"Alice I'm going to find you. You are mine." Alice turned to face the direction the sound was coming from. She met him standing five feet from her, that was when she realised she was in his lab. In a moment of recklessly abandoned thought she began walking backwards to put space between them but was stopped by something cool and smooth that hadn't been there before. She looked again at him before looking at what was blocking her path.
It was along glass cylinder, which at first glance seemed to house a body but upon closer inspection she realised that she recognised the body. It was her own.
"I've been trying to copy you," once again came the cool, emotionless voice. "It may look like you but mentally it is not the same." Alice could hear him move until she felt his breath on her shoulder.
"You can't escape. I will find you sooner than you think." And with that said he seemed to just vanish. It only took her a second to come back to her senses and begin trashing the lab. Just as soon as she was about to walk up the stairs in the far corner she pulled out her gun, spun and shot the mirror like image in the over sized test tube in the head. The bullet shot straight through the glass and into the figures forehead. The once sterile blue fluid dripped out slowly as she took the metal steps two at a time.
Walking along the dark corridors she put her hand out to one of the walls, for extra guidance until she found another door. Sword at the ready Alice kicked the door open expecting to find another room but found that she was once again back outside enveloped in a blanket of sand.
She wandered around until she walked into the shade of a once beautiful monument. A twenty-foot version of the statue of liberty.
"Alice!" her head quickly turned in all directions, "Alice!" but she couldn't see anyone.
Alice's body jerked as her mind slipped back into consciousness. Carlos stood over her with a concerned face as she breathed heavily.
"Are you ok?" Carlos asked while coming down to her eye level. He reached out a hand to bring her eyes into contact with his. She seemed to stare past him until she blinked and looked straight at him.
"I'm fine," she stated simply while standing up. He knew she was not as he had spent the last ten minutes trying to wake her, but decided that now was not the right time to challenge her on it.
"Claire has called a meeting, she wants everyone there," Carlos supplied, rising also.
"You mean she wants to talk to me with everyone there, right," Alice gave a cynical chuckle but let Carlos lead the way all the same.
The rest of the survivors were scattered along the twenty metre clearing. Claire sat towards the middle and motioned for the two latecomers to sit down. "What do you know about Umbrella?"
"Do you mean what they were or what they are now?" Alice asked while taking in the positions of everyone in the small area.
Claire was shocked, as was everyone else but tried not to let it show, "What do you know about them now?"
"Why have you all got weapons on you?" she turned to look at Betty, "Don't tell me your afraid of me…. Don't worry I have got enough innocent blood on my hands already without adding to it." There was a pause in her speech but no one seemed to notice. "Besides I could have killed you in your sleep."
"I don't know a lot but I do know that they are still going strong under ground and that there may be a place where there might be some answers."
"So where is it?" asked a hopeful K-Mart.
"It doesn't matter I'll go, you lot stay here," Alice stated almost as if it had been on the tip of her tongue before K-Mart had even asked.
"Alice you're not going after them alone," Carlos said and looked to Claire for help.
"You are not the only one who wants to take down Umbrella. Everyone here as lost something because of these people not just you. So where are we going?" Claire looked directly at Alice.
"You mean your brother," she looked up and locked eyes with Claire, "You do know there is a chance he might be dead."
Mikey seeing that Alice had hit a nerve spoke for the first time, "Where to?"
"Vegas. Be ready to move in an hour." Alice got up and walked towards her abandoned motorbike. She was checking the amount of fuel when Carlos questioned her from behind, "You saw it didn't you, in your dream?" Alice simply nodded in response not bothering to turn round.
Short chapter but I want to get all the boring stuff out of the way first so the fun can start. Hope you like it. Hit that button and let me know what you think. Until next time.