Authors Note----
Well, now that I'm getting back into the swing of things I've decided to finally give this story its finishing touch. Despite the last chapters opening note stating that it might possibly be the last chapter, I decided against that. I have a little bit too much story left to tell to call it quits. There may be another chapter after this, there may not be. Like I stated before, the fates of every character is already decided and the story already played out in my head so the only task now is getting it down on paper. Please continue to read and review, I greatly appreciate it…hey if anyone wants a sequel just tell me and I'll start one. But, I don't really want to make these authors notes too long, so in conclusion thank you for your loyal reading and I hope you've enjoyed this fic.
Sincerely,
Ryan Abraham
Author, "Resident Evil OPERATION: Capitol City"
Chapter 19
The Final Confrontation
"Craig…no please, please breathe…don't die on me…Craig…" Ada lay on top of her fallen friend, hearing his last dying words repeatedly in her head as if to echo without fade. She had witnessed his gruesome death, a fatal hole ripped through his giving heart. He died nearly instantly, falling backwards and landing on his back. He looked up at her with pale white eyes, as if to scream for her to help her but there was nothing she could possibly do to help him. Craig Hilt was dead, and there was nothing she could do. Ada had watched him die, watched him fall before her with nothing but an empty promise to ring throughout her head…the promise she had made to him when she had first met him…that they would make it out together. But he was dead now, that promise unfulfilled and she was heartbroken. Her time in this world had seemed pointless up until the moment she had met him…now it began to feel the same way again, showing that her hopes of a better life with him was just a tease…
"Ugh…"
The faint moan in the distance, the moan of a young girl put through hell and back. Heatherly was in the corner, slouched between Dimitri's dead body and the wall. She clutched her side, her eyes fixated on something past Ada. She turned to look around, and there was nothing there. The poor girl was starring into nothingness…she needed to act quickly to try to save Heatherly, if she was still savable…
Ada stumbled to her aching feet and inched towards Heatherly, wary about if she would still be able to save her. What would happen if she was already beginning to mutate? How could she live with herself if she had to put a bullet through the poor girl? She couldn't, that was a given…she'd have to leave her here…wait, that would only cause her more pain, more suffering…
"A…Ada…" Heatherly coughed, blood already trickling from her bulging eyes, "Please…" she coughed again, "…please help me."
"Don't worry, I've got the antidote." She knelt down in front of her, drawing the syringe and anti virus from her side pouch. The needle tip pressed against Heatherly's swollen neck, entering one of the bulging veins. She pressed down on the medical tool, watching the green liquid empty out into her bloodstream. Heatherly moaned at the touch of the cold needle, but began to relax as it was withdrawn. The antidote had been applied, and the effects would begin immediately.
"Alright, it's time to get moving hun. There's less than an hour until this places blows." Pulling Heatherly up off the ground, Ada helped her out of the room and back down the burned hallway that led to the staircase. Together, they made the descent back through to the lobby and into the elevator. It was only a matter of time before they would make it out onto the docking platform near the freezer, and when they made it there it was clear sailing out into freedom.
*
Heatherly could feel the effects of the antidote already beginning to take place. Her legs had feeling in them, something she thought she'd never be able to know again. After the attack by that thing in the eating quarters, she had thought her fate was sealed. Somehow, she had managed to stay alive. Her senses had begun to deteriorate, along with her memory and common sense. Breathing began to become harder and harder, her breaths smaller each time. She could feel herself shutting down, preparing for total infection…but then she was cured…Ada really was a good person after all.
She slouched down on the elevator floor, curling up in a ball. Her fingers began to have feeling in them again, allowing her to handle a weapon for the first time since her infection. It was a good feeling to know that she could help in their escape if something was to happen. Heatherly prayed, though, that nothing would stop them from leaving since they had been through so much hell as it was.
The elevator stopped, the door opened and they were able to leave. She stood up without Ada's help and walked out, finding herself overlooking the ocean on all sides of the platform they were on. It was a grated hallway, connecting the laboratory shaft to another laboratory. In front of them was a flight of stairs, leading up into the testing facility. The docking platform, according to Ada, was somewhere in the facility. Heatherly led the way, her combat boots smacking the grated floor as she maneuvered forward through the hall and up the steps. She set foot on the hard, metallic lab floor and could almost taste being out of there.
