The silent watcher.

Disclaimer: I don't own the resident evil series or any of it's characters.it is property ofShinji Mikami. IJust own the one's I make up and I certain am not making any money out of this.

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The low hum of computer monitors droned in Alexia's ear as she watched some of the veronica scenes unfold while she had been asleep. She changed from one camera to another to follow Chris jogging almost merrily through the Antarctic base. She rubbed her eyes in an attempt to erode the tiredness in them. The blue glare coming from the monitor was irating her brain and was demanding that she stopped. But she would not falter now, not ever.

So far she had she had found out that there had been a total of four different out breaks on land and two on boats and not to mass produce bandersnatch's or licker's any time soon. Not only where they completely brain dead, they also wouldn't be able to follow an order of any kind.

"I surpose they do know get browning points for know how to kill it's target's painfully." She thought, the mere image of a licker screwing off that cops head and the bandersnatch smashing that researcher scull had made even her queasy. Let alone the security guard next to her who had been physically sick.

Anyway back the problem at hand, the first outbreak had been in the Arklay Mountains in Spencer's mansion involving an elite police force and a normal captain wesker going up against a giant snake, a monster named Lisa Trevor, a mutated plant and a very old version of the tyrant. The thing that really interested her about this place the most was the monster dubbed Lisa Trevor. She had watched Chris blast her with countless magnum bullets, now that would have at least knocked Alexia out for five minutes, minimal. But do you know what she did? She had been knocked to the floor and stood up again and acted like Chris had just thrown a medium sized rock at her head! She had checked out her file a while ago and found out she had been injected with the protengitor virus type B. And judging by how she had mutated she probably would have been a good research experiment…

Yet only a few hours before that there was an outbreak on a train caused by another formally deceased collage of hers, James Marcus. Somehow his body had fussed with his virus even better than it had done to Lisa Trevor and sort of became a shape shifter. But then the fool had been forced down the elevator shaft in the underground racoon labs by a rookie stars member and a Ex-marine and disintegrated.

Next was racoon city itself where a lot more survived. The first scenerio had involved the younger redfield sibling, an idiotic cop, the daughter of Brikin trying to escape the city of horrors as had it been dubed by umbrella. Including a mad police chief and her deceased rival Brikin who had injected himself with his own virus in a bid to stop umbrella getting his precious virus. Next up was the oldest stars female Jill Valentine along with some heavily accented south American mercenary trying to get out while being chased by a carrier of the nemesis paricite. And all the while eight normal civilian managed to escape as well. Something was weird about their escape though, unlike the stars they had the ability or simply just the brains to shoot the locks off doors. But then again one of them was dumb enough to hit a new and smarter brand of Tyrant with an iron pipe. It probably would have been the end of him as well if he hadn't kicked it almost immediately after and knocking it off balance, allowing him time to escape.

Now the next outbreak they didn't have many security files made during the time for some reason on Sheena Island as the second Racoon City as umbrella called it. Umbrella did however know what had caused the outbreak, or who had caused it. What had been Marie thinking when she hired this Vincent? what a waste of equipment and research specimens. Also they had no video footage of the two cruise outbreaks since they where private cruises, not that they mattered much.

And the outbreak that had been bugging her the most, Rocketford. She had carefully monitored Claire and Chris progress through both of the bases and was now watching Chris running back and forth in the Antarctic base like a lunatic. But before she and her brother who was surprisingly watching it with her instead of playing his war games could watched that she wanted to find out what had nearly wiped out half the invading HCF soliders in 20 minutes flat. It had happened when Claire had been in secret torture centre in the basement and in a part of the base Claire hadn't been able to get into. Even stranger was that one of the cameras had suddenly switched off in the heliport where the invaders had landed and come back on suddenly after 20 minutes.

The heliport had been torn apart, literately. Huge chunks of the pavement where missing and was covered in a layer of blood and dead bodies, human and monster. And all of them had been strangely burn charcoal black or ripped apart brutally. It was strange that the last thing the camera saw before shutting off was a hand, draped by a white sleeve of a lab coat. The mere sight of the base torn apart had upset Alfred greatly. And this was coming from the one who was surposed to have activated the self-destruct system for the base even though it seemed highly illogical that he had been able to get from there home to the millitary training factory in 10 secounds flat.

"Are you sure you don't know what did that?" Alexia asked her brother as he let out a sigh, this had been the third time she had asked him that.

"No, I was to busy dealing with Claire and Steve." He said absent mindely then added. "Even though I did hear a lot of gunfire and screaming along with a very loud roar."

"Okay…" Alexia mumbled, perplexed. "Anyway, enough of that. I'm going to see what happened to my fake."

"Then move up please sister, I want to see what happens as well." Alfred asked as he sat next to her while the footage started. It didn't start out very well for the ant queen. It almost had managed to knock Claire off the edge of the plate when Chris had defeated its first form with a single bullet. Just one.

