Nemesis: Resident Evil III
Chapter Forty Seven: My Last Escape
With the electronic lock on the rear door of the warehouse released, however in the hell that worked, Jill was able to pass through, into the open field in between all of the old water treatment plant's buildings, where the helicopter meant for the Supervisors was waiting. Leaning heavily on Carlos, the two of them moved across the field, with the young woman praying with each painful step that the young man knew how to fly a helicopter, since she sure as hell didn't… and the eastern sky was starting to get brighter with the coming dawn.
Thankfully, after opening the side door and helping her climb into the seat, Carlos went around and got into the pilot's seat. Once the two of them were buckled in, the young man started flipping switches and activating control sets, which Jill took as him knowing what he was doing… yet she still breathed out a long sigh of relief once the rotors started turning overhead. The fuel tanks were full, and all the lights were green across the board, so as soon as the rotors were spinning fast enough, the helicopter left the ground.
"Head down Ivy Street, the way we were going to go on foot." She said, pointing at the road beyond the forgotten parking lot. "Straight over the mountains to put as much stuff between us and the city as… oh, my God."
They just reached the proper altitude for flight, now following the street below as it started winding its way up into the Arklay Mountains, when something in the air caught her eye. It was a black projectile, coming out of the first rays of dawn, and leaving a trail of smoke and fire as it headed right toward Raccoon City. Without even getting a good look at it as it passed only a few hundred or so meters from the helicopter, she knew that it was the missile sent to contain the outbreak, and in response to its presence, Carlos accelerated so that they would not get caught in the blast.
The nose tilted downward as they left Ivy Street behind, now flying over nothing but forests and rocks while the missile detonated over the very center of the city. In a flash of light that was oddly silent at first, the landscape was illuminated just as brightly as if it were high noon, and then a wall of fire began to spread out from the detonation point in all directions. The clock tower, the police station, all buildings caught in the blast radius were swept away like nothing, while vehicles and infected people were first thrown across streets by the initial shockwave, and then vaporized by the wall of fire an instant later.
Having just flew over one of the mountains lower peaks, even the helicopter felt some of the shockwave's wrath, making Carlos temporarily lose control while the high winds knocked down some of the trees below… and righting the vehicle just in time for the two of them to see the gigantic orange and yellow mushroom cloud that now filled the area that had only minutes ago been Raccoon City. There was too much smoke and fire to see clearly when she looked back, but Jill knew as they flew toward safety over the Arklay Mountains, that her home was gone.
A hundred memories now flashed through her mind as she leaned back in the seat, her body finally forcing itself to relax… she remembered being a rookie at the RPD, and all those humiliating undercover assignments working for Tobias Liquid, before getting selected for the new STARS unit. She remembered meeting Chris Redfield, and helping look after his kid sister, Claire. And she remembered when the Cannibal Murders first started, and when STARS had been nearly wiped out at the Spencer Estate last summer.
But now Raccoon City was gone… and all because of Umbrella's greed. That company was going to pay, she thought to herself… they were going to pay long, and they were going to pay hard, for every last man, woman, and child who died because of their experiments. But first, she thought as the need for sleep finally overcame her just as the sun was starting to rise… she was going to get some rest.
RACCOON CITY DESTROYED IN NUCLEAR ATTACK
The New York Times Evening Edition, October 2nd, 1998
Early this morning, residents of the communities that surrounded the Midwestern region known as the Arklay Mountains were awakened by an explosion of nuclear fire. The President, acting under advisement from the CDC and Joint Chiefs of Staff, ordered that just before sunrise this morning, a nuclear missile would be launched into the heart of Raccoon City and detonated, effectively passing judgement on all who still inhabited the urban center.
In a statement made to the associated press this morning, the President defended this decision, stating that the bizarre outbreak which gripped the city for the past month was a danger to the United States as a whole, and that after all other options for containment had failed, that the Bacillus Terminate operation was the only feasible solution. Thus being executed just a little after 7:00 AM this morning, Raccoon City has been literally wiped off the map.
Damage and census data estimates have the death toll exceeding the 100,000 mark, and while more details will be made available as this story develops, our hearts truly go out to the poor civilians of Raccoon City.