CHAPTER 3
The long walk down the stairs had brought Cody and Sherry to a large shutter door, a red and green button next to it. A sign above the door read "Under Water Levels, B1-B12"
"Great, underwater" Cody muttered, pushing the green button, this causing the shutter door to rise into the roof, the hallway he was presented with looked much different then the ones above. Half of the right wall was made up of metal, the other half (Upper most part of the wall) was made of thick glass. The floor was steel mesh, and there were various pipes, and wires snaking through the roof.
"Unnnh" A moan echoed through the hallway, Cody knew that moan all to well, it was the single-minded death cry of a virus carrier. He wouldn't soon forget that moan, if he could even call it a moan, more of a desperate cry for flesh. It was only moments later that it stumbled around the corner, it was dressed in lab clothes, a massive section of its midsection torn from its blood splattered body. It's jaw had broken off, and it's slimly tongue was hanging limply from it's mouth. Its face was pallid, the only other color on it was the color of dried blood. It's hair had all been completely ripped out, revealing it's skull. Cody heard Sherry let out a cry of disgust as she stepped back, Cody held his gun up and fired. The bullet hit just where Cody had planned, right between the eyes, shattering the zombie's face and sending it to the ground in a heap of gore. Cody lowered his gun and looked away slightly, in pity. Cody never got used to killing the zombies, after all, they
had been human once. But now wasn't the time to get all sappy, now was the time to keep a cool head, clear his mind and-
Some new creature stepped into view, whatever it was, it was the most grotesque thing he'd seen yet. It was around seven feet tall, it's mouth set into its slimy brown face as if in a permanent grin. It's face resembled that of a human, except it's slimy skin and been pulled to tightly over it making it's skill more visible. Its right arm was huge, almost as big around as tree trunks and longer then more than half its body. It's hand way to big, un-proportioned with the rest of it's body. Its upper-body was massive also, as long as it's legs. Except it's left arm was smaller then even a normal human's, and horrible disfigured. It was like a baby's arm, and its fingers were awfully stubby...
"What the-?" Cody started, but he had no more time to speak before it's right arm seemed to stretch out fifteen feet across the hallway, only to grab him by the shoulder. It's grip unbreakable, it lifted him in the air and yanked Cody toward it. Cody pointed his Beretta at it's face while in mid-air, Cody began to fire like mad, each hit smacking into the monster's head with astounding accuracy. But even after unloading the rest of the clip into the monster's head it still pulled him. It let him go as it reached him, roaring as if in pain.
"CODY!" Sherry shouted, running to Cody's side, her first brave action, but it was quickly cut off as the monster brought its giant hand across the side of her head, slamming her into the wall. The distraction though, had given Cody the chance he needed. Cody grabbed an ax that had been strapped to the wall in case of a fire, and pulled back with all his might. The monster turned to face him, and with all the strength in his body he slammed the ax down into its forehead. Splitting it's head open and driving the ax down to where it stopped in its neck. Blood spraying everywhere, Cody dropped the ax and quickly ran over to Sherry. She had a medium sized gash in her head blood slowly trickling down. Cody helped her up, she stumbled a bit and Cody caught her.
"Don't try to walk, you could have a concussion" Cody said softly, lifting Sherry up in his arms, who was actually surprisingly light. Sherry put her arms around his neck for fear of falling, slipping in and out of consciousness.
* * *
"Damn that kid" Alexander cursed, he watched as he carried the Birken girl further down the hallway, just past the dead Bandersnatch. So far he'd killed a Hunter and a Bandersnatch, all with out suffering any severe damage. "It seems I underestimated the kid's abilities- If he HAD abilities- oh well, he still has no real chance" Alexander whispered,
* * *
Everything was a blur for Sherry at the moment, her head hurt so bad. She could feel warm blood trickling down from her forehead, as she frequently glanced up she could see Cody's face. A look of grim determination on it, and she could feel that she was moving, he was carrying her. She wanted to open her mouth to thank him, but she passed out before she could.
