Chapter Eighteen: Behind the Scenes
The plane touched down in Punta Arenas, Argentina and it was a little after seven a.m. Crickets and the rustling of leaves filled everyone's vision of hearing as they got off. Cypher began feeling drowsy. He didn't like flying, but he knew it had to be done. Tange and Caitlyn were walking around in circles near the food court after he had waked them up.
The whole entire airport was pretty much dead at this time and it was still dark outside. Tange and Caitlyn came to him with confused looks on their faces.
"Why are we here?" Caitlyn said rubbing her eyes with the palm of her hands. Tange looked at him also wanting to know what was up.
He gave out a sigh and looked towards the entrance of the airport. Outside, a black limousine was parked in the loading and unloading parking. He looked towards them again and gave out a sigh. "Suppose you two can understand it in a saying like..." he began thinking for the right words then continued, "We are here to put out the fire, by shall we say, playing with fire."
Caitlyn and Tange exchanged glances to each other and looked back at him.
"Does it have to do anything about Umbrella?" Tange said breaking the silence.
"Yes." He replied. "I'm afraid it does."
Before any of them could reply, a built up man dressed in a blackish green suit came walking to them. Two gold necklaces were around his neck and he wore steel plated boots. "Are you Cypher?" he said in a low edgy voice.
Cypher exchanged glances and replied, "Why yes, and who are you?"
"Come with me." He said turning around ignoring the question. He led everyone out of the food court and outside were the limo was and opened the door. "Get in."
Tange and Caitlyn went first and was followed by Cypher next. Cypher settled in his seat and looked at the surroundings. Two other people sat just forward of them with shades covering their eyes and were all dressed in high priced clothes.
The tires then gave a screech and the vehicle darted forward and away from the airport. Inside all the seats were leather and the floor was padded in fur. A drink bar was to the right side of the room and to the left was a leather bench holding the three others. All of them wore expressionless faces and had their hair combed back with a part down the side, as they began to exchange talk to each other, whispering softly.
Tange leaned forward and looked at Cypher and exchanged a look of being pissed off and whispered, "Why the hell would you do this; I thought you hated them."
"That's true."
"Then why the hell are we here!" Tange said.
Caitlyn leaned forward, blocking Tange's face, and had the same expression as Tange. "Why don't you answer the question?" she said through clenched teeth.
"Because I think that what we are about to do might change the history of this planet." Cypher answered smiling slightly.
"Yeah, like finding are names in the obituaries." Tange said sarcastically.
"So you all are here to see the head man of the Umbrella?" one of the people said making them drop the argument.
Cypher looked at them and smiled slightly, "why yes, we are?"
"Well, hope you have something good to say," The man relied, "he is a very busy man; a man of his word. Don't double cross him, or he'll kill you."
"Surely that won't happen; my colleagues and I will keep that in mind." Cypher said. "May I ask what's his name?"
Another man leaned forward, "his name is the Osiris. That is name he has, and the name he goes by."
Cypher nodded in head when the car came to a halt in front of a giant restaurant. It was more of an exotic one.
Torches were by the front entrance lighting up a path to the doors. Palm trees stood in a small garden and two women guarded the door, both dressed alike in a red skirt and top worn around their breast exposing their torso while they both wore a black body coat.
The door opened and the man that greeted them at the airport signaled them to get out and follow them. Cypher took a step on the stone sidewalk and followed the man, who went through the doors; he turned seeing Tange and Caitlyn behind him walking side by side. He looked at the doors seeing that the two women were twins.
They all entered into a really decorated lobby. Vines hung down to the ceiling, the floor was marble, and the walls had fish tanks installed into them, stretching all around the restaurant. 'Wow, amazing,' it was like any place he's ever been to. He noticed that the tables were bare and empty as they continued walking; going around a bar with polished scented wood, with about fifty to sixty types of alcoholic beverages.
"This way," the man said opening a glass door. They walked through and he spotted a pier stretching out into the ocean. At the end of the pier, he noticed a two story building about a few hundred feet away. The man walked down the pier. The crashing of waves below was the only noise besides the howling of the wind.
Caitlyn came to his right side and looked at him as Tange ventured to the left. "What are we supposed to do?" Caitlyn said sounding irritated.
"You two stay quiet, and let me do the talking; only answer when spoken to." Cypher answered, "Just leave it to me."
By that they both went back to where they once were. By now they had reached the building and the man had just opened the door and held it open.
