Well, thanks to some weird issue, I have received all of your replies, however I couldn't respond to all of them, so you all get to live that much longer, lol.
To answer some rather important issues I've noticed, I am trying to bring the story more on Kim and Ron than having it focusing mostly on the character of Vin, but because there are so many characters in the group, its time to thin out their numbers, and no I'm not telling you who's going to go bye-bye permanently, you'll just have to read and see.
Special thanks to: Darrinx, Godhand's Number, Tangora, YamiDymlos, Zero-Nightmare, Longsworder, Delta Operator, Jak4, DshizNit, swiglo3000, Savior M. Ascend, Mortal Guardian, Cold-Chaos, anarcrothe, Darks00, Jokerisdaking, IncrediRaider8, Otritzi, bahamut9999, Aelis Aisling, no body, hopeless-romantic-nr-one, Chaos Blade, K-R-4-E-V-A, Kei Ikari, KPFan4Life, Leah Phillips, Draft Strangus, whitem, zero9g9, and surfrost for reading and reviewing.
Also, since we are cresting the magical 20 chapter mark, a little legal refresher. Kim Possible and all associated characters are the property of the Disney Co. Any and all characters and scenes associated with the Resident Evil series belongs to CAPCOM. The characters of Vin, Apotheosis and assorted FBI and Umbrella agents belong to me and me alone, any attempt to use said characters will result in a very painful death that is all.
Chapter 20
Finding it is half the battle…
Vin led Kim, Ron and Mr. Barkin down the sewer corridor in the general direction of the compactor room and the location of the sun emblem. Ron was a little cumbersome in handling the larger Street sweeper shotgun as well as the traditional pump action on his back, while Kim kept wondering why Vin actually insisted Ron and Josh swap weapons.
"Ok, so where is this room exactly again?" Steve Barkin asked, gripping his Thompson tightly.
On instinct Kim brought her kimmunicator out of her pocket and called Wade.
"Wade, where exactly are we heading to retrieve this emblem?"
"There should be a door coming up on you're left, go through it and it will be the only door on the left at the end of that walkway."
"Thanks Wade, you rock"
"KP, I do not like this." Ron protested as the came to the door.
"Ron, everything will be fine, don't worry about it"
"Maybe you're right, but I can't help but feeling that this is fifty miles of bad road"
"Uh huh, bad road, yep" Rufus added from Ron's pocket.
"Quiet you two," Vin said in a hushed voice as he grabbed the door handle.
Ron decided to hush up as Vin cautiously opened the door and stepped inside, Shotgun at the ready.
"It's clear"
Mr. Barkin entered next, followed by Kim and Ron. They were in a very long sewer hallway, only unlike the others; this one was well lit, and had absolutely no water in it. At the very far end of the hallway was a large metal wall that capped the room. The curved walls and ceiling had very little on them, save for some small pipes, however over on their left was what appeared to be a long propane tank hooked up to the wall with a quick release button. Kim made a note of that, suddenly feeling that this was indeed fifty miles of bad road.
Vin put his hand up to his earpiece, Kim did the same. They really didn't have to actually put their hand up to the earpiece, Wade was monitoring the frequency they were on but it just came to them, probably the result of watching all those movies.
"Wade, is there anything unusual about either this hallway or the compactor room?"
"Running scans now, it looks like there is nothing in the hallway, but I'm picking up some re-"
The line was suddenly cut off and went quiet.
"Wade could you repeat that? Wade?"
Kim was starting to feel the bad road vibe escalate tenfold,
"Wade never loses contact with us, ever" She whispered over to Ron.
"Bad road KP, Bad Road"
"Vin? You there? Hello?"
Wade was very worried now, either something was jamming the frequency on their end or some one actually cut the line on his end. He didn't like the feeling of dread that was coming over him.
"Wade, what's going on?" Mr. Possible asked, worry evident in his voice.
Wade turned back to him, as well as the rest of the families, each one looked very concerned with this latest turn of events.
"Honestly Dr. Possible, I don't have any idea"
"No, but I might" A mysterious voice said from the doorway to the house.
The voice caught everyone by surprise as they all spun towards the source of the voice, there in the doorway stood a man, clad in dark gray and black, wearing a flack jacket, black sunglasses, and a very evil smirk on his face.
"Wesker" one of the Umbrella agents said, with a mixture of fear and anger.
"Ah, I see that Agent Vin wasn't the only one who knew who I was, too bad for you though, as you'll receive the same fate as him" Wesker said coldly.
