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Chapter 1: Working for Umbrella
Its conscience awoke.
Where…am…I?
Its eyes opened slowly, and they stung. Something was surrounding it, pushing itself against its skin.
Am I…dreaming?
Two blurred figures were standing behind some kind of protection screen, and they seemed to be looking at it. Bubbles came from nowhere and hurriedly made their way to the surface. It looked up, and it looked around. It was enclosed in some sort of tank.
What?…Why?…
It then lost conscience, but nonetheless, still alive.
2023 - 4pm
Luca, the twin city of Raccoon City would always start life early. The sun wouldn't even be up yet, its would take an hour for it to rise from behind the mountains that loomed in the distance to the North.
The city itself was laden with skyscrapers and homes, with a rich and healthy environment, the city itself gleamed when the sun would shine down upon it. The city would always be gleaming in the sunshine, very rare would it be raining or snowing, cold or icy, the sun was always the best thing about Luca city that made the city itself one of the many attractive cities in the world.
It was a city of beauty, a city of learning, and a city of health. But it was a city with a terrible secret, a secret kept from the residents of Luca city.
Returning home from their holiday in Spain, were the Kidner family, a family of three. They had been driving for hours, the wife Sophia Kidner was fast asleep, her head resting on the window, the man Erik Kidner looked over and smiled at his wife as she slept. In the back of the car was their seven year old daughter, Kaycie Kidner. Kaycie was wide awake watching the skies as the stars twinkled down on her.
The Kidner family were wealthy, they owned a Photoshop, and they got a good wage from their job.
Erik drove past fifty, his wife woke up from her sleep, she instantly saw a familiar looking city, she was home.
"What time is it?" she asked yawning.
"Morning. Its just gone four, another forty minutes we will be home." replied Erik. He slowed down as he approached some traffic lights which were on red.
As he slowed down, he could faintly hear the radio, he turned it up to listen to it.
"You are listening to LCFM, and now for the latest news update by Shawn Connors."
"Good morning to those who are awake, it looks like its going to be another beautiful morning in Luca city this morning, and now for the main headlines." the news tune came next. "The sudden mass murders which struck the city almost three weeks ago are increasing. Reports of witnesses say that normal city folk have turned into cannibals. Luca City Police Department have even begun to call in more backup. The S.T.A.R.S team have been called in to help with the insuring mass murders. At this time we are asking people not to panic as the situation is being declared safe and under control."
Erik stopped behind the white line and looked up at the red light.
"It seems we have been missing out on a few things here." Erik said.
"Mass murder, do you think we should be worried or-"
"Nah," Erik said cutting across his wife, "besides you heard the man, he said it is declared safe and under control."
"That's what they all say." Sophia said. "In case you don't recall, remember Raccoon City-"
"Yes, but this isn't Raccoon City, this is Luca City."
"Then there was the world." Sophia said.
"Okay listen," Erik said, "You think that we are going to have another worldwide pandemic? One with the undead rising from the ground, devil dogs, mutated beasts such as spiders, birds, bats, wolves and so on, you think that the world will dry up and slowly die? Honey that was years ago. Yes Umbrella was behind it, but that doesn't mean it going to happen again, and besides remember the outcome? The virus which caused this died out back in 2014, okay so the world is slowly getting back to its feet, but it's not going to happen again." Erik said reassuring his wife.
In the back of the car Kaycie who ignored her parents conversation was still looking up at the sky, only for her attention to be drawn to a person who was limping, its head down, its clothes ripped, she thought she could see smears of blood on the persons arm, but she couldn't tell due to the darkness. Even the orange lights didn't seem to help either.
"Mummy, Daddy, look at that!" she pointed to the person who was limping on the sidewalk.
They saw the man limping on the sidewalk. "Must have had a few too many." Erik said laughing a little. "What is taking these lights so long to change?" Erik asked himself.
Kaycie kept her eyes on the person who was limping. Then rather suddenly the person turned to face the car. The person raised its head slightly. Kaycie waved at the man, but the man didn't wave back. Kaycie then turned away from the person and looked out of the window opposite her.
