II.

Umbrella's Creation

An Alley

Bear County, New Mexico

Monday, June 26, 2001

2437 hrs.

Facing a man, who was missing half his face wasn't something Vanessa wanted do while being with a cute guy. Well, the truth is that she won't like to be in this hell. Both, Ryan and Vanessa, shot as many zombies, as they could, but it was too overwhelming. More zombies came from everywhere; somehow the zombies inside the shop opened the door and followed them outside. Vanessa, realizing that they can't kill them all she decided to leave the rest of zombies, now.

"Ryan, forget them. Let's go, follow me," she yelled at Ryan, as she ran from the undead trying to eat them alive.

"Vanessa, wait! Where you going?" Ryan shouted after her.

Vanessa ran though an alley, shooting the zombies that appeared in front of her down with her Beretta, after a few fell. She reached a dead end with a dumpster blocking the way to the gun shop. She climbed up the dumpster, and saw three things in which appeared like German shepherds maybe, except that they didn't have fur, or skin, eating a human body. Wet, red sinew and muscle flashed beneath the alley's streetlight, the dog-creatures shrieking and snapping in a frenzy of blood lust. The dogs saw and ran up to her trying to bite her, but as one of the dogs jumped to get on the dumpster, it's head blew up.

"Vanessa, don't leave my sight from now on. Please?" Ryan told Vanessa, as he shot the rest of the dogs.

"Ok,"

After a few minutes, they finally reached the gun shop. Ryan opened the door and checked out the place before telling Vanessa to come in. He, then, began looking for extra ammo, and began putting it in the bag, and gave it to Vanessa. Vanessa searched one more time for extra ammo, and caught a glance of man, outside the front door, the door towards the street. The doorknob slowly started to turn; and she could feel her heartbeat beat faster. When the door slowly opened, she crouched behind the counter, and she saw Ryan do the same behind the other counter. Suddenly, the door slammed against the wall with such a force. She saw the man, glance around the room, and put his gun in to his holster. The man was wearing a white lab coat, and round glasses, he looked like a scientist. He took a step forward, and pulled out his gun from his holster, once again. "If there's everyone in here, come out, I can help you," the man said.

Slowing, Vanessa and Ryan got up from behind the counter. Ryan put his Magnums back into his jacket, and didn't bother aiming the gun at the man's head. She started to like him, a bit more.

"Who are you?" Ryan asked to the man, as he stepped in front of the counter.

"My name is Joshua Brown, I work for Umbrella," responded the man as he finally put his gun back into his holster.

"Does Umbrella have something to do with all of these zombies?" Vanessa asked quickly.

"Well, yes. About three years ago, Umbrella created a virus; they called it The T-virus. It was suppose to create bio-weapons, but something went wrong."

"What?"

"Well, it was created it was suppose to create bio-weapons, but it didn't work. They injected the virus directly into human tissue, and the results were horrible, but Umbrella didn't care, they just kept doing it."

"The zombies?"

"The zombies? Well, it first happened in the facility at Raccoon City, but somehow it happened here, too. The virus killed the red blood cells and killed the human body, once they were dead. The virus would regenerated the blood and the victim would be reanimated, but still be dead."

"So, that's it, there are only zombies out there?"

"Well, no! Umbrella wanted something more powerful, so there's a whole mess of creatures and one real powerful. It's called the R-001, a.k.a. the Raven. The bad news is that it's after everyone that works for Umbrella."

"Then, come with us."

"Sorry, no."

Suddenly, the window of the shop exploded inward, shards of glass hit the floor, and there stood the Raven…