I'm back but sadly this story is coming to an end with just two chapters to go, however a sequel will be happening. Hope you guys enjoy this.
I can feel the pain,
I can feel the hatred,
But I can't understand where it's coming from
My Own
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Alice stepped out of the operational elevator with a glance to the right confirming that Carter was in fact purposely keeping his distance from her. She ran her eyes around the security room filled with high tech computers and security systems lining the walls of the large white circular room, which only had an elevator door, emergency exit door and a staircase door. As ex head of security she knew what each and every piece of machinery did but had never really been bothered to understand how each piece worked. Her gaze fell on the redhead frustratingly trying to fix the broken down electrical board and that brought a smile to her face.
"Need some help," Alice piped up earning a glare from the redhead as she felt Carter shift to the other side of the room, Kmart following the young man over.
"I'm standing next to a very live electrical circuit board and I'm very frustrated," Claire snapped slightly while glaring at Alice whose smile went to one of sympathy and immediately Claire regretted snapping. Claire brushed a hand through her hair before giving her shoulders dramatic rolls to try to get rid of her frustrations. "So how'd it go with Umbrella?" Claire asked turning back to face the electrical circuit board.
"Not so good I'm afraid," the deep British accent that had infiltrated the room in a silent but deafening tone had heads snapping towards the Emergency exit.
"Who the hell puts an Emergency Exits in an Umbrella Facility?" Carter glanced curiously over to Dr. Isaacs and when no answer came from the British doctor he turned to face Alice and Claire who were staring back at him with glares. Although the question may have came out sarcastic he really was curious as to why they had an Emergency Exit in a bunker thousands of meters underground, especially when the only way to exit was to move upward and the Emergency Exit continued downwards. So with more determination and more curiosity he asked once again, "No seriously guys."
Dr. Isaacs gave an aggravated sigh before waving the gun towards the center of the room motioning for the occupants that weren't apart of Umbrella to move. "Claire Redfield and Mr. Malbye you really are becoming quite a disturbance."
"Proud to help doc," Carter replied sarcastically.
"How do you know who I am?" Claire asked ignoring the comment from the young blonde man beside her.
"It's been a long time Ms. Redfield you probably don't remember me as a matter of fact you shouldn't but that is of no concern at this point." Dr. Isaacs replied to the question with a look of adoration as he looked back and forth between Project Alice and Claire.
"No concern?" Claire asked repeating his last words, "Because I'd beg to differ."
"All that matters is that it's time to come home Ms. Redfield," he smiled once at Claire before turning to Alice, "You too Project Alice."
"You bastard your selling them out again," Carter snapped towards Dr. Isaacs as he took two pissed off steps forward towards the British doctor but the motion was halted by the sounds of gun 'safeties' being clicked off.
"Mr. Malbye," Dr. Isaacs said with a 'tsk' at the end of his sentence, "Such potential, such skill and ability but yet such a letdown."
"What do you mean a letdown?" Alice asked now intrigued by the fact that Dr. Isaacs had not only known Claire and Carter but had, had some interactions with them. What interactions exactly? She didn't know.
"Why don't you tell them Mr. Malbye?" Dr. Isaacs taunted the young blond, "Go ahead tell them exactly why you're acting like you are." He watched the young man's face fall and he knew he had him but still he continued urging, "Tell them the truth about it all…all of it."
"I can't," Carter breathed out in barely a whisper, "But I can't go through that…" Carter paused lowering his eyesight to the floor beneath him, "Not again."
"Not again?" Claire now completely confused with the conversation happening asked as she pulled Kmart closer towards her, the Umbrella soldiers now forming a perfect circle around them.
Dr. Isaacs took a step forward towards the young man, he knew his soldiers stood only a small chance in a fight with Project Alice as her telekinetic abilities had grew tenfold but with Claire Redfield and Carter in the same room with Project Alice…chances of capturing the two women were slowly fading away. "The doors open to you Mr. Malbye all you have to do is turn your back," Dr. Isaacs placed a hand on the man's left shoulder.
Would it be abandoning if he did such a thing? Would it be betrayal, traitorous if he did? Would he be saving them from the truth? Would it be a possibility for a better future than they had now? "I'm sorry," Carter whispered taking a step past Dr. Isaacs as thousands of more questions ransacked his brain. He had no answers only questions…he never had answers just questions.
"You son of a bitch you're taking the easy way out," Claire spat out angrily to Carter.
"It's so much better this way," Carter turned his back on Claire, Kmart and Alice but the eyes boring into the back of his head made him turn back once he reached the elevator. The look on Alice's face was one of pure hatred he had only ever seen it once and never had he thought he would again. He didn't blame her…he couldn't but he was right it was so much easier not knowing the truth.
