A/C fic Part 2
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Alright, not much to say except sorry for taking a while to update. I want this story to sound good so I'm going to be editing a lot. And I'm adding more detail to it. Also edited and added things to the first chapter. So, if you want you guys can read it.
CHAPTER TWO:
Three Hours Later
She didn't know where she was. Well, she was in a car, that she knew but exactly where she was, she didn't have a clue. All Alice knew was that she was lying in an air-conditioned car alone. As she looked around she saw that on the hood of the car sat LJ, Jill, and Angela. Alice found herself wondering where Carlos was as she got out.
She was about to greet her friends but noticed they stared out at something. And after following their gaze she came to see that they watching the sun rise. They were near a river and staring at the opposite coast where behind the landforms the sun was rising little by little giving a brighter red orange glow as it began to dawn.
" Nice to see you're awake, Sleeping Beauty." Jill greeted with a smile as she was the first one that noticed her.
Alice glanced from the bright scene and turned to her friends.
" Your prince is over there." Jill continued to joke and yet she kind of meant it. She pointed out to Carlos who stood at least ten yards leaning on the metal rails that bordered the parking lot.
Alice threw a laughing smile at Jill and LJ chuckled while Angela gave a little giggle.
" That is the corniest thing you have ever said, Valentine." LJ said as Alice walked away and thought she was out of earshot which she wasn't.
" Not as corny as your jokes." Jill replied and Angela couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Alice quietly approached him and knew because she was so silent he was oblivious to her presence and yet before she could even get a word out, Carlos turned to her.
" Nice to see you're awake." he said, glad to see her," You passed out on us back there. What happened?"
She stared at him for a moment before answering," Oh, um- I used too much of my telekinesis."
He didn't understand," What? That can happen?"
" Since I'm not used to my powers yet, yes." Alice replied.
He nodded and smiled. Alice beamed back but noticed something was wrong. Carlos was looking pale and sick.
" Carlos?" she asked again more worried than last," Are you alright?"
" I'm-" he started when he coughed savagely and spat some blood to the side." I'm fine." he blatantly lied.
He saw Alice's eyes widen and he knew she knew about the problem.
" How long ago were you bitten?" she asked.
" What do you mean?" he asked trying to divert the subject and failed.
" Tell me the truth." she ordered.
He surrendered to the demand and answered her not knowing why he was keeping it a secret," Three hours ago." came the answer as he walked closer to her," You were unconscious and a zombie I thought I killed sprang up on me."
The two were silent for a moment and stared at each other with a space of at least a foot between them. To their side, the sun continued to rise and started to brighten the scene. The sky was a near red orange and was starting to lighten up and there were no clouds in the sky. There was nothing to say and the two seemed to be frozen in that moment. It seemed they were unable to move and unable to do anything but to stare into each other's eyes.
" Alice! Carlos! C'mon we need to get going." Jill called to them suddenly breaking the moment," We also need to get you some new clothes for you guys."
Jill, Angela, and LJ were in the car and awaited the other two. Alice walked towards the car but didn't hear Carlos follow. She turned to see what he was doing and saw he was standing there, watching her leave and not make a move. Something told her that he wasn't going to come along.
Alice turned to him giving him a questioning look," What's wrong?"
" What the hell do you mean?" he asked confused and a little irritated.
" You're coming aren't you?" she asked.
" I've been bitten! In a couple more hours I'm dead. I'm an infectant. I thought you'd understand-"
" Hey!" she said with deadly tone," I am the kind of person that understands that and normally I'd blast an infectant on the spot to save them and save us, but it's because we've got the antivirus that I'm letting you come along."
She was lying, partly. She did have the antivirus but that wasn't the only reason that she wanted him to come.
" Antivirus?" he asked.
" Cure to the T-Virus." she answered.
" Wait, there's a cure?" Carlos asked unsure whether to believe what he was hearing or ignore it.
" Yeah." Alice said flashing a smile and headed towards the car.
Carlos suppressed a cough before following her. He was in earshot when he heard Alice ask Angela for a shot of the antivirus.
" Geez, forgot about that didn't we?" LJ said as Angela drew something from a torn up backpack.
