Resident Evil/Biohazard: Hostage Rescue

Rating: T

NOTE:

All characters of Resident Evil/Captain Commando/Street Fighter are under the copyright of Capcom. All characters of Martin Mystery are under the copyright of Marathon. All characters of Kara no Kyokai are under the copyright of TYPE-MOON. All characters of Spriggan are under the copyright of Hiroshi Takashige and Ryoji Minagawa. All characters of Jiraishin are under the copyright of Tsutomu Takahashi. The appearance of Kenneth "Kenny" Feng is under noctorro's jurisdiction. All others are under my jurisdiction.

Summary:

Leon and the group gets tangled up with their first major battle against a giant called El Gigante. Can they survive against it or will they be beaten up to a pulp? Stay tune to this chapter to find out.

Chapter 7: Moving onward


Open Circular Area, somewhere in Spain


A dog had eyed the party's fight against El Gigante, seeing them weaken the giant to fight the parasite that emerged out of its back twice in a row. From the same elevated position used by the villagers to close the gates to the open area, it watched the giant smack Kevin and Jill on the ground. The former ingested the Dual Green Herb Mixture with half to himself before he gave the other half to Jill, which enabled them to get back into the fight although feeling some pain here and there.

The dog noted Leon as he aimed and fired the Remington 870 against El Gigante, who had covered his face with his arms to ensure that they receive the brunt of the buckshots. Watching the DSO agent fire the shotgun over and over again reminded the dog of his time when he was held captive by a foothold before Cammy freed him. She was also present in the fight, but kept her distance as her unarmed combat moves could not El Gigante.

It decided on its next move.

The dog would help the party in fighting El Gigante when it howled very loud in the air that the giant focused its attention to it.


"Hey." Leon saw the howling dog after he fired the last buckshot shell into El Gigante. "It's that dog from way back..."

"Man's best friend is here to help huh?" Kevin said as he grunted a bit, feeling some pain in the stomach area while clutching his Glock 21 Mariner. The brown-haired DSO agent saw the dog leap down from the elevated position before it began to growl at El Gigante. "That's finally a good thing to see."

"It seems to be giving us an advantage against the giant." Sho told the party, holding the ninjato at the ready as the dog was now distracting El Gigante to the point that its back was turned towards them.

"NOW!" Jean said as he opened fire with the Franchi SPAS-12 at El Gigante's head, giving Leon the opportunity to reload the Remington 870. Jill and Eriko fired their sidearms at El Gigante. "FIRE!"

"I'm out of frags!" Yu yelled when he reloaded his Heckler and Koch G3A4. "But this'll compensate for it!"

The Japanese Spriggan agent went to fire the G3A4 at full automatic at the giant's head, making El Gigante shout in pain before the party saw signs of rupture at the giant's back.

"Here goes!" Kevin shouldered the Steyr SSG P IV and fired the silenced sniper rifle at the parasite when it came out of El Gigante.

"Cover me..." Fujino dashed towards El Gigante while Hiryu and Hien fired their respective assault rifles to further weaken the exposed parasite. The teenage girl hacked and slashed the parasite many times before she did a flip to land on the ground.

"Bend." She softly whispered, concentrating on letting her powers twist and crush the parasite. But El Gigante resisted it by trying to charge at her with his shoulders after the parasite quickly retreated back.

"Look out!" Sho dashed in to save Fujino from being crushed.

"I'm getting low of ammo!" Hiryu yelled when he had to stop firing his Heckler and Koch G36C.

Leon and Jean fired their shotguns at El Gigante, covering for Hiryu when he was able to reload his assault rifle. He took aim with the dual sights attached on his weapon and fired at El Gigante. Dan joined in when he aimed the red dot sight mounted on the SIG Sport 552 assault.

Try as he might, El Gigante could not resist the bullets that were meant for him. Because of this, he was forced to yell in pain and expose his parasite. This gave Kevin the opportunity to fire the SSG P IV and empty its magazine at the parasite once it came out.

"Just a little more..." Kevin murmured, sighting the scope at the parasite as he worked his hands to reload and fire the bolt-action sniper rifle.


MOM's Office, The Center


Billy went inside MOM's office after seeing that the double doors to the room was wide open.

"You have something for me?" MOM asked Billy when he showed her an electronic tablet.

"We got this when some of the Security and Intelligence analysts were able to find this from a hidden surveillance camera in the portal room where we usually sent our agents through if time's not an issue."

"Show me." MOM told the green alien, who immediately replied by pressing a video file on the tablet.

"Here you are." Billy said before handing the electronic tablet to MOM, who held in horizontally. "It seems that someone's snooping around the portal room machinery in our Spanish base."

Hm? The Center head was baffled when she saw that the potential culprit was human, looking around the empty room before he brought out what appears to be pulling some wiring with his gloved hands. He was Caucasian with brown hair, an oval-shaped face and a small scar near his right eye.

"If I recall..." MOM pointed to the screen. "He was new for a few weeks and was vetted by SI."

"You want me to get SRS to arrest him?" Billy asked MOM.

"No." MOM shook her head. "We need to know who's giving his orders to conduct acts of sabotage. For now, ask SI to conduct more surveillance on him."

"Understood."


Open Circular Area, somewhere in Spain


The final shot from Kevin's SSG P IV paid off as El Gigante began to howl in pain, but not before the giant was able to clobber a few people out of the way.

"HOLY SHIT!"

Leon and Sho were among the first to respond by getting prone.

"It seems we got him for good."

The ninja watched as the giant wailed his last before he died for good.

