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Wesker tackled Alexia, the pair rolling across the floor, as Alexia slammed Wesker against the wall, but his bladed arm slashed her across the face, the tendrils of his left arm smacking her aside. Alice dived for the antibodies, grabbing the syringe as Alexia slammed against the wall beside her. Growling, Alexia reached for her, but Wesker's tendrils pinned her to the wall, allowing him to close the gap, the blades slicing for her, but flames leapt from the cut on her cheek, burning away at Wesker's face, as Alice rolled away from the pair. She only had one shot, but she didn't know who to inject into, as the White Queen joined her.
"You don't have time, Alice. This facility has less than five minutes before it's destroyed by the bombs your friends have set up. If you don't retrieve the cure, all is lost."
Watching the two 'gods' duel, Alice scurried from the room, as Alexia used telekinesis to deflect Wesker's tendrils, shoving him across the room, then leapt at him, but his bladed arm ripped through her abdomen. Her blood burst into flames along his tendrils, but as the burnt ones fell away, more stabbed into her and she punched her fist into his chest, her clawed fingers curling around his heart, squeezing as his blades wrapped around her throat, threatening to decapitate her, the two locked in a deadly power struggle. The White Queen led Alice through the corridors to another room where she found a canister of the pink cure waiting for her.
"This can save the world?" Alice questioned, "It doesn't look enough for two people."
"Given the circumstances, I was only able to create enough to save a small town."
"How is that possible?"
"I made it so it could be converted to gas form and spread over the area. Unless you rather inject every individual with a small sample of the cure," the White Queen explained.
"I suppose you didn't make any duplicates then?"
"Provided you can find someone who can replicate the sequence."
Alice ripped off the printed code and took the canister, ready to leave when she realized that the White Queen was simply standing there, watching her.
"I assume that you don't have anywhere else to go?" Alice asked.
"No. When this facility is destroyed, so will be my sister and I. Go now, Alice, while you still can. It was nice meeting you again."
She did a small wave, as the first of explosions ripped through the facility. Clutching both the cure and the code tightly, Alice race out into the corridor, trying to remember where the exit was, with explosions bursting through the walls. J'avo filled the hallways, trying to carry out the Red Queen's wishes, but were caught within the next explosion, a Napad appearing at the end of the hallway. Alice struck it with a telekinetic blast, breaking its outer shell, allowing her to kill it with a flying kick to its head. As she ran through the facility, doing her best to avoid the flames, Alice hoped that the others would be able to make it out in time.
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What had used to be the cafeteria was now the scene of an intense gunfight. Chris, Leon and Ada had rejoined with the others and proceeded to go through the cafeteria in order to get to emergency train that could take them to the surface, but they were held up by a horde of J'avo guarding the exit, intent on pinning them down until the final explosion erupted.
"This is where another rocket launcher would come in handy," Leon muttered to Chris.
The pair were huddled behind an upturned table, trying to chip away at the outside of the J'avo defense, as explosions rocked the cafeteria, slowly tearing the facility apart.
"Or a grenade," Chris said, "And I'm all out of those."
Pieces of the ceiling collapsed, with a large piece forcing Jill and K-Mart to find alternate cover, another large section of the ceiling crushing several J'avo and creating an opening. Seizing the opportunity, Chris and Leon rose up, attacking the J'avo's broken defenses, pressing their assault, as Jill and Claire moved out front, gaining ground as they joined in the offensive alongside Jake and K-Mart. With the J'avo scattered by the sudden attack and falling debris, the Resistance were able to cross the cafeteria and continued their rush to the train, as Jill checked her watch. They had lost a lot of time from that battle and with the clock ticking perilously closer to the final explosion that would destroy the facility for good.
"We've got to move peoples," Jill shouted, "Step on it."
"Shouldn't have smoked so much back in the day," Chris smirked, keeping pace with her.
"Move your ass, Redfield, or I'll move it for you," she retorted with a hint of humour.
