Caught

Chapter 18 Caught

POV Wesker

I am at the top of one of the buildings in Atlanta, where I get a view of this miserable apocalyptic city, in our small stay we have killed many groups of survivors, however, we have not located Justin among them. The number of my men is reduced day by day due to infections. This game has been going on too long already, I'm making a fool of myself in front of a child.

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"Come out, come out of wherever you're hiding, little Justin." I say to the air observing the surroundings, until one of my Angels or Demons? He starts to get closer to me.

"Your Eminence." Says my subordinate kneeling before me. "The search continues, some of our units have begun preparing to extend the search outside of the city while the rest continue to sweep the entire city." He says, showing me a map of the city with some dots in red.

"We have sent units to the city general hospital, the subway, and the CDC." He says as he points to the points marked in red on the map one by one. However, another one of my subordinates comes running toward me.

"Your Eminence, the unit sent to the CDC reported that they have intercepted a radio communication and the target's name is on it. It may be inside the facility." He says getting down on his knees in front of me. This is good news, very good news.

"Everyone get ready, we're off to the CDC immediately. I will not tolerate failure this time." I say as I squeeze the railing tightly. I won't let you get away this time, Justin.

"Your Eminence, about that… we lost contact with the unit that went to the CDC shortly after. We assume they entered the facility and lost the…" That is all he says before I grab him by the throat, lift him up into the air, and toss him into the void.

"I will not tolerate failure." I say pointing my finger at another one of my subordinates who was on his knees without flinching.

"We all move according to his eminence's orders." He says standing up as he begins to gather everyone.

"This time you won't escape, Justin." I say as a dark smile spreads across my face.

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POV Justin

"What's the plan, Justin?" Carl asks me nervously as he holds a gun between his hands and a rifle strapped to his back.

"I'm planning to use the adults as bait and take a leisurely ride up the elevator, then go on an adventure down the road." I say waving my hands dismissively as I continue to watch the security cameras.

"No, you can't do that, Justin, we have to rescue them." Carl exclaims. At this, I only raise an eyebrow in his direction.

"Oh, enlighten me then, Carl, what do you suggest we do? Those people in the elevator are religious fanatics following the orders of a psychopath who wants to kill us all." I say as I take a seat in front of the cameras. "We might as well enjoy the show and let the adults take care of them." I say calmly as I place my feet on the table. "If they don't massacre them all." I say quickly with my hand on my chin like I'm thinking.

"Justin!" Carl exclaims angrily.

If Wesker's men are here, that means he can't be far away, come on brain think, think. Many ideas begin to circulate through my little brain, I must end this at once, otherwise, Wesker will end up catching me. Running away is the easiest thing in my situation, however, I would lose everything I worked for, just like school and Russell.

"Okay, okay, however, I have one condition." I say looking Carl straight in the eye.

Shortly after, Carl and Sofia run off in the direction of the cafeteria with tears in their eyes. As I sit in the control room and spot Wesker's men by cameras, they're heading for the cafeteria. "Time to work." I say snapping my fingers and grabbing a mic after setting up a few things.

"Hello, Wesker dogs." I say into the mic causing Wesker's men to stop in the middle of the hallway pointing in all directions. "They are looking for me?" I say with a giggle. "Catch Me If You Can."

"Control room." I hear one of them say and quickly three of them change direction towards the control room while the other continues towards the cafeteria.

"Don't... don't come to the control room, I'm not in that place." I say quickly into the mic mocking them. From that moment they began to use hand signs to communicate with each other. "Huh, that's cheating."

I keep watching on the screen as Wesker's men approach the control room while another camera shows the door to Jenner's lab destroyed, it seems that the walkers have escaped. I have no idea if that's good or bad for me.

"Well, let's have fun." I say moving away from the microphone and connecting my music player to it.

*London Bridge is falling down*

One of the doors to the control room bursts open as Wester's 3 men walk in pointing their guns at me, while I just stand in the middle of the control room with a grenade in my hand and a smile on my face. Thank you Lenny for this gift.

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*Falling down, falling down*

Wesker's men stand still and look at each other as they begin to spread out in all directions to try and surround me. "Wesker wants me alive. What would happen to you guys if something happened to me?" I say with a smile tilting my head.

*London Bridge is falling down*

The door behind me is flung open and Eliot appears gasping for air with several bite wounds on his body as he closes the door and leans back against it. "They followed me." That is all Eliot says before Wesker's men shoot him in the chest multiple times. Then the door opens letting T-Dog enter along with Jenner who run towards Wesker's men.

At this, I take the safety off my grenade while heaving a heavy sigh. "It was fun while it lasted."

*My fair lady*

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POV Rick

"I'm almost free." Merle says as he frees one of his hands.

