The evil Umbrella Corporation needs to be stopped, and now, all who were involved within the Raccoon City incidents are out to stop them!
:: Author'sNote ::
Sorry it took me so long to update. I'll try and be
more speedy on my next chapters to this fanfic. I've just
been a bit sidetracked and busy as of late, but don't worry,
I'm not going to let my fan fics just sit around like that..
Chapter Two
Morning came, and dawn approached the horizon. Everyone had awaken and was about, even Sherry and Jill who'd had a bit of an incident the night before. Sherry sat with the Kleins, Lott and Lily. The children were all nervous, staring down at the group of adults, preparing for today's invasion of the Umbrella Research Facility. The grown-ups were hard at work, loading last minute weapons, pulling on heavy armor, and dressing in already used and tattered clothing.
Jill seemed to be a bit slow this morning, not being able to get her stamina to the max quite yet. Her mind was wandering to other places, other than the mission at hand. Instead, her mind was dwelling upon whether or not she should leak the information to Barry about what the girl had told her last night.
"All right, everyone. Grab your packs and get into the carrier. We need to move out now!" Barry lead the charge with his shouts, which sent the group going on the mission hoarding into the confiscated S.T.A.R.S. truck. Leon stood at the front, taking the driver's seat while the rest all filed in and took their random seat. Barry stepped in and slammed down the top to his magnum.
Claire looked over at the truck, holding the front of her shirt tightly while watching Leon take on the role of the strong-willed officer she'd seen him as in the RPD. Her heart sunk when she thought of all the incidents that could go down in the labs, and her eyes trailed to the floor, "Be safe."
"He will be." Sherry came up to Claire and took her arms around her serigant mother's waiste, "Nothing's going to happen so stop worrying." She smiled up to Claire and filled her with a ray of hope.
"You're probably right, there is nothing to worry about. The labs are secure, and it's not as if they don't know it for sure. They have inside intelligence working, right? That's a good sign, right?" Claire looked around, hoping to become reassured once more. Her gaze fell upon Ark who'd been speaking with the children he'd recovered from Sheena Island.
Her attention was thrown back at the truck as it started up and began rolling swiftly down the road and off onto the dirt beaten trail which would lead them to the Umbrella Labratory. Inside the vehicle, Barry axiously watched the others' faces. Carlos sat with a smile on Jill, who barely even seemed to notice him right now. It was like she'd been off in space the whole morning. Next to her, Chris and Leon conversed about their ideas of what research data they could uncover. He smiled and stood up, deciding to finalize the course of action.
"Alright. Here are the plans." Everyone's full attention landed upon him, their focus primarily targeted now, "Leon and myself are the squadrant leaders, we're splitting into two sectors. Carlos and Jill, you two are coming with me. We're taking the data disks and saving as much research as possible, and just keeping the scientists at bay so they can't trigger any alarm systems. Understood?"
Carlos smiled and leaned back in his old Umbrella uniform, issued to him for the strenuous mission he'd taken. After so many zombie attacks and bites being stopped by the thick material, he'd decided to keep it with him at all times. He nodded his head and then looked over to Jill, who smiled back at him before tipping her S.T.A.R.S. beret.
"Good. Now, Leon's team is formed of Chris and himself. Their primary objective is to establish a meeting with our contact, and to get her out of the building along with our escape. Chris, I'm also entrusting you with the task of disabling the surveillance footage, if Ms. Vasquez has not done so already."
"Understood." Chris smiled and cocked his shot gun. The weapons were only here for a threat, to keep the researchers in line. They didn't plan on using them at all, unless something horrillblle were to occur.
"All right. Now, we're only about a mile and a half from the facility. Make sure your packs are ready, your weapons are equipped correctly, and enjoy the rest of the trip until we get there. Remember, I'm counting on all of you." He looked down at the group with a little smile on his face, confident in their abilities.
The labratory was already coming into veiw. Off in the distance, amongst a mile long stretch of fields, lie the distinct building. The van took a fast approach while everyone prepared for their mission and made sure everything was in order. Carlos looked around with his suave, little smile and then let his attention draw to Jill.
"Is something wrong, Jill? You've been really out of the loop today." He reached over and lay his hand on top of hers, trying to get her attention in a tender manner, and not just as a worried veiwer.
