October 1st 03:53AM
LOCATION: B.O.W Disposal Centre
The next room was huge, like some sort of enormous industrial arena-
"What is god's name is this place?" Jill whispered, a collection of what looked like storage tanks that circled the large arena below,
"This must be the disposal centre, you see those tanks?"
Jill nodded "Well- they're full of an extremely corrosive solvent, the thought behind it is you put your B.O.W's you want destroyed in the base below then flood the whole thing with the solvent"
It was very effective Jill had to at least give the Umbrella Scientists that.
They follow the walkway around the large area when a loud rumbling noise alerted Natasha that they needed to start running.
Natasha grabbed Jill's hand and started to run as the Nemesis tore its way through the metal walls of the chamber, its roar echoed through the entire room,
As soon as it caught sight of them it leapt after them like a crazed wild animal, a far cry away from the focused relentless hunter Black Widow had first seen when it was first deployed.
As it landed on the gangway behind them the entire section of the metal flooring gave way, Natasha kept an iron uncomfortable grip on Jill's hand as they both held onto the falling section of floor.
Jill looked down to see the Nemesis it latched onto the same section of falling walkway until suddenly the whole structure collapsed and they all went plummeting down.
Natasha's body exploded in pain as she crashed into the metal walkway below, she panicked as she felt the vaccine vial fall out of her pocket,
She still held on to a falling Jill as she grabbed onto the metal railing, big mistake!
The awkward angle as well as the extra body weight of Jill caused a loud sickening popping noise to fill Natasha's ears
Natasha yelled in pain, but she refused to release her left hands grip on Jill or the painfully injured right hands grip on the walkway.
Her whole right shoulder was dislocated and the strain that was now on the injury made her feel sick
"Natasha!" Jill yelled as she looked down, she had lost sight of the Nemesis as it had fallen to the disposal arena below.
October 1st 04:00AM
Black Widow blinked several times she knew she needed to focus- she saw the vaccine vial, but then she was also aware of the new presence approaching them
"Oh- what do we have here?" Nikolai grinned at them as he picked up the vaccine
"Nikolai don't the city needs that vaccine!" Jill yelled up from where Natasha kept a bone crushing hold onto her hand-
"More than I do? Hmm" he smirked down at them amused at the unfortunate situation they had found themselves in
"Ouch- that shoulder looks like it really hurts!" Nikolai smirked-
Natasha growled as Nikolai pressed his boot hard into the hand that painfully held onto the walkway, but still Natasha refused to let go.
Now she was beyond pissed and she found that her anger against Nikolai dulled the pain a little-
Jill wanted to tell Natasha to let her go, she didn't doubt that if the Avenger had her other hand free she'd be able to wreck up this ass hole.
"You should have never come to Raccoon City Natasha Romanoff" he knelt down and grabbed a painful fistful of her red hair as he arrogantly waved the vibrant purple vial in front of her face,
She hissed through the agony not wanting to let Nikolai have the satisfaction of seeing her in pain-
"Now I know you cant put a price on life, but I'm in this business to get paid" he brought his face close to hers,
She was almost tempted to bite him to do anything she could to hurt him-
It had been a long time since she'd felt such a strong anger, but the Black Widow took a deep breath.
She needed that cure and she was prepared to swallow her pride and negotiate with the greedy ass hole if that's what it took
"If it's money you're after- I can make sure that you get paid double what you're being promised if you give me the vaccine"
Natasha felt like she could vomit the moment the words left her mouth, whilst Jill couldn't believe what she was hearing.
Nikolai laughed "I never took you for a desperate woman Ms Romanoff"
Natasha bit down on the side of her mouth, hard enough to draw blood,
"Only when the lives of millions are at stake" she swallowed and definitely tasted blood-
"Hmm" he seemed to genuinely consider it for a shot moment, but Black Widow knew the second he started smirking again that they were fucked.
"You will pay Black Widow" he released the fist full of hair as he stood up again, but still painfully dug his boot into her sore fingers
"So you wanna make a deal? Well here it is"
Jill had a bad feeling, she wished she could reach her gun, but Natasha's tight grip on her hand prevented her
"The combat data of you fighting the B.O.W's is the best I can sell- so you both go down there and battle the Nemesis and I'll record the combat data, put on a good show and maybe I don't need the vaccine, Agreed? Good!"
Nikolai suddenly kicked Black Widow in the face, the impact broke her nose and her grip on the metal walkway.
They both plummeted down to where their Nemesis waited for them.
They landed in the arena with a painful thud, Natasha attempted to prevent hitting her already injured arm-
"Are you alright?" Jill asked Natasha as they both got up to their feet,
Natasha looked over at the Nemesis as it seemed to take a moment to register their presence.
Blood poured out of her nose, she wiped away the warm liquid that poured down her face
"Its fine, my shoulder is just dislocated"
They both rolled out of the way before the creatures attack could hit them-
"I'm not sure anyone has ever used the words 'it's fine' and 'dislocated shoulder' in the same sentence!"
Jill fired her grenade launcher at the beast like Nemesis.
