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On with yet another chapter...

Special Note: The scene with Rebecca and Carlos is fixed, due to the fact that some people suggested to tone down the tension between them. I had no idea that some people thought it looked like they were in love. X.x; It's fixed now to be more sibling-ish...hopefully.



-Even Fond Memories Can Come Back To Haunt You.... -
-By Brian Marcelo-
-brianmarcelo@hotmail.com-
Rated R for violence.



-Just Like Superman-
-Chapter Nineteen-



-Umbrella Pharmaceutical Headquarters-



As soon as he had heard the news, he was shocked beyond belief.

Alexia Ashford, creator of the famed T-Veronica virus, someone who he had only hear about during his training days at the military train facility on Rockfort Island, was actually in the Umbrella building at this very moment, being given a "tour" by President Hanson himself.

He had a unique fascination with Alexia, whom he had heard about from other soldiers in training, and occasionally from overhearing Alfred Ashford when he was in his office, writing in his journal and talking aloud. The facts he knew to be true was that she was Alfred's twin sister, she was a genius that had graduated from college when she was only ten years old, and that her beauty was absolutely stunning. He didn't know much else, because whoever had asked Alfred about Alexia would immediately get a furious scolding followed by something quite horrible, like being sent to help with the prisoners on the newest construction project that Alfred was working on.

Of course, there was no time to think about this now, because he had to run his ass out of his office and the entire building.

Not because he was late for an assignment or anything mundane like that, but for a very special reason.

'Gotta get out of here...' he thought to himself, as he ran through the corridors of the second floor as fast as his legs could carry him, cursing the fact that he was still in his special forces uniform that was loaded down with his handguns, magnums, and ammo.

Shoving aside another stupid researcher out of his way, he sped down the stairs, the elevator not working thanks to the wires all being burned right through thanks to the fires that had been spreading all around the building, which had been started by Alexia Ashford using her T-Veronica powers, for unknown reasons at the time.

'Why did she attack Umbrella? Her family founded Umbrella...and now she's destroying it? It doesn't make sense...' he thought to himself, as he kept on shoving his way through another group of researchers, thankful that none of the T-virus samples and B.O.W. had escaped, which made escaping the building a little easier.

As he kept on running, he noticed that the whole building was a mess, with papers and messes everywhere, tables overturned, wires just hanging out of the ceilings, with fires scattered on every floor.

Alexia Ashford had managed to turn the whole building into the closest thing he could imagine hell to be like, and in such a short amount of time too.

Feeling his adrenaline pump as he entered the first floor, he quickly sped out, getting out of the way of fire and fall debris as he managed to go right out of the main entrance. He didn't stop until he was far enough from the building to not be hit by falling debris. As stopped to catch his breath, he looked back behind himself and saw the whole building was nearly covered in flames coming out of all sides.

Agent Hunk almost felt sorry for the people still stuck inside as he watched the building burn.

Almost.

"Yet again only the death survives..." he mused to himself aloud with a smirk, as he turned around and started to walk away.



-Umbrella Pharmaceutical Headquarters, Lab Facility-



Greg Jones limped slowly to the computer terminal, which was thankfully untouched by the raging fires that surrounded much of the lab thanks to Alexia.

"That damn bitch!" he muttered coarsely, his throat still immensely in pain from what Alexia had done to him after he had accidentally scolded her, thinking she was a mere twenty five year old girl.

"She's ruined everything! Now Umbrella will be gone, and H.C.F. will no doubt steal any information left in the wreckage...including all my blue prints for the Nemesis! No...I won't let them...!" he said through gritted teeth as he eased himself carefully into a chair, his backside in pain from when she had thrown him against the computer terminal.

"I'll reactivate the Nemesis-B and program him to kill any H.C.F. personnel trying to recover him...I'll delete all the files on the Nemesis...and give him a new target to chase after and kill..." he muttered in pain, as he highlighted all files pertaining the Nemesis and deleted them off all the databases.

He furiously tapped on the keyboard keys as fast as he could, the fire spreading faster into the room as he attempted to reprogram the Nemesis before he succumbed to the flames surrounding him.

*click* *click* *click*

Seeing the screen asking him to confirm the changes, he tapped the enter key for the last time.

He smiled as he closed his eyes. "Done...."

As the dancing embers of the fire drew closer to him, he opened up the last file pertaining to the Nemesis-B, which he had not deleted, so that he may look at his wonderful creation before dying.

