Chapter 22
(Please take it easy on my English. It is my second language.)
Note: T-103 Tyrant is a canon model, while T-106 Tyrant is a fictional model only appears in my story. In my story, T-106 model has the same appearance as the T-103 model, which looks exactly like a human except they are HUGE. You would know if you have played RE2. The Tyrant went after Leon and Claire in RE2 was a T-103 model which also known as Mr. X. It killed Ada when she tried to defend Leon. Although it mutated into monster looking after suffered serious damage, they had a human looking before the mutation.
"I can take care of myself. I am not little. Maybe you should write on your face 'I am her brother', so nobody would try to tell me to ditch you again," Claire laughed cutely.
"Hello, babe, are you new here? Would you like to have a drink with Mr. Russian? Ditch this guy, will you?" A voice with strong Russian accent appeared from beside them.
Without thinking, nor even looking at that direction, Chris immediately threw another hard punch into the air at the where the voice came from.
Bang! Chris' big fist hit someone right in the face. Another big bang, it was the sound of someone hitting the floor hard.
"What the fuck!" The man on the ground got back onto his feet. "It's going to take more than just ONE punch to…"
BANG! Chris interrupted him by throwing a second punch at his face, while he still did not even look at that direction.
After the man crashed onto the ground again from the second punch, he slightly rose his head from the ground and whispered,
"That'll do," Before he fainted.
"Oh man, why did you hit my buddy?" Another man's voice.
Chris turned his face for a look for the first time. There was this one man with silver hair lying on the ground unconsciously. A punk was crouching beside him trying to wake him up.
"Because he was trying to hit on my sister!" Chris replied.
"You aren't going to get away from this!"
"Oh yeah?" Chris lifted his muscular arm again.
"You just wait here! I am calling our boss to beat you up!" The punk backed away from Chris. He was obviously too chicken to fight by himself, but he was still talking big.
The punk walked toward the other side of the bar.
"Chris," Claire whispered, "Silver hair…"
"Ouch! Wait…It can't be…This guy is such a push over," Chris looked at the unconscious man on the ground.
"Look over there," Claire used her head to point at another direction.
Chris turned his face and he saw the punk from earlier was now in front of another silver hair man who was surrounded by a bunch of girls.
On the other side of the bar,
"Hey man," The punk tried to get Nicholai's attention.
"What do you want again?" Nicholai asked in a cocky attitude.
"See the guy in green over there? He said your girls are all ugly. He said his girl blows all yours away," The punk tried to start a fight between Chris and Nicholai. "And he also said a nobody like you can only get the ugly chicks".
"That is so mean!" All the girls around Nicholai immediately bought it.
"Yeah, right," Nicholai laughed. "Ignore him, ladies, you are all hot".
"Are you just going to let him trash talk us like that?" The girls around Nicholai protested.
"Yeah, go beat him up," The punk added.
"Listen, punk. How dumb do you think I am? You think I haven't noticed your buddy tried to copy me in the last a few days? He dyed his hair to silver white, and he pretend to speak with a Russian accent while using my usual saying in order to attract all the ladies here. Did he just get a beating? Serve him right. Now go away before I beat you up!" Nicholai waved his big fist in front of the punk for a second.
The punk quickly stepped backward before he turned around and ran away.
"Forget it, ladies. I am pretty sure it never happened. The punks here love to start troubles. He just wanted me to fight that dude over there, who probably just beat up his buddy," Nicholai explained it in a more clear way.
"But those two are looking our way," A girl didn't believe Nicholai's explanation.
Nicholai turned his head to look at that direction. Something caught his eyes.
"If you excuse me, ladies," Nicholai let go one of his arms which was around a girl's waist who was sitting on his laps. The girl quickly stood up.
"He is coming this way," Claire said "Do you think he really is the boss of these two little punks?"
"No way. That little punk probably just tried to start a fight between us for their own benefit. This guy isn't a gangster from the reports we got".
"Excuse me?" Nicholai asked when he was in front of the table.
"Yes?" Chris replied.
"Oh, it's nothing. Some little punk tried to start a fight between us. He said you were trashing talk me and my ladies".
"That never happened. I knocked out his buddy when he tried to hit on my sister".
"Figured," Nicholai smiled at the two. "So this pretty little lady is your sister".
"Yes," Chris replied.
"I am not little. Why does everyone keep calling me little?" Claire protested. She looked so cute when she was trying to be mad.
"Of course you are. See someone has agreed with me?" Chris laughed and he turned to look at Nicholai again, "Hey pal, want to have a drink with us?"
"Sure, if it means I can date your little sister," Nicholai pulled over a chair and sat down at the table.
"You like this one?" Ada asked as Sherry was looking at the red dress on the bed.
"Yeah, may I try it?"
"Sure, go ahead".
"Sherry, I am not so sure. This dress might be too sexy for a young teenage like you," Leon liked Ada in that dress, but for Sherry it was different.
"Oh come on, I just want to try it," Sherry turned around to look at Leon.
"You don't have to get his approvel. He is not your daddy," Ada supported Sherry.
"Right, I have no power in this family," Leon sighed, but he laughed soon after.
"Do you mind? The young lady is about to change her clothes," Ada reminded Leon.
"Oh, sorry," Leon stood up from a crouch. He walked out of the room and closed the door behind him.
Two minutes later, the door was opened, and Leon was asked to enter.
"What do you think?" Sherry turned herself for a circle in front of Leon. "It is a little long, but it fits," Sherry was shorter than Ada.
"Nice. But now you two are dressing the same," Leon smiled.
"I'll just go put on my commando's combat suit if you want some diversity," said Ada. "So you won't kiss the wrong girl," She was walking toward the commando's uniform.
"No, I like you better this way! I am totally serous, stop!" Leon did not like the idea which Ada was trying to cover up her nice skin again. "I can't possibly kiss the wrong girl, your hair colors are different".
"I was just kidding, handsome. I knew you wouldn't like it," Ada turned around.
"I think we really should get prepared for any unexpected attack. Look, I have noticed the amount of soldiers guarding this neighborhood had decreased significantly since this morning," Leon said. "Even the helicopter at that crossroad had left. Why would they do that?"
