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's group was successfully able to end their journey in clearing out the path for the teams to progress. What awaits them as they prepare to leave El Pueblo? Will they be able to find a way of the village even with the odds are against them? Stay tune to this chapter to find out.

Chapter 11: The Unknown


Dual Dirt Paths, somewhere in Spain


Leon's group, alongside Fujino, Hiryu and Sho, were now reunited with Kevin's group on the wooden landing at the right dirt path.

"Hey, man!" Kevin greeted Leon by exchanging fist bumps. "Glad to see you're still in one piece."

"You think I'll drop dead?" Leon smirked at Kevin after the two DSO agents finished exchanging fist bumps.

The others exchanged greetings, glad to see that they're still alive while the Merchant was polite enough to provide bottled water.

"So what's next?" Sho asked, now that the teams are together for the meantime.

"I guess we need to rest up for a while since most of us are tired from clearing the two paths." Yu suggested their next course of action to the ninja.

"I can go and scout ahead." Dan offered himself as a volunteer.

"Is something ahead?" Chun-Li asked the Malaysian SHADOW agent.

"I couldn't help it, but I spotted a small shed nearby." Dan told the Interpol officer, pointing to the said shed down the path, which was located on the side. "It's probably nothing, but it doesn't hurt to be very sure."

"Oh, it's just nearby." Diana commented, who was able to find the shed Dan mentioned. "Say Dan, do you want to take Java with you to be on the safe side?"

"Sure." Dan nodded. He faced Java. "Come on, Java. Back me up."

"Java back up Dan."


Outside Shed, Right Dirt Path, somewhere in Spain


Dan led the way, aiming the Sig Sport 552 carbine at the shed. Java followed the SHADOW agent, his clenched fists at the ready.

"Java feel a bit nervous." Java murmured to Dan as they stopped to check the outside of the shed.

"Don't worry, Java." Dan reassured the caveman. He stopped to pick up a box of 9mm pistol ammo and pocketed it. "It's an easy job, so we'll backtrack once we're done here."

Java nodded after hearing Dan out. "Java understand what Dan said."

Dan smirked at Java. "Attaboy Java."

Immediately, Dan stacked up at the shed door with the Sport 552 at the ready. Java stood at the side, ready to assist him.

"Java." Dan turned his head around to face the caveman. "Do me a favor and bust the door down."

Java asked Dan. "Java wants to know if there's a trap."

Dan sighed. "We'll take the risk anyway. I'll take responsibility if something happens."

The caveman nodded, understand Dan's orders. Java approached the door and kicked it with all of his might.

"Awesome, Java." Dan came to the caveman and patted him on the arm. "Good job."

Java nodded and gave Dan the thumbs up.


Inside Shed, Right Dirt Path, somewhere in Spain


Dan was the first to enter the shed. Having a firearm with him, it was useful for the Center black ops agent to eliminate any hostiles should he encounter any.

"All right..." murmured Dan, going inside to check the front and the rear of the shed. He found that it was clear of hostiles. "All's clear, ladies and gentlemen."

"No bad guys in here." Java commented after going inside the shed, following Dan.

"There aren't, Java." Dan told the caveman. "Which is a good thing for the two of us. I don't want to engage in a firefight unless needed."

Java spotted some lockers that are on the ground, pointing them out to Dan.

"Thanks." Dan slinged the 552 carbine on his back before he approached the lockers, finding one that was still standing up next to a locker that was on the ground. He noted that a piece of paper was left on top of it.

Strange. Unless the enemy's kind of dumb, it may be worth of importance.

Dan took the paper and kept it with him. He then opened the locker door, which was done without any difficulty at all.

"Here goes." Dan took a hold of the locker handle and opened it, ready to get out either his sidearm or combat knife in case of a booby trap.

"Ammo, huh?" Dan was relieved that no booby trap was inside the locker. Instead, there was a box of 7.62 NATO ammo. "I'll take that."

He took a look at the box carefully before pocketing the box. "Looks like subsonic ammo. Makes me wonder how country people like these villagers are able to acquire security forces-only ammo?"

"Dan finished?" Java asked if Dan was finished since he was conducting rear guard duty.

"We're done here, Java. Let's go and see the others." Dan told Java as he got the 552 carbine ready again.

The two went out of the shed and en route to see their comrades.


Dual Dirt Paths, somewhere in Spain


"Anything?" Hiryu asked Dan when he came back. Java came alongside the SHADOW agent.

"Here." Dan handed the box of 7.62 NATO ammo to Yu, who accepted it. "Just got some ammo, that's all." The Malaysian handed a box of 9mm ammo. "Got 9mm ammo as well. Just divide it among yourselves. And be nice, considering we don't get many opportunities to get ammunition."

Jill took the box of 9mm ammo and divided among anyone who needed 9mm ammo.

"And I found this..." Dan got the piece of paper he found from the shed. "As usual, it's in Spanish."

"I'll have a look." Eriko took the paper from Dan. "Was this all?"

"Yeah. Aside from a lot of empty lockers."

"Lockers huh?" Martin said, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes, Martin. Lockers."

"Give me a second, guys. The letter Dan found isn't that long."

Eriko began to scan over the letter to read what was on it. She could only marvel at the cult for having people who could write legible Spanish for the Japanese detective to read clearly.

I clearly underestimated the intruders' capabilities. They are still alive. I thought that we could wait until the eggs are hatched, but at this rate, they could destroy the whole village before it does. We must take care of this nuisance.

We shall change our priorities - for the time being, we will cease our hunt for Luis and ambush the intruders.

There is a building used to enlighten betrayers just beyond the point where you get off the lift. It's a perfect place for ambushing them. If all else fails, they still would need to face me in order to get past the last gate that leads out of the village.

For only before my sight will the gate open.

My sight?

Eriko was confused by the last part on the letter.

"Anything significant in the letter?" Cammy asked Eriko.

Eriko nodded. "Looks like the cult's onto us." She then further explained. "It seems they were waiting for whatever is implanted inside us to be functional, but decided to mark us as expendable to be on the safe side."

"I wouldn't be surprised, detective." Diana told the detective before she told the others. "From the letter Ms. Eriko read out, it means the cult is trying to do anything to make sure we're dead and take the First Daughter back."

