Resident Evil:

The Whole Story.

Chapter Ten.

Abby sighed in irritation and juggled the large wad of paper work in her arms as she waited next to the main entrance of the lab for Doctor Smith to show up, new researchers and doctors were joining the staff at the lab today and the head of the facility was to show them around and go over orientation with them but she was running late.

Now Doctor Smith was only the deputy head of the lab but Doctor Wesker never did the tour so he dictated it to Doctor Smith which did not ender Doctor Smith to Doctor Wesker at all but she couldn't avoid it and she would often force an assistant to suffer through it with her, in this case Abby had drawn the short straw.

As she waited next to the elevator she watched people go by, resorting to people watching to try and lessen her boredom as she waited for Doctor Smith to finally show up. Most of the people who passed by were assistants carrying files and coffee or security guards doing their rounds, most researchers would most likely be deep in their labs continuing with their work or making up work so they could avoid having to take part in the tour.

Abby tried to check her watch but it was difficult with the paper work in her arms blocking her view but eventually she had a half decent view of her watch which told her that it was nearly four in the afternoon which meant that the new researchers would be arriving in twenty minutes and there was still no sign at all of Doctor Smith, if she didn't show up then Abby had no idea what she was going to do.

"Good afternoon Abby." Abby looked up from her watch at the greeting and nodded politely to the man in the white lab coat with messy brown hair that had addressed her.

"Hello Doctor Howe." John Howe was one of the senior researchers here at the Arkaly Lab, he had been working here ever since he transferred from the Chicago lab over three years ago to assist with some of their research. Abby had to admit that she liked John, he didn't look down his nose at assistants or treat them like they were stupid, Isaac, another assistant often worked with Doctor Howe, had told her that he often even asked assistants opinions in experiments they were performing.

He also often asked about his colleagues personal life and families, not out of self interest, trying to learn more so he could find something he could use to help himself but simply because he was interested in learning about them. He also often talked about his own life if people wanted to hear about it or not, his plans for his day off or his new girlfriend that he wouldn't shut up about all though her name escaped Abby at the moment, was it Ida or something?

Abby would think that maybe John was actually a good person but then she would remember that there were no good people here, they all did terrible things to other human beings, monsters things and him being nice to people didn't make him any less of a monster.

John smiled easily at her. "You can just call me John if you want Abby." He glanced at the main entrance to the lab and all the paperwork in her arms before looking back up at Abby's face. "Fresh meat?"

"Yes Doctor." Abby said with a nod as she glanced back down at her watch, said fresh meat would be here in less then ten minutes now and there was still no sign of Doctor Smith. She glanced down both corridors, hoping that she would soon see strolling down one casually but nothing.

John nodded, he seemed to pick up on how anxious she was and gave her what she assumed was meant to be a comforting smile. "Don't worry, a few months ago you were going through this tour and few years ago so did I, it's much worse on those taking the tour and than those running it."

"I suppose." She said with a shrug before sighing in relief as she saw Doctor Smith strolling down the corridor towards the main entrance like she owned the damn place.

Doctor Smith glance at Doctor Howe for a moment, an unreadable expression on her face. "Good afternoon Doctor Howe, how is work on your new project going?" She asked, clearly not caring in the slightest.

If Doctor Howe noticed that she clearly didn't care than he did not show it or comment on it, merely giving her a friendly smile. "It's going quite well, thank you for your interest Doctor Smith. It occurs to me that I should probably get back to it so I'll take my leave, Doctor, Abby." And with that Doctor Howe was gone, strolling down the same corridor that Doctor Smith had come from.

Doctor Smith looked at Abby. "Do you have everything?" She asked as she crossed her arms.

"Yes Doctor." Abby answered with a nod, the paper work she was holding were copies of maps of the facility, time tables, reaserch documents to revise and review as well as identification papers that the new hires would have to sign to get their ID cards.

"Good." Doctor Smith said before turning to face the elevator while still keeping her arms crossed. They stood there in silence for a few more minutes before the silence was broken by the sound of the elevator slowly beginning to come down the shaft. After a few seconds the elevator arrived and the large metal grate that covered it slid open revealing the occupants.

Abby had to admit that she didn't think much of them, she knew that really wasn't fair considering that she was judging them just by looking at them but she had a feeling about this group just by looking at them and she had done a little digging into them before they arrived here. Most of them had worked for other companies before coming to work for Umbrella and had lead their own projects as well.

