Resident Evil: The Dark Truth
Prologue chapter of the first story of what I hope to be a new Resident Evil series, anyway, hope you enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own Resident Evil or its characters.
Prologue
July 20th 1998
Deep underground, beneath Racoon City and, more specifically, beneath an old mansion in the midst of the forest surrounding the city, a top secret laboratory is hard at work. The sterile white walls, floors and ceilings of the various corridors and rooms showed a location that focused more on function than on comfort or on producing a pleasing image. A full team of scientists worked within this lab, conducting top secret research for their company, questionable research that necessitated the secrecy of this lab and its location. Even the mansion staff who lived in the mansion above were working for the same company and were in fact disguised security guards, positioned to protect the lab and its secrets. Within the lab however were two scientists who worked for the company who were not in fact part of the usual team. This did not raise any concerns however as the duo, who were husband and wife, were top scientists for the company and had top security level clearance. However they had their own ulterior motives, ones that would have far reaching effects and consequences that they couldn't even begin to fathom yet.
Alone in one of the lab rooms, the thirty-seven year old man of above medium height smirked as he finished loading the vials he was working on into the specially designed briefcase, set to protect them from being jostled or damaged, a very good thing as the blue contents of the vial were very dangerous. The man had short black hair, hazel eyes and fair skin and was rather slender, dressed in black suit pants, a blue shirt with a red tie under a white lab coat and brown shoes. He also wore a name tag introducing him as Edward Martin.
'That should do it, now I just need to-' He thought to himself.
He was cut off however by the door opening. He looked up but relaxed and smiled warmly at the arrival of the woman who entered. His thirty-six year old wife, Theresa Martin, as identified by her own name tag. She was a medium height woman with shoulder length black hair, blue eyes, fair skin and a slender build, wearing a black pencil skirt, white blouse and black heels along with a similar lab coat to her husband.
"Are we ready?" Theresa asked.
Edward nodded and passed the suitcase over to her. "Yes, my dear. This case represents us taking our advantage at last. Soon it will be us who are the ones everyone talks about in this company."
She grinned as she took it. "Excellent, our work is progressing and this will make it even better. I can hardly wait."
"Alright, remember our plan, I'll see you soon." Edward explained.
They shared a brief kiss and Theresa left, with Edward going in a different direction. Theresa walked right through the labs, ignoring all the other scientists who were around her. She reached a panel on the wall which she activated with her palm print and opened a hidden door. Stepping out onto the hidden monorail platform she walked briskly to said train and got onboard and waited.
Meanwhile Edward had crept into the security room and, with a few careful keystrokes on the computer board, removed any signs of himself and his wife from the footage of today and rigged the cameras to loop old footage for the next several minutes. He then left and began making his own way through the underground laboratory until he reached the hidden door and opened it himself. Before he stepped through however he turned and pulled an extra blue filled vial out of his pocket and casually threw it down the corridor he had come from before darting inside and allowing the door to close, just before the vial hit the ground and shattered. Its contents immediately began to turn into a gas form and spread up into the ventilation system and through the whole lab. By the time that had happened, Edward had joined his wife and took the monorail away from the lab to the secret main lab within the Racoon region, NEST. With that little theft they had just unleashed hell, but nobody knew it yet.
End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.