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Upon seeing the huge red and white umbrella, Rikku wanted to turn around and run out of the facility
Upon seeing the huge red and white umbrella, Rikku wanted to turn around and run out of the facility. She wanted to get as far away from there as possible, but on second thought she figured if she stayed she could figure out what they had done to her all those years ago and maybe figure out where Auron, Yuna and the rest of her friends were. Although she didn't know why she did it, she placed her hand on the symbol, and a red triangle slid into the wall about an inch.
Suddenly the wall beside of the symbol began to rise. She stood back and fingered the safety on her handgun, waiting. Once the wall stopped moving Rikku walked to the door that had been hidden. She tried the knob and it opened easily. Holding the handgun up she peaked through. Then she shoved the door all the way open. Nothing was moving inside. She slowly walked into the room.
It appeared to be some sort of security room. Television monitors lining one wall, some kind of computer console below the monitors, a glass case with the glass broken out, other mechanical devices, and a row of lockers. As she walked through the room, an all too familiar scent hit her. Then she saw it, a corpse was sitting against a wall with the top of its head blown off. There was something shiny beside of the corpse. She carefully walked closer to it, breathing through her mouth only. The shiny object was an ID card. She picked it up and looked at it:
A.H Brown: Level 4 Security: Umbrella Employee ID NTC087
She pocketed the card then walked around the room once, before checking the computers. She clicked an icon and was prompted for a password. She clicked off of the password window, and tried another icon getting the same result. After seven failed attempts she opened one that only prompted for a user name and Employee ID. She typed in the name and ID from the card and hit enter. Another window opened. It was a program to release all the locks in the facility. She moved the mouse over the option that said "yes"…
"Maybe this isn't such a good idea, but, Pops used to say 'no pain, no gain' so here goes." She clicked "yes". A new window popped up that said, "All security locks released".
Somewhere in an undisclosed location, stasis tanks begin to emerge from what only seconds before had appeared as small round platforms in the floor. The humming from the mechanism raising the tanks draws the attention of a near zombie. The zombie shambles closer to the sound, in curiosity, or in search of fresh meat.
She walks away from the computer and begins checking the lockers. There seems to be nothing useful in the ones she can open, so she leaves the room.
Back in the hall, a shutter has been raised exposing a new hallway and a few zombies. She takes them down. About halfway down this new hallway Rikku notices a door and walks to it. She reaches for the door handle, and after a moments hesitation she shoves it open. The room appears to be an office of some kind, a desk sits near one wall, an aquarium against the other wall, and a shelf with various knick-knacks against the other wall. She walks to the desk and begins opening drawers and searching for anything that may be useful. She finds a key ring, and a level 2 security key card. She takes the two items before noticing the contents of the aquarium. Inside is two Gold Fish both alive, and seemingly uninfected. Sitting on the shelf beside of the aquarium is a box of fish feed. Rikku pours a handful of the food in with the fish and leaves the office.
At the end of the hall she comes to double doors, she makes sure the safety on her gun is off and opens the doors. Inside is a stairwell that leads down. She begins going down. At the bottom she sees a body lying on the floor wearing an Umbrella Special Forces uniform. Suddenly he begins to move. After several clumsy attempts he manages to stand. She aims at his head, but notices he is wearing a helmet and gloves. He's pretty harmless in those. She hugs the wall and jogs passed him and jerks open the door.
Inside is another long hallway. She takes the first door she comes to and finds herself in someone's sleeping quarters. No one is there, and after rummaging around and not finding anything useful she heads back to the hall. She takes the next door she sees and again makes her way into someone's sleeping quarters, this time someone, er something is present and isn't to happy for her to be in its sleeping quarters, or it just wants dinner. She quickly puts it out of its misery and exits the room. Back in the hall she takes the next door she sees, inside is some kind of monster with a really long tongue, that one of her old convoys called a "licker". She exits the room quickly, slamming the door shut before the monster can reach the hall.
Three more doors down and she finds some ammo for her rifle. Then at the end of the hall she finds stairs leading up. She follows them to the top and comes out into a new hall. This hall has two doors besides the one at the main end. She takes the left door first and finds herself in a room with three zombies, one wearing a Umbrella Special Forces Uniform minus the helmet. She shoots each in the head and walks farther into the room. It appears to be some kind of big office, branching off into a lab. She doesn't find anything useful in the office or lab so she exits. In the next room she doesn't find anything useful either so she heads on to the door at the end of the hall.
