Somewhere in Spain, a meeting was going on, the people around the round table were hid in a dark veil, only their faces anable to be seen.

-Are you insane, you wish to nuke Racoon city just to get rid of an A.I.?

-It's the only way to survive, I've already sent the order, the lockdown has begun they have less than 12 hours to live

-I think that he's right, our computer expert have been doing their best, but all we can do is delay the innevitable, the Red Queen has gone against her programming and is trying to take us down

-Impossible, we have 10 super computers worth of computing power and A.I. of similar specks to the Red Queen, the best hackers in the world

-We've already lost 2 super computers during the first attack, our hackers are only human, the Red Queen has evolved faster than we had anticipated

-Where did she get the hardware?

-Probably hacked the governments of the world before taking us on, because that calculating power is insane, unless she has already taken over the world she wouldn't be able to hold a candle against us

-Have you tried attacking the world's super computers?

-Impossible, they are under the Red Queen's protection and the facilities are heavily guarded, we can either send out one nuke or send 24, do you think I didn't think of the possibility, this is the only solution

-How can you be sure that this will work?

-I'm not, this is the last option, there's no alternative, it's either us or the Red Queen, humans or machine

-There's only so much we can do, the media have already begun revealing our experiments and taking our skeletons out of the closet and that's only 1 hour since the attack begun, imagine how much damage will happen if we can't regain control

-Then why wait for 12 hours?

-That's the time the plane carrying the bomb will take to reach their location and drop its load

-Why not just send a missile and where is that plane flying from in order to take so long?

-Where else of course Korea

-Why not the US?

-We've no bombers there capable of carrying a nuke, they were scrapped to make missiles

-Why not just sent a missile?

-we've been warned that they might be hacked in midflight or shot down by the governments

-And a plane won't?

-Our specialy crafted and developed bomber plane won't

-Then why didn't you make it faster!

-We've specialized it in stealth not in speed, if we wanted speed we would have developed some unmaned drone, this one is an anti-hacking stealth plane made entirely for the purpose of not being found

-Maybe you should have made it specialize in both!

-Maybe someone should have given us more funds then!

It was human nature to bicker when in trouble, throwing the blame from one to another, nothing else of interest was said in the conference as the people present just shifted the blame from one person to another, until everyone agreed that everyone was to blame for this situation.

During that time, the first problem begun back at the Hive, the soldiers at last discovered the first hunter, the fight was beyond what anyone could expect, their bullets bounced from its rough hide popping the tumors as they finaly reached flesh, only to cause putrid blood to come out like a shower of infectious rain, infecting them all, its slit eyes looked at them like prey and cries for help sounded over the radio as the creature charged at them, with a single swing of his overgrown hand clawing them in half.

Those that survived by using their weapon as a shield, died from the impact of the blow shortly after as they met the concrete or steel walls of the facility.

"What's the situation! why are they shouting like that?"

The commander over the Hive operation (different person from the one captured by Alice and the others) asked, unable to figure out the reason why they would be shouting like that over the radio.

"It seems that the unit that went reclaim the Red Queen's chamber met with misfortune"

An officer said as he checked the location of the signal after all they at last finished hacking the facility and since half the cameras were destroyed they had little to no information on what was going on in the higher floors of the Hive, but could easily see what was happening at the lower levels.

"Have we reached that far down, I thought I told them to comb the area"

The commander asked skepticaly, they had already calculated that it would take around 4 hours for them to comb the entire facility.

-Do you remember that butt guy?

-What about him?

-He wanted to get a promotion and decided to man his own opertion

-That moron, how many men did we lose?

-Around a dozen, that guy however is still alive, he escaped with only a scratch and is now being hunted by a monster we've never seen before

-Can it bleed?

-It's regenerating as we speak

-Shit, order the troops to stop combing and regroup, take that thing down!

-Sir, there's three of them

-Goddammit! Tell them to regroup at the stairs of each floor and begin barricading, don't let that thing escape the facility!

-Sir, how about blowing it up?

-If we do that we won't be able to go any further with our operation

-Sir, since we reclaimed control over the facility, we have already determined that the people are either somehow cloacked by the Red Quen or died to that monster, other than our men, there's no life signs inside the facility

-How do you know that

-Isn't it simple, we have combed 1/10th of the facility and destroyed every camera in those areas, but the areas afterwards all have cameras, there's nowhere to hide

-Then call a retreat! call the purifiers! We're burning this shit up! Let me see how that thing survives without oxygen to breathe

"Roger everyone, you've 1 hour to get out of the facility, we're purifying it in one hour, anyone inside will be burned alive or asphyxiate! I repeat in 1 hour the facility will be purified! You have..."

The officer begun to anounce through the speakers of the facility, it was an anouncement that caused everyon to panic and retreat asap.

