Chapter 5

Cody shot up and yelled, Carlos and Jill both turned and looked at him, he was laying on the bench inside the Trolley. Jill rushed to him,

"Oh thank god your okay!" Jill said, facing him, Cody was hysterical,

"I'm going to die Jill! It's after me!" Cody shouted hysterically, and finally, he couldn't hold it in any longer. Cody broke down and started to cry, Jill hugged him tight and let him cry in her shoulder.

"There, there come on Cody you got to pull yourself together, what is after you?" Jill said, her tone was soothing,

"The Nemesis, after I got split up from you guys I ran into him twice, well more like he ran into me" Cody explained, his voice was trembling,

"The kid actually survived two run in's with the Nemesis? Incredible" Jill's mind said, Jill looked at him for a moment,

"But why would the Nemesis be chasing you too? Your not S.T.A.R.S." Jill said, Carlos walked past them and toward the front of the Trolley. The one thing that was really bugging Jill now was why the Nemesis had hunted down Cody, but she'd have to save her questions for later. Cody laid back against the wall and closed his eyes, Jill turned and walked to the front of the Trolley. Carlos was already at the controls and the Trolley began to move.

"So, what did you find out Jill? I wasn't able to get anything out of him, he passed out as soon as he got here" Carlos said,

"Well, it seems that our friend the Nemesis had also been chasing after him, he's had two run in's with it. Surprisingly he's alive, he wasn't in the best shape but I'd say that medical kit fixed him up pretty good. He didn't say how he'd survived the explosion back at the garage but we owe him a lot. He brought us the fuse, and now we can finally-" Jill started,

CRASH!

Jill stumbled as the Trolley car rocked violently, first she heard the sound of glass shattering and wood crunching from the other car, then Cody and Mikhail both let out a loud cry. Jill tore into the next Trolley car to find: Mikhail was struggling to his feet, using his rifle to prop him up. The entire side of the Trolley had been ripped off and there was the Nemesis, looming over Cody who was backing up in fear. Before Jill could even process her next thought, the Nemesis had Cody in it's grip. Holding him high in the air it bellowed out,

"Sttarrsss"

Then, in one quick action the Nemesis threw Cody into a weak part of the Trolley wall and it collapsed and fell through, sending Cody flying outside of the fast moving Trolley.

"NO!!" Jill screamed, holding her gun forward she out loaded the entire clip into the Nemesis's chest but it kept coming. Soon Mikhail joined in,

"Get out!" Mikhail shouted, Jill glanced at him, he was holding a grenade, one trembling finger through the pin.

"No, Mikhail you go, get behind me, I'll hold him off!" Jill shouted,

"GET OUT!" Mikhail screamed again, he pulled the pin and looked at her, "I'm already dead do it now" Mikhail ordered, Jill lowered her gun then turned and left Mikhail with

the Nemesis.

* * *

Cody hung on tight to the bars on the side of the Trolley, he was on the outside of the first car now. Maybe if he smacked the window Jill or Carlos might notice him,

BOOM!!!!!

A brilliant explosion of fire erupted in the cart behind him, shaking one of his hands loose and making him loose balance. Cody swung back up and grabbed the bar, back to having both hands on the bar. Just in time, the Trolley was thrown from it's tracks and sent on a unstoppable rampage down the street. Cody felt the impact of the Trolley crashing through a car, sending great plumes of sparks at him. A high-pitched metal scream assaulting his ears. Cody heard the emergency brakes squeal, Cody couldn't hold on any longer, he was thrown from the Trolley like a bull rider off a bull. Cody instinctively tucked his head between his legs and wrapped his arms around himself. The force of the throw caused him to skid back first across the road. Going a good twenty miles per hour, Cody closed his eyes, accepting what was about to be is death when-

His body started to slow down, he could the feel the road moving slower and slower under him. Cody put his feet in front of him and stopped himself, trembling, he got to his feet, and much to his surprise, Chris's jacket had saved him. Cody took it off and saw a huge hole in it where the asphalt had eaten through it. But that's as far as it had gotten, just ahead was the wrecked remains of the train which were ablaze. Thick black smoke poured into the sky as Cody climbed over the debris.

* * *

Jill turned around at the sound of rocks shifting and saw Cody stumble into view. His chin was bleeding and his jacket was gone. Leaving him with one, torn, ragged black shirt on, rips in it exposed his chest.

