Resident Evil: Blood Opera
a fanfic by Jian DeLeon
Chapter 5 - Inferno
Zheng stepped in Maximilian Barton's office, disgusted at the number of dissected bodies
that lay strewn about in the floor, he noticed each one was missing their heart. He was appaled
to see all of them lying on Maximilian's desk, a dark red shade of mahogany wood. There he was
sitting in his maroon leather chair, brooding, like a man who had died long ago, and whose soul
was sucked into oblivion, leaving a body still living, but dead within.
"Maximilian Barton... we meet once more." The figure looked up at Zheng, he had a long
gray beard, and his eyes were of a deep blue, but when Zheng looked into them, he was staring
death in the face.
"You... Zheng Liu. Lapdog for the Black Orchids... you've come to finish me off?"
"No... we're in the same boat now Max. The Orchids want both of us dead."
"I see... so why have you come to tell me about it?"
"They're planning to unleash it..." A malicious grin crossed Maximilan's face.
"I see... and the heart? Only the heart of a true assassin can take the abuse that
it dishes out. Do you have any idea how many scientists had to die for this experiment? Look
around you... my room of the dead. Each and every one of these people... Those idiots down
there think their stupid locked door is what's keeping me from unleashing the beast. But what
they don't know is that every other heart here is of scientists that can't even harm a fly...
they destroyed the first heart... those foolish bastards. Now it's all going to hell! And I
would have it no other way..."
"The Orchids knew that much... they're using the heart of a serpent."
"Ah... Ms. Hebi... Hahahaha..." Maximilian started laughing uncontrollably, Zheng
looked in a mix of fear and bewilderment. Max stood up and pulled out a silenced 9 mm from his
desk, Zheng didn't see it coming. He barely had enough time to raise his double uzis to meet the
other gun, but it was too late...
"BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!" Maximilian emptied a whole clip from his gun as
he watched Zheng Liu's body twitch and jiggle with every bullet he took in his torso. Finally
he slumped backwards, seemingly dead.
"How do assassins live Mr. Liu? Kill or be killed? Hehehehe... what a shame... your
heart would have been quite the battery..."
Tsai and the other scientists burst in the room, Tsai saw his fallen comrade and shot
Maximilian Barton's hand, causing him to drop the pistol.
"You two. Hold him hostage!" Nicholas and Richard pointed their guns at Maximilian.
The two women picked up the fallen Zheng's uzis.
"Hehehehehhe... you fools... this whole island's going to hell! They're going to unleash
it... it's only a matter of time before we all die!"
"What are you talking about?!" demanded Richard.
"Hehehehehhe... Project Orchid... they've got a heart... they're gonna uuuuuse it!
Hahahahahahahahhaahha! What was keeping me from activating it... wasn't your damn lock...
it was because I had no assassin hearts! Hahahaahahahahaha!" The scientists were even more
horrified... it was only a matter of time before...
"CRASH!" a giant monster about 8 feet tall made an entrance where the double doors
formerly were, clothed in complete black, there was a shiny new metal patch fastened over its
heart. Its hands were covered in a mixture of blood, bone fragments, and brain tissue, there
were numerous bullet holes in its body, yet they appeared as mere dents. Upon entering it
grabbed the heads of the two women scientists guarding the door and squeezed them, a sickening
pop was heard by those still living. Their headless bodies fell to the ground as it walked
forward. Its head was covered in what appeared to be a gas mask. Two long tubes connected from
its arms to its mask. Tsai ran for cover behind the desk.
"RATATATATATATATATATATAT!" uzi fire came from behind the monster, it turned around and
saw Zheng, his ten bullet wounds still dripping his own blood from his chest and stomach. Lucky
for him no vitals were hit. But he sure hurt like hell. The two remaining scientists fired
their guns at the creature as well.
"Richard! Get the elevator working!" yelled Nicholas. Richard dashed to the bookcase
while Richard and Zheng attempted to contain the creature. Tsai joined in the gunfire and
started to fire his akimbo Berettas at the creatures head, bullets were flying everywhere as the
casings hit the ground in what seemed like slow motion as they made a slow 'tink!' when they
stopped their descent. Richard found what he was looking for, a book labeled 'Emergency
Procedures' pulling it, nothing happened.
"Oh SHIT!" exclaimed Richard, he had pulled the wrong switch, he had now activated
the nuclear warhead, set to go off in 20 minutes. He pulled the book next to it, labeled
'Secrets and Lies' and the bookcase flung open, revealing a hidden elevator.
"Come on let's go!" yelled Richard as the elevator doors flew open, he quickly ran into
it. The trio firing at the monster continued to do so, until Nicholas aimed for a headshot, and
accidentaly hit one of the tubes leading to the monster's head, unleashing lethal TVE gas
everywhere.