"Great." Kevin sighed. "So expect more opposition before we can get out of here?" He stretched his arms. "Why doesn't this remind me of some action movie I've seen recently?"

Sho had just dashed in, apparently from scouting out the area ahead.

"I have finished scouting the area while Dan was out checking the nearby shed." The ninja sighed before he reported his findings. "And I will say that the large gate up ahead cannot be opened manually."

"This day just keeps getting better." Leon said sarcastically. "When Kevin and I get back to HQ, I'm asking for a pay raise."

"I hear you on that, buddy." Kevin said, giving Leon the thumbs up.

Eriko remembered reading the part when it mentioned about "my sight". She decided to tell the others about it.

"Wait a second." Eriko stepped in, talking to the others about the end of the letter where it mentions about the sight. "The letter Dan obtained talked about the sight of someone before we can leave this place."

"My sight?" Chun-Li was confused. "That sounds very cryptic, Detective Aizawa."

"But that part does mean something." Fujino told the Interpol officer. "Something very important we need to acquire before we can get out of the village outskirts."

"You mean, like an eye?" Jean surmised. That could possibly work, but it seems that's from retinal scanners.

"That's one way to look at it." Tea told Jean.

"Guess it means we need to get it from one source." Jill added.

"Okay..." Dan joined in the conversation. "I'll go and volunteer ahead since I'm already fully loaded and game..."

"You know, Dan." Hiryu smirked at him. "You should get an award when we get back to the Center."

"Real funny there, man."

"Since we're going to hunt down the chief, since he's mostly likely the source of the eye we need to take." Leon told the teams, not seeing any objections to his conclusion. "we'll need to get a small number of people to secure the path in locating and killing the guy."

"There is an aerial lift platform on the right side of the locked gate." Sho advised the teams. "However, I have confirmed the presence of armed villagers guarding the other platform."

"This shouldn't be a problem for me and my trusty sniper rifle." Kevin couldn't help but boast his sniping skills.

"I guess we have an idea on how we can handle this problem, huh?" Yu told Leon.

"Yeah. I guess we do."


Adam Benford's Office, DSO Headquarters, somewhere in the United States of America


Adam had just been in contact with the White House, talking to the president on an update regarding Leon and Kevin's progress in securing Ashley when he had received a note from a secretary.

"I'll talk to you later Mr. President. Something important has come up."

Adam replaced the phone back in the cradle when he read the note.

"Dammit." The glasses-wearing DSO officer murmured. "So the rumors are true after all..."

He got the phone back before the man made some calls.

"Yes. Yes, it's me. Bad news." Adam sighed and looked at the note. "Get McGivern mobilized at once with some agents."

The man frowned when he heard the reply from the other line.

"We've confirmed a leak. And it's coming from the Secret Service."


Upper Aerial lift platform, somewhere in Spain


Leon and Kevin have arrived at the upper aerial lift platform alongside Jill, Jean, Hien and Dan. The plan the five agreed on called for Kevin to snipe at the villagers located at the lower aerial lift platform and at the platform cars. Leon would stay behind to help Kevin protect his rear.

Once the four had secured a platform car to use, they will travel to the lower aerial lift platform. Two of them will stay to secure the lower platform while the other two would scout the area and locate anything they can secure, which also includes killing off Mendez since the letter Eriko translated from Spanish indicate the possibility of an eye as some sort of key.

"Okay, folks. I'll handle this." Kevin shouldered the Steyr SSG P IV and scoped out the villagers at the lower platform. "Alright. I've confirmed my targets."

"I'll be the spotter." Leon brought out his binoculars to scope out the platform as Kevin's spotter. "I'll tell you where to shoot."

"No problem. I'll start shooting from the obvious areas first." Kevin told Leon before he fired the suppressed sniper rifle at visible villagers overlooking the aerial lift platform.

"Taken down two villagers on top of the metal tower platforms." Kevin called out his shots before aiming the P IV at the incoming platform cars. "Incoming villager from an approaching platform car."

"Take the shot, Kevin."

"Acknowledged."

Kevin fired a suppressed 7.62 NATO bullet into the skull of the villager, watching him fall to his doom.

"Let's go." Jean told the other three, riding on a platform car standing up.

"Cover us!" Jill shouted to Kevin and Leon.

"On it!" Kevin shouted back to Jill. He continued to fire shot after shot to kill the villagers so that they won't be a hassle in attacking the four as they were nearing their approach on the lower platform.

"Let's just hope they can make it."


Lower Aerial lift platform, somewhere in Spain


Jill, Jean, Hien and Dan were fast approaching the lower platform. So far, Kevin's sniping was covering for them.

"Looks like Kevin hasn't slacked off his sniping skills." Jill commented, remembering how Kevin would show off his shooting skills to his colleagues back in the RPD.

"I got this covered." Jean told the Raccoon City survivor, aiming and firing his Franchi SPAS-12 to blast three villagers at an adjacent platform car. They would have hurled their hatchets at them, if it were not for Jean's intervention. They fell for their deaths as the platform car they rode in was over a canyon.

"Ce n'est rien." Jean said with a smirk on his face before he and the others disembarked.

"Game plan?" Hien asked as he took the lead in securing the lower platform with Jean beside him.

"We Spriggans will secure the lower platform." Jean told the masked Spriggan agent. "Dan and Ms. Valentine should be able to scout ahead and locate anything of significant use."

"Sure..." Dan said, having some doubt.

Jill didn't say anything, except that she drew out her sidearm.

"Then it's officially settled." Jean said out loud.

Hien went off inside the platform control room by hopping through the unused window frame to get inside. He subsequently raided the lockers to secure a box of 9mm ammo and a flashbang.

"Anything?" Jean asked Hien as he kicked the door in order to get out of the control room.

"Here." Hien replied to Jean. "I've got 9mm ammo and a flashbang."

"I can take them from your hands." Jill told Hien, taking the items from the Spriggan.

"Okay. Jean told Jill. "We'll handle things from here to secure the area. You guys better go ahead."

"Thanks." Jill told Jean after she pocketed the 9mm ammo box and the flashbang.

"We owe you one for this." Dan told the French Spriggan agent as he took the lead. Jill followed him as they went down the staircase.


