Resident Evil:
The Whole Story.
Chapter Fifteen.
Marcus watched as his children slithered across the dusty attic room of the training facility, across the floor and the roof and up and down the walls. It wasn't just this room, all through out the abandoned facility they laid their eggs and made it their main nest, their was something appropriate about this place being where the main body of children would be born and grow, it was where he spent his last few months of life as a human.
And it was only due to his children that he came back from the darkness of death to this new life.
The training facility had been utterly abandoned when he finally made his way here, all the most expensive equipment had been removed as had most of the furniture and paintings and those that hadn't had been covered by large white tarps and everything seemed to have a thick layer of dust coating it, if Marcus had to guess no one had step foot in the building for the past ten years, the calendar in the pumping facility only supported his guess.
His plans were going slowly but he had nothing but time and he was more than happy to wait, that campsite he had found while he'd been wandering the woods had been a stroke of good luck for him and he had sent his children in to attack, they had wanted to devour the campers whole but he had made them pull back.
After all, he had to make sure that the virus had something to reanimate.
When the young woman had stumbled upon the campsite later that night he had hoped that she would become infected by one of the reanimated campers but unfortunately she had managed to get away, at least that was what he had thought at the time. The woman had brought the police back with her the day after her attack and he realised how fortunate it actually was that she had managed to get away.
Umbrella would've find out about the infected either way but this sped up the process a little, the police nosing about so close to their reaserch facility would make the board and, far more importantly, Spencer anxious.
He needed to be prepared for whatever Umbrella threw at him so after his little visit to research complex a few days ago he had helped himself to a few lab animals, not to many as to make people notice their absence and even if they did they would just think that they had broken out of their cages and escaped the complex somehow.
He took some sleeping Dobermans and brought them back to the training facility, he had used his own blood to infect the dogs as he wanted to see if his own blood was infectious because while the T-virus had fused with his cells there was a possibility that he himself wasn't infectious.
But once the dogs had started to rot he knew for a fact that the virus inside him was contagious, he honestly wasn't sure how to feel about that. He knew that he wasn't exactly human anymore, he could feel his queen residing within him and he could almost feel the virus inside his cells even though he knew that was impossible, but there was a difference between a slight understanding and realising that you have lost almost all ties to your humanity.
The strangest thing was, it didn't bother him as much as he thought it would. He had been old and frail when Spencer had him assassinated, his body had been full of aches and pains and in those last few days even getting out of bed had been a challenge.
But now...
Now he was strong, his body still looked as old as it had before but he had such energy now, energy that he hadn't had since he was twenty years old and that wasn't to mention the strength and speed that the T-virus had given him as well as this new connection to his children.
If he wasn't a man of science he would almost call it telepathy but he knew that such a thing only existed in the realms of science fiction, most likely it was some sort of pheromone that queen inside of him emanated that controlled his children but it didn't feel like that, it felt like he thought something, an order, and his children followed it to the letter.
Perhaps this wasn't something to be questioned, perhaps it was simply something that was just to be accepted.
Regardless it didn't really matter right now, he had work to do and when he had killed Spencer and Wesker and Birkin and destroyed Umbrella there would be plenty of times to figure out the specifics of his new life.
He turned on his feet and slowly left the room, it was time to check on the new experiments. He walked down the long marble corridor and entered a room with oak double doors. The room was occupied by four giant insects, they resembled a cross between a praying mantis and a cockroach.
It was lucky for him that while Umbrella had taken most of the equipment, they hadn't taken all of it and there was another equipment left over for him to make stronger bio-weapons than just infecting random animals would create.
One of the creatures crawled over to him, looking up at him with it's large compound eyes, perhaps to decided whether or not he would make a suitable meal before it turned and walked back to it's siblings which did not surprise Marcus, virus infected creatures rarely if ever paid any attention to other virus infected creatures.
He needed to make more of these creatures before Umbrella arrived, so far he hadn't tested them in the field as of yet but tonight he was going to let them and the other creatures he had been creating out into the woods to see how they acted, any people they killed would just draw Umbrella's attention faster and that's what he wanted.
He left the room and closed the door behind him firmly, he didn't want them to wander around while he was working. He walked into the room next to the one he had just been in and looked up at the roof.
Three giant spiders, each the size of a small horse rested almost lazily on the roof with their large red eyes shining in the dim light of the room. Marcus had to admit even now he found even little spiders to be very disturbing and these larger versions even more so, they didn't even attacked just waited for someone to stumble in and then drop down to the ground to attack them.
Marcus left the room as soon as he could and closed the door firmly behind him, he thought about firmly locking it behind him but he decided against, he couldn't let a little uneasiness cause him to become indecisive.
He walked down the corridor and opened the door at the end of the hallway which lead into the large main hall of the training facility, he had never seen it empty in the entire time he had worked here but now it was empty, dark and quiet with a cold draft now that there was no heating or electricity.
He walked over to the grand staircase and stepped down the smaller side staircase to the top of the main staircase where a large portrait of him stood, he was more than a little surprised when he saw that it was still here after all this time, he got the feeling that it was some sort of sick joke of Spencer's.
Marcus shook his head and reached out to grip the edge of the picture frame and pulled at it firmly, the picture swung on a hinge and revealed a staircase that want down into a dark corridor. He slowly began to walk down the steps.
The training facility had it's own labs but this hidden staircase lead down to an elevator that would take him down to his own private laboratories, he took the elevator at the bottom all the way down and entered the first lab he saw once he exited the elevator.
Three large stasis tanks dominated the room, inside of each of them were five large frogs, each one of the size of a dog. He had name these creatures the lurkers given the way they didn't seem to move much but they could swallow a grown man whole if one got close enough and for that reason he planned to relase them into the training facility when Umbrella sent their investigation team. They would be in for a nasty surprise.
Once he had checked that the stasis tanks were still functioning normally, you could never be to sure with this old tech, he left the room and walked down the long corridor.
It was time for him to check on his guest.
He arrived in front of the large metal door which was heavily reinforced with a large metal bar that was held in place by hinges, he lifted the bar up and pushed open the door.
A young man, about twenty-five and dressed in a dirty white shirt and brown cargo pants, his brown hair was dirty his arms were chained to the wall and his blue eyes were filled with fear and when he saw Marcus walk into the room he screamed and tried to curl into a tiny ball.
Marcus supposed that it was a fairly natural reaction given how he had...acquired the young man. He and his family had been hiking in the woods and they had wandered to close to the management training facility.
The man's family were gone now, his children had been so hungry and when they had there fill he had released their ruined corpses out into the woods to wander, to find more flesh to devour and infect.
Marcus reached into his pocket and pulled out a syringe filled with his own blood, he wanted to see how another human would react to the specific strain of T-virus inside his own body.
He slid the needle into the man's neck and pressed down on the plunger, almost as soon as it emptied the man began to sweat profusely and he began to scream in pain and clawed at his neck, at the exact same spot that Marcus had just injected his blood into.
A sound drew his attention and Marcus turned his head and he saw dozens of his children sliding across the grey concrete of the floor, leaving thick trails of slime in there wake.
They reached the man and began to crawl on him, he screamed and screamed but the leechs simply kept crawling on to him as he struggled, crawling into his mouth and down his throat.
After a while the man stopped struggling but the leeches didn't crawl off like they usually did after a meal, in fact the body looked mostly intact which was unusual.
And then, the man got to his feet and Marcus realised what was happening. Somehow, his leeches were controlling the man's body.
A dark smile crossed his face as Marcus examined the creature.
This presented...opportunities.
End of Chapter Fifteen.
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