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Chapter 2: Blood
It was the end of her shift, and Alex was making her way though the reception when she caught the sight of some commotion. Two men where apprehending someone, a young girl. She could not have been more than 17 years old.
Alex caught a glimpse of the commotion. She saw the girl shouting at the top of her voice.
"YOU BASTARDS! YOU MURDERED MY PARENTS, MY FAMILY! I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL FUCKING KILL ALL OF YOU!"
Alex's eyes narrowed in suspicion. Murdered the girl said. This was news to Alex. Alex saw the girl get thrown out. She saw her land hard on her face; she saw her struggle to get up. As the girl got up and straightened herself out, wiping the blood that was trickling down her chin she shouted more. "DON'T THINK I'M GONNA LET YOU GET AWAY WITH THIS!"
The girl left. Alex was suspicious, what had Umbrella done to that girls' parents made her wonder, maybe Umbrella hadn't changed their ways, but she wasn't going to jump to conclusions just yet.
She put aside the scene she just saw and headed off for home.
X X X
On floor 20, Wesker, head of the company was watching the whole company from his luxury office. On the many CCTV monitors, he saw the girl who was chucked out, followed by Alex who was making her way home.
Walking up behind him came one of his trusted servants.
"Yes, Gupta, what is it?" Wesker asked continuously looking at the screen.
"We've had another complaint from the outside world just moments ago." Gupta said.
"Yes I know, I saw it on the monitor." said Wesker. He turned to face Gupter, the same man who escorted Alex to him. Wesker, was wearing the same clothes and outfit, with the same black leather coat, and his black shades. He seemed to like black.
"Shouldn't we do something about it?" asked a concerned Gupta.
"No need. No one is going to listen to her, everyone thinks we have changed. No one can know of our true goal in nature, not even if they tried." Wesker smiled evilly at Gupta, while Gupta had a blank expression on his face.
X X X
Alex lived in a small apartment, she preferred to keep her life to herself. She found the apartment purely by chance. She had been living there ever since her parents found out about her joining Umbrella. Since that day, she moved out after numerous amounts of fights with her parents.
By the time she returned home to her small apartment, changed into something more comfortable, she loaded up her laptop, and started to run simulations on if it was possible to combine a human skin cell with a virus.
She sat down at her table, eating some spaghetti bolognaise while working through her simulations. It was quite boring work simulations, looking and imputing data to see if the simulation will work in real life, after running about dozens of simulations, she closed down her laptop and made herself ready for bed.
Just as she was about to turn in, the phone rang, there was only one person who would call her. She let it rang until it went to voicemail. A woman's voice was heard through the speakerphone.
"Alex, it's your Mother, pick up the phone!…" she ignored her mother's voice. "This bickering has gone on for too long. I know you are there Alex, pick up the phone! Alex! Pick up the fucking phone!"
Alex reached across and picked up the phone.
"What?" she asked nearly shouting down the phone line.
"Alex come home, this is getting ridiculous," her mother said on the other side.
"No can do. Every time I come to visit you lot, you always start bad mouthing off about me joining Umbrella," she said.
"But that's the thing,"
"What's so bad about me joining Umbrella?" Alex said raising her voice a little.
"The fact that they caused the deaths of billions. Then out of the blue you join them. No reason whatsoever. I'll have you know when you was young, we barely survived the outbreak, and then you joined S.T.A.R.S. and you nearly get zombified-"
"I didn't get zombiefied!" Alex said now starting to get infuriated.
"All I am saying is that we barely made it out alive from the infection-"
"I know mom, I was there," Alex and her mother remained quiet for a few seconds.
"I am just saying: please leave that company, it's not good," the mother said pleading on the other end.
"I…I…cant, not yet," stammered Alex a little.
"What do you mean not yet?" asked the mother.
"I will tell you another time."
"But Ale-" Alex hung up. She sighed deeply. How could she tell her parents that she was investigating Umbrella on her own. It was too risky, even lying to her parents was a much bigger risk in itself.
She sat on her bed, her face in her hands, and yet again she sighed into them. She rubbed her eyes and laid on her back. As soon as her head hit the pillow, her eyes slowly fell over her eyes, and without her even noticing it, she was asleep.
She dreamt of nothing, just the blackness that was in front of her.
X X X
By the time Alex woke up from her dreamless sleep, got ready for another day at the Umbrella labs, something came back to her mind. The girl who got thrown out after mouthing off at the staff. She said that her parents were murdered by the company, what did she mean by that?
She decided not to linger any longer and made her way to Umbrella. It was the day where she was hoping to make contact with a virus.
X X X
As soon as Alex got out of her car, and walked to the main entrance of the Umbrella building, she noticed the girl from yesterday, the one who tried to get past security. She was standing in the middle of the parking lot looking at the building. Alex saw her cut lip swollen a little and a bruised eye on her right side of her face.
The girl didn't seem to notice Alex, so, carefully, Alex made her way into the building. As soon as she passed the doors and into the bright white lobby, Alex made her way to her laboratory which was on the third floor.