It was some sort of canister with green liquid in a spiral glass. Carlos came to know the T-Virus as a blue shot and knew the antivirus was a green, but because there was none at the facility, no one knew what it actually looked like other than what color it was. Alice turned to him and held out her hand. He grabbed hold her hand and she pulled him toward her.
" How can you have the antivirus?" Carlos asked Angela as she got out of the car and stood next to Alice.
" My daddy made it for me." Angela explained.
" That's right, you were experimented on." Carlos said and got a fierce glare from Alice meaning he had said the wrong thing," I mean, you- um."
He couldn't find another way to explain it and that was when Alice took the shot and drove it into his forearm. It stung and hurt more than Carlos thought it would but realized that it was six needles- seven, at least- that had pierced his arm. He then kept talking to Angela realizing that this would explain a lot.
" You were sick?" Carlos asked the girl.
" Yeah and I would've gotten worse but my daddy found a way to make me better." Angela replied.
" The T-Virus was supposed to make you better?" he asked not understanding how something so chaotic and murderous could be a cure to a sickness for a little girl.
" The T-Virus," Alice came in sensing his confusion," Was made to revive dead cells. In a living human it can cause uncontrollable mutation or it can help her walk again."
" So, that's why she's infected." Carlos said.
" Yes, she was infected and even though it wasn't enough for cause for mutation the T-Virus temporarily gives her the ability to walk. It's only kept in check with this." Alice finished explaining, then waving the empty can.
" And they infected you with the T-Virus." Carlos said to Alice even though they knew experimented was the right word.
" Yeah, but I'm not contagious." she said with a smile and he smiled at the small joke.
She threw the canister away in a trash can before she, Carlos, and Angela got into the car and Jill drove them away.
An Umbrella Base
" What do you means she's gone ?!" came an angry roar from Isaacs.
He looked at the agent straight in the eyes with a deadly look around him. The news the man had just delivered confirmed that once again, Isaacs had lost Alice.
" I sent out orders for any Umbrella agent to bring her in! Have any agents come in with a reply?" Isaacs asked.
" No sir." came the reply from one agent," But we can have our best agents look for her."
Isaacs glanced at a screen to his far left. Something seemed to be counting down.
" We have no need for that. In little less than two hours the satellite will be overhead and we'll be able to take control of Alice and find her location."
" About that-" came a scientist.
Isaacs turned," What about that?"
" If Alice gets in the shelter of a building our satellite won't be able to penetrate the signal through something like that. It could get corrupted or misdirected." came the reply.
Isaacs wanted to blow up or kill someone on the spot. How could an experiment like Alice evade all of her genetic programing. At first she was to side with Umbrella just like Nemesis but she instead rebelled and became independent. She was the cause of Cain's death and of Dr.Ashford's. And now she was supposed to end up like Nemesis, Umbrella should be able to see through her eyes and she was to be like a mobile tracker but now-
" Sir, what do we do?" someone asked.
" We wait." Isaacs replied," That's all we can do."
In truth, there was something else. He knew that Alice escaped through the back roads of the city and there must've been agents that came in on that night. What they could do would be to find the traitor that helped Alice escape. But he needed to wait, maybe something with the project may go right after all.
Alice and Co.
Angela surveyed the small but empty town as they drove in. It was deserted and resembled a ghost town. All that was left was for tumbleweeds to roll across the streets. But instead of that there were stray newspapers flying.
" Alice." she whispered," They've been here." And there was no point of clarifying who they were.
" Don't worry. It's alright." Alice assured as Jill pulled up near a department store.
Carlos and Jill drew their guns and Jill tossed a spare gun to Alice.
" We'll look for a gun store to stock up." Jill said.
" What do you think happened here?" Carlos asked as they entered the store.
" We can guess, zombies went through here." Alice replied.
" I say they're still here." LJ added," Hello?!" he called out to anyone.
Zombies were attracted to sound. At the source of the sound they expected to find some food. But there was no reply to LJ's call out. There were not blood-thirsty roars or any cries for help if there were any survivors left. Carlos and Jill holstered their guns and Alice just held it down.
" Store's empty." Jill confirmed and then turned to Alice and Carlos," You two gotta get out of those clothes. Now."
