Chapter XII
The Final Blow
"Oh Jesus.Bryant." Hillary whispered to him, pleading that the man in whom she knew was good at heart was not becoming what she was seeing. She prayed for his soul, that what he was mutating into was not his true form, was not what he was meant to be.she had seen him when he was good, and this was not Bryant O'Neal, this just was not.
He slouched over, his body erupting in blood strained veins and arteries. His skin dimmed to a pale white, and then to a vomit color. His face stretched and his nose melted away, his ears stretching down his back and his eyes moving up near his forehead. Just as she thought the mutation of his face had finished, it slid down his chest and planted itself directly in the center of his torso, sinking in and becoming part of his chest. His fingers melted into tentacles, and his left shoulder split open to reveal a pulsing eyeball. After each arm had stretched into whip like weapons, they split into white claws the size of here entire chest. His legs seemed to be the only thing that did not undergo mutation, but still they must have been under stress as his body weight obviously increased significantly. A small tail sprouted from his backside, and then split open to reveal two razor sharp blades. Just as she thought the mutation was ending, his muscle size drastically increased and tore holes all over his fair skin.
Bryant O'Neal had become a product of Umbrella's most destructive experiment to date.
*
"Warning, biohazardous outbreak detected on first floor. Repeat, biohazardous outbreak detected on first floor. Please report to docking station for further instructions."
The warning came just minutes after the basement level was sealed off. Ada's attention went to the elevator on the far side of the room. They needed to get out of this place as fast as they could, as the gas continued to leak from its containment chambers. Ada could not figure out why the elevator seemed to be active.
"Ada look, its opening!" Shane cried, and as soon as he said it Ada's heart filled with joy as she saw Trina Carr step into view.
"Ada!" Trina said, but the moment was halted as a countdown began.
"Warning. Biohazardous outbreak confirmed. This facility will detonate. Repeat. This facility will detonate. Ten minutes until formal detonation countdown."
As soon as the second warning was spoken, the door that she had first entered through slid open and Hillary Wilkes scrambled into view, followed by the most obscene monstrosity that Ada had ever seen. Its bulking mass raced down the hall after her, but she was faster than it was. She would outrun it, make it to them first.but where would they go?
"Ada, we can reach the docking platform through the elevator. We can escape this way, come on!" Trina screamed, and as soon as Hillary reached them, they were inside, riding up through the tunnels to the docking platform. The sound of the monster screaming below echoing throughout the elevator as they slowly reached their escape.
*
"But what do we do about Bryant?" Trina gasped, but Hillary already knew it was too late to save him.
"That was Bryant."
Ada gasped, "Then he must have been the specimen the biological report had spoken of. He must have been the specimen that was injected with the four viruses." she obviously wasn't handling this very well, "The Ebola virus caused invulnerability, the T Virus caused life after death, the G Virus caused immense viral-induced power, and the Nemesis embryos allowed it to have the most superb hunting capabilities.Bryant has become Umbrella's ultimate bio weapon."
*
As Ada finished speaking, the elevator slowed to a stop and the door slid open. Stepping off into the dark corridor, Ada felt a sudden sigh of relief was over her. She was going to be escaping, with the three people in her life that mattered most at the moment.Trina was still alive, Hillary was safe now and Shane would live through the rest of his days.she felt a smile come over her face.
Water glistened off the metal walls as they came into a massive aqua ring. The docking platform was only a small portion of the ring, with the more important area being in the center. There were two boats still left in the water, and both were already started and active. All they needed to do would be to board them and they could escape. It seemed too good to be true-
-and suddenly there was a rumbling from the walls, and the far enclosing gave way revealing the mutated Bryant O'Neal. He roared in anguish, screaming for his next meal. He would feed; he would feed off them if they did not act now.
"Open fire! Now!" Ada screamed, hoping that gunfire from all of them would hold him off. Shane raised his machine guns, Ada her shotgun, Trina her pistol, and Hillary a .357 magnum. Instantaneously they began to fire, and Bryant did not even seem to be flinching. He just continued to advance on them, and as they each took steps back, he continued to sever the distance. In moments, he would be on top of them.
"Five minutes until detonation."
Ada could not believe her ears. If they could all make it inside the watercraft then they could escape, but they would have to take the time to situate and to submerge.
"Trina, Hillary! Head for the watercraft, me and Shane will hold him off!" Ada screamed, and the two girls broke off in a run and entered the craft. Ada continued to pelt away with her Remington, slowing the creation down for seconds at a time. Shane held his finger down on each trigger, beating Bryant with ammunition that was quickly dissipating. In moments, both of them would be out of ammunition, and there were only four minutes left until the building was turned into ashes.
