Warning: Contains Extreme Spoilers to the new additions to Resident Evil Remake. So if you haven't played the game yet. You probably shouldn't read yet. But either way it's your loss. Enjoy.
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Resident Evil Rebirth
Chapter 6: Dead Man Walking
Barry paced around the main hall slightly as his teammates caught their breath "What is this place?" he asked in astonishment after taking in everything about the main hall. A large crystal chandler above, a very vases, display stands and an old type writer over in the corner. There was also a set of stairs leading upward and a bridge that crossed over them. Wesker scoffed "Not your ordinary house, thats for sure." he murmured.
Barry suddenly turned to Jill "What happened to Brad? Where the hell did Brad go?" she didn't know how to answer. Chris decided to help "The goddamned little shit left us high and dry. Left for dead!" Barry couldn't believe this. Brad may have been a coward, but to take off back to the city "I don't believe this." he muttered. Jill spoke "Wesker. When we get outta here remind me to kick his ass." Wesker nodded "Your gonna have to get in line." he replied.
Barry turned to his team "Well first order of business. Is anybody hurt?" he asked. Joseph spoke "I'm a little bruised on my wrist but I should be fine." he said wrapping his bandanna around his wrist. Everybody else seemed to be fine. Second order of business "And how is everybody on ammo?" he asked.
Chris spoke first "I used a mag out there." he said as he slapped a fresh new clip in "I should have about sixty bullets overall. Plus the shotgun and the other eighteen shells." he reached up to his shoulder "I also have my combat knife. But I don't know if it'll do much good." he holstered his weapon.
Jill was still short of breath and was busy wiping the blood from her face "Jill what about you?" Barry asked. Jill looked up "I don't know. I lost my second sidearm out there. I have my survival knife and lockpick equipment. I still have about five shots left on my stun gun. I used one clip, that leaves me with sixty bullets remaining." she sighed removing her lucky beret from her head.
Barry suddenly spoke "Not if it was on full power. Look at the guage." Jill did so and saw she had it set on full power. She quickly removed the small orange battery pack and saw that she had just fried the entire battery pack. Jill scrunched up her face "Shit!...Well, at least I have an extra one." she waited for the next speaker as she changed out the pack.
Joseph Frost went next without being told "I have my knife and sidearm. I think I dropped a clip out there. I should at least have forty-five parabellum. My shotgun is still with me. Let's see I had thirty shells I had to reload once." he mentally counted those two he had to use on the dogs. "I have twenty-three left." Barry sighed with relief, Joseph was one of the best armed and one of the best riflemen they had.
Wesker grumbled as he mentally counted, he had brought one hundred twenty S&W40 rounds and reloaded once. He ejected the clip from the gun counting nine bullets left "I'm down to ninty." Chris was impressed, but irritated at the same time as their weapons count not utilize the same ammo. "Guess paying that extra buck for the power does amount to something." the marksman exhaled.
Barry quickly counted his own ammo "Well I seem to be in good shape. I have thirty rounds left for my buddy here." he said flashing his Silver Serpent Magnum. He then brought out his samurai edge "I used two clips out there. Leaving me with forty-five shots. But I have one weapon that you guys don't have." he said sarcastically. Wesker scoffed "And what is that?" Barry smiled "My good old fashioned, good if not dumb luck." everybody laughed even though they were in this extreme situation.
Jill brought out her survival knife suddenly "Okay now third order of business." she pointed the knife at the destroyed dog laying dead in the center of the hall "What in God's name is that thing!" she shouted. Joseph came down from the stairs "I don't know. It looks like a dog with leprosy. But it's how can it be so mobile and quick." Jill suddenly cut a hole in the dog's side pushing her hand in. Joseph cringed in disgust "Awh, sick." he muttered. Her hand came away with a slimy substance, the light shining off of it. Chris noticed it's texture "What the hell is wrong with it?" he asked.
Wesker removed one of his gloves scrapping some from Jill's hand, he checked it out careful not to sniff it. He suddenly whipped his hand off on the carpet "Agghhh. It's blood is starting to coagulate." he looked at their faces seeing Joseph and Barry's confusion "It has become less like a bodily fluid and more of a gelly substance. This is not right. Not at all." Wesker said putting his glove back on and looking back at the creature.
