Blackout

Derek hears the door at the bottom of the stairwell open and shut, he quickly hurries, stop for a second before opening the door. Derek sees Page walking down the tunnel, her back facing him. He quickly runs to a nearby car and ducks out of sight as she turns around. As he hides behind the car he hears Jacob's voice coming from Page's radio.

"You make it to the tunnel?" Jacob asks.

"Yeah, no sign of Romero at the moment, I'm pretty sure that guy who looks like Derek is following…" Page's footsteps come to a stop.

"Page? You still there?"

"Yeah...Derek Simmons died in China right?"

"Yeah,"

"...When we were sent to China to help evacuate civilians, we were with Luther. What did you and Luther do when we got separated from that crash? "What did you do?" She asks with a worried tone.

"...I led Luther to the quad tower, it was the last place Leon and Helena had been spotted. After that I secured an escape vehicle while he tried to get a sample of the virus Ada Wong had infected him with. He came back instead with Derek's body,"

Shit, don't tell me my cover's blown already! If Luther ever found out…

Derek gets up a bit, peeking at Page through a window, and quickly kneeling back down when she starts to turn in his direction.

"You don't think Luther found a way to bring people back from the dead do-" A loud crashing noise interrupts Page. Glancing over the side of the car, he sees the man from the lobby is back, continuing his attack on Page. Derek watches from the sidelines, wanting to act, but afraid of disobeying Luther's orders anymore than he already has. His grip on his gun tightens he watches the man grab Page with the limb on his back which wraps around her.

"You're gonna have to try something new," The man says as he starts to tighten his grip on her. Derek gets a sense of relief when Page tasers him and breaks free of his grip. The man starts to charge at Page, who slides over the hood of a car and runs to the side as the man throws the car into the air, setting off the alarm. Derek has to cover his ears from the barrage of noise attacking them. SOunds of metal breaking join in the earsplitting chorus until the alarm stops.

Derek peeks over the side of the car once more to see Page running past the crashed gas tanker, noticing the large puddle of gas on the ground. Page shoots the man a couple times as he starts to approach her. She then aims for the puddle.

She can't be...she's going to blow up the whole tunnel! I gotta get to the other side before it's too late.

Derek quickly gets up from behind the car and starts making his way towards the other side of the tunnel. As the man steps into the center of the gas puddle Page shoots it, nothing happening. The man scoffs at her, giving her enough time to grab her taser and tie the handle around the trigger to keep it on, then chucks it at the puddle. The taser lands on the puddle and the sparks ignite the gas, setting the man ablaze. Derek runs past the puddle of gas just in time before his path is cut off from the flames and dives to the left as the fire reaches the gas tanker and causes it to explode.

A sharp pain fills Derek's left leg and as the dust settles he sees a large piece of shrapnel has lodged itself into it. With every little movement his leg makes, thousands of needles stab into it, making it nearly impossible to move it. He manages to sit up against a wall and catches his breath as he stares at the blood stained piece of metal. Just placing a hand on it causes the piece to tear into his leg muscles. Fighting through the nearly unbearable pain, he grabs the piece of metal.

He tires to pull it out slowly, but the pain forces him to let go. Catching his breath again and letting the pain sear down a little, he grabs it once more.

You can do this. On three, one, two...three!

Derek uses all his strength to pull the shrapnel out as fast as possible, a thunderous strike of pain filing his leg causing him to scream in agony. He immediately throws the piece of metal to the side as he grabs onto his leg, taking deep breaths to deal with the pain. As he recovers from the pain he finally takes notice of Page whose only a few feet from him and approaching him.

"Stay here...I'll, bandage your wound…" She states in a harsh tone and staring at him coldly.

She walks through a nearby door out of sight.

Fuck, she knows...god damnit…I still have a mission to do, and now's my best chance to lose her.

