Resident Evil Multiverse Of Madness

"I've been a bad, bad girl." The Red Queen said on the screen, which surprised everyone there apart from Zeel.

"Oh, my God." Matt yelled when he saw what was displayed on the screen, it scared him to the point of almost peeing himself.

"What the f.u.c.k is that?" Kaplan asked as he watched the huge amalgamation of tissue and bones feeding on the body that was once Spencer.

"One of the Hive's early experiments... produced by injecting the T-virus directly into living tissue. The results were unstable. Now that it has fed on fresh DNA, it will mutate... becoming a stronger, faster hunter." The Red Queen said as the creature on the screen began to wreath and w.h.i.n.e before sharper bones spikes jutted out of its ever present epidermal layer.

"Great. If you knew it was loose, why didn't you warn us?" Kaplan asked already having an inkling of what the answer would be.

"Cause she was saving it for us." Alice commented with Zeel nodding his head "Isn't that right?"

��I didn't think any of you would make it this far. Not without infection." The Red Queen answers "And it seems my suspicion was not unfounded"

"Why didn't you tell us about the antivirus?" asked Alice.

"After long infection... there's no guarantee it would work." The Red Queen replied then pointed at Zeel "He thought the same thing, he hesitated to give the antivirus even opting to kill your previous companion because it would be a waste of resources" The Red Queen then replayed the incident in the Utility shaft but in slow motions where Zeel's action could be witnessed for all to see.

Zeel shrugged "I made the call since you were afraid to"

"It was never your call to make" Alice said as her eyes turned deadly for a moment.

"But there's a chance, right?" Matt asked The Red Queen attempting to break the awkward situation that may soon become a tipping point.

"I don't deal in chance." The Red Queen replied, but to Zeel it almost gave him the impression of one of the gangsters he read about in the past.

"You require the four-digit access code. I can give you the code, but first you must do something for me." The Red Queen stated causing everyone's stomach to temporary churn, what could a homicidal AI want from them?

"What do you want?" Zeel asked.

"One of your group is infected. I require his life for the code."

"The antivirus is right here in our hands. It's right there!" Alice yelled back.

"I'm sorry. It's a risk I cannot take." The Red Queen replied.

"She's right. It's the only way. You're gonna have to kill me. Otherwise we all die down here. The glass is reinforced... but it won't hold forever" Kaplan reminded already considering sacrificing his life for the greater cause as a course of action he'd be willing to take, but not giving him much time to ponder Zeel slaps the back of his head with a smack so hard the room becomes quite.

"The Failsafe" Zeel whispered as he shook his head in disappointment.

"You don't have long to decide." The Red Queen says to Zeel as banging sounds ring from the opposite side of the room. Through the transparent glass the group could see the creature that had eaten Spencer earlier trying to smash through the class to secure more food.

"Please don't do this" Alice pleads.

"You have no choice. Kill him. Kill him." The Red Queen began chanting like a cultist trying to temp a new recruit. Then everything electronic in the room shuts down as Kaplan hits the kill switch he had installed into the mainframe of the Red Queen.

"She wouldn't open the door." Kaplan said as everyone looks at him with the kill switch in his hand "so I had to fry her."

Kaplan then tosses the kill switch into the water nearby and runs towards the door as he tries and fails to pry it open until Zeel singlehandedly pulled it open.

"Here take it!" Zeel said as he gave Kaplan an antivirus from the many vials surrounding his waist. Zeel, Matt, Kaplan, and Alice then dart outside the room just in time since the window gave in as the creature came charging inside. Securing the door behind them, Zeel was extremely relieved that he didn't have to tackle that monster since it would require majority of his remaining stamina and self-damaging techniques.

The group made their way out of The Hive and towards the train, having put the worst of the obstacles behind them. At the moment they exited The Hive everyone, apart from Zeel, had their entire lives figured out. Matt had enough evidence to contact his powerful supporters to condemn the Umbrella Corporation, even if it was not enough to bring them down it would still do some major damage. Kaplan considered retiring from Umbrella and travelling until the end of his days since he had enough adventure over the past couple hours to last a couple lifetimes over. Alice considered joining Matt at first but also wanted to settle down and start a family, she had great hatred for Umbrella but not enough for her to spend her entire life fighting an impossible to win battle. Zeel made no plans and loathed making long term plans since it would always bite him in the a.s.s.