"Tsai! Into the elevator!" yelled Zheng as he dove into it, Richard emptied the last
of his bullets into the monster's heart, seriously denting the metal patch. The monster grabbed
Nicholas' head, and with his last ounce of strength, he pulled off the the patch, revealing
Hana's beating heart. The monster roared in pain and clenched his fists, popping Nicholas' head
in the process. In a last ditch attempt to kill the monster, Tsai dove backwards in the
direction of the elevator, time froze around him, his trenchcoat slowly flapped in mid-air as he
emptied the last three bullets of his Berretas in the monster, "BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!" All three
bullets penetrated Hana's heart, and the monster fell forward on its knees. That was the last
thing the trio saw before the elevator door closed. Zheng slumped to the ground.
"Zheng!" Tsai rushed to his side and lifted Zheng's head up.
"Tsai... t-take... my... wallet... there... bank accounts... about... $600,000
American dollars..."
"Zheng... I..."
"Do... it... go... New York City... seek... your half-brother... Ma-Maxwell...
DeSantos... Tsai..."
"What is it... brother?"
"Assassins... are... alway ready to die." Tsai knew what he had to do. He picked up
one of Zheng's uzis, and fired one quick shot in his head. Tsai did as he asked, and took his
wallet. Richard pulled a syringe out of the pocket of his tattered khaki pants.
"Tsai, what blood type are you?"
"O... look, I just killed my best friend this isn't the time for questions
anymore!" Tsai sat down on the elevator floor. Memories of his past flashed towards him. The
moment he first met Zheng, when he became a Black Orchid... Tsai opened Zheng's wallet, the first
thing he noticed was a folded up picture. Meanwhile Richard stuck the syringe in his own chest,
drawing his own blood, then stabbed Tsai with it. He emptied out his blood into Tsai.
"Wha-what was that for?" asked Tsai.
"Now... we're both immune. You... you can help find a cure..." Richard's voice began
to trail off. Tsai then noticed Richard was bleeding. The space where Richard sat was a pool
of his own blood, a wound he had unknowingly incurred during the battle with Project Orchid.
Tsai watched as Richard stared off into space... gradually the life left his eyes. Tsai closed
Richard's eyes, then reloaded his Berretas, should the need to use them again arise. When the
elevator finally came to a stop, the doors opened, revealing a rooftop full of even more
Black Orchid assassins.
"Welcome to your final destination Tsai Jian... in 15 minutes. This island will be
nothing... and Operation Inferno will be complete." All sixty assassins on the rooftop raised
their MAC-10s toward Tsai.
"15 minutes eh?" thought Tsai. "That leaves me about 4 minutes to kill everyone...
but I can cut it down to two." Tsai dove forward, the wind in the air and the velocity caused
his trenchcoat to fly in the wind. Tacking the first assassin he saw he shot his heart in
midair. Upon landing he started doing a backspin on the ground while shooting, taking down
twenty-five more assassins with him. He rolled backwards and did a cartwheel, dispatching
ten assassins with miraculous headshots.
"About halfway through." thoght Tsai. He somersaulted and shot four assassins with the
last bullets in his Berettas, he holstered them and landed on the fresh bodies, grabbing their
guns, he let out a spray of bullets while diving to the right, he landed on the ground and
continued sliding, stopping right at the edge of the building. There were ten more assassins
left to dispatch, and here he was, out of bullets.
"When in doubt... improvise!" He somersaulted to his feet, eating some bullets in the
shoulders and stomach, but he didn't let it slow him down, he did a corkscrew spin in the air
and rolled on his way down, picking up a fallen assassin and using him as a human shield. The
body took the brunt of the damage while Tsai took down the still-living assassins with the
MAC-10. Suddenly, Tsai realized he had a gun to the back of his head. He dropped the MAC-10 and
put his hands up. Then he rolled to the left, kicking the assassin behind him in the stomach,
he pulled out his knife while in the roll, recovered and quikcly stuck his combat knife through
the assassin's chin and up into his face. He quickly pulled it out and cleaned it off with his
gloves before re-sheathing it. Tsai looked around the helipad, there were about five Black
Orchid choppers here, he got in the first one he saw, with keys still in it. He started it up,
it took a few minutes, but that was a few minutes he didn't have. He slowly started his way
off the island. He figured he'd reach Milano, Italy in about three hours judging from the
location of the island. Suddenly he felt the chopper rumble, and looked behind him to realize
that the island was turning into a giant mushroom cloud. He was far enough that the copter
didn't go down though, and now, he was off to New York to find his half-brother, as well as some
answers, and so... Tsai Jian exited the island in the same way that he entered it... alone.