*
Hillary stamped her fist onto the control panel, hearing it roar to life under her feet. Trina sat down one of the four cargo seats in the back, strapped her belt on and prepared for takeoff. Starring out the front window, Hillary watched the battle rage forth between Ada and her one time friend Bryant.
Sweat rolling off her cheeks, Hillary saw Ada raise up her shotgun to reload, taking her eye off the creature for one minute. As she looked up again, Bryant leaped through the air and raised its claw wide in the air. Shutting her eyes and preparing for the worst, Hillary began to pray.
*
The thing that once was Bryant came down hard on her left side and gouged through her from her shoulder down through her breast and into her stomach. Blood erupted from her chest and as she pressed her finger down onto wet tissue, the world began to spin around her. Darkness engulfed her and all that she could feel was pain and hurt. It had been a long, twenty- seven years and now it was time for her to rest.
*
"Ada! Nooooo!" Shane yelped, raising up the submachine guns and pulling down on the trigger harder than he ever had before. He could not stop screaming as he blasted the creatures face, making it bleed and suffer as it had done to Ada.
"Heeeeirgh!"
Suddenly blood started to pour from undesignated wounds, and as Bryant O'Neal stumbled to regain balance, Shane darted to Ada's side. In the distance, he could hear the man fall over and land with a loud, echoing thud. However, for right now, Shane's focus was on his dying comrade.
"Ada please, don't die.don't, come on please breath." he cried, tears beginning to build up underneath his blackened eyelids. He dropped his sub machine guns to embrace her, to hug her and to give her as much affection as she so deserved, ".please."
"Sha.Shane.I, I don't think I will.be able to." she squealed, her voice cracking and blood beginning to build up in her mouth. She was in serious pain, the gouge extending through most of her torso. Blood was in a seemingly ocean size puddle around her, surrounding her and damping her.he felt so bad for her, so bad for the woman who had saved him. There was no doubt in his mind that if Ada had not helped him, then he would too suffer the same fate as the rest of his team members.
"No, you're going to make it.come on; we're getting out of here." Grabbing her up from off the ground, he watched out of the corner of his eye as the creature stood back up and readied for a second dosage of attack, "Hurry, lets go."
Racing with Ada on his back towards the watercraft, Bryant O'Neal continued to press forward, leaving a trail of blood as it lurched. Trina helped Ada into the craft, setting her into the back seat. Shane took the seat beside Hillary, and in what seemed to be an instant they were off.and with exact timing as well, the final seconds began to tick away.
"Thirty seconds until detonation."
*
Ada's eyes felt heavy and instead of seeing clear, perfect vision, she saw a red stained portrait of her friends starring down at her. She could hear muffled voices, words of encouragement and help and yet, there was a bit of distress.how bad was the wound that she had suffered? How bad was the damage to her body? Would she be able to make it.?
No, you have minutes to live.do whatever it is you have to do, whatever it is that will continue the fight against Umbrella.there is one final thing you must do before you leave.
"Here.take this." she moaned, handing a crumbled up wad of paper to Shane, feeling the warmth of his grip as he took it from her, "I don't know.know what it.means, but I think.it may be some type of.pass.code."
Reading the written words aloud, Shane's voice seemed hoarse, "You won't know it until you have it, and you won't have it until you know it.what does it mean?"
Ada had remembered finding it on her dresser one morning, the morning before she came onto this voyage to Asesinato Island, the morning before her team was slaughtered, and the morning before Bryant O'Neal became a weapon of destruction. She had no idea what it meant, or what it did, all she knew was that it was some type of riddle and that in the answer lie the key to Umbrella's final plan.
"Take the.anti virus.from my pack. Use it to.fight off.Umbrella.and the T Virus.if you administer.administer it to yourself," blood erupted from her mouth, and she gagged, "then you will be..immune to infection.in theory."
"Ada no," Trina said, coming through her hair with her fingertips, "Ada please don't go, we need you.we can't go on doing this without you. If you die then there is no way we can continue, there is no way we can bring Umbrella down without you." Tears filled up in her eyes, and Ada knew that she had touched this girl in a way that she had never done so before.
"My time.here is up, but you.you all can make a difference.promise me.promise me that you will bring down Umbrella.make them pay." she moaned and a pool of blood splashed through the craft floor, ".promise.promise."
*
Délia Spencer woke up to the sound of fire and destruction all around her. As she rose up, hatred and the realization of what had happened began to sink in.