They entered seeing a large marble table about twenty or thirty feet in front of them, and there sat about two to ten people. Marble pillars were lined down the walkway. To the left and through the pillars were more empty tables; and to the right was the same. The ceiling was a glass roof overlooking the sky.
They all walked up three stairs leading to the table and sat down across from a stern-looking, mid-aged man with his hair slicked back.
"Ah, you must be Cypher; I have read your reports and what you have done in the past; very entertaining." The man said. "And you must be Tange; ex-corporal of the U.B.C.S. I suppose. I see that you still haven't received the money from the last mission you attended. I am so sorry about your friend Vince." The man then looked at Caitlyn, "Well, well, well, who is this beautiful woman?"
Caitlyn looked at him leaning forward. "Caitlyn; and you are?"
"Oh and where are my manners." The man said, "I am Osiris; right behind you are my two body guards: Athena and Aurora."
All three of them turned around seeing the twins from the entrance. "Hmm, I didn't see them behind us." Cypher commented.
"Why yes of course; beautiful as they are but deadly in silence and when it comes to killing." The Osiris added and looked over at Tange. The Osiris looked at him and spoke, "Corin."
"What?" Tange said. "What about him?"
"You see, about twenty years ago; or less, we found a traitor in the area of Umbrella sneaking out a sample of the t-virus. We caught him, ran some test, and injected the t-virus into his system and put him in a cryo chamber were his body would slowly construct an immune system for the virus. The process took about fifteen years. When we were done, he was still the same; everything was the same about him. So," he took a sip of wine, "we brought him to be executed, but he then somehow escaped, killing the executer and running off. Haven't seen him since, until he slipped through and became a cleaner and went right under our noses." He finished, taking another sip.
Cypher jumped in, "now he has the virus and a ship now infected with it."
The Osiris looked at him with keen eyes and leaned forward, "Yes I know we have sent a small team to the ship; it has stopped only five hundred miles North West of the coast. So tell me, just why are you here. What is the purpose for being here, and the reason?"
"We're here to strike a deal, about what your company has been doing for a long time."
"Which is?"
"The illegal kind. Bio-organic weapons, creating virus,' oh and yes, causing the deaths of millions of people worldwide." Cypher said putting in some examples.
The Osiris looked quite surprised, "Well, what is the deal?"
"I'm beginning to tell you it now." He answered, now sounding aggravated. "Your experiment Corin has grown beyond your control. You cannot stop him. But we can." He said smoothly staring at the Osiris.
"So tell me, if you happen to do stop him; what is your reward?"
"Our reward," Cypher said, God, just get to the point Cypher. "If we stop him, you end all the research being conducted in secret. If we don't, you continue what you have been doing, and pretend that this incident never occurred."
The Osiris looked at him and smiled and leaned back in his chair taking another sip of wine. "I have an even better deal to strike with you: Run back into hiding, because the Osiris doesn't think that the Umbrella Corporation should stop what it is doing. I am a man of my word and I am not taking back what I just said, now leave."
Just as he finished the cocking of handguns broke the silence. Tange got up and looked at the Osiris, "this isn't over."
The Osiris looked up at Tange and got up, "Oh yes it is, I own the Umbrella and what I say goes. You are not going to stop what we are doing, you miserable nobody."
"I don't have time for this shit." Caitlyn hissed. In a flash moment both of them turned around and pushed the twins over grabbing their guns from their hands. Caitlyn pushed him back in his seat, and climbed over the table, and placed the barrel on his temple. At that moment everyone pulled handguns out and aimed them at the group of three, Tange had his gun pointed at the twins while three more guns were drawn to the back of his head. Cypher had two to his head, and Caitlyn with four. "Tell them to withdraw." She commanded pulling the hammer back on the 9000 S Automatic pistol. "Tell them, or I'll give you my word, and blow your brains out."
He hated being defeated, "Alright, drop your weapons." Everyone dropped their weapons and Cypher picked two up and another handing one to her. Tange had got another still aiming at the twins. "Fine, the deal is set. If the team I sent to the ship fail, destroying it, the deal is set. Remember, if we win, you lose." He said smoothly. But still the gun was still at his head. "You have my word." The gun then was pulled away from him and all three of them backed from the door.
Tange stepped forward pulling a grayish object out of his pocket, "and if your wondering what this is, this conversation was just recorded; have a good day." And they all exited.
