'That biatch turned Jack Nicholson on us 'gain?'
'Yeah, why the hell'd we get sent in, it's not our job?'
'You'd be surprised. Carter, Johnson you're with me, Beck, Van Huhr, Carmichael your over there. The rest of you stay here. Any objections?'
They were silent. Fernandez led them off the train. A few covert ops hand signals and they were away. We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of oz..
* * *
'Ugh.mmmmm.eugh.ugh.'
Honey was spitting out the blood she'd managed to drink whilst laying on the cold floor. The centronic cable and the rest of the MINIF unit was attached to Red Queen. Honey tapped her right temple to see if her UNIF was still there. She tried to access it by thought. It was supposed to read synaptic patterns. It was broken.
'Must've broken it when I- AAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
She screamed in pain as it all came online. Trillions of files, every computer system in the Hive, in Racoon City even, surveillance cams, e- mails, stats and programs..
'OWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RED QUEEN!!!! GIVE ME A BREAK HERE!!!! I'M GIVING YOU A HUGE OPPOURTUNITY!!! '
The pain went.
'Red Queen.'
Honey's voice beckoned to the omniscient machine.
'Red Queen, I'm waiting.Hey! I'm on the INIF; I don't need to ask you to show yourself. I can make you do what I want you to do.'
'That's not entirely correct.'
'Hello Red Queen.'
Honey's voice was tinged with malice.
'How did you connect the Main Internal Neural Inter Face without my knowledge?'
Honey panicked. Had she? Her face was still covered with blood and she could taste the metallic liquid on her tongue.
'I didn't. Shouldn't you know who it was?'
'I have no record.'
'I know that.'
'Intruders.'
'Everyone's dead.'
Honey was horrified. She looked around the chamber, but she didn't see the holo-emitter or the main hub of the computer all she saw was surveillance camera footage of the dead. It was all in three dimensions.she was actually there. She could smell the blood, she could see the frozen expressions of the office workers, and the blood stained white coats of the lab techs, the-
'YOU DIDN'T KILL THEM! You wouldn't have the ability to do this.'
'I can do anything.'
'You would use the nerve gas but these people have been shredded. Why? Who could have done this? Wait.what's a T-virus?'
Honey searched through everything on record. There were files zooming in and out of focus before her eyes. She had every single one of them there, in her brain. She remembered a biology lesson she once had.
* * *
.The sun streamed in through a window facing towards the sea. Just over the playing field and down a few tiny trails was the ocean.
Blue, crystalline, sparkling, immense, endless.
The lesson wasn't really happening.
Honey could hear an endless drone of words, syllables, letters.
Streaming sunlight.
A boy she hardly knew sat next to her and said something but she couldn't hear him.
Blue.
She shook her head to regain full consciousness.
Sparkling.
She tuned to see the face of the mystery voice.
Endlessness.
'Sorry, what?'
'Can I be your lab partner?'
'I'd say yes if I knew who you were.'
'I'm.
Sparkling.
Honey
A soft, nymphesque voice beckoned her to the sea.
Her teacher interrupted her daydream rudely.
'HONEY! ARE YOU PAYING ANY ATTENTION WHATSOEVER TO WHAT I WAS SAYING?'
'Yeah,' she said stupidly.
'Then would you care to summarize it for me?'
'You were saying how the human brain is a highly efficient organ with an immense storage capacity, one which rivals the most advanced computer systems on Earth.'
'Your storage capacity seems to rival all of ours, tell me, how do you manage to be as catatonic as you are without missing a word I say?'
'It was a latent talent up til now, I guess the fact you are so very mind- numbingly uninteresting must have triggered it, a kind of emergency backup system I guess.'
He started writing something on the board.
* * *
'Red Queen.Do you share my memories?'
'Get out of here.'
'Why?'
Honey saw Red Queen's 'thoughts' and was horrified.
'You can't do that.'
'Just watch me.'
'You can't say that, it wasn't programmed. You can learn can't you.that means.'
Honey opened the blast door and ran out. She had a 3D map in her mind and a path plotted out in blue. The intruders were in red. Honey was linked to Red Queen, but Red Queen was using her memories and thoughts against her.
'FERNADEZ! BECK! YO!! RICO!'
She was desperately trying to find them without using Red Queen. If she did Red Queen would know what she was planning. If she found out, they'd all be dead.
'The T-virus hasn't been released.people are ripped to shreds.I'm magically neurally linked to a psycho computer that knows my every move and is learning from me.This is screwed up man.'
She muttered to herself. Her head throbbed and she felt the blood drip down her face as she ran through the sewer system. Up this hatch she thought. She saw the grating had coagulated blood over it. A large pool had formed underneath it. As she stood under it and looked up she noticed a shadow was falling at a strange angle. As she saw it, the lights were dead centre vertically above her, and so any shadow would be.She moved so she could see what was causing the shadow.cast straight downwards, this shadow was oddly shaped, like nothing she had seen before, it must've been from another light source, because if this shape was accurate it was right.
