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?

42. Zeus & Hercules

Chris

He stared at the two Ashford twins. "You're not going to harm my sister. I remember you now..." He said looking at Alexia. He looked at Alfred and said, "You I'm not so sure about...

"Chris Redfield...I thought you were dead," Alexia said with a haughty sneer. "Well i'm not. And I'm taking my sister with me."

"I'm afraid we can't allow that. You two destroyed our childhood home."

Chris charged into Alexia and threw a punch at her face as hard as he could. He caused her to fall over. Steve managed to heal just enough to be able to transform into his full tyrant form. He charged at Alexia as well pounding into her as she hit the ground. Alfred charged into im growling, "You oafish buffoon! How dare you put your filthy hands on my sister! Fight me like a gentlemen!" Alfred threw the flames onto Steve's back and Steve cried out but Chris grabbed Alfred and forced his face into the flames. Alfred shrieked as his face began to burn. Chris body slammed him. Steve then followed up with a stomp to Alfred's gut and Chris went back for Alexia. She threw more flames onto him and he ran but the flames grew so he kicked into his instincts and grabbed her letting the flames get onto her. She cried out but knocked him back.

Chris rolled on the ground as his instincts told him to. He got up taking some fire damage. Steve slammed Alexia down. He punched her but she let him have more flames from her hands. "Is that all you can do? Shoot fire like a coward?" Chris taunted. He went to attack her again but she grabbed him by the throat lifting him up in midair. Chris's entire body was ablaze this time much more than before. She then let him fall and he burned. Steve uppercutted Alexia to get her off Chris and Chris was burning up worse because Alexia had hit him with full power. Chris tried to roll them out but they ate away at his skin. Steve saw a fire hydrant and knocked it over and he carried the wounded ex BSAA and STARS member to it letting the water take the flames away.

Steve charged at the both of them, determined to kil each of them since both were responsible for his parents death. Chris weakly got up, soaked in water. If he had been as he was before, he would have been dead. A burn of such magnitude taking off so much of his skin would have surely killed him before as what was common with burn victims was to both be at risk of infection since skin was removed plus he was now cold and that was another thing burn victims faced which was why they were often covered with blankets.

But his skin was starting to heal. Slowly but surely and it was still painful. He cried out as he did but he was able to stand again. He didn't want to abandon his sister but he had to get somewhere private to heal where the twins could not stop him from healing. He sped off.

Steve

As suddenly as he had come, Chris had run off. This angered Steve to a point but even in his tyrant form he was now more sentient than he had been when he had once almost killed Claire. He understood why Chris was doing what he did. He let himself go back to his halfway form. "The two of you killed my mom and dad! Today you're going to die for it!"

He ran over to where a double decker bus was jumping on top of it and he went over it. He wanted to lead them away from Claire. He saw that she was getting up. She was tough and had never gone down that easily. Steve contemplated going over to where some of the dead soldiers were to grab the weapons fro them but it was too close to them and too close to Claire. He came across some of the weapons of more deceased Rakshasa and he grabbed their bladed weapons, the sword plus one of the glove like blades.

Alexia followed him walking slowly and menacingly. "Do you really think the weapons of such lowly barbarians will harm me?" Steve told her, "No maybe not. But they will hurt. And with any luck they'll cut your head off. You might be a tough bitch but the laws of physics applies even to psychopaths who think they're immortal!"

He charged at her and spun around her stabbing into her from the back, her sides into her stomach. Her already partially gone dress from the rips was torn more as he plunged the blades into her causing her to bleed intensely. "I'm going to drain that virus out of you! One pint at a time!" Alfred sped up to him and tackled him with a growl but Steve threw him off even as they crashed into the side of a building. Steve sent him flying into a van. He then threw the Charkam at Alexia intending to decapitate her but instead he sliced her throat. Blood sprayed from her wounds like a geyser. If it weren't for her ability to heal from the virus she would be dead but then, so would he and so would Redfield.

Chris resurfaced having mostly healed but he watched. Steve was still leading them away from Claire. Claire sat up weakly and Chris helped her to her feet.

"Come on. We need to get you out of here..."

He carried her but she told him, "Please...go at normal speed...I can't handle the way my stomach will feel if you go full speed..."

