[A/N: Do let me know if there are any spelling errors. I'll try and fix them. Thanks for reading. Yee]
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"Yo'!" Blinking, I came to realize that I was sitting somewhere new. Face-to-face with an old but sharply dressed American businessman amid a vast white space.
"Alright, listen here kid. Because I'll only say this once; You've died. Shame and what-not but, you are being presented a choice to either reincarnate, transmigrate or become someone else specifically. You need to pick and decide. And no wishes. You damn Zoomers and Millennials have been the most needy, spoiled and ignorant people I have ever had the misfortune of working with in the past millennium… and if you want to fuck around and find out. See what happens."
The old man then smoked a Cuban cigar, calmly letting the smoke flow out as he stared at the distance.
I gulped in fear as I didn't know what was going on, but this all was starting to feel like a very vivid fever dream. It was until I pinched the back of my hand and felt pain.
Real pain.
"You're somehwat alive… so long as I will it kid. So hurry up and decide; or I'll decide for you." I blinked while silent as I began trembling and just when I had worked up the courage to speak, his next words caused me go pale as my stomach dropped. "Too late, have a good second life, kiddo."
I tried to voice out but soon felt my world swirl around my eyes.
*Thud!*
I then felt a heavy impact on my side and… cold.
The biting cold sensation wrapped around my entire body. I was trembling, shaking fiercely but the sensation was quickly overshadowed by the sudden figures hovering over me.
I felt my vision adjust as a pair of soft and warm hands held me up. I then felt a foil blanket cover my suddenky naked and wet trembling body.
When I then stood up, I was then moved to the side of the room.
As my senses came back to me, I then nearly collapsed a second time from the buzzare and unreal scenes I was seeing.
"C-Clones?" The surprise and shock of seeing multiple women. All wearing the same face and moving around helping naked wet women from these pod-things held my focus.
I also only then notcied my voice was distinctly… diffrent.
It was female, feminine in nature but still hoarse and with a low, husky undertone.
It took me a minute before my mempries resurface of my past life.
Two of them. One as Ethan Smith. And the other as… as Alice.
Alice Abernathy.
As my eyes darted over the clones, the memroies of the name and what it meant.
What really sold me was the beautiful face that I would recognize anywhere:
'Milla Jovovich'.
She was the leading actress that starred as 'Alice' from the hit horror-flick; Resident Evil cinematic franchise.
She was also my first celebrity crush back when I was a teenager and still going through my awkard emo-phase in middle school.
In particular, if this is what I think it is, then I'm in a really dangerous and perilous situation.
This world has already gone to hell and if that wasn't enough, an evil shadow organization that orchestrated the collapse of the modern world, that very same organization was still out there.
And this… This particular scene coincides with the movies as I remember that 'Alice' decided to storm an underground facility branch based in Tokyo. While she gets away, 'most' of the 'Alice-Clones' would end up getting destroyed in that mini-nuke blast.
Why did this happen to me? I still felt my head squimming as I was able to handle the stress rather well. Far better than I ever could in my past life as Ethan.
I surmised this must be because I was a clone of 'Alice' and had her grit as well as her branded set of willpower and personality.
I 'am' a clone of her now, but I was also still myself only 'more'?
Damn it! This is that old man's fault! Maybe. Wait, won't I have powers now.
Not only that, but I also should have enhanced speed, greater strenght and faster reflexes and a durable build as well?
Granted, I was given an opportunity to live a second life. Wasn't this actually a godsend?
But knowing the timeline, Alice-original still has yet to overcome the hurdles she'll have to face in her future as well as release the anti-T-virus which will basically save the world.
The canonical timeline should be around 4-5 years away from now. Meaning that the raid at the Tokyo branch of Umbrella would happen within a couple of months… or days?
This could very well become my end if I am not careful.
However, since I have future meta-knowledge, if I told Alice-ordinal and the others about the mini-nuke, maybe I could divert the loss of countless 'clones' from meeting an anti-climactic end during that particular raid.