"You're the perfect bio-weapon, my Nemesis..." he whispered to the computer terminal screen, "You'll show that Alexia Ashford a thing or two when you catch up to her..."

He smiled one last time as he closed his eyes, waiting for the raging inferno to take him...



-Outside the Hospital-



Carlos smiled as he and Rebecca kept musing about wanting a sibling of their own. He was quite interested in what she had to say, especially the bits where she talked about how Chris and Claire were so close as siblings.

"Remember how Chris bandaged Claire's knee after she scrapped it? It was so cute when Chris mentioned that to all of us..." remarked Rebecca, as she sat next to Carlos on some steps.

"Yeah, Claire was a pretty lucky girl to have such a caring brother...especially since the older ones are usually jealous of the younger, cuter ones..." replied Carlos.

'She'd certainly make for an interesting sister to have...' thought Carlos as he smirked, until he noticed that she was smiling softly at him.

"Whatca smiling at?" he asked curiously while looking over his shoulder, wondering if there was something interesting behind him.

"After thinking about how well Chris and Claire got along...and how nicely we've gotten along...I just thought...you'd make a nice big brother..." she said quietly, being quite shy since she was saying all that to someone she hadn't really known all that long.

Carlos looked quite surprised, which made Rebecca avert her gaze to the ground, embarrassed that she may have said something stupid.

To her surprise however, he chuckled heartily.

"You really think so?" he asked her with an amused look, looking into her eyes with a brotherly sort of look to them...

The same type that Chris used to give her during their days in Raccoon City. She had always considered Chris a brother, and he had always considered her his second sister, often reminding him of his sister Claire. It was very painful for Rebecca to see Chris after he had started obsessing with taking down Umbrella.

"Yeah...I do." she replied shyly, looking at him a bit fondly since he was beginning to remind her of what Chris was like before Umbrella ever came along.

Just as Carlos was about to open his mouth to speak, he was interrupted by the sound of a huge explosion.

*KA-BOOOOOM!*

Everyone turned their heads around in shock as they turned to find the source of the nearly ear-deafening sound, wondering what had caused it.

"Omigod..." whispered Jill in confusion and shock as her mouth hang wide, "Isn't that...Umbrella's main headquarters...?"

She pointed in shock to a huge building in the distance that towered over all the others in the area, which was completely engulfed in fiery red flames.

"I don't know what happened to Umbrella, but we have to go over there and investigate what, how, and why it happened..." said Chris, as his hands were balled up into fists, "Especially since it could be Wesker's doing..."

"Or Alexia..." added Steve quietly, "If I'm back, that means Alexia must be here as well...I can...feel her presence..."

Chris was a little shocked at hearing that, especially since he had forgotten all about Alexia after Claire had been stabbed by Wesker.

"Then I guess we have two monsters to worry about..." murmured Chris angrily, as he jumped into his jeep, followed by Jill, "Me and Jill will take the jeep, everyone else follow us in the van, alright?"

The others nodded in agreement as they quickly went into the van, bringing all their weapons and ammo with them. Before Chris drove away, Barry stopped him, with a question burning on his mind.

"What about the Nemesis? We can't just leave the damn thing out here in broad daylight..." he said, gesturing towards the Nemesis which was lying in a pool of it's own blood.

"We'll have to worry about it later, Barry...right now we have two monsters on the loose in Paris..." answered Chris, as he put his hands on the steering wheel. Barry nodded without saying anything further, understanding Chris' urge to avenge his sister, and went back into the van.

"Time to go..." Chris said quietly to Jill, as he put the key into the ignition and put his foot on the pedal, racing towards Umbrella Headquarters, hoping to get revenge for what happened to Claire.

As the others departed, following Chris and Jill with the van, something that they had left behind was starting to move.

At first it started to slightly convulse in pain, since it had been struck with many bullets and shells. After a few more seconds of shaking and convulsing, it slowly got up, blood dripping from the numerous holes in its body as it struggled to stand. It slowly raised it's arms towards the sky as it muttered a loud groan of pain, the bullets embedded in it's body starting to just pop out of the monster's body along with blood, as if they were being pushed out internally.

After the last few bullets dropped to the ground, it started to walk again towards an alleyway, this time tracking a new target.

"ALEXIA...." it groaned inhumanly as it continued to walk in the shadows of an alleyway, the pronunciation off since it was only the second word that it had been programmed to say up till now...



