Resident Evil 2: Living Nightmares
+Claire+
Claire, Joshua and Bob entered the room at Irons' command. Claire could see Joshua's lithe frame shivering with rage...when they stepped inside the chamber Claire felt the taste of bile rise in her throat. Blood caked the utensils and tables; the floor was just as grimy.
The smell of death hung in the air. Claire knew that this was no mere room. It was a dungeon, a torture chamber with memories of death and pain in the grim, deep shadows that lurked in the corners. Irons shoved the barrel of his pistol into her back; she stumbled forwards and grunted as opposed to swinging around and lashing a kick into his groin.
"I'm surprised you made it this far" Irons spat as he dabbed his sweaty forehead with a grimy rag that may at some point have been white...but now it was stained black, brown, green...and red. "I can't let you live you understand...I can't have loose cannons running around I need to keep this all hushed up - I've even hidden the only key to get out of here through the sewers in my tower..." He kept his gun trained on them. "I'll kill you all, cleanse the city...and then I'll hunt down the last few survivors of umbrella and kill them too, to make sure they pay!" he wiped spittle away with the back of his hand. "I'll kill them all and set this place ablaze...everything will be clean again! Like I intended it to be...but not before I finish off my collection of taxidermy works..."
He leered at Claire and she shivered with discomfort...the toad like man repelled her in ways she hadn't though possible.
Claire looked at Joshua, he was staring at the surgery table... at a bracelet...gleaming and flickering in the dim fluorescent lighting...
+Joshua+
He remembered the bracelet...he'd lugged boxes, answered phones, stuffed envelopes, made sandwiches, served greasy food... all to buy that for Felicity. It was a simple silver chain with a white gold strip inscribed with her name. He'd seen it in a jeweler's window and known it was for her.
For their 25th month anniversary since he wanted to celebrate more then after 25 months then after 24...he told her it was a prize for not going mad because of him. He'd given it to her in the middle of the Shopping District and she'd hugged and kissed him and told him he was wonderful...and then he'd realized he'd never love another girl like he loved her.
Felicity.
That little silver band was blood stained...her blood, he could smell it...Irons was unprepared for his attack, Joshua lunged through the air with incredible speed, he grabbed Irons' wrist in a vice like hold and dug his fingers into the windpipe of the man who croaked and cursed. "What...how..."
"You killed the only woman I'll ever love you BASTARD" Joshua cried, his throat felt sore, his voice sounded weird and he felt like he was pumping too much adrenaline, his entire body was pulsating and he felt his eyes burn with fury. His nails dug into Irons' throat - the inhuman urge to shred the man's body and pour the blood out into a bucket for leeches to feed on...the taste of hate fresh on his tongue...the NEED to rip flesh and tear tendon...it was frightening.
Irons kicked out and tried to force the boy off but the strength was preternatural... Irons shoved away and raised his gun. The hand lashed out and grabbed his ankle, it dragged the chief down the gap in the floor, the Chief's chin hit the ladder and he croaked...he flailed wildly as he was pulled down...
"Fuck" Joshua breathed.
+Bob+
Bob had seen a lot over the past few hours...but now he was seeing new levels of bizarre occurrence...from beneath the steel cover knocked asunder by the dragging claw he could hear Irons screaming and begging and then an unpleasant squelch noise... "All right" his throat was dry - he hadn't noticed in his silence. "We need to check this out" he decided.
"Do we have to?" groaned Joshua. "We don't even have weapons!"
Suddenly a scream rang out and Irons was flung back onto the floor. He scrambled for his gun. Joshua moved with exceptional speed but Irons grabbed a crowbar and hit the boy in the side. Joshua hissed in pain and Irons scrabbled to his feet. Green ooze slipped off his lips and he wiped frantically at it.
"You - You will die...that thing...it nearly had me...nearly"
Joshua gave a shudder, his pupils dilated...and then he looked at Irons. "You're a dead man chief" he whispered. "You're death will come from within". He pupils reduced again. Irons snorted and leveled the gun at the head of the teenage boy.
