Chapter 5: Steps of Tyranny
Pierre felt his pale face involuntarily cringe into a frown as he gingerly stepped over the uniformed man that had been slaughtered by the Hunter. He had been hoping that he would have the joy of killing all of the soldiers. Pierre forced himself to remove the show of emotion as he assured himself that he would have the pleasure of killing the others. Surely, they wouldn't be as stupid as to just run into one of Umbrella's pets and wait for it to kill them.
Pierre allowed his eyes to fall on the remains of the soldier. The soldier's once brown hair was now soaked in blood from the massive gash that had been inflicted by the hunter. The man's hazel eyes were rolled up in his head as if he was trying to look at the wound that ran the length of his head. It had been interesting to see the man snap under the pressure of the situation and begin to hallucinate. Pierre furrowed his brow as he tried to realize why Umbrella would have called the man that now laid in a crumpled heap an "elite soldier".
Pierre jerked his head up as he caught a familiar scent on the cold wind. As hard as he concentrated on the scent he couldn't quite place what it was. It seemed so familiar to him, like something from the past. In a fit of rage at not being able to remember it, he heavily brought his black boot down on the skull of the already dead soldier. Shards of the man's skull peppered Pierre's black boot as he returned it to its place beside the body. Before he left the scene Pierre jotted down various notes on a pad, making sure to document the Hunter's capabilities before he left.
The menacing Umbrella building loomed over Maurice like a sleeping glass giant. The clear crystal of the glass was stained with the red and white umbrella emblem on each side. The cold rain furiously hit the building as if trying to wash the emblems away from the building.
"Why the hell does Umbrella have a building out here in the middle of no where?" Tanya shouted over a clap of thunder.
"I plan on finding out," Maurice said as he stepped through the automatic doors of the building.
The cold air-conditioned air flooded over Tanya's small body, immediately sending a chill up her wet back as she entered the lobby of the facility. The lobby was elegantly decorated with starch white walls that were peppered with various expensive looking paintings along the walls. A glass reception desk was placed to the side of a flight of stairs that spiraled to the second floor, giving the room a futuristic look. The white marble floor seemed to have been recently waxed on both the first and second floor. As Tanya gazed up towards the second floor she could clearly make out four doors on the upper balcony. All of the doors seemed perfectly placed apart and were all the color of cold steel.
"We left the others in the hospital wing of the facility," Tony said as he made his way towards the futuristic spiraling stairs.
"We figured they were safer if they were higher up, especially since the three of them are all with injuries," Alex informed them feeling the need to explain their actions.
"Alright, let's get up there and make sure they're alright. Tanya has some medical training, so she could probably give them better attention than the rest of us," Maurice said following his cue and beginning to climb the decorative steps.
The second floor of the facility was just as well decorated with pale white statues blending into the starch white walls. The four separate doors lead to different wings of the facility. From what she and Tony had checked out there was a hospital and morgue wing, a training wing, a business wing, and a lab wing. Umbrella had spared no expense in decorating the facility it appeared. Alex's dark hazel eyes caught a glint of light from the overhead lights making them appear evil before she stepped through the steel door.
As Maurice stepped through the metal door he instantly got a bad feeling about the room and the situation in general. The room that he had stepped into looked like an evil scientist's laboratory out of a horror movie. The rows of overhead lights flickered on and off above the small group allowing them to only see the gruesome scene in parts. Blood stained hospital gurneys occupied most of the room while bloody medical utensils littered the white floor. A computer monitor illuminated a small portion of the room in the right corner. The red and white Umbrella symbol being projected from the computer's screen into the room.
"Where the hell are the three survivors?" Tanya asked as she tried to fight off the feeling of nausea that had overcome her from the grotesque smell.
"This was the way we found the room. None of the blood belongs to the three survivors, and the source of the blood is unknown since there are no bodies. All of the survivors are in the room through that door," Tony answered as he gestured to a door that had been hidden in the wall.
"Have you checked the computer for any files?" Maurice asked.
"Yeah, but I'm no computer expert. Most of the files were locked so I didn't work much on it," Tony said growing a little irritated at the fact that Maurice was questioning his skills.
"I'll take a look at it," Tanya said as she took a seat in the chair in front of the blood splattered monitor.
Tanya's thin tan hands danced across the keyboard, each mechanical click echoing through the gory room. Several glowing windows popped up on the screen which corresponded with Tanya's specific commands.
"What's Project Alpha?" Alex suddenly asked noticing that the phrase frequently popped up from the files that had been recently viewed.
"I don't know, but I can find out," Tanya answered as she rapidly entered commands into the computer.
