Resident Evil: Secrets in the Shadows

Chapter 10 of my Resident Evil story, enjoy.

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Diao Lover: Thanks, glad you are enjoying it and yes, he's only a minor character and was never meant to be a real threat.
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Now onto the story.

Disclaimer: Resident Evil belongs to Capcom.

Chapter 10: Elsie's Trap

14:28 PM 11th May 1995

After a few minutes John had recovered enough to continue onwards so they readied their weapons and began to explore the mall.

"So, where are we going exactly?" John asked, it was Jacob who replied, "Up to the roof, the chopper's up there."

John shook his head, "I know that, I mean just now, how are we gonna get up there we can't just use the stairs and escalators."

Lydia turned to look back at them, this time she was leading while Lisa brought up the rear.

"We're going to get into service corridors somehow; we'll go up from there." Jut then however Carl interrupted.

"Uh guys, incoming."

They quickly readied themselves as a wave of Cerberi attacked them. They immediately opened fire on the infected dogs until finally there was only one left. Before they could kill this one however it was crushed by a Hunter landing on top of it, moments later several more Hunters appeared.

"Crap not good," Lisa muttered, "Keep shooting guys!"

They continued to fire, at the same time trying to run and escape when finally the last Hunter fell dead. But their relief was short lived as they had to run again, they were getting low on ammo and were now being chased by a Licker.

Suddenly Lydia saw a room up ahead.

"Guys, inside, hurry!"

They hurried inside and Lydia slammed the door shut, just in time for the Licker to slam against it.

"Phew, that was too close." Carl breathed heavily.

"Wasn't it just."

They looked up and saw, standing at the other door in the room was Elsie.

"I had a feeling that pathetic cop would screw up." She remarked casually, "Oh well, you just saved us the trouble. We were gonna let him get on the chopper and then push him out once we were high enough. Now we don't need to."

They levelled their guns at her but she just laughed.

"Oh please, you think you can sop me, you still have to deal with them."

As she spoke the group noticed that two Lickers were in the room and a third was entering from the door Elsie had just stepped out of the way from, the one they had shut out had found another way in and had cornered them.

"Good luck." Elsie called out in a sing-song voice before closing the door and locking them in the room.

The four Lickers advanced as Lisa, Carl, .Lydia and John all readied their guns, unarmed and helpless, poor Jacob could only cower behind them. Despite their almost depleted ammo resources they knew they had no choice and used their strongest weapons. They quickly opened fire and, despite several near misses and forced manuvers they were finally able to kill the four Lickers. However now all they had was their handguns.

With a bit of effort they were able to force their way out of the room.

"Okay, so now what?" Carl asked, John glared, "I say we go after that bitch."

Lisa smirked, "That's actually a good idea, she can be our bargaining chip. That evac should have left by now but it's not, it's waiting for her."

John realized what Lisa meant.

"She's a valuable member of the team, they need her, so if we can capture her, we can use her to force them into letting us escape on the chopper." Lisa nodded, "Exactly."

"Am I the only one that sees a problem with this?" Carl asked, "She's USS, she's a highly trained killer."

Lydia however smirked, "Yes, but she's also a scientist who considers B.O.W.s to be works of art, she'll be distracted by them, we just need to launch a sneak attack."

Finally the group all agreed and together they progressed further into the mall. They finally found Elsie; she had her back to them and was admiring a fight between a Hunter and a Licker.

"Amazing, it's such a shame to have to kill these miracles." She muttered to herself, completely engrossed in the fight, "To see the wonders we can do by giving nature a turbo boost."

Just then her radio went off and she examined it and her eyes lit up.

"It's working." She gasped and quickly fiddled with a few buttons.

"Mr Chairman." She said uncertainly. The same cold voice that had spoken to Shannon answered, "Elsie, excellent, it's about time I finally heard from you."

The group could see a screen on the radio and on it was obviously the chairman of Umbrella, Trevor Maxwell. The man they saw was Caucasian, aged thirty-nine with slicked back black hair and black eyes. Although they could only see his upper body they knew he was a strict business man so his clothing consisted of black dress pants; a white shirt; dark blue tie; a black suit jacket; black socks and black highly polished shoes.

"The evac will be leaving soon, you best hurry." He told her, "I know what you're like, so if you miss, just let me know, I will send another but that will be the last."

"Understood sir." Elsie replied before the communication ended, "Well I still have a bit more time; I'll continue to watch the fight." She muttered to herself as she let her attention be completely absorbed by the fight again.

Taking advantage of her distraction, Lydia sneaked up and, slammed the butt of her shotgun into Elsie's head, causing her to slump over unconscious. Lydia dragged her away from the balcony over to the rest of the group.

"Got her." Lydia breathed, "Good job she was so distracted by that fight, or this would've ended in a bloodbath, with us donating most of the blood."

"I don't think she's exactly gonna comply." John commented, "What are we gonna do?"

"We'll need to tie her up somehow." Lisa commented and Jacob stepped forwards, "I found this is the storeroom where those Lickers appeared. When you said you planned to capture I thought it'd be useful."

He was holding a large length of rope. John laughed.

"Living up to your motto of 'be prepared' boy scout, nice." Lisa smiled, "Perfect.

So working quickly they soon confiscated Elsie's radio and handgun, along with its extra ammo and had her tightly tied up, her arms bound behind her back.

"Tie her legs too, we can just drag her." Lydia said and they did so, Carl sighed, "That leaves us with just one problem, she's not gonna be happy with this, and she's likely to attract B.O.W.s"

Lisa smirked, "Leave it to me." She turned to John, "I'm gonna need one of your socks and Jacob, give me your bandana."

They both complied, with some slight grumbling on John's part as he removed his shoe and sock before pulling the shoe back on. Lisa grabbed both items and shoved John's sock into Elsie's mouth before tying the bandana around it, holding the sock in.

"There, now all we have to do is get moving, once she wakes up, she'll be in for a surprise."

The others nodded and, with Lydia dragging Elsie and Lisa leading the group they headed deeper into the mall.

End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.