"Alright here it is folks, everything you want to know and more." Monica began she looked around, 6 people, all covered in the dirt and blood of a night of horror. If anyone other than her was looking at them, they would assume them to be a pathetic group of nobodys, who somehow lucked their way into surviving this long. But Monica knew better, these weren't nobodies, and they certainly didn't make it this far because of luck. "Now we don't have all night, because as you know, by sunrise, Umbrella is going to kill all their creations, and everyone who was there to witness their little...mistake." Monica expected more of a reaction from them, but she assumed that they had grown used to idea of umbrella being the ones capable of something like this. "Alright where to start..." Monica said questioning herself
"How about you start with why the hell you're still alive?" Alyssa asked angrily.
"Alright...then we go from the beginning. My name is Monica Dallas. I was an operative for Umbrella Corporation's special forces. About a month ago I was sent on a mission to investigate the underground lab we kept under the city." Immediately Kevin knew which lab she was talking about, "For any of what I'm about to say to make sense you're going to have to understand what Cambion is." George looked at her with a confused look on his face.
"Wait...Cambion..." He started, "I thought that was just a myth..." George rubbed his hands through his hair
"Nope sorry honey, it's the real deal, and Umbrella isn't afraid to use it however they please. Not that they ever are with anything they create." Monica walked over to a desk and leaned up against it as she spoke, "Cambion is a drug used to create alternate personalities for humans."
"What..? ...is that even possible..?" Cindy asked concerned.
"Yep. It is. And like I said they've been using it like water lately."
"How does something like that even work?" Alyssa asked
"No idea. All I know is they write a program on a computer, mix a few chemicals and bam...they do what ever they want to anybody, get rid of all the memories that actually happened... and give you tons that didn't." Monica looked down
"...and that's what they did to you..." Kevin asked finally. Monica looked over to Kevin, who was standing there firmly with his arms crossed over his chest in a relaxed fashion. An almost sad look covered his face
"...Yes..." She said and quickly moved back into her story, "Anyways Like I said, I was sent down underground for a mission. My job was to investigate the projects they were working on down there. Top Umbrella officials felt that branch was being less than truthful with them. So they sent me. However to avoid my ever being found out I was given Cambion. Given the personality of an intelligent Know-it-all scientist. The problem was Cambion only lasts for so long before the effects wear off, so every 3 days another operative would be sent in to give me a new shot of the same personality traits. I suspect it was on these days they gathered the information I found as well."
"Didn't you're 'new' self ever question the fact you were getting a needle jabbed in your arm every 3 days?" Alyssa asked
"I was told that it was a certain immunization required to make sure my system wouldn't get infected with anything I was working on. I know now that umbrella would never really go that far to help protect a common science gal like me."
"So this person who came in to give you the shots...was he...'cambionized' aswell?" George asked
"No, this man was only there for however long it took him to get in give me the shot and get out, they wouldn't have time to question him even if they wanted to. And besides he needed to know what he was doing so they could be sure everything was done right."
"Who was this guy?" Alyssa asked.
"...Martin..." Kevin said quietly as he raised his head. Monica simply turned her head in his direction, closed her eyes and nodded.
"His name was Martin Willcote. I had just received my Cambion shot, when the outbreak started so Martin was still in the building."
"And he knew too much so you killed him." Kevin asked
"Thats not what happened at all, as I recall it was you and Jim who were the ones to actually put the bullets in him." After she had finished that sentence she felt a sting in her heart. Even though she wasn't herself, she still remembered him, remembered his sacrifice. He gave his life so she could get out. "And no I wasn't after him, I had no idea of his significance at the time. He was the one who came after me."
"But if he was on the same side as you why did he..." Kevin suddenly came to a realization "...the vial...that's what he wanted he told you to give him the vial. What vial Monica? What was he talking about?" Kevin asked with a bit of anger in his voice. Monica sighed.
"It was given to me by a dying scientist I found when we split up. It was another virus called the G-virus."
