Rebecca sat in the ever uncomfortable chairs and listened to the commander yammer on about the lab results of a new variation of the T-Virus. This is usually how normal days went. Conference, lunch, conference, and then she'll kick in a little training, just for the hell of it.
That's how it would've been, if today was a normal day.
The commander began talking about sightings of B.O.W.s around Alaska and Canada, which caught Rebecca's attention.
"We'll be sending a team out there to investigate." The commander put his hands behind his back. "I wonder which team in the B.S.A.A. I'll send out…" He looked at the chart of teams that weren't assigned to areas already. "…November, get your gear and head to Alaska. Golf, get your gear, and investigate the border for Alaska and Canada. Are we clear?"
"Yes sir!" They all said as they ran out of the conference room, ready for action, as Rebecca's hopes crumbled. She sunk lower in her seat as the last soldier ran out of the room. Then, the commander decided something that surprised her.
"Hm… I suppose a team should investigate in Canada just in case. X-ray, go and investigate." The commander said, as he looked at the team leaving, and then his eyes caught the stunned Rebecca. "Rebecca? What are you waiting for? You have a flight waiting for you."
Rebecca flew out of the door, happy that she was finally able to get out of this place and actually do something to help this world, just like that day many years ago. She opened her locker and grabbed the bulletproof vest she got when she first joined the B.S.A.A.
She put on the rest of her 'armor' and then she wrapped her signature headband around her head, grabbed her mixing components, and her handgun, and then she boarded the helicopter, along with the rest of X-ray team.
Rebecca strapped herself in first, even before the pilot got in, so she decided to check her supplies. (Full clip, a few extra clips, my mixing components, and a lucky green and red herbal mix. I'm ready for anything!) Just as she finished, another member of X-ray team entered the helicopter.
"Hey Rebecca." Cantell greeted as he re-checked the clip in his handgun.
"Hey Cantell. Only bringing one clip?" She asked.
"Yup. This whole thing is just plain crap. There isn't anything wrong over in the northern side of things." Cantell said over his raspy voice. Then, Jerico walked in and took a seat.
"Hey." He quietly said.
"Jerico, the least you could do is speak up a little. It's kinda rude if you say it so low that nobody can hear you." A woman's voice came from outside the helicopter, and was soon discovered to be Dahlia's. "What's up Rebecca? Cantell?"
"Not much. Just waiting for Simon." Cantell said, just as Simon got in the pilot's seat. "Heh, speak of the devil."
"Lemme guess, you were talking about me taking a bit more precaution than needed?" Simon started up the helicopter.
"No, but we sure could!" Cantell joked.
"Meh… Whatever. You guys ready?" Simon asked, suddenly making Rebecca remember something she forgot in her rush.
"Hold on! I forgot something!" Rebecca hopped of the hovering helicopter and ran into the headquarters.
"Bec forgot something? That's surprising…" Jerico said under his breath.
"Come on Rebecca, hurry up…" Simon tried his hardest to keep the giant flying machine straight. After a good minute, he could see Rebecca in the corner of his eye. "Alright, I'm going up!" He said just as Rebecca jumped aboard.
"What took ya so long?" Cantell asked, then he looked at Rebecca's neck. "A necklace? That's what you went for?"
"It's… Special to me." Rebecca pushed the tag part of the necklace lower down her body. Then, the helicopter took to the skies.
"It's either from your deceased parents, sibling, or from your boyfriend." Dahlia rudely said.
"Neither." Rebecca looked out the window of the helicopter, watching the clouds pass by.
"A close friend?" Dahlia asked.
"I suppose you could say that." Rebecca soon became annoyed at Dahlia's questions about where and who she got the 'necklace' from. Rebecca went on this mission to help people, and have a little action in her life. Finally, she heard no more questions, and continued to watch the clouds pass by outside, along with a bright light flying in the night sky. (…A shooting star! Maybe I could wish for something to do in Canada… Hope for a little action maybe?) Sooner or later, she found her eyelids slip and fall, making her fall into deep sleep.
That is, until a very nervous Cantell yelled right in her ear, making her jump, and fall on the floor of the spinning helicopter. "Rebecca! Get up!"
"W-What's going on?!" She yelled as she was getting up.
"Catch this!" Cantell threw a parachute at her, to which she put on quickly. "Jump! I'm going right after you!"
"Okay!" Rebecca got a running start, and jumped through the door of the helicopter, trying to get as far away from it as she could. Then she pulled the string and flew up as the wind caught under her parachute. She looked up, and saw Cantell jump out the other side of the helicopter. "Whew… That was close." She looked down and saw the rest of X-ray parachuting down towards Canadian land.
She looked at Cantell again, and saw him wave at her. Then, Rebecca felt a bad feeling climb up to her stomach, as she watched Cantell. A shard of the helicopter flew down and cut Cantell's parachute, and then he started to spin out of control. Rebecca reached out to the fifty year-old, hoping that he would live somehow. "Damn it…" Rebecca grabbed onto the strings of the parachute, and hung her head low, waiting to land.
If only she knew that she was stepping into another nightmare.