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Chapter 3: Fly The Friendly Skies

"Todas las chicas monas quieren Carlos. Las chicas monas monas quieren Carlos," Carlos Oliviera sings loudly as he pilots the enormous blimp through the clouds.

"Stop..singing..that STUPID song!" Nicholai Ginovaef growls, clutching his machine gun angrily. Carlos pouts for a moment before returning his attention to the window. The large red and white blimp with the Umbrella logo on the side breaks through the clouds, puttering across the sky. Onboard the cabin beneath the enormous oval-shaped balloon itself resides Carlos, Nicholai, Mikhail Viktor, Hunk, and Rodrigo Raval.

"Are we there yet?" Mikhail asks, poking his belly.

"No," Nicholai grumpily replies.

Mikhail frowns, looks down, pokes himself in the belly again and then looks up at Nicholai and asks the same question. "Are we there yet?"

"No," Nicholai replies yet again.

"Are we there yet?"

"No."

"Are we there yet?"

"No."

"Are we there yet?"

"No."

"Are we there yet-"

"-No-"

"-Are we there yet-"

"-NO-"

"-Are we there yet-"

"-NO!"

The cabin grows uncomfortably silent after Nicholai's outburst. Hunk is chuckling, while Rodrigo is dozing off in a chair. Mikhail frowns again at the floor before looking up at Nicholai again and squinting in discomfort. "I have to use the toilet," he admits quietly.

Nicholai's face turns red with anger, and it looks like he's going to explode.

"Bathroom's thattaway, chief," Hunk interjects, hiking a thumb towards the back of the cabin. Mikhail nods vigorously and shuffles over to the bathroom.

Somewhat satisfied, Nicholai turns and faces Carlos again. Carlos just stares at him for a moment, and then starts dancing and singing "It was Istanbul, now Constantinople, what was Istanbul is Constantinople.." Nicholai rolls his eyes and turns around.

"How much longer until we reach Japan?" he asks Hunk, trying to ignore Carlos.

Hunk sighs, looking down at his expensive covert ops wristwatch. "In this thing? Several days at least."

Nicholai grits his teeth and rubs the bridge of his nose. "I don't think I'll be able to hold onto my sanity much longer. Please tell me that Resident Evil 5 is going to be worth it," he pleads.

Hunk just shrugs. "Don't know myself. It'll probably be pretty good."

An extremely loud fart coming from the cabin bathroom causes Nicholai's eyes to widen in shock. "'Pretty good' isn't going to cut it," he replies with much disdain.