CHAPTER 6
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"Fucking kid" Wesker whispered to himself, as he sat up, he didn't know how long he'd been unconscious, but he knew that if it hadn't been for his kevlar vest he'd be dead. The Redfield boy had obviously been smarter then his father, but just as stupid because no one messed with Albert Wesker's plans, he was in control at all times. He was, not some damned brat, Wesker could feel the anger burning up in him, the same anger that he had when Redfield had messed up his plans at the Spencer estate. Except this Redfield wasn't going to slip past him, no this one was going to be dead. Wesker got to his feet and walked over to the control panel, his ribs hurting like hell. He brought up the surveillance monitor and there was Cody and Sherry heading toward the lab where-
"The tyrant is being held" Wesker whispered to himself, then smirked, "Lets see now" Wesker typed away at the computer and as he did the liquid in the Tyrant's holding tank drained and the glass opened. The Tyrant's eyes opening and the monstrous beast coming to life. Wesker's smile got even bigger, "Game over kid"
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The lab itself was huge, massive computers set into the large metallic walls. Flashing switches everywhere, Cody and Sherry stood in the doorway for a moment, then pushed on further, Cody looking around the area-
-Sttarrsss-
The Nemesis's animal voice ran through his mind as he was confronted with his new foe. Standing no more then twenty feet away from him was a large, Nemesis like creature. It looked almost like a 8 foot tall body builder, it's upper body ripped with muscle, it's arms bulged with muscles. It's skin was a metallic blue color, it's hands weren't hands, but long bonny claws that were at least a foot or two long. Two milky white eyes sit into it's bald, humanoid head. No teeth showing like the Nemesis, an it's face expressionless, though it didn't bear that much of a resemblance to the Nemesis Cody knew they were probably in the same classification. The Tyrant took one lumbering step forward, and they took a step back. Cody had no choice, he raced the Ruger took aim for the forehead, and fired. A black bullet hole opening in the middle of the Tyrant's forehead, but no blood came forth. The Tyrant taking another step forward, panicked Cody fired three more time, each bullet hitting
it's forehead but having the same useless effect as the others.
"MOVE!" Cody's mind shouted, the Tyrant was in striking distance before Cody knew what to do, he grabbed Sherry by the arm and dove to the right just as the Tyrant plunged it's claw into the door. Slicing deep into the metal, sending sparks flying everywhere. Cody scrambled to his feet, Sherry right behind him as he darted across the room. The Tyrant tried to pull it's claw free but ended up ripping the entire steel door off with it, bringing it's claw up it cut itself free quickly. Cody was amazed by it's strength, strength that far surpassed the Nemesis's. Cody heard two gun shots, Sherry firing, each bullet digging into the massive muscle that was the Tyrant's chest, still no blood flowing out. Cody instinctively took aim, and fired again, it's right eye exploding like a grape as the bullet hit it. The tyrant roaring as purple blood began to pour out of it's eye shocked, it brought it's claw up and over it's eye as it to try and stop the pain.
"Blind it" Cody thought, he took aim and the next second he was flying through the air as the Tyrant back handed him. Cody flew across the room, finally coming down about half way across, his gun spilling out of his hands as he slid across the room. The Tyrant now had it's sights locked on Sherry, frantic Sherry aimed for the eye of the Tyrant and fired. The bullet missing and hitting the wall behind the Tyrant, Sherry fired three more times and missed each time. There wasn't anything in the world that could describe the horror that Sherry was now presented with, the raw fear that had her paralyzed, unable to move even to fire the gun; which was futile anyway. Her own shadow was swallowed by the Tyrant's shadow as it covered her, backing her into a corner.
Cody was laid out on the ground, but he was far from helpless. He'd already retrieved his gun and had his arm supported by the ground. He lifted the gun up a bit, he smirked through the pain, closing one eye.
BAM!
The bullet entered the Tyrant's back of the Tyrant's leg, another shot and the Tyrant went down on one knee. The Tyrant managed to stand by back up, turning around,
"Lights out!" Cody spat, he'd all ready had his cross hairs lined up, he fired and blew it's left eye out, it's eye socket shattering under the force of the bullet.
