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Rain fell into the chair, arms slumping with the weight of the axe.

"I can give you the code, but first you must do me a favor."

"Shove your favor, we know the code," Alice all but snarled at the computer, pushing Matt aside none too gently. Having watched Spence type it into the keypad on the briefcase, it came back to her in perfect clarity.

0-9-8-1

The light flashed green, and with a whoosh of air, the door opened. Alice looked between both shelves, before pulling a briefcase closer to her. She slid open the sealed glass door containing the green concoctions, and cleaned out all of the vials, setting them into the padded area of the case. Ignoring the blue vials, she shut the door again, keeping out the needle, loading one of the vials as she crossed the room over to Rain.

"Hold on, you're gonna be okay."

Rain blinked tiredly at the blonde, nodding weakly. She wasn't sure if she believed Alice's words, but she was getting too tired to care. She hardly felt the poke of the needle at her arm, nor the after affects of the injection.

"That won't be enough."

"What do you mean?" Alice asked, turning to the computer monitor. There was a sense of irritation in the A.I's tone.

"Each vial of anti-virus matches just one application of the T-virus. My sensors have determined that your friend was bitten more than once, as she is infected on multiple levels."

Alice let out a breath of frustration.

"How many times were you bitten? Total," she asked, keeping her tone soft.

"Five," Rain answered after a moment of thought, voice thick with fatigue. Just as quickly, Alice injected four more dosages of the cure into her dark haired friend. Rain's eyes squeezed shut as she leaned back.

She could feel the anti-virus fighting the infection, her veins burned as though they were filled with a liquid fire. She never noticed when she whimpered, but when she came to nearly a minute later, a loud thumping registered in her brain.

She opened her eyes, looking for the commotion. Though she was still beyond tired, she felt as though she had just had a power nap; more aware and energized than she had been before the power down.

The Licker was slamming itself against the window, and it was slowly cracking outward.

"Open the door!"

"I cannot do that. There is no guarantee that the cure will work. You must dispose of your infected companion before I can allow you to leave."

"Screw that," Matt argued with the computer.

"Open the door!"

"I won't."

At some point when she was out Alice had grabbed the axe. She swung it over her head wildly, catching the side of the monitor, breaking it into many pieces. There was a moment of confusion before all the lights went out and the slamming stopped.

"What the-"

The door clicked open, and Alice spun, holding the axe out defensively. A bloodied hand grabbed at the door, pulling it open further.

"Kap?"

Rain's raspy voice broke the silence. Alice and Matt jumped at it, not noticing she had come around.

"The bitch wouldn't let me in, so I had to fry her ass."

Alice emitted something between a laugh and a gasp, while Matt bent down to help Rain up and over to the stairs. The group was startled when a loud thump cracked the glass further.

"Shit. We have to go."

Another jump, and the Licker broke through the window, landing in the lab with a huge splash of water. The three rushed out of the door, as Kaplan shut it behind him, leaning against it. The weight of the experiment jolted the door, but the metal barrier held.

"What the hell is that thing?"

"I'll explain later, let's move."

Though she was still a bit woozy, Rain declined Matt's aid, instead waiving him over to Kaplan as she made her way semi-quickly after the blonde. Alice set a fast pace, and the group made quick time of getting to the train.

Kaplan disappeared into the engine room, as Rain and Matt entered the main one, the 'cop', for Rain did not know what he really was yet, putting the large case of the anti-virus down on the floor. Alice appeared a moment later with the other suitcase, and Rain took in her shaken up appearance.

Her dress and hair were still damp, but she looked ready to keep pushing. The blonde set the bigger case, it was mostly foam and did not have nearly as much of the experiments in it that the other did, next to the brown one, before letting herself relaxed.

"We're out of here," Kaplan shouted back, and Matt quickly shut the door of the train, as they took off speeding down the tracks.

"One hell of a morning, huh?" He asked the two women, leaning against the far wall of the train.

Rain laughed mirthlessly, feeling as though she could cry at the fate of her team.

"You can say that again," Alice answered for the pair. With her memory fully intact, she was confused. Spence had been one of her good friends for many years, and though it was a bitter departure, a part of her was still heartbroken at his death.

Matt bit his lip, thinking about his sister.

"Yeah," he said quietly, turning away from the pair. He grabbed the needle and a vial of the anti-virus from the suitcase, going to the front room where Kaplan was.

"You feeling better?"

Rain turned at the blonde's question.

"I've been better." At Alice's pointed look, she continued. "Yes."

"We'll leave it there."

Blue-green eyes studied the Latino woman intently.

"You look better. Getting some color back."

The smaller woman ran her tongue along her bottom row of teeth.

"Yay," her dry tone left no room for confusion.

"It'll get better." It has to, Alice left that last part unspoken.

It was then that all hell broke loose.

The Licker had somehow found its way out of the lab and to the dark tunnel that they were currently careening down at a very dangerous speed. Its elongated claws tore through the metal car, as though it were paper. The power behind the experiment's swipe was enough to throw Matt to the floor of the train. A commotion from the front cab turned their attention, and Rain choked back her gasp when Kaplan suddenly disappeared from the previously existing door.

