Letter To A Soldier, part V
By: Hotaru
Notes:
Pinquicha: Yeah, it's here. I tried to go through the game quickly so no one would get bored. Hopefully not tooo fast.
Twas: *joins laughter*
Luckie: Am I? I figured it'd be easy to follow...but then I figured people who haven't played the game wouldn't read it. But play the game! I don't want to ruin anything!!
--Not long after--
We were in a large, large...room that looked quite strange. There was a big pool in the back corner, and there were cages there too. There was a key card or something in the empty pool but a cage was deterring us from getting it. Billy used the crank to life the cage, while I got the card. Then, a gigantic centipede crashed out of no where and grabbed me. I can't even handle the small ones, so you can imagine how I felt when a giant one actually grabbed me. I screamed for Billy, hoping he'd be able to kill the damn thing before it killed me.
"Rebecca!" He exclaimed, pulling out a gun and fired off a few shots at the huge insect. I felt the pressure around my stomach release, and as I fell to the floor, it died. "Rebecca, are you alright?!" Billy asks, running over to help me up.
"Yes, thank you." I answer.
..
One of the puzzles we had to solve involved statues. We had to find wings for the good and evil statues and then put them on a scale. When we did, the portrait of Dr. Marcus lowered, revealing the basement facility. During our investigation, Billy had to give me a boost, so I could climb through a vent to another room. "I'm almost there." I tell him, reaching, and trying to climb inside.
"Glad I could be of service. Time to go inside." Billy replies. The vent led to a torture room. Blood was all over the place, the walls, the floor...it almost made me want to throw up.
While I was walking around the creepy room, I heard something behind me. I turned my head in time to see what looked like a monkey jump on my back. Screaming, I felt it bite into my neck a few times. Trying to ignore the pain seering from my neck and shoulders, I knocked it off of me. It jumped at me, but I rolled out of the way. As it came closer, I felt the floor shake, and the ground gave way beneath me. I grabbed a piece of rebar while the monkey fell; hopefully to it's death. I hung there for a long time, tears squeezing out the corners of my eyes. "I..can't..hold on.." As I felt me hand slip, my thoughts flashed to my family. They were probably wondering where I was, what I was doing. They had no idea I was about to die.
I felt strong hands grab mine, and heard a voice. "Rebecca! Hang on, I'll pull you up." Never did I think I would be so happy to see that man. Billy pulled me up, and made sure I was on solid ground before falling back on his elbows and breathing heavily. "Thank you." I told him simply. I felt like hugging him...or kissing him even. But that wouldn't be too professional. Plus, he was a criminal.
"Don't mention it, just keeping my word. We promised to cooperate with each other, remember?" He replied.
My radio beeped, reminding me of my comrades that were still out there somewhere. "This is Rebecca. Over." I say into it.
"Rebecca, this is Enrico. Have you managed to locate Coen yet? Over." It was my boss. He seemed okay. Billy stood up, and had a look on his face. I don't know what he was feeling exactly, but I couldn't ignore it. "Rebecca, answer me." Enrico said.
"No sir, I've not found him yet. I'll continue to search for him. Over." I said finally. I put the radio back, and Billy looked at me.
"Rebecca." He said, sounding suprised.
"My first mission and I've already disobeyed orders. So much for my great law enforcement career. Oh well, I probably won't live long enough to worry about it. Billy, I just need to know, I need to know the truth. Did you kill 23 people? I won't judge you, I just want to know the truth." That was a blatant lie. If I knew he killed 23 people, I would have probably shot him. Or pushed him down into that hole.
Billy sighed, and began his story. "It was about this time of year. Our unit was ordered to Africa, to intervene in a civil war. Our mission was to raid a hideout of some guerilla forces located deep inside the jungle. But the hideout was far away from our entry point. Some died from the heat, others were killed by the enemy. In the end, only four of us survived. Only there was no guerilla hideout."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"The idiots in charge had us operating on wrong information! But, we couldn't just go home empty handed, oh no. Our leader ordered us to attack an innocent village."
"So did you execute those innocent people?" I asked him.
"Forget about it. It doesn't matter anymore. That was then, this is now. Besides, you said you wouldn't judge me." He replied, getting ready to leave.
