Author's Note: Yeah, I'm attempting to make the "author's note" part of each chapter relatively small, so that you the fans get to have more nice material to read and then review about, to either flame or praise the chapter. Hopefully it'll be the second one...
Thanks goes to all my reviewers so far! I value each of your opinions very much, and I hope that I'm meeting up to your expectations! Hopefully you'll review more often for this story so that you can tell me what you thought about it, what I might want to change, or spelling errors and such. Again, thanks once again to my reviewers!
I'm going to triple space whenever the setting changes, instead of double spacing. Also, I took out the time thingy, cause it was getting in the way of things.
If you want to see what I'm working on at the moment, remember to check my profile; at the end of my profile you'll see my current progress for the day and what I'm working on at the moment.
Finally, I'm currently testing out whether I should put updated summaries for this particular fan fic...either I'm going leave it as the original summary or an updated one every time I make a new chapter...it all depends on what you, the readers, think.
Anyways, on with the action-packed chapter...
-Even Fond Memories Can Come Back To Haunt You.... -
-By Brian Marcelo-
-brianmarcelo@hotmail.com-
Rated R for language, violence, and guns. Lots of guns.
-The Predator-
-Chapter Seventeen-
-Umbrella Pharmaceutical Headquarters, President's Office-
"Welcome to Umbrella's Main Headquarters..." greeted the President, as he eased himself into his black leather chair, "It's truly an honor to finally meet you Ms. Ashford..."
"The honor is all mine, Mr...?" she asked gracefully while taking a seat.
"Mr. Hanson." he said, finishing her sentence, "I'm sure the last name sounds familiar to your family line, yes?"
She nodded, remembering that the Hanson family had helped establish Umbrella along with the Ashford family and other founding members.
"My, you sure have aged quite gracefully for the past 15 years you've been gone, Ms. Ashford...tell me, how did you manage to survive?" he asked, as he reclined in his leather chair and took out a cigar.
"Cold stasis." she replied simply, "I was conducting an experiment with the T-Virus and-."
"Ah yes, you do mean the T-Veronica virus, right?" he interrupted, as he lit the cigar with a lighter.
"How did you know...?" she gasped, quite shocked that her secret virus might possibly be company knowledge, "Who told you...?"
"We had received word of the T-Veronica virus after your supposed death. Also, our 'friends' at H.C.F. managed to find a sample of the T-Veronica virus in Steven Burnside, a former prisoner of Rockfort Island. I assume you had operated on him while in Antarctica, correct?" he said in that same casual voice, which was a bit unsettling for even Alexia Ashford.
"Yes, I had." she said, trying not to reveal any other secrets that she had, just in case.
"I see." he replied, as he inhaled a few puffs of cigar smoke, "Tell me, Ms. Ashford, why did you not tell us about your T-Veronica virus that you had been working on?"
Waving away the smoke from her face, she replied, with a slight smile, "It was top secret. I wanted to test it thoroughly before I presented my research, Mr. Hanson."
Of course, that was a complete lie, as Alexia Ashford's real intentions were to infect the whole world with her spores, so that they may become her "worker ants" and serve her, the perfect "Queen Ant" of the colony.
The President looked at her for a few moments, trying to see if she was hiding something behind that overly simplistic answer that she had given him.
"I see." he remarked a bit suspiciously, "It is quite too bad that we were not informed of the details of the T-Veronica virus until 15 years later when you have finally returned to us, like an angel sent from above."
She smirked a bit at the last thing he said, as she was hardly an angel.
Taking a few more drags on his cigar before putting it out, he eased himself out of his chair and offered his hand to Alexia, while saying, "Would you like to take a tour of the lab facilities we have here, Ms. Ashford? Despite the fact that you were in 15 years of cold stasis, you're still one of her top researchers and I'm sure you'd love to see how far we've advanced in the past 15 years..."
"I'd love to see what you're researchers are working on..." she said, while forcing a small smile as she and the President walked out of the office and towards the lab facility.