Alice took a deep breath in and released it once the elevator doors pinged closed. She made note that if she ever lived to see the man again she'd kill him with no mercy what so ever. "You better make this good." Alice ground out as her fists clenched.
"Project Alice you're such a disappointment, were not the enemy here." Dr. Isaacs shook his head confidence almost pouring from his mouth.
Claire heard Kmart snort in disbelief beside her, at least the girl new who was wrong and who was right. "What's this truth you're so eager not to tell us about?"
"In due time my dear," Dr. Isaacs reached out to put a hand on Claire's cheek but the hand was grabbed before it could even get half way.
Alice's last straws had been reached her patience had worn thin, the moment the slimy doctor had even thought about touching Claire in such a way had made Alice's skin crawl. Hell no, the man was not going to lay a finger on Claire not if she could help it and she most definitely could. Alice's attention was snapped away from Dr. Isaacs the moments guns clicked up towards her and the sound of soldiers switching stance echoed in her ears. They outnumbered her dramatically but she was confident that if she could just fight back the exhaustion her abilities cause she'd be able to take them all out.
"Project Alice release me," Dr. Isaacs spoke in a calm tone and almost smirked as the grip on his wrist was released slightly.
Alice squinted slightly, fighting back against the incessant nagging to release the British doctor. It was powerful, her brain sending messages to the rest of her body on their own account. It wasn't till a sharp pain in the back of her head spiked a headache did she release her grip before crumpling to one knee on the floor. She had felt pain before, it came with being Head of Security, she had a high pain tolerance but the pain she was feeling now was as if someone was digging a knife into the base of her brain.
"Alice," Claire moved to Alice's side kneeling down just enough to get a better look at the blond, "What the hell did you do to her?" Claire turned to the doctor who now had a smug look on his face.
"I made her better, smarter, faster, and stronger than anyone could ever hope to be." He answered quite proud of himself.
"No you took a chance at playing god," Alice replied pushing herself up as the pain spiked to ridiculous heights.
Claire took a step back towards Kmart, the girl putting on a brave face but deep down Claire knew she had to have been terrified by the current happenings anybody would. One day your at Kmart, the next a zombie apocalypse is happening and now you have Umbrella breathing down your back.
"You sound so much like Mr. Malbye and Ms. Valentine." Dr. Isaacs commented with a small smile, "And it's true. We took a chance at playing god," he nodded pacing back and forth between Project Alice and Claire to make sure he got his point across to both women, "But it paid off."
"At what cost?" Claire spoke up once she realized Alice wasn't going to.
"That would have been their reply," Dr. Isaacs shook his head, "They don't understand." He turned to Project Alice, brushing his fingers over the blonde womans cheek. "Damn," he snapped more to himself as he withdrew his hand from the sudden trickle of blood that had immediately started falling from the woman's nose and over his hand. Dr. Isaacs withdrew a handkerchief from his pocket, using it to dry the blood of quickly from his hand.
"What's the problem doctor afraid you'll get a little of your creation on you?" Alice questioned the doctor as she fought of the pain that was now slightly dulling.
"Kill the girl," Dr. Isaacs turned away from Project Alice motioning for two of the guards to follow him, "Bring Ms. Redfield back with you she's too valuable to lose, however if she becomes difficult feel free to use any means to restrain her just…" he paused as he turned face them once he entered the elevator the handkerchief hand still hovering over the opposite hand, "Don't kill her."
The moment the doors had pinged shut Alice could almost feel the excruciating pain rise once again in the back of her head. It was the chip, she knew what it was after all she had spent a majority of her time in the Nevada desert trying to stop the chip from doing such a thing but to no avail.
"Alice?" Claire questioned pushing Kmart behind her as she watched Alice struggle internally.
Alice couldn't let the chip win, letting the chip win meant letting Umbrella win and so much had happened for such a thing to happen. She could feel the pain rising even more as if it were burning her brain with scorching temperatures. She knew all she had to do was keep up with it for a few seconds and the chip would snap and dissolve under such pressure.
"Alice?" Claire questioned once again as the remaining Umbrella soldiers started approaching.
Just a few more seconds, that was all she needed. It was almost impossible; she had to admit giving into the chips desirable function was currently tempting…very tempting. All she had to do was kill the blonde teenager, grab Claire and follow the soldiers and the pain would disappear.
"Alice!" Claire yelled hoping for a reaction from the blonde woman, anything that wasn't ignorance to what was happening.
The scream was enough for Alice to find the last bit of willpower that was tucked away, where? She had no idea but it had been stored possibly for an occasion such as this. Alice shook herself out of her daze before snapping to attention, turning to face the soldiers currently closing in on Claire and Kmart. A quick thought sent the three soldiers flying back into the walls behind them, indenting them and knocking themselves unconscious.