"I'm not judging you, but it does matter. Look, now my people think you killed those MPs in the van, but I don't think you did." I said to his back. I moved to face him. "It was those zombie dogs, right? When they attacked the van you were able to escape. I-isn't that right?"
"You don't get it." He said solemnly, turning away from me. "I've only got two choices left. Either report to the Marines and serve out my sentence or keep on running for as long as I can. That's all."
I chose to leave him alone then. That's all I could do.
After some more snooping around, we arrived at a maze of a room. I chose to power the gates, while Billy took the stuff scattered around the room. "Battle sequence initiated. Locking door." I jumped at the sound of the voice, and watched through a window while Billy killed off those hunters. I was thankful he didn't have too much trouble with them. I felt bad that he had to take care of them all by himself but there wasn't much I could do from up in the observation room.
I was getting tired, and hungry, and needed to go to the bathroom, but we kept moving. After getting a battery for the outside elevator, we made our way to a strange room. Well, I did. Billy somehow found his way there. Luckily, I waited before using those odd tablets. When I put them in, the tower we were in began to shake. Billy and I looked around worriedly. When we left the tower, there was a church a little ways away. There was a room to the right, where one of the floor tiles, when depressed, opened the church doors. Since Billy had to deal with those hunter's, I offered to investigate the church.
Lucky me. There was a huge bat that was larger than me. It was pretty hard to kill, considering it kept flapping around like it was having a seizure or something. But I got it eventually, and we met up again, and activated the power for an elevator around the corner. This place was a little confusing. I could hear some sort of creature, but couldn't find it. After looking around, and pressing some buttons, I heard gun shots. Poor Billy.
..
We met up again, and found a photo album in a room nearby. Billy looked over it. "Judging my the age, that buy must be could be Marcus' son, or grandson." He said. That made sense. He would be avenging his kin.
..
Sometime later, after we split up, Billy radioed me. "I found something here that might make you happy, it's an aerial cable car."
"Really? That's great, now we can get out." I replied.
"Yep. Let's regroup as soon as possible."
"Roger."
After some button-pushing, and ladder moving, we were ready to go. When we approached the car, I looked at the top of the train, and saw something flash by. It was another damn monkey. I pushed Billy out of the way, and somehow pissed the monkey off. It attacked me and slashed my side. Wincing, I clutch my side while the monkey attacked Billy. I looked up, and it looked like the two were having an arm wrestling contest or something. Billy held the monkey's arms, trying to fend it off. "Billy!" I snapped to my senses, realizing he needed help. I got up, ignoring the pain in my side, when Billy flipped over the railing and fell into darkness.
I looked around, peering, trying to find Billy and wishing I had a flashlight. Hearing a sound behind me, I turn, and gasp. It was one of those leech mosters. I used a few Molotov cocktails to kill the thing, and ran away before it could explode on me. When I tried to enter the cable car, there was no power again. Taking a deep breath, I went up to the control room to see what was wrong. There were leeches all over the control panel, and a part of the power board have been removed. After disposing of the creatures, and putting the part back in, the car jumped back to life.
Climbing in, I prayed that Billy was okay, and manages to find me soon. The car took me to yet another laboratory location, and another oddly shaped elevator. I ride it briefly, and walk down a hallway, before hearing sounds coming from an elevator in front of me. I moved to the side to hide, while someone stepped into view. In an instant, a gun was pointing at me. "Don't shoot!" I say. Imagine my suprise to see Enrico there. "You're alive!" I say in suprise, as he lowers his weapon.
"Are you okay, Rebecca?" He asks.
"Where is everyone?" I say, ignoring his question.
Enrico looked around. "They should have arrived before me. Haven't you seen them?" He says. I shake my head. "That's unfortunate. If we go straight from here we should arrive at an old mansion, which Umbrella uses for research. Come on, let's go." He says, turning to leave.
"Wait! I gotta find Billy!" I call after him.
"Billy Coen? You mean you've found that criminal?" Enrico asks.
"Yes, but we got separated and--"
"No point in worry about him. He won't make it. Come on, let's go!"
"Sir, please. I need to find him. Don't worry, I'll catch up with you." I say defiantly.
"Rebecca...All right, just be careful." He answers with a sigh. He pulled out his gun, and heads out. I never saw him again.