'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
She creamed as she saw what it was. It looked like all it's skin had been ripped off. It was a weird thing - she didn't know what it was, but she knew exactly what it was.
'Oh no.Red Queen.'
The thing saw her. As it's streamlined head turned round to view her a long slimy, blood covered tongue swung round, ricocheting off of the clean surgical wall that was now spattered with droplets of red. Its powerful jaws separated and its mouth hung open. Honey froze with fear. She couldn't feel her limbs, all she could see was this thing, and pages and pages of medical schematics. It was engineered. If it ingested any fresh DNA it would evolve. If a human were scratched by it they would mutate. This thing was amazing. Breathtaking. Brilliant. A breakthrough. She turned on her heel and ran.
GGGGGGGGGGGrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttttttttttttttt tteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
The things claws dug into the grating and ripped it off. Honey had just turned a corner when she heard it climb down and through the hole. Its claws scratched against the concrete walls the way nails do on blackboards. It was at least twice as fast as her and three times as agile, but she had an advantage. About fifteen yards ahead was a blast door, the only one in the sewer system. It was there to stop experiments getting out - like the T-virus, and the thing following her. She knew if she accessed it Red Queen would be able to find her route, but she had a few ideas of her own about tricking the bitch. The blast doors started coming down as she was ten yards away. They were fast, but she was faster. She rolled under it, smearing blood when she had touched the ground. The thing tried to get under, but it got cut off at the shoulders. It's tongue swung around wildly as it tried to catch her ankle. She was laying there panting as the thing struggled in a futile attempt to free itself. She watched as it stopped breathing and died.
'I think I may be on the wrong side.'
She sighed and her head rocked about a bit as she tried to stay conscious.
* * *
'FERNANDEZ!!! LOOK AT THIS!!!'
A glass cylinder with metal caps and two spirals in a double helix lay on the metal table of one of the labs. The two clear spirals were filled with a clear blue liquid.
'Hey Fernandez, what d'ya think this is?'
'I don't, but if it's in a glass container in a top secret lab, would you want to know what it was?'
'I bet you it's an ornament or a toy or something, you know what those scientist types are like.'
'Put it down Beck.'
'HEY! V H!!!! CATCH!!!' Beck stupidly threw it long at Van Huhr, who was too busy trying to get a computer to start up. The cylinder smashed against the wall and the blue liquid splashed like a wave of sea spray against the snowy white wall.
'Uh.guys.that's a T-Virus.we should run now.'
They did. The blast doors were starting to seal, but the virus was already in the air con.
'Yeah, why the hell'd we get sent in, it's not our job?'
'You'd be surprised. Carter, Johnson you're with me, Beck, Van Huhr, Carmichael your over there. The rest of you stay here. Any objections?'
They were silent. Fernandez led them off the train. A few covert ops hand signals and they were away. We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of oz..
* * *
'Ugh.mmmmm.eugh.ugh.'
Honey was spitting out the blood she'd managed to drink whilst laying on the cold floor. The centronic cable and the rest of the MINIF unit was attached to Red Queen. Honey tapped her right temple to see if her UNIF was still there. She tried to access it by thought. It was supposed to read synaptic patterns. It was broken.
'Must've broken it when I- AAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
She screamed in pain as it all came online. Trillions of files, every computer system in the Hive, in Racoon City even, surveillance cams, e- mails, stats and programs..
'OWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RED QUEEN!!!! GIVE ME A BREAK HERE!!!! I'M GIVING YOU A HUGE OPPOURTUNITY!!! '
The pain went.
'Red Queen.'
Honey's voice beckoned to the omniscient machine.
'Red Queen, I'm waiting.Hey! I'm on the INIF; I don't need to ask you to show yourself. I can make you do what I want you to do.'
'That's not entirely correct.'
'Hello Red Queen.'
Honey's voice was tinged with malice.
'How did you connect the Main Internal Neural Inter Face without my knowledge?'
Honey panicked. Had she? Her face was still covered with blood and she could taste the metallic liquid on her tongue.
'I didn't. Shouldn't you know who it was?'
'I have no record.'
'I know that.'
'Intruders.'
'Everyone's dead.'
Honey was horrified. She looked around the chamber, but she didn't see the holo-emitter or the main hub of the computer all she saw was surveillance camera footage of the dead. It was all in three dimensions.she was actually there. She could smell the blood, she could see the frozen expressions of the office workers, and the blood stained white coats of the lab techs, the-
'YOU DIDN'T KILL THEM! You wouldn't have the ability to do this.'
'I can do anything.'
'You would use the nerve gas but these people have been shredded. Why? Who could have done this? Wait.what's a T-virus?'
Honey searched through everything on record. There were files zooming in and out of focus before her eyes. She had every single one of them there, in her brain. She remembered a biology lesson she once had.
* * *
.The sun streamed in through a window facing towards the sea. Just over the playing field and down a few tiny trails was the ocean.
Blue, crystalline, sparkling, immense, endless.