-Hospital Waiting Room-
"Chris..." exclaimed Rebecca quietly, as she got up from her chair as he entered the room.
"Where's Jill?" he said quietly, as his eyes scanned the room, "And where's Carlos..?"
"They just went to get some fresh air Chris, nothing to worry about." Barry said, as he walked over to his friend, "I'm sorry for all that's happened, Chris..."
"We don't have any more time to mourn, Barry...it's time we get back at Wesker for all the shit he's done to us..." said Chris, with a touch of anger and sadness in his voice, "He's killed our teammates...those were our friends...he was our damn captain and he betrayed all of us...all for combat data...simple combat data..."
"And now he's done it...he's crossed a line that he should never have passed..." he said, closing his eyes as he clenched his fists tightly together, "I'll make sure he pays for what he's done to everyone's lives that he's ruined or completely destroyed..."
"We're all behind you in this, Chris..." Steve said, "Especially me-"
"And me." Leon said, as he got up from his chair, "We're all behind you on this one Chris...we'll help you the best we can...right guys?"
"Right!" Rebecca chimed in, hoping to lighten the intense seriousness.
"Thank you, all of you..." he said as he looked around the room, smiling weakly, trying his best to keep his feelings in check.
-Outside The Hospital-
"You okay there Jill?" said Carlos, as he looked at her with worried eyes.
"I'm fine...just a little shaken up about everything..." she said with a forced smile.
Carlos frowned as he leaned against the van, wishing she wouldn't put on a mask just to hide the pain and fear she was no doubt feeling.
'If only I could do something...some friend I am...' he thought to himself, as he checked his assault rifle, 'I shouldn't be so paranoid...I keep checking this assault rifle as if monsters are all around us again, like in Raccoon City...'
Jill hugged her arms as she too leaned against the van, wondering once again how everything just went to hell so quickly.
"Hey...I think the others are waiting for us Jill...we should probably get back to them..." he said with a worried look on his face, "I'm sure that you'll be able to comfort Chris the most during this difficult time..."
She looked at him with a puzzled expression and asked, "Why would I be the one who'd be able to comfort him the most?"
He chuckled a little. "Because he obviously cares about you deeply enough to be looking quite jealous when you were talking about me to him back in the hotel."
Jill blushed as her jaw slightly dropped in shock. First of all, the thought of Chris being jealous about Carlos had never crossed her mind, the second thing was how Carlos managed to overhear the conversation, and third, how yet another person knew that Chris liked her before she knew.
"You really think I'd be able to comfort him?" she asked, with a slight smile.
"I'm sure of it Jill," he said, returning the smile, "After all, he loves-"
Without warning, they heard something sounding like loud footsteps coming their way, from what direction, they didn't know. Jill quickly upholstered her Western Custom shotgun that she had been carrying on her back, while Carlos took the safety off his Assault Rifle and set it on auto.
"Did you hear that...?" she whispered, as she went into a defensive position, waiting to hear the noise again.
"Could it be Wesker...?" he asked, as his eyes surveyed the relatively sunny area, which should've made it easy to see anything coming their way.
"No...it sounds bigger..." she whispered, gesturing for him to keep his voice down.
To Jill's horror, the thing in question that was making the loud footsteps appeared slowly out from a pair of rather large cars that had obscured her vision, the predator groaning a phrase that she had thought she would never have to hear again.
"S.T.A.R.S..." it groaned inhumanly as it advanced towards Jill and Carlos, the only word in its vocabulary a clear warning to whom it was after.
They had no idea of knowing at the moment, but Umbrella knew that they were in Paris, and had sent the Nemesis-B, a second version of the original Nemesis, after them to test out it's enhanced abilities, as well as take out two dangerous people to their company.
Carlos' eyes widened as he stepped back in fear, not wanting to believe what was in front of him and Jill.
It was the exact same creature that had stalked Jill Valentine throughout Raccoon City, the very same creature that had killed Mikhail Victor, the same creature that had tried to kill him...
