Part 8: Devil's Eye.
I don't know what's more impressive that I've finished this chapter finally or that I managed it with a broken wrist, still never the less hope you enjoy the chapter, as always please review and tell me how I can improve it, I don't own resi but I do own Echo.
I sat with Alec's head rested on my shoulder she seemed lifeless but from what I could feel she was far from lifeless. I moved her around and gently laid her on the floor, she groaned as I left her there, I turned to face Betty and Mia.
"What the hell was that?" Mia asked.
"Erm…." I began.
"It was nothing," Alice told them.
"Bullshit," Betty shouted, "She could have killed us."
"Chill out Betty!" Mia shouted at her, "She didn't kill any of us," she then turned on Alice, "Why are you even up?" She asked her.
"That's not any of your business," Alice snapped back at her giving me a death stare.
"Actually, I think it is," Jill told her.
Alice shot her gaze over to Jill, "You know what I was going to do?" Alice told her.
"I had a feeling but I didn't take you for a fool to do it alone," Jill told her.
Alice smirked back at her, then turned on me, "Well I wasn't going to be alone," she said as she walked over to me, I was still making sure Alec was okay the tiled floor must have been cold so I picked her back up and placed her on the table.
"Morgan? You were going to help her?" Jill asked me.
"Maybe, I just didn't want Alec to be put through more pain," I told her.
"Right everyone calm down," Carlos told us all, as he moved into the middle of the room, "How were you actually going to get in and out of that facility between the two of you?"
"Well with only the two of us we could get in and out relatively easily," I told him.
"You don't even know what you're looking for in there though," He told me.
"Actually Umbrella facilities are laid out relatively similarly," Alice told him.
"Yeah only this one is….." I began but as I did Techno and LJ burst into the room.
"It's not the building!" Techno exclaimed.
"What?" I told him.
"The Umbrella facility isn't inside the Renaissance Center," He told us, "It's under the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel!"
"How the fuck did you find that out?" Carlos asked him.
"Well I hacked one of Umbrella's oldest satellites and rerouted it over Michigan, and then used the ground penetrating camera which I spotted something peculiar, there are tunnels leading all around the tunnel which were not service tunnels."
"They were the tunnels leading to the facility?" I asked him
"Exactly, Sir, but what Umbrella didn't realise is that the central hub is directly below the tunnel," Techno told me.
"I don't think that was by accident," Alice told him.
"Yeah I know it wasn't it must be a way to seal the place in should it come under attack," Techno said.
"Then we don't have to actually attack just give that impression," I told everyone.
"Well done for pointing out the obvious," Alice told me.
"How will you do that?" Betty asked.
"Alice and I break in get far enough in for them to blow the tunnel and flood their own systems," I told them.
Carlos turned to look at me and Alice, "You two go, you have two hours and then we will go and get you, alive or not."
"We will be alive!" I told him as I moved back over to Alec, "Keep her safe," I said as I shifted her hair away from her face and kissed her on the forehead gently, I then moved slowly down to her ear, moved the hair from it and whispered, "Sleep well, I'll be back for you soon."
I stood up, looked over to Alice and then walked over to my bag which had everything I needed in it, I check my equipment thoroughly then stood up looked Alice straight in the face and walked over to the cupboard, I unlocked it and withdrew the shotgun and its ammunition and passed it all to Alice who was standing in the corner of the room ready to leave.
"Shall we go?" I asked her.
"Yes, I think we should."
We both looked over to Carlos who looked back at us blankly, "you have two hours to get in and out, and don't screw up."
"Just keep her safe," I told him as I walked out of the door followed swiftly by Alice. We walked out into the pouring rain and gushing wind I could just about see through the mess, but I could make out an old Cadillac, I walked over to it and climbed into it Alice then climbed into the passenger seat.
"What way do we have to go to get to the tunnel?" Alice asked.
"If we head to downtown Detroit then we should be able to there easily," I told her.
"Where's that?" Alice asked.
"Hopefully sign posted when we get out of here," I answered her.
We drove out of the area and kept going for around half an hour and we arrived in downtown just after sunrise, I pulled up the car just off the road next to the Renaissance Center and Alice and I exited the car.
"Where are we?" Alice asked.
I didn't answer I just kept moving down the street I turned the corner and then looked up, "We're here," I said as I looked the monolithic Renaissance Center.
"Fuck me that place is huge," Alice said as we walked along the street towards the tunnels entrance.
"Yeah that is slightly bigger than I expected," I said as we moved across to where maintenance would access the tunnel.
We walked about a hundred metres down the tunnel without seeing a single soul but just as we approached a service door in the tunnel I spotted a cars headlights coming down the tunnel from the Detroit side I quickly dragged Alice around the corner where the door was and watched the car go past, the driver had no idea we were even there no idea that he was actually driving through a bomb and no idea about the atrocities committed by Umbrella in Raccoon City. But still I pressed on into the service tunnel the door was a large reinforced steel frame with a big ship like wheel and a handle I rotated it twice to unlock the bolts of the door it made a hell of a racket but I was in.