* * *
Cody had to set Sherry down to deal with the trio of virus carriers that were stumbling around in the next hallway. One shot each, to the temple and they collapsed to the ground. Picking them off was easy considering the other creatures he'd squared off against today. Cody didn't exactly take pride in knowing that he was now good enough to pick off zombies in one shot, he'd always been able to handle a gun and after surviving Raccoon he became more and more of a marksmen. Cody broke out of thought, knelt down next to Sherry and quickly ran through his options. Two loaded clips, and one half full clip was all the ammo he had. Cody emptied his pocket and found only, a rubber band, a quarter, a broken pencil, and a torn piece of paper.
"Great, unless you are going to make a bullet out of a broke pencil, wrapped in paper and tied off with a rubber band your pretty much screwed, oh wait you could melt the quarter around it to make it even more like a bullet" Cody's inner voice cut in sarcastically. Cody stood up and assessed his situation, trying to run through every possible alternative. And there were none so it was back to plan A. Cody sighed and picked Sherry back up, walking down the hallway. The end of the hallway was like a balcony, over looking a large open space, more doors and rooms. To his left was a staircase that lead to the floor, Cody turned right and entered a small room, it had a computer, file cabinet, small bed . . . And a vending machine! Cody was ecstatic as he rushed into the room, laying Sherry down on the bed and quickly moving over to the vending machine. It was broken, but Cody used his gun to break the glass in the front of the machine. Though, all he managed to get out was a
couple small bags of pretzels, a chocolate bar, and a pack of bubble gum. Not really a four course meal, but under the circumstances it was a feast. There was a soda machine next to it, and a few good kicks knocked a can of pop and a bottle of water loose. Perfect. Cody searched the bottom of the steel cabinet and found a butterfly Band-Aid. Even more perfect.
Cody tore his short sleeve off, and poured water from the bottled water on it. Using it to clean Sherry's cut before bandaging it up with the butterfly Band-Aid.
After that Cody sat down at the food of the bed and began to quickly eat some pretzels. He washed it down with the rest of the water, saving the pop, and chocolate bar for Sherry. Eating one last bag of pretzels before searching the room for anything else useful. His search yield little, he found a paper that was supposed to be faxed to Raccoon, but obviously hadn't made it, and one full clip. The paper read:
Dear Mr. Birken,
Research has proved absolute on the T Virus, and we are awaiting the sample of the G-Virus so we can begin researching it and hopefully, mixing the two viruses to create an entirely new virus all together. Please it would be greatly appreciated if you could send us the data on the structure of the virus A.S.A.P.
Sincerely,
Alexander Smith
"Alexander? The Alexander that has been hunting me? And more importantly, Mr. Birken? Could he be related to Sherry?" Cody asked, his questions only confusing him even more so he decided to stop.
"Uhh" A moan broke the silence, Cody spun around ready to fire.
Sherry shrieked. Startled that Cody had his gun pointed at her,
"Oh sorry . . . I thought you were a zombie" Cody said, lowering the gun, "Idiot! Idiot! Idiot! Paranoid aren't we?" Cody thought,
"It's okay," Sherry said softly, just like usual. She held her head for a moment then noticed the food waiting for her to her left. "For . . . Me?" Sherry asked, Cody nodded and Sherry smiled a little, for the first time he'd seen her smile. She had a nice smile, Cody smiled back-
"WOAH THERE! Don't even start trying to flirt, keep a clear head and don't concentrate on anything but survival" Cody's inner voice instructed him,
"After you finish, we should get going" Cody said, Sherry nodded as she ate and drank quickly. Cody glanced around the room, rubbed his temples then looked at the door. Sherry was finishing up and ready to go.
* * *
"We can't just wait around to have Umbrella ship us Cody and Sherry's corpses we have to go and try to help them" Leon insisted, Barry stood there for a moment, rubbing his beard in thought. "Chris went after Claire, and she is an adult. Those two are just kids, we don't know how long they'll hold up against Umbrella" Leon added,
"Cody is very resourceful, I have faith that he can make it out alive" Jill cut in, walking into the room, Leon glanced over at her. "But I don't like the idea of him all alone in a lab especially knowing the monsters are all loose. I am going after them, you two can decide who else will come" Jill added, turning toward the door.
