Chapter Fifteen: To The Rescue
Outside the ruins, Vinny staggers across the sand, dragging a saddlebag filled with treasure. He throws it over
the rear of a camel, and starts to climb up, but he hesitates. He looks back at the temple door, contemplating
about whether or not he should go back. Then his greed gets the better of him and he quickly climbs off the
camel and scurries back towards the door.
***
Inside the ruins, Imhotep/Alexander reads from the Book of the Dead. The rotten Priest-mummies rock back and
forth, chanting. Jill struggles to free herself, cursing herself on leaving her lockpicks back at the museum.
Then suddenly, the spirit of Anuck-sa-namun wafts up out of the swirling pool and over to the sacred jars. It
passes through them and into Jill, who jerks as though she's been electrified. The soul passes through her and
into Anck-su-namun's body.
The chanting priests, and Imhotep/Alexander reading reach a crescendo. Anck-su-namun's crusty eyelids suddenly
pop open. Jill stares at her in disbelief.
Anck-su-namun's rotted head turns and looks at Jill with empty sockets. Jill begins to freak out and struggles
wildly at her bonds. Then she notices Imhotep/Alexander holding the ancient sacrificial knife above her chest.
"With your death," he said in Egyptian, "I WILL BE INVINCIBLE!"
Then Leon came running in from a stairway, holding the Book of Amun-Ra in his hands. "Jill! Jill! I found it!"
he shouted.
Imhotep/Alexander saw what Leon was holding in his hand. "The Book of Amun-Ra," he whispered.
"Leon!" Jill shouted back. "Shut up and get me off of this thing!"
Chris, who had snuck in behind Leon, spots a sword nearby. He grabs it, jumps onto a gravestone, and leaps over
the mummified priests and their leader. He kicks the knife out of Imhotep/Alexander's hand. Then he started to
work on her chains. Imhotep/Alexander then orders the priests to attack.
"Leon" Jill shouted. "Open the book! That's the only way to kill him!"
Leon is struggling to open the Book of Amun-Ra, but can't since it was locked. "Jill! I can't open this! It's
locked!"
Chris manages to cut off one of the chains holding Jill's hands. Then he tossed something to her. She realizes
that he had thrown her one of her lockpicks. She grabs it and starts to work on her locks.
Then Leon sees the elaborate lock on the cover. "Hey! We need the key! What do I do?!"
Jill was fumbling with the lock on her wrist. "Read the inscription on the cover!" She manages to get the lock
on her wrist free and begins to work on the locks on her legs.
Leon attempts to read the inscription on the cover, but his Egyptian is clearly bad. "Keetash...naraba...
Damn it!"
Imhotep/Alexander moves in on him, and Leon backs away, still trying to translate the inscription. "Ebarra im
hatu Kashka ummmmm--? Damn! I knew I should've paid more attention in Ancient Egyptian class!"
Leon trips and falls on his butt, and Imhotep/Alexander advances on him. Chris is still fending off the mummies
and Jill freed one of her legs from the locks.
He looked at the conver and blurted out, "Rasheem Aaaaa ANUBIS!"
Jill finally frees herself from the last chain and scrambles beside Chris, who just got finished decapitiaing a
mummy. From the far side of the room, a set of double door opened and five T-103 units--all wearing green
trenchcoats came marching into the room. (The T-103 are the Mr. X units from RE2 and Survivor, for those who
don't know)
Chris and Jill facefaulted. "Great. More Tyrants," Chris said. "So much for the mummies soldiers."
"This just keeps getting better and better," Jill said.
Chris looked at her. "That's my line."
The Tyrants marched together in pairs, their steel boots stomping on the floor. Then they turned to Chris and
started to advance on him. Then something grabs Jill by the shoulder and spins her around. Jill finds herself
faced with the reanimated corpse of Anuck-sa-namun. In her other hand, she is holding Imhotep/Alexander's
knife.
"Shit," Jill muttered.
The mummy then proceeds to chase Jill all over the cememtary, wielding the knife as she did. Leon was trying to
translate the inscriptions on the cover and Chris was dodging hammer punches, clotheslines, overhead punches,
and steel boots to the face by the onslaught of Tyrants.
