Resident Evil: Forever Doomed

CHAPTER TWELVE

Katie stared out the bars. Lance walked up to her.

"Don't worry, Katie, we'll find Lauren." Katie looked into Lance's eyes.

"Don't you get it, Lance? We're never going to get out of here. He's got Lauren, we're going to die in here. We're only fourteen fucking years old, and we're going to die." Lance looked at Katie. She'd never acted like this before.

"Okay, maybe we will die. But if we're going to die anyway, why not go out trying." Toni said. Silence filled the room.

"Hey," Lance said, "how did Ken get past Jill?" Their eyes widened.

"Maybe," Katie gulped, "he killed her." More silence. Footsteps filled the sound of nothing.

"Who's there?" Lance asked.

"Ugh, it's me, Jill."

"Jill!" Everyone's tone changed. She walked around the corner with a sleeve from her jacket tied around her left arm.

"Jill. What happened to your arm?" Toni asked.

"Ken." Jill said. She sounded tired, but what else could you expect from someone who was just shot.

"He locked us in here, and he got Lauren." Katie screamed.

"Calm down. We'll get her back, but first we have to get you out of here. I'm going to go and see if I can turn the alarm back on, it might open the door." With that Jill tried her best to run out of the room.

Please come back soon, Jill.

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Jill walked through the large room and into the hall. A scratching sound could be heard.

Licker?

As she turned the corner her assumption had come true. A Licker was walking on the floor. She raised her handgun and shot it dead. Jill quickly dashed past it and into the testing room.

"Oh no!" She blurted out. The alarm had been destroyed.

I'll bet anything Ken did that!

This was probably the most pissed Jill had been in a few days. She slowly turned around and walked back.

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"I hope Jill is able to set the alarm. I don't want to be here forever." Toni said as she watched Lance pace slowly around the room.

"What are you thinking about?" Katie asked. She was sitting on the floor.

"My life." Lance said. He stopped and leaned against one of the end lockers. He turned around and began examining the locker.

"What, what is it?" Katie said getting up.

"It's wobbling." He said shaking the locker. It began to tip over and with a loud bang it hit the bars and fell to the ground.

"Hey, there's a vent." Lance screamed.

Ooh, yay a vent. What on earth are we going to do with a vent?

"Come on. Help me pull the cover off. Maybe we could use it to get out of here." Katie struggled to help Lance pull off the cover.

"Toni, get over here." With Toni's strength added the vent cover fell off almost immediately. They stared into the darkness.

"Do we go through?" Katie asked.

"Let's wait and tell Jill. You know so she doesn't worry." Lance replied. They could tell it was an excuse to hide the fear, but the girls didn't disagree. After a few seconds slow footsteps could be heard coming into the room.

"Jill?" No answer.

"Jill, is that you?" Still no reply. They all stared at the corner awaiting to see their savior. Instead just the opposite had arrived. The shadow on the wall gave it away; zombies. One walked around the corner. Two, three, four followed. After about ten seconds dozens of them seemed to fill the room.

"Where the hell did they come from?" Katie asked nervously.

"I don't know." Toni said in return.

"Probably came from that open door." Lance said sarcastically. They continued to stare in horror.

"This is no time to joke, Lance. What about Jill?" Toni asked.

"She's a big girl. I think she could take care of herself." Lance turned and looked into the vent.

"Looks like we have no choice now." He slowly moved in closer and climbed in. Toni did the same. Katie was about to go in. She bent down and grabbed the duffel bag with the weapons. Before she went in she took one last look at the undead beasts.

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It was dark inside. No light what-so-ever, only the light from behind. They crawled through the tight space.

"Everyone alright?" Lance asked from the front.

"Fine." Toni said. The vent seemed to go on forever. Minutes passed as they kept crawling, at least it seemed like minutes.

Don't worry Lauren, we're coming for you.

Lance was tired, they all were. The only way kept himself going was the thought of Lauren.

"Lance, this is stupid." Screamed Toni from behind.

"We're never going to get out of here. Let's just go back and take a chance with those freaks."

"No!" Lance screamed. He wasn't about to give up now, not after they'd gotten this far.

"But--"

"Shut up, Toni!"

"Fine." The space seemed to have gotten tighter, but that didn't stop Lance. Just when he was about to give up the most remarkable sight caught his eyes.

"Hey guys, look, light!" He began to crawl a bit faster.

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"Ugh." Lauren moaned.

"Shut up!" called Ken. They were in the sewers now. The cold of the water helped cool Lauren down. Ken pulled harder. He opened one of the doors and went through. There was a small bed and a table with a typewriter set atop it. He sat down on the bed and ran his fingers through his hair. Lauren could barely make out what he was saying, she was ready to fall asleep. He kept mumbling. Lauren was really hot and she'd broken out into a heavy sweat. Ken got back up and yanked at her arm.

"We're almost there." he said.

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Katie landed into the knee-high water. They'd made it to a sewer. The smell of waste hang in the air.

"I think," Toni swallowed, "I'm going to throw up." Lance walked around. There was two doors, one on either side of the sewer. He walked right and signaled for his friends to follow.

"This is disgusting." Katie said. Lance opened the door.

"Stairs." He recognized the theme of the flight of stairs. It was gray.

"This must be the way back to where we were." Lance started to walk up the stairs.

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As soon as Jill walked back through the hallway the room had been filled with zombies from upstairs. She knew that she had no chance to get back to the kids. It took her a while to understand that she'd have to leave them and hope for the best. Jill cried had been crying ever since. She thought of them as partners, very much like everyone she'd lost in her time fighting Umbrella; Brad, Enrico, Forest, Joseph, and now Toni, Katie, and Lance. "I'll never forget you." She tried her best to stay strong. She couldn't give up now, it would be like giving up on the kids.

In the time Jill had been downstairs she'd tried many doors. Most of them were locked and had to be shot. Jill could only hope no Lickers would be down here, she was on her last magazine and she only had two shots left. Jill tried to open another door in the hallway. Just as she was about to shoot it the door swung open. To her surprise Lance stood behind it. Jill smiled. She hadn't smiled like this in weeks.

"I thought you were. . ." She was speechless.

"Dead?" Lance finished her sentence. She threw her arms around him and gave him a hug.

"Come on, we found the sewers." Toni began to run back down the stairs. Jill ran close behind.

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"Come on. I don't have time for you to fall asleep." Ken had been dragging Lauren through the sewers for about twenty minutes. She stopped.

"I'm tired." She mumbled. She was still sedated, and her speech was starting to come back. Ken grabbed the back of her head and stuck it into the water.

"Well wake up." He pulled her head back out. He continued to pull her as she took deep, heavy breaths. Ken was beginning to think that hauling her around was one of his worst ideas. He stopped in front of a door and pulled out a key that he had found on a key rack in the room with the bed. The door unlocked.

"Finally." He put the key back in his pocket. Ken walked through the door and grinned at his new surroundings. He was in a small room with a metal door which told him it was none other than an elevator. Ken walked up to the control panel next to the door and inserted the key into a slot.

Ding.

Ken threw the girl onto the floor and walked in.