Guided by the heart
By Durtii Pheengurnaillzz
Chapter five: Squads of the Undead p 1.
Disclaimer: 'f course I don't own anything. I'm dead broke! Give it up for Capcom. Except for Regina and Kevin, they're my ideas.
A/N:I noticed that some things between the new characters get a little sappy. They only met one night, and all of a sudden it's like they knew each other for years. Maybe the sex must've been awesome. Who knows? But they're connecting faster than a lot of other characters, and I'll get down to the part about Jill soon. But I'm saving Chris, and the other guys for the next chapter.
Squad of the Undead
She found herself in someone's bedroom when she came to. Looking around frantically, all the events that had transpired slowly came back to her, and she began to soon remember everything. The failed escape, and the crash. There was no second guessing that she was in a boy's bedroom. The bed itself was rather comfy and large, but what was she doing lying down on the job, and worse of all. Where was Kevin.
She heard a moan coming from the bathroom thinking it was him on the crapper. She looked out the window and realized that they hadn't left town. She saw that her car was completely wrecked from the front, and completely useless. If that wasn't enough, the streets were covered, and there fires around every corner, along with crashes, debris and pile ups. One would need a tank to get through town. Well certainly dead eye had some explaining to do, but she had to hand it to him. He must have saved her life with his own two hands, and on that thought she was beginning to enjoy the company of her partner even more.
(Knock knock.)
"Kevin?"
She heard nothing.
"Come on. Kevin. We have to hurry."
After staring blank at the door she grew antsy and tipped it open.
Only to find out that it wasn't Kevin at all.
The boy looked somewhat taller than she was. Only he wasn't much of a real human anymore. It was the first one she had ever seen in her entire life, Grotesque, and decayed from all sides. He was surprisingly faster than the ones she had seen in the video briefing. As she dove away to miss a near death slash, she ran down the stairs seeing another fat dead zombie on the floor and rushed into the kitchen. The knife selection in the drawer wasn't much of a variety, but all the big ones were there. As the shadow loomed over her, she turned around quickly and slashed away at the upper neck quickly. Then missed another grab attempt and stabbed the zombie kid in the head between the eyes.Pulling out the knife quickly as her enemy hit the floor
The front door was locked, and as much as she wanted to run out, she couldn't. The only option was down through another door that could possibly lead to a basement level of the entire apartment complex.
The lower room was flooded. She stood at the top of the steps, avoiding the water at all costs. Running down the halls past cracked brick walls and damaged circuit boards she took the small ladder down to the smelly core. The flood was a giant pool on this level that seemed to have covered an underground office. The exit was al the way across at the other end. She noticed a path around the side that could take her there without having to even touch the toxic water. But when she heard that irritating chorus of squeals and squish noises over to her right, she saw that there were a bunch of infested rats, and big leeches covering the path. Then there came a huge growl that made giant bubbles rise up to the surface. Regina knew there truly was a horrid underwater danger lurking. When the creature reared it's ugly head for a few seconds she began to panic. It looked like a huge snake, but more like something manufactured by her daddy's partners Umbrella.
And here she was with no weapon to fend it off.
As the huge reptile tried to bite down and snap at her, she dodged on the staircase and missed it, holding onto the bars for support. Her professional moves were the only thing she had going for her. The crash left her a bit fatigued as well. If she took a bite she would surely die.
It hadn't come to her mind that the electric lamp hanging off to the side would actually provide an advantage, but through all her kicking, dodging and ducking the dangerous mouth of a monster, she had also kicked the lamp into the water turning the pool into one large frying pan that turned her enemy in bacon. The great abomination screeched, and hissed all it could, but eventually fell victim to the heavy shock and sunk into the water never to rise again. The ladders on the side weren't all that hard to climb, and she took that option not wanting to deal with the infested little creatures on the walkway. Still, she reached the exit, and pushed through the double doors inspecting the area around her carefully. She jogged out of the alley, and into the street calling out her partner's name.
"Kevin?"
"Kevin are you there?"
It wasn't long before she found the corner on the sidewalk where the pile of zombies sat. Flies were hovering all around them, as their stench covered the entire street. Regina held her nose, afraid that the smell would knock her out half to death as she approached the body, and at the bottom of the pile with a hand sticking out, she found that a guard at the booth two blocks down from where she was had been the victim of these dead zombies. He had been holding a shotgun. The shells were almost like small green gas grenades in the way they reacted but they still packed a punch.
She ran through the back alley, hearing growls she turnbed around the corner, and found herself dealing with a case worse than zombies. She hadn't been briefed on these animals, but she somewhat understood what she was dealing with.
There weren't just 'zombified' ( I made up a new word) Dobermans, but also a sheperd, and wolf dog as well. They were bleeding and anxious. One had gotten its teeth on Regina's hand leaving her a bit weakened for an attack from another dog, but she dove and moved away as the other dogs crash into a wallwhere she was just standing. She unloaded the gassy buckshot on the dog that bit her, making quick work of the thing, and finding that she had to go through some painful reloading. Thinking wise, she kept moving as she threw more shells inside, turned around in a flash and wasted the rest with one one pump, and boom, they were blown away, and lost in the acid and gas that burnt down what was left of them.
