Disclaimer: Silver Scythe and Silver Scorpion are mine, and Resident Evil is property of Capcom in every legal aspect (I hope). So in other words, you can't sue me.
Jill Valentine had been killed nearly twice in the last two minutes. She and the others were almost through scrounging the last level of the second-to-last laboratory in the U.S. when Leon had nearly blown her head off with his shotgun for the second time.
"Christ, Leon, trying to see how close you can get to my head?" Jill asked.
"Sorry." Leon sheepishly replied, watching the zombie she hadn't noticed yet slump to the floor.
"Well, you need to stop that-" CRUNCH! Jill leaped back and emptied her clip into the already-defeated zombie before she thought it was dead.
"That's why I pulled the trigger." Leon said smugly, walking ahead. Chris walked up to her and put his arm around her. She kissed him, and they walked on.
Chris was walking along, staring at Jill's butt when something to the left caught his eye. He whirled around, bringing his Hechler & Koch to attention. Claire called back to him and once everyone came back he said "I saw something move." Everyone else immediately brought up their guns, pointing in every direction around them. They, of course, missed the classic direction: Up. The lickers fell to the ground, tongues breaking the fall, as the ceiling was about fifteen meters up. Guns were trained on them, and the dim room was lit up with tongues of flame from the weapons. One licker was about to take Barry's head off when its head blew into pieces. Leon pumped the shotgun and turned his attention to the licker charging, the tongue about to reach his face. He blew it to pieces, preparing to reload when the licker still kept on going, slamming into Leon. Leon flew into the wall, his shotgun falling away. He pulled out the Desert Eagle, but the licker was almost on him. Its tongue was already regenerated, a bit purple. It lashed its tongue out, going to twist Leon's head off like the cop in the hallway at Raccoon when the blur came. What looked like a claw lashed out and sliced the tongue again, then in one smooth motion the blur picked up the licker and tore it in half, throwing the pieces at the other lickers. The blur stopped moving. Action ceased as the other members finished off the other lickers and stared at the creature.
"Well there's a newbie." Claire commented as the creature reared up on its haunches. It resembled a scorpion, except the legs were pointed, and the tail had spikes all over the surface. Two human legs stood, and the face consisted of eyes and a mouth, dripping with saliva. It's skin was silver. It tilted it's head, as if listening to something when it turned it's attention to Rebecca, who had been holding back the whole time, First-Aid Kits and sprays at the ready. Leon was the closest to the thing, and he thought he heard something coming form the thing.
"--Chambers---medical-----tactical---chance----kill." Leon backed up from the creature as it ran at Rebecca, screaming. It had a claw raised and was about to gore the cowering Rebecca when it stopped so suddenly, it fell to the ground, tilting it's head again. After a few seconds, it burst through the wall to their left and they could hear it running down a hall, screaming. The group looked at each other for a moment, and continued down the floor which, thankfully, was in the opposite direction of the silver scorpion.
The team had no other surprises or even new B.O.W.s to contend with the rest of the way. They did, however, find a booklet on all the B.O.W.'s created as of the day before. No evidence found, and the B.O.W.s, once defeated, would dissolve into dust after four days of being inanimate. They drove off into the New Mexican plains in utter silence, easily hearing the lab go boom behind them.
"Did you see that thing move?" Barry said, breaking the silence.
"Yeah, it was pretty amazing, even for Umbrella's twisted creations." Chris agreed.
"There was something very strange about that silver scorpion, though," Leon started to confess.
"Something stranger than the fact that it can rip a licker in half like it was nothing?" Claire asked.
"Yep. When it tilted its head like that, I think I could hear voices coming out of it." Leon finished. The group, except for Jill, who was driving, turned and stared at him.
"No joke. I'm guessing that voice, or whatever it was told the thing to go somewhere else."
"You think it was just thinking aloud?" Claire asked.
"Well, it didn't look like it had a mouth, so I don't know what the hell it was." Chris said, and the speculation ended there.
He watched the van drive off at top speed into the darkness, away from the fire. The incident in the hallway was unnecessary, but that was the way things were. The Law of Unintended Consequences my ass, he thought bemusedly, Moore had figured this little thing inside and out. Silver Scorpion was more powerful and more frightening then Nemesis, but that hellacious being would soon find its place. Well, that's what Silver Scythe was made for. Barton would be the final battle before Moore, then the real danger would be over. Thank God it was in one location. He watched as the Silver Scorpion crawled out of the wreckage, screamed, and ran off into the night as well. Those other wimps could deal with the rest. Umbrella would be sorry it had ever messed with me, he thought as he walked to his motorcycle, a grin playing on his face.