Chapter 6
"Who made that idiotic call!?" the brunette roared as she got to her feet and grabbed her purse and jacket.
Sheva explained what happened, which only incensed Olivia even more.
Susan is checking Rebecca's abdomen for swelling and is pleased when she finds none.
"Well Detective, you're healing nicely and there is no swelling that I can see," Susan informs her patient.
"So, when do you think I can go home, Doctor Chen?" Rebecca asks.
"In two days, and I want you to take at least two weeks off from work before you return to duty."
"Will you give me a doctor's note?" Rebecca asks.
"I can... do that for you, Detective." Susan stammers.
Just then Janet and Marlene came into the hospital room.
"Doctor Chen, may we see my Daughter?" Janet asked.
"Well, I-" Susan says before Rebecca cuts her off.
"NO! I don't want either of them near me!" Rebecca screams.
Susan turns and goes back to Rebecca's room and closed the door.
"Detective, what was that all about?" Susan asks gently.
"Doctor Chen, my dear Mother out there disowned me and kicked me out of the house when I was fourteen because she found out that I was making out with a classmate of mine, a female classmate," Rebecca says with tears in her eyes.
In a way Susan could relate, she had come out to her parents three years ago at a Christmas party and was immediately exiled from her family.
Seeing Rebecca's tears absolutely broke Susan's heart, the Chinese American doctor sighed and took the seat next to the bed.
"I know what you've been through, Detective," Susan says sadly.
"You do?" Rebecca asks.
Miss Susan Jones, the Director of Research & Development for ChemSAT, Umbrella's new flagship B.O.W. Development Center and Test Facility, Susan walks down the corridor past the CVP 1 B.O.W. holding pens to the elevator, Susan inputs the access code, the doors opened and Susan steps into the car and pressed the button for the 5th floor.
Once Susan reached the fifth floor she exits the elevator and heads straight to her office, where her Assistant Director, Mary Connor is waiting for her.
"Good morning Miss Jones, the first batch of CVP 1s are ready for testing. The first Test Subject is ready as well."
"Good, thank you, Mary. " Susan said.
Down on the second floor in the Testing Area, thirty-year-old Jenny MacDonald is clutching an AK-47 awkwardly in her trembling hands, Jenny now regretted agreeing to be a Test Subject for Black Umbrella's newest field test of their newest viral agent, the Congolese Venereal Parasite, or CVP. Jenny is in Stage I Testing Environment, an Urban setting, suddenly Jenny heard a deep, guttural snarl came from somewhere behind Jenny, on her right flank, Jenny spins around and comes face to face with the largest rat she has ever seen, but this was no ordinary giant rat (Like there ever was one) It had strange aquamarine skin, black eyes that reminded Jenny of a black hole. And horns like a ram on its head.
"What the-?" Jenny said before she raised the AK and began firing.
Sheva, Olivia, and Jill quickly get to Mercy General, the trio is relieved to see Rebecca awake and alert.
Jenny screamed as she pumped two rounds into the monstrosity's barrel chest, the deafening blasts barely even doing anything at all to the massive hybrid beast. Mary is in the Observation Room with Susan watching the young woman who Mary had befriended and lured to the facility with the promise of easy money, Mary stands and runs out of the room, with Susan right on her heels.
"Mary, where are you going?" Susan asked as she caught up with Mary and lightly grabbed her shoulder. Mary jerked away from Susan before turning around and roughly pinning Susan against the wall.
"Are you insane, Susan!? That damn thing in there is going to rip Jenny apart!"
"She volunteered for this, remember?" Susan said with a shark-like grin.
"You monster, if Jenny dies, I will kill you," Mary growls before releasing Susan and dashing to the elevator.
Mary ran into the Weapons Locker, she hurriedly grabbed a Remington AR-X7 Sniper Rifle and a thermoptic scope, as well as a box of the M-429 Antiviral Rounds, Mary also grabbed an MP5 and several grenades.
'Hang in there Jenny, I'm coming.'
Mary then slung the rifle over her right shoulder and bolted out of the room.
