Jill

"Lansdale took my gear. I'm unarmed..." Jill told Josh. He stated, "I lost my Rifle in a scufle with those things myself. We're sure to find something you can use."

"How did you lose yours?" Asked Jill. "Did he cold cock you too?"

"No. There was a bunch of those things. They had me on a balcony. I was fighting them of as best as I could. One of them grabbed my Rifle. I had to let go. As we were fighting he was pulling. I let go so he wouldn't pull me down with him."

"So we're both up shit's creek without a paddle..."

Just then, they saw a man in a Riot tank had busted through one of the barricades and was running over zombies. It was the police and more were coming in on foot. The SWAT members on foot grabbed a wounded Asian American man. Jill couldn't tell if he was Vietnamese or Korean. He was bitten in the left arm. "Michael! We got ya buddy! We're gonna get you to the hospital."

"You can't...there's no cure for what they did to me..." The wounded officer stated. "I've been bitten...you have to kill me!"

"I'm sure we can get you vaccines at the hospital!" Josh came out stating, "We can help. We're with the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance. Can..."

They opened fire striking Josh in the abdomen. He fell over and he cried out in pain. He had his vest on but all the same multiple rounds hit him. Josh took cover firing his Sig from the stairwell. Jill spotted a handgun next to a deceased security guard. An African American guard in his mid twenties with honey colored hair, light brown hair standing at five ten, lay there dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound to the temple. He had a bite mark on his neck. Jill took the Handgun, a .40 Glock. He had nine rounds in the magazine and two magazines to spare. She shut his blue eyes that reflected no more pigment now that he was dead. She fired from cover yelling, "Throw down your guns! We're from the United Nations!"

"Fuck you, lady!" Screamed one of the cops. "The BSAA was funded by Tricell and they're the ones that caused this goddamn mess! We're going to take you both in dead or alive!"

Jill had taken cover insde the escalator which gave her the means to stay out of sight but rounds bounced all over ricochet after richochet. The automatic fire was drawing in more zombies at least fifty. Jill fired and she hit the man who had cursed at her and hit Josh, a white male with blonde hair gray eyes and a blonde mustache standing at six feet tall in his early 40's. She hit him with three rounds and got back into cover to reload. He took his aim off of the stairs and escelator and saw the zombies and fired twenty five rounds dropping six of them but one managed to grab him and bite his left cheek. "FUCK!"

Jill asked Josh, "Are you okay...?" As they made their way up top, she having gone up the moving stairs and having been crouched down. He risked a jump over onto her side and he collapsed next to her. "I've been shot before. With and without armor. It's not something you ever get used to!"

The police down below had taken down two fifths of the zombies that had swarmed them but even the wounded were converging on the cornered officers. Two of the officers abandoned their position and ran. The wounded officer was devoured. More zombies were coming in from outside. "Damn it! They've made it so that the survivors in here are more in danger now than before!" Agent Stone cursed. He was right. The survivors in the mall however many or few of them there were, had managed to barricade the exits and hold out deeming it unsafe to go outside as there was even more of them out there but they had been waiting for relief and the police were supposed to be their relief and they had only put people more in danger.

Jill stayed ducked down as did he but she said, "Those cops are going to be a problem. Whatever they came here to do, they just put everybody else in danger including us. They just made it harder for us to do our jobs. We may have to kill them."

They made their way slowly and quietly down the stairs seeing that there was more zombies chowing down on the SWAT members. "We can't do anything for them..." Stated Josh. He grabbed the M4 from one of the deceased officers and Jill did the took what ammo they could find. Jill kept her knife in hand ready to take out the ones around the SWAT tank which had stopped. She plunged her blade into the back of one of them and severed the spine. She went for the back of the skull next. Josh did the same but he stabbed a carrier in the forehead, a Caucasian male looking to be of Italian descent with reddish hair and blue eyes wearing the country's national football team. He stabbed another, a Native American woman of Chinook ancestry wearing a black jacket over a white blouse and blue jeans,. He put the blade through her left eye but it went up into her frontal lobe. Jill found another, an African American male TSA member and she put the blade into his right temple.

They cut down four more zombies each. Jill knocked on the side of the tank. "Why did you stop? You were running through those things. Now you're just parked in the middle of the mall!"

"Fuck you, lady!" Cried one of the cops. "I'm not coming out there! You brought those things from hell onto my team members! Now Mike and me are the only survivors!"

"It looks to me like Mike won't be a survivor long."

"I'll deal with that when it comes down to it if I have to. But we aint coming out!"

"That doesn't explain why you stopped your vehicle. You have a tank. This is a way to run through all of the infected. I do not understand. I come from a war torn country and tanks are a luxury."

"It won't drive, alright?"

"What kind of fuel does a battering ram take?"

"It's not that. It needs a new battery and the only place you're going to find one of those is the Seatac Police Station. But good luck with that. That place is a nightmare. Swarming with these things. We had to block the freeway in and out of the city until we can get things contained."