As they boarded the train and followed the railway towards the same destination they entered the Hive from, but this time it felt as if they were heading towards the future – a brighter future. All of a sudden Alice suddenly began firing at the end of the train through which the creature that killed Spencer jumped. It looked much more intimidating up close, the creature claws tore through the train metal as if it was knife through butter.

Alice finished the remainder of her clip in the monster's head but this did not cause it to relent, Zeel then slowed down his perception of time and with daggers in hand began carving out chunks of the monster's flesh. The monster spat out its tongue which Zeel dodged perfectly but Kaplan behind him was not so lucky as it penetrated his stomach. Kaplan flailed about for a while before falling out of the train, this in turn gave Matt the opportunity to nail the monster's tongue into the floor of the train using a beam, though in the process he got scratched on his shoulder.

Alice loose the beams without regard for Zeel's safety, possibly as a revenge for his killing of rain. The beams that are let loose turn into projectiles than threatened to skew both Zeel and the monster, using the last bit of his energy; Zeel slowed his perception of time to a crawl as he dodged all the beam and even going so far as to alter the path of some so it could hit the monster in critical area.

By the time all the beams had driven the monster off the train, Zeel's body was covered in hardened blood, and smoking from head to toe, he could barely move at that moment.

"You survive that huh?" Alice said as she walked towards Zeel with gun in hand. All he could do was let out a bitter chuckle as he underestimated her respect for comradeship.

"Give me one reason why I shouldn't use this gun and put two in you like you did to Rain?" Alice asked.

"I can't" Zeel said as his only regret being he truly felt no fear towards dying, but his heart pained a little from the loss of what seemed to be 'love'?

"I can't kill a man who doesn't understand what he did wrong in the first place" Alice said after a couple seconds of looking into Zeel's eyes; she could see that he only did what he thought was right. Alice picked up Zeel and leaned him on the wall as she sat next to him.

"Good move" Zeel said with a chuckle "If you killed me, we would all die"

Zeel was not exaggerating as his nanites were set to explode the moment of his death, this thing was akin to a nuke once activated, he always kept a card up his sleeve since it's the way he was thought to survive.

After a disorienting and confusing battle the three survivors made their way out of the train that had come to a stop. Half way up the stairs with his body barely functioning Zeel connected to his scanners on the outside automatically. Zeel grabs Alice and says "Drink!" after which he slits his wrist, "This is the only way they won't separate us and we both survive. Since I don't want to abandon you. Nor do we have the strength to escape right now"

Maybe it was the sincerity in his eyes that spoke to Alice, but she did as she was told and consumed a huge amount of Zeel's already diminishing blood supply. Alice had to admit the more she drank the more the taste improved until her body could not take anymore. As they were on the stairs Zeel judged he had a bit more time and proceeded to stash everything on his person at random location in the mansion.

"What is that for?" asked Matt who had been nursing his wound for sometimes now.

Zeel considered offering him the antivirus before hiding it all away but decided not to as it would be a waste after discovering the weapon filled quarantine are The Umbrella Corporation had outside.

Zeel and Alice were now holding each other up as they came to the center of the mansion, Matt was just walking none the wiser about what laid in wait outside.

On cue a group of doctors walk in grabbing and strapping Matt to a stretcher and taking him away in front of a weak Zeel and Alice. Zeel was about to go into physical hibernation after sharing his nanites/ SRNT through his blood with Alice, so Zeel soon fell over and Alice was the only one left standing for a brief moment before also falling into hibernation since the nanites shad begun their initial phase of integration.

"He's mutating." A doctor points out.

"I want him in the Nemesis Program." The lead doctor said then continued to inspect Alice and Zeel.

"I want her quarantined. Close observation and a full series of blood tests. Let's see if she's infected. Take her to the Raccoon City facility. Then assemble the team. We're reopening the Hive. I want to know what went on down there. Just do it. As for him. I want him in the Exodus Program, give him the same treatment as the girl but separate them" The doctor finishes speaking and immediately leaves.