Ch.13- The Search For the Vaccine
Disclaimer: Resident Evil isn't mine. Never has been and probably never will be
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Billy stared in both shock and anger at what Rebecca told him about Lilie. "What do you mean she's infected?" he asked her, not quite believing what she told him.
"I mean, she was bitten by an infected monster and therefore is infected also." Rebecca explained to him with a straight look on her face, "We should get her somewhere safe so she can rest for a while."
"Where? There isn't any place here that is safe from anything." Billy asked, shifting his unconscious sister in his arms.
"We're in front of a church. That should be at least a little bit safe." Leon announced.
"Perfect. We'll go in there." Barry announced, leading the rest of the group into the church.
The inside of the church was completely spotless. The floors were waxed, the benches were scrubbed, and all the dust inside was gone. Nothing was disorganized or out of place, but despite all that, the entire church gave the intruders a strange feeling.
"If I remember correctly, the reverend's office is right behind the preacher's bench. The office ahs no windows and only one door so whoever's hiding there can be hidden and not ambushed." Michael announced.
Billy carried Lilie down the clean isles and through a door behind the preacher's bench with the others following him. The room was clean and empty of any monsters. Seeing nothing better to use as a bed than the reverend's own desk, Billy carried his sister to the desk and placed her up on it after Barry and Leon cleared the top of the desk.
The second Billy placed Lilie on the desk, the young girl started to moan and slowly open her blue eyes. Billy placed a muscular hand on her forehead and immediately removed it when he felt the heat of a high fever.
"B-billy?" Lilie moaned from her spot on the desk.
"How are you feeling, Sis?" Billy asked her, kneeling down so that his face was beside hers.
Lilie let out another painful moan and clenched her fists. Drops of sweat rolled down her forehead and down her cheeks. In a weak voice, she answered, "I'm hot and itchy and all I wanna do is sleep."
"Don't worry, I'll make the pain stop." Billy whispered as Lilie closed her eyes. He picked up his walkie-talkie and began to dial the number for Chris.
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Chris, Jill, Tom, and Claire quietly turned around and headed towards the exit of the insurance agency. After they took a few steps, a loud banging noise came from a copy room. Almost instantly, the four of them stopped.
"What was that?" Jill asked.
"I don't know. Let's just get out of here." Chris answered.
The four continued walking towards the exit, but more slowly than before. The more steps they took, the louder and more frequent the bangs became. A final crash came from behind them, causing the four to quickly turn and face the green, froglike creature that caused the crashes.
Both Claire's and Tom's eyes widened as the froggish creature appeared in front of them. "W-what is t-that thing?" Claire stuttered.
Chris paled as he answered, "A hunter."
The creature crouched down and readied its bodies to attack. A dull croak came from its throat before it leapt in the air towards Jill.
"Jill! Run!" Chris shouted.
Jill ignored him. Instead, she shot at the Hunter with her handgun. She kept shooting even when the Hunter landed two inches in front of her. She finally stopped after a fourteenth bullet landed in its brain and the Hunter lay dead on the ground. She then turned to Chris and said, "There more of those things here. Let's get out of here."
Chris nodded and led Claire, Jill, and Tom outside the building. The second he got out, Billy's voice came from the walkie-talkie. Chris pressed the talk button on his own walkie-talkie and said, "Billy, I'm here. Is something wrong?"
"It's Lilie." Billy answered frantically.
"What's wrong with her?"
"She's infected. That leech monster got her."
"Did you get the vaccine?"
"There's a vaccine?"
"Yeah…or at least there should be. It's in a place called Harvey Medical;. Where are you, anyway?"
"We're in a church, hiding from any of those things."
"We'll be right there. Just have a few people search for Lilie's vaccine."
"Okay." Billy hung up.
Chris turned to everyone around him, "We're going to the church. Tom, you know more about this place than Jill, Claire, and me, so do you know where the church is?"
