A/N: A couple days have passed since my last update, and I can safely say that beating RE: Revelations was a bit more of a challenge than I had already anticipated. The storyline tied in rather well with the series, graphics were okay and the combat was rather smooth, though the inventory system was a little different than what I had been expecting.

Regardless, I am going to be adding that to the storyline to this fic when the time comes. But first, I gotta get everyone out of the mansion. So without further interruption, here we go.

Disclaimer: I don't own Resident Evil.

Chapter 11:

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war." - Napoleon Bonaparte

It didn't take long to get Richard up to speed, and considering that the drug room wasn't really a safe zone anymore he offered to come along. His injuries made it difficult to heft his shotgun, so he had to settle for only using his Beretta for the time being.

After a quick ammo check the group of three headed out of the safe room, sending one last look to their fallen brother in arms before heading back out into the mansion. "So all this time, it was Captain Wesker behind everything? The chopper crash, all of it?" asked the comm specialist.

"Yeah, and now he's letting Umbrella's little freaks out to play from the labs." Ethan replied as they made their way toward Spencer's private office. "Our chances of survival are still pretty good since we know what we're up against and can't be taken by surprise. But we can't be sure what else they were making in this place."

Rebecca nodded as they moved down one of the many corridors they had passed through before, checking their corners to be sure that nothing was waiting for them. "At least we know how to take them down, given our ammo supply doesn't run too low."

They passed through the dining hall and foyer, entering the East wing and passing the bodies of a few Hunters that Chris and Jill most likely dealt with earlier. "Jesus." Richard muttered kicking one of the dead BOWs. "What twisted SOBs would consider making something like these?"

"People who are only concerned about money and power." Ethan growled. "Assholes who think lives are expendable and profit from the benefits of death and destruction. This is an ultimate example that power corrupts."

The two Bravos were a little shocked with the heat and anger contained by his moral statement. Though they themselves felt rage for what Umbrella was doing and the senseless loss of life because of it.

Going through a few more doors and hallways, the trio found themselves standing outside the decorated door leading into the small office. Slipping the key into the lock, Ethan pushed the door open and stepped inside. The room was dark, the only light coming from the moon streaming through the window behind the large oak desk on the opposite side.

Crossing the small space, he flicked the lamp on the desk and lighting the whole office. Allowing them to survey the various shelves and cabinets along the walls. Rebecca opened a drawer and found a small box of shotgun shells that she stuffed into her hip pack.

Richard opened a cabinet and saw something glint in the light of the desk lamp. "Hay, think I found something." he said picking up the ashtray sized ornament.

"That looks exactly like the piece we found in the crypt!" Rebecca exclaimed taking it from the comm specialist's hands. Her smile turned into a frown as she looked it over. "Wait a minute." She took out the other key and compared them. "Something's wrong with this one, it's smaller."

Ethan nodded, "It is. The stone frame that's suppose to go on the outside is missing. Probably hidden somewhere on the grounds. Regardless, we have almost everything we need to get out of here."

"Where do you think we can find the stone piece?" asked Richard.

"We've pretty much covered the whole mansion. Which leaves the courtyard and residence building out back, that would be our best option. We can link up with Chris and Jill along the way." replied the profiler. They left the office and followed the same path they had come through when they had first entered the mansion.

Entering the stone corridor that led to the storage shed, the STARS stopped when they heard a growl coming from the direction they were going. From around the corner, a lone Hunter skulked out into the open, yellow eyes locking on to them as it rose up a little taller.

"Kill it before it calls for help!" Ethan shouted, raising his pistol and firing a couple of three-round bursts into its chest, knocking the wind out of its lungs before it could shriek. Rebecca and Richard fired their own weapons at the reptilian monster, blood spraying through the air on to the nearby pillars and stone tiles at its feet before it collapsed. Arms and legs flailing a bit in its death throes before going completely still.

Taking a few moments to listen for anything else that might be coming, the group stepped past the downed BOW and entered through the door leading toward the courtyard. Looking the old storage shed they had passed through earlier, the various tools and gardening supplies covering the dusty shelves and covered in cob webs in the corners.

But one thing was different this time around. A small pile of ammo boxes by the wall next to the door to the courtyard. Taking in the supplies, they found three boxes of 9mm rounds, two boxes of shotgun shells, two magnum speed-loaders and a case of acid-laced grenade launcher rounds.

