Chapter Twelve: Imhotep
Cairo Museum
Upon arriving at the Museum, Jill and the others told Barry and Carlos about what had happened. Barry and
Carlos was not too happy.
Then Jill remembered something and she took off down the hall, with the men behind her. "Last month I came
across an inscription that mentioned The Book Of The Dead."
"You mean the one that we found at Hamunaptra?" Alfred asked.
Jill nodded. "Yes. I dismissed it, because it talked about bringing people back from the dead. A notion
I was unwilling to believe at the time."
"Well, believe it, Jilly," Chris said. "That's what brought our dead buddy back to life."
"And if Imhotep suceeds," Carlos cut in, "then we're screwed."
Barry joins Jill at her side as she walked up the stairs. "What we have seen so far, are merely Imhotep flexing
his muscles. Only at the moment of Anck-su-namun's resurrection will he be truly invincible."
They reached several display cases. Jill finds what she is looking for. A huge black stone covered in
hieroglyphics. She immediately began to translate the symbols. "I'm thinking that if the black Book Of The Dead
can bring people back to life--"
"--then perhaps, the golden Book Of The Living can return them to the underworld," Barry finished.
"So if we find the golden book, then we can send this guy back to where he came from?" Chris asked.
Barry nodded. "Yes."
Alfred was looking outside. "Um...I think you might want to come to the window."
Everyone rushed to the window. And they gasped at what they saw.
Zombies. Half of Cairo (mostly extras from Resident Evil 2, 3, Code Veronica and Survivor) were zombified...and
were looking for fresh meat.
Leon gulped. "There goes my 'boils and sores' line."
Jill looked at Chris. "I thought it was supposed to be a mob full of crazy people!"
"Now we got a mob full of DEAD people," Chris replied grimly.
"It has begun," Carlos said. "The beginning of the end."
Jill runs back to the stone. "Not yet. Come on."
***
The army of zombies, led by Imhotep and Vinny marched and shambled up to the front door of the museum. Imhotep
shouts something in Egyptian and the zombies rushed the door. Thankfully, it was locked for the moment, but it
would be only be a matter of time before the zombies come rushing through.
***
"Okay let me see..." Jill looked at the tablet. "The Book of Amun-Ra is supposed to be hidded inside the statue
of Anubis--"
"But that's where we found the other book!" Alfred objected.
"They pulled a switch," Jill murmured. "So the Book of Amun-Ra is located at..."
"Come on, Jill!" Leon urged her. "Faster!"
"Patience is a virtue," Jill replied.
SMASH! The zombies have broken through the front door. Chris looked at the barging undead and turned to Jill.
"Not right now it isn't!"
"The Book of Amun-Ra is inside the statue of Horus!" Jill exclaimed, beaming brightly.
"I'll get the car," Leon said, running to the emergency exit.
Two zombies come shambling out a door and headed for Chris and Carlos. Chris knocked the first zombie down and
smashed its head with his combat boot, while Carlos grabbed the other and chucked him over the railing. The
zombie lands headfirst with a sickening splat, brain and skull fragments splattering all over the floor.
Several more zombies were upon the one that had fallen, devouring its flesh. Chris and Carlos turned from the
balcony, not wanting to lose their lunch.
***
Leon sneaks out of some bushes and quickly heads for his convertible. Suddenly, a splinter group of the zombie
mob cames around the side of the museum. Leon quickly hides behind his car and waits for them to pass. (What?
You think I'm gonna have Leon act like he was a zombie? The zombies would kill him in an instant.)
Once the coast was clear, Leon jumps into the car, starts it, and backs it to the emergency exit. Chris, Jill,
Carlos, Barry, and Alfred jump into the car. Then Vinny runs out of the museum and sees the group trying to
escape.
"Imhotep!" he shouted. "IMHOTEP!"
In a window, Imhotep sees the group drive out. He unhinges his jaw, stretches his mouth to an inhuman size and
lets out one of his horrific, primordial shrieks.
As the car screeches away, the zombies come charging out the museum. Chris points his finger at Vinny and
shouts, "You're gonna get yours, Vinny!"
"Like I've never heard that before!" Vinny retorted.
***
Leon screeches to a halt in the bazzar. There were more zombies in the streers. Leon reached under his seat and
pulls out a helmet. He shoves the helmet on his head and floors the gas. The car careens towards the undead,
knocking them over like rotten bowling pins.
Leon looked back. Only two were left standing, pratically untouched. "Damn. The 7-10 split," he said. "I always
hated that in bowling."
