Resident Evil: Striking the Heart of Umbrella

Chapter 7 of my Resident Evil story, enjoy.

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Chapter 7: A Nasty Surprise

Jason steadied himself, aimed his weapons carefully and slipped into the fourth floor. He took a few cautious steps forwards and then, acting on instinct, leapt back. He was just in time as, right where he had been, a large, yet thin, swinging razor sharp blade swung out rapidly. Jason sighed.

"Great, traps." He muttered darkly.

He guessed that by stepping on some part of the floor he had activated a series of traps as the blade continued to swing through the slots in the wall and ceiling. There were more blade traps further along the corridor.

'Alright, so there are traps on this floor and they're now activated.' Jason pondered to himself. 'Guess I gotta time this right…avoid them and get through here, try and turn them off.'

With that Jason holstered his handgun and sheathed his knife. He took a deep breath and moved. He timed his movements to dodge through the swinging blades and finally, passing some by only a hair's breadth, he reached the end of the corridor, where it formed a 'T' with the next corridor. He spotted an ajar door and slipped inside. He noticed a collection of papers scattered around the room and sighed; he knew something useful might be amongst them, so it was time to start searching.

After some searching he found something that looked like it could be useful. It was a slip of paper that had what looked like a safe combination. Jason smiled.

"Good." He muttered. 'Hopefully they'll be something useful in that safe…Huh, wait, oh no…'

As he thought that he heard the distinct footfalls of a Crimson Head. He drew his weapons again when he stepped out of the room and saw the Crimson Head wasn't alone. Leeches were crawling along the wall and a Hunter was coming from the other side. Jason shook his head and immediately opened fire as the Hunter and Crimson Head charged. He was swift to eliminate them and turned his attention to the leeches.

"Bring it." He challenged and used his shotguns to kill as many as possible before they leapt towards him. He ducked and used his knife to kill some that jumped later than the first one. When he turned around the surviving leeches had swarmed together; forming a humanoid monster. Jason sighed and opened fire with his shotguns again. He did not stop firing until all the leeches were dead. Once he had fully reloaded his guns he prepared to search for the safe. The passage the Hunter had been on ended on a dead end, without any doors, so he headed left. As he did however he heard a hissing noise and darted forwards, just as jets of flames came out from the walls.

The flames continued to burst out of jets in the wall. He ducked and hurried forwards; narrowly avoiding nasty burns. He turned the corner and hurried away from even more flames until finally he was able to duck into a small side office; just beyond where the flames ended. He fought desperately to get his breath and then noticed the room.

'A safe, is it right one?' Jason thought as he slowly approached it. 'Only one way to find out.'

With that he approached the safe and tried the combination; he frowned, nothing happened. He was about to give up when he noticed the arrows between the numbers.

"Could it…surely not…"

He turned the dial to the first number again; the arrows pointed to the right, so he turned the dial to the right. When he reached the second number he stopped and followed the arrows until he hit the fourth and final number. The safe unlocked and opened. Jason smirked as he read the various folders; he picked out the important ones and stashed them in his pack. He then spotted four metal plates; showing strange designs. With them was a note which pointed out they were part of a device to turn off the traps. He sighed and took them, now he knew what he had to do.

He stepped back out into the corridor; he eyed the still active flame trap with distaste. He then headed to the door at the end of the corridor and opened it; heading into the next corridor, this one was blander than the others; it was also infested with leeches and then he saw it. A large monsters; appearing for all intents and purposes; a giant leech; several appendages stuck out of it; but it was clearly dangerous; it's fanged mouth gaped at him as it turned to face him. He sighed; remembering the document he read; it was the Queen Leech, the source of the infected leeches. He raised his weapons but the Queen Leech did not stick around; it leapt through the already broken window; leaving Jason to face the leeches. He fought them off desperately, while pondering on what he had just seen.

'Good, it's here; saves us the trouble of hunting it down. Just gotta find it and destroy it.' He thought as he drove his knife through the last leech. 'Main problem is how to kill, and that's not the high infection source I sensed earlier.'

It was then Jason heard what sounded like gunfire and a large scale fight coming two floors down.

"Lisa?!" He cried, "Damn, I've gotta get down there; gotta switch these traps off."

With that he hurried onwards and soon found himself at a dead end. It was then he realized he had arrived. He was now at the control device for the traps.

He noted a few inscriptions and realized he had to insert the plates into the right points on the board in front of him; there were four hollow spots for the four plates in his pack. The other four plates were already in place. He bit his lip, he had to focus and get this right first time, or he'd activate yet another trap, one that he would not be able to escape from. He read the inscription that detailed the answers he sought:

Clouds flowing over a hill.

Skies on a sunny day.

Tangerines that are bitter.

Lucky four leaf clover.

Violets in the garden.

Dandelions along a path.

Unavoidable sleeping time.

Liquid flowing from a slashed wrist.

Jason sighed and checked the plates in his possession; a blue green yellow and red plate. He nodded slowly and noted the way the colours formed a square in a clockwise direction. He quickly worked things out in his mind until he was certain he had the right answer. The gaps were at each corner of the square; he inserted the blue one in the upper right square. He then inserted the others in the remaining three in the order; green, yellow, red. There was a loud click and then he heard the flames of the trap extinguish. He breathed a sigh of relief and hurried to the stairs. He hurried down the stairs until he reached the bottom and stopped dead. There was no sign of Lisa; but standing before him was a grotesque monster; going by the destruction around it, it had just escaped being pinned under the chandelier. Now free it was out for blood; and he was now in its sights.


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