Going to a locked elevator that I found the key for, I waited for it to arrive. I heard some rocks falling to my side. I turned, and looked over at the pile, and saw a white, ghostly looking foot. "What is that?" I asked outloud. What looked like a huge person now stood on top of the rubble. It roared, and leaped at me, landing not five feet away from me. It approached me, twitching slightly. I took a swing at me, but I ducked and rolled out of the way. The door that would have led me out of danger has closed, leaving me alone with this beast. I pulled out my most powerful weapon and shot at the damn thing until it was dead. I had to mix a few herbs to heal some of the wounds it gave me during the battle.
Right on time, the elevator arrives as I stare down at the creature. Stepping onto the elevator, I push a button, and almost imagine the monster to get back up and come after me. Shivering, I try to get my barings while I was momentarily safe on the elevator. The doors opened, and there wasn't anything waiting for me, thankfully. I was now standing on a bridge, over raging water. I looked around, and found Billy hanging onto a rock. "Billy!" I shouted, hoping he'd wake up. Then I saw some black mass swimming around in the water. "Billy!" I call again. The mass swam at Billy, and his body flew into the air before he crashed into the river. "No, Billy!" Shit. I had found him, only to lose him in an instant.
Now that I know he's at least alive, I had a little more determination. I kept moving straight ahead, and had to supply power to the damn, which made all the lights turn on. Finally, I'm not in the dark anymore. After entering a room that looked like a drainage ditch, I looked around and found Billy. Gasping, I run over to help him. "Billy!" I cry, lifting him up out of the water. He coughed up some water, and began to breathe heavily. "Rebecca...where am I?" He asked hoarsely.
"You're safe now. Are you okay?" I tell him. He was looking around, and his gaze stopped. "Hm?" I turned to see what he was looking at. A pile of skeletons.
"What could have done this?"I asked.
"They must have been used as test subjects in Marcus' research. He must have kept messing around with the Mother Virus!" Billy exclaimed. His expression became blank for a minute, as he stared ahead.
"Billy?"
He didn't answer me, so I let it go. Maybe old memories?...
By: Hotaru
Notes:
Pinquicha: Yeah, it's here. I tried to go through the game quickly so no one would get bored. Hopefully not tooo fast.
Twas: *joins laughter*
Luckie: Am I? I figured it'd be easy to follow...but then I figured people who haven't played the game wouldn't read it. But play the game! I don't want to ruin anything!!
--Not long after--
We were in a large, large...room that looked quite strange. There was a big pool in the back corner, and there were cages there too. There was a key card or something in the empty pool but a cage was deterring us from getting it. Billy used the crank to life the cage, while I got the card. Then, a gigantic centipede crashed out of no where and grabbed me. I can't even handle the small ones, so you can imagine how I felt when a giant one actually grabbed me. I screamed for Billy, hoping he'd be able to kill the damn thing before it killed me.
"Rebecca!" He exclaimed, pulling out a gun and fired off a few shots at the huge insect. I felt the pressure around my stomach release, and as I fell to the floor, it died. "Rebecca, are you alright?!" Billy asks, running over to help me up.
"Yes, thank you." I answer.
..
One of the puzzles we had to solve involved statues. We had to find wings for the good and evil statues and then put them on a scale. When we did, the portrait of Dr. Marcus lowered, revealing the basement facility. During our investigation, Billy had to give me a boost, so I could climb through a vent to another room. "I'm almost there." I tell him, reaching, and trying to climb inside.
"Glad I could be of service. Time to go inside." Billy replies. The vent led to a torture room. Blood was all over the place, the walls, the floor...it almost made me want to throw up.
While I was walking around the creepy room, I heard something behind me. I turned my head in time to see what looked like a monkey jump on my back. Screaming, I felt it bite into my neck a few times. Trying to ignore the pain seering from my neck and shoulders, I knocked it off of me. It jumped at me, but I rolled out of the way. As it came closer, I felt the floor shake, and the ground gave way beneath me. I grabbed a piece of rebar while the monkey fell; hopefully to it's death. I hung there for a long time, tears squeezing out the corners of my eyes. "I..can't..hold on.." As I felt me hand slip, my thoughts flashed to my family. They were probably wondering where I was, what I was doing. They had no idea I was about to die.