The Tyrant, blinded, broke into a full run at Cody, drawling it's massive clawed right hand back. Cody leaped out of the way as it brought it up, tearing massive gouges in the metal floor and sending sparks flying into the air. Cody hadn't landed far from the Tyrant, praying that the blinded monster wouldn't find him Cody began to stand up and instantly dropped back down. The Tyrant's claw sliced through the air with a loud whoosh, a second longer and Cody would have been decapitated. Cody fired again, the bullet hitting the Tyrant in the mouth, broken fragments of tooth spilling out on the ground. Cody crabbed backwards as fast as he could, the Tyrant was blinded but some how could still sense him. It was either the Tyrant had dog-like smell and was tracking him by sent, or the vibrations in the ground. Cody fired the rest of the clip into the Tyrant's head, ejected the clip, and staying as still as he could tossed it to the other side of the room. It hit the floor with a
loud clatter, as he'd expected, the Tyrant launched in the direction of the clip. Cody looked over and saw Sherry, she'd passed out in fright, Cody cursed the situation and scrambled to his feet, slamming a new clip into the gun. He aimed and took fire, the bullet taking off one of the Tyrant's small, pointed ear in a burst of purple blood. The Tyrant roared out in pain, it was now most likely pissed off beyond belief and there was now way he was going to be able to take down the Tyrant with a hand gun. As long as Sherry was out, she was safe, Cody took his mind off her and made a run for the door, he had to draw it out into the hallway so he could think of a way to beat it. He wasn't going to make it, the Tyrant was dashing to meet him halfway, it brought it's claw up and Cody dove into the air. Right over it's claw and through the door, Cody was stopped as his body hit the ground then slid into the wall. Cody scrambled to his feet, a loud screeching noise erupting behind
him, like metal being pounded out of shape. He dashed down the hallway, and could soon hear the thundering footfalls of the Tyrant. Cody's mind was throwing a million things together at once, and none of them made any sense. His options were becoming slimmer, and slimmer, he could hear the Tyrant closing in, closer, and closer, Cody began to run faster and faster.
"THE RAILING!" Cody's mind shouted, he finally had an idea that had a possibility of working. Cody picked up in speed,. pumping his arms for speed as he darted down the hallway, the railing coming up-
Cody baseball slid into the rail, kicking off the rail and to the left down the stairs. He grabbed the railing, and the Tyrant was to big, and moving to fast to stop himself, he crashed into the railing, ripping it out of the wall and sending it plunging off the edge. The fall itself wouldn't have killed the Tyrant, but it impaled itself on the railing as it and the Tyrant slammed into the ground, the Tyrant slicing into two pieces of bleeding gore. Cody was completely out of breath, sweat pouring down his head as he slowly glanced over the edge at the dead Tyrant, disgusted he turned away, though grinning at his victory. Cody gathered himself and stood up, breathing heavily he started back down the hallway which looked as if it had been badly hammered out of place. He reached the lab, the frame of the door had been violently ripped out of shape, massive gouges in it. Sherry was still out, he didn't blame her, he walked up to her and lifted her off the ground. Staring down
at her, he smiled as he looked over her beautiful features, her golden blonde hair, silky soft skin...
"Snap out of it!" Cody's inner voice shouted, and he quickly did so. He didn't have time right now to admire Sherry, right now the only thing on his mind should've been escaping. Cody shook his head, and kept his eyes off Sherry and onto his new surroundings.
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Wesker was furious, that kid had beaten the Perfect Monster! Just like his father, though he was stunned at the strength of the kid. Wesker slammed his hands down on the control console, then began to type quickly away at the computer, praying his plan would work, his smirk increased.
"If he is anything like his father it will, soon he'll be obliterated with this entire facility" Wesker whispered to himself, then laughed.
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Sherry slowly opened her eyes, everything around her was a blur, she tried to focus but found it hard. Just over her she could see Cody's face, his eyes searching around. She didn't feel any weight under her feet, she felt almost completely relaxed.
"Am I in heaven?" She asked groggily,
"Far from it" Cody said, snapping her right back into reality, she quickly focused and found that she was in Cody's arms and they were still in the lab, that monster was gone.
