Hey, I'm back....once again....not even halfway through the entire story, though, but that's ok, it's supposed to be long...really......Ok, I have soda here, some munchies, it's go time: here's the next chapter, hope you enjoy it, even though it's mostly verbage, but it helps the story move on. Oh yeah, I'm going to temporarily scrap the contests, but the person who won last chapter's is - griever - so look for him in this chapter. Ah, more pressing matters to attend to...ON WITH......um.....chapter 5....yeah...........oh yeah.....pringles..........TIA instead of LAX, classic............ooh, it's starting now.....



THE ASSAULT Chapter 5: A Plan to Strike

By: EvilQuatreX(aka me...yeah, me.....)

Morning had come to New York City. The six who were staying in the apartment had already been awake, the Redfields explaining their story to the four, while the four were explaining their story to the Redfields. Claire told everyone about her time on Rockfort Island and how she was captured in Antarctica and Chris told them why he was shoved off the face of the earth for a while. Leon told Chris and Claire about what happened to Sherry and him after the Raccoon incident and how his anti-Umbrella corporation was nothing more than a well-hidden site of munitions and statistics of Umbrella's executive building whereabouts and what they were researching at the moment. Ark explained how he was involved in all of this, ranging from being Leon's old friend to detonating Sheena Island and taking out another Umbrella manufacturing plant.

Jill told them about her survival out of Raccoon City and how Barry had bailed her out of there once again with a helicopter. She also said, regrettably on her part because she could see the look of hurt on Chris's face, that she had met Carlos there and they had escaped before it was in the middle of a nuclear strike. Unfortunately, Carlos had made a promise to his family to go on a vacation with them after this last assignment. They dropped him off outside his house where they found his home. Carlos thanked them and Jill and Barry headed off to find Chris's place.

Jill and Barry, at this point, gave turns telling the story. They had found Chris's place trashed, unmistakenably by Umbrella trying to find evidence on him and any other S.T.A.R.S. members. However, they found a letter from Claire that said that she found a place to regroup. Leon had told her about the anti-Umbrella organization and he told her where it was located, so she passed that information onto Chris, except Chris never received it. Jill and Barry followed the letter's instructions to find the hangar where they met Leon. Ark was already at Sheena Island, though, but he didn't get back until later that week, bruised and battered from his experience with losing his memory.

Nonetheless, they all grouped together, used some of the money the anti- Umbrella group had there to rent the apartment and started to pinpoint Umbrella's head manufacturing facility. They needed to shut that down or else Umbrella would still have the upper hand.

By the time everyone was satisfied with everyone else's stories, it was well past dawn, so they decided to call a taxi-van to take them to the outskirts of Albany. Once they got a cab, they all went to the front of the building to wait for the cab to pull up. While they were waiting, Claire and Leon were in a heated discussion about why no one was at the hangar, Barry and Chris were talking about regular stuff like cars, sports, etc. Jill stepped in when they started to discuss women. Barry looked kind of confused while Chris just casually noticed Jill change the subject. Chris had seen this side of Jill before when she had to break up Wesker's and Richard's rather 'interesting' conversation about Rebecca. At that time, even though Chris had his headphones on, he could still hear Jill giving them a harsh talking. He didn't mind either, he was starting to hear them over his music, which really annoyed him.

Naturally, Jill just changed the topic to music and they continued talking and waiting for the taxi-van. Finally, the van pulled up in front of them and they piled in.

"Hey, can you take us as far as Albany?" Jill asked, being the assumed person in charge.

"Yeah, sure, whereever you need to go," the driver said, "that is, as long as you have enough money..."

"Oh, money's no object, so don't worry about that," Leon added as he leaned over the second seat.

"Oh yeah, you can just call me 'Griever,' ok?" the driver casually said.

"Ok.......why do people call you Griever, if you don't mind?" Jill asked with intent.