The Nemesis was back, in Paris, and was advancing slowly towards them.
"Jill..." Carlos whispered, fear obvious in his voice, "We have to get help..."
"Right..." she whispered back, as she gripped her Western Custom shotgun in fear, especially since she hadn't done any fighting after narrowly escaping from Raccoon City with Carlos and Barry before it was completely obliterated off the face of the earth.
"We have to run back into the hospital and get the others..." he said as he gestured to the building, "I'm sure they still have their weapons with them...on the count of three we make a run for it..."
"Right..." she whispered back, her eyes locked firmly on the Nemesis as if to tell it to stay back or get a fistful of lead.
"S.T.A.R.S..." it groaned loudly again, getting slowly closer to Jill and Carlos with every step it made.
"One..." he said slowly, as he looked at Jill.
"Two..." she said slowly, as she looked back at him.
"Three!" they yelled in unison, as they started running towards the hospital.
"S.T.A.R.S!" screamed the Nemesis, as it started running after them with the same incredible speed that had made escaping unusually impossible when they were being stalked throughout Raccoon City.
"Keep running Jill!" he managed to shout out as he ran as fast as his legs could carry him, "Don't look back!"
Jill kept on running beside Carlos, hoping that the Nemesis was too far behind them to manage to grab on to them.
'Please don't let him be right behind us...please don't let him be behind us...' she thought to herself desperately as she kept on running, hoping for some kind of miracle to occur.
"Jill!" shouted Carlos painfully, as he was suddenly knocked back a few feet away from her by the Nemesis, who had savagely punched him.
"Carlos? Carlos!" she screamed, worried that her friend might have been seriously injured.
"S.T.A.R.S...." screamed the Nemesis savagely, as it started going after Jill, wanting to end her life as painfully as it could.
Jill stared at the nightmare that was fast approaching, her fear starting to overcome her.
'It...can't end this way!' she thought to herself frantically as her eyes widened in fear, 'I have to keep on running! I have to escape!'
She kept on running towards the hospital, her mind not allowing her to worry about Carlos condition as her survival instincts took control of her.
'Gotta keep going...' she told herself, as she kept running, the monster right behind her.
"I have to -"
"S.T.A.R.S..." moaned the Nemesis, as it grabbed Jill by the back of her neck so fast that she was still trying to run.
It turned her around so that it could look at the expression on her face, it's little brain curious as to why it bothered to struggle against it.
"No...! I was so close to the hospital...no...no!' she thought to herself, as she struggled desperately against the Nemesis' hold on her neck, 'It can kill me at anytime with that tentacle...I have to escape before it can use it...'
Noticing her shotgun was still in her hand, she aimed it up slowly at the Nemesis' face.
Smirking a bit despite the intense pressure on her neck, she put her finger on the trigger and whispered, "You want S.T.A.R.S? I'll give you-"
Before she could pull the trigger however, it swiftly smacked the shotgun away from her hands.
Jill's pupils dilated as her only defense against the huge eight-foot tall creature was knocked away from her hands.
"This is it...it's...finally over..." she whispered to herself quietly as she shut her eyes, reluctantly awaiting her release from the world..
The Nemesis taunted her by doing what appeared to be smiling, although it had no lips. Slowly, it put its hand in front of Jill, which produced a tentacle that was ready to get straight through her skull.
*Bam!* *Bam!* *Bam!*
Jill opened her eyes suddenly, wondering why she was hearing handguns and shotguns firing at her general direction only to realize that the hold on her neck was gone, and she was standing on the ground, with the Nemesis a few feet away from her now, being shot at and bleeding heavily.
"Jill! Get out of the way!" yelled a voice she never thought she would hear again. She ran towards the group that had been firing and was handed a Beretta by another familiar face to her.
"S.T.A.R.S!!" it screamed, as its body was being bombarded heavily.
"Go back to hell where you came from!" shouted Leon, as he fired off another blast of shotgun shells.