Alice still wore the short white robe and Carlos was still wearing the Umbrella uniform, a black shirt and dark army green pants. Everyone split up. Angela looked around the store for anything she that could help them or would be worth keeping. Jill was doing the same except on the other side of the store as Angela stood near to the dressing rooms near to Alice's side. And meanwhile outside keeping watch was LJ. After a while, Jill rejoined Angela with a bag full of snacks, water, and an extra outfit while Angela had packed a small bag with sleepwear and had changed clothes, as well. Instead of uniform it was a dark short sleeved shirt, light jeans, and a pair of sandals.
" Anything else?" Jill asked.
" Not really," Angela replied walking into the child section of the dressing rooms.
Something out of the corner of her eye had gotten her attention and Angela walked over to the item and examined it.
" I found a handbag, but it's stained with blood." Angela replied.
Jill walked over as Angela pulled the bag out but something else had the same idea. It looked like it was attached to the bag and Angie screamed as a zombie came crawling out from underneath one of the dressing stalls. It was a little girl no older than herself. Jill pulled Angela toward her and grabbed her gun. Within a few moments the zombie girl lay on the ground with a bullet to the head. Carlos and Alice came running towards them and LJ came from the car.
" You guys okay?" Carlos asked his gun up and trailing the zombie.
" It's alright, we're fine." Jill replied." Angie?"
" I'm fine." the girl replied.
LJ looked noticed the blood-soaked bag and picked it up. Carlos didn't holster the gun but held on to it.
" The bag belonged to a-" LJ started taking out the contents of the bag," A Miss Stephanie Sandley. A young high school student and she has a- bunch of makeup-"
" LJ, should you really be going through a dead person's stuff?" Angela asked.
" Let's hope she's not dead." Jill added.
" Wallet with ID, and a- a digital camera." LJ concluded and tossed the camera to Jill who handed it to Angela.
The girl turned on the camera and went straight to the archive of the photographs that had been taken on the camera. She scrolled through to see pictures of a smiling 16-year-old, blond, teenager with her friends and family. From behind her, Jill, Carlos, and Angela had a view of all the pictures and came to a stop before the girl turned them off.
" These are nice pictures." Angela whispered," I hope the girl's not dead."
But she still went through the camera still hoping she'll find more clues. Maybe the girl left a video or something, and Angela went through the video files until she came upon one that had today's date. She turned to Alice as if asking for permission to view the video and Alice as well as everyone was curious as to what was left and nodded to Angela to play it.
For a brief moment the screen went black and then the next it was in a dressing room stall as the others could see hangars filled with clothes on either side of the room. The camera's microphone had picked up the sounds of somethings slamming against the door and picked up the moment of the camera being turned to the face of a frightened Stephanie Sandley. The group noticed the blood splatter on her, her messed up hair, and tears that had stained her face with makeup streaks.
" My name is Stephanie Sandley, I'm sixteen and-" the girl went on to explain herself, where she went to school, and little details of her life.
Alice, Carlos, Jill, Angela, and LJ watched and everything the girl said, all the details she spilled out in the last moments of her life were burned into their memories. The noise outside the door was getting louder before, and the girl spilled one more thing.
" I am the last person alive here. I've checked and they've trapped me here. There is no one left, so whoever finds this and thinks there's someone alive there is no one alive. Take this camera or whatever you need and leave." At the moment in the video, the store went silent and then something crawled from underneath the door. A scream echoed in the video and the last image was that of a zombie girl. The screen went blank once more.
" She's gone." Jill muttered after the momentary silence.
The detail in the video were branded into their minds and Carlos couldn't help shake off the feeling that the girl was still in the building. Suddenly a dreadful thought hit him and he started to put the pieces together.
" I think she's still in here." Carlos muttered as Angela handed him the camera," The girl in the video."
" I doubt that she's alive." LJ said and Carlos agreed.
" Where'd you find this bag?" he asked Angela.
The girl pointed to the stall," It was lying on the side." the girl added.
Carlos holstered the gun and walked up to the stall from where the little infected girl had crawled out from. He knelt down and brushed his fingers against the dark area in front of the dressing room.
" Figures." he muttered.
" What?" Jill asked and Carlos pressed his hand against the carpet. When he removed it there was a crimson red imprint of his hand.
" Blood." LJ stated.
" There's someone in there." Alice said staring hard at the door as if she could see through it. " But they're not alive and they're not infected. Angela, wait off there to the side."
