Forgot this in the fist chap: this is one of my earlier fics, so be nice... PLEASE PLEASE Review!
Chapter Two: The Umbrella Base
The place was large, drab, and silent. When asked why, Ada explained that the experiments were kept under ground. Which they were all relieved about. The cold cement building was creepy enough in the daylight, but as darkness descended, and the air turned cold, it got noticeably creepier. The lighting was poor, and what little light there was made shadows stretch and look deformed. The emptiness, and silence made their imaginations run wild, making up noises where there were none. All of them were jumping at shadows.
Ada was amused by it. They had all gone through worse than spending the night in a empty building and here they were, all jittery. But in a way it made sense...just the knowledge that there were creatures beneath their feet made it worse. In the morning she would find out which base Wesker was currently at, since he liked to move around alot, that way she would know how much time they had before he returned to the main base, in Europe. She had brought them here first because she had over heard Wesker and Spencer talking about getting rid of them..And they knew where the STARS and any of their friends lived...And how to lure them out of hiding...They had done that with the Chambers girl. Though Wesker had wanted her kept alive for some reason. No one, not even Spencer,had argued.
And, this place was relatively safe from any Umbrella employees...She had the security monitors, so if anyone showed up, they could easily hide before that somebody saw them.
They were on the second floor now, as that was where the dormitories were, when the place has still been used for housing employees. Ada sat by one of the windows, the moonlight making her pale skin appear silver. She was the only one who had been unable to sleep..Funny really, since it was them that had been jumpy. But she didn't sleep much. She never had. Nightmares of her past often haunted her, and it made things worse than when she didn't sleep at all.
Movement behind her startled her. She turned to see what it was, and breathed a sigh of relief to see that it was just Leon. "Can't sleep?"
"How am I supposed to?"
"They didn't seem to have any trouble."
"Touche." There was a moment of silence before he blurted, "Why are you helping us,Ada?"
She didn't answer. She just turned her face back towards the window, her expression immpossible to read.
"Ada?"
"That's a story for another time," She finally said, not looking at him, "Besides, we both really need to get some sleep...I'll be across the hall." With that she got up and went past him and out the door. He heard another door open and close right across from where they were. Sighing, he decided he may as well try to sleep.
The next morning, Claire was the first one awake. She sat in silence for a good 15 minutes before the others finally stirred and woke up. Ada stepped silently into the room.
"Finally, you're awake. We have to hurry and prepare. Wesker is in on of the bases in Texas, and he's helping with the research there, so we have at least a couple of days before he returns to the main base. And you have to be at that base before he gets there, other wise you won't stand a chance of getting in."
All groaning at having to move around and be thinking so early, they set out to prepare.
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Albert Wesker sat at his desk, thinking. Ada was up to something, as she always was. But this time he didn't know what. The woman was always causing trouble, being defiant, disobeying orders, ect. But most of the time he knew what she was up to when she planned on causing trouble...This time he had not a clue. She had been very curious as to where his current location was...He had lied to her, of course, and given her false information. Trouble was brewing..He knew it, Spencer knew it, and Ada was part of it...
Not that Spencer's opinion really mattered. The old man's time was almost up...Wesker had already planned on disposing of him, but when he had ordered Ada to give him a virus instead of the Plagas, he had shortened his life span...but that could wait..Spencer wasn't an immediate threat to his plans, so for now, he could be kept alive. But not for much longer. Right now Wesker's top priority was Miss Chambers. She had been in the lab for 3 months now, and they still couldn't get a virus to take hold on her. Her body had cancelled them all out..she was becoming the next Sherry Birkin. But they had managed to beat Sherry eventually. And they would do the same with Rebecca. in the end, Sherry's downfall had been her own blood.
It hadn't been hard to create a new virus with Shery's G-virus tainted blood..And while the g-virus had cancelled out the t-virus, and even the T-veronica, it couldn't cancell its self out. Though the effect had been to much for the child, and it had slowly killed her. But he had learned a lot from her..Mainly how to perfect the virus created from her blood. The S-virus. Named so in her memory, he remembered with a crooked grin.
Rebecca was due to be injected with the S-virus soon. That day in fact. And he was going to enjoy watching the effects. Unlike the G-virus, and the T-veronica, it didn't have major effect right away. It was like the T-virus, and depending on how much the person's body resisted it, full effects might not show from a week to two weeks later. But not one subject yet had managed to cancel it out..not even poor little Sherry.