And that was the problem, the group was made of twenty people, both men and women and most of them seemed almost to confidant, too self-assured as if they were ready for anything and that sort of confidence could be dangerous around here.

Doctor Smith seemed to have picked up on it as well as a small sneer crossed her lips as she observed the new hires. "Welcome to the Arkaly Research Facility ladies and gentlemen. I am Doctor Alica Smith and I am the deputy head of this facility, this is Abby Gomez my assistant and we will be showing you around today."

The new hires stood out of the elevator and it also struck Abby how young most of them were, the oldest only looked to be around her age and she was only twenty-five. Abby shook her head and began to hand out the paper work she was holding to each of the new arrivals.

"This lab is on the forefront of genetic research and biological sciences. You will be working with some of the most advanced equipment in the entire world as well as some of the most dangerous viruses both known and unknown to mankind. You will also be helping to develop bio-weapons for use in armed conflict and you will be using human beings as test subjects." Doctor Smith said plainly and to the point and Abby wasn't surprised.

None of the new hires would be here if they didn't know what Umbrella was really doing and they would have been vetted by Umbrella's security forces before they got within ten miles of this place.

The new hires of course didn't look shocked by any of this, some didn't even look like they were paying attention reading the papers she had handed to them.

"I will be showing your around today, giving you a basic rundown of our projects and the weapons we have in devolvement as well as a small summary of our long term goals and we will finish up with something that I think I will leave a surprise for now, I think that's it so follow me." With that Doctor Smith turned on her feet and began to walk away at a brisk pace and Abby and the group rushed to follow after her.

"The Arkaly research facility was established in 1964 as one of Umbrella Corporation's most important reaserch facilities, it's primary goal was to study and experiment with the progenitor virus. The mansion above us was designed by George Trevor, a world famous architect who unfortunately passed away shortly after it's completion." Doctor Smith said as she lead them deeper into the lab.

She lead them into a small lab which was currently empty, on the far wall was a large projector screen and on a long wooden table was an old projector. She gestured for everyone to sit around the table as she turned off the lab's lights and turned on the projector and slid a projector slid into a slot on the machine and a large picture appeared on the screen.

It looked like something out of a horror movie, it was a dog, a Doberman to be specific, but something was terribly wrong with it. It's eyes were pure white and it was rotting, chunks of flesh had fallen away and it's skin was pealing off and yet it was still standing, barking at whoever had taken it's picture.

To the group's credit none of them seem outright shocked at what they were seeing but then again, Abby realised, if they were here than they had probably seen far, far worse.

"This is the result of injecting a Doberman with the Tyrant Virus, as you will notice one of the largest side effects is rapid decomposing of flesh as well as an increase of serve aggression. Despite the decomposition it has not significantly affected their agility and they are some of the most successful Bio-weapons we have. They are codenamed Cerberus."

"After the dog that guarded the gates of Hades?" One of the younger researchers of the group, a young native-American woman with long hair tied back studied the projected picture intensely.

"Yes, very good." Doctor Smith said with a nod as she switched to a next slid, the picture now showed a large great white shark swimming in what seemed a large sealed tank of water. Abby recognised it as one of the tanks in Theta lab, the lab which researched the effects of the viruses Umbrella had developed on marine animals and thus was nickname the Aqua Ring.

"This is a great white shark, I don't need to tell anybody that I am sure do to a certain movie, that has been infected with the T-virus. Now you may notice that there is no sign of decomposition on the shark and for all intents and purposes it is a regular shark except for one thing, it is three times larger than a regular great." Doctor Smith allowed that to set in before she continued. "Despite this impressive growth rate we consider it to be a failed experiment due to the fact that this growth is the only effect the virus had on it and has no real practical applications as a Bio-Weapon."

Once again Doctor Smith switched slides and once again the picture changed. The picture this time showed a creature that looked like it popped out of a sci-fi/horror movie, It was a cross between a reptile and a human, it was short about 4 feet, it would only come up to about Abby's chest, but it had large claws on both it's hands and glowing yellow eyes. Even just in the picture, Abby could feel the malice behind those eyes.