Coming out into the street zone she took down as many zombies as she could looking for Kevin, and following his mud tracks as they had gone a lot further than she had expected. Coming back to the car she threw the shotgun into her item stash and decided to take the road carrying next to nothing hoping to find more rounds. Coming into the next alley was a challenge as the zombie numbers didn't seem to get any smaller. But finding material that could cause more fire or explosion near burning cars was not hard to do. Thus she kept them all at bay while scavenging the streets, she heard the voice of the zombie mob further up ahead. What exactly was going on?
Coming back into the street, she found the booth where another dead guard was posted. There was a code sequence to input for the barrier to open up. She felt pretty unsure about going, but as she caught onto the muddy footsteps of her partner further up ahead, she saw that they even went past the gate. Knowing that there was no other way for her to figure it out she searched in the pockets of one of the dead guards for an ID card. The numbers for the gate were posted on there, and the biometrics eye scan passage was not too much of a problem when she could lift the head to the scanner, but after performing all of that, the gates still wouldn't budge.
Then came the ruckus from the behind. The sound of a car crashing through a window had her turning around in the very next second. Apparently her old snake friend had not been fended off, and was still coming her way. Bursting its head out from a sewer manhole, it slithered across the street in the rain with incredible speed. The smaller snakes that she had found were also coming her way. The huge mother, and her army of children were a few blocks down but they were gaining fast. Regina worked at the doors with all her might seeing her enemies draw dangerously closer. Finally a kick at the panel, in total frustration had done the trick, and the gates cranked open slowly. She ran across to the other end, seeing the horrid, cold blooded abomination follow in quick suit along with her family who was in the lead. Their numbers were tremendous, and impossible to count.
She burst through to the other side getting her leg caught in the door as one of the monsters lunged in almost getting a chance to bite off her leg. Shooting the gate, and hitting the reptiles at the same time, she freed herself just as the gates closed, and ran further down the streets into the black night down the arcade row. As the huge blockade doors shut, she could still hear the screeches of the enemy who was never too far behind.
Rushing into the very first door that she saw, she kept following the prints until she found him standing still inside the shop, and didn't know whether or not to panic, hug him or scream.
"Kevin!"
"Regina? How come you're here?"
"I woke up and saw you were gone! What's with you running off all of a sudden rookie?!"
"Sssh! The zombies'll hear us!" he whispered and dimmed the lights to the shop they were in "Anyways I came because Trent called me and told me to come here! I was going to come back for you."
"Well suppose you did, and there was no partner to welcome you! Then what would you do genius!?"
He knew that she meant something more than what she said, but someone as sexy as her? Changing into a zombie? Who could imagine it? He sure couldn't, and the thought disturbed him so much that he hung his head, and squinted his eyes.
"I'm sorry. It's just that you were out cold, and if I carried you all the way it'd be tough. I had to make camp somewhere till help came so I brought you there."
"Well our camp's all gone now. Hear those noises? I was chased out of that section of town by these disgusting reptiles, and these streets are infested. Did you get what you came for?"
" I answered the phone, got hit in the head, woke up, and saw nobody. All I can remember is the name of the main street were supposed to head to. A helicopter is waiting up on a building for us. We get inside. Tell the people who we are, and join them on a ride out of town. At their next destination, Trent'll be waiting for us.
She only noticed one helicopter while she was driving on her way to get him, and she knew exactly who he was talking about, but she couldn't afford to be seen by them. This operation was secret, and she was given specific orders not to go anywhere where the S.T.A.R.S were. If so it would mean hell for all of her future missions, but she had let her partner run away for so long, she didn't even know him too well. Suppose he was allied with them.
She grabbed his gun like the professional she was and pointed it at him. Her hands were shaky.
"What's all this? Some setup or something!?"
"You're helping the S.T.A.R.S." she whispered with a dark angry face.
S.T.A.R.S? he knew who they were. They were the last people left on the planet with the guts to oppose and unveil Umbrella corporation's plans. All he knew was that he was hired by Trent, but since his mission was similar, why wouldn't he be helping them?
"Gina..put...the...gun.down." He said quietly
"Why should I?" she whispered. Part of her was afraid that as an agent, she would have to do this, and she was right against her hopes.
"Why shouldn't we help them? They're fighting for the same thing we are aren't they?"
"We're just guinea pigs for certain tasks. We can't pick our allies. That's like saying you might as well have sided with the bombers!" She yelled as she inched the gun closer to his face. Kevin could feel his heart going much faster. He'd die at the hands of a person who he really liked, and he could see that she really didn't want to do it either, but was going to if necessary.
"Who are you working for? Umbrella?"
"I can't tell you now."
"Well great. Then just SHOOT ME! For crying out loud! This makes absolutely NO SENSE!" Kevin yelled. "I don't know who's on whose side anymore. Maybe your allegiance was probably with your old Dad, because I think I know enough stories about him to figure out who these orders are coming from."