Jill stated, "We can go out there and find it for you. But if we do, you have to cooperate with us. We didn't start this we're trying to stop it!"

As they made their way away from the vehicle, Josh stated, "No. We can't go after what they want. We have enough of our own problems to worry about. We need to find the rest of our team. On the way to doing that we'll try and keep whatever civilians we can safe but outside of this most of them will also have to familiarize themselves with weapons."

They moved to a blind spot of the zombies inside a clothing store. "You think this situation is any worse than Kijuju? You helped Chris and Sheva survive and you helped me escape."

"Yes but at the cost of my entire team. I'm not saying it wasn't the right thing to do. But I trained with those men."

"I get it, Josh. The lives of three of us just don't compare to eleven people...I understand."

"I'm not saying that..." He said with a sigh and a look on his face indicating the memory caused him anguish. "You and Chris have come to be good friends of mine. I don't regret saving you but I would have liked to have seen my own team survive. Its not your survival or Chris's or Sheva's that i have a problem with while my team died. It's my own..."

"But you have a wife. And five children. You have to look after them. You had to survive."

"The truth is...I also have some...feelings for Sheva...that are beyond that of friendship or even that of the brother-sister relationship we have."

Many team mates would hae told him to shut up about this. And the way Jill had been these last few years, growing colder each year, even before her kidnapping at Wesker's hands but as early as '05, she had started to distance herself so as not to feel loss. It was how she coped after all the team mates and friends she had lost in Raccoon City. But she wanted to be more like she once was. Before the mansion. So she asked him, "Have you told Sheva?"

"No...it would not be good. It would create unneeded discomfort between her and me. Plus I could never be unfaithful to my wife, Imani. It's just something that I can't deny either. We work alongside each other. I try to be home in Africa when I can. But I spend days, sometimes weeks and months on operations and many times it has been Sheva with me. It was this way before Kijuju too. Before she left us to be with the SOA. Had she stayed with the team...I would have lost her too."

"Things happen the way they happen. There's nothing we can do to change it but we can try and change the future. We can try to make sure these things don't happen again. Speaking of your wife...you do love her, don't you?"

"Yes. Of course. She reminds me of how the world is meant to be. That this shit is not how it's supposed to I get home...I can smell the yam dinner she would make when I would get home."

"You're fighting for her too," Jill told the Nigerian BSAA agent. "They deserve a life free of all of this."

"Yes...I'm glad that of all the places that these attacks are happening...it's stayed away from Nigeria. I'm not trying to sound selfish but..."

"I understand...it's not as selfish as you think. I once said that I didn't want to see any other American cities face an outbreak like Raccoon and Carlos told me that it's not all about the United States. I get what he meant but I also get what you mean for your country and I feel the same way. I don't want any country to deal with that. But it happened in America first. And then it happened in Kijuju. So by you not wanting it to happen where you live is both selfish and selfless depending on how you look at it. I know you wouldn't want it happening anywhere else either."

With that they made their way past a few of the SWAT team members that had been killed. They each had an Assault Rifle on them and both were M4's. They each took one as well as the spare magazines off of them. "Well...it's not my gear but i feel better now about our chances of completing our mission," Jill said. "Me too. Let's go. We should hotwire a car and get one of them so we can get to the police station. I don't know how to drive a tank but I could find out inside and I'd rather do that inside and use the tank to help our team than risk being killed by one of these things."

Just then they noticed a tall man in a black cape and black pants with very pale skin. He stood about seven feet tall but his face was obscured. He began to walk towards two of the officers who had managed tomake it through the zombies that had stopped to reload though one had a bite on his left ankle. One of them was a Caucasian in his early 30's with blonde hair and blue eyes and a thin build standing at six feet. The next was a man with dark brown hair and blue yes with a large beard standing at 5'9. He was the one bitten. He aimed at the man coming towards them. "Hey, are you alright? Just stay where you are."

The man did not listen. The older man aimed his Rifle as well. "We said stop! Don't come any closer!" The man suddenly and quickly moved into a sprint and the two men opened fire. The man took the 5.56 rounds in the chest head on. Twenty round from each rifle hit him and he bled but he kept coming. He punched the blonde male in the face sending him flying back. The man hit the wall hard breaking two ribs. The thing chaged at him hoisting him to his feet. The other man yelled, "Matthew! Hang on, man!"

The thing ignored the rounds in the back as it lifted Matt up and punched him in the face. The first blow caused the man's already bleeding face to bleed more. The next split his forehead open all the while the thing held him in its hand choking him. The third punch was accentuated with a sickening crunch punching the SWAT member so hard that his helmet embedded into his brain and it crushed him in a single fist. It popped his skull like a pimple and blood and brain matter as well as both eyeballs which were torn, exploded from the eradicated skull and with aingle twisting jerk it ripped the chunky pulp of what had once resembled a head and snapped it off the body with the spinal cord still attached.

The other man backed up. "Jesus!" He cried backing up and reloading. From inside the tank, the cop who had in there yelled, "Liam! What the fuck happened out there? You and Matt okay?'