"No more S.T.A.R.S. for you!" Rebecca said, as she continually kept firing her Custom Beretta at the chest of the Tyrant-look-alike.
"You're going down!" shouted Steve, as he fired a sub-machine gun at the Nemesis with a style that was all his own.
Jill went between Chris and Barry, aiming her Beretta straight at the Nemesis.
"Ready guys?" Chris said, as he put another clip into his Enhanced Glock.
"Ready!" Jill and Barry said, all aiming their handguns, and in Barry's case, a magnum, at the Nemesis's head.
"Fire!" said Chris, as they all simultaneously unloaded their clips into the Nemesis head, making huge bloody holes and causing it to fall to the ground in a heap of blood, filled with hundreds of bullets and shells in literally a minute.
Chris slowly approached the Nemesis, despite the fact that Jill was pleading with him not to, and examined the bullet riddled body.
"I think it's dead..." he said, as he kicked the Nemesis a few times.
"He'll come back to life...he did so many times in Raccoon City..." said Carlos, as he limped over to where everyone was, "That sonofabitch doesn't know when to quit!"
"You're injured...let me take a look at that..." Rebecca said, as she took out her First Aid kit and examined Carlos, which made him slightly blush.
"Well, I think I have an idea on how to dispose of this thing..." Barry said, as he took out his Desert Eagle 50A.E Magnum and pointed it towards the bullet ridden head of the Nemesis, "At least it'll have a huge headache when it decides to wake up..."
*Bam!* *Bam!*
"I think shooting it up a bit more wouldn't hurt." Steve remarked, as he pointed the sub-machine gun towards the head of the Nemesis and fired off a few rounds like Barry.
*Bam!* *Bam!* *Bam!* *Bam!*
"There we go, now it's dead." said Steve slyly, even though it was easy to see he was still quite sad. Leon, who noticed it first, thought it was probably a defense mechanism of his, which was to show off when depressed.
Jill kept looking at the Nemesis, wondering if it would get up despite the fact that nearly every inch of it was filled with bullets. She had burned it, exploded it, bombarded it, and put gallons of acid on it back in Raccoon City, yet that hadn't stopped it. It took two shots from a huge Rail Cannon which was named "Parcelus Sword" and six magnum rounds before it was finally dead.
"Hey, you okay Jill? It didn't hurt you too bad, did it...?" said Chris quietly as he went in front of her and checked her neck closely, "I'm sorry I wasn't able to get here quicker..."
"It's okay Chris..." she said with a light smile as she gave him a hug, "Thanks for saving me..."
As he held Jill in his arms he felt relieved that he had been able to save her and was able to release all the pent up frustration and emotion he had by shooting up the Nemesis. Even though Chris wasn't too fond of violence, it was a good if not slightly sadistic way of releasing his frustrations that he had on Wesker.
While Rebecca was tending to Carlos's wounds and Chris and Jill were embracing, Leon and Barry inspected the body of the Nemesis, just in case.
"Do you think it's dead Leon?" said Barry, as he holstered his magnum back in his vest.
Leon didn't reply; he just kept looking at the body, looking as if he was deeply lost in thought.
"I'll leave you alone for now Leon...just remember, you did the best you could..." Barry said as he put a comforting hand on Leon's shoulder before walking over to Rebecca to assist her with Carlos.
"I'm supposed to serve and protect..." Leon said quietly to himself, as he looked at the lifeless body of the Nemesis, "If only I was quicker...too late now though....I just hope Claire is in a better place then where we are now..."
He paused for a few seconds, hoping that killing the undead didn't automatically put you in hell.
"...I love you Claire...." he said quietly to himself as he looked up at the sky, "I hope you're up there right now, watching over us..."
-End of Chapter Seventeen-
From now on, chapters are going to be much bigger, like this one, because too many chapters is a bit overwhelming to read I think.
In Chapter Eighteen Alexia is touring Umbrella's Lab Facilities...and things get a little out of hand.
