The helicopter descended down through an opening in the dirt. "This isn't supposed to be open", Jeff looked out the window and noticed the gate had been shut off, "Oh, this isn't good". Jack loaded his Colt, "How can they break through the electric fence?", he looked into the hangar. "It can only be opened from inside the compound. Someone must have opened it in order to let the creature in", Jeff turned off the engines and jumped out, "Hopefully they haven't found a way through the blast door into the inner base. Colonel, there's an emergency submarine with enough room for fifteen people in the south west section of the compound. I'm going to look for the Captain and Doctor Sertan. The password to the submarine's computers is Clearance Z", Jack nodded and ran out through the other end of the hangar, his steps not echoing anymore.

Jeff made his way to the locked blast door seperating the hangar from the quarters, "Let's see..." he punched in the words Backwards Fish, and the door's opened letting in a breeze of wind. Obviously the blast doors seperating the outer compound from the inner didn't close when they should, so Jeff expected the worst as he made his way through the dark hallway. A few lights were flickering and some of the doors had jammed. He stopped infront of the quarters, and approached the console on the side of the wall. He kneeled down and removed the panel beneath the console, fiddling around with a few wires untill he unlocked the door. "Peter? Thomas? Anybody?" he carefully approached the officers quarters as he heard a loud banging noise on the door. He felt something behind him, and as he turned around he was knocked out by a dark shadowy figure.

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Jack was halfway through the outdoor section of the compound when he saw a group of the creatures, "I think i'll call them leapers because they always seem to leap", he told himself and snuck past the leapers. The outer compound consisted of a muddy field with four entrances into each section of the inner compound. Each entrance was well hidden underneath a fake brick wall with an iris scanner by it. However, since the lockdown, it had been shut off and had to be hacked open if someone wished to enter. As Jack made his way around the grass hill, he noticed a shadowy figure cracking the Iris scanner, then disappearing into the south west section of the inner compound. Not paying attention to his steps, Jack tripped and fell through a trap possibly placed by the figure. He was knocked cold when his head hit a root hanging from the side of the dirt wall.

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As Jeff's eyes opened, he realised he was inside some kind of medical room. There were Doctors around him, "Excuse me? Where am i?" he asked and looked around. All of the persons turned around, "You'll be fine, Jeff. Don't worry, we're going to have you back in the base soon. We just need to make some adjustments to your loyality", the Doctor took a sharpnel, "Now, lie still. This wont hurt at all". Before being able to ask where he was, he passed out, only to wake up in the same spot he had been knocked out in. Only this time, Peter was there too. "Mate, are you all right?", Peter offered him a hand, which Jeff gladly took. "Yeah, i'm fine. What happened?" he asked and looked around, rubbing the back of his head, "Something hit me...". Peter gave him a confused stare, "No one has been in this room. I heard someone calling, so i went out to see who. And i'm glad i did, as the door had been left open".

"Where's the Colonel?", Peter asked and glanced around the room for him. "I don't know. He was supposed to be heading to the south west area of the compound", Peter got up and walked into his room, beginning to work on his laptop. "DNA Scans show... Wow", Peter turned the screen to Jeff. Over a hundred dots were moving outside the compound, even more inside the south west section of the compound. "One of those is the Colonel. And i think i know which one", the camera zoomed into Jack, on the ground in what seemed like a sewer. "This is the old facility. It was shut down back in the '70s after the government found out what was going on. A BCCU squad was sent down there last year, they never returned so they shut off all access to it. It is said it holds Pstolski's remains, but i doubt that", Peter laughed, "No matter, we need to do something".

He tapped a few times, logging into the camera systems, "There we have him. He's in the old water containment facility. I think i can redirect water into the chamber to wake him up". Small amounts of water began pouring into the orange coloured circular tank. Jack looked around and spit out the water, noticing the camera turning around. He got up and began looking for an exit, finding a door still working leading into a long, dusty hall.

"Do you like watching me?!", he shouted towards the camera. It panned towards a door, using it's lens to zoom. Taking it as a sign, Jack approached the door, and as he did it opened revealing a huge hall with labaratory equiqment. He approached one of the containers, dusting it off. It was nothing but an old chemical canister. He looked over his shoulder, spotting what seemed like a sort of glass tank. As he approached a groan echoed from inside the tank. Only when he got close he could see what it was; A huge green mutation of what seemed to be a human. On the side of the tank was a damaged picture, but he recognized the face as Doctor Pstolski, one of the founders of the facility. Before he could take a closer look, the glass between him and Pstolski broke, sending the mutated Pstolski into a rage.

"Oh no!", Peter exclaimed and hit the keys, locking down the lab as soon as Jack was out. Trapping Pstolski temporarily. He watched as Jack ran down the rusty metal hall, rounding corner after corner. Peter took an extra look at the schematics, realizing that Jack was heading towards the nearest exit. "How does he do that?!" Peter leaned back, Jeff standing behind him over the chair. "He's amazing. Nearly... Superhuman?", Jeff looked at Peter, obviously only just hearing what he had said. Peter went back to the keyboard, looking up Jack Porter Ankry. A screen denying him access appeared, so he ran a cracking program in the background while making sure Jack didn't sway from the route. Pstolski had now joined him in his footsteps.

