Weiss lead them down the hall until they reached the comms room's sealed blast doors. Ryan immediately approached the access panel beside the door and pried it off. But before he could do any further adjustments, Weiss stopped him.
"We must wait until he is no longer communicating with the Board of Directors. Otherwise the nearest facility will send a team to extract him, and I am most certain that the slimy weasel will make an escape as soon as he gets an opportunity. I will keep an eye on his screen until he is finished the meeting. He has been in that particular meeting for two hours and fifty-five minutes so far, and they are rigidly scheduled to to last for exactly three hours. When he is not in a meeting, he reads the documents that had been dispersed during the meetings."
"Five minutes, then we can kill the bastard? Fine with me. Gives me time to sharpen my blades." Ryan sat with his back against the wall below the opened panel, and pulled a whetstone out of his belt, then began to sharpen each of his wrist blades.
"I assume that the bracers on your arms also have those hidden blades as well, is that correct Alice?" Weiss asked, her gaze watching her tablet despite her question.
"Nope. I only have one of them. Katie also has just one. Ryan created them before Raccoon City as a means of self defence." Alice explained, "That one on his right arm used to belong to his uncle, who helped Ryan to make them in the first place."
"Ah, I see. My systems didn't pick up their presence on his arm, and only now has their purpose been revealed." Weiss said with an appreciative smile, but a moment later, her expression turned serious. "The meeting has finished. Wesker is beginning to read the files. Now it is time for you to go inside. I shall wait out here, unless you wish for me to be present in my... shall I say, true form, instead of a disembodied voice."
"I think that since Wesker knows about your hologram projectors, he'll probably shoot them. I have no doubts in my mind that he as a gun or two under that suit jacket." Alice indicated Wesker's image on her holographic tablet. "Wait out here until we're ready to deal the coup de grace on him, then you can reveal your new look and your independance."
"Very well, I will wait here. I will be watching over the security cameras for your signal. When you do start fighting, I shall activate the microphones in the room so that you can notify me when to enter." Weiss waved her hand and both of their tablets faded away. Alice stood at the ready in front of the doors while Ryan stood up and worked at bypassing the lock.
Suddenly Weiss turned around in surprise, which made Alice turn around to see over her shoulder, noticing on her tablet that the elevator that they'd taken down here from the surface was descending, and on it was a red dot...
"Katie!" Alice took a step closer to Weiss, who gave Alice a surprised expression.
"She must have picked up on our Telepathy. She'll probably explain once she gets here." Ryan commented after a glance over his shoulder revealed Alice staring at Weiss' tablet.
"Weiss, can you tell her to join us? I think she's ready for a fight with Wesker." Alice asked, glancing at her.
'Certainly, I shall return in a few minutes with your sister." Weiss faded from sight, leaving Ryan and Alice alone in the hallway. Ryan stood up from his wire tinkering so that the doors wouldn't open prematurely, exposing their presence.
"Wasn't Wesker at the Vegas facility when Katie was still Project: June? She must have heard us mention his name and rushed here for vengance. She probably hates him as much as you do, Alice." Ryan asked, retracting his wrist blades and beginning to sharpen his katana.
"I think so, yes. At least Weiss is there to meet her instead of those Web Spinners. She'll understand once Weiss explains everything to her." Alice agreed, leaning against the opposite wall while they waited. She sheathed her kukris and pulled out her M3.
Moments later, the elevator at the end of the hall dinged to signal the arrival of Katie, who rushed out of the car when she had enough space to squeeze herself through the gap. She was fully armed to go to war; K-BAR was on her shoulder attached to a shoulder holster that held her M29 revolver, on her back was her M870, her dual MP7's were in her hands, her Glock 17 was on her hip, and her wrist blade was still firmly in place on her arm. Anything else that was on her body was dozens of pouches for ammo.
"I heard you talking about Wesker, so I geared up and came as fast as I could. I want to see the bastard suffer in my flames." Katie clicked the safeties off her MP7's to solidify her point. "By the way, that Weiss lady is actually the White Queen... isn't she?"
"Yup. Now she is independant, and sentient. She is her own person now." Alice replied as Ryan sheathed his katana and pulled his G36K off his back. "We'll deal with that Challenge after we finish up here, okay, Itoshii?"
Ryan nodded and returned to bypassing the blast doors for several seconds, but Katie put her hand on his shoulder and smiled at him. "Let me do it."