The implosion came first, Irons' ribs visible turned inwards...then with an almighty crack he split in two, a geyser of crimson fluid gushed in torrents from his body. All three of his captives ducked aside as his body sprayed all around, they didn't notice the slithering ochre shape vanishing down the hole in the floor.
"Claire? Bob? Joshua" Claire held up her radio. "Yeah? Leon? We're here"
"Good...we were worried...where've you been?" Leon breathed out.
"The Chief was here...he trapped us but we got away---or rather something got him..." Claire had a choked sound in her voice. Bob touched her shoulder in a fatherly way and she smiled. "We'll free up the elevator in a few seconds..." they headed for the door and soon unblocked the elevator and re-equipped their weapons.
Sarah, Sherry and Marvin came down first, then Ben, Ada and Leon. Sarah sniffed. "What's that smell?" she asked.
"Don't ask" Claire replied.
+Ada+
"We should head on" Joshua said. He stopped and removed a roll of plasters from his side pack. "Sherry, would you put these over your eyes..."
"Why?" Ada asked.
"She's seen enough...I don't want her to see that room" Joshua snapped. Ada nodded slowly...the boy was willful to say the least - she watched carefully as he wound the gauze around the girls eyes and took her hand.
"Let's go" Sarah said. She loaded the bow gun and Claire checked her sniper rifle. Ada reloaded her Magnum and walked forwards, she had a bad feeling and she didn't need any more of those today. They approached the chamber.
Ada gave a minor shudder as they stepped in - it was truly disgusting, the depths of human depravity in all truth. Ada stopped... there was an acidic smell coming from the corner... "We're about to encounter trouble" she announced. Marvin limped over to her side.
"What do you mean?" the officer asked.
"I smell something familiar...it smells like the ichors generated by a strange creature that attacked me here...I escaped by the skin of my teeth, but I didn't get a proper look at it".
The creature burst forth from the depths of the hole in the floor. It bulged and pulsated, growing long limbs and dribbling slime from its misshapen mouth. "Get down!" Sarah cried as she fired off the arrows from the bow gun. The monster vomited up a wad of spongy yellow tissue and green sludge. From the scum an insect of some sort scuttled out and leapt at Marvin. He batted it aside with his rifle and fired at the monster. Joshua passed Sherry to Rob and Ben, who were shooting then the teen whipped out both his pistols and fired furiously.
Ada could see its pulsating veins and the slime coating its body...it seemed so frail...but she knew what to do. She fired at the back of its legs - it gurgled like water going down a drain...and then fell forwards, it tried to crawl but Claire took aim with her rifle and shot through its malformed spine. It thrashed, spitting out two more shapes that scampered at Claire and leapt at her. The girl swatted one with her rifle butt but the other pounced onto her arm and she had to try and pry it off. Ada grabbed Leon's shotgun from his hands, stood over the monster with a leg on either side of its body and fired down into it.
It burst like a pimple or pustule of some sort, green slime spurted from the strange gills on its body and it went limb.
"Nicely handled Ada" Claire nodded as Ben stamped on the last Crawler.
"I believe that is that" Ada murmured.
They looked at the ladder into the hole. Leon walked forwards and took his shotgun back, and then he slowly lowered himself down into the darkness. Moments passed that seemed like hours...then - "All Clear!" Leon called up.
Ada checked her magnum and followed him down the ladder.
+Leon +
Leon and Ada stood on the metal walkway, awaiting the others. "The sewers are just beyond the processing plant here" Marvin said as he reapplied more herbal poultice to his wound. "We can get out through there and out to-"
"The Chief mentioned a key" Bob interjected.
Marvin paused and closed his eyes. "Yeah...there is one - damn I hadn't thought of that...the mayor blocked off some of the sewers for security to the Chemical plant there's one master key his daughter had it...Irons must have gotten it..."
Joshua nodded. "I remember the key...he said it was in his tower"
"The clock tower, he stored things up there" murmured Sarah. "We need that key"
"There's a place near here, a safe room of sorts" Marvin said. "We just have to pass through the Heavy Doors and the doors on a raised bank...we meet there"
"I know the place" Bob said. "It's an operator's room or something - I delivered some weapons to the security team there...it's near the processing plant..."
