Quickly sliding the clip out of his pistol Jay counted his remaining ammunition before sliding the clip back into the gun's handle. Taking a quick breath Jay said to himself "All right then. Its game time"
Quietly proceeding down the steel hall Jay looked around the corner, the zombie he heard had its back to him. Standing in the center of the hall moaning the zombie proved to be an easy target for the young mercenary as he quickly crept over to it and pistol whipped the back of its head. As the zombie stumbled forward in a stunned state Jay snapped its neck dropping the dirt covered corpse to the floor.
Quietly continuing down the hall Jay barely managed to jump back as another zombie lunged at him. Flipping his gun around in his hand Jay held his ground as he waited for the monster to face him. The monster slowly turned its head before turning to face Jay and creeping toward him. Once the monster was within arm reach Jay swung his arm out and slammed the butt of his pistol into its temple. The impact sent the monster into the steel wall with an audible moan the zombie slid backwards down the wall before slowly trying to get back to its feet.
Quickly flipping the pistol back to its rightful position Jay pinned the zombie's neck against the floor and placed the barrel of the gun in its mouth before angling it up and pulling the trigger back. The gunshot echoed through the hall as the monster's blood splattered through the top of its skull "That's two" Jay grunted as he pushed himself back to his feet.
Opening the door that the zombie cut him off from Jay's eyes were immediately caught by a computer screen that was flashing. Placing his hand on the back of the monitor it was still relatively cold, whoever used it wasn't there for long and it couldn't have been more than a few minutes ago. "Let's see what you can tell me" he said sitting at the desk and immediately going through the various files on the computer.
Seeing several highly detailed reports, photos as well as short video logs of different experiments of the T-virus Jay scoffed when he saw the name of one of the researchers "William Deleon". "Now I'm definitely gonna kill him" he said as he slid open the top drawer and grabbed a disk "Let's get as much as we can as evidence".
Sliding the disk into the computer Jay copied everything he could to the disk "Part one complete. Now let's see if I can find anything about an anti-virus" he said as he began looking through the reports again. Reading the file left by who he guessed to be the last researcher that was left alive Jay learned the most of the anti-virus was used to try and save a few others, but the virus had spread too much in their systems. A video log in the file auto played its last recording.
A man who seemed to be in his late 20's was sitting at a desk talking about the anti-virus results he seemed to be in great pain. "The anti-virus had a 100% success rate against the virus if administered within an hour of infection. Further experiments have shown that each hour lowers the chance for the anti-virus' effectiveness. So if one were to be infected for more than a few hours the chance for the anti-virus to help them is slim… I shouldn't have agreed to this, these monsters can't be stopped with the weapons we have down here. They're just not effective enough against them, I managed to barricade myself in here, but I'm infected and there's no hope of me reaching the anti-virus with those things in the halls. I won't let this virus turn me into one of those things so after I end this report I will take my own life…Annabel if this video somehow manages to find its way to you I want to say I'm sorry and I love y"…The researcher stopped and began gagging painful before dropping forward and sliding off the desk.
A familiar man holding a scalpel knife was standing behind him, he was wearing a hazard suit so Jay could just barely make out his face "William". The man leaned forward and turned off the recording.
Jay leaned back in the chair and rubbed his eyes trying to fight the fatigue that began running through him. "There's got to be some left, my luck isn't that bad I know there's got to be at least one piece left". Jay paused when he remembered that both he and Rebecca were infected, and they have been for over an hour. Jay had gotten bit twice the first just over five hours ago, and Rebecca had gotten bit about two hours afterwards. He had to accept the fact that if he only managed to find one sample of the anti-virus he would have to make a choice between himself and Rebecca.
Jay got up from the chair and removed the disk from the computer "I'll cross that bridge when I get to it" he said firmly as he set the disk in a small protective case and placing it in his supply pack. Looking back in the drawer he opened he found two clips that matched his pistol and smiled as he took them "Like I said. My luck isn't that bad".
After sliding the two clips into his belt he turned for the door and exited the room. "Jay" Samantha's voice cried. Jay turned to his right to see Sam running over to him "Sam you made it" Jay said closing the door behind him "Where's Stephen?"
Sam looked down the hall "He went through another door, but we agreed to look in the same hall. After I finished searching the room I was in I returned to the hall, but he disappeared" Sam paused to catch her breath and check her remaining ammunition "That was about twelve minutes ago I haven't been able to find him".
Jay placed his hand on her shoulder and looked into her eyes "Sam have you been bitten or injured by these creatures at all?"
Sam looked at Jay a little confused by his question, but she shook her head "No. I've managed to avoid being hit, but those green things we killed back in the mansion were a bit exhausting".