He took her out of the area. Steve drove the Katar sword through Alfred's stomach. The man cried in pain as blood gushed from him and Steve drove the blade deeper and twisted and then he pulled it out causing more bleeding. He jammed it back in this time the blade ripped through his ribs. He then pulled the blade out and held it to Alfred's throat. "This is for my father! And my mother! And every inmate that died at the island!" He went back to swing at him but he saw Alexia coming towards him trying to grab him as she had Chris. He swung the sword and sliced through her left arm. She cried out in agony as he severed it and blood sprayed everywhere, over herself over him and over Alfred. She shrieked and in a rage a lot of the blood that had hit them turned to flames and the three of them were engulfed in flames. Steve's green skin took a lot of damage so he ran back to the busted fire hydrant to put the flames out.

"Like I said! The laws of physics! Your Veronica virus should have made sure your own skin was flame retardant!"

He was wanting to try and take her other arm but the flames had spread around them and an explosion erupted as some of the gas had been leaking from the van Alfred had hit. This in turn triggered explosions of the other vehicles in the area. The two Ashford twins were engulfed in an inferno as they took damage from the explosion. Alexia had one of her legs blown off. Alfred was badly wounded too but not as badly as she was. She resembled the monster she had become back in Antartica but she had no left arm.

Steve let himself transform to his largest form. He brought the blade down on her right arm. She screamed further as the last arm was severed. Steve tried to ignore the pain from the flames that were burning his hair from his head and his skin. Even the sword was hot in his hand too hot to hold as it burned through his palms and he had a feeling it would soon be down to the bone.

He took a final swing and brougt it down on her neck. The blade sliced through cleanly letting out more blood and her head was severed. He wasted no time. The headless body walked around for a bit before collapsing. The mouth moved still in a silent scream. Steve took the head with him and as he went back to the fire hydrant one last time, even as the hard water spray hurt his open wounds, they would soon heal and the flames were being put out. He dropped her head next to him and brought his foot down on it. He weight at least two tons in his tyrant form so it was more than enough form and weight to pulverize the tyrant woman's head crushing it in a burst of skull, blood, and brain matter.

That was for turning me into a monster...

As he healed and the fire was out he returned to his human form and sat down on a curb nearby. Despite being nude, he did not care. He was worn out. Even with his wounds healing slowly but surely, it had taken a lot of energy out of him. He sat with satisfaction, watching as the other Ashford twin burned and screamed. Another explosion had gone off and it had pinned a truck on him.

Alfred cried out as his face was burning to a crisp. He reached for his fallen sister. "NOOOO! ALEXIA!" Steve shouted to him, "You aren't immortal! And even if you were in theory, separating your brain from your spine makes it unable to send signals! Enjoy burning in hell! I hope it's a million degrees hotter than that was!"

As Alfred burned, his eyes turned completely white as he now resembled his sister. He was still unable to get out from under the truck. , pinned under its wheels. He went up to the dead Indian soldiers that were not caught in the blast and he took as many of their weapons as he could.

He spotted Chris carrying Claire not too far away. "Here. Why don't you carry these. You're not adjusted yet. I'll take her."

Claire was weakened but she smiled saying, "Steve..."

"It's over," He told her. I took the Ashford twins down.

Jessica

She and Parker were making their way several blocks away from the hospital. They knew now where they needed to go. "Parker, one thing doesn't add up. Did you tell Hunnigan that Chris is alive? I think Jill should know."

The Italian sheepishly admitted, "We lost contact before I could. There must be electric problems in the area. I thought we had communication devides that would be able to get around that but I guess not."

The Indian American raised her eyebrows at him. "Are you thinking electromagnetic pulse?"

"Possibly but I am not sure."

They found some helicopters that were somehow still working in what had been a bloody battle. They were American choppers and for all intents and purposes they seemed to be working. Parker turned to Sheva, Sherry Rani and the children. "Okay...I'm going to fly you all out of the area. With the children and Rani, we are going to take them out of the country. Away from the war and the infection."

Robert was upset. "When's my mom coming back...?" Sheva ruffled his hair. "Don't worry sweetheart. She'll be along soon to come and get you. Zuri, I expect you to keep your cousin company until I get back."

The little African girl smiled. "I will."

Clair's son still looked sad. Sheva decided she would accompany him but she said she would be riding back with Parker.

Parker got into the helicopter and Sherry kissed Annette and William goodbye. "I'll be back for you as soon as possible. I promise."

"What about dad?" Asked William. She saw a bit of Jake in his eyes in that moment. And her father. She decided she would go with them too just to see them off. Kieth and Quint were still there. Jessica carried a Glock 18 and an H&K G36 and she had 100 round drum mags for it. Keith carried an M92F and an MP5. Quint carried an M4 and a Glock just like Jessica.

They took off and Jessica watched with some concern. "It's too bad we didn't get to let Jill know Chris is alive. I just hope she gets a chance to find out soon."