She threatened him with the gun by wiggling it at him. Then he realized that he'd de-cocked the hammer, and she hadn't pulled it back yet. A real moment was a bad time to refer to a movie, but one would wonder why those actors in the story never lunged at an armed person who had not even prepared a weapon to fire. He grabbed her arm twisting his pistol out of her hand and back into his grasp then made it disappear under his hooded light jacket before she could move again. He blocked every move, and advance she made towards him before his eyes veered over to the left, and he saw a shadow.
From outside the shop.
"Target is not eliminated. Must dispose of agent." came the voice on the system. The rifle was trained on her back."
When the light of a helicopter came from above, it confirmed his fear that someone was out there and aiming. As the two struggled he grabbed her arms and wrestled her to the floor. From the outside of the shop, the shooter was distracted by the helicopter, and turned around. Two seconds later, a gunshot flew through the window.
He landed on top of her just the way he wanted, although he wasn't thinking about movies when he slid out the aisle getting a view of the outside from the door, quickly pulling out the pistol and capping the sniper who was trying to run away. The guy sure was a lousy fighter, otherwise Regina would have been dead. In exhaustion, he dropped back over to her.
"Why did you.?"
"I didn't exactly become friends with a partner, and join in that shower for nothing you know, and you tried to kill me."
At that moment she felt guilty enough to give up everything. Under a touch that she felt she didn't deserve she felt very guilty.
"All right! I was sent by my father! I don't know what Trent is up to but I was supposed to find out who you were really siding with, and use you only for the sniper mission, but the getaway vehicle wasn't part of the plan, I couldn't decide between my mission and our mission. All I knew is that you cared."
"It's not like I don't. Even though it was only one night for the love of God."
" I can tell.You're punching out of your fly right now."
It was the middle of a battle, was this really the proper time? But he couldn't hide it either."
"So you're an ally of Umbrella huh? Wesker's little girl right?" Well you'd better leave now because I don't think our alliance is stable enough to live through getting out of this city safely. Not after this." He said it even when he felt like boning.
"I couldn't do it Kevin."
"Why? One night, and a morning isn't much of an excuse for an 'I love you'."
"I know it's crazy, but just listen."
One had to admit that it was hard to ignore her touch. He felt like he was in a serious trap having to trust her again, after what she was about to do to him, but he had no other choice, and it wouldn't be smart to betray him again when the moans were getting louder in the streets, and things were slowly becoming even more dangerous. There was no other choice. He listened to her story, and about how she had no recall of her mother's disappearance, how Wesker brought her up, but always declared her as head strong because of how she appreciated other guys more than her selfish father, how she was sick of living among the crazed minds of Umbrella, and just wanted to be around a normal guy. When she was given her task, and told who her target was she basically ran into his arms.
Even though he understood somewhat, Kevin tried to worm his way out of her embrace. She had a warrior inside her, but at the same time she was actually a damsel in distress. A runaway. Okay. They could run from Umbrella together, and his main mission still stood. To put down the head of umbrella, the only difference was that since Trent misled him to a location where he could have gotten killed, then perhaps, he would have to trust a different bunch of people. He was going to find the S.T.A.R.S team and tell them what was going on.
"All right. Gina. I'm going to find the S.T.A.R.S team, and you've got to come with me."
She shook her head nervously
"But if my father-"
"Fuck him."
Her eyes questioned his choice of words
"Okay. I'm sorry, but you can't stay around that man. If it's one thing I've heard about that guy from insiders of Umbrella, and agents, it's that he don't have respect for nobody. Even if it's family, I wouldn't be surprised. We are on our own now. I want you to grab your shotgun, and follow me to the site where the helicopter's at uptown. We're hitching a ride out of this death trap, and I want you to come with me. We'll figure this all out later."
