ALO again, and welcome to another, and almost ending, episode of MY FIRST FIC!!! It's been nearly a year since I've started this in my mind...and due to complications which will be referred to as school, work and putting the Japanese Culture Club together at the forementioned school. Well, at least you won't have to wait any longer. I don't own any characters in this story, so please don't sue me, major superpowers of the world.



THE ASSAULT Chapter 18: The Curtains Rise

By: EvilQuatreX(aka me)



"Almost there!!" Chris shouted behind him to the other S.T.A.R.S. They were running down a long and twisting hallway, barely escaping the pounding on the floors below them. Claire had almost fallen down a human-sized hole and into a horde of Nemeses, but Barry and Leon saved her. Down the hall, there was a dim ceiling light swinging and a metal door with a sign on it. Chris briefly read the inscription on the sign: -TO ROOF/HELIPAD- Chris saw this and slammed into the door. All of them were too exhausted to go any further. They all stopped to catch their breath. They never wanted to be involved in any of this. They all would like to just go home right now. Chris and Barry would go fishing again, like old times, while Jill would watch them try to catch the prize of the lake from the docks in a reclining chair reading a book and smiling at the two having the time of their lives. Leon would be driving down the highway in his Land Rover Discovery holding Claire in his arm while she slept on his shoulder. Ark would be back with the rest of his family and friends, keeping in contact with Leon and Claire from time to time and maybe starting to meet new women, not those involved in any international corporation conspiracies. That would be the life for them.

But they were too exhausted to just give up there, as well. They had come too far to go home and let Umbrella and Wesker get away with controlling the world and using it as a battleground for their fight for sovreignity over the malicious virii. They could always start their lives again after the entire thing. But right now, Barry had to protect his family, Ark had a duty to survive for his friends, Clarire had to finish this for Sherry, who had been stolen from her long ago by Wesker, Jill had to avenge all of her fallen comrades in arms and Leon had to avenge Ada and his stolen life as a police officer. Chris, however, was ready to face his fears. He wouldn't let his fears take another of his friends. Wesker had to pay.

Chris had looked up from his heavy panting, turned the knob on the metal door and burst it wide open to reveal a stair balcony leading to the top of the factory.

Chris looked back to the others, his friends. They all gave him a reassuring nod and he started to run up the stairs. They were all ready to face the demon that had been a factoring root in this entire horror.

They reached the top of the roof to see something very unexpected.

No one was there besides them.

"What the hell?" Barry said, looking around the place for a soldier or two. The helipad was surrounded by 3 high walls, air conditioning units and antennas. Then, unexpectedly, the members of S.T.A.R.S. were surprised by Wesker's entire regiment pop up from behind the AC units and antennas. They all held them at gunpoint, while on the 3 walls surrounding the helipad.

Then the demon came out of the shadows.

"I see you just can't keep your noses out of other peoples' affairs..."

"Wesker!!" Chris shouted, very enraged.

"I'm glad you remember your former ally, Redfield. But none of that matters now. After I kill you and your rag-tag team of nuisances, there will be very few who can pose a threat to me."

"Don't you still have to suck up to your higher-up? Bioject?" Leon asked harshly.

"Bioject?" Wesker said, before laughing maniacally. "What makes you think I was ever a part of a simple company such as Bioject?"

"What?!?" Leon yelled.

"The only higher-up I have is fate. All others suck up to me." Wesker started to look to his left and bent down closer to whatever he was looking at.

"Claire...I think this'll cheer you up a little..."

All of a sudden, Wesker picked up what looked like a body and threw it down towards Claire's feet. Claire instantly knelt down to examine the body.

"STEVE!!!!"

"C...Cl....Claire.........."

"Steve, don't talk any more. It's all right now....."

Steve pulled Claire closer to his face by her collar. "....kill Wesker...for me......"

Then, Steve's hand went limp, and Steve was dead. Claire kept looking at him and holding his head.

"Touching, isn't it? He should have died a long time ago due to the experiments I've been performing on him, but I guess he showed too much resistance to them. Pity, it was only for a lost cause. To see you again...."

Claire's eyes glazed over a little, but then flames started to dance in her eyes out of pure rage. Claire stood up and pointed her guns toward Wesker.

"BASTARD!!!!!"

"Please, foul language from such a young girl like you?" Wesker snapped his fingers. "I guess I'll just have to punish you for it."

Just then, hundreds of Nemeses burst through the roof ready to tear the S.T.A.R.S. apart.

"Hold."

Just then, the Nemeses stopped. They remained still, as if waiting for another command.