"Don't worry. We have penty of weapons and ammunitions," Ada replied as she was pointing a table where all the commandos' weapons were there. Each commando was equiped with one assault rifle, two machine pistols, two pistols, two knives, and some grenades, plus a bunch of extra toys.
"Yeah, you ladies get all the fancy weapons. Look at me…" Leon took out his old Type 54 pistol.
"You can use my assault rifle. I prefer using dual machine pistols," Sherry said. "And I only need one knife."
"Great".
"You can have one of my machine pistols, and one of my pistols," Ada added.
"Now that's what I am talking about. I can finally be heavily armed," Leon smiled as he was walking toward the table to check out his weapons.
"General Zhao. Since now you are in charge of all the troops in this region, you should evacuate the civilians," General Wong demanded on the phone. "The estimated infected population was only 3,000 last night, now there are at least 5 times more. With this rate, the entire population of Sand City will become infected in just 3 to 5 days!"
"Are you accusing me of not helping civilians?" General Zhao questioned back.
"So it seems. You aren't really moving everyone out of the city as fast as you could. From the look of it, you aren't even trying. I had already set up the first 4 refugee camps of total 70,000 people capacity. As I am waiting on more supplies for setting up more camps, I'd like to see the existing ones being filled up".
"Weren't they already filled up?"
"Far from it, there are only total 15,000 people in all 4 camps. This is not nearly fast enough. Majority population will turn into zombies before they can get a chance to evacuate".
"The reinforcement will crash them like bugs".
"You talk like you are enjoying having more zombies for a final show down".
"Quit putting words into my mouth".
"And why aren't the military personnel's families being evacuated yet? I have also received call that you had removed 90 percent the troops who were guarding that area. The troops' officers can't focus on the work if their families are still in danger!"
"You want the civilians to think we only care about the ones who work directly for the government? The military personnel should make an example of showing everyone that this government cares more about the civilians. Besides, we have to evacuate the more heavily infected areas first. The military families' community is still safe and far away from the outbreak zones at this moment".
Although it was true about what General Zhao said, General Wong knew that General Zhao was merely using some facts as excuses to endanger his family on purpose. He couldn't argue since it would be pointless anyway.
"Just fill up the already set up camps. Or I will report to the president that you are intentionally trying to get a higher population of zombies for your personal war game".
"Cut the crap, I am a busy man. The camps will be filled before midnight," General Zhao hung the phone.
"Sherry, please stay with us," Leon asked.
"I can't…" Sherry replied with a sad face.
"We can take care of you".
"Uncle Wesker has already taken good care of me for years. I can never repay him".
"It doesn't matter how good he treated you. He is into something bad. You should know that".
"I am not so sure. Yes, he is into the researches on the viruses just like my parents did. I just don't see he is that bad. You don't really know what he is up to".
"Do you?"
"No, not really. He never told me, and I never asked," Sherry told the truth.
"We might not know his final objective just yet. But we can tell it wouldn't be something pleasant," Ada jumped in, although she was not supporting the idea of keeping Sherry at this moment.
"You have no proof," Sherry argued.
"He told me before that once he reestablishing Umbrella, there will be some significant changes in the world…" Ada quoted what Wesker once told her during a communication.
"Significant changes can mean many things. It doesn't have to be bad," Sherry still was not convinced.
"He killed many people," said Leon.
"Who?"
"Many of the original S.T.A.R.S. He tried to kill them all, including Chris, the elder brother of Claire," Leon replied.
"When was that?"
"Six years ago. Two months before Raccon City outbreak. The mansion incident. He had double identity, an Umbrella employee, and the captain of S.T.A.R..S. He dispatched Claire's brother and other members of S.T.A.R.S. to the mansion where the T-virus was leaked. So he could collect combat data. He successed in killing most of them, Chris escaped. Just a few months later, he led an attack on Rockford Island, there he almost killed Claire and Chris," Leon tried to persuade Sherry. "Don't you care about Claire?"
"Yes, but she…dumped me at your place and never returned. I still like her, and I am not saying Uncle Wesker was right, but…it was a long time ago. Have you seen him tryiing to kill anyone after that? He could have changed. He treated me really well, and I have never seen him being bad," Sherry defended Wesker. She truly believed Uncle Wesker was not that bad. "He never yelled at me, even my father did that a few times when I made some silly mistakes".
"He told me to kill Leon just about a week ago when I was on a mission in Spain," Ada added.
"But Leon is here…"
"It's only because I disobeyed his order. He had sent another operative to kill Leon, I interfered or Leon could be…"
"Perhaps he is just so into his work and final objective, and he couldn't think straight when someone was in his way…Please give a chance. I will help him to think less aggressively," Sherry wouldn't give up on her belief.
Looked at the desperated young girl, both Leon and Ada realized she was obsessed with Uncle Wesker. It did not look like they could change her mind. Although Ada did not really believe in they should keep this girl just yet, since her mission still required Wesker's trust. Since Leon was insisting on try to change Sherry's mind, Ada had to help her lover.
Although Sherry showed great concern about Leon's well being, she refused to tell any information about Wesker. They could see the painful feeling in her eyes. They had stopped trying to ask about Wesker's secrets. They did not want to force Sherry.
"I really have to go back to Uncle Wesker, when would you let me go?" Sherry asked.
"We don't want to kidnap you. You are free to go any time, but it is not safe since the city is quarantined by the military," Leon finally gave up the thought on keeping Sherry. From what Sherry had told him earlier, she really did have a good life with that man. But Leon was concerned about Sherry's future. "Let Ada escort you out of the city when the time is right".
"Sure," Sherry smiled after hearing Leon's promise of returning her to Wesker.
"Sherry, do you have a plan for your future? Are you going to stay with Wesker forever?" Leon still worried about Sherry in long run.
"I am going to college after I go back. Uncle Wesker said he would arrange it for me, after I go for a vocation trip to Cuba," Sherry replied proudly. Wesker had indeed become a very important part of her life.
"That's great, but do you have a plan after you graduation from the college?"
"No, not yet, but I have several years to think about it. I am sure Uncle Wesker will let me do anything I want. He had never said no to me," Sherry replied.