"Cody!" Jill called out, running up to him and hugging him,

"Ohh, not so hard" Cody complained, Jill smiled slightly and let him go,

"Your like a New York Cockroach" Jill laughed,

"Yeah well I feel like one that got stepped on a few times" Cody joked,

"Okay well, good news, all we have to do is ring the clock tower's bells and we will be out of here" Jill said,

"Really?" Cody asked, Jill sensed the eagerness in his voice,

"Yes" Jill replied,

"Well then what are we waiting for?" Cody asked, Jill smirked, Cody and Jill both made it across the courtyard and into the lavish clock tower. A wide marble staircase dominated the entire room, above on the second floor were stained-glass windows. There were doors on both sides of the room, a couple of polished tables, all in all pretty elegant. Cody looked to his left and jumped back at what he saw, Five male corpses laid outspread on the ground, crimson blood puddle under them, they were dressed in military get up. Not far from them was the bullet-riddled body of a zombie. Cody wasn't about to even get near those bodies until he saw a duffel bag by them. Cody rushed to it, Jill followed behind, Cody unzipped it and Cody's eyes lit up. Inside he found 40mm grenade cartridges, also inside Cody found a combat knife, and a whole shit load of magnum cartridges, fit with easy loaders. Cody smiled and stuffed as many as he could into his side back, he saw Jill crack open her grenade launcher and stuff a cartridge in. She pulled the back down and used the force to close the grenade launcher like he'd seen in movies.

"Well now all we have to do is find the damn button, push it, and we are out of here" Jill said,

"We can check upstairs first" Cody said, Jill nodded and they started up.

The second floor was merly a balcony that over looked the front room, Cody and Jill made their way to the left and out another door that lead them to a balcony. Cody smirked at just how easy all this was turning out. All he and Jill had to do now was climb the ladder, ring the bell, and wait for the helicopter to whisk them away. Cody climbed up first, hurrying around the machine and searching through the gears to find the button. And he did, but when Cody saw that a gear was missing, his anger turned to hate, and his hate turned to fear. Cody let out a low whine then dropped to his knees,

"We're doomed" Cody said,

"Oh come on, the gear has to be around here somewhere, all we have to do is find it" Jill said, Cody sighed and slowly returned to his feet,

"Why not? What do I got to loose besides my life? And hey it might be fun" Cody mumbled, Jill laughed slightly at him. Cody was to busy moaning and groaning at the fact that this all wasn't over that he didn't see Jill bend down and pick up a postcard off the ground. Cody then spared her a glance, wondering what she was doing as she began to read it aloud.

"St.Michael Clock Tower, Raccoon City" She said, reading the top,

"Oh well no duh" Cody said,

" 'Give your soul to the goddess. Put your hands together and pray before her'"

Cody dropped to his knees and put his hands together,

"Oh goddess please give me the damn missing gear, so I can get the hell out of this hell" Cody said,

"Ha. Ha I think that the gear may be where ever these clocks on the postcard are, it's another puzzle, well, like the puzzles I ran into at the Spencer Estate, well the good thing is we know the clocks are here" Jill said,

"Them being here, and us having them in our possession are two highly different things" Cody said,

"Come on, we are wasting time lets just search for these clocks, and hope we run into Carlos along the way" Jill suggested,

"All right, why not? Lets go" Cody said,

* * *

By the time Cody and Jill had reached the back rooms Jill was ready to admit defeat. They'd searched the entire Clock Tower, picking locks, slogging through hallways, adding a few new corpses to the Clock Tower's massacre scene. Along the way Jill told Cody everything that had happened at the Spencer Estate, and everything she knew about Umbrella Inc.

"So the mansion in the woods was filled with zombies too?" Cody asked,

"yea, hundreds of them" Jill replied,

"Man.... So your telling me that say a few zombies escaped from the mansion and that's who were committing all those murders?"

