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Jack slowly walks down the west hallway of the JPD to head towards the stations armory and so far it's a little too quiet for his liking. With his flashlight he notices a dead body of a police officer lying on the ground with its back against the wall.
The dead body was female and it seems like she was screaming in terror before whatever killed her attacked her by almost slicing the upper half of her head off.
Jack shakes his head as he examines the body. "Poor woman." He thinks to himself before turning to his right then continues down the hallway.
He comes upon the first doorway of the corridor and notices large claw marks slashing through the concrete wall. Looking at the claw marks, Jack shakes his head in annoyance. "Great. I think I know what did this, but I hope I'm wrong. I just hope Saeko and the others don't run into those monsters. I'd honestly prefer the brutes over them." He thought to himself as he continued silently down the hallway with his Dragon Edge still at the ready.
As he walks down the hallway, he notices that the windows are reinforced with metal bars instead of wooden planks. "Well, good thing it's metal and not wood." He thought when he suddenly caught a quick glimpse of something crawling over the window before it climbs up the side of the building. "Well, shit!" He thought before continuing down the hallway again.
"If I'm going to encounter those bastards later on, then I need to find something stronger than my Dragon Edge." He thinks before taking another right that leads to the conference room of the JPD.
Then he sees a shadow from behind him, making him turn around quickly to point his gun at the potential threat.
It's one of the undead.
Jack keeps the gun pointed at the corpse, but doesn't shoot yet at the risk of others nearby hearing the shots and the Licker that is currently crawling all over the building outside.
The corpse doesn't do anything but stand in its spot. It seems to be looking at Jack, but it's blind. All it does is sway from side to side while making a clicking sound with its teeth like it's taunting him.
Click... click... click... clickclickclickclick
It just keeps clicking its teeth, but nothing else. So Jack just lowers the gun then turns around to go into the conference room, but then the shadow moves again making him turn to point the gun at the corpse again.
But it's gone.
Jack was unnerved and he didn't like that. "That was weird. Jill, Chris and Claire never mentioned any sort of behavior like that with the undead." He thought as he turned around again and walked into the conference room.
He looks around the room with his flashlight to look for a way that could lead to the armory, then notices a door and a broken glass window that lead to the hall where the armory was. He shrugs and walks towards the door. "What could it hurt?" He thought as he turned the knob, but it was locked.
"Yep. Thought so." He thought before turning to the broken glass window. "Well, glass window it is then." He thinks with a shrug as he climbed up on the desk that was leaning against the wall then jumped down into the hallway.
He landed softly on his feet and looked down the corridor to see a zombie banging its head against a vending machine.
"What the hell?" He thought.
But instead of deciding to just shoot the walking corpse, he decides to make his way, quietly, to the armory.
He walks as quietly as he possibly can without the corpse hearing him while it continues to bang its head against the vending machine. When he sees the door to the armory, he makes his way over to it and turns the knob.
But it won't turn.
"Damn it! It's locked." He whispered as he looked around to think about who would have the key or where it might be.
Then he remembered something.
"Wait. I have a lock pick." He thought as he turned his waist to open his mini survival backpack and pulled out the lock pick kit that he grabbed before he left his house.
He kneeled before the door knob and began picking the lock while keeping an eye on the head banging corpse.
After just a few seconds...
Click!
The lock had been picked, but Jack turned his head to make sure that the corpse was still in its spot.
Wham! Wham! Wham!
"Yep. It's still there." He thought as he quietly opened the door to the armory and went inside.
He shut the door and turned around to look at the armory lockers before shaking his head. "God... I feel like I'm in a major time warp. Feels weird to be in place that resembles the RPD." He thought as he walked towards the lockers and examined them to see which one had the key that opened the short cut to the Lotus office.
Then he finally saw it.
The key that had a lotus flower shape on the end.
"Found you!" He whispered as he looked to see which locker number it was in.
Number 306.
"Alright. 306." He thought as he walked back to the keypad and entered the number for the locker.
Beeep, click!
He walked back to the locker and opened it to grab the key.
"Gotcha." He whispered before putting the key in his survival pack and exited the armory. "Now, all I have to do is find a way to get back to the main hall and then the Lotus office." He thought as he began to think of a way to get back to the main hall.
Meanwhile with Vincent...
Vincent had followed the path that Ada had supposedly taken in order to catch up to her, but oddly enough, he was finding it difficult to keep track of her, let alone keep up with her.