Though, the likelihood that they will even listen to me didn't feel right. They will be suspicious of how I know this.
And if I wasn't careful, I could end I getting myself killed or worse, something worse happens that I can't control.
I would have to reveal all of my secrets then and I don't want to do that or else risk looking crazy.
Then…
Will I just save myself when the day comes and go AWOL?
The thought made me feel uneasy and wrong. But at the same time, should I just let it happen?
… no.
I don't want to lose these clones. But I also don't want to stay bound to the original Alice in her drive for revenge.
I don't want to die again after all.
But, I also don't want the rest of these 'Alice' to due either.
In the end, my cowardice won out. I hated myself for this but I was scared. Thsi wasn't any th ing like my former world. Where my greatest worry was the IRS coming to double check my taxes in person.
In this world, I can very well end up dying a far worse death than in my past life.
Zombies, mutants, evil organizations and who-knows what else is out there.
These clones could save this world faster than in the original timeline if they had survived.
But that is only if the original timeline is followed to a 'T' and nothing else goes wrong.
But I was here now. And this world, was real.
It wasn't some movie flick. It wasn't some well-crafted storyline.
It was real and raw. Death was permanent. And I had only one life.
For now, I waited to see where this goes and plan from there. It still took a while for the other 'clones' to wake up but a coulle didn't make it and died on the spot.
Still, there were a lot of Alice clones here.
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Stepping out of the group showers, I walked over to the mirrors above the wide sink area.
Grabbing the change of clothes provided to me, I dried off my body and hair as I stood completely nude in a bathroom full of other hot naked clone-women.
What many did notice was the color of my hair and and faint appearance as I wasn't entierly simialr to the genetic clone everyone else had been cretaed with.
I had pitch-black hair and slightly paler white skin. My body was also slightly slimmer too.
A 'mutation' in my creation. But all logs showed I was growing fine until I was awoken with the rest.
My hair was long and restrictive so I had one of the clone sisters cut it short for me.
Now I had it short but still long enough that I could tie it if I wanted.
It… actually made me feel slightly better that I get to have my own individuality.
Yet, when I first saw my apperance. I felt a slight tremor as I recognized the striaght hair and eyes.
They were simialr to what I had been born with in my last life.
I still resembled Alice. But my features were also marked with my former appearance onky, boosted by the transmigration?
Still, I threw on a slim tight fitting tank-top and dirty pair of cargo pants. No need for underwear since there wasn't much of it to go around.
Either way, I was much too focused to thoroughly examine my new sexy female body.
I had felt energized. Stronger and faster even. Which did prove that I was making myself at home with this new body.
Still, I roamed the facility and made and effort to speak with the other clones who were very nice and welcoming.
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After a few days of getting myself acclimated with my new body.
I was more often than not, in the training room. Striking the air or kicking an invisible threat and combining various forms I remembered from my memories back on 'my' Earth thag didn't really help me any.
"You up for a spar?" A familiar voice echoed from my side. She was another clone. Same as me and everyone else. But she had come by to talk with me more than the others. I won't lie and say I could single her out from the rest.
But the easy going smile she had and since she parted her hair over her shoulder in a braid, I could somewhat recognize her as the same clone who has been coming here to help me work out some kinks on my forms.
"Sure." I didn't refuse since I was looking forward tot his since sparring with her a few days ago. "First one to ta the ground?"
"I'm game." Her beautiful smile bloomed and then vanished in the enxt instant as we took our position opposite each other.
A few other clones turned to watch as we both then moved quickly and started to match eachother strikes exactly.
Our attacks canceled each other out. I tried to go for a grabbit she would block with a perfect counter.
It fet more like a rehearsed dance thag fighting but I didn't mind as I liked sparring with this clone.
I would do the same and this back-and-forth kept going until we were both suddenly on the ground trying to get one over the other.
Only, by then, we both stopped and breathed rapidly to catch our breath as we unlatched eachother with smiling faces and stood upright.
