The War Ends Now

by Onkwehonwe Kashatstenhshera

Following the events in 2013, the survivors of Raccoon City find themselves in Puerto Rico and eventually New York and India to stop new bio hazard epidemics and to catch the one responsible. But what about a menace they thought was gone? How will they survive as the world erupts into a third world war with the virus used as weapons by the world powers in its vortex?

41. Pawns Queens and Kings

Jill

They had finally gotten a chance to let the dust settle and Josh and Jill regrouped with Leon and Ada. The two Indian agents were there as well. They met at th mosque. There were many others like it but this was the largest one. Leon asked Manjindir, "What did you do to Anish?" The agent replied, "Some of our contacts with the police force are interrogating him. It isn't pretty but we have to get to the truth. We think he is lying about invpolvement with the Dhalit Brotherood. Or at least he knows mpore than he admits."

The other agent stated, "Come inside. We have him in there. If nothing else we can find what he knows."

They walked in. There was Arabic as well as Hindi writing on the walls of the mosque. There was no pictures, however in accordence with Islamic law. They could hear screams of pain inside and cursing in Hindi. "What are they doing to him?" Demanded Jill. "As I said, it is not pretty," Manjindir stated. "But we have a hunch," Manmeat added. "If we can get to the bottom of who the bioterrorists are and who supplied them then maybe we can find out where this base is in the city."

Josh asked them, "Why a mosque?" Manjindir explained to them, "A lot of people in the Anti Brahamnism movement converted to religions such as Chrisytianity and Islam and from the doctrines of those faiths, they drew into the belief that a man's caste should have no bearing on how he is treated. There are also some Hindus still who are Dalit but they still fight those who would use religion and caste to oppress. So...the call of Islam made sense to those wo opposed it. It's the second largest religion here."

Inside, they spotted two men who were beating Anish brutally. They cursed him in their language and he spat blood at them causing them to beat him more. Jill walked up to the menm. "Stop it! This isn't the way."

Manmeat growled, "This is not your concern! We deal with things our way!" Josh stepped up to the scrawnier man in an imposing manner. "If you want to work

Manjindir disagreed with his friend. "If Agent Valentine has a way to reach the man let her try it. But I donot expect it to work."

She looked at the two men, then at the two BSAA agents then at Josh and Ada and Leon. She asked, "Can you give us a minute alone?"

The young man stared up at her with rage as they left the room. He wasn't trained in any way to kill at least not in the way that she was. If they had gone head to head even before she had her abilities she'd have cleaned his clock but she knew from the look in his eyes that he would have given it his all to kill her. "Fuck you..." He spat.

"I know you don't want to talk to me but the sooner you tell us something we can work with the better."

"India...is at war with itself...we've been around longer than your country...it was a center of trade...that's why... voyagers were trying to find us and not America...but underneath all this beauty is a lot of ugliness..."

"Just like anywhere else. But this is bigger than all of that. This country and every other country is at risk of destruction. The people who are responsible now for everything you're going through, they're out there and we have a chance to stop it."

"What do you know? you're just a fucking American...I trusted an American before...that man Leon...and now I'm here tied to a chair being beaten like a criminal."

"They found video footage from three weeks ago of you meeting with suspected terrorists."

The young man smiled through bloody teeth. "They're able to screw around a groupof people and it's legal. And they call us terrorists? I am not one o the untouchables but they are my countrymen and they are my allies. They deserve none of the treatment they get...and they were willing to let me join. The propeganda against them...they aren't against all people from higher castes. They just hate those who exploit them."

"You think I don't get where you're coming from? My mother was Nikkei."

The man laughed at her observing the fairer skinned woman. "You are a liar."

"No. I'm telling the truth. I look more like my father but she taught me our history. She wasn't just Nikkei. She was born to a Burakumin family. She said things had gotten better in more recent years. It's good when a country can fix its own problems but sometimes people are slow to accept change. Things were changing but people's minds didnt fast enough so she moved to the US. With my father."

"So that's your solution. Just run away to America..."

"Thtat's not what oi'm saying. I'm telling you I understand your anger. But killing innocent people won't help."

"You are not one of them."

Jill puled out a picture of herself from her wallet and showed it to him. She still had it all these years later. Her mother did not look as much like Jill not then or now. She had more of her father's recessive traits but they had the same kind of smile. "So...she's your mother after all. Still...your experience is not hers. And yours is not ours."

"If you think a caste system is bad, imagine how bad it'll be when the world is taken over by these monsters! Do you know who Albert Wesker is?"

"Yes. The leader of the is widely respected in America as a hero against the BSAA and their bioterrorist attacks and the ALF. But many even in your own country dislike him. That's what you don't understand...people will always resist against tyrannical governments."

"Then we agree that evil men need to be fought against. We're on the same page."

"You don't understand..in the caste system those of lower class are told to smile when treated like non humans...this way in the next life they will be reincarnated in a higher caste. They use their religion...our religion...to keep people down. We have not have spread it as far around the world as the two biggest religions...but this belief and these treatments of people have killed too many."