The idea of adventure suddenly didn't seem so scary when she was at the side of someone who she could trust, even after such an awkward moment. They came out of the shop, watching each other's backs through the alleyways, and down the streets. Atop a building they witnessed it with their own eyes, as they drew closer to the chaos, the scarier it became. Police and emergency forces and under gone the zombie transformations. There was not a single citizen left alive or normal Especially the animals and rodents that lived deep under the surface had come out, as something new and horrible. There were monsters as small as rats and some that were incredibly large running through the streets. Enough to make one wonder exactly what the gas had done to these people. The numbers of enemies kept increasing. Emergency forces who were still under a zombie state had one little bit of competence left, and it was used to shoot their weapons wildly, as the parade of the unreal covered the city. People who were normal hours ago were hardly recognizable now. This time it was more than zombies, it was a horde of unheard-of species. Some of them just looked almost impossible to defeat, and their stampede was tearing the town apart. The packs were moving closer to the building where the two stood, and as Kevin, and Regina saw the madness unfold, heard the screams of the soon to be deceased, and watched the viral monsters go on a massive rampage, they knew that running away from, or tricking each other was FAR out of the question. No one deserved to die at the hands of what they were seeing. The pain was unthinkable. Kevin checked to make sure that the extra ammo his 'comrade' Trent had left him at his last pit stop was enough. He'd finally recovered his .357 Sig. It'd be weird firing a stronger, and weaker pistol at the same time but any effort was better than none, and he never missed, plus, in the empty alley behind them, from where they could see, there was an unoccupied squad car with piles of squad ammo stocked on the side. Surely there would be enough for his partner. They climbed down the side ladder and dove for the stash pile. Stocking up on ammo, though Kevin's weapon wasn't as big, his combat expertise made him the tougher shooter for awhile. He proved it with his quickness in hitting the ground, getting up, and dispatching every single zombie that came rushing around the corner no matter how enduring they were, his and Regina's aim was much sharper as they blew their enemies off the back of the car, Regina jumped into the driver's seat, while Kevin rode as the defending gunner. As they pulled out into the streets, he cleared a path, and emptied rounds on whatever came in the way of the duo. The amount of zombies, dogs, overgrown tarantulas, and other indescribably sick creatures was too much for them to take on while on foot, therefore Regina stepped on the gas, and rammed through the masses clearing a path, while Kevin blasted down what was too dangerous to hit. They made it up through numerous streets, and soon enough Kevin spotted a helicopter heading for the hospital and told Regina to speed up.
"I see it! The chopper!!! STEP ON IT!"
She was hitting 80 mph when she saw the silhouette of the girl on the horizon, and in the middle of the road near a crashed ambulance. She was limping barely walking, and it was at that very moment that she lost control of herself again, thinking that she was pressing the brakes when she lifted her foot, she accidentally hit the gas and sped like crazy. Her accidental target barely jumped out of the way. Kevin was almost sent flying forward out the car but was hit in the (****) from the edge where he was hanging out of the sunroof. Keeping ahold of the car was like riding a bucking bronco. He dropped inside the vehicle and tried to hang on as the car screeched to a violent stop in the middle of the road that made him hit his head against the side door harder than he wanted to.
"Oh crap I'm fucking sorry." She kept saying to herself as she stopped, and ran out to see the woman. She wasn't a zombie but she looked rather banged up. She was a brown haired girl, wearing a military tank top, short black shorts barely hanging onto a gas mask, the true source of that item coming from a bunch on dead paramedics and soldiers back at the crushed ambulance.
"Goodness woman! Have you lost your mind?!" the injured woman yelled
"I'm sorry all right! Be thankful I DID see you. Come on!"
Regina helped her up by the arm, and pulled her over to the car where Kevin was crawling on the ground, guarding his aching head.
"Nice driving partner. You sure you not trying to kill me?"
" I said I'm sorry, now come on let's get back in the car, and get to that chopper."
" Well I'm driving this time, so you can take gun post if something shows up from now on."
Kevin was tough on the gas but he wasn't playing stunt driver, as he slowed into smooth turns seeing the chopper head for the hospital a few miles, and a half away.
" Nothing's in our way now. Hang on guys."
( Two hours ago at the hospital)
the UN emergency guard had arrived, and set up camp near the hospital. Among their ranks was a tall blonde haired man, with a steely gaze, a tough tanned face, and big black sunglasses. He carried an SG552 rifle just like the others, but the rest of the team didn't think he had the balls to go out and destroy any zombies. They were right. When it happened he had motioned to two of his comrades who betrayed the squad, unleashed a powerful gas explosion that disoriented most of the others and jacked one of the tanks in a getaway. Before any of the remaining forces could do anything, a soldier among their division had let out another odd bomb that spread more green gas all around the hospital area, and had every solider down and out, while back in the escaping tank,
" Sir. Are you sure that this new virus will preserve some of the human intelligence in the soldiers?"
" I'm sure. They'll still be smart enough to shoot, but they'll still want blood along with everything else. It was what Birkin had been working on at Caliban cove. The ultimate solider zombie. Nemesis could shoot, why can't these ex-soldiers do the same?"
" What now sir?"
" Now to find my daughter. If she tries to leave, like I know she will, she will probably head for the Landing Zone point at the hospital, but after the viral release takes care of the remainder of the armed forces, she'll have a surprise waiting for her, and her partner will have to die as well. I can't afford to let that squirt live or else he could ruin all of my plans."
(back 2 the present)
" So what's your name miss?" Kevin asked the woman in the backseat.
" Jill Valentine."
" S.T.A.R.S. member!? Damn! I've been looking all over for you guys, and I heard about your cause. From what I've been told, ya'll have been kept in the dark. We've got enough secret info to make your head spin. See Regina?" he gave her a quick glance. She shrugged it off as Kevin continued driving.
From the way Jill looked, she needed some serious medical attention. Regina went over to check the wounds, and didn't see much of a sign of infection which was somewhat reassuring. She was pretty confident that where they were headed, everything would be safe.
But the three of them had no idea what was waiting for them ahead.