More zombies started to jump onto the moving car. Chris knocked one off into a stand and another into a utility
pole, Jill poked another in the eyes and pushed him off, Carlos grabs two and smashes their heads together,
Barry was blasting away with his trusty Colt Python, Leon had took off his helmet and proceeded to bash in a
zombie's head with it, and Alfred smacked another with the butt of his sniper rifle.
At one point, there were too many zombies in the road. Jill then spotted an oil drum nearby. Grabbing one of
Chris's guns from his holster, she takes aim and fires a bullet in the oil drum.
KABOOM!
The resulting explosion sent dozens of bodies (and body parts) flying. ;)
Whle Chris was busy knocking another zombie into a parked car, three zombies grab Alfred and pull him out of
the car. The zombies move in on him, but Alfred is on his feet, his sniper rifle at the ready. He kills several
of the undead, keeping them at bay.
Then he runs out of ammo.
But the zombies stays back, looking at him like rabid vultures. Alfred eyes them, filled with fear. The mob
parts as Imhotep walks through them and up to Alfred, who whimpers in fear. Then he gets an idea, reaches into
his pocket, and pulls out his jewel encrusted canopic jar. He holds it out for Imhotep, hoping that he would be
spared.
He was wrong. As soon as he had the jar in his posession, Imhotep claimed his last victim.
***
A zombie had popped up behind Leon. He elbowed it, and tossed him facefirst into another utility pole. That
distracted him form what was ahead of him and as a result, he crashed the car into a fire hydrant.
"Damn!" Leon cursed. "This is the second time this had happened!" He turned aound and sighed. "At least there's
no oil tanker behind us."
But the zombies were getting closer, however. "Everyone out the car!" Chris barked.
Jill, and the three men pile out the car and out into the street. In an instant, the zombies surround them.
Chris silently cursed to himself for leaving his gunnysack of weapons back in the fort.
Then as they did with Alfred, the flanks of the undead parted and Imhotep stepped through. He is now fully
regenerated. (For the remainder of the story, Imhotep is now Imhotep/Alexander)
Barry paled. "He has consummated the curse, now all he need do is raise Anck-su-namun from the dead,
then it will be the end of us."
Imhotep/Alexander spoke in Egyptian, with Vinny acting as translator. "Keetah mi pharos, aja nilo, isirlan."
"'Come with me my princess. It is time to make you mine, forever.'"
Jill shoots Vinny a glare. "'For all etenity,' idiot."
Vinny scowled at the woman.
Imhotep/Alexander extended his hand. "Koontash dai na."
"'Take my hand, and I will spare your friends.'"
Jill was forced to make a decision. "Oh, boy." She turned to Chris. "Any bright ideas?"
Chris frowned. "I'm working on it."
Jill sighed. "You better think of something, because if he turns me into a mummy, you're the first one I'm
coming after."
Chris almost smiled. "You got guts."
Jill smiled back. "And I would like to keep them."
She turns to Imhotep/Alexander and takes his hand. Nothing happens. Imhotep/Alexander gently pulls her away
from Chris and the others. Vinny sees the key-box poking out of Leon's pocket and he swipes that from him.
"That's mine!" Leon shouted.
Vinny grinned. "Thank you." He follows Imhotep/Alexander.
As they walked away, Imhotep/Alexander shouts to the zombies in Egyptian, "Kill them all!"
"No!" Jill shouted. She struggles against Imhotep/Alexander, but he is holding her in a grip of iron. "Let go
of me!"
The zombies are already moving in for the kill. Chris spots a manhole in the ground and pulls it up and shoves
Leon in and jumps in after him. Carlos went next. Barry grinned at the imcoming undead. "Come on, you smelly
bastards! I got something for you!" He yells down into the sewer, "Go! Kill the creature! I'll be all right!"
He turns back to the incoming zombies. He opened his jacket...
and revealed the four 'special' bombs attached to his vest. (Yes, it's the 4 bombs from the Extreme Battle mode
in Resident Evil 2.) He ripped them off and tosses them at the zombies. Then he ran and jumped through the
window of a nearby shop.
The bombs detonated, annihalating all of the zombies in the area. Thankfully, it didn't destroy the city.
When Barry stepped out of the destroyed window, he saw that all of the zombies had been eradicated. He looked
at the manhole. "I hope that you destroy the creature," he whispered. "Good luck...you're gonna need it."
Notes: Did you REALLY think that I was going to let Barry die?
