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In poor Krauser's mind, a myriad of bizarre emotions churned there. It wasn't that she wasn't pretty, as looks didn't mean shit to a guy like him, not anymore. His emotions of love and crushes died long before – when he had lost his wife. Besides, he shouted in his head: she's just a kid! It's illegal! He's like over thirty years old and she's a teenager!

Thoughts of Ashley Graham came back to his mind. Yeah but she was twenty! Way over eighteen buddy. What the hell? Why am I talking in my head?

He tried to push her away, but that girl's legs had wrapped herself really tight around his thick waist. She must work out a lot!

Though, that horrible guilt entered his mind, he didn't know why he should feel guilty now when he obviously lacked principles. Now, the audacity of this girl's unusual assault left him……speechless.

He was about to pull her away from him, but she was quicker, bereaving him of that honour. They stared at each other, thunderstruck. Amanda blinked twice, her hand moved up to touch her lips, and with slow agonizing movements, she pulled out something from underneath her sweater. Her eyes still locked onto his. She could see that Krauser was as angry as ever. Well, he's always looking like he's going to take the piss out of someone.

He had already given up the idea to throw her body over the ledge, because he remembered the serum; his eyes lit up as he watched the strange girl reach for – what? A weapon?

Leon was about to cry out to them from below, but Amanda revealed what she was looking for, causing him to pause. Was she going to just hand over the serum to Krauser?

"Krauser," she said, with seriousness her voice; a neutral expression planted there as she unwaveringly faced him.

"I think you may need this."

In her hand was a small round white pill. Or was it white with blue specks in it?

"A mint." She simply said.

Krauser twitched.

The moment was broken as a scream ripped through the air; the familiar cries of muttered but garbled Spanish came in waves. Perfect timing. An ingress of Las Plagas victims held torches, they scattered all around, coming at Leon first from the open large door that was once closed off. Leon swiveled around, his gun reloaded; he started moving backwards as the walking parasites headed right straight for him. With that, he didn't waste a moment and after quick analyis of his situation, pulled the trigger, and shot his enemies left and right - one Ganado went down from two shots, while one shot was enough for a closer victim. Leon knew he had to reload soon. Did he get the upgrade for reloading this military version?

He reached for his grenade instead; found that he had more than one grenade at hand. This brought him some consolation and released the top and threw it. He ran, turned his back away from them, and as soon as the grenade exploded; Leon crouched down, the bits and portions of flesh flew everywhere. Some bloody pieces splattered the back of his jacket. That took care of the first wave, but the next wave came; someone must have released a horde of them.

Meanwhile, as Krauser and Amanda turned at the noise, they were immobilized immediately. The empathic American Soldier growled out, "Another one of your surprises?"

The accusation was evident and she flustered, glared at him – her voice laced with sarcasm. "Did you see me use a whistle this time?"

"No time to stand around here wasting breath." Krauser growled out, and jumped down. At least a three foot story drop, but damn if he'd let Leon get all the fun.

Dentigerous Ganados screamed for blood, and blood they got alright – in the form of their own, as Leon fired bullet after bullet; the Matilda can quickly deplete reserve of 9mm ammo due to its three-round-burst. But because of this, he was running out of 9mm ammo. An approaching Ganado wanted to mastiscate on Leon's neck. A hissing noise came out of his open mouth as he tried to sink his rotten teeth in.

Leon pulled back. "Sorry, this isn't going to work, you and I." With that, he flipped up in the air, sending his right leg in a swinging motion; his leg drove hard into his target, cracked the neck and caused the body to create a domino effect as it hit several others behind him. They backed away, and a couple of fell to the ground. Then he took out his knife and sliced the next one who came too close. "I usually choose my friends carefully."

Amanda quickly glanced down to watch Krauser use his arm to swing towards the several that came his way; she hurriedly looked down her loose turtle-neck sweater to find her rifle. Then remembered that she only carried a gun and a few items. Now why couldn't she have brought along a large attache case like Leon?

Then she spotted Krauser's bow, along with a few arrows. Her eyes flashed wickedly. He left it for her! Of course she didn't believe that for a minute but that didn't matter now as she picked it up and started aiming.

Leon looked like he was in trouble so she took care of those next to him first. Taking a couple out by directly aiming at their chest; they fell before they could fall on the Agent.

Kennedy glanced up to her and nodded thanks. He went back to the task at hand and pulled out another grenade. It was his last one. Better make it good.

Krauser behind him threw a flash grenade; thankfully it didn't get Leon in the eyes, as his back was to him. Now a row of vulnerable Ganados hunched down, tried to cover their eyes, and the bigger man did a round house kick, decapitating their heads. Leon used this open chance to check his ammunition and found that there were some ammo lying around and The exclusive upgrade for the Matilda now gave the gun a maximum capacity of 100 rounds. "Oh yeah, baby, let's go."

Now satisfied that these would work for the time being, Amanda's scream was heard behind him. He turned around to see that a few stray Ganados sprinting towards the tower to her. The parasite-ridden enemies would sprint, just pausing long enough to start their zombie-esque gait.

Amanda, however wasn't about to sit this one down and used up the rest of the arrows. It wasn't enough. Then she threw the bow at the next one on his way up, hit his head with all the force she could muster. The infected man fell to the ground, screaming.

Leon took off in that direction. Krauser on the other hand was finishing off the rest of the enemies one by one; he went close contact with the remaining group and started to slice and dice. The big knife cut his enemies with one swipe, and they fell to the ground with a thud. The American soldier grinned and laughed. "Rotting flesh. You'll all be food to that big fish at the lake."

Amanda was out of ammo too so she did what was the smartest thing; she tried to push the ladder down. It didn't budge. It was stuck to the tower. With that, the Ganado making his way towards her was nearly to the top and she kicked him off with her booted leg. He screamed and barely hit Leon on the way down.

"Watch out, Leon!" she screamed.

Krauser dove in right behind Leon.