Residential Area, somewhere in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America


A small convoy of 2004 Chevrolet Suburbans and Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors arrived in a residential area, all in black finishes and have no traces of markings. This startled Virginia Beach police officers that have cordoned off a street block.

"Hey! Hey! Hey!" An African-American VBPD officer began to approach the unknown convoy. "You can't be here! This block is closed to the public..."

"Sorry, officer." A blonde, slightly bearded man in his late 20s with a black shirt, pants and loafer shoes stepped out of the black CVPI's front passenger seat. "We do need to take over from here."

"Who are you with?" The officer challenged the blonde man.

"I'm with this agency, as my ID can show you." The blonde man showed his ID, identifying him as an official agent of the Division of Security Operations.

Bruce McGivern

Division of Security Operations

"The Division of Security Operations?" The VBPD officer said after hearing McGivern's ID. "I honestly never heard of you guys."

"Let's just say that we handle the ultraserious stuff that's related to American national security." The blonde man told the officer. "Forgot to introduce myself. Bruce McGivern of the DSO." Bruce subsequently kept his ID after introducing himself.

"Officer Jack Bell, Virginia Beach Police Department." The African-American officer introduced himself to Bruce. "We've received a call that a Secret Service agent named Michael Lawrence was threatening his neighbors after being told that he was on leave for personal reasons."

"Personal reasons?" Bruce asked the officer.

Bruce shrugged. "We don't know. Apparently a mailman was trying to deliver some letters to the guy's house when gunshots rang out. He panicked and called 911." He pointed to the direction of the agent's house, which was only a couple of houses down from the VBPD roadblock.

"And civilians?"

"We've managed to evacuate them. Strangely enough, we didn't see any reporters aside from emergency services."

"Was the guy on anything?" Bruce asked him after signalling the other DSO officers to get ready.

"We don't know. We hope that we can take him alive."

Bruce smirked. "That's where we come in."


Tunnel, somewhere in Spain


Jill and Dan had just went down the staircase when the former immediately spotted a tunnel with a path leading to it from the staircase landing the two were on.

"Hey." Jill motioned to Dan to stop. "There's a tunnel here with a path from the staircase landing."

"Okay..." Dan was a bit hesitant.

"Could be something." Jill told Dan. "Besides, I'm familiar with this kind of thing."

"Sure, why not?" Dan shrugged. "I guess you can take the lead first."

Jill nodded, being the first to enter the tunnel. She noted a curve was at the end, requiring her to turn left. In addition, the area was illuminated by a bonfire torch post.

"Stay frosty." Dan told Jill as she prepared her Beretta Px4 Type F in a Weaver grip.

"Right." Jill replied, making the turn on the curve and opened fire on the first villager she saw, who was armed with a rusted sickle. The brown-haired woman kept her fire up until the sickle-armed villager was down for the count.

Time to move in.

Dan moved in, aiming the 552 carbine at the other villager who was about to grab Jill with his arms. It seemed that he didn't have any kind of weapon or farming implement in his hands, but it was better to be safe than to be sorry and live to regret it.

"Jill! Stay clear!"

Jill heard Dan's shout and ducked as Dan fired the Swiss-made rifle to cut down the second villager down. The Malaysian kept moving in, firing the carbine until the villager melted. The first villager tried to get up, but Dan fired the carbine at the back of his head until it exploded.

"Looking good..." Dan murmured as he hopped over the sandbags.

"Thanks, Dan." Jill thanked the Malaysian SHADOW agent, hopping over the sandbags herself.

"Not a problem, Jill." Dan replied, kicking the nearby wooden barrel. "Ah, nuts. Nothing there."

"There's some money at least." Jill picked up a total of 2100 (Consisting of 1000 and 1100 pesetas) pesetas, found in bags collected from the spot where the dead villagers use to be.

"Ladder's up ahead." Dan pointed the ladder out to Jill. He began to sling the rifle on his back. "I'll go first."

"Right." Jill nodded to Dan, guarding his back as he started to climb the ladder as fast as possible.


Dan was now at the top of the ladder, glad to see that the hallway up ahead is clear.

"It's clear!"

He shouted at Jill, standing at the hallway before he heard something walking.

"What was that?"

Jill shouted back from down the ladder. A few seconds later, Dan saw a bearded villager coming towards him by walking slowly with a pitchfork.

"Ah, shi..." Dan was about to curse at himself when he shouldered his 552 carbine once more. "NEVER MIND!"

He opened fire with the carbine, advancing slowly as he watched 5.56 NATO bullets pierce the villager's body and legs. Eventually, he collapsed on the ground, back first.

"Is he dead?" Jill began to climb the ladder quickly after hearing gunshots.


Residential Area, somewhere in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America


Bruce and around six DSO agents were now in tactical assault gear, consisting of ballistic helmet, balaclava, vest, tactical gloves and boots as they began to converge towards a two-story residential house. Virginia Beach Police had cleared the way for them to do the assault. Thanks in part to the president's media gag order and to the status of DSO, Bruce was able to take control of the situation on behalf of the organization without any pesky reporters trying to get an assessment of the situation.

"Seems good to be a DSO agent." Bruce murmured, having drawn out his Beretta 92FS pistol while having a tactical vest, outfitted with ballistic plates, at the insistence of his fellow DSO agents due to the possibility of being shot at by Agent Lawrence again in the neighborhood.

I wish we did it covertly while we were still in DSO HQ. But beggars can't be choosers, I suppose.

Bruce thought as they were almost near the house's main entrance. He motioned to the DSO tactical team to crouch and stay low to avoid being spotted.

"What's the plan?" One of the Colt M4A1-armed DSO agents asked Bruce after they were near the target's house.

"We go low and take him in alive." Bruce told the agent. "DSO needs to question him on whether he's the one responsible for what happened regarding the First Daughter's kidnapping. It's orders we need to comply with."

"Gotcha."

Bruce gestured to move to the side, leading to the house's backyard. The tactical team followed Bruce from the back, aiming their M4A1s at the direction of the house in case the rogue agent fired upon the DSO team.

Bruce then aimed his sidearm at the direction of the garden until he could determine that no one was there.