Then a sudden thumping sound on the window which was on Erik's sidE caused his to jump, as he saw the person - who was a man - whom he thought was drunk pounding on the window. He had blood around his mouth, and one of his eyes were bloodshot, while the other eyes was half in its socket, it was as if someone had chewed part of his eye away.
"What the fu-" the pounding of the man smashed the window into a thousand pieces, which flew at Sophia cutting her face, Kaycie screamed as she saw the man grab her father.
Then the man that grabbed her father, opened its mouth and bit into the fathers' neck, his struggling effort to push the attacker away was useless. The father let out an anguish scream as the man bit into the father's neck.
"DADDY!" Kaycie screamed.
"ERIK!" Sophia screamed also.
The person stopped attacking Erik and then turned its focus on Kaycie, it slammed itself against the window of where Kaycie sat, the window cracked. Kaycie screamed again, more louder than before.
"ERIK!" Sophia screeched. Erik sat there, his eyes opened, sitting motionless. "Kaycie, take off your seatbelt and get out of the car!" Sophia said quickly.
As Sophia took of her seatbelt, Erik's eyes shot towards his wife, his head slowly turned to face her, Sophia caught his sudden movement.
"Erik?" she said quietly. Then he lunged at her, biting into her neck. "ERIK, LET GO!" she screamed as his teeth sank into her neck, biting into her flesh.
"MUMMY!" Kaycie shouted.
"RUN KAYCIE, JUST RUN!" Sophia told her daughter.
Kaycie unbuckled her seatbelt at last, and crawled to get to the other side of the car door, she tried to open the door, but it wouldn't budge. Then the person who attacked her father smashed through the window, its hand reached across to grab Kaycie. It let out a groaning sound.
"KAYCIE, GET O-" Sophia stopped talking suddenly. Her father suddenly started to eat her mother.
Kaycie was trapped, she tried the door again, but it was locked, with the attacker reaching to grab her, and her father eating her mother. There was nowhere she could go. Again she screamed at the top of her lungs, hoping for someone to hear her.
2029 - Umbrella Research Facility - Luca City - 10am
Waiting in reception in one of the worlds most largest and famous research laboratories on earth, Alexandra Beecham, waited in lobby of an Umbrella Laboratory building. She was sitting along a small row of chairs, with other people waiting to be seen to other matters.
A tannoy of a woman with a sexy voice sounded in the clean white lobby.
"Welcome to the Umbrella Corporation, all visitors please report to the lobby."
"The Umbrella Corporation is a clean and healthy environmental company."
"In the case of an outbreak please remain calm and stay where you are."
"Please feel free to ask any questions concerning the company itself."
"Please feel free to use the lobby's leisure suits while waiting."
"You may buy products from the Umbrella Corporation online, or at any pharmaceutical store purchased by Umbrella."
"Umbrella, our business is life itself."
Alexandra, long black hair, blue eyes, smartly dressed, sighed heavily. She noticed a few men looking at her rather attractively. Every time she looked at them, they would quickly glance away.
The place she was in was cool, tidy and extremely white. She saw a few lab technicians walk around with clipboards, with the company logo on the front. Even their lab coats had a small logo pinned on them.
Alex knew that Umbrella was trouble, they were the cause of the billions of deaths which caused billions of people to turn into carnivorous mindless zombies. After numerous reports on suspected zombies that are said to be still alive, Alex decided to investigate. She used to work for S.T.A.R.S, the Special Tactics and Research Squad. She was one of the best, but she was suspended after killing one member of her team after that member got bitten by a zombie. She knew that infection was imminent.
She used to work alongside Jill Valentine for a short while before being in charge of a team of her own. She was the youngest S.T.A.R.S member ever to join the squad. She was 20 years old when she joined. And now at just 29 years old, she thought she'd do some investigation of her own.
Since Umbrella came back into action back in 2023 after stopping another zombie outbreak, she knew that they were up to something, and she had to get into the company to find out what that was. She preferred to do her job solo.
She spent years training to become a scientist, it was the only way she could get into Umbrella. And here she was.