-Abandoned Church, Wesker's Hiding Place-



"I can feel the raw power of the T-Veronica surging throughout my body..." Wesker said aloud, despite the fact that Ada had looked startled by his new appearance.

"Was it really worth it Wesker...?" Ada asked quietly, knowing full well that it was a bit foolish of her to do ask such a mundane question.

"Of course, Miss Wong...why wouldn't it be worth it?" he replied, surprised a little that Ada didn't look as impressed as she had been a few minutes ago.

"It's just that...don't you think there's a certain point where having too much power is kind of...I don't know...bad?" she asked, with her hands on her hips, "Why do you want to be so powerful, anyways? Wasn't having the 'Miracle' virus enough for you?"

He merely chuckled. "When I was a small boy I always dreamed of power..."

Her eyebrows raised in suspicion. "Don't little boys dream of girls, big toys, and money instead?"

"I wasn't an ordinary boy, hell, with the power I had before getting the T-Veronica virus I could've had all that..." he said in reply, as he lit a flame on his index finger, "You remember all those comic book heroes, like Superman?"

"Yeah, I know, that guy who flies around in tights, a cape, and red underwear...what about him?" she asked, her curiosity growing ever so slightly at the mention of a comic book character.

"As embarrassing as it is to say, I used to read those comics when I was younger..." he mused fondly, as she sat next to Ada, "I used to get bullied a lot, so I would often stay inside and read those comics...wishing I could have power like that...and now I do..."

To his surprise, she snickered. "Is that why you're so damn pale?"

"That too..." he muttered under his breath, his eye slightly twitching in anger as he stood up once more to look down on her.

"But seriously Wesker, was it worth it? I mean, instead of being like your childhood hero Superman...you've become something that would easily quality for one of his major villains..." she said, tilting her head slightly at him.

Wesker merely tilted his head at her statement, wondering when the hell she had started to become all symbolic.

Before he could utter a reply, a loud explosion wracked the church, making it shake rather violently.

*KA-BOOOM!*

"What the hell was that?" she shouted, as she held on to one of the church benches, "Sounded like an explosion..."

"At Umbrella...." Wesker finished, as he pointed out towards a broken window, where they could both see Umbrella Headquarters engulfed in flames, with debris flying everywhere.

Without any more words exchanged between them, with the exception of a mutual confused glance, they quickly departed for Umbrella, wondering what had gone wrong...



-Umbrella Pharmaceutical Headquarters-



She walked out of the main entrance as casual as could be, dressed up in a researcher's lab coat that fit her quite well, humming a melancholy tune cheerfully as the building right in back of her was close to being completely demolished.

"Let's see...I destroyed most of their research and pathetic B.O.W...I torched nearly every floor...and I killed pretty much everyone in the building..." she said with a smile of amusement, "Now all I need to do is destroy those inferior twins, as well as that blonde haired man who dared to oppose his future Queen..."

As she started to walk away from the ghastly scene of chaos and destruction, she noticed something in the far off distance, something colored red, rather tall, and shaped in the form of a tower of sorts.

"The Eiffel Tower..." she whispered with an amused tone as she realized what it was, "I've always wanted to see what the viewpoint from the Eiffel Tower looked like..."

Humming her favorite tune once more, she started to walk towards it's location, taking her time so that she could "enjoy" the sights and sounds of what Paris had to offer.



- . . . . . -



*Bam!*

"Go away!"

*Bam!*

"Leave me alone!"

*Bam!*

"Why isn't my gun affecting you?!"

*Bam!* *Bam!*

"Where am I...?"

"What...? I...I'm dead...?"

"What do you mean...? They were turned into zombies!"

"Huh? But they were already dead!"

"You don't mean that...you've got to be joking!"

"I was a good person! I was practically a heroine!"

"Just because I killed them again...I'm here...?"

"Chris...Leon...Steve...someone...anyone...help..."

"I can't believe...I'm here...."

"All alone..."

"In my own personal hell...?"



-End of Chapter Nineteen-



Yes, I know the last part probably didn't make sense, but if you read between the lines you'll probably guess. Who knows what will happen to person talking in the last part in this chapter? She might be stuck there forever...and ever...

Stay tuned for the next chapter, I promise it'll be longer and much more interesting then this!

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And yeah, I'm working on Chapter Three to "Night On The Town"!