Objective 10: 8:07 P.M. E-Train

Claire and the others boarded the train slowly. The first thing they saw was the bloodstains, and then the broken vial in the middle of them. Claire silently cursed out Lindsey in her mind. Nervously, she stepped through the door, the others behind her. In the next room, it looked like a group of high school girls had been attacked. They were down. Claire approached one of them.

"Are you alright," she said touching the head of the girl. Suddenly, the girl turned around and grabbed Claire's neck violently. Claire tried to pull her off her as the horrible truth came into view, civilians have been infected! A shot from Ken's gun. Gore spouted from the girl's head. She was dead.

At once, all of the other zombie school girls got up and began shuffling towards the group. Claire and Ken shot at them, but Yoko stood there frozen.

"What are you waiting for?" Claire asked as she reloaded her gun. "They aren't normal girls anymore…they aren't human!"

Yoko snapped out of her musings and shot at a rather fat, pig tailed girl at point blank range. Her head was ripped off by the force. It fell to the floor with a splat and began sprouting limbs of its own. Before it could reach Yoko's leg, Ken shot it, creating another burst of blood and flesh.

They ran into the next compartment, where more passengers-turned-zombies tried to attack them. A well dressed business man made a reach for Claire, who jump-kicked its head clean off its body. From the gaping hole in the neck came another head which launched its tongue at Claire, wrapping it around her neck. With the fire ax he had kept from the warehouse, Ken sliced cut off the regenerated head. "Damn, they're starting to get more messed up," he said as he wiped a spray of blood off his face.

Yoko examined the corpse. "Evolution. When a species cannot adapt to its environment normally, the DNA overrides it and changes the physiology. These things are starting to fight back."

Claire turned the corpse over with her boot so she wouldn't have to look at it. "The T2 is like a watered down version of the G-Virus it seems. It mutates, but only to the necessary level."

Yoko nodded. "If only Birkin had modified it, he would achieved something more accurate than the G-Virus. Please, let's move on. I hate these memories…"

The next room was worse. Claire shivered. Ew, they're crawling…I hate crawling. There were more schoolgirls. These ones had spider-like tendrils that they used to crawl along the walls. Claire and Yoko had to pick them off of the ceiling with accurate aim. One of them had a sack like protrusion from her chest. Claire shot at it and nearly vomited with the graphic result. It opened in a spray of pus; a mass of crawling spider things swarmed out of it. Yoko quickly grabbed a brief case and squished them in one fell swoop. She stepped on the case to make sure they were all dead. When she was done, she turned to her horrified and disgusted companions. "Anyone need to stop for a puke break?"

The next room was quieter, until movement from an overhead compartment attracted everyone's attention. They all had their guns at the ready; prepared to take on anymore of the mutant schoolgirl onslaught, but a normal girl's voice called out from it, in Japanese. "Don't shoot; I'm not one of them!"

They put their guns down. A small, teenaged girl climbed out of the compartment. Her hair was a mess and her face was frozen with fear. She stumbled over to Claire and buried her face into her chest, sobbing. "What's happening?"

Claire did her best to calm her down. She figured she might as well explain it to her. "Do you speak English? My Japanese isn't so good."

The girl nodded. "Advanced English, year four."

Claire spoke bluntly, as she looked into the girl's eyes, she was reminded of William Birkin's daughter, Sherry, who she had rescued from the '98 disaster. But this girl was a few years older. "Those creatures are inhuman. A virus has leaked onto the train, its-"

"Virus?" the girl interrupted. "So this is like Raccoon City. A woman got on the train a little while ago. She was talking to a man, a doctor I think…that's what she called him. She went crazy. She said that she had unleashed the virus onto the train. Then she injected herself with it."

Lindsey. Claire knew it was her. This girl was more observant than she looked. "Did she have a…an attaché case with her?" Claire's voice was panicky.

"Yes, I think she hid something underneath that seat there." She pointed to the row of seats by the window.

Claire made a dive for the seats. She let out a squeal of excitement when she pulled back the case. "We got it folks!" She held it up to Yoko and Ken who expressed their excitement as well. But it was short lived. Glass shattered as a zombie burst through the window, others behind it trying to get in.

Claire began shooting at it and the others. Dammit, she thought. The ones from the warehouse must have gotten into the tunnels as well. There were more were trying to get in from the other windows—hundreds of them. The entire train was surrounded.

Trying to maintain her composure, Sakura withdrew a pocketknife from her purse. A zombie had grabbed Claire and began to try and pull her out the window. Sakura rushed over, retracted the knife, and stabbed the zombie in the head. At once it let go of Claire and dropped back lifelessly.

"Thank you," Claire said to the girl. "What's your name?"

"Sakura," the girl said with a polite bow. "I hope my brother doesn't mind that I used his knife to stab a zombie."

So we have something in common, Claire thought as she turned back to shooting at the zombies. It was Chris, after all, who had taught Claire her defensive skills that she used to survive the Raccoon incident. "Brothers," she said with a laugh.

Soon, all of the windows were broken. The things were crawling onto the train, squeezing through the tight windows and shoving each other in attempt to get first dibs on a meal. Everyone held them off as best as they could; including Sakura who had picked up Lindsey's discarded handgun. She wasn't the best shot (civilians were not allowed to carry firearms in Japan anyway) but she relied on her knowledge of movies and video games to get her through. Turn off the safety, pull the hammer, aim, trigger, shoot. Her hands were shaky but she was able to hit her mark.

Sakura had taken about two down when Ken spoke up. "There are too many of them."

"Get to higher ground," Yoko shouted back, pointing to the ceiling. "We'll head to the roof by taking the ladder in between the train cars."

They bounded for the door and stepped out into the tunnel, the echoing moans of the hundreds of zombies on either side of them. One by the one they took the ladder to the roof, seeing the innumerable mass of the undead around the train. Even when they had reached the top of the car, safety was still elusive.

Lindsey, who had turned full zombie now, was munching on the train conductor. She looked up with a wild glint in her eyes.

"Bow before me," she said in an inhumanly deep voice. "I am the queen of the eternal!" She got up and charged at them with her tentacle arms ready to grab fresh meat.

Claire ripped the ax from Ken's grasp, took careful aim, and lobbed Lindsey's head off. Her body collapsed to the sea of zombies below. "Where's your throne now, bitch!"

Yoko, who was carrying the case, walked in front towards the end of the train. She looked off into the distance. "At least Lindsey knew the right train to hijack;" she said serenely. "The lab is up ahead. We should be right under Banyo Pharmaceuticals now." She picked up the bloodied engine key from the conductor's corpse.

Claire reloaded her gun. "Then its time to end this."