"What happened to that monster?" She asked carefully,
"I killed it" Cody responded, Sherry was so over joyed that at the moment she didn't know what she was doing, she flung her arms around Cody and . . . Kissed him. Cody was surprised to really say the least, Sherry, embarrassed broke the kiss as he set her down. At the moment it had seemed proper, it was like a fair tale and Cody had been her knight in shining armor who'd saved her from the beast. When Sherry looked back at Cody she felt a knot in her stomach, like butterflies, she quickly turned away. He was cute, and under different circumstances that kiss would've been appropriate, but the circumstances hadn't been different and the kiss had been a stupid idea.
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Cody was in complete shock, on one hand he actually liked the kiss, but on the other hand he cursed his own ignorance, if there was one thing he knew it was you didn't let yourself get distracted when your trying to survive.
"I uhh.... Think... We should uhh look around" Cody mumbled, trying to throw words together quickly, it failed but he didn't care. Cody shook it off, surpressed the urge to kiss her back, and began to search the lab, acting as if the kiss hadn't ever happened.
Sherry seemed to stay there for a moment just staring, then decided to help him in his search for the card key in the lab.
Cody searched the computer consoles for anything useful, not much, he found a box of rounds for the Ruger. And under the desk a box of rounds for a Beretta, ammo was always a definite plus, but right now that wasn't what he was looking for. He needed a card key to get to the heli-pad, their only route of escape.
"There!" Cody's mind shouted, Cody pushed a bunch of papers off the console and came up with an Umbrella key card.
"The self-destruct sequence has now been activated. All personnel please evacuate immediately" A calm female voice began to repeat,
"SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!" Cody's mind shouted, he hadn't counted on this happening, the recording kept blaring, Sherry was frantic. And the virus, shit he was right, he had planned on waiting for help before he went back down to neutralize the virus, but he didn't have time and if the place exploded it would release it into the sea, and god knows what would happen next. Cody pulled himself together, he knew what he had to do.
"Sherry, I have to go back and shut down the mainframe so the virus won't spread into the ocean, take the key card and get the heliport ready" Cody ordered, trying to sound as calm as possible even though in side he wanted to run around screaming frantically.
"But Cody, this place is going to blow up! And what if you don't make it back in time?" Sherry asked,
"When the sequence reaches one-minute you get the hell out of here, forget about me and consider me dead." Cody ordered, Sherry felt her heart sink when he said that, but knew there was no talking him out of it. "Now go" He whispered, as he turned around and began to jog down the hallway. Sherry watched as Cody disappeared down the metallic hallway, and she felt a tear roll down her cheek at the thought he may not make it back. Sherry calmed herself, for once, once in her life she felt for someone else, and felt that they felt the same way back. She didn't want to loose Cody like she had so many other people, she couldn't help him but she could do as he said so as not to slow him down. Sherry decided on that course of action and ran out of the lab, the elevator to the higher levels was just ahead of her, she swiped the key card through and the doors slid open. She silently wished Cody good look as the elevator doors closed and she was lifted to the next floor.
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Cody was happy that he'd taken down all wondering virus carriers on the way down or they'd of slowed him down. Cody nearly kicked the door ahead of him down, racing across the lavish red carpet that was set into the eerie hallway. And up a thin set up stairs, and the hallway he was in was in a rectangle shape, and hallway to his right, and the rest of the room was a walk way around the stairs and to another hallway. Cody raced around the stairs, and out the door to his far left. Another hallway, this maze of a mansion was really begging to piss Cody off, he charged down another hallway and finally found himself on the second-floor balcony, Cody raced down the small set of stairs, then right down the big one. He'd obviously missed a virus carrier because one was stumbling around at the bottom of the stairs, a shot to the head and it crumpled down into the musty carpet. Cody jumped over the body and ran left, there were two doors, Cody took the one farthest to the left and
found himself back in the training facility.
"Okay now where is the lab again?" Cody asked himself, then began to sprint down the hallway.
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The upper floor Sherry had found to be the plainest hallway in the entire lab, nothing more then a long metal hallway that lead straight to another elevator. Cody had been gone for ten minutes now and Sherry was begging to wonder when the self-destruct sequence would actually start counting down. If she was lucky, then it wouldn't until Cody got back and they'd all be fine.
"Off chances" She thought numbly, as she hurried down the hallway and into the elevator. There were three buttons, B1, B2, and HP.
"Helicopter Port" Sherry said to herself, then jammed in the button just below HP. The doors clicked and closed, she sighed a bit as she was taken to the heliport, she'd be safe, but what about Cody? And what was she feeling for him that made her so concerned about his well being? She'd question herself later, right now she had to worry about Jill and the others getting there like they said they would.
