Chapter 3: The Hunt for The Truth
Claire exited the tent as her fingers were pressing against the needle wound, she exhales and looks at her arm. But then her attention was grab as she saw trucks rolling into the encampment, trucks from WilPharma. She steps out and watches them leave inside the encampment.
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Off at a secured spot in the encampment, Leon had his phone out with Hunnigan in the other line. Annabelle and Jacob were standing on both sides of him as they were looking down at her as well. "Hey Hunnigan, I'm reporting in." Leon states as Annabelle and Jacob waved at her. "I already heard. The marines landed in the nick of time and saved the day, I can't tell you how relieved I am," she informs them. "I'm amazed that you even got authorization for that, you must have pulled a few strings," he tells her. Jacob smirks to himself. "Yes well, I have my resources. After I received confirmation from Usamrion, the virus used in this attack was, in fact, the T-virus, I submitted a plan to the President," she informs them.
Annabelle shifts in her shot, "What did he do?" she asks her, "He pushed it through with his emergency act, every marine involved with the assault was vaccinated." she informs her, "And the terrorist, what are they demanding?" Jacob asks her. "No not yet, but the FBI captured a member of General Gronda's army in Los Angeles just moments ago, when we interrogate him, he might give us some information that might establish a link between this terrorist attack and the one in India," she informs him. "And maybe we'll finally dig up a lead on the whereabouts of the former Umbrella Corporation employees that got to be the ones petting the virus on the black market," he states, then Annabelle tilts her head as she heard Claire. "Oh boy, wrap it up boys, we need to calm Claire down."
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The trucks were parked and Claire was arguing with the doctor, "What the hell going? Why are WilPharma drugs being brought here?" she questions. "It's the vaccine." a man calls out, she turns and saw that it was the same man that she was talking to before the attack in the airport. "You? What are you doing here?" she asks him and Davis walks out, "He's WilPharma head researcher." he states and the man pushes his glasses up a little. The men quickly left as she just looks at him, "May I introduce Fredrick Downing." he states and Fredrick waves a little. "He's the one who develops a vaccine for the virus, which you, in particular, are so familiar with," Davis states as he walks to her with Fredrick.
She just looks at them, Jacob walks up to them, "You mean the infection in the territorial?" she asks him and he places his hands on his hips. "You thought that was WilPharma engineered it didn't you?" he questions then laughs at her, but his laughter was cut short as he heard knuckles being cracked, then he just gave his death at him, "I would stop while you're ahead," he states and Davis gulps as he still remembers the punch. "So what the counter-argument here," Jacob asks as he stands next to Claire and crosses his arms. "Utterly ridiculous. An undulation, that's what they've been working on, to prevent away from a further outbreak." he states and this confuses Claire "But..." she states. "Claire, it's true," Leon calls out and she looks over at him as Annabelle and Angela followed him. Then Claire walks up to him. "You knew?" she asks then turns to Jacob as he walks up to them, "Did you?" she asks, he just exhales and nods at her. "But we didn't think that the vaccine would be satiated so quickly." Leon states. She looks at them. "But the human test subjects in India..." she states, "A group of Terrorist that somehow got a hold of the T-Virus, all the terrorist groups supported by General Grendae were infected, so we don't know the details." Leon states. "This results in the U.S government obtaining permission from the appropriate India authorizes to administer the T-Virus vaccine to the nearest communities. The vaccine was secretly developed, but none other then WilPharma. It was a success, that lower the infection rate down 50 percent." Annabelle informs her, Angela clutch her fist.
Then she steps forward and pushed Leon out of the way and grips a hold of Annabelle's dress. "Then why the hell did you break out the vaccine for this? If we've been inoculated before we entered the territorial, then Greg would still be-!" Angela shouts at her, "Inoculation would still be entirely possible Had TerraSave not back us into an advisable corner." Fredrick said as he walks to them, the others look at him, "Had we been able to follow proper proceeds as outlined in the original schedule, the government medical stockpile could have been ship out to anywhere in the U.S. within 12 hours." he informs her and Claire just exhale in horror. "Oh my god, then it's all our fault." she mutters and Davis walks up to her as she was smirking "I wouldn't argue with you there," he tells her, and got another punch from Jacob.
Angela looks back at them, then back at Annabelle, the agent just look at her as there was no fear in her eyes and Angela just exhales lets go of her dress.
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Claire sat in a tent, just leaning against her legs as the three agents were standing at the door looking at her, she then exhales. "We just ended up making things worse." she states and Jacob shook her head, "That's not true. The villains here are the ones that use the virus. But worse in them are the ones who made it." Leon informs her. Then Jacob walks up to her. "When we all meet seven years ago, that's when all of our lives were changed. But the virus from the Umbrella corp." Leon tells her as they all remember Raccoon City.
