Walking with a beauty on his back and a sealed container in hand wasn't easy, but hopefully he had a sturdy back and enough motivation walking while looking at Alice's ass swaying like a boat, he could have sworn she did it on purpose and she did, it was in order to muffle the sound of one's steps.

As they walked, they saw lots of bodies littering the floor and noticed an out of order elevator, they would have to go down by stairs. Well it wasn't the end of the world, but they would require to take breaks frequently.

"Put me down!"

Rain said as she woke up, it's unknown why she decided not to choke him a second time, after all her hand were already around his neck.

-Where are we heading and why am I not restrained?

-Ask the boss, I'm just your ride

-Who would ride you, does it even work down there?

-No comments

-That's 2-0

-How childish

-Is that supposed to be a 2-1?

-Nope, I'm just not in the mood for jokes, after all we are heading to our deaths

-Cheer up, unless you resist we won't kill you

-Who said I'm afraid of you killing me, there's far worse things down where we're going?

-What do you mean?

-This is no longer a Hive, we've already passed the gates of Hades, so we'll be probably forced to fight dead people, just remember to aim for their heads, if I remember right their brains are their weakness

-You've either played to many horror games or have gone crazy

-Well maybe, could you now please get off me?

-Nah, not in the mood to walk anymore, after all I can easily kill you from up here and you can be my meat shield if your boss gets angry

The two of them looked at Alice whom was in her own world, probably remembering stuff as they went on to meet the others.

At the other side of the Radio, at the hall leading to the Red Queen's chamber One was trying to figure out what to do, for some reason these foreigners were really against them taking the Red Queen from this place, saying bullshit about zombies and monsters called Lickers and the Red Queen containing some sort of Apocalyptic Virus that will destroy the whole world.

Normaly he wouldn't have believed this shit, but Kaplan found out some rather disturbing data in the Hive's servers. Data that could potentialy get them all killed or rather will get them killed, but now it was too late, they had already seen it, the Licker containers, the experiments, they zombies.

"My god, what have we stuck our noses into, this is not a bee hive, this is a wasp nest!"

One shouted in outer terror, he knew full well that there was no mission anymore, the time limit was the remaining time they had to live, even if they did bring the Red Queen back, they wouldn't live any longer than the time given for the mission, if he was his supperiors, he would no doubt get rid of them, they had become a liability. No wonder the pay for this simple mission was so good, it was their severance pay.

The other mercs other than Kaplan had no idea about it, since they had already left, leaving only One, Kaplan and Spencer behind to guard the group of 11 hostages, 10 foreigners and one copper.

"Kaplan, Spencer, we've got a problem on our hands, we know too much, the corporation won't let us be after we return, any suggestions?"

One asked the two that were there with him.

"We could try going abroad"

Chad said as he looked at the foreigners IDs in front of himself.

"Any good suggestions?"

One asked Spencer, mostly due to helplessness.

-I might have one, but it's risky, I believe we have until midnight and we'll be out of the country and with our pockets full of gold

-Isn't that the same thing I said?

"Shut it Chad, what's the plan?"

One asked Spencer, somewhat irritated by Kaplan's continued failures, he failed thrice in one mission, first by failing to see the footage of how the burglars literaly teleported into the building, second by almost killing them all due to the laser trap in the hallway, if not for the foreigners who knows what would happen, the final time was by showing him what he shouldn't have seen and forcing this situation upon them.

"I won't lie to you, I'm partly to blame for what happened in this facility, I was supposed to steal the research samples from this facility and sell them abroad to the chinese for a really huge price, enough to buy me an island in the mediterenean sea, that sort of money, I had escape plans and everything ready, one thing I hadn't planned for was the Red Queen's influence reaching too far from the Hive, I was knocked out and lost my memories, if you help me finish the deal, we could split the money and go our own ways somewhere in europe"

Spencer's words were a shock to them, not as much that he betrayed the corporation, but because they didn't have until midnight, they only had 6 hours to live. Even if they did their best, it was impossible to escape now, they knew full well that the facility was under surveilance, "One" could only sigh as he looked at Spencer and shook his head.