Jay let out a huge sigh of relief before turning his attention down the hall "All right let's find Stephen he should be closest. After that we should place priority on finding Chris and Rebecca, we lost Chase a while ago and must take the worst into consideration. We still have to find a way to signal the S.T.A.R.S helicopter so let's get moving".
Sam led Jay back to the hall where she lost track of Stephen and showed him what she found in the two rooms. A few handgun rounds and what looks like projector slides. Jay told her "Keep those with you. They might have some information we can use once we're out of here".
Samantha nodded in agreement before the two of them continued down the hall, reaching the end they looked at both sides a door at each end. "Which way you think?" Jay asked her.
Sam nodded towards the door on the right and turned that way, just when they reached the door they heard a rapid burst of gunshots from the other side. "That was automatic fire. It's got to be Stephen" Jay yelled kicking the door open. Entering the next room with his gun drawn Jay froze when he saw Stephen hanging from something. Looking at the ceiling he saw a scaly, black humanoid creature holding him by his head "Stephen" Jay yelled aiming his gun at the monster and firing several shots into its back.
The monster shrieked in pain before dropping Stephen and attempting to retreat across the ceiling. Sam ran over to Stephen while Jay fired another shot into the monster which dropped off the ceiling and flailed about on the ground before curling its arms and legs in dead.
"Stephen" Jay yelled once more rushing over to him and Sam. Samantha was holding her hand over Stephen's bleeding neck trying to keep pressure on the wound. Stephen had a fearful look in his eyes has he fought to breathe, but it was clear that his throat was slit and he wasn't going to make it. Stephen turned his eyes over to Jay and gave him a shaky smile, Stephen tried to mouth something, but he died in mid sentence.
Stephen's head fell to the side and his eyes slowly closed as his grip on Samantha's hand quickly loosened and his hand dropped to the floor. Sam began crying over their fallen partner which only made Jay angrier, but the sound of an air duct cover falling from the wall told him that he didn't have time to mourn.
Aiming his gun at the exposed air duct Jay waited for something to come out of it. Still on her knees Samantha was silently crying while holding her gun at the same duct. Jay lowered his gun an inch, but from behind him another duct cover fell to the floor and he spun around holding his aim firm.
Another monster emerged from the duct and dropped to the floor and immediately began scurrying over to Sam with its claws held out. Jay quickly fired several rounds into the monster before it fell back in the same death rattle as the one that killed Stephen. "Jay behind you" Samantha cried as another one emerged from the vent behind them and quickly made its way across the ceiling and picked up Jay the same way the other held Stephen.
"The hell you will" Jay grunted quickly aiming his gun over his shoulder and pulling the trigger, firing more rounds than normal into the monster's body. After the sixth shot the monster released Jay and immediately fell to the ground before flailing and curling up in a death rattle. Breathing heavily Jay kicked the monster away from him before sitting next to Samantha who still had a frightened expression.
"Let's get out of here before more show up" Jay said after catching his breath and getting to his feet. Samantha knew he was right, but she just watched a friend die in front of her she had been a mercenary for almost six years and never had a team member die on a mission she was scared of whatever was causing all of this she just wanted to get out of this place and away from the city as far away from this nightmare as possible.
Jay held his hand out for her which she took and he pulled her to her feet "We still have to find the others and a way to signal the S.T.A.R.S chopper otherwise we're gonna be stuck here for a while" he said as he removed Stephen's dog tags and I.D. card placing them in his supply pack.
Making a quick survey of the room Jay and Samantha decided to move on since there was nothing useful for them. Opening the next door they saw William running at the end of the hall and turning to the right "I'll kill that bastard" Jay growled before bolting after him.
"Jay wait" Sam called after him. Jay didn't stop he kept running down the hall giving Sam no choice, but to chase after him. Jay turned the corner and went through the door William left open with his gun drawn. "Jay stop" Sam yelled once more as she turned the corner. Just as Sam reached the door it slammed shut and electronically locked itself form inside leaving Sam alone in the hall.
"Jay. Jay!" she cried slamming her fist against the steel door trying to reach him. The door a few yards behind her opened and a shrill shriek echoed through the hall, turning around Sam saw a Hunter just as it crouched forward and started running toward her. Sam swore as she loaded a fresh clip into her pistol and began firing at the monster which merely flinched with each bullet that hit it.
Sam pulled the trigger again, but something inside the gun snapped and the inner chamber clicked. "No" Sam cried just as the Hunter reached the fork in the hall. When the Hunter made it to the fork in the hall it shrieked as it readied itself to leap at her. Sam held her arms in front of her waiting for the monster to rush over to her, but she heard a loud thud and the Hunter shrieking in surprise before a shotgun blast rang through the hall followed immediately by the Hunter's death rattle.