"If you think this caste was bad, wait until Wesker takes over. He started these creatures that are in your country. He believes in a hiearchy of his own. Those with inferior DNA will either be pawns for those with spirior DNA or wiped out completely. Does that sound familiar? He worked for Umbrella before. The city of Raccoon was destroyed because of men like him. And Tall Oaks and Edonia and Lanshiang and here now again. Remember how many people died from the 2005 attack? Help me stop this! Anybody with DNA that isnt compatible with the virus will be killed."

"Maybe this is more fair...not religion not ethnicity and not caste...but by your DNA...that's the beauty of a virus...it has no emotions...no judgement..."

Jill recognized these words. She demanded, "Where did you hear that before?" He looked at her in confusion. "Those were words Albert Wesker said. How did you know about it? You're not BSAA."

She grabbed him squeezing his collar bone and he cried out. "They killed my partner...so you're going to tell me or I'll make you wish for death more than those cops. I have certain abilities they don't."

The man screamed and he cried out, "I just know what our comrade told us! He said these words...he said the virus would help even the score..."

Jill stared into his eyes with her icy blue ones. "Where are these coordinates?"

"17 kilometers to the north..."

Jill shook her head. "No. We were told that's where a base for the Family was. We've searched that dead end in this city for three years and found nothing. But there's nothing there but a river."

The man coughed in pain from having been kicked in the ribs by the two police officer and he coughed up blood. "The river...bard geeta nadee...it runs through from here to the northern country. It takes a direct path...past New Dehli...south east by the sea...a city...Gajaraaj Parvat...in the mountains...that is where you will find the place you are looking for. Now kill me...or let me go."

"One last question. Why help them?"

"It seemed like the right thing to do. Our commander...he told us we could have revenge for wht was done to us...to our families in against those who got in bed with Umbrella or the black market dealers who sold the society of blades bioweapons to use on us."

"But why do the same thing that was done to you? Better yet why do the dirty work of the same kind of people who attacked this city before?"

The young man closed his eyes.

"You don't understand..and you never will..."

He opened them and his eyes had gone from brown to green and he flexed busting out of the ropes as his skin and body began to change. In mid transformation he grabbed Jill his claws ralking at her chest as he turned into one of them. His voice turned almost demonic. "You won't stop us!" Jll cried out in pain but she kicked him in the groind forcing him back and she readied her Handgun firing four shots into his forehead. Anish growled at her still coming and snarled, "Naee bhagavaan sir usake sambandh bhejata hai!"

(The new God head sends his regards!)

]

Despite her firing at him still letting seven rounds into his chest followed upby a roundhouse to the abdomen he kept coming. Jill fired the rest of her magazine into its face but he grabbed her and his sharp teeth, feeling sharper than any zombie, sunk into her right shoulder. She screamed as this happened. Automatic rounds sounded off and he lurched forward as several rounds went into the back of his skull. She gave him a round house kick. "I have been reincarnated...in the Godheads image!" He roared. She looked to see Leon was firing his H&K and Ada was firing her own Sub Machine gun into the things back.

Leon spotted a sore opening up into an eye on its forehead. He got his combat knife and jammed it into the things head. The new eye was destroyed and the thing fell dead. Jill breathed a sigh of relief. "Thanks..."

"No problem...that thing's a nightmare."

Jill turned to the others and stated, "I figured out the coordinates. The base is in a city called Gajaraaj Parvat and the coordinates is the river we're supposed to take.

Rebecca

The streets were littered with not only the undead but the deads as wll as the battle fir rhe city continued to rage. They had directed Jill and the others to where teh weapons would be. They cae to the rivetr yo see a boat there. Billy did not know exactly how to hotwire one f these/. "Why aren't Jill and the others coming?"

"The'll be going by chopper. They're going to try and get a message to Claire and they'll be going by land so maybe we can go by sea."

"Yeah..assuming I can get this thing started..."

He tried to get the bbeat hotwired but it wasn't as easy as a car or a jeep. "Christ...I don'tknow where to even begin to look for the keys n a city this size/"

Just then, a silloute beckoned to them. He was aiming a Rigle at them but lowered it. Billy aimed at the man however ordering, "Show yourself! Keep your hands where I can see them!" The man lowered his Rifle and Billy ordered, "Your sidearm too. And your combat knife!" The soldier did as he was told."

"Hey..." The man stated. "Turn around!"

"Just chill out, boss...I'm not your enemy."

Billy squinted hard at the soldier in his blood covered fatigues and his soot covered skin. "Reggie!" It hadn't been long since they had just seen him. It hadn't even been a half an hour since Billy had covered him but it seemed the Captain was covered in the guts and grit from battle.

"What are you doing here?"

"Came to find you."

"Regan put you up to this? That man is a snake, Reg. TYou know that"

"Never mind him. But we need you. The Corps needs you to help us win this war. You're one of the best we got. I'm saying, you fought in East Afria you fought in the middle ast with me if anybody's ready for wold war three it's you. We can take this city and put down the hostiles, keep civilians safe. Just like old times."