As usual, please rate and review! I love feedback from you guys! You guys are what keep me going!
Thanks for reading!
Small extra note: I'm now working on the second chapter to "Night On The Town", just in case you're wondering.
Thanks goes to all my reviewers so far! I value each of your opinions very much, and I hope that I'm meeting up to your expectations! Hopefully you'll review more often for this story so that you can tell me what you thought about it, what I might want to change, or spelling errors and such. Again, thanks once again to my reviewers!
I'm going to triple space whenever the setting changes, instead of double spacing. Also, I took out the time thingy, cause it was getting in the way of things.
If you want to see what I'm working on at the moment, remember to check my profile; at the end of my profile you'll see my current progress for the day and what I'm working on at the moment.
Finally, I'm currently testing out whether I should put updated summaries for this particular fan fic...either I'm going leave it as the original summary or an updated one every time I make a new chapter...it all depends on what you, the readers, think.
Anyways, on with the action-packed chapter...
-Even Fond Memories Can Come Back To Haunt You.... -
-By Brian Marcelo-
-brianmarcelo@hotmail.com-
Rated R for language, violence, and guns. Lots of guns.
-The Predator-
-Chapter Seventeen-
-Umbrella Pharmaceutical Headquarters, President's Office-
"Welcome to Umbrella's Main Headquarters..." greeted the President, as he eased himself into his black leather chair, "It's truly an honor to finally meet you Ms. Ashford..."
"The honor is all mine, Mr...?" she asked gracefully while taking a seat.
"Mr. Hanson." he said, finishing her sentence, "I'm sure the last name sounds familiar to your family line, yes?"
She nodded, remembering that the Hanson family had helped establish Umbrella along with the Ashford family and other founding members.
"My, you sure have aged quite gracefully for the past 15 years you've been gone, Ms. Ashford...tell me, how did you manage to survive?" he asked, as he reclined in his leather chair and took out a cigar.
"Cold stasis." she replied simply, "I was conducting an experiment with the T-Virus and-."
"Ah yes, you do mean the T-Veronica virus, right?" he interrupted, as he lit the cigar with a lighter.
"How did you know...?" she gasped, quite shocked that her secret virus might possibly be company knowledge, "Who told you...?"
"We had received word of the T-Veronica virus after your supposed death. Also, our 'friends' at H.C.F. managed to find a sample of the T-Veronica virus in Steven Burnside, a former prisoner of Rockfort Island. I assume you had operated on him while in Antarctica, correct?" he said in that same casual voice, which was a bit unsettling for even Alexia Ashford.
"Yes, I had." she said, trying not to reveal any other secrets that she had, just in case.
"I see." he replied, as he inhaled a few puffs of cigar smoke, "Tell me, Ms. Ashford, why did you not tell us about your T-Veronica virus that you had been working on?"
Waving away the smoke from her face, she replied, with a slight smile, "It was top secret. I wanted to test it thoroughly before I presented my research, Mr. Hanson."
Of course, that was a complete lie, as Alexia Ashford's real intentions were to infect the whole world with her spores, so that they may become her "worker ants" and serve her, the perfect "Queen Ant" of the colony.
The President looked at her for a few moments, trying to see if she was hiding something behind that overly simplistic answer that she had given him.
"I see." he remarked a bit suspiciously, "It is quite too bad that we were not informed of the details of the T-Veronica virus until 15 years later when you have finally returned to us, like an angel sent from above."
She smirked a bit at the last thing he said, as she was hardly an angel.
Taking a few more drags on his cigar before putting it out, he eased himself out of his chair and offered his hand to Alexia, while saying, "Would you like to take a tour of the lab facilities we have here, Ms. Ashford? Despite the fact that you were in 15 years of cold stasis, you're still one of her top researchers and I'm sure you'd love to see how far we've advanced in the past 15 years..."
"I'd love to see what you're researchers are working on..." she said, while forcing a small smile as she and the President walked out of the office and towards the lab facility.