Sam slowly lowered her arms and looked at where the monster was standing the door next to it had swung open and knocked it forward. Standing behind the dead monster was a man dressed in brown tactical gear with an automatic shotgun in his hands, Chase.
"Chase" Sam cried getting to her feet as he ran over to her. "Are you all right Sam?" he asked her checking her for injuries.
"I'm fine, but Stephen is…he's" Sam couldn't help herself she grabbed hold of Chase and cried into his shoulder the thought of loosing Stephen was too fresh in her mind and the pain was still too much.
Chase wrapped his right arm around her to comfort her as stared at the locked door Jay and William went through. "Sam have you seen Jay? I got separated from him in the tunnels".
Sam managed to compose herself and pointed at the door "He chased William through this door, but it closed and locked itself before I could get through" Sam backed away from Chase and gave him a frantic look "What are we going to do? Jay is alone in there with William, Jay doesn't stand a chance. William will kill him".
Chase placed his hand on her shoulder "I know you're scared Sam, but we have to stay calm and think. I unlocked a control room down the next hall, if we can find an override command we might be able to get through. Come on let's go".
Following Chase down the hall he came out of Sam made one last glance at the door Jay went through before closing the one behind her.
"Over here" Chase said opening a door halfway down the hall. Inside the room were various large observation computers and microphones sitting at each terminal. "Let's see if I can find the camera to that room" Chase said as he began working on the controls. "Found them".
Sam walked over to him and watched the monitor that showed Jay staring down William both of them holding their guns at one another. "We have to do something" Sam said in a shaky tone. Chase nodded as he began searching for an override code for the door.
Inside the small lab, Jay held his gun firmly as he stared down William. "This is how it is huh kid?" he said with a smug voice "I'm impressed that you managed to survive this long especially considering your little medical emergency. I guess if the virus won't kill you I'll have to".
Jay kept his gun on William as he quickly darted his eyes to his forearms "I'd lose the smug attitude if I were you. Regardless of what happens to me there are only two outcomes to this. And in both of them you die".
William laughed as he reached behind him and pressed a button on the console. The lights around the room came to life and Jay gasped when he saw the giant tubes around the room a couple had different monsters and half mutated creatures in them floating in the water "Don't you see boy. The T-virus is unstable if not used properly. I told them that random testing would end in such a disaster, but they wouldn't listen. So I arranged a surprise for them one that would show them how 'controllable' these creatures really are".
Jay shifted his stance to a more stable form while keeping his gun on William "You caused the virus to spread throughout the estate?"
William nodded his head to the side "More or less. I didn't expect it to spread this badly, but it doesn't matter. Umbrella will still see how dangerous it is to experiment this recklessly. The T-virus should be used in a more contained environment, not in some underground lab with a network of air ducts that would easily spread it to the rest of the staff".
Jay cut him off "If that's how all this started why did you accept this mission? Why didn't you just turn it down and let someone else handle it? Or did you come along to see how effect your little BIO weapons are? You just brought us down here to gather information on a field test is that it?"
William laughed again before speaking "Not exactly, but close enough. You see gathering field data on the BIO weapons were Wesker's orders not mine; I just decided to bring a few extra test subjects ones with a little more life and death experience. You know to give these creatures a more thorough testing".
"Wesker? S.T.A.R.S leader Wesker? He's in on this!" Jay yelled.
"I guess that's a big shock to you kid. Care to see what he's up to now?" William said turning around and activating the monitor behind him.
The screen showed a small hallway where Wesker was holding both Chris and Rebecca at gunpoint admitting that he had killed the leader of the Bravo team. "Just like this" Wesker said before he turned his gun to Rebecca and shot her.
As Rebecca fell back Jay yelled "No", but William quickly turned around and shot him in the shoulder. After Jay fell to the ground William walked over to him "And now kid it's your turn" he said with his gun fixated on him.
Jay clutched his right shoulder where he was shot trying to put enough pressure on it to stop it from bleeding too much. William smirked as he stood over Jay and pointed his gun at his head "Good night kid".
Jay took his chance and quickly turned on his side and kicked William in the edge of his shin. The second Jay hit him William locked up in pain as he dropped his gun and fell to his knees holding his leg and grunting in immense pain.
Jay got up and shot William in his side which made him fall over. "If you're wondering what just happened I'll tell ya. You see there's a nerve that runs along the edge of your shin, if hit correctly you'll lock up in pain and double over before your brain even acknowledges that you're in pain" Jay shot William in his arm as he tried reaching for his gun. "Now tell me where the anti-virus is" he demanded while keeping out of William's reach.
"If you kill me you'll never find out before the virus kills you. Now since you can't kill me…" William was cut off as Jay shot another round into his hand.
"You were saying?" Jay asked holding his gun firm "Anti-virus now!"