Over there. The DSO agent pointed to a door, which looked like it led to the house's dining area. The tactical team prepared to stack up near the door, awaiting for an all-clear to proceed further.


Tunnel, somewhere in Spain


Jill had just climbed up the end of the ladder when she saw Dan next to a villager's corpse.

Just before it began to dissolve.

"Oh. Hey there." Dan greeted Jill after he had shot down the villager a few minutes ago.

"Hey..." Jill raised an eyebrow before she continued. "yourself."

"Anything?"

"No..."

Dan pointed out some rock slab with blood on it with a banner on top.

"What's that?" Jill had gripped her sidearm with her right hand while her left hand touched the rock slab.

"Don't know." Dan replied. "Just found it myself."

"Blood looks to be dry." Jill tried to touch the blood found on the rock slab.

"I wonder if the cult used this area to execute any of their victims as sacrifices..." Dan suggested when he started to approach a treasure chest he saw nearby.

"Probably." Jill told the SHADOW agent. "I just don't want to think about that part right now."

Dan gripped the treasure chest's lid and opened it slowly, revealing a yellow catseye.

"Well what do we have here?" Dan picked up the yellow catsye. "A Yellow Cateye gem. Just like the others we got."

"What's that doing in there?" Jill asked, getting a good look at the gem.

"Beats me." Dan shrugged his shoulders. "But it's best to keep it. May be of good use later on."

"Let's just head back down." Jill reminded Dan. "We need to get back on the trail."

"Yeah..."


Unknown Control Room


Wesker was informed by the computer AI, after returning back to the control room from a personal task, that the DSO had just been secretly mobilized to arrest a Secret Service agent who was formerly involved in the protection of Ashley Graham before her kidnapping by Jack Krauser.

"A pity." Wesker said without any hint of remorse or sympathy. "The man had been useful for informing regarding the First Daughter's movements." He began to get back into his seat. "But now, the man must go..."

"Shall I further inform the FBI about the agent's involvement with the kidnapping?"

Wesker thought long and hard before he gave his reply.

"Yes, please do. I need to start preparing to cut my losses."


Michael Lawrence residence, Residential Area, somewhere in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America


A DSO tactical assaulter began to scan the interior of the house with a fiber optic camera to make sure the coast is clear.

"Checking the area now." The assaulter told Bruce, scanning the dining room while checking the camera feed of the fiber optic camera. After a couple of minutes, the fiber optic camera was replaced.

"Anything inside?" Bruce asked the assaulter.

The assaulter replied to the blonde DSO agent. "It seems clear. But..."

"I always have a gut feeling that there's a but on the line..."

"I just thought I have someone walking past by the open hallway."

"Should we storm in and seize the suspect?" Another assaulter asked Bruce.

Bruce hesitated when he said no. "We can't. It could just make things worse..."


Dirt Path, near Lower Aerial Platform, somewhere in Spain


Jill and Dan got back on track after successfully clearing out the tunnel, getting back to the staircase landing and going down the steps. The duo eventually arrived at the end, making a left turn and walking fast on the dirt path.

"What the?" Dan was surprised to see the familiar blue torches up ahead.

"We just met the Merchant a while ago." Jill murmured as she began to approach the hooded man. "How did he get here so fast?"

"Welcome, strangahs!" The Merchant greeted Jill and Dan with much enthusiasm.

"Er... hi." Dan sighed before he waved hello to the Merchant.

"How did you get here?" Jill asked the Merchant, confused since she last saw him near the Upper aerial lift platform. "I mean, do you have some kind of superpower that you haven't told us about yet?"

The Merchant couldn't help, but chuckle at the woman's confusion. "Strangah, strangah..." He trailed off a bit before he explained to Jill. "Being present at multiple locations allows me to interact better with my customers."

"Okay..." Dan didn't know if he should buy the Merchant's explanation on why he was able to be everywhere.

"Now then..." The Merchant coughed before he opened his cloak to show his wares. "Is there anything you need to get today, strangah?"


MOM's Office, The Center


"Something's going on!"

Billy darted into the Center when MOM was busy playing chess with an alien. He looked like the typical grey humanoid alien, thinking on what his next move should be.

"Billy. Not now." MOM sighed and tried to wave him away. "I'm busy playing chess, in case you can't see."

"But MOM!" Billy shouted to get her attention. "It's with the DSO!"

MOM immediately stopped playing her chess game and told the humanoid that she needed to stop things for a while.

"What about them, Billy?" MOM went back to her table and got to work.

"Got word that the DSO launched a raid to secure a Secret Service agent suspected of providing information to the First Daughter's kidnappers." Billy told MOM, showing her a datapad on the details regarding Michael Lawrence.

"Seems to be a normal Secret Service agent." MOM frowned when she read his profile.

"But he had some money problems to pay for his brother's gambling addiction." Billy told MOM. "Of course, intelligence had to dig through a lot of records and ask their assets to figure that one out."

"Why do all the traitors always have to revolve around money?" MOM murmured, feeling frustrated with the latest case.


Unknown Area


"Good news, kid."

"What about it, Krauser?"

"Wesker just informed me that one of our assets has been turned loose."

"You mean..."

"Yep. The big guy's getting rid of him after the DSO's going for a raid to arrest him."

Krauser and Kenny were walking on a metal catwalk somewhere in a facility away from the village. Only the two of them were around since the others were busy either resting or just goofing off to do something about their boredom.

"But why now?" Kenny asked the ex-commando. "I thought Wesker would have gotten rid of any of the Secret Service contacts he got a hold of."

"Yeah I know." Krauser replied, shrugging his shoulders. "It's probably he decided to cut his ties with them just to be on the safe side."

"So what happens next?"

"We continue working with Saddler and hope he doesn't cut us or the other loose on his terms."


Michael Lawrence residence, Residential Area, somewhere in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America


Suddenly, Bruce and the DSO tactical team could hear some gunshots coming from the house. They didn't know if the gunshots were directed at the police officers stationed outside the house, but the DSO agent took the decision that it's time to take the man down before he could hurt somebody.

"Go! Go! Go!" Bruce yelled to the team. A DSO assaulter got a battering ram and got the door opened up. Flashbangs and smoke grenades were then hurled into the house's interior, in the hope of incapacitating the suspect inside.