"Its over there, right through that door. There's a small room that has two more doors in it, and another hallway. We'll take the hallway through to another elevator, where we'll go down three floors until we get to sea level. There should be another platform, and enough escape boats to take the entire lab team out of here. Judging by how many bodies we've seen in this facility, I'd say there'd probably be more than enough." Ada spoke confidently, trying to hide the despair she obviously was feeling. She had watched her friend be shot, and then she shot and killed his murderer. Her tattered clothes and blood stained skin was tired, pained by the awful amount of hell she had been through. But in mere minutes, it'd all the over.
"…Thirty minutes until detonation…"
"C'mon, lets hurry. We don't want to waste any time," Heatherly yelled over the booming recording. Together they bolted for the door, it slid open as the approached and they rushed through. Sure enough, there was another room with two doors and a hallway. Heatherly ran through the hall, her feet pressing against the white floors. It was a very dark hall, illuminated by the flashing red lights given off by the warning lights that lined the ceiling. She didn't even take time to look back to see if Ada was still with her, all she knew was that she needed to get out as fast as she could.
It seemed as though she was running in slow motion. Her hair was flowing behind her, her mercenary mask flailing as she moved. Her bulky weaponry and thick clothing didn't seem to slow her down as she raced through the hall. She moved one gloved hand up to wipe the dripping sweat off her face, when finally she reached the elevator. Heatherly pushed against the call button and watched the flashing lights above move from SL…SB1…SB2…SB3…B4…TF…finally it stopped on TF, allowing her to move it. Ada flew through the elevator doors just behind her, slapping against the metallic walls only to fall to her knees. The door shut and the compartment began to descend.
"Hegh…hegh…that was a fast run…" Ada gasped, breathing in and out rather quickly, "…it's nice to know this is finally gonna be over…after how many days…eight or nine days…finally…its over…"
Heatherly smiled for the first time…
*
The elevator door opened, allowing the two women to file out. The wind blew their hair as they walked forward, each of them wary about what would happen to them. Ada knew that when they were able to get inside one of those boats this would all be over…
Heatherly pointed, "There…"
Across the massive platform they were on was a speeder, a small boat that would be able to fit two. The platform was huge, hovering half a foot above sea level. It extended a good fifty or sixty feet in every direction. As they moved away from the elevator it quickly rose up, ascending up back into the main floors of the facility. It was a huge location, Ada noticed for the first time. Having three sub basements, three basements, a lobby, a level dedicated to the dormitories, and three upper levels. The rooftop was equipped with a helipad, suitable for take off and landing. Running along the side of a building were two ladders, extending from the rooftop and dropping down to the platform they were on.
Ada touched the small water craft, "It's finally over…"
CCCSHHHH!
The platform shook, knocking Ada to the ground and sending Heatherly to her knees. Ada looked up just in time to see the walls of the facility crumble as the creation Craig had spoken about threw itself out into the open air for one last confrontation. The alarm continued to scream out the tick-tock to explosion, "…fifteen minutes until detonation…"
*
Heatherly gasped as the creature threw itself onto the platform, weighing it down and sending the two women to the ground. She drew out a pair of sub machine guns and began firing bullets into the creature, praying that they had enough power to stop it. The dual guns spat bullets out right and left, drawing minimal blood from the creature. Ada stood up next to her, equipping the magnum she had given her. The massive blasts from the magnum crashed through Heatherly's ears, but for the creature the bullets hit it must've been more painful. Blood spewed from each hole Ada created, the monster drawing back only to move forward yet again.
Tattatattattaattatatattat!
The monster extended one of its wet purple tentacles, letting it fly in the air before it whipped itself at Ada. She was thrown into the air, falling over the rail-less platform edge. She fell into the water, disappearing in the murky night.
*
Water engulfed Ada as she swum for the surface, cool air filling her lungs. She looked around, grabbing for anything to hang on to. God only knew what creatures prowled the ocean floors surrounding an Umbrella facility…she quickly pulled herself up, rolling up onto the platform. She looked up, realizing that Heatherly hadn't given up the fight. The monster was still moving forward though, seeming to grow on the platform they stood on. Its massive tentacles whipped about in the air, its open mouth crying for something to eat. Its razor teeth protruded from bleeding gum, blood stained on their pale white surface.
Ada quickly rose to her feet, groping for the magnum that was thrown from her hand when she was knocked into the water. Heatherly didn't even seem to notice that she had gotten out of the water, screaming out obscenities at the creature as she continued to fire away…and in the distance Ada could hear what seemed to be a helicopter…
*
Tattattattattaattattattatat!