-Hospital Waiting Room-
"Chris..." exclaimed Rebecca quietly, as she got up from her chair as he entered the room.
"Where's Jill?" he said quietly, as his eyes scanned the room, "And where's Carlos..?"
"They just went to get some fresh air Chris, nothing to worry about." Barry said, as he walked over to his friend, "I'm sorry for all that's happened, Chris..."
"We don't have any more time to mourn, Barry...it's time we get back at Wesker for all the shit he's done to us..." said Chris, with a touch of anger and sadness in his voice, "He's killed our teammates...those were our friends...he was our damn captain and he betrayed all of us...all for combat data...simple combat data..."
"And now he's done it...he's crossed a line that he should never have passed..." he said, closing his eyes as he clenched his fists tightly together, "I'll make sure he pays for what he's done to everyone's lives that he's ruined or completely destroyed..."
"We're all behind you in this, Chris..." Steve said, "Especially me-"
"And me." Leon said, as he got up from his chair, "We're all behind you on this one Chris...we'll help you the best we can...right guys?"
"Right!" Rebecca chimed in, hoping to lighten the intense seriousness.
"Thank you, all of you..." he said as he looked around the room, smiling weakly, trying his best to keep his feelings in check.
-Outside The Hospital-
"You okay there Jill?" said Carlos, as he looked at her with worried eyes.
"I'm fine...just a little shaken up about everything..." she said with a forced smile.
Carlos frowned as he leaned against the van, wishing she wouldn't put on a mask just to hide the pain and fear she was no doubt feeling.
'If only I could do something...some friend I am...' he thought to himself, as he checked his assault rifle, 'I shouldn't be so paranoid...I keep checking this assault rifle as if monsters are all around us again, like in Raccoon City...'
Jill hugged her arms as she too leaned against the van, wondering once again how everything just went to hell so quickly.
"Hey...I think the others are waiting for us Jill...we should probably get back to them..." he said with a worried look on his face, "I'm sure that you'll be able to comfort Chris the most during this difficult time..."
She looked at him with a puzzled expression and asked, "Why would I be the one who'd be able to comfort him the most?"
He chuckled a little. "Because he obviously cares about you deeply enough to be looking quite jealous when you were talking about me to him back in the hotel."
Jill blushed as her jaw slightly dropped in shock. First of all, the thought of Chris being jealous about Carlos had never crossed her mind, the second thing was how Carlos managed to overhear the conversation, and third, how yet another person knew that Chris liked her before she knew.
"You really think I'd be able to comfort him?" she asked, with a slight smile.
"I'm sure of it Jill," he said, returning the smile, "After all, he loves-"
Without warning, they heard something sounding like loud footsteps coming their way, from what direction, they didn't know. Jill quickly upholstered her Western Custom shotgun that she had been carrying on her back, while Carlos took the safety off his Assault Rifle and set it on auto.
"Did you hear that...?" she whispered, as she went into a defensive position, waiting to hear the noise again.
"Could it be Wesker...?" he asked, as his eyes surveyed the relatively sunny area, which should've made it easy to see anything coming their way.
"No...it sounds bigger..." she whispered, gesturing for him to keep his voice down.
To Jill's horror, the thing in question that was making the loud footsteps appeared slowly out from a pair of rather large cars that had obscured her vision, the predator groaning a phrase that she had thought she would never have to hear again.
"S.T.A.R.S..." it groaned inhumanly as it advanced towards Jill and Carlos, the only word in its vocabulary a clear warning to whom it was after.
They had no idea of knowing at the moment, but Umbrella knew that they were in Paris, and had sent the Nemesis-B, a second version of the original Nemesis, after them to test out it's enhanced abilities, as well as take out two dangerous people to their company.
Carlos' eyes widened as he stepped back in fear, not wanting to believe what was in front of him and Jill.
It was the exact same creature that had stalked Jill Valentine throughout Raccoon City, the very same creature that had killed Mikhail Victor, the same creature that had tried to kill him...
