CHAPTER 2
Cody found himself wide awake on the car ride to the facility, eager to get this over and done with as quick as he could. He'd carefully loaded up six magazines and had them tucked in his side pack as well as his Beretta. The same one he'd gotten in Raccoon....
-"EVERYONE IS DEAD!" Cody argued, Ken looked at him for a moment then walked to his desk and pulled out two guns. A Glock 357, and a Beretta nine millimeter, along with two boxes of ammo.-
Cody shook the vision out of his head, he wanted to forget about the events that had unfolded in Raccoon, but somehow... He knew he never would, there was no over coming that day.
"We're here" Claire announced, Cody looked out of the tinted SUV window and saw a large lab, all lit up in the night.
"Let's get this over with" Cody said, opening the door and walking out of the SUV, they were in a dark parking lot, ahead of them was a large gate, obviously used to keep people out.
"This way" Claire said, Sherry followed her, Cody quickly behind. Claire lead them to a wooded area by the right end of the gate, a hole was cut in the fence, they'd obviously been planning this for quite some time. Claire and Sherry were the first to go in, Cody took a deep breath, took out his gun and followed. By the time he caught up with them Claire had picked the lock on the back door and was opening it slowly. After a moment she stuck her head in, looked around and gave them the signal to come on. Cody stayed behind the two as they walked into a small metallic hallway. "Over there" Claire said, motioning her head to the left, there was an elevator. Cody smiled slightly and pushed the up button on the elevator, there was a -ding- and the doors slid open, Sherry stepped in first, followed by Claire then Cody. Claire mashed in the button to take them to the thirteenth floor, the doors closed and the elevator began to move up. "Now you two watch out for traps, this was
way to easy, I got a feeling it's going to get much harder"
"No problem Claire" Sherry said, the elevator doors opened and she was the first to step out-
Suddenly, a red light began to flash and a loud alarm began to blare over the speakers.
"SHIT! LAZER SENSORS!" Claire shouted, she drew her gun and broke out into a full run. Cody went to follow her with Sherry and two bullets hit the wall in front of them. Cody grabbed Sherry by the arm and ran down a separate hallway.
"THIS WAY!" Cody yelled, holding Sherry tightly by the wrist, he didn't really even know where he was going. All he knew, is there were bullets wizing by his head, barely missing him and the sound of someone running behind him. Each time the bullet missed him, it slammed into the wall creating blue sparks. "DOWN!" Cody shouted, he pulled Sherry ahead of him and let go, sending her flying forward a few feet then crashing down into the ground. Cody spun around in mid air,
-BAM!-
A bullet hit Cody's chest, Cody fired three times, each bullet colliding with the soldier's chest, each time spraying blood all over the wall until he finally fell. Gravity quickly caught up with Cody and he slammed into the ground, his whole world going dark.
* * *
Sherry picked herself up off the ground and gasped, Cody was only a few feet away from her, laying out on the ground. She scrambled over to him, he was laying out on the ground, his Beretta laying a few feet from his hand, smoke rising from his chest. Sherry pulled his shirt off and found-
A bullet proof vest, the bullet had been stopped by a bullet proof vest, the impact of hitting the ground must have knocked him out. Sherry didn't know what to do, she put her hands on his shoulders and began to shake him.
"Wake up, please wake up" She began to plea, but this did little to wake Cody from his state of unconsciousness.
-Thump Thump-
Sherry's eyes got big, she could hear footsteps, footsteps coming her way. She quickly picked up Cody's beretta and pointed it down the dark hallway. To her dismay a Soldier stepped into view, holding a machine gun toward her.
"Don't move, drop your weapon" He commanded, Sherry squeezed down hard on the trigger.
-BAM!-
Sherry yelped as the gun flashed, and it kicked out of her hand. Surprisingly, she'd hit the Soldier in the chest and he was laying out dead, slumped against the wall. The shot had been pure luck, but she wasn't complaining. Sherry got to her feet, bent over and picked up the Beretta. Cody was still out cold, and Sherry knew her luck was just about to run out when more Soldier's found them.