Heatherly's machine guns didn't seem to be stopping the creature. The rough skin of the monster wasn't even being tarnished as bullets penetrated its skin. It continued to slither forward, its long tentacles waving in the air. Something caught her eye, though…Ada had resurfaced, and was aiming her gun at the monster. She began to fire the magnum, the water glistening off her curvy body. Heatherly turned back, continuing to fire.
"…five minutes until detonation…"
"Shit…shit…shit…shit!" Heatherly screamed to herself as she continued to pump lead into the monster, "Die you fucking son of a bitch!"
TTTTSSSEEEEEW!
Up above, a helicopter swooshed in and released dual missiles. Heatherly dropped her weapon as a bright light illuminated everything in the area. She fell back into the water, alongside Ada as hundreds of mutilated pieces of creature were thrown into the air. Blood burst out everywhere, turning the entire scene a damp red color. The helicopter rose up into the air, flew around behind the facility only to come back. It hovered over the two girls as they treaded in the deep water. Heatherly couldn't believe what happened next.
*
"You two girls need a lift?!"
Ada recognized the voice immediately…
…Leon S. Kennedy…
*
A ladder dropped down, and Heatherly quickly grabbed for it. She climbed up step by step, followed by Ada. She slumped down into one of the helicopters back seats and curled up into a ball. She could still hear the echo of the computerized count down…
"…one minute until detonation…"
Ada pulled herself through the open door, pulling it shut when she was in. She collapsed on the seat beside Heatherly, falling asleep nearly instantly. It had been a long, hard trek from the beginning of Capitol City for her, and now it was finally over. She been through hell. She deserved to rest for a minute.
"So you must be Heatherly Taft…" the young voice piloting the chopper said as they lifted off into the night sky, "…I've heard quite a bit about you…its an honor to finally meet you,"
Heatherly didn't listen to hard to what he was trying to say. The chopper continued its ascent into the sky. She looked out the window and watched as glass flew out of the windows and the walls of the facility begin to crumble. It began with the bottom floors, each floor disintegrating one by one. The floors would go, and then the support columns and the walls and then finally the roof would cave in. Everything would be lost…all the research, combat data and information…and all the subjects…her mission had not been a failure, though…to retrieve a copy of the T Alexia Virus? She had succeeded, for she had been the one who smuggled the virus aboard the escape train from Capitol City. She had been the one who caused this catastrophe…and she would ultimately be the one to finish it.
Resident Evil
OPERATION: Capitol City
Well, now that I'm getting back into the swing of things I've decided to finally give this story its finishing touch. Despite the last chapters opening note stating that it might possibly be the last chapter, I decided against that. I have a little bit too much story left to tell to call it quits. There may be another chapter after this, there may not be. Like I stated before, the fates of every character is already decided and the story already played out in my head so the only task now is getting it down on paper. Please continue to read and review, I greatly appreciate it…hey if anyone wants a sequel just tell me and I'll start one. But, I don't really want to make these authors notes too long, so in conclusion thank you for your loyal reading and I hope you've enjoyed this fic.
Sincerely,
Ryan Abraham
Author, "Resident Evil OPERATION: Capitol City"
Chapter 19
The Final Confrontation
"Craig…no please, please breathe…don't die on me…Craig…" Ada lay on top of her fallen friend, hearing his last dying words repeatedly in her head as if to echo without fade. She had witnessed his gruesome death, a fatal hole ripped through his giving heart. He died nearly instantly, falling backwards and landing on his back. He looked up at her with pale white eyes, as if to scream for her to help her but there was nothing she could possibly do to help him. Craig Hilt was dead, and there was nothing she could do. Ada had watched him die, watched him fall before her with nothing but an empty promise to ring throughout her head…the promise she had made to him when she had first met him…that they would make it out together. But he was dead now, that promise unfulfilled and she was heartbroken. Her time in this world had seemed pointless up until the moment she had met him…now it began to feel the same way again, showing that her hopes of a better life with him was just a tease…
"Ugh…"
The faint moan in the distance, the moan of a young girl put through hell and back. Heatherly was in the corner, slouched between Dimitri's dead body and the wall. She clutched her side, her eyes fixated on something past Ada. She turned to look around, and there was nothing there. The poor girl was starring into nothingness…she needed to act quickly to try to save Heatherly, if she was still savable…
Ada stumbled to her aching feet and inched towards Heatherly, wary about if she would still be able to save her. What would happen if she was already beginning to mutate? How could she live with herself if she had to put a bullet through the poor girl? She couldn't, that was a given…she'd have to leave her here…wait, that would only cause her more pain, more suffering…
"A…Ada…" Heatherly coughed, blood already trickling from her bulging eyes, "Please…" she coughed again, "…please help me."