The Osiris got up out of his seat, and looked at the twins, "find them and destroy them." The twins ran out the door both grabbing two more weapons out of their coats. He turned to Dehorn who was in charge of sending messages to other parts of Umbrella around the world. "Dehorn, pack everything up" He saw Dehorn nod, and get on a headset.
"I say we pay Antarctica a little visit." The Osiris answered coldly.
Tange, Caitlyn, Cypher ran down the pier to the exit, guns clutched in each hand. Gunshots suddenly, rang out splintering the wood. Tange turned to look seeing the twins coming after him, firing at them. Cypher and Caitlyn ran through the door and held it open as Tange came through. The doors closed and the glass door immediately had five or six holes in it.
More shots rang out in the room by the entrance and they all turned seeing a man by the exit shooting at them, with a machine gun. They all scattered in the room getting behind table as the man continued firing. Tange stay crouched behind the bar and started firing making the man jump out of the way. Caitlyn and Cypher were together behind a table edging towards the door.
Tange got up and ran to the door in a sprint firing the handgun at the man who was reloading a new mag in to the gun. Jumping to the side he continued firing and hit the man in the stomach. He landed on the ground and ran to the man who then stood up by using the table as a support and jumped on the table and leaped off and kicked him in the jaw. 'Damn, thank you virus for these quick reflexes.' He grabbed the gun seeing that it was just loaded. It was a big gun and weighed about ten pounds. He looked towards Cypher and Caitlyn and saw that they were gone.
Another door was on the side they were on labeled parking garage. He checked the handgun and dropped it on the ground and ran to the door. The glass doors burst open and the twins began firing at him. He managed to get to the door and open it and lost his balance and fell down a set of stairs. He aimed the machine gun at the door seeing that no one was in view and got up and ran down a wide cement hallway. Bullets then hit the walls and he looked back seeing the twins now shooting at him. Shit! He turned the corner and saw an opened green door and ran into a garage with a three to four exotic BMW cars and five Honda motorcycles. Cypher and Caitlyn were in a car pulling a man out and taking the keys.
He turned around seeing the twins come into the building with empty guns and stared at them. Tange held the gun pointed at them and handed the gun to Cypher. "I'll handle them. You two get back to the airport. I'll try to follow." Cypher took the gun and hopped in the passenger seat and Caitlyn turned the car on and sped out of the driveway.
Tange turned looking at the twins and spotted a man slouched over one of the Honda's with the keys in the ignition. "Hiya, girls." He said sounding polite and kind of nervous that he might get his ass kicked.
"You are going." One started. It was probably Athena.
"To die." The other said finishing the others sentence. She might have to be Aurora.
The first one ran up and twisted her body and went for his face with her leather boots. He bent backwards slightly as she punched with her left and failing as he blocked and then with her right. He blocked with the same hand and moved it sideways and arched his body to the side. He could feel the virus kick in like adrenaline and he saw another fist coming towards him. With the same hand he blocked it and felt it go down as she snatched it. With that he brought his next hand and shot it towards her face. She grabbed it and they stood looking at each other, and he started to think what to do next.
Too late, the next twin came in and he snatched his hands from her grip and backed away. The next high kicked him and he countered by grabbing her raised leg and waist and throwing her aside. She flew and hit a pillar and fell to the ground and jumped back on her feet.
Athena or whatever ran at Tange and swung her arms like a windmill but in a Chris-cross way and sent her right fist from her head to his shoulder. He stepped right, hearing the whooshing of wind and then left as her next hand did the same. He jumped in the air and kicked her in the chest and saw the other in the corner of his eye and kicked opposite feeling his heel hit her face. He landed with a thud and ducked as a fist glided above his head. He grabbed it and heard the other jump back to her feet, still holding the fist he flipped backward using the arm like a monkey bar revolving around her arm and launched both of his feet into her stomach sending her flying into the wall, smashing it and fell to the ground and lay unconscious.
Tange released her arm and somersaulted and grabbed her neck with his feet and with his hands, made his weight to go back and he released his legs making the last twin soar through the air and land next to her sister. He stood in place for a few seconds seeing that none of them moved and went for the Honda pushing the slouched body and taking a Glock 17 out of the mans coat and flipped the ignition, and hearing the bike come to life with the heavy revving of the engine. He looked at the exit and hit the gas with his foot and roared out of the garage.
The BMW roared down the highway as of now, the road was slightly packed with cars. Caitlyn was at the wheel and so far this has been the first time she has driven a car in about five months. Cypher was busy loading the gun Tange gave them as three black corvettes fired at them from behind.