* * *
Claire pumped her arms for speed, running as fast as her legs would carry her. Behind her the walls sparked as bullets collided with them, some of the sparks and loose pieces of metal flying against her arms as she ran. "Cody, and Sherry, please god let them be okay" She thought, then her mind began to try and find a way out, any exit would do. Claire came upon a large window, suddenly her vision was cut off as she was blinded by a bright light that flooded in through the window. Claire brought her arms up to shield her eyes-
A gatling gun clicked into place, her eyes widening as it began to turn.
"OH SHIT!" Her mind shouted, the soldier's catching up to her as she made a dive for the corner. Just as where she had been once standing was tore apart by machine gun fire, and the soldiers who had once been chasing her ripped into shreds by the storm of bullets. Chunks of metal and cement all flying onto her as she scrambled to her feet, making a quick dash down the hallway just as the hallway began to explode with gun fire. A wave of machine gun fire following her as she ran as fast as she could.
A single bullet flew through a open door and flew through the room, colliding with a large computer and as it did, sparks began to fly everywhere and streams of electricity began to surge around it.
* * *
Sherry heard a loud whining noise and the hallway she'd once been running through began to hiss. Her eyes getting big as a steel door lowered down into the middle of the hallway, locking into place. A loud click making her turn her head to a small lift that was in a secrete door that had just opened in the wall to her right. The entire facility shaking as an explosion went off over head.
"What is going on?" She asked herself, searching around, there was no way out except down the lift. And she was scared, deathly scared, she decided just to wait, and hope that Cody would awaken soon and help her figure out where to go.
* * *
Alexander was in panic, he was stuck deep in the lab's control room but it seemed the mainframe computer up stairs had been damaged.
"Fucking idiots!" He shouted, in frustration as he slammed his hands into the key board. The lab had once been a facility used to test out Umbrella's creations but had long since been used for that purpose. But the main frame had been damaged, and now all the holding tanks for the creatures, and the virus had all been opened. All the staff in the lower level of the lab had been effected, as well as the prisoners they had been holding as test subjects. The upper levels were all now on lock down mode, it seemed that someone was in the facility, Alexander flicked on the surveillance camera and saw a girl and a boy, both young in a hallway. The boy knocked out, Alexander grinned. They were one of the three people who had infiltrated into the lab, the other had been captured. But it seemed that the boy was special, he was Cody Redfield. Alexander knew it,
"Cody Redfield. . . The price on that boys head is enough to set me for life" Alexander whispered, and it would be a while before the clean up crew would arrive and let him out. . . Why not cure his boredom, and make himself rich all at once? He could run the old test programs, and see how the boy faired against some of their newer creations. Alexander smiled as he quit panicking, and sat before a small computer. Gently typing away at it, no monsters would be able to get in, and he'd have all the time in the world to dispose of the Redfield kid. Soon he'd be rich.
* * *
Sherry waited, sitting on the ground with her legs bent and her arms wrapped around them, it must've been fifteen minutes since she'd started waiting and there were no signs that Cody would be waking up any time soon. Sherry was to scared to try and venture down on her own, who knows what waited for her at the bottom of that lift.
"Uhhh" Something moaned, almost like the lifeless moan of the zombies from back in Raccoon, Sherry was startled. She began to look around, frightened, trying to find the source of the moan. She turned her head and saw it-
Cody was sitting up, he moaned again in pain as he rubbed his chest and blinked a few times.
"Your awake!" Sherry called out happily,
"Uhhh. . . Yeah . . ." Cody said, then stood up and gave the room a good one over. Suddenly, a surprised and somewhat scared look washed over his face. "What happened here?" He asked carefully,
"I don't know . . ." Sherry said, and began to trail off then pick back up "You shot that guard and were knocked out, another one came and . . . And I shot him then the door in the hall closed" She explained the best she could, Cody kept looking around the room till his eyes caught the lift.
"So. . . I take it that's the only way out?" Cody asked, and to that Sherry nodded. "Great . . ." Cody said, a bit of sarcasm laced in his voice.
"What should we do?" Sherry asked frightened,
"What besides the obvious? We go down the lift" Cody said, taking a few steps toward the lift, and when he was on it he placed his hand on the up and down switch. Sherry quickly followed and when she was on, Cody hit the down button. The lift began to creak then slowly decend into the unknown.
