Disclaimer: I don't own Resident Evil they and the better half of the characters and story belong to CAPCOM.
Note, AU story, the general idea is the same however, Raccoon City didn't go down exactly the same way. Yes it was nuked, however, in a prequel which will one day be done, the U.S. Military did more than just send in a special forces team and block off the city.
A/N, this is an a beta version, depending on how this is received, I'll make some tweaks to the later parts. Depending on the comments and how they feel about the characters and such. Either way, enjoy. Also, reviews are appreciated and if you flame, please make sure to include why it sucks hard, emphasis on the sucks hard part, alrighty then?
RESIDENT EVIL: Project Y
December 29th 2000
The moon lit up the ground nicely, white powdery snow blanketed most of the ground, the wind was mostly tranquil, but the air was bitter cold the stars could be seen brightly, and the sound of a helicopter could be heard in the air. The helicopter ride was bumpy and long, Hawk seemed to bounce back and forth, as the tiny aircraft continually shook. Hawk was just less than six feet tall, his eyes were a light blue, his hair sandy blonde, Hawk was slim, and he had some muscle and he had a lot of agility.
Hawk was nervous, his brow had little beads of sweat it seemed to have gotten hot inside. Hawk knew then wiped away the sweat, he stood up and tried to shake of the feeling. Hawk then looked up at the pilot who was already looking back at him, the man smiled politely and turned his attention back to what was in front of him, twelve hours left before an incident that could turn America into a disaster area.
It was very odd, the feelings Hawk had. He remembered when he'd left there was no real feeling of concern, or fear, not much anyway, but as time went on, he'd grown nervous, he was scared, scared of what might happen. Hawk looked down on the ground of Alaska, to him, a wasteland by all means, nothing out there, nothing around him, he was in the middle of nowhere. He then looked ahead peering into the bleak darkness, regretting the situation. Hawk then looked up front into the helicopter, when the man signaled it was time for him to jump. Hawk then looked out into the darkness once more, and could see lights on inside a building, not to far ahead. He checked his gear once more, and then opened the door, he took a deep breath, and closed his eyes tightly, and he then began counting back from five. He stopped at three and jumped.
He was falling quickly down to the ground, there was a quick rush, and he felt a bit strange. He silently counted to himself until he pulled out his parachute. Instantly he was yanked back, and felt an immediate slowdown. Slowly Hawk glided to the ground. As he came down and touched the ground he could hear the crunching under his feet of the white snow.
Hawk looked up ahead and could see the massive building, a lab actually, probably ten stories high. Lights were on in some windows; he could even see people moving by them.
"This is perfect." Hawk mumbled, and then started off to the facility in a light sprint. Hawk ran quickly through the area trying to find an entrance. Cameras were all looking over the area, Hawk moved cautiously and quickly, with all the light out anyone could easily see him. As Hawk surveyed it all, he could see no sentries patrolling the outside, which was odd.
Hawk didn't focus on that too much longer, he just studied the area closely, the best way in seemed to be through a window and from there he could get to the stairs easily. Hawk then got to the side of the lab and crouched low and he reached into his pocket, and grabbed a tiny locket; he squeezed it and made a light prayer.
Hawk thought for a second exactly why he was here. Details were sketchy but he knew the following.
Four hours ago, this military research outpost, occupied by United States scientist was seized and taken over by a group called Red Faction, Hawk knew the leader as Karl Silverman, a known terrorist thought to have some connection with the 1999 U.S. Embassy bombings down in England and France. Karl's demands were simple, thirty billion dollars and the withdrawing of U.S. troops over in Korea, the consequences for not following the demands would be a missile launch on the West Coast of the United States. This struck everyone as odd. Why Korea? They'd done all research in the world and could find nothing that would even suggest Karl had ties to the place.
Hawk didn't place too much concern in that area, all he cared about were orders. Orders were also simple. First and foremost, he was ordered to go and find out if they had any hostages and ifso, find a way to get them out. Second, he had to see if the possibility of a missile strike was possible, and if so destroy it. He was also being ordered to recover information from the computer in Lab 2 on floor five in the north end of the complex for reasons unknown to Hawk. His only communication was via a tiny receiver in his ear, he could only talk to one man, Colonel Todd Marshall, head of the operation.
Hawk carefully, took out three plugs from his vest. He then placed them on the window followed by a forth, he then hit the forth one and the glass shattered into tiny pieces.
"What the hell was that?" Hawk heard a man cry and slowly came to investigate, Hawk then quickly came in through the window and ducked into a nearby closet. He could hear the guard as he stepped on the glass; "What the hell?" he asked and then Hawk could hear the static sound of the radio and heard the man speak. "Sir we may have an intruder breach, I've found a possible entrance by the northern hall on the first floor."
"I'll send a team down immediately." the man over the radio replied. Both men sounded American.
Hawk took a deep breath, hopefully the closet wouldn't be checked, and maybe he'd get lucky.