I felt strong hands grab mine, and heard a voice. "Rebecca! Hang on, I'll pull you up." Never did I think I would be so happy to see that man. Billy pulled me up, and made sure I was on solid ground before falling back on his elbows and breathing heavily. "Thank you." I told him simply. I felt like hugging him...or kissing him even. But that wouldn't be too professional. Plus, he was a criminal.
"Don't mention it, just keeping my word. We promised to cooperate with each other, remember?" He replied.
My radio beeped, reminding me of my comrades that were still out there somewhere. "This is Rebecca. Over." I say into it.
"Rebecca, this is Enrico. Have you managed to locate Coen yet? Over." It was my boss. He seemed okay. Billy stood up, and had a look on his face. I don't know what he was feeling exactly, but I couldn't ignore it. "Rebecca, answer me." Enrico said.
"No sir, I've not found him yet. I'll continue to search for him. Over." I said finally. I put the radio back, and Billy looked at me.
"Rebecca." He said, sounding suprised.
"My first mission and I've already disobeyed orders. So much for my great law enforcement career. Oh well, I probably won't live long enough to worry about it. Billy, I just need to know, I need to know the truth. Did you kill 23 people? I won't judge you, I just want to know the truth." That was a blatant lie. If I knew he killed 23 people, I would have probably shot him. Or pushed him down into that hole.
Billy sighed, and began his story. "It was about this time of year. Our unit was ordered to Africa, to intervene in a civil war. Our mission was to raid a hideout of some guerilla forces located deep inside the jungle. But the hideout was far away from our entry point. Some died from the heat, others were killed by the enemy. In the end, only four of us survived. Only there was no guerilla hideout."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"The idiots in charge had us operating on wrong information! But, we couldn't just go home empty handed, oh no. Our leader ordered us to attack an innocent village."
"So did you execute those innocent people?" I asked him.
"Forget about it. It doesn't matter anymore. That was then, this is now. Besides, you said you wouldn't judge me." He replied, getting ready to leave.
"I'm not judging you, but it does matter. Look, now my people think you killed those MPs in the van, but I don't think you did." I said to his back. I moved to face him. "It was those zombie dogs, right? When they attacked the van you were able to escape. I-isn't that right?"
"You don't get it." He said solemnly, turning away from me. "I've only got two choices left. Either report to the Marines and serve out my sentence or keep on running for as long as I can. That's all."
I chose to leave him alone then. That's all I could do.
After some more snooping around, we arrived at a maze of a room. I chose to power the gates, while Billy took the stuff scattered around the room. "Battle sequence initiated. Locking door." I jumped at the sound of the voice, and watched through a window while Billy killed off those hunters. I was thankful he didn't have too much trouble with them. I felt bad that he had to take care of them all by himself but there wasn't much I could do from up in the observation room.
I was getting tired, and hungry, and needed to go to the bathroom, but we kept moving. After getting a battery for the outside elevator, we made our way to a strange room. Well, I did. Billy somehow found his way there. Luckily, I waited before using those odd tablets. When I put them in, the tower we were in began to shake. Billy and I looked around worriedly. When we left the tower, there was a church a little ways away. There was a room to the right, where one of the floor tiles, when depressed, opened the church doors. Since Billy had to deal with those hunter's, I offered to investigate the church.
Lucky me. There was a huge bat that was larger than me. It was pretty hard to kill, considering it kept flapping around like it was having a seizure or something. But I got it eventually, and we met up again, and activated the power for an elevator around the corner. This place was a little confusing. I could hear some sort of creature, but couldn't find it. After looking around, and pressing some buttons, I heard gun shots. Poor Billy.
..
We met up again, and found a photo album in a room nearby. Billy looked over it. "Judging my the age, that buy must be could be Marcus' son, or grandson." He said. That made sense. He would be avenging his kin.
..
Sometime later, after we split up, Billy radioed me. "I found something here that might make you happy, it's an aerial cable car."
"Really? That's great, now we can get out." I replied.
"Yep. Let's regroup as soon as possible."
"Roger."