"Everyone okay?" Leon asked as he got up. Instead, he only got some concerned response when he saw four of his allies were knocked out cold from El Gigante's backfist attack.

"Dammit..." The DSO agent muttered before he saw the giant die. Finally.

"Who was hit?" Sho said after seeing that two out of the four small huts were destroyed when figures had crashed into them.

"It's bad, master!" Hiryu shouted when he spoke to the ninja.

"What about it?"

"We got four down." Hiryu explained. "But not serious, they're just out cold."

"We don't have time for this." Leon sighed after hearing what the young SHADOW agent had mentioned. "Which means we'll seriously need to split the team up again to make up for lost time."

Sho noted that Yu, Chun-Li, Martin and Kevin were clobbered outright by El Gigante. So far, they were all getting up from being hit, which is good.

"How shall we divide the party?" Sho asked Leon.


En route to Church, outskirts of El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


While the four were slowly recuperating from the attack, it was decided finally two groups would be formed to save time and to get a lead in securing Ashley before Los Illuminados found out that El Gigante had been permanently killed in battle.

The main group would be led by Leon, mostly due to his experience in dealing with the "weird" ever since Raccoon City while being a covert agent with DSO. Accompanying Leon in the first group back to the big church were Jean, Diana, Java, Cammy, Hien, Eriko and Jill with Dan. As for the other team, Kevin would stay behind to lead it. Accompanying him would consist of Sho, Tea, Hiryu and Fujino with Yu, Chun-Li and Martin once the three would be up and about.

Leon kept his guard up as he advanced first towards the church, remembering the emblem that he obtained a while ago. He swept the grounds in front of the church and saw that it was clear. When Leon realized it, he gestured to the group to cover him while he approached the doors and placed the emblem on it.

"It's secure." murmured Leon after placing the Round Insignia emblem over the double doors. As soon as the emblem was properly placed, he was able to push the double doors open as they moved inward.

"Let's go." Leon told the others, jerking his head towards the direction of the church interior.


Open Circular Area, somewhere in Spain


"How's everyone doing?" Sho went to ask Hiryu as the situation was assessed.

"They're okay now." Hiryu carefully adjusted the sling to his G36C while Yu and Chun-Li were being checked out for injuries. Kevin was alright and was busy scavenging the empty huts for ammo or herbs to use. Jill had earlier administered whatever herbs they got to Kevin and Martin much earlier before she was about to do the same to the ARCAM Spriggan and Interpol officer. Tea had checkout the El Gigante corpse and saw that gold bars were found inside it. "But we'll need to move fast before we're done for."

"Not until she administers the herbs." Sho told his young protégé before Jill administered the herbs to Chun-Li. Yu had taken his a few minutes ago and looked fine.

"Is there something, Tea-san?" Fujino went to see the El Gigante corpse when she saw Tea inspecting it.

"In here." Tea pointed out to Fujino an "interesting sight" at the corpse. "I found something.

Fujino crouched next to the corpse and looked at the big wound at the left side of El Gigante. "It... it can't be."

"But it is."

The British Spriggan agent had actually found a bunch of gold bars at the wound opening of El Gigante. What baffled her is that she had no idea how the giant had the gold bars inside of him.

"Masaka..." Fujino muttered while grabbing a gold bar to check it if it was real or not. "It's a genuine gold bar." She then held the gold bar before gripping her hand around it carefully.

"The only thing we can do is to use it for extra money." Tea grinned as she went for the nearest gold bar. "We can sell this to the merchant when we can see him."

"Find anything?" Kevin asked the ladies after helping to administer whatever medical items he can use as he approached the giant's corpse.

"Just some gold bars." Fujino told Kevin. "It is strange since we don't know how the giant had this in his body."

"Well that is news to me." Kevin said as he scratched his head. "Least he doesn't need it anymore, so I have a feeling we can use it to pay off the merchant guy later."

Tea nodded before she resumed collecting the gold bars.

"So what about the others?" Fujino asked Kevin.

"They ought to be fine." Kevin replied. "Give or take a few minutes to make sure they're fine and not dizzy or anything, then we'll go and catch up with Agent Leon and the others who went ahead with him to the church we passed by a while ago."


Lower Floor, Inside Church, outskirts of El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


When Leon and his group entered the "church" with their weapons at the ready, no one was inside to face them. In fact, it was pretty quiet.

"This again?" Leon murmured.

"Looks clear." Hien told everyone as he looked inside while aiming his SS1-M5. "Although it's best to be on our guard."

"Are those the emblem of the cult?" Cammy asked as she spotted what appears to be the insignia of Los Illuminados on the red banners.

"It would seem so." Diana said as she and Java were the last ones to enter. The latter then closed the double doors behind them. "And the insignia seems to be on that glass pane up there."

"I don't remember Spain having a cult-based church like this, so I have a gut feeling that this place used to be Roman Catholic before the group took it over." Jill told the group as she went to check the pews to ensure they were clear.

Leon had lowered the Remington 870, even though the shoulder stock was still placed on his right shoulder. "Hold on a second. I'll go check the altar."

The blonde man went to check the altar for any signs of trap or hidden enemies, observing the circular logo of Los Illuminados. When he was near the altar, Leon turned around to see if the circular glass pane was illuminated by lights.

Green, Red and Blue? Looks like they mix up together or something. And there's a portrait of a hooded man. Who is he?

"All clear." Leon calmly replied after taking a good look at the portrait of the hooded man, who looked a bit sinister somehow. After seeing that the group gathered near the altar, he decided to tell them what he found out about the altar.

"Seems like the glass pane up there's illuminated." Leon pointed to the glass pane above him. "And the lights are lighting it up, so I think it could be another puzzle."