"Alexandra Beecham?" called a woman over the desk.
She got up, walked up to the woman behind the desk and was given a visitors badge.
"Take the escalator up to the next floor, and find an elevator and take it all the way to the top of the building." the woman said. Alex thanked the woman and proceeded to the nearest escalator, stepped on it and allowed it to take her to the next floor.
As she reached the top floor, she saw gangways, balconies and conference rooms. Etched in large red letterings at the far side of the floor she was on was the words 'Floor 0' with the logo of the company engraved largely behind the lettering.
She saw an elevator nearby, she pressed the button and waited for the lift to reach her level. She looked at counter above as the lift reached her level. It no time, the doors to the lift open.
"Floor 0" a mechanical voice said from within the lift. Alex entered the lift, the doors closed behind her. She pushed the button for the top floor, the lift moved. Music was being played as the lift moved, classical music.
As she waited for the lift to reach her destination, she noticed that she was being watched, a live CCTV feed was placed in two corners of the lift, one in the front and one in the back. She found this suspicious, Alex knew that one camera was enough for a lift. She wouldn't be surprised if the company was paranoid and did everything they could to prevent something similar such as another outbreak.
Finally the lift stopped and the doors opened. "Floor 20"
The door opened, and there standing in front of the lift doors was a man, he wore black rubber clothing, and had black gelled hair. His eyes were blood red, and had bags under his eyes, he looked like he hadn't got a wink of sleep "Alexandra Beecham?" the man said firmly. Alex nodded. "Follow me please." the man said threateningly.
The man led her down a long corridor with no doors or rooms, along the sides of the walls were the Umbrella logo. At the far end of the corridor were white double doors, the man pushed the doors opened wide and Alex followed him in. The man then left Alex alone. Inside Alex saw herself standing in her view of what seems to be a large laboratory.
There were tables, and on those tables were bodies of humans, they looked like they were being experimented on. I wouldn't be a surprise to her. They looked like grey bloodless Zombies. She also noticed that they were all wearing white sheets over them.
"Our business is life itself!" said a firm voice from nowhere. Alex jumped as by her side was a man, her wore a long black overcoat, black gloves, black boots, he was also wearing black shaded glasses. Alex noticed that he had blonde gelled hair.
"These are the last remaining zombies on this planet, we are trying to find a way to turn them back." the man said.
"What about the virus?" Alex asked concerned.
"No trace of it. We are trying out a number of tests to change them back, but luck seems to have run out on us. Day by day, a body dies, and we have no choice but to dispose of them." the man said cruelly.
Alex examined the bodies thoroughly. "They seem to be in some sort of suspended animation,"
"Go on," the man said firmly.
"Animation which puts them into a deep controlled coma, allowing you to keep them alive and to perform surgery on them." Alex said rather fast.
"We slowed their ageing by 1%, I bet you know how we did that, am I right?" asked the man.
"A highly adapted virus which changes the DNA of a person," the man nodded at Alex's answer, "but changing ones DNA is almost impossible," she said.
"Not impossible for the G-Virus its not," the man said to her.
Alex thought, she heard that name before. "Wasn't the G-Virus the cause of the outbreak which nearly brought the human race to extinction?"
"That was the Tyrant Virus, or the T-Virus as we call it here. The G-Virus, or Gene for its official name, was created by one William Birkin, he was researching on a cure to the Ebola Virus, something in which he became obsessed with, he was later promoted to another project, and within that project he created the G-Virus. Sadly William was killed, and all traces of the Virus were destroyed. We took over the project which we named 'G', and we fashioned ourselves a brand new G-Virus, one which changes the DNA of humans, of course the change is only temporary, the Virus dies out after a fortnight, we cannot have another outbreak on our hands. I like to call it the G-Virus.2" the man said.
Alex was getting suspicious, it wasn't like Umbrella to be cautious of an outbreak. Then again she was always suspicious of the company.
"In which case, we need a new head of Virologist, I read your file, used to work for WilPharma, Tricell,"
"All failed companies," Alex added.