"All right kid, you stay here and wait for a message from Chris or Claire, I'll give Jill the support she'll need" Barry said, Leon nodded and watched the two disappear into the dark hallway of the safe house.
* * *
"Bingo" Cody said, smiling as he revealed a Ruger 40. Millimeter from under a stack of papers. A few loaded clips just a few inches away, he'd give Sherry the Beretta- he preferred a 40 caliber over a 9 caliber any day. Cody handed Sherry the Beretta and loaded the Ruger, smiling a bit as he exited the room. It was the room farthest right from the stairs, there were three others. Cody took the next door closest right to door he'd just left, as it opened a zombie burst out grabbing for Cody. Fear was the first instinct, the second was his trigger finger which was pulled tight three times, firing three shots into the zombie's chest knocking it against the wall. As it did, Cody pointed his gun at it's head and scattered it's all ready maggot filled brains across the wall. Cody stepped back, because right now he felt like having a nervous break down. Right now, screaming in insanity felt tempting, but once again he cleared his head then exhaled deeply.
"Are you okay?" Sherry asked,
"Yeah... Great" Cody said shakily, then stepped into the room. The only thing inside was a desk- on top of it was a piece of paper.
The screaming. It won't stop... I feel like I am going to go insane, the higher ups keep taking more prisoners to the "lab" and turning them into twisted creatures. They don't even use pain medication, they just hack away at their limbs then fill them with that awful virus. I regret even taking this job, helping in the creation of that virus. But I did, and I am as much at fault as anyone for the creation of that virus and I feel I will serve my time in hell because of it. That doesn't bother me as much as the screaming, it is driving me crazy. Everyday, more blood curdling screams that are eventually drowned out by the sound of machinery. But it is still there, even if it is muffled. It is still there, hunting me in my dreams, echoing through my brain even as I write this. It won't ever stop, forever they will be screaming, screaming for the mercy they'd never receive. And soon, soon I will be joining them, joining them in their cries for help. Because I myself have been
infected by the virus, on my own free will. I feel that the only way I can truly tell them I am sorry is to suffer their same fate. Right now I can feel the virus running through me, changing me. Morphing me into one of them. One of the zombies. If anyone reads this then they can truly see how sick these people are. And know that they must be brought to justice, so that the screaming can finally stop. . . .
It ended there, he knew how sick Umbrella was, but that was the icing on the cake.
"God..." Sherry breathed, as she finished reading the paper over, Cody glanced down at the dead zombie, most likely the writer.
"Can't dwell on this, come on we have to move on" Cody said, Sherry followed him into the next room, Cody instantly freezing in fear. The room was completely made of glass, the walls, the floor, the ceiling, dark murky water could be seen all around. Cody's heart skipped a beat, and he got a lump in his throat. With his luck, he'd start down the hallway and some sort of virus altered sea creature would crash through and have him for lunch. "These people are fucking nuts...!" Cody muttered, now he was faced with a choice, enter the hallway and take his chances or wait to die . . . Cody stepped forward and Sherry followed him, suddenly there were two clicking noises as the doors ahead and behind of him lucked shut. Alexander's voice crackling over the intercom,
"You fell right into my trap, right now you are standing in one of the most unstable rooms in all of this lab. It breaking isn't a concern of mine since the doors are air tight my friend. But it should be a concern of yours, a stray bullet could puncture the glass and send billions of gallons of sea water crashing down on you." There was creaking noise as the door ahead of him unlocked and a Bandersnatch, as well as a zombie dog came out. Cody took a step back, his mouth open in fear, Sherry backing up as he did. "Now, we will really see what you're made of" Alexander said, then laughed maniacally before the intercom shut off.