"Hmm, either Ada has really stepped up her game when it comes to espionage, or this is someone else and Jack and I made a mistake." He thought as he cautiously maneuvered his way through the darkened halls of the JPD that lead up to the roof.
He approached the door that lead outside to the top of the building and was about to open it.
"... Yes, of course."
He heard a feminine voice, making him stop from opening the door.
He leaned his ear against the door to listen more closely to the voice and the conversation that followed.
"Do you have an update on the outbreak?" A male voice asked, making the feminine voice answer soon after. "Yes, I do. The spread of infection was faster than we anticipated. It's quite promising actually." The feminine voice answered.
"Good, very good. Now, I want you to collect all the data from the outbreak then make your way to the rendezvous point. We'll pick you up from there. And be quick about it. I don't want to lose one of my greatest agents so soon." The male voice spoke again, this time with an almost seductive and teasing tone near the end.
Vincent could hear the feminine voice almost giggle before she responded. "Oh, don't worry. I'll be back in your arms and your lap before you know it." She responded seductively, making Vincent almost gag from listening to these two people talk.
"Over and out then, Ada." Vincent paused as he processed what he just heard.
"Ada's really here?" He wondered as he finally began to open the door slowly and quietly to take a peek.
Sure enough, there was a woman standing on the roof of the building in the rain with jet black short hair wearing a dark purple dress and a red scarf with black high heels, but he couldn't tell if she was Ada since her back was turned to him.
The woman then turned around, presumably, to re-enter the building and head to her rendezvous point. By then, Vincent could tell that this woman was indeed Ada and decided to make his move.
It was then Vincent burst from the door, startling Ada as she made a few steps backwards while she stared wide eyed at the young man before her.
"Ada, I don't want to believe that you're behind all this, but I can't ignore what I just heard." Vincent says to her, making her look at him in confusion. "I'm sorry, but do I know you?" She asked him.
Vincent paused.
"How does she not recognize me? She is practically my teacher when it comes to fighting. So, what is up?" He asked himself as he looked at her with confusion.
"You don't recognize me?" He asked her, making her shake her head. "Nope, not at all. I think I would remember such a handsome young man like you. What do you say... you and I leave the city together and have some fun?" She answered seductively with a smirk as she slowly walked towards him.
This made Vincent narrow his eyes as they briefly flashed red. Ada has flirted with him before and he's flirted back, but she has never tried to seduce him. It wasn't her style. "Something is definitely up. This woman's mannerisms doesn't seem to be... Ada like. I don't know what's going on, but I am going to find out." He thought as he quickly pulled out the combat knife that Jack had given him.
"Ada" stopped in her tracks and narrowed her eyes before she started acting dramatically. "Oh, such a tragedy! I, a fine young blossom, am suddenly threatened by a dashing young man. Oh, young man, please tell me. Whatever have I done to deserve such treatment from such a handsome young devil like you?" She asked him like she were in a soap opera.
Vincent narrowed his eyes as they turned back into red.
Seeing this, "Ada" dropped the act and suddenly backed away slowly.
"What have you done to deserve this? You tell me." Vincent growled as he walked towards her slowly. "Ada" backed up into a wall and stopped before she used her eyes to look around for a way out.
Seeing no way to escape except through Vincent, she slowly reached behind her to grab hold of her only defense, but Vincent noticed this and threw the combat knife at her head.
"Ada" gasped and accidentally dropped the item she was holding as the knife was suddenly lodged into the wall beside her face. She felt something warm slide down her cheek and looked down at her hand to see what it was.
Her blood.
She looked back up at Vincent, who was still walking towards her, before she broke into a run and pushed past Vincent then was back in the JPD.
Vince could've taken off after her, but the object she dropped had his interest more than her. He walked up to it and picked it up. It was an injector with a vial of what Vincent assumes to be a strain of the virus that is now plaguing Japan.
"The bitch was going to try and pull a fast one on me by injecting me with the virus. Well, even if she had, my immune system is stronger compared to an average human. So, I wouldn't have had much to worry about, but I'll need to be careful. If she's walking around with this as her defense, then a lot of people are going to get hurt." He thought to himself as he examined the injector.
