Lost in the woods.

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Soft snow crunched beneath there feet and tree's sealed them off from the world, where they where both of them had no clue of that. After they had left the crash site they had followed the cement wall until they had found a hole in it, along with a pack of zombified wolves. Now 5 they could have easily handled, 10 was an entirely different matter. The end result was them running off into the woods with a pack of hungry wolves chasing after them.

The good thing was they had lost the wolves, the bad thing was that they themselves where lost.

It was not only that but they had used basically all their shotgun ammunition on the dogs. While Ark had basically 15 shots left he had 14 left. They still had all the ammunition from their second weapons, which wasn't much all together.

Crunch, crunch, crunch,

It was completely silent apart from there breathing in and out, the crunching snow beneath their feet, the occasional twig snapping and the sound of the wind howling amongst the trees. Now both of them knew silence never meant anything good, in fact it usually meant the opposite. Also they both had the feeling they where being watched by… something.

Ark began to shiver violently. "Damn, it's freezing out here!" He muttered while pulling his jacket closer to him.

"I know Ark, I know." Leon Kennedy muttered while pulling the zipper on his fur coat up. It was fortunate that he had managed to grab one before the jeep had been destroyed, unlike poor ark that was just stuck with the clothing he always wore. He still could feel the basic bite of the cold though. "How about we jog instead of walk for now? It would keep us warmer."

"Good point." He muttered while he began to jog at his normal pace, Leon would have followed suite but he spotted orange lights faintly glowing in the distance of the woods.

"Wait!" He grabbed hold of Ark's shoulder and pointed to where a orange light was streaming off in the distance. "I think it might be better if we checked over there first." Ark just nodded and began to jog towards the light with Leon close behind.

Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, snap.

He twisted his head just in time to see one of the hugest… things he had ever seen eyeing them among the trees near them. "What the?… oh shit, run for it Ark!" He had good reason to say that since it was one of the hugest tyrant's he had ever seen.

It was humanoid in figure, 9 to 10 feet in height. It's skin held a bluish tint to it with a body that would have put even the greatest body builders to shame. A sort of iron box was placed on the centre of its left breast along with a few red veins sticking out from it. One of it's arm's was slightly shorter than the other, the one which looked very human, the other a huge claw with multiple blades sticking out that looked like they could have sliced through flesh as if it was butter.

As they realised for the first time that it had been there the whole time it let out what looked like a huge rotten grin with it's disfigured mouth, raised It's left claw and charged right at them. Leon and Ark took one look at each other and dashed like they never had before towards the light source, which was actually a single cabin.

Suddenly a monstrous roar pierced the air and next thing they knew a tree trunk almost took off their heads as it went sailing over them. In response, Leon suddenly spun run, pulled out his magnum and open fire on the beast.

Chom!

The Tyrant let out a sudden roar of pain as it collapsed to the floor with a smouldering bullet hole in it's head. However it would only be down for the count for only a few seconds, both of them knew this as they began to dash towards the cabin again. They had almost reached it when the tryant was on them again.

"I just don't get it…" they ducked as another tree was thrown at them. "How can you stand the cold…" Leon dodged to the right when the tyrant thrust it's claw at him abdomen. "In just your birthday…" another aimed at his stomach. "…Suit?" in response, the tyrant jumped at him, he rolled to the left. "Seriously though, it's freezing out here!" at the same time they both tripped the thing, making it come crashing to the ground with a bang. "Is it just me or was that one slower than normal?" he managed to say between ragged breaths as he slammed the door shut to the cabin while ignoring the angry bellows of the tyrant.

"It must be the cold…" Ark responded while snatching a piece of paper of the wall. "It must be slowing it down so it's got to keep warm." At that moment the door was flung of it's hinges and the tyrant charged in, fire in it's white eyes. "Oh, screw this!" They could hear it growling as they both leapt out one of the windows of the cabins, shattering the glass pane and dashed away from the cabin and it's inhabitants. After what seemed like an hour, they both collapsed to the ground, panting like mad. "Did we… lose it?" Ark managed to gasp out between breaths.

"I… think… so." Leon managed to gasp out while pounding the snow. "Damn… it! Now we're… Even more lost… Than we where… Before!"

"No we're not…" Ark let out a faint smile as he pulled out a map from his jacket. "I snatched... this from the cabin." At this Leon crawled over to the nearest tree and sat himself down by it.

"That's great… but first… let's get some rest… okay?" Ark just nodded and followed suit while Leon breathing began to ease out. He no longer felt like they where being watched now. They where safe from the Tyrant, for now at least…

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"Are we in some kind of tropical greenhouse?" Special agent hunk asked the two Ashford's as they entered what could have thought to be a jungle, despite the fact it was snowing outside the building. Huge vines of ivy shot had climbed up the walls of the building, making some of it collapse. Huge flowers where growing on the ivy and the floor of the building was covered in some of the oddest-looking flowers they had ever seen.