"Move in!" Bruce gave the order after the flashbangs exploded, waiting for the tactical team to conduct a dynamic entry. The blonde man followed the team after they got in the house, moving in from the dining room to the living room.

Lawrence was on the floor, coughing from the smoke when the tactical team forced him to lie down on the floor with his hands behind his back.

"Let me go! Let me go! They're here I tell ya!" Lawrence yelled while he struggled before a DSO assaulter cuffed him.

Bruce got a good look at the supposed Secret Service agent. He was a Caucasian with blonde hair in his late 30s with a clean shaven face, although it appeared that he didn't have enough time to sleep, which was seen by his eyes. In addition, the man was apprehended in his shirt and jogging pants.

"We got his weapon." A DSO assaulter showed Bruce a Ruger P85, which already has its magzine removed.

"Good work." Bruce told the team. "Let's get him back to HQ."

"But what about the police?" The assaulter asked when he collected the pistol as evidence.

"Big guy in the brass says he's taking care of that as we speak."


Dirt Path, near Lower Aerial Platform, somewhere in Spain


"I'm not sure, actually." Jill told the Merchant. "Aside from grabbing these near you." She swiped the boxes of 9mm and 5.56 NATO ammo, handing the latter to Dan while keeping the box for herself.

"Thanks!" Dan told Jill, who knelled down in order to reload his 556 carbine.

"You mean it, strangah?" The Merchant questioned Jill, who was reloading her Px4 Type F.

"Yeah." Jill told the Merchant. "Unless you got grenades with you."

"Perhaps I do." The Merchant mused over Jill's suggestion. "Give me a second..."

Dan continued to reload until he was fill a 30-round magazine into full capacity, putting it back onto the carbine. He then pulled the bolt to load a 5.56 NATO bullet and kept the 5.56 NATO ammo box for future use.

"You okay there?" Jill asked Dan after she heard a magazine being loaded onto his weapon.

"Yeah." Dan replied. "Anything from our friendly Merchant?"

"Not yet, I suppose..."

"Ah! Here we are!" The Merchant presented to Jill a box of incendiary grenades. "I think this may be just the thing you're looking for..."

"Incendiary grenades." Jill was amazed to see how the Merchant was able to obtain such grenades. "I'm, honestly, quite amazed that you're able to procure these."

"I'm an arms dealer, my dear strangah." The Merchant told Jill, not trying to boast about his "accomplishments". "And I can't tell you how I do it because... well, I don't want to let my competitors know."

Jill simply nodded, wondering how she should respond.

"Are those incendiary grenades?" Dan asked the Merchant after he finished reloading, checking them out to see if their condition. "These can come in handy when we burn the skin of those damn villagers."

"I can sell them to ya for a 1000 pesetas, strangah." The Merchant told Dan, showing him the box that held sixteen incendiary grenades.

If Jill and Dan can evenly divide them, they can hold eight incendiary grenades each.


Adam Benford's Office, DSO Headquarters, somewhere in the United States of America


Adam had received a call from his office, minutes after he gave the order to dispatch Bruce in arresting a suspected Secret Service agent gone rogue for immediate questioning.

"Yes?" Adam picked up the phone, listening carefully to the caller. "Yes?"

Adam nodded carefully, listening again to the caller before he said. "Good. Have the suspect brought to the interrogation center at once. We need to know who hired him and if anyone else was paid to turn rogue. Understood?"


Dirt Path, near Lower Aerial Platform, somewhere in Spain


After Jill paid up the Merchant and subsequently divided up the incendiary grenades between her and Dan, the former thanked the hooded man before the duo continued their trek to locate anything of important value they can take back to their comrades.

"Look." Jill pointed to a metal gate up ahead.

"A metal gate." Dan aimed the 552 carbine at it before he slinged his weapon, going forward to check if the gate can be opened.

"Well?" Jill guarded Dan's rear while the Malaysian was checking the area.

"It's clear." Dan told Jill. "It can be opened too. Shouldn't be a problem."

"All right." Jill stood near Dan's back. Dan began to open the gate up, which opened inward. "Do me a favor and watch my six, yeah?" He drew out a Heckler & Koch USP Expert, chambered in 9mm Parabellum ammunition, with his free hand. It was aimed in front of him, using it as his means of self-defense in case a villager or two would show up while opening the gate.

"We're good." Dan told Jill, holstering his USP Expert on the right leg holster. "Nothing seems to be waiting for us." Then there was a beat for a few seconds. "Except for a spooky looking barn."

"Okay." Jill then said to Dan. "You take the lead, Dan. I'll cover you."

"Sounds like a plan."

Dan took the lead and entered after the gate was opened. Jill stepped a few feet backwards, covering for Dan. Ensuring that her grip on her sidearm was as tight as possible, she began to run towards the barn.


Outskirts of Barn, near Lower Aerial Platform, somewhere in Spain


"Spooky looking barn there."

"Reminds me of the Arklay Mansion."

Jill and Dan approached the barn with their weapons drawn at it. They didn't leave anything to chance, especially since they were still in hostile territory.

"Looks okay..." Jill murmured. She told Dan. "Keep your guard up."

"Right." Dan nodded, who had his 552 carbine at the ready. "This reminds me of my black ops assignment or two in Japan a few years ago."

Jill couldn't help, but ask the SHADOW agent. "SHADOWs do black ops for the Center?"

"Yeah they do." Dan replied after he stacked up near the barn doors. "That's mostly the reason why the division exists."

"Never got to ask that specifically aside from knowing what it means." Jill shrugged, moving close to stand near Dan.

"That and we act as armed support for the other agents like Martin and Diana."

"By the way," Jill did a brass check on her Px4 Type F to ensure a bullet was in the chamber. "What kind of black ops work did you SHADOW guys do?"

"I'm not sure if I'm willing to talk about it." Dan replied, checking the barn door handle to see if it was safe to handle.

"Gag order?" Jill asked him.

Dan slowly nodded. "Yeah. And we'll be in trouble if we blab our mouths out to the public, even to a fellow Center agent like you."

"I won't ask if that extends to your fellow SHADOWs."

"That would depend on the circumstances at hand."

When Dan noted that the barn door handle can be used, he slowly opened the barn door inward.