"Don't worry, I've got the antidote." She knelt down in front of her, drawing the syringe and anti virus from her side pouch. The needle tip pressed against Heatherly's swollen neck, entering one of the bulging veins. She pressed down on the medical tool, watching the green liquid empty out into her bloodstream. Heatherly moaned at the touch of the cold needle, but began to relax as it was withdrawn. The antidote had been applied, and the effects would begin immediately.
"Alright, it's time to get moving hun. There's less than an hour until this places blows." Pulling Heatherly up off the ground, Ada helped her out of the room and back down the burned hallway that led to the staircase. Together, they made the descent back through to the lobby and into the elevator. It was only a matter of time before they would make it out onto the docking platform near the freezer, and when they made it there it was clear sailing out into freedom.
*
Heatherly could feel the effects of the antidote already beginning to take place. Her legs had feeling in them, something she thought she'd never be able to know again. After the attack by that thing in the eating quarters, she had thought her fate was sealed. Somehow, she had managed to stay alive. Her senses had begun to deteriorate, along with her memory and common sense. Breathing began to become harder and harder, her breaths smaller each time. She could feel herself shutting down, preparing for total infection…but then she was cured…Ada really was a good person after all.
She slouched down on the elevator floor, curling up in a ball. Her fingers began to have feeling in them again, allowing her to handle a weapon for the first time since her infection. It was a good feeling to know that she could help in their escape if something was to happen. Heatherly prayed, though, that nothing would stop them from leaving since they had been through so much hell as it was.
The elevator stopped, the door opened and they were able to leave. She stood up without Ada's help and walked out, finding herself overlooking the ocean on all sides of the platform they were on. It was a grated hallway, connecting the laboratory shaft to another laboratory. In front of them was a flight of stairs, leading up into the testing facility. The docking platform, according to Ada, was somewhere in the facility. Heatherly led the way, her combat boots smacking the grated floor as she maneuvered forward through the hall and up the steps. She set foot on the hard, metallic lab floor and could almost taste being out of there.
"Its over there, right through that door. There's a small room that has two more doors in it, and another hallway. We'll take the hallway through to another elevator, where we'll go down three floors until we get to sea level. There should be another platform, and enough escape boats to take the entire lab team out of here. Judging by how many bodies we've seen in this facility, I'd say there'd probably be more than enough." Ada spoke confidently, trying to hide the despair she obviously was feeling. She had watched her friend be shot, and then she shot and killed his murderer. Her tattered clothes and blood stained skin was tired, pained by the awful amount of hell she had been through. But in mere minutes, it'd all the over.
"…Thirty minutes until detonation…"
"C'mon, lets hurry. We don't want to waste any time," Heatherly yelled over the booming recording. Together they bolted for the door, it slid open as the approached and they rushed through. Sure enough, there was another room with two doors and a hallway. Heatherly ran through the hall, her feet pressing against the white floors. It was a very dark hall, illuminated by the flashing red lights given off by the warning lights that lined the ceiling. She didn't even take time to look back to see if Ada was still with her, all she knew was that she needed to get out as fast as she could.
It seemed as though she was running in slow motion. Her hair was flowing behind her, her mercenary mask flailing as she moved. Her bulky weaponry and thick clothing didn't seem to slow her down as she raced through the hall. She moved one gloved hand up to wipe the dripping sweat off her face, when finally she reached the elevator. Heatherly pushed against the call button and watched the flashing lights above move from SL…SB1…SB2…SB3…B4…TF…finally it stopped on TF, allowing her to move it. Ada flew through the elevator doors just behind her, slapping against the metallic walls only to fall to her knees. The door shut and the compartment began to descend.
"Hegh…hegh…that was a fast run…" Ada gasped, breathing in and out rather quickly, "…it's nice to know this is finally gonna be over…after how many days…eight or nine days…finally…its over…"
Heatherly smiled for the first time…
*
The elevator door opened, allowing the two women to file out. The wind blew their hair as they walked forward, each of them wary about what would happen to them. Ada knew that when they were able to get inside one of those boats this would all be over…
Heatherly pointed, "There…"
Across the massive platform they were on was a speeder, a small boat that would be able to fit two. The platform was huge, hovering half a foot above sea level. It extended a good fifty or sixty feet in every direction. As they moved away from the elevator it quickly rose up, ascending up back into the main floors of the facility. It was a huge location, Ada noticed for the first time. Having three sub basements, three basements, a lobby, a level dedicated to the dormitories, and three upper levels. The rooftop was equipped with a helipad, suitable for take off and landing. Running along the side of a building were two ladders, extending from the rooftop and dropping down to the platform they were on.
