Okay now I'm just doing this for fun…
Disclaimer – Never owned, don't own and never will own Resident Evil unless through some miraculous feat. Paul rings me up and says I can have it.
And if the world were to end in fire,
The Embers that remain,
Would be a reminder,
Not of the world we left behind,
But of the world that could be
My Own
XXX
Claire coughed violently as the sand storm settled around the upturned vehicle. She pushed herself up as far as she could but the feeling of dead body weight above her stopped her from pushing herself up to high. "Kmart?" she coughed out hearing a small grumble in acknowledgement from the girl.
"Claire!" Alice called out pushing herself to her feet, her first steps ending up with her back on the ground. She pushed herself back up to her feet before looking around the destroyed campsite the redhead nowhere in sight.
"On the plus side we made it to the camp."
Alice looked around for the mumbled voice, her eye's resting on Carter face down in the sand. She shook her head to get rid of some of the dizziness before wobbling over to the young man, dropping to her knee's and rolling him over watching as he spat out mouthful's of sand. "You seen Claire?"
"My apologies, between you crashing the car through a building and me flying out the windshield I didn't have time to look for Claire." He rolled his eyes at Alice's question before coughing up sand.
Alice pushed herself once more to her feet, wobbling over to the upturned van a few meters away from Carter's position. "Claire?" she coughed out as she clambered up the upturned van to the passenger side window.
"Alice, Kmart's unconscious but alive." Claire replied.
Alice shook her head in amusement, even in times like these Claire was still Claire. "We'll get her out just hold on," Alice nodded down through the passenger seat window before jumping down off the van. "You smell that?" she asked running her eye's over the underside of the van.
"Smells like gas," Carter replied running his along the upside.
Alice followed the small leakage of gasoline from the bottom of the van as it ran down and through the sand only slightly being soaked up. Her eyes fell on the still a light ambulance that had been left when the group had abandoned the camp site in a rush. "We got to get Claire and Kmart out now," she brushed past Carter clambering up the van once again.
Carter ran around the front of the van, where it had buried itself deep enough for a wall of sand to bar the windscreen. "Shit," he swore quietly to himself as he clambered up the van himself.
"Oh right Claire's under Kmart, so Kmart first," Alice nodded reaching down through the van passenger window grabbing hold of Kmart's wrist and pulling the young woman up. At times like these she relished the fact that she had the T-Virus in her system or otherwise she'd find it real hard to help Kmart's dead weight up and out of the van.
Carter grabbed hold of Kmart's arm's the moment she was far enough out of the van for him to grab hold off. "Come on," he helped Alice pull the teenager out the rest of the way before grabbing hold of the young teen fully.
"Take her, I'll help Claire." She made sure Kmart was secure in the young man's hold as he jumped of the vehicle struggling only slightly with the teen before turning to look down the passenger seat. "Okay Claire, give me your hand," she leant in as far as she could, extending her right hand towards Claire.
Carter tapped the left cheek of Kmart's giving small quick glances every now and then back at Alice who was now half-way into the van, "Kmart?"
"Five more minute's," she grumbled.
Carter looked down at her curiously before shaking his head and giving the young teen a small shake of her shoulders, "Kmart." He said more tersely and determined this time.
Kmart blinked a few times finally opening her eyes to Carter hovering above her, "Ah crap my head hurts."
"No doubt anything else hurt?" He watched her fiddle with her ulna and knew immediately what was wrong, "Broken?" he still questioned though.
"Yeah especially after you and Alice decided to yank me out of the upturned van." Kmart grumbled giving Carter her best Claire glare.
"It was all Alice," he shrugged pulling of his somewhat torn jacket before wrapping it around Kmart, "We'll get that arm fixed later."
Kmart nodded turning to the lit ambulance noticing the small flame now flickering down a straight path towards the upturned van, "Is that supposed to happen?" She nodded towards it.