"Leon! Finish the inscription, you idiot!" Jill yelled as she ran past him with Anuck-sa-namun on her heels.
"You have got to be kidding," Leon muttered. He quickly looks back at the hieroglyphs on the book cover,
fumbling badly under pressure. "Ummm, Hootash im...Hootash im..." He yelled out to Jill. "What's this last
symbol here?"
"What's it look like?" Jill shouted back.
Leon squinted at the symbol. "It looks like a stork!"
Now Anck-su-namun grabs Jill by the throat. She raises the knife in her other hand, but Jill grabs her wrist
and wrestles Anuck-sa-namun for the knife. "Ah! Ah! Ahmenophus!" she cried.
Leon looked at the symbol even closer. "Oh. Now I remember."
The Tyrants now have Chris on the floor. They close in on him. Then they raised their hands, preparing to
hammer-punch Chris to death.
"Hootash im Ahmenophus!" Leon shouted.
The five Tyrants brought their fists down on Chris...and stopped. Chris opened his eyes. Five pairs of fists,
each the size of a human head, were mere inches from his body. Then the Tyrants backed up and stood still.
"Destroy them!" Imhotep/Alexander shouted. "I command you to destroy them!" He turned to Leon. "Give me that
book!"
Leon turns and runs, but not before shouting in Egyptian to the five Tyrants to kill Anuck-sa-namun.
Imhotep/Alexander stared in horror as the Tyrants knocked his love to the ground, then they hammer-punched her
to death.
Imhotep/Alexander screams in rage and horror, then turns and angrily heads for Leon, who now sees the angry
mummy heading in his direction and bolts. Imhotep/Alexander traps Leon to a wall, grabs him, lifts him up, rips
the Book Of The Living out of his hand slams him against the wall.
Chris runs up and swings his sword at Imhotep/Alexander. He slices Imhotep/Alexander's right arm off. It drops
to the ground. Imhotep/Alexander drops Leon and spins around and faces Chris, who merely grins.
"Let's see how tough you are without your right arm," he taunted.
Imhotep/Alexander grabs Chris with his left arm and throws him halfway across the cemetery. Chris slams into a
gravestone, bounces off and crashes to the ground.
Chris gets to his feet shakes it off. "Okay, he's lefthanded."
Imhotep/Alexander grabbed his arm and reattached it back into place as he walks toward Chris with murder in his
eyes. Meanwhile, Leon is holding something in his hand. "Jill!" he shouted, holding the key-box in his hand, "I
got it!"
Jill runs to Leon and sees Chris fending off Imhotep/Alexander. "Chris! Can you keep him busy?" she shouted.
"WAAAAAAHHHHH!" Chris is sent flying across the cememtary. He lands on the ground. "No problem."
He looks up and sees Imhotep/Alexander standing above him. He picks him up and onve again throws him across
the cememtary.
While Chris was getting manhandled, Jill had made it back to Leon and was in the process of unlocking the Book
of Amun-Ra. She opens it and leafs through the golden pages, trying to find the right incantation that will
sent Imhotep/Alexander back to the underworld.
Chris is now feeling the effects of being thrown around like a rag doll. Imhotep/Alexander sees it as his
chance to finally get rid of Chris once and for all. He grabs him by the throat and lifts him off his feet.
Chris hangs there, a dazed mess.
"Now," Imhotep/Alexander said, "It's YOUR turn to die."
He stretches his mouth, preparing to do something very bad to Chris.
Jill finally found the right incantarion. "Kadeesh mal...kadeesh mal..."
Imhotep/Alexander drops Chris, pivots and looks at Jill, a look of sheer terror on his face.
Jill finished the incantation. "Pared oos...pared oos!"
A bright light from the top of the stairway caught Imhotep/Alexander's. Then, Anubis, the jackal-headed God of
Death, came down on a horse-drawn chariot. He ran straight through Imhotep/Alexander, taking the latter's soul
with him. Then he vanished.
Chris stumbled over to Jill and Leon and picks up the sword. Imhotep/Alexander sees the trio and makes a
beeline for them.
"You said that the book would kill him!" Chris said.
Chris took a step forward...and ran Imhotep/Alexander through with the sword. The now-mortal priest stares at
the sword sticking out of his stomach in disbelief. He stumbles back into the black pool and starts to sink.
