Resident Evil: Forever Doomed
CHAPTER FOUR
"Come on, you'd think there'd be more up here than just a few zombies." Lance said to himself. He walked down the uninhabited halls of Linwood. He stopped next to his sixth grade locker.
If only I could go back to that time. Sure I had to put up with Zeno and all of them people, but it's a hell of a lot better than watching my friends die. I would've laughed at the thought of zombies roaming the halls back then.
BOOM-- the door to the sixth grade house center burst open.
"Holy Shit!" Lance shrieked in fright. A zombie fell out. Dark, thick blood oozed from a gaping hole in it's chest with a stapler sticking out.
"Damn creatures." A voice from inside screeched.
That voice sounds familiar. Almost like--
"Rachel?" Lance peered into the house center.
"Lance! Oh, am I glad to see you." Rachel's frightened voice cried out.
"What the hell are you doing up here?"
"Well I was downstairs and on my way to the cafetorium I had to get something from my locker so I stopped, and by the time I was done everyone was gone." she paused, as if she was about to cry, "On my way there this creature jumped out of the basement door and grabbed me."
"Oh my god, it didn't bite you, did it?" Lance asked, just to make sure she hadn't been infected.
"No, I escaped it. I started to run away and another one popped out, so naturally I outran it like the first one," she continued, "and they just kept coming out so I figured that there wouldn't be any up here, but as you can see, I was wrong."
"Is there anything else that you noticed that didn't seem right, aside from all of the zombies?" Lance asked, she replied.
"Well, yes, remember how I said that the first monster jumped out of the basement, the door was open before it jumped out." Rachel sat down in a chair and virtually broke into tears. Lance sat down in the seat next to her and patted her back. "Don't worry now, we'll get through this. Come on," Lance said as he got up, "Toni and Lauren are downstairs, let's go and look for them and we can put a stop to this together." Rachel got up and they both stepped over the zombie in the doorway and walked away.
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"Boy am I glad to find you." Katie ran down the hall towards Toni, screaming. "Katie! We thought you got eaten or something." Katie instinctively hugged Toni because she was so glad to see her.
Toni pushed Katie away, "Where the hell were you!? You scared the shit out of just about all of us!"
"Well, it's kind of embarrassing. You know when we were on the way to the nurses office?"
"Uh huh."
"Rick came out of his room and...." Katie smiled at the thought of Mr. Selover, "and.... I went with him!" She started to jump up and down very perkily. Toni grabbed a hold of Katie to stop her.
"Katie, are you forgetting one thing? The school has been overrun by blood-thirsty zombies!"
"Wait, where's Lance and Lauren?!" Katie finally snapped out of her mood and grabbed a hold of reality.
"We all split up to search for you!"
"Let's go and get them!" Katie clutched Toni and pulled her down the hall. "Lance went upstairs!" They ran for the stairs and made their way up.
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" May 20th, 1999 (11:04PM)
So far the testing has been going as planned, Samantha Jackson has already showed signs of genetic alterations. I've decreased about five percent of the toxins from the T-Virus to slow the mutation so it would be easier to study. So far it has decreased the metamorphosis time about 95%, compared to the original mutating time of about one hour and thirty minutes; when you calculate the 95% difference it should last about three days.
May 23rd, 1999 (8:53PM)
Something has gone wrong with the mutation process and Samantha has stopped mutating. I figured everything to be fine, but she started to vomit and followed with the rest of the metamorphosis in about two minutes. Considering that I have injected the virus into the other kids about five minutes of confinement, I estimate them to go though the same process in order of captivation. Jeremy was one of our last so he's projected to go through the same progression within a day or so. Another thing about the rapid mutating, the children seemed to have unbearable strength before final decaying. One of them was able to bite right through one of the bars, I had to lay him down before he escaped into the rest of the school.
May 29th (8:15AM)
Today, the most terrible thing happened. All of the subjects have escaped. I have a feeling that most of them are still in the basement labs, but some might've escaped upstairs. I hid all of the weapons in the storage locker downstairs just in case one of the kids, probably creatures now, gets a hold of one. This morning, when I was walking to my room, I saw a crowd of people and as I passed by it I saw Jeremy vomiting. I immediately knew that he was going to start mutating only moments later. I continued my path threw the crowd as if I hadn't noticed anything. It's only a matter of hours before the rest of the subjects begin final transformation. Luckily nobody in the multitude of people saw me. Now that I'm back in my room I can hear yelling from outside. If I hadn't offered to split my money with the rest of the faculty they would be panicking. A few
of them refused, but they'll be taken care of in time. I can only hope that--"
Rachel cut off from what she was reading. It seemed to be a diary, or journal, of some sort.
"It ends there. It was written just this morning." Rachel looked up from the bloodstained, crumpled piece of paper. Lance had found it on the floor near the basement door. They'd went back to the first floor to see if they could find any clues on what happened-- and they found one.
