"Full power, we're leaving," Kaplan calls from the front of the train.
Alice doesn't hesitate to go straight to the front to inject him with the antivirus, settling in the back with the rest of the group when she finished. The train continues to speed down the track towards the exit, while X-23 holds on to anything she can, not use to moving and not seeing where she is going, and not liking this new feeling. Rain chuckles when she sees the uncomfortable look on X-23s' face, causing the girl to glair at her, while Alice just shakes her head.
"We need to find you a different name. I just don't want to call you by the name these people called you." Alice tells X-23 in a kind voice, being the first person to actually care enough to think of giving her a name. She thought about it for a little while, what it would be like to have an actual name that is, and she remembers not wanting to name herself, but have someone that truly cares about her name her.
"Can you choose for me?" X-23 asked Alice quietly, sounding almost like a child who was about to be yelled at, causing Alice to feel a sort of kinship towards the girl.
"Ok, how about Hailey?" Alice suggests, frowning when Rain shakes her head.
"Doesn't fit," Rain helpfully supplies.
"Ok, how about Sadie?" Rain shakes her head again, causing Alice to think hard. "I got it, Laura. It comes from the Laurel tree, which symbols honor and victory." Claws suddenly rip through the side of the train, grazing Matt's bicep, causing him to fall away from the wall with a groan. Rain quickly stands up, aiming where the claws came through the train.
"What's going on back there?" Kaplan shouts over the noise of the train. Alice swiftly walks over to Matt to check his arm, while the creature claws at the train again, this time on the ceiling. Rain tries to pinpoint where it is so she can shoot, as the creature keeps ripping holes in the train, but the creature is moving from one place to another too quickly. The thing rips into pipes on the wall, causing some type of vapor to be released.
"Get us the fuck out of here," Matt yells at Kaplan, who quickly replies.
"Any faster and we're going to come off the rails." While he is replying the creature causes sparks to fly by clawing through some cables. The door to the cabin suddenly gets ripped off and thrown into the tunnel, as the beast sticks his head through the door, quickly grabbing Kaplan and biting into his shoulder, then taking him back through the door. The creatures head reappears as Matt is trying to close the door between the cabin and the main compartment. Matt promptly shuts the door, only to realize the door leading out the back of the train is open, Alice sees this and closes it quickly. The creature bangs against the door, leaving a dent the first time, and sending the door flying off its hinges and directly into Alice the second time. The door sends Alice back a couple feet while the creature leaps into the room, causing X-23 to stiffen, ready to attack if needed. When the creature growls at Alice, who is laying on the floor next to it, Rain opens fire. The bullet strikes the beast in its exposed brain, while Alice hurriedly backs up towards Rain. Rain fires two more times, only achieving in making the beast angrier. Matt grabs a bunch of pipes hanging in a cargo net, as the creatures tongue grabs Rains' foot causing her to fall and drop her gun. Rain tries to grab anything to keep herself from being pulled to the beast while Matt runs towards the beast, with the help of X-23 and hits it with the hanging pipes, forcing it to release Rain. The creatures tongue slaps Rain in the face, while Alice grabs Rain's dropped gun. X-23 grabs a broken, sharp pipe and steps on its tongue, and then slams the pipe through the creatures tongue and into the grated floor. The creature lets out a screech while Alice yells at anyone who will listen.
"Open the doors," Matt quickly turns around and smashes his hand into the button that opens the hatch on the bottom of the cart, causing the creature to fall through, being dragged by its tongue until it catches fire and X-23 releases the tongue.
"I think Laura is a good name," Rain informs them as Matt closes the hatch again. The train comes to a stop, and the surviving members of the group disembark, and run towards the door. X-23 is the last one out into the mansion as the blast doors seal shut. They swiftly move through the dining room and make it to a mud room, which leads outside, before stopping. Matt and Alice fall to their knees, exhausted, while Rain bends over to catch her breath. X-23 looks around, this being her first time outside of the hive, and surveys the room. She ignored the conversation that Matt and Alice were having, as she noticed a shadow moving under the door. *Snikt* the group falls silent and looks over at X-23, who is carefully listening. She hears the heartbeats of her three companions plus at least twenty others. She stiffens, ready to defend these people. Rain takes her gun back from Alice and aims it at the door, trusting X-23's instincts. They are both distracted by Matt groaning in pain and collapsing. Alice acts fast, opening the case with the antivirus, while staying quiet to avoid detection. She is just about to inject him with the antivirus when the doors are pushed open by men in hazmat suits. Rain opens fire, killing the first three before her gun shoots blanks. X-23 roars and lunges at the remaining men, while Alice injects Matt with the antivirus. More men in suits are pouring into the room, but most are quickly dispatched by X-23. A few men make it past her and grab Alice, who thrashes around trying to get free. They try to grab Rain, who unsheathes her combat knife and tries to defend herself. The eventually over power both of the woman, as Matt withers in pain. A single shot rings out, stopping both Rain and Alice's struggle. They look towards the door only to see X-23 drop to her knees, a hole through her head, and Major Timothy Cain holding his smoking Beretta. Alice screams as more men file into the room, while Rain just stairs at the girls lifeless body.
"I want them quarantined, full series of blood tests, let's see if their infected. Take them to the Raccoon City facility, and assemble the team. We're reopening the Hive." Cain ordered, finally looking down at the girl he just killed. "And take this one to the morgue, full autopsy. I want a report by tomorrow."
The first thing she noticed when she woke up was the smell of death and decay. She opened her eyes to find everything dark and constricting. She had no idea where she was.