His body begins to deteriorate as he sinks into the murk. He says something in Egyptian before his face decays
back into what Chris, Leon, and Jill had found back in the coffin and it sinks.
Jill translate what Imhotep/Alexander had just said. "'Death is only the beginning.'"
They turn to leave. And then...
SPLASH!!
Something leapt out of the water. It is Imhotep, now Alexander Ashford. His skin is now a sickly-looking green
and his hands are tied behind his back and his eyes are covered by a blindfold. Something that appeared so be
sackcloth covered the lower half of his body. A huge mandible-like extension was protruding from his right
shouder. Alexander's chest expanded and opened, revealing his first-generation Tyrant-like heart.
"Okay, I've seen that thing before," Chris said, "only it was hanging on a hook."
Alexander--now Nosferatu swung his mandible along the ground, creating a cloud of poison gas. Chris, Leon, and
Jill all dodged the gas and ended up near Chris's gunnysack. Chris pulls out the assault rifle he had earlier,
Leon yanks out the twin Ingrams, and Jill claimed a grenade launcher, loaded with freeze rounds.
Nosferatu tried his little poison trick again, and once again all three dodged it. Scrambling to their feet,
they opened fire on the monster. Nosferatu was forced back by the onslaught of bullets and freeze rounds, but
he wasn't going to give up. Then...
"I got you now!" a female voice--not Jill's--said.
BANG!
The heart of Nosferatu exploded. He roared in pain...then he fell back into the black pool. Jill, Chris, and
Leon turned to where the source of the voice and the gunshot came from.
"CLAIRE?!" all three yelled.
Claire Redfield stood there, holding Alfred's sniper rifle in her hands. "Sorry I'm late. When I arrived at
Cairo Airport, the whole airport was crawling witn zombies! I went to Kendo's airstrip and gun shop, but you
had already left, so I had to take a camel to get here!"
"Too bad," Leon smirked. "You missed most of the action."
"I got enough of that on my way here," Claire replied. "Let's get out of here. This place is giving me the
creeps."
"The next time I leave for someting important and don't call, please don't come searching for me," Chris said.
Outside the ruins, Vinny staggers across the sand, dragging a saddlebag filled with treasure. He throws it over
the rear of a camel, and starts to climb up, but he hesitates. He looks back at the temple door, contemplating
about whether or not he should go back. Then his greed gets the better of him and he quickly climbs off the
camel and scurries back towards the door.
***
Inside the ruins, Imhotep/Alexander reads from the Book of the Dead. The rotten Priest-mummies rock back and
forth, chanting. Jill struggles to free herself, cursing herself on leaving her lockpicks back at the museum.
Then suddenly, the spirit of Anuck-sa-namun wafts up out of the swirling pool and over to the sacred jars. It
passes through them and into Jill, who jerks as though she's been electrified. The soul passes through her and
into Anck-su-namun's body.
The chanting priests, and Imhotep/Alexander reading reach a crescendo. Anck-su-namun's crusty eyelids suddenly
pop open. Jill stares at her in disbelief.
Anck-su-namun's rotted head turns and looks at Jill with empty sockets. Jill begins to freak out and struggles
wildly at her bonds. Then she notices Imhotep/Alexander holding the ancient sacrificial knife above her chest.
"With your death," he said in Egyptian, "I WILL BE INVINCIBLE!"
Then Leon came running in from a stairway, holding the Book of Amun-Ra in his hands. "Jill! Jill! I found it!"
he shouted.
Imhotep/Alexander saw what Leon was holding in his hand. "The Book of Amun-Ra," he whispered.
"Leon!" Jill shouted back. "Shut up and get me off of this thing!"
Chris, who had snuck in behind Leon, spots a sword nearby. He grabs it, jumps onto a gravestone, and leaps over
the mummified priests and their leader. He kicks the knife out of Imhotep/Alexander's hand. Then he started to
work on her chains. Imhotep/Alexander then orders the priests to attack.
"Leon" Jill shouted. "Open the book! That's the only way to kill him!"
Leon is struggling to open the Book of Amun-Ra, but can't since it was locked. "Jill! I can't open this! It's
locked!"
