Part 6: When in Mo town.
I haven't published in a while and I thought that I should do, I hope you all had a good Christmas and will have a happy new year but anyway I hope you enjoy this chapter the next one should be put up by New Year's but I wouldn't hold your breath. So enjoy the chapter I don't own resi but I do own Echo.
"Techno where is the facility in Detroit?" Carlos asked.
"It looks to be right in the middle somewhere near to the Renaissance Centre," He began, "or at least that is what it looks like."
"That's a fucking big building," Carlos pointed out the obvious, "what the hell are you looking for there?" He nodded to Alice hoping to get an answer.
"Well Umbrella often used public buildings as fronts for their operations how else could they mask the massive corporate profits," Jill said.
"Yeah because saying they sold viral weapons to every Dick and Harry under the sun," I began, "Is the best way to encourage investors and shareholders."
"It's all about the money to them they don't have normal human emotions they only care for their bank notes and pay cheques," Alice finally spoke again.
"Nice of you to join us," I told her sarcastically.
"Yeah, sorry about that I don't know my head didn't feel right after you got me out but thank you."
"No problem," Carlos butted in with his cheeky grin, causing Alice to shrug down into her seat with her cheeks turning mildly rosy.
"So you gonna tell us what's in Detroit?" Alec asked her.
"Nerve centre for America Comms for the Umbrella Corporation," Alice said with a smirk on her face, "Severing it should buy us some time to get well off their grids."
"Let's get on it then," I said looking over to Carlos.
"If we take the I94 and I75 we should be there by tomorrow evening," Techo told us.
Carlos floored it towards the I94 it was around a hundred and fifty miles to Detroit so we would have to stop for gas at some point and Alice needed clothes and guns. We drove for fifty miles or so it felt like but we eventually we ended up pulling over into a small gas station in the town of Portage around a hundred miles from Detroit. The station was relatively small and didn't have much in the way of resources that we could use other than gas, but still I got out to stretch my legs obviously we were old news as Jill and Carlos were no longer on the news but the 'Nuclear Meltdown' in Raccoon City was.
"Huh, pathetic how people will believe this crap," LJ said to himself, "I mean how can a reactor melt down in the US?"
"Because it's what Umbrella wants them to believe," I told him.
"I need clothes," Alice interrupted, "like I need some now boys," LJ and I looked at each other in shock more than anything, "well get to it shoo!" she told us, and we left in a hurry.
I shuffled out of the car and into the street I spotted a small convenience store across the road from the gas station I crossed over to it casually like I was actually a normal person, inside it didn't have much in the way of actual women's clothing just more the type of stuff deer stalkers wear not really the type of inconspicuous clothing we were looking for so I left the shop and carried on towards the centre of town where I found a woman's clothes shop and bought Alice a pair of jeans, a simple white t-shirt and a pair of running trainers just to tide her over for a bit.
I took the clothes back to the car where the others were waiting for us I handed the clothes in through the window and Alice then changed into them.
"Right now might I suggest we find somewhere to spend the night so we can actually get into the Umbrella complex?" I asked the group.
"Sounds like a plan," Alice said with a smile on her face.
"Glad to see someone agrees, if we get into Detroit tonight then we can get into the building tomorrow," I pointed out to the group.
"Yeah it would be less guarded in the day time," Alice responded.
"And we need time to come up with a plan," Alec also pointed out.
"She's got a point," Alice told me.
"Fair point so if we find a hotel or somewhere to stay a few block from the building then we could go in and settle the score," I said as I looked over to Carlos who was looking rather nervous that we were going guns blazing at Umbrella, "You okay big guy?" I asked him.
"Yeah, I just can't believe we can really dissolve back into the population like normally?" He asked me.
"No but we can give it our best shot," I told him.
"Yeah but with all that's happened how can we just live on?" He asked.
"You find ways of coping with it," I said to him as I got back in the car, "Raccoon city ain't the first incident and won't be the last biohazards are a new global threat that we are just coming to understand."
"Wow, that deep, dude," LJ butted in jokingly.
"Yeah, I know just got a bad feeling," Carlos said trying to regain the seriousness of the conversation before.
"Suck it up we do this one last thing and we are out," I told him sternly, "got it?"
"Yeah, I got it," he said while slumping back into the truck.