Moments past by when the guards finally came, Hawk's heart rate seemed to jump, he panicked as he listened out, both his adrenaline and breathing also went up, Hawk tried his best to remain silent. A few more moments passed by, they seemed to last forever. He was certain as he saw the squad peering around, someone would hear the breathing, and pull him out.
"Hey!" one of them then said.
"What is it?"
"What about the closet?" Hawk's heart began to pound. He felt his legs buckle and breathing suddenly became that much harder. The soldier moved towards Hawk position. And Hawk tried to prepare to burst out and try and disarm the first one and then take out the second one.
"Are you crazy?" the other spoke up.
"What?" "Only a dumbass would hide in there." "They want a thourough search." The guard in front of Hawk then said. "Fuck that, it's a fucking waste, now that I think of it, it's probably one of those assholes trying to add a little excitement to the night." "You're that stupid?" "You don't think Mendoza would try?" The guard had to think. "Okay, you've got a point, but still."
He then began to turn the handle, but stopped.
"It's fucking cold, lets just go." "I'm just looking." the door then swung open. Hawk couldn't move, he was paralyzed with fear. There was no sound however Just as soon as it opened, it was then shut again. The man didn't even turn, and his friend had already left.
"Nothing." he then called back. The sounds of footsteps then trailed off.
"Well I'm about to die of a heart attack," Hawk said aloud as he fell back against the closet wall and slumped to the ground.
He then opened the door and proceeded out only to quickly and swiftly step back inside as two more men on a sweep passed by.
"Jesus," he then sighed, "It's a fucking party." he then waited as they got into a debate which lasted 15 minutes as to whom the best team in NFL history was. When they finally proceeded off, Hawk remained patient. When he poked his head out a third time, he could see another three coming though. None of them saw him, and Hawk taking advantage waited for all of the guards to walk off. It was nearly ten minutes before he tried again.
"Random guard number 43?" He asked as he cracked the door open. Now the hallways were bare. Once he was confident he slowly stepped out, and began investigating his surroundings as he did he activated the link up.
"I'm in." Hawk then whispered. "What's your status?" Todd asked.
"I had a somewhat close call but I'm fine, security seems light, however, this may be a little harder than intelligence thought, but it's weird, there's no security patrolling the outside." "Don't worry about it Hawk, there's no time for that. Make sure you stay out of sight, you're the only hope we've got, you've only got 12 hours so hurry up."
"Yes sir." Hawk replied and then ended the conversation.
Todd was a strong principled man, very light hearted, and very dedicated to his job, and he was somewhat of an older brother to Hawk, always looking out for him. Hawk felt more relaxed knowing that it was Todd in charge of the mission.
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Hawk carefully checked the area waiting for the first sign of trouble. Once he was certain that he could proceed, Hawk began to walk off. As he walked along the area he had a feeling of anxiety, this was all new to him, no longer just practice, but the real thing, these men would actually try to kill him, and he'd be trying to kill them. His thoughts seem to dwell on that for a few moments.
Hawk found a stair well, and proceeded upward. According to the blueprints Lab one was on the third floor of this building, Hawk carefully and quickly climbed the stairs he made sure to make as little noise as possible.
Elsewhere…
Nicholai stared silently at Karl, he looked deep in thought, something that no longer surprised him, Kyle lightly sighed, and seemed to sneer in frustration, he then looked up at Nicholai, "How many do you think they sent?" he then asked looking up at the ceiling.
Nicholai took a moment to process all he knew and then looked at Karl, maybe five, and that's pushing it, if I know Frank he's just sending in one, he thinks it is something we won't expect.
"So you think Franks just sending in his best trained man, to take all this on?" Karl then questioned not taking his eyes away from the ceiling.
"Yes." Nicholai said without hesitation, it's happened before, you remember Black Widow?"
"Oh yes, she would be the one exception, but I don't think anyone else would be suited to actually deal with this and if I recall Widow just got lucky."
"No she did not." Nicholai then said firmly, "in fact, we have reason to believe she may be in the base."
"What?" Karl then looked at Nicholai surprised by the news.
"Sir, we know it may be a long shot but about two hours ago, we found that there was an open vent leading inside this base." "No one saw this?" Karl asked irritated, his eyes now locked on Nicholai.
"The guard on duty says that he didn't notice it at all until just an hour ago, but I can say that this is her style." Karl then stroked his chin a second and looked down, "Nicholai, I want tighter security, especially around Rolland and the bio lab, we can't afford to lose them."
"Yes sir," Nicholai then saluted, and left the room.
Karl then, sat down in a chair behind him, "So the U.S. wants to try and solve this the hard way huh?"
Hawk was now on the third floor, it was a well-lit area, the floor was marble and bare, it had brown walls and the light seemed to be bouncing around.
"Where should I go?" Hawk then asked himself, and looked around the small area to see where the lab was.