" Better yet, Jill, take Angie out of here." Carlos ordered, getting a stare from Jill with a I-don't-take-orders kind of look.
" It's alright," Angela said," I can stand it. I can look."
" I'm afraid looking's not an option." Carlos replied as Jill pulled Angela toward her in a hug so the young girl couldn't see what was going on behind her while Jill had a clear view.
Alice walked closer to the room and Carlos tried to open the door but it wouldn't budge.
" Locked." LJ figured.
" No shit, sherlock." Carlos replied backing up a little before kicking the door, breaking the lock, and sending the door to hang by its hinges.
At the sight of the scene, the four adults grimaced. LJ looked away after several moments and couldn't stand the sight of it. Jill, minutes later after she couldn't stand it, pulled Angela and LJ off to the far side where they couldn't catch a glimpse of the bloody sight; but even though she couldn't see it the vision still stuck to her head and when Jill remembered the pictures she nearly retched.
Carlos and Alice stood frozen in place. In the stall was a ripped up corpse of a teenage girl, at least sixteen. Her face were bloody and her eyes were gouged out, her mouth hanging open in a scream and blood poured out, her bottom lip was even torn off, her clothes were left in a bloody mess, the rest of her body was mutilated and the insides of her body spilled and soaked into the ground. Judging by some of the dry blood where there was not much pooled, the two guessed she must've been dead for two days at least three. Alice was rooted to her spot and Carlos saw she had hate and fire in her eyes as he finally looked away and turned to look at her. He pulled her away to the side and once she was out of view she stared blankly at the room.
" Alice?" he asked and waved his hand in front of her.
She was staring at the blood on the floor now, along with Carlos's bloody hand print.
" Look, at me." Carlos ordered," Alice, look- at- me."
He tilted her head for her to face him but it took a while before her gaze to turn to him. He needed to something and he wanted to when Jill called out to them.
" Let's get going! We need to gear up." Jill yelled as she, LJ, and Angela went to the car, Carlos and Alice followed and the group drove to the gun store on the other side of town where they geared up.
There Alice, Carlos, Jill, and LJ restocked. There they emptied their old guns and grabbed brand new ones. Alice took up a holster belt with two guns to the side. Two thigh holsters were tied around the middle of her thigh and she grabbed two 9mm pistols, two .45 caliber guns, two thin and light semi-automatic guns, and one shotgun. Carlos had grabbed two 9 mm guns, which looked like the ordinary cop guns, two Desert Eagles, and told the others he had an assault rifle in the back of the car. Jill on the other hand replaced her guns with brand new versions of the ones she had. LJ grabbed one shotgun and two Desert Eagle handguns. They also grabbed a bag full of ammo cartridges and extra guns just to be sure.
The group of survivors spent those moments in silence and just took the weapons they needed but LJ hated the uncomfortable and awkward silence.
" Do you really think she was the last person alive?" he asked everyone.
Alice and Jill seemed to ignore him and Carlos seemed to be the only one listening. After a moment or two, the former agent answered him.
" There's no way to prove that the girl was telling the truth or just doesn't know." Carlos answered," But we slowly drove across this small town and there's no one here, not even the infectants are crawling around."
No one spoke after that and all them got piled into the car. Carlos was in the driver's seat and Alice in the passenger. Jill and Angela sat in the middle seat and in the back was LJ, who stretched out lazily.
" We better get to a motel." Carlos said as they drove off.
In the middle seat, Angela looked at the camera and didn't want to keep the pictures or the video that the camera had caught. Maybe the camera could catch some new memories. The girl found the delete button and for a while debated with herself whether or not to press yes.
" Okay, we're staying here for one night and we're going to leave tomorrow." Carlos said as they pulled up near an abandoned motel.
The others silently agreed and before getting out, Angela deleted everything on the camera.
Overhead, In Space
A satellite beeped as it continued to move at its slow but progressing pace. It would be over head the state in which Alice and her friends are moving. It would find her, that's what it was programmed to do. As the sun's rays caught the wings of the satellite in the light, the Umbrella logo could clearly be seen and as it continued to float there was the distinctive sound of the satellite which echoed in Alice's mind.
Beep-beep.
The countdown until it was overhead kept going and right now it was transmitting with this: one hour left.
