Chapter 27
"You hear that?" Jill asked as she walked through a small section of the Mansion. "Sounded like gunfire."
"Yeah, sounded close too," Barry said as he double-checked the load in his shotgun. "You ready to go see who it is?"
"Yeah," Jill replied. "I'm ready to unravel this mystery."
The two of them began jogging, moving towards the sound of sparse gunfire.
"Blue Blue Blue!" Jill yelled as she saw who the two people moving and shooting were.
"Jill?!" Edward asked as he killed a zombie and made sure the area was clear.
"Ed, it's damn good to see you," Barry said as he clasped arms with the other STARS member before turning to look at the wounded medic who was standing beside on overwatch, his side held with one hand and a pistol in the other.
"Jill, Barry," Mark nodded at the two of them. "Where the hell have you guys been? We've been fighting for our lives up here on the mountain."
"We didn't get authorization to come look for you guys until about four or so hours ago," JIll said as she glanced down at her watch. "And we've already lost Frost to some sort of strange creature in the mountain, and we lost track of Chris and Captain Wesker immediately after we located your crash site."
"Well, we've had one hell of a night," Edward said with an exhausted look in his eyes. "We just got split off from the rest of Bravo Team by some sort of giant snake a little while ago, and now we're trying to figure out where they are."
"The rest of Bravo Team is alive?" Barry asked.
"All of us were there before we got seperated," Mark said as he press checked his Sig. "Given our night though, I'd rather have eyes on our teammates."
"Agreed," Ed replied to his partner. "Would hate to have to kill them after becoming one of those things."
"Shit!" Captain Marini swore as Bravo Team splintered once again to evade some sort of monster. "Roll call," he said after the snake had passed.
"I think I pulled something in my leg, but I'm here," Forest said as he used his rifle as a crutch to stand up again before steadying himself on a wall.
"Here!" Rebecca called out from where she was partiallly buried underneath some drywall. "Kenneth hit his head, and he's out."
"We'll have to carry him then,"Marini said as he and Forest dug the other two members out of the debris. "At least until he's conspicuous enough to walk by himself."
"Is the video camera intact?" Forest asked. "We need to at least save what footage we already have."
"Let me check," Rebecca said as she dug through Kenneth's pack, pulling out a slightly dinged camera that was still functional. "We're good, but I'm going to swap out the tape for save keeping anyway. It should be fine with all of my medical gear."
"Alright, I've got Kenneth, just keep me covered," Marini began to pick up the big man before Rebecca stopped him.
"Wait," Rebecca said as she dug into a pouch and pulled out a plastic vial. "I've got smelling salts, let's give them a try before we try going through this entire mansion with an unconscious teammate."
Cracking the smelling salts open and holding them a distance away from Kenneth's nose, Rebecca kept careful watch and made sure that she was able to catch his head when he jolted awake.
"What the hell was that?" Kenneth asked as he jolted upright from where he was laying on the ground. "I remember some sort of giant snake, and then just nothing."
"Yeah, you got hit pretty hard," Rebecca said with a calming smile. "You good?"
"I'm good," Kenneth accepted Marini's hand as he stood up. "Is the camera okay?"
"Yeah, we checked it, and swapped out the tapes just in case," Rebecca replied.
"Good," Kenneth said as he rubbed at a sore point on his shoulder. "I'd hate for all of our work so far to be in vain."
"Well, you're alive, that's more important than any more evidence we could have picked up," Enrico said as he patted the other man on the shoulder. "Now let's go find Ed and Mark and get back to Raccoon City, we've spent way too much time in these mountains."
"I shall have to consider allowing that recording to be a part of what I sell," Wesker mused to himself as he watched the battle between Yawn and Neptune. "Yawn seems to be the superior experiment, I shall have to consider more studies in that area."
Wesker then looked at another camera feed, seeing that some members of Bravo Team had met up with Jill and Barry.
"Well, it looks like it's time to plant some seeds here," Wesker smirked as he located Chris on the feeds, plotting out a path that would lead him to the other Alpha Team member.
Author's Note: This is also crossposted on Spacebattles and The Sietch if you're interested in reading the other six chapters that have already been posted there.