"What do you think is going to happen next?" Sherry asked nervously,
"I don't know," Cody said, as he jacked the action back on the Beretta. Cody now had one bullet in the chamber, and little less then half a clip left, and five more after that. If This place was anything like Raccoon he'd really have to conserve ammo. When the lift reached the next floor down, Cody was quite surprised at what he found. The walls, floor, and roof were all made up of a sleek metal. To his left, a key card door, and just about ten feet ahead of him was a shutter door. Cody stepped off the lift, leaving Sherry behind. He pointed the gun forward, and when he decided all was clear, lowered it. Once he did, Sherry followed up and stopped behind him. There was a clanking noise, Cody spun around and watched as the lift rise back into the heavens.
"Welcome Mr. Redfield, and I presume Ms. Birken" A voice crackled over an intercom, "Welcome to Alexander's maze of death, you my guests have unfortunately stumbled upon Umbrella's underwater lab. And due to the commotion your friend on the higher levels created our Main frame has let loose the virus along with most of our creations. Fortunately for you two, the virus is no longer in it's hot stage, but unfortunately for you, you have quite a large bounty on your head. The confirmation of your deaths is worth millions, and I plan to collect." Alexander said, then laughed.
"It's to bad I don't plan to contribute to your plot on getting rich, you sick bastard!" Cody spat.
"We'll see, in the mean time I have a game for you two to play" Alexander laughed, Cody turned his head as the shutter door began to open. He held his gun forward, closing one eye and lining up the sights with the center of the opening, Sherry cowering behind him. Nothing came out, then suddenly, rapid footfalls could be heard, as if someone, or something was running for him. Cody backed up, what came running out was what looked like a skin-less ape, it had long arms and long claws. Two beady eyes and a vicious set of teeth, Cody was over whelmed with primal fear. But he instantly snapped out of it, pointed for the head and began to fire. The gun flashed several times before he finally ran dry, but the monster was still coming for him. In one fluid motion the monster leaped and slashed for his head, Cody had barely dodged the attack. He hurtled to the ground, spinning he quickly ejected the clip and jammed a new one in.
He jerked the action back, and spun around, on his knees and sighted the monster. It had its' sights on Sherry, Cody's eyes widened and he shot the monster in the back of the head. It roared and turned back to him, Cody fired again, and yet it still came at him. Cody dropped down, kicking his boot into the monster's chest and catapulting it into the air. As it trashed about in air, Cody began to open fire, shooting at least five times in the head before the monster hit the ground and died with a low screech that was soon cut off as it choked on it's own blood which had formed a puddle around it.
* * *
"This can't be happening..." Alexander said, frustrated as he watched the monitor, the Redfield kid was asking if the girl was okay. Alexander knew that the girl was Sherry Berkin, he'd seen her with her parents at a company party before he'd been transferred from Raccoon to Paris. Though Annette and William never really paid any attention to the girl and she spent most of her time sitting in a chair fiddling with a locket. It really didn't matter, the kid obviously had a few survival skills- ones he'd most likely picked up in Raccoon. "It doesn't matter, the kid got lucky once, it won't happen again" Alexander sneered,
* * *
Cody cursed himself, he only had half a clip and four more after that. And with this Alexander guy trying to kill him he knew he'd certainly need more. Sherry stayed silent as she walked behind Cody. He kept his gun pointed forward as he ventured past the opening that the shutter door had given him. Cody made a right and found himself in a small room. Inside the room was a small computer and a few filing cabinets.
Cody smiled with joy and took a seat in front of the computer. Which a click of the mouse he was on the desktop, and another click put him on the net.
"Great - this place has access to the net, I can use this to post a message to the others on the message board Jill and I had been using back in New York. Oh this is more then great, right here are the Longitude and Latitude of this place." Cody said, almost to himself since he really didn't care or know if Sherry was listening. Cody's fingers moved quick and skillfully across the keyboard. Cody hit the enter key and stood up, taking a deep breath he turned and faced Sherry. "We can only pray they get that and send help, but right now we can't depend on it. We are going to have to fight out of here, we are going to have to be a team if you want to survive. . . . If we want to survive" Cody said, Sherry looked down them back up at him.
"I don't know . . . . I don't know if I can help," Sherry replied softly.
"She doesn't know if she can help?! What the... How the hell did she survive Raccoon then?!" Cody's mind yelled harshly, Cody got a grip on himself and spoke in a nice tone . In the nicest way he could, "You had to pick up some skills in Raccoon, well didn't you?" Cody asked,
Sherry looked away, the wrapped her arms around herself.
