After getting settled on deck, the team proceeded to explore the ship one level at a time.

"Let's check inside," Chris suggested.

"Find anyone?" Claire asked after Chris returned with a confused look on his face.

"Nothing."

Luther came back after heading down the corridor "I checked the crew quarters... They're all gone. Looks like they left in hurry,"

Just as they were about to move on, Zeel and Alice heard a sound and guided the group towards it.

"This is Arcadia, broadcasting on the emergency frequency. There is no infection. We offer safety and security, food, and shelter. Fuel...power...Everything's running normally," The Radio repeated.

Zeel turned his gaze toward the computers as his nanites extracted all available data.

Then he shared his conclusion "This was set on a loop and has been running for a couple of years now. This signal started broadcasting the day of the T-virus outbreak,"

"That would be impossible since you would have to know the specifics of the T-virus before broadcasting," Chris said as he realized the problem.

Claire held her head for a moment before adding "Unless you're the Umbrella Corporation,"

"Hey, let's not jump to conclusions carelessly guys. Maybe another country set this up with knowledge bought from somewhere?" Luther added trying to be optimistic.

He would have a mental breakdown if he escaped the frying pan and jumped straight into the fire.

"Look at this. It's the ship's log. The crew launched the lifeboats three days ago. Exactly when the transmission stopped. But it says that all the passengers are still here. We have to search every inch of the ship." Alice said after pulling up the ship log and inspecting it up and down.

Zeel's intuition had been blaring ever since they touched down on the ship, but he had to wait for certain arrangements to be made that were still far from completion.

Constantly checking his Mbeamer, Zeel was overcome with panic for the first time. Though you would never be able to tell from the stoic expression on his face.

After walking around for a while, the group of four finally found a part of the ship that they could not access.

"Umbrella...of course, it is," Claire said a little reluctant to admit that Zeel was right the entire time. Even her recovered memories were substantiation.

"They were never coming to get us. This whole thing... The beacon...Was a lie. And that's not the worst part. It's a trap! That means that everyone who came before us is probably …" Luther started stammering the more he talked, unwilling to believe everything he had placed his hopes on was now a lie.

"Wait! Where is everybody? The ship logs said that there are currently 2000 passengers on board" Chris asked.

"I don't understand either" Luther seconded.

"I think we do; Al send out a pulse," Zeel said.

After a couple of seconds, Zeel opened his eyes and said "They're below our feet, Claire, Chris wake them up. Luther, I have a separate task for you,"

"They're holding survivors to experiment on them." Alice said "Look...It's K-Mart... she's here. And LJ, Carlos and all the other survivors,"

"Bring them up. All of them." Alice commanded as the stasis pods began to rise up from below the floor, everyone inside was asleep and hooked up with wires and a beetle on their chest.

"I'll get that thing off her. Go let everyone else out" Claire ordered Chris.

Alice and Zeel continued forward.

They encountered several chambers that held nobody inside. Only blood and disgusting, greenish liquids were apparent within the fragments of glass.

Zeel sighed as he said "Just when you think you've seen it all, shit always gets worse,"

"At least after seeing all this, nothing you do could disgust me as much," Alice said with a shrug "Makes the relationship more resilient,"

"Good thing you woke me up through our connection or I would be the one in these chambers right now, and you would be a widow morning my death since nobody would want your stubborn ass," Zeel said to Alice, laughing at his own joke.

"I am still young and pretty, I bet I could find a good sugar daddy amongst the survivors" Alice replied slyly, making the smile on Zeel's face freeze as if hell had frozen over.

For a brief moment, he was contemplating killing all the 'sugar daddy' type guys left on Earth.

It would not be that hard with the limited number of humans returning.

"You don't mean that right? Right? Right?" Zeel asked as he chased after Alice who was already walking away.

Further up, Zeel and Alice entered a secluded part of the ship. They walked and looked around seeing the dried-up corpses of what were once survivors.

Zeel shuddered at the thought of being sucked dried like those bodies were.

Alice and Zeel continue to move forward until a monitor that was in front of them lifts up revealing Wesker in all his gory glory – pun intended.

"Why am I not surprised?" Alice asked not sure if it was to herself or Wesker.

"And you call me a cockroach, but this guy here is tardigrade," Zeel said in disdain. He was sure that Alice had previously killed Wesker.

"You were quite difficult to find. Our satellite system is still fully operational, but it still had a hard time tracking you, especially after he showed up. Tell me Alice are you sure you can trust this husband of yours, has he told you who he really is?" Wesker asked trying to plant a seed of doubt between the couple.

"Me?" Zeel asked pointing to himself "I am not sure what you mean, I don't even know if you guys will ever know who I am in this Universe,"

"This universe?" Alice asked, not missing the opportunity to question Zeel's slip of the tongue.

"Nothing but semantics Al," Zeel hurriedly commented, not letting his internal panic show.

"Besides, I always knew. You'd be drawn to your friends. Loyalty... Highly overrated. I thought especially if I captured your husband you would come to save him," Wesker said interrupting the questioning Alice.

As they're talking, Zeel tried to slow his perception of time. He wanted to kill Wesker as soon as possible.

However, each time he felt like Wesker's eyes were still following his every action.

Alice also noticed the problem. This caused her to consider her actions more carefully. Zeel and Alice slowly inched their way toward Wesker.

Alice and Zeel managed to get relatively close to Wesker. They could now attack with a higher chance of causing damage.

"Stop!" Wesker shouted to the dogs that showed up behind him.

Wesker never removed his eyes either Alice or Zeel. He knew that given the slightest opportunity, they would behead him on the spot.

Wesker yelled at the nearby dogs "Down! Wouldn't want you to harm my pets. Drop your guns. Good...kick them to me. Your hands up,"

After picking up the guns that had been discarded by Zeel and Alice, Wesker felt secure enough to do what all other supervillains do during this time – explain his evil plan for absolutely no benefit to himself "You're probably wondering how I'm here Alice?"

"The T-virus brought me back. But it's so strong. It fights for full control. And I thought that if I ingested fresh human DNA I could redress the balance."

"No wonder your crew abandoned ship," Alice said as she once again looked at the dried-up corpses loitering the room.

"But finding your husband I came up with a new plan. It has recently come to my attention that you two were the only ones who successfully bonded with the T-virus. Your DNA is stronger than the others.

I ingest you two... I gain control. Easy as that," Wesker said slowly and powerfully, as he rose from his seat.

"There is only one problem with that, I am not on the menu. You can eat Zeel though," Alice said attempting to distract Wesker.

Zeel, however, had the perfect counter "I was only able to bond with the T-virus after constant tweaking with the genome sequence. Alice is more tender and bonded successfully right away,"

Zeel and Alice didn't even flinch for a moment as they suggested the other to be eaten first.