It didn't take long to find the lab, the room labeled was in big bold letters on a gray door. Hawk walked up and noticed a tiny control panel, all doors on the base were electronically sealed, but the boys at HQ had prepared him. Hawk took out a small black object from his belt and opened up the control panel, he then hooked up the tiny machine to the panel, there was a slightly loud beeping sound.
"Jeez!" Hawk whispered aloud and then went silent wondering for a moment if anyone had heard, he then felt a little bit lax, as no one seemed to come.
The door then slowly slid open and Hawk walked in.
The lab was almost pitch black, a little bit of light came in when the door opened but then as it shut behind him it went all dark. Hawk pressed his hand against the wall to see if a light switch was nearby, but couldn't find anything.
Hawk stood still a moment as a slight sound could be heard, shuffling, Hawk looked to see where the sound came from yet he couldn't see in the dark, hawk then began to search one more and then smiled as he finally found it, Hawk then turned on the lights, and almost jumped back as a woman could be seen holding a gun at him, Hawk then shook his head, as he could see that she had on some goggles.
"Not what I need." Hawk grumbled aloud.
"Who the hell are you?" The woman asked looking Hawk over, sizing him up, she looked to be in her early twenties, short red hair, with slightly tanned skin, her face very nice, she had a small frame, was attractive. The woman wore a lab coat with her I.D. on her right pocket, Hawk looked oddly at her, he realized he was sweating a little and so was she, she also seemed to be a little edgy.
"Hi?" Hawk said nervously trying to sound calm and cool, but he was positive his shaking would give him away.
"Who are you?" She then asked, taking her goggles off with one hand holding the gun in the other.
"I got lost…uh…I'm just gonna get out of here now."
"Don't mess with me." She said trying to act tough but she still seemed to be trembling.
"okay." Hawk said nervously thinking of what to do as he stood there with the gun pointed at him, "So how's it going?."
"Shut up," The woman then ordered. "So who are you with, Nicholai's men?"
"Who the hell is that?" Hawk then asked.
"You're not a terrorist are you?" she then asked lowering her gun.
Hawk breathed a sigh of relief as she seemed to lower the gun. "What makes you think I'm not one Nicholai's men?" he asked curiously.
"Just your look, and the fact that you aren't armed."
"Oh," Hawk said feeling a little stupid, "well then just who the hell are you, a hostage? Are there more?"
"I'm no hostage, I'm one of the remaining scientist stationed at this base, name's Cynthia, Cynthia Williams." "How many others are there left?" Hawk then asked.
"Just me and Rolland are free, the others are on the 7th floor.".
" how many are there?" Hawk then asked.
"Eight, myself included." "How did you and Rolland manage to get out of there?"
"I escaped, Rolland was in on this plot, he is with them." "How did you escape?" Hawk asked puzzled.
"Guards were way too loud, I could hear them down the hall so I hid."
"Oh," Hawk said walking up to her, stopping a few feet in front, he then held out his hand, "Give me the gun." he then ordered.
"Huh?" Cynthia asked skeptically.
"You're to shaky, you pause, and you die." As Hawk said this, he was thinking about how he'd cope, he had yet to shoot an actual person, training dummies, and simulated figures was all he'd ever fired at.
"Fine," The woman said giving him the gun, "I guess I can find somewhere to hold out at." "Good, remember to stay put," Hawk said as he then activated his link up.
"What is it Hawk?" Todd asked.
"I've found a scientist." "How is she?"
"She's hot," Hawk then replied.
"Hawk.." Todd sighed. "She's fine, I found her n the lab on the third floor." "Good, now see if you can get some information out of her." Todd said sounding a little upbeat
"Yes sir." Hawk said ending transmission.
Hawk then looked over Cynthia who seemed to be looking oddly at him.
"Who is that?" She asked.
Hawk hesitated a second but then nodded, "a friend," He then said, "Do you have any information that may be useful?"
It was Cynthia's turn to hesitate now, she the shook her head.
"Listen if you know anything you need to tell me." Hawk then said sensing she was hiding something.
Cynthia paused and the mumbled "forgive me." under her breath, "Do you know of Project Y?" She then questioned. "Huh?" Hawk asked puzzled.
"I'll take that as no." She then thought of whether to go on or not, but she knew that he'd want more so she had to. "Many believe this place to be a simple base made to conduct research, but in all actuality, it's a base that's been conducting experiments using biological weapons. One of those weapons just happens to be a virus capable of mutating anything it comes in contact with, the mutation usually ends up turning it's host into a mindless flesh eating zombie." "You can't be serious." Hawk then replied in disbelief.
"Oh, I'm serious." Cynthia said her eyes locked on Hawk's.
"Do you remember the Raccoon City incident?"
"Yeah, an epidemic out of control riots broke out, the military closed the place off, and ended up spending three days getting people out. In the end they had to bomb the place to make sure what ever the hell was down there didn't spread outside the city." Hawk replied. "That's not the full story." Cynthia said, "Do you remember the stories after that?"
