three of them. They zombies screeched as they were killed and set on fire by the grenade explosion.
Out of panic, Cloud grabbed his MP5 and began to shoot down the zombies as quickly as he could. He was only able to pick off two of the zombies before he was forced to reload again. More zombies began to appear out of the forest, and there were ten coming at the agents from agents from all sides, only ten feet away. There was no way to kill them all now.
Cloud put down his MP5 and grabbed his Combat Knife and lunged at one of the zombies and began to stab it. He kicked and punched at the zombies, 2 of them fell. A zombie grabbed onto Cloud and began to groan, about to strike.
Suddenly there was a loud gunshot in the distance and the head of the beast was blown clear off. Cloud shook off the zombie and head back towards Zero, and looked around to see what saved him. Suddenly the sound of sirens became louder and a police car came closer to the agents. Out of the car came a police officer with a Magnum in his hand. It was Ryan Artanis, he saw the agents being attacked in the distance.
"Hurry! Get to the car!", Ryan shouted to the agents in danger. They dodged through the zombies and were able to make it towards the car. Slowly the car was being surrounded by zombies.
"Go go go!", Ryan urged them to get into the car. Both men jumped into the backseat as quickly as they possibly could, slammed the doors, and the car took off. The zombies watched as the car drove off and began to slowly follow it...