Peter locked all doors except those on Jack's route, directing Jack towards the huge blast doors dividing the Inner Compound and the Old Facility. Meanwhile, the program had finished cracking the system, bringing up a profile on Jack. "Born 1965 in London, gained alot of medals for his honour and courage... Oh, here it is; Subject of the Clearance Super Human Program! He have a daughter too, Jennifer Ankry", Peter turned to Jeff, "Why the stare?" he laughed. "The Clearance Super Human Program... I worked on it. I brought in subjects for them to test their machines on. I ended up being part of it myself", Jeff sat down on the bed and hid his face in his hands.

The door in the quarters suddenly opened, with Jack throwing himself through it. Peter grabbed his rifle and fired at Pstolski. This caused the mutated man to trip and slide right under the door and Jack closed it, beheading the former scientist. "Where's Thomas?" Jack asked and looked at Jeff and Peter. "I'll check", Peter replied and sat down in the chair making a search on Thomas Sertan. He's in the hangar, trying to fend off the creatures!" Peter shouted. Jack grabbed a rifle from the rack, "Lets go then" he said and stormed out of the room into the hall. The three were mowing down the leapers as they ran, spreading corpses all over the long hall. When they reached the hangar door, Peter put one shot into the panel, forcing the door to open.

Inside it was Thomas, laughing as the three entered the hangar. "I underestimated you, Colonel!", his laughter got louder. "Excuse me?", Jack and Peter were just as confused, but Jeff seemed to have understood, "You're not really Thomas, or the son of Jeremy Sertan, are you?" Jeff lowered his rifle. Thomas simply nodded, "You're clever, boy. When did you figure it out?", Jeff looked at him and sighed, "Well, for one, you're the only one that knew how to completely shut down the facility, Jeremy!". Jack and Peter turned and stared at Jeff, "Jeremy? As in Jeremy Sertan? But this guy is young!" Jack exclaimed. "Yes, the serum was originally designed as a way to make myself younger. Unfortunately, it didn't work as i wanted it to. Instead of making me younger, it made me immune to aging. Of course this was back in the '70s. While the new facility was being used, i spend alot of my time in the old one, making experiments on poor Pstolski. I had to fabricate a story to explain our disappearances..."

Jack was puzzled, and kept staring at Jeremy, "So you got yourself a plastic surgery to make yourself look fifty years younger? What a twisted genius you are", Jeff laughed. Peter took aim, "Drop your gun, Jeremy. It's over, you're coming with us to America", Jack switched his stare to Peter, "What are you doing, Captain?!". Peter kept aiming at Jeremy, "You're a loyal and great soldier, Jack, but you're just not the elite. I'm Sergeant Peter Law of the United Nations Virus Extermination Program. We suspected the outbreaks originated from Great Britain, and we were right". Jack knocked Peter down, "You... I thought you were loyal to me!"

Meanwhile, Jeremy had gotten into the helicopter and started the engines, turning the helicopter and spraying the three. "Get down Colonel!" Jeff shouted and threw himself into Jack, knocking both onto the ground. In the middle of the confusion, Jack had been hit in the arm by the helicopters gun. Jeff got up and fired at the helicopter, hitting Jeremy in the arm through the window. "Peter, close the hangar doors!" he shouted and got behind some crates in the middle of the helicopter pad. The room that had such a cold atmosphere was now littered with shells from the firefight going on. A kathunk could be heard and the doors began closing. "I wont die this easy!", Jeremy fired a final round onto the ground, barely missing Jeff and Peter, hitting Jack in the chest.

However, to their luck, the propellers had been caught between the hangar doors, crushing them and sending the helicopter plummeting into the ground. A huge explosion, and smoke filled the room. Then nothing... Everything went dark and quiet. No birds, no wind. Nothing. "Jeff... Get up, damn!", Jeff woke up and stared right into Peter's face, which had been covered in a thick black ash. "Phew, that was a close call, dude" he laughed and dusted off Jeff. Jeff looked around the room, the sun was rising in the horizon, and a distant helicopter could be heard. "What about the Colonel?", he asked and got up. "He's dead. He did say there was a safe haven in Spain somewhere. I'll need to go back to Washington. If i'm lucky, they have managed to contain the outbreak", Peter looked at the sky. The wreck was no longer burning, but a thick fog was rising from it. "No, Peter, i'll come with you. I don't think i'll be able to go back to Europe after this. Just too many memories", Jeff grabbed his pistol and looked at the descending helicopter bearing the BCCU logo. "Wan't a ride?" Jeff asked, smiling as they got into the helicopter.

As the helicopter ascended out through the top, a man walked into the hangar grinning, "At least they got out". Jack turned around, grabbing his rifle and putting safety off, "Project Clearance Z has been activated... It has only just begun", he walked out of the hangar to meet with a group of BATIS Guards.