A/N: Okay that's it for now. Thanks 4 reading. R&R. You know..Peace. I gotta go
By Durtii Pheengurnaillzz
Chapter five: Squads of the Undead p 1.
Disclaimer: 'f course I don't own anything. I'm dead broke! Give it up for Capcom. Except for Regina and Kevin, they're my ideas.
A/N:I noticed that some things between the new characters get a little sappy. They only met one night, and all of a sudden it's like they knew each other for years. Maybe the sex must've been awesome. Who knows? But they're connecting faster than a lot of other characters, and I'll get down to the part about Jill soon. But I'm saving Chris, and the other guys for the next chapter.
Squad of the Undead
She found herself in someone's bedroom when she came to. Looking around frantically, all the events that had transpired slowly came back to her, and she began to soon remember everything. The failed escape, and the crash. There was no second guessing that she was in a boy's bedroom. The bed itself was rather comfy and large, but what was she doing lying down on the job, and worse of all. Where was Kevin.
She heard a moan coming from the bathroom thinking it was him on the crapper. She looked out the window and realized that they hadn't left town. She saw that her car was completely wrecked from the front, and completely useless. If that wasn't enough, the streets were covered, and there fires around every corner, along with crashes, debris and pile ups. One would need a tank to get through town. Well certainly dead eye had some explaining to do, but she had to hand it to him. He must have saved her life with his own two hands, and on that thought she was beginning to enjoy the company of her partner even more.
(Knock knock.)
"Kevin?"
She heard nothing.
"Come on. Kevin. We have to hurry."
After staring blank at the door she grew antsy and tipped it open.
Only to find out that it wasn't Kevin at all.
The boy looked somewhat taller than she was. Only he wasn't much of a real human anymore. It was the first one she had ever seen in her entire life, Grotesque, and decayed from all sides. He was surprisingly faster than the ones she had seen in the video briefing. As she dove away to miss a near death slash, she ran down the stairs seeing another fat dead zombie on the floor and rushed into the kitchen. The knife selection in the drawer wasn't much of a variety, but all the big ones were there. As the shadow loomed over her, she turned around quickly and slashed away at the upper neck quickly. Then missed another grab attempt and stabbed the zombie kid in the head between the eyes.Pulling out the knife quickly as her enemy hit the floor
The front door was locked, and as much as she wanted to run out, she couldn't. The only option was down through another door that could possibly lead to a basement level of the entire apartment complex.
The lower room was flooded. She stood at the top of the steps, avoiding the water at all costs. Running down the halls past cracked brick walls and damaged circuit boards she took the small ladder down to the smelly core. The flood was a giant pool on this level that seemed to have covered an underground office. The exit was al the way across at the other end. She noticed a path around the side that could take her there without having to even touch the toxic water. But when she heard that irritating chorus of squeals and squish noises over to her right, she saw that there were a bunch of infested rats, and big leeches covering the path. Then there came a huge growl that made giant bubbles rise up to the surface. Regina knew there truly was a horrid underwater danger lurking. When the creature reared it's ugly head for a few seconds she began to panic. It looked like a huge snake, but more like something manufactured by her daddy's partners Umbrella.
And here she was with no weapon to fend it off.
As the huge reptile tried to bite down and snap at her, she dodged on the staircase and missed it, holding onto the bars for support. Her professional moves were the only thing she had going for her. The crash left her a bit fatigued as well. If she took a bite she would surely die.
It hadn't come to her mind that the electric lamp hanging off to the side would actually provide an advantage, but through all her kicking, dodging and ducking the dangerous mouth of a monster, she had also kicked the lamp into the water turning the pool into one large frying pan that turned her enemy in bacon. The great abomination screeched, and hissed all it could, but eventually fell victim to the heavy shock and sunk into the water never to rise again. The ladders on the side weren't all that hard to climb, and she took that option not wanting to deal with the infested little creatures on the walkway. Still, she reached the exit, and pushed through the double doors inspecting the area around her carefully. She jogged out of the alley, and into the street calling out her partner's name.
"Kevin?"
"Kevin are you there?"
It wasn't long before she found the corner on the sidewalk where the pile of zombies sat. Flies were hovering all around them, as their stench covered the entire street. Regina held her nose, afraid that the smell would knock her out half to death as she approached the body, and at the bottom of the pile with a hand sticking out, she found that a guard at the booth two blocks down from where she was had been the victim of these dead zombies. He had been holding a shotgun. The shells were almost like small green gas grenades in the way they reacted but they still packed a punch.
She ran through the back alley, hearing growls she turnbed around the corner, and found herself dealing with a case worse than zombies. She hadn't been briefed on these animals, but she somewhat understood what she was dealing with.
There weren't just 'zombified' ( I made up a new word) Dobermans, but also a sheperd, and wolf dog as well. They were bleeding and anxious. One had gotten its teeth on Regina's hand leaving her a bit weakened for an attack from another dog, but she dove and moved away as the other dogs crash into a wallwhere she was just standing. She unloaded the gassy buckshot on the dog that bit her, making quick work of the thing, and finding that she had to go through some painful reloading. Thinking wise, she kept moving as she threw more shells inside, turned around in a flash and wasted the rest with one one pump, and boom, they were blown away, and lost in the acid and gas that burnt down what was left of them.