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"The Self-destruct Sequence has been activated, all personal please evacuate. You have five minutes and fifteen seconds to reach minimum safe distance" A recorded female voice began to repeat, the emergency sirens blaring, and red flashing emergency lights going off. Cody didn't really pay any attention, there were only two things on his mind, one was shutting down the main frame to keep the TG-Virus from leaking into the sea. And the other was survival, he didn't come this first just to die. His boots making a loud clattering noise as he sprinted across the metal floor. And suddenly, he heard a loud crashing noise, like metal being ripped and torn out of place, then the loud thundering sound of rushing water. Cody didn't turn around to see the wave of water that was roaring down the hallway, he simply ran faster. Faster then he'd ever ran in his life, not tiring, he was running so fast the hallways around him were a blur of metallic motion. And suddenly, he was hit with the
low wave of water, it swept his feet out from under him and plunged him into the icy water. Cody didn't stay down for long, he scrambled back to his feet the water only waist deep.
"Waist deep . . . And rising" Cody thought numbly, he didn't have time to stop and think, he had to move. Cody had to take long striding steps to move through the water fast, splashing it everywhere as he moved. By the time Cody reached the stairs he was soaking wet, and most of the lower floors looked flooded. He had no time to dash down the stairs, Cody grabbed the railing and leaped over it. The drop was two stories long, but it was over before it had began and Cody crashed down into the water, landing in a crouch, bubbles rushing up and around him. Cody pushed his legs up, and popped out of the water, he was now chest deep in water and could no longer run. The control room wasn't to far, he had to move quicker though the place was about to go up in smoke. Cody ran the map through his head mentally, and took the next right which lead into the control room. The computer was on a plat form which had yet to be reached by the water, a giant spider was crawling across the
roof. A few quick shots to the head and the spider was down and dead, Cody quickly swam over to the ladder. In a rush he scaled it, making it up to the platform as fast as he could. He stepped off on it and rushed over to the computer, he entered the access code he'd gotten and was at the main control menu.
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"Fucking kid" Wesker whispered to himself, as he sat up, he didn't know how long he'd been unconscious, but he knew that if it hadn't been for his kevlar vest he'd be dead. The Redfield boy had obviously been smarter then his father, but just as stupid because no one messed with Albert Wesker's plans, he was in control at all times. He was, not some damned brat, Wesker could feel the anger burning up in him, the same anger that he had when Redfield had messed up his plans at the Spencer estate. Except this Redfield wasn't going to slip past him, no this one was going to be dead. Wesker got to his feet and walked over to the control panel, his ribs hurting like hell. He brought up the surveillance monitor and there was Cody and Sherry heading toward the lab where-
"The tyrant is being held" Wesker whispered to himself, then smirked, "Lets see now" Wesker typed away at the computer and as he did the liquid in the Tyrant's holding tank drained and the glass opened. The Tyrant's eyes opening and the monstrous beast coming to life. Wesker's smile got even bigger, "Game over kid"
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The lab itself was huge, massive computers set into the large metallic walls. Flashing switches everywhere, Cody and Sherry stood in the doorway for a moment, then pushed on further, Cody looking around the area-
-Sttarrsss-
The Nemesis's animal voice ran through his mind as he was confronted with his new foe. Standing no more then twenty feet away from him was a large, Nemesis like creature. It looked almost like a 8 foot tall body builder, it's upper body ripped with muscle, it's arms bulged with muscles. It's skin was a metallic blue color, it's hands weren't hands, but long bonny claws that were at least a foot or two long. Two milky white eyes sit into it's bald, humanoid head. No teeth showing like the Nemesis, an it's face expressionless, though it didn't bear that much of a resemblance to the Nemesis Cody knew they were probably in the same classification. The Tyrant took one lumbering step forward, and they took a step back. Cody had no choice, he raced the Ruger took aim for the forehead, and fired. A black bullet hole opening in the middle of the Tyrant's forehead, but no blood came forth. The Tyrant taking another step forward, panicked Cody fired three more time, each bullet hitting
it's forehead but having the same useless effect as the others.
