Ch. 16- The End of the Battle
Disclaimer: I don't own Resident Evil and neither do you.
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Michael looked out the small, open window. There were very few clouds in the sky, just enough to darken the brightness of the full moon and the millions of stars in the sky. If any natural light was going to come and fill up the room, it wouldn't happen in the next nine minutes.
"What do we do? We only got a few minutes before this city is destroyed and we have to get rid of Amy!" Lilie screamed.
Billy looked around the relatively large room. The room was dim, lit only by a few simple lamps, definitely not giving enough light to stun Amy. He fired a bullet at Amy and looked up at the corners of the ceiling. Big lights similar to the lights at a baseball field that were used during a game when the game went on too long, were sitting right there in the corners. "The lights! Turn them on!" he shouted.
Rebecca nodded and headed for a large lever, the switch for the big lights. The lever was down, indicating that the lights were off. She gripped the lever and pulled it up with some difficulty. Nothing happened.
"Where are the lights?" Lilie shouted as she fired a bullet at Amy.
"They aren't turning on!" Rebecca shouted as she pushed the lever down. "There's not enough power!"
Lilie grumbled. As much as she hated Milat for what he had done to her and the town, she wished that for even a single minute, he was still alive. He'd be too injured to try anything stupid like attack her and the others and one of them would find a way to make him explain what was going on and how to fix the lights by using his last breath of life.
"Lilie, is there a power box around here?" Billy asked.
"How should I know? I've never been here before." Lilie answered.
"There!" Michael shouted, pointing at a black door with a lightening bolt painted on it.
"Lilie, you go with him. We'll take care of this pest!" Billy commanded his sister before firing another bullet at Amy. Lilie nodded and followed Michael through the door and into another room.
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As soon as Wesker took a few steps towards the small group in front of him, bullets and arrows began heading towards his body. Most of the bullets and arrows, he was able to dodge because he was able to move at an unnaturally quick speed. There were a few, however, that he wasn't able to dodge and was pelted with bullets and two arrows. Strangely enough, the bullets and arrows did not slow him down. He rushed up to Claire, wrapped a hand around her neck, and began to squeeze.
Claire dropped her bow gun and struggled to escape his clutches by kicking her legs and beating on his arms. All he did was smirk and dodge the bullets being shot at him by the others while not letting go of the girl he was choking.
After a minute, Claire's face was beginning to turn a bluish color, so Wesker decided to get rid of her. He threw her at a stone wall and smirked when he heard her let out a squeak of pain as she hit the wall and the others ran up to her, asking frantically if she was all right. He was unstoppable.
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The room Lilie and Michael came into had a staircase leading up to a big platform still on the bottom floor. The two quickly looked around the room. There was a large control panel filled with buttons and there were two windows: one that looked down at Amy's room and another that looked down at Wesker's room. Lilie and Michael walked up to the control panel and looked at it. The lights to the power were cut off and a power cord was cut.
Thinking quickly, Lilie grabbed a nearby roll of duct tape and reconnected the cord. The lights began to turn on but no power came.
Michael looked from the control panel then to Lilie. "So, do you know how to work this thing?" he asked her.
Lilie shook her head, "No. Do you?"
Michael shook his head, "No, but I guess we'll have to try all the buttons out to get the power on. Let's see…maybe this button." Michael pressed a round, grey button.
As soon as the button was pressed, a country song began to play from hidden speakers, "Country road. Take me home. To the place where I beloooong!"
Lilie groaned and shouted, "Turn it off!"
Michael pressed the button again and the music stopped. Now it was Lilie's turn to try a button. She pressed another button and this time, a red light next to a microphone lit up. The two pressed random buttons, which opened pop cans, started a fan, and sometimes not even doing anything at all. That is, until Lilie pressed a button that would really come in handy. It wasn't the power, but she heard something move and crashed into something followed by a scream.
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Wesker was prepared to make a final attack upon the group. He never even noticed a large, sharp spear swing towards him on heavy hooks. The only time he noticed the spear was when it went through his back and stomach, causing him to let out a loud scream.
Chris, Jill, Claire, and Leon stared in surprise and shock as they watched the evil man getting speared and struggle to push a spear out of his body. He was unsuccessful.
Lilie and Michael watched the spear enter the man's body and had no clue what to do about the spear. "Get it out of him!" Lilie shouted at Michael.
Michael looked around the control panel, but instead of pushing the button that moved the spear, he found a joystick and moved it to the left. The spear and its victim moved forward.
"Here, let me do it." Lilie told Michael, pushing the older boy away from the joystick, "Just keep pressing buttons to turn on the power." She moved the joystick up and the spear rose a few feet above the ground. She suddenly had an idea. She pushed the joystick up until Wesker's head hit the ceiling.