Kieth looked at her and said, "Jill and Josh should be on their way up here. They'll get to find out soon enough. For now, we should make sure that nothing goes south here. That was just one helicopter. We'll need more to get all of us out the base. What is this base anyway? We've been looking for it before and we turned up jack shit on it."

"Yea but the four of us have been looking all over Europe. The bases out there for the Family have to be destroyed too. We can't let any of them convert any former BSAA bases into bases for the family. If they haven't already."

"They've attacked our brothers and sisters out there too. Outlawed them. Hunting them down as if we were the bioterrorists instead of Wesker."

"Well, the sooner we can find more transportation to get out to the base the better. We can put an end to this."

"Just isn't the same without Chris thoug, Grinder., I miss him..." Stated Quint.

"Well Chris had his job to do Jill still has hers and we have ours. Destroying this base is going to flush Wesker out of hiding. From what we dug up on Intel from other bases it looks like tis base was Umbrella, then placed under Tricell's control and after that, the DSO took over it under Derrick Simmons. Me and Parker found info on this. He said this is one of the earliest labs Umbrella had. It was their fail safe in case the company ever was shut down. Wesker and Spencer saw that coming. Edward Ashford, Oswald Spencer, and James Marcus build Umbrella, that's true but Spencer developed one of the earlier bases in India. Not Africa."

"Yeah that makes sense. You think Wesker has some kind of plans with whatever he has in that place?"

"That's what's strange. Before 1968 it was some kind of military facility except I looked into the lists of all the Indian military bases in the country and that place wasnn't one of them."

Quint suggested, "Maybe it was a black ops base? You never know."

Just then they spotted a creature that didn't even look real even for a BOW's standard. It was a reptilian creatures. It looked like a gigantic green snake. It had a human head and human arms. These sick bastards had actully created this thing. It spat acid at them. Keith dodged. Jessica opened fired with the G36, not wanting to take any chances. "What the fuck is that thing?!" Cried Quint. "If we can kill this thing first, we can find out afterwards!" Jessica called out. "At the last base we hit, they had Neo Umbrella variants of your little gadget!" Keith said.

"The Genesis? So they made it even more high tec?" Jessica told him, "Now's not the time! Kill that thing!"

Kieth opened fired on it too aiming for its head as it spat acid at them again. Jessica attempted to dodge but some of it did get near her and on her arm which melted the suit down toi the skin but luckily she shook whatever the acidic goop was off her yelled, "Fire in the hole!" He tossed a hand grenade at the thing and the blast took out a huge chunk of its flesj. Quint fired his semi-automatic Assault Rifle sixteen times blasting at the chunk of it. The wounds gushed both blood as well as greenish acid of a sort. Jessica fell over as the thing lunged at her but she managed to evade it.

Keith kept her cover with fire from the H&K letting off twenty five rounds but it wasn't giving up that easily even as he unloaded the rounds into its skull. He helped her to her feet and yelled, "Frag out!" He pulled the pin and lobbed it at the thing and she fired the remaining magazine up fron its bodily wounds to its face. Quint was still firing as well and the blast of the grenade want off and the thing let out a shreik and it coiled into a heap on the ground as it died.

Quint checked out the things corpse, examining it with the newer Genesis. "The locals call it Naga Based on Hindu were thought to be deities in the shapes of cobras. They're associated with nature and rain. They're only malevolent to humans when they've been mistreated."

"I never treated any snakes bad! I just stayed the hell away from them. Besides I think we can safely say that Umbrella always twists shit up to make into a nightmare. Like the Ateneniáhrhon back in New York."

"Oh god, don't remind me. I really hope there's none of those things here."

Jessica realized that she didn't feel too good. Keith noticed. "Hey you all right, Jess? You look kinda pale."

"I think I'm fine I just...I hate snakes," She looked at the corpse and cracked lightly, "Even human snakes,"

Keith laughed at that at the implication of what it sounded like. "Not what I meant, pervert."

"Hey you said it, not me."

They spotted another one but luckily, Jessica found a GP-25 next to one of the deceased soldiers. It was unfortuate that so many were dying but Jessica knew that even if it wasn't for all the BOW's around and the war was still on many would die. But if it wasn't for the BOW's the world wouldn't be at war. She remembered as she fevereishly readied the grenade launcher as the mammoth creature came towards them. She fired and the blast took out a huge chunk of its body nearly blasting it in half but it started to regenerate slowly as many reptilians had the ability to.

