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Chapter 11

"Wesker…?" Eliza uttered as she stared at the insanely calm man. How the hell can he think of this as nothing?! We're going to die!!!

Albert grabbed her wrist while quickly flashing a glance at her then the observation room.

"Hang on," he stated in a robotic fashion as he turned to gaze upward again.

"What the hell?! I can't tell them to hang on! You're crazy! What…Hey what are you d-"

Wesker covered her mouth causing her words to become nothing more than muffled cries. He swiftly swung her over his shoulder as she kicked and screamed.

"Hang on," he repeated and faster than the eye could register he leaped into the air.

Thud. They landed inside the room against the glass, cutting themselves as they rolled out to a stop with Albert lying on top of Eliza.

Wesker smirked as he gazed down at her rather ticked off expression. He slowly picked a piece of jagged glass from her cheek and tossed it aside.

"I didn't know you could do that!" she expressed in awe.

Albert chuckled, "Neither did I!"

She frowned in frustration and Wesker shifted closer to her face.

"Has anyone ever told you how beautiful you are when you're angry?" he teased.

"Why you-"

"Wesker! Eliza!" Nicholai shouted with Sherry standing in his shadow.

The two jolted up after scrambling against the slippery floor from their blood. Eliza's cheeks burned red from being caught in such an intimate position. She gritted her teeth with anger. That jerk! That god damn jerk!! I'm going to kill him for this!

Albert smirked with his eyes rolling in her direction and held his bleeding hands together at the wrists awaiting instruction from his superior.

"What were you up to?" Nicholai asked searching the two's crimson eyes. He paused as he watched Wesker's smirk widen. "Never mind," he quickly omitted his question, "I certainly don't want to know. So looks like Mr. Umbrella left you behind as well - I'm surprised."

Eliza narrowed her eyes in question. "What do you mean left us behind?"

"Your uncle doesn't seem to care for you much," Nicholai replied, "He closed the whole entire building down to avoid any government questioning. He was afraid that his company would be shut down if they found out about how he cuts the government funds for safety and puts the money into research."

"That's all I needed to know," Eliza stated and pulled a gun on the two men.

Leon sprinted past the dilated-eyed Chris inhumanly fast. He stopped just short of the lynxerous and swiftly amputated the monster's tail with his razor claws. Blood splattered as the unattached tail twitched in pain. The lynxerous cried out and quickly cowered behind Dr. Whitefield.

Carlos held his eyes shut and clamped onto his stomach covering the punctures. His wounds stung feverishly from the juices of his stomach eating away at his flesh.

"Fluffy, looks like our experiment is out of control!" Whitefield informed, "We're gonna have to discipline him!"

The cat hissed and charged at Leon with significant speed but simply wasn't fast enough. Fluffy clawed nothing but air and quickly searched the area with perked up gunk covered ears.

"Find him, now!" the doctor ordered glancing around viciously.

Wham! Leon swung down from the ventilation shaft and plummeted his legs into the doctor's back. Whitefield lost grip of his footing and fell over slamming his claws accidentally into the lynxerous's neck.

With a shrill cry the hapless cat's body fell to the ground along with it's decapitated head rolling leaving behind a trail of mucus tie-dyed with red.

The doctor's heart tightened at the realization of what he had done. "NO!" he screamed with anger and turned to Leon. His eyes though cast in shadow, Whitefield could clearly see them glowing red with vengeance.

Bam. Bam. Chris shot at Whitefield as Jill helped Carlos up. They all, including Ada fired with all they had at the E-virus creature. Bullets ripped into the monster from all directions causing the scene to become nothing more than a blur of red.

The doctor frustrated swung at Chris but Leon held back the monster's clawed arm. Leon gritted his teeth from the struggle of strength between the two. The cop just transformed was no where near his most powerful stage yet.

The group ceased fire afraid they would hit Leon by mistake.

He's our only hope…We can't help him now. Chris realized.

"Get Claire outta here!" Leon ordered.

Chris nodded and scooped up his sister. Ada opened the door to the closest room holding it open for Chris and Jill aiding Carlos with his arm draped over her shoulders.

Clunk. Ada slammed the door in a hurry and jumped at the ear-piercing cry of agony that echoed against the walls. Was it Leon…? Should I help him…after all he did save my life…No! My mission but… Ada held her gaze down as guilt filled her bones.

She watched as Jill and Chris attended to Claire trying to figure out what caused her unconsciousness. They moved with speed checking temperature and pulse.

"Chris, she must be poisoned!" Jill exclaimed, "She has the symptoms: fever, rapid heartbeat, and unconsciousness. But I don't have any antidotes on me, nor do we know the direct cause. We can't just give her any kind of medicine."

Chris raked a hand through his short hair and sighed with frustration. Come on Claire! Fight it! Live for me - you're the only one I've got! You're not one to be weak. Don't let some stupid poison kill you! That's no way to die!