All the zombies they had run past, all the killing they did and Chief Irons. A man that was ambitious to the bitter end. And the destruction of Raccoon City "Umbrella collapsed but their virtual legacy continues to spread." Leon tells her and Jacob kneel down in front of her and she looks at him, "Look at us. All of us, who would have thought as we all end up here. An S.T.A.R.S. member's sister. A rookie cop. A hired gun. And an ex-agent of Umbrella. We all chose our paths, Claire. And you took the path of a rescuer instead of a fighter, like the rest of us." he tells her, "You chose a path your brother and I couldn't follow." Leon tells her, "I am proud of you Claire, I know Chris would be as well." Annabelle tells her. "Same here," Jacob states and gently grips her hand. She looks at them and places then place her hand on top of Jacob. "Guys, thank you," she tells them and they nodded at her.
Outside, Angela heard everything that they said and then suddenly an explosion went off, getting everyone attention and Angela moves away from the tent and looks at the fire. Then the four rushed out of the tent, exchanged looks with each other and then the ran to the scene. Something or someone set a truck on fire as the doctors and soldiers were trying to put the flames out with fire extinguishers. They arrived at the scene and saw that it was the trucks that brought the vaccine. "Jesus!" Annabelle mutters as she shields her eyes from the flames, then Leon looks over and ran to Fredrick, "What happened?" Leon asks as the others followed him. "The trucks carrying the vaccine." he states, "How much vaccine is left?" Leon asks him, everything that we brought today, that's all that we were able to scrap together of vaccine samples from inside the company and most of that has been lost." Fredrick informs him as Davis walks over to them. "Where's the manufacturing data?" Leon asks him and Fredrick looks at him in surprise. "You think that they'll after the data too?" he asks him.
"Could it be?" Davis asks him, Leon looks down at him, "Why don't you tell us what their demands are already." he states and Leon just looks at him making Davis smirk at him, "If you don't wanna talk then I'll go directly to the president." Davis threatens him, making Annabelle clutch her fist. "The truth," Leon answers him as Annabelle walks up next to Leon. This confuses Davis. "Truth?" he asks him. "They demand the truth of the viral weapon that which Umbrella Corporation T-Virus was Driveled and the truth of William Bikinis test subject." he states and Annabelle stiffens "They wanna reveal everyone from the U.S government that was involved in its manufacturer," Leon answers him and Angela steps forward. "Wait, was the government really involved?" she asks him, "We can't lay the facts all possible proof went up in smoke with Raccoon City." Jacob answers her, "Wait a minute. The truth didn't disappear, there was never any, to begin with." Davis argues "Tell that to the terrorist then." Annabelle argues back at him, "If they don't get this information, what will happen?" Claire asks and Leon turns to her. "They'll disburse the T-Virus in every populated area in the U.S. the deadline is midnight," he answers her. Angela looks at her watch. "That's only 4 hours from now." she states "And there's no vaccine left." Davis states, "Can we find out who the terrorists are?" Fredrick asks them.
Then Claire steps forward, "I have a clue as to the identity of one of them." she states and they look at her. "Right after the infected people appeared in the territorial, I noticed a man in the lobby, his name is Curtis Miller." she states, "I know him, he's one of those bleeding hearts protesting the new contraction of the research facility." Davis states. Annabelle then looks over Angela and walks up to her. "If the terrorist demands are the release of the information on what really happened in Raccoon city, then he may be-" Claire went on. "It can't be," Angela mutters, making everyone stop and look at her. She was just in shock and Annabelle looks at them, "Curtis Miller is Angela's brother." she informs them. "But wait, what about a test subject from this William Brikins?" Davis asks and Annabelle looks away. "Anne." Jacob calls out and she looks at them, "Show them." he tells her, she nods at him, she then kneels down, press her finger-tips ground and closes her eyes. They just watch her and then the ground started to rumble and then the surface started to crack around the burning trucks, making everyone stumble, "Wh-What's happening?" Davis questions, "Just watch." Leon tells him and then water shot out from the ground and was putting out the flames. "What the?!" "Where did all this water come from?!" "What the hell just happened?" people were shouting as the flames were deduced to smoke. Annabelle opens her eyes and she removes her fingers from the ground, the water stops and was gone as she then stood up and looks at then.
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Curtis looks down at the photo in his hands of his family. His wife and daughter and his younger sister, Angela. He carefully places it back on the shelve and turns it away as all the other pictures were turned away as well. He then picks up his suitcase and turns to the door, walking away. But he stops at the door and sets his suitcase down.
