Letter To A Soldier, part 6

By: Hotaru

Notes: This is a short chapter cause it's gonna be a little transition in the next one, which I'm gonna start writing on very soon!

Twas: You were on REFan?! ME too!! I was so pissed when it closed....

Pinquicha: Yes indeed. Bye Bye fruity Marcus! Go sing opera in hell.

Luckie: Fixed the past tense, that's a problem I have a lot. It's kind of irritating...I write in one tense and switch back and forth subconsciously.

--Some Time Later--

We entered a room that was infested with leeches. There were hundreds of them, crawling all across the floor, leaving a slimy path behind them. Then we looked up and saw a man in a cloak. At the same time, it took our breath away. So _this_ is the bastard who's responsible for all of this. He tried to kill us.

"Welcome, young ones. So glad you have joined the party. You are the guests of honor, after all it's your wake." He spoke.

"Who are you?" Billy demanded. If we were going to die, we might as well know who our killer was first. Believe it or not, he transformed. It seemed like rapid ageing but where the young man once stood, now stood and old man. "Dr. Marcus?" Billy questioned.

"No, you can't be!" I said. It wasn't possible...it just wasn't. The man laughed.

"Ten years ago, Spenser had me assassinated. However, something wonderous happened. It took the T-Virus inside of my queen years to procreate my new life. I live. Now I will have my revenge on Umbrella, and the world will burn in an inferno of hate!" He laughed manically, and Billy shook his fist, probably thinking of something to say.

"You'll pay for what you've done!" Billy said finally.

"We'll see which one of us is going to die." Marcus retorted, laughing agian. He then threw up what looked like slime. He had a suprised look on his face as leeches began to pour out of his mouth. I had the urge to throw up, too.

"Huh?" Billy questioned. There wasn't anything else we could do, except watch as it transformed into some weird...leech creature. It jumped over the railing, hit the ceiling, and then landed right in front of us.

Whipping out our largest, most powerful weapons, we attacked it. I guess all the "training" we had taking down zombies and leech hunters and all those beasts, made this a pretty easy battle. When it died, it sort of shrieked before collapsing onto the floor. Billy and I wasted no time heading to an escape lift. We got on the elevator, and breathed a sigh of relief. Unfortunatly, the bastard wasn't dead yet. There was a crash.

"What?" I exclaimed.

"It's the Queen!" Billy answered. Down the shaft, the Leech Queen was coming through a hole in the wall. Then, we heard a computer voice.

"The self-destruct system has been activated. All personnel evacuate immediately."

"Who activated the self-destruct system?" I asked, as if he knew. Billy messed around with the controls, aggrivatedly.

"Come on! Can't this thing move any faster?!" He exclaimed.

The Queen charged the elevator, throwing me and Billy onto the floor somewhere. "Shit!" Billy spat. That damn Queen destroyed the lift, which looked like the only way out. The sunlight poured into the room, and it seemed like the Queen's flesh was burning. It made some inhuman noise, and backed away.

"Billy, it can't handle sunlight! We need to open the windows!" I told him.

"Follow me." He ordered. We ran to a control panel. "You work on the windows." He said.

"Got it." I replied, thankful I didn't have to fight that thing again.

"I'll use my charm to distract her majesty." Ha, charm?

There were a few things I had to turn; cranks, handles, whatever you want to call them. But each one that I turned, opened the window a little bit more. I made sure Billy was safe before continuing on. When the window was finally completely open, the Queen writhed in pain, but still attacked us. I landed a bit away from Billy, and noticed a gun on the floor. "Billy!" I called to him, tossing the gun in his direction.

"Hey Queenie! Feast on this!" He hollared, before firing a single shot, which tore through the Queen's body, sending her into the elevator shaft, where she started to fall apart.

She fell down the shaft, and met the explosions coming from below. "Billy!" I called.

"Rebecca, hurry!" He replied, as we ran like the devil was at our heels.

--Post-facility Explosion--

We sat on a cliff, looking out at the newly risen sun. Billy removed his hand cuffs and threw them over the cliff, before laying on his back. Looking down, I saw a old house at the base of the cliff. "Hey, that must be the old mansion Enrico was talking about." I said half-heartedly. Billy sat up, and looked at the house. I leaned over and took his dog tags and put it around my neck. He stands in front of me.

"I guess it's time to say goodbye. Officially, Billy Coen is dead." I say, not showing the sorrow I felt in my heart.

"Yeah, I'm just a zombie now." He replies.

I saluted him, he saluted me, and I turned and headed towards the mansion. "Thank you, Rebecca." He says softly.

I haven't seen him, or any of my Bravo Team comrades since.