"No!" she screamed, rolling over and falling off her bed and onto the hard wood floor, "This cannot be happening! No!" she screamed, screamed and screamed and screamed until she could not scream anymore. Bryant O'Neal was gone from his cage, and the Predators, the Prowlers and all the zombies and all the R4's were dead! Moreover, one of the watercraft was gone.they had escaped!
"Aaaaaaah!" she screamed again, hate finally reaching its boiling point, "This cannot happen! I.I.no! No no no no no!" Racing over to the tank where Bryant had been, she smashed her fist into the container and watched glass erupt all around her, "I cannot believe this! This cannot happen! Not now, not after all that I had worked for!"
KABOOM!
An explosion knocked through her room, and she realized that those brats had set off the self-destruct system and that her island was being destroyed. Her beautiful island was being destroyed, her home and her workplace. Everything that she had worked so hard to achieve was being blown to pieces! Moreover, she had let it happen.she had fallen asleep.she had misjudged everything.
In addition, it is all blown to shit now, you have do not it this time.you have really done it this time. You have nothing to show for anything, nothing! She looked on the screen in front of her, showing the docking bridge.and there was Bryant O'Neal, stumbling around like the drunken fool that he was. He was still alive, burning and charring as fire engulfed him. Serves him right! She thought, a grin stretching across her face.
KABOOM!
Another explosion, this one knocking her off her feet and blowing through the back wall. In a flash, she was off on foot, racing throughout the lab and down towards the second docking bridge, the one exclusive to her in case of emergency.
You will not get anymore emergency than this! She screamed inside her mind, you, Délia Spencer, will live and get through this and then you will finally get her.you'll get her and you'll make her pay!
KABOOM!
"Aachk!" Fire crashed through in front of her and splashed across her face, sending waves of pain throughout her body, but it did not stop her. She kept running, racing through the hallways and sliding her keycard through the reader. On high-heeled feet, she stepped down a few steps and then-
"What?"
Five men were coming towards her, each of them dressed in white biohazardous protective suits. They each had small pistols, but the man in front had a large, laser scope equipped magnum with what looked to be like a tube of liquid attached to the end of it-
-no, they are going to take me away!
FFT!
The needle end of the bullet slapped into her perfectly tan skin and she watched in horror as the liquid inside melted into her body, emptying into her system and paralyzing her. She felt her body go weak, go limp and fall to the ground. She had let it happen.she had let this happen.she was paying her dues.
**
The Final Blow
"Oh Jesus.Bryant." Hillary whispered to him, pleading that the man in whom she knew was good at heart was not becoming what she was seeing. She prayed for his soul, that what he was mutating into was not his true form, was not what he was meant to be.she had seen him when he was good, and this was not Bryant O'Neal, this just was not.
He slouched over, his body erupting in blood strained veins and arteries. His skin dimmed to a pale white, and then to a vomit color. His face stretched and his nose melted away, his ears stretching down his back and his eyes moving up near his forehead. Just as she thought the mutation of his face had finished, it slid down his chest and planted itself directly in the center of his torso, sinking in and becoming part of his chest. His fingers melted into tentacles, and his left shoulder split open to reveal a pulsing eyeball. After each arm had stretched into whip like weapons, they split into white claws the size of here entire chest. His legs seemed to be the only thing that did not undergo mutation, but still they must have been under stress as his body weight obviously increased significantly. A small tail sprouted from his backside, and then split open to reveal two razor sharp blades. Just as she thought the mutation was ending, his muscle size drastically increased and tore holes all over his fair skin.
Bryant O'Neal had become a product of Umbrella's most destructive experiment to date.
*
"Warning, biohazardous outbreak detected on first floor. Repeat, biohazardous outbreak detected on first floor. Please report to docking station for further instructions."
The warning came just minutes after the basement level was sealed off. Ada's attention went to the elevator on the far side of the room. They needed to get out of this place as fast as they could, as the gas continued to leak from its containment chambers. Ada could not figure out why the elevator seemed to be active.
"Ada look, its opening!" Shane cried, and as soon as he said it Ada's heart filled with joy as she saw Trina Carr step into view.
"Ada!" Trina said, but the moment was halted as a countdown began.
"Warning. Biohazardous outbreak confirmed. This facility will detonate. Repeat. This facility will detonate. Ten minutes until formal detonation countdown."
As soon as the second warning was spoken, the door that she had first entered through slid open and Hillary Wilkes scrambled into view, followed by the most obscene monstrosity that Ada had ever seen. Its bulking mass raced down the hall after her, but she was faster than it was. She would outrun it, make it to them first.but where would they go?
