Ch. 14- What Lies Underground
Disclaimer- I don't own Resident Evil…only this story and the characters in it not already made up by Capcom.
A/N: Hey, I know it's been a LONG time since I've updated, but school and work have been getting in the way of my writing time, but I finally found some time to update, so here's the next chapter.
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"Everyone! Get out now!" Billy shouted as he spotted the bomb. Michael and Barry didn't need to be told twice.
The three ran to the exit and practically broke the door down as they barreled out of the medical center and rushed down the street to the church. The bomb went off when they were only one building away from the church. The blast was so bad that the earth literally began to shake, knocking the three to the ground.
Chunks of the medical center's walls crashed to the ground around them with tiny flames on them. A few other chunks flew across the sky and hit the outside walls of the church. One or two of them even crashed through a few of the windows, which caused two loud screams to echo from the room.
"Rebecca! Lilie!" Billy shouted. He quickly jumped to his feet and ran faster than he ever ran before towards the church with Michael and Barry following him. He barreled through the church entrance and into the reverend's office.
Chris, Jill, Leon, Claire, Tom, Rebecca, and Lilie were all there. Chris, Jill, and Tom were busy beating out the flames on the burning pieces of rubble that crashed through the windows. Rebecca and Claire were watching over the unconscious Lilie. Leon was keeping watch to make sure that nothing would come in and attack them.
"Billy, do you have the anti-virus?" Rebecca asked him.
Billy nodded and held up the vaccine, "Right here. I just need to inject it into her."
"I'll do it." Rebecca offered, holding out her hand. Billy thought for a minute, but then handed the vaccine to her. Rebecca placed two fingers over the back of Lilie's elbow and stuck the vaccine into an artery and released the liquid into Lilie's bloodstream.
"How long do you think she's going to be out?" Billy asked, keeping his eyes on his unconscious little sister.
"It depends. It could be hours or even days before she wakes up…if she wakes up." Jill answered after beating down the final flame.
"She'd better wake up. We really need her help." Michael said.
Rebecca sighed and looked down at Lilie, "We can only hope."
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Two hours passed before Lilie opened her blue eyes. After blinking for a moment to perfect her sight, she looked around and asked, "Why am I in the reverend's office?"
"Lilie, what's the last thing you remember?" Rebecca asked her.
"Uhhh…I remember running from Amy with Michael and getting bitten…and escaping the sewers, but that's it." Lilie answered, "Now tell me. Why am I here?"
"This was the safest place nearby…and you were infected with Amy's virus. We found the vaccine and you're okay now." Billy said.
"Thanks." Lilie said. She stood up on her slightly wobbly feet. "That was one of the worst experiences ever." She added. She began to walk around the room to regain the feeling in her legs.
"Hey, Lilie?" Michael asked.
Lilie stopped walking around and asked, "Yeah?"
"Is there an underground airport in Marysville?"
"Yes, there is."
"Do you know where it is?"
"Sure. It's not all that far from here. Why do you ask?"
Michael showed her the note from the medical center. Lilie read it over and growled, "Great. Those bastards built their lab next to the easiest way out of town. First they invade my town, then they kill my family and friends, and now they probably want to escape just to save their own asses, well that's it! I refuse to let that part happen."
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Invisible flames burned in Milat's eyes as he watched Billy, Barry, and Michael exit the medical center before it was destroyed and to the church to cure the virus that Amy injected into Lilie's body. He was pissed, very pissed. He wanted Lilie dead. He wanted to see her turn into what the other Marysville citizens became or laying in a pool of sticky red blood on the filthy streets.
His pale face reddened each minute Billy got closer to saving his sister and his hatred for the lucky young girl grew bigger and bigger. After he saw the vaccine enter Lilie's infected body, he basically went mad.
He refused to speak with anybody else except for Wesker. The other scientists were now afraid of him, of what he would do next when his sanity was completely gone. They were afraid of what he would command them to do whether it had to deal with killing Lilie or releasing more experiments.
Without saying anything to anyone, Milat figured that if anyone would be able to defeat Lilie it would have to be himself…and he also should use some of the child tyrants. Surely one or two of them would be able to get rid of either Lilie or the people that were protecting her.
Quietly, he opened up the front door of the lab and with the push of a button, opened up three tubes of the children and watched happily as the three ran like wild animals out the lab and into the empty streets. He then took a seat in front of a TV screen.
Wesker frowned at his actions. The man was crazy, possibly even crazier than he was smart. He had to admit that the other man was a complete nut-job. He couldn't think of anything that could be done to calm the man down, which made him come to one final conclusion: he had to get rid of Milat for good when the time was right.
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Despite the fact that Rebecca wanted her to lay and rest for a while longer after her vaccination, Lilie grabbed her gun, loaded it up with a fresh clip, and prepared herself for leading everyone else to the lab by the underground airport.
She was ready to leave and get her revenge on whoever spread the virus upon her hometown. She was even happier and more prepared when Billy, Chris, Rebecca, Jill, Leon, Claire, Tom, Michael, and Barry promised to back her up in her revenge.
Lilie turned to the group and asked, "Is everyone ready to go?" Everyone else nodded. Lilie smiled, "Then let's go."
Before anyone could get to the exit of the church, a loud THUD came from outside. The sounds kept getting louder until the door of the church broke down and three of the child tyrants pushed their way inside, waving their arms around like maniacs.
Bullets pierced the air and the tyrant's heads and chests as the three creatures attacked the people. Soon, one of them went down while the other two kept swinging and running with blood pouring out of their wounds.
Billy practically threw his sister behind him as he fired bullet after bullet at one of the moving tyrants. Suddenly, he heard a faint CLICK from his handgun. He reached into his pockets for any extra bullets, but found every pocket empty of everything except for two dollars in quarters and thirty dollars in bills.