Thankfully at that point, Matt had recovered fast enough to shut the door from the driver's cabin to the main one. The trio followed the sounds of the Licker's advances on the roof of the car, which spurred Matt into action. He sprinted the length of the car, slamming the back door shut, latching it.

It held for a few seconds. Rain, still unsteady on her feet from the virus and anti-virus, was thrown against the front wall of the train car, as Alice and Matt worked in what she later considered to be a very unorthodox team.

"Shut the door!"

Rain had managed to upright herself, leaning heavily on the wall behind her. The flames from the tracks below made her wince as she turned away from the sight and heat.

What a conveniently placed button, she reflected dryly for just a moment, before she slammed her hand onto it. The doors closed, and the flaming, death infected, former rabbit was left behind, as they sped away.

"Holy shit," it was Matt who voiced all their thoughts, as Rain let her body slide along the wall and to the floor.

"Rain! Rain, are you okay?"

Alice's hand was on her face, cupping her cheek gently as she studied the darker woman. With a moment of energy, Rain attempted to pull away. Alice was not having it however.

"I'm fine. Exhausted but fine."

Her voice was hoarse, seeing the last member of her squad get torn away from her like he had was enough to round out her morning.

"Don't worry. We're almost out of here," Alice said, unwavering.

The confidence did make Rain feel the slightest bit better, but she had this sinking feeling that it was not over yet.

The computer driven train started to slow, before pulling to a halt right outside the station under the mansion. Alice helped Rain to stand, before grabbing the second suitcase. Stiffly Rain made her way right behind the only other survivors. A large, illuminated digital clock was stationed next to the door.

Fifteen seconds.

Finding energy somewhere, Rain managed to slowly jog up the stairs, stepping through the barricade doors just as they started shutting. She looked back until it was finally shut, sealing the morning of doom and death behind her. Turning around she started towards the front door of the mansion, just in time to see Alice collapse against the wall.

"I failed. I failed them all."

"No. No you didn't," Matt gently argued with the blonde.

"I did. This is all my fault."

"None of this is your fault."

"Yeah," Rain said dryly, leaning heavily against the door frame. "This is all because of that bastard."

None of them needed clarification of who exactly she was talking about.

"If it wasn't for him," Rain started, her long forgotten anger coming back with a vengeance. "The virus would never have been released. The fucking computer would not have gone into lock down. We wouldn't have been sent in. They wouldn't have-"

She cut herself off suddenly, not able to bring up her lost teammates quite yet.

"Umbrella is the only one to-" Matt stumbled for a moment, and neither woman noticed the painful muscle spasm in his arm. "Blame. It's all- on them. You-"

He gasped.

"Matt?"

Alice's voice was choked, as Matt let out a shout of pain, rolling onto his back as he gripped his upper arm tightly. Rain fell to the floor next to Alice.

"Shit man, why didn't you say something sooner?" Rain chastised the faux-cop, seeing the three long gashes on his arm.

"We're not loosing you, too, Matt," Alice added said forcefully, as she opened the metal case, fumbling with a vial of the anti-virus. Before she could put it into the needle gun, however, the doors were thrown open, as white light spilled into the previously dark entryway.

"What's happe-"

Alice got to her feet, her stance screaming for the white donned men to back off. In her exhausted state, Rain felt helpless when another scientist pushed her away from Matt, before two of them carried him out. Alice was not so willing to let him go however, as she continued to fight off the suited people, calling out to her recently found friend.

"MATT!"

"He's mutating. I want him in the Nemeses program."

Getting to her feet as fast as she could, Rain went to back up Alice, but there were just too many of them. Alice's attention was finally yanked from Matt as she zoned in on the commotion next to her.

"No, Rain," rather hopelessly, she continued to fight off the quickly multiplying Umbrella personnel. "Rain!"

Her hand reached out, grasping for something just out of her reach. Pushing weakly against the arms restraining her, Rain reached for the blonde as well. Their fingers were just centimeters from each other when she felt the sting of a needle at her throat, and what little adrenaline she had managed to scrounge up disappeared with the injection. She collapsed into the arms of one of the suited men, faintly noticing that Alice had called her name again.

"It looks like this one's been bitten."

"Put them both in quarantine. I want them under close surveillance, around the clock. I want full blood tests; we have to find out if they're infected. Then get a team together. We're going to open the hive and see what happened down there."

Rain wanted to be able to talk more than ever. No, she would tell them. You can't do that. All desires of that slowly left her mind as the white world faded to black.

So, I have never read any of the books (but it's on my agenda!), and I've played only the first game, once or twice when I was much younger, and it first came out. Uhm, I've seen all the movies (but only pretty recently) which I absolutely love. Don't even ask me why, I have no idea… I generally hate sci-fi films and books and stuff. Odd, innit? Anyhow, I can't guarantee when I update this next, but look for it, yeah? Peace.

-Shannon Riley