Coming out into the street zone she took down as many zombies as she could looking for Kevin, and following his mud tracks as they had gone a lot further than she had expected. Coming back to the car she threw the shotgun into her item stash and decided to take the road carrying next to nothing hoping to find more rounds. Coming into the next alley was a challenge as the zombie numbers didn't seem to get any smaller. But finding material that could cause more fire or explosion near burning cars was not hard to do. Thus she kept them all at bay while scavenging the streets, she heard the voice of the zombie mob further up ahead. What exactly was going on?
Coming back into the street, she found the booth where another dead guard was posted. There was a code sequence to input for the barrier to open up. She felt pretty unsure about going, but as she caught onto the muddy footsteps of her partner further up ahead, she saw that they even went past the gate. Knowing that there was no other way for her to figure it out she searched in the pockets of one of the dead guards for an ID card. The numbers for the gate were posted on there, and the biometrics eye scan passage was not too much of a problem when she could lift the head to the scanner, but after performing all of that, the gates still wouldn't budge.
Then came the ruckus from the behind. The sound of a car crashing through a window had her turning around in the very next second. Apparently her old snake friend had not been fended off, and was still coming her way. Bursting its head out from a sewer manhole, it slithered across the street in the rain with incredible speed. The smaller snakes that she had found were also coming her way. The huge mother, and her army of children were a few blocks down but they were gaining fast. Regina worked at the doors with all her might seeing her enemies draw dangerously closer. Finally a kick at the panel, in total frustration had done the trick, and the gates cranked open slowly. She ran across to the other end, seeing the horrid, cold blooded abomination follow in quick suit along with her family who was in the lead. Their numbers were tremendous, and impossible to count.
She burst through to the other side getting her leg caught in the door as one of the monsters lunged in almost getting a chance to bite off her leg. Shooting the gate, and hitting the reptiles at the same time, she freed herself just as the gates closed, and ran further down the streets into the black night down the arcade row. As the huge blockade doors shut, she could still hear the screeches of the enemy who was never too far behind.
Rushing into the very first door that she saw, she kept following the prints until she found him standing still inside the shop, and didn't know whether or not to panic, hug him or scream.
"Kevin!"
"Regina? How come you're here?"
"I woke up and saw you were gone! What's with you running off all of a sudden rookie?!"
"Sssh! The zombies'll hear us!" he whispered and dimmed the lights to the shop they were in "Anyways I came because Trent called me and told me to come here! I was going to come back for you."
"Well suppose you did, and there was no partner to welcome you! Then what would you do genius!?"
He knew that she meant something more than what she said, but someone as sexy as her? Changing into a zombie? Who could imagine it? He sure couldn't, and the thought disturbed him so much that he hung his head, and squinted his eyes.
"I'm sorry. It's just that you were out cold, and if I carried you all the way it'd be tough. I had to make camp somewhere till help came so I brought you there."
"Well our camp's all gone now. Hear those noises? I was chased out of that section of town by these disgusting reptiles, and these streets are infested. Did you get what you came for?"
" I answered the phone, got hit in the head, woke up, and saw nobody. All I can remember is the name of the main street were supposed to head to. A helicopter is waiting up on a building for us. We get inside. Tell the people who we are, and join them on a ride out of town. At their next destination, Trent'll be waiting for us.
She only noticed one helicopter while she was driving on her way to get him, and she knew exactly who he was talking about, but she couldn't afford to be seen by them. This operation was secret, and she was given specific orders not to go anywhere where the S.T.A.R.S were. If so it would mean hell for all of her future missions, but she had let her partner run away for so long, she didn't even know him too well. Suppose he was allied with them.
She grabbed his gun like the professional she was and pointed it at him. Her hands were shaky.
"What's all this? Some setup or something!?"
"You're helping the S.T.A.R.S." she whispered with a dark angry face.
S.T.A.R.S? he knew who they were. They were the last people left on the planet with the guts to oppose and unveil Umbrella corporation's plans. All he knew was that he was hired by Trent, but since his mission was similar, why wouldn't he be helping them?
"Gina..put...the...gun.down." He said quietly
"Why should I?" she whispered. Part of her was afraid that as an agent, she would have to do this, and she was right against her hopes.
"Why shouldn't we help them? They're fighting for the same thing we are aren't they?"
"We're just guinea pigs for certain tasks. We can't pick our allies. That's like saying you might as well have sided with the bombers!" She yelled as she inched the gun closer to his face. Kevin could feel his heart going much faster. He'd die at the hands of a person who he really liked, and he could see that she really didn't want to do it either, but was going to if necessary.
"Who are you working for? Umbrella?"
"I can't tell you now."
"Well great. Then just SHOOT ME! For crying out loud! This makes absolutely NO SENSE!" Kevin yelled. "I don't know who's on whose side anymore. Maybe your allegiance was probably with your old Dad, because I think I know enough stories about him to figure out who these orders are coming from."
