Resident Evil Multiverse Of Madness

After a brief discussion with The Red Queen the group proceeded into the utility pipes that runs under the hive since it was currently the only way out of the current predicament they faced.

"How can we be sure she isn't sending us to our deaths?" Rain asked.

"Why should you care? You're already a walking corpse" Zeel replied with a hint of mocking in his voice since he didn't particularly enjoy the company of anyone there aside from Alice.

"This is the utility tunnels." Kaplan said as his tablet showed him the predicted route they were required to take.

"We should hurry guys I am getting a bad vibe from this place" Said Zeel as his intuition spiked for a brief moment earlier.

"Heck I believe you!" Kaplan replied "You haven't been wrong once since we landed ourselves in this mess."

"Let's go!" Zeel says as he notices Alice carrying Rain who has been injured all this while, he turned to Spencer only to see him at the side holding his head. Zeel knew he was faking it but didn't say anything since any threat to Alice gave him the perfect opportunity to get rid of Rain.

"You do know she is dead weight right?" Zeel asks Alice who seems shocked by his question.

"We don't leave friends or teammates behind." Alice replied as her opinion of Zeel had gone down a notch after it had finally stabilized at the deadbeat level.

"Huh? I see. Okay then." Zeel said while Rain gave him a knowing smirk as she was not unaware of what type of person he was.

After Zeel left Rain opted to warn Alice "You should drop me or he'll kill us both"

"Stay near me, I don't know what it is but for some reason he needs me" Alice whispered in Rain's ear "He won't hurt you with me around"

Soon the group encountered a horde of zombies ambushing them from all possible directions of escape.

Zeel's perception slowed down for the first time in a while as he reached for the knives at his waist, *swoosh* *swoosh* Swoosh* 12 zombie's heads were penetrated through in the blink of an eye causing the group to freeze from the inhuman display.

"Up everyone!" Zeel says as he grabs Alice along with Rain and throws them to the utility pipe above, this action is repeated for Kaplan as well leaving Zeel and Spencer surrounded by the entire horde. Zeel ran towards the zombies using his length strength to jump over them to the opposite wall then launching himself from the wall to the utility pipes in a swift, neat motion. Zeel considered leaving Spencer below for a brief moment before pulling him up since he doubted killing Alice's ex would make her more interested in himself instead of disgusted.

Everyone was staring a bit dazed, until Alice broke them out of their stupor. "Let's go!"

Zeel who was coming up behind Alice saw that she had been scratched by a nail from the earlier throw and his heart froze over for a couple seconds. Alice as if feeling the emotional turmoil within Zeel quickly turned around and put her hand on his shoulder, fearing if she didn't at the exact moment she did everyone here would die. Alice could feel the dark emotions swirling inside Zeel's mind for a moment before they eased and he came out of his stupor.

"What was that?" she asked.

"Where I am from couples share psychic connections with their spouses, what you felt was just some residual connection" Zeel replied as he demonstrated he didn't want to talk about the topic much, to which Alice went a bit ahead to give him space.

"That's not what I was asking about" Alice replied clearly noticing the deflection.

"I know but it is the only question I am willing to answer" Zeel replied.

When the group was crossing over a lose pipe that steadily began to shift out of its lock, Zeel with a very swift motion jabbed Rain in the back making her lose her grip around the pipe slipping off into the horde below, Rain was almost immediately bitten in several places but her eyes never left Zeel, as if curing him to eternal damnation with her stare. Alice was about to attempt to rescue her but with Zeel holding her back, she lacked the strength to dive below. Alice looked heart broken and struggled fiercely to rescue Rain but only heard two gunshots *Bang* *Bang*.

Zeel had fired two shots at Rain, one in the head and one through the heart. "It's what she would have wanted instead of being eaten." Was all he said before continuing forward without any remorse on his face. The group followed silently with only Alice being a bit suspicious about everything that just happened. Zeel noticed Kaplan had a scratch from a zombie by his ankle and was planning whether or not he should off Kaplan next.

Truth be told Zeel had known the case on his back was the anti-virus all along but he planned to study its contents for later use. It would be a waste to use such a rare formula for someone as useless as Rain and Kaplan but if he sought to impress Alice it would be worth the waste of resources. Since it was his first time experiencing an emotion such as love, he was unwilling to let his first experience go to waste especially since the semi-psychic connection had already been established with Alice.

Alice didn't know it was a two-way street, so as much as she could feel what Zeel felt in his dark moment, he could also see her falsified memories confirming his suspicion that she was indeed a clone.

'To think my first love would be an inferior clone' Zeel mocked himself inside his own mind lamenting the fact that karma would mess with him at this moment, did all the hearts of those princesses he broke really acc.u.mulate to spite him at this moment?