"Do we have any other place to go to?" Eriko asked Leon.

"Only place we can go to are the two side corridors near the main entrance behind us." Jean told the Japanese detective. "It's not much, but we may be able to get some place around this filthy church."

"Well it's not like we've got some other place to go to since this is the only building we haven't checked out yet." Diana gave her suggestion.


Diana and Java went with Eriko to check the right corridor, finding a wooden barrel at the end. The caveman smashed it with a strong kick and discovered a flashbang. The detective took it and gave it to Leon, giving the former his thanks as he needed some grenades, flashbang or not.

The others went to secure the left corridor, finding a metal corridor at the end. Cammy volunteered herself to secure the upper floor, executing a flip after jumping from the ground with a bit of momentum that she was able to get on top. A few seconds after scouting the floor and finding a metal gate that the Delta Red agent can't open, she went back to where the ladder was and told the others about the situation.

"Great." Leon sighed when he slinged the shotgun behind his back before the DSO agent began to climb up the metal ladder. "More problems for us."


Plank Bridge, en route to Church, outskirts of El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


"I don't like this bridge we're on."

Martin groaned when he began to step on the wooden plank bridge that the blonde teenager since Kevin was the leader of the second team, now moving to head back to the church and rendezvous with Leon and company as fast as possible in order to make up for lost time.

"No time for complaining, kiddo." Kevin told Martin while having his gloved left hand grip the Glock 21 Mariner. "Can't afford to waste time since the others went ahead of us to secure the church." He was walking a bit fast than he usually does, although Kevin was being careful to make sure his boot-clad feet were on the planks least he wanted to fall off into the water and die of drowning.

"Why can't these crazies ever come up with a better bridge design?" Yu complained, having the G3A4 at the ready.

"No complaining." Kevin glared at the Japanese Spriggan operator while he had his Glock 21 Mariner at the ready. "Just be glad that you've got something to walk on."

"Yeah, yeah." The Spriggan huffed in response.

"Let us keep moving." Sho reminded Yu and the others as they navigated on the bridge. It was now nightfall when they were on the bridge en route to meet with Leon's group. Usually it would not be a problem if it was night. But considering that the plank bridge Kevin's group was on had no safety measures like railings and such, they needed to be careful or they can die by drowning or by knocked out/injured/killed by massive injures by the cliffside.


Upper Floor, Inside Church, outskirts of El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


"Another way."

Cammy turned to the side and saw that there was another pathway on the other side of the church. It was located on the upper level and the only way to get there was by hopping on the chandelier above the pews.

The Delta Red went on her way, hopping on the chandelier and hopping off it when the momentum allowed her to do so. The red beret-clad woman looked to the left to see a dead end due to a metal gate blocking its path.

Then I'll need to take the second option then.

Cammy made a run to the other side, which was also sealed off in a dead end. Otherwise, a couple of wooden barrels were present.

"HIYAH!" Cammy yelled out when she executed a roundhouse kick with her right leg, breaking the wooden barrels open. She found an incendiary grenade near her boots.

"Better keep this." She picked up the incendiary grenade for her own use before she eyed the console nearby, which the blonde woman had passed by earlier.

"What does this do?" Cammy pressed what seemed to be the power button, turning on red, green and blue lights. The woman studied where the light beams ended up.


"Up there!"

Diana pointed out the three light beams from the ground level of the church, illuminating three colored circles near one multicolored circle, having the shape of an inverted triangle.

"What's happening?" Jean asked the Canadian Center agent.

"I'm lost as to what the lights can do."


Cammy went to work on studying the console, testing the buttons when she watched the colored circle turn. The Delta Red turned the circular dial that corresponded to the colored circle near the altar.

"Bollocks." Cammy murmured in anger. "This'll take a while."


Near Church, outskirts of El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


"Okay." Kevin told his group as they already passed over the wooden plank bridge and made their approach towards the church's cemetery. "We're almost there. And for once, there aren't any enemies around the place."

"Finally." Martin said in relief before he armed himself with his X-Staff as a precaution. "Now we're going to get somewhere."

Hiryu went near the church, checking the entrance by sweeping the place while having the Heckler & Koch G36C raised in case of any last minute surprise attacks. Yu went with him, being his comrade back when Hiryu was still a Spriggan. He too raised his Heckler & Koch G3A4 when he searched the area.

"Clear with the main entrance." Yu told the others after he and Hiryu stood by near the main doors of the church.

"Clear too with the cemetery." Fujino told the group after making a quick scan to see no villagers hiding.

"Let's not keep our colleagues waiting, shall we?"

Kevin told the group when he personally made his approach towards the main entrance, gripping his sidearm at the ready.


Upper Floor, Inside Church, outskirts of El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


Cammy diligently began her work on the console after answering question from her colleagues in the team that she was trying to decipher the lights, seeing that the red, green and blue circles were used as the colors for the multicolored circle in the inverted triangle formation.

"Let's try this lot again." Cammy felt the frustration getting to her as she had combined the lights for the nth time, with no luck since the three lights didn't match up. "I'm running out of combinations, so let's try this from the very start so that I'm not confused."

She studied the colored glass panels with the respective colored lights still shining on them. Cammy pondered if she could somehow get the colored lights rotated with the console's dial to correspond with the multicolored glass panel.

"Well, it's worth a shot to try."

Cammy began her work on the dials, starting with the red light. Remembering the Los Illuminados insignia in the multicolored glass panel, Cammy turned the dial until the red light formed some sort of resemblance to the insignia. The British agent did the same thing to the green and blue lights before she pressed a button to combine the three lights together.