"MOVE!" Cody's mind shouted, the Tyrant was in striking distance before Cody knew what to do, he grabbed Sherry by the arm and dove to the right just as the Tyrant plunged it's claw into the door. Slicing deep into the metal, sending sparks flying everywhere. Cody scrambled to his feet, Sherry right behind him as he darted across the room. The Tyrant tried to pull it's claw free but ended up ripping the entire steel door off with it, bringing it's claw up it cut itself free quickly. Cody was amazed by it's strength, strength that far surpassed the Nemesis's. Cody heard two gun shots, Sherry firing, each bullet digging into the massive muscle that was the Tyrant's chest, still no blood flowing out. Cody instinctively took aim, and fired again, it's right eye exploding like a grape as the bullet hit it. The tyrant roaring as purple blood began to pour out of it's eye shocked, it brought it's claw up and over it's eye as it to try and stop the pain.
"Blind it" Cody thought, he took aim and the next second he was flying through the air as the Tyrant back handed him. Cody flew across the room, finally coming down about half way across, his gun spilling out of his hands as he slid across the room. The Tyrant now had it's sights locked on Sherry, frantic Sherry aimed for the eye of the Tyrant and fired. The bullet missing and hitting the wall behind the Tyrant, Sherry fired three more times and missed each time. There wasn't anything in the world that could describe the horror that Sherry was now presented with, the raw fear that had her paralyzed, unable to move even to fire the gun; which was futile anyway. Her own shadow was swallowed by the Tyrant's shadow as it covered her, backing her into a corner.
Cody was laid out on the ground, but he was far from helpless. He'd already retrieved his gun and had his arm supported by the ground. He lifted the gun up a bit, he smirked through the pain, closing one eye.
BAM!
The bullet entered the Tyrant's back of the Tyrant's leg, another shot and the Tyrant went down on one knee. The Tyrant managed to stand by back up, turning around,
"Lights out!" Cody spat, he'd all ready had his cross hairs lined up, he fired and blew it's left eye out, it's eye socket shattering under the force of the bullet.
The Tyrant, blinded, broke into a full run at Cody, drawling it's massive clawed right hand back. Cody leaped out of the way as it brought it up, tearing massive gouges in the metal floor and sending sparks flying into the air. Cody hadn't landed far from the Tyrant, praying that the blinded monster wouldn't find him Cody began to stand up and instantly dropped back down. The Tyrant's claw sliced through the air with a loud whoosh, a second longer and Cody would have been decapitated. Cody fired again, the bullet hitting the Tyrant in the mouth, broken fragments of tooth spilling out on the ground. Cody crabbed backwards as fast as he could, the Tyrant was blinded but some how could still sense him. It was either the Tyrant had dog-like smell and was tracking him by sent, or the vibrations in the ground. Cody fired the rest of the clip into the Tyrant's head, ejected the clip, and staying as still as he could tossed it to the other side of the room. It hit the floor with a
loud clatter, as he'd expected, the Tyrant launched in the direction of the clip. Cody looked over and saw Sherry, she'd passed out in fright, Cody cursed the situation and scrambled to his feet, slamming a new clip into the gun. He aimed and took fire, the bullet taking off one of the Tyrant's small, pointed ear in a burst of purple blood. The Tyrant roared out in pain, it was now most likely pissed off beyond belief and there was now way he was going to be able to take down the Tyrant with a hand gun. As long as Sherry was out, she was safe, Cody took his mind off her and made a run for the door, he had to draw it out into the hallway so he could think of a way to beat it. He wasn't going to make it, the Tyrant was dashing to meet him halfway, it brought it's claw up and Cody dove into the air. Right over it's claw and through the door, Cody was stopped as his body hit the ground then slid into the wall. Cody scrambled to his feet, a loud screeching noise erupting behind
him, like metal being pounded out of shape. He dashed down the hallway, and could soon hear the thundering footfalls of the Tyrant. Cody's mind was throwing a million things together at once, and none of them made any sense. His options were becoming slimmer, and slimmer, he could hear the Tyrant closing in, closer, and closer, Cody began to run faster and faster.