"Alright," Leon was in fact more concerned. Every time Sherry said "Uncle Wesker", his heart was hurted a bit more.
"Don't worry, honey. She is a good hearted girl," Ada could tell what Leon was thinking by his expression. Leon was obviously worried that Wesker might pull Sherry deep into the mess and change her personality.
Somewhere at a large neighborhood inside Sand City,
Many military soldiers formed a defensive line in front of the gate of the neighborhood which had steel fences all around it. All the people were pushing against the line and tried to get out.
"Everyone please keeps in line and proceed to the examination rooms. You have to be checked for any sign of infection before allowed to get onto the transportations which will be leaving for the camps outside city. And please only take what is necessary, we do not have too much room on the vehicles and at the camp," Colonel Lee was shouting on a big speaker.
Many civilians of all ages were carrying all kinds of bags and packages. There were temporary examination rooms where everyone was at least visually examined for any bite marks or suspicious injuries before they could pass a military defensive line to get onto some buses and trucks which were going to leave the city.
Suddenly, outside the fence on the street, a woman holding a small child turned around the street corner and she was running this way. She was screaming for help. Everyone turned to look that direction. Soon behind her, a group of about 10 zombies turned around the corner too, and they were chasing after her. All of them had blood all over them, it was not hard to tell that all of them just had a good chaw. And they were moaning creepily. Luckily they were slow. Thus the woman holding the child was able to stay ahead of them even though she was not fast herself.
Immediately, about a squad of closet soldiers moved forward toward that direction with their assault rifles. In just a moment, they had reached the woman who was running toward them. A soldier took over the small child and grabbed the woman's hand and pulled her toward the defensive line, while the remaining squad of soldiers continued to move pass her.
As soon as the squad of the soldiers passed the woman and child, they opened fire at the incoming zombies who were just less than 20 meters away. The soldiers continued to slowly moving forward while firing rapidly. The zombies did not die easy since they were already dead, but the impact force of the bullets not only stopped them from continue to walk forward, but also had pushed them back. The mindless bloody zombies did not know what was retreating, and they just kept on trying moving toward the soldiers despite how many bullet holes they had on their bodies.
A soldier fired the grenade launcher attachment below his assault rifle. He hit in the middle of 4 zombies, and the explosion knocked all 4 zombies onto the ground
In just a few seconds, all 4 zombies were on their feet again, and they quickly rejoined the remaining zombies to advance toward the soldiers despite they had wounds all over them.
"Shoot the head, shoot the head!" Colonel Lee shouted on the speaker. He was not very happy about how the soldiers ignored the instructions which were given to them before they were dispatched.
To the trained soldiers, 20 to 30 meters were just point blank range. It did not take long before all the zombies' heads were shot.
On the road just outside the fence, over 10 zombies were lying in pools of blood.
"Shoot them again, make sure they are dead!" Colonel Lee ordered. Then he turned around to another officer, "Get the fire throwers squad".
The one squad of soldiers immediately opened fire again. There was no movement at all from the zombies on the ground.
Soon, a squad of soldiers carried fire throwers passed the one squad of assault rifle soldiers from the behind. They unleashed flame onto the zombies on the ground. In just a few seconds, all over 10 zombies were consumed by the rapid burning fire. The stinky smoke of burning dead flesh could be smelled by everyone inside and outside the fence.
All the civilians inside the fence were freaked out by what just happened. More of them pushed harder against the defensive line of soldiers and tried to leave this place as soon as possible.
"Please stay come. The soldiers have the situation under control. Please keep in line, everyone must be checked before leaving the city! No exception! It is for your own good. Or the infection could leave the city as well and continue to spread," Colonel Lee shouted again on the speaker.
"Do this for me. I will be back in 10 minutes," Colonel Lee gave his speaker to a lower rank officer before he walked into the neighborhood.
A few minutes later somewhere inside a big house inside the neighborhood,
"Kitty, kitty, kitty, where are you?" A man in full body black suit was looking all over the places. He dressed like an ancient assassin in kungfu movies while carrying multiple melee weapons.
"Lin, we have to leave. Almost everyone had already gathered at the gate," A Buddhist monk urged.
"You can go first. I will catch up soon, just as soon as I find my cat. I am sure it wouldn't take long".
"Alright, I'll be waiting for you at the gate," The monk opened the door.
"Hey, master Zhang! You are here too," Colonel Lee was standing right outside the door.
"Oh, yeah. Colonel Lee, what brought you here?"
"I am checking on Master Lin, since he hasn't shown up at the gate yet," Colonel Lee replied, "Where is he?"
"Right there".
"Master Lin, what are you doing? Everyone in this neighborhood are evacuating," Colonel Lee stepped into the room.
"Oh, hi Lee. I am looking for my cat," Master Lin replied.
"It's just a cat. We have to evacuate the humans," Colonel Lee couldn't understand how important a cat could be in a life and death situation.
"It is not 'just a cat'. Her ancestors were with my ancestors for over 30 generations. I can't abandon her," Master Lin obviously had deep bond with the cat. "Besides, has everyone left already?"
"No. There are still over 2,000 people of this neighborhood waiting for physical examination before they can get pass to the transportation".
"There you go. Master Zhang will leave with you. I will catch up very soon. It's not like I could just leave right way without waiting in the line for a while if I go with you now".
"Alright, Master Lin, please don't be late. It is getting more and more dangerous around this area".
"See you in a few minutes," Master Zhang and Colonel Lee turned around and walked away.
"Kitty, kitty, kitty," Master Lin continued to look for his pet.
After went through his house, Master Lin went outside and continued his search.
Colonel Lee and Master Zhang were walking side by side toward the gate of the neighborhood, which had steel fences all around it. As they were passing an apartment building, suddenly there was a screaming coming from inside.
Immediately, Colonel Lee and Master Zhang rushed into the building. It did not take them long to see a messed up dead man in a pool of blood in a hall. The dead man's chest was ripped open. They could see the ground below him through the big hole.
"This is terrible. What could have done this?" Master Zhang put up one of his hand in front of his mouth and did a quick pray for the dead.