"You know I can't do that. I'm AWOL. I went AWOL in our own country. You really think they're going to let me just rejoin? What are you doing here, Reggie? You had a team to lead."

"I got separated from the rest of the battalion and my men didnt make it. I tried...but all of them were either killed by...some things fresh outta hell, or by the enemy."

"Reggie, you're smarter than that. You know India isn't responsible for what happened in New York City. That's just a scapegoat. Just like the people in that village in the 90's. None of them were war is bullshit. Too many times in the past you and I didn't question our orders. I did in Africa but I should have in Iraq too. It's time for you to do the same thing too."

"What are you trying to get me to go AWOL like you?"

"No. Just to fight the right war. Against the people doing this. But whatever you do, you shouldn't be a pawn for Reagan."

"I'm nbot a quitter,"

"Neither am I. I just have focus on who the real enemy is. Maybe things would be easier as far as who to fight if there weren't zombies and other monsters walking around because of the people in power. The family."

"The family...man...I used to hear about them way back in the day but I always thought they were a myth you know?"

"Billy's right," Rebecca stated. "On some level you have to know that. You could have had your men go after him, go after us but you didn't. You knew what the right thing to do was. We know where the enemy's base is. You're a soldier. Help us take the fight to the enemy."

Reggie looked back at the city. The fire as well as the flashes of light from the bombs being dropped flashed in his dark eyes. "We're winning though."

"There is no winning this kind of war," Billy told him. "We didn't win in Africa, we didn't win in Iraq. Maybe the people we fought were evil but it wasn't our wars to fight and this isn't either. But this isn't anybodys fight. Everybody's focused on the wrong thing. Only a few of us know who really is responsible for all this shit."

Rebecca turned to Reggie. "You got two choices. You can let us go or shoot us. But we're looking to make a difference for the better. For humans. All of humanity. Not just our country or this one."

"So what are you gonna do? Kill Reagan? If we're supposed to let go of all we've done and leave it behind, how is that gonna help? You trying to go after im is gonna put you right back in his crosshairs. You think you'll be able to stop all of this if you go and take a detour to cap Reagan?"

"I'm willing to let that all go for now. Just so we can get to this base and rig it to blow. It's the right thing to do. As a matter of fact, since Reagan is once again responsible for Marines killing more people in their own country, I'd be fine with it if he met his end from an Indian soldier."

"That's not likely, bro. Guys like him manage to stay safe and not get hit."

"Whatever...listen, before you go maybe you can repay me for saving your ass back there. Do you know anything about getting one of these speed boats to work? Without the keys I mean."

"Yeah...give me a second."

He began to hotwire it and Billy said, "Thanks. "

"Don't look at me like that, all right it's not like I did this on a regular basis. My pops showed me how to do this. Even when he was bacl home he loved boats. And he took me on fishing trips but he told me that if I ever was caught up in a pinch and didn't have a car, I might need to use a boat and if there's only a boat to get away, then I need to be able to start it. Taking somebody else's boat might be wrong in a civilian lifestyle but here I'd say it's justified especially since you're trying to save more lives by doing it."

"You want to come with us? We could use a hand."

Reggie didn't answer him and it seemed the thought of him abandoning his own post weighed on him. "This is an American boat. So either somebody here is American or buys American."

He looked over the side of the boat and said, "Ya'll didn't look very hard did you?" Billy looked down and saw a dead body near it. He dove in and swam down toit. He pulled the corpse to the surface. He had found the key. "That was lucky..." He said.

They started it and got it ready. Reggie told them, "Hold up. I'm coming with you two. Just let me go grab something real quick and I'll be right back."

Billy and Rebecca waited as he did this. Five minutes later, the Marine came back humping two M240 Machine Guns. He also had a ton of ammo wrapped around him. "What are you doing, Reggie? We already got enough weight in this thing with the extra fuel!"

"It's all good. We're just going to have to stop every now and then on our way to...where were we going again?"

"Gajaraaj Parvat. Past New Dehli."

"That's thousands of miles from here."

" Eight hundred and fifty nine. It still has to be done. If you want to back out now, now's the chance."

"Hell no. I'm just saying we are going to have to stop and get fuel every now and then from any cities we see along the way. W're lucky this river runs through that much of the country as it is."

"Just come on."

"All right well this artillery is just in case we come into any trouble. From our own countrymen or from Indian soldiers."

Rebecca looked up and stated, "Speaking of which..."

There were at least seventeen armed hostiles, all of them infected, coming towards them. Several carried torches others carried weapons. Billy and Reggie mounted the weapons to the tripod and Billy turned to Rebecca. "Can you drive this thing?"

"I can try. I've only driven a boat a few times back in Raccoon City during company picnics!"

" No time for a stroll down memory lane. Just let me do it. It's better that way!" Reggie stated. "No, I need you here manning the guns same as me."

A few of the creatures started to get close but Billy let off a burst of rounds at four of them. The rounds went through their chests and exited out of their backs as the powerful 7.62 rounds tore into them. A few men had their jaws blown completely off. Reggie mowed down five of them causing one of the creatures to drop their torches just as one of them was starting to transform. Billy was grateful for this and Rebecca got the boat moving and they started to pull away.

