hey there everyone!
so this is my first RE ff and my very first ff in english. well, at first i want to officially thank RainDead for the beta reading! and i hope you and the others like the story. you can see this as a continuation to RE afterlife, i just changed the time when umbrella shows up at the end of afterlife and if i'm not totally wrong it's about five years between the first RE and afterlife in the RE-timeline. that's the only thing you should probably know. ^^
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My name is Alice...
About five years ago a deathly virus was released from an underground laboratory of the Umbrella Corporation. And with the virus all of hell broke loose. Almost everyone died, but the problem was that they didn't stay dead. The infected turned into some kind of undead, mindless creatures that would attack and kill anything alive. The Umbrealla Corporation didn't do anything about the damage they've done, they just hid in the underground, leaving the uninfected people in this living hell. But there was a tiny flicker of hope in all this chaos. A seemingly safe place on earth with no infection called Arcadia. The survivors who got the message from Arcadia went there, just to get captured and brought to a ship. It was nothing more than a damn trap of Umbrella to get uninfected people. They locked the survivors in glass tubes and used them as test subjects. I destroyed this plan, helped by Claire and her brother Chris. Together we freed the captured people.
This was about two weeks ago. Since then we have started to turn Arcadia into the place it first pretended to be: a safe place with protection, no infection and hope. After we cleaned the place out for all the remaining zombiefied creatures, it really was a safe place. The other surviving people are doing pretty good as well. Most of them, like Claire and K-Mart, are starting to remember everything that has happened to them. Not plesant memories, but it's better than not knowing anything at all. At least in my opinion. We began to drive along the shore, sending out the message of Arcadia, in the hope to find more survivors. We made stops along the coast, each time we waited about two days. During this time we went inland searching for useful things like food, weapons or maybe other uninfected who had caught our message. Deep down I always knew that Umbrella wouldn't let us get away with this for long...
„What is that?" asked Chris Redfield, as he, his sister Claire, K-Mart and Alice noticed the approach of black helicopters. They belonged to Umbrella, there was no doubt about it.
„Trouble..." Alice muttered, while looking up and her eyes widened slightly, as one of the helicopters suddenly opened fire. Seemingly unreal, a missile dislodged itself from the machine and sped towards the Arcadia.
Alice's darted back and forth, checking escape routes. All at once a frightening realization crossed her mind: They were trapped! On this ship was no escape. No way to avoid the air attack from Umbrella, let alone to fend it off. But they were close enough to shore, she looked into the dark waves.
„Into the water ..." , she mumbled a little absent.
„What?" Claire looked puzzled to the blonde, just like her brother and K-Mart. Then she seemed to realize.
„Into the water! All of us! We have to..." , but she didn't continue, when an explosion shook the whole ship.
Some people on the deck screamed in panic. Many of them hadn't seen or heard the helicopters until now. Now, some looked to the sky and pointed at the fearsome appearence of the flying machines, while others came on deck to look for the cause of the explosion. Again a rocket hit the body of the Arcadia, followed by a further vibration, which left the whole ship shaking.
„Get down!" Alice tore K-Mart to the ground, as another rocket flew directly over them and hit the deck. The explosion tore a large hole into the vessel. The people who were near the impact point, were hurled through the air or hit by crumpled pieces of metal. Most of them never rose again.
A few parts were hitting Alice on the back, before she and K-Mart came back to their feet to look at the burning impact point. They saw how some people already jumped into the cold water out of fear and panic. Some tried to help the injured who desperately hold their gaping wounds and called for help. Muffled screams sounded everywhere.
„We have go over board!" Claire spoke up.
„Go over board!" her brother screamed to the others as they heard and felt another explosion. But that wasn't the only problem anymore, because the helicopters were now close enough to fire their guns. A swarm of bullets flew over the deck and killed everyone in their path. The dead blood-soaked bodies quickly covered the deck.
„Listen now, get away from here! Try to get to the land! I try to make an announcement that everyone should leave the ship!" Chris shouted to them over the chaotic noise.
„Are you nuts? This ship is about to fall apart, you will never make it!" protested his sister.
„I'll go with you.", said Alice calmly.
„Me too!", K-Mart broke in, ignoring the stern looks from the others. Going off alone and just leaving the others here in danger? Like hell she would!
„Okay, let's go!" ordered Claire.
Together, they ran through the interior of the now ailing ship to get to the bridge. They had to make the announcement so the remaining people inside the Arcadia had a change to save themselves. Only this last announcement! They couldn't do more anymore.
„To all on board! Flee into the water! Try to reach land!..." said Alice, but then paused before she spoke the last sentence.