"THE RAILING!" Cody's mind shouted, he finally had an idea that had a possibility of working. Cody picked up in speed,. pumping his arms for speed as he darted down the hallway, the railing coming up-
Cody baseball slid into the rail, kicking off the rail and to the left down the stairs. He grabbed the railing, and the Tyrant was to big, and moving to fast to stop himself, he crashed into the railing, ripping it out of the wall and sending it plunging off the edge. The fall itself wouldn't have killed the Tyrant, but it impaled itself on the railing as it and the Tyrant slammed into the ground, the Tyrant slicing into two pieces of bleeding gore. Cody was completely out of breath, sweat pouring down his head as he slowly glanced over the edge at the dead Tyrant, disgusted he turned away, though grinning at his victory. Cody gathered himself and stood up, breathing heavily he started back down the hallway which looked as if it had been badly hammered out of place. He reached the lab, the frame of the door had been violently ripped out of shape, massive gouges in it. Sherry was still out, he didn't blame her, he walked up to her and lifted her off the ground. Staring down
at her, he smiled as he looked over her beautiful features, her golden blonde hair, silky soft skin...
"Snap out of it!" Cody's inner voice shouted, and he quickly did so. He didn't have time right now to admire Sherry, right now the only thing on his mind should've been escaping. Cody shook his head, and kept his eyes off Sherry and onto his new surroundings.
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Wesker was furious, that kid had beaten the Perfect Monster! Just like his father, though he was stunned at the strength of the kid. Wesker slammed his hands down on the control console, then began to type quickly away at the computer, praying his plan would work, his smirk increased.
"If he is anything like his father it will, soon he'll be obliterated with this entire facility" Wesker whispered to himself, then laughed.
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Sherry slowly opened her eyes, everything around her was a blur, she tried to focus but found it hard. Just over her she could see Cody's face, his eyes searching around. She didn't feel any weight under her feet, she felt almost completely relaxed.
"Am I in heaven?" She asked groggily,
"Far from it" Cody said, snapping her right back into reality, she quickly focused and found that she was in Cody's arms and they were still in the lab, that monster was gone.
"What happened to that monster?" She asked carefully,
"I killed it" Cody responded, Sherry was so over joyed that at the moment she didn't know what she was doing, she flung her arms around Cody and . . . Kissed him. Cody was surprised to really say the least, Sherry, embarrassed broke the kiss as he set her down. At the moment it had seemed proper, it was like a fair tale and Cody had been her knight in shining armor who'd saved her from the beast. When Sherry looked back at Cody she felt a knot in her stomach, like butterflies, she quickly turned away. He was cute, and under different circumstances that kiss would've been appropriate, but the circumstances hadn't been different and the kiss had been a stupid idea.
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Cody was in complete shock, on one hand he actually liked the kiss, but on the other hand he cursed his own ignorance, if there was one thing he knew it was you didn't let yourself get distracted when your trying to survive.
"I uhh.... Think... We should uhh look around" Cody mumbled, trying to throw words together quickly, it failed but he didn't care. Cody shook it off, surpressed the urge to kiss her back, and began to search the lab, acting as if the kiss hadn't ever happened.
Sherry seemed to stay there for a moment just staring, then decided to help him in his search for the card key in the lab.
Cody searched the computer consoles for anything useful, not much, he found a box of rounds for the Ruger. And under the desk a box of rounds for a Beretta, ammo was always a definite plus, but right now that wasn't what he was looking for. He needed a card key to get to the heli-pad, their only route of escape.
"There!" Cody's mind shouted, Cody pushed a bunch of papers off the console and came up with an Umbrella key card.
"The self-destruct sequence has now been activated. All personnel please evacuate immediately" A calm female voice began to repeat,
"SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!" Cody's mind shouted, he hadn't counted on this happening, the recording kept blaring, Sherry was frantic. And the virus, shit he was right, he had planned on waiting for help before he went back down to neutralize the virus, but he didn't have time and if the place exploded it would release it into the sea, and god knows what would happen next. Cody pulled himself together, he knew what he had to do.
"Sherry, I have to go back and shut down the mainframe so the virus won't spread into the ocean, take the key card and get the heliport ready" Cody ordered, trying to sound as calm as possible even though in side he wanted to run around screaming frantically.