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-Phoenix
Alright, not much to say except sorry for taking a while to update. I want this story to sound good so I'm going to be editing a lot. And I'm adding more detail to it. Also edited and added things to the first chapter. So, if you want you guys can read it.
CHAPTER TWO:
Three Hours Later
She didn't know where she was. Well, she was in a car, that she knew but exactly where she was, she didn't have a clue. All Alice knew was that she was lying in an air-conditioned car alone. As she looked around she saw that on the hood of the car sat LJ, Jill, and Angela. Alice found herself wondering where Carlos was as she got out.
She was about to greet her friends but noticed they stared out at something. And after following their gaze she came to see that they watching the sun rise. They were near a river and staring at the opposite coast where behind the landforms the sun was rising little by little giving a brighter red orange glow as it began to dawn.
" Nice to see you're awake, Sleeping Beauty." Jill greeted with a smile as she was the first one that noticed her.
Alice glanced from the bright scene and turned to her friends.
" Your prince is over there." Jill continued to joke and yet she kind of meant it. She pointed out to Carlos who stood at least ten yards leaning on the metal rails that bordered the parking lot.
Alice threw a laughing smile at Jill and LJ chuckled while Angela gave a little giggle.
" That is the corniest thing you have ever said, Valentine." LJ said as Alice walked away and thought she was out of earshot which she wasn't.
" Not as corny as your jokes." Jill replied and Angela couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Alice quietly approached him and knew because she was so silent he was oblivious to her presence and yet before she could even get a word out, Carlos turned to her.
" Nice to see you're awake." he said, glad to see her," You passed out on us back there. What happened?"
She stared at him for a moment before answering," Oh, um- I used too much of my telekinesis."
He didn't understand," What? That can happen?"
" Since I'm not used to my powers yet, yes." Alice replied.
He nodded and smiled. Alice beamed back but noticed something was wrong. Carlos was looking pale and sick.
" Carlos?" she asked again more worried than last," Are you alright?"
" I'm-" he started when he coughed savagely and spat some blood to the side." I'm fine." he blatantly lied.
He saw Alice's eyes widen and he knew she knew about the problem.
" How long ago were you bitten?" she asked.
" What do you mean?" he asked trying to divert the subject and failed.
" Tell me the truth." she ordered.
He surrendered to the demand and answered her not knowing why he was keeping it a secret," Three hours ago." came the answer as he walked closer to her," You were unconscious and a zombie I thought I killed sprang up on me."
The two were silent for a moment and stared at each other with a space of at least a foot between them. To their side, the sun continued to rise and started to brighten the scene. The sky was a near red orange and was starting to lighten up and there were no clouds in the sky. There was nothing to say and the two seemed to be frozen in that moment. It seemed they were unable to move and unable to do anything but to stare into each other's eyes.
" Alice! Carlos! C'mon we need to get going." Jill called to them suddenly breaking the moment," We also need to get you some new clothes for you guys."
Jill, Angela, and LJ were in the car and awaited the other two. Alice walked towards the car but didn't hear Carlos follow. She turned to see what he was doing and saw he was standing there, watching her leave and not make a move. Something told her that he wasn't going to come along.
Alice turned to him giving him a questioning look," What's wrong?"
" What the hell do you mean?" he asked confused and a little irritated.
" You're coming aren't you?" she asked.
" I've been bitten! In a couple more hours I'm dead. I'm an infectant. I thought you'd understand-"
" Hey!" she said with deadly tone," I am the kind of person that understands that and normally I'd blast an infectant on the spot to save them and save us, but it's because we've got the antivirus that I'm letting you come along."
She was lying, partly. She did have the antivirus but that wasn't the only reason that she wanted him to come.
" Antivirus?" he asked.
" Cure to the T-Virus." she answered.
" Wait, there's a cure?" Carlos asked unsure whether to believe what he was hearing or ignore it.
" Yeah." Alice said flashing a smile and headed towards the car.
Carlos suppressed a cough before following her. He was in earshot when he heard Alice ask Angela for a shot of the antivirus.
" Geez, forgot about that didn't we?" LJ said as Angela drew something from a torn up backpack.
