Resident Evil: Hopeless Reckoning Part 4
Rebecca's Diary:
"December 12th, 1998: Today is the day… I've never been in a plane before, albeit, I've been in a helicopter… this just isn't the same thing. I'm a little nervous, but I know Barry will get us there safely. Billy has joined our team and Mark has assigned one other man as well. His name is David, and he's very quiet. He's definitely fit for the job though.
We'll be going in the facility, right into the heart of it. Mark gave us all military coats and warmer gear; it's going to be incredibly cold there... I hear the plane starting up, and I better go… I'll post another entry if I make it out... I will make it out."
Rebecca packed her bag and ran to the plane.
"First one to board The Burton Jet?" Barry said and began to laugh.
"Yeah… I guess I am." She said and smiled as she walked down the isle. She had to choose where to sit, and decided the middle of the plane was best.
"I've studied this before, the middle is always the safest." She thought and sat down.
Not too far behind her were Jill, Billy, Mark, and the new guy, David. No one knew too much about him, other than the fact that he fought hand-to-hand combat in Africa not too long ago, and seemed fit for the mission. He was also an ex-marine.
"Scared of flying?" Jill asked as she sat down beside Rebecca opening a book.
"A little, I've never done this before." Rebecca said, a little hesitant to respond. As the plane began to move, Rebecca grabbed onto the arm rests as tight as she could, and Jill grabbed her hand.
"Calm down, the take off will be a bit bumpy at first, but then it will be smooth sailing from there!" Jill said trying to comfort Rebecca.
David sat in the back alone, but overheard the conversation between Jill and Rebecca.
"I have no time for cowards." He thought to himself and decided to chime in; "The take off is the most dangerous part, the first 15 minutes a number of things could happen. Say… the landing gear decides to fall out, or the engine explodes… sometimes a wing could fall off, but that's why we have parachutes." He added.
Jill turned around and glared at him, but David just smiled back, and opened a map of the facility so he could become familiarized with it.
"So, Coen… This is going to be a long plane ride. We may as well get to know one another a bit better eh?" Mark said casually looking out of the window.
"I apologize about last week, I didn't know you and didn't trust you alone with Rebecca. She reminds me a lot of my daughter back at home, I guess you could say I got carried away." Said Mark.
"It's alright, I've run into plenty of protective Fathers in the past… You were just doing what you felt was right at the time. I respect that." Billy replied coolly. Billy looked over at Mark who had already fallen asleep right before he was going to say something else.
Billy smiled, "I guess that getting-to-know me thing won't be happening today." Billy thought, and decided to snooze as well.
"Everyone ready for take off?" Barry looked back to see half of the plane was asleep, minus Jill and Rebecca. Jill nodded, and Barry began to take off, once they were off the ground, everything went smoothly.
"See? I told you-" Jill stopped as she looked over to see Rebecca was listening to her Walkman. Jill smoothly grabbed one of Rebecca's ear buds and listened in as well. "Hmm, not bad. Who is this? It's kind of dark." Jill remarked.
"Korn, it's their new album "Follow the Leader". They are a bit dark, and they're a new generation of metal called Nu-metal. I love how the guitars are down tuned to D, and they're also seven stringed. The bass is down tuned as well, and the vocals are unique." Rebecca replied, clearly knowing more than a "medic" should about music.
"You know your stuff, how do you know so much about music?" Jill asked.
"Ha, well… I used to play in a garage band and also played classical music in high school, violin, cello, and double bass specifically. I would sometimes play in an orchestra too. I miss those days." Rebecca looked distant as if she were reliving those days in her head.
"Wow, I had no idea… talk about a child prodigy." Jill remarked in awe.
"After my parents died I decided to find a field worth being in, and at the time I thought that would be with S.T.A.R.S. I was right, if not I wouldn't have met any of you." Rebecca said and smiled.
Jill looked at Rebecca, "I'm sorry to hear about your parents. My Father died not too long ago too, and I never knew my Mother. After that I decided to join the Army, but trying to join a field with mostly men is more difficult than it seems. Something… bad happened to me there and that's when I found out about S.T.A.R.S and decided to join." Said Jill.
"What happen- Oh… I see. I'm so sorry that happened to you." Rebecca knew exactly what she meant and didn't want to "go-there". She remembered reading about sexual abuse stats going up in the Army a few years back, and even remembered reading an article with Jill talking about the matter in the Newspaper before she joined S.T.A.R.S.