She walked through the many corridors of laboratories where she avoided and dodged many other Umbrella scientists. She made her way to her lab.
When she arrived at the metal door she got out her key card and swiped it through the card scanner. The keypad beeped, and the door opened. As she entered she saw two people in the room.
One of those people was Georgia, the other was her boss, Wesker.
"Sir?" said Alex surprised.
Wesker turned around slowly to face her. "Alex," he said firmly and coolly.
"To what do I owe this pleasure?"
"Only your research. I have been watching you over the past few years at the development of this project. In addition, I must say I was beginning to lose hope, until Miss Lewis here has told me that you have made some kind of progress. Am I right?" Wesker asked.
Alex nodded and then timidly she spoke. "I have a hunch that skin cells, hair particles and a virus could merge with one another creating a human/virus hybrid."
"So Miss Lewis told me. In which case I have secured some viruses for you." Wesker pointed to a metal suitcase, he walked up to it and opened it. Some smoke came billowing out of the case.
Wesker turned the case to face Georgia and Alex.
There, inside the case were thirteen vials, and in each of those thirteen vials with blue liquid was a virus.
"This is the T-Virus." Wesker said. Alex's eyes widened. "Oh don't worry, its harmless, these are the weaker elements. These were the first batches made, they aren't even strong enough to reanimate a dead person or turn a person into a zombie, so don't worry if you break a vial. I'll leave you to it." and with that, Wesker left.
"Why does her wear those shades?" Georgia asked.
"Possibly because it's so bright here," Alex said, she walked up to the case containing the thirteen T-Viruses. It was hard to think that she was in arms length of a virus that nearly brought the human race to extinction. It was daunting.
She reached and grabbed held of a vial, and lifted it out of the case. She sighed heavily. She held the vial firmly, she didn't want to drop the vial.
"To think that one vial of this virus nearly brought the end of the human race. So small, but yet so deadly." Alex said. She carefully placed the vial back into the case, and relaxed her hands. "Today we start to make history."
X X X
Alex and her whole team had arrived.
She was preparing and air tight chamber ready for testing. Nate had required some dead tissues from dead people that he dared not speak about where he got it from.
Alex, cautiously injected a small amount of the T-Virus into a piece of skin and waited for the results. If her simulations were correct, this was going to be a short experiment.
Five minutes into the experiment, a small shape started to take place, inside the airtight test chamber, they all saw a shape taking the form of a blue eyeball with the optic nerve growing from it.
"My god, its working, its bloody working!" said a surprised Nate. He was smiling.
On a monitor, Alex was keeping an eye on its progression.
"The Virus is stable. Merging process at 7% and slowly increasing." Alex made her way to the airtight chamber and saw the eye take shape, "so far so good." she said.
As they watched the eye, a beeping sound came from the monitor. Ash went to see what was wrong. "The Virus is dying out, it's rejecting the cell!"
"What?" Alex said.
"It's no longer merging. The Virus is dying!"
"Abort the experiment!" Alex said.
"No wait!" Ash said. A short pause emerged between Ash and Alex. "The Virus is stabilizing." Ash said relieved.
"Uh, guys!" Nate said, his face and Georgia's turned into sour looks, Alex and Ash walked up to them and looked into the airtight chamber. There they saw the eye, it was swelling up.
"What's happening?" Georgia asked. No one answered her.
As they watched, the eye exploded, a small smear of blood splattered on the glass and began to run down the glass, as soon as the blood splattered on the glass it made the team jump.
"Bollocks!" Alex said. She had a hunch that was going to happen.
"What happened?" Georgia asked again.
"It was not compatible, the virus, couldn't sustain the merging process, in the end it flared up and died, causing the eye to expand and explode." Alex said disappointed.
"Well we have proved one thing," Nate said, the girls looked at him, "its works. The bloody thing works." he said laughing.
"Still, back to the drawing board." said Alex, who sat down in a chair looking somewhat exhausted.
X X X
As the days passed, Alex was nowhere near able to create a stable living human/virus hybrid.
She was getting tired and her supply of the last remaining T-Viruses were diminishing.
Of all the experiments that she and her team had done, each experiment turned out the same.
One experiment that she had done was close to becoming a full body. The virus created the lower torso of a person, male or female it was difficult to tell. As it grew, the torso dissolved into a pool of blood. Which was strange considering that viruses didn't have any blood.
They were down to their last three vials. Alex, and her team stood around the table with the suitcase opened thinking about how to approach the next experiment.
"Well, I am out of ideas," Nate said.
"Me too." Ash said also.
"Maybe we are looking at this the wrong way," Georgia said to them.
"In what way?" Alex asked.
"Every virus we inject into a piece of human skin, or merge it with a piece of hair, it takes shape but it losses integrity. All these skin samples are taken from adults. Maybe we need to try a different method of approach, something other than skin and hair pieces."
"What do you have in min - A SHIT!" Nate shouted. He grabbed his hand as he accidentally caught it and skimmed it along the side of the table. He saw his blood starting to seep through the wound.