"Safe to say these weren't here before." Rebecca said as they started splitting up and pocketing the supplies.

Ethan found a slip of paper tacked to the wall above the ammo supply and pulled it off. 'To any and all surviving STARS. I found these around the estate and am leaving them here to help in whatever way possible. Stay safe and stay alive out there. - Barry' "Looks like Barry's been busy since Alpha split up." he said putting the note back and picking up the acid-rounds. "Leave half the supplies, just incase Jill and Chris come through here before we meet up with them."

With the new stockpile safely tucked into their pockets, packs and belts, the three STARS prepared to head outside when a couple loud gunshots rang from behind the other door. But the blood curdling screech that followed didn't sound anything like the creatures they had been fighting.

"Someone's in trouble." Rebecca said looking toward where the sounds came from.

"That's Barry's magnum, I'd recognize that sound anywhere, come on!" the profiler said kicking the door open and stepping out on to the dirt path that led around this side of the mansion and down an array of steps and into the forest. The branches overhead blocking most of the moon light while a small blanket of fog drifted along the ground.

Senses on alert as they made their way down the steps, passing by the old wooden fences and a couple of worn signs set up on the right hand side. A couple more gunshots could be heard somewhere ahead making them move a little faster.

At the end of the path stood an iron gate that was part way open, two pillars with Cerberus statues on the top stood facing in opposite directions meaning that the puzzle had already been solved. The path continued toward a cemetary that was easily five times bigger than the one Ethan and Rebecca had been to before, and standing in the middle of the path with his back to them, weapon pointed forward, was Barry Burton.

Though what he was aiming at drew their attention the most. A hunched over, skinny form that looked like a living scarecrow, wearing a torn and dirty green dress with what resembled flesh stitched together covering over the head. Long, thin arms that hung close to the ground with a metal brace holding them together at the wrist, sharp, gnarled claws dotting the finger tips. Blackened feet shuffled along the ground dragging chains as the being closed the distance toward the veteran STARS.

'Lisa Trevor...' Ethan thought with a shiver, swapping his Samurai Edge for his own magnum.

Barry took a step back, raising his revolver and fired, the heavy round tearing through the torso of the creature that he had encountered in the old shack at the top of the hill farther up the path. But no matter what he threw at it, it wouldn't go down. He'd been pretty much shooting and running for the last few minutes, but the thing kept on him.

Bang! Bang! Two big gunshots that weren't from his weapon went off. The creature screeched and staggered back when the rounds punched through its body. Looking over his shoulder, he saw Ethan, Rebecca and Richard stand at his sides, guns trained on the monster as it righted itself and began moving forward.

"You good Barry?" asked the profiler as he kept his barrel trained on Lisa's disturbing form.

"Been better, don't know what the hell this thing is, but it takes a beating." replied the older man as he snapped in a new speed-loader. "It's good to see you guys all in one piece, where are the others?"

"Later, let's deal with your new friend first." said Rebecca leveling the shotgun.

Lisa growled, hands clenching within their bindings when her back ripped open and allowing a handful of fleshy tendrils to start flailing through the air. "Mo...ther..." she groaned as the chains rattled with each step.

The four STARS opened fire, each round tearing through the infected woman's body sending chunks of flesh and darkened blood spraying into the air. Shrieks of pain echoed through the night, Lisa staggered back with each hit. When they stopped firing she stood motionless for about a second before collapsing face first into the dirt.

Quickly reloading, they all approached the downed monster. Barry tapped her head with the front of his boot and stepped back with his magnum raised, when nothing happened he breathed a sigh of relief before turning to the others. "That thing's been trailing after me for a little while now. Christ, never seen anything like this before."

"Sadly we have." Replied Ethan, not taking his eyes off of Lisa knowing full well that it was only a matter of time before she regenerated and got back up. "We should be leaving, now." he said motioning to one of the bullet holes that had been punched through her. The group's eyes widened as they watched the injury closing at an alarming rate.

They barely made it back a couple of steps when the mutated woman shot back to her feet, screeching in apparent rage and swinging her bound arms in a wide arc. Rebecca ducked out of the way as the attack shattered a nearby headstone on impact.

Holstering the magnum, Ethan pulled out the grenade launcher and aimed it from the hip. "Go back to sleep." he fired. The 40mm explosive connected with her chest, the following blast knocked her through the air and through several headstones, hitting the ground in a heap on the other side of the cemetary. "Move! I doubt that'll keep her down!" he shouted.