Barry raised an eyebrow "And what is the significance of that? Is it sick or something?" he asked honestly having no idea. Wesker stood up "This kind of crap doesn't happen to any mammal until it is dead. For at least three days." everybody was shocked at Wesker's sudden intelligence, but the man had graduated from collage with honors at age nineteen and had a degree in chemistry and biology. Considering how much that intelligence was needed, it was probably why the Bravo Team was assigned their newest member who was apparently some manner of young genius.
Wesker looked at his teammates "But I'm not very keen on the K-9 anatomy so I wouldn't know if this is a sickness. I could very well be a kind of leprosy, but somehow I doubt that any creature would be able to brush aside the kind of pain it must have been in." Wesker removed his handgun and fired twice into the dog's side, making sure that the deed was done. The sound echoed throughout the hall.
Chris removed the shotgun from his back pumping it once "Well at least we know the Bravo Team is here." he said. Barry looked at Chris "And how do we know that?" Chris tossed him a shiny black object, a clip to a 9mm Beretta STARS custom. Barry placed it in his pocket. Joseph was searching around the top part of the stairs and came down with nothing to report.
"Theres nothing we can do but search for the Bravo Team." Jill said. Wesker looked at her "We can't be so sure they all came here. Plus this mansion is huge, where would we start?" he asked. Suddenly a pair of loud gunshots rang out from a pair of large double doors, everybody twisted in unison. Chris spoke "The Bravos?" he looked at his team.
Wesker nodded "Must be. Chris. Jill. Go check it out." he ordered Barry stepped up "I'm going too. Enrico is a family friend." Barry said holding up his magnum, Joseph brought up his shotgun "Me too." Wesker nodded slowly "Fine. I'll stay and secure this area. Stay sharp!" he called as the others made their way to the doors.
Barry swiftly kicked the door open aiming his magnum around and then moved in, Chris and Jill followed holding out their Berettas. Joseph followed them kicking the door closed as he walked in with his shotgun ready, the room had a large table stretching across the room "A dining room?" Barry muttered as he made his way to the far end of the room. Joseph guarded the doorway holding his shotgun in one hand and his Beretta in the other. Jill walked down to the end of the room followed by Chris to find Barry checking something.
Barry stood up suddenly "I think you'd better take a look at this!" he called to them. Jill got to his side while Chris made his way to another door. "What is it?" Jill asked knowing exactly what it was "Blood. More of that jelly shit. You guys continue, me and Joseph will wait for Wesker." Chris nodded and went threw the next door followed by Jill.
They found themselves in a long hallway decorated with carpeting but as they entered an unpleasant smell filled their nostrils as well as a strange gushy sound. Jill pulled brought up her Beretta held in her sweaty hands "What the hell is that noise?" she asked. Chris stepped ahead holding up his own Beretta "Stay behind me." he ordered and walked down the hall. As Jill followed him she felt something under her foot, she looked down to see a handgun. A STARS Beretta 9mm. She picked it up and slipped it in her second holster, the Bravos are defiantly here. What Chris saw when he finished walking down the hall he couldn't and wouldn't believe. But this was all real, all reality, the horror of this mansion was just starting to unfold.
A man dressed in ragged cloths was hunched over somebody dressed in cargo pants and knee pads much like Chris. Heaves of pain came from the other man as an overwhelming stinch filled the area and it appeared that the man was eating something. It was the other man's throat then Chris saw it, it was Kenneth S. Sulivan, the Bravo's field scout. The man suddenly pulled up ripping Kenneth's throat out revealing the glistening white bone.
Chris gasped as he saw this and felt his finger on the trigger, the other man suddenly stood up and turned his head, the blood dripping onto Kenneth's face with convulsed as he slowly died. His face was splattered in blood and his skin was so dry it was cracking up, his eyes were covered in a layer of white film and his hair was falling out as he walked, he let out a moan as if it was a yawn but it seemed to be alot more threatening like in that movie he watched once "Night of the living dead." zombies and such.
Chris and Jill brought up their Berettas suspecting him to be one of the cannibal killers "Hold it right there!" Jill shouted. The psychotic didn't seem to listen as it advanced on Jill like a sleep walker his arms outstretched. Chris tried his hand "Chris Redfield! RPD STARS! Stop where you stand!" the man suddenly jumped on Chris. It snapped with his stained teeth at Chris's neck, Redfield grabbed the man's shoulders dropping his gun. Jill opened fire two rounds punching into the man's shoulder sending him back, Chris quickly grabbed his gun "Jill back to the dinning room." he ordered dashing to the door.
