Part 14: Old Town Jive.
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We kept pushing through the city towards the suburbs where Betty lived hoping that there would be survivors in that area, as we kept marching I kept thinking about what I had seen, I kept thinking if Alec and the others had actually made it out alive or whether that vision was just an delusion my head had come up with.
"Hey Morgan, Pasadena Ave is just up there," Alice told me as I scanned the alley's for any sign of movement, there was none, I turned to her and nodded, she slowed her pace so we were walking side by side.
I looked away from her down one of the side alleys that ran in between every house, I spotted someone dart off down it, "Shit I got movement!" I shouted.
"Where?" Alice asked.
"There down that alley they ran behind the house," I said as I took off after them.
"Wait! Morgan!" Alice shouted as I ran after the figure.
I ran around the corner and spotted them jumping a fence into the next yard, I jumped the fence and pursued them, they were slowing up. I kept sprinting after them I didn't know how many yards we had hopped through or where we were on the street but I kept the figure in my sight.
I finally got to within an arms distance of them but they gathered a second wind and bolted away from me I chased them around the corner past a burnt out car and into a house, I stood still inside the kitchen of the house, it had been completely looted there was nothing in any of the draws or the cupboards, I stood around for a few seconds then I heard a shuffle upstairs in the house I moved to follow it but when I exited the kitchen I was clubbed over the head and met the floor, I span back up to my feet and struck the man who clubbed me with an uppercut sending him back towards the kitchen, I grabbed the bat from his hands and held it across his throat, I felt him squirm under me but just as I felt those squirms getting weaker someone plucked me off of the man and pinned me to the wall with a pistol in my face I knew I was beat.
The man had a balaclava over his face I could only see his eyes, they were dark his skin was dark but before I could recognise who it was I was released. I dropped to the floor as the man removed his balaclava.
"Damn! Am I glad to see a friendly face," the man told me.
I recognised the voice, "Willis?" I questioned.
"Yeah that's me, why you just try and kill my boy?" He asked me.
"He hit me with a bat!" I snapped back.
"You chased me!" The kid snapped at me like a pit-bull.
"I wanted to find out what you knew," I told him.
"And you couldn't have just asked?" He questioned to me.
"You didn't seem like you wanted to talk," I told him with a grin.
"You don't know what happens around here do you?"
"No I don't I grew up in a lovely, white middle class area, my family were always around and crime was non-existent," I told him in an obvious sarcastic lie.
"We'll people around here if they chase you they are going to kill you, so next time think!" The kid told me.
"I will thank you for that enlightenment," I told him sarcastically as he walked up the stairs.
"Hey, take it easy on him, he just lost everything those things just killed his family the poor kid had to rekill them just to survive," Willis told me.
"Shit!" I gasped in response.
"So just give him a break," He told me as he picked up the bat and placed it next to the door frame.
"Looks like stuff around here got pretty real," I said to him whilst looking at the torn wallpaper thinking if he managed to get the others out.
"Yeah but we got your friends and Betty and Mia out just before the house was ransacked by some goons looking for something, they took…." He didn't manage to finish his sentence before the kid shouted from up the stairs.
"Hey guy's we've got people coming down the street!"
Willis and I rushed up the stairs, I saw the boy standing on a wooden crate peeping out of a hole looking over the street with a pair of binoculars, "Are they armed?" Willis asked the kid.
"Yeah, one has a shotgun," he replied.
"Pass me that rifle, Ayo step down," Willis asked as I passed him the hunting rifle, Ayo passed me the binoculars so I could look, it took me a few seconds to get on target but when I did I saw it was Alice, Darius and Amy.
"Don't shoot they're friendly," I told Willis.
"Yeah, I know its Alice but who's she with?"
"Friendlies!" I shouted, I ran down to the front door and smashed it open, "Alice over here!" I shouted so she could hear.
She sprinted over to the door with Darius carrying Amy following closely; I slammed the door when they got through. "Any movement?" I shouted up to Willis.
"No nothing, you're clear," he replied.
"You three good?" I asked them.
"We're fine, where the hell did you go?" Darius asked me.
"I followed this kid and I ended up here," I replied.
"Well that is lucky," Alice told me as she moved into the kitchen, "There's no one here," She said in confusion.
"Yeah Willis got everyone out before it all kicked off," I told her.
"What do you mean kicked off?" Darius asked me from the hallway.
"I mean that Umbrella stormed the house looking for us," I told him firmly, "think three tier one personalities and several tier two's in one place of course Umbrella were gonna try and hit it."
"Atleast no-one was killed," Darius said trying to find some glee in the situation.
"That's not entirely true!" Willis told us.
"Who then?" I asked.
"Well a few of my boys were killed when they heard the shooting they came around and those guys just shot them out right no questions."
"how did the soldiers get away?" Alice asked.
"Some used cars but a couple, who actually had the morphine shot used on Alec, got away in a helicopter," Willis replied.
"A syringe? Why would they need that?" I asked.
"Fuck knows but they ransacked the house," Willis said sounding concerned.
"Right that doesn't matter right now but we need to get out of here," Alice butted in becoming the voice of reason.
"That sounds like a good idea to me," I told her while looking over Willis who looked in shock that someone would actually want him to come along.
"Let's move then," Alice said with a smile on her face.
Willis moved over to the fridge and pulled it away from the wall, reached behind it and pulled something off the wall. He then turned to me and threw me a set of car keys, "Go out the back there's a set of garages about twenty yards from the alley behind the house, in 234 there should be a white van we can use that," He said as he went upstairs.
"Where are you going?" I asked him.
"I need to pack a few things for me and the kid, take him with you."
"Okay we'll see you out there," I said as we rushed out the door following Willis' instruction closely.
We ran into the alley when I heard a series of gunshots from the house, "Willis!" the kid screamed as he ran back to the house.
"Morgan gimme the keys and go after him," Alice shouted, I threw her the keys and sprinted after the kid I saw him darting the door of the house, I took a few steps forward and heard a helicopter jet away from the other side of the house, I could hear the sound of the rotor getting further and further away but the moment I took a fourth step towards the house I felt a massive pressure on my chest, the force pushed me back sending me flying into the fence at the back of the yard.
"Shit!" I shouted as I rolled around on the floor with pieces of flaming wood dropping all around me, I felt Alice drag me up but I couldn't really move by myself so I just had to wait and see what happened, I kept blacking out seeing the road and gravel disappear and reappear like it was no one's business. I saw Darius come into view as we entered the parking lot I felt him scoop me up and I felt my legs finally coming back to life I started to shuffle towards the van. I saw Amy open the door as I was swung inside and Alice climbed in with me and Amy while Darius drove us off, I kept drifting in and out of consciousness.
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