Resident Evil Recall: Necropolis

Chapter Twenty Six: T-002

From the moment that the gigantic green coat wearing figure crashed down into the warehouse, Tobias found himself reliving a painful memory from back during the mission into the Arklay Mountains. It was him… that same exact figure who had nearly killed a member of his task force, and caused his family cabin to be burned to the ground. Only the combined efforts of the Lieutenant and one of his Officers had succeeded in driving the giant over a cliff, and he had hoped that the fall would be the end of the bastard once and for all.

However, the universe seemed content to spit in his face, with the giant clearly having survived the fall… but then again, Tobias hadn't been supercharged by absorbing the T-Virus back then, either. So, gritting his teeth, and pulling at the handcuffs, there was a metallic breaking sound as the bonds on his wrists shattered, and then the Lieutenant rushed toward his enemy.

Not wanting to suffer the same fate as Lupa, Tobias ran right up to the giant, ducking underneath one of the big arms as it tried to grab him, and then coming up with a punch of his own. Whack! His fist collided with the giant's chin, making its head tilt while stumbling backwards. Catching one of its shoulders against a shelf, the giant's body turned sideways as it fell on its face, and not wanting to give this thing even a moment to recover, the Lieutenant grabbed onto the large shelf.

With considerable effort, and a lot of assistance from the virus that was burning up in his mutated blood, he managed to pull the shelf over, causing it and all of the heavy equipment on top, to come crashing down onto the giant's back. However, this was the end of Tobias's advantage; suddenly feeling weak as the virus was used up, but that didn't mean he was helpless. Knowing full well that this green-coat wearing monster was capable of, he knew that the next thing he had to do was free Elza so that she could help him.

"Hold your arms out." He ordered, picking up the Russian woman's pistol. "Now look away."

With no more temporary strength, the only thing the Lieutenant could do was shoot the chain between her cuffs. The good news was that Elza was free now, but there was a rumbling sound from behind him, which could only be the giant starting to free itself. Okay, weapons… he needed weapons… Lupa had been good enough to be carrying his shock baton as well as extra ammo for the pistol when she died, so Tobias grabbed them, while also looking for any other infected creatures that he could drain for power.

"What do we do?" Elza asked as the giant pushed away a crate. "How do we stop that thing?"

"Damn it, these creatures are all old and dried out." He grumbled, looking around. "Okay… I'll try and keep it busy, you… you try to get that working."

The young woman turned around, gasping when she saw that he was pointing to the massive weapon-looking thing in the corner of the warehouse, and hopefully she would be able to do something with it, since the giant was almost free. Bang! Bang! Bang! Tobias fired several shots into the arm that it was leaning on, in an attempt to keep it from freeing itself, but this plan didn't work. Bang! Bang! No matter where he shot the thing, the bullets didn't seem to be doing anything more than making it twitch a little, which was exactly what had happened at his cabin all those months ago.

"Fine, bullets don't work, I remember." He said, holstering the pistol and extending his shock baton. "But I remember you not liking this very much, either."

Approaching the giant again, this time much more cautiously as it shrugged off the last crate while standing up, Tobias didn't wait for it to be ready, before bringing the baton across its side. Sparks flew, and the giant twitched heavily, nearly bending over in reaction to the electrical energy coursing up and down its body. Attempting to grab him, the Lieutenant stepped back to avoid it, before smacking its large hand away with the baton, only to find himself being backhanded with its other arm.

The fist only grazed him, but it was enough to knock Tobias down, and the giant was quick to continue the attack. Stomping forward, and then bending down to grab him, the Lieutenant avoided this by rolling to the side, before escaping the next reach by crawling through the lowest shelf on the next unit. Striking the giant's seeking fingers with the baton while crawling through to the other side, Tobias got to his feet, before taking out the pistol and firing a couple more shots into the side of the giant's head while it was turning toward him.

No effect, not even a moment of hesitation as the giant reached across the shelf, this time managing to grab the Lieutenant by the shirt, but this time instead of fighting back, Tobias actually leapt forward. The force of the giant's arms, as well as his own energy, was enough to put the shelf unit off balance when his body impacted into it, and now putting his feet back against the shelf behind him, he pushed as hard as he could… and there was nothing that his enemy could do to stop the shelf from falling toward it.