"They got Matt, man!" Cried Liam. "He just..." His voice was cut off as the thing grabbed him by the throat and began to squeeze. Jill aimed at the thing but Josh put a hand over the barrel of he Rifle. "No!" He whispered. "If we can make it past that thing we must continue to find our team mates. That thing will be a waste of ammo."

"We can't just let them die!" Jill whisperd back. "They decided to shoot us. To shoot me because they think we started this. They made their bed now they must lay in it."

The thing strangled the man to death in less than 30 seconds and tossed his body aside. Inside the tank the man yelled, "Whats going on?" The thing ripped the door off of it with surprising strength. The SWAT team member grabbed his Rifle and aimed fo the things face. "You want some of me?!" He started to fire but did not notice he reanimated Mike sitting up who took a bite out of his cried out forcing the cop back and fired a sinle round into the zombified officer;s forehead. He klled him instantly but as he went back to fire at the thing it grabbed the barrel of his Rifle and threw him having lifted and thrown ghim by their common grip but in doing so he threw the officer and also yanked his arms out of their sockets.

The man screamed in pain. The thing ran up to it and stomped on his head crushing it underfoot. Just then, more Assault Rifle fire sounded off and Jill recognized two agents from her team. Cameron and Raven were firing at the thing. The rounds swept all over its body. Raven pulled the pin on a frag and tossed it at the thing. It exploded and a chunk of its face and most of its left hand was blown off. Cameron screamed with rage and emptied the magazine into its face and its eyes and most of its mouth was obliterated. "Motherfucker!" He screamed.

Jill fired at it as well striking it in the forehead and she watched as a few chunks of brain exploded from the exit wounds and Josh did the same but he fired at its mouth spraying through the throat. It began to run towards them and it knocked Raven and Cameron back sending both agents flying. Raven crashed into the stairs and fell down several of them while Cameron was knocked through the window of the Abercrombie and Fitch. He was cut up by the glass and badly wounded but he struggled to get up. Jill let the thing have a flurry of rounds but her magazine went empty. She followed up with a roundhouse kick to the face hoping to take its head off with as much gunfire as it had taken to the face. It did stagger back and held its bleeding face. Josh fired having just reloaded letting off another ten into the top of its skull. Finally the top half of its face exploded and it fell blood spraying everywhere including all over Jill.

Jill looked at the thing with her Genesis. "What the hell is that...?" She panted. Raven, though blood ran down the side of her head, made her way to the wounded Cameron. "Fuck...man...not that thing again..." He groaned. "What was it?" Josh asked him. "i don't know...i didn't get a chance to check it out. We saw another one of them and we killed him. He cracked one of my ribs before this..."

"Are you sure that there is more than one of them? Or is this the same one?"

"It can't be the same one..." Raven said. "The one we faced before we left without a face, just like this one is now. I put a grenade down its throat myself,"The Navajo agent stated. "Didn't you hear those blasts about an hour ago? That was us. We were split into teams but we got separated from our assigned teams. There's just so many BOW's!"

Jill stated, "It says this thing is called Ereberus..." Josh examined her Genesis. "The Greek God of darkness...father of Nyx."

"Nyx...god...that's that thing...back in Raccon City...Umbrella tried to take posession of the cargo containing a Nyx tyrant and it resulted in an entire UBCS team being wiped out," Jill observed.

Cameron suddenly collapsed. Raven ran up to him checking for injuries. He was bleeding badly from being cut by the window. He was cut in multiple dripped down his left leg as a piece of glass had penetrated his femur. "Shit! His artery is cut!" Raven got a can of first aid spray out and tried to use it to stop some of the bleeding while she tried to tie off his wound. "Guys...i don't think I can walk..." He said weakly, the African American getting paler from blood loss. "That thing got me worse than i thought..." He lost consciouness. Josh began to perform CPR. He got out an adrenaline shot and he injected it into the man's chest after thirty seconds of mouth to mouth. There was no response. Cameron was gone.

"My god...Cameron...that thing...Jesus Christ..." Raven gasped looking at his dead body.

They made their way back to check on the thing they had shot down. Josh murmured, "Look! It's gone..." All that remained of the thing was a red blood stain.

Jill thought to herself, I guess it's too much to ask to hope it just melted the way some BOW's have in the past? Then again, I've never been that lucky.

Barry

"This is bullshit..." The Captain finally stated. "We're still just looking for had explosives. Enough to blast through their windows and their electronic locks. Somebody in here is fucking with us. And they've got my daughter!"

Elias told him, "Yeah and if whoever is fucking with us hadn't taken our gear I'd be able to do that, Captain. So we're gonna have to find whatever the TSA is sitting on."

"This is obviously a waste of time," Agent Thurston said. "These TSA sots couldn't catch a cold. Much less in a dink airport like this. I don't think they've got any explosives."

"There's your problem. You thinking," Eli declared. Thurston snarled back, "I'm getting a little sick of your attitude. I was Captain of my SOU team. If you were part of mine you would be out."