Derek gets up, the pain causing his leg to stiffen up. He limps over to some cars on the left and goes to the front of them so he's out of view from the middle of the tunnel. A large hole in the tunnel opens up to the street above, lots of debris blocking the path back to the station. As he kneels down he has to take another deep breath to stop himself from groaning in pain from his leg, though the pain seems to be getting less severe already. After some time he hears a door open and someone walk out into the tunnel, must be Page. He waits for the footsteps to sound farther away before he moves to the side of the car. Peeking through the car windows, he can see Page walk into the Parking Garage. She picks up her radio, Jacob must be saying something but she's too far for him to hear.

I need to get closer, I can't let her ot of my sight.

As he goes to sneak around the car he's behind, he hears something moving around in the debri. Looking towards all the fallen cement, he sees the bull from before making its way down into the tunnel along with some zombies. The bull attacks the zombies before it takes notice of Page. She mutters something that Derek can't hear as the bull starts to charge at her. She quickly runs to the left and out of sight. Derek gets up, heading towards the parking garage, and soon hears the engine of a vehicle turning on. The bull runs into something and there's a loud crashing noise.

Reaching the parking garage, he turns to the left to see an suv driving backwards down the aisle, the bull chasing after it. Nearing the end of the aisle, the car turns to the right, the bull continuing to go straight and ramming into a wall. The car comes back into the aisle, driving in Derek's direction. Derek backs up a bit as he prepares to jump onto the car.

Come on, if you don't do this, you're as good as dead. You can do it, just gotta not fall off…

As the car nears him he starts running forward, then jumps. Landing onto the side of the car he grabs onto it tight, luckily the vehicle has a roof rack giving him something to hold onto.

This was a mistake! This was a terrible idea!

Derek quickly reaches for the door handle only to hear the sound of the locks engaging. He pulls on the handle several times to no avail, the door refuses to budge.

Are you fucking-WOAH!

Derek's thoughts are interrupted as the car makes a sharp left. He holds on for deal life, feeling the momentum trying to pull him off and send him rolling onto the ground. They approach the ramp, the bull on the other side of the aisle and charging towards them. They beat the bull to the ramp, making another sharp left turn and heading up the ramp. Reaching the top they make a u-turn heading for the streets. A huge crowd of zombies blocks their path. As they near the horde the doors unlock, Derek quickly opening the door and pulling himself inside, slamming the door shut right before they run through all the zombies.

"Thanks," He tells Page, full of relief, as he buckles the seatbelt.

"Don't, thank me," Page replies as she turns on the wipers and sprayers, "I don't want to be thanked for helping a murderer ," Finally getting some vision they see they're about to run into another horde of zombies.

Page swerves to the left and drives around them, continuing down the road straight ahead. They drive past the police station which is to their right.

Derek notices Page suddenly have a worried expression as she stares up at the rearview mirror. Turning around and looking through the back window he sees the bull is still in pursuit of them, and is somehow catching up.

"Go faster!" Derek exclaims as he turns to Page.

"I'm going as fast as I can!" She yells back.

At this speed it's impossible to drive in a straight line from having to dodge all the zombies and cars. Reaching an intersection, Page slams on the breaks as she makes a hard left, Derek being shoved against the door and Page having to hold onto the wheel with all her strength to keep herself in her seat. As soon as they turn all the way left she takes her foot off the break and slams the gas, taking off down the road. However, the road ahead is blocked off by several crashed cars, most of them on fire. Quickly approaching the barricade, Page slams on the breaks, making a sharp u-turn.

As they turn around, the headlights shine onto the intersection, showing the bull rounding the corner.

"Does that bull have a gps on us?!" Derek exclaims.

Page drives forward, swerving to the right to avoid the bull as it charges at them. The bull rams into the side of the car, causing them to turn right and drive into a nearby building with glass walls. They drive through tables and zombies, then crash into a wall.

Derek and Page are dazed from the crash, but luckily still conscious. The hood of the car is in the kitchen while the rest of it is in the dining area. They both lean away from the windows as zombies suddenly press up against the sides of the car, trying to get it, hitting their hands against the glass which manages to stay intact. They quickly unbuckle themselves and look for anyway out of the car, meanwhile the sound of the bull roaring can be heard. As they turn to the back window, the bull slams into the car, heavily denting the trunk of the car, and causing the windows on the sides to start cracking. The bull starts to back up to charge again.