To Be Concluded... in Resident Evil: Brother's Keeper
a fanfic by Jian DeLeon
Chapter 5 - Inferno
Zheng stepped in Maximilian Barton's office, disgusted at the number of dissected bodies
that lay strewn about in the floor, he noticed each one was missing their heart. He was appaled
to see all of them lying on Maximilian's desk, a dark red shade of mahogany wood. There he was
sitting in his maroon leather chair, brooding, like a man who had died long ago, and whose soul
was sucked into oblivion, leaving a body still living, but dead within.
"Maximilian Barton... we meet once more." The figure looked up at Zheng, he had a long
gray beard, and his eyes were of a deep blue, but when Zheng looked into them, he was staring
death in the face.
"You... Zheng Liu. Lapdog for the Black Orchids... you've come to finish me off?"
"No... we're in the same boat now Max. The Orchids want both of us dead."
"I see... so why have you come to tell me about it?"
"They're planning to unleash it..." A malicious grin crossed Maximilan's face.
"I see... and the heart? Only the heart of a true assassin can take the abuse that
it dishes out. Do you have any idea how many scientists had to die for this experiment? Look
around you... my room of the dead. Each and every one of these people... Those idiots down
there think their stupid locked door is what's keeping me from unleashing the beast. But what
they don't know is that every other heart here is of scientists that can't even harm a fly...
they destroyed the first heart... those foolish bastards. Now it's all going to hell! And I
would have it no other way..."
"The Orchids knew that much... they're using the heart of a serpent."
"Ah... Ms. Hebi... Hahahaha..." Maximilian started laughing uncontrollably, Zheng
looked in a mix of fear and bewilderment. Max stood up and pulled out a silenced 9 mm from his
desk, Zheng didn't see it coming. He barely had enough time to raise his double uzis to meet the
other gun, but it was too late...
"BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!" Maximilian emptied a whole clip from his gun as
he watched Zheng Liu's body twitch and jiggle with every bullet he took in his torso. Finally
he slumped backwards, seemingly dead.
"How do assassins live Mr. Liu? Kill or be killed? Hehehehe... what a shame... your
heart would have been quite the battery..."
Tsai and the other scientists burst in the room, Tsai saw his fallen comrade and shot
Maximilian Barton's hand, causing him to drop the pistol.
"You two. Hold him hostage!" Nicholas and Richard pointed their guns at Maximilian.
The two women picked up the fallen Zheng's uzis.
"Hehehehehhe... you fools... this whole island's going to hell! They're going to unleash
it... it's only a matter of time before we all die!"
"What are you talking about?!" demanded Richard.
"Hehehehehhe... Project Orchid... they've got a heart... they're gonna uuuuuse it!
Hahahahahahahahhaahha! What was keeping me from activating it... wasn't your damn lock...
it was because I had no assassin hearts! Hahahaahahahahaha!" The scientists were even more
horrified... it was only a matter of time before...
"CRASH!" a giant monster about 8 feet tall made an entrance where the double doors
formerly were, clothed in complete black, there was a shiny new metal patch fastened over its
heart. Its hands were covered in a mixture of blood, bone fragments, and brain tissue, there
were numerous bullet holes in its body, yet they appeared as mere dents. Upon entering it
grabbed the heads of the two women scientists guarding the door and squeezed them, a sickening
pop was heard by those still living. Their headless bodies fell to the ground as it walked
forward. Its head was covered in what appeared to be a gas mask. Two long tubes connected from
its arms to its mask. Tsai ran for cover behind the desk.
"RATATATATATATATATATATAT!" uzi fire came from behind the monster, it turned around and
saw Zheng, his ten bullet wounds still dripping his own blood from his chest and stomach. Lucky
for him no vitals were hit. But he sure hurt like hell. The two remaining scientists fired
their guns at the creature as well.
"Richard! Get the elevator working!" yelled Nicholas. Richard dashed to the bookcase
while Richard and Zheng attempted to contain the creature. Tsai joined in the gunfire and
started to fire his akimbo Berettas at the creatures head, bullets were flying everywhere as the
casings hit the ground in what seemed like slow motion as they made a slow 'tink!' when they
stopped their descent. Richard found what he was looking for, a book labeled 'Emergency
Procedures' pulling it, nothing happened.
"Oh SHIT!" exclaimed Richard, he had pulled the wrong switch, he had now activated
the nuclear warhead, set to go off in 20 minutes. He pulled the book next to it, labeled
'Secrets and Lies' and the bookcase flung open, revealing a hidden elevator.
"Come on let's go!" yelled Richard as the elevator doors flew open, he quickly ran into
it. The trio firing at the monster continued to do so, until Nicholas aimed for a headshot, and
accidentaly hit one of the tubes leading to the monster's head, unleashing lethal TVE gas
everywhere.