Now, when Claire needed him the most he was unable to help her at all. There was absolutely nothing he could do, but wait and hope.

"Come on!" Leon taunted the monster motioning for him to advance, "We've both got something to settle, so let's go!"

"I saved you!" Whitefield reminded, "You would have died if I hadn't injected you."

Leon narrowed his eyes. "You turned me into the one thing I was after!" he shouted with anger, "I'm not even human anymore. I'm supposed to be dead!"

Whitefield growled with frustration. Unable to think clearly, he pulled out a gun from what was left of his lab-coat and held the barrel to his temple. A tear flowed down his cheek like a shimmering diamond in a spotlight. He gazed directly into Leon's eyes with utter sadness.

"Look what I've become…" the doctor solemnly realized regaining human thought, "My research blinded all the things I was doing…I wouldn't stop at anything… when we were out of lab animals…I even experimented on my own cat. No! Ahhh!" Whitefield cried out dropping the gun, which skidded to a halt near Leon's feet. He grasped his temples as if to tear out the very virus that distorted his thoughts.

"So hungry…must-" the doctor's eyes whitened at the pupil and slowly spread to the rest of his retina like spilled milk across a newly polished floor. A high-pitch scream emancipated from his throat as he lunged toward Leon.

With haste Leon grabbed the gun and backhand-springed kicking Whitefield in mid-flip. Desert Eagle - one bullet by the weight, the rookie thought aiming the magnum at the monster's head and took long strides backward. This is what he wants… no one should live like that.

Bam. The bullet sailed straight into Whitefield's skull and out the back dragging along an explosion of blood. The monster's head erupted, splattering pieces of brain and cartilage across the floor. Bits of his remains slammed against the wall and slowly dragged down leaving behind a trail of red.

Leon slowly walked to the dead body and lightly tossed the magnum to the floor.

"May you rest easy," Leon whispered and turned his gaze to the shut door where Chris had taken Claire.

"Eliza?" Nicholai asked shocked raising his arms high, while Sherry hid behind Albert.

"What are you thinking?" Wesker demanded, "Did that virus finally go to your brain?"

She backed up and held out a badge for both of them to see. Biotech incorporation first class agent Eliza Walker was imprinted on it along with a terribly taken picture.

"That's right!" she replied at their agape mouths, "I work for the government's latest corporation. Biotech couldn't prosper because Umbrella stood in the way. All the government's funds went toward them, leaving Biotech in the dust. So they paid me big bucks to mess up everything Umbrella was working on."

She continued, "Did you really think that the mansion disaster was an accident? I smashed a few bottles and let loose a few experiments and wham, one of Umbrella's leading bases was under chaos. I figured the government would take apart the one corporation they adored the most and look to biotech to continue the experiments."

"The agents that went after you're leading scientist, Berkin," Eliza explained further, "We're in fact Biotech's recovery crew that I personally called. Annett was right. There was a spy in the base, but she thought it was Ada who was only looking to make sure the virus was protected, not steal it."

"But all my plans were countlessly ruined by the government's S.T.A.R.S. If it weren't for them blowing apart the mansion I wouldn't have had to destroy all of Raccoon. I thought such a drastic disaster couldn't possibly be covered, but it was!"

"Now I finally have proof of Umbrella's sloppy safety procedures!" she exclaimed and held up a manila-folder, "What did you think I was doing in that animal observation lab? Hiding from the monsters? No, I actually had a chance to look through the secret files that Umbrella hides in the most obvious places. The key to their secrecy is hiding everything in plain sight! Now, all I have to do is report you to the government…"

Nicholai stood utterly stunned and overwhelmed by such deception. All that time she had been playing Umbrella for a fool. She had gone up against her own uncle to gain a place of power and money.

Eliza aimed her Beretta at Wesker and warned, "I can't have any survivors telling on me now. So it looks like I'll have to kill all three of you; guess I'll start with you."

A smug expression played across Albert's face despite the barrel that pointed in his direction. "You kill me and the government will never side with Biotech," he reasoned, "You see, I'm hired by them to watch over Umbrella."

She narrowed her eyes in doubt. "What about the tyrant project you were involved in? You were obsessed with it," she contradicted.

"Yes, I was. But what Umbrella does to their scientists is they inject a shot they claim to be an antidote that is really a drug that creates a chemical imbalance, which clouds human thoughts. I was subject to it, but once I found out about it, I concocted my own antidote that I by mistake mixed with the t-virus instead of insulin. Thus, I became one of the living-dead but still able to control my thoughts. I never wrote down the formula, or else I would have made the one drug that the government was looking for. Umbrella noted the virus as called T-veronica because of its variation of the original t-virus - though they never were able to make the same exact formula."

"That makes no sense! What about what you did to S.T.A.R.S? They worked for the government as well."