"Only how to hide and run fast" She said softly,
"Great" Cody thought, as he turned his back to her and began to think. He turned back around, facing her and once again calming himself. "Well its about time you learned a few things, we are going to teach you how to shoot a gun" Cody said, ejecting the clip from the gun and taking the bullet out of the chamber. Cody threw her the gun, Sherry caught it, fumbling it in her hand a few times before getting a good grip on it.
"I don't know if I can do this . . . I" She started, but Cody cut her off.
"Your going to have to learn" Cody said, stepping behind her, he placed his hands on her arms and she raised them. And with Cody's help managed to hold the gun properly. "First off. . ." Cody started,
* * *
Leon was sitting in front of a small computer in, inside a small safe house in Paris. Leon quickly pulled it up, he was a bit surprised at the content of the message though.
Trouble in Paris, mission failed. Stuck in lab, virus trouble. Claire is lost, no time for explanation, we are the only two left. Assistance would be appreciated. -CR.
"Cody Redfield" Leon whispered, "Chris is gone after Claire, everyone else is away at the time. . . Sorry kid but your on your own for now"
* * *
"It's that simple" Cody said, finishing his explanation on how to use a gun. Sherry still had an uncertain look on her face, and she wouldn't be a crack shot seeing as this would be her first time . . . But even people who had never shot a gun before could shoot like the pros placed in a life or death situation. "We'll find you a gun so that way we can both fight these creatures, come on there is no time to waste" Cody said, Sherry looked at him, again with that same distant look in her eyes.
"Okay . . . I'll try" She said softly, though he was expecting more of a answer, any okay was good, so he wasn't going to question her lack of self-esteem.
"Good lets go" Cody said, taking a step out of the room and back into the dimly lit hallway. He really didn't know where he was going, or how to get out, he'd check every room he stumbled across, and search through everything until he found his escape. . . Cody looked at Sherry then corrected himself, their escape. Like before Sherry stayed a few steps behind Cody for protection, the hallway was pretty empty, all except for a door at the very end. As Cody and Sherry reached it, the door slid open and they stepped into a large winding stair well.
Cody found himself wide awake on the car ride to the facility, eager to get this over and done with as quick as he could. He'd carefully loaded up six magazines and had them tucked in his side pack as well as his Beretta. The same one he'd gotten in Raccoon....
-"EVERYONE IS DEAD!" Cody argued, Ken looked at him for a moment then walked to his desk and pulled out two guns. A Glock 357, and a Beretta nine millimeter, along with two boxes of ammo.-
Cody shook the vision out of his head, he wanted to forget about the events that had unfolded in Raccoon, but somehow... He knew he never would, there was no over coming that day.
"We're here" Claire announced, Cody looked out of the tinted SUV window and saw a large lab, all lit up in the night.
"Let's get this over with" Cody said, opening the door and walking out of the SUV, they were in a dark parking lot, ahead of them was a large gate, obviously used to keep people out.
"This way" Claire said, Sherry followed her, Cody quickly behind. Claire lead them to a wooded area by the right end of the gate, a hole was cut in the fence, they'd obviously been planning this for quite some time. Claire and Sherry were the first to go in, Cody took a deep breath, took out his gun and followed. By the time he caught up with them Claire had picked the lock on the back door and was opening it slowly. After a moment she stuck her head in, looked around and gave them the signal to come on. Cody stayed behind the two as they walked into a small metallic hallway. "Over there" Claire said, motioning her head to the left, there was an elevator. Cody smiled slightly and pushed the up button on the elevator, there was a -ding- and the doors slid open, Sherry stepped in first, followed by Claire then Cody. Claire mashed in the button to take them to the thirteenth floor, the doors closed and the elevator began to move up. "Now you two watch out for traps, this was
way to easy, I got a feeling it's going to get much harder"
"No problem Claire" Sherry said, the elevator doors opened and she was the first to step out-
Suddenly, a red light began to flash and a loud alarm began to blare over the speakers.
"SHIT! LAZER SENSORS!" Claire shouted, she drew her gun and broke out into a full run. Cody went to follow her with Sherry and two bullets hit the wall in front of them. Cody grabbed Sherry by the arm and ran down a separate hallway.