A few of them actually jumped in the water starting to swim. It seemed that all though these things had their intelligence, they didn't have all of it. They drove further and Billy turned on the radio. "Lighten things up here...we're gonna be on our asses for a while."

The boat had a cd inside of it. "Marine stereo..." He said with a grin. He hit play and Sympathy For The Devil by Rolling Stones started to play. The area started to get less urban and more outdoorsy as they continied to drive out of the city. Just then, they noticed several dirt bikes at the river bank driving along side of them. "They're infected!" Rebecca yelled as she saw the flash of their glowing eyes. One of them fired a crossbow with fire on it. The bolt barely missed the boat. "Here we go! Hostiles at 5o'clock!" He let a burst loose on the M240 and hit the two carriers on bikes sending them flying.

"How did they know where we're going?!" Billy shouted back, "These things are a lot smarter than zombies but I don't know!"

"Oh shit! Billy! To your left!" Cried Reggie as he spotted six more bikers on the other side, most of them two carriers to a bike. "I'm getting really tired of these assholes," Billy said through gritted teeth.

Billy noticed that there was a helicopter soaring ahead, and it seemed there was more of a battle taking place between the Indian and American military. Yet they were caught up in the middle of it going up river even as there was carriers after them. "Shit! Hold on!" Rebecca yelled. "It's gonna get bumpy!"

They moved past what looked like some kind of wooden cabin along the river and they saw several soldiers coming out, Indian ones, and they were firing at the boat. Reggie raked the rounds towards them lighting them up letting the rounds tear through the body armor. The US helicopter was firing machine guns down on the soldiers mopping them up. Mick Jaggers voice blasted as they roared up the river.

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul to waste

And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate

The river current was starting to get rougher as they drove and the ride more bumpy as Rebecca kept going. "I need more ammo!" Shouted Reggie as his belt ran out and he began to reload. Billy kept him covered. "More hostiles to the left!" Shouted Reggie. Billy nailed them the rounds hitting the gas tanks of two more dirt bikes as they were going past a skirmish between the two militaries. The blast seemingly not only killed both carriers but also had hit some of the soldiers of both sides who had been exchanging gunfire with each other, taking cover behind rocks.

"That chopper must think we're friendlies!" Yelled Reggie. Billy grinned saying, "We are friendlies! Nothing to see here!"

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game

I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain

The chopper sent down several missiles hitting two Indian Humvees and Billy saw several of their soldiers go flying as well. "Jesus! It's like Armageddon down here!" Billy shouted as he tried to keep from firing on any Marines in case they had not yet made them for who they were yet. Just then, more carriers were along the river and the attack helicopter had gone back to assist more Marines as Indian reinforcements arrived. One in particular was closer to the river. A carrier jumped from his bike and actually managed to land onto the boat. "Fuck!" Billy cried out as it started to climb on. It tackled Reggie but the Marine hit it with the butt of the Machine Gun sending it flying back.

I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
(Woo woo, woo woo)

I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
(Woo woo, woo woo)

I shouted out,
Who killed the Kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me
(Who who, who who)

Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay
(Woo woo, who who)

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
(Who who)
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby
(Who who, who who)

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
(Woo woo, who who)

Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
'Cause I'm in need of some restraint
(Who who, who who)

So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
(Woo woo)
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, mm yeah
(Woo woo, woo woo)

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, mm yeah
(Who who)
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, mm mean it, get down
(Woo woo, woo woo)

Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Oh yeah!
(Woo woo)

Tell me baby, what's my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, what's my name
I tell you one time, you're to blame

Oh, who
Woo, woo
Woo, who
Woo, woo
Woo, who, who [x2]
Oh, yeah

What's my name
Tell me, baby, what's my name
Tell me, sweetie, what's my name

They spotted another chopper but Rebecca could tell this was not American. The waves were making them fly up further now. The helicopter hovered over the boat and Rebecca called ot, "Don't shoot it! It could crash and take us out with it!" Three carriers, allof them in military uniform dropped down onto the boat. Billy fired upon the first one as it came up and took its head off. The second tackled him and he grappled with it while at the same time trying to fight gravity so as not to be thrown from a moving boat. Reggie plunged his combat knife into the one that came for him. "Now these glowing eyed bastards can fly whirley's too?!"

Billy groaned as the one he was wrestling with pushed him down. "They're...evolving!" Rebecca let the boat go for a second allowing the waves to carry them forward and she kicked the thing off Billy sending it flying towards the water and it hit its head on a stone. She quickly went back to steering. "Thanks, princess..." He said with a shaky grin.

They heard several explosions behind them and before long the American attack chopper was upon them again. "You in the boat! Pull over!" Reggie cursed, "Shit they spotted us!"

Rebecca looked at Billy. "We need to get to Claire and Chris and the others."

Billy had been in the process of reloading the belt when the chopper had first come back. He turned to Reggie. "Can't let them take us in. Rebecca, I need you to slam on the brakes when I tell you."