Alexia just snorted to this. "Can you honestly imagine HCF growing herbs and flowers?" Hunk didn't respond to this. "I didn't think so, it's most likely a botany research lab and they've let the specimens grow wild to determine which one is can adapt more to it's terrain the quickest."

"Whew! It's pretty hot in here!" Alfred said while fanning himself to cool down.

"Of course, they've got to maintain the right temperature to allow the plants to grow properly." Alexia basically muttered while eyeing the concrete path placed in front of them. "Anyway, I suggest we keep to the concrete path for safety reasons…" She quickly glanced over to a human skeleton poking out through the overgrowth while Alfred and Hunk shot each over an uneasy look and began to mentally debating if they where going to make it out of this room alive, let alone the whole base.

Very slowly they began to head along the concrete path while avoiding the creeper's which where sticking out on the path, just to be sure. Alexia probably would have burnt them to ash here except she didn't want to risk irritating the plant and making it attack them, she would only use that in here when nessericary.

They had managed to reach the middle of the room that separated into different paths when one of the flowers on the plants contract. Transfixed, all three of them watched it spray out some kind of purple mist. That's when one of the foulest stenches hit Alexia nose, making her gag.

"Ugh, it's poison!" Alarmed by this, the four of them dashed away from the plant, one which was unknown to the other three went along the path leading to the machine room while they heading along the upwards path and up a pair of stairs as all the over flowers on the ivy began to contract like the first. They must have been in some kind of botany lab for the greenhouse since there was various samples of the plants from the greenhouse housed here.

"This is fascinating! I've never seen such a verity of infected plants! Even the Spencer mansion which housed more plants on both Rockford and Antarctica together didn't have this many!" She muttered under her breath while peering down at the samples of the plants in cased behind glass, generally intrigued by them. However out of all the plants one really caught her attention:

venafly trap, injected with T-veronica.

"What! How dare they use my virus on a common house plant! I bet this isn't the only thing they've used it for…" she glowered while starring at the deformed plant in disgust. Either the fly trap had been huge before or most likely her virus had boosted it's growth by a lot. Small slender tentacles sprouted out from the body of the plant below and placedin the centre of the body was a small green eye,which was starring at her curiously while a piece of paper was laying next to a sort of miniature black tree. What's this?"

Attention, before taking off the glass casing circling this plant insure the following:

1. it is critical that you wear a gas mask when you do this, it releases a very toxic poison into the air surrounding it.

2. 1f such a case happens where someone's breaths in the poison then they must drink the dark green liquid placed on the second shelf in the medical cupboard. It is the only thing that can neutralise the toxins in the human body.

3. Depending on the amount of poison mist absorbed into your bloodstream, the time taken for the poison to work can vary. 2 mml or less will take up to 4 to 6 hours for the victim's heart to stop, 15 mml or more will give the victim 4 hours to 5 minutes to get the antidote placed in the medical supplies cupboard.

4. Makes sure the computer is switched on in case something happens during examination so the specimen can be transported safely to the isolation chamber.

5. Avoid the creepers in the gardens at all costs when transporting this, somehow the plants have recognised this as a danger to them anddevoured Bob while he was carrying it, or perhaps It's just plant 42 acting up, again. She put down the note here and began to look through the storage cupboard, located 5 testubes containing a dark green substance and pocketed one. It might prove useful for later.

"Hey is it just me or is it getting colder in here?" Alfred said while he began to shiver.

At these words Hunk pulled his jacket closer to him. "Don't worry Alfred, it isn't just you." It was then he spotted a stream of icy air coming out the vent in the lab. "Ah, so someone's turned off the ventilation system."

By now Alexia teeth were beginning to chatter from the cold, damn this temperature sensitive virus! "Let's just get out here, I'm going freeze if we stay here any longer!" Ever since she had got back from Antarctica not only did she get cold really quickly but it affected her ability to throw fire as well. She hadn't been very good with the cold to begin with but that had to be the price she paid for using fire ants as her T-veronica test subject.

Both of the males watched her basically jog out onto the lab stairs, then suddenly jump behind a wall. Perplexed by this, both of them peered out the door and watched a cop in blue, Kevin… Raymond, yes that was it, run out from the path leading to the machine room, let out a small sigh and dash down the path opposite to the one he came from.

After a minute the sound of an elevator going up could be heard, then, nothing. "What is he doing here?" Alfred was halfway through asking but was stopped when Alexia raised her hand and motioned for them to follow him, they obliged. They managed to reach the elevator without any really getting in their way and Hunk, after inspecting the elevator quickly pressed the red call button by the side of the elevator.

