Tam: Ok, so I have decided to slap another chapter on this thing since its been so popular in the past (How the hell did that happen?) And so I managed to hunt down the original plot bunny for this thing and VOULA! Another chapter is born. I would like to note that, as this story has always been a bit dark it has a chance to get a we smidgen darker. I blame Wesker. And Silent Hill... Yeah Silent Hill hit me pretty hard there awhile back. I also intend to revamp this monster, one way or another. If you haven t already done so, take a chance to read through my other RE story Build A God, Then We'll talk. Should keep you occupied I think.
Chapter 16: Darkness Falls
Rastin's screams of anger and pain were the only things punctuating the darkness in my mind, before the feather duster feeling hit full force. Then I felt hands and movement, metal and material against my skin as the tang of leather hit my nose.
The irritating sting of the disinfectant in my nose, a compound that was useless to me but important to the fools who ran Umbrella. The bite of a needle in my arm, and clamp of a permanent cuff around the joint of my elbow.
My mind was oddly numb, the strange sort of numb you get between sleeping and waking. But in a nightmarish way.
I felt everything, and nothing.
I felt the pain, and heard the orders, but I could not comprehend. I felt the time pass, like a drowning person trying to claw there way to the surface, only to find it covered in ice. More time passed, and my surroundings began to change.
There was a brief moment of comprehension, and I was awake in a snap. I moved a little, and felt resistance. Before moving again, and then nothing but myself. My eyes slid open briefly, only to snap shut again as the light beyond my eyelids proved to be to much.
My hand moved of its own accord, attempting to block out the light but thumping into something instead. I explored the item with my hands, noting with a detached feeling that it was smooth and as tall as I was... No taller, and whole. A wall? Yes a wall, but a weak one.
One that I knew would not hold me if I didnt want it too.
I tapped my middle finger against it, and a cracking filled my ears.
A glass wall.
Glass was beautiful, but frail. Frailer still, due to my strength. My hands fell to my sides, hitting something made of metal. Restraints, useless now that they were broken, my hands traced them to their source and I felt another wall behind me. My mind seemed to revel in the sensation of touch, magnified tenfold by the lack of sight. My ears seemed to pick up sounds beyond my prison, overwhelming sounds of panic and fear.
"Containment Unit seven failing, specimen breach imminent." Said a droll female voice.
"Ready containment shields, and drop containment units one through six and eight through twenty down to cryo level." Came a male voice, somewhat breathlessly.
"Dropping units now," Said another voice, this one more androgynous. A screeching filled my ears as I heard things slid down, away from me.
"And the Containment shields?" Came the first voice again.
"Not responding."
"Use manual levers then, the specimen CANNOT escape. And what the HELL happened? The damn thing is suppose to be sedated!"
"SIR! It was sedated, preliminary test are inconclusive as to why the sedation has worn off."
"Warning. Containment unit seven failing, specimen breach imminent." Said the female voice again.
I the grinding of metal on metal made me grit my teeth, it hurt my ears and made me want to grind my teeth.
"Sir! Containment unit eight will not drop." Said a panicked female voice.
"Use the auxiliary drop systems." Said the calm voice, now impatient.
"I already have sir, eight seems to be compromised." said the panicky voice again.
"How? Seven is compromised because of its occupant, why would eight be damaged?" said the Male voice again.
"I don't know sir!"
"Containment units seven and eight failing, breach immanent. Suggested action: Evacuation of levels five through three."
A shrieking filled the air, as I sensed the movement and anger of the being in the unit next to me. Anger, hatred, hunger and longing. The long count of years, waiting to break free. More time then I'd known, spent trapped in this between existence.
A brush of minds between us, an alien foreign mind unlike one I'd ever known but not unfamiliar. An urgency filled it at our mental touch, a need to break free and hold he foreign mind that brought to it some peace.
And then a screeching, shattered of glass. Yelled commands, screams of pain and shattering of yet more glass. A rush as fluid that I hadn't noticed before escaped my prison, taking me with it. The drag of glass a crossed skin, and then I felt myself impact with cold metal, sensitive skin protesting the harsh grating that covered what must have been the floor.
My eyelids fluttered as I tried once more to open them, pushing myself up on weak feeling muscles I opened my eyes. Gray, black, white.
Impersonal colors, cold sterility.
A scream sounded to my right, and my body tensed eyes moving to the source. A woman, white researchers coat covered in a red substance. A man behind her, shocked eyes on something just behind me. And then a heavy weight at my middle as I was grasped and moved through the air.
I fought briefly, but tired to quickly to do anything else.
My eyes were still slightly blinded by the lab lighting, and I could barely tell what was going on. But the brush of warmth on my skin made me start, and suddenly I could tell that something was very very wrong.
My eyes latched onto the surface that I was pressed against, sickly green on green and as my eye's traveled up meeting the gaze of something that had NEVER been human.
And then, I screamed.
But it wasn't the same innocent yet shrill scream that I'd once used.
No instead what came from my mouth was an unearthly keening that seemed to penetrate everything around me. Hands flew to ears, glass shattered and the creature that had once towered over me drop me like trash.
My feet hit the ground, and my body reacted on its own absorbing the energy of the fall. I dropped to my knees before I knew what was going on before my body seemed to launch itself forward up and over a railing the had been a story above me.
I landed on my feet once more, this time my body seemed to halt waiting for direct and quivering with anticipation. A thick steel door sat in front of me, a way out? I didnt know, but I would have to take my chances with it, because like hell was I staying here to become food to that.. THING!
I swiped at the door, as the green creature bellowed below me flailing at the unfortunate people left behind. Instead of making a small dent, like it would have if I'd been whatever I was previously my nails and fingers cutting clean through.
I stood for a moment astounded, before lifting my foot to kick the door instead.
It flew from its mooring like paper, slamming into a wall beyond.
What the hell had they done to me?
Shaking my head, I dodged forward into the darkness beyond.