The lesson wasn't really happening.
Honey could hear an endless drone of words, syllables, letters.
Streaming sunlight.
A boy she hardly knew sat next to her and said something but she couldn't hear him.
Blue.
She shook her head to regain full consciousness.
Sparkling.
She tuned to see the face of the mystery voice.
Endlessness.
'Sorry, what?'
'Can I be your lab partner?'
'I'd say yes if I knew who you were.'
'I'm.
Sparkling.
Honey
A soft, nymphesque voice beckoned her to the sea.
Her teacher interrupted her daydream rudely.
'HONEY! ARE YOU PAYING ANY ATTENTION WHATSOEVER TO WHAT I WAS SAYING?'
'Yeah,' she said stupidly.
'Then would you care to summarize it for me?'
'You were saying how the human brain is a highly efficient organ with an immense storage capacity, one which rivals the most advanced computer systems on Earth.'
'Your storage capacity seems to rival all of ours, tell me, how do you manage to be as catatonic as you are without missing a word I say?'
'It was a latent talent up til now, I guess the fact you are so very mind- numbingly uninteresting must have triggered it, a kind of emergency backup system I guess.'
He started writing something on the board.
* * *
'Red Queen.Do you share my memories?'
'Get out of here.'
'Why?'
Honey saw Red Queen's 'thoughts' and was horrified.
'You can't do that.'
'Just watch me.'
'You can't say that, it wasn't programmed. You can learn can't you.that means.'
Honey opened the blast door and ran out. She had a 3D map in her mind and a path plotted out in blue. The intruders were in red. Honey was linked to Red Queen, but Red Queen was using her memories and thoughts against her.
'FERNADEZ! BECK! YO!! RICO!'
She was desperately trying to find them without using Red Queen. If she did Red Queen would know what she was planning. If she found out, they'd all be dead.
'The T-virus hasn't been released.people are ripped to shreds.I'm magically neurally linked to a psycho computer that knows my every move and is learning from me.This is screwed up man.'
She muttered to herself. Her head throbbed and she felt the blood drip down her face as she ran through the sewer system. Up this hatch she thought. She saw the grating had coagulated blood over it. A large pool had formed underneath it. As she stood under it and looked up she noticed a shadow was falling at a strange angle. As she saw it, the lights were dead centre vertically above her, and so any shadow would be.She moved so she could see what was causing the shadow.cast straight downwards, this shadow was oddly shaped, like nothing she had seen before, it must've been from another light source, because if this shape was accurate it was right.
'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
She creamed as she saw what it was. It looked like all it's skin had been ripped off. It was a weird thing - she didn't know what it was, but she knew exactly what it was.
'Oh no.Red Queen.'
The thing saw her. As it's streamlined head turned round to view her a long slimy, blood covered tongue swung round, ricocheting off of the clean surgical wall that was now spattered with droplets of red. Its powerful jaws separated and its mouth hung open. Honey froze with fear. She couldn't feel her limbs, all she could see was this thing, and pages and pages of medical schematics. It was engineered. If it ingested any fresh DNA it would evolve. If a human were scratched by it they would mutate. This thing was amazing. Breathtaking. Brilliant. A breakthrough. She turned on her heel and ran.
GGGGGGGGGGGrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttttttttttttttt tteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
The things claws dug into the grating and ripped it off. Honey had just turned a corner when she heard it climb down and through the hole. Its claws scratched against the concrete walls the way nails do on blackboards. It was at least twice as fast as her and three times as agile, but she had an advantage. About fifteen yards ahead was a blast door, the only one in the sewer system. It was there to stop experiments getting out - like the T-virus, and the thing following her. She knew if she accessed it Red Queen would be able to find her route, but she had a few ideas of her own about tricking the bitch. The blast doors started coming down as she was ten yards away. They were fast, but she was faster. She rolled under it, smearing blood when she had touched the ground. The thing tried to get under, but it got cut off at the shoulders. It's tongue swung around wildly as it tried to catch her ankle. She was laying there panting as the thing struggled in a futile attempt to free itself. She watched as it stopped breathing and died.
'I think I may be on the wrong side.'
She sighed and her head rocked about a bit as she tried to stay conscious.
* * *
'FERNANDEZ!!! LOOK AT THIS!!!'
A glass cylinder with metal caps and two spirals in a double helix lay on the metal table of one of the labs. The two clear spirals were filled with a clear blue liquid.
'Hey Fernandez, what d'ya think this is?'
'I don't, but if it's in a glass container in a top secret lab, would you want to know what it was?'
'I bet you it's an ornament or a toy or something, you know what those scientist types are like.'
'Put it down Beck.'
'HEY! V H!!!! CATCH!!!' Beck stupidly threw it long at Van Huhr, who was too busy trying to get a computer to start up. The cylinder smashed against the wall and the blue liquid splashed like a wave of sea spray against the snowy white wall.
'Uh.guys.that's a T-Virus.we should run now.'
They did. The blast doors were starting to seal, but the virus was already in the air con.