Again, all of the crates and the shelf unit itself, pinned the giant down on its back, and now that the Lieutenant was on top of them, it was easy to keep the giant from freeing itself by hitting it again and again with the shock baton. Elza, meanwhile, looked like she had come up with something, since the young woman was running down to the far end of the warehouse, but he wasn't able to see what she was up to, since the giant required his full attention.

"Elza, I hope you've got something!" He called, hitting the giant again. "My arm's starting to get tired, here!"

"Hold on, I think I can do this!" She yelled back, vanishing behind more shelves. "Just try to lure it over to the far left corner if you can, and wait for my signal!"

Unfortunately, Tobias's arm was about to give up for the day, and worse yet, the giant was showing no signs of slowing down at all, flipping both him and the shelves away the moment he could no longer swing the baton, and causing the weapon to fly from his hand. Losing his balance and falling to the floor as the shelves were discarded, the green-coat wearing monster got up first this time, and as desperately as he was searching, there didn't seem to be any infected creatures anywhere in…

That was when he got an idea… an awful, stupid idea that would probably get him killed, but it was all the Lieutenant had at the time. Clearly the giant had him outclassed, since Tobias's strength came from absorbing a virus, according to Dr. Lo… but where, he wondered, oh where did the giant's strength come from? There was only one way to find out, so getting up to a crouched position, he waited until the giant raised up its arms to crush him, before making his move.

Avoiding the incoming fists by rushing forward, Tobias circled around the giant, before leaping onto its back, trying his best to put the monster into a full-nelson to restrain it, and then sinking his teeth into the side of its neck. The skin was tough, much stronger than the zombies, but he managed to break through, and there was fluid underneath, like the tiny bits that leaked out each time he shot the giant.

Whether or not the foul-tasting substance was blood or not, he probably didn't want to know, but what he did know, was that his suspicions had been correct… this giant was powered, at least partially by some kind of virus, since with each sickening gulp, the Lieutenant felt the incredible, yet temporary strength returning. The giant had almost managed to throw him off right away, but somehow Tobias managed to hold on, drinking down more and more of the fluid, and getting stronger to the point where he could see a yellow glow from his eyes reflecting off of the giant's shoulder.

Of course, as luck would have it, that was when the green-coat wearing monster was able to grab a hold of him, and now, its strength didn't seem to be diminished at all when it effortlessly tossed him over its head. Hitting the floor hard, and sliding to a stop, the Lieutenant scrambled to his feet just in time to see the giant's massive fist coming toward his face at high-speed… and the only thing he could think of to do was put up his own hand to try and stop it.

But it worked… catching the fist in his hand, Tobias was forced back up against the wall, but he was able to stop the fist with his viral power. For a moment they remained in place, the Lieutenant's arm shaking from the effort of stopping the force of the still pushing giant, but he was unable to push it back no matter how hard he tried… and the temporary power was already starting to reduce. So instead of pushing, he slammed his other arm into the giant's elbow, causing its own fist to come back and strike its face, putting the green-coat wearing monster off balance.

Screaming as he ran toward his enemy, Tobias rammed his shoulder into the giant's stomach, grabbing one of its legs with both of his arms, which forced it to stumble back, and back, and back while the Lieutenant just kept pushing. Eventually they impacted the far wall, with small cracks forming in the concrete when the giant fell against it into a seated position on the floor, and Tobias just kept coming.

Whack! Whack! Whack! He dove onto the giant, and just kept slugging it in the face and torso with his fist, and with all of his incredible virus-driven power, he was starting to put dents in the monster's body as well. With each hit, the giant took less damage as the power continued to drain from his body, but now the monster was not moving around quite as fast. In fact, it seemed to be having trouble getting up at all, once Tobias was forced to back off once his power was gone completely, but he had been so caught up in the moment that he had almost missed some kind of announcement that was broadcasting.

"Rail Cannon primed and ready." The deep pre-recorded voice announced. "Firing in ten… nine… eight… seven…

"Tobias, look out!" Elza screamed, waving her arms from near the weapon. "Tobias, it's going to fire!"