The plane became silent after a while, and everyone decided to either take a nap, read, or listen to music. After what seemed like an eternity the plane finally landed.
"Welcome to Ireland, but please don't indulge, we need you all sober for this mission!" Barry said jokingly.
Sounds of relief echoed through out the plane cabin as everyone got up and out of the plane.
"Another Military Base? This time I thought we were going to land in an airport…" Billy remarked.
"Well, we don't need the whole world's panties in a wad over this. We need to keep quiet about it and not scare the civilians." Barry replied.
"Exactly, if the "civilians" are anything like this one over here we wouldn't want them finding out. Then all hell would break loose and the whole world would crumble under fear." David said, scolding Rebecca.
"Just ignore him, I'm fine." Rebecca quickly told Jill before she could say anything.
"He's a son of a bitch, he'll make good bait if were ever in a trap." Jill said clenching her jaws.
"Haha, that's if he MAKES it to the facility before I kill him. I'm a convict remember?" Billy said as he walked by and stared David down.
There was no point in fighting at that time, so Billy slowly walked off into the base, but David ran behind him. Before David could hit Billy from behind, Billy grabbed David's arm and swung him over his shoulder.
David hit the ground hard, and Billy stared at him kneeling down saying, "Don't fuck with me, or her… You got that? I'm more powerful than you'll ever be and this whole "tough-guy" act is really annoying. You don't want to annoy me do you?" He questioned David, and David shook his head in fear.
"Good." Billy replied and walked off. This shut David up for good.
"Okay everyone circle around." Mark said, standing at a table when the facility map lit up on a panel. "There's two ways in here, from underground and on the main level. Barry, you and David are going underground. Rebecca, Jill, and Billy… You'll be joining me and we'll be going in through the main level side entrance neutralizing any and all Umbrella personnel. Everyone be on guard, they do have bio-weapons and are not afraid to use them." He said sternly. They all agreed and got their supplies ready as well as their body armor.
Barry and David got into separate cars and already began heading off. They needed to infiltrate the facility before the others so they could attack from underground, and join the rest of the team later on. Meanwhile Billy, Jill, Rebecca and Mark all stood together, loading their weapons, and preparing for whatever may come.
"If any of us don't make it out of here, remember you're all wonderful soldiers." Mark said to all of them.
They all nodded and got into a small black sedan. They couldn't be noticed. "We'll be parking this about 2 miles from the facility, then handling the rest on foot. I hope everyone is in shape, because this will be a bit of a trek, and I can't have anyone slow down at any time." Said Mark starting the car up and pulling off.
After some time driving they finally arrived and Mark decided to park in a well-wooded area. There were no tags on the car, nothing to track them. It was also dusk, meaning they needed to have the facility in sight before the sun went down.
"Is everyone ready?" He asked the team. "Jill, you okay there?" Mark asked, seeing as Jill wasn't exactly "all there".
"Huh? Yeah… I- I'm fine, it's just freezing. I'm not used to this cold weather." Jill replied, trying to hide the fact that her shaking wasn't due to the cold. She was actually having a panic attack, it was her first one she ever had.
"I've got medication for that you know." Rebecca whispered to Jill.
"I'll be fine, I just need to run it out, we'll be doing plenty of that in a second." Jill whispered back.
"Alright team, let's head out. We'll need to split up, Jill, Rebecca… You two stay together and go into the east entrance. Billy and I will be headed into the west entrance. Everyone stay alert! If you need us at any time use your communication devices. Good luck you two." Mark said and began to head into the woods.
"Be careful, I umm… take care." Billy said to Rebecca and started to walk off.
"Billy, wait." Rebecca said and walked up to him, she gave him her necklace with an angel wing on it. "Since I have your dog tags, it only makes sense that you take something that belongs to me… for good luck." Rebecca replied, and hugged Billy. "Take care of yourself." She said and they parted ways once more.
Jill awkwardly stood there kicking the dirt until Rebecca walked up beside her.
"Okay I'm ready, let's do this." Rebecca said, as Jill looked up and they both headed towards the facility. There was smoke coming from the sky in the direction they were headed in.
"Well, that can't be good." Jill remarked.
"Yeah, but at least we can use the "smoke signals" as a compass." Rebecca said, smirking.
"I wonder if the girls are almost there yet." Billy said, worried.
"They'll be fine Coen, they're strong women, perfectly capable of taking care of themselves… now let's worry about us because you're about to step on a land mine." Mark said as he pushed Billy out of the way.
