Full Summary: Micheal, a cold, aloof sixteen-year-old becomes plagued with dreams of the dead walking. At first he chocks it up to his twisted, horrific imagination, but things that happen in his hometown of Raccoon City force him to realize that his imagination isn't the ONLY thing twisted and horrific. Based on Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

Disclaimer: Believe me, if I owned Resident Evil, you'd know.

"..." means speech.

'...' means thoughts.

---Chapter 12---

The two of them stood there, watching the mysterious man make confident strides around them. The man kept looking at the both of them. The man half smiled. "Well...as I live and breathe...the Alice and Malice Project...who would have thought that you'd both be living in the same city? Hmm...what I don't understand is why neither one of you is dead..." The man turned his attention to Micheal, giving him a harsh, scrutinizing glare. "...the Malice Project's microchip programming is set to eliminate any other bio-humanoid weapon in our arsenal it comes across...but as we can all see, The Alice Project is still breathing. Why is that, Mr. Drake?" The man asked in his harsh foreign accent. Micheal decided to play dumb and pretend to be John.

"My programming has been modified since the experiment. I was given orders to find and protect any survivors. Until my orders change, I am obligated to complete my mission." He spoke monotonously, imitating John as best as he could. The man pressed a button on his earpiece.

"System Controls, override Malice Project microchip. New orders are to kill three of the guards. Execute." He spoke. Micheal played along, picking up the large knife from the ground and running towards the three guards watching over Sara and a bespectacled man in a wheelchair whom Angela was holding onto rather tightly. The men dropped their guns and changed their stances into fighting positions. Micheal closed in on the three black clad men, dodging the first few attacks and retaliating by slicing the men in vital areas of the body to make their deaths quicker. After he was done, he whipped the kinfe downwards, removing the excess blood from the blade. Sara looked up at him in fear, but was eased when Micheal glanced down at her with a smile and a wink. He threw the blade with deadly accuracy, the blade sticking up from the ground behind Sara's back but in front of her bindings. He looked at her with a knowing expression, which she returned as he walked away. Ever so slightly, Sara inched her bindings to the sharp blade and began to carefully cut her ropes.

"Now...for the ultimate test for you Alice...we have a little surprise..." The man spoke again. Underneath the man's voice was the telltale thumping noise of the Nemesis' footsteps. Both Alice and Micheal tensed up when the Nemesis came out of appeared, walking out from the City Hall main conference building. There it stood, without a scratch holding it's rocket launcher and machine gun. It stood there, looking at both Alice and Micheal and breathing heavily. "Of course, Malice Project has undoubtedly proven his ability to kill without remorse. Your test is to defeat the Nemesis. You were basically the same principle, that a certain human could bond with the T-virus on a molecular level, evolving beyond the levels and restrictions of normal human beings. You must kill him." He said. He pressed the button on his earpiece. "Nemesis Project, discard primary weapons..." On command, the monster dropped the launcher and machine gun. The man turned back to Alice.

"I won't...I won't do it..." She said. The man looked at her in disappoinment.

"Fight or your friends die, one by one..." He warned. He pulled out a gun.

"No..." She said. The man looked like he finally lost his cool and fired a bullet at the man in the wheelchair, hitting him square in the heart. The man, who by the hysterical cries of Angela was revealed to be Professor Charles Ashford, had died on the spot.

"And he was very important to Umbrella. I have no reservations about killing your other friends. Now fight!" The man yelled. Angela hugged her father's dead body tightly, screaming and crying. Alice stood there, silent. The man then pointed the gun at Sara. Micheal tensed up, ready to attack the man if it came down to it.

"Fine...I'll do it." She said. She walked over to the Nemesis, fist clenching and unclenching. The Nemesis roared, throwing a punch at the woman. They began to fight, attacking each other over and over again, until Alice began to move faster and faster, gaining the upper hand against the slower monster. She kicked the Nemesis hard, making it stagger backwards and hit a steel tower. It turned around, pulling out a piece of the steel and using it as a type of club or sword. It swung at Alice a few times, but Alice was fast enough to dodge the weapon. Once everyone knew knew she was at a disadvantage when she was moving closer and closer to the helicopter, the blonde man who killed Dr Ashford tossed her one of the two sticks Alice had when she was fighting the guards. She caught it and blocked the attack coming her way. She kicked the Nemesis once more, while the man threw her the second extendable weapon. Alice and the Nemesis continued their fight, and once again Alice was winning. She kept delivering blow after blow to the humongous monster before pushing him into the metal spike jutting out of the tower from where the Nemesis pulled out a piece of it.

