Disclaimer: Why do we have to do these gay things? Anyway Resident Evil belongs to Capcom and Resident Evil: Remake is exclusive to the Nintendo Gamecube. I am not getting any cash or benefits for writing this I'm just an RE Fan. So now that thats out of the way, let the nightmare begin.

Author's Note: I'm sorry for the delay I've just been busy. But after playing through RE Remake again as well as Zero and playing some of Dead Aim (Must buy and beat!) my inspiration is back. Also I have decided that next will come my novelization of Resident Evil Zero, it just has more that I can manipulate in it without going off the story. Now onto the chapter!

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Resident Evil Rebirth

Chapter 24: Creatures of the Underground

(Spencer Estate-Underground Labs)

Chris looked up at Rebecca as she suggested they get moving, Jill and himself were well armed enough to continue on but they really didn't need to risk Rebecca and Richard getting hurt. "No me and Jill will get moving." he said as he pointed to a radio system that was located in a small room. Rebecca saw this and sighed as she realized what he was going to say "You want us to waste our time and continue trying to contact Brad, right?" Chris nodded as he brought up his shotgun knowing that he only possessed twelve more shells and it was unlikely there would be shells placed in the labs.

Richard eventually nodded as he placed his shotgun on the table "Alright. We'll continue but if something doesn't seem right we're coming after you." he reached into his pocket suddenly removing a key with a lightning bolt on it "I found this poor guy." he said looking at the corpse of Jonathan Fay, apparently the lover of this Ada woman mentioned in the letter. Chris took the key and looked at it realizing that he had seen this symbol before when they did an inspection at the local power plant, it would probably access the areas where the power was generated.

Chris pocketed it and looked at Richard and Rebecca "One of you keep a look out for Barry. As much as I'd hate to admit it my trust in him is shaken. We all know we can trust each other at least." Rebecca nodded obviously she was not capable of this. Jill had been with him the entire time and all the gunshots in the scientist and other bodies were fresh and from close range. Richard chuckled lightly "You never suspected me? Cool." Jill looked at him and smiled "Don't flatter yourself. Your too stupid to be a traitor." she said with out of place sarcasm. Richard rolled his eyes "I suppose so." Chris headed out, Jill followed nodding back to them.

Chris and Jill moved out heading back down the stairs toward the labs, walking back down the cold, stone stairs and back through the creaking gate. Chris took point holding up his Beretta as he walked down the corridor ready for anything that would get in his way. There was a groan from around the corner as something rose up in the shadows, Chris noticed that horrible breath from where he stood, it was like sniffing paint thinner. He backed up as there was a roar, it then rushed forward the dim lightning showing off its blood soaked face as it darted at Chris.

The crimson head's claws flashed out striking the wall as Chris ducked drawing up his Beretta to fire twice into the monster's back causing it to groan as it fell forward. Jill then moved smashing her boot into the back of its neck and cracking sound was heard as she did so. Chris breathed heavily as Jill spoke "I guess that should be expected. All of them are already dead, they have had time to regenerate. We should be ready." Chris nodded as he kicked the monster to the side to keep it out of the way. They then moved to a door that seemed to be locked.

Chris noticed the same symbol as the key that Richard had given him on the door, removing the key from his pocket he inserted it and turning. Jill kept watch her assault rifle held up switched to automatic mode. There was a click as the lock was released, Chris removed the key and opened the door jumping back as he pulled, Jill raised the rifle seeing nothing but the orange glow of the back up lights in the hall. Chris looked and then stepped forward keeping his handgun down as he moved, Jill followed trying to keep her footsteps soft on the metal plated floor.

The hallway before them split off into two different trails. To their left was a short hall that lead to a elevator that appeared to go down but the power loss prevented it from working. To the right was a small flight of stairs that was accompanied by a number of broken wires and pipes that lead to a pair of double doors. Directly in front of them was a door marked 'Wreck Room' at this point both of them were due for something to at least drink and walked through both of them on their guard. Chris narrowed his eyes as he looked down at the scientist and the sleeping zombie, he carried another shotgun. Apparently he was in the middle of loading it when he was slain.

Chris kneeled down and collected the shotgun shells "That makes casualty number seventeen. How many people were working down here?" he murmured to himself as he placed the new shells in his open as always side pack with the other six extras he had. Jill found some bottled water in the refrigerator, it was still sealed so the virus wouldn't have gotten contaminated. Jill allowed it to roll back across her tongue helping with the dryness in the back of her throat, Chris told her to hold on to it she nodded and they each left. The took the second door into the next room having absolutely no clue of what to expect.