Curtis reaches inside his coat, and pulls out a box of matches ignites a match and tosses it to the ground, then the ground was aflame and slowly made its way through the house. Curtis picks up the case and opens the door, he stops and takes one last look at the house and closes the door behind him.
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Angela then glares at them, "My brother wouldn't do something like this." she states, then Davis walks to her, but Annabelle held him back, "He was arrest for making threats at WilPharma." he reminds her, "He just demanded that information is made public!" Annabelle shouts back at him as Annabelle held her back as well. "Unfortunately the rest of the world doesn't see it that way," Davis growls at her, Leon, Jacob, and Claire watch the exchange as Annabelle was keeping them apart. "If you claim he's not a terrorist, why don't you bring him here to explain himself. Now!" he orders her and the two women glared at him, making him sling back a little.
Then Angela turns and walks away, "Angela!" Annabelle calls after her, but she was already gone, she exhales and turns back to Davis, "You should try and understand someone's feelings." she growls at him and followed after Angela.
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Angela then loaded her guns and checks them out, but then she stops and exhales. "Need backup?" Annabelle asks, Angela looks over at her, seeing her leaning against the other door. Angela said nothing as she pulls the rifle onto her shoulder and closes the door, then saw Leon standing by the fence, "You're packing a lot of firepowers just to see your brother." he states.
She just stares at her and Annabelle turns to her, "You know we're going to follow you, right?" she tells her, Angela then looks at her, sighs with a roll of her eyes and slams the truck doors. Then they got into the truck and took off from the airport.
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Claire followed Fredrick as Jacob was following after Claire, "Where are you going?" she asks, getting Fredrick's attention. "I'm going back to the office to check on the development data," he answers her. "Can we help you something?" he just looks at them. "Don't worry, we're not trying to infiltrate your organization for our own devious purposes," she informs him as Jacob notices that Fredrick look away with a worried look.
Then Fredrick looks back at them, "I'm afraid there's only one thing you, Miss can do. Join me for a late afternoon tea." he informs her, she looks at him in surprise, then she looks at Jacob. He looks at her and nods, then she looks back at Fredrick and nods. Jacob steps back as she got in the car and Fredrick got in the car as well, then they drove off and Jacob clutched his fist as they left then looks out of the corner of his eye as he saw Davis hiding behind a tent, glaring in disappointment, shaking his head.
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Angela drove the truck down the road as Annabelle was sitting on Leon's lap. They all sat in quiet, getting closer to the house. But then Annabelle raised her head as she heard cracking, she lifts off Leon's lap a little, trying to see, "An?" Leon asks her Angela shot a look over at her, "Fire." she answers him. They both looked ahead as they saw from a distance there was a fire.
She gasps and looks at them, "This is the road to Curtis's home." Angela informs them and kicks it into high gear. Going faster down the road.
They all arrived at the house, getting out of the truck and Angela ran up to the house and stops as it was burning. She just looks at it in shock, collapsing onto her knees, Leon and Annabelle walk up to the Angela as they looked at the burning house. Angela looks down and then something that survived the fire, it was the picture of her and her brother's family. She picks it up and looks at the man her brother use to be. "I haven't heard a word from Curtis in three years. He lost his wife and child in the Raccoon City tragedy," she states then she started to cry. Annabelle clutched her fist as she was not happy.
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Fredrick arrives at the facility, but stops at the checkpoint, he rolls down his window and slides his card. Error. He exhales and tries again error. The machine said again. "That's odd? It won't accept my card." he states, "Has this happened before?" Claire asks him. "No. I'll have to use the master code," he answers her and pulls up the keyboard, trying the code in. the light turns green and the gate opens for him, he smirks and drove straight, right to the tall facility building.
Claire looks up at the building seeing how tall it was. Fredrick parks the car and they both walk up to the entrance of the building. He looks at her, "We're entering an air dome." he informs her, then she pushes the door open and fresh cold air blew out and Claire turns her head a little, Fredrick looks at her, "Ah, the roof is supported by creating an external and inertial air supports." he tells her and they both walk into the building. Claire looks around the room, seeing how bright it was Frederick walks to the dome in the center of the room, he looks back at Claire and walks over to him, the dome then shows the 3D image of the entire building. "The danger levels are assigned are handled in each section. From the right, the levels ascended from 1 to 4. the higher the number, the higher the danger level. Rest assured, however, a spring of safe measure of the unlikely percent problem assures. If anything possible rose from the ashes of Raccoon City, unlike your agent friend in red. Is that security and safeguard standards will avert any calamity." he states. "What about this level zero?" Claire asks him, "Ah. That contains research level." he said, pulling up a new 3D image of the level Zero, "Meeting rooms and alike. That's where we're heading next." Fredrick informs her.