Hawk then snickered at the thought, "Yeah, some of the weirdest things I've ever heard of." "The tabloids were the only people who got the story right, from the giant worm, to the flesh eating zombies, they were right on the money in almost everything they reported."
Hawk then sighed, "what does Raccoon have to do with this?"
"You idiot," Cynthia then moaned, you have to believe me when I say that the payload on this base could bring Hell on Earth literally." Cynthia went on, "The things you would have thought only capable in a horror movie would become reality. Just release this thing on one major city and the virus would spread like a wild fire, that's why Raccoon was bombed. Once the President found out that this thing could be crawling in the White Hours lawn in a number of weeks he ordered the city to be terminated. The epidemic was known as the 'T'-Virus, the sister Virus of 'Y', the virus that terrorist are threatening to unleash on the U.S. West Coast."
"How does it work?" Hawk then asked.
"I'm not sure, all I know for certain is that it mutates the cells, causes something in the brain, the host can no longer distinguish between friend nor foe, the become highly aggravated and as a result, they lash out at whoever or whatever is nearby. The body remains in work. It's not like the T-virus in a sense that the zombie effect doesn't occur."
"Zombie effect?" Hawk then snickered, "are you serious?"
"All you need do is look to the testimony of the Raccoon city surviors, they confirm it." "They were under a lot of stress." "Over 800 survivors claimed that they saw them."
Hawk shook his head, "whatever, keep on going," Hawk then said.
"That's it, that what is going on." "Why develop something like this?" Hawk then asked.
"Well, if you remember we have the rising tensions down in the Middle East, and the threats of a nuclear attack and biological warfare are becoming even more rea, When the next war breaks out, the U.S. doesn't want its own men and women out there on the front lines, why not let the enemy kill themselves off."
"So we did research on this, T-virus, and even keep a supply of it, and now the worst scenario possible has come true huh?" Hawk then sighed.
"Sort of." She then said.
"Sort of?"
Cyntia paused, "when the virus was seen in action, the president, wanted the project ceased immediately."
"Didn't like his pet project?" "He didn't know it was there until the outbreak occurred, it turns out only a sedlect few had given a company permission to develop a biological weapon for the armed forces. After the fiasco, there was increasing animosity between both the president and the U.S. branch Umbrellas company.' "Umbrella?" Hawk asked, "don't they make medicine?" "Yes, but that is now just a front."
Hawk didn't like wha he was hearing this was some really awaward stuff going on. He didn't feel anymore comfortable when Cynthia continued on with "but it gets worse from there."
"What do you mean?" Hawk asked not sure if he wanted to hear this.
"This base is also the sight of the super solider product."
"…I'm guessing that's bad." Hawk said a grim smile crossing his face.
"As I mentioned the virus has the ability to mutate genes. In the event that ground forces would have to be used, it seemed like it would be good to do nothing more than just send down a handful of soldiers able to decimate entire armies, or take out what ever monstrosities the virus might create." "And then it was postponed?" "Yeah, Umbrella was forced to abandon it due to outside forces…and then the leader of the North American firm suffered a major heart attack, or at least that was what the Government wanted everyone to think." "What?"
:"As I said, President Wilson didn't like the outbreak, and he vowed that whoever had led to the events that transpired that day would be hunted down."
"So we just took on their information?"
"I don't know, but from what I understand we lost a lot of information on the project and had to start from scratch." "So this is a prototype?"
"No, there have been a few other versions." "where?"
"Raccoon, and various other places."
"What, so then that means they knew about everything that was going on in Raccoon before hand?" "except for the president, I've already told you, he was outraged."
"That's why we sent in troops," Hawk then said.
"Exactly, only a select few knew of the projects, unknown to the president, U.S. special forces were sent in to get Umbrella's data"
Hawk wanted to know more, he did feel he wasn't told everything, but it was a lot more then he'd known at first. Hawk needed to start going he was wasting more time then necessary talking to her. "Listen," Hawk then spoke "I've wasted to much time talking I've gotta get moving," he then handed her a small radio, "I'll contact you when I need more information, but right now I've gotta go, times wasting, find a place to hide, and do it quickly, once you do, contact me, that way I don't have to worry about you." "Why not let me tag along?" Cynthia then asked.
"You'll slow me down, I can't hold your hand the entire time, I need to concentrate." "Oh come on," Cynthia pleaded, "I know this place much better then you."
"Exactly, I need you alive that way you can tell me where I need to go, you know what is around the corner, that's why I need you alive."
Cynthia and Hawk looked directly at one another, the gazes locked on each other.
"Fine," Cynthia then said reluctantly, "I'll find somewhere to hide," "Good," Hawk said, and then exited the room, carefully checking left and right to see if anyone might be around.
When Hawk left Cynthia, whispered something under her breath, "Good luck, your gonna need it." She then took out a radio and switched it on.
"What now?" A voice whispered over it.
"We've got company." Cynthia replied.