"Another virus...?" Cindy asked with confusion
"Yes, you know what I'm talking about. Or don't you recall the large monster that chased you to the hotel." Cindy traded glances with David in understanding. "And Kevin...you remember, the ... thing that came out of me at the hospital..." Kevin looked down at his feet again. " When I went out to ...find you...they put the G-virus in me as a failsafe. If I were to die, they didn't want to waist a perfectly good body, especially one so close to the target, so they...well you were there... Now back to business, when the 3 of us got out we were ambushed and captured, each of us shot with a sedative. And taken to different places. I was taken to an small Umbrella outpost here in the city, they go about their business, and control all their operations from there. They cleared the Cambion out of my system and injected me with another, giving me the orders to kill you. All of you. You had done your job and they were finished with you."
"Our Job.." Kevin asked. Everyone looked around at each other. All of them confused. Monica simply looked over at Yoko lying on a table still unconscious, and everyone followed her glance.
"Everything that has happened, everything you've been through, why you are even here right now, is because of her." She said pointing to Yoko
"What is she...?" David finally stepped in to the conversation. The topic of Yoko was on his mind. Monica looked at him with a sincere face.
"Don't you mean who?" Monica asked
"No. I really don't." David replied.
"She was created by Umbrella. More specifically, she was grown." Monica looked down and brushed Yoko's hair out of her face. Then went back to talking "She is a weapon, bred specifically for combat. She is well trained with all forms of weaponry, and they found a strain of psychic ability, that they accidently gave her."
"What! So ... you're saying... Yoko can see the future..." George asked
"Not quite." Monica replied, "her senses are heightened a great deal, and she is able to see things, that...well we can't quite explain what she can do, not enough tests were taken before she escaped." Monica looked to David and Cindy, "But you know what I mean, did you ever notice her being a little odd around Mark?" Monica asked. Neither of them replied they knew what she was talking about
"So a little girl broke out of your labs eh? Super weapon or not, you might want to think about rehiring your security staff." Alyssa was willing to take any shot at Monica
"They're not 'my' security staff, I don't work for Umbrella anymore, and I was never involved in Yoko's project, I was a field operator."
"But Yoko wasn't always...the way she is...she was different before.." Cindy said.
"As she was moving through the building they leaked an airborne form of the Cambion drug through the air vents of the particular section she was in at the time. The effects of the drug take a while to kick in, especially when it enters through the airways and not directly into the blood stream. So she still had time to get out. But once she did...she had become the quiet university student, with a secret to hide." This was all so much to take in and the group had almost had enough but there was still more, more questions that needed to be answered once and for all.
"That's another thing, why would they want to pretend Yoko worked for Umbrella? Wouldn't they want her to have allies to help her survive the outbreak? And by giving her that, making it seem like she was responsible for the death of millions..well that doesn't exactly lean to trust.." Kevin said
"But it did. You trusted her, you helped her escape, and so did I. That's what they wanted. To even breathe the same air as someone who, as you said, was responsible for all hell breaking loose, well that takes a lot of trust. And you showed that to umbrella. Don't you get it we're pawns, all of us pawns in a game Umbrella started the second all of this happened." David and Cindy were both shocked to here that, they recognized it, Yoko had said almost that exact thing earlier while they were in the hotel. "And that my friends.." Monica said as she looked over to Yoko, " ... Is their prize piece." Monica looked back at Kevin, "Why do you think both of us are still alive, they used us, all along, Yoko was the body, you the shield and I was the sword. And we did our jobs. We kept her safe. But they were done with us. All of us. We were no longer of use... so they sent me to...finish the game...I'm assuming they would have just unleashed the G-mutant that was growing inside my body by some kind of remote control device once I had killed you all, and brought Yoko back to them safely." The talking stopped for about 2 minutes, for everyone to realize that they had been used, to realize that every decision that they made up until now had been decided for them so they could be used as toys for Umbrella to play with, to keep their pet safe.
"You...what about you..." Kevin finally said, it was what he wanted to know all along. He didn't need to explain what he meant by saying this, because everyone, including Monica knew what he was talking.