"Shit...!" Cody whispered, backing up, he had no choice he lifted his gun and fired, the bullet hit the zombie dog in the middle of the forehead, blowing chunks of skull and blood across the glass walls, the dog letting out a howl before clasping dead. Cody's heart was beating, the Bandersnatch's right arm flew for him, and it collided with his chest sending him flying into the ground. His gun flew farther then he did, Cody let out a gasp as he saw Sherry fire. It was almost as if time slowed around him and he could see the bullet moving across the hall. And it missed the Bandersnatch by a few inches, colliding with the wall, not breaking the glass but putting a giant crack in it. The Bandersnatch kept coming, Cody grabbed backwards trying to find his gun. Finally his hand ran over it, he held the gun forward and began to shoot. Each bullet smacking into the Bandersnatch's slimy, wet chest. The Bandersnatch roared then collapsed in a pool of blood, Cody firing a bullet to
the Bandersnatch's head before standing up. His gaze instantly turning to the crack in the wall, there was a snapping noise as the crack started to grow bigger. "LET'S GO!" Cody shouted, grabbing Sherry by the wrist as he made a mad dash for the door. It seemed as if it was miles away, and even as they reached it, their hopes were shattered.
"It's locked!" Sherry shouted, Cody began to punch the steel shutter, but it didn't open.
"It's only a matter of time before you two are both washed away like the trash you are!" Alexander's voice crackled over the intercom. Sherry collapsed to her feet, and a look of failure and defeat washed over Cody's face.
"In the off chance that when the wall breaks, that the hole is just big enough for us to swim out, when the room fills with water we could always swim out" Cody said, trying to think of any option besides dying. But he knew, it was a one in a million chance, chances were that the entire hallway would shatter and they'd be crushed.
"It's my fault..." Sherry whispered, "It's my fault we are going to die" She said, this time louder.
"It could've happened to anyone" Cody said, trying to comfort Sherry in their last moments of life.
* * *
Alexander couldn't stop laughing, watching them accept death was all too funny. Though he'd have rather watched them get mauled to death by one of his creations, this would do fine. Alexander was snapped out of laugher by a loud beating noise at his door. Alexander turned around and the door was nearly blown off its hinges. A Hunter Gama as they called them, moving in. Outside in the hallway he could see a hoard of virus carriers. Alexander went to scream, but found it silenced as the Hunter brought it's claw across his throat, slicing it open. Blood spraying across the computer console, he was knocked against the computer violently as the Hunter sprang into the air. Landing on the console, it's clawed feet ripping at the console. The Hunter pulled it's claw back as Alexander struggled to grab for something out of his pocket. He managed to stab himself with a needle, and injected himself with a new type of virus, the X-Virus. He felt it going through his veins before his
life as a human ended.
* * *
Cody was leaning against the shutter door, ready to die when it was pulled into the heavens and he fell backwards into the hallway. Cody didn't know how, but right now he wasn't questioning his miracle. Cody pulled Sherry into the hallway and hit the button, closing the shutter door behind him. Suddenly, the lights all went out, all at once the lab became dark. The outside light in the water, making it so it was some what possible to see and no pitch black. Cody's heart began to beat more rapidly, he could hear every creak in that lab at that very moment.
"What just happened?" Sherry asked, Cody didn't answer, his attention had been drawn to something else.
"Unnh" A desperate moan echoed down the hallway followed by another one, then another. Cody held his gun forward, he could hear a dragging noise, the same dragging noise he heard in Raccoon when ever . . . `They' came around- The virus carriers.
"Zombies" Cody whispered,
"How many?" Sherry whispered back,
"How the hell should I know?" Cody said, looking around, and suddenly he saw a trio of them turn the corner. Cody lifted his gun and fired once, blowing the far right side of one of the virus carrier's face completely off. But not stopping it from going any further, Cody fired again and it collapsed to the ground dead. The next shot found it's way to the middle of another one of the zombies foreheads, blowing it's head off-
The door to Cody's far-left burst open and a zombie stumbled out moaning, another one crawling out from the doorway. It's torso down was gone, Cody began to fire madly, picking off the one closet to him first. Cody used the heel of his boot to crush the head of the zombie crawling toward him- Blood splattered everywhere. Sherry had fired once and hit the shoulder of a zombie far down the hallway. More moans could be heard, as more began to turn the hallway, stumbling and reaching out for them. Cody backed up, he looked up, and there was his savior- the ventilation shaft was open.