"Okay, Bob, Ben - and - Joshua...come with me" Leon said. "We can get that key!"
The woman watched as Leon Kennedy, Bob Kendo, Ben Bertolucci and Joshua West made their way back to the Chief's office and out the fire escape. She tapped some keys and switched to another camera to find them running down a side passage near where Mr. X was. Leon Kennedy made a comment on the absence of the Mr. X body and Joshua responded that either it deteriorated rapidly like most zombies - or it wasn't dead.
"Perceptive Mr. West" the woman muttered.
She switched to another camera as they climbed up the steps of the broken fire escape – they were lucky that only the lower levels had been shattered and that the route to the roof was intact. The woman raised an eyebrow. "How interesting…they know about the key…" she stopped. "Irons…that…IDIOT". She swiveled in her chair and tapped on the console, the files of Umbrella fell beneath her keystrokes as she found what she was looking for.
Mr. X.
She tapped a few keys. From many miles away a signal was sent by her command to Mr. X – the Tyrant straightened up and turned around…it had been making its way through the car park when the small circuits in the back of its neck flickered – they had once been used to subdue the consciousness of the beast in its cryo-sleep and implant it with it's mission by computer command… she had designed the upgrade of the program herself.
She was so tied into Umbrella it was frightening. She hit the command, the map loaded into its head…the tyrant thundered along the corridor towards the clock tower.
She smiled and flicked to a camera of the clock tower to await the arrival of the men. Nearby the sewers played out for her – but she didn't particularly care about that.
+Claire+
Sherry clutched Claire's hand – they moved swiftly down the passage under ground and onto the elevator. No one spoke, the hearts in their mouths provided ample blockage. As they ventured slowly down the stone corridor with its fluorescent lighting Claire shuddered.
She had a bad feeling.
"Is something wrong?" Ada asked, looking at Claire with the cold eyes of hers.
"I don't know" responded Claire. The woman wasn't trustworthy but she was a good shot and seemed pretty knowledgeable – beggars could not be choosers. There was a roar – the creature struck the railing overhead in frenzy, the heavy iron bar in its hand bent and buckled as it gave a bizarre roar, the eye on its black plated arm split open and gazed down at the people below.
"RUN!" Sarah shrieked. Claire fired a crossbow bolt and the monster grunted as it hit, that was a small but necessary distraction as Ada, Sarah, Sherry and Marvin sloshed through the heavy water around their feet. The large steel door opened before them as Ada slapped the button. They pushed through quickly and Marvin sealed the door just as the monster landed in the water.
No one dared breathed as the Thing pounded on the door with its metal bar…then there was a low growl they could hear beyond the steel barricade. The splashing stopped and the footsteps that began soon faded away. "What was that?" Claire whispered at last.
"I suggest we don't find out" Ada replied.
"That thing was chasing me earlier – I saw it from far away – I managed to crawl into a vent" Sherry said. She frowned. "I seem to be doing that a lot lately." With a sigh she pushed her hair out of her eyes and looked around. "Bullet holes"
Claire followed the girl's gaze and touched the fissures in the wall. Automatic weapons – her father had been in the air force…she knew enough to know the patterns of a gunfight like anyone who'd ever seen real weapons.
"I guess the people got away" she noted.
"Guess again" Marvin said. The commando was face down in the water…his legs were partially submerged nearby…he'd been slashed in two – some time ago…the body was festering… Claire covered her nose with a gloved hand and pulled a face. "Let's go" Marvin said as he pointed at the lit hallway nearby.
They walked forwards.
Sherry shrieked as the ground beneath her feet gave way, the shaft opened beneath her sneakers and with a shriek she disappeared.
"Sherry!" Claire shouted – the shaft sealed abruptly. "No!" Panic seeped in, the murky waters swirled and soon the plate of metal over the shaft was only a faded shape – Sherry had been separated from them again…this couldn't be happening…no way.