"Should we go down and get the weapons?" Rachel asked. Lance stood there, thinking.
"I say we regroup with Katie and the others first. Just in case they've gotten into any trouble or don't think to go down."
"Good let's go!" Rachel and Lance ran down the hall.
God, I hope we find them. I don't know how much longer Lance and I can go on our own with one letter opener. If only there were something more we could use to defend ourselves.
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Where the hell is Lance? He said he'd be up here.
Lauren checked just about every hall upstairs and looked into just about all of the rooms, and there was no sign of Lance.
"Come on, this way." Lauren heard faint voices coming from the stairway.
That sounds like Toni! She's probably up here to find Lance too.
"Toni!?" Lauren called as she headed for the stairs.
"Lauren, is that you?"
"Yeah." Lauren had reached the stairs and could see Toni and Katie making their way up. "Katie, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, where's Lance?"
"I don't know, he was supposed to be here, but I can't find him. He probably got sidetracked or something. Maybe he went downstairs, because he's nowhere to be found up here."
"Fine," Toni said, "Let's go!"
They all made there way down the stairs.
I hope we find you soon, Lance, I don't want to die, especially like this.
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The kids of Linwood dove into the chocolates, unknowing to the truth behind them. "Denita," Mrs. Fish asked Mrs. Guarino, "Did you bring any weapons for when they turn into zombies?" "Don't worry, I've got everything under control. Just stay on the stage and they won't be able to get you, trust me." Mrs. Fish nodded in agreement and looked at the students.
Everything is under control. Once all of them have mutated I'll just throw the staff in, the kids will tear them to shreds, and all of the money will be mine; and the teachers who didn't decide to join my 'team' are still down and they'll get their share of this project. I already saw Katie leave, thanks to the help of Rick.
Mrs. Guarino looked down from the stage and visualized what it would look like when the action starts. She knew that they only had a limit of about fifteen to thirty minutes before anything would commence.
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"Toni!! Katie!! Lauren!!" both Rachel and Lance called. They needed to find their friends, fast! They searched the whole bottom floor of Linwood and came up short. They had dashed up the stairs.
"Toni!! Katie!! Lauren!!" They called out again.
"Lance?" a distant yell came from down the hall. They couldn't recognize which one of their friends it had been, but they knew it was one of them. Both of them ran towards the voices, and heard running which told them that their companions were doing the same.
"Lance, is it you?!" As Lance and Rachel turned the corner they stopped; they saw all three of them, Toni, Lauren and Katie running down the hall. A smile was brought upon all of their faces.
"Where the hell did you go!?" Katie asked Lance.
"I could ask you the same question. It's not important right now, follow me." Lance started to sprint towards the stairs on the other side of the cafetorium. He didn't care what questions they had for him, or Rachel, he just wanted to get downstairs.
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Jill Valentine ran threw the halls of Linwood middle school. She had gotten into New Jersey the day she heard that there had been Umbrella activity going on. It took her nearly an hour to find a way into the school. She tried one of the doors, but when she went to open it, her hand went right through it. She then realized that it was paper. Jill had found thick, steel bars behind them. Chances were that there would be bars on all of the windows and doors that connected into the school. The paper was obviously there as a cover up. She zipped up her blue sweatshirt about halfway to make sure it didn't fall off. Then Jill began her journey up one of the trees, to see if they had bothered to put bars on the top windows. She was wrong, but she did find a window where the bars seemed loose. Luckily, she was able to kick it in.
I hope Umbrella had nothing to do with turning these kids into one of those zombies. And if they--
Her thought was cut off at the sight of a zombie. It stumbled through the halls. She automatically knew that it was too late. She stared at the zombie, as if seeing it for her first time. Her experiences in Europe, about two years ago, with the other STARS had turned up nowhere, they couldn't even find the Umbrella headquarters. Things had been pretty much quiet since, or just kept well under wraps. She knew she was on this new mission alone; Chris Redfield was spending time with his sister Claire, Barry Burton had retired and was now spending time with his family, and she knew that he deserved that much, they hadn't heard much from Rebecca Chambers since the Caliban Cove incident, and Brad was... dead. She stopped staring and grabbed for her book-bag which had a few weapons, including a few Beretta's with tons of 9mm rounds already loaded so she wouldn't have to waist time to load. She pulled out one of the Beretta's and shot the undead creature. It fell to the floor, but almost immediataly got back up again. She shot it once more, a direct shot to the head, and it let out one last moan and dropped. Jill moved over to the zombie and checked it out; by it's size she could tell that it had once been a child, but the resemblance ended there. She continued to look at the sprawled out corpse.
Damn you Umbrella. You just never quit, not even when it comes to innocent children.
She got up and dusted off her pants and was ready to continue her search for survivors.
Thump!
Alert as ever Jill looked up and was almost in shock. A group of five kids stood at the end of the hall. Jill was surprised at the sight of living children.