From down the hall he heard screaming and shouting. He sighed. They were acting up again. Chambers and Coen had been trying to escape ever since Coen had been captured. Most of the guards complained about them being kept in the same room, but Wesker enjoyed their little escape attempts. And it was entertaining to watch one or the other get scared when one was taken for experimentation. Like Chambers, Coen was resisting anything used on him.It was a pattern that was starting to annoy Wesker. But for some reason, Spencer found it immensely funny. He said it was a good thing they cancelled the viruses out..said it gave them an opprotunity to perfect the viruses.
let the old man have his fun...he'll be gone soon enough.
With that in mind, he got up and went to deal with Chambers and Coen.
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The man sat in the shadows, watching, and waiting. He had been sitting there all night, watching Ada and the STARS. It was just a matter of time before he had his chance. And then he'd do what he'd said he would 4 months ago. He'd put them both in a body bag and send them to Wesker. Killing Ada was going to be quite satisfying...That bitch who'd stopped him from killing Leon, who had reported him dead. And then had tried to kill him herself. So many things he could list as a reason for killling her, but he didn't really need a reason to enjoy killing someone...He never had.
He changed positions, the sunlight briefly glinting off of his blade-arm. Killing Leon would be fun, as well. He supported a scar across his chest from an encounter with Leon...And then there was the still fresh memory of the fact that Leon had over powered him...But not this time, oh no, not this time. He chuckled to himself as he looked at the vial of red liquid he held in his hand. The scientist who'd given it to him was dead now, so that Umbrella would never know it was missing.
Jack Krauser laughed again as he peeled the lable reading "S" off of the vial, and continued to wait for his chance to strike.
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Once again they were on the plane, this time heading for Europe, where the main base was located. They had been in the air for several hours, all trying not to drift off to sleep, out of boredom, mostly. Claire decided to use the time as an advantage to talk to Leon.
"Hiya," she said, sitting next to him.
"Hi," he replied blandly, not looking at her.
"Something bothering you?"
"No...I just wish I could get something more than a witty comment or silence out of her."
Claire knew he was talking about Ada. Which annoyed her. "Why do you even try? From what I've seen, that's all she can do. Make witty comments."
Leon looked at her for a moment, his face blank then turned away again, "You don't know her like I do..."
"And what do you know about her?" Claire asked, her annoyance showing, "Hmm?"
Leon didn't answer her, and she could feel her jealousy and anger getting worse. She resisted the urge to yell at him right then exactly what she thought of Ada, and him believing her to be comepletely trust worthy... Now was not the time for fighting.
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A sharp jump in the plane's smooth flight woke Chris from his nap, "What the hell?"
Ada was shouting at the pilot, while the pilot tried desperatley to fix what was wrong. Chris could tell the poor man wasn't doing well with someone yelling at him. Another jolt. A thud in front of him brought Chris's attention to the fact that Jill had fallen in front of him.
"You okay?" he asked, pulling her up.
"Yeah," she replied, "Any idea what's going on?"
Chris shook his head and was about to say no, when Ada suddenly yelled, "What do you mean 'nothing you can do'?! We're in the air! There has to be something!"
The pilot was shaking his head as fast as he could, yammering on with half finished sentences about a computer malfunction. Ada turned to the other passengers, "Everybody brace yourself. We're in for a bumpy ride."
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Chris could heard muffled voices, but he couldn't quite see anything. As the voices became clear enough that he could identify them, his vision slowly came back. At first all he saw was a green and blue blur, but as the image became sharper, he realized he was seeing the sky and trees. Lots of trees.
"Hey he's awake!" Chris heard his sister's voice say.
"It's about time." Ada.
Chris sat up, his head pounding. In front of him was Claire, sporting a gash aross her cheek, and a palm-sized bruise on her arm. Behind her, Chris could see the ruined remains of the plane they had been in, and he didn't know if it was his imagination or not, but he thought he saw an arm among the wreckage, the pilot. he turned his head, there were the other three. Jill, Ada and Leon, all safe. Bruised and bloody, but safe. The surrounding area was thick with trees, some of the splintered, most likely due to the plane.
"Where are we?" he asked.
