Resident Evil: The Storm
Chapter 1: Before the Storm
- 6:20 pm, Thursday, Toronto
-30 days after the Raccoon city outbreak
"Broadview next, Broadview station" announced the subway driver as it neared said station.
The train was strangely empty this particular evening. There was an old lady in a pink dress by the front sleeping, a man in a suit reading the daily news close to the old lady, and a girl wearing black boots, a white skirt and a sweater leaning on a pole by the door at the back of the train. The train slows down and stops at Broadview, the doors sway open and stay open for 30 seconds. The warning bell for the doors shutting goes off as a man in an umbrella corp. security outfit grabs the girls arm and pulls her out. The doors shut in her face as her red shoulder length hair flails everywhere. The man was wearing sunglasses, protecting his identity.
As the girl was pulled out of the train a needle gun was thrust into her right arm, causing her to shout in pain and instinctively pull away. She had pulled away just before the umbrella agent had pulled the trigger. As the girl jerked away, the needle had gotten stuck in her arm. Before the agent had time to grab her again, the girl had run to the wall away from the tracks. She faced the man, ready to react at any moment if need be.
"Oh man Sheena! What have you gotten yourself into! Now umbrella's trying to kill you!" The girl, Sheena, muttered to herself.
Two more umbrella agents came from the direction the stairs were in Broadview station. They surrounded her, needle guns all pointed at her. Sheena sucks in air through her teeth as a worried look wiped across her features. She surveyed the men as they closed in on her. She had a sudden idea and gripped the needle that was still in her right forearm. She yanked it out and kept it in her left hand to use as a weapon if possible.
The two agents who had just come pulled their triggers and shot at Sheena. She turned around in time making her backpack full of textbooks from university face the men. The backpack took the blow from the needles so Sheena was still conscious and uncontaminated.
"It's now or never! I need to get out. I may as well use their reload time to try and escape! Thank gawd M-J taught me Jeep!! (Jeet Kun Do)" Thought Sheena to herself as she prepared for her next move.
Sheena inched closer to the agent to her right, closest to the stairs, and swung a punch. He dropped his gun and went to block the attack. He blocked and then went to return the friendly gestures but before he knew Sheena had redirected his attack. She then grabbed his arm while he was off balance and put him into an arm lock. She stuck the broken needle piece up to his neck and turned the two of them, making the agent face towards his comrades as a shield. The whole ordeal had happened in mere seconds and none of the other agents had shot their guns in time. She now had a human shield. Sheena backed away towards the stairs. Unfortunately the agents were not very good comrades and shot their needle guns at the hostage, causing him to go unconscious. Sheena wasn't strong enough to hold up a full grown dead weight man so she had to drop him, leaving her open once again.
"So apparently the stuff in the gun is some sort of tranquilizer… alright Sheena… RUN!!" Sheena coached herself as she sped off towards the stairs.
The remaining umbrella officers were obviously better trained and physically stronger than the girl. One officer caught up to her, tackled her to the ground and stuck the needle in her upper back. Before the trigger to the needle gun was even pulled a bang sounded from the top of the stairs. The officer fell backwards off of Sheena and a pool of blood erupted from his head. There was a clean bullet hole in his helmet going straight to his head, just above the brow point. Sheena's eyes bugged as she glanced in the direction the shot had come from. At the top of the stairs stood a serious looking woman with short black hair, a purple tube top, a short black skirt and knee high boots. The woman was the spitting image of the woman who had made the "Hoax video" on the zombie outbreak in raccoon city. Jill had her handgun pointed at the last umbrella agent and shouted to Sheena to get behind her. Sheena nodded, pulled herself off the floor and ran up the stairs. She made it safely behind the other woman.
"So you're Sheena MacDonald? The nursing student who's been spreading the news that our video is real. The one who's started a group that opposes the governments and media's decision to hide the truth about Raccoon city?" asked Jill.
"Uhh… yeah… what the hell is going on?" questioned Sheena.
"Umbrella wants to eliminate the threat of the truth leaking. They were going to kidnap you and get rid of the risk. I, as well as some others, hacked their network and discovered their plan. We didn't want umbrella to kill anymore innocent lives, especially because you and your group seem to be influencing many people in this city." Explained Jill as she backed up. She shot the two still living umbrella workers, hitting one in the arm and another in the shoulder.
Jill turned around to flee up another set of stairs and into the get away vehicle, before she could though she spotted a lean, short haired woman at the top of the last set of stairs.
"Alice?" asked Jill, questioning the presence of the new arrival.
"You're ganna want to get the hell out of here" said Alice calmly as she flicked away the ashes at the end of her cigarette.
Jill nodded as she grabbed the confused teens hand and pulled her past Alice. 30 seconds after the exchange of words the lights in the station went out. A demented growling and screaming echoed from the platform area at either side of the train lines.
