((Now we get to the good parts!))
Every one was in shock. No one
could express in words the feeling they felt and most just stared at the ground
thinking.
"But all hope is not lost my friends.. Mortalus
can still be stopped. I have come before you to explain what has happened in
the Nexter island lab. Mortalus was released two day ago due to the twisted
intentions of its creator. The person who created Mortalus wanted his creation
free, so Dr. Kayton released it. I believe he was quite foolish. You don't
really don't have to go to the island any more. But may I remind you that Mr.
Burnside is still there and I don't know what Mortalus is up to there but it is
still there as well. I frankly believe that Mortalus is planing something and
that it was the one that cause the chaos on the island but I'm afaird I'm not
fully sure if its intentions" Mr. Trent said calmly.
The silence was just too much. Claire shook her head and looked at David. David
looked over the group and sighed.
"This is a decision that every one has a say on. I refuse to make it up
for all of you.. All against" David said calmly.
Every one remained silent. "All for?" Every
one reposed, and David nodded. "Well then it shall be. Mr. Trent we are
going to Nexter Island. Thanks for your warning but we can handle
ourselves."
Mr. Trent smiled "Very well then. But I have one more thing to say and
something to give you. You will meet people you once knew on the island don't
lose your edge. And further more I give you this" Mr. Trent said then grab
a blanket off a huge rocket launcher looking gun. "This is the Morphus.
It's a custom launcher designed to destroy B.O.W.S it is not powerful enough to
take out Mortalus but there is a special attachment in the base for this gun
and if you find it you should have no problem taking out Mortalus" Mr.
Trent said then smiled as if he was better then the group.
David looked at the gun and then at Mr. Trent "Thank you Mr. Trent your
help is most welcome. Billy I believe you should have no problem welding this
gun. I wish for you to have it on our team" David said calmly
Billy picked up the mammoth launcher and strapped it to his gear. Mr. Trent
turned and walked back below deck. David turned and looked at his team.
"Well this is unexpected but nothing we can handle team. We are well
equipped and ready for something in this nature" David said trying to calm
the group.
His attempted seemed to work because every one calmed down. Claire sat down
next to her brother and stared out in to the ocean admiring its beauty.
Nightfall was coming and the sun slowly melted away into the sea filling the
sky with a bright orange color. The boat slowly made its way to Laren Island. It was just about the time when the stars started to show
in the evening sky and the sun was almost missing from the horizon. As they got
to shore it was realized that the boat was on autopilot and the mysterious Mr.
Trent had disappeared some time after disappearing below deck. That was no
shock to the group at all.
Every one worked together and soon the undercover rafts where ready to go.
David got out his GPS and pointed in the direction of Nexter Island. That is when the groups split up. David, Jill, Barry,
Billy, and John got on one raft. Chris, Leon, Rebecca, Carlos, and Claire got onto the other raft. The
boat ride was not that long Laren Island and Nexter Island where not far from each other. The boats pulled up to the
shore. All was quiet and every one used the cover of night to get to the main
entrance. David slipped the Level-2 access pass into a card key reader by the
front door. There was a mechanical unlocking sound and the door opened on it
own light flooded out and David motioned every one inside.
The placed looked like a hospital inside but lacked things that would tell it
was a hospital. The place for the most part was in runes. Everything around
indicated some type of fight from some of the bloodstains on the floor to the
broken glass that littered the ground. Then a cry was heard. It was a low
hissing and then a growl. Every one readied their weapons and Claire got out her
Beretta along with almost every one else. Carlos was the first to spot the
hellish creatures.
They looked feline in a way but really more a mutant then anything else. They
had horns on their head with the brain exposed between that; they had long 4
inch claws and foot long canine teeth that protruded from their maws. The tail
seemed to draw attention to it's self, it was for the most part a normal long
feline-like tail but at the very end of the tail dripping with some yellowish
liquid was a long curved talon. There were 4 of them in total and each one had
their amber eyes on the group.
"What the hell are those things?" Carlos said then opened fire upon
the monsters.
The rest of the team delayed only milliseconds before they opened fire as well.
One of the creatures with amazing speed took a right and swung around long on
to group to get to the back. It got low to the ground and like a tabby cat
stalking a mouse slowly stalked up to Chris but a Claire seen it first and
opened fire shooting at the exposed cranium of the monster. The teams combined
firepower took the creatures down quickly. David slowly put away his Beretta
and walked over to examine the creature.
"Well I don't know what it is, but they sure are fast and agile. I'm
guessing this is only a taste of what is too come in this place. Is every one
sure we should proceed with the mission?" David asked.
"I think I'm speaking for every one here when I say yes, of course. We
didn't come here to be scared off by Umbrella's new top of the line bows. We
came here to put an end to them!" Jill said boldly.
David looked at the team then smiled. "Alright I think we should split up
now, this is the best place to do it and we shall keep in contact via the
radios. If there is ANY trouble phone the other team right away" David
said then looked over his team and motioned them to the right.
