Chapter 25 - Forever Mortal
Gary didn't hesitate, didn't wait for the leader's command he just fired a burst at the creatures right shoulder as it stepped towards them. Suddenly the sound of eight rifles joining the fight sounded in Gary's ear relieving him of a little fear. Gary watched the bullet holes build up on the creature rapidly, but it didn't slow down. Gary fired twice at it's massive head, at least three times the size of his own. Gary was hoping the two bursts to it's head would finish it like the average zombie, but he didn't expect it to. T-15 towered towards the scared soldiers as they backed away firing. Gary heard the firing stop and a series of clicking from the soldiers reloading their guns. Gary flicked his M16 to fully automatic setting and fired the rest of the clip at the giant humanoid.
'We have to retreat!' Gary heard one of the soldiers shout as he replaced the empty magazine with a fresh thirty round capacity magazine.
'These .223 rounds are useless!' Justin shouted while spraying the monster with what might as well have been pins.
'Do not use a grenade this room is too small!' Gary alerted the team.
'Fuck you Gargado!' The leader threw a RG34 grenade at T-15 which made everyone in the room jump for cover just before it hit the creature. A huge explosion went off, bits of concrete, wood, metal and flesh went everywhere. Gary stood up and sadly he didn't think the creature would die, but he was expecting that there would at least be a hole in the thing, but no. Just a chunk of flesh torn from it's naked belly.
'No fucking way...' One of the soldiers who was shouldering the wounded man sounded like he had given up.
'Call that train back now!' Gary shouted at the leader who was standing staring at T-15 like a statue. 'Hey I'm talking to you!' Gary shouted again, grabbing the leaders attention.
'We need immediate evacuation, right now! The mission is being aborted! I repeat the mission is being aborted!' The leader spoke into his radio while the rest of the team headed back to the first room.
'Forget about me...' the wounded man muttered and without hesitating his partner put him down then ran out the room. Gary stopped at the door and turned to fire at the huge monster as it approached the wounded soldier. It didn't slow down at all, instead it sped up. With it's right arm it picked up the soldier by his head and held him high above it's head before bringing him right close to it's massive face. T-15 squashed the soldier's skull like a grape and dropped the body. Gary looked at the creatures bloody hand with disgust and fired at the hand a few times before leaving the room.
Alex walked into the large news building, to find it was fairly empty inside apart from a few workers. Alex walked up to the main desk, 'I was wondering if my friend Charlie is here? Charlie Kerman?'
'I'm sorry to inform you, but Charlie quit his job yesterday,' the woman behind the desk told him what he had already assumed.
'Oh right. Thanks anyway,' Alex turned to walk away and nearly jumped out his skin when he saw a small, fairly chubby man standing in front of him.'You're looking for Charlie?' The man asked.
'Why were you listening?' Alex questioned him
'Trust me, you don't want to make me an enemy. I have something for you, follow me please.' The man walked around the corner and Alex didn't know what to do besides follow. The small man led him to the boss' office.'I may be swinging a miss, but you're the boss right?' Alex wanted to make sure.
'Oh yea, have been for four years now,' the man smiled at Alex and walked over to a safe at the back of the room.
'So why am I here? If Charlie told you I needed a job, he's screwing you around!' Alex told the man causing him to laugh.
'Oh no, he told me about you. Alex Rosen, S.T.A.R.S right?' The man asked while twiddling with the safe.
'Um yea that's right,' Alex moved a hand slowly towards his gun.
'Well he told me to give you these,' the man walked over after opening the safe, holding a folder in his hand and an envelope full of pictures.
'What is this?' Alex looked over what he was given swiftly.
'He told me you'd know what to do with it,' the man smiled and walked out the room.
Alex looked at the folder and noticed a small padlock on it, 'wait what's the code?' He chased after the small man.
'So now what leader? Have they got back to you yet?' Gary was pissed off with the leaders form of leadership.
'I've had no confirmation of them sending the train and I sent a further two messages,' even the leader knew he'd fucked up.
'Well using grenades in here will put anyone's life at risk so lets just not bother yea?' Gary told them all and received many grunts as an answer.
'Ok men! I know the situation is a little screwed right now and all we have to do is wait on evacuation,' the leader told them.
'Yea, but how long do we have till that thing gets in here?' One of the soldiers shouted.
'Till he's finished eating I guess. And if you lot don't want to be his next meal, I suggest you cooperate,' Gary told them and the leader gave him a look of thanks.
'So what do we do?' Justin asked.'I have one idea...' Gary turned to the leader and discussed a plan.