The monster roared in pain as Alice kept on attcking it, pushing it farther back onto the spike. Suddenly her attacks slowed, and even from far away Micheal could see the tears in her eyes. She stopped, looking at the Nemesis with a shocked expression. "Matt...Matt...I'm so sorry..." The Nemesis kept looking at her, it's expression not changing. The man neared the two of them, a severe expression on his cool, calm and collected face.

"Now kill him...put that thing out of it's misery...in all truth I thought it was funny. You were the failed experiment, yet you are stronger than any experiment of ours that had succeeded..." Alice refused, walking away from the large man/zombie thing. The man sighed deeply, motioning for the guards to point their weapons at the four survivors. "...I'm very disappointed in you. You cannot be perfected if you do not let go of your human tendencies towards death and life. You have the power to choose now. Why do you not use it?" Micheal could see the Nemesis pulling itself off of the spike,walking over to the machine gun and rocket launcher it had dropped when it arrived. He had a feeling about what it was going to do. He dove for the ground as the Nemesis opened fire on the guards pointing their guns at his group. The bullets hit with deadly accuracy, killing the guards while hitting nothing else. Alice and the man turned around quickly to see what the problem was. Seeing what was happening, the blonde man raised his handgun to Alice's head but Micheal was already there to kick the gun away. He backhanded the scientist, causing him to fall to the ground.

"You're quite the idiot aren't you? I'll tell you right now, nobody, and I mean nobody controls us." Micheal told him. After that, all hell broke loose. There was gunfire everywhere. Alice and Micheal nodded to each other before they split up, Micheal running to Sara's side. He skidded to a halt behind her, helping her with her restraints. He pulled out the knife and sliced through the ropes, helping her up. Jill and Carlos had already gotten up, fighting the guards that were left alive. He grabbed Sara's and Angela's hands and pulled them to the Helicopter. He pushed them inside, telling them to get the helicopter started. Sara looked back at him in apprehension. Micheal saw it, and cupped her cheek in his hand. "Hey...don't worry, I promise I'll come back. I've done it before, right?" He tried to assure her. It failed. Without thinking about it he moved closer and gave Sara one soft kiss on the lips before pushing her deeper into the copter. "Buckle up, keep your finger on the trigger and protect the copter okay?" He told her before running off.

He fired accurately at the guards still alive, running to the main tower. He had used his heat sensors to see that there were some snipers up in that tower when Alice and the Nemesis were fighting. Best take care of them first. He pointed upward, firing at the two snipers who were pointing at both him and Alice. The first shot missed, but the next shots hit both men, both falling down the tower to their deaths. He stopped, but continued to run when he spotted bullets hitting the ground near him. The gunshots followed him, Micheal always staying ahead of the line of fire with his superhuman speed. He fired at the helicopters, forcing one to swerve and in a display of dumb luck, hit the other helicopters and making them crash.

He could spot Alice over in the main conference room avoiding gunfire. He ran over to her to go help. He fired at the helicopters, biding enough time for him to get to Alice's side. They stood there, surrounded by helicopters until the Nemesis moved in front of them. It fired it's machine gun at some of the helicopters, shooting down two of them. The other copters fired, the bullets hitting the monster but having no effect. The monster then raised it's rocket launcher, firing at one of the helicopters which tried in vain to swerve and avoid it.

The copter exploded, some of the debris hitting the other helicopters and causing them to crash. The initial copter lost control, flying towards them. A shard of metal came flying at Micheal and Alice, heading straight for Alice's heart. She wasn't watching, as the flaming helicopter had crashed on top of the Nemesis, killing it. Micheal saw that Alice was preoccupied, and saw only one other option. He pushed Alice out of the way, making her stumble and fall. They both hit the ground, Alice still in shock. She opened her eyes and saw Micheal smiling at her. "You...you okay?" He asked weakly.

Alice was confused until she felt a warm liquid hit her chest. She looked down and saw that jagged piece of metal sticking out of the middle of Micheal's chest, bleeding profusely. She looked up at him in surprise and fear. She felt confused. He sacrificed his life for her, when the girl he loved was safe inside the escape helicopter. "Micheal..." She you do me one more favour? Don't let me die here. Could you bury me somewhere where I won't end up like the people in this town..? I really hated this place. I don't want to die here." He told her weakly. He grabbed the shard of metal and pulled it out, grunting in effort and agony. Alice watched him hold onto life for a few more minutes. She picked him up carefully, running to the copter.