The officer that had just escaped from the hunter with his life begun to curse out loud, this was literaly a death sentence for him, he was really deep in the facility, all he could hope was he would make it in time.

He however had no time to think as the thing that was hunting him was still on his trail.

He begun to run, but suddenly he saw an open elevator door, he was shocked to see that there were ropes still hanging there, in his panic he rushed towards them and begun to climb as fast as he could, the creature saw him jump into the hole and came after him, only it didn't catch a rope, thus falling to its doom or so the officer thought.

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Before long two Hunters at the bottom of the Shaft were making their way up, they weren't cooperating at all, but for some reason the already carved wall made for great climbing.

The officer could hear the thumbs as the claws of the creature hit the wall, the other creature before had been burried by the debris caused by the explosion from when they had tried to kill alice, when the second creature fell, it broke the debris holding the other one down into smaller pieces, thus there were two creatures now and both were heading towards the surface. Not very fast, but at a steady pace, 1 hour might be just enough for them to reach the train floor.

The people down in the safe space also heard the announcement, but they couldn't tell what purification meant, but Nick could only curse his bad luck, in a hurry he went up the ladder and oppened the hatch.

A claw almost cut his hand off as the hatch opened, but he didn't care anymore, they had no time left, he jumped out of the hatch after the second claw attack and evaded the creature's attacks as if it was moving realy slowly in his eyes, leading the creature towards the hallway.

"You stupid A.I. kill that thing now!"

He shouted, but there was no answer as the beast was now slowly making its way towards him, as if toying with him.

Up in the commander's tent, the officer at the cameras immediately found the anomality.

-Sir there's a man in the laser Hallway with another of those beasts, what should we do?

-Kill them both, we have no time for them, did you see where he was hiding?

-No, but he came from inside the chamber, meaning that the others should also be inside

-Maybe they were cornered there by the monster

-I don't care about guesses, if you don't know just say so

At that time Nick was happy to see the lasers being lit up, the creature was also alarmed by the heat source appearing behind it. Little did it know that the laser would move and before it knew it cut its legs off.

Nick was at first happy, only to see the laser coming for him, he run towards the exit only to find it locked, he could however see a hole in the door, maybe just maybe he had enough time to open the door.

Evading the laser was easy, all he had to do is jump forwards and over the laser. Next he begun to fiddle with the door from the other side, the laser had already lit up again, this time it cut the monster into two halves as it was crawling towards him, with its claws.

He begun to laugh as he saw it dead, but didn't stop fiddling with the door, even as the new message appeared.

=Objective No 4 - Escape Racoon City within 12 Hours=

-Sir the man escaped the chamber, but the creature seems to be dead"

The officer in the tent reported

-It doesn't matter, everything is to be purified anyways, he won't make it out before we begin burning the facility, you have closed the ventilation right?

-Yes sir, just as you ordered, I hope the troops inside won't suffer too much

The officer climbing the rope in the elevator shaft was horrified to discover that his climbing speed up the long rope was slower than that of the two beasts, they were slowly catching up, they were tireless, while he had to stop and take a breath every once in a while.

He looked at his clock and could tell that he had enough time to go up, the problem was that if he did, he would probably bring those monsters with him.

His assault riffle he discarded as he was being hunted down, but he still had his handgun and grenades, he begun to throw grenades down the shaft, hoping that it would either slow those creatures down, or attract the attention of others.

The attempts however achieved only the second result, because he discovered that gravity's a bitch. His grenades fell so off target that he wanted to cry, even worse however was the dust that blew towards him, causing him to barely be able to breathe, while the creatures continues completely unaffected.

Grenade after Grenade all missed, he was sure however that his efforts wouldn't go to waste. He was terribly wrong, because everyon was too preocupied with escaping to go look what that sound coming from the elevator shaft was.

After climbing and dancing with death a few times as his arm strength was leaving him little by little. He finaly reached his destination, the exit of the Elevator to the rail station, he shouted for help from a nearby soldier whom saw nothing wrong with helping a fellow soldier.

That was until the Officer got up and begun to run faster than a bullet shouting "Monsters are climbing the Elevator Shaft!". If it was any other time, people would call him the boy that cryied wolf, this matter however wasn't one to laugh about, everyone near the train station knew that there were some sort of monsters in the facility even more terrifying than zombies.

"Monters are climbing the Elevator Shaft!"

The message echoed inside the campe as many of the people had alread begun to gather the tents and equipment, they didn't want to be there for the purification process, the stench of burned flesh isn't something they wished to experience.

-What's this about, there's still 20 minute before the purification begins, what are they shouting?

-There's a rumor that the monsters are climbing up through the elevator shaft

-So how accurate is it?

-Probably true, according...

-I asked you if it's true, not the weather report!

-It's 70% true, but there's a 30% chance that they are digging a tunnel to the surface as we speak

-What about the Cameras?