-It's too late now, we've only 6 hours, we don't have till midnight and the moment they see us leaving the facility there will be snipers taking us out at every corner

-Then all we have to do is use a distraction, we have 11 people right here whom can take our place, we only need 7 unrecognizable bodies to be found wearing our tags

The two mercs' eyes begun to glitter, it was an ingenious plan, their original report didn't say how many people they had had found and if they unleashed the zombies it would be literaly impossible to tell who lived and who died in the chaos.

"We'll wait for the others to come, take the Red Queen and escape, let umbrella contain the mess we leave behind, I only hope our chinese clients are happy with our delivery!"

One stated, causing Spencer to smile incidiously as he looked at the people sitting on the floor, he then approached Matt and said.

-I believe this one will make a good double as a corpse for me, do we skin them or what?

-Don't act too rashly, we have to recruit everyone if we want to succeed, all of my team are professionals, Medic will be the one to decide how to best fake our deaths

"What about our families?"

Kaplan asked really distressed.

-As long as you're considered dead they won't touch them, might even give them a bonus after you die

-I'm so jealous of J.D. and Rain, even after death they can be together

-Shut it Chad!

"One" was enraged with Kaplan's bad joke, especialy when death was so close that they could smell it, they had five and a half hours left and they had no radio contact from either J.D. or Alice and they were running out of options and time.

They could try deactivating the Red Queen right now and run away by themselves, but they weren't sure if they would make it, especialy due to a fat bussibody, that explained to them why they would fail again and again, something about a monster called a Licker a biological weapon that will be set free by their actions, something about umbrella making clones from their corpses DNA, even worse it won't be just one problem he found with their actions. Truthfully speaking it sounded too troublesome and not worth the effort even trying to survive at this point, but they had guns, they didn't believe any creature made of flesh could survive a full burst from an assault rifle.

During that time Somewhere in the Hive, Chris, Alice and Rain had at last met with J.D. and Medic.

"Stop right there, throw down your weapons!"

JD shouted as they were pointing their guns from cover, since Spencer turned to be suspicious, they didn't trust Alice anymore and seeing Rain riding on another guy's back, did struck a nerve.

-Ease up JD, my only injury is a psychological trauma

-What's the situation?

-Do you want the my opinion or theirs?

-Both?

-Either one is that we're fucked

-What do you mean?

-This facility is some sort of biological weapons facility, once we remove the A.I. all hell will break loose

-We already know about that, we also know that the foreigners wish to enter the AI's chamber in order to get further orders from their higher ups, the watches on their wrist might be potential bombs, we also found out that they teleported into the mansion

-Are you implying they're alien?

-What? Of course no, they're probably KGB agents, the russians have probably advanced in the tech race

-So what're the new orders?

-First Medic will inspect you for wounds, then we regroup

-What about the Radio?

-It's been jammed for a while, can't tell why though, there's a chance that we can expect hostiles to enter the hive at any time

-Do you expect them to pop up out of thin air or something?

-Quite possible

JD looked at Chris while he said that, he saw the footage where they appeared, out of the air, first they seemed like ghosts and then they became corporeal.

After the situation was somewhat deffused, the group begun to head back, every step Chris would shoot the corpses in the head, calling it a control shot, but giving the others the creeps.

-You do know you won't have enough bullets for every dead person we find

-Well I can always try cutting their heads off, would you find it more to your liking?

"Is he crazy?"

JD asked, but he was met with disdain, especialy by Medic, whom by that time had seen the virus vials and the cure. She didn't know what it was, but it was no doubt from the way it was sealed that, whatever was sealed inside was air transmitable, it had three layers of protection against escaping, all used to prevent gasses from leaking.

"What if he's telling the truth?"

Alice asked, causing JD's face to darken, because his answer would be, that they would be screwed, because the facility housed more than 500 people inside, it might not sound like much, but they were enough to flood a single room if they all came back to life.

"What do you want, 500 zombies or 500 less bullets?"

The question caused everyone to begin control shooting all of the corpses, making sure that they won't come back to life.

At some point they reached a weird freeze chamber, with huge Containment units, this was probably where the Lickers were stored for further experiments.