Next: Action starts, Hawk meets the first of the bad asses with mixed results.
Note, AU story, the general idea is the same however, Raccoon City didn't go down exactly the same way. Yes it was nuked, however, in a prequel which will one day be done, the U.S. Military did more than just send in a special forces team and block off the city.
A/N, this is an a beta version, depending on how this is received, I'll make some tweaks to the later parts. Depending on the comments and how they feel about the characters and such. Either way, enjoy. Also, reviews are appreciated and if you flame, please make sure to include why it sucks hard, emphasis on the sucks hard part, alrighty then?
RESIDENT EVIL: Project Y
December 29th 2000
The moon lit up the ground nicely, white powdery snow blanketed most of the ground, the wind was mostly tranquil, but the air was bitter cold the stars could be seen brightly, and the sound of a helicopter could be heard in the air. The helicopter ride was bumpy and long, Hawk seemed to bounce back and forth, as the tiny aircraft continually shook. Hawk was just less than six feet tall, his eyes were a light blue, his hair sandy blonde, Hawk was slim, and he had some muscle and he had a lot of agility.
Hawk was nervous, his brow had little beads of sweat it seemed to have gotten hot inside. Hawk knew then wiped away the sweat, he stood up and tried to shake of the feeling. Hawk then looked up at the pilot who was already looking back at him, the man smiled politely and turned his attention back to what was in front of him, twelve hours left before an incident that could turn America into a disaster area.
It was very odd, the feelings Hawk had. He remembered when he'd left there was no real feeling of concern, or fear, not much anyway, but as time went on, he'd grown nervous, he was scared, scared of what might happen. Hawk looked down on the ground of Alaska, to him, a wasteland by all means, nothing out there, nothing around him, he was in the middle of nowhere. He then looked ahead peering into the bleak darkness, regretting the situation. Hawk then looked up front into the helicopter, when the man signaled it was time for him to jump. Hawk then looked out into the darkness once more, and could see lights on inside a building, not to far ahead. He checked his gear once more, and then opened the door, he took a deep breath, and closed his eyes tightly, and he then began counting back from five. He stopped at three and jumped.
He was falling quickly down to the ground, there was a quick rush, and he felt a bit strange. He silently counted to himself until he pulled out his parachute. Instantly he was yanked back, and felt an immediate slowdown. Slowly Hawk glided to the ground. As he came down and touched the ground he could hear the crunching under his feet of the white snow.
Hawk looked up ahead and could see the massive building, a lab actually, probably ten stories high. Lights were on in some windows; he could even see people moving by them.
"This is perfect." Hawk mumbled, and then started off to the facility in a light sprint. Hawk ran quickly through the area trying to find an entrance. Cameras were all looking over the area, Hawk moved cautiously and quickly, with all the light out anyone could easily see him. As Hawk surveyed it all, he could see no sentries patrolling the outside, which was odd.
Hawk didn't focus on that too much longer, he just studied the area closely, the best way in seemed to be through a window and from there he could get to the stairs easily. Hawk then got to the side of the lab and crouched low and he reached into his pocket, and grabbed a tiny locket; he squeezed it and made a light prayer.
Hawk thought for a second exactly why he was here. Details were sketchy but he knew the following.
Four hours ago, this military research outpost, occupied by United States scientist was seized and taken over by a group called Red Faction, Hawk knew the leader as Karl Silverman, a known terrorist thought to have some connection with the 1999 U.S. Embassy bombings down in England and France. Karl's demands were simple, thirty billion dollars and the withdrawing of U.S. troops over in Korea, the consequences for not following the demands would be a missile launch on the West Coast of the United States. This struck everyone as odd. Why Korea? They'd done all research in the world and could find nothing that would even suggest Karl had ties to the place.
Hawk didn't place too much concern in that area, all he cared about were orders. Orders were also simple. First and foremost, he was ordered to go and find out if they had any hostages and ifso, find a way to get them out. Second, he had to see if the possibility of a missile strike was possible, and if so destroy it. He was also being ordered to recover information from the computer in Lab 2 on floor five in the north end of the complex for reasons unknown to Hawk. His only communication was via a tiny receiver in his ear, he could only talk to one man, Colonel Todd Marshall, head of the operation.
Hawk carefully, took out three plugs from his vest. He then placed them on the window followed by a forth, he then hit the forth one and the glass shattered into tiny pieces.
"What the hell was that?" Hawk heard a man cry and slowly came to investigate, Hawk then quickly came in through the window and ducked into a nearby closet. He could hear the guard as he stepped on the glass; "What the hell?" he asked and then Hawk could hear the static sound of the radio and heard the man speak. "Sir we may have an intruder breach, I've found a possible entrance by the northern hall on the first floor."
"I'll send a team down immediately." the man over the radio replied. Both men sounded American.
Hawk took a deep breath, hopefully the closet wouldn't be checked, and maybe he'd get lucky.
