"This'll help" Chase said seeing a map of the underground area he, Jay and Rebecca were in. Jay quickly scanned over the map several times memorizing each turn and dead end, exhaling slowly Jay said "OK I got it, let's go".
Walking down the only available path they came to a fork in the tunnel each side had a rusted steel door "To the left" Jay said limping over to the door.
Slowly opening the door and peering into the large room Jay aimed his gun around before entering. Chase brought up the rear and closed the door behind them "As much as I want to get out of here, there might be something useful down here we should look around".
Agreeing with his point Jay lead them through several doors, until they came to a giant room with a lift in the center "It can look like a mining shaft all it wants I still say its another death trap" Jay said as he walked over to the lift's power supply and held his hand over it "Its pretty warm, someone was here very recently".
"Where will this lift take us kid?" Chase asked taking off his sunglasses and looking up the shaft.
Jay was leaning against the safety rail going over the map in his head his mouth silently saying what he was thinking. "It'll take us to a few levels up obviously. Up there according to the map should be a supply room and some kind of crypt". "I say we head up, search the area then leave. I don't like this place and being underground isn't' helping".
The three of them stepped onto the lift and looked up as Chase hit the switch, after a rough start the lift swiftly made its ascent to the upper level "Be ready" Chase said standing between Jay and Rebecca. The lift stopped and the three quickly got off and followed Jay as he led them down another hall.
"Supply room number 1" he said opening the door. Quickly scanning the room Jay took a few steps forward before being attacked by a zombie that was behind the door. "Kid" Chase yelled as the zombie grabbed hold of Jay's shoulder and neck.
Struggling against the zombie's surprising strength Jay grabbed hold of its head and flung himself forward throwing the undead menace over his shoulder. As the zombie slowly began getting to its feet Jay held his right hand back balling it into a tight fist. The second the zombie turned around Jay threw his right hand forward with all his strength hitting the zombie in the side of its temple.
"Damn" he muttered while shaking his hand "That hurt". The zombie was lying face down on the floor motionless; a small amount of blood ran from its eye and ear. Stepping over to the now fully dead monster Chase looked closely at its eyes "I think you caused a bit of brain hemorrhage on this one kid".
Jay grunted smugly "I think I bruised something" he said gently rubbing his left thumb over his knuckles. Walking around the supply room they gathered a variety of medical supplies and ammunition that was lying in a storage crate in the back of the room.
Reloading his two pistols Jay looked over to Chase and then to Rebecca "Any thought as to our dinner plans after we get out of here?" he asked her.
Surprised Rebecca looked at him and gave a quick glance to Chase "Not yet, I prefer to wait until we're safely out of here before making any relationship decisions".
After a few minutes of rest Chase opened the door "All right let's keep going".
Following behind him Jay pointed him towards another rusted door at the end of a narrow tunnel "That will lead us to crypt, beyond that is another lift that should take put us on path to the other side".
Leading them through the door Chase looked down the short tunnel and saw a hunter at the end standing in front of a large boulder "This might be interesting" he said stepping out of the crevice the door was in and taking aim at the hunter. Firing a single round into the monster's back Chase waited for the monster to begin running at him "Stand back" he said to Jay and Rebecca.
Once the hunter began running after him, there was a low rumbling sound and the boulder behind it began rolling in behind the monster. Chase quickly ducked back into the indentation of the wall as the hunter let out a painful shriek as the boulder rolled over it. With a thunderous impact that shook the tunnel the boulder smashed through the wall at the opposite end of the tunnel leaving Chase unphased, Rebecca surprised and Jay severely annoyed. "Is this Indiana freaking Jones?" he yelled looking at the crushed hunter then to the hole in the tunnel wall.
Chase patted Jay on the shoulder as he walked by "Look at it this way kid we got to save ammo, and that was mildly amusing".
Jay slowly shook his head "I just wanna go home" he whined.
"What's the matter, not man enough to handle a little thunder" Rebecca said teasingly as she followed Chase to the newly made doorway. Giving her an annoyed grin and a half hearted annoyed laugh he followed after them.
After stepping through the shattered stone wall they looked both ways to the left was a ladder to the right was a typewriter. "Ok I'll bite" Jay said staring at the typewriter "Why would a typewriter of all things be done here?"
Chase looked at him then to the typewriter "Do you really care?" he asked. Jay shrugged his right shoulder "Good point let's go" he said taking the lead and climbing down the ladder.
Shining his flashlight below him as he climbed down Jay immediately saw the ground and looked back up to Chase and Rebecca "Its not that far, looks like there's some torches or something down here".