She threatened him with the gun by wiggling it at him. Then he realized that he'd de-cocked the hammer, and she hadn't pulled it back yet. A real moment was a bad time to refer to a movie, but one would wonder why those actors in the story never lunged at an armed person who had not even prepared a weapon to fire. He grabbed her arm twisting his pistol out of her hand and back into his grasp then made it disappear under his hooded light jacket before she could move again. He blocked every move, and advance she made towards him before his eyes veered over to the left, and he saw a shadow.
From outside the shop.
"Target is not eliminated. Must dispose of agent." came the voice on the system. The rifle was trained on her back."
When the light of a helicopter came from above, it confirmed his fear that someone was out there and aiming. As the two struggled he grabbed her arms and wrestled her to the floor. From the outside of the shop, the shooter was distracted by the helicopter, and turned around. Two seconds later, a gunshot flew through the window.
He landed on top of her just the way he wanted, although he wasn't thinking about movies when he slid out the aisle getting a view of the outside from the door, quickly pulling out the pistol and capping the sniper who was trying to run away. The guy sure was a lousy fighter, otherwise Regina would have been dead. In exhaustion, he dropped back over to her.
"Why did you.?"
"I didn't exactly become friends with a partner, and join in that shower for nothing you know, and you tried to kill me."
At that moment she felt guilty enough to give up everything. Under a touch that she felt she didn't deserve she felt very guilty.
"All right! I was sent by my father! I don't know what Trent is up to but I was supposed to find out who you were really siding with, and use you only for the sniper mission, but the getaway vehicle wasn't part of the plan, I couldn't decide between my mission and our mission. All I knew is that you cared."
"It's not like I don't. Even though it was only one night for the love of God."
" I can tell.You're punching out of your fly right now."
It was the middle of a battle, was this really the proper time? But he couldn't hide it either."
"So you're an ally of Umbrella huh? Wesker's little girl right?" Well you'd better leave now because I don't think our alliance is stable enough to live through getting out of this city safely. Not after this." He said it even when he felt like boning.
"I couldn't do it Kevin."
"Why? One night, and a morning isn't much of an excuse for an 'I love you'."
"I know it's crazy, but just listen."
One had to admit that it was hard to ignore her touch. He felt like he was in a serious trap having to trust her again, after what she was about to do to him, but he had no other choice, and it wouldn't be smart to betray him again when the moans were getting louder in the streets, and things were slowly becoming even more dangerous. There was no other choice. He listened to her story, and about how she had no recall of her mother's disappearance, how Wesker brought her up, but always declared her as head strong because of how she appreciated other guys more than her selfish father, how she was sick of living among the crazed minds of Umbrella, and just wanted to be around a normal guy. When she was given her task, and told who her target was she basically ran into his arms.
Even though he understood somewhat, Kevin tried to worm his way out of her embrace. She had a warrior inside her, but at the same time she was actually a damsel in distress. A runaway. Okay. They could run from Umbrella together, and his main mission still stood. To put down the head of umbrella, the only difference was that since Trent misled him to a location where he could have gotten killed, then perhaps, he would have to trust a different bunch of people. He was going to find the S.T.A.R.S team and tell them what was going on.
"All right. Gina. I'm going to find the S.T.A.R.S team, and you've got to come with me."
She shook her head nervously
"But if my father-"
"Fuck him."
Her eyes questioned his choice of words
"Okay. I'm sorry, but you can't stay around that man. If it's one thing I've heard about that guy from insiders of Umbrella, and agents, it's that he don't have respect for nobody. Even if it's family, I wouldn't be surprised. We are on our own now. I want you to grab your shotgun, and follow me to the site where the helicopter's at uptown. We're hitching a ride out of this death trap, and I want you to come with me. We'll figure this all out later."