"Hurry up Merle, we don't know when the cocoon will be back." Daryl says

We need to get out of here and rescue the children quickly, they will pay dearly for everything they are doing to us. I can't explain the rage that runs through my entire body, only the deaths of those monsters will calm this inner rage. However, we begin to hear heavy footsteps in our direction as one of the cafeteria doors swings open.

A man in a tactical suit along with a gas mask and helmet enters the cafeteria looking in all directions. My heart starts beating faster as he just stares at everyone.

"Help… help please." Jacqui sobs. "Release us please."

"Jacqui, shut up." Lori whispers.

"Help?" Says the man slowly approaching Jacqui with his rifle in his hands. "In the name of my god, all of you will die." He says pointing his gun at Jacqui's head.

"Noooo." I scream as a loud gunshot silences the room and I watch Jacqui go limp with a gunshot sticking out of her head.

"Who will be next? You?" Says the man now approaching me and placing his gun to my head.

"Noo, choose me, me." I hear Shane say. "Damn, did you hear me? I'm fucking here!" Shane yells.

The man stops and stops pointing at me to walk in Shane's direction. "Shane, what are you doing?" I ask quickly.

"Rick, protect them." Shane says with a sad smile as the man points his rifle at him. At this, I close my eyes tightly to try to suppress my tears.

I hear several shots along with the sound of a body falling to the ground. However, when I open my eyes again I am surprised. Shane's eyes are wide as are the other people in the room all looking in the direction of the cafeteria door.

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There was my son, Carl holding a smoking gun, breathing rapidly. "Dad!" My son yells with a smile on his face, however, the man on the ground starts to get up.

"That hurts." The man says, standing up with his gun in hand. Carl tries to shoot again but it is heard that the gun has run out of ammunition. No…no, I start to struggle against my restraints causing my wrists to start bleeding.

At that moment Merle lunges at the man knocking them both to the ground as they fight each other. Carl seeing this runs towards me and pulls a bloodstained knife out of his pocket and begins to free me. I can see Sofia also running towards her mother, however, there is no sign of Justin anywhere.

Carl manages to cut the ropes that restricted me, before this, my son hands me a rifle that he had tied to his back which I quickly take standing up.

On the ground, Merle is being strangled by the man. "Hey, you." I say attracting the attention of the subject. "You messed with the wrong fucking people." I say shooting him in the head at point blank range causing him to fall limp on top of Merle.

"Damn you, my face is full of brains from that bastard." Merle says pushing the man's body aside and standing up. "I already had it." Merle says wiping his face.

"Sure Merle, whatever you say." Says Daryl snorting, in that a loud explosion is heard coming from the control room.

"Dad, we have to get out of here right now… This place will self-destruct in… 5 minutes." Carl says without looking at any of us as we start to free the others.

"Wait a minute, where is the little demon?" Merle says quickly, at this, Carl and Sofia fall silent.

Carl? Where is justin?" A feeling of cold invades my body at the silence of the children. Carl just looks down at his feet.

"Dead." Carl says when tears begin to run down his face along with Sofia's.

"What?" Andrea and Amy exclaim at the same time. "No, that can't be possible... it's not true." Andrea says shaking her head before falling to her knees and starting to cry.

"Damn, I'll kill all those damned!" Merle yells. "What the hell happened?"

"He sacrificed himself so we could escape." Carl says weakly.

A part of me wants to go back and see for myself and make sure, however, if what my son says is true, we need to escape this death trap right now. I must protect my people at all costs. To what's left of my people.

"We're leaving, there's no time to pack." Rick says monotonously.

"Rick's right, if we stay any longer we'll all die." Shane says quickly as everyone is now free.

Andrea and Amy had to be piggybacked as they screamed for Justin down the halls to the elevator. After this, we took the elevator to the surface where the main entrance to the CDC was destroyed.

"Was this the explosion from earlier?" Shane asks. "The man just now, that man wasn't alone, Rick." Shane says looking in all directions.

"To the cars now, quick, quick." I yell as we start running through the hole in the structure to the vehicles.

10 minutes later we find ourselves a safe distance from the CDC while driving at full speed. Until we pull up on the outskirts of town and Shane gets out of his car, looking toward town.

"I didn't hear any explosion, Rick." Shane says. He's right, we didn't hear any kind of explosion on our way out. "We can't go back, you know that right?" Shane asks me looking into my eyes.

"I know Shane, I know." I say quietly as the rest of the group gathers around me.

"What do we do now Rick?" Carol asks me out loud drawing the attention of the entire group. Everyone is devastated, It shows in their eyes, we lost several of our people, good people. This does not have to happen again and I will do what is necessary so that it does not happen again.

