Give Me Freedom (a 'Resident Evil 0' fic)
Disc.: Only Capcom can claim ownership of this wonderful game series, so that means I can only borrow it for the purpose of writing stories.
A/N: I am on a roll with these chapters, they just keep coming! At this rate, I'll be done with this story soon. But, enough about my troubles, time to complete yet another chapter.
Ch.14- Reunited
After the conversation she had with Enrico, Rebecca exhaled and looked around to see if she could find anything useful. All she managed to obtain was a key to an elevator, which didn't work for the one behind her. Sighing, the brunette Medic trotted across the huge turntable and found an elevator at the end of said huge turntable; beyond it was a wall covered with debris that had most likely crushed it, her attention going back to the elevator. Noticing a keyhole in the panel, Rebecca inserted the key and turned it, the transportation machine thrumming to life slowly.
After waiting around for about 5 minutes, the yellow light on the elevator turned green and the doors opened, the brunette Medic stepping inside and watching the doors close in front of her with a loud thud. Her eyes roamed over the 4 buttons set into the panel, labeled Lvl.1-4. She saw that she was currently on Lvl.3, but knew that Billy had most likely ended up further underground so she pressed the Lvl.4 button…the elevator taking her down a floor and the camera watching her.
(With Marcus)
The brunette male laughed lightly as he watched the girl in the elevator tremble slightly, most likely out of repressed fear, as leeches crawled across the screen…some of them crawling all over him.
"Playtime is over, little girl. You and your friends no longer amuse me; good riddance. Now, nothing will stop me from getting my revenge."
The leeches knew that their time was drawing near. Soon, they and their Queen would rule over everything, and they all squealed in anticipation for what was to come very soon.
(With Enrico)
The dark brunette Bravo Team Captain had managed to escape from the facility with only a few scratches on his body, mostly his arms and a few on his face. He'd had a run-in with a nasty creature known as the Proto Tyrant, the creature not going down easily until he'd used up all his ammo. He'd gotten more, but it was only enough to get him out of the facility and into the woods, the feral creatures roaming it chasing him through the trees. Enrico had somehow gotten to the mansion in the woods without being attacked by those feral monsters, the dark brunette Bravo Team Captain slumped against the double doors and collecting himself before standing up and exploring the mansion.
(With Rebecca)
The brunette Medic got off the elevator after the doors opened, said doors closing loudly behind her as she held her weapon at the ready. Rebecca found herself standing on a thin metal walkway surrounded by roaring water, a pair of double doors straight ahead. Cautiously opening them, the brunette Medic stepped into an empty hallway that had a small lift and a room off to the far right. The room turned out to be a control room, Rebecca finding handgun ammo and a control panel with a display containing 22 blinking red lights and a series of buttons.
A message was displayed upon the panel, which the brunette Medic read quietly to herself.
"Dam Area Supply Panel. Designate a Point to Receive Power. Power can be supplied to any Location up to 2 Points away."
"Well, better get started."
It took her all of 15 minutes to finally get power fully supplied to the areas designated by the now green blinking lights, Rebecca leaving the room and taking the lift down to the basement. The familiar moaning of zombies drew her attention and she took all three of them out with well placed headshots, one of them taking more than a couple shots to kill. The area she was in had a locker that was rusted shut, old computer towers stretching from floor to ceiling, a control panel with rotating fans above it, and a metal door off to the right. Rebecca couldn't find anything useful at the moment, so she went through the metal door on her right.
It led into a hallway with cobwebs on the ceiling, a humanoid leech rushing past her and never noticing her there, the monster obviously having somewhere else in mind if it didn't even stop to attack her. The brunette Medic was actually glad it hadn't noticed her as she turned a lefthand corner and was facing a short hallway. There were two doors, one on the right that was locked and one straight ahead; Rebecca went through the door straight ahead, the room beyond it being some sort of breakroom with a pool table and a bar with a flight of stairs leading downwards. She quickly took out the lone zombie shuffling around, Rebecca going down the stairs and finding a huge machine at the bottom.