The Nemesis was back, in Paris, and was advancing slowly towards them.
"Jill..." Carlos whispered, fear obvious in his voice, "We have to get help..."
"Right..." she whispered back, as she gripped her Western Custom shotgun in fear, especially since she hadn't done any fighting after narrowly escaping from Raccoon City with Carlos and Barry before it was completely obliterated off the face of the earth.
"We have to run back into the hospital and get the others..." he said as he gestured to the building, "I'm sure they still have their weapons with them...on the count of three we make a run for it..."
"Right..." she whispered back, her eyes locked firmly on the Nemesis as if to tell it to stay back or get a fistful of lead.
"S.T.A.R.S..." it groaned loudly again, getting slowly closer to Jill and Carlos with every step it made.
"One..." he said slowly, as he looked at Jill.
"Two..." she said slowly, as she looked back at him.
"Three!" they yelled in unison, as they started running towards the hospital.
"S.T.A.R.S!" screamed the Nemesis, as it started running after them with the same incredible speed that had made escaping unusually impossible when they were being stalked throughout Raccoon City.
"Keep running Jill!" he managed to shout out as he ran as fast as his legs could carry him, "Don't look back!"
Jill kept on running beside Carlos, hoping that the Nemesis was too far behind them to manage to grab on to them.
'Please don't let him be right behind us...please don't let him be behind us...' she thought to herself desperately as she kept on running, hoping for some kind of miracle to occur.
"Jill!" shouted Carlos painfully, as he was suddenly knocked back a few feet away from her by the Nemesis, who had savagely punched him.
"Carlos? Carlos!" she screamed, worried that her friend might have been seriously injured.
"S.T.A.R.S...." screamed the Nemesis savagely, as it started going after Jill, wanting to end her life as painfully as it could.
Jill stared at the nightmare that was fast approaching, her fear starting to overcome her.
'It...can't end this way!' she thought to herself frantically as her eyes widened in fear, 'I have to keep on running! I have to escape!'
She kept on running towards the hospital, her mind not allowing her to worry about Carlos condition as her survival instincts took control of her.
'Gotta keep going...' she told herself, as she kept running, the monster right behind her.
"I have to -"
"S.T.A.R.S..." moaned the Nemesis, as it grabbed Jill by the back of her neck so fast that she was still trying to run.
It turned her around so that it could look at the expression on her face, it's little brain curious as to why it bothered to struggle against it.
"No...! I was so close to the hospital...no...no!' she thought to herself, as she struggled desperately against the Nemesis' hold on her neck, 'It can kill me at anytime with that tentacle...I have to escape before it can use it...'
Noticing her shotgun was still in her hand, she aimed it up slowly at the Nemesis' face.
Smirking a bit despite the intense pressure on her neck, she put her finger on the trigger and whispered, "You want S.T.A.R.S? I'll give you-"
Before she could pull the trigger however, it swiftly smacked the shotgun away from her hands.
Jill's pupils dilated as her only defense against the huge eight-foot tall creature was knocked away from her hands.
"This is it...it's...finally over..." she whispered to herself quietly as she shut her eyes, reluctantly awaiting her release from the world..
The Nemesis taunted her by doing what appeared to be smiling, although it had no lips. Slowly, it put its hand in front of Jill, which produced a tentacle that was ready to get straight through her skull.
*Bam!* *Bam!* *Bam!*
Jill opened her eyes suddenly, wondering why she was hearing handguns and shotguns firing at her general direction only to realize that the hold on her neck was gone, and she was standing on the ground, with the Nemesis a few feet away from her now, being shot at and bleeding heavily.
"Jill! Get out of the way!" yelled a voice she never thought she would hear again. She ran towards the group that had been firing and was handed a Beretta by another familiar face to her.
"S.T.A.R.S!!" it screamed, as its body was being bombarded heavily.
"Go back to hell where you came from!" shouted Leon, as he fired off another blast of shotgun shells.