Its another stairwell leading up. She follows them up and comes out into another hall, this one with more zombies. She puts them down quickly and takes the only door she sees except for the one at the end of the hall. Inside seems to be some type of armory. Too bad there isn't anything other than a few boxes of .357 rounds there. Although she doesn't currently own a gun that uses .357 rounds she takes 4 boxes, who knows she could run into someone with one who needed the ammo, or she could find a gun that used that type of ammo. Then she exits the armory.
Back in the hall she takes the door at the main end and finds herself in a big room with what looks like a cable car. Rikku over to it and after checking around it for the undead, she opens the door and steps in. Inside is nothing living, dead or undead so she walks to the controls in the front of the car. It seems the car isn't getting any power to it, so she exits. After thinking that maybe this trip has been in vain, she spots a ladder going up into a control booth. Inside the booth, the controls to the car are turned off. After messing around with it a few moments, and using one of the keys she found to turn on the power, she climbs down the ladder and gets in the car. Back in the front, she flips the only lever she sees and the car rumbles to life.
Moments later it begins moving forward, jerky at first, before quickly smoothing out. She sits down behind the controls, watching as the car moves through the dimly lit tunnel. It seems like hours but is probably no more than a few minutes before she sees a huge wall up ahead. She begins pulling down on the lever, hoping that it controls the brakes. Soon enough the car is slowing down considerably. Then almost smoothly it slides in for a complete stop.
Somewhere in an undisclosed location, a lone stasis tank sits upright on the floor. A human floats inside, in some kind of greenish looking fluid positioned in the fetal position, completely unconscious. Tubes are stuck in the human's nose and mouth, wires stuck to the side of the human's head, arms, and legs. The human is completely lifeless. Beside of the tank is a desk with a steady readout of the human's vitals. A heart monitor shows a strong pulse, a blood pressure that is slowly rising, a normal temperature, etc… At another desk sits a man wearing a white lab coat, head down, taking notes. The lab employee flips on a computer…
She steps out of the car and looks around, there is nothing there. She moves on to the first door she sees and opens it with a push. Inside is another long hall lined with windows. She walks down the hall slowly peering inside each window before moving on. Through one window she sees a large pool, with something dark moving under the surface of the water. She walks on past the window. At the end of the hall is a lift. She hops on and presses the buttons, finally the down button lights up and the lift begins to descend. After a rough stop, she walks out into a new hall. Three zombies stand towards the end. Rikku puts them down and begins checking in the rooms.
After finding nothing useful in any of the rooms, Rikku goes through the door at the end of the hall and goes down the stairs. At the bottom there are two doors, both are unlocked. She chooses the door to her left. Inside is some sort of cafeteria, its empty. A door in the back of the cafeteria leads into a kitchen, which branches off into a supply room. Inside the supply room is a half a box of not-so-old looking microwaveable plastic cup meals (10 Cheesy Mac meals). She stuffs most of them in her bag and opens one. It smells okay so she takes a bite, and it tastes okay. After eating she leaves the supply room, kitchen, and cafeteria. Once back in the stairwell she takes the other door. This one leads to a hall.
Unlike the other halls this one is kinda circular. Rikku follows the hall back to the stair door, trying to find an open door. All the doors on one side are locked, and there is only one door on the other side of the hall. Its unlocked. Inside appears to be some kind of security station, complete with a dead (really dead) Security Guard half leaning out of a chair. On the desk in front of him sits a revolver and a key ring. She takes both. The revolver a .357, Executioner, it has three bullets in the cylinder, she walks out the door of the station, pulls the hammer back, and fires. Not that wasting ammo is a good idea, but its better to know your weapons before you need them.
The gun kicks pretty bad, and its loud, but other than that it seems to be a good gun, at least it isn't gas operated like some of the other guns she has been tempted to keep. She walks to the first locked door she comes to and checks the number on the gold plate in the center of the door "004". She checks the key ring and finds the key and unlocks the door. Inside there isn't anything unusual or useful. She checks the next locked door and unlocks it with the correct key. After several rooms and not finding anything, she checks the last door. Inside is what looks like a conference room with doors on either side of the room. She checks the first door she comes to on the left first. Its another hall.
After what feels like forever of working her way through different hallways she finds stairs leading up. She climbs them slowly, and leans against the door for a moment. Suddenly she hears a single gunshot coming from somewhere on the other side of the door.
