Decent into hell...
The sound of the emrgency elevator that Ada called pierced the more than awkward silence surrounding everyone.
"Hey Ada...what's down in those labs?" Elza asked, looking over at the scientist, who, if she were alone, would scream her lungs out in frustration at the threat engulfing the upper floor they had just left.
"Hopefully...a means of escape, there should be a train that we use to ship test subjects to and from here" she replied.
"Test subjects?," Enquired Marvin, "I thought Umbrella was a medicinal company?"
Eyes darted at Ada, each one piercing through her like a blade. She smiled.
"How do you think we test these medicines? we transport people with the gravest of illnesses from all over the world to test out our products of course!"
Marvin senced that something wasn't right, but with no proper evidence to back himself up with he simply had to go along with what he was told,a lesson learned from previous happenings as a police officer.
"I still don't think it sounds right..." He muttered to himself, unaudible to the others.
The ping of the elevator snapped everone to their senses, once again ready to lead everyone to safety, Leon rose to his feet, helping the others to theirs also and going to the doors.
"Are you guys ready?, listen to whatever Ada has to say seeing as she knows this place like the back of her hand...If for any reason we get split up, be on your best guard, we don't know what could be down here" He said with confidence in his voice, as if this was a routine training exercise back at the station, not a potential apocalypse for them.
With a press of a button, the elevator doors opened, revealing a stainless laboratory, completely contrasting to the other blooddrenched locations they had all been to that night.
"Hello?" A small voice asked from under a nearby desk, fear filling it.
"Who's there?" Leon asked, keeping his gun raised and walking over slowly.
Out stepped a young girl, about twelve years old. She was still dressed in the local school's uniform, absolutely spotless except for tear stains which had left her eyes red and shiny from tears, with lines over her face from where tears had slid down. The sight of a poor, defenceless child shocked everyone for two reasons: 1. Why was she all alone in this carnage, and 2. How the hell had she gotten into this place?
"My name is Sherry Birkin...I'm all alone here..." she whimpered, taken over almost completely by fear it seemed.
"William's daughter?!" gasped Ada in her head, looking down and seeing her colleages face on this child, she was his spitting image.
Sherry nodded, but sighed, almost starting to cry, as she had not seen her father since before the madness above ground had started.
"Come along with us Sherry, we can't leave you alone here!" commanded Leon in the nicest possible way and with a smile that took all the effort he had thanks to there being absolutely nothing to smile about.
The young girl walked over to the sides of Elza and John, the two of the group who seemed "natural" in a sence, due to their civilian attire. Leon led the group out of of the room, into corridors displaying the exact opposite conditions: lights flickering due to a botched power supply elsewhere in the building, blood littering the place, and off in the distance, moans from the foe they were all too used to by now.
"Impossible...," Ada whispered, "H-how could they have gotten here?"
Poor Sherry whimpered in fear, curling into a ball, shaking violently.
"Sherry...listen to me," whispered Elza soothingly, "Take my hand ok?, I'll look after you, we all will, right guys?"
"Right!" Everyone replied as happy as they could, yet still keeping their awareness of anything that could pop out of anywhere high.
A strange, snarling sound sounded from above, then silence...before huge talons pierced the ceiling, snagging Leon's shoulder, and forcing everyone to jump out of the way as the talons tore through the ceiling as if it was made of cardboard, and in jumped a hideous creature which looked half human, half monster.
"William?..." Ada said with next to no emotion, due to the massive shock of seeing her former workmate in this state.
"Dad?!" Cried Sherry with fear/horror for the same reasons.
"Sherry..." Snarled what was William Birkin, which began to advance on the group.
"Elza! get Sherry away from here!" Ordered Leon, pointing his Deagle at the poor girls father. "Everyone else, you know what to do..."
Without hesitation from either, Sherry and Elza ran into a nearby room as bullets fired, and the monster yelled in what was either pain or anger.
Leon fired just one Deagle bullet, which seemed to have little to no effect, so instead of wasting this precious ammo, he decided to pump three 9mm bullets at a time into Birkin, this seemed to effect him more.
John's shotgun had more of a punch, so after a few shots, Birkin was left dazed by the looks, but when everyone's hopes were up, Birkin launched into a powerfull charge, straight into Roy, sending him flying into a wall at a high speed, then batting Marvin to the floor with a mighty swipe.
"William!" Ada called, handgun trained straight at his head, "You don't want it to end like this do you?"
A responce came in the form of a scream, which Ada answered with a swift bullet to the head, seemingly taking William down.
"Guys, it's safe!" Leon called to Elza and Sherry, suddenly dashing over to Roy, who was now coughing up blood.
"I-I think a few ribs are broken!" he groaned, clutching his chest.