PROJECT ALPHA
BACKGROUND: AFTER UNSUCCESFUL TESTING OF THE NEMISES III PROTOTYPES HEAD RESEARCHER OF DEVELOPMENT, MICHAEL MUNOZ ACQUIRED A NEW SEQUENCE OF THE VIRUS. THIS NEW SEQUENCE SPECIFICALLY TARGETED THE MEMORY AND INTELLIGENCE RETAINMENT IN TEST SUBJECTS. WHEN THE NEW SEQUENCE WAS SPLICED WITH THE ALREADY OBTAINED T-VIRUS THE RESULTS WERE REMARKABLE. TEST SUBJECTS WERE ABLE TO REMEMBER MILITARY STRATEGY IF IT HAD BEEN TAUGHT BUT NOTHING ELSE, MAKING IT THE PERFECT KILLER. THEY COULD ALSO LEARN FROM THE ENEMIES, BUT ONLY IN THE FIELD OF MILITARY STRATEGY SO AS NOT TO ATTACH THEMSELVES TO THEIR TARGETS. THEIR SUPERIORITY AMONG THEIR PREDESESORS GAVE THEM THEIR CODENAME OF ALPHAS.
MILITARY TESTING: IN PROGRESS, REMOTE ISLAND HAS BEEN INFESTED WITH THE "ALPHAS." EXPENDABLE ELITE SOLDIERS HAVE BEEN STATIONED ON SAID ISLAND TO INSURE THAT BATTLE DATA FOR THE ALPHAS WILL BE SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER TESTS.
NOTE: EXTREMELY EXPENDABLE UNNAMED UMBRELLA SOLDIER HAS BEEN SENT TO "CLEAN UP" ANY SURVIORS UP BEFORE THEY CAN ESCAPE IF NECESSARY. SOLDIER SHOULD BE DISPOSED OF IMMIDIATLY AFTER MISSION.
"Those assholes brought us here to die!" Tony yelled as he slammed his fist on the desk sending several papers falling to the floor.
"On top of that we have some Umbrella soldier out here hunting us," Alex added.
"We need to locate any survivors and get the hell out of here," Maurice said calmly as he grabbed the handle of the door.
Vasiliy slowly trudged through the shallow murky water that had collected on the jungle floor. His cold gray eyes hadn't stopped gazing directly in front of him even though he had heard the heavy sound of the rookie stumbling. Ryan just couldn't seem to keep from stumbling over his own feet, especially since the rain had made the jungle look like a swamp. He did sympathize with the boy a little despite his attitude. It couldn't be easy for a rookie to have to deal with the monsters that lurked in the shadows.
Ryan could barely keep up with the fast past Russian. He seemed cold and distant, and didn't ever look back at Ryan. Figures that I'd get stuck with the psycho, Ryan thought as he gripped his gun tighter.
Through the heavy beating of rain Vasiliy could swear he heard something behind them. He quickly spun around, gun raised to the unseen foe. His gun met with nothing but Ryan's pale face and the murky water. Maybe he was losing it, but who would blame him in this situation.
Vasiliy defiantly heard the sound of something cutting through the water behind him, and it wasn't the rookie. Again he was only met with the rain angrily bouncing off of the already ankle deep water and the scared face of the rookie.
"Do you hear something," Ryan finally spoke up.
"Do you not," Vasiliy shot back with a cold glance trying to mask his fear.
Before Vasiliy could utter a word of warning to the terrified rookie a giant set of teeth slashed out of the water. Ryan attempted to turn around before the thing reached him but his body stuck in a state of sheer terror. Ryan couldn't even identify his killer before the jungle faded into black and then into nothingness.
Vasiliy stared at the gruesome scene, shocked. Ryan's killer might have once been an alligator, but it was easily 14 feet long. Its beady dead eyes were imbedded in an unbelievably huge head while raw meat was exposed from missing scales. Vasiliy wasted no time as he opened fire on the massive beast. Rounds ripped into its tough hide sending it charging towards the source of the barrage. Vasiliy quickly began to sprint in the opposite direction while continuing to fire after he saw the incredible speed of the beast.
Vasiliy's feet felt as if they were stuck in concrete as he fought to maintain a decent speed through the shin deep water. Vasiliy never saw the alligator from the opposite side that had been tracking him from the start. The thing brought its massive jaws down upon Vasiliy's body immediately splitting him in two. The alligator that had chased Vasiliy to his watery tomb hungrily fought for the a half of the meat from the other scaly beast. Blood spiraled through the murky water, sealing Vasiliy and Ryan in their watery tomb and making them just another casualty to Umbrella's massive tyranny.