"Let's regroup and see if the security cameras can help us" Marvin said. "They're in the security room". He was walking taller now, his injury already healing better thanks to the herbal remedies they were all using. Claire walked after him slowly, fear of a new kind was running through her. Fear that Sherry would meet that monster.
+Leon+
The clock tower was silent; it had been so for a long time. Bob poked around in the shadows with his shotgun – throughout this entire ordeal shadows had grown longer, darker and more dangerous. "Where's the key?" Joshua exclaimed as he finished his search of the clockwork that stood silent and unmoving.
"A passage and answers await the one, who starts my body running once more" Ben read. He was kneeling on the wooden walkway by the clock face – a small metal plaque he'd dusted off bore those words. "Sounds like a puzzle"
"And we have plenty of those around here" Joshua snorted. "Has anyone seen the gate to the city hall? Pfft!" He rolled his eyes and kneeled down with Ben.
Leon examined the heavy steel plate with the blotches of rust upon it – it was old but still solid however reddish marks indicated it had been moved recently.
The woman laughed melodiously as she reviewed the thousands of camera's she'd planted and hacked into across Raccoon City. She looked at the Library camera…Mr. X was making his way up the stairs, the steps buckled slightly under his weight but he kept moving…Ben Betrolucci and Joshua were kneeling beside a gap in the metalwork of the clock…that puzzle…yes if they figured out what cog-wheels to move…they might escape.
She looked at the Library camera and laughed…Mr. X had trouble with doors…
She quickly cast a glance to the other active screens. There was a woman with a shoulder injury unconscious in the town clock tower…then there was a man racing through a hospital, fight Hunters…she watched as eight survivors entered the University grounds and laughed. "So many people…so little chance…I do love it when they play the odds" she declared aloud.
She looked back at the Upper Levels Police Lobby Camera and watched. 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 ----
+Ben+
"Wonder who built this" Joshua said. "M. Trevor…who's that?"
Before Ben could answer that he didn't know but that the name was familiar…the door to the clock tower burst inwards. The trench coat wearing monster lumbered forwards, boards squeaked under its bulk and it gazed at Leon and Bob who stood on the level bellow as if they were cockroaches to be stepped on.
"What does this thing want?" exclaimed Bob as he shot the thing with his shotgun. Leon fired with his own shotgun and Joshua provided support from the walkway. The tyrant stumbled back a little but ultimately it kept coming.
Ben was frantic…finally he spotted it – the small bronze cog wheel didn't belong, in fact it caused an obstruction. He tugged at it but it was stuck. Leon was punched across the room and the tyrant threw Bob aside. Joshua ran down a few steps and kept firing. Leon leapt on the monsters back but the behemoth threw the RPD rookie onto Joshua instead.
Bob leapt up on to the stairs and empted the barrels of the gun into the monsters chest; it crashed backwards off the steps. "Hurry Ben!" Bob roared.
Ben pried the wheel out with fumbling fingers and the plaque slid aside to reveal a notch for the cog wheel. He shoved it in and twisted. The metal plate slid past with a moan – hanging from a chain on the ceiling was a key. Joshua grabbed it and looked down the long dark metal chute. "What's down there?" Ben gasped.
"Let's find out" Joshua shrugged he fired a blast of his pistols at the monster and then hit Ben with his hips in a dance-like move that dropped the reporter into the unknown. Bob shouted back: "Go! I'll follow!" then Leon tried to argue and crashed down behind Joshua. The three men landed in a heap – in the distance of the chute they could hear the shots ringing out then…Bob screamed.
The woman watched as the younger men leapt down the shaft, Leon Kennedy tried to argue with the fool Bob Kendo but the man pushed the rookie into the shaft – evidently the man had misjudged a great deal as he fired at Mr. X who'd come closer then he'd believed…then he'd not been able to reload fast enough, fear had shaken his fingers and his cartridges skittered across the floor.
Mr. X bore down on him, fists crunched and slapped, life blood flew and bruises formed as the grey leathery fists impacted with Bob's body. He buckled, falling down – crying out as he was broken by each strike…then the foot rose. Bob fell back – his head floating in the open space of the shaft.