"Aww, did Nate get a boo-boo?" Ash said taking in a motherly way.
Nate looked at her.
"I'll get the medical kit." Georgia said.
"No, wait a minute!" Alex said suddenly. She grabbed Nate's hand and examined it. "Georgia, when you were just talking about taking a different approach to merging or injecting a virus with a skin sample and pieces of human hair, is it possible to try something from within a human?" Alex asked.
"You mean like DNA?" Georgia asked frowning at Alex. She thought for a moment. "I don't know how that will work but I guess we could give it a try."
"I wasn't on about DNA. I meant blood." Alex said showing Nate's scraped hand.
Georgia and Ash looked at each other, then back at Nate and Alex.
"It could work, we need to run a few simulations, it is possible, about 80% possible for blood and a virus to merge by." Georgia said.
"Then let's do it. I will run the simulations, while you three go searching for bags of blood, one male, one female, and one teenager's blood." Alex ordered.
"Why?" Ash asked curiously.
"I have a theory I need to test out, but in order for me to do that I need blood. Remember only blood of those who have died, no one alive, having a copy of yourself will give you a headache." Alex told them.
Ash, Nate and Georgia left the laboratory and went to get themselves a bag of blood each.
With her team gone, Alex could now do some researching. Something about the whole project was off. Even working with the very same virus that nearly killed the whole world. It was strange that Wesker gave her the last thirteen viruses. So she searched on the company's mainframe for the T-Virus.
She found a file on the virus immediately. Although she had used the mainframe before to search up on information for her research, it came in handy.
The T-Virus
The T-Virus is able to make contact with a cell's membrane, it inserts its genetic coding into the cell. The cell then absorbs the viral genome into its own genetic make-up, which takes over the cell's functions. The cell begins to produce offspring of the original virus. The new viruses are then released from the hosts' cells and starts to infect the neighbouring cells, which starts the process all over again.
The virus then kills and replaces mitochondrial organelles with a replica of itself. The virus then combines with other cells to produce energy. The energy produced is just enough to power the motor neurons and the basic lower brain functions. The reanimated hosts' body is then left with the intense need to feed in order to replenish energy supplies without having to sacrifice its own tissue.
The T-Virus can only properly function by consuming the cell in order to produce its energy. This slow breakdown of cells leads to the gradual breakdown of the host, causing necrosis. The virus incorporates itself into the hosts' DNA, which alters it completely. This is why creatures, such as bees and spiders, only have minor mutations, such as increased size, when compared to the human mutations.
There were tons of information on the virus. But as Alex ploughed through the information, she learnt something terrible about the virus when contracted through another means of infection
Should the human host be alive at the time of the infection, all higher brain functions are destroyed, leaving only the cerebellum to govern behaviour. This leaves the infected host with an animalistic behaviour. As the virus spreads, it damages the hypothalamus. This produces a massive flood of neurotransmitters, enzymes, and hormones such as norepinephrine and dopamine. These effects, combined with the painful symptoms of the infection, induce a psychotic rage, persistent hunger, and increased aggressiveness in those infected.
Should the human host be dead during the time of infection, only enough energy is produced to power the lower brain functions. These functions are responsible for the most primal instincts, such as walking and eating commonly seen in such primitive creatures dubbed B.O.W's (Bio Organic Weapons).
In either case, such late-stage appearance and behaviour and characteristics causes them to become a zombie.
Alex stopped reading and glanced over at the case with the three remaining viruses.
Something in her mind made her think. What if these remaining viruses weren't the weaker parts of the old T-Virus, she suspected that they were the actual thing.
It went with everything that she thought was wrong, why did Wesker bring her vials of the virus and said that they were weaker versions of the virus not capable of infecting a host? But when Alex read the info on the virus, she knew that one small part of the virus would infect a cell and reproduce instantly.
Something wasn't right. But she couldn't help but wonder that Umbrella had gotten the facts wrong, and that she was just becoming over paranoid, looking for things that weren't there to incriminate Umbrella. Her brain was telling her that something was wrong but she didn't want to believe it.
She ignored her instincts, closed the file that she was reading on the virus down, and began to turn off the computer.
Then, something caught her eye, there on the mainframe was a file she never seen before. It was a file entitled 'Project Jupiter' she clicked on it. The file opened.
A page came up on the screen, and on that page in just a few short sentences she read:
Project Jupiter
Operation: The Eradication of the human race by replacing with the future kind.
Weapon: Viral
Name of Weapon: Uroboros Virus
Project Status: Pending
Alex sat staring at the screen, her eyes fixed on the one word that she didn't quite understand 'Uroboros'.
I would like to thank Resident Evil Wiki for their help, I must point out that I did copy and paste contents from the website while Alex was researching the T-Virus, I however changed most of the wording, and therefore all credit goes to the Resident Evil Wiki website for their fantastic work. Without them I would never have gotten this chapter finished, you guys saved my life and I owe them one.
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