"Sure that's true, but you see we needed to see what the creations could do and clear up the contamination as well. S.T.A.R.S. was perfect for the job, with their reckless tactics. They cleared out the monsters, tested their abilities, and covered up all information from the press without even realizing it. The S.T.A.R.S. what they hired to stop, in reality they saved it. But we couldn't let anyone else know about the incident, so I sent the still evolving tyrant after them. It failed, and now they are determined to shut down Umbrella. So, S.T.A.R.S. is actually benefiting Biotech. It doesn't matter to the government who gets the job done, as long as we get the bio-weapons."

"For that reason, Eliza, you and I and even S.T.A.R.S. are all on the same side," Wesker concluded and turned to face Nicholai, "But this unwanted pest needs to be disposed of. I no longer have a use for him."

Nicholai's stomach tightened as he backed up from the two. His eyes widened by the fact that he was powerless against the higher evolved humans especially unarmed. Fear griped his throat while he searched for limited options.

The girl! He realized and snatched Sherry up despite her kicks and cries. Nicholai held her by the throat and stomach and warned to Albert's dismay, "I swear, Wesker, I'll snap your little cousin's neck, if you don't let me go!"

Leon slowly approached the door leading to where Chris had taken Claire. He held his hand just short of the doorknob in hesitation. I'm a monster… How could Claire ever care for me this way? How can I let her see me? He looked down at his hands tracing his claws with newly crimson eyes. I should be dead. Dead. But there's no more bullets in that gun… and I'm outta ammo.

Leon sighed and took a seat on the cold floor beside the doorway. If only I had rescued her from that chimera in the first place… I should have protected her instead of shaking in my boots like a pussy.

Leon's ear's perked up at the sound of the door opening, but didn't look up.

"You're alive!" Jill expressed.

"…"

She placed a hand on his shoulder as Chris, Carlos, and Ada walked out and locked the door. "Leon?"

Jill shot up as she watched him tense up and clench his fists. He bared his teeth feeling an anger like no other fill him. Leon's eyes lit a bright red and growled like a wounded dog backed into a corner…

Chapter 12

Chris pulled out his handgun and aimed at Leon, while Jill backed behind Carlos.

"He's not human anymore," Chris informed and motioned from them to high-tail it.

Leon immediately shot up causing them to gasp. Chris froze in place with eyes dilated.

Leon grappled the barrel of the gun and pushed it toward his heart and begged, "Shoot me!"

"No!" Chris replied instantly and swung his gun free.

"Please!" Leon pleaded with his eyes furrowed in implorance.

"You just saved us!"

"I'm a monster!"

"You're not like those zombies…"

Ada strode up to the two and held out a pair of male sunglasses. "This is what we, Umbrella agents do to hide what we really are," she simply explained.

Leon took the glasses tentatively and replied after a moment of silence, "I'll help you with the mission and then I want you to kill me, got it?"

Chris stared at the man he knew his sister cared for. He couldn't do that to her… If Claire could tell him that she still liked him, maybe… "I…I…there's no promises, but I can't stop what you want to do with your life."

"Then let's go," Leon concluded coldly and led the group down the hall.

"Let her go!" Wesker demanded, "She has nothing to do with this!"

"You can't be rid of me so easily!" Nicholai retorted, "Let me go, and I'll let her live."

"Hand her over, first."

"I could just snap her pretty neck…" Nicholai replied backing up.

Bam. Wesker jumped at the gunfire and gasped as he watched Nicholai fall back dead. The shot was insanely accurate, a little left and it would've killed Sherry.

Eliza lowered her gun and kneeled with open arms toward the girl. "Come here. You're safe now."

Sherry bounded into her rescuer's arms and glanced back at a worried Wesker.

"I'm sorry I got in trouble Uncle Albert," she whispered.

"That's okay, doll," he replied and pet her head. He narrowed his eyes and asked in realization, "Hey! What are you doing here?! What happened to your mother Annett?"

"Mom's dead!" she sobbed, "…I'm here with S.T.A.R.S."

He paused at the sudden intake of his sister's death. "How are you with them?"

"Claire took care of me when she died."

Chris's sister…

"Please don't hurt them!" Sherry pleaded, "They took care of me!"

"I won't," Wesker promised, "I don't have to go after them any more. We're gonna work together."

"We are?" Eliza asked standing up with Sherry's hand still held.

"Yes. In a way. If we can get a hold of Claire, we'll have leeway on S.T.A.R.S. Since no one knows that were working for the government and Biotech we'll capture and take her to Ashford Manor. That way we can set up Umbrella with S.T.A.R.S. after that base. We'll get the evidence and bust the place. They'll go home and forget about those viruses with the fall of that company and Biotech we'll prosper and the government will get their weapon. In other words, everyone will go home happy."

"You're good," Eliza complemented.