„We're giving up the Arcardia!", were her last words before she joined with Claire, Chris and K-Mart to get back to the deck, to jump with them into to the deep, cold water.
The cries of the people, the thunder of bullets and explosions sounded all around Alice until she finally plunged into the water with a splash. Even under water she could still hear everything, although attenuated. She quickly came back to the surface to search for the others. Appeared next to her K-Mart came to the surface and not too far away Claire and Chris. She looked at them and even without words it was clear that they quickly had to reach the shore.
Without any pause the fire went down on the fugitives in the water, who were swimming for their lives. Alice hoped that as many as possible managed to get to the shore. Above all Claire, her brother and K-Mart. She didn't want to lose the people who meant something to her, again. But the blonde couldn't stop to look around for them. If she didn't stay in motion, the helicopters would catch her for sure.
With firm, strong strokes she brought herself closer to safety with every second that went by. A biting pain suddenly raced through her upper arm, as a bullet scratched her, she gazed at the cut that left a red veil of blood in the water, but didn't slow down. She was so close to reaching her goal now.
„Claire! You did it!"
Although she was supposed to run to the city near the shore to get some cover, K-Mart was looking for her friends. It didn't take long for her to find Claire and so she ran towards the redhead. Her eyes grew wide as she looked at the badly bleeding wound at Claire's leg.
„Shit, that looks terrible... " she knelt down to the older woman and ripped a leg off her pants to create a temporary bandage.
„Thanks, but we didn't have any time. Where are Alice and Chris? "
„I don't know. I didn't see..."
„Claire! K-Mart!" both women looked up, to find their two missing friends running to them.
„Speaking of the devil." said the redhead a bit relieved when she saw the two.
„We have to get out of here. Are you able to walk?" Alice looked at Claire with worry in her eyes.
„It's okay. But where did they go? These Umbrella bastards?" The group looked at the sky, but the helicopters where nowhere to be seen. In the attempt to find her friends under all the chaos, Alice hadn't noticed that the helicopters had turned.
„I don't know, but i doubt that they just went away."
The blonde turned her gaze from the sky to the shore. In the water floated countless dead bodies, many more were lying on the shore. Both the white sands and the sea had taken a deep red colour. A few hurried out of the water in the direction of the city, some of them seriously hurt. The Arcardia, their hope of safety was already nowhere to be seen anymore.
„How many have got out of this slaughter?" asked Chris nobody in particular, as he helped his sister to stand up. None of them knew the number, but they all knew the answer - too few.
For a little while all looked in concerned silence to the image before them. Their hope of safety lay destroyed on the bottom of the sea and many of those who they had freed from the clutches of Umbrella not long ago, where dead now. Suddenly they heard shots again and the panic cries of people. The four turned away from the beach and heard massive gunfire from the direction of the city.
„It isn't over yet!" said Alice.
Chris grabbed his sister under her arms to support her and began to run. Since they were poorly armed and Claire was injured, their only option was to escape. They ran along the shore, in the hope that the Umbrella soldiers were only in the city. But they were wrong.
After the helicopters had ended the fire over the water they landed in a circled area around the city. The order was to eliminate all refugees. Especially their three main targets Claire Redfield, Chris Redfield and Project Alice. Gradually, they reduced the target area by stepping forward and shot every target they saw.
It didn't took long until the small group met the soldiers. Chris had loosened his grip to help Alice in the gunfight, which their enemies had started right after they had seen the group. They had to kill them quickly and keep moving, because there was little coverage. One bullet grazed at Chris's temple. „Shit! How are we supposed to get out of here? They have the encircled us!" he screamed to the others. „Go back! Go back!" called Alice, as she fired at the approaching enemies without any pause.
Meanwhile Claire had also resorted to her weapon, even though her injury was bleeding profusely. But Chris was right, they had a big problem. The soldiers where very quick and coordinated spared, they were just everywhere. The four of them hadn't enough ammunition to fight their way out of here.
Alice and the others were pushed back to their starting point. A handful of people who had managed it to get here alive saw in fear to the approaching soldiers.
„How much ammo do you have?" Alice asked the redhead.
„With luck I can take a hand full down... and you?", answered Claire darkly.
„My last magazine... Chris?"
„For all of them it's not enough ...", was the resigned reply.
This was it. Her fight against Umbrella would end like this. Alice looked at the enemy when the shooting started.
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well, thanx for reading the first chapter. i'm on the second chap right now, but maybe it will take some time, so if you liked the first chap so far and want to read more, then please have patience with me ^^