Chapter 32

"So what you're saying is that you trust me, Vash?" Kat asked, amazed that he would help her escape, "After how rude I was to Razor?"


He shrugged his shoulders, "We're going to die here anyway, right? I Might as well try to help you out someway." He replied, "This city is finished."

"What are you saying?"

"Remember the outcome of the Raccoon City incident, Kat?"

"Yeah, I've read reports of it… why? You think Alucemet's going to be nuked or something?"

"Yes. It's always happened no matter what city it is." He closed his eyes, "Alucemet is just a minority in Umbrella's list of places to screw over… it meant nothing to them. I don't think that it will ever fall."

"There's got to someway to stop them."

"You're saying you're going to abandon Umbrella when this is all over?"

She nodded, "Yes. I will leave them when this job's finished. I have the supporting evidence to take them down."

"What? You think some lab reports are going to stop them?"

"No, I'll show a sample that has to be extracted from Mike's body to the scientific community."

"Saying that is all right but…. It's easier said than done."

"I know that. I just have to find some kind of way to take them down."

"You really did love him, huh?"

"Mike? Oh yes, I did… I guess."

"And to set things right you are going to take down the very company that employed you and who might possibly kill you just so that he can rest in peace?"

"Yes."

"Devotion towards him even though he is trying to kill you… I'm impressed."

"Thanks."

The sound of Razor's death scream startled her, causing her to look in the direction his scream came from. "Razor?" she said.

"Damn… sounds like Mike got to him."

"No…" she said, taking back her being rude to him before. The sound of a heavy body overhead caused her to gasp out loud.

"Mike?"

"No… it can't be him. He's smaller now…"

"Then it is…"

"No!!!" she grabbed his hand, "Can you walk?"

"Yeah."

"Then run! I'll provide cover fire while you get out of here!"

"Are you sure?"

"Don't question me right now, it isn't the right time."


"All right then…" he ran to the door and out

She shot up at the ceiling and heard an anguished and heavy roar. The large figure of the man-thing that took down Mike at the ditch crashed in through the panes of metal, her breath caught in her throat and she dashed out; finding Mike outside with blood on his claws. "You kill Razor, didn't you Mike?"

It gave no reply as it stared at her with cold hatred burning its eyes, she could tell it seriously wanted her dead. It leapt at her and she rolled out of the way. She stared as he continued to ease itself through the air and to the other man-thing. She opened her side pack and took out a small grenade, pulled the pin and hurled it at both of the monsters. The Mike-thing caught it and shoved its hand into the bigger man-thing's throat; it leapt off and started to charge at her. The grenade inside of the man-thing's body detonated, sending its body parts through the air; both the Mike-thing and Kat were thrown through the air and to the metal wall.

She slowly got up and ran off before it even got a chance to get up. When she was about five yards away from it, it leapt to its feet and continued to pursue her. She saw Vash ahead of her, waiting by a ventilation shaft; she dove into the air duct and started to crawl through it, and stopped when she heard Vash's screams of death. "No…" she said quietly, "I am the only one left…."

She continued but heard the Mike-thing enter the shaft and was crawling at her same pace, almost like it was playing some dark game of tag. She looked behind her, she was already past a corner but she saw its head come into view, turning its attention to her once again. She crawled through the vents hoping to see a ladder or something close to it inside the small quarters that would allow her to climb her way back up to the first floor. She went about forty feet, with probably another one or two hundred feet before a vertical shaft was in front of her, before she glanced back. The monster had begun to crawl in the ducts with her and was still staring at her with those entirely crimson eyes.

"Kaaaaaaaaaaaaat," it said, the quality of its speech was declining by the moment. It started to move faster, continuing its pursuit through the faded light.

Almost blinded by the darkness, she crawled on through the darkness as fast as she could. Though she had a feeling it was increasing its pace, she made her way to the vertical shaft finding that it had a texture similar to that of a ladder and she began to ascend .

Crazily, she had given no thought to the shaft when she reached the dead end. She was too focused on the thing behind her and the one hour until Roy came in with the helicopter, which was probably now about thirty minutes away. Even more so was her intent on staying as far away from the Mike-thing as she possibly could.

Her hand slipped on a grating and she heard the monstrosity behind her let out a wordless cry of triumph and unknown hunger that pierced the sound of the metallic wall's contact with her body as she strained to continue.