Resident Evil: Secrets in the Shadows
Chapter 12 of my Resident Evil story, enjoy.
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Chapter 12: Following Elsie
08:04 AM 12th May 1995
The following morning, Lisa was the first to wake up; she saw the empty chair and discarded rope along with John's sock and Jacob's bandana.
"Oh great, guys, Elsie's escaped." She called out; the others were immediately awake and saw the empty chair. Lydia growled, "There goes our ticket outta here."
"So we're stuck here," Carl groaned.
Jacob however wasn't perturbed; he retrieved his bandana and then smiled.
"It's not over yet guys." He told them, "Remember what we overheard on the radio, Elsie's got another evac coming in."
The others brightened.
"Of course, we won't be able to capture her again, but this time, it'll just be her and pilot and co-pilot. We have a chance of hi-jacking that chopper, if we can just find it."
Lydia fiddled with her radio again.
"Nothing." She said, "We'll just have to get outta here and see if we can track her, see where she is going."
With that the group readied their weapons and departed the mall, noting the dead B.O.W.s that indicated the route they had taken yesterday. They knew Elsie was unarmed and so would likely be extremely cautious, allowing them to catch up.
As soon as they left the mall they knew they were at least safe from attacks from above.
"With Shannon gone we don't have to worry about sniper attacks." Carl remarked, obviously relieved, Lydia sighed. "I couldn't pick up where Elsie was going on the radio, but I did pick something else up…Apart from Elsie, the four of us are the last uninfected people in this city."
That shocked them, the infection had spread that much.
"Yeah, I know, another group of people escaped yesterday, they knew more about this than we do…We're gonna have to see if we can find them when we escape." The others nodded in agreement. "Let's go, we've gotta find Elsie before anything else happens."
They hurried onwards, unaware that Elsie was closer than they thought. She was watching them carefully.
'Those bastards,' She thought to herself bitterly, 'They think they can get away with making a mockery of me, I'll show them.'
She smirked and noticed where they were headed; she quickly went to head them off.
'They're about to walk into a Hunter's nest, and I'll make sure the Hunter's see them.'
She laughed quietly to herself as she got to work. Unaware of this development the group continued onwards until Jacob had the strangest feeling of being watched.
"Guys, I don't think we're alone."
The words were no sooner out of his mouth when suddenly they were surrounded by a large group of Hunters, just as Elsie had planned.
The group readied their weapons; they had luckily restocked their ammo supplies by using the ammunition left behind by the USS chopper.
"Guys, this is bad, we're heavily outnumbered." Carl pointed out, "If we attack some of them the rest will strike."
The Hunters stood, salivating at their next meal, while Lisa looked desperately for a way to turn the tables. She then saw, due to their location there were several barrels of gasoline.
"Guys, shoot the gasoline barrels, trust me." She called out to them. They all took aim and fired setting off a chain reaction of explosions.
When the explosions finally died away only one Hunter was left standing, and it was badly wounded…and angry. It leapt with feral rage at Jacob but Lisa quickly pulled out her shotgun and fired, hitting it in the face and killing it as it hit the ground in a heap.
"Now that that's taken care of, let's get going." Lisa commented.
The others hurried onwards, as they walked Lydia continued to try and set her radio to the same frequency as Elsie's radio. Finally, she succeeded.
"Guys I got it, she's talking to her boss, c'mon, let's listen, maybe we'll find out where we need to go."
The others stopped and they all stood listening, hoping that either Elsie or Trevor would give away the evac location, their last hope.
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