Chapter 29

Chris Redfield walked through the mansion alone, his MP5K at the ready to face any threats, the night had been a strange one, and he wasn't sure what he was going to encounter after the zombies and the bear, but whatever it was, he would be ready for it.

"Dammit," he exhaled as he saw two bodies and one of the zombies at the end of the hallway. "That's Joe," he rushed forward and got closer to the corpses, killing the zombies that was tearing into the body of his dead friend.

What was left of Joe was leaned up against the wall with his hand still on the MP5 that had delivered the killing blow to the monster that had killed him, with his other hand was clutched in a fist around something.

Kneeling down, Chris looked around his friend's neck for something that should have been there.

"Someone already found your tags," Chris muttered to himself as he stood up and turned around to consider the creature that Joseph frost had killed when he died.

Seeing something move in the corner of his eye, Chris pulled his submachine gun up to his eyes, shifting his eyes back and forth to try and see what it was that had caught his vision.

Then, hearing a groan behind him, he turned and saw the body of Joseph Frost standing up and lurching towards him. The thing clenched in his hand now identifiable as a fragmentation grenade with the pin pulled but the spoon held down.

"Oh fuck," Chris said as he backpedaled away from the live grenade and stumbled over the corpse of the monster, fallig backward just as an identical creature leaped over him and tackled Joe's body to the ground.

"Shit," Chris said as he saw the grenade rolling around on the ground underneath the creature as it tore in to the dead STARS member's body.

Then the grenade went off, sending shrapnel flying in every direction while Chris was knocked backward and to the ground from the concussive blast.

Meanwhile, a massive tube with a creature called a Tyran finished the process to awaken the monster within.

"We'll have to see how Bravo team handles this," Wesker said as the elevator took the first of two slowly waking Tyrants up to the surface. He then turned and began flipping through the cameras to locate exactly where they were.

"Oh, they're in the garden, this should be interesting," Wesker muttered as he zoomed in on the action that was taking place.

"Why are there more of these giant lizards here?' Rebecca asked as they killed another one with a well placed grenade from Captain Marini's grenade launcher.

"They probably like the humidity and the heat," Kenneth said as he shut down the camera to pick up his weapon again. "I'd keep an eye out for more of them, they may try to make this their home for now."

"Expect more lizards with razor sharp claws that can cut through steel and are capable of tanking most of our guns, that's just terrific," Forest snarked as he looked at their surroundings. "What's next supersoldiers, mutant alligators in the sewers, something else?"

"Who knows what the kind of people who can make these sorts of abominations get up to," Captain Marini muttered as he surveyed the area. "Looks like there's some sort of path and a stairway up ahead that leads down into the greenhouse."

"Given the other crazy stuff we've found in random places we might as well check it out," Rebecca said with a shrug. "We might actually find something worthwhile while we're down there after all."

"Hey! I think I found out what caused that explosion," Barry said as he knelt down and checked Chris Redfield's vitals. "Looks like a frag went off, took what was left of Joseph with it along with whatever it is that Chris was fighting."

"I'll make sure Chris is good to go," I said as I took over while Barry began guarding me along with Jill and Edward.

"Vest is intact, looks like the body here absorbed most of the shrapnel," I said as I continued checking for any overt wounds. "No bite marks from what I can tell," I said as I flipped him over and frowned. "He's got a pretty nasty gash on his head though, I'm gonna wake him up and see about taking care of it."

Grabbing his shoulders, I began shaking Chris, but when he didn't wake up I opened up my med kit and broke out the smelling salts.

"I didn't want to do this," I sighed as I cracked open the container and held it a distance away from his nose, allowing the salts to do their job.

As soon as the odor hit his nose, Chris jolted upright, instinctively grabbed my arm that was still in front of him and put me in an arm bar.

"A little help here," I said as I struggled against my own training. "I don't want to have to kill the guy to get him to let go."

"Hey Chris, you awake man?" Barry shook his hand in front of Chris' face, the other man blinking and then recognizing the older man before letting me go.

"Dammit," I groaned as I looked down at the messed up bandage that had been covering the giant wound in my side. "You tore the gauze. I flipped Chris the bird once he was lucid enough to recognize me. "You're lucky my blood's already clotted for the most part," I hastily rewrapped what was left of my gauze before turning and beginning to clean out the gash on Chris' head.

"Sorry man," Chris apologized while he winced at me digging some debris out of the wound on his head. "SERE training sticks with you even after you leave the Air Force."

"Fuckin' Chair Force," I shook my head at the other man. "Next time you can wake yourself up in a hostile environment."

"Chris," Edward nodded at the other man now that he was present enough to notice the other Bravo Team member. "Good to see that everyone on Alpha made it here to join us in this shitshow."

"Except for Vickers," Jill chimed in as she stepped into view. "That chickenshit took off and left us for dead pretty early on."

"He'll be back," I muttered harshly. "Or I swear to God above that I'm haunting him for the rest of eternity."