Jill looked up a bit startled, then smiled over to Carlos to try and nod away any hints of her questionable nature, "Oh, nothing at all. I'm just a bit sleepy, I had a rough time staying asleep last night."
"Jill, you aren't still worried about any of us being killed, are you? I mean, ever since your little break down yesterday, I've been watching you and you just seem to be more and more depressed."
She looked over to him, his kind smile and bright eyes behind his pretty brown hair made it a bit easier to confide in him, but she was questioning whether to tell him or not to.
"Jill?"
"It's nothing like that, I've just been weary from all the adventure lately and just am not looking forword to this." She'd decided to let Sherry keep her confidence in her as she entrusted the secret last night. For now, ths information was safe with her. It wasn't as if anyone would need it right this second, anways.
Rebecca wandered around the warehouse happily. Now, since the light was over the place, you cold see all that had been cast in shadow. The bedrooms up the East stair case, and the equipment room on the West stairs. Everything else was loose packing material and old first aid and ammo casings lay about, but that never brought her chipper attitude down a smidge.
"Rebecca!" Lily ran over, very excited to see her saunter in through the back doors and jumped up into her arms. Rebecca cradled the girl for a moment with a smile, then let her lean away, "You're back!"
"Of course, I am, Lily." She smiled and let the girl down, walking with her up the stairs to the bedrooms. "It doesn't take too long to get the supplies from town, you know."
"Yeah, I know, but I still was worried about yous! The whole'd Umbrella armies is been walking around latley, just lookin' for people with the little S.T.A.R.S. jobs to pick up off the street."
Rebecca smiled for a moment, then looked over to the door with a glare. Ark had leaked information to the children before, and Rebecca abhored when he'd do it. It only caused worry and panic back at the home front and that was something the rest of them didn't need at this very moment. For Lily's sake, though, she threw on a fake smile and wandered to the door.
"Yes, I know." A Vermont S.T.A.R.S. agency, the Sirius division, had recently gone missing. Chris and the others had concluded soon there after that Umbrella was cleaning its tracks. Reports of the same incidents that had gone on in Raccoon were starting to spread around the rest of the United States, and Chicago had become the most recent to have a strange investigation gone wrong.
"I'm gonna' go pay with the other kids, okay?" Lily smiled up to Rebecca, her innocence taking her mind off the Vermont crimes and Chicago accident. "See yous, Rebecca!" She ran into the first bedroom and slammed the door, causing an echo through the building. It was followed right by the sound of Sherry and Lott laughing along with Lily as the group played games.
"Have fun." She stood outside the door for a moment with a little smile on her face, then she turned and headed into the second doorway. It was the room the S.T.A.R.S. members had adopted as their own, and inside were Claire and Ark. Rebecca made a swift movement and ended up in front of Thompson.
"What's up, Rebecca?" Claire smiled over to her, happy to have another woman her age around now.
"Ark's been telling Lily and Lott about everything that's been happening." She never took her eyes off him as he smiled, a bit shocked at her outrage.
"What?" Claire looked over at him, now a bit upset herself. The Klein boy seemed to have a pretty big mouth and had taught Sherry some new things just in their first night here. It was no doubt Sherry would find out that the same things were happening elsewhere. The poor girl had enough to worry about, without that filling her head.
"I didn't do it to scare them, just to treat them as equals. You forget, you aren't the only ones affected by this company. The children were also involved." Ark shot back, on his defenses.
"I know they were also at the end of this, but that doesn't make it right to let them know! They're children, not your colleagues! It's better they're kept in the dark, other than revealed to the hate of this company. They don't need to know Ark, it's only making things worse here!" Rebecca was starting to shout.
"I think I know what I'm doing, Ms. Chambers. Just because you're a part of that little S.T.A.R.S. group doesn't give you power over all of us and if I choose to let Lott and Lily know what's going on, that's my choice! They're my responsibility!" Ark got up from his seat and stared down at Rebecca.
"Ark! I'm not trying to tell you what to do-"
"Really? Because that's what it sounds like to me, Rebecca. Would you mind clearing up what you're doing, exactly?" He took a step and made her stumble back.
"I'm only thinking of the children's best interests! It's not healthy for them to be exposed to all of this so suddenly!"
"Stop fighting, you two!" Claire got up and made an effort to get between them, but was stopped in her effort when Rebecca took a step to Ark and got right into his face.
"You know, just because you found the children and rescued them, it's not as if you have the rights to watch over them! They're not you're kids, Ark!"