After reaching the next floor and quickly stepping off the ladder he slowly turned his gun to each side before realizing he was standing on a suspended slab of rock "This can't be good" he muttered before seeing a stone coffin in the center of the pillar.
Looking inside the open coffin he saw a skeletal corpse and judging by the dust and cobwebs that covered it; it must've been over thirty years old. Stepping away from the coffin he quietly waited for Chase and Rebecca to join him before proceeding through the next door.
"This place is so much smaller on a piece of paper" Jay said after closing the door behind them. Continuing their way through the tunnel Rebecca had noticed that Chase began acting suspicious almost as if he was planning something. Coming to a looked door Rebecca pulled Jay aside while Chase attempted to pick the lock. "Jay I'm worried about Chase he's acting weird".
Jay made a quick glance at Chase who was fixated on the locked door in front of him "This has been a crazy night, but I really doubt he'd turn on us if that's what your thinking".
"Dammit" Chase said after he snapped his lock pick in the door. "You suck boss" Jay laughed as he tried to kick the door, but instead stumbled back "Yea that didn't work" he grunted painfully rubbing his leg.
Chase gave a small chuckle "You were saying kid?"
Before Jay could say anything several gunshots came from the other side of the door. "Oh please be William" Jay said switching his gun's safety switch off. "Kid" Chase said in a stern voice.
"What?" Jay said looking down at him "I'm not going to kill him. I'm just gonna shoot him in both legs and give him my regards as I leave him to find his own way out".
Waiting in anticipation for the gunshots on the other side of the door to stop the three of them kept exchanging mixed looks, "It's been over a minute what could possibly be in there that takes that many bullets to kill?" Jay asked kicking the door once more.
After the gunshots had stopped the three stood ready waiting for whoever was on the other side of the door to open it. Hearing a low rumble sound from the other side they took a few steps back and kept their guns trained on the double steel doors "Wait for it" Chase said.
Hearing the handle on the other side turn Jay slowly tightened his grip on his gun praying that William was the one to open the door in front of him.
The door opened and Jay dropped his gun in disappointment it was Chris. "Chris" Rebecca gasped as the door closed behind him.
"Glad to see you could join us" Chase said checking the room Chris was in. "That explains the gunshots" he said pointing his shotgun at a giant Tiger spider in the corner of the room. Seeing the spider Chris had fought Jay quickly withdrew himself from the room "That thing is twice the size of the ones me and Rebecca fought what the hell is going on here? I mean what could possibly cause this kind of mutation?"
"Wish I knew kid, but our first priority is getting out of here alive" Chase said walking away from them and towards the door at the other side.
Following after him with Chris and Rebecca, Jay pushed the door open and was surprised to see that Chase had disappeared "Boss?" Jay yelled down the stone hall they were in. Quickly walking down the cold and damp hall Jay checked each corner; they were both dead ends "Great now Chase has vanished".
"Maybe he went up" Chris said looking at the ladder against the stone wall. The three of them immediately climbed up the ladder and to their surprise they were back outside "Great the courtyard, there's a helipad above us…" Jay stopped speaking after remembering that the chopper that brought his team to the area went down on its return trip "Still open for suggestions on how to get out of here".
"If we can find something to use as a signal we might be able to get Brad's attention he's still flying around here somewhere" Chris said looking up at the sky. "Guess we'd better start looking then where should we start?" Jay asked sitting on the edge of a stone fountain.
"This book said something about using these medals at the gate of water think it means this fountain?" Chris asked taking a book from his bag and sliding the two medals out of it.
"Worth a shot let's find out" Jay said scanning around the fountain for anything remotely out of place. "Here" he called to Chris from the other side of the fountain "There's an indention it's got a carving of an eagle".
"Use this" Chris called back throwing him a gold medal with a raised carving of an eagle on it. After setting the medal in place Chris did the same on his end with a silver wolf medal and they waited.
A few seconds after they set the two medals in place the fountain stopped running and the sound of grinding stone echoed lowly throughout the courtyard as the fountain began splitting in two "Now what?" Jay said to himself seeing the hidden staircase under the fountain.
"Up is down, down is up this place is maddeningly unhelpful" Jay complained after he followed Chris and Rebecca down the spiral staircase and into another elevator.
After the elevator began its descent Jay looked over to Chris "How many of your people are here?"
Chris thought for a second "Well except for Rebecca everyone assigned to the Bravo team is dead and as far as my team goes Jill is missing and the last time I saw captain Wesker was in those tunnels".