"THIS WAY!" Cody yelled, holding Sherry tightly by the wrist, he didn't really even know where he was going. All he knew, is there were bullets wizing by his head, barely missing him and the sound of someone running behind him. Each time the bullet missed him, it slammed into the wall creating blue sparks. "DOWN!" Cody shouted, he pulled Sherry ahead of him and let go, sending her flying forward a few feet then crashing down into the ground. Cody spun around in mid air,
-BAM!-
A bullet hit Cody's chest, Cody fired three times, each bullet colliding with the soldier's chest, each time spraying blood all over the wall until he finally fell. Gravity quickly caught up with Cody and he slammed into the ground, his whole world going dark.
* * *
Sherry picked herself up off the ground and gasped, Cody was only a few feet away from her, laying out on the ground. She scrambled over to him, he was laying out on the ground, his Beretta laying a few feet from his hand, smoke rising from his chest. Sherry pulled his shirt off and found-
A bullet proof vest, the bullet had been stopped by a bullet proof vest, the impact of hitting the ground must have knocked him out. Sherry didn't know what to do, she put her hands on his shoulders and began to shake him.
"Wake up, please wake up" She began to plea, but this did little to wake Cody from his state of unconsciousness.
-Thump Thump-
Sherry's eyes got big, she could hear footsteps, footsteps coming her way. She quickly picked up Cody's beretta and pointed it down the dark hallway. To her dismay a Soldier stepped into view, holding a machine gun toward her.
"Don't move, drop your weapon" He commanded, Sherry squeezed down hard on the trigger.
-BAM!-
Sherry yelped as the gun flashed, and it kicked out of her hand. Surprisingly, she'd hit the Soldier in the chest and he was laying out dead, slumped against the wall. The shot had been pure luck, but she wasn't complaining. Sherry got to her feet, bent over and picked up the Beretta. Cody was still out cold, and Sherry knew her luck was just about to run out when more Soldier's found them.
* * *
Claire pumped her arms for speed, running as fast as her legs would carry her. Behind her the walls sparked as bullets collided with them, some of the sparks and loose pieces of metal flying against her arms as she ran. "Cody, and Sherry, please god let them be okay" She thought, then her mind began to try and find a way out, any exit would do. Claire came upon a large window, suddenly her vision was cut off as she was blinded by a bright light that flooded in through the window. Claire brought her arms up to shield her eyes-
A gatling gun clicked into place, her eyes widening as it began to turn.
"OH SHIT!" Her mind shouted, the soldier's catching up to her as she made a dive for the corner. Just as where she had been once standing was tore apart by machine gun fire, and the soldiers who had once been chasing her ripped into shreds by the storm of bullets. Chunks of metal and cement all flying onto her as she scrambled to her feet, making a quick dash down the hallway just as the hallway began to explode with gun fire. A wave of machine gun fire following her as she ran as fast as she could.
A single bullet flew through a open door and flew through the room, colliding with a large computer and as it did, sparks began to fly everywhere and streams of electricity began to surge around it.
* * *
Sherry heard a loud whining noise and the hallway she'd once been running through began to hiss. Her eyes getting big as a steel door lowered down into the middle of the hallway, locking into place. A loud click making her turn her head to a small lift that was in a secrete door that had just opened in the wall to her right. The entire facility shaking as an explosion went off over head.
"What is going on?" She asked herself, searching around, there was no way out except down the lift. And she was scared, deathly scared, she decided just to wait, and hope that Cody would awaken soon and help her figure out where to go.
* * *
Alexander was in panic, he was stuck deep in the lab's control room but it seemed the mainframe computer up stairs had been damaged.
"Fucking idiots!" He shouted, in frustration as he slammed his hands into the key board. The lab had once been a facility used to test out Umbrella's creations but had long since been used for that purpose. But the main frame had been damaged, and now all the holding tanks for the creatures, and the virus had all been opened. All the staff in the lower level of the lab had been effected, as well as the prisoners they had been holding as test subjects. The upper levels were all now on lock down mode, it seemed that someone was in the facility, Alexander flicked on the surveillance camera and saw a girl and a boy, both young in a hallway. The boy knocked out, Alexander grinned. They were one of the three people who had infiltrated into the lab, the other had been captured. But it seemed that the boy was special, he was Cody Redfield. Alexander knew it,
"Cody Redfield. . . The price on that boys head is enough to set me for life" Alexander whispered, and it would be a while before the clean up crew would arrive and let him out. . . Why not cure his boredom, and make himself rich all at once? He could run the old test programs, and see how the boy faired against some of their newer creations. Alexander smiled as he quit panicking, and sat before a small computer. Gently typing away at it, no monsters would be able to get in, and he'd have all the time in the world to dispose of the Redfield kid. Soon he'd be rich.
