Chapter VII

Strike Force

"This is Agent VT01, reporting from checkpoint 103, do you copy."

An attractive young black woman stood in front of the sealed cavern entrance, armed to the teeth with the latest in government weaponry. To her right was Agent CP02, and to her left was Agent KB03. Agent CP02, known formally as Charli Parks, had been working for the Agency for nearly three full years now. Agent KB03, Kris Brooks, had been working for a little over two. Agent VT01, Vita Thai, had been working with the Agency for close to five years.and never once had a mission like this shown up.

"I repeat, this is Agent VT01, reporting from checkpoint 103, do you copy?" her sweet, casual voice was muffled through her grated military mask, her features hidden away. She was an attractive twenty five year old, her girly features forcing many to believe she was under age to be working with such high status military officers. Nevertheless, she knew deep down that, this was what she was meant to do, knew that this was what her future held.but being shipped off to Asesinato Isle to investigate a disturbance, way out in the middle of nowhere?

"Agent," a crackled voice sounded in her radio com, "Get yourselves out of there now, we have unidentified, possibly hostile creatures coming straight for you. Do not try to work with them, just get yourselves out of there.wait a minute, what the hell? No!"

The radio crackled and stopped, and immediately Vita, Charli and Kris broke off into a run towards the helicopter, abandoning the steel shudder in hopes of saving their captain. They had found the shudder on lock down a few hours ago, and ever since they had awaited the arrival of their captain and crew.now was the first time they had received any radio contact.

Boots slapped wet mud as the three of them charged through the woods, when suddenly a shrill, screeching shriek was heard from all around. Instantaneously everyone stopped, cocked their automatic rifles and aimed in the woods, forming a triangular formation facing all sides.

"What the hell was that," Kris said, but no one knew the answer; Vita was scarred, scarred shitless because she did not know what to expect. It did not sound animal, it did not sound human, nor did it sound even mechanical.

-suddenly a blur of green and grey scales burst out of the forestry and Vita was splashed with a warm pool of blood. She turned, ready to fire but instead was greeted by Kris, his head half gone, his oozing brain revealed as his skull hung by loose bone.

"Shit!" Charli screamed, readying her weapon for the next thing to come out of the woods. Kris's lifeless body slumped to the ground, his rifle smacking the wet dirt in a loud 'thump', followed by a small splash. Vita could not take her eyes off the lifeless body, the left eye missing, and his upper lip torn away in a vicious-

"Vita to your left, fire!" Charli screamed for her, then aimed her weapon and fired. Vita turned, saw the hulking green monster come lurching out of the woods. It was about four and a half feet tall, covered in green and grey scales that looked almost amphibian.it had the form of a human, the arms, the legs, but nothing was actually homosapian. It had massive, blood stained claws, and its face looked like that of a frog.except frogs do not have teeth, they do not have claws, they do not kill your teammates!

"FIRE!" Charli yelled as she blasted a clip into the monster. Vita watched it as it shivered as each bullet tore through its fragile skin, and after the clip was gone, it just fell over, dead. Charli turned to face her, a look of cold, hard terror in her eyes, "Why the hell didn't you fire?"

Vita starred at her, not understanding her.

Kris is dead.the captain and the rest of the team is dead too.a frog just attacked us, a big ass frog.and I did not kill it.did not even fire at it.

"Move your ass soldier," Charli yelled, her voice deep underneath her heavy artillery. She moved fast, through the trees, weaving in and out between shrubs. She kept running, followed by Vita, and finally they reached the helicopter-

-burning, burning with the bodies of the crew hanging out from all ends, arms and legs strewn about. Something had punctured the fuel tank, caused it to explode, but judging by the burn marks and the way the limbs were severed, it showed that the bodies were torn apart after they were incinerated.

"My God." Vita stammered, holding her gut as if she was about to vomit, "Everyone is dead."

Charli grabbed her arm, looked her dead in the face and stated the obvious, "We have to get out of here, and we have to get out fast. There could be more of those things out there, and there could be a truckload of them. If you want to survive this, then we had better move out. We will head back to the shudder, blow it out, then head inside, and follow through with the mission. Agreed?"

"Agreed," Vita, said reluctantly, and in the next millisecond, they were off, racing through the woods and past body parts, past blood stained shrubbery, past the mangled corpse of Kris Brooks. The cavern was just up ahead, the door just in reach. -when suddenly another green monster leaped out from behind, and Vita felt warm blood trickle down her cheek. Her body went numb, and her eyes went black.

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There was not even a sound as Vita fell over, her spine ripped out from behind. Charli turned around and pumped a good ten percent of her clip into the monster, forcing it down. Vita was dead, her lifeless body sprawled face down in the mud. Charli had no other choice but to continue running, to continue moving.

Reaching deep into her pocket, she withdrew the C4 explosives and strapped it to the steel shudder. Tapping in the four-digit code, she turned the other way and plugged her ears, the explosion rocking the ground beneath her feet. Rolling back to her feet, Charli darted inside the dark corridor and instantly flicked her headlights on, illuminating the dark corridor.

She didn't stop running, just kept moving through the tunnel and finally she came to a fork in the 'road', "Left or right," she said out loud to herself, but then when she saw the littered pathway of corpses and severed limbs t the right, she instantly chose left.

Picking up her pace a bit, she checked her ammo and readjusted her flashlight. There was nothing but cave in this tunnel, nothing to follow, nothing to judge.all she saw was dirt and rock-

-and then the by now familiar cry of the Hunter, the green monster that had killed her team. It was right behind her, probably now a they.she sped up, kept racing through the tunnel knowing eventually they would catch up to her.she had seen reports on the 121's, the creatures that had attacked her. They outdid humans 3 to 1 in every category.strength, recovery, speed, endurance. There was no way she would be able to kill them alone.

That was when she too fell victim to the darkness, her back torn to shreds by the vicious monsters that Umbrella had created for defense. She regretted her entire life, regretted everything she had ever done with the Agency, with Umbrella.her entire life had been a waste, and now it was time for her to go.but where she would be going was still a mystery. Everything went black.

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