Chapter 2: Survival
The sun was slowly setting as the quarantine line was being set around the airport, cutting off any entry in or out of the quarantine area. The police force came with their tents set up, chopper at the ready with trucking come in and set up more, reporters were outside the quarantine area "Local police have secured the entire airport in a lock-down and access into the area is blocked. Authorities are not releasing details and we have very little information at this time. However according to substantiating reports..." the woman states as, inside the quarantine, doctors were working on the survivors that made it out of the airport and kept them trapped in a glass box like rats.
The people onside bang on the window as they wanted to just go home. Some doctors even walk out of tents with body bags of the dead. A man from S.A.W watches them, then sighs and continued to walk with his duffel bag on his shoulder to the communication tent then he walks inside. "Why can't we stage recuse operations?!" Angela argues on the phone, he looks over at the other man and him jester for him to take the lead and walks out of the tent, Mike just sighs shaking his head "Please chief, you got to talk to your higher ups." she begs him. He then walks over to her as she was still on the phone, "You heard the 911 called, didn't you? Come on, please!" she asks again. But he hung up. "Dammit!" she snaps slamming the phone on the table and sat back in her chair, "Aw, what's the matter, chief jackass?" he asks her, she turns to him and brushed her hair from her face, "What's the status of the site?" she asks him. "Well, the airport is completely blockaded now, we were attacked by two people who were recently infected. But don't worry we caught them," he informs her, walking over to the table and places his duffel bag on the surface. "Lock them up in a task force vehicle," he informs her, she sighs and looks away, placing her chin on her hand.
Greg pushed his bag to the side and sat down, "But even so, becoming infected by being bitten, it's like something out of a horror movie. Those creatures rise up out of the graves." he states and made a ghost sound as Angela just turns and looks at him. She shakes her head at him as he just laughs. "Come on, I'm just kidding. But seriously, do you think this WilPharma drug has something to do with all this?" he asks her. "I don't know. But even if there is a connection that would kick of some spontaneous outbreak of some creep ass plague... it definitely reeks of terrorism." she informs him and he stood up, "Yeah, it explains why the directive board hauled ass for us to get here so fast." he states and leans against the table as Angela stood up as well and walks to the table too. "What do you think the suits in the top are trying to cover up?" he asks her and she crossed her arms, "If I knew that I would have a hell of a lot more cloud. The White House sent a special agent to handle this mess. He outta be here soon, you can ask him." he tells him and Greg just shook his head. "Ask all you like, but honestly there's nothing to discuss on that subject," Leon calls out. The two look at each other then turns their gaze and looks right at Leon. "Who the hell are you?" Greg asks him with a scoff. "Leon S. Kennedy." he answers him, "Then you're the one?" Angela asks him, Leon said nothing.
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They were right at a computer as Angela pulls up one of the 911 calls. "This is one of the 911 calls that were made," she states and replays the call. "How many are alive?" "Six, including me, but the other two ran off, trying to find any more survivors And one's wounded, the senator." "Can you give me your location?" "We're in the VIP lounge on the west end of the arrival lobby. Listen, I don't know how long we can hold out, send help now before those things get at us. Please hurry." the call ends and Angela, Greg, and Leon were at the table as Angela laid out a map of the airport Most likely that call came from here." she states and circles the top of the tower. "We believe they're in the VIP lounge for Atlas airlines. Right now, the airport and police board of help of the first responders, they completely shut the main entrance here and the two side entrance here and here," she said circling the entrances.
"There are no other routes into the terminal building. Our best bet is to fly in on the helicopter and enter through the roof, the team should be comprised-" Angela went on, "I'll take the two of you with me. No one else." Leon said to her and they all look at him, "What, why?" Angela questions him. "Because I don't care enough to increase the number of recent infectees. You don't want to forced to shoot your friends. Do you?" Leon answers her. Then walk away, "Hey! Hey, hold on a second! You can't be serious!" Greg calls out to him as Leon was gone, "Who does this guy think he is?! He doesn't even look military!" he shouts, "He's the special agent assigned to this incident!" she reminds him and then sighs. "Let's just see what he can do," she mutters. Greg just threw up his hands and leans against the table.