"I need to meet back up with Jack and tell him what happened. That woman is not Ada. She is a lot of things, but the cause of an outbreak is not one of them." He thought as he put the injector inside his utility belt, pulled the combat knife from the wall and turned back to walk back into the JPD.
BOOM!
Vincent covered his face from the debris of the wall that just exploded before he heard a voice that was beginning to annoy him.
"STAAARS..."
He lowered his arms to see a large silhouette in the large dust cloud, but he already knew what it was.
"Fuck..." He grumbled.
Meanwhile , with Jack inside the JPD...
Jack managed to make his way back to the main hall of the JPD and made his way up to the second floor to open the door when he was suddenly grabbed from behind.
He instinctively turned around and roughly threw the antagonist down to the floor before drawing out his gun and pointed it at their head, but it wasn't one of the undead.
It was Chief Matsumoto.
And he looked pale.
"Matsumoto! What the hell are you doing? I could've killed you." Jack exclaimed as he helped the police chief to his feet and lead him back down to the first floor of the main hall and put him in a seat.
The aging police chief was breathing heavily and sweating bullets, Jack was beginning to think that he got bit and was infected, but there were no signs of scratches or bite marks anywhere on the mans body. "J-Jack-san..." Matsumoto whispered, making Jack lean down closer to him so he could hear. "Jack-san, you have to leave this building... now. There is no one else here except the undead and those... monstrosities that are now crawling all over this place like spiders or cockroaches." He whispered as he struggled to breathe.
Jack was shocked for a moment before shaking his head. "Chief, I can't do that yet. I have to find my mom. I need to know if she is still alive. I'm heading to the Lotus Office now to find any survivors." He informed the man.
"There are none..."
Jack froze and his heart sank.
"What do you mean "there are none"?" He asked. Matsumoto just turned his head to look at the young man with sorrowful eyes. "I'm sorry, Jack-san. We did the best we could to hold up in the Lotus Office, but they eventually broke through the door and got in. We all fought as hard as we could to take them down, but there were too many. After that we scattered and they picked us off one by one. That was 12 hours ago. I'm the only one left." He said to him.
Jack looked at Matsumoto with tears rolling down his eyes before he stood up and turned away from the man.
He wiped away his tears and took a moment to collect himself so he wouldn't break down. "Did you see mom die?" He asked him.
Matsumoto just looked up at Jack in sorrow. "Jack-san, your mother is a strong woman, but there's no possible way she could have-" The man tried to explain but was interrupted. "Did you SEE her die, Matsumoto?" Jack asked again with a slightly raised tone, but he didn't turn to look at the man.
Matsumoto just looked at Jack before lowering his head. "No, Jack-san. I didn't see her die." He admitted, making Jack nod his head. "Then there's a chance." He simply said.
Matsumoto nodded his head.
"Alright, I'm still going to the Lotus Office to find anything useful. Can you walk?" Jack turned around and asked the police chief. The old man nodded his head, but stopped Jack from trying to help him up. "I can walk, but it will be better if you go ahead without me, Jack-san. You'll be able to defend yourself better without me dragging you down. Just go ahead and find what you're looking for." He said stopping Jack from helping him.
Jack hesitated for a moment, but decided to try again. "Matsumoto-san, come on. I'm not going to just-" He began, but stopped when the police chief pointed his gun at him.
Jack froze and put his hands up slowly.
"Jack-san, it's too late for me. Find what you're looking for in the office then leave the JPD. There is nothing for you here." The old man said through gritted teeth, making Jack nod. "Alright, Matsumoto-san. I'll go. But what about you?" He asked him in concern.
Matsumoto just shook his head and lowered his gun. "It doesn't matter anymore, Jack-san. Just forget about me. Go to the Lotus Office, find whatever you're looking for and then get... the fuck... out. Understand?" He said to the young man with a glare, making Jack nod his head before he proceeded back up the stairs.
"Jack-san?"
Jack stopped at the top of the stairs and turned his head to look at the police chief, who was staring at the floor.
"What is it, Matsumoto-san?" He asked.
"If you should come back through here and I seem... different, then I want you to kill me." He answered with a low tone, making Jack look confused. "But... you're not infected. You haven't been bit." He said to the man.
Jack then heard what sounded like a hollow chuckle, but Matsumoto still didn't look up at him. "Yes, I am, Jack-san. You're mother, she... she cleaned up the wound well. We didn't want the others to lose hope." He explained.