Ryan gave her a smile and backed several feet away. Alice immediately took his example and moved away from Katie as she stared intensly at the blast doors for several seconds before they suddenly exploded inwards in a fiery explosion.
Ryan and Alice immediately readied their guns and followed Katie inside the comms room, where Wesker was still seated in his chair, although he had turned to face them with an extremely smug expression on his sunglasses covered face.
"Project: June, I see you've managed to locate Project: Alice. Well done." Wesker smiled humourlessly. "But I do recall ordering you to return her to the Las Vegas facility, not bring her to this lab."
Ryan growled loudly, and Wesker turned his gaze to face him. "I don't remember ordering you bringing him either, Project: June. It seems that he is displeased with this outcome."
"He's my brother. My real brother, the one you had your men attack so that they could capture me, four and a half years ago in DC." Katie's voice was dripping with rage, and her fingers were curled around the triggers of her MP7's already. "I'm not here to delivery my mom to you either!" Katie stated in a louder voice as she raised her MP7's and aimed them at Wesker. "I AM HERE TO KILL YOU!" She screamed at the top of her voice, which made Ryan and Alice aim their guns at him as well, tensed for a fight.
"You think that Project: Alice is your mother? I highly doubt that to be true. But, if you are indeed here to kill me, then by all means..." Wesker smirked as he slowly rose to his feet and took off his sunglasses, revealing his bright orange reptilian eyes. "Go ahead and try!"
Wesker threw his sunglasses at Ryan, who immediately released a magnetic pulse from his body to deflect them back towards Wesker. But in that moment they were returning, the sunglasses suddenly beeped and exploded like a flashbang, blinding them briefly.
With a grin, Wesker rushed at them in a similar way that Ryan's super speed made him vanish briefly, and he was invisible at the moment the flash went off, thus rendering him unaffected. He grabbed Katie and knocked her down to the floor while she tried to clear her vision. Next he grabbed Alice by the throat and threw her bodily across the room where she landed against the wall, still disoriented by the flashbang and couldn't defend herself.
However, when he turned towards Ryan, he was met with the barrel of Ryan's assault rifle a few inches from his face. Just as Ryan pulled the trigger, he grabbed the barrel and pushed it away from his face. The bullet barely grazed his cheek, leaving behind a small red cut.
However, with another much stronger magnetic pulse, Ryan sent Wesker flying back several feet, where he landed perfectly upright, only to receive an full blown tackle to the stomach by Ryan.
"I see. You would have been an excellent Project, child. You are impressively bonded with the T-Virus." Wesker remarked as Ryan plowed him through several desks, only to have Wesker grind his heels to the floor and stop him dead in his tracks. "Sadly you weren't properly manufactured."
With a powerful elbow slam against Ryan's armoured back, Wesker knee'd him in the stomach and tossed him back across the room beside Alice. However, he broke right through the solid concrete wall and slid across the hallway floor before painfully slamming his back against the other wall.
Alice finally recovered from the flashbang attack and raised her M3 to fire at Wesker as he slowly approached Katie on the floor, where she was still suffering from the effects of the flashbang. He used his super speed to dodge each shot, using the time between rounds to move closer and closer to Alice until when she fired her last shell in the gun, he was within arm's reach of her and grabbed her by the throat, squeezing her windpipe in an iron grip.
"You were the first... the best... the original... Now you are a liability that must be eliminated. Take care of your DAUGHTER in the Afterlife... Alice."
"Fffffuck... yoooooou... Wwwwesssskerrrr."
Alice turned her rapidly fading gaze to see Ryan slam his cestus covered fist into Wesker's face, which momentarily loosened his iron grip and allowed Alice to escape from his grasp. She fell onto her back, coughing hard.
With Wesker still reeling from his powerful armoured punch, Ryan swung his other fist into Wesker's jaw, then slammed his forehead into his nose. But his next punch was blocked, then his second was actually grabbed in Wesker's palm.
Ryan smirked widely as he moved his fist and extended his wrist blade straight into Wesker's exposed wrist. He grunted and stumbled from the surprise attack, then smiled at Ryan evilly.
"You should know that a sneak attack only works one time, fool." Wesker sneered before he dashed out of sight.
Ryan dodged Wesker's dash attack, and saw Wesker's posture change into a definite martial arts stance. He did his own dash, not to attack, but to evade.