In the distance, a loud explosion is heard coming from the city along with a large plume of smoke rising in the direction of where the CDC once stood. Many of us cringe at this.

"What's the damn plan now friendly officer?" Merle says with red eyes.

"Survive... We are going to survive, for those who are no longer with us." I say with all the determination I can muster. "At all costs."

So we started our journey down the road in search of a place, where one day… we could call home.

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POV Wesker

We quickly approach the CDC, and we go through many shortcuts to get there as quickly as possible. Upon arrival, we get out of the vehicles and all my men kneel in front of me waiting for my orders.

"This ends today, we enter." I say pointing to a hole in the main entrance, I guess they were my first subordinates to arrive. "Move forward." In that, we all began to enter the interior of the facilities. My subordinates begin to spread out to cover the entire complex along with the underground facilities.

As I approach the control room accompanied by my subordinates a strange song is heard from inside, however, there is a small barricade at the door. "Take those things away and open the door." I say as my minions start moving things to unlock the door.

At that moment I begin to receive several radio signals.

"We lost one of the men, something pulled him into the ventilation ducts..." Some screaming is heard on the radio in the background.

"What's that? Shoot! To the head, to the head." Gunshots begin to be heard over the radio.

"What the hell is going on in this place?" I ask as I watch my men unlock the door opening it in the process. "Come in." I say quickly. However, a subject in military uniform lunges at the first men to enter the room while another subject dressed in a bloodstained white coat lunges at me.

At this, I point my gun at his head firing several rounds until he falls to the ground without moving. The men behind me open fire on the guy in military uniform, but he uses the bodies of my men as meat shields as he quickly approaches us.

"They are infected, but these are different from the rest." I say with a bit of uncertainty in my voice, it's the first time we've faced this kind of infected. My men fire and shortly after the infected dies after being shot in the head. After determining that there are no more infected around, I enter the control room.

Inside the room, there are pieces all over the place of one of my subordinates. I guess he was one of the first to enter this place, from what I see this person exploded.

"Your Eminence, we have found no one alive as of yet and have lost contact with some of the men who went to investigate the rest of the facility." One of my subordinates says as my attention is drawn to a red counter on one of the control room screens.

I clench my hands tightly as I realize the situation. "It's a trap." I say slowly before starting to back up and start running quickly.

"Your Eminence!" I hear the scream of my subordinates, however, I choose to ignore them as I try to escape from this damned place. Along the way I find some subordinates being attacked by other infected dressed just like them who run to catch up with their prey.

On my way to the elevator, I meet two of these infected, I quickly shoot one in the head while the other uses the body of the one I just killed for cover until hitting my weapon knocking it to the ground. I quickly kick him in the knee bringing him to his knees before me and proceed to bend his neck until I hear the bone snap, then kick him away from me.

I use the elevator leaving behind my men who are devoured by the rest of the damn creatures. However, shortly after leaving the elevator and starting to run outside, a loud explosion occurs.

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I come out of the flames with numerous wounds on my body, however, it is not something that I cannot bear. I fell into his damn trap and lost all my subordinates. This will not stay like this, I will take revenge, I will chase him all over the damn world if necessary.

"I'll catch you, Justin!" I scream into the air as I kneel down to catch my breath. "It doesn't matter where you hide! I will destroy it all!" I scream with all my might.

"Things are getting interesting now, huh Justin? Do you really think you can beat me?" I continue to scream my frustrations into the air. However, I feel a prick around my neck, at this, I quickly turn around and Justin is standing there with an empty syringe in his hands.

"I caught you, Wesker." Justin says with a smile spreading across his face as my eyes widen in shock at losing the mobility of my arms and legs. What kind of substance do I inject myself? Damn it, damn it. None of this was supposed to happen, it was supposed to be a quick and easy hunt. Justin just stares at me with that damn smile.

How I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.

"Justinnnnn!" I scream with all my might before my body completely collapses.

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POV Justin

I watch in fascination as Wesker collapses, at which I drop the empty syringe to the ground and crush it under my foot. Then I walk over to Wesker taking his black glasses and I put them on shortly after.

My plan was quite risky with a high chance of failure, however I have succeeded.

"I win." I say sighing a little. "I win!" This time I scream into the air. "You guys will be next!" I shout pointing my finger to the sky.

"Catch me if you can bastards!" I say yelling into the air with my hands outstretched dramatically before starting to laugh out loud.

Shortly after, I stopped laughing as a look of determination spreads across my face.

"The world will not conquer itself. Let's go, we have a lot of work to do." I say with a smile on my face as two figures start following me obediently.

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I have survived the first season, since the fall of Atlanta, the police station, the school, the quarry, and now the CDC. I can't wait to find out what the future holds for me.

"This is fun, this is great fun and it's just the beginning."