It looked like one of those construction grade forklifts with heavy crates sitting on it, rushing water nearby and dirt beneath her feet. There was a door off to the far left, Rebecca having to run around the forklift to find it set into the stone wall, the brunette Medic grabbing the handle and pushing the door open carefully with her gun ready.
The room was empty aside from a box of shotgun shells, an ink ribbon, and a circular shaft lift with a control panel accessible by the small set of steps leading up to it. Ignoring all of this, the brunette Medic went through the only other door in the room, which put her at the top of a flight of metal stairs. Running down them and stepping on already dead leeches, Rebecca found a door and opened it…a metal walkway with water flowing beneath it lying before her. The brunette Medic heard groaning in the room and raised her gun, thinking that it was a zombie but not hearing the shuffling of feet.
Her eyes trailed around the room and landed upon her partner, Billy Coen, unconscious and soaked through his clothes. Water was covering his skin and he was barely breathing, Rebecca placing her gun back on her hips and helping him sit up, the dark brunette male groaning as the brunette Medic used the Heimlich on him to get him to breathe again.
"Come on, Billy. Don't give up; you haven't yet, so don't start now. Breathe!" Rebecca said as she kept using the Heimlich until the dark brunette male started coughing up water, his lungs heaving with exertion and much needed air as Billy kept coughing up water until he was breathing somewhat normally again.
Blinking the water out of his eyes, his cold skin made contact with the warm skin of someone holding him, his bleary gaze going up and seeing Rebecca looking at him with relief. The dark brunette male cleared his throat before speaking, his vocal cords still sore from screaming for help about half an hour ago.
"Rebecca? Where…the hell am I?"
"Looks like we're near an underground dam or pool, but you're safe now."
The dark brunette male nodded as he exhaled shakily, his body cold from the frigid water he was battered around by for 30 minutes before it slowed down and he'd ended up where Rebecca had found him.
"Are you okay?"
"Aside from being cold, wet, and tired, yeah. I'm alright."
"Good." The brunette Medic said as she noticed her partner looking at something but could tell that he was having a hard time seeing from water being in his eyes, Rebecca pulling out some medical gauze from her medpack and giving it to Billy. He gratefully took it and used it to wipe the water from around his eyes and could focus his vision a little better, the two partners seeing piles of bones lying around…the skin and muscle being completely gone from them.
"Oh my god…what happened to them? What could've done this?"
The dark brunette male groaned as he sat up and started talking again.
"They must've been used as…test subjects in Marcus' research. He must've kept…messing around with the mother virus."
Noticing the look on her partner's face, he was most likely reliving a horrible memory as she helped him to his feet and they left the room. Rebecca took her time so that her partner could get his own strength back, which didn't take too long, as Billy pulled out his gun and resecured the Hookshot to his back…the device somehow having survived the watery trip he'd taken.
The two partners went through the only door in the room with them, the same one Rebecca had gone through, and made their way back up the stairs before anymore unwanted company showed up looking for an easy meal.
(45 minutes later)
The two partners had managed to find quite a few useful items, such as another chemical for Rebecca's mixing set, Billy having used the Hookshot one final time before leaving it behind for good. They also solved more puzzles and took down more monsters, including one called a Proto Tyrant, that had put up one hell of a fight before dying. They also saw that the leeches were becoming less focused on the two partners and more on getting somewhere quickly as they followed them and had ended up in front of a metal door, the last key they'd used and their weapons ready for whatever awaited them as the leeches used a hole on the wall next to the door to get into the room.
The map that Rebecca had picked up earlier had saved them hours of wandering around for no reason, the dark brunette male and brunette Medic nodding at each other in understanding that whatever was on the other side of this door would be their final obstacle. They'd conquered others before it together, and they'd conquer this one together too.
And afterwards, they'd finally be free as Billy opened the door.
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T.B.C.- Well, one or two chapters left until the end. I'm glad everyone has liked it so far, but I shall not disappoint you and give you guys a kickass ending.