"What's this room for?"

Alice asked him, since he seemed to know everything

-Probably the room where the real Biological weapon is made

-What do you mean?

JD asked, not understanding what this was about.

"Help me open them one by one and kill the things inside, you don't need to know what they are"

Chris said and not knowing any better, everyone begun to work, helping open the first metal container. The moment it opened however all hell broke loose, the thing inside woke instantly and shattered the ice surrounding its body throwing it towards them as it lounged to the ceiling and disappeared, while everyone tried their best to shoot it's last known location. Due to Chris' bad judgement one of the Lickers was loose.

"What do we do now? that things is too agile!"

JD shouted at him furious, while pointing his gun at him.

"We make sure the next one doesn't escape, do you see around you every one of these containers has one of these creatures inside"

JD looked around and there were at least 8 more containment units, if every one of them awakened at once, they were screwed.

-What are these things?

-They are a mass destruction biological weapon to be used against foreign countries, they will attack people and infect them, turning them into zombies, even if they die, the virus will have already spread and the country will slowly crumble from the inside out

-Why didn't you warn us before we opened the container?

-Didn't I tell you that we were killing whatever was inside, it's youre fault for not taking me seriously, do you think that I'm here willingly?

-Then why the heck are you here!

-In order to get on your nerves

-Funny! Hahaha!

Before he could however stop laughing Chris lifted his gun and begun to shoot towards him, from behind JD was one could see the Licker that seemingly didn't like to be shot, but there was no evident damage to its skin from the handgun.

Before long everyone begun to shooting at the monster that was now in the open, It took them a considerable amount of ammo to take the thing down, causing them to be running low on ammo.

"What now? I don't think we can take them all out"

JD asked while looking at the licker's corpse, riddled with bullets, but he was still too afraid to approach and make sure it was dead.

-Just wait a moment I make sure it died

-What are you going to do with that Knife?

-Cut it's head off, what else?

-Are you serious?

To their horror they saw Chris slowly cutting throught the monster's neck and holding its head in his bare hands.

"Shouldn't you be wearing some sort of gloves? Didn't you say it was infected with the virus?"

Medic asked sincerely concerned.

-Don't bother, we already have the cure in this container, if you're concerned, do you want me to take a shot?

-I believe that It's a necessity that all five of us take a shot, it will probably raise our resistance to the virus

-You don know that there's another 13 people that will require vaccination with the same logic

-I belive that it's only common sense that we vaccinate and then regroup with the others, I calculate that one vial or antivirus is enough for at least 10 dozes, if only we had the manual of how many dozes are required, if they require vein injection and other info...

-What's the point, the virus will probably mutate after a while, this injection might work for the first people injected, but it must be injected 30 minutes after the infection, so no reason to inject it right now

-How do you know, I was briefed better than you guys

-Then whom briefed you?

-The fat guy who was with us, he just knows more than any of us about what's going on, after all he's the leader of our group

"Impossible, are you serious, that whiner is the leader?"

JD couldn't believe what he was hearing, he would believe it if he was told that the biker was the leader or that Chris himself was the leader, but that fatty that spilled the beans faster than they could even touch him, it was impossible

-Do you find it strange?

-Who the hell made him leader? What sort of organization do you work for?

-Work is a hard word to used, more like forced to work for them, we don't even know what they are called, just yesterday we were all regular citizens in our country and in 8 hours we are used as agents, what sort of Organization do you take it?

-A rather evil one if you asked me

-Oh, don't bother, there's even better news, if we don't do our mission we die, isn't that perfect?

-Is it the watch?

-I don't think so, the watch is probably just the communication device and progress inspection device, they probably have their own way of taking care of us

-I don't know whether to pity you or simply not believe anything you said

-Have I lied to you so far?

-Who knows, everything's just too crazy, I don't even know what to believe anymore

-Just believe in the people you trust, I don't even care if you believe me, but do you wish your girlfriend to die?

For what he said, he earned an elbow to the stomach by Rain.