"Thurston, normally Agent Okwari is the brooding asshole of the bunch but this time, I need you to shut up. He's our demolitions expert. Okwari, try and not to take everything so personal and try not to start fights with your own team. For god's sake, we've lost enough agents as it is."

"All due respect, Captain Burton," Elias stated. "And I do mean all DUE respect, you don't know that this woman even has your daughter. Or surrogate daughter. Whatever Natalia is to you. They're probably bluffing."

"And this is the part where you shut up, again!" Barry barked. "I've been raising Natalia as if she were my own. She helped me find Moira. I've listened to you talk crap about me, this team, the United States, and I've put up with it because you get the job done. But now you're pushing it bub. Pick your next words carefully or you and me? We're gonna tangle."

"Barry..." Elias stated ignoring his threat. "It doesn't even make sense. Since when would a bioterrorist make things that easy for us?"

"They're toying with us," Barry warned. "Whoever it is. Listen...when we blow these doors, you all need to get to the mall and help Chris. I'm staying behind to get my daughter back."

"Fine. We'll go help Redfield," Stated Thurston. "I've had about enough of this city's fucking hospitality anyway. The United States is always having problems. Outbreaks. And assasinations of presidents."

"Hey, I'm no patriot but I will say it's not like you haven't had your fair share of kings killed. Besides, just because an outbreak hasn't happened on your doorstep doesn't mean it won't," Elias said. "If it happens in Canada it won't be as well prepared as the US but it'll be more prepared than the UK."

"Captain, you can't be serious..." The East African BSAA agent chimed in. "I want to help Chris too. You know my reasoning for signing up but you're my Captain and i can't abandon you."

"Kiya, that is a fucking order. You have to go help Chris. I'm...compromised. They've got Natalia...I can't complete my mission until she's safe. So...if I lose my job for this, or my freedom or even my life...it'll be worth it."

"We can debate this when we've actually found some explosives, jefe," Montoyo stated. "Right now, we got jack shit and all we can do is scrounge shit up. There has to be a way out of here. Whoever wanted us right where we are...they wouldn't just bring us here and not have some way out. They want us to meet them face to face but they want to test us first. From my experience...that's how these Bioterrorists work."

"And what makes you think you know anything about how the kind of bioterorists I've faced think?"

Montoyo stated, "Because in China, I faced bioterrorists that were using the B.O.W.'s for their own uses. To try and overthrow the government. Evidently, the Nationalists haven't given up their fight with the government there. I thought they'd all run to Taiwan but I guess I was wrong."

"Alright...in the event that we can't find anything to blow the windows we need to find something that be be used a replacement."

Elias stated, "Captain, I can rig up something pretty quickly if you can get me...some sugar. And alcohol. One bottle should do. And I need at least 420 microns of sugar."

"This aint the time for a sweet tooth and fire water, chief," Stated Coughlin. Elias stood up. "How about a time to die. You ready for that you redneck motherfucker?"

"Redneck? I'm from the South was a joke. And did you just threaten me?"

"There are no threats when it comes to us. Just promises," Agent Okwari warned. The man took a swing at Elias and Elias caught his left blow but he hit him with his other hand in the jaw and followed up with an elbow. He head butted Coughlin back causing the man's nose to bleed and followed up with a punch to the gut. Coughlin went for his pistol and Elias got his combat knife out and put it at his throat.

"Teskontensta..." Kateri said calling Elias by his Kanienke'haka name. "Skennenhake...se'nikón:rarek yohyo'thí:ye thi à:share!"

(Teskontentsta...calm down. You be careful. That knife is sharp)

Barry got between the two. "Both of you cut the shit! You're grown men! You can kill each other later. It's my responsibility to get you out of here safely. Not baby sit you."

"With all due respect, Captain..." Agent Sun said. "Sending us out there while you stay behind isn't leadership. It's ego. It's bravado. We need you to lead us on our way out to the Mall. I'm not from this city I don't know my way around. Most of us don't. I'm sorry about your daughter. But you're a soldier too and you know that personal feelings can get in the way."

"I saw you crying when we lost Samantha and Maria. I know you care about this team. But do you have children, Dayva?"

"No..." The mostly silent Korean American conceded. "Then you have no idea what it's like. And I say this as a father. If I were a mother it would be even more powerful. The need to protect my own children."

He turned to the others. "Let's go get him some sugar."

Barry headed off with Kiya and Thurston. Wilson, Dayva and Kateri went another way and Jackson Coughlin and Velasquez went another.

Barry made sure each group took a Motorola radio that they had found. "You contact me if anything goes wrong and tell me your position."

Before Kateri left she looked back at Elias. "Sate'nikón:rara'k..."

(Be careful. Watch yourself)

"Kaweienón:ni..." He said turning to her addressing her by her Kanienkehaka name. "Konnorokwa..."

She smiled at him and started to say something back but was urged, "Let's go!" By her team mates.