"yea, I'd say so, Zombies and zombie dogs escaped" Jill said,

"you don't suppose that maybe a few of those Hunters and Lab monsters, or maybe even that Tyrant you were talking about escaped and could be walking around the city right now do you?" Cody asked,

"To tell you the truth I am not sure, well not one hundred percent anyway, but after the mansion exploded the murders stopped" Jill explained,

"But, is it possible that maybe one of those monsters could have been the one's who spread this virus?" Cody asked,

"That's a good question, but I don't have the answer to it" Jill replied,

"Well. . . . We know it wasn't air born or we'd have it, so it had to come through a bite of some sort" Cody explained,

"Well, the Hunters and the lab monsters don't bite you, they rip you apart" Jill explained,

"yeah, your probably right, but man, when I first heard out about the S.T.A.R.S insident I thought you guys were nuts" Cody said,

"Well I don't blame you, if I hadn't seen it for my own eyes and someone else would have said it, I wouldn't have believed" Jill said,

"But I didn't believe the other stuff that Chief Iorns said about you guys, like you being drug dealers and alcoholics" Cody said,

"Why thanks"

"I just thought maybe you'd puffed the magic dragon once to many" Cody joked,

"Hey!" Jill yelled out,

"I'm just kidding" Cody said,

The next room they entered had stacks of chairs everywhere, on the wall were three statues, busts of women, and in the corner, were two huddled up corpses, a couple holding each other. Cody looked a way a bit but found a small journal next to them, Cody picked it up and began to read.

September 26th

It's only been three hours since the mission started, but the team is down to me and Campbell. The number of zombies if far greater than we expected. There is no hope left for this city. We have already injected the antibody for the virus, but I'm not sure that it will work. I don't know if I will survive.....

Cody turned the page,

September 27th

We managed to reach the clock tower. Out of desperation we robbed some wounded members of their weapons and used the surviving citizens as decoys. We were taught to do this in order to survive in the battlefield, but I never enjoyed it. However, a girl showed up at the clock tower before me. She is one of the survivors. She looks

just like my sister before she starved to death....

Cody turned the page,

September 28th

I wanted to evacuated as soon as possible, but the girl didn't. Her father insisted that he wouldn't leave this city where his beloved wife rest in peace. I really wanted to save the girl, but Campbell said, "All I care about is our lives." That's how I felt before, but now...... The clock tower has become a dangerous place and I don't want to make any more mistakes.

Cody closed the journal, once again the sick realization of what was going on flooded his mind. Cody turned around and saw Jill placing orbs onto trays,

"What are you doing?" Cody asked,

"It's a weight puzzle, you see, it says put your hands together for the goddess, it really means, for the clock hands to go together. Every time I put one of the orbs on the hands on the clock spin in a direction" Jill explained,

"hmm"

"Could you give me a hand please?" Jill asked, Cody smirked and walked over to her,

"Leave it to me" Cody said, taking the orbs from Jill,

"You know the right order?" Jill asked,

"No" Cody replied,

"Then that's your plan?" Jill asked,

"Simple" Cody replied,

"Okay, well lets see it" Jill said, eagerly,

"Ine Meanie, miney, moe" Cody started to repeated, moving his finger from tray to tray. Jill slapped her forehead,

"I should have never asked" She muttered,

"Ha!" Cody called out, placing one of the orbs into a tray,

"You know, I should have expected this" Jill said out loud,

Cody seemed to be ignoring her as he repeated the process two more times. And finally, both the clocks hands touched twelve. Then the face of the clock itself feel out, pushed out by something. Behind it was hallow, but inside the hallow hole was a glittering gear. Cody smiled and snatched it up,

"I am invincible" Cody said aloud,

"You did it!" Jill yelled out,

"Yeah I know I did" Cody joked,

"I always knew you could" Jill said, Cody looked at her like she was crazy for a moment then smiled.

"Okay, so now all we have to do is put this in the engine to the bell's and hit the button and we are out of here?" Cody asked,

"Yup, all we have to do is take that back up there, put it in the engine, ring the bells and wait for out helicopter to come" Jill said,

"Alight then, what are we standing around here for!? Lets blow this popcical stand!" Cody yelled out, Jill nodded and smirked at the same time.

* * *

Cody watched Jill climb the ladder to the where the bells were, Cody smiled knowing in only a few minutes it would all be over.

"So lets go over this again, when they ask who we are, you are, what was her name again?" Cody called out,

"Sarah!" Jill called back down,

"Oh yeah, right Sarah and I am your son .. . . What's my name again?" Cody called back up,

"Dan!" Jill yelled back,

"Okay, so you are my mother Sarah and we got taken here by Carlos, though we aren't sure where he is" Cody called up,