I'm in a laboratory and in front of me is a large tube of clear liquid with a creature of my own DNA growing, mutating with the t-virus that was injected with the DNA I donated. I also was curious to see what would happen if I combined my DNA, along with the t-virus, with the DNA of a ball python snake and a timber wolf. I was happy to see that the combined DNA's were working together so very well and actually creating this creature. I went over to a machine in the corner and picked up a bag full of red liquids, which upon opening I realized by the scent that it was blood, and dumped it into the opening in the machine. "Food time baby." I said to the creature in the tube. I watched as the blood went down the umbilical cord that was attached, not to the stomach, but to the exposed brain. "How's the process coming along doctor?" A female's voice asked from behind, wrapping her arms around my lower waist. "Very good." I said, turning to see the creator's daughter with a smile on her face. "Yay! Do you think it will live this time?" She asked pure curiosity in her voice. "I hope so my dear. This is the last one I'm allowed to make."
"Rain?" I asked aloud. I looked up to see that everyone was leaving. "Come on Elizabeth, Alice is being stupid again." Rain said to me tapping my shoulder. I got up and saw Alice walking briskly down the clean hall with a bag over her shoulder. "What you doing?" I asked her as I got up and ran around the desk, catching up to her quickly. "She'll know a way out of here." Alice said. We then reached the other room and Alice went straight to pulling open the bag and removing the Queens Breaker board. "That homicidal bitch killed my team." Rain said leaning against the door frame. "That homicidal bitch might be our only way out of here." Alice snapped at her while inserting the boards and pressing a code into the side. "After the way we treated her I'm sure she'll be real happy to help us." Spence said. Alice talked to Kaplan while I check in on Rain. "Hey." I said. "What?" She snapped at me. "You feel okay?" I asked her, feeling her forehead before she smacked my hand away. She has a fever. 'Check your pockets.' I quickly checked my pockets and in a pocket right behind my knee I found three green pills. "Here" I said putting one in Rain's hand. "What is this?" She asked me. "A pain killer." I guessed. "Thanks." Rain said popping it in her mouth and swallowing. Suddenly a red form tried to appear, causing us to jump back, Rain and I with fingers on our triggers, before disappearing. "Ah, there you are. I things, I take it, have gotten out of control." A British female voice said. "Give me that fucking switch right now!" Rain said lunging at Kaplan, "I'm gonna fry her ass!" It took Alice, Spence, and I to pull her off of him. "I did warn you didn't I?" The voice asked. "Tell us what the hell is going on down here." Rain ordered. "Research and development." She answered. "What about the t-virus?" Matt asked. "The t-virus was a major medical breakthrough, although it clearly also possessed, highly profitable military applications." The Red Queen told us. "Well how does it explain those things out there?" Kaplan asked. "Even in death the human body still remains active. Hair and finger nails continue to grow, new cells are produced and the brain itself creates more electrical charges that takes months to dissipate." There was a short pause. "The t-virus provides a massive jolt to cellular growth and genetically electrical impulses. But quite simply it reanimates the body." She summarized. "It brings the dead back to life?" I asked. "Not fully. The subjects have the simplest of motor functions, perhaps a little memory, and no intelligence and driven on the basics of impulses and the most basics of needs." She told us. "Which is?" I asked. "The need to feed." I saw Kaplan slide down to the floor in shock. "How do you kill them?" Rain asked, getting straight to her point. "Severing the top of the spinal column, or massive trauma to the brain are the most effective methods." She said. "You mean shoot them in the head?" Rain clarified. "Why did you kill everybody down here?" Matt asked, rage hinting in his voice. "The t-virus escaped into the air conditioning system in an uncontrolled pattern of infection began. The virus is protean in changing from liquid to airborne to blood transmission, depending on its environment. It's almost impossible to kill; I couldn't allow it to escape from the hive. So," she drawled, "I took steps." "Steps?" Matt asked, barely able to control his anger. "You must understand," The Queen said, almost like a teenage daughter trying to get one of her parents to be on her side of an argument, "Those who become infected I can't allow you to leave." Spence reacted quickly saying, "Whoa, we're not infected!" "Just one bite, one scratch from those creatures is sufficient." I looked to Rain's bandaged hand then to her face as the Red Queen said, "And then, you become one of them." I couldn't exactly hear everything else as I tried to focus on this nagging in the back of my head. After struggling for about three minutes, blocking every single noise out of my brain, it rushed into my mind.
"I did it." I said happily as I pulled up a little green gel pill examining it in the light. 'The cure.' I thought to myself. I managed to make three more others before another scientist came in, drunk, and started trashing my notes and all of the expensive equipment. I just had managed to pocket the three pills in the pocket behind my knee and locking the other in a safe below a drawer panel, before looking up to see a fist coming straight for my face. I ducked in time to miss getting hit and grabbed her wrist, twisting it, causing the girl to fall to the floor screaming in pain. "Don't attack me next time bitch!" I hissed at her.