"Let's hope this works."


MOM's Office, The Center


"What's this?"

MOM took a hold of several surveillance photos taken from the "suspected" Center employee who had been meeting with a few suspicious persons in downtown Madrid. All of them were covertly taken by personnel from the Center's Security & Intelligence Division or the SID, which was created after the Center's establishment to tackle issues ranging from intelligence on groups or individuals who are after alien or paranormal objects or weapons for criminal/terrorist activities to internal investigation on Center personnel in cases where Center operations could be compromised or if they are working as a double or triple agent for another organization.

"Good work for the SID today." MOM told Billy when he entered her office. "It seems we have one suspect."

"I have his personal information." The small alien told his superior. "It should be in your PC terminal."

"Understood." MOM saw a clear photo of a man in white Center uniform. He looked East Asian with black hair and brown eyes. From the looks of his facial features, the man looked to be in his middle 30s.

"His name is Daisuke Sawamura with his English name being Jack." Billy began to debrief MOM on the suspect. "He just came to the Center from the Japanese Military Intelligence Command. Placed in charge of ensuring security for all teleportation equipment in our Spanish base."

"I don't recall him having any problems with money or anything else, Billy." MOM frowned when she reviewed Sawamura's personal data alongside the Madrid surveillance photos. "It's like he's got something to hide."

"I've told SID to keep up with the surveillance they've done in Madrid so far."

"Good work, Billy. And next time, tell SID to get good shots of who they were keeping contact with. I couldn't see the face too well aside from what looks like to be aviator-type shades."

"It could be that the man may be trying to avoid being taken by surveillance photos just in case." Billy frowned after hearing MOM's assessment. "I'll ask SID to get another run at the man's face just in case."

"Thanks a lot, Billy. That's appreciated."


Upper Floor, Inside Church, outskirts of El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


After Cammy pressed the combine button, she watched the red, green and blue lights merge with the multicolored glass panel behind the altar.

"It worked!" She shouted, glad that her hard work payed off when the three lights were able to copy the Los Illuminados insignia.

"That's great!" Leon shouted back after hearing Cammy's success.

Kevin and the others got in and greeted Leon's team before they heard the metal gates open up on the upper level.

"Yo!" Kevin gave a high five to Leon. "So I guess the metallic sounds I'm hearing means we got a way in this place?"

Leon nodded. "You bet."

"What are we waiting for?" Chun-Li said to everyone in the two teams once they gathered up. "Let's climb up the ladder once more before the enemy tries to hinder us."

"Let's go!" Leon took the lead in climbing up the ladder leading to the church's upper levels.


Storage Room, Upper Floor, Inside Church, outskirts of El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


Ashley Graham, the 20-year old daughter of President Graham of the United States of America and current university student of the University of Massachusetts, had been held captive by the Los Illuminados for god knows when. Ashley had been knocked out cold by chloroform by her captors after they received intelligence that "some people" would be present in the village to rescue her. So far the plan was to keep her moving in order to keep her rescuers from guessing exactly where she was held.

"When do I get out of here?" murmured the blond girl, wondering if someone would save her from this mess.

Then, Ashley saw that the door was being opened. She instinctively went to the side to avoid being discovered.

"ASHLEY!" Ashley noted that the voice was not Spanish, but English. Her kidnappers spoke English, so the language didn't mean anything to her. The college student went to grab the nearest object that she can find.

In this case, this was a metal pipe. Albeit one that's already beginning to rust since it wasn't used for a very long time.

"WHOA!" Ashley threw it over the head of her supposed "captor", who turned out to be Kevin instead. Sho was near the DSO agent and as such, caught it with his left hand thanks to years of his ninja training.

"Careful, young lady." Sho told the First Daughter. "You know that someone could have gotten hurt if you threw that pipe to someone's face."

"You guys aren't my captors?" Ashley said when she saw the ninja toss the pipe aside after she leaned her back behind the wooden barrels.

"We're here to rescue you." Kevin told Ashley before he pointed the thumb to himself and then he frowned. "Well, some of us anyways if that's the case." He holstered his sidearm away afterwards.

"Some of us?" Ashley raised an eyebrow when she heard Kevin's explanation.

"We'll explain later."

"So this is the First Daughter I take?"

Ashley eyed Dan, who had entered the storage room as well. He activated his O-Watch, which scanned Ashley from top to bottom. She felt a bit nervous when she saw green light emit from the Malaysian SHADOW agent's watch, checking her entire body. It reminded her of her trips to the family doctor.

"Identity's officially confirmed." Dan says when the O-Watch noted of Ashley's identity. "Ashley Graham, First Daughter of President Graham of the United States of America and current student of the University of Massachusetts."

"Guess that's one thing down, huh?" Yu shouted from the outside of the storage room.

"Did my father sent you guys to rescue me?" Ashley asked Kevin.

Kevin shook his head. "Not all of us." Meanwhile, Dan kicked down the wooden barrels inside the storage room to check for any useful things. "Some of us are here for another mission or two."

The Malaysian managed to collect 1100 pesetas, .45 ACP and 9mm bullet boxes and a Green Herb. He kept the herb while he tossed the .45 ACP box to Kevin, which he gladly accepted.

"I'll explain it on the way out." Kevin told Ashley as he helped her get up from the floor. "I'll just warn you that you may get lost with their explanations..."


Outside Storage Room, Upper Floor, Inside Church, outskirts of El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


"Yo, Leon!"

Kevin shouted to Leon, standing outside the storage room with most of the others. "I got Ashley and she's fine."

