If you haven't figured it out from last chapter, the 3 people getting off the chopper were Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, and Carlos Oliveira. More pain, angst and possibly death await or bunch.

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Chapter 18

Down-Down, You Go….

"Tell me again what this is for?" Kim asked as the black cloth was tied around her head, covering her eyes.

"For the millionth time, to test your reflexes" Vin said as he tied it around her head.

This was the last test Vin was conducting on Kim, and then he'd check to see what Wade got of his scan of her, because the test results were perplexing to him.

When he was previously called in on the tests of the participants who were given the virus, then the anti-virus back when the lab was still functioning all the results showed at least a marginal loss of muscle mass, resulting in slower reflex times. What he was seeing with Kim pointed to exactly the opposite; she showed an improvement across the board. He was sure that they were flukes, but to make sure, he was going to administer this final test to see if what the data pointed to was actually a fluke, or the truth.

"I could understand all the other tests, but this one I don't get. Run this by me again?" Ron asked as he rubbed his chin, Rufus stood on his shoulder, mimicking his masters every move.

"This is to test her real world reflexes, how she acts when she doesn't see the threat or whatever other scientific name this would be called. Basically she stands there blindfolded while you and I throw things at her." Vin said wrapping the gist of the test into a nutshell.

"I'm not to entirely comfortable with throwing things at Kim" Ron said coldly, he wasn't going to budge on that stance.

"Relax Ron, while what we're throwing might hurt initially, it won't really hurt her. Get what I'm saying?"

"Kind of, but I'm still not thrilled with throwing these at Kim" He said as he grabbed one of the said weapons in his hand.

While they were solid rubber, they weighed very little, however what they were shaped as was another thing Ron wasn't to keen on. They were all of people's teeth, fitting as they were in a dentist's office after all. Vin also had on hand several containers of floss and toothpaste after they got through with the rubber teeth, word of what they were doing got around to the others who started to watch with anticipation over the reception counter.

"Guys? What exactly are you using for projectiles?" Kim asked nervously from the center of the waiting room. This test was being held out here because it was the largest open space in the area; they tied Will's still unconscious body to a chair in the corner while they got ready to start.

"Nothing to bad Kim, just dental equipment" Vin said as he casually tossed a rubber mold in the air, catching it again like it was a ball.

"Dental Equipment!"

"That's right; now lets' get this over with"

Before Kim could protest Vin hurled the rubber teeth at her, Kim quickly leaned to the right, allowing the teeth to pass cleanly by her.

Low whistles were heard from the reception desk.

Kim was slightly disoriented from the move, she turned to what she thought was Vin but ended up turning her back to him and Ron, giving them a chance to hit her.

Both threw sets of teeth at her, thinking there was no way they weren't going to hit her, only at the last second she back-flipped over them, avoiding getting hit.

"Dammit, you two are doing it wrong!" Shego shouted as she grabbed a handful of teeth and flung the whole bunch at Kim. Kim flipped and tumbled out of each ones way, further amazing everyone watching.

"Let me see that!" Drakken said as he grabbed a handful of teeth, which he proceeded to whip at Kim, she easily dodged each and every one he threw.

It didn't take long for the rest of them to join in on throwing the teeth, floss and toothpaste at Kim, who while still being blindfolded was able to maneuver out of each of them.

Soon the supply of dental ammunition was empty; most everyone was exhausted from forcefully throwing things at Kim in hopes of hitting her, all they ended up succeeding in was making them very winded.

Vin and Ron were both stunned, Vin even more so than Ron. Of all the tests that he'd seen conducted on Kim when she was starting out saving the world, he knew that she was subjected to this kind of thing before, but at that time she was eventually hit with one of the projectiles, hell everyone who participated in the test was hit at the end. This time however, she wasn't hit at all, she wasn't even breathing hard!

"Shit" Vin said finally.

Kim removed the blindfold, shocked to see everyone looking at her as if she was on trial for something.

"What?" She asked.

Vin pulled out a flashlight that was laying on the reception desk, why it was there he didn't know. But he took the small flashlight and walked up to Kim.

"Hold still and keep looking straight ahead" Vin said as he clicked the light on.