They began to head through the airport to get the items that Elias requested. Just then Barry heard something. It was not human but it was running towards them. He readied his SIG. "Captain, what is it?"

Thurston readied his Sig as well. "I think I've got a pretty good idea what's coming our way..."

Kiya readied her firearm as it came around the way. It was dark green and Barry let off six rounds striking it four times in its barrel chest and twice in its face. "Damn it! I've had enough of these things! Ever since Raccoon I've had to deal with them!" Thurston fired as well letting off four rounds that hit the Hunter in its front teeth and it shrieked. Kiya also let off four rounds striking it in the right eye. She followed up with a hard left roundhouse sending it back and it bled on the ground but she fired off three more into its skull. It twitched and began to bleed out. Thurston put five more into its eyes just to be sure. "I fucking hate Hunters too," The British agent stated.

"These things used to be human, right?" Kiya asked.

"Yeah..." Barry said. "When Wesker was our Captain he sent some of these things after us. When me and Jill were split up he sent them after her and Captain Redfield but I had to deal with them too. They're a hybrid cross of human and reptile."

"You know...zombies I can understand..." Kiya stated. "You get bit you become one unless somebody gets a cure or kills you. But this? These things having been human only to be turned into this...I've shot them but I never stuck around long enough to look at one up close."

"The thing has been around since the 80's," Said Thurston. "It was made from a human female embryo. Kind of makes you rethink your stance on stem cell research, doesn't it?"

There were more coming and there was at least four so the three agents spread out in a v shape with Barry at the far end of it and they unloaded on the four Hunters as they came. Barry emptied his magazine and backed up reloading. One still came at him and slashed at his left arm. Barry backed up but a single claw did rake the inside of his forearm. "Shit!" He growled. Kiya reloaded and fired five more shots into one as it jumped trying to get her with a head sweep. She ducked but as it sailed over her head, it raked the top of her back and she cried out. Thurston emptied the last four shots into the back of a hunter's head and got his combat knife out jamming it into the eye of the thing. "I'm sorry but you're not even supposed to be alive. You're just a fucking overgrown lizard."

Barry hit one of the things with a suplex and fired two head shots into it. Finally the pile of Hunters lay dead. Thurston stated, "I think I saw a Starbucks over near Gate A. They should be good for some sugar. What do ya say, Captain?"

"As a man who likes real coffee...this will be the first and last time I ever say this. Let's go to Starbucks."

"If I remember right...there should be one up in C Gate too," Kiya stated.

Barry got on the radio. "Listen...one of you should head up to the Starbucks in C Gate. We're taking the A gate."

"There's one in N Gate too. We're going to try and see if there's sugar in that one too. Where there's coffee there's bound to be sugar."

"Sure,' Coughlin said. "But don't go assuming there's any left. It is an airport that's usually crowded. We'll need a plan b in case there's not any at any of these Starbucks. We gotta look through all the gates."

"If that' the case..." Stated Wilson, "Then we can always check Seattle's Best Coffee. They should have sugar there."

"Or we can try the McDonald's in B Gate. Just as many Americans drink coffee there."

"Yeah, but we'll need a place to go for booze too. He did say he wanted that. Find something nice and flamable."

"For that, we should try the Vintage Washington Wine Bar," Stated Kiya.

"Don't be a moron," Jackson said. "You can't light wine on fire. Something that's gonna be that flamable needs to be at least 75 proof."

"That's only if you're talking about most wine that's 35 or lower," Replied Kiya. "40% has more of a chance of catching fire. We don't need it to burn forever. Just long enough to do what we need."

"It would be better if we can find some tequila or Vodka..." Barry replied over the radio. "Gin, Tonic, absynthe...anything higher than that."

He paused then added, "All right. Until any of us finds something we can use, let's maintain radio discipline. If you don't find anything in the store that you look in, just move on to another one."

Barry made his way past a deceased police officer who had been carrying a Benelli M3. He took the M3 and checked it. There was four shots left but he also checked the officer's body for any shells. He had about eight in his pocket. He looked at the deceased officer, a young Caucasian looking to be of Polish ancestry with dark blonde hair. His eyes were closed so it was possible he had passed out and died. From what Barry could gather from his injuries, he had been shot multiple times by a high caliber Rifle. By the looks of it, it had possibly been 5.56.

"If only we'd gotten here sooner...when this was all starting. We might have been able to save this town."

"We still can, Captain. Even if there's only a handful of survivors. My father's village was burned in the war...and most of the people were killed. But there was twelve that survived. They started to rebuild the schools, the factories, the hospitals. Within a couple decades, it was a functioning town again."

"Yeah? They got indoor plumbing there?" Asked Thurston. "Hey, don't you start with me! Eli is always going in on guys like Jackson and Coughlin with their gung ho American patriot bravado and I always think he's a Debbie Downer for it but if you're going to start talking like an imperialist yourself...look...our country was the only one on the continent that was never conquered. It was just annexed for a bit during World War II. Don't act like Eastern Europe doesn't have problems and don't act like Britain wasn't saved in that war not only by the major allied players but the ones that get less recognition. Ethiopia, Algeria, Nigeria, Kenya..."