Tom nodded, "Yeah. It's not very far form here. Follow me."
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"Okay. Michael, do you remember where Harvey Medical is?" Billy asked the youngest boy.
Michael thought for a minute, trying to remember back ten years. He closed his eyes and thought hard until his head began to hurt a little. Then he saw himself as a young boy of about six or seven walking passed the church with his friends. They walked down the streets, passed three rather large shops and finally Harvey Medical. "I remember a little. It's about four or five buildings down the road."
Billy nodded and turned to everyone in the room save the unconscious Lilie lying on the desk. "Okay. I'm going to find Lilie's vaccine. Anyone can come with me if they want, but I want at least two of us to stay here with Lilie in case something happens. Who's going and who's staying?"
"I'm going with you." Michael told him, "It might help me find out the whereabouts of Umbrella."
"I'll stay." Rebecca announced.
Billy smiled at her with a smile that made her feel weak in the knees and set a faint blush on her face. He couldn't help but to smile at her, which also made him feel weak in the knees, but after seeing the weakened state of his sister, he shook off the feeling.
"I'll stay, too." Leon volunteered.
"I'm going with you." Barry announced.
Billy nodded and turned back to Lilie. "Okay, let's go. The sooner I get the vaccine, the better." He announced.
"Don't worry, Billy. I'll watch over her." Rebecca told the man. Billy smiled and led Michael and Barry out of the church.
Once the three got outside, Michael knew that it was his duty to lead Billy and Barry to the medical center for the vaccine. Only he knew where it was and he had to be fast to make sure that Lilie didn't become what Amy and Carlee became.
The heavy stench of death was everywhere on the empty streets of Marysville. The smell was so disgusting that the three almost couldn't continue on their way, but they did. They held their breath and continued walking down the street to the partially empty two-story medical center.
The smell was much stronger in this building than it was outside in the streets. Blood was painted all over the walls of the first floor. A loud shuffling sound echoed from the first floor.
Billy walked ahead to the back of the floor, hoping to find a machine that would possibly say which each vaccine was for if there was more than one vaccine for each bite. Unfortunately for him, most of the doors were either locked with an electric lock or ripped off their hinges. There was only one door that was unlocked and that was one of the doctor's offices.
The office was small with a counter and a large bench. The walls were a sickly, white color and the zombified body of a doctor stood in the corner of the room.
The doctor turned its rotting face towards Billy and started running with its mouth wide open. It was so fast that Billy almost didn't have the time to aim his gun and fire a bullet into the doctor's brain. A bullet found its way into his brain when he was a quarter of an inch from Billy's neck and he fell to a heap on the filthy carpeted floor.
As the doctor fell to the ground, a plastic identification card fell from his coat pocket and onto the floor.
Billy picked up the little plastic card and read aloud the parts not covered in the blood from the floor, "Dr. Elliot Zedaker…#84635." He then walked out the door and over to the receptionist's desk in order to figure out how to open the electronic locks to the doors.
Papers were bulging out of folders around the desk. The computers were shut off, but otherwise, the desks were very clean.
Billy attempted to turn on the computer, but it refused to turn on or show any power whatsoever. He searched around the desk for any explanation of why the computer wasn't showing any signs of life. He noticed a sign with bolded black letters saying, "Computers down. Use upstairs."
Quickly, he ran for the nearby elevator with Billy and Michael following him. He practically punched the arrow pointing upwards in the elevator when he got inside and dashed out of the little room when it was finished moving to the second floor.
There were only two rooms on the second floor: one for storage and another for drawing blood and only the second actually had a computer in it…complete with a zombie guarding it.
It only took one bullet from each of the three intruders to kill the zombie and only 20 seconds for Billy to pull the zombie's corpse away from the computer and turn the power on.
The pitch-black background filled up with yellow bolded words reading "Enter name and identification number".
Billy dug out the card from the doctor's corpse and typed in "Elliot Zedaker #34635".