The long walk down the stairs had brought Cody and Sherry to a large shutter door, a red and green button next to it. A sign above the door read "Under Water Levels, B1-B12"
"Great, underwater" Cody muttered, pushing the green button, this causing the shutter door to rise into the roof, the hallway he was presented with looked much different then the ones above. Half of the right wall was made up of metal, the other half (Upper most part of the wall) was made of thick glass. The floor was steel mesh, and there were various pipes, and wires snaking through the roof.
"Unnnh" A moan echoed through the hallway, Cody knew that moan all to well, it was the single-minded death cry of a virus carrier. He wouldn't soon forget that moan, if he could even call it a moan, more of a desperate cry for flesh. It was only moments later that it stumbled around the corner, it was dressed in lab clothes, a massive section of its midsection torn from its blood splattered body. It's jaw had broken off, and it's slimly tongue was hanging limply from it's mouth. Its face was pallid, the only other color on it was the color of dried blood. It's hair had all been completely ripped out, revealing it's skull. Cody heard Sherry let out a cry of disgust as she stepped back, Cody held his gun up and fired. The bullet hit just where Cody had planned, right between the eyes, shattering the zombie's face and sending it to the ground in a heap of gore. Cody lowered his gun and looked away slightly, in pity. Cody never got used to killing the zombies, after all, they
had been human once. But now wasn't the time to get all sappy, now was the time to keep a cool head, clear his mind and-
Some new creature stepped into view, whatever it was, it was the most grotesque thing he'd seen yet. It was around seven feet tall, it's mouth set into its slimy brown face as if in a permanent grin. It's face resembled that of a human, except it's slimy skin and been pulled to tightly over it making it's skill more visible. Its right arm was huge, almost as big around as tree trunks and longer then more than half its body. It's hand way to big, un-proportioned with the rest of it's body. Its upper-body was massive also, as long as it's legs. Except it's left arm was smaller then even a normal human's, and horrible disfigured. It was like a baby's arm, and its fingers were awfully stubby...
"What the-?" Cody started, but he had no more time to speak before it's right arm seemed to stretch out fifteen feet across the hallway, only to grab him by the shoulder. It's grip unbreakable, it lifted him in the air and yanked Cody toward it. Cody pointed his Beretta at it's face while in mid-air, Cody began to fire like mad, each hit smacking into the monster's head with astounding accuracy. But even after unloading the rest of the clip into the monster's head it still pulled him. It let him go as it reached him, roaring as if in pain.
"CODY!" Sherry shouted, running to Cody's side, her first brave action, but it was quickly cut off as the monster brought its giant hand across the side of her head, slamming her into the wall. The distraction though, had given Cody the chance he needed. Cody grabbed an ax that had been strapped to the wall in case of a fire, and pulled back with all his might. The monster turned to face him, and with all the strength in his body he slammed the ax down into its forehead. Splitting it's head open and driving the ax down to where it stopped in its neck. Blood spraying everywhere, Cody dropped the ax and quickly ran over to Sherry. She had a medium sized gash in her head blood slowly trickling down. Cody helped her up, she stumbled a bit and Cody caught her.
"Don't try to walk, you could have a concussion" Cody said softly, lifting Sherry up in his arms, who was actually surprisingly light. Sherry put her arms around his neck for fear of falling, slipping in and out of consciousness.
* * *
"Damn that kid" Alexander cursed, he watched as he carried the Birken girl further down the hallway, just past the dead Bandersnatch. So far he'd killed a Hunter and a Bandersnatch, all with out suffering any severe damage. "It seems I underestimated the kid's abilities- If he HAD abilities- oh well, he still has no real chance" Alexander whispered,
* * *
Everything was a blur for Sherry at the moment, her head hurt so bad. She could feel warm blood trickling down from her forehead, as she frequently glanced up she could see Cody's face. A look of grim determination on it, and she could feel that she was moving, he was carrying her. She wanted to open her mouth to thank him, but she passed out before she could.