"Hell!" Kaplan shouted over to me. I looked past the giant contraption in the middle of the room to an opened floor panel and Kaplan's upper body sticking out, Spence and Matt looking at me. I nodded and crossed to the other side, tossed my jacket aside, falling in the hole without warning, or for Kaplan to move out of my way. "What's wrong?" Rain asked, as she noticed my swift movement and pacing with my hand on my gun at all time. "Nothing, just on my toes." I said as everyone else climbed down the ladder. "Move it, Rain, Kaplan you take the front. Spence, Matt takes the middle, Alice and I will make the rear." I ordered. "Who died and put you in charge?" Spence challenged. I held my gun up to his forehead. "You don't, want me to answer that." I ordered. "Yes, ma'am." Spence mocked towards me as he followed Rain and Kaplan started walking. Rain, noticing the tension in me, as she was always good at, went and lunged, getting really low, almost exaggerated, turning her upper body so that she faced down the corner, causing a big, loud splash. I smiled at her and shook my head before turning my attention back to watching everyone's back. Spence was crab walking along the walls, pure terror on his face. "You were just showing off back there, Lezzy?" Spence asked. I twitched at his nickname for me and crossed over to him in less than three steps and had his ass pinned to the grate covered hole in the wall. "Look! As glad as I am to have you remember your little pet name for me, but now it's time you remember what happened the last time you called me that." I said. "Hey! Easy there Elizabeth, we don't want those things to know where we are." Rain said as she literally pulled me off of him, with my arms behind my back. That didn't stop me from slipping through her grasp and holding my gun up to him. Spence looked like he was ready to pee his pants when I saw a quick movement behind him. I just grabbed his shirt, and Rain was going to stop me when a dozen arms shoved themselves through the grate. I then tightened the grip on his shirt and Rain grabbed his shoulder, pressing herself against me for support, and together we pulled him out of their reach. I turned and started walking with Alice when she stopped, seeing before her an entire sea of them. She then started throwing punches to their faces and snapping necks and seeing four people holding back the swarm on the other side grate, I looked around me for a way out of this mess and started to panic when it struck me. Literally, I had hit my head on a metal pipe and it was because I had jumped out of the way of one them. "Alice! The pipes! Rain, Kaplan, everyone get on the pipes!" I shouted. Matt was the first to leave the grate and climb up the pipe and I took his place on pushing back. "Spence, go! Get up there!" I shouted to him. He looked at me and then nodded running to the same spot where Matt had climbed and Matt helped him up. "Elizabeth!" "No Kaplan you get going!" I told him. "You sure you guys got this?" He asked as the creatures gave a massive push. "Kaplan!" Rain shouted as a final warning. I gave him a glare and he nodded before leaving. Kaplan had managed to get himself halfway up when a creature slipped past Alice and bit him on the leg. He gave a scream of pain causing me to lose my focus on the grate and rush to Kaplan's aid. I pulled my hand gun out and shot Kaplan's attacker in the head. When I had held my arm to steadily aim, I didn't see the creature on my right come up next to me. My wrist bare and exposed, after I had fired, the thing bit me; this caused me to scream out in pain and drop my hand gun. I gave him my hardest left hook possible and I felt his skull break under my knuckles. "Elizabeth, get out of here! Get on the pipes!" Rain shouted as she scrambled to find my hand gun. "Don't get yourself killed okay?" I asked her as I pulled myself up onto the poles into the gap in the wall. Matt and Alice helped me up, and as soon as I was clear of the hole, I crawled over to the side of the pipes. I looked down as I heard Rain say "J.D?" There was then a cry of pain, as J.D bit her neck. I could see Rain was crying when J.D pulled away from her. She raised her gun, but her hand was shaking too much. J.D went in for the kill when I threw my knife straight into his head. I then reached down, and pulled her up, Alice helping me as she saw me almost fall over the side. "Elizabeth?" Rain asked me as I pulled out a cloth pad and tape, dressing her wounds without a word in record time, as her mouth hung open in shock I shoved one of my remaining pills into her mouth. I then turned around, crawling a distant, and just sat there looking like I could jump into the sea of creatures down below us. "You like that?" I asked as I held my blood covered hand over the edge letting the blood run out of my wrist and onto them as they slapped each other's hands trying desperately to get my blood. "Bet you do…" I said as I trialed off into deeper depressing thoughts. "Elizabeth." Alice said I could faintly hear her in my morbid state. "Elizabeth." Rain said, her voice cutting through to me, pissing me off a bit. "What?" I asked her as I pushed more blood out of my hand. "We need to take care of your wounds." Rain told me. "I'm fine." I said as soon as she finished her sentence. I felt her put her hand on my arm. "I said I'm fine!" I snapped as I shook her hand off. "Come on. We need to keep moving." Alice said. I handed Kaplan my spare gun I had forgotten about as he crawled past me. "Move it." Rain growled to me. I didn't move and one of them almost got my foot. Rain instinctively pulled me away from the edge and shoved me in the direction that everyone was going. I just moved forward and didn't really think about what I was doing. The moaning of the creatures that their food is just outside of their reach continued no matter how far we went. I could feel a fever breaking into my system as we continued down the way we were going. The ceiling soon rose up high above our heads. The pipes we were now walking on were supported by mere wires hanging from the ceiling. Matt and Spence were the first to cross and Rain helped me across, since I was very wobbly, as well as stopped me from falling over the side. Alice and Kaplan were left on the pipes when a breaking sound was barely heard. "They need to hurry." I muttered. "Alice! Kaplan! Move it!" Rain shouted as the second break was heard over the moaning below. Alice was ahead of Kaplan and so when it fell, she jumped off it onto the platform with us, leaving Kaplan still on the pipes that had swung over to the side a good distant from us. "Kaplan!" Alice shouted as They started to swarm around him and one managed to figure out how to climb and was very close to him. "Shoot it!" Alice shouted. I had grabbed raised gun, and aimed but there's a problem. "I can't see." I said. "Shoot Elizabeth!" Rain shouted. "I can't fucking see!" I shouted. I felt the gun get grabbed from my hands and I heard it fired. It was silent for a moment I turned my head to the right hoping my sight would come back, but it didn't. "Come on Elizabeth." Rain said as she draped my arm around her shoulders, lifting me up and dragging me down the corridor that we were walking slash crawling in.