"That was for what you've done to my town!" Lilie shouted through the microphone. She lowered the spear, backed it up, then made it hit the wall in front of the man. "That was for what you've done to my friends and the babies!" she again screamed. She backed up the spear and screamed, "And this is for all the other stuff you've done and all the other stuff you're planning on doing!" She slammed the man and spear into the wall one final time.
The wall immediately crumbled and the spear broke off. Large chunks of the wall buried the man and spear. The pile didn't move, so Lilie' wasn't afraid of the man attacking the others since he was trapped.
"Lilie! The power!" Michael shouted, pointing at the now completely lit control panel. A sound was coming from it.
Lilie nodded and shouted into the microphone, "Rebecca! Now!"
Rebecca must have heard Lilie because she nodded and again flipped the switch. The room with Amy in it was lit with extremely bright lights.
Amy let out a frightened and painful scream as the light hit her slimy skin. Light smoke came from the skin as if something was cooking it with a high heat.
Michael turned to leave, but accidentally pressed the button to the speakers. This time, the country song wasn't played, but a different one: "Na na na na. Na na na na. Hey hey hey. Good-bye!"
From Amy's room, Billy shot a bullet into the creature's skull, blowing the infected brains out. Amy stopped moving.
Lilie turned off the speakers and screamed into the microphone, "Everybody! Get to 'The Spirit of Freedom'! We have only a few minutes to get out of this town before it's destroyed!" Michael grabbed her hand and led her down the stairs and into Amy's room where they were met up with Chris, Jill, Billy, Rebecca, Barry, Leon, Claire, and Tom. The once-again large group rushed back to the helicopter and stuffed themselves inside.
"Lilie, do you know how to fly this?" Chris asked Lilie.
Lilie shook her head, "My adoptive parents thought I was too young to fly helicopters and planes."
"Then give me the keys. I'll fly this thing." Chris commanded.
Lilie quickly handed the keys to Chris and took a seat in between Billy and Michael.
Chris put the keys in the ignition and began to lift the helicopter out of the underground airport. Everything was going along smoothly…until missiles and bombs began falling onto Marysville, flying close to 'The Spirit of Freedom', causing it to jerk wildly in the air.
Lilie and Rebecca let out terrified screams as the helicopter shook wildly. They couldn't help but to scream. Their only transportation at the time felt as if it were about to explode in the sky or crash fifty feet to the ground, killing them all instantly. The only thing that silenced their screams were two people grabbing their hands and holding on tight.
Lilie looked at her hands. Billy was holding onto her right hand and Rebecca's left while a blushing Michael was holding onto her right. Lilie smiled and tightened her grip on both hands while making sure that her grip was tighter on Michael's hand than on Billy's. Come on Spirit of Freedom. Don't fail me now when I need you to most. Lilie thought as 'The Spirit of Freedom' struggled to fly away from the missiles and bombs.
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It was around 12:30am when we finally made it back to Raccoon City. Lilie's helicopter almost got hit by the bombs and missiles, but to our luck, we made it back safely as we watched in horror the small city that meant so much to Lilie was destroyed. I saw tears running down her cheeks as she saw her friends, adoptive family, and only home she could remember suddenly gone. Her tears didn't last long. She managed to kept them away after she wiped her eyes.
I smiled at her, but I wasn't the only one. Michael had a blush on his face as he stared at my sister. I could tell just by looking at Lilie that he had a crush on her even though they'd only met a day earlier. I looked at Lilie's left hand. It was enveloped in Michael's hands. Then I knew that it wasn't a simple crush, but a serious one, sort of like the one I had on Rebecca.
'The Spirit of Freedom' was landed on top of the RPD. A few officers on night shifts came out and were surprised to see a new helicopter carrying a large group of people. They asked who the helicopter belonged to. We said it was Lilie's and explained that Marysville was attacked. The only survivors were Lilie, Michael, and Tom. The others left out the part about Amy and the zombies. At the time I didn't know why, but I also didn't ask. I was tired just like everyone else, so we locked up 'The Spirit of Freedom' and left for our homes.
Lilie and I went to Rebecca's apartment, Barry invited Michael to stay at his house for a few days, Tom went to a nearby hotel, and everyone else went back to their homes.
Lilie was silent on the trip to Rebecca's apartment. I couldn't blame her. I honestly couldn't blame her if she was stuck having nightmares for months after going through what she did.
When we got to the apartment, Lilie said quietly that she was really tired and wanted to go to bed. She walked into the apartment, partially whispered, "Goodnight." to Rebecca and me and made it to the spare bedroom. Surprisingly, she went to sleep quickly and was sleeping soundly.