There was alot of moisture in the next room as they found themselves surrounded by pipes and mechanics, the floor seemed to be damp from the sprinkler system obviously there had been alot of activity in here earlier. They both stepped forward Jill taking point her assault rifle on her shoulder "Must be either the cooling systems." Jill said as she stepped forward hanging a right following the white painted arrows on the floor, a small fire burned in a piece of machinery obviously a furnace or something. She looked up pointing to some reinforced pipes along the wall "But those are made for feeding power." she followed them Chris following just behind her.

Down the short twenty foot passage they came across a lone panel that smelled of a thick gaseous fuel. Chris looked at it, being the team's marksman and point man he was not really spewing with knowledge on such things. Jill however knew of this and spoke up "It is a key component in starting up power after a black out. Though this is a smaller version for private establishments. Using a fuel it automatically powers it up the generator like a quick jump start." Chris nodded understanding perfectly as Jill lowered the heavy M4 and reached to a handle. She turned and pulled "And this must be the fuel cell." she pulled it out. It seemed to be solid enough.

Jill turned it looking for something "And should I be surprised?" she asked as she turned it and showed Chris, the power meter showing that it was completely drained. Chris looked down the passage as he suddenly heard an odd screech almost insect like, he turned bringing up the shotgun his eyes moving to the sights ready at a moments notice. There was a tense silence before he lowered the shotgun and looked at Jill "I saw something back in that room where we found those slides. You still have them?" he asked. Jill nodded motioning to the backpack, that was the ultimate evidence against Wesker and Umbrella. With this thought they headed back to the room.

(Underground Labs-Meeting Room)

Rebecca stood guard at the door guarding it as Richard continued to try to find Brad's channel, radio signals could not get through the walls of the laboratory on the inside and at this depth. She ignored Richard's light urgings at the half decent machine as he continued to try for a connection, she meanwhile cursed herself. She held the heavy pistol style magnum up, she still had eight rounds left in it but she wouldn't have had it at all if it wasn't for a corpse who decided to at least die and have something another could use. But why the fuck did she have to lose every last bit of evidence that she and her unlikely partner had found, she just had to lose her side pack earlier!

She looked at her Beretta as well, it had killed more than any other handgun probably had during her movements through the more infected areas of the forest. She felt ready with the heavy weapon in the grasp of her sweaty hands "I will not die." she said softly, she would make sure this was exposed. Rebecca's head moved to the side as she heard the elevator nearby working, she looked at Richard who nodded and picked up his shotgun following her out and taking aim waiting for whoever it was to emerge, their trigger fingers ready in the event of it being an enemy.....

(Underground Labs-Mailing Room)

Jill really couldn't believe that the fuel storage tank was in the mailing room, right behind the counter. What kind of a person would feel comfortable working right next to a fuel tank, this was only reinforced once Jill read the label. The fuel in question had a main ingredient which involved a rather potent explosive, the slightest amount of slinging would result in an explosion even while it was stored within. Jill shouldered the assault rifle as she pulled the capsule from its place holding it in both her hands, her right holding the handle, her left supporting it. They walked from the office.

Jill walked softly into the hallway as Chris took point knowing that just running would cause this precious cargo to go off like a forth of July special, only contained into one small area that would fry both of them. As they stepped through the halls there was no sign of opposition from the single V-ACT that Chris had murdered just prior. However once they entered the hall where the wreck room was there was skittering in the ventilation system like nails rapping quickly against the metal from the inside. Jill looked to Chris in confusion as he stepped behind her, she held up her magnum in her free hand letting her other arm hang limp holding the tank secure.

Chris looked at her and motioned toward the double doors, once they got through they would be able to use their dangerous toy. They entered the room Jill holding the revolver in front of her ready to fire at anything that dared to attack her. As they allowed the doors to close there was suddenly a crash as something metallic hit the floor, something came around the passage before them standing there. Chris took aim on it but didn't know how to react to what he saw before them. Jill held up her magnum in her shaking hand as she looked at the abomination before her.

It might have once been some sort of insect, or perhaps even human. It seemed to have the body of an insect although it stood on a pair of hind legs, its arms were made like scythes. It's anatomy made no sense from the outside, even its eyes hung out slightly from the deformed heads. It suddenly roared rushing Chris and swinging one of its arms, it stretched out before coming right up. Chris moved to the side away from Jill as the limp stabbed into the floor he then raised his shotgun and fired. The lightweight creature was blasted back slamming against the floor as one of its arms was sent flying with a crackling sound.