"Holy shit! Well, at least we know were getting close. Thank you Mark." Billy replied, taking a deep breath and looking around. They could see the facility now, there were a few guards at the entrance they would need to silence, but first they would need to take out the security cameras.
"See this gadget? The higher the voltage the better, I'm going to fry all the cameras right now." Mark said, pulling out what looked like a walkie talkie with a dial on it. He twisted the dial all the way to the right as it made a high pitched ringing noise, and then stopped. "Alright, it's taken care of. Let's go." He said, and Billy joined him, both of them closing in on the guards to the west entrance. By then, the sun had gone down and it was night, making it harder to see.
"Where in the fuck are we?" David harshly said to Barry.
They went into a manhole roughly a mile away from the facility and only had flashlights as their source of light.
"Well if my calculations are right, were right under the facility's bathroom, which makes sense as to why you're being a total shit head." Barry replied.
"We'll need to walk a bit further and make our way into the lab. There will probably be a few guards present, so we'll need to kill them immediately." Barry said, pulling out his handgun with the silencer attached. David did the same as they both walked into the darkness together.
"I can see the facility from here, watch out." Jill said, pulling Rebecca out of sight and behind a fallen tree. "You see those two guards under the light posts on our side? We'll need to take them out, but quickly before the other one notices. Get your silencer ready… has your aim improved? Were both going to aim for the head, and it needs to be precise. You take the left one, and I'll take the right one. Shoot to kill, let me know when you're ready." Jill said, readying her gun.
Rebecca nodded and took out her gun as well, they both aimed, but before they could shoot...
"When I say go, you shoot okay?" Jill said,
"Okay." Rebecca said, aiming her gun.
"GO!" they both fired at the same time and both guards slowly slumped down and fell onto the floor.
"Good job Becca, I knew you could do it." Jill said and they ran towards the facility's east entrance.
Billy and Mark's way of taking out the guards weren't as precise as Jill and Rebecca. They snuck up beside each one and snapped their necks, one of them shouting before Mark could get to him.
"Let's hope no one heard that, now let's get in there." Mark said as they both stood on either end of the door's entrance. Mark signaled for Billy to open the door and he did slowly, poking his head in to see if all was clear.
"No one is in there… It's just a bunch of monitors, computers and what looks like a few offices. It's not occupied though." Billy whispered. They walked in cautiously, looking around when they heard gunfire from below them.
"Shit, Barry and David must be in trouble." Mark replied gritting his teeth.
"So, what do we do? Should we go down there?" asked Billy.
"No, we need to stick to our mission… Going down there is a bad idea. I knew this mission wouldn't be easy, and there will be casualties Coen." Mark said with little to no emotion.
Barry and David made it into the Laboratory, but there were more than a few guards. They were a little too sloppy trying to get in from underground, causing too much noise, and now the guards were shooting at them.
"What do we do now?" David yelled as they hid behind tanks.
"This is what we do!" Barry said as he threw a grenade in their direction and heard them scream before the grenade blew up.
"Great job Burton, now the whole fucking facility will be down here in no time." David said glaring at Barry.
"Ha, well I'm glad I have this then." Barry replied jiggling his belt and vest with at least 10 more grenades on him. They looked around the laboratory at the creatures in the tanks.
"Poor bastards." Barry said frowning.
"We better set the explosives before these things get out, then we can finally put them out of their misery." David said sticking the dynamite on the walls. "How many levels are there here?" David asked.
"The map says five levels. We'll set the explosives from the bottom up, then start the timer, and leave." Barry replied walking towards the elevator down the laboratory hall.
"Sounds like the guys are in trouble downstairs." Rebecca said.
"No, that was just Barry taking care of the problem. They have enough explosives on them to blow this whole place up, and that's what they're going to do once were done here." Jill explained. "We need to grab some evidence from the meeting room down the hall here. I'm sure they have files on the tests they were performing, we can grab them and meet up with Billy and Mark afterwards." Jill said lowering her voice.
They began to walk down the corridor slowly when all of a sudden they heard footsteps behind them, then a gun making a "click" noise.
"Nah ah ah… You're not going anywhere. This is MY facility and you've already killed my guards, now it's time for you to pay." A clearly delusional man in a white lab coat said to them as he quickly grabbed Rebecca from behind and put a gun to her head.
His hold on Rebecca was too strong for her to get out of.
