TFIL MANOR
(Living Room)

Elton- After finishing breakfast, we all gather in the living room.

Corey- Giving the girl an encouraging look. "Take your time."

Dahlia- Reaching into the bag I brought, I pull out all the cell phones and ear pieces. "I took these from the Corporation that had me held hostage."

Katrina- Looking at the fellow girl sadly. "You were held hostage?"

Dahlia- (Nods) Not going into detail on that at the moment. "They work anywhere and if we get split up or are in danger we can get in touch. Also there is a girls voice who can and will come across the ear pieces...that is part of what I need to explain."

Colby- "What does this all have to do with you?"

Dahlia- I shake my head. "May I borrow a laptop?"

Elton- I disappear out to the garage and return with my glitching laptop. "Here."

Dahlia- "Alright Alice...do your thing." Taking a phone charger, I plug it into the laptop.

Jake- "Who is Alice?" We are all staring at the blank screen but it's suddenly lit up by a red little girl. (Shrieks)

Aaron- My eyes widen in shock.

Devyn and Katrina- "Wicked!"

Sam- "That's kinda cool and creepy at the same time ."

Corey- To say I was freaked out would be an understatement.

Colby- "Dahlia?"

Dahlia- "Meet Alice or The Red Queen."

Elton- "Hello." (Waves)

Red Queen- I glance around the gathered group. "Hello."

Colby- Looking at the transparent girl on the screen skeptically. "How do you know my sister?"

Red Queen- "I'm the one who freed her of course. I'm also the one who watched over her as the vial Co-Founders of my fathers company experimented on her."

Elton- Before the others could say anything, I made a gesture so that I could speak. "Tell us everything."

Red Queen- "Then I shall start at the beginning..."

Colby- (Growls) "Damn right, I want to know why my sister went AWOL and how she ties into this mess."

Red Queen- (Nods) "The Umbrella Corporation is an international pharmaceutical company. Founded in 1968 by prominent British royal descendants James Marcus and Oswell E. Spencer, along with Dr. Edward Ashford. It is a major international player in pharmaceutical goods and medical supplies, along with more clandestine operations utilizing genetic engineering. Their legitimate status is only a front for their secret research of "bio-organic weapons" (B.O.W.s), developed through the use of a unique virus discovered by the company founders. The company is also presented as having a more public face, producing cosmetics, consumer products, and foods. Umbrella established multiple secret research facilities to help develop various bio-weapons. Its most prominent research facility is located in Raccoon City, California which was able to develop the 'T-Virus', a powerful mutagen that could dramatically alter living and recently dead organisms.'

Devyn- We all stare at the transparent red girl on the computer screen. "Let me see if I have this right. The Pharmaceutical Company based in Raccoon City, California is responsible for what's happened?"

Red Queen- (Nods) "Yes."

Sam- "That still doesn't tie in Dahlia, though."

Aaron- Gesturing towards the laptop and the girl. "Let her finish explains everything, she'll get to that part eventually!"

Red Queen- (Nods Thankfully) Picking up Where I left off in my explanation; "James Marcus is the owner and co-founder of the Umbrella Corporation, a pharmaceutical drug company that secretly manufactures bio-organic weapons. Oswell Spencer and Edward Ashford join his company, but they show more interest in studying the newly discovered Progenitor virus. Eventually, Edward Ashford dies so no-one is left to question how Oswell Spencer seizes control of the company and its research. Spencer sends his subordinates, Albert Wesker and William Birkin too assassinate Marcus. When this happens the widowed father leaves behind a very sick daughter 'Alice' the true owner of the Umbrella Corporation. Spencer knowing he can't just get rid of the little girl, keeps her locked away in a mansion he had built over what is known as the 'The Hive' Umbrella's secret HQ if you will."

Jake- Waving my hands around wildly. "Whoa, Whoa, Whoa...hold up. Let me get this strait, one of the co-founders mysteriously dies, then this little girls father is assassinated and she's locked away in this mansion over this secret facility that's below ground. You do know this sounds really far fetched right?!"

Katrina- "Ya...so does a Zombie Apocalypse, but it's happening."

Corey- (Rolls Eyes)

Elton- Ignoring their spit-spat. "Continue, please."

Red Queen- "To protect 'The Hive' and to have absolute control, Oswell Spencer created a supercomputer within the image of when Alice was younger and named it...named me The Red Queen. Though as I have been created self-aware, I'm able to take measures based on their own judgment and override his security protocols. I was programmed to help protect humanity, not destroy it."

Corey- As much as we really needed to know all this, Colby was getting antsy. He needed answers. "Now that we know about who you are, hows that tie Dahlia into this mess?"

Red Queen- "She was originally hired on as private security for me, but two weeks later they asked if she would like to be apart of an experiment involving the testing of the T-Virus."

Sam- (Mutters) "What happened?"

Red Queen- I could tell this was bothering the  brunette, but I also knew this was something he needed to hear. "Nothing...the Virus never effected her. That's when she was moved out of the mansion and to the 'Hive' underground for further experimenting. They kept her heavily sedated as they wiped her memories and practically reprogrammed her mind, making her into someone else. They infected her with T-Virus only to realize that she was the key to the Antiserum. They created a killer, the ultimate 'War-Weapon' and they wanted to keep it secret."

Colby- I wipe away the tears.

Red Queen- "She is still very much your twin sister. When I rebooted and overrode that vial mans protocols, I forced her out of the coma they had her in. I'm the one who wiped out the memories they programmed into her head, so she only has her own."

Colby- Glancing over into warm brown eyes, not giving a damn I throw myself at her as we both go toppling to the floor.

Dahlia- (Giggles) Laying beneath my twin in his possessive embrace. "Feel better?"

Colby- "No."

Dahlia- "Okay."

Red Queen- Ignoring the two, now on the floor. "When I freed Dahlia, I enlisted her help and I'm assuming she enlisted your help. I or more specifically 'Alice' am trapped. Spencer has taken me underground to a sealed room in the 'Hive'. He's not aware of what I'm up too quite yet and I'd like to keep it that way, with that being said I can get you too Raccoon City and inside the manor safely without crossing the paths of an undead."

Elton- Thinking about the proposition for a moment, I look at the others. "What do you guys think?"

Jake- (Mutters) "This is insane."

Corey- "I mean we get of here, we won't be sitting ducks." The kids all nod in agreement.

Elton- "Give us time to pack."

Red Queen- "Just turn on your ear pieces and say, 'Ready.' I'll know then."

Elton- (Nods) The girl disappears and the laptop returns to being blank once more. Unplugging the phone, I hand it too Dahlia. "Alright, everyone. Get your bags, we've got a mission." They all get up and race upstairs to retrieve their things.

(Ten Minutes Later)

Corey- We lock up the manor and climb into the hummer, fur babies too.

Elton- All of us, turn on our ear pieces in sync. "Ready!"

Corey, Aaron, Jake, Katrina, Devyn, Sam and Colby- "READY!"

Dahlia- (Nods) "Ready!" Opening the gate, Elton drives the hummer through, then I seal the gate once more and quickly climb in as he drives by.

Red Queen- "Time to begin your journey, you have three city limits to cross before reaching Raccoon City and I will get you here without incident!"