Quint empied his mag into it before reloading and Keith had to do the same but they had bought her enough time even as they reloaded, long enough for her to get her grenade launcher ready again. She fired another shot and hit it in the face and blasted a chunk out of its chest and took a chunk of its skull off. She fired again and its face was soon nothing but a mess.

Quint looked at the corpse of the second Naga. "I really wish the BSAA wasn't illegalized! We could use good old Alpha and Delta team to weed these nasty bastards out."

Keith also said, "I just hope Sheva gets back here soon. We really need to move on that base. First Umbrella then Tricell then Neo Umbrella now the Family. We really need to just weed out these assholes for good. If we can take Wesker out, we're going to need to relegalize the BSAA. Either that or more of our team mates are going to have to come out of hiding and fight back against the Family."

"Yeah well just cause Wesker might die, doesn't mean they'll fall right away. The Family is a pretty secret organization. We're lucky we found as many of their bases as we did. That wasn't easy to do."

"Yeah well, who says torture doesn;t work? It was Leon's idea anyway."

Their voices became more indistinct and her vision blurred. She felt as though she might vomit. She opened her mouth to do so but before anything could happen, she fell over, collapsing face first. "Jessica! Hold on...Jessica!" She heard one of the two of them yell as she slipped into blackness. She could not tell who had said it however.

Jake

He woke up and saw his father. "Get dressed. We're leaving the United States."

"Where are we going?"

"India. Jill is there. There's a base that the BSAA are sure to attack it. They know of its importance. Even if they didn't we cannot allow it to come under attack. This is the way we can ensure that our plan comes to fruition. It seems that my previous plan was not sufficient to launch the world into its new era. But this time, we will not be stopped."

Jake looked up at his father. "I'm not...exactly a hundred percent."

"You will spend the rest of your time recovering at our new destination. We have this country under our control and the war is going as planned. The world super powers are destroying each other and the less significant countries are being caught in the cross fire. But our work is not yet finished. I will either have Jill as my own again subservient to me or she will die. Chris's younger partner will die regardless. As will the Redfield girl but I will deal with her personally as well as Agent Alomar."

"And I can get Sherry back? Reunite with her I mean. Try and explain my side?"

"You may. But it is unlikely she will see your side of it. She has been on the side of the rebels who have modeled themselves after Chris's futile cause. She looks up to Claire Redfield as well as Leon Kennedy and so she's likely to be indoctrinated by their foolish humanitarian beliefs. However, the legacy in her veins from her father may be of some use to us, yet," He said with a smirk. "She's more than just a virus to me," Jake growled.

"Be that as it may, you must consider all possibilities and scenarios. She was with the DSO. A friend and colleague to Leon and more so to Claire. As of rigt now, all though Chris Redfield stood the best chance of destroying our plans as he has many times, his sister as well as Jill and possibly Leon stand to be the next greatest threat. I imagine if given time, Leon could even be Chris's replacement. After all, they need a leader to rally behind. What better man for the job than the one who aside from Chris, survived the longest from Raccoon City?"

"So you want me to get Leon too or is he yours...?"

"No. For him, I have a special person for the job. From you, I require a more delicate task. There are five people I want dead on this list. Four of them are allies to Chris but the first one wo must be dealt with is somewhat of a protege. I want you to replace him as my assassin."

"So that's all I am? An assasin?"

"You must learn your place. Your station is not a permenant one but respect and power must be earned. You killed Yoko Suzuki but she nearly took your life. That is something we cannot allow. Your skills as a killer must be improved. You survived Eastern Europe, you survived the middle east and you survived South America against men better trained than you were and with more experience. And yet you were nearly disposed of by a girl who was five foot four and 128 lbs soak and wet. You've nearly a foot on her as well as nearly fifty pounds on her and yet she wounded you as though you were on equal footing."

"I still killed her...,without your help..." Wesker gritted his teeth. "I beg your pardon?" Jake said, "All right I know you saved my bony ass back there. Thank you. I'm just saying that you got me back to a doctor but I handled that fight on my own. It doesn't matter how bad I was injured. I still lived and she's dead,"

Wesker's tone softened but he said with a frown, "This means either one of two things. You are not as powerful as either of us thought or you simply undestimated her. I believe it is the latter. But with who I am sending you after next, you cannot underestimate him. He has survived insurmountable odds. If you understimate him in a fight it will be your last. If you manage to dispose of him, you will then take care of the others. Once that has been handled, we can fulfill our destiny. We can rule together in this new world we will bring about from the ashes of the old. Father and son. Setting things right. Something humans failed at time and time again."

Albert removed his sunglasses. "Who knows. Perhaps as a token of grattitude for this, I will allow you to kill Sheva as well rather than doing so myself."

