There was a sudden noise in front of Jake. Another Strelat, but even before he moved two shots rang out and the bullet caught the creature in the face and it dropped down in front of him, acid spilling out towards his boots. He took a step back and looked back at her, her own gun was still up and pointed past him where the creature had been standing.

"Not bad for a girl." He said grinning. "Are we going to have to fight our way to the rendezvous.... Again?"

"Maybe," She conceded lifting an eye brow. "Is that a problem?"

He snorted. "Of course not. You should remember that I get a kick out of this," He returned. They started up the street. He still couldn't quite believe she was there, but might as well take out as many B.O.W.s as they could on their way out.

She had listened to Jake speak in fluent Arabic to the young man here, whatever he'd said had both saddened and made the young man happy. She added Arabic to the list of languages she knew he had learned. He had picked up Cantonese Chinese in less than 6 month's time, by the time they had escaped he could read and speak it fluently.

Jake turned around and studied Sherry again. He'd been waiting for a reason to see her, and this was as good as any. He wasn't about to turn her down and say no, and he was perfectly capable of disappearing again, if he had to.

"So which way Super girl?" He said holding out a gloved hand.

"Are you sure you can just leave them?" Sherry asked suddenly. They'd gone a few blocks away. The streets were deserted and the air was hot. There was no breeze. Every step made a sound. The heat was barely tolerable. She was sure that they could be heard for miles. She had been following Jake through the streets listening hard for any more of the "strelats."

Jake had assured her there was always more.

"I didn't just leave them," he snapped back, feeling irritated. The truth was he'd left them a huge stash of weapons. His money had gone towards buying weapons, surprisingly an easy find in the Middle east. Especially now that people had gone from fighting each other to fleeing the creatures set loose on them. A few stayed behind to attempt to contain them. He also planned on making sure the BSAA kept a presence here. The agency had its uses after all. Boyscouts... He thought.

Jake had simply gone back to what he knew how to do after Sherry had left. Although he charged significantly less. He'd grown up fighting, it was what he was good at. Thanks to the C-Virus injection he'd grown stronger, faster and become more than a match for the creatures Neo-Umbrella had unleashed on the world. He wasn't sure he could do anything else.

He couldn't find a cause for his sudden irritation. He had been fighting for months against these things. Trying to forget her.

And now here she was, and he could not figure out what to say to her. Yes, he had agreed to come but now what?

A low growl brought him out of his revelry and he swung towards the sound. He had barely heard it and knew Sherry had missed it. His gun was already raised above Sherry's head behind her.

"Shit." He muttered when he saw the Napad. Napads were a different game altogether. They were strong, fast, and they had a hard shell on the outside of their bodies that needed to be cracked before you could even get to their soft insides to kill them. They walked on two legs although that is where the similarity between themselves and the humans they had once been ended.

Normally he could do this with a club, but he hadn't seen a Napad in a while and did not think they would have encountered one on their way out. He didn't want to waste bullets on it if he didn't have to.

Sherry spotted the creature ambling towards them. Taking it in, she was familiar with the creations of Neo-Umbrella on a level most people would never be. She hesitated for a moment. "Any ideas?"

"Run?" He suggested grabbing her hand. "Let's hope we don't attract anything else right now." He pulled her along behind him almost jerking her off of her feet. Compared to him she might as well have weighed nothing and it was all she could do keep her feet as he jerked her along behind him. His eyes scanned their surroundings as they went. He needed something heavy to drop on the creature.

"We've left traps," he yelled to Sherry behind him. "One might work as far as disabling it."

The Napad was still behind them getting much closer, Sherry imagined she could feel its hot breath on her and dared not look back. And then Jake spotted what he was looking for and angled towards it.

"This is going to happen fast so be ready!" He yelled.

"Wha-?" She started and he jerked her down to the ground and pulled her through a hole, the sound of claws behind them and he had them both up and had turned to the wall and grabbed a rope with one hand and waited, still holding her hand with his other.

The creature did not make them wait long. Sherry glanced rapidly around the room and noticed for the first time it was a small building and above the entrance were concrete bricks, large stones, whatever was heavy and could fit held up by a few boards. She began to make sense of his trap.

The Napad pushed its huge ugly body in and Jake without hesitation pulled the rope. The whole contraption gave way and a sickening crunch sounded out as well as a screeching wail form the Napad. It struggled underneath the pile, its huge claws digging gouges into the ground.

Letting go of Sherry's hand Jake rushed around the grappling claws and its head and grabbed the cracked outer shell that was exposed and pulled. It gave with a loud crack and he threw the piece away and pulled out his gun and started firing into the soft insides. He was aiming for the pulsing white organ underneath that seemed to be the heartbeat of the creature. It imploded as he shot it and the creature gave a loud shrill whine, and grew still. The sudden quiet was deafening.

"That was..." Sherry started.

"Shhhh!" Jake said, listening hard. "Come on, the body will attract more. Let's hope they like this dinner better than us."

Sherry grimaced. "They eat each other?"

"Well they have to eat something." He said matter-of-factly. He was in his element, his adrenaline was pumping as he opened a door and peered out.

"Are there more of them?" She asked.

He paused. "Haven't seen a Napad in a few weeks. Mostly Strelats." He glanced over at her. "Ready?"

"Ready."

It was quiet. But the creature would attract others who might have heard the chase. Strelats would give way to any Napad in the vicinity. The body would start to disintegrate as it broke down. He had not figured out why that happened but it made clean up easier. If the others found it before that happened they tended to rip it to pieces. He wondered if it disintegrated inside them after they ate it.

They heard a few other shots in the distance but did not run into anything else as they neared their destination.

"There it is!" Said Sherry in some excitement.

"The rendezvous," Jake finished, smiling at her. "About damned time."