Bayville: Project X

"Hey guys! Come and check this out!" This simple statement by the Brotherhood's youngest member Todd is how the unspeakable horror that was to curse the small town of Bayville possibly started. Todd and Fred had been digging around the basement, looking for a means of passing the time. Todd had been digging through boxes, when he came upon a crate with an unusual red and white symbol. It was too faded to make out. Try as they could, both Todd and Fred had been unable to move the crate. That was until Todd sat on the crate, and set off a secret button. The crate moved into the wall, and suddenly the wall itself moved up, revealing a long metal hallway.

"Todd, this better not be about that stupid basement rat. We told its just a dirty piece of cloth," grumbled Lance, as he and Pietro climbed down the steps, being followed by Tabitha. All three of them stood frozen, staring at the secret hallway. "Whoa..... It must be something left over from when Mystique was here," stated Pietro, moving down the metal area, checking out the door. Lance walked over to him, and tried the door. The handle wouldn't budge. "Well, what ever it is, it's locked." Todd and Fred grinned. They both took a place by the door. Todd looked the door over, knocking on certain areas. He stood up and turned to Fred. "Well, there is not external lock, which means we gotta blow the thing yo," muttered the smaller teen. The larger, bulky teen grinned and took a few steps back, and took a running start, throwing his full weight against the steel door, breaking it easily off it's hinges.

Fred picked himself up off the floor. He looked around the dark room. Todd peeked his head in, trying to make out the room. He turned and yelled back to Lance. "Hey! Bring a flashlight!" Lance made his way up stairs, and returned shortly with a flashlight. All five teens entered the mysterious room, finding plenty of abandoned high-tech computer consoles and lab equipment. "What the hell? Since when did Mystique have a lab?" muttered Lance, as he swung the light across the room. Pietro shrugged and went over to the nearest console. He looked it over, and pushed a button, bringing the console to life. All the members of the Brotherhood gathered around him, as he quickly tried bringing up information on the secret lab. Once again the red and white symbol came up. "Who or what is Umbrella?" muttered Pietro. Todd shrugged. "Maybe it's Windows newest competition?" Tabitha made a little energy bomb, and used to light up the lab a little more. She moved around the lab by herself, into on of the farthest corners, where she discovered something disturbing. "GUYS! It's a dead body!" she yelled. The others looked up. Lance and Fred quickly went over to her, to find the same sight. It was a young man, dressed in a lab coat. His skin was deathly pale, and the layer of dust on him suggested he'd been dead for awhile. "Whoa, I knew Mystique was bad, but I didn't know she was a killer," mumbled Fred. Tabtiha kneeled down next to the man, and tried to turn him over. That's when things got weirder. Just as she turned him over, his eyes opened. "What? He's still alive?" exclaimed Lance. Tabitha just stayed kneeling, staring at the man. That's when he turned, and bit down hard on her arm. Tabitha let out a blood curdling scream, as the man tore into her arm, blood pouring down its chin. "Oh shit," muttered Lance, and he and Fred moved forward. Fred grabbed the man by the back of the neck, tearing him off of Tabitha, literally. The motion had caused Tabitha to lose a large portion of her arm. Lance pulled Tabitha over to him, holding her, as she wept from the pain. Fred held onto the man, who was obviously not normal. Fred growled and through the body with his full strength at the far wall of the room. It made a bone crushing impact. Pierto and Todd had moved over to Lance, where they all were looking on at Tabitha with concern. "Oh man, what was that?" wondered Pietro, as he tore off part of Todd's shirt, trying to wrap Tabitha's wound.

Todd moved over to Fred, who looked a little pale. "You ok man? You really lost it there, yo. You destroyed that guy," stated the young teen, placing a hand on his friend's shoulder. Fred was staring across the room. "Uh, I obviously didn't destroy it enough. Look over there guys!" he yelled, pointing to where he had thrown the body. The man was standing. Lance and Pietro helped Tabitha to her feet. Fred merely walked over and picked her up in his arms. All five teens stared at the figure, as I stumbled toward them. It's eyes were glazed over, and it showed no sign of feeling any injury, despite the fact the impact with the wall had broken its arm, and it was walking on a broken ankle, the cracking of the bones audible as it moved slowly towards them. Todd hopped in front of the group. He spit a large spray of slime in the things face. Such an attack would of left a normal man disoriented, but the man didn't even appear to notice as it moved forward. Todd growled and shot out his tongue, wrapping it around the man's leg, pulling it back roughly, hard enough it snapped the man's leg off. The figure fell forward, but amazing kept crawling towards them. Todd hopped back in fear. "Oh man. That's it, I'm outta here," moaned Todd. Before he was able to retreat though, Lance grabbed him by the shoulder. "No use Toad. Look around us, we're surrounded." Everyone looked around, and soon were consumed with fear. At least seven more figures had suddenly appeared. They were all dressed in lab coats, all deathly white, all with glazed over white eyes. They moved towards the group in slow, stumbling fashions, while the legless one crawled towards them.

