Chapter 3

Enter Axiom



Thirteen minutes after the arrival of Jimmy Nguyen and Francisco Cortez. Another man was called in by the Central Intellegence Agency. A highly skilled soldier and combatant arrived at a sewage treatment plant. He was dressed in night camo and medium armor. Black pants, black top, black helmet, infrared goggles, germ filter mask, wrist guards, shin guards, knee pads, elbow pads, neck guard, special vest made from special light alloy metals, and protective gloves covered the man. Breathing heavily, the man opened the manhole and slowly climbed down the ladder.



Name: Axel Axiom

FBI Hostage Rescue Team

Age: 27

Special Operative

Training: FBI HRT, Army Sniper School, Airborne Ranger Training, SWAT CQB, Navy SEAL Training, Nightstalker Training, Demolitions Training





"Shit... They had to call me in.", Axiom said to himself. He stood there at 6'2 dressed in a full outfit that made him look 6'4. He made it inside the sewage treatment plant as he climbed down the ladder that led to the sewers. "So, Umbrella's at it again...", he continued to talk to himself. After climbing about thrity feet down, Axiom made it to ground level as he activated the infrared goggles around his eyes. Quickly, he toggled on night vision mode.

"Here goes...", he said to himself. Looking down, Axiom unholstered his HK MP5K submachine gun and walked down the sewer tunnel. A special chip was implanted inside the helmet that showed Axiom the way towards the hotel. His mission would be work his way towards the hotel through the sewer ways. "If there's any zombies down here, it's gonna be a long night.", he finished.

Keeping his right shoulder to the right side of the sewer tunnel, Axiom quickly moved down the path towards the hotel plaza. "Huh? I could hear faint moaning sounds...", saying to himself as he moved further down. Stopping at the end, where it turned right, Axiom took a look to see what was next in store. "Damn, zombies are in the sewers...", he thought to himself. Taking his weapon off safety, Axiom quickly stepped out and faced the group of zombies. "Heh, I see that none of you were able to escape the virus.", he said to them.

Pulling back the trigger, Axiom mowed down the first three zombies. "Stay back!", he yelled at the zombies. Walking forward, he targeted every zombie in front of him. One at a time, he would aim and fire. Killing more zombies with the first magazine, Axiom turned on the communicator strapped to his left shoulder. Moving his mouth to the communicator radio, Axiom called in headquarters saying, "Unfriendlies in the sewers, seal off the path way heading to and from the hotel plaza."

Axiom would have to hurry, if he wanted to make it to the hotel in time. Taking a few calm breaths, he dropped the empty clip as it dropped into the shallow water. Pulling out a new one, Axiom quickly locked it in place. "Here goes...", he said. Quickly, Axiom ran down the sewer way. Seeing two zombies in his sights, Axiom quickly stopped to shoot and kill the zombies. Watching the zombies drop dead, Axiom kept on running.

"Gotta shoot and then run...", thinking to himself. Turning around, Axiom stepped back as he came face to face with two hunters. "Damn!", he yelled to himself. Keeping a steady grip, Axiom anticipated the hunters would make the first move. "Too soon!", yelled Axiom as he saw the first hunter leap at him. It was ready to slice his head off, but Axiom was ready to pump it full of lead.

"Eat this...", the man said as he pulled the trigger. The hunter could see the flash of light from the barrel of Axiom's weapon. Screeching some, the hunter fell to the ground dead and pumped full of rounds from the submachine gun. "You're next...", he said to the second hunter. Pulling the trigger, Axiom shot the hunter dead before it had the chance to attack.

"Damn... They got other bio-organic weapons running around...", he said to himself. Looking at the map, Axiom didn't spare a single second. Axiom made haste as he continued down the dark sewer tunnel.

"Almost halfway there, gotta keep pushing it...", went through Axiom's mind as he continued to fight off the zombies in the sewers. He kept on the path nonstop until running into a larger group of zombies. "Here goes...", Axiom said as he kept a long distance away from the zombies. Pulling a fragmentation grenade from its place, Axiom pulled the pin. Chugging the grenade at the zombies, Axiom dived to the right and kept his back to the way for cover.

The grenade exploded as Axiom could see blown off body parts fly towards his direction. Peeking out to see again, Axiom could see several zombies still able to move. "Screw this...", he said to himself. Holstering the MP5-K, Axiom pulled out the sawed off shotgun and stepped back out.