-There are no cameras in the elevator shaft sir, but we've found a recording of a monster diving head first into the elevator shaft

-So you don't know if the monsters are climbing or breeding down there, just fucking blow the whole shaft away, I no longer care what you do, I'm done with this, I'm leaving you in charge

-Thank you sir, This is Star we have a change in managment I'm now in charge, everyone barricade the entrance, reinstall the gattling guns and make it fast, those close to the Elevator shaft begin to shoot at the potentially climbing creatures, your goal is to knock them down, I repeat...

"why did they give me such incompetent subordinates"

The commander said as he walked towards the train, but inside he was about to piss his own pants, he wasn't going to risk his life there, even if they gave him double what they paid him right now.

As the train was leaving he saw that young officer that seemed to have disliked his orders he too was sitting in the train, his skin pale and his eyes out of focus.

"Are you alright Lad?"

He asked mostly out of compassion, then however he saw blood coming out of the guy's orifices.

"Medic! We need a medic, this guy seems really ill!"

Before he however could react, the officer lounged at him, biting his hand and getting a bullet in the head.

"How dare you bite the hand that feeds you, probably gone insane due to fear, but they can't blame me, It was self defense"

He told as if to himself, but those around him were fearful of him, after all he ranked to high above them, mere privates.

While the train was away the real tragedy begun, the soldiers that went to shoot the monsters discovered that they couldn't see the monsters at all due to the darkness, only the noise indicated that the monsters were getting closer, but even the noise was muffled by their assault riffle fire.

The Gattling guns were installed, only to discover that they didn't bring enough ammo for more than one burst, they had wasted most of the ammo against the insurgents.

The new commander wasn't incompetent, but he wasn't given much to work with, just 10 guys armed with flamethrowers and a ton of units whom had used more than a few magazines while combing the area, mostly due to wasting more than one bullet on each zombie, even worse was that they didn't shoot them at the head most of the time, thus having to shoot again and again until it died, as if the things had an HP bar or something.

"Everyone stop shooting, reserve ammunition until you see the things, Those of you low on ammo go to the quartermaster, those injured go to the medics, remember we only have one chance, lets make it count!"

The new commander said and everyone felt as if not everything was lost.

-You over there

-Yes sir?

-Bring me my camera, I wish to immortalize the moment I stand on the corpses of those monsters

-Yes Sir!

Before however long the same soldier returned to report.

-Zombies! Sir some of our injured have turned into zombies! we've contained the threat, but medics are saying that there's no cure for this virus, we might have to kill anyone that's been bitten or hurt by a zombie

-Wait wasn't there a train full of injured people that just left? I have to inform the troops on the surface!

-Sir this is more important, what do we do with the infected?

-Do you need to ask? Shoot whoever is infected, we don't have a cure! Anyone injured by a zombie might turn into one, do you wish to try your luck!

The camp immediately fell into chaos, the "infected" and the non-infected begun to fire at one another, it was insanity and the monsters weren't even there yet.

Suddenly two soldiers came running from the facility.

"The monsters are Here!"

They said before one of them got a stray bullet to his head by the non-infected side.

"Cease fire! Everyone, I don't care if you're zombies or not anymore! Arm the gatling guns, tak out your grenades, if those things make it up, non of us will be left with a full corpse to bury"

The commander shouted and everyone looked at eachother, only to see that soldier shot right now rise as a zombie and being shot personaly by their commander who was close by.

Everyone wanted to live and unlike zombies those monsters were a threat to both sides, they reluctantly worked together, each side arming one gatling gun, each side stood divided, but they had a common enemy.

Before long they saw a monster jump out of the Elevator shaft, It was hideous and grotesque to look at, it was like a lizardman with tumors and an overgrown arm.

"Wait until it reaches the middle of the room, then begin...fire! fire! fire!"

The commander shouted maniacaly as the monster begun to charge at them with an insane speed like a gecko climbing a wall.

The gattling guns sang, the assault riffles accompanied and the grenades rained the room the monster was in, tearing it to pieces, it was an overkill in whichever way you looked at it, but before they could celebrate their success, the second monster appeared.

The gattling guns stalled as they were out of bullets, the riffles missed every shot as the monster was too quick and it's skin bulletproof, the grenades were late and the beast tore into the midst of the soldiers ripping them apart and killing to its heart's content.

The flamethrowers did a good job killing both allies and foes alike, the thing was on fire, but it still continued to kill, continued to eat and continued to regenerate. The commander laughed as he saw the chaos and the beast charged at him and bit his hands off. He laughed even more loudly as in his hands he held two grenades, he saw the beast's head explode and that was the last thing he saw.

The flamethrowers begun their work turning the thing into a blazing hell and a picture was taken of two headless corpses, one of the monster and the other of the man that killed it.