The Brotherhood moved into a corner. Todd, Lance, and Pietro stood before Fred, all three ready to strike out at the nearest attacker. Fred was holding Tabitha, who had gone limp in his arms. She had passed out from shock. Todd was keeping the figures at bay with his whip tongue. "Man, these guy's taste nasty yo," he grumbled, shooting out his tongue again at another approaching attacker, making contact with its head, causing it to fall backwards, only to merely get up and continue its advancement. "Guys, as nice as the temporary solution is, Todd can't keep this up forever, and we need to get Tabitha to a hospital or she is gonna die from blood loss," growled Pietro, as he did a super speed dash kick to nearing foe, sending it flying. Unfortunately, he hadn't seen the figure lying under the nearby desk. It reached out and grasped onto Pietro's leg, and the next thing the young teen felt was teething tearing into his flesh. Pietro yelled out in pain, trying to kick off the attacker, only to get gripped from behind by another, this one biting into his shoulder. A third gripped onto his side, and started to tear at his right arm. "Pietro!" yelled Todd, and he hopped over, and placed a mid kick to the skull of the one biting his shoulder. The force of the kick crushed the figures skull, causing it to collapse in a heap on the floor. Todd wasted no time, and used his fists to pummel the other one on Pietro's arm, reducing the figures face to nothing but a bloody mass, until the nose broke into the skull, piercing the brain, bringing it likewise to lifeless heap on the floor. Lance ran forward, kicking the head of the figure on the floor hard enough, the head flew off and across the room. Before Pietro could collapse, Todd caught him, and with Lance's help, they drug him back over to Fred.

"Guys, I'm the smartest guy, but we're out numbered," muttered Fred. True enough, even though they had taken out three of the seven, five more had appeared from under desks. Lance, whose forehead was covered in sweat moved closer to Fred. "Don't worry, we're getting out of here," he growled. He moved forward, and focused his energy, and unleashed his mutant power. A huge force swelled up from under the floor, and moved forward fast, knocking the odd attackers off balance, and crashing a hole into the opposite wall. It only exposed a second metal wall. "Well, that wasn't what I wanted, but if we move fast, we can get out the door we came in," he said, and quickly urged the group forward. Fred had Tabitha and Pietro over both his shoulders, and Lance and Todd fought off the remaining attackers. Once they were in the hallway, Fred dropped Pietro and Tabitha, and used his full strength to lift the steel door off the ground, and pulling it close, trapping their unrelenting attackers inside. The Lance and Todd leaned against the wall, catching their breath. "What in the hell was that yo," Todd finally exclaimed. Lance shook his head. "I don't know. I really don't know." Fred looked down at Pietro and Tabitha. Pietro too had become unconscious. "Guys, we need to get help," he muttered, lifting his friends back into his arms. Todd and Lance stood up and nodded. "Only one place to go, we need to go to the X-Mansion. Maybe the X-geeks know what this could be about," said Lance. Fred and Todd offered no protest. This situation was too much for them, and it was obvious that their own home was no longer safe. The teens loaded their friends into the back of Lance's jeep, and they quickly sped off toward the home of their sworn enemies, the X-Men.

Meanwhile, back in the dark lab, the figures of the lab scientists stumbled around in the dark aimlessly. The trail of blood led to the steel door, and collectively, they pushed against it. At first the door showed no signs of yielding. But slowly, the force of their numbers started to move the ruined door. Though, before the door could fall, it mysteriously moved back up right, and just as suddenly, flew forward at an incredibly speed, crushing the remaining scientists. A dark figure stepped out from the door way, followed by another. Magneto and a dark looking man had entered the lab. "So, containment has been a failure?" asked Magneto, looking over his old lab. The dark man kneeled down, examining the blood. "This is fresh. Obviously your men have been infected. This is a major security breach. Within twenty-four hours, this town will be infected." Magneto's eyes narrowed and he moved forward, tracing his finger over the seal of a door. "Those fools will be no problem eliminating," he said. A third figure stepped in. It was Mystique. "I'm afraid it extends further than we feared," she pointed to the whole in the first layer of the wall. The steel was intact, but something had forced its way threw the cracks in the ground. "There are holes in the backyard, fresh ones. Some escaped," she stated, her yellow eyes narrowing. "No matter. That just means we no longer worry about containment. Now we can test out some of our newer developments," muttered Magneto, as he punched in a code on the computer. The lab became alive. The lights returned, and the hum of machinery filled the room. Several doors opened, exposing long hallways. All except the sealed door. Magneto nodded, and the three figures stood before the door. "Mr. Wesker, contact Umbrella. We're going to need a few more scientists," mumbled Magneto, as the sealed door opened, and the three moved inside, the door closing behind them.

Well, there it is, the fist chapter of my Resident Evil/ X-Men: Evolution crossover. I hope everyone enjoys it, because I have many ideas. Plus, I've been thinking of bringing back some of my older unfinished works like Journal of the Lost, Shameful Thoughts of an Amphibian, and my other angst fics. Well, please review and let me know what you think. Later peoples

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Toad: I hope for once this is a fic where he doesn't kill me off.....

Thegamingteendream_16: Ya never know man, but ya know you're my fav.