Moments past by when the guards finally came, Hawk's heart rate seemed to jump, he panicked as he listened out, both his adrenaline and breathing also went up, Hawk tried his best to remain silent. A few more moments passed by, they seemed to last forever. He was certain as he saw the squad peering around, someone would hear the breathing, and pull him out.
"Hey!" one of them then said.
"What is it?"
"What about the closet?" Hawk's heart began to pound. He felt his legs buckle and breathing suddenly became that much harder. The soldier moved towards Hawk position. And Hawk tried to prepare to burst out and try and disarm the first one and then take out the second one.
"Are you crazy?" the other spoke up.
"What?" "Only a dumbass would hide in there." "They want a thourough search." The guard in front of Hawk then said. "Fuck that, it's a fucking waste, now that I think of it, it's probably one of those assholes trying to add a little excitement to the night." "You're that stupid?" "You don't think Mendoza would try?" The guard had to think. "Okay, you've got a point, but still."
He then began to turn the handle, but stopped.
"It's fucking cold, lets just go." "I'm just looking." the door then swung open. Hawk couldn't move, he was paralyzed with fear. There was no sound however Just as soon as it opened, it was then shut again. The man didn't even turn, and his friend had already left.
"Nothing." he then called back. The sounds of footsteps then trailed off.
"Well I'm about to die of a heart attack," Hawk said aloud as he fell back against the closet wall and slumped to the ground.
He then opened the door and proceeded out only to quickly and swiftly step back inside as two more men on a sweep passed by.
"Jesus," he then sighed, "It's a fucking party." he then waited as they got into a debate which lasted 15 minutes as to whom the best team in NFL history was. When they finally proceeded off, Hawk remained patient. When he poked his head out a third time, he could see another three coming though. None of them saw him, and Hawk taking advantage waited for all of the guards to walk off. It was nearly ten minutes before he tried again.
"Random guard number 43?" He asked as he cracked the door open. Now the hallways were bare. Once he was confident he slowly stepped out, and began investigating his surroundings as he did he activated the link up.
"I'm in." Hawk then whispered. "What's your status?" Todd asked.
"I had a somewhat close call but I'm fine, security seems light, however, this may be a little harder than intelligence thought, but it's weird, there's no security patrolling the outside." "Don't worry about it Hawk, there's no time for that. Make sure you stay out of sight, you're the only hope we've got, you've only got 12 hours so hurry up."
"Yes sir." Hawk replied and then ended the conversation.
Todd was a strong principled man, very light hearted, and very dedicated to his job, and he was somewhat of an older brother to Hawk, always looking out for him. Hawk felt more relaxed knowing that it was Todd in charge of the mission.
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Hawk carefully checked the area waiting for the first sign of trouble. Once he was certain that he could proceed, Hawk began to walk off. As he walked along the area he had a feeling of anxiety, this was all new to him, no longer just practice, but the real thing, these men would actually try to kill him, and he'd be trying to kill them. His thoughts seem to dwell on that for a few moments.
Hawk found a stair well, and proceeded upward. According to the blueprints Lab one was on the third floor of this building, Hawk carefully and quickly climbed the stairs he made sure to make as little noise as possible.
Elsewhere…
Nicholai stared silently at Karl, he looked deep in thought, something that no longer surprised him, Kyle lightly sighed, and seemed to sneer in frustration, he then looked up at Nicholai, "How many do you think they sent?" he then asked looking up at the ceiling.
Nicholai took a moment to process all he knew and then looked at Karl, maybe five, and that's pushing it, if I know Frank he's just sending in one, he thinks it is something we won't expect.
"So you think Franks just sending in his best trained man, to take all this on?" Karl then questioned not taking his eyes away from the ceiling.
"Yes." Nicholai said without hesitation, it's happened before, you remember Black Widow?"
"Oh yes, she would be the one exception, but I don't think anyone else would be suited to actually deal with this and if I recall Widow just got lucky."
"No she did not." Nicholai then said firmly, "in fact, we have reason to believe she may be in the base."
"What?" Karl then looked at Nicholai surprised by the news.
"Sir, we know it may be a long shot but about two hours ago, we found that there was an open vent leading inside this base." "No one saw this?" Karl asked irritated, his eyes now locked on Nicholai.
"The guard on duty says that he didn't notice it at all until just an hour ago, but I can say that this is her style." Karl then stroked his chin a second and looked down, "Nicholai, I want tighter security, especially around Rolland and the bio lab, we can't afford to lose them."
"Yes sir," Nicholai then saluted, and left the room.
Karl then, sat down in a chair behind him, "So the U.S. wants to try and solve this the hard way huh?"
Hawk was now on the third floor, it was a well-lit area, the floor was marble and bare, it had brown walls and the light seemed to be bouncing around.
"Where should I go?" Hawk then asked himself, and looked around the small area to see where the lab was.