* * *
Cody had to set Sherry down to deal with the trio of virus carriers that were stumbling around in the next hallway. One shot each, to the temple and they collapsed to the ground. Picking them off was easy considering the other creatures he'd squared off against today. Cody didn't exactly take pride in knowing that he was now good enough to pick off zombies in one shot, he'd always been able to handle a gun and after surviving Raccoon he became more and more of a marksmen. Cody broke out of thought, knelt down next to Sherry and quickly ran through his options. Two loaded clips, and one half full clip was all the ammo he had. Cody emptied his pocket and found only, a rubber band, a quarter, a broken pencil, and a torn piece of paper.
"Great, unless you are going to make a bullet out of a broke pencil, wrapped in paper and tied off with a rubber band your pretty much screwed, oh wait you could melt the quarter around it to make it even more like a bullet" Cody's inner voice cut in sarcastically. Cody stood up and assessed his situation, trying to run through every possible alternative. And there were none so it was back to plan A. Cody sighed and picked Sherry back up, walking down the hallway. The end of the hallway was like a balcony, over looking a large open space, more doors and rooms. To his left was a staircase that lead to the floor, Cody turned right and entered a small room, it had a computer, file cabinet, small bed . . . And a vending machine! Cody was ecstatic as he rushed into the room, laying Sherry down on the bed and quickly moving over to the vending machine. It was broken, but Cody used his gun to break the glass in the front of the machine. Though, all he managed to get out was a
couple small bags of pretzels, a chocolate bar, and a pack of bubble gum. Not really a four course meal, but under the circumstances it was a feast. There was a soda machine next to it, and a few good kicks knocked a can of pop and a bottle of water loose. Perfect. Cody searched the bottom of the steel cabinet and found a butterfly Band-Aid. Even more perfect.
Cody tore his short sleeve off, and poured water from the bottled water on it. Using it to clean Sherry's cut before bandaging it up with the butterfly Band-Aid.
After that Cody sat down at the food of the bed and began to quickly eat some pretzels. He washed it down with the rest of the water, saving the pop, and chocolate bar for Sherry. Eating one last bag of pretzels before searching the room for anything else useful. His search yield little, he found a paper that was supposed to be faxed to Raccoon, but obviously hadn't made it, and one full clip. The paper read:
Dear Mr. Birken,
Research has proved absolute on the T Virus, and we are awaiting the sample of the G-Virus so we can begin researching it and hopefully, mixing the two viruses to create an entirely new virus all together. Please it would be greatly appreciated if you could send us the data on the structure of the virus A.S.A.P.
Sincerely,
Alexander Smith
"Alexander? The Alexander that has been hunting me? And more importantly, Mr. Birken? Could he be related to Sherry?" Cody asked, his questions only confusing him even more so he decided to stop.
"Uhh" A moan broke the silence, Cody spun around ready to fire.
Sherry shrieked. Startled that Cody had his gun pointed at her,
"Oh sorry . . . I thought you were a zombie" Cody said, lowering the gun, "Idiot! Idiot! Idiot! Paranoid aren't we?" Cody thought,
"It's okay," Sherry said softly, just like usual. She held her head for a moment then noticed the food waiting for her to her left. "For . . . Me?" Sherry asked, Cody nodded and Sherry smiled a little, for the first time he'd seen her smile. She had a nice smile, Cody smiled back-
"WOAH THERE! Don't even start trying to flirt, keep a clear head and don't concentrate on anything but survival" Cody's inner voice instructed him,
"After you finish, we should get going" Cody said, Sherry nodded as she ate and drank quickly. Cody glanced around the room, rubbed his temples then looked at the door. Sherry was finishing up and ready to go.
* * *
"We can't just wait around to have Umbrella ship us Cody and Sherry's corpses we have to go and try to help them" Leon insisted, Barry stood there for a moment, rubbing his beard in thought. "Chris went after Claire, and she is an adult. Those two are just kids, we don't know how long they'll hold up against Umbrella" Leon added,
"Cody is very resourceful, I have faith that he can make it out alive" Jill cut in, walking into the room, Leon glanced over at her. "But I don't like the idea of him all alone in a lab especially knowing the monsters are all loose. I am going after them, you two can decide who else will come" Jill added, turning toward the door.