We all climbed back into the car on route to Detroit I thought that was as good a time as any to get some rest.
I don't know how long I was asleep for but it must have been a long time because when I came to we were pulling into a slummy area of Detroit which looked extremely run down, the police were virtually non-existent in this place and crime looked rampant, the locals looked like they handled all problems internally without the need for a court but we needed to get through. We rolled up the windows and began to creep through the area, our tires thudded along the road, it seemed like every eye with three clicks were on us watching our every move.
We rolled on for about two blocks gathering more attention with every rotation of the tires, I could see that the locals were starting to bring out their sports equipment in the form of baseball bats and golf clubs, the tension in the car was increasing with every hostile that came into view. Until we finally spotted our avenue of escape a small side route that looked as though it lead to safety, I nodded to Carlos who was still hot in the driver's seat, nothing else was needed, he gunned it aiming to get us out of the line of fire. But as we flew down the alley I could see the front of a car starting to edge its was out from behind a building but before I could shout to Carlos it was too late.
We smashed into the side of the car completely wiping it and our car off the face of the earth I scrambled to try and grab a gun as I could hear the sound of stones and bricks smashing off the outside of the car, with every clang I could hear Angie scream.
"Fuck! Who's hurt?" I shouted out.
"I'm okay," Alice said as she tried to gain back her breathe.
"I'm good but if we don't hurry the fuck up and come up with something we are royally screwed," Techno replied as he chambered a round in his pistol.
I looked over to Jill who had Angie clutched in her arms not wanting to let go, I looked at her and she looked directly at me as if to say we need to get her out, I then turned to look at Alec who was slumped down in the seat barely held there by her seat belt I could see blood trickling down her face onto her lap.
"Jesus Christ, Alec!" I shuffled over to her, and held onto her face the blood poured over my hand, I lifted the hair gently away from her neck so I could check her pulse it was weak, very weak, "Fuck, LJ gimme a hand."
"On it," he climbed over to me and took her weight off of the seat belt so I could cut her loose I slashed the belt off and LJ took Alec's weight.
I moved to look through into the driver's seat and Carlos was also unconscious it seemed he took the full force of the blast, he wasn't dead just unconscious, "hey buddy wake the fuck up!" I shouted at him while rocking him awake.
"Yeah I'm…" He began, as a brick clanged over the roof of the car, "Shit I'm up now." He pulled out his pistol and looked around trying to get his bearings, "we need to move somewhere where we can give Alec some attention."
"No shit, but where?" I told him.
He looked frantically and then pointed out a small shed that had its door open slightly, obviously where someone had gone to get their sports equipment, "Move to there with LJ, Jill and the others, Techie and I will cover?" He suggested.
"Sounds like a plan," I then turned and tried to kick the door open it really wouldn't budge, I looked to see what was stopping it from moving I then spotted that the chassis of the car had been broken and a piece was jamming the door shut, "It won't move the chassis' snapped!"
"So we're trapped like rats?" Techno asked, I nodded but as I did another brick bounced off of the roof and smashed the sunroof.
"Looks like we are free as a bird then," Alice said sarcastically. I moved under the sunroof and peered up and out.
"Looks like we are about forty metres away from that shack and the hostiles are thirty and closing," I shouted down the others.
"Then we had better move!" LJ said as he tried to pass Alec up to me, I just had hold of her when another barrage of stones clanged all around me but I hoisted Alec out of the car so the others could move I laid her gently out of the line of fire in a small gap in-between the two cars and then went straight back to covering everyone else as they climbed out of the car first came Jill and Angie who were still attached I ordered them down next to Alec and told Jill to put pressure on Alec's wound. When LJ finally came up through the hole the hostiles were really close but I was reluctant to shoot but he scooped up Alec and held Angie's hand leading them to the shed I then moved after them covering, Carlos and Techno then clambered out of the car followed swiftly by Alice and made a sprint towards us I still held cover as they entered the shed I then moved to enter the place but as I turned I felt a thud hit my back and then felt the floor as I collapsed I then heard men stepping over me as they entered the room.
"I don't fucking believe it!" I heard one voice say.
"Only in Mo town do you see this!" Another echoed out.
"Lloyd Jefferson Wayne is that you?" the first one asked again.
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