"I thought you wanted to kill her cause of what she did to you in Kijuju?"

"That was the case when we first met. But I see now that petty revenge is not my primary motivation. My motivation is evolution ane besides, I have you to act as my striking hammer of justice and vengance. She made an attempt on my life as did Chris but in doing so only pushed me closer to where I am today. i owe them that much. But you, she robbed of a mother. I had heard rumors from some of our men who faced Sheva in combat these last few years and lived to tell about it. She has a child. It's believed to be the spawn of Chris. We've captured video surveillance of her. Even as Sheva was robbed of her own parents by White Umbrella, she robbed you of yours just fourteen years later. Where is the sense of this? And now she is a mother."

"I...know...they both killed my mom...cause of what they did to you..."

"As for my own indulgence, I shall have satisfaction one way or another with Jill Valentine. Despite the Spencer Estate survivors pushing me to the fate I am today, it was not without its losses. Jill's spirit must be broken and if it cannot be, then her body will. As for Claire, I'll drain her of every drop of blood she shared with her late brother."

"What about the children?" Wesker coldly said, "They will be tested to see what kind of DNA they have. If they show potential, they will be suited to the ne wortld and have a place at my side as warriors rooting out the last of humanity's insignificant remnants of evolutionary failures and regressives. However such an event is unlikely in which case the children will be exterminated too."

"You would kill a child?"

"I would kill millions. If not billions. Did you not think of this when you joined my side? You may not agree wit everything I do but you made a conscious choice to follow me and not Chris. I am not the one who murdered your mother. We have killed millions of men women and children already my dear boy. As you are helping me, this includes you too. If you wanted all the BOW's gone, even as impossible a task as that is, you would have tried to finish what Chris started. Because of our influence, a war has been started. We have been manipulating the plays of power as has been the Family tradition for centuries. And this war has only helped the virus grow. So I am afraid that even if you never killed children as a soldier of fortune, all though indirectly, you certainly have done so in these past three years. The sooner you move past it and embrace it as a necessity of war, the better. The world would have come to war again and possibly nuked themselves into the dark ages. Those children were going to die anyway."

Jake swallowed upon hearing this. Despite now being on his side, he couldn't believe how cold Wesker was and he wondered what his childhood was like. He couldn't imagine it had been easy as he had heard of Project Wesker. Still, Jake's childhood had been no picnic either.

"Killing innocents...is a human thing to do, dad. If we want to move to the next stage, shouldn't we be trying to upgrade on our intelligence? I fought all my life and I got good at killing. Hell, i fist fought an Ustanak. So I know I've got a little something extra in me and that i'm no regular guy. But shouldn't the virus help us be able to...I don't knnow, help us use parts of our brain that we don't use?"

"That's where you're wrong. It's precisely the fact that you did not let the virus control you in Edonia that is proof of your superior genes. All the others became mere pawns of the forces that controlled them. Only, unlike in Africa, there was nobody controlling them and the resulting chaos was far greater than anything I did in Kijuju. As a matter of fact, I would say it was a rather rash choice for the United States to destroy Tall Oaks. Surely, in a population of 70,000 people, there was perhaps a handful who had better DNA. That is not what I would have done."

Jake told him, "You don't see anything wrong about this at all?"

"As I said, we are past that. If I decided to suddenly have moral qualms about all I have done, it would be pointless. Do you think if the BSAA captured me and I were to stand trial in a world court, they would care about my so called redemption? No. They would dispose of me if they could. You see, Jacob, regardless of how one might feel about the matter, they would see it as a necessity to destroy me. And that is how I view the world in its current state. The time to ponder on whether or not it was the right decision can come after it is done. As far as we have come, it would only be rational to see it through."

"But they would be basing their choice to kill you based on their own emotions. At least partly. How they would feel about what you did."

"No. They would dispose of me because to them I am a threat. And they're right about that. But they are a threat to me and to themselves, to every single living species on this planet. Morality is not objective. What is immoral in one society will be moral in another. Two such societies clash when they connect with each other. They cannot coexist. Thus is the fallacy of the human condition as well as the delusion that there could ever be world peace in the current state of affairs."

"But you're rationalizing about the morality of humanity and what would be the right thing to do. Whether or not it's on its way to hell or not."

"I am not talking about morality. At least not in the way that humans understand it. In the early days of humanity, if a child wandered to a cliff, a man, e ven a man who is not the child's parents would direct the child away from the cliff. This sense of community and well being for the tribe was quite revolutionary. The early humans had war with each other just as now but more primitive. But they survived beasts such as the sabretooth and wooly mammoth by working together. Morality in the sense I speak of, is what is the most rational thing to do. It does not matter what you believe but rather a matter of what should be done. Too often humans have separated what is rational and what is moral as though the two were mutually exclusive."