"All right kid, you stay here and wait for a message from Chris or Claire, I'll give Jill the support she'll need" Barry said, Leon nodded and watched the two disappear into the dark hallway of the safe house.
* * *
"Bingo" Cody said, smiling as he revealed a Ruger 40. Millimeter from under a stack of papers. A few loaded clips just a few inches away, he'd give Sherry the Beretta- he preferred a 40 caliber over a 9 caliber any day. Cody handed Sherry the Beretta and loaded the Ruger, smiling a bit as he exited the room. It was the room farthest right from the stairs, there were three others. Cody took the next door closest right to door he'd just left, as it opened a zombie burst out grabbing for Cody. Fear was the first instinct, the second was his trigger finger which was pulled tight three times, firing three shots into the zombie's chest knocking it against the wall. As it did, Cody pointed his gun at it's head and scattered it's all ready maggot filled brains across the wall. Cody stepped back, because right now he felt like having a nervous break down. Right now, screaming in insanity felt tempting, but once again he cleared his head then exhaled deeply.
"Are you okay?" Sherry asked,
"Yeah... Great" Cody said shakily, then stepped into the room. The only thing inside was a desk- on top of it was a piece of paper.
The screaming. It won't stop... I feel like I am going to go insane, the higher ups keep taking more prisoners to the "lab" and turning them into twisted creatures. They don't even use pain medication, they just hack away at their limbs then fill them with that awful virus. I regret even taking this job, helping in the creation of that virus. But I did, and I am as much at fault as anyone for the creation of that virus and I feel I will serve my time in hell because of it. That doesn't bother me as much as the screaming, it is driving me crazy. Everyday, more blood curdling screams that are eventually drowned out by the sound of machinery. But it is still there, even if it is muffled. It is still there, hunting me in my dreams, echoing through my brain even as I write this. It won't ever stop, forever they will be screaming, screaming for the mercy they'd never receive. And soon, soon I will be joining them, joining them in their cries for help. Because I myself have been
infected by the virus, on my own free will. I feel that the only way I can truly tell them I am sorry is to suffer their same fate. Right now I can feel the virus running through me, changing me. Morphing me into one of them. One of the zombies. If anyone reads this then they can truly see how sick these people are. And know that they must be brought to justice, so that the screaming can finally stop. . . .
It ended there, he knew how sick Umbrella was, but that was the icing on the cake.
"God..." Sherry breathed, as she finished reading the paper over, Cody glanced down at the dead zombie, most likely the writer.
"Can't dwell on this, come on we have to move on" Cody said, Sherry followed him into the next room, Cody instantly freezing in fear. The room was completely made of glass, the walls, the floor, the ceiling, dark murky water could be seen all around. Cody's heart skipped a beat, and he got a lump in his throat. With his luck, he'd start down the hallway and some sort of virus altered sea creature would crash through and have him for lunch. "These people are fucking nuts...!" Cody muttered, now he was faced with a choice, enter the hallway and take his chances or wait to die . . . Cody stepped forward and Sherry followed him, suddenly there were two clicking noises as the doors ahead and behind of him lucked shut. Alexander's voice crackling over the intercom,
"You fell right into my trap, right now you are standing in one of the most unstable rooms in all of this lab. It breaking isn't a concern of mine since the doors are air tight my friend. But it should be a concern of yours, a stray bullet could puncture the glass and send billions of gallons of sea water crashing down on you." There was creaking noise as the door ahead of him unlocked and a Bandersnatch, as well as a zombie dog came out. Cody took a step back, his mouth open in fear, Sherry backing up as he did. "Now, we will really see what you're made of" Alexander said, then laughed maniacally before the intercom shut off.
