Chapter 10

"I've got four bodies here, boss," Forest said as he knelt a couple of feet away from what looked like soldiers in uniform. "Looks like the standard issue police kit, berettas and MP5s."

"Check them over for any intel or ammunition," Captain Marini ordered. "We all use M9s here so split up the extra mags."

"Should we make sure that they stay dead first?" Richard asked. "We don't know how long it takes for them to turn into those things after all."

"I think they already took care of that," Chambers said as she held up four shell casings. "Don't take off their helmets, it won't be a pretty sight."

"They all ended it rather then become one of those things," Kenneth said after a minute of silence. "Let's not put their sacrifice to waste." He began rifling through the vests and jackets of the soldiers.

"I've got a file folder of some kind here," Coen said as he held up a file in one hand while he slipped one of the extra magazines into a pants pocket with the other. "I don't know if it's important or not though."

"Looks like these guys are members of a separate Umbrella organization," Enrico said as he mused through the file. "It's got information on the entire team. Looks like two of them were members of an organization called the Umbrella Security Service while the other two were a part of something called the UBCS. They had orders to kill the other two if they discovered some sort of secrets while conducting their mission."

"Does it say what their mission was?" Chambers aksed as she put some of the extra MP5 magazines in her pack. "Because I don't think these guys started the train. They've been dead for too long."

"Then there may be others further ahead," Captain Marini said as he stood up to his full height. "Let's get to the engine and stop this train, we should only have one car left before we get there."

"Copy that," Richard said as he moved to the next door. "I'll check the door," Richard went and saw that the door was not only locked, but it was steel and had a keypad. "Lookes like we're going to have to go louder," the Breacher and CQB specialist muttered to himself as he readied some small shaped charges and placed them in key points on the door. "Fire in the hole!" He yelled as he detonated the charges while everyone else covered their ears.

"First!" Coen called as he entered the now open doorway. "We've got more bodies, and I don't think they had the same courtesy as the guys behind us."

"Careful, try to aim for the fatal T," Forest called out as he put away his customized SR-25 and drew his sidearm. "Their helmets will deflect small caliber rounds if you don't hit them in the right spot."

"Tango down," Richard said as he shifted from one corpse to the next and took the head off of that one as well.

"What are we going to call these things?" Chambers asked after they had finished off the undead in the train car right before the engine.

"Zombies," Kenneth said bluntly. "They certainly act like 'em."

"Alright, lets go ahead and move to the engine," Captain Marini cut in. "We need to slow down or stop this train if at all possible."

"This guy had a key card," Chambers said as she held up the card. "Think that'll work on the door?"

"Green light says yes," Billy coen said as he slid it through the locking mechanism. "Shall we?"

The team entered the engine compartment and began to work under the supervision of Forest.

"Someone pull that brake lever," he instructed as he began to manually slow down the engine. "Don't do it all at once though or you'll break the mechanism, it's gotta be slow like a car break. Apply pressure, and then let it off and repeat. And I need someone to tell me how far away the end of the line is, otherwise we're not going to be doing anything other than going splat against the side of the mountain."

The train began to gradually slow down and came to a complete stop near the entrance to a set of tunnels that dug deep into the mountain.

"We should see what facility this train connects to," Captain Marini said before turning to the lone outlier among their group. "I'm surprised you haven't turned tail and run yet, you certainly tried to get one over on us by grabbing an extra magazine when we weren't looking."

"What was I going to do?" Billy Coen asked as he threw his hands up. "Jumping out of a moving train only works in the movies. I'd rather not die to whatever monsters are out there or to a moving train. "

"You've done right by us so far," Enrico said after a moment. "We make it through the night and we'll revisit this whole conversation. But for now, you're going to be sticking with us."

"So what's this facility called?" Edward asked as we set up the gear to rappel down an elevator shaft.

"The HIVE," Rain replied as she tied a knot in her rope and made sure everything was secured.

"It's supposed to be a self-contained research and living facility," Natalia said with a eastern European accent. "They're supposed to be self-contained because they're researching cures and antivirals."

"Should we be in HAZMAT suits then?" I asked as I began to tie myself into the rappel line.

"Negative, they hadn't received any word that anything had been released when the facility went dark," Kaplan said as he pulled out a small PDA and connected it to a small access point on the wall by the elevator door. "The AI might have had issues or any number of things, we're just here to double check. But considering the monsters we encountered out there I'm not certain of what exactly we should expect down there."

"Any clue what they might have been researching?" Edward asked. "I thought Umbrella was into Pharmecuticals, not security."

"Sometimes things go wrong," J.D said with a shrug. "We've bailed out some scientists that were doing research into some really dangerous diseases in third world countries. But nothing like this before."

"Well, let's go down and find out what waits for us in the dark," I said as I began to fall down the elevator shaft at a controlled pace. "The longer we wait the more danger any civilians might be in."

"I'm right behind you," Rain said as she began the descent right behind me.

"I'm not sure this is a good idea," Kaplan said as he disconnected his PDA and secured himself for rappelling. "But let's get this part over with."

"I guess we're covering the rear then," Edward looked over at Natalia.

"No, just you," Natalia said as she plunged into the darkness.

"Sometimes, being rear security really sucks," Edward said as he dropped a chemlight down the shaft and began his own descent into the depths below.