Chapter 10: The Resurrection

September 27th 9:45 am

I awoke, confused, cold, and tired. I was in a laboratory, but what was it? What had happened? I didn't have the strength to move, and I just sat there. I was leaning, slumped against a wall. Looking over my shoulder, I saw dry blood behind me. Startled, I backed away from the wall, and mustered the strength to look down at the rest of my body. It was completely intact, and I sighed, still confused. Then, I remembered pain, Umbrella, the Tyrant- I remembered everything. It suddenly flashed through my mind, and it came to me. Looking around, I saw a rotting body of a large humanoid tyrant to my left, near an empty tank of spilled green liquid. It wasn't the tyrant that attacked me. Then, I remembered the tyrant attacking me, and looked at my right arm. My shirt was completely torn there, but my flesh was unscathed. It all was confusing, and hundreds of questions rung through my mind. It was at that point that I remembered… the Eclipse T-virus vaccine!

I suddenly felt strength return to me, and walked over to the desk where Jacob had found the vaccine. I saw some papers, and began to read them.

''The eclipse T-virus was a complete success. Unlike our seemingly successful tyrant T-150, it has no drawbacks. It not only counters the effects of the T-virus and prevents mutation, but it also augments the user's mental and physical abilities. It accelerates the healing of cells, allowing a user to be almost unkillable. Therefore-''

Putting down the paper, I realized what had happened. After the tyrant stabbed me, Jacob drew its attention and gave me a dose of the vaccine, and ran to some place. The healing began to take effect, and I slept, while my entire arm was healed. Meanwhile, my physical and mental strength was augmented. However, I still saw no new physical abilities. So, I decided to do a test, and focused all my strength into my fists. I wound up a punch, and punched the wall. I was deeply surprised by the outcome. As I took my hand off the wall, a half-inch-thick hole had developed in the wall. I was shocked by this new strength I had, and ran across the room to the door towards the tunnels. I found that I could also run much faster, and my reflexes were better.

I ran through some hallways, uneventfully, until reaching the tunnels. I found myself on a platform in a tunnel, illuminated by small lights held to the ceiling. An abandoned cable car stood before me, a dead zombie lying against it. The inside of the car was empty, only bloodstains and a rat skeleton. The controls of the car were easy to use, I just pressed a small acceleration lever. The key was right on the console. There was only one, large tunnel which stretched a long distance. After a minute and a half, I saw the end of the tunnel. In 10 more seconds, it braked and came to a halt at the other research facility. Suddenly, I heard a shuffling from beyond the door. I stood next to it with a magnum in one hand and opened the door with the other. A licker creature leaped from the other room, but found no target. I instantly shot its exposed brain and ran through the door.

There was a small corridor, which was white just like the corridors in the other facility. It extended no more than 20 feet, into a grey metal door. I walked to it, and listened carefully, but heard no sound. I opened it to see a large lobby room. It had a dark red carpet, and two floors in the room. To my left were two stairs that led to doors. To my right, there were three other doors, labeled 'Research', 'Testing', and 'Development'. There was a set of chairs and three couches, complete with a table, above the carpet. The ground was a dark tile, and much of the room had blood stains, with a few bodies lying around. I walked forward to a map laid out on the table. As far as it was showing, the tunnels were through the middle door on the right.

Walking over to the door, I opened it, and was in shock. There was a huge cave-in at the door, making the passage to the tunnels impassable. I walked back to the lobby, pondering my options, and decided to go outside and see what was going on. I walked up the stairs and into a door, seeing bodies lying around on the ground. I walked over them, seeing huge claw marks on them. It must have been the Tyrant that caused all this, by the huge holes on their arms and chests. I knew Jacob was probably dead, unless he managed to run away, but I pressed on. After walkign through more bloody corridors, I came to an elevator. It led me all the way to 'surface'. When I opened the door, I found that it was a sunny morning. I walked out onto the street, taking my pipe wrench and crushing the head of a passing zombie. In an instant, I heard a shout.

The shout came from behidn me, and I looked to see a figure running in the distance, away from the entrance to the Zoo just a quarter block away. Looking closely, I realized that it was Jacob, who had indeed survived. I was amazed that he survived, and ran to see what had happened. As I neared, I heard roars from behind the Zoo gate. I was only 100 feet or so away from him, when the gate was smashed forward by something in the Zoo. In a few seconds, a long green snout began appearing, followed by a head and body, as well as a tail. It was a giant alligator, probably over 50 feet long, with cuts and holes all over its body. It opened its mouth to reveal foot-long teeth, and began charging.

''Jacob, get over here, get in the elevator!'' I shouted, looking behind to run in the elevator. I was stopped by a man totally in black clothes, who laughed, and smashed the console for the elevator.

''Now, I'm going to let you two have some fun with one of Umbrella's mutations, so I can't have you escaping.'' He said, laughing. He backed away, and ran into an alleyway.

I looked back, and Jacob was about 20 feet away, the alligator a few hundred feet behind. I didn't have time to talk, so I took out my Smith & Wesson, and ran up to a nearby car, jumping on top of it. I shouted for the alligator to come, and it veered towards me. It came closer, and I began shooting it with my magnum, in the face. It stopped and roared, but only for a short time, before charging again. It was mere feet away when I jumped on its head and shot it in the eye. As I was going to re-do the fatal blow I used on the other, smaller mutant alligator, it shook me off to the ground. It stood above me, and attempted to close its mouth around me, but I hit it with a pipe wrench. I heard a large BANG from behind the alligator, and looked over the alligator.

It was Jacob, who fired a grenade into it. The creature looked back, as the huge explosive projectile crushed its body. I felt the heat of the explosion, which almost gave me burns. I stood up after the flames were finished, and looked at Jacob wearily, as he did to me.

''So, Jacob, would you mind explaining…'' I said as I lifted up the back of the car with the strength I had after I awoke, ''what the hell this is?''

''Not much for small talk, are you'' He said, chuckling.

''Not in this case. And by the way, how long have I been sleeping?'' I asked.

''Ok, heres what happened…The tyrant monster attacked you, and nearly killed you, but I grabbed its attention and led it to the far side of the room. I knocked it down with the AK-47, and ran to give you the vaccination. It was supposed to heal you, and give you power. It followed me as I ran out of the room, into the tram. I barely held it off until I reached the research station. I ran in, and saw a group of Umbrella scientists who had survived the Outbreak. The Tyrant was distracted and started killing everyone as I ran. I left the research station and stayed for two days in an old house. I ran out of supplies, and went to the Zoo to find some more. It turns out I was ambushed, by mutated lions, elephants, monkeys, and of course, an alligator. So, what happened to you all this time?'' He asked, sighing after all the explanations.

''I was sleeping. It turns out, unfortunately, that the path to the tram leading out of the city cannot be reached. The path to it is completely destroyed. We need to find another way out of here.'' I said, rubbing my head in frustration.

''Well, theres another way out of the city, but its far more dangerous. See, theres a way to the Arklay Mountains through the sewers. Unfortunately, the easiest way to the sewers will take too long, enough time for us to probably be killed. The other way is through the Zoo, and you can see that its not a good place to be.'' He said, sighing.

''Well, we've survived for many days now, we might as well go through the easiest way.'' I said, holstering my magnum.

''Yeah, we'll try the easiest way, theres no need to go through the Zoo and die.'' He said, and we began to walk towards the distant sewer passage 5 blocks away, which would take us through the St. Michael's Clock Tower and lead us to a final showdown above the Circular River…