Carter followed Kmart's line of sight until it reached the gas blazed line of fire directly aimed towards the van, "Alice may wanna hurry up." He turned back to Alice considering whether or not to go help but figuring it'd be more trouble than they needed right now.
Alice turned back towards the flame now speeding up as it continued to hit more and more gas. She turned back to Claire reaching down further but still slightly out of reach of the younger woman. She silently cursed the van for being so crushed as the younger woman was trapped between the underside of the dashboard and passenger seat, without help Claire was going nowhere.
"Alice now would be good!"
Alice's fingers brushed against Claire's which only furthered to aggravate her, she still couldn't reach the younger woman and Claire could still hardly move in her position without some assistance.
The flames where now getting to close for Carter's comfort, if Alice didn't get Claire out in the next few minutes than both women and the van would go up in a blaze. He turned to face Kmart who had now scurried back a fair distance away from the van as the fire quickly ran up the gas line, "Alice for fucks sake that fire isn't slowing down!" He turned back yelling towards Alice.
She growled slightly, letting go of the steering wheel that had held her in place, reaching the younger woman's hand and yanking her up as she quickly reached back for the steering wheel. With Claire's new mobility Alice was able to pull her up and out of the van, turning back just in time to see the visible parts of the upside of the van catch a light. "Go!" she pushed the redhead down the sand dune following quickly behind her as they both rolled down the sand dune that barred the broken windshield. "Move!" she screamed as they both clambered to their feet running a few feet before jumping as the vehicle exploded in a burst of flames, lighting the day lit skies in a fiery mass grave of flames.
"That-" Claire breathed a sigh of relief turning over onto her back watching in the corner of her eye as Alice mimicked her movement before finishing, "that was too close."
Alice chuckled turning to look towards the redhead whose expression now looked between both disbelief and humor. Alice unconsciously wrapped her left arm around the woman's shoulder giving her a small squeeze as she herself breathed out a sigh of relief.
"How's about we never do that again?" Claire chuckled somewhat between deep breaths as she leant into Alice's comfort.
"Works for me," Alice nodded in agreement.
"If this get's anymore romantic I'm gonna be sick," Carter walked over towards them with Kmart leaning on him.
"Hey it's cute," Kmart nudged Carter in the ribs.
Claire cleared her throat pulling away from Alice, as the older woman removed her arm. She was sure the blush that had crept up her neck to her face ever since Carter had spoken was now clearly visible.
Alice opened her mouth but whatever she was going to say was quickly cut off at the sound of propellers cutting through the air. She stood up pulling the redhead to her feet before looking towards the skies that were slowly clearing of the embers of fire revealing Umbrella Osprey's and an Umbrella helicopter.
"Why am I not surprised," Carter shook his head putting his hand up to his face to shield his eye's from the sand storm that had started. He turned immediately to face the Umbrella choppers flanking them before turning back to the three ladies, "Move!" He yelled the group following after him as he made a brake for the nearest building with cover that was in no direction of an Umbrella chopper.
Carter's legs burned but he continued running as bullets sprayed over the open field from the Umbrella choppers. Pulling out his pistol, he ejected the clip into his hand shutting his eyes quickly for a small groan of dissatisfaction to escape as he continued running. He had three bullets, he shook his head aggravated –at staying at the desert trail motel for longer than he should, for starting to care and most of all at Umbrella's terrible timing. He skidded to a stop Claire, Kmart and Alice stopping a few centimeters behind him.
He spotted his car far from his position and yet still close enough to the fire. He closed his eyes sent a silent prayer upward before aiming down the sight and unloading the last three bullets of his clip into the gas tank of his car. Watching it explode, he held up his hand counting down three seconds until it reached his ammo cache in the trunk.