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The chopper flew in as Leon, Angela and Greg were in the back, "Those infected will attack other people, no exception." he informs them as he checks over his gun, "In the same case, those who are bitten become infected themselves and go one to attack others. The only way to stop the infected is to destroy the infectees brains." he briefs them. "Destroy their brains?" Angela asks him.
He then looks at her, "Shot them in the head." he answers and cocks his gun, Angela and Greg just exchanged looks. "And one other thing," he states and pulls out two pictures. "Be mindful of those two people. They're special agents, like me," he said and the two look at the pictures. One of a man with dirty brown hair, tan skin and brown eyes and the other of a woman with long black hair, tan skin, and green eyes. "They with you?" Greg asks him, "You can say something like that." Leon answers and he looks over at the ground below them. "We're here," he said, looking at the roof. The rope was thrown out and Leon slides down to the roof first. He touches the ground, steps away and with his gun ready, then Angela and Greg followed down the rope and followed him, he then signals Greg on one side of the door and then Angela moves the other side of the door. They followed and he walks up to the door and immediately walks inside and looks down the stairwell. Seeing no zombies in sight. He then signals them to enter and they entered inside and walks down the stairwell. Leon took the lead as he walks down three flights of stairs and was in front of a door.
The door was opened and the entered through the hall, seeing nothing and no one in sight. Angela signal Leon and he signal back, but Greg shoves his arm back down, growls at him and took the lead. Leon just rolls his eyes and they walk down the hall. But then they stop as they heard a faint moaning, Angela signal them to check it out, but Greg shook his head, "The song of the infected." Leon states and Angela went anyway. "Wait!" Leon calls out, Mike went to stop him, but Leon elbows him in the gut, Greg grunts as he falls to his knees holding his stomach and Leon took off after her.
She walks down the hall following the moaning, she shines her light, trying to find anyone alive, but then she saw a shade of black red running through the hall, "Wait!" he calls out and follows after the person. She looks down the hall as she was trying to find the person, but then heard a door click, she turns and walks up to the door then enters the room, she looks around and heard groaning, he shines her light and saw that someone was still moving around. She lowers her gun as she turned off her light and ran to him. "Are you okay?" she asks him, pulling him back up as she swung his arm over his shoulders "Take it easy, help is on the way," she assures him, pulling him to his feet. He then turns to her and went to bite her but then was suddenly pulled away as the man collapsed back onto the ground, "What the hell are you doing?!" she questions as the man that pulled her away restrains her, "Look! Look!" he tells her and she did so, seeing that the man was actually a zombie, then her eyes scan the room as more zombies were pulling themselves up.
He then lets her go and steps to the side as more zombie came out, "Take a good look around you, all these people aren't human anymore. The only then you can do for them, is put them down." he states and pulls out his gun. "Permanently." he said and aims at one as he pulls her behind him, then Leon fired at a few of the zombies and stood next to the man, "Took you long enough!" the man jokes as he fired at the zombies as well. Angela just gasped "Here!" Leon said and handed him a clip. "Thanks!" the man said and took the clip, reloading. Angela then looks and saw one walking towards her, she pulls out her gun and aims it right at him. "Stop! Or I'll shoot!" she orders holding out her hand, but the zombie didn't listen. The man then turns and fired at the zombie, killing it then marches over to Angela and grips her vest, "These things aren't human anymore, they will not listen, they will not think, they will only obey their primal instinct. They. Will. Feed." he reminds her and fired at the one behind him, "Remember that, Angela Miller." he states and lets her go. Then he fired at another, "Angela!" Greg shouts and signals them to fall back. They did so as the man followed them. They step out of the room as the zombie gather and limp to the door. Then Greg started to fire that them, "You like that huh? You want some of this!?" he shouts, "That's enough!" Leon orders him, but Greg shoves his hand off his shoulder, "Get off!" he shouts and steps back into the room, "Yeah, come on!" he shouts, going all out, the man next to Angela exhales in annoyance and him facepalms.
