Chapter 19

Everything was so fast, it kicked the egyptian pushing him against a wall as well as the spaniard. When it was going to hit me, Leon threw himself on me and we both dodged the attack, I threw aside the body of the north american and grabbed the AK47 to aim it and I stared at it, it was Krauser, the burly man who was talking to Saddler.

- Krauser! - Kennedy called to my side.

- Been a long time, comrade. - He smiled.

I looked surprised at the agent, does he know this one now?

I decided to shoot the man, but he dodged all the bullets quickly until he approached me with a knife but Mazen shot him distracting him.

Krauser attacked the egyptian by grabbing him by the neck. At that moment Luis came up to me to help me stand up.

- No! - I shouted shooting against the military.

He dropped Mazen, and quickly hit me causing the fall of my weapon. Luis intervened with a shot that Krauser dodged and almost touched my face. Then our enemy hit Sera in the abdomen with his fist and tied his hand with a rope.

I tried to hit him, but he also managed to tie me in hand with the spaniard. Luis tried to shoot but that complicated more. Krauser got rid of his gun and we couldn't do anything, he hit us both and we fell on the floor. The burly man crossed his arms and smiled mockingly.

- You fool. - I muttered angrily.

Leon appeared behind Krauser trying to attack him, but the muscle one quickly took his knife and turned to defend himself.

Kennedy dodged, but in the same way he had caused a small cut on his cheek. I could see that the agent removed his knife and faced the burly military man.

- I died in a crash two years ago?. Is that what they told you? - Krauser spoke.

- You're the one who kidnapped Ashley. - Leon said as they both walked in a circle cautiously.

- You catch on quick. That's expected. After all, you and I both know where we come from. - Commented the military and successively attacked.

Leon nimbly dodged it and returned the attack, but Krauser eluded him.

- What do you want? - Kennedy asked.

The man attacked him again, but Leon dodged it.

- The sample Saddler developed, that's all. - He commented and returned to attack our ally.

The agent stopped him, causing the knives to collide with each other and then with a movement made a cut in Krauser's chest, tearing part of his shirt.

- I think for this fight I'll need some popcorn. - I heard Luis say.

- Shut up, this is not a movie. - I said.

- Leave Ashley out of this. - The blonde spoke.

- Oh, I needed her to buy Saddler's trust in me. Like you, I'm american. - Krauser commented.

He kicked a barrel against Leon and he put it aside with his arm, the militar took advantage of the distraction to attack him with his knife, but Kennedy acted quickly defending himself with his knife. Both had fallen to another part and we lost sight of them.

- Shit. - I whispered moving with force.

- Hey, calm down. - Luis said.

- We have to do something, he's going to kill him. - I commented in despair.

I turned my gaze to Mazen's body, he had not made any movement.

- You know what? I think you should relax, we'll die anyway. - Sera said.

- I don't know what goes through your mind but that north american has my exit pass, so you better collaborate.

- How will I collaborate? I remind you that we are tied, which is ironic after so much hatred against me, besides your boyfriend is dead and it's likely that the american won't survive this one, so it's just the two of us, honey. - Commented the spanish.

- What are you talking about? First that asshole is not my boyfriend, is an egyptian idiot who murdered my uncle to save me, and yes I know, it's ironic all this but if you go back to call me honey or something else, I swear that I will break your... - I said angry until I was interrupted by the sound of a shot.

- Something tells me there was cheating. - Luis whispered.

There were a few minutes of silence until we saw Leon coming to us with a knife in his hand.

- What were you saying? - I upset Luis. - Hey, blonde! You're alive, how did it go? Did you kill him?

- No, I still can't believe it. - The agent spoke, cutting the rope that kept us tied to me and the spaniard.

- What thing? - I asked grabbing the AK47 once I got free. - What happened there? Do you know Mr. Muscle?

- More or less. He was my comrade. - He answered.

- What? - Sera was surprised.

- This is the end. - I murmured. - Who is he?

- Jack Krauser, he was a soldier belonging to the SOCOM unit of S.O.U. of special operations. With a history of brave service, in 2002 was selected by the US government, with me for a mission. - Leon explained. - We have been sent to investigate the relationship between a former Umbrella investigator and a drug lord named Javier Hidalgo.

I opened the backpack, put away the AK47, removed the 9mm and recharged it, all while listening to the american speaking.

- For this we had to infiltrate us in the mansion of Javier in the small town of Amparo, but we realized that in the village had spread the T-Virus. - He continued talking. - Fortunately we have succeeded in the mission but Krauser had been injured in the arm reason for what he had retired from the army, shortly after I heard about his death, air crash.