Chaz sat on the train with a duffel bag by his side, looking out the window at the scenery flying by. He let out a deep sigh and put his feet up on the seat opposite him. Chaz had thought over why he was leaving and still hadn't come up with a reason, he began to think that it was because he was clueless. The rest of his friends who were involved had jobs in the forces or Jane who worked with medicines.. Chaz felt useless for once, he couldn't help straight away when needed and he didn't like the idea of being late. He knew that none of them would be happy with his sudden flight, but he didn't want to live in a city where people would die around him. Chaz thought he'd gained a bit of conscience, since his gun blazing ways. And he wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not. Chaz could only hope that his friends would follow his example and leave Raccoon City.
Alex sat with the rest of his friends around Kevin's desk, looking over the pictures and trying to figure out the code on the padlock.
'Most of the pictures are just corpses from the hospital,' Kyle looked up from the picture of a half eaten doctor.
'Yea that's true, but look at this one,' Kevin held out a picture for Kyle and Alex to look at.
'What about it?' Alex asked not noticing any difference between Kevin's corpse and Kyle's corpse.
Kevin pointed at an I.D card that was sitting in the nurse's chest pocket, 'the card has the Umbrella logo on it. Which means that something is going on in the hospital too.''That would explain why Burkin was desperate to get away...' Alex thought about his encounter with the scientist.
'What about these?' Rebecca point at three pictures of two large helicopters.
'They're carrier models for definite,' Kevin stated.
'Surprise surprise, they belong to Umbrella!' Kyle pointed at the logo.
'I'm gonna get a coffee, anyone else need one?' Jane got up from her seat.
'Me please,' Rachael held her hand up.
'Dammit Chaz, why the hell did you have to back down now...' Alex rested his head on the table.
'On the day before his birthday as well!' Anne burst out.
Alex jolted upright and clicked his fingers, 'that's it!' He scooped up the folder and began entering the code into the padlock.
Jane left the building, leaving a message with the receptionist to pass on to Alex. She had work to do and she didn't know how long she had left before her friends figured out she was working for Umbrella. She walked to the iron gates of the R.P.D car park and pushed it open enough for her to get out. She set off at a fast walk to the multi-storey car park. It was fairly empty which made things easier for her, she was happier to see no one in the elevator. The doors shut only seconds after she stepped in. She swiped her card key through a card scanner which unlocked a small metal box beside the control panel. She opened it to reveal a larger selection of floors to go to. Jane quickly pressed Doctor Kale's floor and then thought it was a good idea to double check with Ada that Doctor Kale was at his house.
The leader smiled and shook Gary's hand agreeing with the plan before shouting to his soldiers, 'ok men form a line!' They did as instructed unsure of the plan which didn't seem like a retreat. The ground began to shake as T-15's steps approached them. 'Alright! I want the rifles on full-auto! Aim for the head and no where else! The bullets may be weak shooting him all over, but maybe a hundred odd rounds to the head will do something!'
'Good one Gary,' Justin patted Gary's shoulder and felt a warm relief sweep over him as the plan sounded like they might stand a chance after all.
T-15 entered through the hole that it formally created and let out another massive growl baring it's sharp, blood-stained teeth.
'Fire!' At the commonly heard word, eight fully automatic rifles fired at the creatures head and neck. Gary knew it was hard to control an M16 set on full-auto, but a large number of bullets were being planted into the giant's skull. After the soldiers ran dry T-15 swayed backwards, then forwards and then collapsed to the ground. The soldiers cheered and patted the leaders back.
'Well done men, looks like we're getting out of here after all!' The leader was happy with their triumph. Suddenly one of the soldiers gasped and ran to the corner of the room, then leaned down to pick up something.
'Sir are these the files?' The soldier asked bringing them to the leader.
'Halle-fucking-lujah! Mission accomplished boys, lets get out of here!' The leader chucked his empty magazine and forced another one into his firearm.
Alex opened the folder with the others looking over his shoulder. It was full of newspaper articles, more pictures with arrows and circles marked on them with a red marker and swiftly jotted down notes 'Seems Chaz has been doing alot of background work himself eh?' Alex was impressed.
'This is what probably convinced him to leave,' Kyle suggested.
'I can understand why...' Kevin was shocked at a few of the things indicated by Chaz, like the rough ideas of how quick the infection took to kick in and the estimates at how long Raccoon had left if things kept going the way they were.
'Well I think I'm gonna need alot of caffeine to work through all this,' Alex laughed, then suddenly stopped. 'Wait a minute...where's Jane?'