"I'm not his girlfriend, I'm his fiancee and don't be too glib next time"

Rain's words just broke the ice making everyone to become a bit more relaxed as they headed out to regroup with the others.

By that time the other side was having a huge dispute, the orchestrator of this happening was Spencer, he didn't wish to wait anymore.

The first thing he did as he begun his rebellion was kill "One", in a single second, Kaplan was not a threat at all, once a pistol was put at his head, he pleeded to be spared. Spencer told him to open the Queen's Chamber and he then forced the foreigners/players to get inside, Kaplan included.

"I'll give you one chance at life, once I'm out of the facility you'll unplug the AI, otherwise once I encounter the others they'll all die, do you understand me Chad?"

Kaplan could only nod as his mouth was bound and hands tied.

"Wait!"

It was Nick's voice that broke the silence as everyone else was too afraid to speak, it was the first time they saw someone die before their eyes, One was murdered in front of them, stabbed from behind and his neck snapped in the next moment, causing his to die and if that hadn't killed him, the control shot afterwards did the job. Spencer left nothing to chance, his plan never included any other person escaping, not even Alice was included in the new escape plan.

"Do you think you have anything useful to tell me, think before you answer because my time's precious"

Spencer asked Nick, his gun already aiming at his head.

"What makes you think that the Red Queen will let you out?"

Nick asked, but the answer to his question was a bullet that grazed his cheek.

"I told you to think before you speak, goodbye tourists, I hope you had a good view of the Hive and please do come back, tourism is a fine source of income for the local businesses"

Spencer said as he left the Red Queen's Chamber, causing everyone's faces to drop.

"Fucking traitor"

Suddenly Kaplan stood up, his bound hands were free and his mouth unbound, in these seconds that Nick had distracted Spencer he had freed himself, after all he was a professional.

"Could you free us?"

The fatty George asked, somewhat timidly, knowing full well the answer beforetime.

"Why should I?"

Spencer asked with a somewhat smug face.

"Because we can help you and because if you don't we will all die together"

Nick was the one to answer his question, as for why he was so sure about it, it was because their mission had been updated.

=Objective No 2 - survive the zombie outbreak for 4 hours=

It was rather predictable since they had derailed the plot to such a degree that it didn't matter anymore what they knew about the movie, even the Red Queen didn't seem to wish to talk to them, reducing itself to nothing more than an A.I. or maybe it didn't wish to reveal itself.

"What do you know, out with it"

Kaplan had seen enough to know that something wasn't right, the "tourists" seemed too afraid for some reason, a lot more than they should be.

-We've got our next mission, the higher ups told us that this room will be full of zombies during the next 4 hours, the outside will be a hell, so congrats on being lucky to be on this side of the hallway

-What do you mean!

-It's simple, If I have guessed right, the Red Queen has been offline for some time now

-Wait, how do you know that I blocked the Queen's Access?

-I didn't, I was only guessing and I can also guess that your ex-boss will come back to life as a zombie in a few minutes, so you should probably put her online as quickly as possible, unless we all die

-I can't do that, the blockade will last for 4 hours, I did it in a last ditch effort before Spencer killed James, It was supposed to be our bargaining chip, but Spencer didn't even give us the time to bargain

"Are you serious? What sort of bargaining chip is that, you've doomed us All!"

Suddenly George popped up into Kaplan and Nick's conversasion, his voice being that of a person that had seen despair, he couldn't see a way they could survive with no weapons, since Spencer had stripped Kaplan of all weapons and they were no better than zombie food with the Queen being offline.

"George what did you expect to happen, did you think that my warnings were just for fun, the moment we derailed the plot, it was doomed to happen, if that pajamas guy didn't have to go to have a shit and you hadn't warned them, we would just have to survive the regular plot and the difficulty would have been really low, now we've been stuck in a new plot where we don't know whom our enemies will be next, I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of Lickers begun to flood through that hallway"

Nick said, causing everyone to freeze in terror, while only Kaplan didn't understand what he meant, he hadn't seen a licker and although it sounded like some sort of monster, he had a really poor imagination, non the less he decided to trust them, just this once, by unbinding Nick first, whom seemed to be the only competent one among the foreigners.