With the shotgun, Axiom decided to finish the job. Cocking the weapon back, Axiom aimed at three zombies and pulled the trigger. The blast caused extreme damage to the decomposed bodies. Looking down to a crawling zombie, who's lower half was blown off, Axiom lifted his boot up and brought it down. Crushing the zombie's head into pieces, Axiom looked back towards the other zombies.

"I'm sorry, that you all have to be victims of Umbrella.", he told the zombies; Axiom continued on with "But, I'm going to have to conserve as much ammo if I am to avenge all of your pointless deaths...", finishing with his statement. Cocking the weapon again, Axiom pulled the trigger and opened fire. After a few minutes of firing, all zombies were laying there dead.

Sipping some fresh water from his canteen, Axiom paused for a few moments. Looking around, Axiom kneeled in front of a dead woman. Something shiny came out from her purse. Picking up the shiny object, Axiom examined it for a bit. "A ring...", he said to himself. An envelope was also present as he picked it up and opened it.

Axiom stopped to slowly read the letter. It was about a woman who decided that she would marry this one man, whom she really loved with all of her heart. Axiom bowed his head in silence to give a prayer for all of these victims. Putting the ring in a pouch, he folded up the letter and placed it inside his pocket. He would have to find this man and tell him the terrifying news; if the man was still alive, of course...

"Damn Umbrella, for ruining people's lives...", he said to himself. He didn't have time to mourn over those fallen before the Umbrella corporation. Axiom had a job to do. And he was going to finish the job, no matter what. Looking around, Axiom referred back to the electronic map. "The entrance to the hotel plaza ain't that far away...", thinking to himself.

Looking around, Axiom saw the ladder ascending upwards at a distance. There were many obstacles in front of Axiom. Most of them were ready to rip Axiom's body apart and feast on the flesh. Taking out the other MP5-K, Axiom took the safety off and charged at the zombies. Pulling both triggers, Axiom took out as many zombies as he could.

Turning around, Axiom could see many zombies stagger towards him. Taking out another grenade, Axiom was ready to fight back. Pulling the pin off, he quickly tossed the grenade at the group of zombies. Quickly, Axiom turned around and climbed up the ladder. Other zombies followed behind quickly as Axiom tried to kick them away.

"Damn, stay back!", he yelled. Only way Axiom would make it through is if he made it to the hotel plaza. After seven minutes of climbing, Axiom aimed his weapon at the lock and opened fire. Blasting the lock off, Axiom climbed up through the hatch. Making it out, Axiom looked at the zombies trying to climb up.

"This is where it ends for you people...", Axiom said to them.

Firing a few rounds at the zombies, Axiom pulled out a few more grenades. Pulling the pins off, he dropped five grenades down as they splashed into the water. Turning off the night vision, Axiom looked around to find himself in the sub basement areas of the hotel plaza. Pressing a few buttons on his wrist, Axiom brought up the computerized map. "Hmmmmm... Sublevel four. Why would the basement areas be so deep?", asking himself.

"What's that?", he asked himself. Axiom could hear a slithering sound nearby; it wasn't a good sound though, still he had to investigate anyway. Looking up some, his eyes widened a bit to see a few lickers on the ceiling just waiting for him. "Shit....", he silently said to himself. Stepping back, Axiom had to keep his distance. Pulling out both MP5-K submachine guns, Axiom aimed upward and fired.

The lickers crawled away to try and regroup as Axiom followed behind quickly. Emptying both magazines, he was able to kill off three of the lickers. Tossing a grenade at the rest, Axiom took cover behind a steel table. Closing his eyes, he waited for the explosion. As the grenade exploded, Axiom used that valuable time to reload both weapons. Standing up, Axiom stepped back out as he finished the job.

After killing off the rest of the lickers, Axiom proceeded down the long and wide hallway. Keeping a slow pace, Axiom headed towards the stair case at the end. A door on the right quickly burst open as a group of hungry zombies stepped out. Turning to the right, Axiom backed away as he kept his back to the other wall.

"Darn...", he said to himself. A zombie hand suddenly burst out of the glass window of the door to the left of Axiom. Quickly grabbing Axiom by the head, the hand tried to drag him inside. Fighting his way free from the zombie's hand, Axiom turned around and took out his Star M31 handgun. Flipping the safety off, Axiom aimed and opened fire. The man would pop any zombie that came near him. "Pow! Pow! Pow!", were made by the gun as Axiom continued to fire. The gun quickly went empty as it made clicking sounds.