"About 5 miles from our destination," was the flat reply from Ada, "I don't understand what happened...The pilot started yammering about some sort of problem, then we started losing speed...Then he finally got around to the fact that there was a computer malfunction...," she paused and sighed, "I guess we're walking from here...But we'll have to be careful. This whole area is fenced in and just to discourage anyone from trying to get to the base this way, they have some of their nasty little creatures running loose,"
All of them groaned at this prospect, and Chris got to his feet, trying to will the pain in his head away. "I guess we better get moving then."
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Ada slapped at a fly that landed on her. She hated bugs of any kind, but the ones here were especially dangerous. There was a small chance that they had fed off of something infected with one of the viruses, and it wouldn't weild pretty results were she or the others bitten. They had been walking for an hour or so through trees and underbrush. Ada was sure that they were heading in the right direction, just as long as they didn't get turned around, and end up going back the way they'd come. It was a long while before she saw the secondary fence that separated the creatures from the lab. At some points through the trees she could see the building. Time to leave this jolly little band I think...
As they started speeding up to hurry towards the fence, Ada slowed down, and quietly slipped off into the shadows. She was heading for the front entrance of the lab. Before she'd gotten to far, she heard shouts, probably them looking for her. Or so she told herself until she heard more shouts, accompanied by a loud inhuman scream...Silencers. She thought bitterly. The silencers were nasty creatures that did just what their name suggested. They quickly and efficiently silenced their prey. They themsleves would move through any terrain with ease, without a sound, until they saw their food, then they would scream, and kill whatever they had seen. Normally though, they had fun first, spitting a sticky fluid at their prey's face, making sure there was no noise to disturb them. Then they would slowly pull their victims apart, one piece at a time. They were intelligent creatures, and knew what would kill something and what wouldn't.
Ada was about to turn back and help them when she sudenly got the feeling that soemthing was watching her. But when she listened, she heard nothing but the sounds of the fight going on a ways away. Great..another one... She was right, for a few seconds later, she heard that eair peircing shriek. It came from her left, so that was the direction she ran in, hoping to confuse the creature, or at least buy her some time. She felt something wet hit her arm, and heard it splatter on the ground. It had tried to spit it's sticky saliva at her and had missed. When in a rush, the creatures actually made a lot of niose, so Ada knew where it was at all times. She saw the gate ahead, and hoped she had enough time to enter the pass code before the silencer caught up to her. She reached the gate and could hear the creature crashing through the trees behind her. Quickly as she could, though not very calmly, which meant she messed up more than once, Ada punched in the pass code on the lock next to the gate. Finally there was a beep signaling that it was unlocked.
She threw the gate open the shut it as fast as she could. She barely got it closed before the cat-like form slammed into it, screaming. The silencer glared at her with it's malicious gold eyes, growling, it's pointed ears pressed against its head. What should have been mottled grey and white fur was instead scales. While they travelled on four legs, their front feet could easily be used as hands. Each foot was equipped with razor sharp claws as long as her thumb. It twiched it's stinger-tipped tail back and forth in agitation, knowing it couldn't get to her. It dropped back onto all four feet and started to head back into the trees. Then, as if to get back at her for not staying put and becoming dinner, it turned on a dime and spit at her again. This time it hit her, though in the shoulder.
Making a face, Ada wiped the saliva off of herself, shouted a few profanities at the creature, and listened for any sounds of the STARS. She heard a metallic clanging some ways away to her right, and turned, they were climbing over the fence. Claire dropped to the ground from the top, saying in a disgusted voice, "The friggin thing spit on me!" she was wiping the spit off of her shirt, with a look of utter disgust on her face,
"Why is it that every creature we meet either looks gross or does something gross?"
Ada heard Chris laughing at his sister as he dropped to the ground beside her. Once Jill and Leon were over, they began to look around, and Ada ducked behind a tree.
"Where'd Ada go?" she heard Leon ask.
"How should I know?" Jill replied, "She disappeared right before that thing attacked us..."
"I doesn't matter," that was Claire, of course, "We need to get into the building without being detected for now."
Hearing this, Ada grinned. Good luck, kid. Without my help you're more likely to wind up as an experiment. But she would help them...That had been the idea. But she wouldn't help them as they might have expected. She turned and silently ran for the front of the building..it would be hard to explain her torn clothes and battered appearance, but that wouldn't matter..soon enough Wesker would be to busy to bother with her. And then anything in her way would be gone. Her path would finally be clear.