"Get away from me!" Jenny screamed as she blasted through the ashy skull of a pale-skinned man, rivulets of dark fluid erupted from the zombie's destroyed face. It hit the ground, spasmed some, and then remained still for good. Jenny smiled as she wiped the sweat from her forehead, Jenny's sense of victory was short-lived because she heard the now-familiar snarl of the Ramrat, and then suddenly there was a loud, piercing screech heard overhead, Mary saw the large shadowy form swoop down out of nowhere and grab the Ramrat like it was nothing, franticly Mary entered the Testing Environment, and was greeted by four zombies in tattered clothes, Mary quickly eliminated all four walking, acrid corpses, she then searched them for ammo or a keycard.
'Eureka!' Inside the left shirt pocket of a dead female Researcher Mary found the keycard that she was looking for. After slipping the keycard into her pocket, Mary resumed her search for Jenny.
Mary scaled a dented fence as she heard two unmistakable sounds some sixty yards in front of her, the first- A woman's scream of terror and the second- two deafening shotgun blasts. Mary landed on her feet and sprinted to where a disemboweled CVP 132, otherwise known as a Vulc was sprawled at Jenny's feet.
"Jenny, are you OK?" Mary asked lightly as she carefully approached her best friend.
"M-Mary, I-I'm so glad that you're here," Jenny said with tears in her eyes.
"Come on, Jenny. Let's get out of here." Mary said.
Susan, who is in the Observation Room watching the women as they left the Testing Area intact.
"Impressive Jenny, now let's give you and Mary a real challenge."
A petite blonde entered the room with a clipboard.
"Miss, all the fail-safes have been deactivated and the specimens have been stimulated." the woman reported.
"Excellent," Susan said.
Rebecca and Felicity enjoyed their dinners over a light conversation, they avoided talking about work to keep the mood as light and friendly as possible.
"So Rebecca, is...there anyone special in your life right now?"
"No, I am not good in relationships, Felicity," Rebecca said sadly as she dropped her gaze and pushed her remaining salad around the plate with her fork.
"I don't believe that Rebecca, you're a kind soul. I can tell."
"Thanks for saying that, Felicity," Rebecca replied.
"Come on, let's get out of here. I'm talking to my favorite spot that I go to whenever I'm feeling down."
Mary and Jenny eased around a corner and checked the hallway and found it empty.
"Come on," Mary said, quickly grabbing Jenny's right hand, the two women's high heels clicked loudly in the cold, dim hallway.
"How's your ammo, Jenny?"
"I have four shells left, Mary," Jenny says.
"Don't worry, we're almost to the-."
A vent overhead fell to the floor in front of the pair, prompting Mary to pull Jenny back as something lithe slid out of the vent and onto the floor.
"Stand back," Mary said as she pulled her MP5 and pointed it at the figure.
"Be careful, Mary," Jenny whispered.
Mary nodded and slowly approached the downed figure, as she neared the figure Mary was hit by the unmistakable smell of decay, forcing herself not to vomit Mary moved closer. She pointed the MP5 down at the thing's face as she stood over it and gasped. It was Maureen Hemingway, the Chief Scientist for this facility, as Mary looked down at the soulless eyes of the dead woman that she had respected for so long.
"My God, that's...Maureen, I just saw her the other day in her lab." Mary said as a tear rolled silently down her face.
Mary looked at Maureen's body, her once radiant Mediterranean skin tone was gone, replaced by a pale gunmetal gray color.
"What happened to you, Maureen?" Mary said quietly. Just then a deafening roar echoed through the hall, Mary and Jenny turned and pointed their weapons towards the hallway.
"The Armory is really close, Jenny come on."
"O-OK."
Suddenly Mary got a strange feeling and turned around, she saw Maureen standing up slowly, her shredded lab coat falling off of her naked gray body.
"Get ready to run, Jenny," Mary whispered. Jenny nods quickly.
Once on its feet, the creature that had once been Maureen Hemingway opened its mouth and let loose a resonating, agony filled scream.
"GO!" Mary screamed before she opened fire with the MP5, the creature just stood there, oblivious to the hot lead striking its bizarre skin.
The MP5 clicked empty, Mary ejected the spent clip and slapped in a fresh one.
"Mary!" Jenny screamed.
Mary turned to see Jenny being stalked by two Vulcs, a Ramrat, and almost a dozen reanimated corpses.
"This way," Mary said as she pulled Jenny into a narrow passageway as Maureen ripped through every other creature that was there.
Susan watched everything from the Observation Room.
"There's my pet, I hope that Mary enjoys her last hours of life because she nor that Test Subject are getting out of here alive."