"You've gotten better?" She teased and I chuckled shaking my head as we got up. "You up to go for round two?"
I smirked and then replied while taking my stance.
"Bet." We went at it again and the result ended with another draw.
We weren't trying to kill each other. This was just to work off some steam as all we have been doing lately is getting re-acclimated with being awake again.
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The original Alice, was already knew-deep in planning with her clones to take out several more Umbrella facilities and safe-houses that she managed to pull out of the servers in this place.
How she did that was beyond me.
Still, everyone was made privy of this info and I learned there were a few dozen scattered around the nearby states.
Alongside one other major location where the limited intel showed one massive compound in Tokyo, Japan.
Of which, I assumed was where she would focus most of her attention on since once we were proepr let geared up and armed to raid that place.
Since that was where Wesker was holed up.
And Alice knows it.
Still, there were not a lot of firearms down here for everyone.
But I was lucky to have gotten a holster and sidearm. A sleek all black M9 magnum. With a spare magazines slid into the hosltiers strap beside mh gun.
I also wore a cozy sage-green heavy parka and preferred to cover up my lithe body since I wasn't really into exposing my new figure to anyone.
Even in my last life, I was always that one kid that wore his shirt while going to the pool.
Still, while mostly all of us were armed. We still needed to gather more supplies.
Everyone was already moving into teams and in that preparation, including myself.
"You ready?" I was waiting for the elevator to head up to the surface alongside severla lther clones.
Allie, the clone who sparred with me the most had take to sticking together.
"Ready as I can be." I said softly and felt slightly comforted by her smirk.
As we arrived on the surface, there were already cars lined up to transport us into separate directions to raid Umbrella's property and fuck shit up.
"Oh! It's you." Anlther clone was hailing a crate when she turned and smiled as she stared at me.
"Is… something wrong?" That was kinda rude wasn't it? Or was it just me being sensitive?
"Oh, I mean you're kind of famous. The only clone that has dark hair and eyes. "She said and even walked closer to brush my locks of dark hair. "Mind if we call you Raven?"
"… uh, no?" I mean, I didn't really have a name other than 'Alice' but… you know, clones.
"Great! Watch over her yeah?" The clone siad to Allie next to me and we soon headed toward a nearby group and joined in their 40-person raid heading West.
While we headed up and were primed for war, I looked back from the back of a transport bus to see two other larger groups moving out in their routes as well.
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Hoping out of the bud alongside the clones. Allie held her sub-machine gun at her side as I stuck close to her.
We were then briefed as we stood outside a residential mall that was crowded with zombies.
"Alright. Listen up." The leading clone spoke and we gathered around as Allie and I were place Donna cel of 4-5 clones with myself included.
As the leading clone provided us with where the entrnave to the facility was.
We will have to clear out the zombies anove ground to give an opening for our forces to slip through.
I decided to be on that part as our cell moved to the outer wdge and the fastest way to attract a lot of undead.
Was simply to make a lot of noise. And what better than cheesy 90's romance music on the car speakers?
I was the one driving and may or may not have clipped a few zombies while driving around the area.
It was scary but it was also exhilarating.
"Heads up!" I shouted toward Allie and three lther clones in the backseat as I took the off-ramp and then drove off the edge over a pile up of abandoend cars on the road.
The shock was rough but the car's suspension remained intact.
After a while, the operation went off without a h it ch.
We lost two clones but the overall reward was worth it.
Cocking back the slide on my M9, I then fired at the few zombies that were running our way as we privided cover to extract for our group and return to their vehicles.
Like this, several clones opened fire on the incoming hoard and only once we we were set, we took off.
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Riding on new dune-buggy transports we had liberated across the desert back to base, I rode shifted seats and rode shotgun to get some shit-eye.
But I only had nightmares and woke up in a jolt as Allie asked if I wad alright.