"This is one our company's most successful Bio-Weapons we call it a Hunter, specifically this is a Hunter Alpha, one of the first Hunter Types ever created and it remains incredibly popular with our buyers due to their high success rate, they were created by splicing reptile DNA with a Human foetus which was then placed inside a surrogate and carried to term but these days we tend to use artificial wombs."

"What happened to the surrogates?" Another researcher asked, looking slightly disturbed at the implications of what he just heard.

"There's a reason we switched to artificial wombs." Doctor Smith said nothing else as she picked up the fourth and final slid and swapped it with the one already in the projector. The picture changed for a final time and what was on this slid drew gasps from all around the table.

The picture showed an image of a large being suspended in a tube full of green liquid, it's was pale white almost like marble and it's arms and legs were like tree trunks, one of it's arms ended in a large claw while the other hand in a normal, if oversized, hand. By far the most striking thing about the creature however was the large heart that was beating on the outside of the creature's chest.

Abby was not shocked by what she was seeing, she had seen this slid before and she had also seen the creature in the flesh, seeing it in the picture again did not have quite the same impact anymore but she remembered what it was like seeing the picture for the first time when she had first come to the lab all those months ago.

It was like staring at something impossible, something horrible. Something which every instinct you had told you shouldn't exist but yet somehow did in spite of that? She imagined that it would drive somebody mad if they thought about it too much, on the other hand...working here? doing what they did? They probably all went mad long ago.

"This is Tyrant!" Doctor Smith spoke proudly, almost reverently about the creature. Her eyes glowing with an almost mad pride, as if the thing on the screen was her own child. "It is the result of years of virus research and was the pinnacle of biological, surgical and chemical research, the heart on the outside of it's chest is actually from a black rhino was surgically grafted on to give the creature large stamina."

"You said it was the pinnacle?" Said the native American woman.

"Yes." Doctor Smith said in what almost seemed to be bitterness. "This is the T-002, meaning it is the second ever Tyrant to ever be created. The first was discarded when it was considered a failure and this was to be an improved model, using what we learned from the T-001 to improve upon it and avoid our mistakes and it was agreed by all that T-002 had much better end result."

"But time went on and Umbrella took my data on the Tyrant and "Improved" upon and began to make more advanced models. The T-003 for example was the first mass produced Tyrant." She lot a hiss of air from behind her clenched teeth. "And so my greatest creation was left here to rot as I am." She turned off the projector. "Follow me!" She shouted and left the room.

The researchers quickly got up and scurried after her like rat's following the pied piper. Abby didn't quite scurry and took her time in getting up, the woman who had asked the question also hadn't left right away and looked at Abby with wide eyes. "What was that about?!" She asked in a hissed whisper.

Abby shrugged her shoulders. "Doctor Smith was head of the Tyrant Program when it first started back in the eighties, but when Umbrella destroyed the T-001 and shelved the T-002 and took the programme away from her...while she took as a bit of a slight, don't suppose I can blame her really. I would feel slighted too." And with that she left the room to follow the group, the woman following after her.

As they walked through the corridors Doctor Smith continued to speak about something but Abby wasn't really listening in fact when she was sure it was safe to look she glanced down at her watch and held in a groan as she realised this tour had only been going on for nearly twenty minutes and on average they lasted about two hours.

All she wanted to do was go and crawl into her bunk and sleep, she had been up late last night cataloguing samples and she had only got a few hours of sleep before her alarm woke her and she had to come and do this, she really needed a vacation. Bad.

She looked around as she realised that the group was being lead deeper and deeper into the complex, the labs and offices were suddenly gone and now she knew that the single metal doors lead into storerooms and supply cupboards.

It took a moment for her sleep deprived mind to wonder why Doctor Smith would be taking them down here before it suddenly clicked in her mind like someone had turned on a light bulb.

She was taking them to see Lisa.

After a few more turns they eventually arrived in front of a large elevator, not quite as large as the one to the surface or even the emergency elevator to the helipad but it was large enough that they could all fit in at a squeeze. Doctor Smith hit a button and the elevator slowly began it's descent.

As the elevator descended there was silence, no one had anything to say and Abby supposed that made sense these people had probably never even met before the helicopter ride over here and to be honest Abby was glad of the silence, if there was one thing she couldn't stand it was pointless small take.

Eventually the elevator arrived and the doors slid open to reveal the lab beyond.