- But he's finally alive. - I commented.

- Aha. - The blonde nodded.

- Did you let him go? - I questioned.

- No, Ada saved me. - He answered and I kept thinking.

It seems that my uncle was right after all. Soon we heard someone complaining of pain, it was Mazen.

- He's still alive. - I murmured happy and approached him.

I helped the egyptian to get up and I looked at him smiling.

- I lost something? - He asked confused.

- I thought you were dead. - I said.

- Well, I resurrected. - He joked and I laughed lightly.

- So, Mazen, how old are you? - Leon asked as we continued walking.

- Seventeen, sir. - He answered. - I'm from Egypt.

- What brought you here, kid? - Luis asked.

- Vacations.

- Do you know what's going on here? - Questioned the blonde.

- Yes, Laura told me and by the way I'm a volunteer in the Egyptian Army. - Mazen replied.

Leon looked at me suspiciously and just when he was going to talk, we fell into a trap. We were separated by steel grates, Luis and Mazen on one side and Leon and I on the other.

- Shit! - Exclaimed the spanish.

- What is this? - I asked touching the grates a little confused.

- Let's handle this, I'm covering you, get back. - Mazen said taking it easy.

Suddenly I felt a movement behind me, it was not the agent because he was by my side, I turned and Krauser appeared hitting us with a strong punch throwing us aside, I felt a strong pain in my back.

First I thought I had broken a bone but then I could mobilize. I stood next to the blonde and saw no one but Luis and Mazen on the other side of the grates looking worried.

But soon they had problems on their side, they were attacked by two monsters. Before I said a word I was interrupted by the military.

- So, you two are all hooked up now, is that it? - He asked crossing his arms in front of a huge door.

I looked confused but then I remembered that he was referring to that asshole of Ada.

- Where's Ashley? - Questioned Leon.

- Do you really want to know? She's beyond that gate. But you'll need three insignias to open it. - Mr. Muscle replied.

- What are you gonna do Krauser? - Kennedy asked a little uneasy.

- There's one in the north, and the other in the east. - The military explained.

- And let me guess, you got the last one. - I interrupted.

- Woow, smart girl ... - He scoffed. - It pretty much means you two are on a tight leash. - The burly man continued aiming at us with a submachine gun.

- Sounds like you thought this one out pretty well. - Leon said and Krauser smiled.

Leon quickly threw an object distracting Krauser, stretched my hand and ran to then throw us and cover behind a wall as the man began to shoot us.

Kennedy had told me to help him, he would cover me while I would collect the two insignias but I didn't pay much attention because my gaze went to where the egyptian and spanish were.

Mazen had shot one of the monsters but suffered no damage, that thing attacked him and the egyptian dodged to then break his jaw.

Luis was attacked by another who grabbed him by the neck but he shot it in his face and it released him but its face regenerated. I looked amazed.

What are those things?

- Hey, wake up! - I heard the blonde while he shook me.

- Hey, it's okay, it's okay. Let's do it. - I nodded, looking at him.

I put on my guts and waited for Leon to attack Krauser. When my partner already had his attention, I decided to run in search of the insignias.

On the way I found some small robots that fired lasers.

What the hell?

I had nothing but to shoot them with my gun, while running in search of the objects. I found one and I kept it, then I ran in search of the other, but more of those robots began to appear and they launched small explosives.

So I ran, jumping walls, and climbing some, I grabbed a bar and it was when those things threw their explosives at my direction, I managed to climb just in time, I slid back over the bar and shot several times, finishing with many of them.

When I was about to hit the ground, I positioned myself to fall on my knees and continued running, jumping over a pillar to try to reach the top of another wall, but I didn't succeed.

I clung with all my strength to the edge of the wall, it was at that moment where their attacks almost touched my legs.

- Aaaaahhh! - I screamed in despair.

I used my feet to push myself through the wall and I managed to climb. I was exhausted and laid on the sandy surface.

- I need to exercise more. - I murmured agitated.

I looked to one side, something shone not far from where I was lying. I got up with the little strenght I had left and sighed.

I went to see, it was the other insignia. I smiled triumphantly and when I was going to bend down to take it I felt a knife by my neck.

- You're mine. - I heard the voice of Krauser, who took me by surprise from behind.

- What? - I tensed.

I tried to raise my gaze to see him but he squeezed the knife to my neck making a shallow cut.

- Laura! - Leon exclaimed reaching where we were, I started to sweat nervously.

I sincerely never expected to go through this.