Lisa began to stagger upright as the group of four ran back up the path back to the mansion, slamming the gate behind them, Richard pulled a metal bar from the nearby fence and jammed it into the lock to ensure it couldn't be opened. "Just what the hell was that? We put enough rounds into it to put down a damn elephant." he said as they made it back to the storage shed.

"Definitely a T-Virus creation, but nothing we've encountered was able to regenerate like that." Rebecca replied taking a few deep breaths.

Ethan cracked the grenade launcher open, dumping out the three spent shells and replacing them with fresh ones before snapping it closed and slinging it over his shoulder. "Looked and sounded female, probably one of Umbrella's early experiments that got let loose when everything started falling apart."

"Umbrella?" asked Barry looking confused. The profiler looked him in the eye, instantly picking up multiple micro-movements around the older man's face. Detecting fear, anxiety and several other emotions that usually come from someone with something to hide.

"Yeah, they're the ones behind all of this. They made a virus capable of bringing the dead back to life and making bio-weapons to sell to the highest bidder. But one of their senior officials were betrayed and decided to exact their revenge by setting it all loose to expose them." he explained, all the while reading the subtle twitching and light beads of sweat that broke out along Barry's brow.

Wiping his head, the veteran STARS sighed. "Figured all the things we've encountered weren't something natural. What about the others?"

Rebecca shook her head, "Edward, Forest, and Kenneth didn't make it. We're still trying to find Enrico. We ran into Chris and Jill a couple hours ago and they told us what happened to Joseph."

Barry nodded, "Yeah, things look pretty bad. I ran into Jill and Chris back in the residence dorms. No sign of Wesker though, the two of us separated not long after we entered the estate to secure the place. Never expected zombies and monsters though."

'Wesker got to him.' Ethan thought while fighting back a growl. "Becs, you and Rich check out the courtyard and see if it's secured, there's something I have to talk to Barry here about that might help us." The medic gave him an odd look, but nodded as she and Richard went through the door. Now alone, the traveler turned to his team mate with a leveled stare. "What's going on Barry?"

"What are you talking about? Given everything-"

"That's not what I'm fucking talking about and you know it." the teen said stiffly, "You forget my skill set, I can pick out lies and secrets being kept from me. And you've got something on your mind so heavy that I can pick it up a mile away."

The older man's posture was rigid, the grip on his revolver was tight and his jaw was set. Ethan noticed all of this before he spoke again, "Barry...I know Wesker's behind all of this, we all do. And from the way your acting he obviously got to you some how, so talk to me."

"What? How did you find out?" asked the older STARS surprised.

"Me and Rebecca fought through a training facility run by Umbrella a couple of miles from here. We found evidence that he's been working for them this whole time and that everything that has happened leads back to the company and their shady little hobbies." Ethan explained.

Barry's shoulders sagged as he let out a breath he didn't know he was holding. "He wants me to trick everyone into the labs beneath the mansion, to test Umbrella's BOW projects and collect combat data on how they fight." he said lowly, "He said if I didn't do this...he'd have someone hurt my family."

Running a hand through his hair, the gun specialist looked to have aged a few years on the spot. "Ethan...I...I can't let anything happen to my family. If Umbrella is capable of all this then Wesker has no problem carrying out his threat."

Expecting this, Ethan holstered his weapon before addressing his team mate. "For starters, thanks for confiding in me. But in all honesty you're going about this wrong. From what me and Rebecca have been able to learn in the last 24 plus hours is that Umbrella will do whatever it takes to tie up loose ends. Did you ever stop to think that Wesker wouldn't make sure that you stayed 'quiet' when all this was over? And do you think you can live with the guilt of betraying your friends and comrades?"

Barry's eyes cast toward the floor, the guilt and regret already settled in his chest when he first agreed to this. But hearing it out loud really hit home for him.

He was torn. His family was in mortal danger if he didn't do as he was told, but at the same time the others trusted him and was willing to sacrifice their lives to homicidal monsters. Seeing this, the profiler grabbed his shoulder and snapped him back to the present, "Nothing will happen to your wife and daughters," he said serious. "I have a plan that ensures this place's end and Wesker's plans fail."

"What do you have in mind?" Barry asked more than willing to go through with something that made sure than nothing happened to his family or his friends.