The man nodded, "Straight A's in your exams, lots of certificates in science, medals, won the state county science fair 12 times. Impressive. So what brings you to Umbrella anyway?" the man asked, throwing Alex off guard. She quickly thought up an excuse.
"Since working with WilPharma and Tricell, I have been…obsessed with trying to find cures for the world. I came close once to finding a cure for Cancer," the man was interested in this, "I started working out that radiation isn't the cure, we all know that it prolongs Cancer cells, sorts of suspends them shall we say. Cancer cells are like normal cells which mutate and can spread, so I worked out of the box and started experimenting on such medicines such as healing herbs, antiseptic cream, meat, butter even, you never know unless you try,"
"Indeed." the man said in which seemed like a groan.
"One outcome was positive, I started to make notes, knowing I was nearing the end of my research, and they close the project down. Starting on finding ways of creating a virus for military purposes. Then I left. Both companies shut down my project just because I was close to finding a cure for Cancer. I could have saved millions." Alex said, she lied very well, even the man brought her lies.
"Well, I think I have found my new head of virologist research, welcome aboard Professor Alexandra Beecham." the mad said, he held out his hand. Hesitantly Alex shook his hand.
"I've got the job?" asked a gob smacked Alex.
"You are a sure thing Alex. Don't mind if I call you Alex do you?" Alex shook her head. "We need more of your kind here. Congratulations."
"Thank you sir." Alex thanked him immensely. "So, what is my job, exactly?" she asked the man.
"We want you, Alex, to be the head of a programme. We are moving forward in the world, and its about time the world stopped delaying in finding cures for the world. In today's society we are hoping to make history. You, Alex, will take up the head of the VT Project, titled 'Project Virus Talk'. We need you to find a way on how to communicate with viruses." the man said.
"Communicate? Isn't that highly impossible?" Alex asked.
"I don't find things in life impossible, just…" the man stopped and then thought, it was difficult for Alex to know what the man was thinking, considering he was wearing black shades, "delayed." he said finally.
"I see, so you want me to attempt the impossible and find a way to communicate with viruses?" the man nodded. "And how am I suppose to do that may I ask?"
"Anyway you can, its like you said, 'you never know unless you try'." the man said.
Alex thought, she had only been in the company for about a minute, and already was getting work from whom she presumed was her boss.
"I'll devote myself to the project and see what I can do." Alex said, she had no idea why she said that.
"Excellent, welcome to the company." the man said in a whisper.
"Thank you, sir." said Alex.
"Please, call me Wesker."
2033 - Present Day - Umbrella Research Facility - Luca City - 2.50pm
Since Alex joined Umbrella nearly four years ago, she had some difficulties in adapting to her new surroundings, for starters, she was kicking herself for joining a ruthless company that killed billions of people.
Although she was briefed on the company back when she was working for S.T.A.R.S. she became cautious of everything around her. Even working for Umbrella she wasn't entirely convinced that they had changed their ways. But as the days, weeks and months passed by, she began to think that they had changed their ways, still it was safe to be on guard.
Since being appointed head virologist, she set forth in her task on finding a way to communicate with viruses, something she found to be impossible.
She was isolated most of the times in a small laboratory, with four computer and four laptops, a shelf full of chemicals, and a large metal table in which to do experiments on.
Alex wore her lab coat, which was pale white with a pocket to put her pen and pencils in and the company logo which had been knitted on. Outside the big metal door she could hear the Umbrella tannoy reminding all employees of the rules.
Alex was looking through a microscope, through the lens she saw tiny little organisms called the Coronavirus. She was seeing how it operated, trying to study the way it acted. She knew that every single virus had a pattern to follow, she just needed to follow that pattern, if only she could find it.
Suddenly the door to the laboratory opened. And three people came into the room, they shut the door and locked it. It was standard procedure to lock all laboratory doors, it was the only way to stop the risk of an outbreak.
One of the three people, a coloured man, walked up to Alex and tapped her on the shoulder, given her a nudge wich she nearly knocked the virus itself off the table.
"How's it going me old Prof?"
"Watch it Nate! Last time a virus got loose we had to spend six hours locked in quarantine until it was safe." Alex warned.