William smiled painfully which scared Jay as he realized why and spun around slamming the butt of his gun into the head of the zombie that tried to creep up on him. Firing two rounds into the monster's head Jay turned around just as William grabbed his gun with his good hand and shot him in the center of his neck.
William fell back trying in vain to gasp for air as he bled out. "Good night William" Jay said as the traitor died.
Jay placed his gun back in its holster and walked over to the console William was using and saw that Wesker had taken Chris into the next room; Rebecca however was lying on the floor motionless. "Dammit" Jay yelled slamming his hand against the cooler sitting on the desk next to him. Hearing something inside the cooler rattle Jay opened it up and a cold steam hissed its way out.
Inside the cooler were several spiral vials of dark green liquid and an injection gun with a matching slot for them. Behind that was another holder with a single spiral vial of dark blue liquid. The labels on the two cases respectively read "T anti-virus, and T-virus".
Jay lowered his head and said "Of course there's enough for the both of us, of course she would die just as I found the anti-virus". Jay looked at the injection gun and took it out of the cooler before loading it with one of the anti-virus vials. Using a rubber strap to tie just behind his elbow he slapped the upper part of his lower arm several times to get the veins to press against his skin.
When the veins showed Jay pushed the needle of the injector into his skin and pulled its trigger injecting a full vial of the anti-virus into his bloodstream. Setting the injector down Jay walked over to a computer in the corner of the room and sat down. The screen read "Virus Reader". Using a needle from the computer to prick himself Jay set the sample into the machine and waited. After a few seconds the screen showed that Jay's body had been purged of the virus.
"That's that then. Let's get out of this place" he said to himself as he got up and walked over to the console where he left the injector. "I'm going to make sure Umbrella goes down" he said taking the last vial of the T-virus and placing it in the slot where the anti-virus vial he used was. Placing the cover back on the case Jay opened the locker next to the desk and took a small metal briefcase out and opened it. It was a temperature case to keep the virus and anti-virus at the right temperature as to not ruin them.
Placing the virus case into the briefcase and the injector along with the rubber strap he used Jay closed the case and locked it. Taking one last look at the monitor Jay's eyes widened when he saw Rebecca getting to her feet. "Please tell me she's ok" he said as he waited to see what would happen.
Rebecca held her hand over her shoulder and rolled it back "Good thing I had my protective vest on" she said as she looked at the door Chris went through. Jay quickly looked over the controls to the console trying to find a switch for the speakers "There" he yelled as he flipped a switch.
The speaker in the corner of the hall Rebecca was in screeched as it came to life. "Rebecca can you hear me?" Jay cried into the mic.
Back in the hall Rebecca looked up at the speaker "Jay? Where are you? Are you all right?"
"I'm fine. Listen you're infected with the virus that caused all of this. You have to make your way to me so I can administer the anti-virus otherwise you'll die and turn into one of those monsters".
"What?" Rebecca gasped at the speaker. Looking down at her arm she remembered the zombie that bit her on her way back to the guardhouse "Where are you?" she said just as the door next to her opened and Chris returned to the hall. "Chris you're all right. Thank goodness".
Chris seemed surprised to see Rebecca still alive "Its good to see you're all right as well we should get out of here and find a way to signal Brad".
"Not just yet Chris" Jay said through the speaker which seemed to surprise Chris. "Rebecca's infected, but I have the anti-virus. Only problem is the room I'm locked in is locked electronically and I don't know the code to open it so you're going to have to find a way to open this door so I can administer the anti-virus to her".
"Where are you?" Chris asked him.
"I'm on Basement floor 2 in the third hallway of the back 2nd door" Make you're way here while I work on trying to figure out this code" Jay said as he stepped away from the terminal.
"That won't be necessary Kid" Chase's voice said from the speakers both in the hall and from the terminal. "I'm in the command room that's on the same hall as you and I think I've found the override code. I'm opening the door now, get out of there and Sam and I will meet you in the hall".
After Chase finished speaking the door behind Jay clicked. "Chris, Rebecca meet us at the main hall as quickly as you can" he said before grabbing the case from the terminal and drawing his gun from its holsters and heading out the door.
In the hall Jay saw Samantha and Chase coming from the next hall and called over to them. "Jay are you ok?" Samantha cried seeing the gunshot wound in Jay's left shoulder.
"I'm fine for now we can worry about this later let's get going" he said as he led them back to the main hall to meet up with Chris and Rebecca.
A/N. Well its been two months, but here it is Chapter 8. I hope you enjoy it because I put more work than usual into it.
The next chapter will be the last one, so to make sure it's worth it I'm going to put everything I've got into it. Also to keep in the spirit of the 1st Resident Evil game I will be adding another chapter to cover "Alternate Endings". Why you ask? "Why the hell not?"