"If you make any moves I'll shoot her, so get the fuck away!" He screamed at Jill. A huge sinister-like grin appeared on his face, "Maybe if you can solve my puzzles I'll let her go, but for now I'm going to play with all of you." He said still smiling, as he walked down the hallway backwards. Rebecca gave Jill a last desperate look trying to struggle a bit more. "The more you struggle, the more I'll hurt you." He said and hit her in the head with the butt of his gun, Rebecca went limp, clearly unconscious from the blow.
"NOO!" Jill screamed, but it was too late. He went into a room, and the doors slid shut, locking them in there.
Jill banged on the door, and then began to cry. "Mark come in, Mark." She said as she ran down the corridor trying to head west.
"What's going on Jill?" Mark replied.
"This crazy bastard has Rebecca and has locked her into room 501. We need to find a way to get to her before it's too late." Jill said desperately.
Billy overheard the news and turned pale.
"Let's go to the security surveillance room, I don't think I fried the whole system, maybe we can see what's going on from there and try to unlock to door to 501." Mark said to both Billy and Jill via headset.
"Roger that." Jill said as they all headed towards the room.
When they got there, much to their surprise, the security camera in room 501 was still working. Rebecca was on a table, naked; the man was circling around her putting what looked like a syringe and needle together.
"We gotta get in there before he does something to her!" Billy shouted and banged his fists on the table. They listened in on the crazy man.
"Let's see what you'll do when we add a bit of this NEW virus and the antidote at the same time! Will she survive? We'll find out soon on the next episode of Randy's wacky experiments!" The crazy man, now known as Randy said, then began to laugh hysterically.
Jill was in hysterics, and Billy was close to it as well. Barry and David ran into the room
"We overheard what was going on… What's the plan now?" Barry said.
"I say we leave while we still can! That man will probably blow this place up for us, I mean look at him, one casualty won't hurt us." David replied. At that point Jill had enough.
"One casualty? ONE casualty? That's my best friend in there, and you're just going to leave your comrade to DIE when you still have a chance to save her? Talk about a fucking coward. She'd do anything to save her teammates; she's done so in the past. I wish YOU were in there, then if we left there'd be no hard feelings right?" Jill said raising her voice, very close to David's face.
"I'm sorry… I didn't know you all were so close to her." David said looking down.
The room fell silent and everyone gasped as Randy injected the virus into Rebecca.
"That bastard." Barry said clenching his fists.
"I can hear you…" Randy said laughing, "You're all on speaker, isn't this show great? Listen, I'll let your friend loose once the virus sets in, but first I need to wait until her heart stops beating. This is when it gets fun! Once this happens she'll go crazy trying to fight the virus in her body, she'll be aware of her actions as she tries KILLING you all! Haha! Oh, I should've been an entertainer." Randy walked around with his back facing Rebecca. He was holding the antidote in his hand, waiting on her to wake up.
"Oh my god." Mark said as they all saw Rebecca get up slowly, and then she opened her eyes. They were red and glowing. Randy of course was too focused on himself to realize Rebecca had awoken. She crept up behind him slowly, tilting her head a bit.
"Anytime now, she'll be awake and listen to EVERY word I say. Essentially she'll be my little slave, this is going to be so much fun! I've never owned a slave before. It will be even more satisfying when I tell her to kill her friends." He said, but before he could speak once more Rebecca snapped his neck and screamed. He fell onto the floor, dropping the antidote, but not breaking it. Her scream was inhuman, but still sounded like her. She had claws that were retractable, almost like a cat, and what looked like fangs. She had a slight blue tone to her as well.
"HEELP MEEEEE!" Rebecca screamed, throwing the lab table through a wall, and then walking out.
"What do we do?" Billy screamed.
"We need to get that antidote and inject her with it, and hope it works." Mark replied, already running in the direction of room 501. They all followed him. David yelled something before being thrown against the wall; it was Rebecca and she began to walk towards them, her eyes locked on Mark.
"I'll distract her! You three try to find the antidote!" Mark screamed, and Jill ran into room 501.
"Here it is!" she said and grabbed the vile. Billy and Barry got their guns out.
"NO! We aren't shooting her, were going to have to restrain her somehow." Jill yelled.
"Okay, I'll come at her from behind, and Barry… you grab her legs, because I know she'll kick at me." Billy explained.
"I'll inject her then." Jill said.
They all ran out of the room and followed Mark's voice down the corridor trying to calm Rebecca. Billy slowly crept up behind Rebecca, but she saw this and slapped him across the room. He got right back up and jumped on her back holding her arms, and Barry decided to tackle her, and hold her legs. She finally fell to the ground screaming.