"I'll let the others in Wesker's threat to you, but for now I want you to keep going on like you have been like you're still his little helper. Don't let him know that we're on to him. When we get to the labs we'll make sure this place burns to the ground with all the freaks with it, our traitorous Captain among them." the rookie explained.

Putting his hand to his chin in thought, the gun specialist nodded. "Alright, but I hope this works Ethan."

The traveler smirked, "Trust me, he may think he has the drop on us, but he has no idea that we're on to him and his involvement. His arrogance has always been a big flaw that I've picked up on since day one and it will be his downfall."

Nodding, the veteran of Alpha team checked his weapon, "I do trust you kid, believe me. I just couldn't live with myself if something happened to them." Shaking himself, he headed toward the door that went back to the mansion, "I'm going to take one last sweep of the mansion, I'll catch up with you guys a bit later." he said before disappearing through the door.

Watching him go, Ethan spun on his heel and headed through the door out to the courtyard where Rebecca and Richard were waiting for him. "Ethan, what's going on?" asked the medic seeing the tense, angry look on his face.

"The situation just got a little more complicated." he said with a sharp point to his words.

X

Jill fired the shotgun while attempting to backpeddle as fast as she could in waist deep water. The icy cold temperature making her legs go numb, but the tension coursing through her was enough to stave off the feeling as she fired another shot.

The 12-gauge round struck the nose of a great white shark that was easily four times bigger than a normal one, the creature dove back into the water leaving a floating trail of blood in its wake.

"JILL! KEEP MOVING!" Chris shouted emptying his Beretta's clip into the water as they moved as quickly as they could toward a door on the far side of the circular chamber they had stumbled upon. Entering through the steel door and slamming it shut just as the large shark shot from the water and crashed into it, denting the metal and warping it inward from the force.

"Dammit," Jill muttered loading fresh shells into the shotgun. "What else could be waiting...for..." she trailed off as she got a good look at the room they took refuge in.

It resembled a control room, a wall of monitors and keyboards were lined along the far wall. Most of it submerged, but thankfully the fuse boxes and power units that were still active were high enough so that they didn't get electrocuted. But it wasn't the contents that were troubling, it was what was growing around the room.

Large, dark green and brown vines covered the walls and ceiling around the consoles, coming out of large cracks and holes in the stone and spread out like a spider's web. The tips dipping into the water below and drawing from it like all plants do. Chris approached one of the vines closest to them, looking at it closely before stepping back as the growth moved ever so slightly along the rough, cracked surface.

"It...looks like a plant of some kind." he said as they moved farther into the room. Neither of them taking notice of two larger vines coming down from the ceiling and silently moving toward them.

A few pieces of the ceiling fell into the water they were wading through making them pause, aiming their weapons upward the vines shot forward, wrapping around their bodies tightly like serpents and pulled them into the air. Up through a hole in the ceiling just big enough for their bodies to fit, coming out the other side in a large room before they were tossed hard to the floor.

Staggering back to their feet, Chris and Jill surveyed their new surroundings and found themselves back in the residence dorms in a large galley from the look of it. An array of vines covered the walls and piercing the wood floors branching in several directions. All of them leading to the center of the ceiling were all the tree-sized vines connected to an enormous pod. Tentacle-like vines swiped and lashed through the air around it expelling ash-colored clouds from the ends.

The center of the pod split open with a resounding hiss revealing a purplish-pink interior with what resembled teeth lining the four petals as a cluster of smaller tendrils wormed out.

As if on command, all of the larger vines curved toward them before snapping forward. The two STARS didn't hesitate and opened fire, rounds tearing through the plant's flesh and making the appendages recoil. "This thing is too big! There's gotta be something we can do!" Jill shouted while blasting another vine as it tried to lash at her.

"Aim for the center! That flower looks like a weak spot!" Chris called back as they ran around the outside of the room, going up a flight of steps to the upper balcony on the other side of the large gallery. Gunshots echoing along the wooden walls, the massive plant-creature hissing when each round struck its weak point. The petals closed back up as the vines continued their assault.

One of the appendages managed to wrap around Chris' waist and yank him into the air, dropping his weapon, he pulled out his combat knife and stabbed the vine. Driving the blade deep, twisting it hard causing dark-green fluid to spray out of the opening before it released him, his boots hitting the bottom floor as he took a defensive stance with his knife ready.