The Umbrella agent, as well as the five others formed a perimeter around the families, while one pulled Wade away and towards the center of the families. Each agent pulled out their guns.
A snap was heard, like the sound of someone snapping their fingers, followed by muffled gunfire, the first three agents rocked before they fell to the floor, the others opened up on the doorway when they heard the smashing and cracking of bones mixed in with the whooshes of swinging limbs.
Within several seconds all the Umbrella agents were on the ground, most had pools of blood forming around their still figures, others just lay there with their bones bent at impossible angles, the fear still etched on their faces.
The families were horror stricken, the ones that had been protecting them had just been brutally murdered in front of everyone's eyes, and they cautiously looked over towards the doorway.
Wesker was still standing there, with the same smirk on his face, around him was three men carrying machine guns and gas masks, on the floor was the fourth. But standing near the center of the room and closest to the family, was someone no one in the family expected to see alive, much less at all.
"Agent Du?" Mr. Possible asked confusion eminent in his voice.
Will looked over at the families, what the saw shocked them. Will had the look of outright hatred on his face, but that wasn't all. His eyes, his once calm eyes were now bright red; almost glowing that's how bright they were.
"But, why are you here?"
"Why are you helping him?" Jim asked
"And why are you even alive?" Tim quickly added.
"That's simple, you see, before your so called children left him to die in the street I came down and offered him a chance to live again, and more importantly a chance for revenge" Wesker said as he strolled up to Will.
"But, you're with Global Justice, you fight the good fight!" Mrs. Possible practically shouted.
"That was before you're daughter left me to die in the street, she as well as the other will pay for what they did to me"
"You Can't do this!" Mr. Stoppable shouted, stepping closer to Will, anger in his eyes.
Will didn't even flinch; he instead punched Mr. Stoppable right in the gut with enough force to throw him back into the families.
"HONEY!" Mrs. Stoppable shouted as she crouched over her husband.
"You monster!" Mr. Possible hissed, clenching his fists tightly.
"Just try me old man and I'll put you as well as your kids against the wall in a pool of blood" Will shouted.
"Will, that's enough" Wesker said putting his arm around Will.
"We need them alive if we want to have everything go to plan"
Wesker and Will stared at the petrified families, both started to grin.
"Wade! Wade! Goddammit!" Vin hissed as he repeatedly tapped on the headset. He tried for roughly five minutes trying to establish contact with Wade again, it proved to be futile, and he wasn't getting anything. He even asked Kim to call Wade on the kimmunicator, and she too got nothing, further worrying the group.
"Well, at least we could still communicate with each other on these" Ron said.
"Stoppable has a good point on that, it could be worse you know" Mr. Barkin added.
"I still don't like this, we're effectively walking into an unknown room blind" Vin countered, gripping the shotgun tightly in his hands.
"Well what about Kim's new powers? Surely she could use them to see what's in that room?" Ron stated optimistically.
"Yep, powers" Rufus added.
"We'll have to wait till we get closer to the door; from what I know it works it's best the closer you are"
"Like with the spiders?" Kim asked.
"Exactly, they were close, I don't know if you could do it long distance, but lets stick to what we know works."
They were now at the door that led to the compactor room, it was a regular door but it was part of a larger metal shutter that looked like allowed for vehicle access.
"Ok Kim, do your magic" Vin said turning to her.
She nodded and then closed her eyes, indeed it was a little harder than what she went through with the spiders, it took a lot longer concentration to actually see what was in the room but it eventually came to her. There were garbage mounds everywhere, stacked right up to the ceiling in some places, as well as a rather deep section of water in the center, there was a piece that was floating on a piece of cardboard in the center of the room. It was the emblem.
"The emblem is sitting on a cardboard box in the center of a rather deep pool in the center of the room. I can't see if there is anything in the room to fight back." She said as she opened up her eyes, noticing that Ron was staring intently at her eyes, mesmerized by them changing from their blood red, back to her usual green.
"Ok, here we go"
Vin didn't open the door the traditional way this time, instead he brought his right foot up and kicked the door, forcing it open it smacked against the opposite end of the metal shutter and stayed there, allowing everyone to see into the room.
There, just like Kim said was the sun emblem sitting on a cardboard box in the center of the pool, the room was unusually quiet.
"Well, what are we waiting for, lets get it" Mr. Barkin spoke with impatience in his voice as he stepped closer to the door.