Alice and I both then set about unpacking our gear, I put on my body armour and place my gas mask on, I then pulled the pistol from my bag and holstered it within my body armour and slung my bag back over my shoulders, I turned to Alice who then chambered a round in her pistol then turned to walk down towards the centre of the complex. I followed her eventually taking the lead the tunnels seemed to lead on forever just featureless concrete it felt like a world war two bunker but I knew that we weren't going into a Nazi bunker in Berlin; it was a company's private underground fortress. As I moved I could hear the echo of my boots all the way down the tunnel like they were hammers smashing into a steel plate, I couldn't have been louder but I knew that we were in for a fight when the shit hit the fan anyway.
"Alice, what are we going to do after this?" I asked.
"I don't know but we should probably get in and out as fast as possible,"
"Good plan," I replied as I readied my pistol and tried to put that I was actually inside a bomb to the back of my mind.
I came around the corner of the tunnel and found a massive blast door which was engraved with a huge Umbrella logo, I felt myself stop as I stood in almost awe of this structure, I felt Alice shove me in the back so I moved over towards the door. I looked back at her, she had only a scowl on her face, and she was unimpressed by what Umbrella had built down here.
"Can we move?" She asked me.
"Yeah sorry, how the hell did they manage that?" I asked.
"Well, a keen investor into the company was Oswald F. Spencer," Alice told me.
"Spencer's father!" I said in complete shock.
"The very same, he pumped some of their money into the tunnel although he didn't actually found Umbrella he was a director and heavy shareholder in Unicel, the parent company of Tricel and Umbrella," Alice told me.
"Jesus," I replied, "So this shit has been going on for some seventy-eighty years?"
"Yep."
I walked over to the door and as I got closer I could see it had tiny engravings in the door but one phrase jumped out to me 'Superbiam, per dolorem' the motto of my unit in the USS, it means Pride through Pain, I had a feeling that I would truly discover it's meaning on this trip.
But I still reached out to the door and tried to push it open, it didn't budge so I tried to roll it but still it didn't move, I took a few steps back and tried to reassess how to open the door, I spotted groves on the floor which indicated the door had to roll out of the way, I looked around but couldn't find any way to open the door.
"How the fuck do we get in?" I asked Alice.
She looked the door up and down, "Wait a second," She stood back away from the door I looked over to her, she had the utmost concentration on her face but nothing was happening that was until however I heard a loud noise come from the door I looked over to it and saw it roll out of the way. The massive steel door rolled effortlessly out of my way so I walked into the darkness behind it but I did not hear Alice's footsteps behind me, I turned to hear her slump down onto the floor.
I sprinted back over to her and without thinking I just dragged her into the dark, "Alice can you hear me?" I asked her, I shook her gently; she suddenly awoke, turned us around and slammed me into the ground, knocking my pistol into the dark. She had a face of pure anger, "Shit Alice it's me, Morgan!" I told her, her grip relented and I stood up.
"Sorry about that," She said to me.
"Don't worry, let's just get this done."
I turned on my flashlight which was on my gas mask so I could pierce the darkness and find my pistol, I found it about three metres away from where I was laying so I scooped it up and we proceeded into the dark guided only by a small illuminated circle in front of us, I took point and Alice placed her hand on my shoulder so she could be guided through this hellish place. I kept walking but I felt Alice tug on my shoulder as if to get me to stop.
"What is it?" I asked her.
"We are not alone in here," She replied sternly. But just as she managed to get the sentence out I heard the sound of a generator starting up, I was then blinded by a surge of white light. I felt Alice pull me to the floor as a blast of heat came straight over us. When my vision restored I saw Alive get up and try and I run down the corridor I then sprinted after her, I turned my head to look back and saw a grid of death following us up the hall, "There, up there!" Alice shouted, I turned and spotted her pointing at an air vent in the ceiling of the corridor, I raised my pistol and while sprinting I aimed at the thing, I fired my first round it knocked one of the screws out of it, I fired the second but I missed and Put a hole in the vent I fired the remainder of my magazine as I could feel the grid getting closer, the vent dropped to the floor and Alice and I scrambled up into it.
"Well someone knows we are here," I said.
"Yeah clearly," Alice replied trying to catch her breath.
We started crawling down the vent towards something that looked like a control room to the facility, I kicked in the vent and climbed down, pistol drawn I surveyed the room and spotted a large central hub, I walked over to it while I heard Alice drop in after me.
"Let's see what the fuck they are doing here," I said to myself, I began tapping out things on the keyboard, I found a map of the base and I found out this room was actually overlooking the main centre, "Alice we're here!" I shouted to her.
"What?" She replied in shock.
"Yeah come look," I told her.
She ran over and shoved me out of the way; I moved to look around the room I found a small monitor which had a display on it, it showed me a view of a containment tank but when I kept looking close up to the monitor, I spotted a man clad in combat gear talking to a scientist they both had their backs to the screen but they were unleashing whatever was in the tank, I saw the man clad in black turn when the tank had fully opened, "Vector!" I said aloud, what the hell is he doing alive I thought but is I thought that I felt someone punch me in the back, "Fuck!" I span around and smashed the person square in the chest sending them flying backwards I saw Alice collapsed on the floor, I then smashed the hell out of the guard and shattered his visor, it was…. But just as I identified him I felt the ground shake and then heard the cascade of water.
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