"Good luck David. Come on team we still have to find Mr. Burnside"
Chris said then motioned Claire and the others left.
The left hallway was cleaner then the front entrance but it still bared the
scars of some type of battle even here. There were three doors in the hallway
and an elevator at the end of it. One of the doors at the end had a stairs had
a symbol above it so that left 2 unidentified doors. Chris opened one to find a
conference room that was remarkably untouched from the blood shed in the main
entrance. The other door Leon opened, inside was a locker room of some type. Every one
went inside to check it out.
"Hey Claire do you think you could lock pick any of the lockers open.?" Rebecca asked.
Claire nodded then reached into her pocket and took out her lock pick kit. It
had a bunch of tools that a good lock picker would use. Claire sized up the
nearest locker and after a minute of work, Claire was rewarded with a small
click that told her the locker was now unlocked. She set the tools down and
opened the locker. Inside was a pair of jeans and a t-shirt along with some
sneakers and a few personal items.
"Lets try the other lockers who know what we may
find" Chris ordered.
Claire nodded then picked the locks of the remaining seven lockers. Most of the
locker had clothing inside and car keys and such. Only the fifth locker held
any thing of use to the team. Inside that locker was Glock 17 custom with a box
of 32, 9mm bullets. Chris gave Carlos both the Glock and the bullets because
Carlos dislike of Berettas.
"Alright lets move out. I think we should take
the stairs but should we go up or down?" Chris wondered.
"We could split up and search we would cover more ground" Leon said
"No. We need to stick together. Mortalus is running free and I would be a
lot safer if we stayed together. I think we should head down stairs Umbrella
has a weird habit of keeping secrets below ground" Rebecca said.
Claire nodded "Rebecca does have a point, a really good point. I say we go
down stairs" Claire added.
"Alright lets go!" Chris said then led the
group to the stairs.
The stair led both up and down but Chris led the march downward with his gun
ready. Carlos was next in line followed by Rebecca then Claire and last Leon.
The stairs led down through two underground levels then cut off at the door to
basement level three. Another decision had to be made but it was quickly
decided that they would start at the 3 level basement then work their way up
through the levels. Carlos opened the 3 level door and
Chris quickly ran through the door gun raised and ready to shoot. Chris did a
quick sweep of the place then lowered his gun and told the others it was safe.
The door led to the boiler room of the building. It was hot and there was not
much to see. A set of tools hung on the wall to the right as the main boiler
creaked and cracked to the left.
"Alright this is a dead end. Lets go back"
Chris quickly ordered then turned to head up stairs.
Every one started to follow Chris when Leon spotted a piece of paper sitting near the table of tools.
"Hold up!" Leon shouted.
Leon quickly trotted over to examine the piece of paper. Leon quickly read over it then looked at the others.
"It's a maintenance report. It says that the room that holds the virus
samples was having a problem keeping the room at the 23ยบ F that it needs to
keep the virus samples in liquid form. It said that the problem will be fixed
right away and it was dated yesterday" Leon said then looked at the group.
Chris took the report from Leon and read over it himself. He paused then handed the report
back to Leon. Leon folded up the paper and put it in one of his pockets.
"Well team. The virus room is on Basement level 1 shall we go check it
out?" Chris asked.
Every one agreed silently that they should head to the virus room. Again Chris
took the lead of the party with every one following in the same order. They
marched up the stair with out a word but just as Chris reached for the door of
the 1 level basement a roar was heard upstairs. Chris looked back at his team
then led the charge upstairs to investigate.
Meanwhile.
Jill Valentine leaned against a wall watching her team. They had come across
some more the feline type but there superior fire power quickly ended the
monsters lives. David kept the moral among them very high. They had made some
progress but not much. Jill looked around the lab they found. There was nothing
of fast interest just a horrific sight. As with most of the Umbrella labs the
place was stained in blood. The only thing that was really of use was the
computer in the corner but its information was locked behind a password. With a
long sigh David told the team to move out. Jill was more then happy to leave
the morbid place. Out in the hall way laid a dead feline creature that they
shot just before they entered the lab.
"Now don't any of you find it a bit odd that we have seen a lot of these
cat bows but no other ones or Zombies" Jill asked.
David paused then looked at her.
"Yes, you bring up a good point Jill. Any ideas any
one?" David asked.
The team was silent. No one even try to explain, Jill guess that it was just as
much a mystery to her as to her teammates. Jill looked down at one of the dead
cats and poked it with the toe of her boot. It was a mystery indeed every thing
around her just raised more questions then answers.
"Well, we should move on maybe some of our questions will be answered
later" David said with a heavy sigh.
David turned and looked around then motioned the team down the hallway. Jill
stayed in the middle of the group with her. The sheer weight of the rocket
launcher was starting to make her shoulder ache so she holsters her gun and
moved the launcher so it now rested on her left shoulder. David took a left
turn that lead to another hallway with door at the end of the hallway. David
quickly motioned for a search of the room. The door was unlocked and behind the
doors yielded yet another lab. This lab was different from the others. It had glass
stasis tubes and many computers. Almost all of the tubes where broken outward
and glass littered the floor. Bloody paw prints led to an air duct. Billy
walked over and examined 1 of the remaining tube that was still undamaged.