If he moved just a little, pushed back a smidgeon…sadly the boot came down. The crack and splatter were thrillingly abrupt.
Red fluid leaked down the vent…
The woman laughed and turned back to her other cameras.
+Leon+
"Shit" Joshua breathed as the scarlet waterfall dribbled from the chute. They were in the basement behind the car park…Bob was dead – Leon knew it even before the blood or the screams. Those had served simply to reinforce the fact.
"Let's move" Leon said as he opened the doors to the kennels. "The police station map says there's a door to the sewers in or around here" the dog leapt at his throat. Joshua moved in the blink of an eye and fired, Leon covered his face as the dog's body exploded, showering the area with patches of festering flesh and gore. "Damn – thank you Joshua"
"No problem" Joshua replied quietly. There was a snarl from the shadows. Ben reloaded his pistol with a loud whimper. Three more dogs attacked –once they'd been the noble sniffer-dogs of the RPD – now they were slavering horrors with shedding hair and missing epidermis.
Ben fired frantically but Leon and Joshua knew what they were doing (this was the reason they didn't give anything too powerful to the reporter). The dogs whined and snarled as they fell backwards and twitched in a gathering red pool
Leon stepped past them – they'd burst right out of their kennels and ripped apart an attendant… she'd never stood a chance – how sad… quietly Leon pulled on the manhole cover. Ben and Joshua assisted him in a somber mood.
Death was everywhere and Leon was really getting to grips with how easily he could be forced to join the ranks of the dead or undead… he understood how inhuman his opponents were and why he needed to stay focused.
Wading through the waters the men said nothing; only the movement of water accompanied them as they searched for a place to meet up with the others. Finally they came to a large doorway they opened out into a passageway with a huge fan on one wall by a ladder.
"This is the place I think" Leon breathed. "By my directions…we've traveled in the right pattern to reach the same point as the others…" he let out a long breath and they walked along the sewer way. Ben yelped. He'd stumbled over a body – the Umbrella logo was prominent on the helmet and body of the man – he'd been stabbed straight through in four places.
"These are the men that came for the G-Virus…they started all of this" Joshua said.
Leon nodded and climbed up onto the bank, he pushed open the door and relief washed over him…Claire rushed over and hugged him. "We lost Sherry" she exclaimed.
"No!" Joshua exclaimed.
Leon was feeling his body begin to give from the exhaustion – he sat down and let the others tell their story…Bob's lack of presence was noted and a darker mood slipped over them all.
+Sherry+
The zombie vomited the stream of acid at her but she ran past. Sherry hurried up a ladder and picked up the herbs…she'd need them later no doubt. A nearby desk was littered with papers but she found a map amongst the scraps. Sherry hadn't the time to be afraid; she set her jaw and retied her hair in a tighter band then before.
She ran along a passageway and avoided another vomiting zombie. "If you want to avoid sickness, don't hang around a sewer" she muttered. Finally she ran out onto a large floor space. "There" she noted the door across the room and rand towards it.
The floor gave out and she tumbled downwards onto the debris with a scream.
The world swam and faded in and out of focus…finally she shut her eyes as something large loomed over her…
+Claire+
"Leon needs some rest" Claire said. "The others do…I'm going to the storeroom on the map – it's not far and I shouldn't be in danger". Marvin opened his mouth to say something but she shook her head and raised a hand. "It's two doors away – I won't be long and I won't be in danger – trust me, I'll be fine"
"I'm still coming" Marvin said. Claire shrugged and she and Marvin headed out into the dank sewers. They made their way down a side passage to a large open area.
"Freeze" a voice rang out. The woman stood with her Magnum trained on them – her eyes were cold and hard with weary bags beneath them and tear stains reddening them. "Who are you?"
"Marvin Brannagh of the RPD" Marvin said.
"Claire Redfield…we're looking for our friend…"
"I see – my name is Annette Birkin I'm looking for some people-" she was cut off by Claire's gasp.