Greg continues to fire at the zombies wasting his bullets. "Enough, stop!" Leon shouts, placing his hand back on his shoulder. "Get off!" Greg shouts again as he stops and looks out all the zombies that were lying dead on the floor. "Freaks!" he shouts and walks out of the room, "Yeah! Whoo!" he shouts, shoving it into Leon's face then went to walk away as he reloads, but the window next to him cracks making him stop and look at it and out burst the zombie that shot, they both collapsed onto the ground as Greg struggles, holding the zombie back. Then the man grips the back of her coat and pulls her right off, then aims his gun and fired right at her forehead, killing her, permanently. She slams against the floor Greg then pulls himself to the wall and looks at the dead zombie, "What the hell man?! I shot her point blank, there's no way I could have missed her!" Greg shouts, the man growls, turns to him, gripping his vest, pulling him up and slams him to the wall. "Are you always this thick-headed?! You listen, there is only one way to kill a zombie, you shot them in the head or cut it clean off. That is their only weak-point. Remember that because the only thing that will get you killed is being arrogant, wasting bullets and not being careful. That will get you killed and you'll end up like them." he informs him, then lets him go. Leon looks at the window and pats the man's shoulder. He looks at him and then at the window and saw the zombies were gathering. "Let's go," Angela tells them.
The man nods at them, "Come on, I'll take you to where the survivor is held up." he informs them, Leon nods at him and they hurried after him, Greg stops for a moment and kicks the dead zombie and hurried after them as one of the zombies fell out of the window. "By the way, have you happen to see a woman in red?" the man asks her, "I did, a few seconds ago. Before found you." Angela informs him, "Then she should be close by." he states, "Wait, who the hell are you?" Mike questions him, "Jacob Tates, a government agent of the white house, I came here to pick up a friend as she returned from her visit to China." Jacob answers him. "You don't look like a government agent." Angela states as she looks at his attire, "Looks aren't everything, sweetheart." he tells her. Leon just smirks to himself.
"Well, you found one of your friends, so where the hell are you going to find your other friend?" Greg questions, they stop and the two turn to them. "We already did." Jacob states, "Really?" Greg states as he crossed his arms. "Yeah, she's right behind you." he states and then Greg quickly turns and saw a sword pointed right at his neck and he stiffens as Angela aims her gun at the woman in red, "You need to up your awareness, soldier. I could have been a zombie and easily take you down." she states and lowers her sword. Angela lowered her gun as she then she walks up to Jacob and Leon. "Find anything?" Jacob asks her, she looks at him and shook her head. "No. everyone in this airport is already dead, except for the survivors we saved from the crash," she informs him as she sheathed her blade. "And you are?" Angela asks her, the woman and turns to her and cruise to her a little, "A pleasure to meet you, I am Annabelle Wong."
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The people inside the lounge stiffen as the heard sounds outside in the halls, "Those were gunshots." Jessie meekly speaks. "Don't worry, they sent help, "We're going to get out here." Claire assures her as Rani sniffles and Claire rubs her back, "You should thank me." Davis states and Claire glares right at him. "If you hadn't told them I was here, they would have ignored your call." he chuckles and Claire just rolls her eyes. "You might wanna stick your ego up your ass, considering your own secretary left you to die." she reminds him, he grits his teeth and looks away from her, then they all heard shriek for help, Rani grips onto Claire as they were all startled. "What was that?" Rani asks, "Someone who isn't infected. We have to help." Claire informs them, "It's too late, there's nothing we can do." Davis states as he curls his tail between his legs, "That's right, I mean if you then I leave too." Jessie informs her. But Rani grips onto her arm. "No Claire, don't go! When my father left, he said the same thing! When he said he was going to help my mother, but he didn't come back and neither did she. And if you leave, then you won't come back either!" Rani said to her, but Claire shook her head and wraps her arms around her.
"It's okay, I am going to come back." Claire assures her as Rani sniffles again, "I promise." she assures her, "Really?" Rani asks as she looks at her, Claire smiles as she winks at her, then she looks back up as Jessie. "By the way, do we have anything here that can be used as a weapon?" she asked and was armed with an umbrella. As she was standing in the hall, she then looks back at Jessie and nods at her. Jessie nods and they both look down at Rani, Claire just smiles at her and looks back at the hall as the hall as Jessie closes the doors.