Right in the nick of time, he had dodged what would have been a fatal strike to his chest from Wesker's hand acting as an improvised pike. Had he still been there, it would have been definitely impaled right into his heart.
Rematerializing beside Katie, who was still recovering from the flashbang since it had unfortunately detonated right beside her face. Knowing that, Ryan understood why she was still unable to fight. He helped her stand, keeping his assault rifle aimed towards Wesker.
Allice tossed her M3 aside with a clatter, drawing her Glocks and aiming them at Wesker, who quickly turned his gaze to face her again, but his smirk made her snarl and begin firing as fast as she could, hoping to distract him long enough for Katie to join them.
As she expectd him to do, Wesker began to use his speed to dodge her gunfire, but he wasn't advancing towards any of them. He was simply evading in a random pattern in the center of the room.
Katie suddenly joined in firing at Wesker, using both of her MP7's at the same time, covering him in a hail of bullets.
However, even with two sources of gunfire, Wesker dodged effortlessly, not a single bullet landed a direct hit nor a graze.
Ryan aimed his rifle at Wesker, but held his fire as he noticed the pattern to Wesker's dodging. He was dodging in a star shape pattern, moving between five specific points before disappearing again.
Aiming at Wesker's next spot, Ryan started firing his entire magaine in the spot while Wesker was in limbo.
Just as he'd expected, Wesker reappeared directly in the shower of bullets and took the last few rounds straight through his chest. He snarled at Ryan realizing his tactic, then switched to more agressive attacks. He performed another dash, this time targeting Katie as she switched magazines for her MP7's. He reappeared right in front of her and slammed his open palm into her chest, causing a small shockwave to eminate from the contact before she was sent crashing to the floor with a scream of agony. When she slid to a halt, she gave an audible groan, but was obvious that she was down for the count for a while.
Still close to Ryan, he swung his leg around in a blindingly fast roundhouse kick, slamming his heel into Ryan's chest and somehow sending him crashing straight into the ceiling. As Ryan collided, he grabbed his SAA off his chest and fired it as fast as he could into Wesker's head, landing two direct hits before gravity reclaimed him and Wesker uppercutted him in the jaw, flipping him over in midair and landing on his back.
"Alice, go for his legs. Make sure his mobility is destroyed while we recover." Ryan quickly relayed to her as she tossed her empty Glocks aside and withdrew her revolvers.
With Ryan at Wesker's feet, and Katie unconcious, it was all up to Alice to at least slow him down long enough for one of them to get back into the fight. She fired her Python's in an alternating pattern, targeting his kneecaps as he kicked Ryan in the stomach.
Wesker spun around at the first shot, but suddenly Ryan wrapped his arms around his legs, holding him in place as Alice continued firing, none of the rest of her bullets missed, and Wesker dropped down onto one knee with a snarl of rage.
"Just because you shot me doesn't mean I'm finished!" He sneered, but Ryan grabbed his ankle and twisted it violently, breaking the bones in his leg. Wesker grunted with pain, but grabbed Ryan by the throat and slid him across the floor, where he stopped beside Alice.
Alice helped Ryan to his feet, just as Wesker was suddenly riddled by a hail of bullets. They turned to see Katie laying on her stomach, holding one of her MP7's with both hands, the barrel smoking as she slid the empty one aside and grabbed her other one, once again emptying the magazine into his body.
Without stopping, Katie withdrew her M870 and threw it to Alice, and then grabbed both her sidearms, firing them into Wesker as fast as she could from her downed position.
Rising to his feet, despite his severed ankle bones, Wesker seemed unsteady as Alice pumped Katie's shotgun and fired at Wesker over and over again, until the weapon was empty.
Ryan joined in as well, firing all five rounds from his Masterykey into Wesker's chest, but somehow, the bastard was still on his feet!
Before either of them could react, there was a whirling sound, and Katie's ever faithful K-BAR thudded right into Wesker's throat, gushing out dark red blood as he wrenched the blade out and tossed it aside, swaying unsteadily. However, Ryan approached him as he clutched his throat, and gave him a small shove to knock him off balance.
Wesker stumbled backwards and fell onto his back, staring up at Ryan as he stood over Wesker and began to smile, extending his wrist blade with a sinister edge to his grin.