"Oo-kay?" Kim was concerned that there was a problem with her as he shined a light into her eye.

"I'll be damned," Vin said quietly as he moved the light to the other eye.

"What is it?" Ron asked as he approached, he caught what the light did in Kim's eyes, his jaw dropped.

Kim's green eyes had a small amount of red around the pupil of her eye, almost like a blood red, as the light stayed on her it slowly started dissipating until her eyes were fully green again.

"What's going on? Ron?" Kim asked worriedly.

"Kim, you're still infected" Vin said, with almost a cheerful glee.

"What? But I thought that the…"

"It did, I tested you, as did Wade, and in your case the Virus had a special connection. A connection I've only seen once before"

Vin clicked the light off, Kim blinked momentarily as her eyes readjusted to the room lights.

"Unlike with the previous cases I've seen, your body had the most resistance to the virus, and in fighting it, it actually took bits and pieces of it and used it to fight off the main virus. So instead of you becoming slower than you were, because the virus is now part of your system, it's made you faster and stronger than you once were. That's what the light was for, I noticed it after you removed your blindfold, your eyes were mostly red, not green."

"So you're saying that a part of the virus is still in me, but it's helping me?"

"More or less, in stressful scenarios it seems to come out to help you. If I was able to see that, so should Wade, and he might be able to offer us a better explanation"

"So Kim is better than she was because of the virus?" Ron asked.

"Yes, maybe you are the second person I know of that had the virus work like it did on you."

"Who was the first?" Kim asked.

"I'm not to sure I remember her name, might have been Alice or something like that. That's not important right now though, what is important is that I have all of your shoe sizes"

"What?" Everyone said simultaneously.

"For boots, we'll need them for our next leg of our journey out of here"

"Where exactly is our next leg of our journey that we need long boots?" Steve asked.

"The sewers"

Wade checked and rechecked the data from the scan again; he as well as the others in the room couldn't believe what they were seeing.

"Cool" Jim said.

"Our Sister" Tim added.

"Is a Mutant!" They both said.

"Jim, Tim, your sister is not a mutant" James Possible said sternly to the two.

"Interesting, it seems that the virus has enhanced all of Kimmie's functions, muscle mass, reflexes, the whole 9 yards" Mrs. Possible said with a doctors interest.

"It seems like it works on the same way Ron's Mystical Monkey Power works." Wade said as he closed out of the window.

"What do you mean?" The Possibles asked.

"Ron is able to summon the power to him at any time; by the looks of it Kim can do the same thing with the virus gave her, if she allowed it to take control of her. However I haven't figured out what effects it would cause her, temporary or permanently"

James patted Wade on the back, "Keep up the good work Wade, by the way, when do we get out of here?"

"I'll have to get back to you on that sir."

"What's this burg called again?" Chris Redfield asked as he looked around at the activity around them.

"Middleton I think wasn't really paying much attention to it though" Carlos said as he grabbed a duffle bag of supplies from the chopper.

"Tell me again why Leon, Claire, and Barry couldn't come with us on this?" Jill Valentine said as she fixed her beret.

"It was something about an assault on Umbrella HQ in France I think; he was sketchy on the details. Leon I believe is in the government program for the Secret Service right now so he wouldn't be able to go anyway." Chris said as he opened the duffle bag.

Inside the bag were three handguns, all Glocks, two AR-15s, and one combat shotgun, also in there were several magazines of ammunition and roughly 9 Fragmentation grenades, three a piece.

"I don't know about you two, but I'm really not looking forward to going beyond that wall" Jill said.

"I don't think any of us want to go behind that wall, but they say that there are survivors back there." Carlos said.

"Hey Carlos, I read the report before we got here, do you know one of the guys in there? It said that the survivors were being led by an Umbrella agent, ex UBCS" Chris said as he packed his vest with magazines for the handgun and AR-15.

"Don't know, they give a name?"

"No name, but they said he went through Raccoon like you and Jill did."

Carlos cursed under his breath in Spanish.

"Agent Pellegrino, I thought the gringo quit Umbrella once he got back from Raccoon."