* * *
Sherry waited, sitting on the ground with her legs bent and her arms wrapped around them, it must've been fifteen minutes since she'd started waiting and there were no signs that Cody would be waking up any time soon. Sherry was to scared to try and venture down on her own, who knows what waited for her at the bottom of that lift.
"Uhhh" Something moaned, almost like the lifeless moan of the zombies from back in Raccoon, Sherry was startled. She began to look around, frightened, trying to find the source of the moan. She turned her head and saw it-
Cody was sitting up, he moaned again in pain as he rubbed his chest and blinked a few times.
"Your awake!" Sherry called out happily,
"Uhhh. . . Yeah . . ." Cody said, then stood up and gave the room a good one over. Suddenly, a surprised and somewhat scared look washed over his face. "What happened here?" He asked carefully,
"I don't know . . ." Sherry said, and began to trail off then pick back up "You shot that guard and were knocked out, another one came and . . . And I shot him then the door in the hall closed" She explained the best she could, Cody kept looking around the room till his eyes caught the lift.
"So. . . I take it that's the only way out?" Cody asked, and to that Sherry nodded. "Great . . ." Cody said, a bit of sarcasm laced in his voice.
"What should we do?" Sherry asked frightened,
"What besides the obvious? We go down the lift" Cody said, taking a few steps toward the lift, and when he was on it he placed his hand on the up and down switch. Sherry quickly followed and when she was on, Cody hit the down button. The lift began to creak then slowly decend into the unknown.
"What do you think is going to happen next?" Sherry asked nervously,
"I don't know," Cody said, as he jacked the action back on the Beretta. Cody now had one bullet in the chamber, and little less then half a clip left, and five more after that. If This place was anything like Raccoon he'd really have to conserve ammo. When the lift reached the next floor down, Cody was quite surprised at what he found. The walls, floor, and roof were all made up of a sleek metal. To his left, a key card door, and just about ten feet ahead of him was a shutter door. Cody stepped off the lift, leaving Sherry behind. He pointed the gun forward, and when he decided all was clear, lowered it. Once he did, Sherry followed up and stopped behind him. There was a clanking noise, Cody spun around and watched as the lift rise back into the heavens.
"Welcome Mr. Redfield, and I presume Ms. Birken" A voice crackled over an intercom, "Welcome to Alexander's maze of death, you my guests have unfortunately stumbled upon Umbrella's underwater lab. And due to the commotion your friend on the higher levels created our Main frame has let loose the virus along with most of our creations. Fortunately for you two, the virus is no longer in it's hot stage, but unfortunately for you, you have quite a large bounty on your head. The confirmation of your deaths is worth millions, and I plan to collect." Alexander said, then laughed.
"It's to bad I don't plan to contribute to your plot on getting rich, you sick bastard!" Cody spat.
"We'll see, in the mean time I have a game for you two to play" Alexander laughed, Cody turned his head as the shutter door began to open. He held his gun forward, closing one eye and lining up the sights with the center of the opening, Sherry cowering behind him. Nothing came out, then suddenly, rapid footfalls could be heard, as if someone, or something was running for him. Cody backed up, what came running out was what looked like a skin-less ape, it had long arms and long claws. Two beady eyes and a vicious set of teeth, Cody was over whelmed with primal fear. But he instantly snapped out of it, pointed for the head and began to fire. The gun flashed several times before he finally ran dry, but the monster was still coming for him. In one fluid motion the monster leaped and slashed for his head, Cody had barely dodged the attack. He hurtled to the ground, spinning he quickly ejected the clip and jammed a new one in.
He jerked the action back, and spun around, on his knees and sighted the monster. It had its' sights on Sherry, Cody's eyes widened and he shot the monster in the back of the head. It roared and turned back to him, Cody fired again, and yet it still came at him. Cody dropped down, kicking his boot into the monster's chest and catapulting it into the air. As it trashed about in air, Cody began to open fire, shooting at least five times in the head before the monster hit the ground and died with a low screech that was soon cut off as it choked on it's own blood which had formed a puddle around it.