Sara felt anxious. A few seconds back she had felt a weird pain in her chest, like heartburn, but she hadn't eaten since last night. She unbuckled herself and looked outside. She was horrified by what she saw. Alice was running to the copter with a motionless Micheal Drake in her arms. He was bleeding heavily, and his arms dangled down lifelessly. She could feel her heart shatter over and over, tears overflowing onto her face. Alice walked into the copter, setting Micheal down onto the floor carefully. Sara kneeled down beside the body of her best friend and love, silently crying as Carlos dragged the blonde scientist in. Sara looked at the man and felt an overwhelming feeling of rage as the copter began to lift off.

She screamed and threw herself onto his chest, punching him over and over, putting all her rage into each blow. "YOU BASTARD! YOU KILLED HIM! THIS IS YOUR FAULT!" She shrieked. By the time Sara had calmed down a little, his face was bleeding and some of his teeth were gone. Sara then plled out her handgun, pointing it at him.

"Killing me won't bring them back!" He tried to reason. Sara pulled him up by the collar, looking angrily into his eyes.

"No, but it still feels good!" She yelled. She stood up and pushed him out of the back of the plane. He landed on the helipad, his left leg bent the wrong way. Sara aimed her gun and fired, hitting the man in the kneecap of his right leg. From high up, she could see that a large number of zombies were approaching, while the zombie of Doctor Charles Ashford crawled his way to the evil man. She watched as Doctor Ashford bit into his neck, and soon the other zombies began to pile onto him, eating him alive. She then turned her attention to Micheal, who under closer inspection, was still breathing, although each breath was laboured. He opened his eyes and watched Sara kneel down beside him.

"Hey...I'm really sorry. I broke our promise..." He said weakly. Sara felt the tears blur her vision. Micheal weakly reached up and wiped her tears away. "You know when I said I had to tell you something? I was gonna tell you that I...I...love...y..ou..." He trailed off, his eyes closing. Sara cried hysterically over Micheal's dead body. Suddenly the copter began to rumble, everything becoming really bright outside. Umbrella must have fired the missile already. She hurried and got back in her seat, buckling her seatbelt. The rumbling got worse, and saw something fly past her vision. It was heading for Angela; about to kill her, but in the nick of time Alice moved in front of her and took the full force of the sharp object with her chest. She fell on top of Angela's lap, not moving.

"HANG ON! WE'RE GONNA CRASH!" Carlos yelled. The copter made a nosedive into the forest, and everything went dark in Sara's vision...

---Hours Later---

Sara could feel something. She tried opening her eyes, and was met by darkness. It was night once again. She must have been knocked out for a while. She was also hanging upside down, the only thing keeping her from falling was the belt buckles. She held onto one of the handles on the ceiling and struggled to unbuckle herself. She could hear that Jill, Angela, Carlos and Mike (AN: I just found out his name was LJ so in future stories I will correct that mistake.) were outside, talking. She finally got the buckle off, and carefully made her way to the exit. Nobody was there. The place was empty and Micheal's body had disappeared as well. She crawled out of the copter, greeted by her friends. They were injured and bleeding a little, but they were still okay. They helped her out of the wreckage.

"Do you know where Micheal's body is?" She asked. All of them shook their heads.

"Alice is dead too..." Jill said. She pointed to the motionless burnt body across the waterfall. The body was horribly burnt, and the piece of metal that struck her was still there.

"It's best that we go now. If I know Umbrella they'll be looking for us. Come on." Carlos said. They all nodded, heading off into the woods. Sara looked back at Alice's body and thought about what could have been if Micheal was alive. She wiped her final tear away and walked on with her new family...

---Down the river---

"Sir! There's a body down there!" One soldier exclaimed. Hidden eyes looked at the monitor showing the body of a teenage boy lying there. The man smirked, ordering them to land for a moment. The copter landed,

the man hopping out of the machine and walking over to the body. He was covered in blood, and there was a large wound in his chest. The man recognized that face though, and smiled. He picked up the body with his arms and carried it back to the black chopper.

'I know the higher ups are gonna like this...' He thought to himself.

---End Chapter 12!---

And so ends the story. Well, I still have to put up the epilogue, but essentially it's over. Please review and tell me how it was, if you enjoyed it. Thanks.