"Shit! It is here! This is the work of those monsters! It must be still close!" Colonel Lee pulled out of his pistol and removed the safety. "I have to go get some backup. Let's get out of here for now."
"You go ahead. I shall not let this demon get away. As a Buddha's servant, it is our duty to wipe out the evil creatures," Master Zhang quickly did a few moves to warm up his chi.
"It's not a demon. It's a biological weapon created in the lab by the westerners as a killing machine. Even a slight scratch from it can turn a human into a zombie because of a bio-engineered virus. There was another one of these creatures killed over 40 armed cops just this morning at the city mall!" Colonel Lee was obviously worried. "Hurry, it can attack us any moment out of nowhere!"
"Just go call in the soldiers, before it moves too far away. I will…"
Before Master Zhang could finish talking, in a flash a 10th B.O.W. suddenly came out of an opening door which was just 5 meters behind Colonel Lee. It was crawling on the wall close to the ceiling.
"Watch out!"
In a split second Colonel Lee turned around and fired a shot in an extremely fast move.
The creature dropped down onto the floor on four legs, and it was not moving. There was a bullet hole right in the middle of its insect like eyes. Some black liquid came off its face. It must be not expecting an armed highly trained man showing up there.
The two men stood their ground and waited for over 5 seconds. Nothing happened. The creature did not move a muscle, while its blood was still rushing down its face.
After the two men looked at each other for a short moment,
"Ha! I got it. It took Colonel Tao a full magazine of assault rifle rounds and a grenade to finish it off. I did it in just one single shot! Who is the man?!" At that moment, the entire body of Colonel Lee started to look cocky.
Suddenly, the creature's one-foot long claws extended out from its "hands", and it rose up from the ground. In a flash, Colonel Lee fired his pistol again. The creature quickly jumped straight upward. In a really short moment, it was already crawling on the ceiling up side down. Colonel Lee adjusted his aim and fired again. The creature made another jump to its left. The moment it touched the wall at the left, it "rebounded" from the wall and was directly toward Lee with super speed. The moment the creature had reached Colonel Lee, its left claw did a quick slash toward Lee's neck while its whole body was still in the air. It was a chopping head move.
Colonel Lee only saw a shadow moving from the creature's original position toward the wall at his right then rebounded back toward him. He knew it was a counter attack. Despite it was beyond his capability to exactly following the creature's super speed movement, Colonel Lee responded by did a quick back flipping as evasion. Since he knew he was attacked, he would not stand there and take the hit.
The creature's slashing claw missed just as Lee flipped away, but the moment it landed on the ground, it once again "rebounded" forward toward Lee's new position and did a piercing with its right claw toward Lee's chest. It was the move that had completely penetrated so many victims.
Lee was just finishing his first back flipping, in his view the shadow of the creature was still closing in. Lee quickly turned his single back flipping into a chain flipping. After two more really fast back flips, the moment he landed back on his feet and had his view looking at the front again, the creature's claw was already just half a foot away. Lee knew he couldn't avoid this one. There was no time for him making another dodge.
Everything happened so fast. Lee did not even have the time to think "Shit!" The creature in front of him suddenly stopped. The tips of the creature's claw were only a few inches in front of Lee's chest.
Without thinking, Lee quickly stepped back. Now he saw, Master Zhang had moved from his rear to his right. It was Master Zhang who had stopped the creature's attacking by locked his "eagle claw" fingers onto the creature's elbow.
The next moment, there was loud sound of bone cracking. The creature's right arm at its elbow was broken by Master Zhang's eagle claw technique. Immediately, the broken arm of the creature was displaced and it was hanging down pointing the ground.
Followed by a super fast chain kicks from Master Zhang, the creature was flying toward the wall 6 meters behind it. It landed onto the wall and was crawling on it up side down. It raised its head since its head was pointing at the ground. Now the creature opened its big mouth and made a creepy roar, while its mouth full of sharp teeth were displayed. Some red blood dropped from its mouth onto the ground. Since its own blood was black, the red blood must be its victims'.
Colonel Lee couldn't make another shot, since Master Zhang was standing between them. He quickly moved toward his right so he could take another aim.
Before Lee could get into position, the creature on the wall made a quick jump toward Master Zhang. Despite one of its arms were broken, its speed was not reduced at all. Less than a quarter of a second later, the creature was in front of Master Zhang and tried to smash Zhang's face with its left claw.
Master Zhang slightly moved his head just enough for the claw to miss. The creature missed the attack, but it was continue to closing in since it was still in a forward motion in the middle air from the last jump. By the time the creature was closing into less than 1 foot away, Master Zhang raised his right arm and hit the creature's chest with a palm.
Bang! The sound of impact was almost like someone had dropped a big box from 30th floor. The creature was pushed back and flying toward the wall. A short moment later, it hit the back on the wall and dropped onto the floor in a sitting position, while its back was against the wall. Slowly, the creature slipped down toward its left onto the ground. Once it hit the ground, it was no longer moving. Slowly the color of the creature's skin had changed.
"Please forgive me," Master Zhang said after did a quick pray, since Buddhism forbidden taking any lives aside demons, and this creature was identified as "not a demon".
"Was that Tiger Palm?" Colonel Lee asked. "And that kick, was it the famous No Shadow Kick?
"No, it's Shaolin Hun Yuan Palm, it uses a different chi pattern. The kick was 'No Shadow Kick' though. The kick was focusing on the speed, it wasn't enough to do the damage on something like that. Shaolin Hun Yuan Palm on the other hand, it was enough to kill an one-ton buffalo".
"Now I really wish I had learned all those techniques…"
"It's never too later to learn something. Especially you are still young. Let's leave for the gate".
"Oh yeah, and I have to get some bio-hazard clean up crew to take care of this mess here".
The two of them left the building quickly.
Inside the command center of the desert base 80 miles away from Sand City,
General Zhao was walking around to look at the huge room.
"I almost forgot the feeling of being in charge here. Lots of equipments had been upgraded since the last time I was here, very nice," He thought.
The command center now was guarded by the commandos instead of General Wong's regular guards.
The phone rang,
"Yes?"