Without even thinking of asking Lilie for an extra clip, Billy hurled the quarters at the tyrant he was originally aiming at. The spare change ricocheted off the tyrant's head and the creature dashed at Billy with its arms swinging much faster than they were before.
Billy looked around for something, anything, that he could use as a weapon. There were quiet a few things that could be used as a weapon. Laying around the room were pipes, brooms, metal plates, and even some furniture that could be thrown at the tyrants.
Lilie, knowing that there'd be no way that Billy would let her fight this battle, nor would he take the only weapon she had, quickly jumped behind the desk of the Reverend's office and began ripping out drawers to see if anything happened to be inside. She found pencils, pens, a bible, a few books of hymns and organ music, an address book, some pictures of the reverend's wife and three children, and a wooden cross before she found something that would at least do some damage: a knife hidden in the bottom left drawer underneath the books of organ music. She held the knife and jumped back to her original spot behind her brother.
Billy turned his head for a split second and noticed the knife in Lilie's hands. Quickly, he reached behind and grabbed the knife from her hands. He ignored the surprised yet annoyed look Lilie gave him and ran to the tyrant.
The tyrant swiped at Billy with his clawed hands quickly. All his attempts at slicing up the target's body were ignored because Billy ducked beneath the claws, rushed behind him, and stabbed the knife through the back of the tyrant's neck eight times before he fell dead to the ground. Billy gave him five more stabs after that.
Chris, Jill, Michael, Tom, Rebecca, Leon, Barry, and Claire took care of the other tyrant. Bullets flew at the freakishly tall monster and after twenty bullets, the monster fell dead in a pool of his or her own blood.
Lilie reached into her pocket and pulled out an extra handgun magazine. She tugged on Billy's arm and placed the magazine in his hands when he turned towards her. "Next time just ask me if I have an extra magazine so you don't end up throwing your spare change at the next monster." She told him. She turned to the rest of the group and said, "Now let's get moving before anything else decides to find its way into this place."
Everyone else nodded and followed her outside.
The streets had a few zombies walking aimlessly around. They were so slow and the group of the living were in no mood to fight with them, so they just simply dodged any zombie that even came relatively close to any of them.
The underground airport was not all that far away from the church. The metal doors weren't locked, so it was easy to open.
Chris stepped in front of Lilie and said, "I'll lead the way. Whoever's in the back, shut the door behind you. We don't want anymore of those monsters following us." He began walking down a set of dark stairs.
The doors closed and the room got pitch black. Everyone suddenly stopped. "Damn! I can't see a damn thing in front of me." Chris muttered.
The person at the back of the line felt around the walls until he or she felt a switch that was left in the OFF position then flipped it to the ON position. The whole room suddenly became lit with white lights, "Got it." The person called.
"Nice going, Leon!" Chris shouted. Everyone continued walking.
Once down the four flights of stairs, the entire group found themselves in a large empty room filled with helicopters, most of them being black with the Umbrella Corporation symbol painted on the side.
"That's weird." Lilie said, "All the airplanes are gone."
"Hey, why are all these helicopters black and with Umbrella?" Jill asked.
"I don't know. I don't even remember there being this many helicopters in this place. Last time I came here, there were only three helicopters. Now there are ten." Lilie answered.
"Wait, there's one that isn't black." Tom shouted. He looked at the words at the side and read them out loud, "The Spirit of Freedom."
Lilie jumped and shouted, "The Spirit of Freedom? It's here? I thought my adoptive father sold it." She ran over to the helicopter and stared wide-eyed at the large aircraft in front of her. She reached into her pocket and pulled out the key she received from the piano back at her house. She smiled widely, "The Spirit of Freedom. It's all mine…and this is our ride out of this infected city."
"Excellent." Chris said, "Now, where is the underground lab?"
Lilie placed a hand under her chin and said, "It's probably somewhere passed the door at the other side of this room."
Without any hesitation, the group scurried over to the door at the opposite side of the entrance they originally came from. They opened the door and shoved their way through.
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Milat was staring at the TV screens again. He hadn't blinked, turned his head, or said anything to any of the other workers. He freaked out so many of the scientists that all but four or five of them just took some of the black helicopters and left Marysville just to be away from him…of course that happened as the three tyrants were attacking the church. Only Wesker and the few scientists still stayed to be with him, but even they were thinking about either getting rid of him for good or just simply abandoning him and letting him do his own work on whatever he was planning on doing.
He looked into the television screen in front of him and spotted the group leaving the underground airport and head for the lab. His hatred for what he was seeing grew deeper and more intense that it was slowly taking over his sanity.
"Dead." He muttered.
"What did you say, sir?" a scientist asked.
"I want that little brat dead. I want to see her killed and I want to dance around in her pool of blood to show that I was successful."
The scientist turned to his partner and whispered, "He's completely lost it."
Milat didn't hear him, but heard something else instead. A crashing sound came from the room with the tyrants. The crashing turned into thrashing, as if something was tearing the room apart, then followed by high-pitched screams not by any human. "What the hell is that?" he shouted.
"I'll see, sir." The original scientist shouted. He walked to the room, opened the door a crack, then peeked inside. He then came back, "Sir, we have a problem."
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Billy and the others found themselves in a hallway that was dark but also provided by some light from flickering lamps. The hallway looked one-way, so they wouldn't have to be separated.
They were halfway to the lab when they heard the screams and thrashing. They heard the sound of a door breaking down and an extremely large crash before the lamps went out, making the corridor pitch-black with no lights at all.
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A/N: Well, that's the next chapter. R/R if you want, but please don't flame and PLEASE give me ideas or it will take longer for me to update in this story.