"Yeah." I said and while still feeling the same damn knot in my stomach I would always feel whenrver I got nervous or sacred by something.
As we crossed the large cleared reinforced fence gayeway, we then arrived at the cabin as the other two companies also retuened.
I had notcied there were fewer clowns than I saw that went out initially.
Umbrella defence is no joke.
"They will see us coming for the next one, won't they?" I said as we headed down the lift to the facility with several other clones.
"We'll be ready too. Now that we have stronger wepaons. Which is why we'll hit them harder and faster than before." Was that an innuendo?
In any case, the following days passed and our full company charged straight from one raid to the wnxt.
Everyone had a part to play. Myself included. But the losses still piled up and I had newlry gotten grazed by a stray round as I get it streak past my neck and left a thin line that I was thankful wasn't two inches to the right.
Or else I'd be dead.
But I gradually assimilated dinto mynenw role. I killed. For the first time and unlike zombies, I killed people. Granted, they were Unbrella soldiers and most likely clones.
But still I was satisfied I had gotten my hand son a sleek sniper rifle.
It was an SR-25. With an added bipod and custom bullet sling along the stock. It also had a custom suppressor.
I loved this gun. As it kept me far formmthe fighting and Allie volunteered to be my range fibger and guardian while I sniped.
Never thought I wouod love camping this much.
But with each death I confirmed, I felt the aversion to detah numb me more and more.
Until I was killing several Umbrella soldiers or zombies that got too close to our girls.
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After the fighting, we stepped over the dead bodies as I held my rifle slung around my shoulders.
I kept my M9 in my hand just in case.
We linked up with our comoany and again, we lost more clones.
But all that was not for nothing as we got way more weapons, ammunition and equipment.
I had even gone down to the bunker myself once it was clear with Allie and soon came across a sealed box in one of the private quarters of the top researchers.
I'm pretty sure no one came in here to check since they would be at the armory or looting from the dead soldiers, hauling the loot back tot he transport trucks.
Opening the case with my knife, I gasped as I found a sleek silver sheing gun and eight perfect small glass girls of green liquid.
I shook the box and looked around to see the clones were still moving around and Allie was talking with another clone.
I stood up and then glanced around at the files here and grabbed one that was hidden underneath a scattering of pallets.
Lifting it and pulling out the contents, my breath hitched slightly.
T-The T-virus compound?! W-What the hell?! Why was this here!?
Gulping, I blinked but then read further and found something astonishing if this was true.
A diluted version that has been found to regenerate ahnds and heal injires upon thsoe that have successfully bonded with the T-virus strain.
In other words… a stym-pax?
I read the several extensive reports and also cringed slightly at seeing several unfortuante Alice clones being treated successfully with this drug.
This… this was too good to ignore. Should I reveal this to the OG Alice?
No, what if she destroys it?
Agh! Fuck it! I leaned back down and hid the reports before opening the car and jsut grabbed all the coals and the gun before finding the top layer was shut one of four.
32 vials. That's 32 potentially life-saving healing drugs.
I pocketed them into my heavy parka and was gald it had a lot of room to hide them.
I walked out of the office holding a Christmas-themed snow-globe.
Allie smiled as we then left back to the surface and I couldn't help hit fele guilty until we left the entrnave and got back in our cars as we retuened for wjay I could tell would be the last raid…
Tokyo was next on the agenda.
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*Supressed-Gunshot!*
Glancing through the scope of my sniper rifle, Inwatched my target's head spray with red behind their head.
The pouring rain fell on my lsiiion as Allie sat beside me also wearing a heavy raincoat as she kept her new AR-15 on hand.
Me and my entire cell with begin taking out the overwatch around the buodlings above the Umbrella underground facility at Tokyo Square.
I volunteered for this post my cell following my lead since we bonded after sticking together these past several months.
{"This is Overwatch. Targets down. Proceed with infiltrations, over."} I spoke into my earpiece as I then trained my scope to the shadows wher eis aw several of the entire groups most elite fighters gathered.