Rani just looks up at Claire as the doors then closed and were locked behind Claire, she exhales and looks down at the umbrella. She just scoffs. "Didn't see this coming," she mutters, then clips the umbrella tightly and walks down the hall. Jessie and Rani were listening through the door as Claire was walking away from the lounge. Claire held up the umbrella as she was ready and waiting for any zombies to show, "This there anyone here?" she calls out, not was responded with silence, "No answer. Never a good sign." she mutters then quickly turns down the hall, looks at the next hall, seeing nothing in sight. She exhales and ran down the hall and stops at the first turn and leans against the wall, then she peeks out seeing nothing there. But then shield her eyes as a light was turned on, "Get down." the man orders and he quickly ducks. He fires at the zombies behind her and the dropped dead. Claire looks back at them as the three agents walk up and look down at them.
Claire then looks up at him and gasp softly in surprise, "Leon." she states as he looks down at her, "Jacob." she said and he winks at her with a finger salute. Leon offers his hand to her, she takes it and was pulled back onto her feet. "What are you doing here?" she questions them. "I could ask you the same thing," Leon said back at her. Claire smirks and looks at the woman next to Leon and she gasps, "No way." she mutters. Annabelle looks at her and smiles. "You do know I'm infected with G right? it's going to take a lot more than a city to bring me down," she informs her and Claire chuckles at her a little. Then Angela and Greg ran up to them with the man the shriek earlier. "You're the one?" Claire as soon as she looks at him. It was none other than the secretary that abandon Davis, he looks away in embarrassment.
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Davis looks at Leon and the small task unit that came with this, Jessie served John a cup of tea to calm his nerves "Is this it?" he asks him as if it were a really bad joke. "Yep." Leon answers as he was dead serious, "Reinforcements?" Davis asks him, "None. We're getting out alone." he answers him again, "Is it too much to hope that you at least have some sort of plan?!" Davis questions him as Annabelle shoves him back, "Shut the hell up and maybe he can tell you his plan." she snaps at him, Leon just smirks but quickly hides it. "We're gonna run across the lobby." Leon informs him, "Are you insane, the lobby is crawling with those things!" Davis reminds them. "It's also the widest area, it's too dangerous to take the long way around." Leon informs him, Annabelle walks over to Jacob and Claire as Claire picks up Rani and hold her on her hip, "He's right you know." Jacob states and everyone looks over at them.
"They're not fast, we can get by them." Claire informs him, "Stay a least 7 feet away from them and you have a chance." Annabelle throws in as well, Davis just laughs at them "Oh yeah? And since when did two civilians and the NGO member become such an authority on the subject?!" he snaps at them, "They're of the rare survivors of Raccoon City. They have more experience with this hellish nightmare than anyone else here." Leon informs him as Davis looks at him, "Hey, Raccoon City? Isn't that where the...?" Greg whispers to Angela. "Yes," she answers him and they both look back at the three. Claire held Rani in her arms, Jacob had his arms crossed as Annabelle had her hand on her hip. Angela said nothing as she just glares at them.
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Zombies wondered through the hall as Leon and the other aim their guns and fired at the zombies' heads. They continued to clear the path as Annabelle ran forward with her blade drawn, "Run!" Leon calls out to them and he follows Annabelle as she slices off the zombies' heads, clearing the way ahead. Then the officer steps out making Rani and Claire stop and Rani screamed, but then he was shot in the head and drops dead. "Don't stop!" Jacob tells her, "Thanks!" Claire said and they ran with Angela following them. Greg was holding Davis as he helps him run, but then Davis cries out as his side was hurting. He then slips from Greg's grips and fell to the ground. Greg kneels down and pulls his arm back onto his shoulder. "Senator!" John calls out and ran to him. Greg pulls him back to his feet then feet and turns.