The cardboard box shifted unexpectedly, bobbing from side to side in the water. Kim placed an arm on Mr. Barkin's shoulder, telling him to not take another step.
All eyes were on the box, it shifted again this time being bounced into the far mountain of garbage and getting stuck there, something was moving it.
"What in the world" Kim asked.
Just then a large scaled green tail sloshed about on the surface of the water before it disappeared again.
"What was that? Kim did you see that?" Ron questioned.
"Oh Christ" Vin whispered.
Kim and Ron turned to him, he was pale, and sweat was running down his forehead.
A hissing sound was emanating from the room; Kim heard Ron let out a small, barely audible "Eeep" before he too went silent.
Kim tuned to the doorway again, her heart stopped. She was gazing into the head of a rather large alligator that was now floating on the surface of the water, looking at them through the door.
"Run" Vin whispered.
The group started to slowly walk back the way they came, never taking their eyes off the Alligator. It was then that Rufus decided to poke his head out of Ron's pocket to see why all the silence. His gaze came to rest on the monstrous Alligator, he shrieked.
Within a split second the Alligator roared as it jumped towards the metal shutter, with one massive hit it split the door in half, and gained access to the hallway, it flailed its tail, flinging a large section of shutter down the hallway and towards the group.
"DUCK!"
Vin, Kim, and Ron dove to the floor just as the piece sailed over them, Mr. Barkin wasn't so fortunate, the piece hit him squarely in the chest, sending him sailing almost all the way back down to the entrance of the hallway, he collapsed in a heap.
"RUN, Jesus RUN!"
The trio sprinted back down the hall, the Alligator spun and started after them. Even though they had a head start the alligator was fast, it started closing the distance between them. Kim's power started to kick in as she started pulling away from Ron and Vin, she approached the downed Mr. Barkin and without stopping scooped him up over her shoulder, shots where heard behind her, she quickly glanced back.
Ron and Vin were both in a full out run, Ron was blindly pointing the street sweeper behind him and firing into what he hopped was the closing Alligator. A few of his shots hit the alligator in its snout, small sections of blood appeared on the alligator's snout, but it didn't stop. She figured it was a good thing they didn't look behind them because the alligator was now roughly twenty feet behind them.
Think Kim think, how the hell do we stop this thing!
The Canister! That's it!
Kim turned back and rushed over to the canister of propane attached to the wall, she quickly set Mr. B down as she slapped the release button, causing the tank to drop to the floor before it fell on its side.
She put her hands on the tank and gave it a good push down the hallway, watching it roll towards Ron and Vin, not to mention the Alligator.
"Heads up guys!" She called out.
They both spotted the canister and dove over it, Ron tumbled on the ground while Vin turned it into a roll, ending his on his knee facing back toward the approaching alligator with the shotgun ready.
Just as the tank reached the alligator Vin opened up with the shotgun.
Blam! Click-click
Blam! Click-click
Blam! Click-click
The second round blew the valve on the tank off, while the third set the gas off. A giant fireball erupted followed by a colossal explosion that shook everything in the hallway.
Everyone shielded their eyes as the debris rained down on them; it was a mixture of pieces of the wall as well as chunks of alligator skin and meat.
When the room grew quiet they all cast a glance down the hall.
"Ew, that is so gross!" Kim stated, holding her stomach.
"Oh man, that is sick and wrong!"
"Bleah!" Rufus added.
"Guess you guys don't want alligator skinned boots?" Vin asked, trying to lighten up the grim sight.
The alligator was, more or less, beheaded by the explosion. In fact it appeared the head disintegrated from the fire and explosion, littering the walls with burnt hide, blood and brain matter. The body of the alligator was still intact, it was still spouting large amounts of blood to where the head should be, sending a large pool of blood to the feet of the three.
"How's Barkin?" Vin asked as he reloaded more shells into the shotgun.
"It looks bad, real bad. He needs medical attention now"
"Shit, alright you and Ron head back to the 'Save Room' while I get the emblem, I'll meet you back there"
"But don't you need some back up? We don't know if there is another one of those in the room" Ron protested
"Yeah!" Rufus squeaked.
"I'll be fine, worry about Barkin, and do all you can for him, I'll be back in a flash."
Vin started towards the compactor room again, walking around the body of the alligator, he heard the door open and shut behind him. He found himself in the same position he was in not even five minutes ago, he stared back at the alligator and shook his head.