It was some sort of canister with green liquid in a spiral glass. Carlos came to know the T-Virus as a blue shot and knew the antivirus was a green, but because there was none at the facility, no one knew what it actually looked like other than what color it was. Alice turned to him and held out her hand. He grabbed hold her hand and she pulled him toward her.
" How can you have the antivirus?" Carlos asked Angela as she got out of the car and stood next to Alice.
" My daddy made it for me." Angela explained.
" That's right, you were experimented on." Carlos said and got a fierce glare from Alice meaning he had said the wrong thing," I mean, you- um."
He couldn't find another way to explain it and that was when Alice took the shot and drove it into his forearm. It stung and hurt more than Carlos thought it would but realized that it was six needles- seven, at least- that had pierced his arm. He then kept talking to Angela realizing that this would explain a lot.
" You were sick?" Carlos asked the girl.
" Yeah and I would've gotten worse but my daddy found a way to make me better." Angela replied.
" The T-Virus was supposed to make you better?" he asked not understanding how something so chaotic and murderous could be a cure to a sickness for a little girl.
" The T-Virus," Alice came in sensing his confusion," Was made to revive dead cells. In a living human it can cause uncontrollable mutation or it can help her walk again."
" So, that's why she's infected." Carlos said.
" Yes, she was infected and even though it wasn't enough for cause for mutation the T-Virus temporarily gives her the ability to walk. It's only kept in check with this." Alice finished explaining, then waving the empty can.
" And they infected you with the T-Virus." Carlos said to Alice even though they knew experimented was the right word.
" Yeah, but I'm not contagious." she said with a smile and he smiled at the small joke.
She threw the canister away in a trash can before she, Carlos, and Angela got into the car and Jill drove them away.
An Umbrella Base
" What do you means she's gone ?!" came an angry roar from Isaacs.
He looked at the agent straight in the eyes with a deadly look around him. The news the man had just delivered confirmed that once again, Isaacs had lost Alice.
" I sent out orders for any Umbrella agent to bring her in! Have any agents come in with a reply?" Isaacs asked.
" No sir." came the reply from one agent," But we can have our best agents look for her."
Isaacs glanced at a screen to his far left. Something seemed to be counting down.
" We have no need for that. In little less than two hours the satellite will be overhead and we'll be able to take control of Alice and find her location."
" About that-" came a scientist.
Isaacs turned," What about that?"
" If Alice gets in the shelter of a building our satellite won't be able to penetrate the signal through something like that. It could get corrupted or misdirected." came the reply.
Isaacs wanted to blow up or kill someone on the spot. How could an experiment like Alice evade all of her genetic programing. At first she was to side with Umbrella just like Nemesis but she instead rebelled and became independent. She was the cause of Cain's death and of Dr.Ashford's. And now she was supposed to end up like Nemesis, Umbrella should be able to see through her eyes and she was to be like a mobile tracker but now-
" Sir, what do we do?" someone asked.
" We wait." Isaacs replied," That's all we can do."
In truth, there was something else. He knew that Alice escaped through the back roads of the city and there must've been agents that came in on that night. What they could do would be to find the traitor that helped Alice escape. But he needed to wait, maybe something with the project may go right after all.
Alice and Co.
Angela surveyed the small but empty town as they drove in. It was deserted and resembled a ghost town. All that was left was for tumbleweeds to roll across the streets. But instead of that there were stray newspapers flying.
" Alice." she whispered," They've been here." And there was no point of clarifying who they were.
" Don't worry. It's alright." Alice assured as Jill pulled up near a department store.
Carlos and Jill drew their guns and Jill tossed a spare gun to Alice.
" We'll look for a gun store to stock up." Jill said.
" What do you think happened here?" Carlos asked as they entered the store.
" We can guess, zombies went through here." Alice replied.
" I say they're still here." LJ added," Hello?!" he called out to anyone.
Zombies were attracted to sound. At the source of the sound they expected to find some food. But there was no reply to LJ's call out. There were not blood-thirsty roars or any cries for help if there were any survivors left. Carlos and Jill holstered their guns and Alice just held it down.
" Store's empty." Jill confirmed and then turned to Alice and Carlos," You two gotta get out of those clothes. Now."