Pierre felt his pale face involuntarily cringe into a frown as he gingerly stepped over the uniformed man that had been slaughtered by the Hunter. He had been hoping that he would have the joy of killing all of the soldiers. Pierre forced himself to remove the show of emotion as he assured himself that he would have the pleasure of killing the others. Surely, they wouldn't be as stupid as to just run into one of Umbrella's pets and wait for it to kill them.
Pierre allowed his eyes to fall on the remains of the soldier. The soldier's once brown hair was now soaked in blood from the massive gash that had been inflicted by the hunter. The man's hazel eyes were rolled up in his head as if he was trying to look at the wound that ran the length of his head. It had been interesting to see the man snap under the pressure of the situation and begin to hallucinate. Pierre furrowed his brow as he tried to realize why Umbrella would have called the man that now laid in a crumpled heap an "elite soldier".
Pierre jerked his head up as he caught a familiar scent on the cold wind. As hard as he concentrated on the scent he couldn't quite place what it was. It seemed so familiar to him, like something from the past. In a fit of rage at not being able to remember it, he heavily brought his black boot down on the skull of the already dead soldier. Shards of the man's skull peppered Pierre's black boot as he returned it to its place beside the body. Before he left the scene Pierre jotted down various notes on a pad, making sure to document the Hunter's capabilities before he left.
The menacing Umbrella building loomed over Maurice like a sleeping glass giant. The clear crystal of the glass was stained with the red and white umbrella emblem on each side. The cold rain furiously hit the building as if trying to wash the emblems away from the building.
"Why the hell does Umbrella have a building out here in the middle of no where?" Tanya shouted over a clap of thunder.
"I plan on finding out," Maurice said as he stepped through the automatic doors of the building.
The cold air-conditioned air flooded over Tanya's small body, immediately sending a chill up her wet back as she entered the lobby of the facility. The lobby was elegantly decorated with starch white walls that were peppered with various expensive looking paintings along the walls. A glass reception desk was placed to the side of a flight of stairs that spiraled to the second floor, giving the room a futuristic look. The white marble floor seemed to have been recently waxed on both the first and second floor. As Tanya gazed up towards the second floor she could clearly make out four doors on the upper balcony. All of the doors seemed perfectly placed apart and were all the color of cold steel.
"We left the others in the hospital wing of the facility," Tony said as he made his way towards the futuristic spiraling stairs.
"We figured they were safer if they were higher up, especially since the three of them are all with injuries," Alex informed them feeling the need to explain their actions.
"Alright, let's get up there and make sure they're alright. Tanya has some medical training, so she could probably give them better attention than the rest of us," Maurice said following his cue and beginning to climb the decorative steps.
The second floor of the facility was just as well decorated with pale white statues blending into the starch white walls. The four separate doors lead to different wings of the facility. From what she and Tony had checked out there was a hospital and morgue wing, a training wing, a business wing, and a lab wing. Umbrella had spared no expense in decorating the facility it appeared. Alex's dark hazel eyes caught a glint of light from the overhead lights making them appear evil before she stepped through the steel door.
As Maurice stepped through the metal door he instantly got a bad feeling about the room and the situation in general. The room that he had stepped into looked like an evil scientist's laboratory out of a horror movie. The rows of overhead lights flickered on and off above the small group allowing them to only see the gruesome scene in parts. Blood stained hospital gurneys occupied most of the room while bloody medical utensils littered the white floor. A computer monitor illuminated a small portion of the room in the right corner. The red and white Umbrella symbol being projected from the computer's screen into the room.
"Where the hell are the three survivors?" Tanya asked as she tried to fight off the feeling of nausea that had overcome her from the grotesque smell.
"This was the way we found the room. None of the blood belongs to the three survivors, and the source of the blood is unknown since there are no bodies. All of the survivors are in the room through that door," Tony answered as he gestured to a door that had been hidden in the wall.
"Have you checked the computer for any files?" Maurice asked.
"Yeah, but I'm no computer expert. Most of the files were locked so I didn't work much on it," Tony said growing a little irritated at the fact that Maurice was questioning his skills.
"I'll take a look at it," Tanya said as she took a seat in the chair in front of the blood splattered monitor.
Tanya's thin tan hands danced across the keyboard, each mechanical click echoing through the gory room. Several glowing windows popped up on the screen which corresponded with Tanya's specific commands.
"What's Project Alpha?" Alex suddenly asked noticing that the phrase frequently popped up from the files that had been recently viewed.
"I don't know, but I can find out," Tanya answered as she rapidly entered commands into the computer.