"Right. And I wasn't saying that we're better than you for it but you'd have to agree. Some parts of Africa are better than others. Just like my neck of the woods. The ancient lands of Axum hasn't been fertile in quite some time. It's the western countries that are starting to get better."

"Enough about politics! Jesus!" Barry said. "Ah hell. What did I expect? We are a UN army. There's bound to be arguments even when we're supposed to be working together. But still, I have to get on Eli for that like you said, Kiya. Don't you two start the debating for after the mission is over."

"It wasn't supposed to be a debate, Captain. It's just my way of saying even if we can save some of the people in this city there's no telling how much whatever survivors can do to bring it back. It's like Hiroshima and Nagasaki. All was lost for them but people can live there now."

"Don't kid yourself, love..." Thurston said. "In that case that was their homes and it was a very public bombing. Raccoon City was never meant to have happened and when it did people acted like it was an in that case, Raccoon City is not like fucking Hiroshima. It's like Chernobyl. You don't want to go there. Sometimes people return home and do good for damaged cities. And sometimes they just act like selfish cunts and move away to whatever part of the world is away from where theycame from. Even the Captain here isn't looking to move back to Raccoon. The only people that seem to give a toss about Raccoon are the ones that joined the BSAA. But those eight survivors I read about. A copper, a plumber, a college student, a war veteran a subway man a waitress a reporter and a surgeon. Well we didn't hear from them again, have we?"

"You're such a cynic!" Kiya told him. "No, I'm a realist."

"Enough chit chat. Come on..."

They got into the abandoned coffee store and ransacked the cabinets. There were green straws and plastic cups all over the floor and a few dead bodies all having been bitten. Thurston walked up to the three dead bodies and plunged his blade into the skulls of all three so they wouldn't reanimate. Barry found one bag of sugar. "Bingo! Any luck?"

Thurston held up only a few sugar packets from the table and while Kiya had discovered an abundance of creamer, she could find nothing more. "Sorry..."

"That's alright. We'l just keep looking. With all of us working together we can cover a lot of ground in this place."

"Captain, we found some Sake at the Kobo in the S Gates..." Said Emily. "That's good! I want you to bring the Sake to Elias. We got some sugar but we want to make sure more is brought."

They headed back to where the Mohwk Indian was. "I need a bit more than that, Captain. But I'll get started on this one."

Just then the intercom came and and the woman who had talked to Barry was speaking again. "Hello, Barry. I thought we might dispense with the waiting. If you ever want to see Natalia alive again. you'll come to Gate D. And as for the rest of the team, I have no intention of stopping you in your endever but I can't control the impulses of any children of mine you may encounter along the way. But because I am being so generous as to allow you to finish what you are doing I expect the favor returned. Any BSAA agents besides Captain Burton must leave D gate or Natalia dies. Barry, you may bring whatever weapons you wish but you will come alome or Natalia will be desposed of."

"When I find you, I'm going to rip your heart out! Don't you ever wonder what happened to the old overseer? ME! Im what happened to her."

"You're in no position to make threats. As I said you may keep whatever firearms you have on you. It's true I disarned you and ypur team to test you and some of you have what it takes to survive while others did not. But where you're going you won't need your weapons. Tell your team to stand down!"

Barry addressed the rest of them. "Everybody...I need you to carry on as you were.. Stand down. Anybody still in D Gate, leave it and either help another group or just keep looking. I have to do this alone."

"Captain, i don't think that's a good idea. She wants you isolated. Whoever she is she has a grudge against you if she took Natalia. I want you to find her too but not like this. She's using her as a bargaining chip to lure you off by yourself where we can't watch out for you," Stated Kateri. "I don't have a choice," Barry explained to the Mohawk-Oneida woman. "I took Natalia in and I raised her as my own. She lost her own parents. You know how in the past in your culture people used to adopt orphans and have them replace the person in the tribe that died? Including ven that ceremony you told me about where you merge their soul and yours as one taking their soul into you since you're taking their place? It's the same thing but we're trying to give Natalia the childhood she was robbed of and Moira and Polly are like real sisters to her. Kathy...she's like a real mother. For a couple years, things were going well. But then she went missing. I have to do this. Which means you have to do it too. I need everybody out of D Gate. And if I don't make it back or any reason, nothing changes. You blow the doors and get out of here. Make your way to the Southcenter Mall. That's an order."

With that, he began to make his way towards the gate. He saw Kateri and her team coming from there. He searched the Alaska Lodge, he searched the Great American Bagel Bakery, he searched the Luggage Carts, the Seattle's Best Coffee and the Sports Pub but nobody was in there. "Come on out, you coward! I'm right here! I'm alone! Now tell me where Natalia is!"

Just then to his shock, Natalia came out but she was different. Her hair was blonde. "Natalia..." He said. She looked the same but different. She was roughly the same age as when she had went missing give or take a few months but she looked dark. There was something in her eyes something foreign. "Natalia...who took you? I'm here, sweetheart. We're going to get you out of here."