"Ugh, how humiliating." Alexia groaned mentally as she watched her weaker half fall to the floor and mutate, again. "I knew it wouldn't have my strength but I never thought it would have been that weak."

In the fraction of a few seconds a serious swelling from the stomach region transformed to a huge bubble of greying flesh with a vaguely familiar form of a human body and numerous tentacles. "Disgusting." Alfred mentally winced. Compared to this thing a zombie would look good in anyone eyes. Heck, even a hunter would look good compared to this thing.

He could instantly tell he wasn't thinking this as a look of disgust drifted over Alexia face then vanished as the sound of several chairs turning came into the air as the security monitors sent her looks of pure disgust. Chris meanwhile was gawking in horror at what he had to fight at what he had to fight. However it's looks where it's act was flawless, even Chris would have agreed.

Seconds later Chris snapped out of his gawking and began to reload the empty chamber of the magnum when a huge tentacle came crashing down onto him, knocking him off his feet. It took a few seconds for him to get back on his feet and when he did he began to open fire on the ant queen. Well until something sneaked up on him.

"Argg!" Chris winced as something whipped him across the face and dashed into the corner of the room and began to open again. A closer inspection revealed that it was a huge ant the size of Chris foot which mysteriously managed to produced a long slender tentacles about 6 times it's size.

"pfhh, not even that magnum is going help you here Chris." Alexia thought as she watched Chrisfocused face turn into a look of worry as he loaded in another 6 rounds. He dodged another low aimed tentacle then fired all shots up at the top part of the ant queen, making it snarl at him.

"Oh crud." He mumbled as he realised he had just used up all of his magnum ammunition. Sighing in disgust, he pocketed the empty magnum then by the looks of it pulled out of the last of his weaponry: the sub machine guns.

A storm of bullets pierced the armoured skin of Alexia type 2 as he opened fire on the top part of the ant queen. It let out a scream of pain and frustration as countless bullets pierced it's greying flesh then… it stopped.

Chris was out of ammunition.

"Oh crap." Chris mumbled while his eyes where full of panic and fear as the ant queen grinned wickedly at him. it all but disappeared when it saw what had happened while Chris had been shooting at it.: The linear launcher had been released.

Both set of eyes set on it, one a look of mild fear and panic while the other hope beyond anything. it decided to use the last trick up it's sleeve: It took to the air.

Chris madly dashed towards the linear launcher and grabbed it off its holder while avoiding the fiery spray being sent at him. Daring a shot and fired.

He missed.

"God damn it! Hold still for moment!" he screamed in frustration then began to run around again while trying dodge the fiery spray, much to the twins amusement.

"two minute left!" Alfred thought in glee as he watched Chris take shot after shot at the Alexia type 3 and missed, always.

"Well it looks like Alfred was wrong. I probably would have won and been able to escape before the blast, maybe." Alexia scoffed then turned rigid at what just happened. At that moment something completely irregular, catastrophic happened.

The ant queen shivered.

Now given by how low the temperature was in that room and the fact that this was a fire ant shivering would have been expected. Unfortunate that it had to stop in mid air for only a few seconds. It was even MORE unfortunate that Chris had taken another shot at it at that moment with the linear launcher.

It was a death shot.

Alexia went a very pale colour as she watched the ant queen get torn apart in slow motion and Chris let out a scream of triumph and then got knocked down the stairs by a blast, dropping the linear launcher in the remains of the deceased ant queen. That could have been her… Alfred stopped her from being blown up… he saved her… impossible.

By the time the footage had finished everyone was back to there proper work stations except for Alfred looked on at his sister in worry. He had never seen her like this before and didn't bood very well with her image. Then again this should have been expected since she basically watched herself get blown up. Even still now though she looked very beautiful.

Finally after a minute she stirred and turned around to her brother. Her face was unreadable and that worried him greatly. He'd only seen her like this when her father had outsmarted her at the age of 13 and even then she had to surpress her rage to not attack him. "Ah… Alfred?"

"Yes Alexia?"

"Er… never mind." She shook her then turned away from him.

Meanwhile a security worker had found something very odd indeed. He had found something which wasn't surposed to be there. He had somehow found two new addition camera signals coming from Rocketford. And from the Ashford bedrooms of all places. "That's not right, not right at all."

"erm excuse me sir but I have found something which might interest you." He said as both the twins turned around to him in annoyance.

"Oh really? What is it then?" Alfred asked impatiently.

"I have found two new additional camera signal coming from both your rooms sir." He said as the look of impatience was replace with confusion on both Ashford's.

"Did you know about this Alfred?" Alexia asked, half-glaring half confused.