"Okay. We can get in."

After Dan completely got the barn door open, Jill took the lead in exploring the barn's interior. Dan covered her back before going with her inside.


Barn, near Lower Aerial Platform, somewhere in Spain


Jill saw on the ground that they were shotgun shell brass. All of them were scattered throughout the floor.

"Someone surely made a fuss around here." The ex-STARS operative commented after she picked up an empty shotgun shell brass to give a visual inspection. "And it looks like a shotgun was fired in this place not too recent."

"The only question is who did all of this then?" Dan popped the question.

Before Jill could give Dan the answer, she glanced at her side and saw someone was standing near Dan.

"DAN! BEHIND YOU!"

"HOLY SHI-!" Dan was about to confront the enemy when the mysterious individual grabbed him by the throat.

"Aacckk..." Dan tried to say something, only for the "person" to squeeze his throat even harder.

"It's him!" Jill shouted, aiming her Px4 Type F at Bitores Mendez. "It's the chief!"

Bitores could only glare at Jill, saying nothing before looking back at his captive held on his hand.


Lower Aerial lift platform, somewhere in Spain


"You think those guys are gonna be okay?"

Hien asked Jean as the Spriggans stood guard in the area, taking a seat on a crate.

"Sure they will." Jean shrugged his shoulders. "I mean, there's an elite agent from the Center's supposed black ops division and a survivor of the Raccoon City incidents concerning the Umbrella Corporation. How hard can it be for the two of them?"


Barn, near Lower Aerial Platform, somewhere in Spain


Bitores threw Dan into an upper wooden beam support, nearly knocking the SHADOW agent out cold.

"Dammit..." Dan coughed, trying to not get unconscious. "How's that guy damn strong to hurl me like some kinda baseball?"

Bitores tried to shove his hand forcefully at the downed agent's chest, only for Jill to fire her pistol at him. This forced him to stop while looking at his chest to see where he was shot at.

Jill eyed the nearest fuel barrel and shoved it down the ground, watching fuel flow out of the barrel and towards the chief.

"Come on, Dan." The brown-haired woman went out of her way to pull Dan up to his feet while she fired her sidearm with one hand, aiming at the fuel. She watched it go up in flames, slowly burning Bitores up and destroying one of the barrels. Thankfully, Dan had gotten up before Jill told him to dive backwards since the barrel exploded near them.

"That's the last time I'm falling down..." Dan muttered to Jill. This time, he was able to get up properly without any assistance.

"Did I get him?" Jill murmured, aiming the pistol at the flames where Bitores was suppose to be.


Upper Aerial lift platform, somewhere in Spain


"Looks damn quiet from there." Kevin told Leon, scoping the lower aerial platform.

"And things are quiet here too." Leon sighed, checking his Silver Ghost via brass check since he did not use the pistol that much aside from the Remington 870, which the ex-SPF officer uses as his main weapon.

"Well what can you say?" Kevin said, still looking through the SSG P IV. "Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."

Leon stared at his Kevin after hearing what the DSO agent had said. "And who said that?"

"Some guy named Anthony Robbins, if I got the name right."


Barn, near Lower Aerial Platform, somewhere in Spain


"What the... hell?"

Jill was seriously dead wrong when she fired her pistol at the liquid fuel to detonate the fuel barrel. In fact, she was beginning to see another side of Bitores that one would call it hideous.

"What's with that guy?" Dan was stunned to see that Bitores had assumed a different form. He and Jill saw that the bald man was not anything but abnormal. Instead, Bitores' torso was ripped out from the pelvis. His spinal cord was also exposed to the elements, as well as fingernails growing very long that they looked like claws. Four limbs grew out of Bitores' back.

"It seems he was experimented on by the cult." Jill told Dan, stepping way back to avoid being impaled by the limbs or by the claws.

"Dammit." Dan too stepped a few feet backwards, aiming his 552 carbine at the mutated Bitores. "Now this just makes things a lot hard."

As Bitores advanced towards the two armed individuals with the barn partially on fire thanks to the fuel barrel Jill had destroyed, Jill and Dan were now running out of options except to move back away from him.

A ladder.

"Dan. Do me a favor and distract him." Jill told Dan before she was about to climb the ladder.

"What are you going to do?"

"Just trust me on this, okay?"

Dan sighed. It looks like that this was probably one of the few ways they can do to subdue Bitores.

"All right. Just hurry."

As Jill began to climb the ladder, Dan primed one of the incendiary grenades and hurled it towards Bitores. In response, the creatures howled in pain with the flames licking his mutated body.


Good work, Dan. Just hold out for a little longer.

After Jill had climbed up, she ran towards the direction of the barn entrance while picking up a frag grenade and a box of 9mm Parabellum ammo on the way.

She heard an incendiary grenade detonate while approaching the ladder leading to the ground.

Perfect.

Jill hopped down the ladder and positioned herself near the entrance, which was now impassable since Bitores used his strength to twist the door handles together so that no one can come in or come out alive.

"Looks like the bastard was crazy prepared for this."

Jill raised her Px4 Type F, aiming the iron sights at the spinal cord before Bitores could even get near Dan. After confirming her target, the woman fired a few shots at the spinal cord.


Dual Dirt Paths, somewhere in Spain


"Hey." Ashley went to ask Hiryu, who was bored after Jill and Dan left to secure anything that they can use to get out of the village.

"Hm?" Hiryu noted that Ashley was looking at him. "Can I help you?"

"Do you think those two will be alright?"

"I'm sure they will. We've got the best people working for the Center. Not to mention the best people I've worked with."

Fujino tried to raise Dan via O-Watch. So far, all that she was receiving was nothing.

"Something wrong?" Diana asked Fujino when she frowned.

"It is nothing, Diana-san." The purple-haired girl told Diana.

"I'm sure Dan's gonna be alright." Martin told the Japanese SHADOW agent. "I mean, he is a SHADOW after all."

"How long have they been gone now?" Yu asked around, having his Heckler & Koch G3A4 slinged on his neck.

"Don't know." Hiryu told the Japanese Spriggan as he checked his O-Watch. "It's going to be an hour in a few more minutes."