"That's why the government hired me."

"But how will we get Claire?"

"Sherry? Do you think you can bring her to us? I promise we won't hurt her or anyone of the S.T.A.R.S." Wesker urged.

"I guess so. But I don't know if they're even in here. They're supposed to be in the parking lot."

"That's no problem. All we have to do is find Claire and make sure Chris sees us 'steal' her and lead him to the Antarctic base."

We should've just stuck to orders…Barry thought following Rebecca. What happened to all the monsters…? Not a trace of one, except for a few stray bodies. Wait what was that noise?

Barry silenced Rebecca's chattering that he wasn't listening to in the first place by holding up his hand.

"What is it?" Rebecca whispered cautiously.

The footsteps grew louder as he heard the long strides of quick steps. The redhead leaned forward to spot Chris and the others.

"It's them," Barry replied calmly.

Rebecca's eyes lit up as she clasped her hands together in shear excitement. "CHRIS!!!!" she screamed and collided into him.

He laughed heartily as he wrapped a single arm around her. "What're you doing here?"

"It's my sworn duty to be your partner!" she answered full with enthusiasm, "I'll always be by your side."

"I'm not sure whether that's good or bad," he joked smiling.

Rebecca frowned briefly and pushed him away. She glanced amongst them recognizing all of them except for the woman in the suit.

"Where's Claire?" she asked.

Chris paused remembering his sister's condition. "We've gotta find a way outta here and take her to a hospital right away!"

"What's wrong?" Barry questioned worried as he noted the tone of Chris.

"She's been poisoned-"

"Wait a second," Leon interrupted, "Where's Sherry?"

"Missing," Rebecca expressed in fear, "We need to find her!"

"We should split up…" Chris reasoned.

"No," Barry quickly contradicted, "We have no way of contacting one another. But let's hurry before it's too late for both of them!"

The group trampled down the hall in exasperated haste.

Ada on the other hand didn't follow. Instead she pressed the elevator switch next to her. The double doors opened to reveal Eliza, Wesker, and Sherry.

"You!" all four shouted in anger.

"You tried to kill me!" Wesker growled.

"You ruined my job!" Ada accused Eliza.

"You ruined mine!" Eliza shot back.

"You stole my locket!!!" Sherry pouted and stomped on Ada's foot.

"Owe! You little brat!" she retorted and shook her fist threateningly.

Sherry hid behind her uncle and teasingly stuck out her tongue.

"Still loyal to Umbrella, after all they did?" Eliza asked Ada, "Why don't you work with us?"

"With you?" she snubbed the offer.

"Either that or you'll have to die."

Ada's eyes widened at the cold steel of the barrel pressed against her forehead. "Perhaps I can make an exception," she replied coolly.

Eliza lowered her gun and Wesker explained the plan to Ada and how she would be awarded a job amongst Biotech.

"I know where Claire is," Ada purred and smiled devilishly.

"I think this is the way out…" Leon gestured toward the door he came in from.

Carlos turned the knob and smiled realizing it was opening. He peered into the entrance to see another door at the bottom of the steps. Magnificent light seeped its way through the cracks and illuminated the bare walls of the corridor.

With haste, the two boys jogged down the case and checked the last barricade to the outside world. It clicked open and a mass of light poured in causing them to squint.

Carlos grinned a toothy smile and stepped out. "I'll go get de car! And you amigos hurry and get Claire."

But before he could run off Chris shouted, "Let them go!"

The two confused hastened up the stairs to see Wesker with Claire draped lifelessly over his shoulder and a blonde woman holding on to Sherry with Ada grinning in the back of them.

"Long time no see, Chris," Albert smirked his salutation.

Chris narrowed his eyes and pointed his gun at him.

"Is that anyway to greet an old friend?" he asked and quickly dodged the bullet he fired.

"How'd…"

Wesker laughed at the patheticness. "Why you even found the exit for us."

"Step aside," Eliza ordered with Ada backing her words by the pistol aimed.

With no choice they made way for them. The five strode down the steps with Ada sprinting to grab a car.

"It's been fun," Wesker went on as the girls boarded the Chevy, "I'll see you where birds can't fly and where the manors have a sense of nostalgia of things from the recent past."

"What?!" Chris barked as anger boiled his insides.

Leon growled with fangs bared. Again, he could do nothing but watch helplessly as his dear friend was kidnapped. He observed the car speed out of the parking lot with Chris and the others sprinting after the vehicle in a complete out rage.

"I'll save you Claire," Leon vowed in whisper. I can't die until I know you're safe… No matter what it takes.

Anger washed through his heart as Leon slowly closed his vengeful eyes.

Author's Note: I know I left you hanging. Don't worry I'm going to write a sequel that's ten times better than this! It's going to be a rewrite of Code Veronica as you could probably could already tell. Thanks for reading and please send any comments to me. Thanks again.