Sorry bout' the delay, was gone and busy for awhile.

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Resident Evil: Omega

Chapter 4: Realization

"Were those gunshots I just heard?!" Tom thought as he made his way back to the lab. Still he moved quit a bit faster just to make sure everything was all right in the lab.

"Now to take care of that boy, although it doesn't really matter if I kill him in front of everyone else, they'll all be infected within the hour." Dwayne thought to himself as he made his way out of the lab in search of Tom. As he made his way down the hallway outside of the lab, he saw his chance to take down the boy. All he had to do was earn the child's trust and lead him to one of the test labs and leave his bloody corpse in there.

"Dr. Johnson are you all right?, I thought I heard gunshots?!" the boy was visibly frightened.

"Tom we have to move quickly, someone's shot David and is still in the facility! Please follow me and move quickly!" Tom obeyed Dwayne just the way that he had wanted him to. Dwayne led the boy down the long corridor that led to one of the viral research labs.

"Quickly Tom, we'll be safe inside here!" Tom quickly made his way into the lab and was terrified by what he saw in there. Dozen of bodies, stored in clear plexy-glass tubes, lined the walls. The strange thing was that all the bodies looked like they had been dead for a long time.

"What is this, what the fuck is this Doctor?"

"Well Tom," Dwayne says as he removes the pistol from his lab coat, " this is Umbrella's dirty little secret. A viral test lab right in the heart of middle America, the perfect place to recreate Raccoon City."

"That's impossible, the government would never condone such an activity, you're going to get caught!"

"That's the beauty of it Tom, we're government funded. I might as well tell you this since you'll be dead soon anyway, what you see here is what happens to a human once they are exposed to the first Umbrella virus, they turn into what you would call zombies. You see, earlier today one of our creations, an Re-45, escaped into the city and once it makes it's first kill it will infect its victim and thus perpetuate the virus."

"But why now, why here?"

"This was the perfect place to culture a new version of the virus, the Omega virus. The first line of Omega infected specimens have already been created and are ready to be released into the general public. But, with the arrival of this circumstance I felt I had to step in, so I released a infected security guard into the area and killed David."

"You bastard, I'll make sure you pay for what you did!"

"That will be difficult since I'm the one with the gun and you have nowhere to hide. Good-bye Tom, I'll make sure you come back." Dwayne gives a little smirk of satisfaction as he raises the gun toward Tom. Just as he is about to pull the trigger, Tom quickly makes his move and side steps the bullet and grabs Dwayne's wrist. He quickly twists Dwayne's wrist, jams the gun into his stomach and pulls the trigger. Dwayne gives Tom a shocked look as he doubles over and falls to the ground. Tom does a quick double take and sees that the locking mechanism on the tanks has been shot and that the tubes were beginning to drain.

"Well at least he'll have company soon." Tom then bends over and picks up the gun, feeling that, for some strange reason, he'll have to use it again.