"No more S.T.A.R.S. for you!" Rebecca said, as she continually kept firing her Custom Beretta at the chest of the Tyrant-look-alike.
"You're going down!" shouted Steve, as he fired a sub-machine gun at the Nemesis with a style that was all his own.
Jill went between Chris and Barry, aiming her Beretta straight at the Nemesis.
"Ready guys?" Chris said, as he put another clip into his Enhanced Glock.
"Ready!" Jill and Barry said, all aiming their handguns, and in Barry's case, a magnum, at the Nemesis's head.
"Fire!" said Chris, as they all simultaneously unloaded their clips into the Nemesis head, making huge bloody holes and causing it to fall to the ground in a heap of blood, filled with hundreds of bullets and shells in literally a minute.
Chris slowly approached the Nemesis, despite the fact that Jill was pleading with him not to, and examined the bullet riddled body.
"I think it's dead..." he said, as he kicked the Nemesis a few times.
"He'll come back to life...he did so many times in Raccoon City..." said Carlos, as he limped over to where everyone was, "That sonofabitch doesn't know when to quit!"
"You're injured...let me take a look at that..." Rebecca said, as she took out her First Aid kit and examined Carlos, which made him slightly blush.
"Well, I think I have an idea on how to dispose of this thing..." Barry said, as he took out his Desert Eagle 50A.E Magnum and pointed it towards the bullet ridden head of the Nemesis, "At least it'll have a huge headache when it decides to wake up..."
*Bam!* *Bam!*
"I think shooting it up a bit more wouldn't hurt." Steve remarked, as he pointed the sub-machine gun towards the head of the Nemesis and fired off a few rounds like Barry.
*Bam!* *Bam!* *Bam!* *Bam!*
"There we go, now it's dead." said Steve slyly, even though it was easy to see he was still quite sad. Leon, who noticed it first, thought it was probably a defense mechanism of his, which was to show off when depressed.
Jill kept looking at the Nemesis, wondering if it would get up despite the fact that nearly every inch of it was filled with bullets. She had burned it, exploded it, bombarded it, and put gallons of acid on it back in Raccoon City, yet that hadn't stopped it. It took two shots from a huge Rail Cannon which was named "Parcelus Sword" and six magnum rounds before it was finally dead.
"Hey, you okay Jill? It didn't hurt you too bad, did it...?" said Chris quietly as he went in front of her and checked her neck closely, "I'm sorry I wasn't able to get here quicker..."
"It's okay Chris..." she said with a light smile as she gave him a hug, "Thanks for saving me..."
As he held Jill in his arms he felt relieved that he had been able to save her and was able to release all the pent up frustration and emotion he had by shooting up the Nemesis. Even though Chris wasn't too fond of violence, it was a good if not slightly sadistic way of releasing his frustrations that he had on Wesker.
While Rebecca was tending to Carlos's wounds and Chris and Jill were embracing, Leon and Barry inspected the body of the Nemesis, just in case.
"Do you think it's dead Leon?" said Barry, as he holstered his magnum back in his vest.
Leon didn't reply; he just kept looking at the body, looking as if he was deeply lost in thought.
"I'll leave you alone for now Leon...just remember, you did the best you could..." Barry said as he put a comforting hand on Leon's shoulder before walking over to Rebecca to assist her with Carlos.
"I'm supposed to serve and protect..." Leon said quietly to himself, as he looked at the lifeless body of the Nemesis, "If only I was quicker...too late now though....I just hope Claire is in a better place then where we are now..."
He paused for a few seconds, hoping that killing the undead didn't automatically put you in hell.
"...I love you Claire...." he said quietly to himself as he looked up at the sky, "I hope you're up there right now, watching over us..."
-End of Chapter Seventeen-
From now on, chapters are going to be much bigger, like this one, because too many chapters is a bit overwhelming to read I think.
In Chapter Eighteen Alexia is touring Umbrella's Lab Facilities...and things get a little out of hand.
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Small extra note: I'm now working on the second chapter to "Night On The Town", just in case you're wondering.