Reggie demanded, "What are you doing?"

"Just trust me."

They kept going and finally he yelled, "NOW!" She did as he asked and the boat stopped or at least slowed down but the waves pushed it forward a bit each of them struggled to hang on and the helicopter had to stop and do a u turn. Billy, once he regained balanced, aimed down at the helicopter stating, "Sorry..."

He fired, clipping the rutter and he told her, "Go!" She stepped on it as the helicopter began to spiural out of control finally crashing to the eartth hitting the river bank. It did not explode but the chopper was totalled and whoever was inside was either dead or seriously wounded. Reggie angrily got in Billy's face. "What the fuck was that about?! You just shot a Marine!"

"Hey, you said you were ready to stand with us and fight whoever gets in the way. I'm proud to be a Marine even an ex Marine, despite all the shit that's happened. But right now, both sides are in the way of us stopping what's happening. You just saw what the Rakshasa can do. They're able to fly now. Whatever is going on with the people directly infected with the virus rather than inhaling it, they're evolving. We can't afford to let them get in our way."

"That could have been a family man. Somebody with something to lose. He was just doing his job."

"And we're just doing ours but if his job gets in the way of ours, we have no choice. My identity has been fake for so long. Before I ever resurfaced and became a regular guy again, and then reenlisted, I had to pay a lot of money to get a fake ID, fake birth certificates, everything I needed. I put a lot of money into it. This was just to stay alive. In hind sight I probably should have just flown under the radar. But I didn't. The fight always calls me. But this time, this fight is more important than what Uncle Sam wants. And once this is over, I am going to try and have a normal life. I'm done fighting."

"Yeah.,..that's what you said when we got back from the middle east," Reggie said with a scowl. "I mean it this time. I'm getting older. I can't keep going on forever. I have to slow down and take it easy. I know what I can do in a fight and I know my skills are needed just as much as anybody else's in this fight but I have a limit."

Rebecca also stated calmly as she observed the two, "Billy's right. It's not pretty. It may not even be justified morally but it was what needed to be done. Sometimes the right thing to do isn't always the moral thing to do. I didn't hear you complaining when it was soldiers from the other side."

"Yeah but the chopper thought we were friendly at first they didn't attack us like the others did..." Billy replied, "You think that matters? Just because they didn't doesn't mean they wouldn't. They would have tried to haul me back. I don't know what they know. They obviously know I went AWOL and I'm sure some people know I'm in this country but I don't know if they know my true identity yet. But if anybody could put the pieces together, it'd be Samuel. If he wasn't after me before, if he didn't think I was dead, he would have once they hauled me in. How do you think that would make you look? You let me escape back in New York. You're lucky he doesn't suspect you already."

Rebecca looked at the black Marine and said, "Bily's right. Like it or not, you're part of the war now. The real war. The war that matters. We're going to have some of the people from before in Puerto Rico meeting us where we're going."

"I hope you're right. Cause I'm risking everything on this one."

"We all are. But it's what we have to do. We've come a long way but it's almost over."

"I can never go back to America. None of us can," Billy admitted. "Even if we save the world from Wesker and everything else, we'll always be fugitives."

Rebecca shook her head. "We can clear our name. All of us. Me, Billy, you, the BSAA. But even if we can't we still have a duty to try and stop the world from going extinct. This is bigger than any one person."

Sherry

The blonde was relieved to be reunited with the others and to hear that Chris was alive but she was still heart broken. Jake was out there somewhere doing Wesker's bidding and she had their children that he wasn't even aware of. Her daughter looked like her. Her hair was strawberry blonde a mix of her hair and Jake's but she had her mothers eyes, lips, smile. Her son was red haired with a short haircut the same as Jake's. He looked like him in his eyes but without the scars. She loved him but at the same time it broke her heart. She had named him William and her daughter Annette.

Despite the terrible choices they had made she had loved her parents and she still did. She tried to remember the good in them and not let their final errors define them even it was large. She was trying to keep them from harms way but it was easier said than done. They were twins but fraternal twins and only two years old, barely old enough to talk and certainly not old enough to understand any of what was happening.

When they would know how to talk better more, she would have to somehow explain to them where their father was. It wasn't going to be easy.

"Wherr do we go now? What do we do?"

Parker stated, "I am afraid we were off target. Jill's coordinates were right and they were in the city she quoted but she has just contacted me. Our destination is Gajaraaj Parvat. It's a smaller mountain city."

"How can we be sure? Jill had the coordinates but it only leads to a river. That could mean that the base is anywhere along the way."

"We had them check to confirm. Leon's friend, Hunnigan was able to access satellite view of what looks like a remote facility in the mountains. She still has some favor with the government."

Claire's eyes were filled with determination. "Then we have to go there too. If Leon and Ada are on their way there, we have to help."

Sheva agreed. "Josh and Jill too. And some of our local BSAA allies should be able to help us."

The African woman then looked to Claire. "We still need to find Chris."

"I know. I need the rest of you to go ahead. I'm going to try and find him. We'll find our way to the base as soon as we can. It's not as far away from here as it is from Leon. Me and Steve are going to try and get Chris back. He's not in is right mind. He doesn't remember everything."