It didn't take long to find the lab, the room labeled was in big bold letters on a gray door. Hawk walked up and noticed a tiny control panel, all doors on the base were electronically sealed, but the boys at HQ had prepared him. Hawk took out a small black object from his belt and opened up the control panel, he then hooked up the tiny machine to the panel, there was a slightly loud beeping sound.
"Jeez!" Hawk whispered aloud and then went silent wondering for a moment if anyone had heard, he then felt a little bit lax, as no one seemed to come.
The door then slowly slid open and Hawk walked in.
The lab was almost pitch black, a little bit of light came in when the door opened but then as it shut behind him it went all dark. Hawk pressed his hand against the wall to see if a light switch was nearby, but couldn't find anything.
Hawk stood still a moment as a slight sound could be heard, shuffling, Hawk looked to see where the sound came from yet he couldn't see in the dark, hawk then began to search one more and then smiled as he finally found it, Hawk then turned on the lights, and almost jumped back as a woman could be seen holding a gun at him, Hawk then shook his head, as he could see that she had on some goggles.
"Not what I need." Hawk grumbled aloud.
"Who the hell are you?" The woman asked looking Hawk over, sizing him up, she looked to be in her early twenties, short red hair, with slightly tanned skin, her face very nice, she had a small frame, was attractive. The woman wore a lab coat with her I.D. on her right pocket, Hawk looked oddly at her, he realized he was sweating a little and so was she, she also seemed to be a little edgy.
"Hi?" Hawk said nervously trying to sound calm and cool, but he was positive his shaking would give him away.
"Who are you?" She then asked, taking her goggles off with one hand holding the gun in the other.
"I got lost…uh…I'm just gonna get out of here now."
"Don't mess with me." She said trying to act tough but she still seemed to be trembling.
"okay." Hawk said nervously thinking of what to do as he stood there with the gun pointed at him, "So how's it going?."
"Shut up," The woman then ordered. "So who are you with, Nicholai's men?"
"Who the hell is that?" Hawk then asked.
"You're not a terrorist are you?" she then asked lowering her gun.
Hawk breathed a sigh of relief as she seemed to lower the gun. "What makes you think I'm not one Nicholai's men?" he asked curiously.
"Just your look, and the fact that you aren't armed."
"Oh," Hawk said feeling a little stupid, "well then just who the hell are you, a hostage? Are there more?"
"I'm no hostage, I'm one of the remaining scientist stationed at this base, name's Cynthia, Cynthia Williams." "How many others are there left?" Hawk then asked.
"Just me and Rolland are free, the others are on the 7th floor.".
" how many are there?" Hawk then asked.
"Eight, myself included." "How did you and Rolland manage to get out of there?"
"I escaped, Rolland was in on this plot, he is with them." "How did you escape?" Hawk asked puzzled.
"Guards were way too loud, I could hear them down the hall so I hid."
"Oh," Hawk said walking up to her, stopping a few feet in front, he then held out his hand, "Give me the gun." he then ordered.
"Huh?" Cynthia asked skeptically.
"You're to shaky, you pause, and you die." As Hawk said this, he was thinking about how he'd cope, he had yet to shoot an actual person, training dummies, and simulated figures was all he'd ever fired at.
"Fine," The woman said giving him the gun, "I guess I can find somewhere to hold out at." "Good, remember to stay put," Hawk said as he then activated his link up.
"What is it Hawk?" Todd asked.
"I've found a scientist." "How is she?"
"She's hot," Hawk then replied.
"Hawk.." Todd sighed. "She's fine, I found her n the lab on the third floor." "Good, now see if you can get some information out of her." Todd said sounding a little upbeat
"Yes sir." Hawk said ending transmission.
Hawk then looked over Cynthia who seemed to be looking oddly at him.
"Who is that?" She asked.
Hawk hesitated a second but then nodded, "a friend," He then said, "Do you have any information that may be useful?"
It was Cynthia's turn to hesitate now, she the shook her head.
"Listen if you know anything you need to tell me." Hawk then said sensing she was hiding something.
Cynthia paused and the mumbled "forgive me." under her breath, "Do you know of Project Y?" She then questioned. "Huh?" Hawk asked puzzled.
"I'll take that as no." She then thought of whether to go on or not, but she knew that he'd want more so she had to. "Many believe this place to be a simple base made to conduct research, but in all actuality, it's a base that's been conducting experiments using biological weapons. One of those weapons just happens to be a virus capable of mutating anything it comes in contact with, the mutation usually ends up turning it's host into a mindless flesh eating zombie." "You can't be serious." Hawk then replied in disbelief.
"Oh, I'm serious." Cynthia said her eyes locked on Hawk's.
"Do you remember the Raccoon City incident?"
"Yeah, an epidemic out of control riots broke out, the military closed the place off, and ended up spending three days getting people out. In the end they had to bomb the place to make sure what ever the hell was down there didn't spread outside the city." Hawk replied. "That's not the full story." Cynthia said, "Do you remember the stories after that?"