The "lab" was in actuality more of an observation room, computer's and monitoring equipment made up most of what was in the room and on the other side of the room was a large window made of reinforced glass that could be used to look in to the room beyond and it's permanent occupant. Two security guards quickly stood to attention when the group walked in as did the scientist who was sitting at one of the computers.

"Doctor Abramov." Doctor Smith greeted as she looked through the window to watch the woman beyond who was curled in a ball at the far end of the room, her long dirty hair covering her face. "How is she today?"

"The same as she has been for the last year Doctor Smith." Doctor Abramov answered, his thick Russian accent smothering his words. "Total catatonia, she doesn't respond to anything anymore."

"Who is she?" Asked a blond haired man whose lab coat barely fit him due the sheer muscle he was packing, he honestly looked like he should be playing collage football.

"Abby." Doctor Smith called and Abby looked up in surprise. "You tell them."

"I...yes Ma'am." She stood forward and turned to the rest of the group before turning to address them. "This test subject is Lisa Trevor, the daughter of George Trevor as I'm sure most of you will have figured out after George Trevor had finished designing the mansion and construction was complete he and his family, Lisa and his wife Jessica were invited to the mansion to stay. As soon as they arrived George was killed and Lisa and Jessica were used in the earliest experiments with the progenitor virus."

"Jessica was killed shortly after infection by the Progenitor A strain but Lisa...She was infected with what we call the B strain and she didn't die, she gained immense physical strength the likes of which can more than rival a Tyrant and her mind deteriorated becoming no more than a savage animal, she's also violently insane." Abby breathed.

"How old is she?" The Native-American woman asked. "Because if she's been here since 1964 then..."

"Lisa is chronologically thirty-eight but the virus did more than grant her incredible strength, it also gave her an incredible regenerative factor and biologically she is about twenty years old. Not only that but Lisa can heal from any wound inflected upon her. We aren't even sure if she can die or not, there's a reason we keep her locked up." And as far away from the entrance as possible, she left that part unsaid.

"Since that day Lisa has been infected with dozens of new virus strains so we can test their effects and-" She was interrupted by one of the guards.

"She's moving!" He pointed at her and Abby spun just in time to watch as Lisa raised her head to stare at them and she to admit she was suddenly struck by a bought of nausea and from behind her she was vaguely aware of some members of the group screaming in horror and other's cursing, she was also fairly sure she heard someone being sick.

Lisa's face wasn't her face, she was wearing someone else's face her bright white eyes staring at them, at her, through the eyes holes like it was some grotesque Halloween mask. That was what Lisa did, she killed people, then she ripped off their faces and then she wore them like masks, they still had no idea as to why she did that other than the fact that she was just utterly insane.

Abby was lucky, Lisa hadn't killed anyone in years so she wasn't wearing anyone she knew but it was still disgusting and horrifying and she remembered when she had first seen Lisa how she wanted to run and never come back here again.

She didn't remember much of what happened next, she remembered Lisa suddenly becoming more active and hammering on the window with all her might, those monstrous screams as she tried to get the glass to break by hitting them as hard as she could but it wouldn't yield to her strength.

She didn't remember anything else and when she snapped out of whatever trance she was in she and Doctor Smith were back on the upper level and the group was missing. "Where are they?"

"Most of them weren't to go and get some air, others went to the med-bay because they fainted and one of them stayed down their to observe Lisa. He might have some promise." Doctor Smith sighed. "Regardless I think we can agree the tour is over for today, I want you to head to store room and get me a microscope as my currant one was knocked of the table by Doctor Costello so I need you to get me a new one."

"Once you've brought it to me you can go and get some rest, you look exhausted and I will not tolerate any screw ups tomorrow." And with Doctor Smith went off to continue with her work in her own lab.

"Yes Doctor." Abby muttered before walking over to one of the store rooms and entered it, it took a few minutes of searching as the light bulb had long since burned out but she eventually found a microscope but as she went to pick it up her hand slipped and fell on the shelve and Abby frowned as she pulled her hand back and looked at it with the light from the hallway.

Slime, bright and clear and thick.

Abby frowned and wiped the slime off of her using her shirt, picked up the microscope and left the room, closing the door behind her.

She didn't notice all of the dark squirming, hungry, shapes sliding about in the dark...

End of chapter ten

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