End of a Heartache

Angela shifted on her ledge top perch, attempting to get a little more comfortable. From her vantage point she had a perfect view of the street and had little chance of not seeing her second target's approach. She was having a meal of dry top ramen and a Pepsi she'd swiped from a convenience store she'd come across as she'd left the remains of 'Mostly Colts'.

Is it really theft, she wondered, If there's no one alive to claim it?

She sighed and leaned back, a cool breeze touched her face as she stared up into the starry sky. It was absolutely beautiful, Matt had tried to teach her about the constellations once but she'd never been very good at it.

"Orion." She said, pointing up at one of the few constellations she recognized.

From what she could tell she still had some time to kill before her second target made an appearance.

Once again her silent reveries were not meant to last, the shrill cry of a pay phone nearby made sure of that. After a few moments it cut off only to be replaced by its neighbor, and a few moments later the cycle was repeated. But this time the sound cut off mid-ring, as someone finally answered. Angela sat up a little straighter at the female voice that floated up to her from the street. There she was, right across the way speaking to some mystery person on a phone that shouldn't work. Angela's second target 'Kick-ass' Alice in the flesh. Angela was just within earshot and could hear Alice's half of the conversation.

"Hello?" Alice paused; she frowned at whatever the other person had said

"Who is this?" another pause, Jill motioned toward a stoplight camera on the corner, they were being watched.

"Do we have a choice?"

ooh that sounded positive. Angela thought, her lip twitching into a smile.

Angela stayed to the rooftop shadows and followed the straggly group of survivors as they made their way to what they seemed to hope would be their survival. At an alley Alice abruptly stopped, staring down toward the alley's mouth.

"What is it?" the girl in the blue tube-top asked.

Her name was Jill, if Angela remembered correctly. The cop, Peyton, started to pass her

"No." Alice said, stopping him with an outstretched arm.

"Sunrise isn't going to wait." He answered.

"There's something down there." Alice's words were filled with absolute assuredness.

how she knew Angela couldn't be sure but the ex-Umbrella-head-of-security was right. Target one was stalking just out of site.

"I don't see anything." Peyton said irritably

"That doesn't alter the fact that there's something out there." Angela had to fight not to giggle.

"We don't have time for this Bull shit." Peyton said pushing past Alice and into a barrage of bullets he could never have seen coming, but which Alice had.

Interesting last words. She thought absently, somersaulting to the other side of the alley for a better view.

Obviously Jill had been close friends with this Peyton guy, she cried out in agony as his prone form hit the asphalt and fired her handgun at the towering monstrosity that had suddenly appeared.

Not that it did any good; she was able to duck behind a trash bin as the rail gun released another hail after her. Alice muttered something, a look of realization on her face.

"Run. Just go!" Alice shouted at the remaining two.

Jill paused, then hurried after the news women back the way they'd come.

Angela's smile widened as Alice faced the monstrous Nemesis. Seconds that felt like hours passed, and nobody moved. Then Nemesis took a step forward, as did Alice. Alice took out her Uzi's Nemesis raised his rail gun. Alice fired into his chest but it had no notable affect and suddenly they were charging each other.

Three steps before they could run into each other Alice leapt into the air, flipping up and over Nemesis's eight-foot-tall and nearly landing until he whipped his arm around and slammed her into a cement column. He brought the rail gun to bear and unloaded another volley into the column, Alice barely able to dodge behind it for cover. Angela jumped from her rooftop onto the road and hurried closer, hiding behind another column, her whole body shaking with excitement.

Before Nemesis could turn to face her she ran for the parking lot and bounded over the gate as Nemesis sent a rocket her way, she jumped again from the car roof as the rocket found a home in the back of an RCPD car and promptly blew it to hell. Angela stealthily moved closer. Instead of tearing through the chain-link fence as she'd expected, Nemesis jumped OVER it, crushing another cop car as his considerable weight slammed onto its roof. Alice was already on the move, smashing through a window into a nearby building.