Barn, near Lower Aerial Platform, somewhere in Spain


Jill confirmed that shooting Bitores' exposed spinal cord was working. He had her undivided attention as he began to advance towards her.

"Take this!" She hurled an incendiary grenade towards him, watching the creature burn. The woman later heard the sounds of Dan's 552 carbine being fired at Bitores' spinal cord from the back. The gunfire stopped for a few minutes when she saw Dan pop an incendiary grenade towards him.

Might as well. Jill removed the safety pin of her second incendiary grenade and hurled it towards the creature. The flames burned Bitores, which weakened him. However, Bitores was determined to kill them in the name of Los Illuminados.

"Ah, dammit..." Bitores once advance towards Jill after she fired at his spinal cord, using his claws to attack her by executing horizontal slashes.

"Whoa!" Jill ducked down just in time to avoid a slash to her chest.

"YAAAHHHH!" Dan shouted, firing his 552 carbine at Bitores' spinal cord. "Come on, you!"

This attack goaded Bitores to come at Dan, who quickly climbed up the ladder. He began to reload while Bitores was near the ladder Dan used a while ago.

What's he going to do next?


Dan waited patiently for Bitores to position himself near another fuel barrel he spotted when he saw Jill previously climb up the ladder before him.

"Just a little more." Dan aimed the newly reloaded 552 carbine at the fuel barrel and fired it, watching the barrel explode.

"YES!" The Malaysian SHADOW agent pumped his fist in the air, watching the spinal cord disconnect from the pelvis with a loud snapping sound.

"That sounds kinda gross." Dan commented after seeing what had happened in front of him. The legs began to walk on its own for a short period of time before they collapsed, falling on its knees before they gave up.

That so did no happen...

Dan couldn't believe that Bitores was still alive, this time using two of his limbs to attach onto the upper wooden beams to give himself some mobility support.


Interrogation Room, DSO Headquarters, somewhere in the United States of America


Adam had just entered the interrogation room, greeted by Bruce as he was about to start the interrogation.

"I'll handle this one." Adam told Bruce, gesturing to him to move out of the seat.

"Oh. All right, if you insist sir." Bruce sighed, allowing the veteran DSO officer to sit down and face the handcuffed suspect.

"You know why you're here, Agent Michael Lawrence." Adam started the interrogation, looking at the handcuffed man. Lawrence did not say anything after he told the DSO agent that he would insist on his right to stay silent as granted by the Miranda Rights.

"I also know that you were responsible for giving out information to a known bioterrorist, which led to the death of five Secret Service agents assigned to protect the First Daughter."

For added emphasis, Adam showed photos that depicted the dead agents. Out of the five corpses, two were Caucasian and two of them were Southeast Asian with being African-American.

Bruce, who was leaning on the wall with his arms crossed over his chest, observed the suspect carefully. The blonde man checked his body language for anything that can help in the investigation. He could have sworn that the suspect was about to say something to defend himself. Bruce shrugged it off as part of his imagination.

"Do you..." Adam began to glare at the suspect. "not care that your fellow agents were killed in the line of duty, all because of you conspiring with a terrorist?"

Lawrence kept his silence.

The glasses-wearing man banged his clenched fist on the desk and shouted at the suspect.

"ANSWER ME!"


Barn, near Lower Aerial Platform, somewhere in Spain


"I'm not liking this..."

Jill sighed, firing her Px4 Type F at Bitores' torso in order to get his attention. So far, it was working. Bitores began to advance towards her. However, Dan landed on the ground and took advantage of this by shooting at him from the back. Some of the shots struck Bitores' limbs that it forced him to collapse on the ground.

"Stay back, Dan!" Jill yelled, pulling the safety pin of the frag grenade she found and tossed it to the downed Bitores. When it exploded, Bitores howled out in pain from the shrapnel that pierced his torso. But thanks to the experimentation done to the chief, the wounds were healed in no time.

Dan responded by firing the 552 carbine at the downed Bitores before he could get his limbs attached onto the upper wooden beams.

"We need to keep moving, Jill!" Dan shouted, firing again at Bitores a few seconds after he got himself attached onto the upper wooden beams. "Dammit... Some of my shots missed..."

"He's not the only one..." Jill muttered, stopping to reload her sidearm.

As Bitores advanced towards Dan, the creature tried to take a jab by using on its limb to stab him in the chest. Dan was quick to dodge, almost at the last second. Otherwise, he would have been severely wounded.

"Stay back!" He drew out his Eickhorn-Solingen KM2000 and charged at Bitores. The creature was on the defensive, trying to have another go at Dan by stabbing him. The SHADOW agent dodged it and instead, some of his hair was slashed by the limb.

That was close. Any more to the right and I'm history.

The black-haired teen was at close quarters to Bitores, stabbing and slashing one of the limbs. Bitores wailed in pain, moving back to avoid being attacked. He was quick to get the painful limb back in control.

"Nice one!" Jill shouted her compliments to Dan. She then fired her sidearm at Bitores' back several times before doing a roundhouse kick. But this did not make the chief fall down.

"Hah!" Dan executed a strong front kick at Bitores after doing a knife stab at another one of his limbs. This didn't make Bitores fall either, but it almost did. Instead, it earned his wrath when he tried to decapitate him. Instead, Dan's 552 carbine earned Bitores' wrath when the weapon was cut in half, divided between between the barrel and most of the receiver.

"Dammit, how much longer?" Jill said in frustration after she emptied her magazine at the creature. As a result, Bitores fell down on the ground.

"NOW!" Jill and Dan tossed in as much incendiary grenades as possible until they could hear Bitores yelling very loud in pain.

The duo seized their activities to see Bitores crawling in pain, coughing blood while giving out one final scream before he collapsed.

"Is... is he dead?" Dan murmured, dropping his slashed rifle and drew out his USP Expert. He observed Bitores' face and saw something fell out.

"What is it?" Jill asked Dan as he holstered his sidearm.

"We got this." Dan showed Jill the false eye.

"Uh huh." Jill nodded. "And some gold bars near his corpse again. Again, this baffles the mind."

"I'll go and secure what we can from this barn." Dan told Jill, collecting the discarded 30-round magazine and the Aimpoint red dot sight since the 552 carbine was of no use to him any longer. He chose to leave the sling attached, considering it expendable.

