Resident Evil: Umbrella's Counter Strike
Chapter 1 of a new Resident Evil story, enjoy :)
Disclaimer: Resident Evil belongs to Capcom.
Chapter 1: Infiltration
In 1995 the Umbrella Corporation, the biggest company in the world, completed and tested their latest, secret product; the Tyrant Virus, or T-Virus for short. Placing themselves above the law they tested their latest product out, releasing it into Raccoon City.
Their test was a success, but at great cost. Umbrella knew the Virus was capable of stimulating the electricity that remains in a body even after death, effectively bringing them back to life. Unfortunately, while it brought the dead back to life, it brought them back as mindless zombies, intent on eating other humans, those that were bitten soon became the same as their attackers.
However two small groups of survivors escaped Raccoon City before its destruction. They soon met up and joined together, working to expose Umbrella and bring the truth of the Raccoon City Incident to light. Three years later, 1998, they successfully procured a sample of the virus as well as detailed reports of the incident. But Umbrella countered this by reclaiming the findings as well as capturing several members of the group. Now two of the uncaptured members work to save their colleagues.
21:09 PM 10th June 1998
It was late at night, the guard stationed at the booth leading to the car park sighed. The large office building of Umbrella Pharmaceutical Company loomed above him. It was his job to guard the gates and maintain security. His attention was draw to a black SUV approaching with tinted windows and the Umbrella logo on the hood. The guard rolled his eyes, the Umbrella Secret Service, or as he privately called them, jumped up suit wearing assholes. The vehicle stopped at the barrier and a window rolled down.
"I'll need to see ID please." The guard requested as politely as possible.
From within the vehicle a hand reached out, holding an ID card. The guard took it but did not look at it yet. He knew the Secret Service always worked in pairs. Sure enough, a couple of seconds later a second card was handed to him. The guard checked both cards and then nodded, handing them back.
"Check, you can pass."
With that he raised the barrier and the SUV drove into the parking lot and headed around the corner, out of his sight. Once out of sight the SUV pulled into the parking spot furthest away from the bright lights of the building. Once parked, the engine shut off, the two figures inside removed their disguises and got out of vehicle.
The first figure was an African American twenty-one year old female of above medium height with medium long black hair and black eyes. She was dressed in a pair of denim torn jeans, a red tank-top, a black jacket, white socks and black boots. Her comrade was a twenty-two year old Caucasian male with messy medium length black hair and blue eyes. He was dressed in a pair of black baggy jeans, a black T-shirt, navy socks and black and dark red sneakers. It was two of the survivors of Raccoon City. The male was Jason Maxwell, the most notorious of the survivors. Son of Umbrella Chairman Trevor Maxwell and renegade Umbrella traitor. He was infected with the virus but for some reason he retained his reasoning and didn't seem to decay into a zombie, as far as he was concerned though it was only a matter of time. This fear led him to isolate himself from the others and even reject the affections of another survivor, Lisa Richards, who had shown interest in him. The other was Victoria Hughes; she had been part of Jason's group of survivors and was now a lot better equipped to handle an outbreak. Victoria quickly opened the trunk of the SUV and pulled out a pair of handguns, an assault rifle, several clips of ammo and Gunbelts. She quickly pulled all the equipment on and turned to Jason, like her he was armed, in his case with a pair of handguns and a pair of shotguns. He turned to her and nodded.
"Okay, I'll distract them, keep as much of the security forces as busy as possible." He explained, Victoria nodded and replied.
"Once that's done…I'll slip inside and try and save the others."
Jason checked his watch.
"We'll have to do this as quickly as we can…Once we've rescued everybody I'll call Lydia and have her bring the chopper in for evac."
Victoria nodded in understanding and they split up, ready to begin their rescue mission.
Victoria remained in hiding while Jason headed to his location; he was to set off a false demolition charge that would draw attention to the area. He would repeat this process several times at different locations, all a reasonable distance away from the Headquarters. Victoria was to slip inside the moment the security was down. She observed the entrance she was going to slip in. There were two guards outside and she was sure there were more inside. Then, right on cue Jason's first charge exploded. The guards reacted with shock before drawing their weapons, the doors opened and up to five guards joined the ones outside before heading off in the direction of the explosion. Victoria moved quickly and slipped inside before the doors closed again.
'Okay, first off, I've gotta find a map and then find the main computer station, that'll tell me where the others are.'
With that she headed behind the reception desk and, using the computer from there she printed off a map of the building. There were in fact two buildings making up the base, connected by a bridge, however access to most areas would be restricted without the appropriate key card. Just then she heard a noise and turned around, she now understood the increased security. Approaching her was a horde of zombies.
"Shit." She cursed under her breath. 'I don't believe this; the virus is loose here too, in their own Headquarters.'
Shaking her head at this she pulled out her handgun and opened fire. Unfortunately, due to their already close proximity, she did not have the luxury of aiming and so wasn't able to score the critical headshot, their only weakness, as often as she wanted. Despite her best efforts she emptied her clip and two still remained, they grabbed her and she struggled to fight them off when suddenly two more gunshots rang out. The zombies feel dead. Victoria pushed them off her and straightened up, turning to face her rescuer.
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