They walk down the hall as Claire was still in the light hallway, he then see the scientists working in the labs on their experiments, they then were in Fredrick's office, he was filling up the coffee as Claire was looking outside at the facility from his office window, it was an ingrowing forest, it was beautiful, then a sound went off and the sprinklers went off. Claire was amazed, "This isn't paradise, you know." Fredrick calls out to her, she turns to him as he held two cups of hot tea. He chuckles a little and walks to her, "This is what you came here to assist me with." he reminds her and offers her a cup. "Thank you." she said, taking the cup as he sat down, "Hm, smells delicious," she said and sips some as he was working on his computer. "What are you doing?" she asks him. "Checking the development research," he answers her, then his phone starts to ring, he pulls it out and saw that it was a Ron Davis.
He sighs and answers the call, "Yes, Senator." he answers, getting Claire's attention, "I figure you might be there right now." Ron said to him and Frederick sighs, "What do you want?" he questions him. "Why did you bring that woman?" he questions as Claire raised her eyebrow a little. "Ahh, you're not feeling sorry for her, are you? That's not like you. Don't you understand, this is our chance!" Ron states, Fredrick nods, "Yes, I know. Yes, yes." he answers then hung up. "What did he say?" she asks him as he puts his phone away. "Nothing of any consequence, I assure you," he informs her, but she was not convinced something was up and sets her cup down. "He said something to you, didn't he?" she asks again, "He warned me not to let you see anything." he informs her then she leans against the table, "Would it cause trouble if I saw something in particular?" Claire asks him. He looks at her as she held his gaze, "No." he answers and looks back at the screen.
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Davis growls as he hung up and rubs his hand over his face, then someone enters his tent and he looks over seeing Jacob. "Hello Senator," he said in a dangerous tone, making the hairs on the Senator's body stand right up.
Jacob glares at him with his death glare that Annabelle gracefully taught him. "So I couldn't help but overhear you and Frederick a second ago," he states and Davis gulps then Jacob cracks his knuckles. "You're going to tell me everything and what you meant about, this is our chance."
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Leon and Annabelle look at the flames as they were consuming the house, Angela was sitting on the ground with a burnt photo in her hands, just looking down at the ground. "When I started out as a rookie cop, I responded to a call about a small child that was stranded on a sand back in the middle of a flooding river. I impulsively jumped into the river." she tells them as she sighs and hung her head, Annabelle just looks down at her "And the next thing I knew, I was waking up in a hospital, blurry and disoriented. They informed me afterward that... I did save the child but three EMTs were injured from hurling my butt out of the water." she states with tears formed in her eyes.
Leon looks at her as Angela just smiles bitterly to herself, "Talk about depression, I felt lower than dirt. What was I thinking, putting others in harm's way like that, not to mention I could have been killed too." she tells them and she looks down at the photo in her hands, "But then, Curtis said something. That made me stop beating myself up: If you don't try to save one life, you'll never save any." she tells them and looks at the burning house. "And in the end, his own word back to haunt him."
~Flashback~
The dark clouds with the tinted cloud that raised from the dead city, residents were being held back by the military as they were shouting, arguing and some were trying to climb over but were held back. Even Curtis Miller was trying to climb over as well.
He struggled in their restraints as Angela was standing right next to him, glaring at the military. "Let me through! Let me through!" Curtis shouts as he was trying to get through. But it was all in vain, the city... was dead.
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Frederick looks at the screen as he was heisted and looks at Claire, "There is something, but Davis wants it to remain hidden." he informs him and then pulls ups a screen. "This is the G virus," he informs her and she looks at the screen. Horror enters her eyes as she remembers William as he body was that of monsters and the wounds at Annabelle satiated in Raccoon City as they healed within seconds.
She then looks at him, "You have that here?" she questions him, "It remains a secret even within the company. The government affiliates don't know about it either it was optioned through special mean through a group which neither we or someone in the Senate in positioned to be associated with." he informs her and she took a step back, "You got it on the black market." she states and he nods his head, "What do you plan on doing with the G-Virus?" she questions him and he turns to her, "Create a vaccine, but even the Senate couldn't antiquity expresses the threat that G opposed the to government, the plans were shelved and remains in level four ever since. The Senator is a member of the community group that decided to bomb Raccoon city." he informs her and Claire gasp, "I have to tell the others." she states and turns away from him, "No." he said standing up from the chair and she looks at him as she pulls out her phone, "If you do then what's going to happen to me?" he asks her and she arches her eyebrow at him. "You didn't seem to worry about that a minute ago when you were telling me everything?" she asks him. He exhales and sat back down.