Firing at the zombies behind them. Then Greg ran forward and handed Davis to John, he takes him, then Annabelle turns and saw a zombie walking up to Greg, then Leon fired at him, Greg looks at him and nods, then he turns and pressed his back to the pillar and fires at the zombies. She then rolls her eyes but then gasped and ran to him, "Greg, look out!" she shouts, but it was too late, the zombie lunges at him and bites down onto his elbow, he cries out as Davis drops from John's arm and scrambles back, then Annabelle suddenly appeared next to him, taking out his pistol and fired at the zombie, making it let go of his arm and drops dead. Then the two stood back up and Davis held onto Angela. Greg pants as he grips his arm. "He got bit. He damn well got bit!" Davis shouts and Angela shoves him back to John. Annabelle looks down at the wound and back at him, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, I can't save you." she tells him, but he just chuckles and nods at her. She nods away and stops Angela from approaching him, "Stay back!" Greg orders her, she stops struggling and looks him. "Go on without me." he tells them and exhales as he reloads his rifle, "Greg, wait!" Angela argues, but Annabelle held her back. "Greg, you got this?" Leon asks him, and he threw a signal at them. Leon nod and Annabelle drags Angela away. "Greg, no! Greg! Greg!" she went on as he aims his rifle at the zombies.
Then they started to move as they make the turn, "GREG!" Angela shouts as they were away and Greg fired at the zombies, but the gunshots didn't last long.
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Back in the lobby where the plane has crashed, Claire was helping Davis onto the wing of the plane, "You okay?" she asks him, he was on the wing and jerks his hand away from her, "Do I look like I'm okay?!" he snaps and limps away from her, Annabelle grips her blade tightly as she was ready to kill him. Then Davis looks over at the exit and saw zombie blocking their way. He then took a step back, "Are we going to make it out of here?" Davis asks as Leon walks up next to him. "We have a clear view and a straight path to the exit," he answers, pulling his gun out as the others were pulled onto the wing as well.
Leon then aims his gun, "We'll take out as many as we can." he states and fired at one, hitting it square in the head "And run like hell. Angela, Jacob, Annabelle. Back me up." he orders, the two nod at him, standing next to him Angela looks back at the doors behind them seeing more zombies come, "Right." she mutters and ran up to them and fired at the zombie, thinning the herd. "Can you get rid of them any faster?" Davis complaints. "You want to do this?" Annabelle questions him, he shut-up. "They're starting to gather over here!" Claire informs them as they stop and look over, seeing more zombies surround them. "We're not going to make it out." Davis whimpers as Leon and Angela look at the herd. "It's getting tough," he states and cocks his gun. "We gotta go," he states and they nodded at him, then Jessie screams as she stumbles back. Zombie walk out of the plane and Annabelle fired at them. Then crawls away as Claire helps her up. Leon, Angela, Jacob, and Annabelle aimed and fired at them. John stumbles back away from them as Rani covered her ears. Davis looks around and saw the way to the exit was clear. So he took his chance and ran for it, shoving Rani and she fell from the wing. This gets Jacob's attention.
Davis this jumps down and ran or limps for the exit. -That son of a bitch!- Annabelle growls. Then she looks over to where Rani fell. Rani pulls herself up and went to look at the zombies that were limping towards her. But a hand immediately covers her eyes. "Don't look!" Jacob orders her as he fired at the zombies. But a few more came. "Annabelle!" Jacob calls out and she jumps from the wing, pulling her blade out and lands in front of the two. Jacob lowers his gun as he turns Rani away from the sight. Claire gasps as she then looks over seeing that Leon and Angela were too busy at the moment to help. Annabelle charges forward, slamming her foot right into the head of the zombie, then she twirls as she then slice off the zombie's head then spins the blade she twirls and slice off the next head, then lean back as she spins her arm out as she slice of the last of the small herd of zombies' heads. She then spins back up and stood firm as her blade was coated in zombie blood. Then they other look down at her, as Jessie and John here amazed. "You alright?" Leon asks her, she exhales and looks up at him, "Barley." she answers and sheaths her sword. She went to walk back to Jacob and Rani but a zombie suddenly appeared in behind her, making Jacob gasp. "Anne, behind you!" he shouts, but it was too late, the zombie grabs a hold of her and bites down into her shoulder, making her gasp.
