It seemed like the history repeated itself in the labs – even if it was a different lab this time; Wesker was standing in the doorway, watching Julie as she took a sample of everything of use and put it in an attaché case. Wesker had been standing there for a few minutes before she actually noticed him. When she did, he just chuckled slightly, shaking his head.
"What's so funny?" Julie asked as she put the now filled case on a table, tilting her head to the side, studying him.
Wesker closed the door behind him and leaned his back against it. "Nothing really." He shrugged. "It's just like déjà vu though. Who sent you this time?" he didn't sound angry, rather, amused, and the person he'd once been, before his change, before Julie's betrayal, seemed to get the upper hand, and he actually smiled, like he hadn't done for so long, as he took off his sunglasses and put them next to the attaché case. She'd changed him once, perhaps she could do it again…
"Nobody sent me." She sighed. "Listen, Umbrella is under investigation, and you should leave the company for good as soon as you can. And besides…" she closed the case, lifting it up from the table. It was a bit heavier than she'd first thought it would be. "…the Agency wants to hire you. I don't know why they wanted me to tell you about it, instead of anyone of their higher-ups…"
"…The Agency?" Wesker said as Julie walked towards the door that he was blocking. "Is that where you work now?" he slowly moved away from the door.
"Maybe… Accept their offer and find out for yourself." She opened the door, then turned to face him again, giving him a small card, with a strange logo on it. "It'll be best for both of us if we stay out of each others' ways. There was never anything between us, and there'll never be." With those cold words, the roles were changed. Now she was the one who walked away, leaving him behind. What Wesker didn't know was that a single tear had fallen slowly down her face, soon joined by more… It seemed like she hadn't been all that honest about what she was feeling.
When the door had closed between them, Wesker quickly thought up his new plans. He knew that there was an attaché case with a small surveillance camera-screen, which, just like the screens in the monitor room back in the mansion, could show different locations of the area.
After a few minutes of searching, he finally found it, shoved away in one of the many wooden drawers. The single screen was indeed small, but it would be enough for him, to be able to do what he had to do for his plans. He started the monitor, finding out the location of one of the small group of S.T.A.R.S.-members. Chris and Rebecca were in the projector room, looking at the slides in the projector, this one showing –
"Oh, shit." Wesker said as he saw the photo of him and his old research team. Thanks to his sunglasses, it was all too easy to recognize him. He'd forgotten all about those slides. Now they know that I'm a traitor… No need to assume anything too early though, the situation could still be saved. Maybe it was for the best that they'd found it out that way…
Just as he he was about to start looking for Jill and Barry, he heard the elevator stop, and they both walked into the room not long after. He quickly closed the small case, putting on his sunglasses, glad that something was going according to his plans. It's time…
"Wesker!" Jill sounded surprised to see him.
"Thank you, Barry." Wesker turned around, facing them both, watching as Barry lifted his gun, and aimed it at Jill.
"Well, what do you know…" Jill said, glancing at the gun.
"Oh, don't blame Barry for everything." Wesker said, walking up to the big computer screens, next to a large containment tube… "I hear that his wife and two daughters will be in great danger if he doesn't do everything I tell him to."
Jill sighed. "Wesker, you're pathetic."
"Well, you shouldn't worry too much, dear, you'll soon be free from this anyway." He typed in something on the keyboard, checking the status of the Bio Organic Weapon next to him.
"Why do you want to eliminate S.T.A.R.S.!?" Jill asked. "Why are you betraying us!?"
"Believe it or not," Wesker said, "but that's Umbrella's intention."
"So you're just a slave of Umbrella."
"Smart girl." Wesker said, still watching the screen, taking in every little bit of information. This could turn out exactly like he wanted it to… "But I think you misunderstand me. The things you mentioned means nothing to me. I'll burn everything up with this entire laboratory." He turned around, and aimed his own gun at Jill. "Barry, go up on the ground and wait there. I'll take care of Jill myself."
"Barry…" Jill said as th man lowered his gun and walked away, without even looking at her.
"You've gotta love Barry." Wesker said when he heard the elevator return to the surface. "He must really be afraid of Umbrella."
"You and Umbrella took his family, you –" before Jill could say more, Wesker hit her with his gun, and she fell to the floor, still aiming his gun at her as she sat up slowly.