Jack nodded his head in understanding. "Alright. You have my word Matsumoto-san." He said before walking towards the door, unlocking it then walked in leaving Matsumoto behind.
Matsumoto just continued to stare at the floor with a sorrowful smile as tears rolled down his face before his smile slowly faded and his eyes glazed over as he let out a quiet, raspy moan.
Jack walked through the library and carefully walked past the corpses that lied on the floor. They may have looked dead, but they could spring up at any time.
He made his way to the other door and opened it slowly with his gun ready just in case anything decided to jump out at him.
He walked into the area that was just above the waiting room near the main hall before walking towards yet another door, but this one had a slide lock.
He unlocked the door and open it when a sudden gust of wind blew in his face and the smell of rotten flesh. He covered his nose as he held his gun up.
Jack then slowly walked down the corridor then took a right to see piles upon piles of corpses and blood smeared all over the floor and walls.
He closed his eyes and shook his head before proceeding to walk closer to the Lotus Office while keeping an eye on the corpses. But chances were that they were far beyond being resurrected at this point. There was nothing to hold the bodies together.
Jack walked towards the door and turned his attention to the broken window where the wind and rain was blowing in. "That's probably what caused these guys to lose ground. A fucking Licker." He thought as he finally walked into the Lotus Office to see an even more gruesome sight.
Bodies lying all over the floor and desks.
Decapitated heads all over the place.
Blood splattered all over the ceiling, floor and walls of the office.
And bodies of police officers with their faces permanently screaming in inaudible terror while they were torn apart or slashed open.
Not even the new recruits survive this Hell.
"This wasn't a final stand off, this... was a massacre." Jack whispered as he cautiously walked around the room to look for anything useful while keeping an eye out for the corpse that resembles his mother.
Although he's sincerely hoping that he doesn't come across it.
He looked all around the office before looking inside the Lotus Office personal armory and found a grenade launcher with explosive and acid rounds.
"Sweet. Finally something useful in case I run into that Licker." He wondered with excitement as he strapped it over his shoulder.
As he walked out of the armory he stopped when he saw a blinking light on one of the computers.
He walked up to the computer and moved the moved the mouse around to bring up the screen.
The screen pooped up, but not like he was expecting.
It was his mom on the screen.
"Wait... did she manage to record something?" He wondered as he moved the mouse to click the "play" button.
"Alright, here we go. This is... day 2 since the outbreak, but it feels like it's been a week already. We've evacuated as many civilians as we could at the connecting bridge on the first day before we were over run by the undead and had to retreat here to JPD. We held our ground for as long as we could in the main hall before we were again over run and now we are holed up in the Lotus Office with... not that many survivors left." Natalie said in exhaustion in the recording as Jack continued to watch.
"Oh, Christ... it's only been 2 days and we are already down to a handful of survivors left. And I swear to everything that is holy that if our new recruits don't... shut... up. Then I am going to do them all a favor and put them out of their misery if they don't want to do their fucking job." She whispered next with gritted teeth.
"Calm down, Natalie-san. We'll be fine." Jack heard Matsumoto's tired, trembling voice in the background before Natalie continued.
"Whatever. I'm only doing this recording in case anyone finds this so I can tell you where to go. Whoever you are, if you're watching this, then head to the Takagi Estate. I've been hearing that it's become one of the safest havens in Japan. There's plenty of room and there is food to spare. Once we have things under control here at the JPD, that's where we'll be heading. If we're not there by now, that is. But if, by chance, you're watching this, Jack, although you shouldn't be looking for me, if you're watching this, my handsome baby boy, then head to the Takagi Estate as soon as this recording ends. Whether I'm alive or dead, I will find you. One way or another. Or you'll find me. I just hope that you don't find me-" Natalie suddenly stops when banging can be heard in the background along with multiple loud moans.
"Recruit! What the hell is going on?!" Matsumoto shouted in the background.
"It's them! They're trying to break down the damn door!" A female voice shouted back.
"Everyone arm yourselves and barricade that door!" Matsumoto shouted again.
Natalie frantically looked back at the screen and tried to finish her recording as Jack watch in anticipation.
"Alright, I don't have much time left, soI'll make this short. One last time, if you're still alive and watching this recording, then head straight to the Takagi Estate. You will be protected there, provided that you pull your own weight. And if it's you watching this, Jack... just remember that I love you, my son. Stay safe and I promise that I will find you somehow." She said to the screen with a smile while on the verge of tears.