"This is too much like Raccoon it's getting ridiculous"
He stepped across the piles of garbage to get to the box on the other side of the room, careful to avoid the large pool in the center; he soon reached the box and gazed at the emblem. He carefully pocketed it and started to head back out the room.
"God I can't believe we have to do all this for a stupid door to open, I hope the other team's doing better."
On the other side of the compact room, in the maze of tubes and tunnels Shego, Drakken, Bonnie, and Josh made their way towards the room where the moon emblem was supposed to be located.
"Why can't these people do anything normal, a simple key would work, but no, they have to get all fancy and smart" Bonnie protested.
"Oh stop the whining, you're worse than Drakken" Shego argued.
"Shego! Your words hurt!"
"Put a sock in it Dr. D now's not the time."
They walked up to another T intersection, looking in the two directions they could go.
"Now where too" Josh questioned.
"Right, then a left into a large storage room, that's where the moon emblem is" Drakken read off the crudely drawn map.
They went right down the pipe, each of them gripping their weapons tightly as they made the left, coming to the door that would take them into the storage room and the emblem.
Shego cautiously opened the door, allowing it to open all the way. The room was full of cobwebs, and had a squishy, mesh substance on the floor. She carefully made her way into the room, the others followed.
The room was also dimly lit, probably because the webs were all over the lights.
"Ew, cobwebs?" Bonnie snorted.
"Didn't I tell you to zip it?" Shego questioned.
A hissing came from the other side of the room, stopping everyone in their tracks.
"What was that?" Drakken asked, sounding very worried.
Eight glowing orbs appeared across the room, followed by muffled thumping.
"Oh Christ" Shego whispered.
The eight orbs belonged to the mother of all mutant spiders. Where the others were about the size of small cars, this one dwarfed them, it was that massive. She caught glittering in the back corner of the room, it was the emblem.
Shego ignited her hands but then remembered the situation with the smaller spiders, as well as the room being covered in webs and quickly doused them; grabbing the Thompson she had hanging on her shoulder.
"Kill it!" She shouted, sending a burst from the Thompson into the approaching spider.
The others soon joined in on firing, Bonnie with the AK, Josh using his .357 and Drakken, shouldering the grenade launcher and using both his .44s.
The rounds tore into the spider, spraying bits of green blood all over the room, not to mention the bits of its legs that were taken off by the large caliber weapons.
"Spread out, make it work for you!" Shego commanded as she strafed to the left unleashing a volley of rounds from the Thompson, she strained to control where the rounds went as the gun started to walk up on her.
The others did the same, splitting in different directions and firing into the massive spider. Several rounds tore into the large sack on the back of the spider, letting small amounts of baby spiders free.
"Josh! Roast It!"
Shego jumped over to the front of the spider, squeezing the trigger and emptying the Thompson into the face of the spider when the wall of flame enveloped the spider, it shrieked as the flames touched it, but the rounds from Shego's Thompson ripped into its head, killing it.
Bonnie and Drakken sent a few more rounds into the sides, cutting the legs off the spider so it wouldn't run around, even though it was already dead, they weren't taking any chances.
Shego yanked the empty magazine from the Thompson and slapped in a fresh one before she jogged around the burning spider to the glinting moon emblem.
It was suspended in the massive spider web the spider created, she ignited her right hand and cut the webs holding it in place and grabbed the emblem.
"Dr. D heads up!"
She tossed the emblem over to Drakken, who caught the piece and stuffed it into his lab coat.
"Let's get the hell out of here"
Just as Josh was finishing up on the spider he felt a large blast of cool air from above him, beating down on him. It was mixed in with the sound of flapping wings. The sudden movement of air caused everyone to halt.
"Great, now what?" Bonnie asked as she turned to Josh.
Josh looked up, and gasped.
Right above him was a SUV sized Moth, which looked down at him.
"That is the second biggest moth I've ever seen" Drakken said, pointing at the large insect.
"Josh, walk slowly toward the door." Shego whispered.
Josh cautiously started moving towards the door, never once taking his eyes off the Moth positioned above him. Unfortunately he ended up walking into the burning spider and screamed in pain as the fire touched his arm.
The Moth attacked, releasing itself from the ceiling it rolled over in mid air and clamped its legs around Josh's torso and started to fly up.
"NO!" Bonnie screamed as she dove for Josh's hand, she grabbed his and started pulling onhis arm.
It became a deadly game of tug of war, with Josh's life on the line. Bonnie felt herself start to get lifted off the ground when Shego and Drakken grabbed her and pulled back.