"They are my kids!" Ark shouted and pushed past Rebecca to the door. He turned and glared over at her. "No matter what you say, those children are mine now. Their parents are dead, and I'm all they got left. I'll be the judge of what's in their best interests, not you. Are we clear?"
Before she could answer, Ark was already out the door and stomping down the stairs to get away from the two girls to cool off. Claire looked over and sighed before sitting down on the bed. Rebecca fell right next to her and laid flat on her back, her knees bent and her feet reaching for the floor.
"He just doesn't understand, Claire. The kids can't take the stress like we can. They're not anywhere near mature enough and their minds are still so young." She started to sob a little, looking over to her partner's sister.
Claire looked down and rested a hand on her shoulder, trying to soothe Rebecca's nerves. "I know, but it's Ark. He's always been a little stubborn according to Leon, but we can trust his judgement. I'm sure of it." She said the last part aloud to convince herself. She was a bit frusterated herself with all the high tension between everyone.
"Lily's so little. She's only nine years old, Claire. She's only nine and all of this has already happened and she's practically homeless without someone to watch over, other than that lunatic in their!" She sat up and pulled from Claire, then got to her feet. "I can't sit idly by while someone so young is being tortured with all the wrong in the world."
Claire smiled, seeing herself in Rebecca. She finally started to realize what her brother had meant by 'Rebecca reminds me so much of you Claire.' She got up and smiled to her. "Rebecca, don't worry. Your heart's in the right place, you just need to back down a little."
"Thanks, Claire." She smiled over to her, then the two exited the bedroom to go check on the children and see if Ark was up for a round of drinks.
The truck finally pulled up and the back door to the seating opened. The groups ran out and got into configuration before turning to look at Barry to see if he had any last minute instructions. He got out last, alongside Leon. Chris ran up to join his partner and the whole group finally gave lent their ears to listen in on Barry.
"Alright. You know the mission, and we all know this place is secure. Ms. Vasquez has informed us that nothing is to happen. Leon, Chris. Remember, meet her in the secondary hall in the third floor."
"Understood." Leon said as he checked to make sure the saftey to his berretta was on. They were only there to gather information, not commit a mass homocide on Umbrella officials. There was no need for anymore death.
"Good. You two, move out and enter through the sewer entrance. Carlos, Jill, and I are going to take the generator doors to sneak through. Now," Barry looked around, seeing everyone's ready face on, "move out!"
Leon and Chris looked to Barry and nodded before serperating from the group and heading off on their own objective. Jill and Carlos looked up and awaited Barry's signal to move out, then three disembarked as well. Carlos went on ahead and pulled out his pack, searching for the thick electrical gloves Leon had found for them.
The three walked up and Carlos slipped on the gloves, then quickly reached forword and took a firm grip on the handle which sent off some sparks. He wretched his hand back along with the door and groaned, shaking his arm. "This place has too much electricity running to it! No place needs that much."
Jill looked over, and then stepped onto the concrete inside the generator, outside the facility. Barry followed after checking on Carlos's hand to make sure he was alright. The three went over and Jill slipped her fingers through the laces of her pack to retrieve her trusty lock pick. The key card reader next to the door was picked and destroyed in a matter of second and Jill casually pushed open the door.
"After you, boys."
Carlos started to laugh, but quickly made it subside. He rushed in and ducked out underneathe the surveillance camera. He smiled over to Jill and pulled out his lab coat, a disguise for them to throw on over their attire so the camera wouldn't pick up on their activities so easily.
Jill and Barry threw on the outfits and stashed their weapons below their coats, so they wouldn't be seen for the time being. The three casually walked in and turned a corner together, talking Scientific nothings.
"The, uh, regeneration progress seems to be settling now, and, uh," Barry looked around and noticed not so many scientists wnadering around, just a few int he halls, "why are we talking about this stupid shit?"
Carlos smiled and shook his head, "I have no idea." He smiled to Jill who just rolled her eyes a them. "You know, you look cute when you're annoyed."
She looked to him and laid her head on his shoulder, "I must be gorgeous right now."
He rolled his eyes and pushed her off lightly before looking around and peaking through windows, "Which room are we supposed to go to?"
"The main data base, which should be just up the stairs." Barry smiled and started up the long flight of twisting stairs.