"Chris!" Jill shouted tossing him the shotgun and drawing her handgun as they went back on the attack. The flower in the center opened again giving them a target that they hit with everything they had, round after round tearing into the weak point and sending chunks of the plant and greenish blood spraying through the air.

The plant retaliated but blasting clouds of spores toward them, undamaged vines weaving around to ensnare them but it looked to be losing strength from all the damage it had sustained. With Jill moving along the balcony and making good shots up high, most of the vines had been distracted with going after her allowing Chris to get right up underneath the creature and empty the shotgun directly into the open pod at the center.

When the last shot was fired, the creature gave off a low rumble, all the vines began sagging to the floor with the tooth covered petals drooping with its dark colored blood gushing from the multiple holes that had been punched through it while its 'flesh' began to shrivel and slowly turn brownish-black.

Taking a moment to catch their breath, the duo regrouped back on the bottom floor and looked up at the now dead plant-monster, "Christ, this is a whole new level of freaky." Jill commented while stepping over one of the shriveled up vines on the ground.

"If that T-Virus can make insects and sharks bigger, and even plants to become homicidal, I really don't think we want to see what else can be a bi-product of it." said the point man looking toward a set of double doors that looked to be the way out. "Come on, we better find the others and regroup. Chances are that they've already found the means to get out of here."

Nodding, the B&E expert followed after, but paused in mid-step when the low light in the room shined off something in the fireplace on the far side. Walking over and kneeling down, she found a large gold coin half-buried in the long cooled ashes. Pulling it out, she saw the image of an eagle etched into the surface.

"This looks important." She muttered slipping the crest into her hip pack before rejoining Chris at the door. Stepping out into the open space beyond in time to hear gunshots off to the side. Loading fresh rounds, the treaded into a small corridor and turned the corner to see someone they really weren't expecting.

Wesker stood with his back to them, Beretta in hand as he shot a cluster of fist-sized bees that flew out of a hole in the wall at the far end. Lowering his weapon, he turned and regarded the two standing behind him. "Chris, Jill, so you are safe." he said too casually for their liking.

Chris' jaw clenched, but remembered the plan Ethan had set up and kept himself in check. "We were about to say the same."

The traitor nodded, eyes looking between his two subordinates briefly. "Sorry I just disappeared, these creatures are a lot more dangerous than they appear." he replied while relaxing his stance.

"We understand," said Jill, her shoulders tense but kept her voice steady. "Things haven't been easy for us either."

Wesker nodded, "I bet. Have you seen Barry? He was acting a little...flakey the last time I saw him." he shrugged, "It's rather understandable, this isn't really our standard kind of operation. Did either of you run into anyone else during your search."

'He's fishing.' Chris thought to himself, 'He probably already knows that Ethan, Rebecca and Richard are here. If we lie to him he'll know that we're on to him.' "Yeah, we managed to locate Ethan, Rebecca, Kenneth and Richard. RIchard was hurt pretty bad, but Rebecca managed to patch him up."

The man's eyes narrowed behind his sunglasses, "Really? That's good news. I had been hoping that Bravo survived whatever had happened to them, and its good to know that our own rookie is doing alright."

Jill didn't believe his words for a second. "I know, we were relieved too when we met up with them. They looked to be trying to find a way out of this place and had been here for a while." she said playing along, "We separated a while ago to double our efforts."

"A sound plan, we're going to need all the help we can get at this point." Wesker looked over his shoulder toward the exit, "I'm heading back to the mansion, there were a few rooms back there that were still inaccessible and might have something we need in them. Good luck, both of you." he turned and headed for the door, going through it without another word and disappearing farther into the dorms.

When they were sure that he was gone, Chris' fist slammed into the nearby wall. "Bastard." he growled before regaining his composure. "Now we really need to find the others, I'll bet anything that it was him talking to Barry earlier and the reason he was acting so strange."

Jill pulled out her radio, "Ethan? Where are you guys?"

Static filled the air before the profiler's voice came through, albeit a bit choppy. "Jill...own in tunn...underneath cour...o signal down h..." the rest was lost in another burst of static.

"Sounded like he said tunnel under the courtyard, if that's the case then they're closer than we thought." said Chris. "We just need to find a way to meet up with them."

"I think I saw a tunnel behind the waterfall that we passed by before. Maybe that's the way." offer Jill. "We better get going, we might not have much time." The veteran STARS followed the same path Wesker took and made for the courtyard, passing through the corridors they had ventured through before.