"General Zhao, we had finished the blood samples' analysis. Although the DNA did not match, the blood structures were the same. I am positive they are from two different super soldiers".
"Good job. That's enough proof I need. Send me a copy of the analysis report now," General Zhao ordered.
"Yes, General".
Just a few minutes later, there was another incoming call. It was the president.
"Report," President Hu asked on the big screen.
"The infection increased by at least 5 times in less than one day. I need the reinforcement troops as soon as possible".
"There is an unexpected problem. The only railway to Xinjiang was just cut".
"Cut?"
"A huge explosion took out a major bridge which carries railway across a huge cliff. Someone tried to delay our reinforcement and sabotaged the bridge on purpose. I am afraid the reinforcement from the east will not arrive on schedule".
"What about the 18th Army Group along the border with Afghanistan? I can use them now".
"I had already checked with the military council. Unfortunately, they all against the idea of moving the 18th Army Group. Remember the reason why we deployed them there in the first place? They were there since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan".
"I know the reason, but I highly doubt the Americans would make any move at this moment. It took them half a year just to prepare for the invasions of some small tiny weaklings countries".
"It's not a direct attack we should be watching out at this time, since the unwritten rule among the nuclear powers forbids it, at least not until their so called TMD missile defense system is in place. What we worry about is that, they might take the chance to send in more trained separatists sneak across the border. We already had enough terrorism in Northern Xinjiang. It was confirmed those terrorists were funded and trained by the Americans".
"How long will it take for other troops to arrive?"
"The first wave of the 81th tank division from Urumq should arrive at Sand City in just a few hours. The entire tank division should be combat ready by tomorrow. Other than that, to move 100,000 troops, the estimated delay could be over one week," Replied President Hu. "You can still move in with the needed amount of soldiers. It's just that you won't have enough troops to completely surround the city. Don't worry too much, I have already ordered to give you 200 more Z-10 attack helicopters and over 500 heavy artilleries, they will give you close range air support and overwhelming fire power".
"Ok, that will do".
"Is there anything else you want to report before I end this communication?"
"Yes, I have identified a couple spies and traitors among us…"
"What the heck…it was right here," Colonel Lee pointed his finger at a wall inside the apartment building. "Oh my god, it wasn't dead! We have to speed up the evacuation of this area. Get some more soldiers here to search for that freak," Now Lee had just realized why Colonel Tao had to cut the creature's head off after it was "dead".
Still unknown to Lee, these bio-engineered weapons were already dead. How could you kill something was already dead? Had to either destroy them completely or damage them beyond repair. Or they would always keep regenerating and come back good as new.
About 20 apartment buildings away,
Master Lin was walking on a small path in the neighborhood where both sides were covered by trees and bushes.
From the view of another pair of eyes, the man in black suit was being closed in from the behind slowly. It did not take long before a sudden jump, and the view now was from the above.
Alone in the dark on the small path of trees, Master Lin continued to walk forward.
Suddenly, from the tree branch above him, a shadow dropped down right toward him.
A split second later, the 10th B.O.W. was standing on all four on the spot where Master Lin was, but Master Lin was no longer there. The creature was surprised for a second. Despite its insect like eyes supposed to be able to see all directions without moving the head, the creature had turned its head around for quite a bit while looking for its target. There was nothing. The man who was standing right there had disappeared. The wind came through the path, and blew through the leafs which was making creepy noises in the silently darkness. For quite a while, the sound of shaking leafs was the only movement the creature could detect.
Without warning, four finger sized tiny knives came out of nowhere. Instantly, all four knives were stuck on the back of the creature from the above in a parallel line. The creature screamed and started rush off the path toward some bushes with super fast speed like a running lizard. It was making a run for the hiding since it still could not determine the location of the enemy.
Just before the creature was able to reach the bushes, a shining flash appeared for a split second. The creature stopped all its movement, and stood there for 2 seconds before its head fell off onto the ground and rolled aside, followed by its collapsing body. A pool of dark liquid quickly formed on the ground below it.
The flash from earlier was the reflection of the moon light on a long thin sword. Until the creature was killed, it never found out where Master Lin was who now was standing 10 meters away with a sword already being put back into the sword's sheath which was on his back.
"Two more hours?" Hunk asked on the phone. He was sitting in a large van parking outside Zion on a remoate road.
"Yes, sorry about that. There was two unexpected traffic jams due to road works, but I guarantee we can switch the Tyrants in just 2 hours".
"Alright, don't delay again," Hunk hang the phone.
After Hunk's little encounter with Nicholai at the abandoned camp house at the tunnel's entrance just one day earlier, the military did not come for some reason. It seemed nobody had noticed the flying rocket right above their heads even though they might have heard the "boom". Nobody paid attention to it. Both Hunk and Nicholai were able to escape with their share of zombies.
Somehow, Hunk's superior was not pleased with the result. He told Hunk they want samples of the mutants, not just the improved T-Virus. Hunk had to agree to go there again, but he also made his demand. He wanted a reprogrammed T-106. Not the one kept saying "L-a-s P-l-a-g-a-s". His superior agreed. Someone was sent to bring Hunk a different T-106 to switch with Hunk's at Zion. Now, somehow the traffic jam delayed the meeting. Hunk was already waiting at the meeting point.
"They said 2 more hours. Let's go have some fun since we have nothing to do," Hunk told his men in the van. The Tyrant was sitting on the backseat.
"Yes, let's do it," All the other 3 men agreed. The van started to move.
Chris, Claire, and Nicholai were talking at a table inside a bar at Zion. It seemed that they were getting along really well.
Suddenly the entire bar quieted down, as there was something important came up on a big screen TV.
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"Shocking news from China!" The news reporter said on TV.
They showed some footage. On the screen, first there were many body bags carried by soldiers and polices who were wearing bio-chemical protection suits.
"There is an uprising in Xinjiang, northwest part of communist China. One of the ethnic groups, East Turkistans could no longer stand the rule of communist government of Han Chinese. They had demanded basic human rights and religious freedom for many years, but was denied. They had finally rebelled in a large scale in Sand City since yesterday, a city located on the edge of Taklamakan desert. The communist government immediately responded by launched a bio-chemical attack on the city, on their own soil, on their own people. The estimated death toll had already exceeded 50,000, and increasing".