* * *
"This can't be happening..." Alexander said, frustrated as he watched the monitor, the Redfield kid was asking if the girl was okay. Alexander knew that the girl was Sherry Berkin, he'd seen her with her parents at a company party before he'd been transferred from Raccoon to Paris. Though Annette and William never really paid any attention to the girl and she spent most of her time sitting in a chair fiddling with a locket. It really didn't matter, the kid obviously had a few survival skills- ones he'd most likely picked up in Raccoon. "It doesn't matter, the kid got lucky once, it won't happen again" Alexander sneered,
* * *
Cody cursed himself, he only had half a clip and four more after that. And with this Alexander guy trying to kill him he knew he'd certainly need more. Sherry stayed silent as she walked behind Cody. He kept his gun pointed forward as he ventured past the opening that the shutter door had given him. Cody made a right and found himself in a small room. Inside the room was a small computer and a few filing cabinets.
Cody smiled with joy and took a seat in front of the computer. Which a click of the mouse he was on the desktop, and another click put him on the net.
"Great - this place has access to the net, I can use this to post a message to the others on the message board Jill and I had been using back in New York. Oh this is more then great, right here are the Longitude and Latitude of this place." Cody said, almost to himself since he really didn't care or know if Sherry was listening. Cody's fingers moved quick and skillfully across the keyboard. Cody hit the enter key and stood up, taking a deep breath he turned and faced Sherry. "We can only pray they get that and send help, but right now we can't depend on it. We are going to have to fight out of here, we are going to have to be a team if you want to survive. . . . If we want to survive" Cody said, Sherry looked down them back up at him.
"I don't know . . . . I don't know if I can help," Sherry replied softly.
"She doesn't know if she can help?! What the... How the hell did she survive Raccoon then?!" Cody's mind yelled harshly, Cody got a grip on himself and spoke in a nice tone . In the nicest way he could, "You had to pick up some skills in Raccoon, well didn't you?" Cody asked,
Sherry looked away, the wrapped her arms around herself.
"Only how to hide and run fast" She said softly,
"Great" Cody thought, as he turned his back to her and began to think. He turned back around, facing her and once again calming himself. "Well its about time you learned a few things, we are going to teach you how to shoot a gun" Cody said, ejecting the clip from the gun and taking the bullet out of the chamber. Cody threw her the gun, Sherry caught it, fumbling it in her hand a few times before getting a good grip on it.
"I don't know if I can do this . . . I" She started, but Cody cut her off.
"Your going to have to learn" Cody said, stepping behind her, he placed his hands on her arms and she raised them. And with Cody's help managed to hold the gun properly. "First off. . ." Cody started,
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Leon was sitting in front of a small computer in, inside a small safe house in Paris. Leon quickly pulled it up, he was a bit surprised at the content of the message though.
Trouble in Paris, mission failed. Stuck in lab, virus trouble. Claire is lost, no time for explanation, we are the only two left. Assistance would be appreciated. -CR.
"Cody Redfield" Leon whispered, "Chris is gone after Claire, everyone else is away at the time. . . Sorry kid but your on your own for now"
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"It's that simple" Cody said, finishing his explanation on how to use a gun. Sherry still had an uncertain look on her face, and she wouldn't be a crack shot seeing as this would be her first time . . . But even people who had never shot a gun before could shoot like the pros placed in a life or death situation. "We'll find you a gun so that way we can both fight these creatures, come on there is no time to waste" Cody said, Sherry looked at him, again with that same distant look in her eyes.
"Okay . . . I'll try" She said softly, though he was expecting more of a answer, any okay was good, so he wasn't going to question her lack of self-esteem.
"Good lets go" Cody said, taking a step out of the room and back into the dimly lit hallway. He really didn't know where he was going, or how to get out, he'd check every room he stumbled across, and search through everything until he found his escape. . . Cody looked at Sherry then corrected himself, their escape. Like before Sherry stayed a few steps behind Cody for protection, the hallway was pretty empty, all except for a door at the very end. As Cody and Sherry reached it, the door slid open and they stepped into a large winding stair well.