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So this is the second chapter. I wrote this before I started the next chapter of Between the Times so that will be up fairly soon also. But in the meantime I hope you enjoy this. Please do all that good stuff like follow and fave and message! I'd love to hear what you think. :)
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'So, Captain.' Neve started as she made herself at home, perched on the floor of the APC that had rolled up before; her legs dangling a bit outside the back doors. 'Our last orders before our comms channels went down were to assist you and your team. What's the plan?' She finished as she took a draw on her cigarette.
Chris and his team were given orders to come up from the South of the city centre whilst another B.S.A.A. team were to come down from the North and eradicate any B.O.W.'s on their way before they stormed Artemis Pharma's main office in the Business district. The Ukrainian Army were involved in taking down any B.O.W.'s that were found outside of the city centre and were to make sure the perimeter was secure as well as assist in the evacuation and medical treatment of civilians. The B.S.A.A.'s own medical teams were also involved in helping the Army with any issues with vaccines and antidotes, so everybody involved was hoping that this mission would be over and done with as soon as possible. Inside the city centre though was strictly a B.S.A.A. affair. The outbreak had been relatively small in comparison with others which produced a lot more victims but because of the information Neve and her team had managed to gather in such a short time, deployment was swift.
'You said in your last report that Ponikarovsky was last seen entering Artemis Pharma. We are to arrest him as well as anybody from Artemis who may also be involved. Do you have any leads on that at all?' Chris asked as he laid his rifle on his shoulder. 'A man named Yuri was mentioned?'
'Yes sir.' David confirmed as he stood next to his superiors with a small netbook in his hands. 'We've heard of Yuri being mentioned a few times during our investigations. After tapping Ponikarovsky's phone, we found he had made several telephone calls in the past few days to only one mobile number that was then traced to the Artemis Pharma building.' He hit a few keys on the netbook and turned the screen to his superiors. 'After further investigation, we can confirm that Ponikarovsky was in fact talking with Yuri. Normally he would call around five to six times from around eleven hundred hours to twenty-two hundred hours on average. The phone calls ceased at around twenty hundred hours local time yesterday.'
'Which was around the same time when the first infected were reported.' Neve added. 'The J'avo have only surfaced in the last few hours or so, shortly before your arrival actually. You're gonna love this though…' Neve said sarcastically as she raised an eyebrow.
Brits and their sarcasm. Chris thought. 'Love what?' He asked.
'Well we decided to go and keep an eye out at the Artemis building after the first infected were reported as they all seemed to spread from there. We found a penthouse flat about six hundred yards away from the opening to their underground car park about seven floors up so we got a very good view indeed.' Neve noticed her cigarette was nearly finished, she swiftly pulled another out and lit it from the old one, tossing the finished cigarette on to the ground.
'What did you see exactly?' Chris was itching to know, he just knew it was going to be something horrible.
'This happened shortly after our comms with HQ went down so we couldn't update you, but our own surveillance on the building was still intact. Somebody inside the building had phoned out to their security company to send a few dozen guards over stating that there were threats made on them and the building.' Neve continued. 'Did you take much notice to what the J'avo you were shooting at earlier were wearing?'
Chris was disgusted. If what Neve was saying was in line with what he was now thinking about the fact that the J'avo were wearing black uniforms with stab-proof vests, then that meant…
'Artemis infected their security and sent them out.' Chris grunted.
'Exactly.' Neve nodded. 'The security vans entered the underground car park and just over an hour later a few dozen, maybe even more J'avo staggered out.'
'What about the regular infected though? Did they come out of the building?' Chris asked. He was not happy in the slightest. Nobody deserved that fate at all. Those security guards were brought in with them thinking they were doing a straightforward job but instead, their employers had deceived them.
'We didn't see it for ourselves but we can assume so. We monitored local police radio and a lot of calls and reports were made around that area.' Neve folded her arms and smiled sweetly at Chris. He thought that she was relishing in this moment which he found quite strange. It seriously made him think that she was enjoying the death and destruction. I must have that wrong. He thought.
'You look like you're enjoying this Major.' Chris said to the smoking woman. She laughed at his comment.
'Oh, believe me Captain I'm not enjoying this in the slightest.' She slid out of the APC and took a long draw of her cigarette, exhaling expertly through the side of her mouth. 'I just know that when we get the evil sons of bitches who are responsible for all this mess and death, I know they're gonna get their just desserts. People living in fear of a madman is bad enough, but living in fear of a madman with bioweapons? I don't fucking think so. Not while I draw breath.'
Chris had to smile at her remark. A girl after my own heart. He always questioned his work and if it was worth it or not. It was worth it. Nobody, no matter who they were, should have to live in fear of anything. Especially this.
'So, what's the plan Captain Redfield?' Neve asked him as she flicked her now finished cigarette away. It seemed like she was willing to let him take the reins on this one, even though technically she was the highest ranked her military wise. He was however a B.S.A.A. founder though.
'I suggest we go back to the flat you occupied and set up a base there and make a plan of action to enter the Artemis building. We still haven't had much word from the other team flanking the North so we can wait a short while for them to get back to us. You can also stock up on any supplies you need we have plenty to spare.' Chris rattled off his plan. He was normally a quick thinker but in order for them to storm Artemis Pharma, they needed more information and he needed a bit more time to think of a decent plan to do so. He wasn't about to send himself and his team in half-cocked.
'We can do that.' Neve nodded.
'Right guys!' Chris shouted at his team. 'Let's move out! Piers you're up top.'
'Yes sir.' Piers complied. The sandy-blonde haired man climbed in to the APC and soon his head popped out of the roof where he took a firm grip of the mounted gun in front of him. Neve watched her team mate Claire eye him up. Clare noticed her superior had cottoned on to her ogling the young man, she mouthed the words; "Nice arse" to her and grinned. Neve just shook her head.
'Major if you and your team would get in the APC we can go.' Chris stated to her. She just whistled to her team and nodded her head over to the APC. It was a bit of a tight squeeze in there but they managed to fit. Chris rode up front with his subordinate Moore who was driving and Neve who was navigating. She took them on the quickest route to the flat, trying to remember where the roads weren't blocked off. It didn't take them that long to get there but Chris could see why they chose this building. The building had a car park on ground level for the residents which was accessible by pressing a remote to open the metal gates. Neve had the remote in her pocket and pressed the button, she grinned as the gates magically slid open allowing the APC entry.
'I knew I'd be needing this.' Neve chuckled.
Soon everybody had poured out of the APC and grabbed whatever gear they could to take up to the penthouse. At least the ground floor car park was fairly secure with its concrete walls and its metal gates, it seemed sturdy enough to keep the regular infected out and would hopefully buy some time if any J'avo attacked.
'Come on, let's head on up.' Neve said as she nodded over to the elevators.