"Shit...!" Cody whispered, backing up, he had no choice he lifted his gun and fired, the bullet hit the zombie dog in the middle of the forehead, blowing chunks of skull and blood across the glass walls, the dog letting out a howl before clasping dead. Cody's heart was beating, the Bandersnatch's right arm flew for him, and it collided with his chest sending him flying into the ground. His gun flew farther then he did, Cody let out a gasp as he saw Sherry fire. It was almost as if time slowed around him and he could see the bullet moving across the hall. And it missed the Bandersnatch by a few inches, colliding with the wall, not breaking the glass but putting a giant crack in it. The Bandersnatch kept coming, Cody grabbed backwards trying to find his gun. Finally his hand ran over it, he held the gun forward and began to shoot. Each bullet smacking into the Bandersnatch's slimy, wet chest. The Bandersnatch roared then collapsed in a pool of blood, Cody firing a bullet to
the Bandersnatch's head before standing up. His gaze instantly turning to the crack in the wall, there was a snapping noise as the crack started to grow bigger. "LET'S GO!" Cody shouted, grabbing Sherry by the wrist as he made a mad dash for the door. It seemed as if it was miles away, and even as they reached it, their hopes were shattered.
"It's locked!" Sherry shouted, Cody began to punch the steel shutter, but it didn't open.
"It's only a matter of time before you two are both washed away like the trash you are!" Alexander's voice crackled over the intercom. Sherry collapsed to her feet, and a look of failure and defeat washed over Cody's face.
"In the off chance that when the wall breaks, that the hole is just big enough for us to swim out, when the room fills with water we could always swim out" Cody said, trying to think of any option besides dying. But he knew, it was a one in a million chance, chances were that the entire hallway would shatter and they'd be crushed.
"It's my fault..." Sherry whispered, "It's my fault we are going to die" She said, this time louder.
"It could've happened to anyone" Cody said, trying to comfort Sherry in their last moments of life.
* * *
Alexander couldn't stop laughing, watching them accept death was all too funny. Though he'd have rather watched them get mauled to death by one of his creations, this would do fine. Alexander was snapped out of laugher by a loud beating noise at his door. Alexander turned around and the door was nearly blown off its hinges. A Hunter Gama as they called them, moving in. Outside in the hallway he could see a hoard of virus carriers. Alexander went to scream, but found it silenced as the Hunter brought it's claw across his throat, slicing it open. Blood spraying across the computer console, he was knocked against the computer violently as the Hunter sprang into the air. Landing on the console, it's clawed feet ripping at the console. The Hunter pulled it's claw back as Alexander struggled to grab for something out of his pocket. He managed to stab himself with a needle, and injected himself with a new type of virus, the X-Virus. He felt it going through his veins before his
life as a human ended.
* * *
Cody was leaning against the shutter door, ready to die when it was pulled into the heavens and he fell backwards into the hallway. Cody didn't know how, but right now he wasn't questioning his miracle. Cody pulled Sherry into the hallway and hit the button, closing the shutter door behind him. Suddenly, the lights all went out, all at once the lab became dark. The outside light in the water, making it so it was some what possible to see and no pitch black. Cody's heart began to beat more rapidly, he could hear every creak in that lab at that very moment.
"What just happened?" Sherry asked, Cody didn't answer, his attention had been drawn to something else.
"Unnh" A desperate moan echoed down the hallway followed by another one, then another. Cody held his gun forward, he could hear a dragging noise, the same dragging noise he heard in Raccoon when ever . . . `They' came around- The virus carriers.
"Zombies" Cody whispered,
"How many?" Sherry whispered back,
"How the hell should I know?" Cody said, looking around, and suddenly he saw a trio of them turn the corner. Cody lifted his gun and fired once, blowing the far right side of one of the virus carrier's face completely off. But not stopping it from going any further, Cody fired again and it collapsed to the ground dead. The next shot found it's way to the middle of another one of the zombies foreheads, blowing it's head off-
The door to Cody's far-left burst open and a zombie stumbled out moaning, another one crawling out from the doorway. It's torso down was gone, Cody began to fire madly, picking off the one closet to him first. Cody used the heel of his boot to crush the head of the zombie crawling toward him- Blood splattered everywhere. Sherry had fired once and hit the shoulder of a zombie far down the hallway. More moans could be heard, as more began to turn the hallway, stumbling and reaching out for them. Cody backed up, he looked up, and there was his savior- the ventilation shaft was open.