Everyone else gasps too as she was bitten, but Annabelle wasn't too shocking. "You like that don't you, have a good taste because that's all you'll ever taste," she growls at him, then the zombie, gasp and pulls back as he was shaking in pain, then grips his throat, cries out and flops onto the ground and was dead. They all look at it in shock as Annabelle was walking back to the two. Jacob nods at her and pulls his hand from Rani's eyes. Then he turns her to him, "You okay?" he asks her. She said nothing and wraps her arm around him, he exhales and hugs her back then stood up with her in his arms and the two walk back to the wing of the plane. Jacob lifted Rani first, handing her to Angela as she takes her and places her onto the ground. Then Jacob pulls himself up with Claire's help. He thanks her as Leon then helps Annabelle onto the plane as well. "You good?" he asks her. "Just a little." Annabelle answers him, "Oh god, your wound." Angela states, they look at her and then back at Annabelle's wound as it was sizzling, removing the infected bite and closes back up, showing her skin was good as new. "What the..." Jessie states. Annabelle exhales knowing that they were scared. "You can't tell a soul about this. I don't want to cause a panic," she tells them, Leon walks up to her and wraps his arms around her, pulling her against him. She just smiles Jessie and John exchanged looks and nodded at her. Then Rani ran up to Claire and she picks her up and looks around. "Where's the Senator?" Claire asks and Annabelle points over at the exit.
Davis was panting as he ran for the doors but then stops as bright lights were turned on and he shields his eyes. Then he looks and saw that the military had arrived and they aim their guns, he exhales and limps out of the building. "Finally! I'm over here!" he calls out, raising his arms. Then a few men ran up to him.
Leon fired at the zombie and it drops as everyone was running, "The light, run towards the light!" Leon orders, Jacob picks Rani up and they ran. Angela and Annabelle stop as Angela looks back and saw that Greg was among the infected, Annabelle touches her shoulder, "Hey, you can't save him, he's gone." she tells him. Angela grunts and the two of them ran for the light.
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The Military moves in, taking over the situation as the survivors walk out passing the soldiers. But Angela stops and turns around, looking at the men that entered the building and began to fire. Annabelle looks at her and walks up next to her, she then places her hand on her shoulder, counseling her. The others look at them seeing that she was really mad, Jacob exhales and sets Rani back down. "Rani!" a woman calls out, she looks at the gate and saw that her aunt was being held back, "Rani!" she said again. "Aunt!" she whimpers and ran to her, but as she approached the gate, a doctor held her back. "Aunt!" she cries reach out to her. "Oh thank god you're alright!" the woman said with relief. "Aunt, I was so scared!" Rani cries. The woman covers her mouth as she was crying tears of joy. "Aunt!" Rani cries out again. "Aunt! They were everywhere!" she cries as Davis had a blanket on his shoulders and a cup of Joe in his hand. And he walks up next to the soldier, looking at Rani and scoffs.
"I can't stand kids, they're a real pain in the ass," he states, making the man look at him, then both Jacob and Claire glared at him, then Jacob marches up to him and right hooks him into the face, making him grunt in pain and knocks him to the ground. "Fucker! That little girl was almost exposed to those things because of your greedy and cowardice ass!" he snaps at him then both him and Claire walk over to the doctor, Jacob pats his shoulders, letting him take over and then Claire walks to the gate talking with the aunt as Jacob picks up Rani and rubs her back. Then Leon looks back over at the airport as Angela clutched her fist, Annabelle removes her hand from her shoulder and look back at Leon as the two locked eyes with each other and knew only one thing: This was no accident.
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In a little house not too far from the area, the porch light was on as all the furniture inside was covered and Curtis Miller was standing in front of the photo shelve looking at pictures of his family and his whole life.
Then moves away and looks out the window as he was on the phone with someone. "No problem. I'll take care of it." Curtis informs them. Then he turns and looks at the board of his plans that were on the wall, "We can use that in the worst case scenario, I have no intention of having WilPharma looking like a savior."