Resident Evil:
The Whole Story.
Chapter Nineteen.
Rebecca Chambers took a deep breath as walked into the shooting range and took her place at one of the stalls, she had not been looking forward to this but she knew that she had to do it and she couldn't complain about it either because she really didn't want to be accused of being a spoiled brat.
She had never planned on being a police officer to begin with, she had wanted to be a doctor and she had been well on her way to medical school when it had happened. Her father and herself had gone to the bank to get some money for a celebration dinner when they found out she was going to Harvard Medical School.
As soon as they arrived they had got caught up in a hold up and they had been trapped inside, the robbers had promised that if no one did anything stupid then they wouldn't hurt anybody. But one of the gunmen was clearly younger than the others was trying not to panic.
He had been twitchy and shouting at all of the hostages, her father, always a brave man, told him to calm down. The gunman, determined to show that he was in control and wouldn't be told what to do, shot him through the heart.
Rebecca didn't remember much of what had happened after that, she remembered that she screamed and screamed, all her medical knowledge abandoning her in an instant. She heard the two older robbers yelling at the younger one and when they were distracted the police burst through and took them down.
It was too late for her father though, he bled to death on that bank floor.
Ever since then she decided to change the way her life was going, she decided against going to Harvard despite her mother's protests. She decided to become a police officer and joined the local academy, she graduated from her class with some of the highest scores that the instructors had ever seen, the job as the S.T.A.R.S bravo team medic came almost immediately.
She still hadn't been on an actual mission yet despite being a member of the team for a little over a month now, the past month had actually for the most part like she was back in training again. Captain Marini had told her it was because they had wanted her to be as prepared as possible before they went on an actual mission.
And she would need to be ready, the disappearances had been increasing in frequency and had this time more mutilated and half eaten bodies were turning up, it had gotten so bad that all the cities in the Arklay region had installed a mandatory curfew and the forest and mountains were out of bounds.
Rebecca didn't want to let anyone down so she decided to stop complaining, she picked up her beretta and raised it and lined it's sights up with the target and pulled the trigger and then she did it again and again and again.
She kept firing until the clip was empty and sighed, all the bullets had at least hit the target which was better than her first day at the academy when only two of her bullets had actually hit the target, but only around five had hit the centre of the target.
She needed to be better, she couldn't let her team down, she wouldn't let them down!
Not like she had let down her father.
She practiced with two more clips and she felt slightly better about herself when she realised that her aim had gotten better, of the thirty bullets she had fired twenty-one of them had hit where she had been aiming for.
She reached for another clip but stopped when the air was suddenly filled with a voice that was shouting far louder than it needed to be. "Rookie! Come on! Boss man wants us!"
Rebecca had to resist the urge to sigh, Forest was loud, annoying and brash and he didn't even make up for that by being a good cop or at least she had never seen him doing any actual work. How he got on to the S.T.A.R.S, or managed to stay on for that matter, was a mystery to her.
"Okay, let's go." Rebecca said, following Forest out of the firing range. The firing range in the RPD was located in it's basement and Rebecca hated it down here, maybe it was the fact that the morgue was also down here or the way the long corridors stretched into the dim and echoed every word that was spoken made her feel like she had been trapped in a horror film but she did not like it down here.
They got in the elevator that was next to the entrance of the armoury and as it began it's slow ascent Rebecca had to remind herself to breath, she had never liked elevators at the best of times and the ones in the RPD terrified her, apparently they had been installed when the precinct had been an art museum and when it had been renovated apparently someone had though that the elevators were still suitable, which they may have been but the building had been renovated of twenty-five years ago!
Eventually, and despite a heart stopping moment when the elevator shook on the third floor, they made it to the fifth floor and made their way to the S.T.A.R.S bravo team office
The Bravo office was on the east side of the building and was smaller than the Alpha office which caused no end of complaining from Forest and Kenneth, other than those difference the two offices were basically the same.
The two officers entered the office and saw that the rest of the team were already sitting down, Enrico looked up from his desk and gestured for them both to sit at their desks.
"Now then people, listen up! I've just got back from a meeting with Chief Irons and Captain Wesker. It's been decided that S.T.A.R.S will be taking the lead in this investigation. In about a week Bravo team will be heading out to the mountains and searching in quadrant four beta, by reviewing all the evidence we've decided that's best place to look for the murders." Rebecca tried to remember where that was, the mountains and the forest had been divided in the quadrants but there were dozens of them and she couldn't remember which one that was specifically.
"Isn't that near the old Spencer place?" Kenneth asked with a curious expression on his face, the Spencer Estate had been built back in the sixties to be used as a vacation home for Umbrella executives but it had apparently been closed down and condemned about fifteen years ago.
"Yes, and we are not ruling out that this cult or whatever it is might be using it as a hideout so once we're there we'll do a search but for now-" Before Enrico could continue to speak he was interrupted by Forest.
"So why don't we get going now? In a week's time more people could die!" Forest shouted and Rebecca was surprised by how impassioned he seemed, Forest always struck as someone who really didn't care that much.
"I want to go now as well Forest, but Irons and Wesker want us to wait." Enrico spoke, annoyed that he had been interrupted. "Now we have a week before we're heading out, I want everyone to focus on getting ready. I want the helicopter checked, double checked and triple checked. The same goes for our equipment, radios, weapons and supplies. Move people!"
Rebecca and the rest of the team shot to their feet and gave him a salute, everyone either left the room or stayed in depending on wither or not there was anything they could do. Rebecca followed Kevin Dooley, Bravo's helicopter pilot out of the room and up to the roof. He had been meaning to give her some basic lessons in helicopter repairs and now was as good a time as any.
But as they made there way to the roof, Rebecca couldn't shake the feeling that in a week's time when they went on the mission, it wasn't going to go according to plan...
End of Chapter Nineteen
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