"Stairs?" Jill playfully started to give Barry trouble, "can't we take the elevator?" When Barry turned to give her a quick glare and put his finger to his lips, she quickly got quiet and the three of them head up the stairs. A large group of scientists went under a sign and through a door which read "Central Research".
"That's the place." Barry looked to Jill and Carlos, a cunning smile on his face as he pulled out his magnum and approached the door. Jill pulled her beretta free from her coat and Carlos found his Colt S. A. A. The three stepped up, weapons readied, and stepped right into the door.
A scientist looked up a noticed them, then jumped back and started to scream, "Intruders!"
Jill turned and secured the door, making sure that no one would get through while they were gathering their data. Carlos walked over and manned the security alarm switch, his gun flying to whoever's forhead it needed to. Anyone who approached was threatened.
Barry walked up and took the head researcher by the robe. He threw him back against the side of the wall and rested the buisness end of his magnum directly at the side of the worker's jugular. "Where's your main computer?"
The scientist shook, his knees were hobbling into eachother. He reached a throbbing finger up to direct Barry to the main computer. He looked over and nodded to Jill, who reached into her pack and pulled out a large computer disk. She sat down and got to work in downloading anything they researched and all their main branch lines down onto the file.
While the three of them took over in their hostile manner, Leon and Chris wandered past. Chris peaked in and pulled out his customized beretta. He smiled and looked over to Leon, "They've got everything under control in there."
"Right. Let's get a move on." Leon waved Chris over and the two stepped down the hallway, keeping their guns out of sight for right now. They headed right to the end of the hall and stepped up to get right next to the door.
"Okay, on three." Chris put his shoulder right up against the door and Leon made sure his gun was ready. "One," Chris leaned back, "two," Leon got into stance, "three!"
The two busted in and Leon shot right into the guard, knocking him flat on his back. They didn't need any interference, and another loss wasn't going to worry Leon right now. He was in a full on rage, thanks to what the Umbrella Corporation had put him through.
"Back away from the computer, really slow-like." Chris stood in front of the security switch and aimed down at the camera guard. The man stood and backed himself against the wall while Chris reached up and pulled out the video data card. Once he ripped it from the system, the entire camera array went down. Leon walked up and smiled ot the man.
"Do you know what this is about?" The man shook his head, intimidated by Leon. "Do you want to know what it's all about?"
"Leon! Not now!" Chris reached up and pulled Leon back. Leon shook off his rage for a moment and looked to him, curiously. "Calm down, man. This is not the time to lose your cool." Chris spoke calmly, trying to get Leon's emotions to become the same.
"Right. Sorry about that." Leon sighed and grit his teeth, still angered and tormented by the loss of someone he loved so dear to Umbrella. They'd taken alot from him and when ever he encountered an Umbrella agent, he wanted to make them pay for what had occurred inside the Racoon City Labratory.
The two men took a moment to check the outter hall before stepping down and heading to the meet up location. They needed to get their spy and her accomplice. Chris led the way while Leon held back some, just to keep his eyes open for some sort of creature. The lab they were in was fairly similar to the one buried below Raccoon.
Chris made a sharp right and stopped, coming face to face with Jill Valentine. She smiled to him and held up the disk they'd needed, "Mission accomplished, sir." She snickered a bit.
"Okay, enough chitter chatter, Jill," Barry stepped up, followed by Carlos. He looked to Chris and Leon sternly, "have you made rendezvous with our spy?" He looked around and was already making the assumption.
"Not yet, we were just on our way to the meeting point. Care to join us, Burton?" Chris smiled a bit, comfirming Barry's ideas.
"Let's get a move on then, we don't have much time to waiste! The scientists aren't going to sit around for long. Once they think it's safe, they'll hit the switch and we'll all be sitting ducks for Umbrella." Barry took the lead and started up the hallway. Jill, Leon, and Carlos quickly followed.
"Kill joy." Chris fell in line after making a perimeter check on the surrounding area. He kept up and ran alongside them, trying to make sure no scientists were around, still.
"It's a little too quiet in here, Barry." Jill finally pointed out. When they'd first entered the facility, Umbrella workers had been crawling all over the place. Now it seemed the halls were barron.
"Just another bad sign." Barry sighed and turned to look around. "Where'd Leon run off to?"
"He went up ahead to get our spy," Carlos pointed to Leon, who was still walking up the hall.