"You're confusing me."

"These things are not something you will learn overnight. I have kept you alive these past three years, have I not? And I have taught much of what I know but there is still much you do not know. You can become a god in your own right. You are the son of a God after all. Born of a God and a human mother. Do you know what that makes you?"

Jake chuckled with sarcasm. "Jesus Christ? Pretty sure I can't turn water into wine."

"No. Before that. The myths of old from before the common era had much greater meaning. Many would see the ancients beliefs as myths. When I was a scientist in Raccoon City, my colleagues suggested that perhaps the Gods of Olympus were in fact great inventors, instead. That perhaps Zeus had been a man to introduce early electricity. Or Poseidon. Perhaps he was a sailor who found ways to make the dangerous seas and travel through them far less deadly."

Jake chuckled. "And Aphrodite was what? A love doctor? A porn star?"

"Take this seriously. You were born from a father who is a God and you were born from a noble mortal mother. Perhaps my colleagues were mistaken. Perhaps these were not myths of the ancients but a prophecy of a new age to come. I am Zeus. You are Hercules. And what I ask of you are your labors. Not to atone for any sin but to build you up to the state of Godhood."

"And these people? That you want me to kill?"

"They must be disposed of. They are nowhere near the pest that Chris was when he was alive but all the same, they are enemies of the world to come. Like the neanderthals of old, they must be wiped out."

"The neanderthals didn't go extinct entirely. They just mixed with modern humans."

"Yes. And the next stage of evolution carried a resemblance in DNA to what was in the past but the hominid of the past had become obsolete and was unfit to live in the world to come. If humans are to survive as a species we must always change, always evolve. But humanity has been stuck in a perpetual state of ignorance for thousands of years."

Wesker got ready to leave the room. "We will discuss this further at another time. I'm going to get your sister ready," He knew he was talking about the child of Jill. "I expect you to be ready to depart when I return. And, Jacob?I want you to think of what I said."

"Why do you call me that? It's Jake,."

"You should be proud of that name. It means to wrestle with God," Albert said with a smile on his face and Jake recalled their first meeting in which the two did fight.

As Jake found himself alone, he thought of his situation. These last three years, Albert had told him that all though he did encourage Sherry to return to him as she also had "Superior DNA" he told him to not put all his eggs in one basket. "A God after all, has more than one option," He would say.

He frowned. All though he meant to kill Chris, he had never meant to hurt Sherry.

Ada

He turned to the former spy. "Now that Jill knows where the base is we can head over there as soon as we get healed up. Billy and Rebecca are on their way. We're going to try and meet up in New Delhi with Claire, Sherry, and Sheva on the way out there. Plus Chris's old BSAA friends. Just talked to Hunnigan. We need to make sure they're all right before we head up there but Billy and Rebecca will be there waiting for us. It looks like we can finally put an end to this."

Ada turned to him and said, "Leon...I'm sorry...but I have to go. By myself. I want to stay here and go there with you but I have to handle this alone. Wesker is still out there and I have to take care of him. I don't want to put you and the others in harms way. It's better if you get up north to make sure Claire and Chris and the others are okay. I have to finish this. Chris is disabled now and Jill...she might be willing to avenge him but her emotionms might get in the way. The same as Claire. They might think with anger and not calculated. It's selfish, I know but it's going to take somebody cold and calculated to bring Albert down for good. And if there's one thing I learned how to do, it's to predict him."

"Ada...that's not a good idea. You said you'd stay here and besides what makles you think you can take him alone? It took Chris and Sheva against him to bring him down and even then it took help from Jill and Josh. And he still isn't dead. We need all hands on deck to finish him off. This is what's been keeping us from stopping it all together. It's always just been a few of us at a time. You and me in Spain, you me and Claire in Raccoon, Chris and Jill at the mansion, Chris Jill and Sheva in Africa. We need to be everywhere that this problem is happening. The last three years, Josh and Sheva went to Africa too. They helped with the outbreaks there last year. And then Parker and Jessica in Europe but now we're all here and we need to all be in."

"I can't ask you to put yourself at risk. Not for me. You've saved the world enough times, Leon. You and Chris, both. It's time you both rested. The burden can't all be on you. I've done a lot of wrong to do some good in my years under Wesker but I learned his patterns. I know his temperament. The only people who knew him as well as me is Jill and Chris but he knows how to get under their skin. With me, he doesn't know any of my weaknesses because I don't have any. Sherry might have a chance against him too but her feelings for Jake might get in the way."