"Nice to hear." Leon nodded after hearing Kevin's mentioning of Ashley's welfare.

"And who is he?" Ashley asked Kevin.

"He's Leon and he works with me in the DSO."

"Pleased to meet you, Ms. Graham." Leon greeted Ashley when he shook hands with her.

"DSO?" Ashley asked after shaking hands with Leon. "I'll assume that's with the military?"

"Well it's best if we don't explain that part." Kevin said, scratching the back of his head.

"You'll need this." Dan tossed the 9mm bullet to box to Jill, which she gladly accepted and gave her thanks.

"Allow me to introduce ourselves." Diana went to introduce herself. "My name's Diana Lombard and this is my stepbrother Martin Mystery." She then pointed to Java. "That's Java. And he's a caveman." Diana pointed out Jill, who was standing next to Java. "That's Jill Valentine, one of the many survivors of the Raccoon City incident."

"Thanks for finding me." Ashley shook hands with Diana and then Jill. "Especially to Ms. Valentine. It's an honor to meet someone who survived such an incident."

"Hi..." Martin seem to be attracted. "Mind if I get your number after this crisis is over?"

"Martin!" She pulled Martin by her ear.

"Java pleased to meet you." Java shook hands with Ashley, having a firm grip but otherwise a relaxed one.

"Likewise." Ashley smiled at the caveman. Is he really a caveman? I mean he doesn't look like one...

"I'm Cammy White of Delta Red under MI-6." Cammy went to tell Ashley her name before she pointed out Chun-Li. "That's Chun-Li Xiang of INTERPOL China."

"A pleasure. I never know a lot of countries were involved."

"Believe us when we tell you the full story." Eriko grinned at Ashley. "Eriko Aizawa of the Japanese National Police Agency."

"I am Sho of the Commandos." Sho bowed before Ashley.

"A real super hero?" Ashley blushed, being before a known super hero. "I mean, thank you." She managed to get her words right, at least. "Thank you for finding me with Kevin and Leon."

"It was not a problem, Ms. Graham. All in a day's work."

"Yu Ominae, Jean Jacequemonde and Tea Flatte of the ARCAM Corporation." Tea introduced her group to Ashley. "I must say that you look really fine despite your ordeal."

"Believe me, I have my ways." Ashley shook hands with Tea. "The ARCAM Corporation? From what I know, you guys explore ancient ruins and preserve them to protect those places from exploitation." She raised an eyebrow. "Since when does a company like that allow its people to go commando like that?"

"If you think that's weird..." Jean huffed. "You ought to see the Almight Support Enterprises..."

"Forgive my friend." Yu went to cut off Jean's rambling. "But we're actually here on a covert mission like your DSO saviors are, so I don't think we're in a liberty to say anything."

Ashley decided not to ask further, remembering what Kevin mentioned a while ago.

Maybe I can pry out the details later on those guys with the Center group...

The college student noticed Hiryu, Hien and Dan, the trio just waiting on the side.

"Don't worry about them." Diana reassured Ashley. "They're on our side." She then glared at them. "They're just waiting on the action."

"What?" Dan moaned after hearing Diana's criticism.

"That's Dan, a colleague of mine from Malaysia and he's a SHADOW agent."

"Excuse me?" Ashley asked.

"That's black ops, but we're being used for firearms support as well." Hiryu told Ashley. "Codename Hiryu. Same division with Dan." He pointed to Hien. "My brother. Codename Hien. He's a Spriggan with ARCAM."

"Just note that we got mixed up in all this when we have other jobs in mind." Hien told Ashley bluntly. "But oh well, least it'll be good in the resume."

Leon fought the urge to slap his face after hearing what the masked Spriggan had said.

"Let's just... get out of here for now since we all got the chance to get acquainted and all." Kevin said after hearing what the masked brothers had said.

Hiryu shrugged before he offered to lead the way back down the lower floor of the church.


Lower Floor, Church, outskirts of El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


Hiryu and Hien simply leaped off from the upper floor to the lower position, landing in front of the ladder. The others did so likewise except for Ashley, who needed some assistance.

"Eeppp..." Ashley yelled out a bit before Leon caught her after she hopped off the upper floor. "Thanks."

"Always glad to help." Leon told Ashley.

"I'm hearing movement near the altar." Jill told Leon, already having her Px4 Type F drawn out from her holster.

"How many?" Kevin asked Jill after getting his sidearm out.

"Don't know. But I'm kind of hearing someone..."

"Let's move out."


Near Altar, Lower Floor, Church, outskirts of El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


Jill and Kevin took the lead in securing the lower floor, but the two had encounter someone who they didn't expect to see.

Especially if that someone appears to be cloaked with a hood covering his entire head and had a staff held on his right hand.

"Freeze!" Jill yelled at the hooded man, aiming her sidearm at him. Minutes later, Leon and the others showed up near the altar as well.

"Who the hell are you?" Kevin challenged the hooded man, pointing his pistol at him.

The hooded man responded by chuckling in delight after seeing Jill and Kevin aim their weapons at him.

"Well greetings to you all." The man said in a calm and well-mannered tone of voice. "If all of you must know, my name is Osmund Saddler. The master of this fine... religious community."

"Your community doesn't sound all that religious to me!" Martin shouted, showing him his clenched fist. "They attacked us for no reason for starters...!"

"Look on his chest!" Eriko shouted, pointing to the crest of the Los Illuminados. It was made in gold with fine stones encrusted on it.

"So it solves one mystery on who the true mastermind is." Kevin said.

"And so it seems that the reputation of my community is well-known." Saddler chuckled. "At least I will not need to introduce them..."