"Revida." the scientist finally said something. He had been on his computer the whole time and everyone was shocked from all they had heard to even care that he was there. "My name is Dr. Peterson. I am responsible for bringing you all here...but oh yes Revida, it's something I've been working on, under the table, ever since the T-virus was created. It serves as an anti virus...kind of..." the doctor stopped and turned his computer around so everyone could see, and Monica continued for him.
"Revida works quite simply, It takes T-virus infected patients and rids their system of any trace of the virus, however Revida doesn't prevent infection, if you are infected again you'd need to use it again. But thats only a small part of what it does. Revida's main feature is that it can reanimate tissue and organs, replacing them if any are lost...like mine were..."
George looked away from the computer and up at Monica, "That is not simple at all my dear." George looked back down at the computer, "I don't understand this? How does it work?"
"Does it really matter?" Monica started, "It is the reason you're here." George bounced up and looked at her again this time confused.
"What are you talking about...?" He asked
"You didn't really believe we cloned you, did you? Please you think Umbrella would waist money on that. If they wanted to experiment on you, they would have. They don't care if they kill, it's all for the growth of science to them. Nope no cloning, not you. When we escaped Peterson sent a group of soldiers still loyal to him, all of which are dead now, to find your body." Monica looked to Alyssa knowing she would ask how he knew George was down there, "He was watching it all on security cameras, they all were, but when he sent men down for George, Peterson left the outpost and hid here. He used Revida on George, in a hope to see if he knew what happened to us after we got out. He didn't know anything, so Peterson gave him one of his last samples of Cambion and put the memories in his head that he has now, and led him to the vehicle heading to the hospital with Cindy." Monica turned to George. "I'm sorry George but it was necessary, if you didn't remember them, then they would question what was going on. You helped make this possible."
George didn't say anything, he held no grudge for Monica and Peterson. He understood.
"Mark..." David said, and everyone turned to him, except Cindy who looked at Monica with David.
"His name is Mark Wilkins." Kevin shot his eyes over to Monica as well when she spoke that name, "He is a top Umbrella officer."
"What no, Mark was a security guard. I was with him, when the outbreak started." Kevin turned to Cindy, "Remember Cin? Remember Bob?" Cindy looked at Kevin as if saying with her eyes that she didn't believe that.
"Kevin, Cambion." That's all Monica had to say and everyone in the room knew exactly what he had done. "He did that to get closer to Yoko, and when he died, Peterson here had to revive him with Revida. The last of it." Everyone thought to themselves for a second, there was no coming back from death for them. The end would be the end. "Umbrella went to great lengths to get Yoko back, including one of Umbrella's top leaders personally going to track her down."
"If the bastard wanted her alive, then why the hell did he put a bullet in her gut?" David said, everyone could hear the anger in his voice
"Look at the wound, You know what I'm talking about George, he missed all the important organs, the bullet passed through the safest location in that section of the torso, the only safe location. So you have to wonder whether he is incredibly unlucky, or incredibly accurate, and I think we know which of the two it is." They all ceased questioning the matter. "Mark fought in the Vietnam war. He survived a great hell, not many soldiers were able to return from. Umbrella watched him as he went about his duties. When he returned to North America, they offered him a job. Seeing as not too many people had good feelings for the American soldiers, he had nothing to lose, and took their offer. Since then he's slowly crawled his way to the top, and now he sits on a thrown his mind corrupt with evil, and his heart, faded ash...He is the perfect representation of everything Umbrella stands for." There was so much to take in, in the span of about 20 minutes the group had learned so much. So much they wish they had never known, but now they did, now they knew the truth. It was time to move on. In a city hanging on the edge about to be destroyed in a couple of hours, there wasn't time to dwell on what was passed. It was time to worry about what was to come. Alyssa was the one to remind them of this
"So what now?" Alyssa asked. She wasn't about to waist anymore time avoiding the real important question on her mind, "We're here, you've already said how important it is that we are, so now might be a good time to start explaining why that is." Monica walked over to the computer and pushed a button, which opened a file for them to see.
"It's called Daylight." Monica said, "This is the reason you're here."
