"I know what happened. I know that you and Matt escaped from the Hive. He had been scratched by a licker, and was mutating. You were going to give him the antidote to the T-Virus, which probably wouldn't have worked anyway, but couldn't because Umbrella agents came in and separated the two of you. They mentioned putting him in the Nemesis Project. You woke up in a hospital after they knocked you out. I know all of this because I too work for Umbrella, and have access to everything.

"I am a scientist at a top secret lab facility. I helped supply information to you and Lisa. I worked for the same people who mutate genes to make creatures like lickers." she paused, " and I'm going after Matt.

"Before you even begin to talk- I know what I can and can't do. I can infiltrate the lab, and I can find an anti virus that I can mix with others of its kind to make a solution that can reverse whatever they are doing to Matt. I can find him. I can't, however, stay here and sit on my ass to wait for news while they are mutating my fiancé.

"I'm going whether any of you will back me up or not. Matt was everything to me." Noira's eyes were glistening- she was on the verge of tears, holding them back as well as she could. Alice approached her and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Matt was very important to me. I won't let you go alone." She said. Noira smiled slightly.

"Thank you." she whispered, and left quietly.

"Is there no one else?" Alice questioned and when the rest of the group remained silent, she followed Noira out of the room.

.x.x.

An hour later a masculine man slammed his hand on a hard oak table. Five other people were sitting on office chairs around the table. The meeting was a serious one.

"Don't you all realize? Look outside, for God's sakes! It's the apocalypse! Yet you want to go after some guy that's turning into a monster? Our main goal should be to get out!" Alex yelled, trying to get his point across.

"This is important, though. And..." Alice glanced over at Noira as she spoke, choosing her words carefully, trying not to upset her more, "if we don't do anything, we might have a full fledged... mutant running loose. Do you realize what this thing is capable of? He could kill us all in seconds." she explained, noticing that Noira had a look of hardness plastered to her face. She knew that the black haired woman was trying to hide her pain and sorrow by looking cold and keeping neutral. She hoped it would work, she couldn't stand it when people cried. Noira was usually so composed and on task, lately her days had been depressed and tear filled. Yet she had every right to be feeling like she had nothing to live for.

Noira and Lisa had helped Alice in her plot to bring down the Umbrella Corporation. Lisa was dragged into it from a friend that had been killed by the company and had wanted to take part in her brother, Matthew Addison's, plan. Noira had worked for the company for years and had worked her way up to a position where she could see first hand the monsters that Umbrella had mutated humans into. After meeting Matt, it didn't take her long to find out that he too wanted to destroy the evil corporation. Despite his fruitless efforts to not let her get mixed up in his dangerous life, she joined in the quest as well. Lisa had met Alice, and so a triangle between the three began. Noira had the codes and information, Lisa, head of Umbrella security, had surveillance and main computer technology, and Alice was another security operative that was good in combat and had connections. Together, they had a great plan. They would infiltrate the hive, where Lisa was working, and get the T-Virus.

The T-Virus was a bio-weapon that would kill you and then reanimate your body, to put it bluntly. It would be worth millions on the open market, and if it fell into Noira, Lisa, Alice, or Matt's hands, it had the power to bring the powerful Umbrella Corporation to it's knees. That was their plan, at least. But something had gone wrong. And that was how Matt had ended up in Umbrella's custody and Alice was the sole survivor of the 'Hive Incident'. Noira had located Alice, for Noira was the only other survivor of the four besides the other girl, and here they were, trying to recruit more people to join their crusade. Their first attempt at getting others to help them had failed spectacularly. But, even if the entire world had turned against her, Noira would follow through with her plan. She had sacrificed enough already, and wasn't going to give up now. She would soon use the codes she had stolen to find where they were keeping Matt, and then nothing would stop her from retrieving him.

Alice hadn't known Noira very well before the 'Hive Incident', but she was fast learning of her ability, and her love for her late fiancé. She had barely even known Matt, her closest contact had been Lisa. Lisa had been close with Alice and Matt, and then Matt had in turn been with Noira.

"We should at least try..." Noira finally spoke. Alice knew that she was going after Matt whether anyone else went with her or not, but they were here simply for the fact that it would be easier to complete the task ahead if they had more people to help them.

"Look! Just LOOK! We NEED TO GET OUT!" Alex screamed, panicking. He felt suffocated in this city. Raccoon was decimated, and there was nothing that they could do now but leave. He had barely met these two chicks, but they seemed good at kicking some zombie ass. And there was a lot of that around Raccoon. But now they wanted to go after some monster? Why even try! Why not just get out of this hell hole and leave other people here to kill the beast. They didn't seem to understand his reasoning as much as he didn't understand theirs, it seemed.

Noira glanced out the window as he said this. They were in a tall office building, and she could see a lot of the city from here. Other buildings like this had broken windows and things sticking out of the cracked glass. The streets were littered with papers, bullet casings, and dead bodies. Most were head shots. The brave citizens of Raccoon City had retaliated against the zombie onslaught, although most had joined the ever growing ranks of the Undead in their fight.

After the 'Hive Incident', Umbrella had reopened the sealed off hive to find out what happened, since Alice was the only one that could tell them and she had been in the hospital. They had let out hordes of zombies, and now Raccoon was inhabited by these walking dead. They bit you and then you turned into one of them, and the only way to kill them was severing their spinal column or massive brain trauma, such as a bullet to the head. The whole situation was peachy, really.

Yet, Noira knew that there was nothing left for her outside Raccoon. The only man she had ever truly loved was being mutated in a lab nearby, and although her chances of finding another man outside, that is if Umbrella ended up finding a way to contain the city and keep the undead inside its walls, were high, she knew that she could never love again. They were already starting to let only a few select people out of the city, and when the outbreak reached the main gates, they would be shut completely.

"If you really want to get out, you had better go now, because they will shut the gate soon, and then you will be trapped here until you commit suicide or get bitten. Of course, you could also die of starvation, but it is unlikely that you will be alone for that long. But if you really think that you have a chance of getting out, go ahead." Noira explained, shooting Alex a dark look.

She said this while continuing to look out the window, attention now focused up the long highway packed bumper to bumper full of cars. All heading in the same direction. Towards Raven Bridge, where the gate was located. Those cars were metal boxes holding the innocent citizens of Raccoon, all trying to get out of the city before they got bitten or were locked in. Noira knew that barely any of them would get out. Where people were, zombies followed. One person in that long line of cars and bodies got infected, and then in a matter of an hour the infection would spread the mile distance to the gate.

She sighed and shook her head.

"Anyone else at least want to try and kick some zombie ass and help me before we die?" she asked, and Alice smiled. They still had a chance at getting out, as little as that may be. As much as she was beginning to love Noira, her main goal was also to get out. But she would help her until she came to a point where it was her last chance to leave.

A few people added in to the conversation.

"What the hell, I'll help you. I'm sick of living anyway.." one girl spoke out. She had on chains, spikes and a shotgun holstered to her back.

"I'll do what I can, but when the last helicopter leaves, I'm on it." a fairly muscular man named Josh added his answer to her plea for help.

"Thanks." Noira told them gratefully.

Alice nodded and said that she felt the same, and the two others, Fiona and Nicole, said they would help as well. Noira was glad that she had the support, sure that they would be able to get to Matt before it was too late. She dare not think of what would happen if they didn't get to him in time...