"Umbrella?" Wesker chuckled. "Well, I might have pulled some strings to get Barry to obey my orders, but it had nothing to do with Umbrella. I just used Barry for my personal interests, so I wouldn't have to do everything myself. Though, you and Barry seem to think I was following Umbrella's orders. That company means nothing to me."
"What!?" Jill obviously couldn't think of anything better to say for the moment, being as shocked as she was but what he'd told her. "What are you planning then!?"
Wesker sighed. "I guess it's time to reveal my plans. You won't live long enough to tell anyone about them anyway." He walked back to the control panel, typing in more commands with his left hand, still holding the gun in his right. When he was finished, he looked over to the tube. "It's magnificent…" he mumbled.
"So you did it all for the sake of this thing?" Jill said. She was now standing up again.
"It's the ultimate Bio Organic Weapon, Tyrant." He turned towards her. "You know, I hate good byes." Just as he was about to shoot Jill, Barry, who had fooled him, and never gone up on the ground as he'd told him to, shot him instead, and he helplessly fell to the floor next to the controls. The pain almost blinded him, but he was determined to not let it stop him.
"Barry!" Jill seemed very happy to see her teammate again. A person whod' so obviously betrayed her only minutes earlier.
"Forgive me…" Barry said.
"No, you're not to blame, Barry. It's all Umbrella's and Wesker's fault."
Barry sighed. "I just couldn't bare to turn my back at my friends one more –" before he could finish the sentence, Wesker hit the activation switch, completely draining the tube from the strange fluid. The Tyrant hit the glass with its giant hand twice, and when the glass didn't break, he used his left one, the one more like a claw, instead, and the glass broke. It took it first two steps out of the tube, and Barry and Jill moved backwards, away from it. Barry aimed his gun at the large creature.
Wesker stood up, laughing a cold laugh, that was interrupted by coughing. He still hurt too much from the bullet. He reached up a hand to hold on his own right shoulder, where he'd been hit. "Jill and Barry, together… in hell." He watched as the Tyrant kept on walking, heading for the duo, but suddenly turned its face against him. "…What….?" The Tyrant hit him, hard, and he once again fell to the floor.
Jill and Barry fired as many bullets as they possibly could at their new enemy, and after a log struggle, it too fell to the floor, silent. The duo hurried out of the lab, and when the elevator arrived on the floor above, they almost ran into Chris and Rebecca.
"There you are! Wesker is–" Chris started, but a female voice, along with a beeping sound, interrupted him. It was the self-destruct sequence. Wesker had pushed the button in a last attempt to get rid of the last S.T.A.R.S.-members.
"There's no time to talk, we must leave, now." Jill said, and they all hurried away, soon reaching an elevator leading up to the surface that Chris and Rebecca had found earlier. Suddenly, a message could be heard over their radios.
"This is Brad, I'm running out of fuel. If anyone's alive, contact me now! This is your last chance!"
They didn't have to be told twice, they ran even faster, reaching the elevator quickly.
When the elevator stopped, they walked out on a heliport, finding some signal rockets they could use to lead Brad right. Chris activated it, and they all stood at a safe distance, watching as it made it way high up in the sky, praying that the pilot would see it. Not long after, the ground started to tremble, and the Tyrant made its second appearance. All those bullets, and no result. They had no chance at all against it in another fight. Still, they couldn't just stand there.
After a lot of running and shooting, they could finally hear the sound of a helicopter getting closer. "Use this! Kill that thing!" Brad screamed, throwing out a rocket launcher. Now, they at least had a chance. One shot with the powerful weapon, and the monster fell to the ground in pieces. Brad landed the helicopter, and they all made their way inside. The mansion blew up a few seconds after they'd reached a safe distance from it, and without knowing what had happend to Wesker – though they were sure they wouldn't see him among he living again – they relaxed for the first time in hours. They were glad that the nightmare was finally over, but what they didn't know was that this was only the beginning.
Okay, this was the last chapter of The Fall. But don't worry, another story will be up as soon as it's finished, which will explain a few things a bit more... so... Hope you liked this story ^^
Thank goes to Vogue for the info about all of Wesker's organizations, and to yamiishot for the help ^^ And ugh, the upload of this chapter hasn't gone that well. Had to delete it tqice before it turned out as I wanted ^^''''''''''''''