Sherry asked,"Wait, Claire. Before we go, so does this mean they're coming too? And...if we're going to try and finish this...we can't have our children with us...it's too dangerous."

Sheva nodded in agreement. "She's right. We've had them with us this whole time because there's no other place they'd be safe but now, this could be the last fight we have to engage in. We can't afford to be worried aboutr our children while we try and accomplish the mission."

"All that leaves is how we're getting there," Jessica stated. "Leave that to me."

Claire turned to Rani. "Hey listen...I hate to ask you to do this but legally you're my daughter now and you're like a big sister. Can you watch after the kids? All of them? We can't afford to have them get hurt. We've kept them by our side through all this danger for years but now we know where we migt be able to end this."

"It's a lot to ask, Claire," The Indian woman stated. "But you're rigt. You were there for me when my parents died and even after my aunt died. I'll do it. Just don't get yourself killed. None of you."

It was agreed then, that they would be leaving their children with Rani.

Steve

They had left the children with Rani. Robert, Annette, William and Zuri would all stay with her. Claire was grateful at least that the 19 year old was skilled enough with a firearm. At least as much as she had been at that age in 98' which was good enough to have kept herself and Sherry alive. She of course only had to watch out for one child at the time and not four. She tried to not think about it. They still made their way through the hospital. She was grateful at least that Rani and the others would be safe. She was taking them to Nepal to avoid the war and the infected.

"Claire...we still have to be careful. Chris could be in a volatile state right now."

"I know but he's still my brother. I'm not giving up on him."

They made their way through floor after floor of the hospital. Claire spotted some carriers coming their way. They had types of sharp weapons Claire had never seen before. She aimed her Handgun at them when suddenly she was thrown violently back as the wall exploded. The floor also collapsed beneath her and felt she might fall to her death but Steve caught her. "I've got you...just hang on..." He pulled her up but the floor started to give out on him and they both fell but he managed to catch her enough to break her fall. She landed on top of him. He smiled. "Just like old times..."

She sat up saying, "I know. We can relieve it later. We have to find Chris, Steve!" Just then she saw sti;ll more carriers coming. The ground shook again and they were all thrown off their feet. Claire could not find her Handgun but she had her Assault Rifle still. At least eight carriers were in front of them. The buuilding shook again but from father away. Steve told her, "Claire wait a minute...I'm going to go and see who's doing that. I think it's a tank. Hold these guys off."

She began to fire the AK-12 aiming for the head as Steve made his way through the hole in the side of the building out into the street to see an M1 Abrahams was shelling the hospital. "Son of a bitch! What kind of sick bastard shoots at a hospital?!" He could hear screams of pain and terror indicating there was still a large number of survivors in there. He saw that the tank was trying to blast at some Indian soldiers who were sniping at American soldiers from the window. Not to mention they had a few heavy macine guns up in the window. The tank was also spraying the building up with its M2HB and it did take out two of the Indian hostiles but the rounds were powerful and he had to figure strays were hitting civilians or at least would of it kept going.

Steve charged into the tank ramming it as hard as he could. He caught the man who was up top manning the gun and he sped up to him in a flash seizing him by the throat. Before the soldier, a red haired Caucasian male in his late twenties could say anything, Steve crushed his windpipe. He then went inside the tank and the loader tried to stab him with a combat knife and he did in the chest but he saw Steve was not fazed. Burnside grabbed him and punched him in the face sending him hitting the top of the tank with his head cracking it open. He grabbed the driver next snapping his neck. The commander had grabbed his Handgun and pointed it at Steve firing three shots but they did him no harm. He grabbed the gun and his arm and ripped it off tearing the man's limb from his body. Blood sprayed all the way inside the tank. Steve seized two pistols and ammo from each of the soldiers. He made his way back to the hospital where Claire had managed to take care of the eight carriers.

He handed her the two handguns. "Since you lost yours," He handed her the ammunition as well for both of the SIG-Sauer P226's.

They made their way down another floor. They came across five dead bodies and Steve examined them since his hands were free. He shook his head in disgust. They were hit by stray rounds from that tank down on the street. "This is just wrong. These people were just trying to get medical attention and they're not even safe at a hospital!"

"I know," Claire said. "It's terrible. My brother was n the Air Force and he would have never agreed to kill innocent people. Ahead of them they spotted more carriers. This time there looked to be about seventeen of them. One of them had on what looked like knifes similiar to Freddy Kruger's hands but it was an actual weapon. They attacked and Steve defended against them dispatching one of them with a blow to the nose sending it up into its brain. However, one of them threw what looked like some kind of steel disc at him. The blade sliced into his neck and blood sprayed everywhere. Claire gasped, surprised that it could do such damage to him, a super human and she wondered if he was losing power.