"So you do know him"

"Yes, he was one of the best, his squad was the top squad in Umbrella, and from what I understand he even had one of his friends on the squad under him"

"It said he was the only survivor from his squad. That has to be harsh"

"More than you'd ever imagine"

"Who got this frilly designer boot bullshit!" Vin shouted as he held up a pair of boots, they had fur on the outside, not an ideal boot for plowing through sludge.

"What! You know how expensive these retail for?" Bonnie protested.

Everyone rolled their eyes,

"Bonnie, we are going through the sewers, these are the worst to wear through that! They aren't even long I have them anyway?" She asked quietly.

Vin threw his hands in the air as he tossed the boots at her. Everyone else had groaned.

There was a department store across the street which made the boot hunt easier, everyone placed their selected boots by the door, which is where he spotted the designer pair in the crowd of work boots.

"Get these on quickly, I need to deal with our thorn now" Vin grumbled as he grabbed his pair of boots and headed back to the reception area where Will Du waited.

He quickly threw the pair of long boots on, they came up past his knees, more than enough to get through the relatively low sewer water. He then went to wake Will.

"Will, wake up you cocksucker!" Vin shouted as he lightly smacked the side of his face, he started to stir.

"Good, you are awake. Time to deal with you once and for all Mr. 'Superior than everyone on the planet'. Your time with us is over"

Vin grabbed the front collar of Will's shirt and dragged him out of the chair and out the door, Will tried to struggle against it, but after having the shit kicked out of him he was barely able to move as it was.

Outside the group was already amassed wearing their boots when Vin dropped Will in the center of the street.

"Felix, get the Crowbar!"

Will's eyes went wide,

"No Will, I'm not going to bludgeon you to death with a crowbar" Vin said matter of factly.

Felix rolled up with the crowbar in hand, he glanced over at Will with hatred in his eyes, where Will was trying to plead with them.

Vin grabbed the crowbar and swung it into Will's side, causing him to scream out in pain.

"I though you weren't going to hit him with that!" Kim shouted.

"I said I wasn't going to beat him to death with it, big difference" Vin said casually.

He then tossed the crowbar to Shego and motioned over to the manhole cover twenty feet to his right.

"Now, Will, since you've caused nothing but problems since you've been with us, and even got one of us killed, and tried a mutiny, we're voting you out.

"You are now going to lie there and die while the creatures roaming this town eat you alive, from what I've heard, its not a good way to die, ranks right up there with burning to death I believe"

Shego slid the cover to the manhole over, opening their new path. She stood there watching what Vin was doing.

"Now to make sure you don't try to be heroic and come after us, and to keep you from cowering in the corner like the bitch that you are…"

Vin pulled out both of his .45s, he frequently used only one, but now he got the chance to use two, and he wasn't passing this chance up. He squeezed the trigger on both guns, which he aimed at Will's kneecaps.

The guns roared as the large caliber rounds practically destroyed Will's kneecaps, Vin had to shield his eyes as bits of Will's blood, bone and muscle mass came flying up at him. Will screamed, a very high pitched scream, an almost feminine scream.

"That, will keep you from going anywhere" Vin tucked both guns into their holsters as he looked down the street.

"Ah, they aren't as dumb as they look" Vin pointed to the 15 or so zombies that were shuffling down the street towards Will.

"They smell food" Vin said, giving Will an evil smile.

"Let's get going!"

One by one they started down the manhole into the sewer below, Vin was the last to head down, and he gave the petrified Will a farewell wave before he pulled the cover over top of him.

Will started to cry as he laid down on the asphalt, he was going to die.

That's when he noticed the four men standing on the rooftop across from him.

Albert Wesker was watching the crippled man carefully. After he set the virus off in the town his original plan was to fly back to his superiors with the virus and anti-virus, but because he missed what exactly happened in Raccoon City, he wanted to see how that agent he ran into would fair in this for a second time.

Wesker ordered the chopper down and he and his remaining four team members shadowed the agent around, it soon became clear that he was having outside help, tipping the odds in his favor.

We can't have him have an edge now can we?

The crippled man lying in the street could provide him with what he needed, and what he needed was to sever the agents outside helper.

"Let's go say hello to our guest shall we?"

"….So stay close, and don't wander off" Vin finished giving the team the basics of Sewer survival as they started slowly down the tunnel.