The cracked wall that now hosted a large split from floor to ceiling behind Claire and Kmart was an indication to Claire that Alice was back and back to being her normal self…well what Claire thought was Alice's normal self at least. Claire's train of thought was suddenly ruined as the last remaining soldier was dealt with, with precision, the soldier dropping to his knees, knife sticking out the side of his Umbrella ball cap. Claire couldn't even remember the blonde haired woman moving but apparently sometime during her thoughts she had, a glance to her left at the shocked looking teenager told Claire that the blonde woman had move, and with speed…serious speed.
"Come on," Alice reached out taking Claire's hand to drag the woman up the steps, Kmart following closely behind the redhead. She knew there'd be a lot of questions but right now she had to catch Dr. Isaacs.
Alice kicked open the Umbrella helipad door two Umbrella pistols at her side. She looked like a woman on a mission, hell she was a woman on a mission…one that would end with Dr. Isaacs kicked as. She groaned quietly as she put one foot in front of the other making her way closer and quicker towards the helicopter that was slowly prepping for take-off, she was sounding way to much like Carter even in her thoughts.
Claire brought up the rear behind Alice and Kmart behind her, a fair distance between the three of them but not so far that Claire hadn't noticed the sudden speed and determination that Dr. Isaacs had the moment he spotted Alice making her way over to him with a determined deadly stride.
Alice fought back the still heightening pain of the chip in her head as she closed in on the helicopter. The pain reached her tolerance level the moment she reached the Umbrella logoed helicopter. She dropped to her knees, blood trickling from her nose once again. She heard the distinct sound off helicopter blades slicing through air but when she looked up instead of finding a helicopter in front of her as she had expected she found Claire staring down at her concern evident in her features as the pain in Alice's head slowly subsided.
"You okay?" Claire asked, hearing the small thudding of footsteps drawing closer to her and Alice.
Alice's reply was a groan of pain as she pushed herself back up to her feet. Her head was still sore with after effects, her nose was still trickling blood but a lot slower and she had thousands of questions running through her mind – not helping her head in the slightest. How did Isaacs know Claire? What was with the whole time to come home bull that Isaacs was going on about? Why was Carter so eager to disappear at the mention of telling us something – that seemed rather important? Ugh she just had to stop thinking for a second.
"Earth to Alice," Claire said with a worried look as she waved her hand in front of the blondes face.
Alice followed the arm with her eyes until she reached Claire's eyes, all thoughts from prior disappearing. Alice let a small smile tinge the corner of her lips before speaking up, "We need to find where that helicopter is going?"
"Why?" Claire questioned taking a few steps backwards watching as Alice rolled her shoulders.
"That helicopter would be a brilliant way to make it to Alaska," Alice responded before moving towards the door leading back to the interior of the Umbrella facility.
Claire shook her head, "Is that it?" She watched as the older woman halted her footsteps but refusing to turn to face her, "Or is it revenge? I can see it Alice I'm not blind, they did something to you yeah but you can't let it ruin your life."
"You don't understand," Alice shook her head still refusing to turn to face Claire – one look and she knew she'd decide against it.
"No I guess I don't but when you go to get this 'revenge' of yours," Claire made quotation marks in the air with her fingers to emphasize her point, "Don't come back."
This time Alice did turn to face the redhead. How could she do that to her? She was making her choose against people she now considered friends – albeit the feelings towards the redhead – and her chance to finally destroy Umbrella once and for all…It wasn't revenge, was it? She believed in making Umbrella pay for their crimes but in the process she'd lose her friends. "I have to end this." Alice spoke in an almost pleading tone.
"No," Claire shook her head and in a sincere yet sorrowful tone she finished, "It'll never end Alice." Claire felt as if she'd been in this position before saying the exact same thing but she brushed it off as one of those weird déjà vu moments before brushing past Alice and making her way back into the facility leaving Alice and Kmart to standing on the Underground helipad.
"Alice?" Kmart asked barely above a whisper.
"I have to do this K; it's the only way to make Umbrella stop." Alice looked up at Kmart who was plastered with the same sincere and sorrowful expression as Claire had been.
Kmart gave her head a shake, she may have only been a teenager but she knew exactly what throwing your life away for nothing was she had seen it in a few members of the convoy and in Claire. She loved Claire but the way the woman went about making sure everyone was better off than herself she had to admit she hated. Maybe that was it; maybe Claire being upset at Alice was only an instinctual reaction because they were so much alike. Kmart looked at the doorway Claire had just left through and Alice was currently making her way towards before looking towards Alice, so much alike but yet so different.
Okay well two chapters left to go and then I start the sequel. Hope you guys enjoyed…plus check out the Retribution trailer if you haven't already (sadly no Claire) but still it looks awesome.