"Tsai! Into the elevator!" yelled Zheng as he dove into it, Richard emptied the last
of his bullets into the monster's heart, seriously denting the metal patch. The monster grabbed
Nicholas' head, and with his last ounce of strength, he pulled off the the patch, revealing
Hana's beating heart. The monster roared in pain and clenched his fists, popping Nicholas' head
in the process. In a last ditch attempt to kill the monster, Tsai dove backwards in the
direction of the elevator, time froze around him, his trenchcoat slowly flapped in mid-air as he
emptied the last three bullets of his Berretas in the monster, "BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!" All three
bullets penetrated Hana's heart, and the monster fell forward on its knees. That was the last
thing the trio saw before the elevator door closed. Zheng slumped to the ground.
"Zheng!" Tsai rushed to his side and lifted Zheng's head up.
"Tsai... t-take... my... wallet... there... bank accounts... about... $600,000
American dollars..."
"Zheng... I..."
"Do... it... go... New York City... seek... your half-brother... Ma-Maxwell...
DeSantos... Tsai..."
"What is it... brother?"
"Assassins... are... alway ready to die." Tsai knew what he had to do. He picked up
one of Zheng's uzis, and fired one quick shot in his head. Tsai did as he asked, and took his
wallet. Richard pulled a syringe out of the pocket of his tattered khaki pants.
"Tsai, what blood type are you?"
"O... look, I just killed my best friend this isn't the time for questions
anymore!" Tsai sat down on the elevator floor. Memories of his past flashed towards him. The
moment he first met Zheng, when he became a Black Orchid... Tsai opened Zheng's wallet, the first
thing he noticed was a folded up picture. Meanwhile Richard stuck the syringe in his own chest,
drawing his own blood, then stabbed Tsai with it. He emptied out his blood into Tsai.
"Wha-what was that for?" asked Tsai.
"Now... we're both immune. You... you can help find a cure..." Richard's voice began
to trail off. Tsai then noticed Richard was bleeding. The space where Richard sat was a pool
of his own blood, a wound he had unknowingly incurred during the battle with Project Orchid.
Tsai watched as Richard stared off into space... gradually the life left his eyes. Tsai closed
Richard's eyes, then reloaded his Berretas, should the need to use them again arise. When the
elevator finally came to a stop, the doors opened, revealing a rooftop full of even more
Black Orchid assassins.
"Welcome to your final destination Tsai Jian... in 15 minutes. This island will be
nothing... and Operation Inferno will be complete." All sixty assassins on the rooftop raised
their MAC-10s toward Tsai.
"15 minutes eh?" thought Tsai. "That leaves me about 4 minutes to kill everyone...
but I can cut it down to two." Tsai dove forward, the wind in the air and the velocity caused
his trenchcoat to fly in the wind. Tacking the first assassin he saw he shot his heart in
midair. Upon landing he started doing a backspin on the ground while shooting, taking down
twenty-five more assassins with him. He rolled backwards and did a cartwheel, dispatching
ten assassins with miraculous headshots.
"About halfway through." thoght Tsai. He somersaulted and shot four assassins with the
last bullets in his Berettas, he holstered them and landed on the fresh bodies, grabbing their
guns, he let out a spray of bullets while diving to the right, he landed on the ground and
continued sliding, stopping right at the edge of the building. There were ten more assassins
left to dispatch, and here he was, out of bullets.
"When in doubt... improvise!" He somersaulted to his feet, eating some bullets in the
shoulders and stomach, but he didn't let it slow him down, he did a corkscrew spin in the air
and rolled on his way down, picking up a fallen assassin and using him as a human shield. The
body took the brunt of the damage while Tsai took down the still-living assassins with the
MAC-10. Suddenly, Tsai realized he had a gun to the back of his head. He dropped the MAC-10 and
put his hands up. Then he rolled to the left, kicking the assassin behind him in the stomach,
he pulled out his knife while in the roll, recovered and quikcly stuck his combat knife through
the assassin's chin and up into his face. He quickly pulled it out and cleaned it off with his
gloves before re-sheathing it. Tsai looked around the helipad, there were about five Black
Orchid choppers here, he got in the first one he saw, with keys still in it. He started it up,
it took a few minutes, but that was a few minutes he didn't have. He slowly started his way
off the island. He figured he'd reach Milano, Italy in about three hours judging from the
location of the island. Suddenly he felt the chopper rumble, and looked behind him to realize
that the island was turning into a giant mushroom cloud. He was far enough that the copter
didn't go down though, and now, he was off to New York to find his half-brother, as well as some
answers, and so... Tsai Jian exited the island in the same way that he entered it... alone.
To Be Concluded... in Resident Evil: Brother's Keeper