Angela had to take a moment for the fence; she couldn't simply pull a superman and jump over the twice-her-height chain-link. She took a running start, jumped onto one of the cement columns and kicked off with all her might, easily landing on the other side of the fence in a graceful crouch.

Thank you bio-engineered agility. Angela thought with a smile and hurried after her quarry.

Nemesis hadn't bothered to find a window; he'd simply walked right through the cement wall. She found another window and watched intently; she could just see Alice around Nemesis's notable bulk. She was heading for a dead end, only a garbage chute and a wall before her, and certain death behind. Alice raised both Uzi's and fired into the chute, then dived feet-first into it, firing off a few shots into Nemesis's ankles before disappearing from site.

Angela moved away from the window, heading back toward the alley, the pursuit had been called off; there was nothing more to see. As she passed in front of the hole Nemesis had created at his entrance, Nemesis emerged from the building, his eight-plus feet dwarfing her five-foot-four stature. For a moment they both stood frozen. The corner screen of her headset lit up with her image. A threat analysis began to run. This was Angela's first up close look at Nemesis. He was absolutely amazing. Having been stuck in the hive for nearly four years Angela had seen the previous attempts, pure nightmares beyond what even Alice could have imagined, and they had finally succeeded. Her eye's worked their way upward, from the leather outfit to the enormous muscles, and the way his flesh didn't seem to quite fit his body. Her gaze finally reached his face; it was first drawn to the giant scar running along one side then moved to his eye.

His sky blue eye.

Angela's heart skipped a beat as recognition flashed within her mind.

Matt. Her mind whispered

She smiled widely, he was alive, he had survived when no one else had.

He's a monster. A tiny voice whispered to her.

They did this to him; they hurt him and mutated him just like they did to you, and probably Alice as well. It crooned in her mind.

Her smile persisted, he was alive. She still had her brother nothing else mattered.

Memories began to flash through her mind as everything fell into place with blinding speed and she realized the voice was her own thoughts. Lisa's dead, Red queens dead, Red killed Lisa and everyone else. Rain, Kaplan, JD, Uncle Keller. Dead dead dead, all of the, Images flashed in her mind, the licker, ate Kaplan, infected Matt. Nemesis gazed down at her, Threat: Moderate. Rain got shot, Matt shot her. One got slice 'n diced. For a moment Angela was tempted to make a run for it, she was faster than him by far, but then thought better of it. Lisa's dead, Alice snapped her neck. Keller shot himself. Another read out scrolled onto the screen Friendly: Do Not Engage. Lisa's dead, Matt's dead, Keller's dead. Nemesis turned away from her and strode off into the dark.

And you don't feel a single thing.

No pain, no sorrow, no anger. They were dead and she didn't feel anything toward it. Umbrella must have done this, they'd done something to her head so that she couldn't get angry, couldn't exercise the emotions necessary to take revenge. But they hadn't realized one very important thing.

Angela checked her Falcon, replacing the empty clip with a fresh one and smiled up at a security camera. Taking careful aim she sent a single shot perfect center into the lens.

Making them pay would be most enjoyable.

As she made her way down out onto swann, Dr. Ashford smiled to himself. Pressing a few keys on his laptop the image suddenly enlarged. A few more key taps and he'd hacked into the payphone lines. This may just be his lucky day yet.

BillyRose: oi, i can't believe i made such a corny joke.yay, thatwas from the book. and as far as angies reaction, she's seen most of umbrella's creations, knows about them in depth and has faught most of them, it's like a car dealer seeing the most hightech car ever created, they may not like cars but you gotta admit, it is one sweet model. how do you like her reaction? clears up quite a few things doesn't it?

Slashshipper: HAHAHA no worries man, glad you like what i wrote though, hope you like it even without the girlXgirl pairings

Ghost: yeah, you have a point, i think I'll start pdating when i can't see it on page one anymore. glad you liked it and here is your update

Next Chapter

Angela receives an offer she may not refuse

who would want to cal her of all people

could this be her ticket out of the city?

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