Chris manages to cut off one of the chains holding Jill's hands. Then he tossed something to her. She realizes
that he had thrown her one of her lockpicks. She grabs it and starts to work on her locks.
Then Leon sees the elaborate lock on the cover. "Hey! We need the key! What do I do?!"
Jill was fumbling with the lock on her wrist. "Read the inscription on the cover!" She manages to get the lock
on her wrist free and begins to work on the locks on her legs.
Leon attempts to read the inscription on the cover, but his Egyptian is clearly bad. "Keetash...naraba...
Damn it!"
Imhotep/Alexander moves in on him, and Leon backs away, still trying to translate the inscription. "Ebarra im
hatu Kashka ummmmm--? Damn! I knew I should've paid more attention in Ancient Egyptian class!"
Leon trips and falls on his butt, and Imhotep/Alexander advances on him. Chris is still fending off the mummies
and Jill freed one of her legs from the locks.
He looked at the conver and blurted out, "Rasheem Aaaaa ANUBIS!"
Jill finally frees herself from the last chain and scrambles beside Chris, who just got finished decapitiaing a
mummy. From the far side of the room, a set of double door opened and five T-103 units--all wearing green
trenchcoats came marching into the room. (The T-103 are the Mr. X units from RE2 and Survivor, for those who
don't know)
Chris and Jill facefaulted. "Great. More Tyrants," Chris said. "So much for the mummies soldiers."
"This just keeps getting better and better," Jill said.
Chris looked at her. "That's my line."
The Tyrants marched together in pairs, their steel boots stomping on the floor. Then they turned to Chris and
started to advance on him. Then something grabs Jill by the shoulder and spins her around. Jill finds herself
faced with the reanimated corpse of Anuck-sa-namun. In her other hand, she is holding Imhotep/Alexander's
knife.
"Shit," Jill muttered.
The mummy then proceeds to chase Jill all over the cememtary, wielding the knife as she did. Leon was trying to
translate the inscriptions on the cover and Chris was dodging hammer punches, clotheslines, overhead punches,
and steel boots to the face by the onslaught of Tyrants.
"Leon! Finish the inscription, you idiot!" Jill yelled as she ran past him with Anuck-sa-namun on her heels.
"You have got to be kidding," Leon muttered. He quickly looks back at the hieroglyphs on the book cover,
fumbling badly under pressure. "Ummm, Hootash im...Hootash im..." He yelled out to Jill. "What's this last
symbol here?"
"What's it look like?" Jill shouted back.
Leon squinted at the symbol. "It looks like a stork!"
Now Anck-su-namun grabs Jill by the throat. She raises the knife in her other hand, but Jill grabs her wrist
and wrestles Anuck-sa-namun for the knife. "Ah! Ah! Ahmenophus!" she cried.
Leon looked at the symbol even closer. "Oh. Now I remember."
The Tyrants now have Chris on the floor. They close in on him. Then they raised their hands, preparing to
hammer-punch Chris to death.
"Hootash im Ahmenophus!" Leon shouted.
The five Tyrants brought their fists down on Chris...and stopped. Chris opened his eyes. Five pairs of fists,
each the size of a human head, were mere inches from his body. Then the Tyrants backed up and stood still.
"Destroy them!" Imhotep/Alexander shouted. "I command you to destroy them!" He turned to Leon. "Give me that
book!"
Leon turns and runs, but not before shouting in Egyptian to the five Tyrants to kill Anuck-sa-namun.
Imhotep/Alexander stared in horror as the Tyrants knocked his love to the ground, then they hammer-punched her
to death.
Imhotep/Alexander screams in rage and horror, then turns and angrily heads for Leon, who now sees the angry
mummy heading in his direction and bolts. Imhotep/Alexander traps Leon to a wall, grabs him, lifts him up, rips
the Book Of The Living out of his hand slams him against the wall.
Chris runs up and swings his sword at Imhotep/Alexander. He slices Imhotep/Alexander's right arm off. It drops
to the ground. Imhotep/Alexander drops Leon and spins around and faces Chris, who merely grins.
"Let's see how tough you are without your right arm," he taunted.
Imhotep/Alexander grabs Chris with his left arm and throws him halfway across the cemetery. Chris slams into a
gravestone, bounces off and crashes to the ground.
