Airports and Helicopters

Outside suburbs of Raccoon City

"It's still hard to let go, Barry." Jill said with tears leaking from her eyes. "I think... I may have loved him."

"I know, Jill. I know how it feels to lose someone to Umbrella. I lost my best friend to them. Remember Enrico, Jill? That damn bastard Wesker killed him right in front of us, and I helped him do it!!" He said, as he turned twords the airport, wiping a tear or two from his eyes. "We're almost there."

"I can't wait to see Chris. Who else'll be there, again?" She asked, also wiping tears from her eyes.

"Uh, let's see... well Chris for one... uh... oh yeah 'Becca, too. And some fresh out rookie named Leon. He escaped Raccoon with Chris's sister, Claire, and the Little Birkin girl."

"Where are the other two?"

"Sherry Birkin is missing, and Claire went to Paris." Barry said gruffly.

"Why'd she go before us?"

She said there was an Umbrella Building there, and she was going to investigate it for info, before she met up with us in Austria." He accelerated the Jeep. "Looks like we're going to be a little late."

"She went alone?" She asked, wondering what exactly Claire was doing at that moment.

Paris, Umbrella Corporation Building

Claire, a 19 year old college student, is running through a hallway, holding a S.T.A.R.S. standard-issue Baretta. She was being chased by the guards of the building for intruding after hours. She turned the corner into a windowed hallway, and did not hear her pursuers' footsteps. She started to take a rest, but caught sight of why her attackers stopped following.

"Shi..." Her words were lost in the resounding booms of a helicopter's chaingun.

Ratatatatatatatatatatatatat

Claire ran for her life down the hall, the glass windows shattering right behind her. Her leg wanted to stop, but her brain told them to move even faster.

Doorway!!! She thought.

The adrenaline rush gave her the boost she needed to dive through the door and down the stairs. She was, evidently, in a windowless room. She turned around, only to come face to face with about a dozen guards, all theirs guns trained on her.

"Hands up!! Drop your weapon!!"

Claire put her hands up and hesitated, seeing gas tanks behind the guards. She had an idea. One chance, and if she fucked this up, she was dead where she stood.

"I said drop your weapon!"

She obliged, and dropped her gun. When it was about halfway down, she dropped so she was on her side, and caught the gun in midair. She prayed and pulled the trigger.

One...two...thr

BOOM!!

After three shots, she hit the tanks and they blew. Gaurds wre down and either wounded or dead. She heard a step behind her. She whipped around and pulled the trigger.

Chink.

It was empty.

"Give it up." It was a latino man, and held a pistol to her face. She tried to run, but another guard hit her in head with the butt of his rifle, and Claire slipped into a deep sleep.

Airport, far outside Raccoon City

"Here they are. Hey Barry!" yelled Chris, waving his arms.

A Jeep came to a stop right in front of them.

"Finally." Leon said, sarcastically. He was dressed in a tan T-shirt and jeans with a jean jacket. While, Chris on the other hand, still had his S.T.A.R.S. uniform on.

"Shut up, Leon. Jill probably needed to pack some extra bras." Said Chris jokingly, winking at her.

"Yeah, I did. What about it?" said Jill, winking back.

"Come on, ladies. We gotta go. That includes you too, Chris." Barry stated.

Where's Rebecca?" Jill inquired.

Already asleep on the plane. It is a little early to wake for an eighteen year old college grad, or so she says." Chris said on his way up the steps to the plane.

"What, two a.m. is too early?" Barry asked.

"Pilot, we're ready to go!" Leon yelled to the front of the plane.

"Where to, sir!" a voice yelled back.

"To Umbrella Headquarters, in Austria." Chris said.