"Certainly not! Why would I put a camera in both our rooms?" Alfred restorted in outrage.

"I could understand if there was one only in Alexia room…" a security guard mumbled very quietly so not to be heard. But due to the fact that Alexia hearing had been upgraded when she injected herself with T-veronica she head him very loud and clear. He faulted under her withered glare.

"If I ever hear any thing like that again from you your dead, understand?" he merely nodded in response. "Just… play the last five minutes okay?" she mumbled as he nodded, she was just to tired to care really and had a headache the size of Texas.

What happened next made Alexia do a double take and Alfred blood run cold…

The first thing everyone saw as it came on was Alexia, sniper rifle in hand pointing it at a startled Claire. Now as far as she remember she had never pointed a sniper rifle at Claire in her own bedroom in Rocketford and therefore that couldn't be her. What was going on?

"For the pride of the Ashford family I will kill you!" She exclaimed while pointing the gun at Claire in a menacing way. This couldn't be right, not only did this, thing look like her it sounded and acted like her as well.

Bang! She fired a round at Claire and would have killed her if she hadn't have ducked in time. Her accuracy showed that she could handle that gun with ease.

"What's going on?" that infernal Steve Burnside burst inside the room, machine guns ablaze. Stunned by what was happening it allowed her doupleganger to shoot him in the shoulder.

"Augh!" in retaliation Steve fired his machine guns off at her, surprisingly no scream came for a few seconds like she hadn't been hit at point blank range.

"Arrg!" she screamed then disappeared through the hidden stone door connecting to Alfred's room with Claire and Steve close behind. Alexia motioned for him to contiune to the next camera while Alfred slowly began to edge away from her.

The very air of the room seemed to freeze as the fake Alexia tore off her hair and revealed the head of weaponry department. The only sound was coming from Alfred feet as he slowly began to edge towards the only exit.

Suddenly the metallic door raised up. "There you two are… what the!" Richard eyes widened in shock at Alfred wearing a dress. He looked from the disgusted faces of the security monitors to Alexia blank face and finally Alfred frozen to the spot. "… I'm not going even ask." And with that he left swiftly.

As soon as he left Alexia snapped out of her stupor and she was very angry. "What on earth possessed you to dress up as me like that! I've never been so humiliated in all my life!" She roared in anger while fastly approaching a shrinking Alfred looking like she might throttle him soon. "And how did you manage to pull that off so well? You even had me going for a while that I had somehow forgotten that I had almost killed Claire in my own bedroom! Well?"

"I'm sorry sister! It was the only way I could cope without you being there!" he said truthfully while backing away from his sister in caution and bracing himself. It wasn't very often that she hit him and it always involved him irritating her greatly but he had never seen this angry. Strangely enough though she just let out a loud sigh and her gaze almost seemed to sofen.

"I'll go see what Richard wanted, you get some rest." She strode past him to the door then added while facing the security monitored who originally found the tape. "the entire tape will have disappeared by the time I get back or else. and don't forget you're not off the hock yet brother, we'll talk about this later."

"Yes mam." He mumbled fearfully for his behind as Alexia left the room, leaving a confused Alfred.

"Er… not that I'm not grateful or anything but what just happened? I thought for a moment she was going to throttle me…"

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The sun shone bleakly down upon the Antarctic floor while reflecting off some pieces of metal sticking out of the snow. To most who came to this area they would have presumed that it was some kind of giant rubbish tip or something really big had happened here recently. If they choose the latter they where very near the truth. A sudden wind swept through the rubble while the sound of snow being crunched below multiple moving objects was the only thing that could be heard in this isolated region.

Three armed soldiers could be seen walking calmly towards two outstanding figures. Two of them where masked while the other face was revealed along with his long slicked back brown hair. "Sir? We've completely checked the entire of the cryogenic sleeping room and the self-destruct room like you asked."

"And?" one of them asked while turning to face him. his blonde hair falling out of place with the sudden gust of wind.

"We found multiple traces of Alexia in the self-destruct corridor but we only found some dried up blood where the cryogenic sleeping room, not even a few single threads of his old uniform."

A slight frown appeared on his face. "You're sure about that? I expected even more bodily remains of Alfred since he wasn't the one who was destroyed by a linear launcher."

"Trust me sir if there was anything left we would have found it." He turned and saluted. "If I may be excused commander? I think the others are getting sick of searching the rubble in fact I am too."

"Yes you may be lieutenant, I think its time we started to prepare our next mission." And with that they left leaving a long silence in their wake.

Finally the other figure spoke up. "So headquarters have finally sent us a new mission instead of letting us freeze to death out here?" a soft angelic like voice asked the other.

"Yeah." His reply was overlapped by the twirling sound of helicopter blades approaching fast. "ah I see our rides have finally arrived, let's go."

"Yes, commander Alexan."

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