PROJECT ALPHA
BACKGROUND: AFTER UNSUCCESFUL TESTING OF THE NEMISES III PROTOTYPES HEAD RESEARCHER OF DEVELOPMENT, MICHAEL MUNOZ ACQUIRED A NEW SEQUENCE OF THE VIRUS. THIS NEW SEQUENCE SPECIFICALLY TARGETED THE MEMORY AND INTELLIGENCE RETAINMENT IN TEST SUBJECTS. WHEN THE NEW SEQUENCE WAS SPLICED WITH THE ALREADY OBTAINED T-VIRUS THE RESULTS WERE REMARKABLE. TEST SUBJECTS WERE ABLE TO REMEMBER MILITARY STRATEGY IF IT HAD BEEN TAUGHT BUT NOTHING ELSE, MAKING IT THE PERFECT KILLER. THEY COULD ALSO LEARN FROM THE ENEMIES, BUT ONLY IN THE FIELD OF MILITARY STRATEGY SO AS NOT TO ATTACH THEMSELVES TO THEIR TARGETS. THEIR SUPERIORITY AMONG THEIR PREDESESORS GAVE THEM THEIR CODENAME OF ALPHAS.
MILITARY TESTING: IN PROGRESS, REMOTE ISLAND HAS BEEN INFESTED WITH THE "ALPHAS." EXPENDABLE ELITE SOLDIERS HAVE BEEN STATIONED ON SAID ISLAND TO INSURE THAT BATTLE DATA FOR THE ALPHAS WILL BE SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER TESTS.
NOTE: EXTREMELY EXPENDABLE UNNAMED UMBRELLA SOLDIER HAS BEEN SENT TO "CLEAN UP" ANY SURVIORS UP BEFORE THEY CAN ESCAPE IF NECESSARY. SOLDIER SHOULD BE DISPOSED OF IMMIDIATLY AFTER MISSION.
"Those assholes brought us here to die!" Tony yelled as he slammed his fist on the desk sending several papers falling to the floor.
"On top of that we have some Umbrella soldier out here hunting us," Alex added.
"We need to locate any survivors and get the hell out of here," Maurice said calmly as he grabbed the handle of the door.
Vasiliy slowly trudged through the shallow murky water that had collected on the jungle floor. His cold gray eyes hadn't stopped gazing directly in front of him even though he had heard the heavy sound of the rookie stumbling. Ryan just couldn't seem to keep from stumbling over his own feet, especially since the rain had made the jungle look like a swamp. He did sympathize with the boy a little despite his attitude. It couldn't be easy for a rookie to have to deal with the monsters that lurked in the shadows.
Ryan could barely keep up with the fast past Russian. He seemed cold and distant, and didn't ever look back at Ryan. Figures that I'd get stuck with the psycho, Ryan thought as he gripped his gun tighter.
Through the heavy beating of rain Vasiliy could swear he heard something behind them. He quickly spun around, gun raised to the unseen foe. His gun met with nothing but Ryan's pale face and the murky water. Maybe he was losing it, but who would blame him in this situation.
Vasiliy defiantly heard the sound of something cutting through the water behind him, and it wasn't the rookie. Again he was only met with the rain angrily bouncing off of the already ankle deep water and the scared face of the rookie.
"Do you hear something," Ryan finally spoke up.
"Do you not," Vasiliy shot back with a cold glance trying to mask his fear.
Before Vasiliy could utter a word of warning to the terrified rookie a giant set of teeth slashed out of the water. Ryan attempted to turn around before the thing reached him but his body stuck in a state of sheer terror. Ryan couldn't even identify his killer before the jungle faded into black and then into nothingness.
Vasiliy stared at the gruesome scene, shocked. Ryan's killer might have once been an alligator, but it was easily 14 feet long. Its beady dead eyes were imbedded in an unbelievably huge head while raw meat was exposed from missing scales. Vasiliy wasted no time as he opened fire on the massive beast. Rounds ripped into its tough hide sending it charging towards the source of the barrage. Vasiliy quickly began to sprint in the opposite direction while continuing to fire after he saw the incredible speed of the beast.
Vasiliy's feet felt as if they were stuck in concrete as he fought to maintain a decent speed through the shin deep water. Vasiliy never saw the alligator from the opposite side that had been tracking him from the start. The thing brought its massive jaws down upon Vasiliy's body immediately splitting him in two. The alligator that had chased Vasiliy to his watery tomb hungrily fought for the a half of the meat from the other scaly beast. Blood spiraled through the murky water, sealing Vasiliy and Ryan in their watery tomb and making them just another casualty to Umbrella's massive tyranny.