The Moth violently beat its wings, struggling to break its meal free from the others.
"Josh, hold on!" Bonnie shrieked as she felt her grip start to slip.
"It's…to late for me…go, save yourself" Josh said through the pain as the legs dug into his flesh, tears were starting to run down his cheeks.
"No, we won't leave you kid!" Shego shouted as she pulled with all her might.
"Go…get out of here…"
"No! You're escaping this hell hole with us!" Bonnie felt the tears start to run down her cheeks as her grip on his arm continued to slip.
"Go…while you still can…remember me…" with the last words Josh released his grip from Bonnie, allowing the Moth to take him.
"JOSH! NOOOOO!"
Vin trudged quietly down the sewer passage, back to the room. At the far end of the passage he saw the other group heading back, all had very grim faces on. That's when Vin noticed that one of them was missing.
"Oh Christ, no"
He broke out into a jog, heading over to them. Indeed they all had grim faces on, and Josh wasn't with them.
"What happened?" he asked.
"Giant Spider, Moth…Josh" was all that Bonnie was able to say before she broke down into tears.
Drakken put his arm around her, trying to comfort her while Shego filled Vin in on the details.
"So he's gone" Vin grimly said as Shego finished filling him in.
"He just, gave up at the end and let go." She said quietly.
"Barkin's hurt bad too, we ran into a huge alligator in the compactor room"
"Is he ok?"
"Unless he gets some medical attention soon it doesn't look good"
Silence came over them, as they thought about the ones they lost, and the one struggling for life.
"Let's get back to the others" Vin said, breaking the silence.
They made their way over to the room; upon entering they saw Mr. Barkin laid out on top of the chest, Kim and Felix were checking on him while Ron sat back and somberly watched.
They all turned towards the door when they came through the door,
"You're back, good…where's Josh?" Kim questioned.
Vin just shook his head, Felix and Ron let out sighs, unable to believe they lost another member and could possibly lose another if they didn't hurry.
"We have to hurry, he doesn't have much time" Kim said after the silence.
They all nodded when a crackling came over their headsets.
Vin's hand shot up to his ear,
"Wade, is that you? Wade? Wade?"
"Sorry to disappoint you Agent Vin, but Wade is a little tied up at the moment"
Vin's blood ran cold; he clenched his fists hard enough to turn his knuckles white.
"You Fuck!"
"Temper, Temper Vin, you don't want anything bad to happen to the families here now do you?"
Everyone in the room had a mute shock on there face, especially Kim and Ron.
"What about our families? What have you done to them?" She shrieked over the headpiece.
"Now, now little girl. Your families are fine, they're currently tied up and awaiting transport"
"Transport to where you sick bastard!" She shouted.
"Why we're going to have a little reunion for you when you all get to the airport in Middleton. That is where you're heading right Vin?"
"How the fuck do you know that?" Vin spat with obvious venom.
"Why from you're good buddy Will here"
Confusion now coursed through the room.
"Will? Will's dead, I left him in the street to die, how in fuck's name can he be there?"
"Don't you know? He's now working for me, granted he needed some of the virus to get it to happen but that's another story"
"You mother-fucking piece of shit"
"Vin! Head to the Zoo!"
It was Wade's voice coming in faintly over the line, followed by the sound of someone getting hit, and then shrieks from the family.
"Easy there Will, we don't want them dead"
"Why are you doing this, they're innocent, leave them out of this!"
"That's where you're wrong, they weren't innocent the moment they started helping you, they have as much right to be part of the action as you do, which is exactly why they are now part of my plan"
"Let them GO Wesker"
"Time is running out Vin, you better hurry to the airport if you want them all to come out alive"
The transmission cut off, leaving everyone stunned.
"Wesker? Wesker?"
Vin slammed his fists onto one of the shelves as he screamed out in anger.
"WESKER!"
Ah, another twist.
It's good to plan these out ahead of time, and I hope you all enjoy the twist there. And you better all mourn the loss of Josh; he was brave, and noble.
A moment of silence for his passing if you will…
Ok, now next chapter will feature a meeting of a different kind, Chris, Jill, and Carlos meet the infamous Vin and the band of survivors, in the treacherous zoo.
What will happen?
Tune in next week, same time (roughly) same channel on the Resident Evil-Kim Possible network.
Read, Review, and get a response, don't forget I still have some mutant spiders caged up in my basement, so you better review! Especially since I found out how to send them to you through email,
Bwahahahahahaha!