"I don't really know, actually, it just came up one day and it stuck," Griever said as he pulled the van onto the road to Albany. The drive wasn't long because everyone was having conversation with each other, despite the traffic on the road. Finally, they arrived in the Albany city limits.

"Ok, where to?" Griever asked.

"Ok, um...Leon?" Jill got Leon's attention, "Where's the place?"

"Oh, it's up north in the industrial part of town. It's one of the first buildings there, you can't miss it."

"Ok, gotcha."

On they drove to industrial Albany. After a while and a few turns later, they arrived near the hangar. Leon spotted it out for Griever. He turned towards the hangar and stopped by the nearest door. They all got out of the van, thanked the driver and paid him in full with tip. Griever thanked them and drove off back to NYC.

"Ooo.....k, I know I have the key somewhere.....ah, there it is....ooook......there," Leon said as he fumbled with the key to the door they were near and opened it to let everyone in. After everyone was in, he went in himself and locked the door behind him.

They were in a large hangar for planes, long unused by anyone, still kept after, and it looked pretty good for an old, unused hangar.

"Well, this is the hangar. Your rooms are up there," Leon said as he pointed to a row of doors on a second floor. "...and just feel free to look around. This is your new home for now."

Chris and Claire were in awe by the hangar. They found the helicopter Barry used to rescue Jill and Carlos, but the best find was yet to come. After 2 minutes of looking around, Claire found something VERY beneficial to them.

"Hey Chris, you won't believe what I found!" Claire said ecstatically.

"Hmm? What'd you fi....HOLY SHIT!" Chris yelled at what he saw. In the room before him, there was an endless supply of ammunition and weaponry. Chris recognized almost all of the guns there, especially his favorite and long- time friend: the shotgun. Not only did he find the shotgun on a rack with ten others, but an almost endless supply of shotgun shells near the rack. He finally realized that they might be able to pull this thing off. Claire realized it right when she found the room. Jill and Barry followed them into the room soon afterwards, admiring how well the anti-Umbrella group thought when it came to Umbrella.

After they were done admiring the weapons cache, Leon called everyone into an open office with a few chairs and a white board.

"Ok, we need a plan of action to infiltrate the plant, get all the information we need, take out the plant and get out of there with our asses intact," Leon said, writing these four topics on one section of the white board. "We have a map of their entire complex, so I highlighted the main sections of where we need to be and what to get there," Leon said to no one in particular as he passed out copies of his map with three circled places: their planned access point, the place they needed to get the information of Umbrella's research and where the best place to set explosives to bring the plant down. Leon had planned well in advance for all of this.

The six spent until dusk planning out how they would break into the compound and doing what they needed to do, but every plan they went into detail with had a way to fail if Umbrella's security were to catch them. Even Leon's planned entry point circled on the map, the rear of the plant, had a major weak point. After many attempts to find a flaw in Umbrella's security, Jill came up with an idea.

"Why don't we just go in through the front?"

"What?" everyone said, sounding as if it was sheer suicide. Then, Chris spoke up.

"Jill, are you serious? I mean, it's too risky if they just let some of the T-virus on their employees, we'd be knee-high in zombies if we did that."

"No, trust me Chris, we go in through the front, work our way from there to the info point, set the explosives and get out. It's simple and it might work," Jill explained.

"Bu..."

"Chris, trust me. Please?" Chris knew that if she was this intent on going with a plan, she had a good reason for going with the plan. Ultimately, Chris agreed, with everyone along with him.

After they agreed to break in through the front, they planned more on how to get the information they needed and their escape route after they set the explosives. They planned this and went through it until midnight. At that time, they decided to get some sleep for tomorrow, they still had preparation to go through. Then, the big day.



Hey, that's chapter 5 of my long fic. See? Well, if you want tor review, go ahead, if you don't, go ahead. It will get better, I promise. Later, and don't do something stupid, like cocaine......I mean, come on......(This was a public service announcement by EvilQuatreX to all the little kiddies reading this story and everyone else reading too.) Later.