"What about us?"

"That's why I have to leave you behind. After all this time, I don't want to lose you. But this time, I might not come back and whether I do or don't, I don't want you to die with me. And if things do go toplan, I'll kill Wesker and come back to you. Whatever happens, at least the world can be safe again."

"I can't let you go out there. Not alone. There's a war going on."

"I'll be fine. This is what needs to be done. This isn't up for debate."

Jill came up behins saying, "Leon, let her go. She's welcome to try. We have to go back and check on Chris and Claire and everybody else. We can't go straight over there. If you love something let it go. I know that's a cliche but it's true. I don't know if I'll ever have Chris back with me or if he'll ever wake up but...in case he doesn't I have to just let him go..."

"We're better together, you know that. If something happens to you, and there's nobody around to help, how will I know what happened to you? Whether you like it or not you need my help."

She grabbed her grapple gun and aimed it across the street. "Ada!" He grabbed her right arm. She turned around and looked him in the eyes. "Leon...I love you. And that's why you can't come. Sweet dreams, handsome," Leon looked down and the sound of a popping sounded off. He'd been hit by a tranquilizer dart. She looked to Jill and Josh. "Take care of him until I return to him."

With that, she left. Josh turned to Jill. "There's nothing we can do here. Let's just stay with him until he wakes up and get a move on."

New Delhi

Over the burning fires of a street an Indian helicopter hovered over and dropped fire retardant gel foam don on the streets below. Before long, the fires of a bloody battle along with several explosions died down. Unbeknowst to the chopper pilot who in the midst of war was only doing his job, a wounded burned up being with white eyes crawled out from under the wheels of a truck. He stared at the headless corpse not far from him. His hair was gone and his skin burned beyond recognition. His skin had turned from ivory to a grayish black among tons of red. He was charred up but the virus had kept him alive. "Alexia..." He wheezed.

Gajaraaj Parvat

Ten Minutes Earlier

Ingrid Hunnigan was waiting at her motel with two men who had worked for the DSO and had been field agents. One was Caucasian, a man named Cyrus Hill, the other, African American and his name was Douglass Warner. The city of Gajaraaj Parvat had not been infected but there was still a base. She was on a satellite phone with Parker Luciani. "You're sure? He's awake? Okay. I'll be sure to pass that along to Jill."

She dialed back to get a old of them on the satellite phone. It seemed that they had gotten hold of a satellite phone themselves in the midst of Jill and Josh investigating what had happened. She got an answer. It was Josh. "Agent Stone would you mind putting me on with Jill?"

"Ingrid? What is it? We've got a bit of a situation. We're on our way back but Leon is...incapacitated at the moment."

"Is he all right?"

"He's just unconscious but he's alive. Anyway, Billy and Rebecca should be there soon. And Ada Wong. Shes on her way. Leon will be with us as soon as possible."

"Well i'm glad to hear he's all right but this time I'm actually calling for you. I have some good news regarding Chris Redfield. He..."

Just then, there was a crash and a blur of speed and Ingrid panicked as she saw Hill and Warner firing at the intruder who had burst into the room. Two rounds did hit the man. She grabbed a pistol of her own from a desk. It was a VP70. The intruder was Caucasian but he was moving too fast to see much besides that. In a flash of speed the man drove a combat knife into Hill's throat and ripped it out and blood sprayed everywhere. Warner fired the remainder of his magazine at the man but he evaded every shot. Hunnigan panicked aiming her pistol or trying to and she feared it might be Wesker.

The man appeared behind Warner as he ran dry and with a twist, snapped the other man's neck. Ingrid fired seven shots at the man as he came towards her but he evaded every shot. She fired two more and managed to pierce him in the chest as she backed up but she tripped over the dropped sat phone.

He rammed into her and knocked her against the wall. The tanned brunette hit her head on the wall and blood ran down the side of her face. The man grabbed her by the throat as she was winded barely having time to catch a breath. "Where is he...and don't act like you don't know who I'm talking about. Unless you want to end up like those two."

He squeezed her throat and her eyes bulged and her already broken glasses fell off her head. "He's...he's...coming..." He demanded, "When?"

"Soon...from...Eeshvar Shahar...please..."

He let her go. "Attagirl. How about Ada Wong?"

Hunnigan coughed. "She...she'll...be here...before he will..."