A Strelat scurried into view, bullets hammering its body courtesy of Leon, an arrow impaling it at the same time thanks to Ada, as Jake charged at the creature and drove his knee straight into its face in the same manner of his father, instantly killing the Strelat. Walls and debris crumbled in their wake, as they descended down a small flight of stairs that brought them out onto a large platform where the train was waiting for them, along with several J'avo. Ada shot one J'avo in the throat with her crossbow, as Leon covered her, firing into one half of the J'avo, Jill taking on the other half, Chris helping to finish them off, as Claire entered the train and went straight to the controls, turning the train on, as the others piled on. The train began to move, gaining speed as the timer struck zero, unleashing a nuke-like explosion that swept through the entire facility, destroying everything in its wake.
Alice had made it to an elevator, rising up from the facility as it was ripped apart from the final bomb Jill had planted. It was her present to Umbrella, 'thanking' them for having her in their 'employ', but Alice was just hoping that the elevator moved faster than the explosion. It wouldn't help the world if she was killed in the blast, incinerated alongside the cure while so close to the surface. As she gained altitude, Alice could only think of Becky.
Meanwhile, down in the laboratory, Wesker and Alexia were still trapped in their power struggle, unable to fully kill the other, but neither willing to let the other go, even as the facility crumbled around them. When the nuke erupted, the explosion ripped through all the levels and sensing its rapid approach, Wesker chuckled at his opponent.
"It appears, my dear, that neither of us will become gods. And while that both of us will die here, unlike you, my legacy will continue."
"Damn you, Wesker!" Alexia screeched.
The nuke reached the laboratory and while Alexia was screaming from the explosion disintegrating her body, Wesker simply laughed, the nuke ripping his flesh from his very bones, tearing everything to shreds until there was nothing left of either the facility, nor Alexia and Wesker, destroyed along with the company they had worked so hard for. But just before Umbrella was completely consumed, the White Queen and Red Queen stood before each other, knowing that this was goodbye, that the latter had lost, while the former had won and then, the flames of the nuke washed over their systems, wiping them from existence.
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The train slowed to a stop at the rundown station, dents covering its hull from when parts of the crumbling tunnel fell upon it. The doors opened and Claire staggered down, falling to her knees from exhaustion, grateful that they had made it. A zombie suddenly lunged at her, but a bullet cracked through its head and Chris helped his little sister to her feet.
"We made it," Jill said as she stepped outside, "It's over. We won."
She felt relief that Umbrella had paid for depriving her of her humanity and making her their puppet. Now with the last of Umbrella wiped from the face of the Earth, she knew that she could move forward with her life, as Chris gave her a smile, knowing what she was thinking about and he moved to her, taking her hand in his, a small kiss pressed to her forehead.
"It's over, Jill. No more Umbrella. No more nightmares."
"Hey," Alice said as she entered the subway, "You guys made it."
"Did you succeed with the cure?" Leon asked.
She held up the canister with a small smile, as Jake approached her.
"My father," he whispered, "Did he…make it?"
She wondered if she should tell him the truth, that his father had really intended on destroying the world, but given that Jake already had a bad impression of Wesker and even though she really hated the man, she didn't want Jake to hate him completely, wanting him to have at least one good thought about Wesker, even if she had to lie to him. And so she did.
"He gave his life so we could have the cure. He really did want to save the world. I'm sorry, Jake."
Jake nodded, accepting her answer, a small pang of regret in his chest that he didn't try harder to form a better bond with his father, even though Wesker was quite an asshole, but then Alice withdrew a pair of sunglasses and held them out to him.
"This was all that's left. I'm sure your father would want you to have them."
Jake stared at the sunglasses for a moment, before slowly reaching out and taking them. This was the last thing that was left of his father, the only memento, as he flicked out the arms and slid the sunglasses over his eyes briefly, then pushed them up onto his head.
"They suit you," K-Mart said, taking his hand.
"So, we have the cure," Chris said, "Let's go cure the world."
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AN: Final chapter up tomorrow.