Neither of them noticing the set of eyes watching them from a shadowed corner.

Wesker stepped out into the light, arms crossed over his chest as he watched the two step around the corner back toward the entrance to the dorms. Something wasn't right about their interaction. They were tense, not surprising with their encounters with the BOWs and the carriers, but it seemed that they were hiding something.

Putting a hand to his chin, he thought about it for a few moments. There was no possible way that they knew of his involvement or his plans, could there? He underestimated what the STARS had been capable of back when he watched the two rookies fighting their way through the training complex. There was no doubt in his mind that Alpha's sudden organization with this place was due to the younger members having prior knowledge and sharing it with the veterans.

His pocket beeped, pulling out a small PDA the screen lit up revealing the tunnels beneath the estate. One of the cameras set up at the hidden entrance behind the waterfall in the courtyard had detected movement and revealed three individuals moving into the small maze below.

Eyes narrowing when he saw Ethan leading the group, he pocketed the device and made his way to a the tunnel entrance. The profiler had been a pest long enough, his plans would fall apart before they could come to fruition if he kept interfering.

It was time to make sure he was no longer a problem.

X

Wiping the water off his scalp, Ethan looked around the tunnel they had entered as Richard and Rebecca came through after him. Both Bravos shaking the water off their clothes and hair as they let their eyes adjust to the darker environment.

The situation involving Barry and his family being threatened by Wesker had put them all in a very tense state and wanted nothing more than to put the traitor in an early grave for even thinking about going after one of their friends like that.

Surveying the darkened tunnel before them, only a handful of candles and torches were set up along the walls, providing just enough light for them to see but not much else. "Now where do we go?" the medic asked taking out her pistol and making sure that it was still in working order.

Ethan motioned to the ladder illuminated at the far end of the tunnel that led farther down. "We go farther down, but there could be anything waiting down there for us so stay on your toes." They approached the opening, the traveler knelt at the edge before hopping down.

Water splashed when his boots hit the wet ground below, knees bending to cushion the fall as he snapped his shotgun up toward the empty tunnel before him. Holding his breath as he waited for something to come his way from the noise. When nothing came he stood up and whistled to the others letting them know that the coast was clear.

Rebecca came down the ladder next, Richard sliding down behind her. "E...an? Whe...are you?" Jill's voice crackled over the profiler's radio, but the interference from all the rocks around them was disrupting the signal.

"Jill? We're down in the tunnels underneath the courtyard, there's no signal down here." Ethan said into the device and only got static back. "Shit. No signal." he said putting the radio back on his belt.

The metal door that was right next to where they dropped down creaked open as Rebecca peered inside, "We can try this way." she offered as they all stepped through. The sounds of water pouring down over the rock walls and on to the floor of the tunnel resounded all around them as they treaded forward.

Up ahead, the tunnel branched off in two separate directions. The way to the right had been blocked off by a boulder, but Rebecca stopped them when she noticed that there was fresh blood smeared on it. "It's still warm." Richard said as she surveyed the scene. "Think it was one of the others?"

"Could be. If that's the case then someone's down here wounded and might need help." Ethan replied already figuring out whose blood it belonged to. "Come on, we better check this place over just to be sure and get out before we get cornered by something."

Going down the only available path, the trio found themselves in an open chamber with an elevator shaft built within the center. Richard peered over the railing into the darkness below before turning to the others, "Think it still works?"

Ethan walked around the open hole toward the control panel and machinery in an alcove on the other side. Turning a couple of knobs and pressing a few buttons with no response, he took out his knife and pried open the center of the panel before pulling out the small shaft that helped power it. "Dead. But there might be another panel on the lower level, we can get it working from there." he said leading them down another tunnel that led out of the chamber.

Passing through a metal door into a better lit tunnel, they're weapons came up when they heard shuffling somewhere ahead as the door closed behind them. "Is someone...there?" groaned a voice from around the corner ahead.

"Wait, thats-" Rebecca ran forward with the two males right behind her. "Enrico!" she shouted seeing her team Captain on the ground leaning against the stone wall. Hand pressed over his side with blood seeping out between his fingers and staining through his vest.

"Stop!" he ordered making all three of them pause. "Are any of you...with anybody?" he wheezed out, clutching his wound a little harder to stem the bleeding.

"Alpha team's here." Ethan said stepping a little closer, ears straining to pick up anything from the corridor behind them. "They know about what's going on and we're all working together to find a way to escape."