"What, you want us to be your little lab rats. Test your new drug on us, see what happens?" Alyssa asked sarcastically
"No, I want you to make it." Monica replied
"What?" George asked in confusion.
"Daylight is the cure. The real cure. It rids your body of the virus and builds an immunity in your system so you can never be infected again." Those words were so beautiful, it was almost hard to believe.
"How would we know how to create something like that. I can barely grasp the concept of how the Virus was created in the beginning, I wouldn't even know where to start..." George started
"Don't worry George we already know how to do all that." Monica interrupted, "Everything we need is here." she stretched out her arms and looked around.
"Then what do you need us for?" Kevin asked
"There are three ingredients required to make Daylight, and we need your help collecting them. They're all here in the university, but as you know, time isn't exactly on our side." Monica looked around, her attempt at a joke didn't exactly turn out right. "Alright, like I said there are three things we need, and they can all be found here. The first ingredient is called V-poison, we can find it in the university's emission tower. The second thing we need is P-base. There is a management office underground in the university's waterways, a machine down there that will supply it. The last piece of the puzzle is we'll need a sample of a specific kind of T-Blood. That will be the trickiest one but I'll go into detail about all that later. Whether you're going to help or not, we've gotten some rooms ready with knew clothing some weapons and food. Before you make a decision you should know this." Monica looked at all of them one by one as she spoke "This is something I can't force you to do. It's something I can't promise you'll survive. I actually can't promise anything. That it will work or that it's even truly possible. But think to yourselves for a second, this could very well be the last night of your life, do you want to spend it wandering down dark alleyways trying to pass time, or if you're going to end here tonight, don't you want to go out fighting, for your survival and everyone else's? You have to..." Monica was interrupted
"I'm In." Cindy stepped forward. George was shocked
"Cindy..." George started.
"No George, don't try to talk me out of it. You have no idea what has happened to me tonight, I've lost so much. I've been so scared. Scared I wont make it, scared that my life will end, that I wont get to wake up and have my morning coffee, and stroll on down to my waitressing job. There is so much more to life, and I see that now. I see that there is no reason to be scared anymore. I'm sick of it, If I'm going to die, then I want to breathe my last breath knowing that I wasn't scared...so I'm in." Cindy didn't look at anyone behind her she just stood there and watched Monica nod.
"Then I'm in too. Cindy's right. No more fear." Cindy and George looked at each other and smiled.
"Alright, what the hell, It's not like I got anywhere else to be." David said stepping away from the wall he was leaning on. And towards Cindy and George.
"Kevin?" Monica asked?
"I'm not going to name myself the leader of this group, but they're my team, I'm a part of it, I'm not letting anyone else die." Kevin said, and Monica nodded. Monica waited for a response from Alyssa, but she said nothing.
"Alyssa?" Monica finally asked. Alyssa stepped slowly towards Monica as she talked.
"So here's the thing. I'm gonna look past the fact I think you're a crazy, undead, backstabbing, bitch. Because honestly I just want all this to end. So yeah. I'll help you find your...venom juice, or whatever the fuck it's called, under one condition..." Alyssa was now standing face to face with Monica.
"And what would that be?" Monica asked. Alyssa didn't say anything just quickly put a smile on her face, and punched Monica right in the jaw. Monica fell to the ground and looked up at Alyssa who was rubbing her knuckle still with a smile covering her face.
"Alright. I'm in." Alyssa said with a smirk, she turned around and walked towards one of the rooms.
Monica got up off the ground and wiped some dust of her blue dress. She smudged the blood that was dripping from her mouth and muttered "Go team...", as she watched everyone turn around to go to the rooms
Alright so that was a big explanation, hence the title of this chapter, sorry if it was boring for you, but I feel it was important. I think I got to everything, that I wanted to at least, but if you see anything missing that wasn't answered let me know and I'll find a way to plug it in to a later chapter, unless I intended to not answer it here, anyways please review, I am really proud of what I'm going to be doing with this story, characters will develop more and You'll really see things I hope you don't expect coming. Anyways thanks for reading, I'll post the next chapter as soon as possible. I hope you guys like it so far.
-Cody