"So just the four of you assuming that Jill and Wesker are still alive. Including myself altogether we have eight people; can we fit all of us on your heli?" Jay asked locking his hands behind his neck.
Chris shook his head "It'll be a real tight fit, but I think we could do it".
After the elevator came to a stop Jay slid open the fence door and stepped off "Right then once we find a way to signal your pilot I'll gather my team, but first we should place priority on finding a way to the helipad". Walking to the nearest door and pushing it open Jay reached for his gun and proceeded into the next room immediately checking behind the door.
"Clear" he yelled back to Rebecca and Chris as he continued to walk around the new area. While he waited for Rebecca and Chris to join him Jay opened a file that was lying on the desk in the corner and began skimming through it finding a lot of useful information "That explains it" he muttered blankly after reading the report on the T-virus. "Jay behind you" Rebecca yelled at him.
Quickly turning around Jay cursed himself for not hearing the zombie behind him before it pinned him to the ground and bit his forearm. "Argh get it off me" he yelled trying to wrestle the creature off him. After the zombie opened its mouth to bite him again Jay grabbed it by the neck and pushed it off of him "Eat the wall" he grunted throwing the zombie to the wall next to him.
Just as the zombie bounced off the wall unharmed Jay grabbed the back of its head and slammed it back against the wall, "Once more" he said before slamming it into the steel wall once more caving in its skull. After he released the zombie's head Jay stumbled back against the wall and slid down to the floor clutching his injured forearm which was bleeding heavily.
"I'm going to need a long nap after this night is over" he laughed weakly as Rebecca began treating his wound. "There it's done. Now be more careful" she told him after wrapping his forearm in a thick bandage. Jay nodded "You two go on ahead I'm gonna rest here for a few minutes and then I'll join you" he said sitting on top of the desk and leaning against the wall.
"Are you sure you'll be all right alone?" Chris asked him seeing the way he was holding his arm. Jay waved his hand for them to leave "I'll be fine I just need to rest a bit. Once I get over one injury I end up with another" he laughed rubbing his recently wound.
After reluctantly leaving him alone Chris and Rebecca went down the steel staircase to the next floor while Jay fought to keep his eyes open. After Rebecca and Chris left Jay slammed his good hand against the cold steel wall and swore at himself "This isn't good" he muttered looking at the open file he dropped on the floor.
Reaching down and retrieving it he opened the door next to him and walked into a conference room. Locking the door behind him he sat down at the table and skimmed through the file once more taking in every word in every report. "The virus can be transferred by blood either through a bite, scratch or saliva of an individual already infected".
Jay slowly looked down at his forearm that Rebecca treated after he met her hours ago and then to the one he had just received "This can't be happening" he said after flipping the page of the report and continuing to read through it.
"Early symptoms are as followed. Occasional blurred vision, excessive fatigue, random and eventually painful muscle spasms, dizzy spells and a massive burning sensation immediately followed by the entire body flinching".
Silently turning the page and reading through the next report he remembered what Rebecca told him back in the residence outside the mansion, she was feeling really tired like every muscle in her body was numb and her vision kept getting blurry. "Dammit" he quietly yelled slamming his fist against the table "There's got to be something to stop this from happening".
Quickly reading through the rest of the report he found nothing, but reports on the T-virus and failed experiments. Just as he was about to throw the file off the table he saw two set of numbers scribbled on the back of the file's folder. Reading over them he took a pen from the nearby shelf and wrote the two sets of numbers on his bandage before setting it aside.
"All right what should I do?" he asked himself leaning back in the chair. After thinking in silence for a few minutes he came to a decision "I need to find a computer and copy every single bit of data to a disk for evidence, after that I need to find something that can stop this virus from claiming me as well".
With his goal in mind Jay jumped from his seat and walked out of the conference room with his gun ready and his mind set he quickly walked down the steel stairs Chris and Rebecca took when they separated. Entering the next hall he steeled himself as he heard the familiar moaning sounds of a nearby zombie.
A/N. I know I really screwed up the tunnel section, but in my defense its the most boring part of the game and I wanted to get through it as quickly as possible.
Aside from the tunnel's it is really hard for me to remember the layout of the lab so I will be going off memory, so in the next chapter things might seem a little different, I will apologize a head of time for that.
I decided to add the 'symptoms' of the T-virus to add to the story's effect, taking the details from each T-virus report from the games I placed them all into one file to give the less experienced Resident Evil fans a brief look into the virus itself.