Despite the smell, there wasn't a lot of water in the place, it was mostly ankle deep, there were the occasional body pile but it was rather clean.

"So Vin, did you ever have to go through the sewers like this?" Shego asked.

"Actually yes, we had to trap a giant Crocodile in a large room in the sewers, don't know what happened to it after that though"

"A Giant Crocodile? You are joking right, please tell me you're joking!" Ron pleaded.

"Nope it was an actual giant crocodile, bigger than a bus too."

"You're not helping!" Kim said.

"Any kinds of creatures that stay down here?" Steve asked, eyeing the walls carefully.

"Well, back in Raccoon, mutant spiders liked to hang down there, that's part of the reason why I didn't stay down there too long, I hate spiders"

"Spiders? H-how big?" Kim asked nervously.

"You don't want to know"

Kim was very afraid all of a sudden, she knew she was called to deal with the mutant spider crisis in Guam, but the locals were able to take care of it before they arrived, she kept on having flashbacks to the Roachie incident.

"Oh don't worry, there shouldn't be any spiders down here" Vin said, trying to reassure her.

Thump-Thump-Thump

Everyone stopped cold and turned towards the direction of the sound. It was coming from around the corner.

"Shit, spoke too soon. Ron get the flamethrower operational" Vin said as he slung the shotgun off of his back.

"W-w-what is it?" Kim asked, she was starting to go pale.

Thump-Thump-Thump

The noise rounded the corner, only they didn't see anything until they noticed where Vin was pointing his shotgun, at the ceiling.

Don't look up, don't look up, don't look up…..

Kim looked up, a small "eep" escaped her lips.

The spider looked like an enlarged tarantula, enlarged to the size of a small car, yellow and black stripes were on its legs and large bulb on its back, its large fangs twitched as it eyed the group with its large 8 eyes.

"Ron!" Vin hissed.

"It's on!" Ron shouted as the flame at the end of the barrel flickered to life.

The spider hissed as it started slowly towards them,

"Alright listen, after I drop him I want you to let him have it" Vin said quickly, never taking his eyes off the spider.

"You mean you…"

"Yes Ron, burn it, that large sack has thousands of babies in it and you don't want to deal with those, kill them with the fire!"

Ron didn't have time to respond as the front legs of the spider came down at them, attempting to grab someone and pull them into its mouth.

BLAM!

The Shotgun blast echoed in the narrow tunnel as the buckshot cut the front legs off of the spider, several more ripped into its skin, bit it was still mobile and now incredibly pissed.

"Fuck!" Vin shouted as he ejected the shell, instead of sliding the grip forward he held it back as his right hand reached into one of his pockets.

The spider came at them again, bringing its fangs closer to the group. Vin grabbed the round from his pocket and slid it into the open slide as he pumped the slide closed.

He quickly brought the shotgun up on the creature and fired, this time the entire head area of the spider exploded, blowing a rather large hole in its head.

It fell from the ceiling, still upside down it splashed into the shallow water.

"Now Ron!"

Ron was by Vin's side quickly with the flamethrower at the ready, there was a whooshing sound as the gas rushed into the exposed flame, blanketing the carcass in fire it started to cook.

"Someone put a round in that sack!" Vin shouted to them, Kim was the one to respond as she let a round out into the sack, almost immediately baby spiders crawled out of the hole, only to be instantly covered in flames.

Within seconds, the flamethrower was empty, but the spider was toast…literally.

"What did you use on it the second time?" Ron asked as he yanked the tank off the weapon.

"Deer-slug, basically a giant bullet when you think about it, should have known to have loaded it into the gun before hand." Vin said as he started ejecting the rounds still in the shotgun.

"Well what do we do now, the tanks empty?" Ron asked as he held the empty tank.

"We still have our Molotov Cocktails, use them to fill the tank" Vin said.

"I really hope we don't run into any more of those" Kim said as she watched the spider burn.

Hissing was heard down the hallway. Vin turned to her as he finished loading the Deer-slugs into the shotgun.

"Don't count on it"

Hey, another twist! I was due for one, and hopefully it leaves you guys questioning what will happen with the Will-Wesker meeting, as well as Carlos, Jill and Chris's role in the story.

All will be answered hopefully by next week.

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