"Joshua and Sherry!" Claire exclaimed. "We found them in the RPD…what happened at the labs?" Annette shivered but Claire didn't have the energy or time for sensitivity. She looked at the woman and felt Marvin support her on a mental level.
Annette sighed and lowered her gun. "My husband, William, invented a new Virus. The G-Virus, he discovered a base coding for it that led to the invention – it was almost entirely his own work – I aided him but he was the real genius. He found a way to create a serum that causes cells to heal and mutate – once a subject is injected with the G-Virus they become a G-Type which mutates rapidly when subjected to external stimuli"
"The more we attack it – the more we change it?" Marvin ventured.
"Yes, essentially" Annette nodded. She was dressed in a yellow sweater and brown trousers with her matted blonde hair falling over her eyes. "But Umbrella wanted the virus all to themselves, my husband was supposed to become a director – they decided to instead send in a strike force to extract the virus – they shot him – I arrived to find him bleeding to death in his lab" she rubbed a hand across her drawn out face. "When I went to get help he injected himself with the virus and turned into a G-Type…I don't know what happened only that he slaughtered the men who'd come for him and commenced a spread of the virus."
"Damn" Marvin muttered. "We have to find Sherry"
"Wait…where is my daughter?" Annette exclaimed.
"We got separated from her" Marvin replied.
"Oh no" Annette gasped. "William is no longer in control of his body, he's being driven by the G-Type's need to survive, in order to survive the G-Type needs to pass on the virus to a complementary host by use of snake like embryo's that nest within a chest cavity until they burst out (in the case of an incompatible host)…or can take full control of the genetically similar host…he'll want Sherry!"
"That's it we need to find her!" Marvin exclaimed. A scream rang out.
"Go that way Annette. We'll go this way" Claire cried as she ran towards the ladder descending to another level of the sewers. Annette nodded and darted away through a set of nearby double doors.
Ada+
"I'm worried about Sherry" Leon said. Ada looked up from the ammo she was sorting for them all to carry, Sarah was nearby, and helping Ben to disperse the medical supplies into the packs they still had. Joshua was working on the monitors in search of Sherry.
"Let's go and see if Claire and Marvin are still in the storeroom" Ada offered. She wanted to talk to Leon alone – see what he was like…perhaps even get information. They left the room, telling the others to contact them by radio if necessary…Ada switched on a flashlight as they walked down a narrow walkway.
"This is all a nightmare" Leon said. "But it's real I'm living a nightmare…" his voice sounded weaker then ever before, he'd rested for a while but he was far from top condition. They were all working on survival instinct and adrenaline now. Ada had to keep her mission in mind though.
"It'll all be over soon" Ada said quietly. "One way or another".
She stopped. A blonde woman in a lab coat saw them and ran around the corner. Ada ran ahead – that was Annette Birkin! She'd have a great deal to tell them. The scientist raised a pistol and fired. Ada cringed…but Leon slammed into her and she fell aside as he took a bullet in the shoulder for her. "Leon?" the rookie was unconscious.
Ada stepped away from him. "That was sweet and foolish Leon" she sighed. She checked her gun and headed after Annette. She climbed up a ladder and made her way along the vent for the unmoving fan. Cockroaches scuttled from a vent but Ada thought nothing of them.
Ada moved like a cat, each footstep thought out as she made her way down a sloped metal platform. She paused and kneeled beside a glimmering shape. She recognized it as the round locket worn by Sherry Birkin. She latched it around her neck and continued the move.
Brandishing her weapon she dropped onto a concrete path beside the deep pool of the sewers far below. "Now where did you go Dr Birkin?" she murmured. A shot rang out and Ada's gun skittered along the catwalk to land at the foot of a desk.
"Who have we here?" Annette approached slowly, her gun still smoking from the adept shot that had disarmed Ada. "A spy from the HCF – or do you still call yourselves the Agency?"