"Ada, we can reach the docking platform through the elevator. We can escape this way, come on!" Trina screamed, and as soon as Hillary reached them, they were inside, riding up through the tunnels to the docking platform. The sound of the monster screaming below echoing throughout the elevator as they slowly reached their escape.
*
"But what do we do about Bryant?" Trina gasped, but Hillary already knew it was too late to save him.
"That was Bryant."
Ada gasped, "Then he must have been the specimen the biological report had spoken of. He must have been the specimen that was injected with the four viruses." she obviously wasn't handling this very well, "The Ebola virus caused invulnerability, the T Virus caused life after death, the G Virus caused immense viral-induced power, and the Nemesis embryos allowed it to have the most superb hunting capabilities.Bryant has become Umbrella's ultimate bio weapon."
*
As Ada finished speaking, the elevator slowed to a stop and the door slid open. Stepping off into the dark corridor, Ada felt a sudden sigh of relief was over her. She was going to be escaping, with the three people in her life that mattered most at the moment.Trina was still alive, Hillary was safe now and Shane would live through the rest of his days.she felt a smile come over her face.
Water glistened off the metal walls as they came into a massive aqua ring. The docking platform was only a small portion of the ring, with the more important area being in the center. There were two boats still left in the water, and both were already started and active. All they needed to do would be to board them and they could escape. It seemed too good to be true-
-and suddenly there was a rumbling from the walls, and the far enclosing gave way revealing the mutated Bryant O'Neal. He roared in anguish, screaming for his next meal. He would feed; he would feed off them if they did not act now.
"Open fire! Now!" Ada screamed, hoping that gunfire from all of them would hold him off. Shane raised his machine guns, Ada her shotgun, Trina her pistol, and Hillary a .357 magnum. Instantaneously they began to fire, and Bryant did not even seem to be flinching. He just continued to advance on them, and as they each took steps back, he continued to sever the distance. In moments, he would be on top of them.
"Five minutes until detonation."
Ada could not believe her ears. If they could all make it inside the watercraft then they could escape, but they would have to take the time to situate and to submerge.
"Trina, Hillary! Head for the watercraft, me and Shane will hold him off!" Ada screamed, and the two girls broke off in a run and entered the craft. Ada continued to pelt away with her Remington, slowing the creation down for seconds at a time. Shane held his finger down on each trigger, beating Bryant with ammunition that was quickly dissipating. In moments, both of them would be out of ammunition, and there were only four minutes left until the building was turned into ashes.
*
Hillary stamped her fist onto the control panel, hearing it roar to life under her feet. Trina sat down one of the four cargo seats in the back, strapped her belt on and prepared for takeoff. Starring out the front window, Hillary watched the battle rage forth between Ada and her one time friend Bryant.
Sweat rolling off her cheeks, Hillary saw Ada raise up her shotgun to reload, taking her eye off the creature for one minute. As she looked up again, Bryant leaped through the air and raised its claw wide in the air. Shutting her eyes and preparing for the worst, Hillary began to pray.
*
The thing that once was Bryant came down hard on her left side and gouged through her from her shoulder down through her breast and into her stomach. Blood erupted from her chest and as she pressed her finger down onto wet tissue, the world began to spin around her. Darkness engulfed her and all that she could feel was pain and hurt. It had been a long, twenty- seven years and now it was time for her to rest.
*
"Ada! Nooooo!" Shane yelped, raising up the submachine guns and pulling down on the trigger harder than he ever had before. He could not stop screaming as he blasted the creatures face, making it bleed and suffer as it had done to Ada.
"Heeeeirgh!"
Suddenly blood started to pour from undesignated wounds, and as Bryant O'Neal stumbled to regain balance, Shane darted to Ada's side. In the distance, he could hear the man fall over and land with a loud, echoing thud. However, for right now, Shane's focus was on his dying comrade.
"Ada please, don't die.don't, come on please breath." he cried, tears beginning to build up underneath his blackened eyelids. He dropped his sub machine guns to embrace her, to hug her and to give her as much affection as she so deserved, ".please."
"Sha.Shane.I, I don't think I will.be able to." she squealed, her voice cracking and blood beginning to build up in her mouth. She was in serious pain, the gouge extending through most of her torso. Blood was in a seemingly ocean size puddle around her, surrounding her and damping her.he felt so bad for her, so bad for the woman who had saved him. There was no doubt in his mind that if Ada had not helped him, then he would too suffer the same fate as the rest of his team members.
"No, you're going to make it.come on; we're getting out of here." Grabbing her up from off the ground, he watched out of the corner of his eye as the creature stood back up and readied for a second dosage of attack, "Hurry, lets go."