Jill suddenly burst threw the door the noise startling both Frost and Burton, Chris came shortly after slamming the door and throwing his body up against it. "Barry!" Jill half shouted as she reentered the room. Barry looked up as Frost came running over his shotgun ready. "What is it!" he shouted in reply. "We found one of them! The cannibals!" Chris grunted as he jumped off the door and ran to Barry and Jill as the crazed man made his way threw the door. Chris brought up his Beretta "I'm warning you. Stay back!" he shouted. "Forget it Chris. Hes' insane!" Jill yelled. Chris had had enough he aimed the gun down at the man's knee and fired several times.
The disgusting man jerked from the impact and fell over. Joseph got next to the man and quickly slapped on a pair of handcuffs "You're under arrest, asshole!" he grunted. The man suddenly rose up and came at Joseph who backed off. Jill looked at this "What the hell." she gasped, she could hear the grinding of his knee cap as he walked. Jill brought up her handgun and fired a round into the man's chest. It grunted and stumbled back. It continued it's walk toward them. "Let me take care of it!" Barry shouted bringing up his magnum, he fired the gun once. The heavy .44 slug buried itself into the cannibal's chest killing it instantly. It fell forward splattering blood under it.
Joseph quickly got over to the man letting the smell get up his nostrils "Oh my God! How long has this guy been living in a cave." he grunted. Barry looked at the young man "More to the point what the hell is this thing." Joseph gulped "Call me crazy but if this guy is like the living dead." he muttered. Barry looked at him "I think seeing Kevin did more to you than I thought. You've lost focus on reality and fiction." Chris came over and turned the man over. His face was cracking from the dryness and skin was peeling off it's fingers "No. Barry it couldn't be anything else." Jill muttered looking at it.
Barry looked closer at the man and felt himself falling into this childish bullcrap. Chris looked up "Well this could be a sickness of some sort it would explain the dogs. But this thing resembles a zombie. It feels no pain, slow, stupid and has a thirst for blood." that reminded Chris "We found Kenneth. Killed by this thing. Tore his throat out." Joseph gasped. In anger he pumped his shotgun and fired a shell into the monster "Asshole! Goddamned son of a bitch!" he screamed. After a few seconds of silence Jill came to the next course of action "We should report this to Wesker." Chris sighed with relief "My thoughts exactly." they all headed for the door.
Barry entered the dark main hall first the lightning flashing the shapes of the windows across the dark entrance. Suddenly he noticed it, they were alone. The captain was gone. Chris and Jill stepped into the room noticing the same thing "Wesker!" Barry yelled obviously not getting any kind of response. Joseph found that the dog was gone but their was a trail of blood that scrapped across the floor. "Chris check this out." he said hailing Chris over. Chris looked "Follow me." he followed the blood over to the side of the stairs where there was a tunnel covered in blue tile.
They came across a gate where the body of the dog was violently torn apart, Joseph had a disturbed look on his face "Yeah, thanks for that, I haven't thrown up in about an hour." Chris pulled on the gate then pushed on it "It's locked. But check out these shapes, looks like we need a key or something." he muttered. Suddenly there was an almost human moan from behind the gate. Chris and Joseph fell back chills going up their spines, they both stumbled back as the almost female moan came from the gate.
Joseph and Chris both stumbled back into the hall, Frost looked at his friend "What the hell was that?" he asked shakily. Jill came down the stairs behind them, Barry turned to her "Did you find anything?" he asked. Jill shook her head "Nothing. Wesker's vanished." Barry sighed. Barry looked toward the kitchen "I'm gonna check out the dinning room again." Chris looked around and noticed the door at the top of the stairs "I'm gonna check out the back yard see if I can find anything." Jill looked around. "Okay then, I'll check the doors on the other side." Joseph stepped forward "I'll go with her. I'm worried about the others." Barry nodded and walked to the dinning room.
Chris checked his handgun "Okay. Let's do it!" he shouted trying to give some inspiration to the others. Chris began walking up the stairs but Jill stopped him "Chris." she said with concern. Chris turned around to face her, Jill lost what she was going to say and breathed "Take care." Chris nodded. "Yeah. Back at you Jill." he walked threw the door.
Jill sighed she wanted to be closer to him but she wasn't going to let this be another one of those cases of sex inspired by terrible situations. Joseph spoke "Jill. Come on we gotta look for the others." Jill nodded removing the two Berettas from her holsters. She sighed knowing the other one was Kenneth's, it was loaded and two bullets had been fired, leaving thirteen bullets left. Jill joined Joseph and they both walked threw the doors.
Now the true horror of the Spensor Mansion begins...