"Are you?" She scoffed in a tone and manner far too mature for somebody her age. "And you would abandon your mission?"

"That doesn't matter now...not as much to me as you. You were the mission to me. I just...I didn't know where to find you..."

"You are free. And that is why you are lost."

Barry didn't understand. "Natalia, come on...we're going home..." He held his hand out. She smiled. "I am home...did you know one of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die?"

"Natalia...we miss you. We all miss you."

"Miss me?" She laughed. "You don't even know me. My true parents are dead. Don't you see? The meaning of life is that it stops."

"Who has been brainwashing you with this crap? You know...when you went missing i went through your room. I found a Franz Kafka book. Alex...she brainwashed you with that didn't she? She was leaving Claire all kinds of writing passages from him."

Natalia smiled wider. "A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."

"Stop it!" He said raising his voice. He then grabbed her arm and said, "Come on. Even with your abilities, it's too dangerous around here."

Nataliia stated, "I agree. It is too dangerous around here..." She suddenly thumped him in the chest and sent him flying back. He had the wind knocked out of him as he hit the side of a vending machine. She walked towards him. "For you..."

She stood over Barry walking towards him. "Natalia..."

"Natalia is gone..." She declared. "More and more she was becoming more of me. It just took some time. If you were a better father you would have seen it. But you are Barry Burton. You can't keep your two oldest daughters from playing with guns. And you can't keep your youngest daughter from the books you don't want her to read. You see I was dying. And i promised young Natalia...that six months from when I had her she would wake up as me. It took me longer than anticipated but I have finally unlocked the key to immortality. Like the butterfly we must transform. Like the reptile we must shed our old skins for a new one. But my essence remains forever."

"Alex! You bitch! Let her go!" Barry growled getting to his feet. "Or what, Barry? Will you shoot a thirteen year old girl? Good luck explaining that to HQ. Good luck explaining that to Moira and Polly. And Kathy. She's a strong woman. An understanding woman. When my dear brother tested you all they withstood the test of loyalty. They stood by you. I don't view humanity the way my brother did. I don't even view Chris Redfield the way Albert did. He stood by you despite your betrayal just as Kathy did after your problem with Moira. But if you shoot me? i just don't know if the marriage will last this time..."

"What do you want, Alex?!" He demanded. She kicked him in the chest and sent him flying again and he hit the ground gasping trying to catch his breath. "Despite the fact that I don't find Chris or Jill or even you lacking in character, I still must exact revenge. I don't have the same vision for this world as Albert but that is not to say that i do not still see some of his wisdom. Chris must pay for killing my brother as must Jill. And Claire and you will both pay for your transgressions. But first...Claire and Moira...do you know where they are right now, Barry? I do. They're not in Mexico as planned. And like you, all they know since I vanished is that I've been gone. They don't know where. Imagine their surprise when I turn up right where they are? Do you think they'd be more overwhelmed with joy or would they be skeptical? i suppose we'll find out, won't we...?"

Just then a gunshot was fired. It was just a warning shot but Agent Sun had fired it. She did not aim at Natalia but it was enough to earn her attention. "No, Dayva! Don't shoot. That's still Natalia in there!"

Agent Sun said, "That's not her. That's Alex. I overheard what she said."

"We can still save her! There has to be a cure. Dayva...I'm not saying this as your Captain. I'm asking one human being to another. Please...let's find another way..."

Dayva had a look of frustration on her face but she lowered her Handgun. "Damn it..." Alex smiled. "I'll be seeing you soon, Barry. Don't worry. When I return I'll have Claire and Moira with me. Which means I will also have Chris. I'll give you a chance to say goodbye."

Just then in a flash of speed the teenage girl ran. Dayva helped Barry up. "He mentioned Moira and Claire...she knows something we don't. And she's got a way to get out of the building without blasting through the doors."

"Yeah but we don't have time to find another way. We don't even know if she did leave the building. She could still be here with us. I held my fire once Barry but I won't do it again. I'm open to try and find a cure but if we can't you're going to have to find a way to accept that that's not your daughter...that's Alex Wesker. And regardless of age, she's a threat. She's only using Natalia as a vessel."

"I can't...kill her. It could still be here don't you understand?"

"I do. But I have orders. You might be my Captain but you have your orders too and that superceedes any feelings you may have. Moira and Polly are your real daughters. Alex is a threat to them. Don't let the age fool you. Alex isn't really that young and if she is past the point of no return then all that remains of Natalia is her body and it meand that Natalia is just another victim of Alex Wesker."

She sighed. "I don't know what you're going through. I'm not a mother. But...if you can't pull the trigger when you have to, I will. Even if you do believe Natalia is still in there somewhere...I look at that as a child soldier."

"We're going to find a way..." Barry said starting to shake a bit. "We have to. For now...let's just focus on getting out of here..."