Nate chuckled. Nate was the joker of the team short black hair, brown dreamy eyes, muscle built, he was like the boy that every girl would go for second, sort of like a back up. "So what's the agenda for today?"
"It's the same as usual Nate, find a way to communicate with viruses, that's all it is these days." said a woman. The woman called Georgia was what every boy looked for, beautiful, hot, gorgeous, 'Gorgeous Georgia' was what Nate liked to call her, he was the only person in the company who had a crush on her that he tried so hard to keep hidden. The thing was everyone knew he liked Georgia, except Georgia of course, and Nate honestly believed that no one noticed his ever-growing love for her. Georgia was a girl with light brown hair, and moonlight eyes, and her body was perfect as if carved by angels.
The Second girl, Ash, was more of a rebel, how she became a scientist no one knew, it was as if she practically fought her way into the company. Ash was slim, with black hair with red stripes. Her eyes were brown, and she did look like she was on drugs because of the bags under her eyes. Not once had anyone seen her smile.
"Late night, Ash?" Nate asked. "How many boys did you screw last night?"
"None of your damn business!" Ash said defensively.
"Ooh, feisty." Nate said smiling.
"Come on now you two, we have work to do." Alex reminded them, she went back looking through the lenses of the microscope.
"What are you doing?" asked Georgia curiously.
"I am studying the Coronavirus, trying to find some pattern on how it communicates with its other cells." replied Alex.
"Any luck?" Ash asked.
"Apart from its usual behaviour, that fact that it multiplies, and practically loves to merge with other viruses making it more resilient to that of Humans."
"Is it safe?" Georgia asked.
"Perfectly safe." Alex sighed, rubbed her eyes, and ran her hands through her hair.
"You need some rest Alex. When was it you got a good night sleep last?" Nate asked.
"I get nine hours sleep every night-"
"Not good enough!" said Nate interrupting her. "I suggest you go home, have a nice night sleep and come back fresh and awake." Nate said suggesting. "The same goes for you as well Ash."
"Fuck…off!" Ash grumbled.
Alex thought for a moment. "Well…I guess I could have some rest-" she stopped suddenly only to be captivated by a piece of her hair falling to the ground. She bent down and picked it up. She had just thought of something that only just occurred to her.
"Tell me, how many experiments have we ran with Project VT?" Alex asked them.
"Too many," Ash said in a low moan.
"I've lost count," Nate said.
"A lot," Georgia asked, "why?"
Alex smirked as she looked at her hair. "I just thought of something,"
"Have you really?" Nate said in disbelieve.
"Lightning has just struck my brain," Alex said smiling.
"That must hurt." Nate said chuckling a little.
"The only thing that hurts more is your dick going up a guys arse!" Ash said cruelly.
"Ouch, that was harsh, good comeback though." Nate said. Ash pulled a face at him.
Alex rolled her eyes at them, while Georgia smiled and laughed through her nose. "We have used many ways possible to communicate with a virus: computer technology, using symbols, different radio frequencies. And now I think I have the answer to our problems." she held up her hair.
Ash, Georgia and Nate, looked at her hair, they weren't quite sure what she was insisting.
"What are you asking us to do?" Nate asked continuously looking at her hair. "Shave our heads?"
"No!" Alex said frustrated. "Many viruses like to merge with other organisms, so what if it merges with a skin cell or a hair particle. Maybe, just maybe, we can create a living virus." Alex said smiling.
"You are suggesting that we create a Human/Virus Hybrid?" Ash asked not fully understanding Alex's previous statement.
"I am not suggesting. I am asking you to create a Human/Virus Hybrid!" said Alex, she smiled, impressed with her brainstorm on finding a way to communicate with viruses.
There we have it, the first chapter in the Umbrella series, there will be more zombies, guns, blood and guts and swears in the coming stories, just be patient, i am building up the suspense.
Please review and tell me what you would like to see in the following stories to come, i would appreciate your ideas and suggestions.
Will try and get second chapter up soon. Till then, see ya real soon.
SoulVirus.