"But Cody, this place is going to blow up! And what if you don't make it back in time?" Sherry asked,
"When the sequence reaches one-minute you get the hell out of here, forget about me and consider me dead." Cody ordered, Sherry felt her heart sink when he said that, but knew there was no talking him out of it. "Now go" He whispered, as he turned around and began to jog down the hallway. Sherry watched as Cody disappeared down the metallic hallway, and she felt a tear roll down her cheek at the thought he may not make it back. Sherry calmed herself, for once, once in her life she felt for someone else, and felt that they felt the same way back. She didn't want to loose Cody like she had so many other people, she couldn't help him but she could do as he said so as not to slow him down. Sherry decided on that course of action and ran out of the lab, the elevator to the higher levels was just ahead of her, she swiped the key card through and the doors slid open. She silently wished Cody good look as the elevator doors closed and she was lifted to the next floor.
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Cody was happy that he'd taken down all wondering virus carriers on the way down or they'd of slowed him down. Cody nearly kicked the door ahead of him down, racing across the lavish red carpet that was set into the eerie hallway. And up a thin set up stairs, and the hallway he was in was in a rectangle shape, and hallway to his right, and the rest of the room was a walk way around the stairs and to another hallway. Cody raced around the stairs, and out the door to his far left. Another hallway, this maze of a mansion was really begging to piss Cody off, he charged down another hallway and finally found himself on the second-floor balcony, Cody raced down the small set of stairs, then right down the big one. He'd obviously missed a virus carrier because one was stumbling around at the bottom of the stairs, a shot to the head and it crumpled down into the musty carpet. Cody jumped over the body and ran left, there were two doors, Cody took the one farthest to the left and
found himself back in the training facility.
"Okay now where is the lab again?" Cody asked himself, then began to sprint down the hallway.
* * *
The upper floor Sherry had found to be the plainest hallway in the entire lab, nothing more then a long metal hallway that lead straight to another elevator. Cody had been gone for ten minutes now and Sherry was begging to wonder when the self-destruct sequence would actually start counting down. If she was lucky, then it wouldn't until Cody got back and they'd all be fine.
"Off chances" She thought numbly, as she hurried down the hallway and into the elevator. There were three buttons, B1, B2, and HP.
"Helicopter Port" Sherry said to herself, then jammed in the button just below HP. The doors clicked and closed, she sighed a bit as she was taken to the heliport, she'd be safe, but what about Cody? And what was she feeling for him that made her so concerned about his well being? She'd question herself later, right now she had to worry about Jill and the others getting there like they said they would.
* * *
"The Self-destruct Sequence has been activated, all personal please evacuate. You have five minutes and fifteen seconds to reach minimum safe distance" A recorded female voice began to repeat, the emergency sirens blaring, and red flashing emergency lights going off. Cody didn't really pay any attention, there were only two things on his mind, one was shutting down the main frame to keep the TG-Virus from leaking into the sea. And the other was survival, he didn't come this first just to die. His boots making a loud clattering noise as he sprinted across the metal floor. And suddenly, he heard a loud crashing noise, like metal being ripped and torn out of place, then the loud thundering sound of rushing water. Cody didn't turn around to see the wave of water that was roaring down the hallway, he simply ran faster. Faster then he'd ever ran in his life, not tiring, he was running so fast the hallways around him were a blur of metallic motion. And suddenly, he was hit with the
low wave of water, it swept his feet out from under him and plunged him into the icy water. Cody didn't stay down for long, he scrambled back to his feet the water only waist deep.
"Waist deep . . . And rising" Cody thought numbly, he didn't have time to stop and think, he had to move. Cody had to take long striding steps to move through the water fast, splashing it everywhere as he moved. By the time Cody reached the stairs he was soaking wet, and most of the lower floors looked flooded. He had no time to dash down the stairs, Cody grabbed the railing and leaped over it. The drop was two stories long, but it was over before it had began and Cody crashed down into the water, landing in a crouch, bubbles rushing up and around him. Cody pushed his legs up, and popped out of the water, he was now chest deep in water and could no longer run. The control room wasn't to far, he had to move quicker though the place was about to go up in smoke. Cody ran the map through his head mentally, and took the next right which lead into the control room. The computer was on a plat form which had yet to be reached by the water, a giant spider was crawling across the
roof. A few quick shots to the head and the spider was down and dead, Cody quickly swam over to the ladder. In a rush he scaled it, making it up to the platform as fast as he could. He stepped off on it and rushed over to the computer, he entered the access code he'd gotten and was at the main control menu.