They moved seamlessly as they found the entrnave point and didn't have much problem getting in and down.
Before this operation kicked off, I had asked the original Alice to be careful.
She assured me she will be.
Now, all I can do is wish them good luck. Altough, I felt bad about Wjay might still happen.
But this was my new life. Nd I only had one chance to live it.
All was quiet and then our comms network went down.
Not good. I turned to Allie and she shook her head while touching her ear-piece.
Standing up, I raised my hands, then signed to the other four clones to pull back and regroup with me down at the entrance of this hotel.
Around half an hour later, we met up.
"Alright, our comes are down. So I think we should head back to secure the transports just in case-."
*Shudder*
All of a sudden, a feeling of dread fell over all of us and without wanting, a bright flash of light appeared and then a world-encompassing beight light surged up into the raining night sky.
"TAKE COVER-" Was all I could get out before Allie grabbed me as we both hit the ground and hid behind a solid granite pillar as the shockwave surged past us with force gales of wind.
The world quaked all around us for a few moments and the sound of ringing gradually cleared up with the vibrations
I saw shattered glass everywhere nearby and staggered to my feet as I then went over to one of my clone-sister and began pushing off the debris that fell onto them.
After a few moments of recovering, the shockwave leveled out and we could move again.
"They really fucking nuked the place!" I knew but still shouted in rage as I was actually still trembling. "Shit."
I began to feel it was too late to regret.
After we gayhered oursleves, we went to the transport choppers several blocks away. I sighed in relief as transports was still fine.
If not a little moved to the side but still in working order.
"Start up the choppers. Some of them could still be alive. We're going over there now!" I said without hesitation and we soon entered the choppers.
We all kenw how to fly them and once we wer up in the air, I sat at the doorway and leveled my sniper rifle as I began picking off any zombies that survived that.
"Heavens." I couldn't help but say as it was the still mushroom cloud of smoke flying overhead in the air. The entire area of destruction left at its wake that made me fearful. "Bring us down! Look for survivors!"
I said and as the choppers hovered, we repelled down quickly and efficiently.
I looked aorund frantically as tears swelled in my eyes.
When I finally heard a faint groan and moved to grab a large slab of concrete.gritting my teeth, I planted my boots and using all my strength, I lifted it off and tossed it to the side as it fel with a heavy 'thud!.
There, I found a clone sister, badly burned to char but still somehow alive through sheer force of will.
"Hey!" I reached of the clone and had made my decisin. "You're gonna be okay."
I said and turned to grab a small custom packaged-kit from my pouch in my parka as I didn't hesitate to fit the package out and opened it to reveal the sleek silver syrunge gun.
Then, I took a leap of faith.
*Stab-Inject*
Since we were already immune, the virus will help us recover from damage… hopfully.
It was a gamble but I almost cried when I saw the drug work perfectly. Her burned skin began flake off as new fresh pink skin grew back.
I had a few dozen vials on me and left the rest back at the base.
I wanted to study and learn more so I can create my own supply of them for the future.
But right now, I was glad I swiped this. Sure it was the same substance that destroyed the modern world as we knew it but hey, if it benefits us. It works.
So fuck it.
And watching the miraculous regeneration of my clone-sister recover greatly, I sighed with releif and turned to the others.
"Find anyone else?! Hurry!" I shouted and and lifted the clone in my arms before carrying her to the chopper that had landed but kept the engine on for a rapid excitation at a moments notice.
Gunshots echoed as the undead were surging en-mass due to the explosion.
As we began to cover more ground faster while fighting off the undead, we managed to find only a handful of clone sisters that just barley survived the blast.
I was able to inject each of them drug and was able to bring the clones back from the brink.
Once we were finished saving those we could, we were getting overwhelmed and soon began to take off as I ruthlessly fired my M9 to kill several running zombies as we took off alongside my sisters.
I can only hope that the original Alice is still alive and following the plot.
If not… this world is fucking doomed.
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