"All right. But you better hurry." Jill spoke to Dan, seeing the flames beginning to burn half of the barn. "Of else we're going to be cooked in here alive."


Interrogation Room, DSO Headquarters, somewhere in the United States of America


Bruce could only watch Adam shout and yell at the suspect once more, telling him that he's a bastard for selling out the Secret Service to whoever hired him out regarding Ashley Graham's Secret Service team.

I'm beginning to feel sorry for the suspect now. He then eyed the handcuffed man. He should be wetting his pants soon...

He saw that the suspect was starting to speak.

"This is new." Bruce murmured, seeing the suspect speaking after being shouted at for a few hours now while he had previously kept his silence.

"Some guy contacted me a few weeks prior to my sick leave from duty." Lawrence replied, a bit shaky. "He said he could help pay off the money I used to pay for my brother, who had a huge gambling debt at the time."

"And this person had a name?" Adam asked the suspect, waiting for an answer.

"No."

"No?"

"No. As in the person's name was not told." Lawrence felt panicky when he said that. "I mean, he knows that my brother had a frickin' gambling problem to begin with in the first place!"

Bruce sighed, massaging his temples.

Now I feel sorry for the guy.


Barn, near Lower Aerial Platform, somewhere in Spain


"Anything?"

Jill collected all the gold bars she could handle. She was worried that it could be heavy.

"Yeah." Dan told Jill. "Red, Yellow and Green herbs, a box of 9mm ammo, buckshot shells and 7.62 NATO subsonic ammo for starters."

"That should be good. Let's go."

The two found a big hole on the side, enough for the both of them to leap outside before the barn could burn completely.

"JUMP!" Jill shouted, taking the lead in leaping through the hole. Dan followed behind, jumping just in time to avoid being hit by a wooden beam that had just collapsed from above.


Outskirts of Barn, near Lower Aerial Platform, somewhere in Spain


"Coast is clear."

Jill aimed her sidearm at the area up ahead with her sidearm.

"Looks likes we're not going to expect opposition." Dan drew out his USP Expert since he has no carbine to use. "Let's go."


Lower Aerial lift platform, somewhere in Spain


Jean yawned while making his rounds around the lower aerial lift platform, feeling bored that there wasn't any action around the place.

"Feeling bored already?" Hien asked the French Spriggan.

"Could be." Jean replied after he finished yawning. "Or it could be that I just haven't slept for a day now."

"Yeah, I know how you feel, Jean." Hien said while checking the control room to make sure no one was inside through the window. "But we need to wait for Jill and Dan to return."

"Yes, and I'd like to know if they're able to get something significant for us to get past through that blasted gate back up there." Jean said, pointing to the direction of the upper aerial platform with his right gloved thumb.

"Then I'm afraid it won't be necessary."

Jean and Hien saw Jill and Dan had already returned from their encounter with Bitores.

"You guys made it!" Hien greeted the two.

"Come on." Jill told Hien. "We need to go and see the others."

"Is something the matter?" Jean asked the ex-STARS agent.

"Not really." Dan shook his head. "We found something useful that can help us pass the gate up ahead."

"All right then." Jean replied. "Let's go board a platform first..."


Upper Aerial lift platform, somewhere in Spain


"Looks like they all made it." Kevin told Leon, lowering his SSG P IV after seeing a lift platform with Jean, Jill, Dan and Hien on board together.

"I'll go and gather the others with the Merchant." Leon told Kevin, patting his right shoulder. "You... stay here and go meet with them."

"Yeah, yeah." Kevin replied, gesturing to Leon to move on and get the others. "I can handle this part. Don't worry."

The brown-haired DSO agent slinged his sniper rifle on his back, waiting for the platform to arrive at the upper aerial lift platform.

"You guys surely took your time." Kevin greeted the four. "Anything down there?"

"There is." Jean told Kevin. "We have to get back to the others first."

"I guess that there is something significant that you guys found down there." Kevin said as he walked alongside the four, going back to see the others in order to regroup.

"Well..." Jill began to trail off a bit before she continued. "Dan and I have found something that should knock your socks off."

"This I can't wait to see."


Dual Dirt Paths, somewhere in Spain


With the teams reunited once again with the Merchant, Jill and Dan talked to them about fighting against Bitores Mendez and how they fought against his mutated self.

"Quite the fight, I take it?" Martin questioned Dan, who was excited by his narration on what he and Jill came up against.

"Yeah, no kidding." Dan replied, feeling a bit tired from the fight.

"So what did you get?" Cammy asked the SHADOW agent. "Does it have to do with accessing the gate up ahead."

"Yes, it does." Jill told the Delta Red agent. "Show them the key, Dan."

"Right, Jill. Give me a second." Dan went through his tactical vest until he said. "Ah, there it is."

Just what did he find?

Eriko was curious to see what kind of key Dan had that they can use to unlock the gate.

"Here it is."

Dan opened his clenched right hand to present to the teams the false eye that came from Bitores' corpse.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the false left eye of Bitores Mendez."

Chapter 11 END


PS - Chapter 11's up for reading, ladies and gentlemen. Let me know the chapter went, folks. As usual, I appreciate reviews/comments/criticisms/corrections.

A few months and RE 6's coming. Can't wait to get my hands on this. 'Cept there's the thing with the DLC content. I don't know if I want to wait for another RE 6 edition with the DLC included or not. Only time will tell.

Well, I am planning to get SOCOM 4 for the PS3 'cause of the story. If and when I can put money aside, I probably will get the NA, JP and UK versions just to hear/listen to the differences aside from the fact that the NA/JP versions have the differences in language used in the game, but they use Navy SEALs.

I am aware that the SHADOW agents don't talk about their black ops nature. Well it's obviously cause they aren't suppose to with orders from MOM and the top Center hierarchy unless they want to risk being in trouble for spilling the beans. But maybe perhaps with some prodding from the good guys, they can tell.

As of this upload, one person (You know who you are) has placed this story in the favorites and four persons in the alerts. I think "Peacekeepers" is a lot more popular than this story these days, considering it's a Gundam story after all. Regardless, I would like to thank the readers and reviewers for reading/reviewing and commenting on how the story is going. I really appreciate it.