Then there was another footage. On the screen, many tanks, APCs, and soldiers were surrounding a huge building which the news reporter called "a college". Then it skipped to another part, where the entire screen showed the soldiers and tanks' machineguns were firing rapidly. Soon in an instant, the screen switched to the stairs in front of the building. There, some over 10 bodies of soldiers were lying in pools of blood.
"Some soldiers refused to move in to hunt down the students, and they formed a human shield to block the other soldiers from moving in. The communist government ordered to fire on them as well. The soldiers who risked their own lives to defend the students were all killed by the communist army they served".
Another footage. The screen focused on a Type 99 tank turned its main gun, and it fired. Then the screen moved just 60 meters away. There, a destroyed APC and a jeep were still burning.
"The soldiers in one of the APCs and a jeep had refused to open fire on the civilians. They were slaughtered as well by the communist government".
The footage then skipped to the part where a few hundred of heavily armed soldiers rushed into the building.
All the footages above looked like was a view straight from the above, which indicated it was from a spy satellite.
"After the slightly delay, the communist troops had moved in and started the massacre".
Only a few seconds later, the screen changed to a different place. A building on the street was surrounded by many armed cops and military vehicles. This time the footage had a different kind of view which looked like the camera was from the top of a nearby building.
"Another college in the same city was also completely surrounded. The fate of the students is still unknown…"
"It is the biggest massacre since 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre at Beijing. Let's pray for all those fearless people who fight for their freedom against the ruthless communist regime. We urge the world leaders condemn and sanction communist China immediately. We will bring you more footage and the latest news as soon as we get the updated information," It was the last thing the news reporter said before switched to different news.
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Immediately, all the people who saw the news started trash talking China.
"Commies…", "We should have nuked them from the beginning", "Let's boyscout their garbage goods", "I am going to protest in front of Walmart tomorrow," "boyscout their 2008 Olympics", "Let's go throw stone at their embassy", "That's it, I am going to wear my 'Free Tibet' shirt every day".
"Bullshit, easily influenced fools," Nicholai smiled. "You know, I used to live in USSR. Walking on communist soil, breath communist air, drinking communist beer, hitting communist chicks…" He was making sarcasm of how the propaganda media brought up the word "communist" every other sentence. It is true that the word "communist" or "communism" had already become a synonym of "evil" in western countries after years of media influence.
Both Chris and Claire laughed.
On a remote highway somewhere, a truck driver was driving toward Zion. He was the one sent to delivery a new T-106 to Hunk. Beside him, there sat an armed bodyguard. The newly programmed T-106 Tyrant was in the back of the truck.
Suddenly they saw a van parking in the middle of the highway facing opposite direction. It looked like there was an accident. As the truck driver was trying to get around it, two men stepped out from behind the van and blocked the road.
After a sudden brake, the truck driver barely stopped the truck in front of the two men. Both men on the road were wearing sunglasses. One of them was a blond.
"Are you crazy?" The driver extended his head out of the window and shouted.
"Yes," The blond man with sunglasses replied expressionlessly.
"Wh…What?"
Inside the bar, Chris had left for the restroom. He was really going to make a call.
Nicholai took the chance and moved closer to Claire.
"Where are you from?" Claire asked.
"Russia," replied Nicholai. "I thought I already mentioned it. USSR is now Russia," And he put up a playful smiling face.
"Oh yeah, how could I forget," Claire felt silly.
"Yes, babe".
"That's cool, no wonder you have a sexy accent," Claire tried to compliment Nicholai.
"That's what everyone says. Where are you from, babe?"
"New York," Claire lied, but she did not even look like lying.
"What makes you come to this small town?"
"My brother and I were just traveling".
"I see".
"What are you doing here?" Claire asked back.
"Visiting a friend," Nicholai lied too.
"What do you do for a living?"
"I am a mercenary," Nicholai did not even bother to make up something for this one.
"Really? What do you do when you are at work?"
"Training noobs, sometimes shooting noobs".
"You are funny".
"Come on, drink this," Nicholai put a glass of beer against Claire's mouth to force her drink it.
"Why are you trying to make me drink so much?" Claire asked before she finished the rest of the glass.
"So we could make out afterwards," Nicholai finished his own glass after said that.
After a moment of trying to control herself, Claire finally failed and she sprayed her drink all over Nicholai's face, she tried not to laugh but she couldn't help it.
While still laughing,
"I am sorry. You are being so straight forward. I am sorry for spraying on you, but I couldn't help it".
Unexpectedly, Nicholai suddenly sprayed his mouth full of drinks onto Claire.
"What is the meaning of this? I said I am sorry!" Claire stopped her laughing and changed her expression. Her face and her clothes on upper chest were all wet. She did not expect Nicholai would return "fire" on her with his drinks.
"Oh babe, I am sorry! I didn't mean it either," Nicholai quickly tried to use some tissues to dry Claire up. "It wasn't you…"
"Don't bother," Claire stopped him and she stood up to turn around. She was going to the restroom to clean herself up.
Just as Claire turned around, she froze there. Now she saw what had made Nicholai spraying on her.
At the front door of the bar, four muscular men walked in. Behind them, a HUGE guy of 8-foot tall in a black trench coat was following them. It was a TYRANT! The same looking one went after Leon and her during Raccoon City outbreak.
"Sit down, babe," Nicholai grabbed Claire's hand and pulled her back and sat her onto his laps. He too was surprised by the scene.
It was Hunk and his 3 men…brought their T-106 Tyrant into the bar!
"What the heck is Hunk thinking?" Nicholai thought to himself. "Was he really serious about testing Tyrant with beer? He is crazy if he does that!"
Across the bar,
Hunk and his 3 men were looking around for a table. It took just a few seconds before Hunk saw Nicholai in a corner, with a pretty auburn hair girl sitting on his laps.
"Yo, Nicholai!" Hunk waved his hand, but he was really just teasing Nicholai. He did not expect Nicholai being there again. Not after he was almost got hit by a car bomb just a few days ago, not after he already finished his mission.
Nicholai ignored Hunk's "greeting".