After some button-pushing, and ladder moving, we were ready to go. When we approached the car, I looked at the top of the train, and saw something flash by. It was another damn monkey. I pushed Billy out of the way, and somehow pissed the monkey off. It attacked me and slashed my side. Wincing, I clutch my side while the monkey attacked Billy. I looked up, and it looked like the two were having an arm wrestling contest or something. Billy held the monkey's arms, trying to fend it off. "Billy!" I snapped to my senses, realizing he needed help. I got up, ignoring the pain in my side, when Billy flipped over the railing and fell into darkness.
I looked around, peering, trying to find Billy and wishing I had a flashlight. Hearing a sound behind me, I turn, and gasp. It was one of those leech mosters. I used a few Molotov cocktails to kill the thing, and ran away before it could explode on me. When I tried to enter the cable car, there was no power again. Taking a deep breath, I went up to the control room to see what was wrong. There were leeches all over the control panel, and a part of the power board have been removed. After disposing of the creatures, and putting the part back in, the car jumped back to life.
Climbing in, I prayed that Billy was okay, and manages to find me soon. The car took me to yet another laboratory location, and another oddly shaped elevator. I ride it briefly, and walk down a hallway, before hearing sounds coming from an elevator in front of me. I moved to the side to hide, while someone stepped into view. In an instant, a gun was pointing at me. "Don't shoot!" I say. Imagine my suprise to see Enrico there. "You're alive!" I say in suprise, as he lowers his weapon.
"Are you okay, Rebecca?" He asks.
"Where is everyone?" I say, ignoring his question.
Enrico looked around. "They should have arrived before me. Haven't you seen them?" He says. I shake my head. "That's unfortunate. If we go straight from here we should arrive at an old mansion, which Umbrella uses for research. Come on, let's go." He says, turning to leave.
"Wait! I gotta find Billy!" I call after him.
"Billy Coen? You mean you've found that criminal?" Enrico asks.
"Yes, but we got separated and--"
"No point in worry about him. He won't make it. Come on, let's go!"
"Sir, please. I need to find him. Don't worry, I'll catch up with you." I say defiantly.
"Rebecca...All right, just be careful." He answers with a sigh. He pulled out his gun, and heads out. I never saw him again.
Going to a locked elevator that I found the key for, I waited for it to arrive. I heard some rocks falling to my side. I turned, and looked over at the pile, and saw a white, ghostly looking foot. "What is that?" I asked outloud. What looked like a huge person now stood on top of the rubble. It roared, and leaped at me, landing not five feet away from me. It approached me, twitching slightly. I took a swing at me, but I ducked and rolled out of the way. The door that would have led me out of danger has closed, leaving me alone with this beast. I pulled out my most powerful weapon and shot at the damn thing until it was dead. I had to mix a few herbs to heal some of the wounds it gave me during the battle.
Right on time, the elevator arrives as I stare down at the creature. Stepping onto the elevator, I push a button, and almost imagine the monster to get back up and come after me. Shivering, I try to get my barings while I was momentarily safe on the elevator. The doors opened, and there wasn't anything waiting for me, thankfully. I was now standing on a bridge, over raging water. I looked around, and found Billy hanging onto a rock. "Billy!" I shouted, hoping he'd wake up. Then I saw some black mass swimming around in the water. "Billy!" I call again. The mass swam at Billy, and his body flew into the air before he crashed into the river. "No, Billy!" Shit. I had found him, only to lose him in an instant.
Now that I know he's at least alive, I had a little more determination. I kept moving straight ahead, and had to supply power to the damn, which made all the lights turn on. Finally, I'm not in the dark anymore. After entering a room that looked like a drainage ditch, I looked around and found Billy. Gasping, I run over to help him. "Billy!" I cry, lifting him up out of the water. He coughed up some water, and began to breathe heavily. "Rebecca...where am I?" He asked hoarsely.
"You're safe now. Are you okay?" I tell him. He was looking around, and his gaze stopped. "Hm?" I turned to see what he was looking at. A pile of skeletons.
"What could have done this?"I asked.
"They must have been used as test subjects in Marcus' research. He must have kept messing around with the Mother Virus!" Billy exclaimed. His expression became blank for a minute, as he stared ahead.
"Billy?"
He didn't answer me, so I let it go. Maybe old memories?...