The second explosion managed to take out two of the choppers sending them hurtling towards three others before hurtling towards them. Alice had to admit at first she thought he was crazy for stopping while Umbrella was trying to massacre them but then she saw him firing at his car and when it exploded she thought he was brilliant…but now with Umbrella choppers hurtling towards them she wasn't so sure what to think. She watched as Carter turned pushing both Claire and Kmart to their knee's so he could shield them with his body as best as possible. She knew she had to do something and fast or otherwise they were cooked. She took a step in front of the trio, her pupils dilating massively as she focused all her willpower, strength, endurance, everything she had learned about her powers and everything the T-Virus had at the choppers. Her head was spinning and she felt the trickle of blood run from her ears and nose once the chopper impacted the invisible barrier she had put up. She watched it slowly start to crumble to the sandy ground as the still living Umbrella choppers continued their reign of fire on the invisible barricade.
The small yet warm hand was all she needed; she hadn't known the younger woman for long but she could tell it was Claire's hand. That was all she needed to boost whatever strength she had left within her, her pupils dilated even more covering the blue ring of eye color to the rim. With a glance down to the flaming chopper lying on the dead sand, she forced it to rise and with a quick flick of her attention towards two of the choppers reigning down death, the helicopter hurtled towards them hitting its intended target with devastation and precision.
Claire didn't think it was possible – better yet she didn't believe she was actually seeing it but when she gave the older woman a small squeeze on the shoulder trying to get her to calm down before she did damage to herself, she noticed Alice's pupils widened even more overlapping the rim of eye color.
Alice focused her attention on the flames that had erupted from the exploding Umbrella choppers; she drew the flames into a thick line before directing it towards two of the last three choppers. She forced the flames to encircle the choppers blinding the pilots in flames before slowly crushing them with a solid wall of flames until they imploded from pressure.
Claire watched Alice stand her ground as the last remaining helicopter hovered before flying away in the opposite direction. She didn't care she was focused completely on Alice as the woman's eye's finally returned to normal as she collapsed. Just managing to catch the woman before she hit the ground, she gave a small tap to Alice's cheek, "Alice! Come on!" Claire wiped away the small amount of blood that was weeping out from under Alice's eyelids, she had to ignore the bleeding nose and ears and they bled profusely, if she focused too much on that then she'd have to accept the fact that it was just too damn much blood loss.
Carter took a step up to the two women before kneeling down in front of them Kmart with tears already streaming down her face. "I can help her," he glanced up to Claire looking for any reaction to what he was saying.
She swallowed the lump in her throat as she spoke, "How?" She looked up at him anger on her face, it wasn't directed at him. "Can you magically pull some more savior crap out of your ass? Can you wave a magic wand over her and she'll get better?" She growled out, "Don't you fucking dare tell me you can help her unless you have absolute certainty that you can!"
"I can't promise anything for certain cause nothins' for certain," he admitted before extending his arms towards Alice's shakily breathing and somewhat lifeless form in Claire's arms, "But let me try…please."
Claire closed her eyes giving a glance down towards Alice, from the few days she had known her she had pretty much figured out that the woman had to save everyone. But god damn it…why everyone? She reluctantly eased Alice into Carter's open arms before pushing herself to her feet watching cautiously as Carter struggled to his own with Alice's in his arms. "So how you gonna do it?"
Carter started a slow struggling walk up the sanded dunes before eventually adjusting to the extra weight he was carrying. "There used to be an Umbrella facility in Vegas, top secret even from its employees."
"All I heard was used to be," she spoke tersely as she wrapped a comforting arm around the sobbing teen.
"It's abandoned."
"And how do you know this?" Claire asked rather hesitantly, the man was a mystery she couldn't deny that, she had tried to read him and she knew that Alice had tried and yet they still had been unsuccessful.
He maliciously smirked, "Let's just say I'm currently renting."
The plot deepens as some people may begin to wonder how the hell Carter knows about an Umbrella Facility in Vegas. Also I think the whole Alice/Umbrella Osprey thing played out better in my head. Hope you guy's enjoyed.