"Wait, are they talking about this city? No-no way! Wh-What are we gonna do!" The unknown scientist shouted nervously. Jessica glanced at Tony, who seemed to be in deep thought. "Where going to my University. We'll find a cure for him there." Jessica said with fear in her voice. "No we're not." Tony said without looking at Jessica.
"What?"Jessica looked towards Tony with confusion in her face.
"Your going to let me out. Then your going to escape the city while you still have the chance."
"No, Tony, no!" She shouted to Tony.
Tony glared to Jessica "Turn around, and let me out. I'm not kidding." A small hint of anger came from Tony's voice. And his eye's changed. They were no longer, human looking.
Jessica nervously looked back and forth at the road and at Tony. "Tony I said no. We still have time! The university is close. We can make it. I know we can!" Jessica's voice was full of hope, but none of it seemed to change Tony's expression. Instead of agreeing he got angrier. Slowly he turned to Jessica and grabbed her neck tight.
"I said, let me out!"
Jessica gagged a bit. The car swerved around as she let go of the steering wheel and started grabbing something from her belt. She knew the virus was beginning to take effect. She could tell by the way anger showed all over his face and his eye's showed deep suffering. Finally Jessica got a grip on her gun and aimed it violently at Tony's head.
Tony let go and looked away.
"We're going to the university, you here!"
Tony stayed silent for a short while then began reaching for the door handle. Jessica noticed what he was doing and gripped the gun tight, slowly pulling the trigger. The scientist in the back watched as if it was a movie and the suspense was leaving him on the edge of his seat.
"Just go..." Tony said in a deep dark voice. Jessica nodded and looked back to the road. Tony leaned his head against the window and sighed. He didn't want to be the cause for Jessica's death later on down the road. And he didn't want to be their reason for getting blown up with the city. Jessica was to hard-headed to understand that and for hat he hated her. The guilt he'd feel for being the cause of her death was even worst than death to him.
A few minutes later they arrived at Raccoon University. The eerie mist surrounding the school gave off a bad vibe. The quietness didn't help either. "Never seen it like this before..." Jessica whispered to herself. Tony and the scientist both heard her, but made no comment. "Well, let's go. Time is important now. And you mister scientist need to get your memory back fast." Tony shook his head and got out the car. Jessica took the lead while Tony limped behind at the rear.
Jessica swung open the doors and flinched as she noticed the whole area had zombies in it. The group wasn't necessarily huge, but there was enough to wipe out all three of them in no time at all. The scientist reached towards a belt he had brought with him from Jessica's car. The belt was equipped with several hand-grenades of all types. Jessica grabbed his hand and stopped him. "No, we can run past them. Their slow". The scientist looked at her for a moment then nodded. Jessica led in running towards a stair case in the middle of the room. On the wall in the back of the room was a huge picture of the school president. Once they made it to the upper-floor Jessica and Tony headed towards a door at the end. The scientist followed but immediately a flash went of in his head as a memory rushed back to him.
"Thatcher, don't! These aren't things that we should be tampering with!"
Thatcher slowly walked over to his computer, sat down and started typing. "Silence boy. Do you know how much this would sell on the black market? Wait, no. Do you know how much Umbrella would pay for this? For a much stronger and more stable form of the T-Virus. "But Thatcher. This is wrong. We need to tell someone what Umbrella is up to. We have no idea about the consequences that can come out of this."
Suddenly he was back. The scientist thought for a second. Jessica and Tony both turned around and stared, wondering what he was doing. He looked up towards Tony and mumbled the words "My name...is Thatcher."
"Good, your remembering. Try and remember more." Thatcher nodded and follower Jessica and Tony into the next room.
The room was a narrow passage that was infested with a couple of zombies. Right near the door a zombie started limping toward the three, but Jessica fired a bullet that went right into it's skull. It dropped to the ground, but it was still alive. "Don't waste bullets, lets go." She shouted. The rest of the zombies were taken care of with a few bullets into the leg. Once clear the three rushed into a door. Another one was across from it but they didn't have time to decide which one to go through.
The three had found themselves in a sort of lounge room with a few couches. Tony laid down on a couch while Jessica locked the door. Thatcher started wandering over to a door across from him in the room. "Where is the cure? I-I can t feel it taking over me." Tony asked silently. Jessica ran over to him and looked into his eyes. They were dying. The color, the brightness, was fading. Thatcher on the other hand walked inside the door he had be looking at. The room had a fireplace in it with a red and blue cord dangling from it. There was broken wood on the floor in front of a huge space in the wall. It seemed to have been covering that space before it was broken somehow. Suddenly another flash went of in Thatcher's head as a memory rushed back to him.
"So, you think its a bad idea eh? Jones."
"Thatcher this is dangerous work! Who are we to be playing as god!"
"No, I'm not playing god. This has nothing to do with god. I'm creating a virus to sell. This is nothing more than a crave for money. It's that simple."
Jones shook his head in disgust as he noticed Thatcher's greed for money. Thatcher sighed and took out two needles. Slowly, he started to walk towards his assistant.
"One of these holds the T-virus. The other holds my creation. The all powerful X-Virus. You can either get a percentage of the money i make from the X-virus. Or die." Jones seemed to have lost his breath as he backed away and reached in his pocket. Suddenly he pulled out a gun and aimed it at Thatcher's head. "Thatcher. Put both of those virus's down now!" Thatcher laughed and walked closer. "O come on now. You and me both know you won't shoot me."
"I'm serious Thatcher!"
Thatcher laughed again and started walking towards him again till the 9mm touched his forehead. Jones hand started shaking.
"Come on now Jones. We both know you wouldn't shoot the man who hired you. The man who made you what you are. The one who paid you so generously and is offering to split money with you when I can just kill you." Jones closed his eyes and shot a bullet right at Thatcher. There was silence in Jones head for a while till a laugh pierced his thoughts. "Why Jones. You've missed." With those words he lunged the needle with the T-Virus in it into Jones neck injecting the virus into him. Jones yelled in pain trying to fight back, but Thatcher was to strong. With a punch to the jaw Jones was knocked unconscious.
Thatcher grasped Jones by the neck and picked him up. With a quick look around the room and noticed a gap in the wall and wooden platform next to it. He stuffed Jones into the gap and nailed the platform to it with a nail gun to hide the body. Thatcher took a glance at the fire place where two cords, red and blue, hung from the fire place.
"Have a nice nap Jones" he said as he walked through a secret door disguised as a painting.
As Thatchers mind cleared he realized what had happened. "Jones broke out..."
"Who?" said Jessica who was all of a sudden in the room with Tony limping with his arm around her to keep himself up. "Nothing, I-I was just thinking."
"About what?" Tony asked with a weak and feeble
"Nothing! Let's just go!" Thatcher yelled. As he opened the secret door disguised as a painting.
"I was always told never to pick up strangers" Jessica mumbled as she followed Thatcher.
They were in a narrow pathway which led to a metal ladder. Right before making it to the ladder the door they had just entered through broke open and a huge tall dark, almost human-looking monster walked in. It's heard was exposed out of his chest with metal covering half of it. His left hand was huge and had long sharp nails. "Shit! What the hell is that!" Jessica shouted.
"Go!" Thatcher shouted to Jessica and Tony. Without asking questions they climbed the ladder. Thatcher on the other hand stared approaching the monster with a grin on his face. Suddenly the monster charged at Thatcher with his huge claws aiming right for him. Right before the nails could pierce through and tear him apart he flipped in the air and stuffed a hand grenade into the monsters mouth. In only a few seconds the bomb went off and the monster fell unconscious. He wasn't dead but Thatcher didn't see the need to kill him.