Steve held a hand over the wound however and it soon stopped bleeding. He grabbed the weapon and he threw it back and it decapitated two of them. The one with the bladed hand weapon stabbed Steve in the side and in the chest. Steve bled extensively but he kicked the man off of him and he grabbed him by the Adams apple and tore it open. The others came for Claire and she fired both Sig's at the hostiles. A man in a black turban with white pants and a purple shirt with dark skin and a long black beard came towards her swinging some kind of sword in almost an acrobatic martial arts style. She fired for rlounds from each pistol and hit him in the chest with each shot. She aimed her right pistol at his forehead and pulled the trigger two more times. The man fell as the rounds hit hit in the forehead but he began to mutate.

She tried to aim for him as he mutated into a Rakshasa but two more went forward. She emptied both Handguns into each man and they did fall down dead and she backed up reloading as Steve threw two more soon became a creature with husks out of the side of its face. Claire let six rounds at its head, three from each pistol. It grabbed her and sunk its teeth into her shoulder. Claire cried out in pain as she struggled to get it off. She kicked it off and followed up with a pistol whip. She pressed the barrel of the pistol in her left hand to its skull and fired five shots into it. The thing staggered back bleeding but it would not stop coming.

Claire aimed the AK-12 at it firing into its face but it still kept going all though after ten rounds it doubled over down on one knee. Claire gave it a round house kick sending it falling. She fired more rounds into its chest. It sat up again and a third eye appeared in its forehead and she fired the rest of the magazine into it. The eye began to bubble and the rounds punched through it . As the last few rounds hit its head the things skull exploded in a burst of brain matter, blood, skull fragments and other goop she could not tell what it was. Claire reloaded and backed upo firing into the last of the carriers Steve had not destroyed. However one managed to knock her weapon from her hands. The blade of it caught her on her left wrist just grazing her but it cut deep. She cried out in pain and looked to see one of them had some kind of a whip that was a sword. He was twirling it around and he swung it at her. She barely dodgged but it got her on the shoulder. She fired a flurry of shots at it about alf of which missed as she panicked but four did hit the thing, two in the chest and two in the liver.

He still twirled the whip around and swung it for her head. Steve barely managed to get ahead of her and he caught it in his han. It cut into his palm and the creature stared at him and he gave it a hard jerk pulling the thing forward and as the man was pulled to the ground sliding along the hallway floor, Steve brought his foot down on his head with all his might crushing the man's skull beneath his boot. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah...that was too close though. Thanks..."

They began to make their way outside and they saw multitudes of corpses in the streets of New Delhi. American military and Indian as well as police and soldiers. He spotted six soldiers firing at more of the carriers they had. They were screaming in Hindi firing their Assault Rifles but he saw one of them get decapitated by one of the creatures a second had his face ripped up by the whip. A third soldier was struck by the sword the blade cutting into his shoulder ripping through muscle.

It wasn't long before they got killed by the rest of the Rakshasa as they kept coming. However to his surprise just as he was about to intervene, he saw two left who finished the rest of them off with frag grenades. Just then, he saw the two of them catch on fire and he was surprised to see this but then he saw a Caucasian blonde male walking forth in a bright red jacket. As well as a similiar looking woman in a blue dress. "Oh my dear brother! See how expandable the worker ants are?"

"Yes Alexia...their suffering is music to my ears..."

Steve looked at Claire and said with reluctance, "We have to take them on..."

Claire came forward with her AK-12 aimed at thm. "You're going down. Both of you."

Alexia spotted her and let out a hideous laugh. "Well well welll...if it isn't the dreadful Redfield girl. I had hoped we would cross paths again. Just where is your wretched brother?"

Alfred snarled, "I owe both of these cretins a lifetime of agony...oh dear sister how ever shall we decide who belongs to who?"

"That is the beauty of siblings darling Alfred. We will share. But before I indulge in the suffering of Claire, I would rather like to get reacquainted with my old pet..."

"i'm not your pet!" Steve growled. "You and your sick family took everything from me! My mother, my father! You're both evil!" Steve charged at Alexia throwing a punch at the blonde. She turned her head to the side and wit a slap sent him flying backwards but in midair Steve caught his balance and flipped back landing on his feet in a crouch. "Foolish boy. Do you thinlk you stand a chance? You have the veronica virus in your veins but you are merely a pawn and i am a queen. As you know, a queen keeps the king protected and without the queen no king is safe. But you are expendable. I am related to Veronica Ashford by blood. Even such a legacy of the virus can only improve an inferior one like you so much. Nothing beats the original."

Steve charged at her punching her again and she brushed the blood from her lip tossing it at Steve. Soon he was ablaze. He cried out in pain panicking a bit running and the oxygen caused the flames to spread so he rolled around on the ground to try and put the fire out. Alexia was soon right on top of him and she kicked him in the ribs. Claire aimed for Alexia's head but in a flash of speed, Alfred was on her grabbing her by the throat.

"You once killed my dear Alfred...it was you who fired the killing shot..."