He picked up her sat phone and listened. "Ingrid? Are you there? Are you okay? What's happening?" He chuckled. "Jill Valentine. Sombody's gonna be thrilled.I guess now the only thing to do is wait."

"How are you even..."

"Alive? Thanks to generous contributions from my benefactor. You don't have to worry about that. Your time is up. I'll tell Leon you held out. It's more noble that way."

"You said...you wouldn't kill me..."

"Yeah about that...I lied..."

She went for the VP70 and fired at him but he again dodged every bullet and he appeared in front of her twisting her arm until it snapped, She shrieked in agony. He slammed her head into the wall and she cried out again as her blood smeared the wall. He slammed her head again. And again. Finally she was done and he let her body hit the floor. He looked down at her with a sneer. "Wonder if Kennedy ever took her for a spin."

He walked over to the table and accessed her PDA. He looked through files regarding the incidents in 2013 and came across the death of the president, Tall Oaks and Helena Harper. Much of it classified DSO information. He finally happened upon a picture of Kennedy. "DSO...you've done well for yourself, comrade. Let's see if you picked up any skills along the way. You're gonna need em."

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That's it for this chapter. I said I wanted to wrap this story up in the next ten chapters from 40 and I really meant it. Anyway as far as the Wesker and Jake conversation, I figured they should have a few heart to heart talks father and son as I think they would. I'm not entirely sure Wesker is dead I've seen some pretty strong evidence as to why but of course we won't find out until Resident Evil 8. I just think had Wesker survived too he would use these kinds of arguments to rationalize why he does what he does.

So there you have it the death of Ingrid Hunnigan and the return of Jack Krauser as he is to Leon IMO what Wesker is to Chris.

As far as the fight with Steve and Chris against Alexia and Alfred i thought it would have been interesting if Alexia had been alive and she had died before Alfred in the game before instead of him before her. I mean she did die before but that's not what I meant it would have been interesting if Alfred had come back as a BOW. Wesker will be disappointed as he mostly wanted to kill her himself. Before he might have taken her on as a queen but since her betrayal was mostly for her own selfish incestuous reasoning and delusions, yeah he would have wanted to kill her. Originally I was gonna have Wesker and Alexia have another fight like before in CV cause that was one of my favorite scenes, the music was so epic, he showed some fear backing away from her and yet he still showed bravery as far as trying to fight her. Until he tucked his tail between his legs and left her to Chris that is.

Still, the running up the wall punch and the fire was bad ass. As far as Steve cutting Alexia's head off I mean to me it just stands to reason that a lot of these problem villains wouldn't be problems as much if you cut their head off. I mean obviously people like Wesker and Krauser can get stabbed and not bleed ads much as a normal person just like getting shot and it might be harder to cut their heads off but it's not like the flesh itself turns to stone it can just withstand more damage. Then again, Chris hurt his hand against Wesker when he punches him which...idk...I mean he punched through a fucking stone but puncing Albert hurts?

In any case, if you were to decapitate one of these villains be it Wesker, Krauser, whoever, even if you are really powerful you'd be pretty much fucked and even if for some freakish reason you didn't die your brain still can't send messages to your brain so let's say you live like the Kathy Bates head in American Horror Story: Coven. You'd still be useless and pretty much harmless without a body so even if somebody really couldn't die, I'd just behead them and try and get the head as far away from the body as possible.

I mean I guess since it's RE they could regenerate but at the same time, we've never seen Wesker get beheaded or Krauser in the context of a cutscene so we don't know what would happen.

But the point is, Alexia is dead., Alfred is not. He's wounded but he's pissed.

And if you didn't figure it out, I'm giving Jessica, Parker, Keith and Quint a larger role in the last chapters of this story because I really meant to do that anyway in the start but it just didn't work out that way. The Naga is, like Quint said based on a Hindu myth so yeah as far as that goes that's what I based it on. I tried to look up other Hindu folklore creatures and most of them were birds and I just don't know how scary a bird BOW is. I mean consider the crows in Resident Evil. They're a pain in the ass but not intimidating.

The Hercules and Zeus metaphor in this chapter to me made sense as far as Wesker asking his son to kill more people kind of like Hercules did with his tasks a lot of them were just killings. So you might say that Chris is the titan in this scenario but a scenario in which the titan has won or will win. Plus you know, Wesker, cause of using Piers's body has electrical powers so he really is like Zeus. I can easily call Excella the Hera of this story. Or Alexia. Depends on who you think is more like Hera it doesn't have to be too literal as far as the relationships of the RE characters go.

And as we see, Chris still hasn't gotten used to his abilities but he is at least alive.

Anyway until next time.