"Why are you doing this?" Yu aimed the G3A4 at Saddler's head.

"It is quite simple." Saddler calmly replied. "It's to demonstrate to the world our astounding power, of course."

"In that case," Hien went to talk snark at him. "couldn't you just do that at some magical show or something instead of wasting your time on doing a kidnapping? The Americans and INTERPOL won't take so kindly to that."

"But that is a part of my actions. You see, I wish to show the whole world that the United States cannot police the world any longer. So we kidnapped President Graham's daughters to give her... our power."

"Anti-Americanism at its finest." Jill sighed when she kept her sidearm trained at Saddler.

"You think that can solve anything?" Diana shouted at Saddler, not liking where this is going.

Ashley placed her hand on her neck, remembering something.

"You guys..." Ashley told the group. "I think they shot something into my neck."

"What the... hell did you do?" Dan snarled at Saddler when he aimed at Sport 552 at Saddler.

"We didn't do anything." Saddler grinned. "We just gave her a little present."

"That must be the parasite I was feeling in my system..." Tea told the group.

"It looks like my surprise has been foiled." Saddler said, as if he was sad. "But I'll tell you this. When the eggs hatch in your bodies, all of you will be my puppets. Alongside Ms. Graham of course after she goes home to her daddy. Not to mention the donations that I'll be able to get President Graham to have my organization running for a little while..."

"This looks like a serious case of kidnapping and extortion." Chun-Li said out loud.

"No it is not my dear." Saddler went to correct the Chinese woman. "This is... a part of a revolutionary way to propogate one's faith."

"I have one demand to make!" Hiryu aimed his G36C at Saddler. "And that demand is to get these damn monsters off our systems!"

Saddler didn't say anything. Instead, a couple of hooded monks came bursting in with crossbows aimed at the group.

Crossbows that had flaming crossbow boltheads attached.

"RUN!" Kevin yelled, grabbing Ashley by her right arm. Hiryu and Dan volunteered to stay behind, the former telling everyone to run for their lives and get the hell out by jumping through the nearby window nearby to escape.

"I'll start with them instead!" Hiryu shouted as he aimed the G36C's attached Bundeswehr-type 3x riflescope sight at the two monks.

"Ditto!" Dan said before the two SHADOW agents fired their carbines at the monks. The Malaysian teen used the red dot to fire at the heads of one of the monks while Hiryu just simply fired the G36C at full auto.

The two monks eventually died when they collapsed at the stairs leading to the front door. Hiryu hurled a smoke grenade near Saddler (Well, his unused one taken from the SHADOW armory) to mask their escape.


Storage Area, Church, outskirts of El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


"Everyone all right?" Kevin asked after he got up, checking himself for any open wounds. Eriko and Fujino helped Ashley to make sure that she was fine.

"Looks like we're all okay." Leon said after removing glass shards from his arms without getting cut up in the process.

Martin told Java to smash up the wooden barrels and take whatever was there while Cammy and Chun-Li began to talk.

"So what now?"

"We get out of here. And then we figure out to get these... things the cultists injected into our bodies."

Eriko went to check the metal door and saw that it was now unlocked. Taking a peek outside, she gestured to Leon and Kevin that the outside was clear.

"Master!"

But that was before Hiryu rushed in to get the door open.

"Thank the kamis you're safe." Sho greeted his ex-student.

"We don't have time! There's trouble outside."

Java handed Martin a box of 5.56 NATO bullets, some pesetas worth 800 pesetas and a red herb.

"I'll save this for Dan." Martin said while he told Java to hand the red herb to Jill, who accepted it with thanks. Tea grabbed the pesetas for safekeeping.

"What is the trouble?" Sho asked.

"We've got a welcoming committee. The hostile type." Hiryu said after Eriko opened the metal door.

"Where are they?"


Outskirts of Church, outskirts of El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


Hiryu and Dan showed Leon and Kevin the cart left alone near the church.

Alongside a bunch of villagers waiting at the bottom of the hill. All of them brandishing lit torches.

"What a welcoming committee..." Jean sighed. "All of that just to say hello?"

"Those barrels?" Ashley pointed out to Jean. "Can we try shooting them as a distraction?"

Jean grinned after hearing Ashley's suggestion. "You didn't need to tell me that twice, princess."

The French Spriggan agent shouldered the SPAS-12 and fired it in semi-automatic mode, watching the barrels explode as it began to run over the villagers since they were all taken by surprise.

Martin handed Dan a box of 5.56 NATO bullets as the villagers were being killed by the moving, burning cart. Except two villagers who were now approaching the church.

"Take this!" Yu aimed the G3A4 at the villager's torches, watching them burn. Leon, for his part, shouldered the Remington 870 and fired a couple of shots at the burning villagers.

"Alright!" Kevin yelled after seeing the burning villagers go down. "Let's move!"

The two teams made their way back to the empty house with the ladder, passing by the small hut to take down the wooden crates and get whatever was inside. Consisting of a small box of non-subsonic 7.62 NATO bullets and 1000 pesetas only.


Cavern, Under Church, El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


"Greetings to everyone!"

The Merchant was happy to see the teams when they arrived back at the underground cavern, courtesy of Leon kicking the door open as a precaution now that the cult had their eyes on them.

"Was anyone here?" Kevin asked the Merchant. "Wait a second. Let me rephrase the question: Has anyone passed through this place a while ago?"

The hooded man frowned. "Not that I was aware of, strangahhh...!"

"It seems we can use this opportunity to catch our breath and check on our weapons." Sho suggested to the two teams.

"A good idea." Fujino agreed with the ninja commando. "I don't think we'll have an opportunity like this for a while."