"I'm Ada Wong, a private investigator…I came to find my boyfriend John"
"John? That doesn't…wait actually there was a researcher who didn't shut up about his girlfriend Ada…" Annette laughed darkly and Ada backed off as the scientist walked closer with her outstretched weapon. "He's dead. A zombie. He was at the Arklay facility under the Spencer Estate…sorry – though I doubt he was your REAL reason for coming here"
"It was…it still is…"
Annette's eyes widened as she spotted the locket around Ada's neck. "That locket where did you get it?" her voice was ragged now. From desperation? Panic? Anger?
"What's it to you?"
"Give it to me! Now!" commanded the blonde woman furiously. He reached to grab the accessory but Ada moved fast, she grabbed Annette's gun hand and then caught the woman's other hand. Ada forced the gun hand aside and stamped on Annette's foot. The woman shrieked and freed her unarmed hand to grab a handful of Ada's hair.
The blunt pain rain through Ada's scalp but she simply scratched Annette across the face and then punched her heavily. Annette screamed as she fell over the edge of the balcony and crashed into the dark water with a loud splash.
"Good riddens" Ada murmured. She reached up and unlatched the locket she examined it more closely…there seemed nothing important about it. Annette was seemingly mad anyway.
Ada rose and headed back to help Leon.
+Joshua+
Joshua paced around…finally he stood on the elevator to the storage space. "I'm just taking a look down here" he said. "Maybe we can find something of use". No one protested then again only Ben and Sarah were present.
He shone the torch in the darkness. There was movement…a cockroach! He laughed – then he noticed the discoloration, was huge and had a purple tint to its carapace. "Oh please don't be a wall covered in cockroaches – please don't be a wall covered in cockroaches" he chanted. He raised the torch. The roaches that coated the wall swarmed him like a small blizzard trying to poison him with their stingers.
They flew into his mouth and eyes and ears and he slapped out at them, desperately. They started to try and devour him with mutated mouths… Joshua had kept them out of his mouth with great success but they were under his clothes in places…
Suddenly he felt a strange burning sensation. The roaches began to drop off his body, frothing and twitching, they spasmed around him, soon his body was roach free and the blackened, rank smell of the roaches wafted up around him. They were all dead.
Because of him?
+Marvin+
Claire ran like a gazelle, the bridge led to a narrow passage – it had a low roof and bad lighting – but the most frightening thing was the smell. Marvin was sure that if there was better light there would be pieces of decomposing tissue and congealed blood all around.
Something had been killing in this place. Marvin tightened his grip on his submachine gun and followed Claire to the large metal doors. "Claire…" but Claire was too preoccupied with searching the room to see what Marvin saw in the dark depths. A shadow.
Claire gasped. "Sherry!" she called, the girl was lying on a mountain of trash. Claire moved forwards – Marvin lunged forward and dragged Claire backwards as the scaled shape snapped at the air it's curved yellow teeth chewing air…
"Shit!" Marvin bellowed. He fired a burst of weaponry at the monster and prompted Claire to run. They rushed away as the dull green creature stormed after them. Despite its armor plated bulk the creature was fast and it seemed hungry. "The door won't open!" Claire exclaimed. An emergency lock of some sort had come into operation for whatever reason.
Marvin and Claire fired, grenades and bullets peppered the monster's head but its skin was too powerful. Marvin noticed a flickering green light. He kicked the button on the wall and the tank dropped off. "Eat that!" he roared as the gator surged forwards. It snatched the tank up in its mouth. Claire and Marvin fired. Claire dragged Marvin down with her as the explosion vividly killed the gator.
The top of its head went off in a blaze of flame, the geyser of red liquid bubbled off from the shattered fragments of its skeleton speckled through the visible pink flesh. The body thrashed a little…then stilled and began to fester almost instantly
"What a smell" Marvin muttered.
Claire nodded absent mindedly and ran past the body, careful to avoid slipping on the pool it lay in. Marvin followed her through the waters to Sherry. Claire looked around and cried out a little, Marvin snapped around in time to see a familiar red shape slithering away.
Sherry was infected with an embryo.
Well there we go, another chapter down...I hope this is going well. Any questions or comments are welcome. I've had really GREAT reviews on this story so I've been inspired to keep going with this and I'm already planning another RE fic - so keep it up I'll properly thank my reviewers at the end.