Steve groaned as she kicked him again. "It looks like...he's alive to me...I'm sure you two have been committing incest like crazy...then again...you're both dead...so is that necrophilia? Or mutual ground...?" Alexia punched him, this time her fist was on fire as she covered her fist in the blood from her lip. This scorched his cheek but it began to heal as the flame burned out however the burns on his body were third degree and taking longer to heal. Steve began to transform into his mutant form but he kept his size the same but increased his strength to half of what it would be if he had gone to his larger form. He charged into her tackling her. He knocked th aristocrat over and began to punch her. He struck her in the jaw with a left hook. He hit her in the nose with a right, a left to her lips, another right to her jaw this time. He struck her again and again his eyes glowing red with rage.

"You fucking bitch!"

Meanwhile, Claire was knocked forward by Alfred. "You destroyed my beautiful island...you insignificant worm..." Claire turned around grabbing the two pistols and she emptied the rest of the magazines in both guns unloading on Alfred striking him in the chest. She backed up reloading. He sped up to behind her but she saw it coming and she backed away still firing. She fired four rounds from each sig.

Most of the rounds missed but one hit him in the jaw. He snarled and spat the slug out along with two hole in his cheek slowly regenerated. He sped up to her and rammed into her sending her flying back. She hit the ground with a thud the wind knocked out of her. He was upon her in an instance. He dug his nails into her aalready existing wounds and she screamed. Steve had hit Alexia twelve times and he saw her being attacked by Alfred. "Claire!" He got off Alexia and tackled Alfred who had dug into her wound deeper causing her to bleed more.

Alexia however, covered her palm in the blood from face and flung it at Steve's back. She sped up to him and in a quick rub, spread the blood all over his body. He soon ignited and Alfred uppercutted the younger man sending him flying and the fire spread all over him as the air fanned the flames. Steve had t wind knocked out of him and he tried to catch his breath even as the flames licked at his flesh. He tried to roll the flames out again but Alexia appeared pinning him down with her heel on his back. Her weight suddenly was too much for him and he was weakened from the burns. Even in his tyrant form. She doused him with more blood. "You pathetic child," She taunted haughtily. "The fact that you do not possess the abilities as us should be evidence of your inferiority. But it's time you learned the hard way."

Alfred, meanwhile dug his nails again into Claire's arm and shoulder wound. She cried out as he cut into her deeper. "I'm not going to burn you. I know you are more fragile than the boy...but your suffering will be long...as has been mine..."

Claire screamed and passed out from the pain. He punched her growling, "You're not getting off that easily...get up..." She didn't and he punched her again busting her lip open. "Get up...get up..." He snarled in a rabid and feral tone.

Steve tried to get up but Alexia was weakening him. He tried to transform into his largest form but he was having a hard time pooling his strength for it. Just them, Alfred was knocked from his feet. Alexia looked up in surprise at the distraction and she temporarily stopped burning Steve. It was Chris! He had returned. Steve was not sure just how sentient he was and he was not sure if he even knew who Steve was given his memory problems but at least his instinct was to protect his sister and that was good enough. "If it isn't the peasant who tried to murder me...I rather enjoy this reunion," Alexia hissed.

Steve weakly got to his feet, as he healed but not as fast as he wanted to, looking with concern at the unconscious auborn haired Redfield.

Alfred smiled through bloody teeth. "I must say your interuption was quite rude. But fitting. You must be Chris Redfield. It's fitting that you and your sister are here as I am with mine. Alexia...dispose of the prisoner and we shall have a real battle with these two degenerates."

Alexia turned her attention back to Steve. He wasn't fulled healed but he knew what recovery he'd made would have to be good enough.

"Let's see you try..." He growled.

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That's it for now sorry for the cliffhanger, guys! i will admit the scene with Billy and Reggie is based on the mission in Call Of Duty Black Ops when Mason and Bowman are listening to Sympathy For The Devil by Rolling Stones except it's ironic since obviously that's prior to 1963 when Kennedy gets killed and the song was released in 68' the line i shouted out who killed the Kennedy's when after all it was you and me. That was foreshadowing since Mason killed JFK. Anyway I thought it was a pretty awesome scene and while the 63' timeline doesnt match up as far as 68 or 69' which were years where the US was really deep in the Vietnam war, that would have been more fitting.

So now Steve and Chris are going to be taking on the Ashford twins. After an unsuccessful attempt by Claire and Steve. As for the coordinates to the river sure it may be a bit of a stretch but come on Resident Evil games always have you on wild goose chases. But this base is the real deal. Wesker is not in India obviously but he soon will be there. He knows Alexia and Alfred have caused an outbreak there and he sees them as trying to be gods themselves undermining him so he will go there to stop them and he doesn't know Chris is alive still or that he has abilities from the T Veronica now too.

Eventually Chris and Wesker will meet and finally Chris will at least be able to fight Wesker better in hand to hand combat than he could in RE 5 but will his T Veronica abilities be enough?

As far as the weapons the Rhakshasa carriers had those were ancient Rajput warriors weapons. Katar, was the scissor blade like weapon Steve was stabbed with Khanda was the sword, and Chakram was the flying discs. I learned about these on Deadliest Warrior

I'm wrapping up this story within ten chapters maybe fifteen if I can't do it in ten but i'm shooting for ten so stay tuned. Thank you for the support so far.