The idea of adventure suddenly didn't seem so scary when she was at the side of someone who she could trust, even after such an awkward moment. They came out of the shop, watching each other's backs through the alleyways, and down the streets. Atop a building they witnessed it with their own eyes, as they drew closer to the chaos, the scarier it became. Police and emergency forces and under gone the zombie transformations. There was not a single citizen left alive or normal Especially the animals and rodents that lived deep under the surface had come out, as something new and horrible. There were monsters as small as rats and some that were incredibly large running through the streets. Enough to make one wonder exactly what the gas had done to these people. The numbers of enemies kept increasing. Emergency forces who were still under a zombie state had one little bit of competence left, and it was used to shoot their weapons wildly, as the parade of the unreal covered the city. People who were normal hours ago were hardly recognizable now. This time it was more than zombies, it was a horde of unheard-of species. Some of them just looked almost impossible to defeat, and their stampede was tearing the town apart. The packs were moving closer to the building where the two stood, and as Kevin, and Regina saw the madness unfold, heard the screams of the soon to be deceased, and watched the viral monsters go on a massive rampage, they knew that running away from, or tricking each other was FAR out of the question. No one deserved to die at the hands of what they were seeing. The pain was unthinkable. Kevin checked to make sure that the extra ammo his 'comrade' Trent had left him at his last pit stop was enough. He'd finally recovered his .357 Sig. It'd be weird firing a stronger, and weaker pistol at the same time but any effort was better than none, and he never missed, plus, in the empty alley behind them, from where they could see, there was an unoccupied squad car with piles of squad ammo stocked on the side. Surely there would be enough for his partner. They climbed down the side ladder and dove for the stash pile. Stocking up on ammo, though Kevin's weapon wasn't as big, his combat expertise made him the tougher shooter for awhile. He proved it with his quickness in hitting the ground, getting up, and dispatching every single zombie that came rushing around the corner no matter how enduring they were, his and Regina's aim was much sharper as they blew their enemies off the back of the car, Regina jumped into the driver's seat, while Kevin rode as the defending gunner. As they pulled out into the streets, he cleared a path, and emptied rounds on whatever came in the way of the duo. The amount of zombies, dogs, overgrown tarantulas, and other indescribably sick creatures was too much for them to take on while on foot, therefore Regina stepped on the gas, and rammed through the masses clearing a path, while Kevin blasted down what was too dangerous to hit. They made it up through numerous streets, and soon enough Kevin spotted a helicopter heading for the hospital and told Regina to speed up.
"I see it! The chopper!!! STEP ON IT!"
She was hitting 80 mph when she saw the silhouette of the girl on the horizon, and in the middle of the road near a crashed ambulance. She was limping barely walking, and it was at that very moment that she lost control of herself again, thinking that she was pressing the brakes when she lifted her foot, she accidentally hit the gas and sped like crazy. Her accidental target barely jumped out of the way. Kevin was almost sent flying forward out the car but was hit in the (****) from the edge where he was hanging out of the sunroof. Keeping ahold of the car was like riding a bucking bronco. He dropped inside the vehicle and tried to hang on as the car screeched to a violent stop in the middle of the road that made him hit his head against the side door harder than he wanted to.
"Oh crap I'm fucking sorry." She kept saying to herself as she stopped, and ran out to see the woman. She wasn't a zombie but she looked rather banged up. She was a brown haired girl, wearing a military tank top, short black shorts barely hanging onto a gas mask, the true source of that item coming from a bunch on dead paramedics and soldiers back at the crushed ambulance.
"Goodness woman! Have you lost your mind?!" the injured woman yelled
"I'm sorry all right! Be thankful I DID see you. Come on!"
Regina helped her up by the arm, and pulled her over to the car where Kevin was crawling on the ground, guarding his aching head.
"Nice driving partner. You sure you not trying to kill me?"
" I said I'm sorry, now come on let's get back in the car, and get to that chopper."
" Well I'm driving this time, so you can take gun post if something shows up from now on."
Kevin was tough on the gas but he wasn't playing stunt driver, as he slowed into smooth turns seeing the chopper head for the hospital a few miles, and a half away.
" Nothing's in our way now. Hang on guys."
( Two hours ago at the hospital)
the UN emergency guard had arrived, and set up camp near the hospital. Among their ranks was a tall blonde haired man, with a steely gaze, a tough tanned face, and big black sunglasses. He carried an SG552 rifle just like the others, but the rest of the team didn't think he had the balls to go out and destroy any zombies. They were right. When it happened he had motioned to two of his comrades who betrayed the squad, unleashed a powerful gas explosion that disoriented most of the others and jacked one of the tanks in a getaway. Before any of the remaining forces could do anything, a soldier among their division had let out another odd bomb that spread more green gas all around the hospital area, and had every solider down and out, while back in the escaping tank,
" Sir. Are you sure that this new virus will preserve some of the human intelligence in the soldiers?"
" I'm sure. They'll still be smart enough to shoot, but they'll still want blood along with everything else. It was what Birkin had been working on at Caliban cove. The ultimate solider zombie. Nemesis could shoot, why can't these ex-soldiers do the same?"
" What now sir?"
" Now to find my daughter. If she tries to leave, like I know she will, she will probably head for the Landing Zone point at the hospital, but after the viral release takes care of the remainder of the armed forces, she'll have a surprise waiting for her, and her partner will have to die as well. I can't afford to let that squirt live or else he could ruin all of my plans."
(back 2 the present)
" So what's your name miss?" Kevin asked the woman in the backseat.
" Jill Valentine."
" S.T.A.R.S. member!? Damn! I've been looking all over for you guys, and I heard about your cause. From what I've been told, ya'll have been kept in the dark. We've got enough secret info to make your head spin. See Regina?" he gave her a quick glance. She shrugged it off as Kevin continued driving.
From the way Jill looked, she needed some serious medical attention. Regina went over to check the wounds, and didn't see much of a sign of infection which was somewhat reassuring. She was pretty confident that where they were headed, everything would be safe.
But the three of them had no idea what was waiting for them ahead.
A/N: Okay that's it for now. Thanks 4 reading. R&R. You know..Peace. I gotta go