Alice still wore the short white robe and Carlos was still wearing the Umbrella uniform, a black shirt and dark army green pants. Everyone split up. Angela looked around the store for anything she that could help them or would be worth keeping. Jill was doing the same except on the other side of the store as Angela stood near to the dressing rooms near to Alice's side. And meanwhile outside keeping watch was LJ. After a while, Jill rejoined Angela with a bag full of snacks, water, and an extra outfit while Angela had packed a small bag with sleepwear and had changed clothes, as well. Instead of uniform it was a dark short sleeved shirt, light jeans, and a pair of sandals.
" Anything else?" Jill asked.
" Not really," Angela replied walking into the child section of the dressing rooms.
Something out of the corner of her eye had gotten her attention and Angela walked over to the item and examined it.
" I found a handbag, but it's stained with blood." Angela replied.
Jill walked over as Angela pulled the bag out but something else had the same idea. It looked like it was attached to the bag and Angie screamed as a zombie came crawling out from underneath one of the dressing stalls. It was a little girl no older than herself. Jill pulled Angela toward her and grabbed her gun. Within a few moments the zombie girl lay on the ground with a bullet to the head. Carlos and Alice came running towards them and LJ came from the car.
" You guys okay?" Carlos asked his gun up and trailing the zombie.
" It's alright, we're fine." Jill replied." Angie?"
" I'm fine." the girl replied.
LJ looked noticed the blood-soaked bag and picked it up. Carlos didn't holster the gun but held on to it.
" The bag belonged to a-" LJ started taking out the contents of the bag," A Miss Stephanie Sandley. A young high school student and she has a- bunch of makeup-"
" LJ, should you really be going through a dead person's stuff?" Angela asked.
" Let's hope she's not dead." Jill added.
" Wallet with ID, and a- a digital camera." LJ concluded and tossed the camera to Jill who handed it to Angela.
The girl turned on the camera and went straight to the archive of the photographs that had been taken on the camera. She scrolled through to see pictures of a smiling 16-year-old, blond, teenager with her friends and family. From behind her, Jill, Carlos, and Angela had a view of all the pictures and came to a stop before the girl turned them off.
" These are nice pictures." Angela whispered," I hope the girl's not dead."
But she still went through the camera still hoping she'll find more clues. Maybe the girl left a video or something, and Angela went through the video files until she came upon one that had today's date. She turned to Alice as if asking for permission to view the video and Alice as well as everyone was curious as to what was left and nodded to Angela to play it.
For a brief moment the screen went black and then the next it was in a dressing room stall as the others could see hangars filled with clothes on either side of the room. The camera's microphone had picked up the sounds of somethings slamming against the door and picked up the moment of the camera being turned to the face of a frightened Stephanie Sandley. The group noticed the blood splatter on her, her messed up hair, and tears that had stained her face with makeup streaks.
" My name is Stephanie Sandley, I'm sixteen and-" the girl went on to explain herself, where she went to school, and little details of her life.
Alice, Carlos, Jill, Angela, and LJ watched and everything the girl said, all the details she spilled out in the last moments of her life were burned into their memories. The noise outside the door was getting louder before, and the girl spilled one more thing.
" I am the last person alive here. I've checked and they've trapped me here. There is no one left, so whoever finds this and thinks there's someone alive there is no one alive. Take this camera or whatever you need and leave." At the moment in the video, the store went silent and then something crawled from underneath the door. A scream echoed in the video and the last image was that of a zombie girl. The screen went blank once more.
" She's gone." Jill muttered after the momentary silence.
The detail in the video were branded into their minds and Carlos couldn't help shake off the feeling that the girl was still in the building. Suddenly a dreadful thought hit him and he started to put the pieces together.
" I think she's still in here." Carlos muttered as Angela handed him the camera," The girl in the video."
" I doubt that she's alive." LJ said and Carlos agreed.
" Where'd you find this bag?" he asked Angela.
The girl pointed to the stall," It was lying on the side." the girl added.
Carlos holstered the gun and walked up to the stall from where the little infected girl had crawled out from. He knelt down and brushed his fingers against the dark area in front of the dressing room.
" Figures." he muttered.
" What?" Jill asked and Carlos pressed his hand against the carpet. When he removed it there was a crimson red imprint of his hand.
" Blood." LJ stated.
" There's someone in there." Alice said staring hard at the door as if she could see through it. " But they're not alive and they're not infected. Angela, wait off there to the side."
