Chapter 25
"Well, it looks like Bravo Team has performed above and beyond what could have been expected," Wesker muttered to himself as he looked over the camera recordings from the Umbrella Executive Training School. "If I wish to profit from this I should ensure that the BOWs are capable of handling them."
Wesker began downloading the recordings to a CD and also began looking at what specimens might still be available for activation to use against both Bravo and Alpha Teams.
"It appears that the extraction team left some Lickers behind," Wesker then glanced up at one of the camera monitors and smirked wickedly. "Yes, I remember you, YAWN," Wesker looked at the giant snake as it slithered around some parts of the mansion. "We'll have to see about luring you into Bravo Team. Their wounded member should slow them down after all."
Wesker then typed in a series of commands that would set in motion the awakening of two Tyrants in the laboratory that he was standing in and would unleash the Lickers that were in stasis as well.
"Now, let's check up on Chris," Wesker went back to the hidden elevator and pushed a button, the doors closing on him and the elevator beginning the journey back up.
Chris leaned back out of reach of the zombie that was trying to bite him and shoved his MP5 into its face, squeezing the trigger as he did so before turning and killing the zombie that was trying to come up behind him and get a bite.
"Man," Chris sagged a bit after the last of the zombies in his area had been killed. "Where did all of these things come from?" He took a minute to catch his breath before continuing to walk down the hallway, picking up a small keycard off of one of the corpses as he moved past.
"I'll have to see if I can find out what this goes to," he muttered to himself as he checked a corner and then cleared it, coming to find Captain Wesker killing a zombie with a smooth headshot from his handgun. "Captain Wesker!" Chris called out as he approached. "Any luck in finding the others?"
"That's a negative," Wesker shook his head, the ever-present sunglasses hiding some of his facial expressions. "I also haven't been able to get a radio message out to Mr. Vickers as of yet, it seems something is jamming us."
"Damn," Chris shook his head. "I thought I heard gunshots a while ago but I guess that was you."
"Maybe," Wesker shrugged. "Could have been the rest of Alpha Team too, we might as well split up again to see if we can find anything. I'll meet you back here in a half hour or so."
"Copy that," Chris nodded. "I'll be back here in thirty mikes," Chris started to walk away and then stopped and looked over his shoulder at Captain Wesker. "Good luck Captain."
Wesker just nodded before turning around and walking in the opposite direction.
"Nope!" I said as I peered around the corner and began backing up. "I'm out, you guys can handle whatever that is, but I'm out."
"What?" Dewey asked with a smirk on his face. "I've never known you to be scared of anything before."
"I don't deal with snakes," I replied as I checked my magazine and itched my hand down for a 10mm handgun that had been replaced by my Sig P226 when I loaned the Glock to Dewey.
"Yeah, and that is one big motherfucker," Forest said as he shouldered his SR-25 and peered at the giant snake that appeared to be resting at the moment. "Should we try and take it on now, Captain? Or should we just try and bypass it?"
"Bypass it for now," Captain Marini replied. "No sense in pissing off something now that might be able to take one of us out."
The rest of Bravo Team responded in the affirmative as they moved quietly through a secondary room, bypassing the giant snake entirely.
"Now, we need to see if we can find some sort of blueprints for the place," Captain Marini said quietly, not wanting to wake the sleeping snake. "Let's see if we can find some sort of library or office space of some kind, try and get a better idea of the big picture around here."
"Did you see that?" Jill asked as she thought she saw movement ahead.
"I thought I saw something out of the corner of my eye," Barry replied as he slowed to a stop and looked around, his shotgun at the ready.
Joseph, bringing up the rear, stopped and looked behind the trio, checking the rear, and then seeing that it was clear, he turned around and peered up ahead, trying to see if he could spot the movement that the other two had mentioned.
"I don't see anything," Frost said with a shrug. "Maybe it was your imagination."
"I'm not so sure about that," Jill said as she relaxed her posture a bit. "But I can't figure out what it was so I guess we can move forward."
As the trio began to move forward, a massive figure lurched out from the darkness of the corner of the ceiling, its muscular body tensing as it snatched Joseph and jumped away, Jill and Barry turned at the sound and began firing their weapons into the area where the figure had disappeared to.
"Joseph!" Jill cried out as they began to chase the sound that the figure made as it ran, the gunshots punctuating the noise as Joseph seemingly tried to kill the humanoid as it carried him. One last gunshot echoed through the air as a roar sounded in the distance.