The door right up ahead would be the one holding Ms. Vasquez and her partner. He came up to the door, hit the switch and stood in shock as it slid up and revealed an all to familiar figure to him. Two, when the woman behind her stepped forword.
"It's about time. I was beginning to worry you'd been caught." Ms. Vasquez said, before turning to Barry and smiling. Both her and her accomplice were dressed in the familiar Umbrella uniform, a white lab coat and what ever they so desired to wear beneathe it.
"Nice to see you again Ms. Vasquez." Barry walked up with a grin on his old face, but it quickly turned to panic when the sound of an alarm rang through the halls.
"Alert. Intruders in labratory's lower levels. Alert. Alert." The message kept repeating itself, and red sensor lights flashed everywhere around them. Ms. Vasquez and her partner took the lead and the squadrant that Barry led soon fell in behind them in a quick hurry and decided trust.
"Follow me, I know an escape for us!" Ms. Vasquez ran up ahead, leaving only one member behind for a moment.
Leon just stood there, in shock of what he'd just seen. Of who he'd just watched walk out of the doors and not even acknowledge him. Valentine ran back, noticing Kennedy's absence and took him by the arm, leading him after the group. "Come on, Leon! We can't wait any longer!"
Ms. Vasquez led them right into a trap, but not entirely on purpose. "Shit! They're blocking our exit!" She frowned and backed behind the approaching S.T.A.R.S. members. They lifted their weapons and so did the men across from them.
"Stand down!" One shouted across Barry and his team, but none of the special forces team would lower their weapons. "I said, stand down!"
Barry took the first shot, and didn't even faulter when the opposing side began to blast their way against the S.T.A.R.S. In matter of seconds, the entire team had been dismantled and only Carlos had suffered a shot, which was only centered against his body armor.
"Everyone, all right?" Barry looked around, just to confirm this. Jill nodded and so the burly man turned and ran down the hall, letting Ms. Vasquez take the lead of him. She led them right to a shoot in the wall, which she hopped into first and slid through.
"Carlos, you go next! You're shot." Jill said, worriedly over her boyfriend. He smiled and winked to her.
"It's nothing, chica." Carlos smiled and listened anyway, going through the shoot and landing on the outside. He stood and looked around for anyone else they'd need to worry about, then waited for his team to come down.
Leon took the front this time and turned around, "Where's Jill?"
"What?" Carlos shot up, quickly searching through their small group to find Jill was now missing.
Barry ran up to the shoot and started to yell up it, "Jill! Hurry up!" Everyone stood in silence as the only response that came down was a load of gun fire. Carlos shook a bit, his knees buckling slightly as he thought of what could've happened to Jill.
Chris bit his lip and looked to everyone, "We can't wait around. We need to make our exit, now!" Not wanting to leave Jill behind, he made a tough decision and ran up to their vehicle which was parked only a couple meters away. The team followed and Carlos slumped into the back against the bench-like seats.
Leon got in back and stared right at Ms. Vasquez with an angered look. She looked back, somewhat startled, "Is something wrong, Leon?"
"Yeah, there's something wro-"
"How does she know your name, Leon?" Chris pointed out, noting that they'd never mentioned anything about Kennedy to the woman. He turned to Ms. Vasquez with a questioning look, "do you and him know each other?"
She looked down and she sighed, "I did. Once, in a past life."
Leon rolled his eyes and slammed his foot against the base of the truck. "Past life, nothing!"
Everyone, but Carlos, turned to him startled. Barry stared for a moment, wondering why his team mate was acting so irrationally.
Chris looked at Ms. Vasquez, then her partner for a moment. "Your name isn't Ms. Vasquez, is it?"
She sat there, staring blankly. An indifferent glare just fell upon everyone, until finally her partner spoke up, "Is Sherry all right, Leon?"
He looked over to her and glared for a moment, "Yes, Sherry's fine now. She's got a great mother to look after her." His words seemed to sting her in a way.
"Leon, calm down." Ms. Vasquez started in a calming voice.
Leon just shot his glare right over to her, "I thought you were dead. How did you survive the fall?"
"I don't know. I only remember waking up with a man helping me to my feet and taking me out on the train, opposite the one you and that woman were on, Leon. If I could've gotten to you, you know I would've." She pleaded her case.
"Yeah, save it." He sighed and looked over to her, "I thought I'd gotten rid of your lies back in the lab, Ada."