Chapter 34: Chapter 32: A Whole New World
Yesterday I was feeling a serious malaise but no I shall longer be brought down! I am pumped, I am energetic and I will write or well fix the chapters I wrote! Fair warning guys, I am going out of town and even will have a day of driving so I want my chapters to be ok-ish while I am gone. At least one of the chapters I made needs half of it replaced which I am working on now. I will most likely only upload once a day during my weeks absence. I am driving to North Carolina to visit for my sisters birthday! I want to thank the following people for their stones: Kaiser_Kaier, rex_of_dreams, DaoistvsDd4U, Asura69s, Jandher, Sabine_Bailey, and Freddyp. This novel is currently at 107th place which I can thank all of you guys for.
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Tony materialized outside a massive, sinister-looking facility, the type of building that screamed "evil lair" from every darkened window and crumbling rooftop. An Umbrella shaped logo, which looked eerily familiar to him was plastered on it.
Nexus, floating beside him in its usual digital glory, scanned the air and reported, "Master Stark, my sensors indicate multiple viral agents in the atmosphere. However, they do not appear to affect you. Your genetic enhancements are rendering you immune."
"Great," Tony muttered, adjusting the tactical armor he had donned before teleporting. "At least I won't turn into a zombie. What worries me more is why this place looks like it just had a war waged inside. That's usually a bad sign."
His gaze landed on the Umbrella shaped logo again, and realization hit him like a truck. "No. Way. I'm in Resident Evil." He groaned, pinching the bridge of his nose. "Of course, it had to be zombies. Why couldn't it have been something cool, like a sci-fi utopia? But no, I get the bio-engineered nightmare world."
A stray thought made him grin. "I wonder if Alice here looks like Violet from Ultraviolet? Milla Jovovich played them both in the movies, so it'd be pretty funny if I made them honorary sisters." With that thought in mind, he stepped forward and pushed through the broken-down doors.
The inside of the facility was a wreck—blood splattered across the walls, overturned desks and broken lab equipment scattered everywhere. He moved carefully, senses heightened, as Nexus mapped the entire layout in real-time.
Eventually, he found her.
Alice, the legendary survivor and walking weapon of destruction, stood over a bank of control panels, her gaze fixed on the large chamber full of clones submerged in liquid pods. Just as she was about to wake them up, Tony made his grand entrance.
"Whatcha doing hanging around here, beautiful?" he said smoothly.
Alice turned, raising an eyebrow as her hand instinctively moved toward her gun. But what she saw made her pause. A child—no older than nine—dressed in tactical armor with a sword strapped to his back. She smirked, amusement flashing in her sharp eyes. "Hey, cutie. Are you lost, or are you just really, really confident?"
Tony twitched at cutie and, just to prove a point, teleported right next to her in an instant. "I'll have you know, I'm here to save you," he declared proudly. "Am I late to the party?"
Alice stared at him in shock for a moment before shaking her head with a chuckle. "I don't even know what to make of you. But if you're offering help, I won't say no. I've got all these clones, and I have no idea what to do with them."
Tony's mind worked quickly, and he saw an opportunity. "I can give them a home, a purpose. You want revenge against Wesker and Umbrella right? I can offer you an army, resources, and most importantly—victory."
Alice studied him, intrigued but skeptical. "And what do you get out of it?"
"Loyalty. And an elite force of superpowered warriors who will owe me their lives," Tony said honestly. "We take out Wesker, shut down Umbrella for good, and then I give your clones a place to belong. Sound fair?"
Alice considered it, then nodded. "Fine. But first, we need intel. Wesker's in Tokyo, but we can't go in blind."
Tony grinned. "Then let's start by feeding my AI some delicious data." He gestured to Nexus. "Plug in and devour every single file from this system. All of Umbrella's knowledge on these files will be ours."
Nexus wasted no time, linking into the facility's servers and absorbing every bit of data. "All files successfully extracted. The White Queen AI in Tokyo is our first target."
"Good," Tony said. "Now, let's get everyone prepped. We're teleporting to my fortress."
One by one, he transported the clones and Alice back to his Fortress of Science, where they were immediately checked over, trained, and enhanced.
They received the 24th chromosome and Super Soldier Serum, their bodies pushed beyond human limitations. Sparring matches broke out among them as they tested their new abilities, their movements becoming sharper, faster, deadlier.
Tony provided each of them with flat-space pocket dimensions filled with their favorite weapons—katanas, shurikens, handguns, assault rifles, grenades, and rations. He had watched enough of the movies to know what they liked.
When they saw the full extent of their upgrades, they cheered, raising their weapons. "To the little boss!"
Tony pouted. "Stop calling me that!"
"Aww, but it's cute!" they chorused, making him huff in irritation.
Once their training was complete, Tony provided them with secondary adamantium-reinforced Kevlar armor designed to withstand both bullets and bites. "I need you all alive for this mission. You're my personal superpowered guard now."
A week later, preparations were complete. Tony summoned his forces—his thousand-man army of ex-military veterans who had been abandoned by their governments. Each had undergone intensive training, received the same upgrades as the Alices, and were now some of the most elite warriors on earth.
Finally, the invasion began.
Tony then started teleporting them to the Umbrella world, specifically a warehouse in Tokyo a few at a time until everyone arrived.
The invasion force was now in Tokyo under cover of darkness. First came Exodus the commander, then one by one the Alices emerged, each clad in their armor styled after ancient samurai, their men-yoroi masks designed to look like demonic oni.
Tony smirked as he saw them lined up, ready for battle. "Yes, I am a nine-year-old suffering from chunibyo syndrome."
Next came his army of a thousand, everyone with the look of an advanced soldier, each of them elite, trained, and reinforced with adamantium-infused armor and the SSS/24th Chromosome enhancements. They were resistant to infection now and unstoppable in conventional combat.
As the forces assembled, Alice stood beside Tony, rolling her shoulders as she adjusted her sword. "Alright, kid. What's next?"
Tony's grin widened as he looked toward the towering Umbrella facility ahead. "We knock on the door."
With that, he raised his hand, and the battle began.
Explosions erupted as the forces of the Fortress of Science stormed to the stronghold of Umbrella, their war cries echoing through the city.
"Umbrella Corporation vs. the Fortress of Science! Let's do this!"