I, on the other hand, had too many thoughts on my mind. Is Lilie going to be okay? What will we do with 'The Spirit of Freedom'? How am I going to tell Rebecca and Lilie that Lilie and I were going to have to go back to Newport because of my job?
Rebecca sat next to me on the couch while I was in the middle of my thoughts. "Are you okay?" she asked me.
I gave her a tiny smile and nodded, "Yeah. I'm fine. I'm just thinking."
"About Lilie?"
"Yeah. That and other things."
"Really? What else?"
I told her all of my thoughts. She didn't seem all that happy about the fact that I had to go back to my apartment, but I told her that it couldn't be helped. I was low on money, I had to get back to my job, and I still had to give a 30 day notice if I was going to leave my apartment.
After I explained my thoughts to Rebecca, she told me why nobody said what happened in Marysville. Apparently, Rebecca went though the same thing in the Spencer mansion after we split up a year ago. Chris, Jill, and Barry were there along with some other STARS members, but the others died. When they got back to Raccoon City, nobody believed them and the living STARS members were suspended. A few months later, the zombies took over the old Raccoon City and it was destroyed. All of this could have been prevented if the other cops believed them, but instead, thousands of people lost their lives just like the people in Marysville.
Rebecca started to look uncomfortable as she spoke of the zombies, so she decided to change the subject to something less depressing and I listened and responded back. We were up for hours, sitting on the living room couch chatting until I woke up hours later holding a sleeping Rebecca in my arms.
I didn't want to let go of her even after both of us were awake. I just sat there, holding her until a knock came at the door. Only then did I let her go.
Chris, Jill, and Sherry were at the door and they wanted to talk to me and Lilie. I told them that she was still asleep, but asked Sherry to wake her up. The girl followed me to the spare bedroom, but went inside alone.
I placed my ear near the door and listened in on what was being said. I heard Sherry say happily, "Wakey-wakey, Lilie."
I heard a soft groan from my sister and she asked something in a voice that was so soft that I couldn't hear. A conversation was going on that I couldn't hear, but before I knew it, the talking turned into loud giggling. A few minutes later, the door opened and Lilie walked out of the room, talking with Sherry with a smile on her face. The two were chatting as if they were old friends or something.
Once both me and Lilie got to the living room, Chris and Jill explained that the RPD wanted to buy 'The Spirit of Freedom' from Lilie for $500,000. Lilie thought about it for a few minutes before taking the offer.
I found out later, after I explained to Lilie that we couldn't stay in Raccoon City, that she wanted to sell it because she didn't know how to fly it and had no plans of being a pilot. She also didn't have any place to keep the helicopter.
Lilie and I spent almost another week in Raccoon City. During that time, Lilie made good friends with Sherry Birkin and another girl named Mari Bright. Michael moved in with Mari's family provided the fact that he'd promise not the make a move on Mari or her sister. Michael and Lilie were spending a lot of time together, a little too much in my opinion, but then again, I should talk. I was spending more time with Rebecca than Lilie was with Michael.
The day Lilie and I left, we felt as if the world was about to end. None of us wanted to leave Raccoon City, but none of us could do anything about it. Lilie and I gave Rebecca, Sherry, Michael, and the others a sad good-bye before we left for Newport.
Lilie slept almost the entire trip, but when she was awake, I told her what had happened in the fourteen years we were separated. I told her about our parents since she was way too young to remember them. She smiled at me almost the entire time and talked about what had been happening to her. She told me hilarious stories that I couldn't believe. One was about a friend of Lilie's that ran around screaming after she saw Carlee's sleeping cat move and another about her friend, Eli getting drunk after drinking an unopened can of Pepsi, and other stories that made me laugh.
When Lilie and I got to my apartment, her nose started to twitch from the horrible Marina smell, but she didn't complain. I apologized for the smell and the tiny apartment and she said that it wasn't all that bad. I asked her if she was sure, so she asked, "Do I have to take piano lessons when I live here?"
"Do you want to?" I asked her.
Lilie shook her head.
"Then, you don't have to." I said.
She smiled and said, "Then, I'm sure it's not all that bad."
Judging by the look in her eyes, she didn't really mind. In fact, she even looked happy. We were both together and wouldn't ever be separated to unexpectedly again.
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A/N: No, this is not the last chapter. There's one more chapter left. Oh, and I know earlier I said all the other STARS members died, but I'm not counting Brad Vickers as one of the STARS members since he technically never went into the mansion. Mari Bright is also my own character. Read and Review if you want, but no flaming please.