"NATALIE-SAN, HURRY!!! THEY'RE BREAKING THROUGH!!!" Matsumoto shouted to Natalie as she quickly wiped away her tears, picked up her shot gun, that was sitting beside her, and rushed to help the others.
Jack could now hear all the remaining survivors struggling to keep the door from breaking down, but it was all in vain.
Jack then heard wood breaking, the undead moaning and snarling with gunshots firing along with screams from the survivors and bursts of light from the flashes of the weapons before the screen went black.
Jack stood frozen staring at the screen while trembling as tears welled up in his eyes. His legs started to shake before he kneeled down to take in deep breaths to keep himself from breaking down.
After a few minutes he wipes his tears away with a trembling hand and stands up to exit the Lotus Office with a determined look on his face.
Minutes later back in the Main Hall...
Jack had walked back to the main hall of the JPD and stopped at the too of the stair case to see that Matsumoto had not moved from his spot, but he was now leaning over slightly and he no longer had his gun in his hand.
Jack took out his Dragon Edge and held it ready by keeping it pointed at Matsumoto.
He carefully walked past his body while keeping the gun pointed at him as he walked towards the entrance of the building. "Where are you, Vincent?" He wondered as he got a good enough distance away from Matsumoto and turned around.
"YAAARGH!"
Jack turned around quickly to see the undead Matsumoto rushing towards him and pointed his gun at his head before a knife flew past his head and penetrated the deadman's head with a sickening thud before the body slumped to the ground.
Jack turned around to see Vincent looking a little worse for wear.
His ruby red shirt had been torn in some places and one side of his pants leg had been ripped off.
He was breathing heavily while his eyes were glowing red before he walked past Jack to Matsumoto's corpse and yanked out the knife from the head. He turned around to Jack with a dark look. "We need to leave. Now." He said urgently as he walked towards the entrance with Jack behind him.
"What the hell happened to you? What did I miss?" Jack asked him just they reached the double doors. "A lot, but I don't have time to explain. We just need to leave." Vince said anxiously and was about to open the door.
CRASH!!!
Both Jack and Vincent turned around and instinctively had their weapons ready as they prepared themselves for a new assailant, but it wasn't new.
"STAAARS..." The single hulking monster growled as it activated its flamethrower.
"Son of a bitch. Is there no end to these guys?" Jack asked out loud, making Vincent sigh in annoyance. "Apparently not. I'm as durable as any tank, but these bastards are very persistent. I'll give them that."
The leather clad behemoth raised its flamethrower and roared as it lit the main hall on fire.
Vincent quickly took out the injector he picked up from earlier and shoved it in Jack's hands before shoving him out the door.
Jack was sent flying out of the JPD and landed on his back in the courtyard.
Taking a moment to process what had just happened, Jack looked at the injector that was now in his hand before looking back up at the entrance the JPD, which was now blocked off by fallen, burning debris. "VINCENT!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" He shouted.
"GET OUT OF HERE, JACK!!! THIS ONE IS NOT AFTER YOU THIS TIME, IT'S ME IT WANTS!!! TAKE THAT INJECTOR WITH YOU AND KEEP IT SAFE!!! IT HAS A STRAIN OF THE VIRUS THAT CAN BE USED TO EXPOSE WHOEVER IS BEHIND THIS OUTBREAK!!! MAKE SURE THAT YOU GIVE IT TO SOMEONE YOU ABSOLUTELY TRUST THAT KNOWS THE RIGHT PEOPLE!!! NO ONE ELSE!!! GOT IT?!" Vincent shouted back at Jack while struggling with the monster inside the now burning building.
"VINCENT, I CAN'T JUST-!!!" Jack tried to shout back as he looked at the injector in his hand with despair.
"DAMN IT, VALENTINE, GET MOVING!!! YOU HAVE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT THAN ME!!! FIND YOUR MOM!!! FIND YOUR GIRLFRIEND!!! LIVE, DAMN YOU!!!" Vincent shouted as the monster roared again and used it's flamethrower again to try and burn Vincent.
Jack trembled as he stood frozen as he watched the JPD slowly burn to the ground before he glared at the fire and nodded his head and turned around, opened the gate of the courtyard and burst through the door while Vincent stayed behind in the burning building to fight the monster.
"STAAARS...!!!"