He looked at Jill as she stood there, more of them started to appear "Move it! I'll hold them off!" he shouted. Jill was about to protest but knew better and she headed down the hall following the white paint, the sounds of screeching, shotgun blasts and splattering crusty shell and gore heard behind her. She quickly moved putting the fuel cell into place and smashing her hand onto the restart button, the entire system started to act but something was wrong. 'Where the fuck are the lights?!' her mind screamed. She saw the instructions on the panel "Reactivate in main power room?! Damn!" she shouted.

Chris suddenly came into view from the hall frantically trying to reload the shotgun however he suddenly tripped falling back. One monster jumped at him screeching, he reached up grabbing the one scythe arm as it came at him, he growled as he reached up grabbing one of the flash grenades pushing it into the monster's deformed mouth, amazingly it went down the bug things large throat and into its body. Suddenly there was a blasting sound as a .44 magnum round caught it in the chest sending it and the bomb back. Jill stood there with her magnum "Back off!" she shouted firing two more rounds keeping them back.

The flash grenade went off suddenly blowing the fragile creature apart, several pieces of its flying shell also spelled death for the other disgusting creatures. Chris breathed as Jill walked up offering a hand, he took it and stood to his feet. Had the creature been there another few seconds he would have been caught in the close range blast. Jill however thought nothing of her deeds, though she had just saved him it didn't make them even for the times he had saved her. Eventually after they managed to get a hold of herself they moved on to the next room.

The next room was horrible, pipes and machinery surrounded them once again but the entire room was enveloped in smoke and steam from the heating systems. Jill breathed as she moved forward still holding her magnum while Chris kept watch on the rear with his shotgun. They eventually found a few bodies with what appeared to large holes chewed out of them, it explained where those creatures had come from. To Chris it looked like a disturbing scene out of a certain sci-fi movie involving easy to kill yet numerous freaks of nature. They moved past them trying not to look back.

It didn't take them long to get through that room and find the next area, a large square shaped room with a rather large cylinder object running down the center "What the hell is this?" Chris asked looking at it. Jill had heard of something like this but this was a much more powerful version of such a thing "Its a self destruction system. Made to completely obliterate anything in the event of an emergency. Something like this requires either a government contract or one hell of a permit and I doubt Umbrella has either." she said as she moved forward to a control panel pressing a few buttons.

Chris gulped "Maybe you don't wanna touch anything around this little guy." he said looking at the large system. Jill looked at him and pointed just below it to the generators "This should restore the power." as Jill said this and flipped a switch the entire room went up with light as the power was full restored. As Jill smiled at her deeds there was a sudden screeching from the corner as something jumped at her. Another one of those lizard gorilla things, Jill quickly moved to the side as it swiped its claws scarring over the control panel destroying it. Jill growled as she fired off the three rounds at close range reducing the monster's face to a pulp of gore.

Jill brought up a speed loader replenishing the ammunition in her magnum before she turned to Chris "Lets get back to that elevator. I've had just about enough of this." Chris nodded as he pulled himself to his feet "My thoughts exactly." he said before they both moved out of the heated room keeping their guard up as they heard the sounds of the creatures running around in the air vents. They however managed to make it back to the wreck room's hallway without any interruption, once they arrived Jill came to a stop checking over everything she had making sure everything was ready.

She discarded the M4's second magazine slapping another one into her rifle and bringing it up, Chris looked at her "Whats up?" he asked as he noticed the look of determination in her face. "This elevator is a one way. Whoever has been playing us it downstairs be ready." she told him. Chris nodded before he brought up his handgun and stepped forward, while zombies weren't the same he doubted that any human would be resistant to any round to the head. As the elevator doors opened there was the sudden sounds of multiple feet from behind.

Both Chris and Jill turned "Chris!" a familiar voice called out before Rebecca came into view followed by Richard and Barry who was apparently done exploring the surface. Richard held up his assault shotgun "Thirty minutes are up you two. We're through waiting around." he said seriously. Rebecca crossed her arms still holding the powerful desert eagle loaded and ready "Whenever you feel like going." she said breathing. Barry simply nodded as he brought up his own weapon the .44 that had served him all night, obviously he still had some ammo left. Chris and Jill nodded before they all piled into the elevator and rode it down.

In all situations of Survival Horror there must be confrontation.....