Heaven or Hell

Chapter 3

June 30, 2013
Waiyip, China

"That's the story. Anymore questions?" He asked me. I looked down for being ignorant of the fact that he might've been still hurt for what happened, "I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean-" he cut me off, "It's fine. We all need to move on and make sure that their deaths weren't in vain." He gave me a reassuring smile which I returned with a warm smile. "Yes, sir." Another question popped in my head, "Where'd you find him though?" He sighed, "In a bar. Wasting himself. I just wish Kaylee is still alive and here to knock some sense into him right now." I was about to ask another question but, "Piers." Chris called out. "Sir?" He walked towards Chris and I followed. "What happened to Ada Wong?" Piers' eyes widened, "You remember!" Chris kept his gaze ahead, "Captain?"

"Where is she?" Chris gripped on his assault rifle, "She's leading Neo-Umbrella. All these-" Chris cut him off, "Is she in this city or not!" Piers sighed, "She's been sighted several times since the attacks began. Yeah, she's here." Chris abruptly stood up and finally looked at Piers but there was something with his eyes. "Tell the men we're moving out."Chris walked past us without another word. We looked at him, "Yes sir." Piers whispered. We followed him and reached the rest of the group. "Damn you to hell, Wong." Chris murmured. Then one of the men screamed and got dragged away. "HQ we're engaging a hostile!" He ran ahead of us. "Piers, Marco, Amanda, everyone on me! We're going after that thing!" Chris chased it and we followed him. "You heard the man people, let's move!" Jeff shouted. "Go!"

We reached a playground and a gate with blood on the other side. "Piers. Amanda. Come on." I jogged to the gate and we slowly opened the gate. We went to wherever the trail lead us and saw a ladder. Chris climbed up and we just followed. We kicked down a barricaded door and made some turns here and there and encountered two j'avos. "Assume battle positions!" Chris yelled but I just shot them on the head twice to ensure their deaths. "Not necessarily, captain." I smirked. "Don't get cocky." He said. "Not bad, Amanda." Piers whispered. I felt my face heat up and I looked away. "Thanks." We climbed a long ladder and encountered another one. "Ladies first." Marco stated making me sigh. Barely even half way two mutated j'avos dropped down. I looked down and dropped myself on the shoulder of the one on my left. "Amanda! What the hell are you doing?!" I took my pocket knife out. And stabbed the j'avo in the head repeatedly 'til it stopped moving and dispersed. While Chris and Piers took care of the other.

I hid my knife and dusted myself off. "That was... a little terrifying." Keaton whispered. "Lets keep moving shall we?" I asked Chris and he just walked past me and climbed up the ladder. We encountered numerous hostiles the moment we entered and easily killed them although one didn't disperse like the others, instead, it thrashed around and its head mutated into something grotesque. It stood up and faced me. It squirted out sticky stuff and immobilized me. "Ugh! What the hell is this?!" Piers helped me out of the somewhat spiderweb and killed it. "Tch. Nasty." We went to the next room where the others were but the time we got there, they already finished off the rest of the j'avos. "Keep moving." Chris commanded. We reached a doorway and it led us outside.

Once we got out, we heard tires screeching followed by an explosion. We looked down and we saw a blonde, a ginger and.... Kaylee?! I thought she died? "They're alive!" Chris glanced at Piers, "They went missing six months ago in Edonia." He informed. We averted our attention to the three but was stolen by the helicopter. It circled us but targeted the trio. "Neo-Umbrella's after them! Captain!" Piers yelled. "Spread out!" Piers and I looked at him and the others did what they were told. "Take every one of those damned things down." He stated in a low voice. I looked back down and observed Kaylee. What is she doing with them? I dropped down, "Captain, that's an armored chopper they've brought in." Marco informed. "That rules out conventional arms." I noted. "We need to protect those three down there." Chris frowned, "Forget the chopper for now. Engage the j'avo." Chris commanded once more. "Captain, Keaton here, I can't reach those three, they're not responding. What should we do?" Chris killed the j'avo that dropped down in front of him. "We wipe out the hostiles, after that they're on their own." Chris was firm with his decisions even if it meant Kaylee was left unquestioned.