Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (The Official Movie Novelization) by Tim Waggoner

Author:Tim Waggoner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services)

7

“Final marker! Now!”

On the building’s tenth floor, Michael heard Alice’s command over the walkie tucked into his belt. He stood with a team of residents next to a large block of concrete and rebar which teetered on the edge of the balcony above the Peak’s main entrance. A cable was wrapped around the block, its lower end trailing downward past the balcony.

“You heard her!” Michael shouted. “Now push! Push! Put your backs into it!”

Michael and his team pressed their bodies against the block of concrete and shoved with all their might, jaws clenched and faces strained from the effort. At first the concrete refused to budge, but then Michael poured every last bit of strength he had into pushing, and that made the difference. The concrete slowly tipped forward, and then it went over the edge.

The block fell three stories before the cable wrapped around it pulled tight. The other end of the cable was attached to a series of smaller cables, each of which stretched to the metal hooks Doc and Christian had embedded in the outside wall. The block pulled the hooks out of the wall, which in turn caused the wall to break apart. Great chunks of the building’s exterior wall rained down, crushing hundreds if not thousands of Undead below in an instant.

Michael and his team cheered, savoring this spectacular moment of triumph. But their victory was short-lived. In the main plaza, thousands more Undead charged through the swirling dust, clambering over the debris and the mangled bodies of their own kind, surging through the shattered gate and into the Peak.

Michael watched with despair as the creatures flooded into the building. He feared that no matter how hard they fought, this was a battle they simply could not win. He prayed he was wrong.

* * *

Inside the remaining transport, Commander Lee turned to Isaacs.

“We’ve breached the gates,” he said. “They’re falling back.”

Isaacs felt a profound sense of peace settle within him. Alice and her comrades had done their best, and they’d fallen far short. This night—as it was always intended—belonged to the Lord… and to him.

“Looks like they’re out of tricks. Target the roof.”

“Targeting roof,” Lee said.

* * *

Alice watched as the turret atop the transport swung around, guns raising as they aimed toward the roof.

“Take cover!” she shouted. “Everyone get down!” Everyone threw themselves to the roof as a hailstorm of fifty-caliber rounds began tearing apart everything around them.

* * *

Inside the Peak’s central atrium, the exits were blocked by makeshift barricades and stretches of mesh fencing. The residents fought desperately from behind the barricades as thousands of Undead filled the giant circular space. Claire, Doc, Cobalt, and Christian were in the thick of it, fighting savagely, killing the Undead as the horde pressed forward.

“Come on! Push!” Claire urged.

“Push them back!” Doc echoed.

The residents gave everything they had, but the sheer mass of the Undead horde was unstoppable. Claire watched in despair as all around her barricades began to give way under the Undead’s assault.

Out of the corner of her eye, Claire saw the barricade Cobalt and Christian were behind collapse.

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