Chris gets to his feet shakes it off. "Okay, he's lefthanded."
Imhotep/Alexander grabbed his arm and reattached it back into place as he walks toward Chris with murder in his
eyes. Meanwhile, Leon is holding something in his hand. "Jill!" he shouted, holding the key-box in his hand, "I
got it!"
Jill runs to Leon and sees Chris fending off Imhotep/Alexander. "Chris! Can you keep him busy?" she shouted.
"WAAAAAAHHHHH!" Chris is sent flying across the cememtary. He lands on the ground. "No problem."
He looks up and sees Imhotep/Alexander standing above him. He picks him up and onve again throws him across
the cememtary.
While Chris was getting manhandled, Jill had made it back to Leon and was in the process of unlocking the Book
of Amun-Ra. She opens it and leafs through the golden pages, trying to find the right incantation that will
sent Imhotep/Alexander back to the underworld.
Chris is now feeling the effects of being thrown around like a rag doll. Imhotep/Alexander sees it as his
chance to finally get rid of Chris once and for all. He grabs him by the throat and lifts him off his feet.
Chris hangs there, a dazed mess.
"Now," Imhotep/Alexander said, "It's YOUR turn to die."
He stretches his mouth, preparing to do something very bad to Chris.
Jill finally found the right incantarion. "Kadeesh mal...kadeesh mal..."
Imhotep/Alexander drops Chris, pivots and looks at Jill, a look of sheer terror on his face.
Jill finished the incantation. "Pared oos...pared oos!"
A bright light from the top of the stairway caught Imhotep/Alexander's. Then, Anubis, the jackal-headed God of
Death, came down on a horse-drawn chariot. He ran straight through Imhotep/Alexander, taking the latter's soul
with him. Then he vanished.
Chris stumbled over to Jill and Leon and picks up the sword. Imhotep/Alexander sees the trio and makes a
beeline for them.
"You said that the book would kill him!" Chris said.
Chris took a step forward...and ran Imhotep/Alexander through with the sword. The now-mortal priest stares at
the sword sticking out of his stomach in disbelief. He stumbles back into the black pool and starts to sink.
His body begins to deteriorate as he sinks into the murk. He says something in Egyptian before his face decays
back into what Chris, Leon, and Jill had found back in the coffin and it sinks.
Jill translate what Imhotep/Alexander had just said. "'Death is only the beginning.'"
They turn to leave. And then...
SPLASH!!
Something leapt out of the water. It is Imhotep, now Alexander Ashford. His skin is now a sickly-looking green
and his hands are tied behind his back and his eyes are covered by a blindfold. Something that appeared so be
sackcloth covered the lower half of his body. A huge mandible-like extension was protruding from his right
shouder. Alexander's chest expanded and opened, revealing his first-generation Tyrant-like heart.
"Okay, I've seen that thing before," Chris said, "only it was hanging on a hook."
Alexander--now Nosferatu swung his mandible along the ground, creating a cloud of poison gas. Chris, Leon, and
Jill all dodged the gas and ended up near Chris's gunnysack. Chris pulls out the assault rifle he had earlier,
Leon yanks out the twin Ingrams, and Jill claimed a grenade launcher, loaded with freeze rounds.
Nosferatu tried his little poison trick again, and once again all three dodged it. Scrambling to their feet,
they opened fire on the monster. Nosferatu was forced back by the onslaught of bullets and freeze rounds, but
he wasn't going to give up. Then...
"I got you now!" a female voice--not Jill's--said.
BANG!
The heart of Nosferatu exploded. He roared in pain...then he fell back into the black pool. Jill, Chris, and
Leon turned to where the source of the voice and the gunshot came from.
"CLAIRE?!" all three yelled.
Claire Redfield stood there, holding Alfred's sniper rifle in her hands. "Sorry I'm late. When I arrived at
Cairo Airport, the whole airport was crawling witn zombies! I went to Kendo's airstrip and gun shop, but you
had already left, so I had to take a camel to get here!"
"Too bad," Leon smirked. "You missed most of the action."
"I got enough of that on my way here," Claire replied. "Let's get out of here. This place is giving me the
creeps."
"The next time I leave for someting important and don't call, please don't come searching for me," Chris said.