"GET HER JILL!" Barry screamed as Jill ran over to Rebecca and injected the antidote. Rebecca screamed and they all held her down while she breathed heavily and hissed at them. Eventually she fell unconscious again.
Jill knelt down next to her to check her pulse, "She's still alive, but her pulse is incredibly weak. At least she has a pulse though." She said, and looked down at Rebecca frowning.
"You think she might be immune… to the virus? Meaning it doesn't kill her?" Billy asked.
"Possibly, I read a file about certain blood types having a higher chance of being immune. I was infected at one point and survived, so it's a great possibility, and I hope that's the case." Jill said.
David walked down the corridor limping a bit, "All the explosives are set and a helicopter is on its way. Let's get out of here, someone needs to carry Rebecca; I've got a broken rib, but I'm all right. I guess I deserved that one after being such an ass to her." David said wincing.
Billy picked up Rebecca in his arms as they all made their way out of there. Once they were outside it was dawn, they had been in there longer than they had thought. They kept walking until they found an opening in the woods, then Mark cracked open a flare. The sound of a helicopter approached and started to land. Jill got into the helicopter first, helping Billy with Rebecca's body. Barry, David, and Mark got in last. They all looked at the pilot, it was Chris. He looked back and saw Rebecca's unconscious body, thinking the worst.
"No…" He said with a deepening sadness.
"She's still alive, we just need to get her some help." Jill said, wanting to welcome Chris, but also knowing it wasn't the proper time.
"Okay, let's get back to the base and into the hospital there, looks like there's more than one injured." Chris said glancing back at David.
"Your sister… what happened?" Jill asked.
"She's actually at the base waiting on me. She's fine, just a little banged up. There were a few casualties.", Said Chris as he flew them towards the base.
Chris got them all there rather quickly, and once they arrived, some of the staff from the base hospital got Rebecca out on a stretcher and took her immediately to a room. Billy followed, and so did the rest of the group, but they weren't allowed in the room. Claire was already nearby and ran there to see what the commotion was about.
"Is she going to be okay?" Claire asked.
"I don't know… I hope so. I can't lose her." Jill said. "I'm Jill by the way, I'm sure you know that already though." Said Jill.
"Yeah, Chris talks about you all the time. I've seen pictures; it's a pleasure to finally meet you… I just wish it wasn't like this." Claire said frowning.
A nurse came out of the room, "Her vitals are great, more than great actually. She's waking up right now, but there's just one thing… her eyes. They began to glow red for a moment when she awoke, but then went back to normal. I've never seen something so strange in my life." The nurse said walking out. Jill and Billy both ran into the room.
"Rebecca, how are you feeling?" Billy asked as he walked in and sat on the chair next to her bed.
"I feel… amazing. I've never felt this alive before, this powerful. I'm sorry for my actions before, I don't quite remember much, other than throwing David up against a wall." She explained, and got up out of the bed.
"Hey! Becca, I don't think you should be doing that right now." Jill said trying to put Rebecca back into the bed, but it was as if she were pushing a brick wall.
"The powers, they stayed with you." Jill said, amazed.
"I guess so… Sorry about breaking your rib David." Rebecca said as she saw David poking his head through in awe.
"Oh… it's totally fine, I know you didn't mean to." He said, and then walked over to a nurse to get checked out.
"So… now what?" Rebecca said smiling; "Although that man was a maniac I guess I'll have to thank him for my newly acquired skills." She added.
She walked over to Billy, and at this point Jill walked out of the room knowing she was okay and went to talk to Chris.
"Billy, I'm glad I found you again. I haven't had a chance to say it yet, but I-" Mark came in interrupting the intimate moment.
"Good, you're alive and better than ever! Now what do you say about restin' for a while before we go on a mission again? You deserve some time off." Mark said.
"Absolutely…I think we all deserve a bit of time off." Billy said, smiling at Rebecca, and Rebecca agreed.
Everyone got adjusted that night to the new base. Jill and Chris went into the same tent, while Rebecca and Billy went into theirs. Everything was peaceful at that moment, and that's all they wanted. One moment of peace… a moment to let everything sink in. Even though they had no idea what was in store for them next, they were happy they survived this long, happy to be with each other, and happy to have taken down a small branch of Umbrella. That was how it was going to have to be, taking down Umbrella once and for all, one facility at a time.