Cairo Museum
Upon arriving at the Museum, Jill and the others told Barry and Carlos about what had happened. Barry and
Carlos was not too happy.
Then Jill remembered something and she took off down the hall, with the men behind her. "Last month I came
across an inscription that mentioned The Book Of The Dead."
"You mean the one that we found at Hamunaptra?" Alfred asked.
Jill nodded. "Yes. I dismissed it, because it talked about bringing people back from the dead. A notion
I was unwilling to believe at the time."
"Well, believe it, Jilly," Chris said. "That's what brought our dead buddy back to life."
"And if Imhotep suceeds," Carlos cut in, "then we're screwed."
Barry joins Jill at her side as she walked up the stairs. "What we have seen so far, are merely Imhotep flexing
his muscles. Only at the moment of Anck-su-namun's resurrection will he be truly invincible."
They reached several display cases. Jill finds what she is looking for. A huge black stone covered in
hieroglyphics. She immediately began to translate the symbols. "I'm thinking that if the black Book Of The Dead
can bring people back to life--"
"--then perhaps, the golden Book Of The Living can return them to the underworld," Barry finished.
"So if we find the golden book, then we can send this guy back to where he came from?" Chris asked.
Barry nodded. "Yes."
Alfred was looking outside. "Um...I think you might want to come to the window."
Everyone rushed to the window. And they gasped at what they saw.
Zombies. Half of Cairo (mostly extras from Resident Evil 2, 3, Code Veronica and Survivor) were zombified...and
were looking for fresh meat.
Leon gulped. "There goes my 'boils and sores' line."
Jill looked at Chris. "I thought it was supposed to be a mob full of crazy people!"
"Now we got a mob full of DEAD people," Chris replied grimly.
"It has begun," Carlos said. "The beginning of the end."
Jill runs back to the stone. "Not yet. Come on."
***
The army of zombies, led by Imhotep and Vinny marched and shambled up to the front door of the museum. Imhotep
shouts something in Egyptian and the zombies rushed the door. Thankfully, it was locked for the moment, but it
would be only be a matter of time before the zombies come rushing through.
***
"Okay let me see..." Jill looked at the tablet. "The Book of Amun-Ra is supposed to be hidded inside the statue
of Anubis--"
"But that's where we found the other book!" Alfred objected.
"They pulled a switch," Jill murmured. "So the Book of Amun-Ra is located at..."
"Come on, Jill!" Leon urged her. "Faster!"
"Patience is a virtue," Jill replied.
SMASH! The zombies have broken through the front door. Chris looked at the barging undead and turned to Jill.
"Not right now it isn't!"
"The Book of Amun-Ra is inside the statue of Horus!" Jill exclaimed, beaming brightly.
"I'll get the car," Leon said, running to the emergency exit.
Two zombies come shambling out a door and headed for Chris and Carlos. Chris knocked the first zombie down and
smashed its head with his combat boot, while Carlos grabbed the other and chucked him over the railing. The
zombie lands headfirst with a sickening splat, brain and skull fragments splattering all over the floor.
Several more zombies were upon the one that had fallen, devouring its flesh. Chris and Carlos turned from the
balcony, not wanting to lose their lunch.
***
Leon sneaks out of some bushes and quickly heads for his convertible. Suddenly, a splinter group of the zombie
mob cames around the side of the museum. Leon quickly hides behind his car and waits for them to pass. (What?
You think I'm gonna have Leon act like he was a zombie? The zombies would kill him in an instant.)
Once the coast was clear, Leon jumps into the car, starts it, and backs it to the emergency exit. Chris, Jill,
Carlos, Barry, and Alfred jump into the car. Then Vinny runs out of the museum and sees the group trying to
escape.
"Imhotep!" he shouted. "IMHOTEP!"
In a window, Imhotep sees the group drive out. He unhinges his jaw, stretches his mouth to an inhuman size and
lets out one of his horrific, primordial shrieks.
As the car screeches away, the zombies come charging out the museum. Chris points his finger at Vinny and
shouts, "You're gonna get yours, Vinny!"
"Like I've never heard that before!" Vinny retorted.
***
Leon screeches to a halt in the bazzar. There were more zombies in the streers. Leon reached under his seat and
pulls out a helmet. He shoves the helmet on his head and floors the gas. The car careens towards the undead,
knocking them over like rotten bowling pins.
Leon looked back. Only two were left standing, pratically untouched. "Damn. The 7-10 split," he said. "I always
hated that in bowling."