"Agreed." Kevin said as he checked on the empty magazines for his Glock 21 Mariner. "For starters, I'll be busy for a few minutes to reload my sidearm here."

Some of the others wielding firearms began to check their weapons before they began to reload with how many box magazines they were carrying.

They all felt that it was an opportunity they needed to take before leaving this place.


Ashley decided to take a break herself by leaning on the cavern walls. As much as she'd like to sit down, it was better to take the most available alternative when she could. For now, the blonde girl watched the others get ready by rearming themselves or buying healing items from the Merchant. Still, she saw Leon and Kevin apply the mixed herbs onto themselves to make sure that they were not sick or hurt in any way.

"So it seems you're fancying yourself some trouble there, strangah."

Ashley saw that the voice belonged to the Merchant, who just waved at her after handing a couple of boxes containing 12 gauge shotgun shells to Leon and Jean, the former paying it off right away.

"I am." Ashley told the Merchant after she nodded. "Not to mention that this Saddler guy just... placed some strange thing in my body. Same thing with the others."

"I wish I can help you there, miss." The Merchant replied to Ashley after hearing her concerns. "However, I don't sell anything that can fight off an infection or a parasite. The first aid sprays I sell won't do you any good, except to heal up any open wounds you have."

"So what am I going to do?" Ashley sighed. "I'm sure it's a matter of time before all our free will is lost permanently." She mumbled in anger, remembering what Saddler had mentioned back near the altar.

"My only advise for you is to move on with your friends and work together to prevent yourself from being under Saddler's control." The Merchant gave Ashley his advise, pointing out the group with his right thumb. "May not be much, but it's the only thing I can think of."

"But there's one more thing I'd like to point out."

"Yes?"

"I notice..." Ashley moved close to the Merchant. "that your eyes don't seem to be that normal. What happened to them?"

"'Tis a long story to explain, strangah."

I wonder if I should introduce myself properly to this... weird man.


The two teams went to gather for a discussion while Ashley continued to speak to the Merchant. So far, the teams were now starting to discuss their operations after they were found by Saddler an hour ago.

"What's going to happen next?" Cammy asked the group after everyone had gathered up. "Now that Saddler knows about us, we'll need to figure out how to get the contraptions the group placed on our bodies."

"Our only option is to move on and figure out something." Kevin said in response.

"And then what?" Hien asked.

"And then we go down and look for something or someone that can aid us in getting the organism from our bodies."

"But what about Ashley?" Eriko went to ask Leon and Kevin. "If what Saddler said is true, then you guys can't risk extracting Ashley out of this place."

"That part is true." Tea agreed with Eriko's assessment. "It'll be risky that Ashley is coming with us, but we'll have no choice for her at this point."

The others nodded in agreement.

"Well our mission objectives don't change at all." Yu said, pointing to himself, Jean, Tea and Hien.

"Same thing goes with us here." Martin said, pointing to himself, Diana and Java.

"Us two are just here as backup for these three." Dan said, pointing to Martin and Diana.

"Well for now," Leon said after hearing what the Spriggans and Center agents have mentioned. "let's move out of here. On the way, let's figure out if we can get some clues as to how we can get the parasite Saddler injected into us off permanently."

"But where do we go from here?" Diana asked Leon. "For one thing, we'll be heading back to the village up at the surface. Not to mention that it's too dark."

"Wish I bought a pair of decent NVGs with me." Hiryu sighed.

"Same here." Hien sighed.

"Bah, you two aren't the only ones." Yu looked at the balaclava-clad teenagers.

"Since we've already split the group into two teams, we can get one team to scout the village and check if it's clear before we can move out with Ashley." Sho offered a suggestion to the entire group.

"That is a good idea." Jill responded to Sho's suggestion. "I'll have to agree with Sho's suggestion."

"Likewise." Leon replied, nodding his head.

"So everyone's in agreement here then?" Kevin voiced himself after hearing agreements from Jill and Leon regarding Sho's suggestion.

When the ex-SPF officer saw collective nods, the brown-haired man decided to go along with the suggestion.


The plan the teams agreed went like this:

One team would leave the underground cave and push forward to secure the village and figure a way out of the area. The other team would stay behind (at least initially at first) to guard Ashley and cover the first team's rear guard from any potential enemy attacks.

For this to work, Leon decided to volunteer. The others in the second team didn't know if it was out of kindness or whether it was to take turns after Kevin and the others in his team went to look for Leon in the church.


Outskirts of Church, outskirts of El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


"It seems a mess has been out here."

Ada had observed the outskirts of the church that had been previously used to hold Ashley prisoner from a nearby tree branch, scoping out the perimeter with his military-type binoculars. She went to zoom in on the metal door leading to the storage area, seeing that it had been open.

"I just hope those guys are able to get what they needed considering the parasite Los Illuminados placed on them."

The Asian-American woman went to make contact with Wesker regarding Ashley's escape from the church.

"Wesker, it's me. There's something I need to tell you..."


Cavern, Under Church, El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


Ashley watched as the group was now splitting up with Leon waiting for some of the other individuals in his team to get ready right away.

"We'll see you later, brah."

Hien went to do a fistbump with Dan, who did the same likewise.

"Indeed. Terima Kasih, my friend."

"You can take the lead here." Kevin placed a hand onto Leon's left shoulder. "For a change..."

"Don't worry, Kevin." Leon reassured his colleague. "I'll contact you guys once the coast is clear afterwards."

"Good words to hear there."

Fujino handed a couple of first aid sprays to Jill and Eriko after Tea gave the Japanese SHADOW agent some pesetas to buy them.