"Look for signs, with directions to the airport." Cypher shouted as she drove between two semis.
"I would love to but I can't speak Spanish!" she replied going a hard left not knowing that it was a cop. With that the sirens sounded, and blared and cop began to speed up, "Shit we got cops. See if you can shoot it up."
"Dully noted, but we can't kill any innocent bystanders," Cypher replied, "but I can shoot out the tires."
"Whatevers useful, do what you must."
Cypher slapped the hammer and put his body halfway outside the car. The sound of the gun drowned the sirens and the sound of the BMW as Cypher fired at the car. Caitlyn looked in the rear view mirror watching the car swerve to the right of the road then flip over. One of the corvettes slammed into the car and flew into the air half-flipping and landing on the ground and slid to a stop.
Caitlyn looked back at the road and looked as the road went down at an angle some and into a tunnel. She began maneuvering the car left to right watching out for the cars as Cypher then brought the rest of his body in, "I thought you said no innocent bystanders."
"The car just flipped over, he'll live." Cypher shot back, then pointing at a sign, "go that way!"
She veered right and saw a sign with a picture of a plane and went the way Cypher said.
The car flew in the air as the rode went into a slope, and they entered a tunnel, more corvettes were taking the others places and began firing at them.
Cypher exchanged fire, as the vehicles sped up, Caitlyn was a good driver, she turned the car into the next lane, passing an 18-wheeler. He got back in the car, and changed mags looking ahead seeing anther corvetter come out from in front of one of the massive trucks. It was a car in front up them.
It began firing at the car in front of them, watching the front explode and pull off the road, Cypher got out and went crazy on the weapon, puncturing the two back tires of the corvette causing it to spin out.
One of the 18-wheelers hit it, smashing the back. "Brakes!" he shouted, then feeling the car vibrate, as the tires locked, skidding for a few seconds, then the 18-wheeler slammed on its brakes and hit another in front of it, causing it to jack knife.
The truck veered right sharply as it hit the next truck's trailer, causing its trailer to rise into the air and land on the other lane, smashing more cars.
Caitlyn was steering her way through the disaster, as Cypher kept firing at the remaining corvettes. He then stopped when the cars collided into each other by the sides and exploded.
Tange had just got on the off ramp and got onto the highway as he caught a glimpse of Caitlyn and Cypher's car being followed by a bunch of corvettes. He hit the gas and the bike slightly lifted into the air and landed with a scraping sound, sending sparks in the air.
He got to the pull over lane and accelerated to about eighty miles. He then passed a totaled cop car, and then another car, and figured that they weren't far. He felt the road go down and he slowed down a bit and accelerated once again. Tange caught a glimpse of an plane sign and did a hard right cutting through the speeding cars, hearing them blare their horns at him. He then spotted a group of three cars, two black and one red. 'There you are.' After thinking that thought, one of the corvettes flipped over and tumbled back towards him.
He slammed the brake coming to a complete halt and accelerated again as the car came to a totaled halt. Tange looked forward seeing that the road suddenly went up at an obtuse angle. He went up it making the bike go a few feet off the air. Landing, he saw Caitlyn's face in the driver's seat of the car and spotted the airport entrance. He cut through a park ignoring all the bumps. Caitlyn and Cypher had just got out of the car and entered the airport doors.
Thinking that it was a good time to stop, he hit the brakes. Nothing happened. 'Oh, shit.' Now the brakes were out. He saw the last corvette suddenly stop blocking his path and Tange jumped off, landing and rolling across the grass. The bike kept going and then hit the corvette on the side, and sent a huge explosion into the air. "Well, that went good."
Caitlyn and Cypher found the plane on the runaway parked, ready to take off. The doors were opened and the pilot was waving at them. Cypher got on first discarding the empty gun and Caitlyn followed walking up the staircase. She sat on her seat and looked out the window spotting a man running towards the plane. It was Tange. He boarded the plane, closing the airlock door and collapsed onto one of the chairs.
Cypher walked in from the cockpit and smiled slightly, "Well, we did it. The deal is set."
The planes engines roared and a few moments later they were in the air.
Note: I've never wrote a car chase, this was my first time, so how was? Was it good? Or did you think the chase sucked? Anyway, please review. L8er
Oh yeah, if your wondering why the head man was called Osiris, well its because the word means, lord of the underworld, or something like that.