More zombies started to jump onto the moving car. Chris knocked one off into a stand and another into a utility
pole, Jill poked another in the eyes and pushed him off, Carlos grabs two and smashes their heads together,
Barry was blasting away with his trusty Colt Python, Leon had took off his helmet and proceeded to bash in a
zombie's head with it, and Alfred smacked another with the butt of his sniper rifle.
At one point, there were too many zombies in the road. Jill then spotted an oil drum nearby. Grabbing one of
Chris's guns from his holster, she takes aim and fires a bullet in the oil drum.
KABOOM!
The resulting explosion sent dozens of bodies (and body parts) flying. ;)
Whle Chris was busy knocking another zombie into a parked car, three zombies grab Alfred and pull him out of
the car. The zombies move in on him, but Alfred is on his feet, his sniper rifle at the ready. He kills several
of the undead, keeping them at bay.
Then he runs out of ammo.
But the zombies stays back, looking at him like rabid vultures. Alfred eyes them, filled with fear. The mob
parts as Imhotep walks through them and up to Alfred, who whimpers in fear. Then he gets an idea, reaches into
his pocket, and pulls out his jewel encrusted canopic jar. He holds it out for Imhotep, hoping that he would be
spared.
He was wrong. As soon as he had the jar in his posession, Imhotep claimed his last victim.
***
A zombie had popped up behind Leon. He elbowed it, and tossed him facefirst into another utility pole. That
distracted him form what was ahead of him and as a result, he crashed the car into a fire hydrant.
"Damn!" Leon cursed. "This is the second time this had happened!" He turned aound and sighed. "At least there's
no oil tanker behind us."
But the zombies were getting closer, however. "Everyone out the car!" Chris barked.
Jill, and the three men pile out the car and out into the street. In an instant, the zombies surround them.
Chris silently cursed to himself for leaving his gunnysack of weapons back in the fort.
Then as they did with Alfred, the flanks of the undead parted and Imhotep stepped through. He is now fully
regenerated. (For the remainder of the story, Imhotep is now Imhotep/Alexander)
Barry paled. "He has consummated the curse, now all he need do is raise Anck-su-namun from the dead,
then it will be the end of us."
Imhotep/Alexander spoke in Egyptian, with Vinny acting as translator. "Keetah mi pharos, aja nilo, isirlan."
"'Come with me my princess. It is time to make you mine, forever.'"
Jill shoots Vinny a glare. "'For all etenity,' idiot."
Vinny scowled at the woman.
Imhotep/Alexander extended his hand. "Koontash dai na."
"'Take my hand, and I will spare your friends.'"
Jill was forced to make a decision. "Oh, boy." She turned to Chris. "Any bright ideas?"
Chris frowned. "I'm working on it."
Jill sighed. "You better think of something, because if he turns me into a mummy, you're the first one I'm
coming after."
Chris almost smiled. "You got guts."
Jill smiled back. "And I would like to keep them."
She turns to Imhotep/Alexander and takes his hand. Nothing happens. Imhotep/Alexander gently pulls her away
from Chris and the others. Vinny sees the key-box poking out of Leon's pocket and he swipes that from him.
"That's mine!" Leon shouted.
Vinny grinned. "Thank you." He follows Imhotep/Alexander.
As they walked away, Imhotep/Alexander shouts to the zombies in Egyptian, "Kill them all!"
"No!" Jill shouted. She struggles against Imhotep/Alexander, but he is holding her in a grip of iron. "Let go
of me!"
The zombies are already moving in for the kill. Chris spots a manhole in the ground and pulls it up and shoves
Leon in and jumps in after him. Carlos went next. Barry grinned at the imcoming undead. "Come on, you smelly
bastards! I got something for you!" He yells down into the sewer, "Go! Kill the creature! I'll be all right!"
He turns back to the incoming zombies. He opened his jacket...
and revealed the four 'special' bombs attached to his vest. (Yes, it's the 4 bombs from the Extreme Battle mode
in Resident Evil 2.) He ripped them off and tosses them at the zombies. Then he ran and jumped through the
window of a nearby shop.
The bombs detonated, annihalating all of the zombies in the area. Thankfully, it didn't destroy the city.
When Barry stepped out of the destroyed window, he saw that all of the zombies had been eradicated. He looked
at the manhole. "I hope that you destroy the creature," he whispered. "Good luck...you're gonna need it."
Notes: Did you REALLY think that I was going to let Barry die?