Hawk then snickered at the thought, "Yeah, some of the weirdest things I've ever heard of." "The tabloids were the only people who got the story right, from the giant worm, to the flesh eating zombies, they were right on the money in almost everything they reported."
Hawk then sighed, "what does Raccoon have to do with this?"
"You idiot," Cynthia then moaned, you have to believe me when I say that the payload on this base could bring Hell on Earth literally." Cynthia went on, "The things you would have thought only capable in a horror movie would become reality. Just release this thing on one major city and the virus would spread like a wild fire, that's why Raccoon was bombed. Once the President found out that this thing could be crawling in the White Hours lawn in a number of weeks he ordered the city to be terminated. The epidemic was known as the 'T'-Virus, the sister Virus of 'Y', the virus that terrorist are threatening to unleash on the U.S. West Coast."
"How does it work?" Hawk then asked.
"I'm not sure, all I know for certain is that it mutates the cells, causes something in the brain, the host can no longer distinguish between friend nor foe, the become highly aggravated and as a result, they lash out at whoever or whatever is nearby. The body remains in work. It's not like the T-virus in a sense that the zombie effect doesn't occur."
"Zombie effect?" Hawk then snickered, "are you serious?"
"All you need do is look to the testimony of the Raccoon city surviors, they confirm it." "They were under a lot of stress." "Over 800 survivors claimed that they saw them."
Hawk shook his head, "whatever, keep on going," Hawk then said.
"That's it, that what is going on." "Why develop something like this?" Hawk then asked.
"Well, if you remember we have the rising tensions down in the Middle East, and the threats of a nuclear attack and biological warfare are becoming even more rea, When the next war breaks out, the U.S. doesn't want its own men and women out there on the front lines, why not let the enemy kill themselves off."
"So we did research on this, T-virus, and even keep a supply of it, and now the worst scenario possible has come true huh?" Hawk then sighed.
"Sort of." She then said.
"Sort of?"
Cyntia paused, "when the virus was seen in action, the president, wanted the project ceased immediately."
"Didn't like his pet project?" "He didn't know it was there until the outbreak occurred, it turns out only a sedlect few had given a company permission to develop a biological weapon for the armed forces. After the fiasco, there was increasing animosity between both the president and the U.S. branch Umbrellas company.' "Umbrella?" Hawk asked, "don't they make medicine?" "Yes, but that is now just a front."
Hawk didn't like wha he was hearing this was some really awaward stuff going on. He didn't feel anymore comfortable when Cynthia continued on with "but it gets worse from there."
"What do you mean?" Hawk asked not sure if he wanted to hear this.
"This base is also the sight of the super solider product."
"…I'm guessing that's bad." Hawk said a grim smile crossing his face.
"As I mentioned the virus has the ability to mutate genes. In the event that ground forces would have to be used, it seemed like it would be good to do nothing more than just send down a handful of soldiers able to decimate entire armies, or take out what ever monstrosities the virus might create." "And then it was postponed?" "Yeah, Umbrella was forced to abandon it due to outside forces…and then the leader of the North American firm suffered a major heart attack, or at least that was what the Government wanted everyone to think." "What?"
:"As I said, President Wilson didn't like the outbreak, and he vowed that whoever had led to the events that transpired that day would be hunted down."
"So we just took on their information?"
"I don't know, but from what I understand we lost a lot of information on the project and had to start from scratch." "So this is a prototype?"
"No, there have been a few other versions." "where?"
"Raccoon, and various other places."
"What, so then that means they knew about everything that was going on in Raccoon before hand?" "except for the president, I've already told you, he was outraged."
"That's why we sent in troops," Hawk then said.
"Exactly, only a select few knew of the projects, unknown to the president, U.S. special forces were sent in to get Umbrella's data"
Hawk wanted to know more, he did feel he wasn't told everything, but it was a lot more then he'd known at first. Hawk needed to start going he was wasting more time then necessary talking to her. "Listen," Hawk then spoke "I've wasted to much time talking I've gotta get moving," he then handed her a small radio, "I'll contact you when I need more information, but right now I've gotta go, times wasting, find a place to hide, and do it quickly, once you do, contact me, that way I don't have to worry about you." "Why not let me tag along?" Cynthia then asked.
"You'll slow me down, I can't hold your hand the entire time, I need to concentrate." "Oh come on," Cynthia pleaded, "I know this place much better then you."
"Exactly, I need you alive that way you can tell me where I need to go, you know what is around the corner, that's why I need you alive."
Cynthia and Hawk looked directly at one another, the gazes locked on each other.
"Fine," Cynthia then said reluctantly, "I'll find somewhere to hide," "Good," Hawk said, and then exited the room, carefully checking left and right to see if anyone might be around.
When Hawk left Cynthia, whispered something under her breath, "Good luck, your gonna need it." She then took out a radio and switched it on.
"What now?" A voice whispered over it.
"We've got company." Cynthia replied.
Next: Action starts, Hawk meets the first of the bad asses with mixed results.