"Get up and help me with this," Page states as she lifts her legs up onto the dashboard. Not wanting to be crushed by the bull, Derek quickly climbs his way to the front passenger seat. He puts his legs up and just as they're about to kick the window, the bull rams into the car again, tearing off part of the back, the windows cracking even more. The sides of the car are now surrounded by zombies, all trying to break into the car.

"On three," Page quickly says, "One, two, three!"

They kick the glass simultaneously, the cracks on the window spreading rapidly, but it's still in place. The bull backs up for another charge.

"One, two, three!"

They kick again, the window shattered, some pieces flying at them nad lightly cutting them. They quickly climb out onto the hood and slide off the sides into the kitchen as the bull charges at the car once more, the windows on the sides finally breaking. The car jerks forward a bit, Page and Derek quickly distancing themselves from the car. Zombies quickly start entering the windows, the ones behind them shoving them through as they try to enter as well.

There's a door leading to a storage room in the back left corner of the room. It's open, showing a large shutter door on the other side of the room.

"This way!" Page exclaims as she signals for Derek to follow. The two run into the storage room where lots of boxes of various foods and fridges sit at the sides, some stained in blood. Two chains on pulleys connected to the shutters sit on both sides of it. Page hurries over to the one on the left while Derek goes to the one on the right. They can hear the car being rammed by the bull in the distance as they desperately pull on the chains, the shutter door slowly opening up. They get halfway up when they hear an even louder crash coming from the kitchen.

Glancing behind they see some debri falling down and the car halfway into the kitchen, the wall around crumbling apart and making a large whole, almost big enough for the bull to fit through.

"Hold on as much as you can," Derek says, "I'm gonna get under and hold it up,"

"A-Aright," Page says as she tightens her grip on the chain. Derek lets go of his chain, Page already struggling at stopping hers from moving while Derek hurries to the shutters. He stands under the shutters, holding his hands to the sides of his head as he uses all his strength to keep it open.

"H-Hurry!" He says as the weight of the shutters becomes heavier by the second. Page hurries under, and as soon as she's in the clear Derek shoves the door up and lets go, hurrying out from under it before it comes crashing down onto the ground with a hard slam. The two stand their for a bit before as they catch their breath, luckily the unloading zone their in has no zombies in it, but the street it leads to does. They jump when the shutters become heavily dented as sounds of a raging bull come from the other side.

The two hurry to the street, the bull breaking through the shutters as they reach it. As they run through swarms of zombies that try to grab them as they run past, the bull quickly shows up behind them, mowing down zombies left and right. They hurry over to a nearby building, trying to the front doors but its locked. Before they run the bull catches up to them. Seeing the bull approaching, Derek grabs Page, using his body as a shield to protect her.

Derek screams in agony as one of the bull's horns stabs into his lower back, filling his body with an agonizing burning sensation. The force launches the two into the door and breaking the lock. They fall to the ground on a cold wood floor, Page being pinned to the ground by Derek's weight. Weak and starting to lose consciousness, Derek falls over onto his side, then onto his back.

Is this, how I die...from jumping in front of a bull, to save some stranger I had failed to kill...why did, I...protect her..?

Everyone starts becoming blurry and dark, some muffled voice sounding both near and very far away as they echo around his ears. A sudden pain jolts him awake, sending away the darkness as a voice becomes more clear.

"..ne-..you to the hospital…" A women's voice says as he's sat up. He can make out the figure of someone, but it's hard to tell who it is. Using his remaining strength, he stands up, and leaning on the person, the two walk through some dark room, then enter a slightly lighter area, seeing a bright light in the distance.

"Come on, just a little farther," A women's voice says worryingly, "I didn't unlock the door so you could die on me,"

Page...why is she, helping me? This can't be her...it's probably…

Derek's thoughts start to slip away as the darkness starts to once more overtake him. Before he knows it, he's attacked by another piercing pain as he laid down, however the pain can't stop the darkness from enveloping him. Everything goes black.