"Identification confirmed," the computer read. More words came up on the small screen, showing buttons leading to unlocking doors, making vaccines, and information on which kid had which virus.
The first thing Billy did was unlock the electronically locked doors on the first floor by going under the section to unlock the doors. The next thing he did was find out exactly which virus was inside Lilie. That was a little harder to do.
Billy knew that the leech virus was already inside her, but he wasn't sure if there was something else mixed in with another virus. In order to find out what the virus was, he had to know the first and last name of the carrier. He typed in "Amy", but had to think of what her last name was…and he had to think fast.
Suddenly, he remembered stopping by the Morrow's Gun Store and Carlee saying that her brother-in-law's family owned the store. He quickly typed in "Morrow" after Amy's first name, hoping that it would work and sure enough, it did.
A profile of Amy appeared on the screen complete with her birthdate, a picture, and the name of the virus placed inside her. Luckily, the only virus injected into her small body was the leech virus, so he only had to worry about making a simple vaccine for Lilie. That was his next objective.
Billy clicked onto the section of making vaccines and typed in "Leech Virus" when the name of the virus was asked. The computer searched through its memory bank for nearly a minute, pushing the patience of Billy to close to its max, before it finally listed three chemicals with names he never heard before in his life that would be added into a base vaccine in the medicine room on the first floor.
Billy didn't need to know anything else. He had all the information he wanted and now he needed to make the vaccine and give it to Lilie before it was too late. He dashed into the elevator and slammed his fist into the button that would lead him to the first floor. Barry and Michael almost didn't make it in time before the doors closed.
The three didn't waste any time rushing out the elevator and down the first floor hallway. Only four doors were actually unlocked, but only one room was actually entered: the room with a sign reading "Medicine Room" on the door.
The room was small with a large machine leaning against the wall, a desk, and shelves and shelves of medicines, chemicals, and a clean base vaccine.
Finding the chemicals would have been so much easier had Rebecca been with them instead of watching over Lilie in the church with Leon. It seemed like just by looking at the blank sides of the cases that held the chemicals in them, she'd know what they were, but Billy had to quickly check the labels to make sure he was mixing the right things. Barry helped him. Michael didn't.
Michael had a different task. On the desk, he noticed a piece of paper, a note written in sloppy handwriting as if done by one who was in a hurry to write. He picked up the note and silently read, "Umbrella Science Lab, next to underground airport." Underground airport? Now where the hell is that?
"Okay, Billy. Put the base into the machine." Barry instructed after the men mixed the chemicals.
Billy didn't need to be told twice. He quickly put the vaccine in the machine and pressed the button that would make the vaccines. The machine took a minute, but at least he had a vaccine. "Let's get the hell out of here." Billy shouted.
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Wesker and Milat were watching everything on surveillance cameras: Carlee's death, the warehouse gifts, Lilie and Michael wandering through the sewers, Lilie's infection, Chris, Jill, Tom, and Claire entering the church, and Billy's search for Lilie's vaccine. Wesker had to admit that he was a little impressed that the survivors made it through Marysville so far without dying.
Milat wasn't impressed. He had a grudge against Lilie and now that Billy was trying to help her, he was feeling much more upset. He stared at the little remote control in his hands.
Wesker turned his gaze at the other man and sighed. He knew what Milat wanted to do. The man was smart, but crazy. "Go ahead. Do what you want." Wesker told Milat with a straight face.
Milat smiled like a lunatic and pressed the button on the control.
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Billy, Barry, and Michael walked to the main room of the office and heard a beeping noise from a nearby wall. They walked to the wall and saw what the sound was coming from. A bomb was taped to the wall, counting backwards. They had 10 seconds to get out of the medical center.
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A/N: Okay, that was chapter 13 and I have also decided to make Billy and Rebecca be a couple. My goal for this chapter was to be serious and to create a little mini-quest to find the vaccine for the leech virus…if there is any.