Meanwhile, as Coughlin, Jackson and Velasquez made their way out of Waji's, an Asian place in Gate C, they heard a sound. They spotted a single female. She had long black hair and her hair was messy and all over her face. She seemed to be nude. "Ma'am are you okay?" Asked Coughlin. He went up to check on her. He backed up when he saw her face. It was ghastly. She had pale leather like skin grayish in color and disgusting yellow teeth. Her eyes were just the whites of her eyes and her claws looked iron sharp. She let out a hellish shriek and slashed at Coughlin and he barely backed away and it cut the side of his face. "Ahhhh! Fuck!" He cried out backing up as he bled. Velasquez started opening fire hitting her with twelve rounds.

Jackson did the same shooting her six times in the chest. Velasquez's rounds hit her in the stomach chest and face. They approached to try and make sure she was down. The whites of her eyes closed. Velasquez looked at the other two. "Just to make sure she's down...I don't trust this..." He fired two more onto her face. She opened her eyes with a roar as the first round in the left cheek. The next round hit her in the mouth but she came up swinging her claws and caught him across his throat. Blood sprayed from his throat like a geyser. He fell over clutching at his throat unable to stop the bleeding or his impending doom. Jackson and Coughlin continued to fire on the thing and she let out a sound that almost sounded like a cackle. She grabbed Velasquez's body and began to skin him. "Jesus!" Jackson screamed as he fired the rest of his magazine into her. He reloaded and kept firing. She had taken about half the skin off of Velasquez's arm and had it in her mouth but Jackson and Coughlin continued to fire into her face. Finally, the thing dropped dead. "Jesus..." Jackson said. "That took over two dozen rounds to drop the fucking thing. The hell was that?"

"Jesus...Velasquez died helping me...fuck me..." Coughlin said looking down. "At least we stopped her from filleting him all the way...but this aint good we need to radio the Cap..." Before he could finish that thought they heard the running steps coming towards them and saw two more B.O.W's that resembled the one they had just killed. "Shit, we need help for these ones. Run!" Cried Coughlin and the two did seeing no choice but to retreat however, Jackson fired four shots over his shoulder since the creatures were on their heels.

"Barry...BARRY!" Screamed Jackson as the two men sprinted for their lives.

Just paint your face the shadows smile

Whispering me away from you

Oh it doesn't matter how you hide

Find you if we're wanting to

So slide back down and close your eyes

Sleep a while you must be tired

But every night I burn

Every night I call your name

Every night I burn every night I fall again

Every night I burn

Scream the animal scream

Every night I burn dream the Crow black dream

I know this is a short chapter I meant to make it longer but it's Sunday which is Walking Dead night and I'm freaking tired. So even though any of you who played RE Revelations 2 pretty much know that's Alex inside Natalia, I still wrote it like she's kidnapped because in all honesty for all you know it could happen I mean if Neo Umbrella or The Family wanted to they could and would I mean a girl that not only survived Terragregia plus the island but also can see a BOW's heat signature and see invisible glasps? Even on her own as her own personality Natalia is a weapon. I don't even know what that would make her once she grows up how powerful she'll be.

As far as Erebus that's my own made up tyrant that is based on the Greek God Erebus I figured what the hell you already got Nemesis and Nyx so why the fuck not? Plus the flickering of the lights briefly mentioned is a reference to the fact that he's a God of darkness. I mean think of The Evil Within if you played it. You know that part where you're in the house and suddenly things go dark and you have to hide from Ruvik and it's creepy as hell and he can one hit kill you? It's kind of like that.

Also that creature that killed Velasquez was a Black Annis. Anybody that reads my Resident Evil stories knows that I, like Capcom like to make up my own BOW's based on cultural demons from all over the world. I already have one in mind next chapter for the Iraq part of this story and you know what? Just as some people have url links to show us what their OC's look like well on my profile instead of doing that, I'm going to show URL links of depictions of the various creatures that I make into BOW's. The Black Annis is a demon type thing from English folklore that likes to eat children and lambs and skins them alive so that's what you were starting to see with that.

As for Cameron, with him and Velasquez dead that makes two more OC's I killed off.

And Josh is maried but he has aditted to Jill to seeing Sheva as more than the baby sister of the team. You know who i would cast if i was going to do a non shitty Resident Evil reboot that had nothing to doth Anderson if not Idis Elba as Josh Stone probably the guy that plays Luke Cage could play him.

I think every legit Resident Evil game fan has a dream cast of who we would want to see portray various chatacters. We can mostly agree the only thing the shitty movies got right was Ada and Jill. And with Ada that was more to do with the voice as much as looks where as Jill I mean they got the look but not the voice.

Also that song Burn by The Cure is just a good song to deal with the theme of darkness since that's what the Greek god i made into a tyrant represents and honestly it's a better song than any I could find called Erebus. Plus it reminds me of Brandon Lee in the gothic movie The Crow may he RIP.

Anyway, until next time thanks to the reviewers who have shown me support. I'd write even if i had no reviews but you guys do make it more fun.