"Shall we go to my place?" Nicholai asked Claire.
"If my brother go, then I go," Claire tried not to get into some nasty situation by herself.
"Alright. Look, he is coming back. Go ahead ask your brother if he wants to come with us," Nicholai replied.
As Claire was walking toward Chris' direction, Hunk and his men found a table and sat down.
"You sit there," Hunk ordered the T-106. "Do not make any trouble. Under any circumstances, do NOT do a thing unless I tell you to". He had to make sure his Tyrant wouldn't cause him any trouble, if that thing started to hit people, even with just fist, someone could be killed. It was also the reason he brought it into the bar rather than having it sat in the van on the parking lot. He felt safer to keep eyes on it than have it sit on the parking lot all by itself. He was sure it wouldn't be a problem just by the looking, since it looked just like a human.
The T-106 Tyrant complied and sat down on a chair beside them quietly.
Just in a few seconds, a bunch of girls came to them.
"Hey, you guys had come back," The girls said. "Who is that? Introduce him, would you?" They were amazed by the size of the T-106 Tyrant.
"He is just a friend we have to take care of," Hunk replied.
"Oh?" The girls all started to sit down on the men's laps. Every girl for each of the men, but there were two girls had sit on the laps of the Tyrant since it was huge!
"You don't want to do that, ladies!" Hunk warned them. "He is dangerous!"
"We like dangerous men," The girls looked at each other and laughed.
"I am totally serious! Stay away from him".
The two girls on Tyrant's laps did not listen.
"What's your name?" They asked.
"Don't bother. He is…retarded".
"That's mean!" A girl replied.
"No, you misunderstood me. He has mental disability. That's why I said earlier we had to keep eyes on him all the time".
"Cute. We like dumb guys," The silly girls laughed again.
"Where are you from?" A girl asked the Tyrant.
"L-a-s P-l-a-g-a-s…".
"Las what?"
"Las Vegas," Hunk "answered" for the Tyrant.
"Oh, cool, I always wanted to go there sometimes".
"Don't bother to ask him anything else. It took us years just to teach him to say that," Hunk tried to stop everyone from asking the Tyrant more questions. "He could not even say one word correctly".
On the other side of the bar, Nicholai almost choked when he saw a girl was petting T-106's bare head.
At Ada's home,
They heard some helicopters came closer and closer.
Leon took a look outside from the window,
"Wow, these are some really huge helicopters. Do you think they are coming to evacuate us?"
Ada quickly moved closer to the window, she saw three commandos' helicopters had stopped right above the neighborhood. Soon, some commandos in black combat suits were sliding down from the ropes.
"General Zhao's commandos! Oh no, they are coming this way!" said Ada.
At Zion Township,
Suddenly, the door of the bar was opened. A group of off-duty marines came in. It took over 20 seconds for all of them to enter. There were over 30 of them.
"You again!" A marine suddenly saw Hunk. "That's the guy!" He turned around to tell the rest of the marines.
Hunk noticed the marines too. "Whatever happens, do NOT fight! Even when they hit you," he ordered T-106. "Go sit over there," He pointed a corner where far from his own table.
Immediately the T-106 stood up and going to another table, the two girls on his laps were dropped onto the ground.
"Hey, you are rude," They complained.
"L-a-s P-l-a-g-a-s…" That was the answer they got.
The large group of marines quickly surrounded Hunk's table.
"What do you want?" Hunk asked expressionlessly.
"You stole our girls and beat our buddies. Let's see how tough you are now!" A marine said.
"Oh please. The ladies came to us by themselves. Like I said before, we are more attractive than you are. Your buddies started the fight, not the other way around".
"I don't give a damn. We are going to teach you a lesson right here," An officer looking marine replied.
"Let's take it outside, it's not a good idea to mess up this lovely bar," Hunk stood up and turned to the direction of the door.
"You are not going anywhere," The marines obviously thought Hunk was trying to make a run for it. "Go get them!"
Immediately all 30 marines rushed toward the 4 men from all directions…
With over 30 people fighting each other in the middle of the bar, it was a big mess with all the shooting fists, kicking legs, throwing bottles and glasses. Many chairs and tables were flipped over in just a few seconds.
Hunk's men were greatly outnumbered, but they were individually stronger and more skillful than the marines. They were holding their own in the middle of large group of foes. The marines on the other hand, were able to last a very long time with their numbers.
Out of all the fighting man, Hunk was the most skillful. He was taking down the marines one after another, but there were just too many of them. He did not want to kill anyone, so he had to hold back a lot on how much strength he used. Thus, many of the marines were getting back onto their feet and rejoin the fight. The fight went on and on.
"Damn! I wish Hunk lose!" Nicholai thought to himself as he was watching Hunk beating up the marines left and right.
Another marine used a chair knocking at Hunk, Hunk avoided it and threw a punch on his face as the marine was overshooting his own body passing Hunk. A second marine punched Hunk from behind, but Hunk heard it and avoided it easily. He did a back kick and hit the marine's stomach who was crashed into a table. A third marine rushed forward and tried to hit Hunk's head with a beer bottle, once again Hunk avoided it while grabbed the marine's wrist at the same time. He bent the wrist toward the opposite direction which made the marine unable to move due to the pain. Then he continuously pounded the marine's face with limited strength.
"Oh man, useless bunch of shitty marines," Nicholai thought and he picked up a beer bottle from the table. "Let me give them a hand".
Nicholai quickly threw the beer bottle at the back of Hunk's head as hard as he could just as Hunk was still holding a marine while beating the crap out of him. Suddenly another marine threw a glass at Hunk from the left at close range, Hunk saw it coming and he moved his head to avoid it. The moment he moved his head away from the original position, Nicholai's bottle passed there and hit the marine's face who was held by Hunk. The marine was immediately knocked unconscious.
Hunk quickly realized there was someone throwing a bottle at him from the behind. He turned around for a quick look. Nicholai had already turned around to another direction and he was pretending nothing had happened.
"Stupid Nicholai…he thought I didn't see! He'll regret it later!" Hunk cursed but he was in no position to drag Nicholai into the fight since he already had his hands full.
