No - "Allow me to decline"

Claire concentrated on fighting the mind control and finally broke free. She immediately turned around to climb down the ladder and closed the hatch before leaving. That should at least buy her some time.

“I’m sorry...” Claire whispered as she heard heartbreaking, yet unhuman screams from Sam above the hatch.

After getting into the lounge, she didn’t waste any time and rushed towards the low temperature testing lab at the other end of the corridor. There were even lickers in this section but she managed to burn them alive with the grenade launcher.

In the lab, she put the dispersal cartridge on a device and a mechanic arm automatically prepared it for the cooling sequence. Seconds later, she got what she needed.

“This is it.” Claire looked at the completed herbicide in her hand.

By going up the stairwell at the other side of the lounge, she went back to the lobby. She made another rush back to the greenhouse control room and put the herbicide dispersal cartridge in the panel. Just a moment before she pressed the button, she paused.

Surely she could use this to kill or at least severely damage the Plant 43 now, clear the way to the testing lab, and get the DEVIL for Sherry. But that would be just running away from another danger. All kinds of thoughts came to her mind, but what she chose would always be keep moving forward.

She needed to settle it here, once and for all.

Claire made up her mind and jumped into the greenhouse again. Sam was nowhere to be seen, presumably went on searching for Claire somewhere else.

The two Ivy vampires at the corner were still making out, but instead of being watched this time, they got a flame round firing at them. Claire wiped the sweat on her forehead and tried to calm herself down from the sexual arousal, before looking around to check on the plant.

The painful screams echoing in the greenhouse alerted the Plant 43 immediately. All the vines in the room started to shake, sending out physical and chemical signals to assemble the Ivy vampires around the area to defend itself.

And that, was exactly what Claire wanted.

Sam dropped down from the ceiling and decelerated herself by grabbing the vines with her fanged tentacles, so that she could land on the ground safely. She looked at the burning corpses at the corner without any emotion on her face, and turned to Claire excitedly.

“You’ve returned!” Sam smiled joyfully, “Have you finally decided to be with us now, Claire?”

“The answer is still ‘No’.” Claire replied while reloading the grenade launcher, “I’m happy to have met you, Sam, and I’m sorry that I couldn’t save you.”

“You don’t need to be sorry. Look at us! We’re perfect!” Sam opened her arms to reveal her splendid, pale, naked body to Claire, with her juice dripping down from both her vagina and her three fanged tentacles, “We are the first of a new, dominant species! We can reshape the world as we like. And we would be glad to have you by our side!”

“Allow me to decline.” Claire pulled out the MQ 11 submachine gun and rapidly fire at the lower part of Sam, successfully severing all three tentacles from her cunt, “I promised Sherry I will come back for her.”

“Claire!” Sam furiously charged at Claire, but only to be shot with an acid round.

Instead of aiming at her body, Claire aimed at Sam’s legs to corrode them. Sam instantly fell to the ground with her legs gone.

But after consuming the essence of the Prototype, Sam also inherited its outstanding regenerating ability. Her legs, and even her tentacles, were regenerating at a visible speed. In less than ten seconds, she would be fully recovered.

“You will pay for this, Claire!” Sam shouted angrily while one of her tentacles has already grown back.

But a few seconds was all Claire needed to get back to the greenhouse control room. Luring Sam back into the greenhouse and disabling her for mere seconds were part of her plan. Without hesitation, she punched the button on the panel.

“Dispensing solution now.” The female synthetic voice echoed in the greenhouse.

The vines in the greenhouse slowly turned gray and broke into dust. Sam started to scream when the herbicide touched her skin. After being modified by the Prototype’s seeds, she reacted mostly the same as the Plant 43 to the herbicide and began to wither.

Sam fell to the ground, facing upwards. The core bubbles inside her breasts started to boil and popped. The regenerating tentacles from her cunt shrank and eventually disappeared, while her legs that just grew back were incinerating.

She stared blankly at the ceiling, where the Plant 43 was also withering. Oddly, there was no fear, but just peace. She didn’t feel the thirst anymore. She didn’t feel the pain from her body, didn’t hear the noises in her head, didn’t feel the urge to satiate her lust anymore.

Except that she was tired. She was about to close her eyes to get some rest, but the sad face of Claire came into her sight. She decide to hang in there for a few more moments.

“I finally...found my sister...” Sam’s voice was faint but steady as she smiled at Claire, “I hope...that you can...find your brother...”

Claire was trying her best to hold back her tears. She knelt down beside Sam but didn’t dare keep looking at her. Sam's body was withering quickly. There was no way to save her at this point. She knew that, and she was the one who chose to do it. Sobbing quietly, Claire held Sam's hand tightly.

“Go save the girl now...” Sam closed her eyes with a drop of tear sliding down, “Goodbye...Claire Redfield...”

Sam’s body has completely turned to dust and went away with the herbicide into the drainage. Claire knelt silently by where she was for a moment, before wiping the tears around the corner of her eyes away and standing up.

Sam was using “I” to refer herself in her final moments, instead of “We” after she consumed the Prototype. That's what she needed to know.

“Goodbye, Samantha Minervino.” Although they just met last night, Claire felt like she lost an old friend.

She didn’t have time to mourn. With the Plant 43 dead, that giant flower bud in the greenhouse has withered and the dead scientist has dropped to the ground, with the ID wristband in his hand.

Also, a massive gate on the east side of the greenhouse, which was covered by the vines before, has revealed now.

Claire went towards the dead scientist and picked up the ID wristband. With the senior staff clearance now installed, she could open to gate and get to the Level 4 testing lab, where the DEVIL antiviral agent could be synthesized.

There was only one step away from saving Sherry now. Claire sighed lightly, picked up herself and moved on with resolve.