Alice scoffed "Leave it to umbrella to send things like this just to kidnap one girl."
Alice pulled out her shotgun and ran towards the creatures. Three came from the left and two from the right. In the dark Alice could only make out the doglike glowing eyes and satanic florescent teeth.
Alice stopped at the edge, right on the yellow warning line. All the dogs-like creatures ran towards her, feet clicking on the metallic tracks. They all pounced at her. Alice fired her shotgun, splattering two creatures on the poster in the middle of the tracks. The other three were pushed back.
Alice placed her gun back in it's holder on her back and got into a fighting stance while sighing to herself, "I knew I should of stolen some shot gun shells."
One creature rushed at her and she threw a hook punch at its face, sending it flying into the wall. The other two creatures quickly follow the firsts lead and tackle Alice. She wrestles them both for a bit, then flips them off her using her feet. Alice quickly got to her feet. She pulled out her shotgun once again, holding it by the firing side, like a baseball bat.
The creatures rushed at her. She whacked them in the head, both at the same time, crushing ones head and sending the other to the floor. It struggled to get up and she walked up to it.
"You shoulda stayed down doggie" taunted Alice. She smirked then swung the gun down, crushing the creatures' skull.
Alice pulled out another cigarette and lights it up. As she sucked in the polluted air from the cancer stick, a rustling noise came from where she had punched the one dog-thing to.
"Hmm" scoffed Alice as she put the shotgun away.
The creature jumps at Alice and tries to bite her. During the bite attempt, Alice back flipped, grabbing the things head with her legs and firmly planting her hands on the ground. She pulls the dog creatures body with her movements and slams the head of the creature into the cement floor. The blood splatters, leaving Alice alone with five dog-things carcasses.
Alice runs off in the direction she came from to catch up with Jill and Sheena. She'd rather not have to fight any more things umbrella decided to send their way.
Back with Jill and Sheena
Jill pulled on Sheena's arm as Sheena stumbled and ran, trying her best to stay at the same pace. Jill spotted the exit and sighed in relief, a little too soon. Two umbrella officers stepped into view, and blocked the exit. Jill stopped abruptly and Sheena lost her balance, falling to the floor and running a bullet by an inch.
"Shit!" shouted Jill as she heaved Sheena up and practically dragged her to a safe spot behind a pillar.
Jill pulled out her handgun and reloaded it. She then took the gun in both hands as she prepared to fire. Jill waited for a break in the firing bullets and peaked out from behind the safe zone. She fired at them, not really seeing well enough to get a bull's-eye.
"Man, M-J's not ganna believe what's happening to me… wait! What if they go after him too! I have to go warn him!" thought Sheena to herself.
While Jill and the agents had a gun battle Sheena snuck out of the other side of the pillar. The agents did not notice her because they were focused on Jill. Sheena went along the walls farthest from the umbrella workers and snuck slowly towards the exit. As she was sneaking she noticed a fire hydrant. She broke the case as silently as she could and pulled out the object. Sheena then proceeded to sneak towards the agents. When she got as close as she could with out being spotted she turned on the hydrant. White foam sprayed into the faces of the umbrella agents and blinded them. Jill took her chance and got closer to them for a better vantage point. Jill pulled the trigger, hitting both the agents directly in the head.
"That was smart. Thanks." stated Jill before she went out the exit.
"No prob." responded Sheena as she followed Jill.
Jill and Sheena reached the street and a black car pulled up. The door opened to show a black haired man and a black man with a huge smile on his face in the driver seat.
"What took you so long Jill? Loosing your touch?" asked the black haired man.
"No, Olivera, they turned the lights out" responded Jill coolly.
"And were shooting rubber bullets at you" came Alice's voice from behind Jill and Sheena. She was holding up said rubber bullets.
"Uhh… can I go now?" asked Sheena nervously.
"Well if you want umbrella to catch you" said Alice as she motioned for Jill and Sheena to get into the car. Jill did so.
"I have to go. I have to meet my boyfriend! He might be in trouble too!" protested Sheena as Alice pushed her into the cars back seat.
"Well we'll just have to go get him" stated Alice bluntly.
"Uhh…. Ok…alright, so what the hell is going on?!" spluttered Sheena in confusion.
"Where's your boyfriend?" asked the Olivera man.
"M-J's supposed to meet me at Main station…" as soon as the words left Sheena's mouth the car sped off, jerking back everyone in the car for a sec.
The five passengers conversed, trying desperately to get Sheena to understand the situation. The car sped on down the side streets, narrowly missing many pedestrians. The black man driving clearly did not care too much for traffic laws.
"Hey, LJ., maybe you should be a little less reckless. We survived zombies. It'd be a shame to die because of a car accident!" Olivera joked while he did up his seat belt.