"What's taking so long, babe?" Nicholai couldn't wait any longer, and he had walked to in front of where Claire and Chris. "Are you coming?"
"No, we are not," Chris replied. He had thought it was a better idea to keep eyes on the Tyrant.
"Why not? I thought we are already friends. Come on, I got a new sports car, you two will love the ride," Nicholai wouldn't give it up.
"Yeah right, we have our own sports car," said Chris.
"Want a race then?"
"No, thanks".
"Either way, I say let's get out of here. Cops will come soon," Nicholai suggested.
"Why should we go with you? You sprayed all over my sister. Her new clothes are all messed up," Chris made up a random excuse. He knew it might be the best to keep eyes on both the men who brought in a Tyrant and Nicholai. But that will have to require the separation of Claire and himself. Nicholai obviously wouldn't want him, and he was really just too worried that Nicholai might get into Claire's pants like he did with Jessica.
"Oh, it's that. I said I am sorry. Oh man, here, I am paying for that messed up clothes," Nicholai took out his wallet, "Is this enough?" He took out a thick batch of $100 bank notes and he was handing them at Chris. There were at least 50 pieces.
Chris did not extend his hand.
"Come on, take it. Should be enough to cover the cost of her clothes," Nicholai put the money onto the table.
"Who do you think we are?" Chris took the money into his hand and threw them into the air.
Immediately, lots of money was flying around the bar. All the people around them started to fight over the money in the air and on the ground. Now not only the marines and Hunk's men, entire bar was fighting!
"Shit, a bigger mess now," Nicholai said to himself.
"I say we get out of here," Claire whispered at Chris.
"Yes! Come with me now," Nicholai got excited.
After a few more whisperings,
"Ok, we are going," It looked like Claire had changed Chris' mind.
"Wonderful!"
Suddenly,
"Sir! Someone is at your car. Two of them. I am pretty sure they are installing another car bomb," A voice came from the hiding headphone. "We have also noticed there are three more of them at a van of where they came from. They must be watching their backs. One is in the driver's seat, two are behind the van talking. So that makes total 5 of them".
"Leave it to me. Don't do anything until I tell you to," Nicholai replied.
"Did you say something?" Claire turned around.
"No," Nicholai replied. "Could you two please wait for me here? I will be right back".
"Ok".
Nicholai walked out of a side door rather than the front door, and he had taken out his remote car key.
Inside the parking lot, a man was sitting in a van watching two of his comrades installing a car bomb on Nicholai's car not too far from him. He constantly turned his sight to look at the front door of the bar. The two men who were installing the car bomb were crouching beside the car.
"Hurry up. It already took you longer than you were trained for," He said on a microphone.
"Almost done".
The two men outside the van were talking. Then suddenly both of them were grabbed by a hand from the behind, before they could react, their heads were hit together hard. The two men fainted instantly.
As the man in the van's driver's seat was looking at the two men who were installing the car bomb, someone had knocked on his half open car window. He quickly turned his head. A fist was coming right at his face, before he could react, it went all dark.
Just 40 meters away, the two men were still crouching beside Nicholai's car. Suddenly, a tiny rock hit one man's head.
"Who the heck did that? Who?" The man stood up angrily.
"Are you done yet?" A voice was shouted from behind them.
The two men suddenly turned around, and they saw Nicholai was standing just 30 meters away.
"Shit!" The two men quickly took out their pistols.
Nicholai pressed the button on his remote car key.
BOOM! The car exploded and the two men beside it were blown away. Both were flying across the parking lot and dropped on the top of a building beside the bar.
"Ok, I'll take that's a yes," Nicholai put the car key back into his pocket and then he said to his hiding microphone, "Hurry take their van and the three morons I knocked out, leave here before the cops come. Leave your car to me. Just leave the key on it, I'll be using it in a moment".
"Yes, sir."
Chris and Claire had heard the explosion since they were very close to the door. Somehow everyone else was busying fighting and all the noises had completely covered the sound of the explosion right in the parking lot.
"Hurry come with me. Cops will come soon."
"What was that explosion?" Claire asked.
"Oh it was nothing. Just a fire crack. You can sit in my car, your brother can follow us in your car," Nicholai grabbed Claire's hand and walked into the parking lot.
Just a minute later, Chris was on the road driving his car following Nicholai who had Claire in his car. Soon, Nicholai made a turn. Just as Chris was about to follow, a big truck came from the opposite direction and blocked him. After the truck was gone, Chris quickly made the turn. Too his surprise, Nicholai's car was no longer on that road. It had disappeared along with Claire in it.
Inside the bar, everyone was still fighting. A marine used a beer bottle knocked at T-106's bare head with full force. The bottle broke, but the T-106 had no reaction. It was still sitting there not moving.
"You son of a bitch…" The marine felt insulted. He punched at T-106's face repeatedly. T-106 was just sitting there not responding, because Hunk had told him not to do anything.
It was a small town. The police station was not too far away. Soon a police car had arrived. The first cop rushed into the bar.
"Everyone STOP fighting right now!" The cop shouted. His voice was completely disappeared into all the screaming, shouting, fighting noises. Nobody heard him.
"I said NO MORE FIGHTING!" The cop did his best to shout as loud as he could. Still, nobody even noticed him.
"DAMN IT!" He took out his pistol and fired a shot at the ceiling. A hanging lamp was shot, and it dropped right onto his head. He collapsed onto the ground and fainted.
Everyone heard the gunshot, and everybody who was fighting had frozen right there in the middle of the fight, including Hunk's men, the marines, and everyone who was fighting over Nicholai's money. Some of them were still holding others' neck, or shirt, while having fists in the middle air. They all tried to look for who fired the gun. After about 5 seconds of total silence, nobody saw anything because the cop was lying on the ground and views were blocked by some tables.
"Naw!" Everyone resumed their fighting.
"We need some help here. LOTs of backup!" Another cop who just walked into the bar called on the radio.
It did not take long before the bar was completely surrounded by over 30 police cars, and a few SWAT vans.
Some over 70 cops and 25 heavily armed SWAT rushed into the bar with guns.
"Nobody moves!" They ordered as they were holding their guns .
To be continued…
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