Rikku shoves the door open and rushes through, with a new motivation. She's in another hall, this hall with doors labeled A., B., C., etc… She pushes door A open first. Suddenly glass cracks, something heavy hits the floor, a zombie moans, she peers into the room seeing something humanoid slap the zombie out of the way and begin running towards her. She pulls the handgun and begins firing, bang, bang, bang, bang, click, click…
She backs through the door and grabs Masamune. The thing gets closer, and she slashes it across the abdomen. It barely phases it. She jumps back and slashes again. This time the thing steps back. Then it comes forward again. She grabs the revolver out of her pocket, pulls the hammer back and squeezes the trigger. The shot goes wide and crashes into the glass of a tank behind the monster. Something begins pulling its way out. She pulls the hammer back again and steadies her aim. Then squeezes the trigger. The shot hits its mark and the monster falls dead. Rikku then reaches in her bag clumsily grabbing for a box of the .357 cartridges, grabs the box, pulls out a handful of cartridges, dropping some of them. The new monster is beginning to advance. She pushes the button to eject the cylinder, and ejects the spent casings, then clumsily loads the cartridges. Quickly she puts the cylinder back in place and pulls the hammer back and pulls the trigger.
The shot hits the monsters chest but it barely phases it. Glass breaks, another monster begins crawling out. Rikku pulls the hammer back again and fires. The shot goes wide. Two more go wide before one hits the mark. One monster falls. The last monster is now within feet of her. She backs to the side of the hall and it follows. She fires the last shot in the cylinder at the thing. Its falls.
Rikku slides away from the dead monster and slides down on her butt, breathing hard. Once her jumbled nerves calm, she begins loading the magazine for the handgun and reloading the revolver. Then checks to make sure a couple shells are in the rifle. Once finished she stands shakily and proceeds down the hall.
After several minutes and several rooms, she arrives at Lab D. The door won't open from the outside. So she goes through the last door in the hall. Its more stairs leading up. After following them she finds another hall with more offices, and labs, nothing useful in them. The door at the end leads to stairs, which again leads up.
Once up the stairs she finds herself in an old building that leads to an exit. She exits the facility. Outside is nothing but desert as far as she can see. A car in front of the small building catches her eye. Its covered in sand and probably been there over a year. She leaves it and heads back into the facility. If she can get back to the rail car, she can make it back to where she started from, then get back to her jeep, which has all of her supplies.
After a few minutes she finds herself back in the hall with Labs A, B, C, and D. This time the door to Lab D is open. She slowly walks into the room. Inside she notices an empty stasis tank, and a dead scientist. She looks at the computer controlling the tank, and three words catch her attention, "Program Yuna Activated.".
She scoots closer to the computer and begins reading the notes. "Healing Abilities, increased strength, catatonia, heavy sedatives, t-veronica injections, t-virus injections, anti-virus injection… Activated, August 2007." She minimizes the window with the information on Yuna. Then she opens the start menu, and finds the search command. After clicking on it she types in her name. Suddenly another window pops up with information about a Program Rikku. "T-Virus injections, increased speed, strength, and dexterity. Anti-virus injections. Possible healing abilities in time. Escaped May 1997". She minimizes the window and runs the search again, this time for Auron. Apparently he was given similar injections. His strength, speed, dexterity, vitality, and physical condition had increased after he had died and was revived. She reads on to find that he is sedated, and contained at a facility near New Jersey. Once finished reading through his file, she searches for the others. Kimahri has escaped, Lulu is still sedated heavily, Wakka still sedated, and Tidus has escaped. She brings up satellite pictures of Earth and finds the locations of the ones that are still sedated.
Finally she moves from the computer and turns the monitor off and walks through the other door in the room. It leads into a hall. She sits down against the wall and begins thinking, Yuna was here, maybe still is. Did she kill the scientist or did he shoot himself? I need to find her, if she is still the Yuna I remember. She stands and walks down the hall. At the end is a room full of zombies. She pulls her gun and begins putting them down. After several fall her gun is empty. She reloads quickly and puts the remaining three down before moving on to only other door in the room.
Inside is an office. She looks around for a few moments. Books line a shelf against one wall dealing with Molecular Biology, Psychology, and Theoretical Physics. She moves on to a desk and sees a picture of a man with blue hair, Seymour. She digs through the desk drawers and finds a key card. Dr. Seymour, Level 6 Security. Umbrella ID… She pockets the card. Then suddenly the door behind her opens…
