Chapter 24
"Did you hear that?" Jill asked Barry once they had sealed the door behind them and Frost.
"Yeah," the older man replied. "Sounded like gunfire somewhere in the facility/"
"Not sure where though," Frost said as he gasped for breath. "The acoustics of this type of building might be screwing with our perception of where sounds are coming from."
"Well, we should probably stick together," Barry said as he checked the chamber of his shotgun. "I do have the breaching rounds if we need them, after all."
"Alright, Frost, you're on point, Barry, you get the middle and I'll bring up the rear," Jill gave short pointed instructions.
"Where do we start though?" Barry asked.
"Looks like we came through some sort of servant's entrance," Joseph Frost said as he looked around. "We should probably see if there's some sort of medkit around here before we move on."
"Sounds good," Jill replied as she looked around the small room. "We'll take that hallway when we're done, then we'll move and see if we can locate some members of Bravo Team or maybe the rest of Alpha."
"Why are there so many of these things?" Captain Marini asked as he led the STARS Bravo team through the hallway of this mansion. "You'd think they'd have sent commandos in to clean this site up like they did the rest."
"Maybe they did," Dewey replied with a shrug as he killed another zombie with his handgun. "Those reptile things might have gotten to them, and given the damage they caused to Mark, I doubt a full commando team would be alive if they got ambushed by enough of them."
"You may be right there," Forest said as he nudge a zombie's body with his booted foot. "These guys don't look like they're all that important to any of Umbrella's operations. These guys are dressed in the sort of clothes a server would wear."
"Never know with Umbrella," I said as I moved past the dead with a slight wince. "Could have been important lab workers that never managed to escape for all we know."
"Well, it's up to us to ensure that whatever happened here gets out to the public," Kenneth said as he turned his camera on for a handful of minutes to get some footage of the dead zombies that littered the ground. "We'll be the only ones with evidence of what happened here after all."
"Just got to make sure that Umbrella doesn't just write this off though," Rebecca said as she brought up the rear with Aiken. "There's a lot of ways to fabricate evidence or cover things up after all."
"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," Captain Marini said as he slowed to a halt. "I think this leads to a basement, stack up."
"Well, it looks like they encountered something a bit lethal," Wesker smirked to himself as he looked at the blood-soaked shirt that was left in the room he had followed the bloody footprints to. "I wonder who the clock is ticking for now," He mused as he stepped out of the room and looked around at his surroundings, trying to figure out where he suddenly heard footsteps coming from.
Turning around, he saw something that he had thought was dead for many years. "Ahh, Lisa. I had thought it was too good to be true when I heard that you were dead."
The creature that had once been Lisa Trevor simply stood there for a moment, examining him before letting out a screech and charging at the man who had contributed to her suffering.
Palming the flashbang that Chris had given him, Wesker pulled the pin and closed his eyes as he released it, the flash of heat and sound deafened him as he opened his eyes and saw Lisa curled up on the floor flinching away from the grenade that had just gone off. Turning and walking away, Wesker used his knowledge of the mansion to navigate to a hidden elevator. Pressing the button, he made his way down into the depths of the Spencer Mansion, where his next objective lay waiting.