In fact the elevator had just arrived on the ground floor when all the plants started to go ballistic with the sudden drop in temperature. Creepers and vines shot out everywhere and all the flowers on the huge black vine contracted at once and let out a very big cloud of the purple toxic mist. Fortunately they managed to avoid the mist completely by jumping into the elevator when it's doors slid open and closed as soon as they got in. Alexia could have sworn though that most of the vines from the plant with the flowers had been heading in the direction of the machine room instead of going all over the place like all the other plants.

However she would have to put that thought on hold for now though, Alexia mentally said while shaking her head as she pressed down the button marked 2.

A minute later two twin door slid open and out the three companions stepped. "Well that took longer than usual." Alexia comment went unnoticed by the other two who where starring at the purple mist which was seeping out through a vent near the elevator. "Good god, that thing produces a lot toxic mist."

Very hurriedly, they headed along the catwalk connecting the giant greenhouse to another section of the base while keeping an eye out for the cop. They could barely see anything outside though due to the huge blizzard that was raging right now apart from a huge rock formation in the distance. Alexia took one last look back to the lift they had come from, which now was covered in the purple smog as it shut behind them.

This place too had been clearly been involved in the attack. The grey stone work was riddled with bullet holes and bits of rubble was laying on the floor. A staircase led down to the first floor yet like all the other rooms in the base they weren't alone in this place. Just as they were about to head down the stairs one of the doors along the side creaked open and Hunk raised his gun, expecting Kevin. However it was the least person they expected:

Claire redfield stepped right out the door.

Silence reined for a few seconds before she slammed the door shut behind her and spotted the three upstairs. "Oh, who are you?" at this the three of them looked at each over in confusion for a second before it hit, they hadn't bothered to take off there disguises.

Alfred opened his mouth to say something, probaly along the lines of "what are you here Redfield?" but was silence when Alexia raised her hand in front of him, shook her head and began to descend down the stairs in a calm manner. During the descent something very weird happened or at leastfor thethree other people in that room.

First flames enshrouded her entire figure, then her face began to change. In an instant silvery blonde hair replaced the black that had been there. Her face seemed to be moulded plastic for a moment then returned back to it's original shape, her eyes changed from there misty blue to an icy blue and her very face grew pale. Alexia Ashford was back…

All the while Claire had been staring at this transformation in horror just like her brother had been when the clone had gone into second stage. "Hello Redfield." She stated calmly as she finally reached the bottom of the stairs. It was this statement that snapped Claire out of her state of horror. However instead of responding verbally she raised her two machine guns at Alexia.

Fortunately or unfortunately she had been prepared if something like this happened. In less than two seconds she flung a fireball at the Claire, who's eye's widened and jumped out the way just in time, only to find herself in mid air with Alexia hand around her throat.

"Okay we do this the easy way or…" She raised her other hand which held another fireball in the palm of it. "The hard way." Claire gulped here and Alexia let out a sinister smile. "Where is your brother Chris? And don't think you can lie to me because you two are nearly inseparable."

"I… don't know, we where searching a huge corridor and I got separated from him…" It was at this Alexia smile slid off her face, raised her other hand, paused for a second and then threw her other to a stunned Alfred and Hunk.

"Take her down to the prison complex and make sure she doesn't escape." She instructed them while she opened the door Claire had came through.

"Where are going now Alexia?" Hunk asked while effectively knocking Claire out with the butt of his magnum as Alfred grabbed the two machine guns she had been carrying.

"I'm going Redfield hunting." She said with a smirk on her face as she closed the door behind her while Hunk just shook his head and began to carry the unconscious Claire away. Or at least began to but was forced to stop when Alfred's earpiece started to bleep, forcing him to answer it. "What? This better be important."

"We've managed to assemble a squadron of cleaners unnoticed by the American government like you requested, lord Ashford." Oh! He had completely forgotten about that!

"That's excellent news! What time should we expect your arrival?"

"About4 hours minimium considering the distance we need to travel to reach the base." Alfred pursed his lips here, that defiantly wasn't good enough but it would have to do. "Right, we'll meet up at the extraction point like planned, over and out." He let out a sigh and turned to Hunk. "Well, what are you waiting for? Let's go already! I've got plans for dear Claire…" He let out what he surposed was a sinister laugh at the unconscious redfield, it did howeverhave theeffect ofhunk shuddering, just not in the way Alfred wanted.

"I'd better get a pay raise for putting up with all this…"

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Alright, i finally managed to get this up! Next chapter will continue on with the redfield storyline and some light will finally be shed on the base attack.

by the way, merry Christmas!