" Better yet, Jill, take Angie out of here." Carlos ordered, getting a stare from Jill with a I-don't-take-orders kind of look.
" It's alright," Angela said," I can stand it. I can look."
" I'm afraid looking's not an option." Carlos replied as Jill pulled Angela toward her in a hug so the young girl couldn't see what was going on behind her while Jill had a clear view.
Alice walked closer to the room and Carlos tried to open the door but it wouldn't budge.
" Locked." LJ figured.
" No shit, sherlock." Carlos replied backing up a little before kicking the door, breaking the lock, and sending the door to hang by its hinges.
At the sight of the scene, the four adults grimaced. LJ looked away after several moments and couldn't stand the sight of it. Jill, minutes later after she couldn't stand it, pulled Angela and LJ off to the far side where they couldn't catch a glimpse of the bloody sight; but even though she couldn't see it the vision still stuck to her head and when Jill remembered the pictures she nearly retched.
Carlos and Alice stood frozen in place. In the stall was a ripped up corpse of a teenage girl, at least sixteen. Her face were bloody and her eyes were gouged out, her mouth hanging open in a scream and blood poured out, her bottom lip was even torn off, her clothes were left in a bloody mess, the rest of her body was mutilated and the insides of her body spilled and soaked into the ground. Judging by some of the dry blood where there was not much pooled, the two guessed she must've been dead for two days at least three. Alice was rooted to her spot and Carlos saw she had hate and fire in her eyes as he finally looked away and turned to look at her. He pulled her away to the side and once she was out of view she stared blankly at the room.
" Alice?" he asked and waved his hand in front of her.
She was staring at the blood on the floor now, along with Carlos's bloody hand print.
" Look, at me." Carlos ordered," Alice, look- at- me."
He tilted her head for her to face him but it took a while before her gaze to turn to him. He needed to something and he wanted to when Jill called out to them.
" Let's get going! We need to gear up." Jill yelled as she, LJ, and Angela went to the car, Carlos and Alice followed and the group drove to the gun store on the other side of town where they geared up.
There Alice, Carlos, Jill, and LJ restocked. There they emptied their old guns and grabbed brand new ones. Alice took up a holster belt with two guns to the side. Two thigh holsters were tied around the middle of her thigh and she grabbed two 9mm pistols, two .45 caliber guns, two thin and light semi-automatic guns, and one shotgun. Carlos had grabbed two 9 mm guns, which looked like the ordinary cop guns, two Desert Eagles, and told the others he had an assault rifle in the back of the car. Jill on the other hand replaced her guns with brand new versions of the ones she had. LJ grabbed one shotgun and two Desert Eagle handguns. They also grabbed a bag full of ammo cartridges and extra guns just to be sure.
The group of survivors spent those moments in silence and just took the weapons they needed but LJ hated the uncomfortable and awkward silence.
" Do you really think she was the last person alive?" he asked everyone.
Alice and Jill seemed to ignore him and Carlos seemed to be the only one listening. After a moment or two, the former agent answered him.
" There's no way to prove that the girl was telling the truth or just doesn't know." Carlos answered," But we slowly drove across this small town and there's no one here, not even the infectants are crawling around."
No one spoke after that and all them got piled into the car. Carlos was in the driver's seat and Alice in the passenger. Jill and Angela sat in the middle seat and in the back was LJ, who stretched out lazily.
" We better get to a motel." Carlos said as they drove off.
In the middle seat, Angela looked at the camera and didn't want to keep the pictures or the video that the camera had caught. Maybe the camera could catch some new memories. The girl found the delete button and for a while debated with herself whether or not to press yes.
" Okay, we're staying here for one night and we're going to leave tomorrow." Carlos said as they pulled up near an abandoned motel.
The others silently agreed and before getting out, Angela deleted everything on the camera.
Overhead, In Space
A satellite beeped as it continued to move at its slow but progressing pace. It would be over head the state in which Alice and her friends are moving. It would find her, that's what it was programmed to do. As the sun's rays caught the wings of the satellite in the light, the Umbrella logo could clearly be seen and as it continued to float there was the distinctive sound of the satellite which echoed in Alice's mind.
Beep-beep.
The countdown until it was overhead kept going and right now it was transmitting with this: one hour left.
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-Phoenix