Claire turns back to her phone and opens the contact list, pulling up a few names, one is Jacob and Leon. She pulls them both up, Fredrick looks at the screen and saw that there was an error, "There's something wrong with the server." he informs her, getting up and walking out of the room, leaving Claire all alone.
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Leon, Annabelle, and Angela were all walking to the edge of the cliff and look down at the town. "I'm going to stop Curtis." she tells them and the two look over at her as she looks at him, "I'll help you stop him." Annabelle promises her, Angela looks at her and nods, Leon looks down at Annabelle and smiles at her a little, then Leon's phone went off and Annabelle looks at him, "Are you going to get that?" she asks him, "Maybe." he answers, she rolls her eyes, took out his phone and answers it, "Hello?" she answers, "Anne, you're on here too?" Jacob asks as he too was on the line "Annabelle, you and the guys have to get over here to WelPharma right now." Claire orders them.
Annabelle arches her eyebrow at her, "WelFarma, why there?" Annabelle asks her, Leon looks at her and leans in to listen to her, "They got the G-virus and they were going to make a vaccine like they did for the T-virus." Claire informs them, "Well, Annabelle did give a sample of the G-virus to the President. Maybe one of the scientists took the sample in hopes of making chuck change." Jacob states, Annabelle nods, "Seems likely." she agrees. "But Senator Davis just called and told them to get rip of it." Claire informs him, "Oh, I just had a lovely chat with the Senator and it turns out that he just wanted to use this situation to get more voters in." Jacob informs them, "That greedy sonofabitch." Annabelle mutters to herself, Leon places his hand on her shoulder, calming her down. "Is Fredrick there?" Leon asks her, "He just went to go and fix the server." Claire informs him "Or he has of gone to go dump the virus." Leon states, Annabelle shook her head, "That is the last remain sample of the G-virus." she informs him, he looks at her, "Not the only sample." Leon states and Annabelle sighs. Then they all heard a ringing on the other end, "Claire?" they all asked her. "There's a call coming from inside the building. Hold on," she tells them, Annabelle bites her lip.
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Claire places her cell down and picks up the office phone. "Claire." Fredrick said on the line, "Fredrick." Claire said in surprise, "Where are you?" she asks him. "In level four," he answers and Claire walks to the window. "Why you said you were going to the server room," she asks as she looks out at the grounds. "I saw someone suspense on my way there and I followed him, you need to get out of here. There's a time-bomb here, it's already too late to stop it," he warns her as her eyes were darting around, looking for anything.
She then caught sight of Curtis Miller as he was walking out from level four with a briefcase in his hand. "We're going to have another Biohazard if this thing-" Frederick warns her but the line suddenly went out, but Claire just watches as Curtis walks away. But then she gasps as she was blinded by a sudden and bright light.
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Jacob stops as the line was suddenly gone, "Claire!" he calls out but got no response. She pulls his phone away and turns it off. "Dammit." he growls then looks back at the Senator who flinches at him, "The WelFarma Facility, where is it?" he questions him, "A few miles out just east of here," he answers him. "Good. You better of not have any part of this or so help me. I will kill you." he promises him, Davis nods at him and then he steps out of the tent and looks around.
He then lays eyes on a motorcycle and ran to it and mounts onto it. "Hey, what do you think you're doing?" an officer questions him. "I'm going to save my friend," he answers, starting up the bike and took off from the airport.
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"Claire! Claire!" Annabelle calls out but the line was dead, "Shit!" she growls, "What happened?" Leon asks her, "What's going on?" Angela asks as well "I don't know, we were cut off." she answers then turns to them.
She walks past Leon and grips Angela's shoulders. "Can you get us to WelFarma?" she asks her, Angela looks at her and nods, "Of course."
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Everything was destroyed, "Attention, a system error has accord. Terminate all activities immediately and evacuate the dome until safe conditions are reestablished and verified." the computer warns everyone.
Claire laid on her side as she was alright from the blast, she groans softly as she flutters her eyes open. Slowly, she sat up and looks at the office as it was destroyed, then she turns back to the garden, but was in horror, it was all gone. Burnt, destroyed and it was raining paper.
Then she gasped in pain as she held pain her leg, then saw a shard of glass, impaled in her leg. She exhales and grips the shard and held her breath. Then pulls out on the shard, crying out as she rips the shard from her leg and threw it out of the office.