Ada touched the small water craft, "It's finally over…"
CCCSHHHH!
The platform shook, knocking Ada to the ground and sending Heatherly to her knees. Ada looked up just in time to see the walls of the facility crumble as the creation Craig had spoken about threw itself out into the open air for one last confrontation. The alarm continued to scream out the tick-tock to explosion, "…fifteen minutes until detonation…"
*
Heatherly gasped as the creature threw itself onto the platform, weighing it down and sending the two women to the ground. She drew out a pair of sub machine guns and began firing bullets into the creature, praying that they had enough power to stop it. The dual guns spat bullets out right and left, drawing minimal blood from the creature. Ada stood up next to her, equipping the magnum she had given her. The massive blasts from the magnum crashed through Heatherly's ears, but for the creature the bullets hit it must've been more painful. Blood spewed from each hole Ada created, the monster drawing back only to move forward yet again.
Tattatattattaattatatattat!
The monster extended one of its wet purple tentacles, letting it fly in the air before it whipped itself at Ada. She was thrown into the air, falling over the rail-less platform edge. She fell into the water, disappearing in the murky night.
*
Water engulfed Ada as she swum for the surface, cool air filling her lungs. She looked around, grabbing for anything to hang on to. God only knew what creatures prowled the ocean floors surrounding an Umbrella facility…she quickly pulled herself up, rolling up onto the platform. She looked up, realizing that Heatherly hadn't given up the fight. The monster was still moving forward though, seeming to grow on the platform they stood on. Its massive tentacles whipped about in the air, its open mouth crying for something to eat. Its razor teeth protruded from bleeding gum, blood stained on their pale white surface.
Ada quickly rose to her feet, groping for the magnum that was thrown from her hand when she was knocked into the water. Heatherly didn't even seem to notice that she had gotten out of the water, screaming out obscenities at the creature as she continued to fire away…and in the distance Ada could hear what seemed to be a helicopter…
*
Tattattattattaattattattatat!
Heatherly's machine guns didn't seem to be stopping the creature. The rough skin of the monster wasn't even being tarnished as bullets penetrated its skin. It continued to slither forward, its long tentacles waving in the air. Something caught her eye, though…Ada had resurfaced, and was aiming her gun at the monster. She began to fire the magnum, the water glistening off her curvy body. Heatherly turned back, continuing to fire.
"…five minutes until detonation…"
"Shit…shit…shit…shit!" Heatherly screamed to herself as she continued to pump lead into the monster, "Die you fucking son of a bitch!"
TTTTSSSEEEEEW!
Up above, a helicopter swooshed in and released dual missiles. Heatherly dropped her weapon as a bright light illuminated everything in the area. She fell back into the water, alongside Ada as hundreds of mutilated pieces of creature were thrown into the air. Blood burst out everywhere, turning the entire scene a damp red color. The helicopter rose up into the air, flew around behind the facility only to come back. It hovered over the two girls as they treaded in the deep water. Heatherly couldn't believe what happened next.
*
"You two girls need a lift?!"
Ada recognized the voice immediately…
…Leon S. Kennedy…
*
A ladder dropped down, and Heatherly quickly grabbed for it. She climbed up step by step, followed by Ada. She slumped down into one of the helicopters back seats and curled up into a ball. She could still hear the echo of the computerized count down…
"…one minute until detonation…"
Ada pulled herself through the open door, pulling it shut when she was in. She collapsed on the seat beside Heatherly, falling asleep nearly instantly. It had been a long, hard trek from the beginning of Capitol City for her, and now it was finally over. She been through hell. She deserved to rest for a minute.
"So you must be Heatherly Taft…" the young voice piloting the chopper said as they lifted off into the night sky, "…I've heard quite a bit about you…its an honor to finally meet you,"
Heatherly didn't listen to hard to what he was trying to say. The chopper continued its ascent into the sky. She looked out the window and watched as glass flew out of the windows and the walls of the facility begin to crumble. It began with the bottom floors, each floor disintegrating one by one. The floors would go, and then the support columns and the walls and then finally the roof would cave in. Everything would be lost…all the research, combat data and information…and all the subjects…her mission had not been a failure, though…to retrieve a copy of the T Alexia Virus? She had succeeded, for she had been the one who smuggled the virus aboard the escape train from Capitol City. She had been the one who caused this catastrophe…and she would ultimately be the one to finish it.
Resident Evil
OPERATION: Capitol City