With some difficulty, Wesker spoke despite his throat gushing blood all over the floor around him. "You think that a little switchblade on your arm will stop me? Think again."
"They're not switchblades." Katie's voice declared, and it was followed by the distinctive sound of her own wrist blade being extended. "They are spring-loaded self defence wrist mounted blades, created and built by my brother."
With a rage filled war cry, Katie suddenly rose to her feet and charged forward, slamming her wrist blade into Wesker's chest, followed by Alice suddenly landing beside her from a long jump and impaled hers into his lung from under his arm.
Wesker made several gurgling sounds, still trying to speak as Ryan beckoned towards the mangled doors. Weiss peered around the doorway and gracefully walked towards them. Wesker's red gaze was instantly locked onto her new appearance as she moved to stand just behind Ryan's shoulder.
"Chairman Albert Wesker, you are hereby convicted of crimes against humanity, and are sentenced to execution by blades. How do you plea to the sentence given by the governing party of Sanctuary?" She spoke in her old voice, the British one that Wesker knew from the Las Vegas labs.
Ryan leaned really close to Wesker and pulled down his mask with a truely sinister smile on hs face as he actually spoke vocally for the second time since he'd been muted.
"Fffffuck yoooooou, Wwwwwwwwwesssssssssskerrrrrrr. Ennnnnjooooy Helllllll."
Wesker stared at Ryan, terrified by the sound of his voice as Ryan extended his other wrist blade and smiled even wider. "Twoooo blllllaaaaaaadesssss, biiiitch!"
With that revelation, Ryan impaled both blades through Wesker's eyes. It took one more gurgling breath from Wesker before he finally died. All three of them wrenched their blades free of his corpse and stared at each other in shock.
"Ryan... you... you can talk?" Alice slowly extended her hands and gently placed them on either side of his head, her eyes filling with tears of joy before she kissed him feverishly, the tears sliding down her face in rapid succession.
"Nnnnnot... vvvvvvvverrrrrrry welllll. Ssssstilllll heeeealllllinggggg." Ryan smiled at her as he rasped out his reply. "But I can still use Telepathy like always. I'll keep trying to practice, unless you want me to stay a mute, that is." he added with Telepathy, smiling happily at her as she wrapped her forearms around the back of his head and kissed him again with even more vigor.
"We'll figure that out when we get there..." Alice whispered, breathing hard from the battle's victory, the shock of his recovery, and how oddly turned on she felt knowing that she could once again hear his cocky, smartass voice... His REAL voice.
"If I may, my sensors are picking up the T-Virus inside of his corpse. It appears to be reviving him, just like with Ryan back in Vegas." Weiss cleared her throat gently, but Katie waved her hand airily.
"I got this. Let them have their moment, they definitely need it." Katie slammed her fist as hard as she could into what remained of Wesker's face, which completely destroyed it in an explosion of dark red blood.
"Here, try these." Ryan detached the cestus from his hands and held them out to Katie, but she shook her head.
"This is personal." Katie declared firmly. "I'm doing this on my own, with my own two hands."
With that, Katie resumed her superhuman punching, turning Wesker's entire head into a puddle of red liquid, then got to work on working her way down his bullet riddled body. She burned his suit to a crisp with each punch, and even melted the pistol he'd had in a shoulder holster under his jacket into a gooey lump of metal.
It took quite a while, but once she was finally finished, panting very hard, she staggered to her feet, her arms covered in blood all the way up to her elbows, and her entire torso drenched by the splatter.
She then created a fireball in her hand and threw it into the puddle that had formerly been Wesker. It ignited instantly, and she continued to stare into the flames for a long time before they died out entirely, leaving behind nothing but a memory. She fell to her knees, then onto her side, passing out from total exhaustion.
"Bring her back to the surface, I'll get to work on clearing out the uppermost floor of the escaped B.O.W's." Ryan explained with his Telepathy, unsheathing his katana and walking back to the elevator. While he waited for the elevator to arrive, he reattached his cestus to his hands, his expression beaming with pride for what Katie had done to sever the final chain that bound her to Umbrella.
"Well done, Katie... Mom and Dad would've been so proud of you." Ryan thought to himself as he entered the car and ascended to the top floor. "I'm proud of you..."
A/N: The remaining Chapter, #21, as well as the two parts of the Epilogue will be uploaded individually. From this point on, it will be a single upload instead of a set of five.