Racing with Ada on his back towards the watercraft, Bryant O'Neal continued to press forward, leaving a trail of blood as it lurched. Trina helped Ada into the craft, setting her into the back seat. Shane took the seat beside Hillary, and in what seemed to be an instant they were off.and with exact timing as well, the final seconds began to tick away.
"Thirty seconds until detonation."
*
Ada's eyes felt heavy and instead of seeing clear, perfect vision, she saw a red stained portrait of her friends starring down at her. She could hear muffled voices, words of encouragement and help and yet, there was a bit of distress.how bad was the wound that she had suffered? How bad was the damage to her body? Would she be able to make it.?
No, you have minutes to live.do whatever it is you have to do, whatever it is that will continue the fight against Umbrella.there is one final thing you must do before you leave.
"Here.take this." she moaned, handing a crumbled up wad of paper to Shane, feeling the warmth of his grip as he took it from her, "I don't know.know what it.means, but I think.it may be some type of.pass.code."
Reading the written words aloud, Shane's voice seemed hoarse, "You won't know it until you have it, and you won't have it until you know it.what does it mean?"
Ada had remembered finding it on her dresser one morning, the morning before she came onto this voyage to Asesinato Island, the morning before her team was slaughtered, and the morning before Bryant O'Neal became a weapon of destruction. She had no idea what it meant, or what it did, all she knew was that it was some type of riddle and that in the answer lie the key to Umbrella's final plan.
"Take the.anti virus.from my pack. Use it to.fight off.Umbrella.and the T Virus.if you administer.administer it to yourself," blood erupted from her mouth, and she gagged, "then you will be..immune to infection.in theory."
"Ada no," Trina said, coming through her hair with her fingertips, "Ada please don't go, we need you.we can't go on doing this without you. If you die then there is no way we can continue, there is no way we can bring Umbrella down without you." Tears filled up in her eyes, and Ada knew that she had touched this girl in a way that she had never done so before.
"My time.here is up, but you.you all can make a difference.promise me.promise me that you will bring down Umbrella.make them pay." she moaned and a pool of blood splashed through the craft floor, ".promise.promise."
*
Délia Spencer woke up to the sound of fire and destruction all around her. As she rose up, hatred and the realization of what had happened began to sink in.
"No!" she screamed, rolling over and falling off her bed and onto the hard wood floor, "This cannot be happening! No!" she screamed, screamed and screamed and screamed until she could not scream anymore. Bryant O'Neal was gone from his cage, and the Predators, the Prowlers and all the zombies and all the R4's were dead! Moreover, one of the watercraft was gone.they had escaped!
"Aaaaaaah!" she screamed again, hate finally reaching its boiling point, "This cannot happen! I.I.no! No no no no no!" Racing over to the tank where Bryant had been, she smashed her fist into the container and watched glass erupt all around her, "I cannot believe this! This cannot happen! Not now, not after all that I had worked for!"
KABOOM!
An explosion knocked through her room, and she realized that those brats had set off the self-destruct system and that her island was being destroyed. Her beautiful island was being destroyed, her home and her workplace. Everything that she had worked so hard to achieve was being blown to pieces! Moreover, she had let it happen.she had fallen asleep.she had misjudged everything.
In addition, it is all blown to shit now, you have do not it this time.you have really done it this time. You have nothing to show for anything, nothing! She looked on the screen in front of her, showing the docking bridge.and there was Bryant O'Neal, stumbling around like the drunken fool that he was. He was still alive, burning and charring as fire engulfed him. Serves him right! She thought, a grin stretching across her face.
KABOOM!
Another explosion, this one knocking her off her feet and blowing through the back wall. In a flash, she was off on foot, racing throughout the lab and down towards the second docking bridge, the one exclusive to her in case of emergency.
You will not get anymore emergency than this! She screamed inside her mind, you, Délia Spencer, will live and get through this and then you will finally get her.you'll get her and you'll make her pay!
KABOOM!
"Aachk!" Fire crashed through in front of her and splashed across her face, sending waves of pain throughout her body, but it did not stop her. She kept running, racing through the hallways and sliding her keycard through the reader. On high-heeled feet, she stepped down a few steps and then-
"What?"
Five men were coming towards her, each of them dressed in white biohazardous protective suits. They each had small pistols, but the man in front had a large, laser scope equipped magnum with what looked to be like a tube of liquid attached to the end of it-
-no, they are going to take me away!
FFT!
The needle end of the bullet slapped into her perfectly tan skin and she watched in horror as the liquid inside melted into her body, emptying into her system and paralyzing her. She felt her body go weak, go limp and fall to the ground. She had let it happen.she had let this happen.she was paying her dues.
**