"Shut up, Carlos!" retorted LJ, not wanting any criticism on his driving skills.
Carlos chuckled while Alice and Jill smiled his way, appreciating his humor on such dark days.
-7:23 pm, Main Station
A young man with shoulder length curly brown hair stood next to the exit gates of Main station. He had music on and was bobbing his head along with it, causing his puffy pony-tail to bob with his head. He had a slight frown on his face and an impatient stance.
"Where's Sheena? She said she'd be here at 7:00… this station is getting really eerie too… I want to get out of here as soon as possible" M-J stroked his slight beard absently as his thoughts wondered.
M-J waited another 5 minutes. From the corner of his eye M-J made out an oddly dressed man step out of the alleyway. The man was wearing an umbrella uniform and was carrying a gun.
M-J sucked in air as his body sprung into immediate action. He jumped up over the exit gates, and then ran down the stairs, towards the trains. As he got to the trains he noticed there was more than one umbrella officer.
"Man, we must have really pissed umbrella off." M-J said to himself, getting into a jeet-kun do stance.
One umbrella agent ran at M-J, wearing an over sized helmet and a police baton. M-J jumped up and scissor kicks the agent in the head, breaking the helmets glass over the agent's eyes. The awkward agent stumbles around, his helmet weighing his head down towards the ground.
"Why was he even considered working with umbrella?" scoffed M-J to the other three agents who were inching towards him.
M-J puts up his gate once again and prepared to kick some ass. All three agents pointed their guns at M-J. M-J decided to make a run for it. He ran to the left dodging the bullets. Then he ducked behind a pillar. When the firing stopped M-J dodged out and tossed his shoe at one of the agents. It caught the agent off guard and he stumbled back and fell onto the tracks. The electrical current of the track fried the man.
While the umbrella workers were distracted, M-J took off up the stairs and out of the station. As he got to the front, a car pulled up recklessly in front of him. The back door was thrust open and a woman's voice shouted "Get in!" as M-J was yanked into the vehicle.
M-J was sprawled across the laps of three woman, one of whom he knew.
"Sheena!" shouted M-J as he hugged her.
""M-J! Did…?" asked Sheena as her smile kept growing wider.
"Umbrella attacked me!" stated M-J with his arms moving about.
"Well we better get outta here then" said Carlos, the car then immediately sped into action.
- 9:13 pm, outskirts of Toronto
The six people conversed in a hidden cabin just outside the city.
"So what your telling me is because I decided to tell people the truth about raccoon city, umbrella wants to kill me and M-J?" asked Sheena, her red hair bobbing and one eyebrow cocked.
Jill added in "Well they'll only kill you if you refuse to join them. You're studying to be a nurse, and nurses would be beneficial in their company.
"They'd end up killing me though, right... well trying" questioned M-J while he was leaned up against a wall, arms crossed.
"Yeah, pretty much" said Carlos with a mild laugh.
"I wouldn't go to your school again, Sheena, Umbrella owns Ryerson" said Alice, starring into Sheena's green eyes with a piercing gaze.
"I could pretend to be on their side…" suggested Sheena.
M-J walked up to Sheena and wrapped his arms around her. He whispered into her ear "It's too dangerous my love, I don't know what I'd do if you died."
A sad smiled washed over Sheena's face "Alright, I'll stay out of school for a couple of days and see what happens,"
"So where do we go now?" asked M-J, arms still around Sheena.
"I'd suggest not going to your homes, they'd obviously know where you live" blurted out LJ as her finished his coffee.
"Right…" agreed Alice, pondering what exactly to do with them.
"Well I'd like to warn my friends…" suggested Sheena hopefully.
"Not now, do it in the morning… things aren't looking to up for the world. There have already been some attacks similar to raccoon city on the outskirts of where the nuclear explosion happened. It won't be long before it spreads. Do either of you know how to fire a gun?" Alice asked.
"No" said Sheena and M-J in unison.
"Then you'd better learn before it's too late. I'd give this town maybe two or three weeks before it make it here… oh yeah, if you do see a zombie… shoot it in the head" informed Alice matter-of-factly.
"Well it doesn't have to be a bullet, it can be any damaging blow to the head" added Carlos.
"I see… anyone care to teach us how to use a gun then?" asked M-J.
Jill nodded and motioned the two new arrivals to the back of the house, preparing herself for a lesson. The two followed eagerly.
"So where's Angie?" Alice asked, directing her question to the two males remaining in the kitchen.
"She should be sleeping in her room right now…" replied Carlos.
"Good. How's she doing with the self-defense moves you've been teaching her?" asked Alice.
"She's getting the hang of it, she should be able to hold her own against enemies for a while if need be" concluded Carlos.
Alice nodded and the conversation was terminated as the three went off in their own direction. Each preparing for a long battle to come or getting rest they will defiantly need.