Enrico coughed a bit before forcing himself to his feet, using the wall as support as he addressed the group. "It...doesn't matter now. The STARS...are finished." he said wincing. Rebecca went to try and tend to him but he shrugged her off.

"What do you mean, Captain?" asked Richard, the sound of footsteps behind them being covered by water in the tunnels.

"Someone...is a traitor. Umbrella, set us up. It's only a matter of time-" Enrico stopped when he saw someone come out of the tunnel the trio had come from, arm raised with the barrel of the gun aimed at Ethan's back. "LOOK OUT!" he shoved the rookie aside when two gunshots rang out.

Two holes erupted in the man's chest and he was thrown back against the stone wall he had been slumped against. Ethan and Richard spun around and opened fire, their rounds hitting the stone walls as a shadow vanished round the corner. "ENRICO!" Rebecca screamed as she dropped down beside the fallen Captain and tried to stop the bleeding.

"Richard! Stay with Rebecca!" the profiler ordered before chasing after the attacker, feet pounding the stone floor as the tunnel flew past him. 'Fucking asshole, when I find you Wesker this place will be your tomb!' he raged in his thoughts.

A Hunter ran around the corner, giving off a shriek and slashing its claws at the coming teen. Ethan ducked under the attack and smashed the butt of the assault shotgun in its face, knocking it back a step and allowing him to take aim and blow its face apart at point blank. Running past the now dead BOW when he heard a metal door close ahead, finding said door a moment later and slamming it open and finding himself back in the room with the elevator shaft.

"Fuck!" he shouted slamming his fist down on the nearby railing, "You won't get away with this asshole, I will bring you down and pump enough rounds into you so that you can't come back from the dead." he muttered as the last of his frustration faded as the past event sunk in.

Those shots had been meant for him. Wesker obviously saw the threat he posed to his plans with how he was helping keep the others alive and wanted him removed from the equation. In hindsight, his plan from before was working. The traitor was focusing all his attention on him and didn't think that the others knew anything concrete.

But at the same time guilt was gripping him, Enrico gave his life to save his. Even though he had expected the man's demise he was still going to try and save him like he did with Richard. Instead he took two bullets to the chest and ended up dying anyway.

In the end, none of it mattered. He needed to stay focused and make sure that everyone else made it out of this, they'd mourn the dead later.

Squaring his shoulders, Ethan turned to head back to the others when his foot kicked something across the floor. Kneeling down, he picked up a small, metal ring that looked like a clamp, the markings along the sides matching that of the shaft he pulled out of the nearby console.

'Asshole must have had it on him and dropped it while running. Lucky us.' he thought grinning. He pulled out the shaft and slipped the cylinder on to it. Lining up the roman numerals on the side to reveal the password needed to get the elevator working again.

With the completed shaft in hand, the profiler approached the still open panel-

-A form leapt from the shadows in the alcove, knocking him off his feet and sending both the part and the shotgun clattering to the floor, the gun firing before leaving his hand and peppering the nearby wall as he was thrown back against the railing to the elevator shaft.

Survival instincts kicking in, he pulled out his combat knife and got into a defensive stance as the Hunter that had been in hiding came at him again. Claws slashing and forcing the traveler to duck and dodge around them, one strike slicing clean through the metal railing on the right and giving him an opening to stab the creature in the side between its ribs. Driving his elbow into its slanted head and dazing it long enough to double-heel kick the thing in the chest and launching into the wall.

This was the scene Chris and Jill witnessed as they entered the chamber as the Hunter got back to its feet and charged Ethan with a bellowing shriek. The door on the other side opened revealing Rebecca and Richard with their weapons ready. "Ethan!" the medic called out.

In that one split second, the traveler looked her way. Taking his eyes off the reptilian BOW long enough for it to barrel into his midsection, his back slamming into the weakened railing that had been sliced through before and breaking it as easily as dried wood, sending them pitching over the edge and plummeting into the darkness below.

"ETHAN!" everyone screamed as the profiler disappeared from sight.

A/N: Don't ya just hate cliffhangers. This was set up so that I can prove to any possible haters out there that my OC isn't a Mary Sue. He can be hurt, distracted, and even killed if he doesn't keep his wit and skills sharp at the right times. There are only a handful of chapters left in the mansion incident part of the first arc, and the best is still yet to come.

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