Marvin limped over with the help of John and Elza suddenly darted over, emotions almost getting the better of her. She knelt down beside him, placing a tender hand on his along with his shoulder as not to arouse suspision.
"Go find a safe room somewhere away from here, try to find the freight train platform, I'll deal with my old friend..." Ada said calmly, looking down at Birkin, who now de-mutated to a normal human state.
John and Leon slung a groaning Roy's arms over their shoulders, helping him away, following various signs which led them to the platform.
Ada, meanwhile, began lugging away Birkin's body when, once out of sight of the others, twitched.
"What the?..." Ada wondered, dropping the body and stepping back, as the twitchings got more regular when suddenly, Birkin's eyes snapped open and he returned to life.
"You look surprised..." he said with a menacing tone to his voice, advancing towards Ada.
"S-stay back!" She nervously replied, raising her gun.
William laughed, smacking it out of her hand in a flash.
"Now, my dear Ada, I'm sorry I have to do this..." He chuckled, wrenching a pipe from the wall with superhuman strength, "But you leave me no choice..."
He then swung the pipe quick as a flash, which was met by a sickening crack, followed by the thump of Ada's body hitting the floor.
"I'm sorry...but I can't have you revealing any weaknesses to your "friends"..."
A safe room had been located for Roy to attempt to recouperate. Lay against a wall, he looked almost like one of the undead creatures everyone had faced, with blood around his mouth and covering his chin, staining his body armour.
"That train can't be far from here..." John sighed, looking at his injured partner.
"It isn't..." came a voice from the other side of the room, and out steped a middle aged woman, dressed like Ada.
Sherry's eyes lit up and she darted over to the woman, who she shared an embrace with.
"Mum! I thought I'd never see you again!" she cried.
"Thank you..." the woman said to everyone "Thank you for looking after my daughter, I am Annette Birkin, William's wife..."
This comment prompted weapons to be raised at her, she didn't look at all surprised though, she actually looked as though she expected it.
"You won't believe me, I'm sure, but I had nothing to do with William's current state, I do, however, know how we can stop him..."
Marvin stepped forward and gave her a disapproving look which shot straight through her.
"How do we stop him then?" he asked, with a tone that said "I don't believe you at all lady"
Annette stood up, away from Sherry, and picked out some documents from a nearby storage crate.
"These are documents which tell us how to create an anti-virus to combat the one running through my husband at this very moment..."
"Virus?" Leon interupted, "What virus?"
"There are two different viruses: the T and G viruses, you have already encountered both, G is basically William's entire life's work, he and that Ada woman both worked for years on it, and with no proper test subjects, William tried it upon himself and became that monster you've encountered, the T virus was created up in one of our labs in the Arklay Mountains, and has been released upon the whole of Raccoon City, I have absolutely no idea how that happened though..."
The team couldn't believe what they were hearing, Ada was behind William's mutation, and that the reason the city was in peril was due to a lab experimentation, it boggled the minds of them all.
"Where can we make this anti-virus?" John asked uneasily, "And where can we get medical attention for Roy?"
"The anti-virus can be made in a lab nearby, and medical attention can be found on the train you seek..."
Leon knew what everyone had to do, he took a deep breath, knowing that this could be the final step to escape.
"John, Elza and Marvin, you take Roy and Sherry and get to that train, me and Annette will get this anti-virus, so that we can stop Birkin once and for all..."
An alarm began to sound...
ATTENTION! BIOHAZARD OUTBREAK THROUGHOUT COMPLEX!...ATTENTION! BIOHAZARD OUTBREAK THROUGHOUT COMPLEX!
"B-but, they were all locked up...how could they have gotten out of containment?!" Annette gasped.
"What's gotten out?" Leon asked hastily.
"...Everything...and William was behind it..." Annette said with the colour of her face drained.
A nearby security monitor confirmed their fears, it showed William standing next to a control saying "Release locks" and laughing.
"Our next moves are pretty much suicide!" Marvin said to Leon, "What we gonna do?"
A long pause greeted everyone...
"We have to try...this is our final chance of survival...are you all with me?" Leon said, not entirely sure what to do himself.
"We're with you buddy..." Roy coughed.
And with that comment, which sent a glimmer of hope all around, they agreed on one thing: Whether their next moves were suicide or not, they were going to fight for survival, or to the death...
To Be Concluded...
Writers note: Sorry for the delay to this chapter guys, my internet packed up and I couldn't get it fixed for a while, hope this chapter makes up for the wait though. Yes, the next chapter will be the final one of Biohazard 1.5: The Forgotten Horror, but I'll do my best to make it the best of all the chapters!
-ResiAddict.