"Damn! Empty soon...", Axiom said to himself as he holstered the handgun and took out the sawed off shotgun. Stepping to the left some, Axiom could create some distance between him and group of hungry zombies. Keeping a steady grip, he pressed the triger send a swarm of small ball bearings towards the group of zombies. Heads were popped into pieces and body parts with organs were flying around.

Stepping back some more, Axiom holstered the shotgun and took out his MP5-K and placed a new magazine inside. Immediately after locking the magazine into place, Axiom aimed and fired without hesitation. "Sorry, but I don't plan on becoming a late night snack!", he said to decaying zombies. Backing away slowly, Axiom wanted to keep a certain distance away from the zombies. The zombies could take a lot of damage; falling down to the ground, they rose back up immediately.

"Dammit, stay down!", he yelled. Axiom continued to mow down the numerous hungry zombies with his MP5-K. "Come and get it!", Axiom went on yelling at the zombies, whom would not stop. The undead were always relentless. He knew that they were guests staying at the hotel; he also realized that they were not human anymore, but former selves infected and taken over by the t-virus.

After taking out all nine zombies, Axiom leaned down and took a breather as the other door burst open seconds later. "Jeez, they don't know when to stop!", he said to himself. Empyting out the rest of the magazine on the next two zombies, Axiom dropped the empty magazine and placed in another one. "You things don't know when to give up!", he thought to himself. All he could do was to make sure that they won't rise up from the dead, again.

"What's with these things?", he asked himself. "Umbrella's got a lab down here or something?, Axiom continued on with the questions. "What would drive Umbrella to do something like this?", the man asked himself; that would be the main question he'd want to ask the sinister corporation.

As the next magazine became empty, Axiom holstered the weapon and pulled out his shiny, soon to be stained with blood combat knife from its sheath. Holding it in his left hand, Axiom waited for the rest of the zombies to approach. As the first one got within three feet of Axiom, he didn't hesitate. Quickly, Axiom dashed at the zombie; where he plunged the pointy end right through the forehead. Tackling another two zombies, Axiom stabbed them and stomped on the rotted heads. Looking at the other three zombies, Axiom quickly got behind one and slit the throat area.

Taking out the stungun from his side holster with his left hand, Axiom set it to full charge and jabbed the other zombie in the ribs with the weapon. The shock quickly killed the zombie immediately as the head burst into many pieces. Some of the bloody brain chunks got on Axiom's goggles. "Ack! Damn!", yelling to himself as Axiom quickly wiped it away with the top of his right hand. Just in time to slash and jab the last zombie with both weapons. "Too slow!", he yelled at the last zombie.

After frying the last zombie in the hallway, Axiom leaned back against the wall and took a few sips of water fromt he canteen that was hooked to the protective mask. "It's so hot inside the suit, but I can't just take it off...", thinking to himself. Axiom wanted a cigarette, he wanted it real badly. He took this time to reload all of his weapons.

Turning around to the staircase, Axiom slowly walked up the steps. Looking upwards, he saw four zombie dogs waiting for him. Doing a back fall, Axiom quickly pulled out both MP5-Ks and waited for the dogs to make their move, which they did. The dogs leaped downwards towards Axiom, who aimed his weapons upwards and opened fire. "Nice try!!!!!!!!!", he yelled. Hitting the floor, Axiom did a backroll and got on one knee. The dogs were still charging towards Axiom. "Damn, now the dogs are persistant...", thinking to himself.

"This ends now.", he told the dogs. Axiom was ready to attack back.

Pulling the triggers, Axiom stood up and fired at the four dogs. The dogs laid there dead and in pools of their own dark and infected blood. None of them even moved a muscle or twitched a leg. That was a good sign for Axiom, who walked back up the staircase. Opening the door to sublevel three, Axiom came face to face with a monstrous beast in front of him. It was in cryogenic tube undergoing a deep sleep. It looked like an altered Tyrant. Many tubes went through its body, many sorts of liquids were being pumped inside. Keeping his back against the wall, Axiom slowly crept outside the room.

"Can't go on disturbing his sleep...", Axiom said to himself. Slowly opening the door, Axiom quietly stepped through and closed the door. Turning around, Axiom was face to face with four zombies. "Dammit...", he said to himself. Seeing a gap in between the zombies, Axiom leaped and performed a front roll. Axiom ran down the long hallway headed towards the staircase leading to the next sublevel. "I need to clean out the sublevels, fast...", he thought to himself. It would indeed be a long night.