"Well we now know where those hellcats came from" Billy said then
motioned to the sleeping cat like monster contained with in the tube.
David paused and walked over to the tube. "Appears that way" David
said then counted the busted tubes "Then that means there were about 21 cats
that got free" David said then paused "We have taken out about 7 of
them.. So that means 14 still remain free" David
said.
A computer in the corner quickly caught Jill attention. The computer in the
corner monitor was on and it admitted a soft blue glow onto the keyboard in
front of it. Jill walked over to it and sat down placing her fingers careful on
the keys of the keyboard. The computer came to life at the touch of one of the
keys and displayed the Umbrella logo. Jill opened the last used program on the
computer, a screen filled with numbers popped up and the computer made a
clicking noise. The sound of the computer caught the attention of Jill's peers
and David came over to investigate.
"What's did you find?" David asked.
Jill shrugged and got up from the computer to let him sit down. "Beats me
but some one left in a hurry they didn't shut it off" Jill said.
David clicked out of the program the computer was in and opened a file on the
desktop labeled 'report'. The computer ticked and then opened a word document.
A picture of the hellcats popped up on the screen that was labeled 'Fe9 Bio
Organic Weapon'. David scrolled down and began to skim through the text and
read it out loud.
"Fe9 is the newest creation of Dr. Leslie Hauer..
She uses the grace and hunting instinct of a cat and with the aggression and
power of a Cerebus to make the Fe9... They have extreme speed and hunting power
but the major flaw it the exposed cranium of the creature..
Dr. Hauer believes she can work out the problems of the Fe9 in the upcoming
months.. For now she works on the Mortalus project
with Dr. Kayton and will start up research as soon as that project is complete.. As for the 24 Fe9 that remain in this lab. They are
slated for autopsy tomorrow at 12 hundred hours, except for specimen # 12. It
shows promise and will be the foundation for the newer Fe9 models." David
said and then turned towards his team.
Every one had gathered around David well he was reading. Jill turned back and
looked at the glass stasis tubes, and notices the numbers below the tubes. The
Fe9 that had remained under sleep were numbers 8, 12, 20. Jill paused and
remembered what the report said about number 12. Jill slowly stepped forward
towards its stasis tube. 12 was different, It was much
bigger and not all of its cranium was exposed, and had developed a third eye in
the middle of its forehead. Barry joined her at the tube.
"He is different ain't he? Still as ugly as ever but different" Barry
said looking at number twelve.
"Yeah. He is a big bow glad we don't have to
fight him" Jill said.
David got up from the computer and look towards Jill and Barry. "Do you
think we could destroy that thing with out waking it up?" David asked.
John held up his shotgun and pointed it at the tank. "Just give me one
shot or we could take it home and have it hunt those teenagers that make crop
circles in Mr. Sarth wheat field" John said with a smirk.
Jill rolled her eyes and sighed at John's remark. David kept quiet and examined
the stasis tube. David let out a sigh then looked around the lab.
"Well team lets get moving. If we need to we can come back and investigate
this place further..." David said then motioned to team to move out.
Jill nodded to David and turned to leave, Barry, Billy, and John followed.
David took one last look at twelve then hurried to catch up with his team. Jill
stepped aside and let David take his place at the front of the group. The
hallway was barren and David started to back track through the some of the
areas that the team had already explored. Suddenly one of the doors in the
hallway busted open and a very scared man wearing a blood stained lab coat came
out.
"You gotta help me.. They left me here to
die!" The man cried.
David stepped forward to calm the man. "Calm down sir. Who left you to
die?" David asked.
The man took a few deep breaths then looked at David. "My
fellow scientist. They hated me because my work was much better then theirs" The man said.
Jill exchanged a look with Barry; Barry seemed to not really care either way
about the man's problems. Jill couldn't blame him; she hated Umbrella has much
as he did. David step forward.
"Don't worry we will get you out of here" David said.
The man's face brightened up. "Thank you Mr. Trapp. I knew the S.T.A.R.S
where nice people" The man said.
David nodded "So what is your name?" David asked.
"James. James Brooks" The man replied.
Jill sighed then suddenly her instincts told her something was wrong with this
picture. Jill paused then looked at the man. His lab coat it was stained with
blood but no wounds where present to account for the mass amount of blood on
his coat. Further more only his coat was stained with blood his pants and shoes
where spotless. Also Jill paused wondering how the man could have known that
they where the S.T.A.R.S. and David's last name. Jill took a step forward to
get a better view of the man then noticed a gun in his pocket. There was
something else going on here and Jill wanted to find out. She quickly reached
for her Beretta and aimed it at the man.
"Who the hell are you!?" Jill demanded.
The man gave Jill a dirty look, knowing his cover was blown.