"What? H-how did you do that?" Barry shouted at Wesker.

"How? You were always the slowest one, Barry." Wesker jumped down from the wall to be on the same level as the rest of them. "Simple, I reprogrammed their logic while they were in incubation. It was too easy for me. Just input the subliminal objectives while they were hibernating and they follow my every command. Like this." Wesker snapped his fingers twice. Instantly, a tentacle shot out and grabbed Jill by the throat and held her in the air. Jill was gasping for air in vain.

"Put her down, Wesker!!" Chris yelled.

"Or what? You'll burn me again? Please, I think you've already noticed that I have regenerative powers."

Chris let out a low growl at Wesker when he realized that.

"I'll tell you my true purpose for getting you up here. I want you dead. You were the first one to actually scar my new self, and I want you punished for that. Death will be an acceptable punishment. Now die." Wesker pointed a Glock 17 toward Chris. Chris recognized the gun as an RPD issued gun. Then, Wesker pointed the gun at Claire's head.

"NO!!" Chris started to run in front of the gun barrel pointed at Claire's head when both Wesker and Chris heard a metal clank on the roof floor. They both looked at it and saw what it was.

"What?"

"Grenade!! GET DOWN!!!" Chris yelled, but the grenade turned out to be a flashbang grenade. The Nemeses were stunned long enough to loosen their grip on Jill. Jill used this chance and broke free from the tentacles binding her. After she was free, she ran over to take the gun out of Wesker's hands successfully.

"What?!?"

"You don't deserve this gun anymore," Jill said, and she threw it over the side of the roof. On the opposite side of the roof where the door leading to the roof was, there was the sound of a helicopter rotor going. All of a sudden, Chris saw the insignia painted on the side of the helicopter.

"GET DOWN!!!" Snake yelled as he cocked the fifty-calibur machine gun mounted on the side of the helicopter. The S.T.A.R.S. members started to run toward the stairs downward while keeping their heads low. Snake unleashed the ammo toward the Nemeses, tearing them to pieces. Once all the S.T.A.R.S. members were on the side stairs, Chris looked up and gave a salute to Snake. Once Snake was all out of ammo, he yelled to Chris, "You're on your own from here." Snake then returned the salute and the Hind flew away.

"Let's get the hell out of here!!!" Leon yelled to the rest. They all agreed. Once they were all inside and running towards the ground level, the found many shortcuts through floors that the Nemeses made on their way up. Once they were through the incubation room, they knew their way out. On their way, the encountered zombies that broke through the lower rooms that were pushovers on their way out of the complex.

Once they reached the main room, Chris stopped. They all stopped as well to see what was in front of them. A full-grown Nemesis, waiting for them.

"We need to take this thing down. Barry, Claire, take the left. Ark, Jill, right. Leon, give me cover fire."

"What are you going to do?"

"Get past it and to it's back."

"That's suici--"

"I know. Do it. NOW!!!" The four split up from the group, Leon started to unload his uzis towards the Nemesis while Chris ran towards it. The Nemesis saw this and ran towards Chris with its arms extended, ready to clothesline Chris. Once Chris was close enough, He slid under the Nemesis' arm. Leon's gunfire was starting to run out, but the other four were helping with the firepower.

But none of it showed any effect on the Nemesis. It started to close in on Leon, slowly walking toward him. The Nemesis raised its arm to swipe at Leon, but Chris shot at its back and jumped on it and started to choke it with his arms. Once Chris was high up enough on the flailing Nemesis' back, he shoved his guns through the Nemesis' mouth, pointed them towards its brain. And fired until all the bullets ran out.

Chris slid down the back of the uncapacitated Nemesis and looked at the mess of an experiment laying on the floor.

"Let's go."

They all ran out of the complex at top speed toward the helicopter they used to get there. Once they were all there, they got in and flew off.

On the roof of the factory, a bloody Wesker stood up from the mess of Nemeses and looked up. He saw the helicopter fly away with Chris looking out of it. No matter how far away Chris was, Wesker could see the anger in his eyes. Then, without realization, Wesker looked down to see the entire factory explode.

"What made that happen?" Jill asked.

"Some friends of mine," Chris answered as he lay on the side of the helicopter. They were all exhausted from that day, but they were all thankful they were mostly in one piece.



.....that chapter was sweet. Even I admit how sweet it was....nevertheless, this is, very sadly, the last chapter in the entire fic besides the epilogue...so sad..but I hope people had fun while it lasted..and I think I've learned some stuff from this..like not to go all insane on these commentaries...and that ramen is a good food for late at night..Late, all.