"Good luck, master." Hiryu bowed in front of Sho, who also bowed.

"No need to worry." Sho reassured Hiryu. "I shall return."

"Ready to give a beating to those bad guys?" Martin asked Java, grinning.

"You bet, Martin." Java smacked his clenched fist into his palm.

"I guess we'll see you guys later." Diana addressed, who already got his SPAS-12 ready.

"Heh." Jean grinned. "No need to worry. I'll show those cultists the strength of Jean Jacquemonde." The blonde man grinned further. "Prince of the Spriggan brigade."

Yu and Hien went to facepalm after hearing Jean's boast.


Outskirts of Church, El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


"Now what?"

Kenny and Krauser were now examining the church near the graveyard, being alerted by Saddler of the group's presence. The former had asked after he was summoned by Krauser.

"I don't know really." Krauser sighed, stretching his muscular arms. "Except to hunt them down and kill them. After all, we are mercenaries hired by the man himself."

"What about the others?"

"I'll alert the others when Saddler will tell us to move in and take them down. As we speak, Octavia getting a hybrid creature from the CIHL ready to be implanted with a parasite from the cult to even our odds."

"You think we'll win?" Kenny asked. Does this mean that I'll not be able to help the others from here on end?

"I don't care if that damn creature Octavia's cooking up is going to help us. As long as we can do what Wesker needs, then I've got nothing to worry about. Do you?" Krauser felt confident when he was replying to Kenny's question.

Kenny felt a bit nervous. "Guess not."


Cavern, Under Church, El Pueblo, somewhere in Spain


"Jumpa Lagi!"

Dan gave the two-finger salute as he was the last to leave the cavern alongside Leon, who told Ashley to be careful and stay put with Kevin's group until they got the all-clear to proceed to the surface in El Pueblo. Kevin went to lend Leon the SSG P IV and all of the subsonic ammo he has with him. In return, Leon handed Kevin the Remington 870 and all the 12 gauge shells he got. Before the blonde man left, Kevin warned him to "be safe".

"So how long is the wait going to be?" Ashley went to ask the nearest person. In this case, this was Chun-Li.

"I'm not really sure myself." Chun-Li replied with a shrug. "Coupled with the fact that it's evening and most of us don't have night vision equipment, it'll be hard for us to get the drop on the enemy."

"I have the utmost confidence that Leon's group will be able to take care of any enemy stragglers in the village should they be found lingering around." Sho told the blonde college student with confidence, his arms crossed around his chest.

Ashley slowly nodded. "I sure hope that you're right."

"When the master says what it is, then he's right after all."

Hiryu spoke up in support of his master from the side, already gripping the sling of his G36C.

"Leon's shooting skills may be a bit lower than me back in the agency, but I trust his shooting skills with the SSG P IV." Kevin said with confidence. "Besides, I think he'll be the one whose going to get the jump on those crazy villagers."

Fujino and Martin simply went to sit down on the floor, feeling a bit tired from all the action the two Center agents encountered so far.

A loud beep came from Hiryu's O-Watch. The masked SHADOW agent excused himself as he went to another part of the cavern to get some wanted privacy.


"Agent Hiryu reporting in, MOM."

Hiryu pressed a button on his Center-issued O-Watch, making a holographic image of MOM appear alongside Billy.

"How are things in Spain, agent Hiryu?" MOM asked, waiting for a reply while she clasped her hands, seated near her desk.

"Bad. Really bad." Hiryu replied. "Los Illuminados has infected us with some kind of organism when my group was initially captured. We're not sure what kind of organism it is, but it's got everyone on the edge, including the President's daughter herself."

"Is she infected?" Billy went to question Hiryu.

Hiryu nodded. "Yes she was unfortunately. Right now, we're moving out to get a lead away from Saddler. I doubt the Americans will have her extracted covertly at this point, considering our current situation."

"And I'll assume you're feeling some of the effects?"

Hiryu nodded.

"Your new orders for you, Dan and Fujino." MOM sighed before she spoke to Hiryu. "Find out how to get the parasite off your bodies. And if you do find some of these parasites being kept for future use..."

The masked agent stared at the hologram as he awaited for the orders of MOM.

"I want you three to have them destroyed at once. We can't risk having someone steal them if the Center gets the unused parasites into custody. If anyone tries to interfere, you have full permission to use lethal force should it be found necessary. Is that clear?"

At least some of our orders are still the same...

"Understood, MOM. I'll relay the orders to them once I'm able to regroup."

Chapter 7 END


PS - Give me a hell yeah for Resident Evil 6! News on the game came out on my birthday! Awesomeness... Now I don't know if I wanna extend my fanfic writing to include RE6. But I guess I'll see depending on what the story is, especially since I have a gut feeling that it'll be connected with Revelations.

Following someone's recommendation, I'll split the party into teams to make future chapters less confusing. Guess I better list down who's who on the team's so that things won't get confusing on the rest of the story since a lot of good guys in play.:

Team 1 - Hien, Leon, Diana, Java, Jean, Cammy, Jill, Eriko, Dan

Team 2 - Hiryu, Sho, Fujino, Martin, Kevin, Yu, Tea, Chun-Li

Anyway, I don't know if there will be changes. Most likely possible, but it's possible too that nothing will take place. Except for one person or two. I await your reviews and all. Any corrections/mistakes, please let me know ASAP so's I can correct them immediately, thank you. Have a good day! ;)

I apologize for a late update. Aside from university priorities, I went to read up on a lot of comics and then some new movies to watch on the side. I also got Binary Domain in the mail today too, so hell yeah!