It whipped its long tentacle around the arena, Natasha jumped high dodging the attack,
Jill however was painfully knocked to the ground by the unexpected attack.
Natasha threw a few explosives at the creature; she looked around at the numbered tanks and pondered how they could switch them on and hopefully not with them down here whilst it floods.
They continue firing at the Nemesis looking for any weak points in its animalistic form
"Natasha, Jill!" a recognisable voice yelled, they both looked up to see Carlos standing in what looked like the control room
"Carlos!" Jill yelled up to him, Natasha fires her assault rifle at the furious creature that roared at her-
"Carlos can you get this system up and running?" Natasha yelled up to him.
Carlos looked down at the controls, he was sure that he could figure this out,
"As long as you're both alright" the creature below roared at both of them 'Is that the same creature from the other night' Carlos pondered as he attempted flicking some of the switched anxiously aware of the ferocious battle happening below,
"Are you doing, ok?" Jill shouted over to Natasha who angrily fired a very highly charged Widow's bite, her arm throbbed, she would need to reset her shoulder if she didn't want to be in trouble
"I'm fine" she responded-
she wasn't fine, neither of them were fine- FAR from fine.
However, that was an issue to be repressed for another time, the monster stood on its hind legs and released an ultra-sonic screech,
Both Jill and Natasha covered their ears, as the noise wave hit the outside tanks, Sparks went firing along the entire power system for the disposal unit.
"Shit!" Black Widow hissed as Zombies fell out of the chutes that surrounded them.
They looked at the Nemesis who started to race in big circles around the tanks almost as if waiting for the moment their defences fell
"Let me spot for you" Carlos insisted whilst they took care of the undead being dumped into the arena.
Natasha wondered if she could short out the locks on the tanks with her Stingers
"Watch out, you've got more incoming!" Carlos yelled on the loud speakers as more Zombies pilled in,
Both of them were acutely aware of the Nemesis- although one second it was visible, the next it had disappeared
"He's hiding behind Tank 8!" Carlos yelled,
Natasha knew exactly what to do as she fired her Widow's Bites at the Tank causing a cascade of brilliant blue sparks to painfully electrocute the Nemesis,
"Now rip that fucker apart!" Natasha and Jill didn't need telling twice, still it was nice to have Carlos acting as their cheerleader in the wings.
The creature whipped its arm tentacle around the arena taking out the remaining undead.
Learning from last time Jill ducked to the floor whilst Natasha flipped high into the air, higher that Jill thought was humanely possible,
Black Widow removed her batons from her back armour- her right shoulder sent sparks of pain as she fastened the Batons together to make the one long bow staff,
Powerful electricity ran through the weapon, the next time it lunged towards them it got a nasty shock.
Whilst the Nemesis remained stunned from Natasha's attack, Jill fired with the powerful heavy magnum,
"Here comes some more" Carlos announced as more Zombies were dropped into the arena-
'Where the hell are they all coming from?' Jill wondered and then realised maybe that wasn't so important right now, they had bigger problems as the Nemesis again when sprinting behind the solvent tanks.
"Hiding behind number 2!" Natasha quickly located Tank 2 and fired the Widow's Bite causing the power surge of electricity again, shocking the Nemesis causing it to collapse back down to the arena-
"Yeah!" Carlos cheered over the speaker as both women began firing everything, they had to keep it down.
Suddenly Tank number 2 started pouring the corrosive solvent into the arena,
'Yep definitely acid' Natasha thought to herself, she REALLY didn't want to be down here once the Tanks started dropping acid on them.
Carlos suddenly got an idea as he switch to the controls of what looked like a crane
"Got some more incoming!" Carlos yelled as more Zombies dropped through the chutes
"Hey- let it take care of them" Jill yelled as she'd noticed that the creature had no concept that the Zombies weren't any threat to it- as it indiscriminately whipped its tentacle around the arena attempting to strike either of them.
Jill began firing her grenade launcher, again the creature charged at them and they both dodged the attack rolling in different directions.
Natasha grabbed her Glocks although she wasn't firing as well with her right,
She kept unloading until the creature attempted to go for another run around the Tanks.
Both Natasha and Jill tried to keep one eye on the Nemesis as it furiously sprinted in circles around them.
More Zombie's dropped into the arena diverting their attentions
"You do what you do, I'll take care of the Zombies" Jill yelled as she relentlessly fired with her shot gun turning the annoying Zombies in to bloody paste
"Number 3!" Carlos yelled, Natasha charged the shot before she sent it, the Nemesis roared in agony as the discharge of electricity fried it like a Thanksgiving turkey
"Hey Natasha, I got this" Carlos yelled as Tank 3 began to pour the very acidic solvent on top of the stunned Nemesis,
It screeched the moment the solvent came into contact with its form
"Natasha, Jill- here comes a crane, use it to climb up!" Carlos announced as the Nemesis angrily got back up in its attack run,
Both Black Widow and Jill fired at the creature as it charged at them
"Get Back!" Carlos yelled as the crane he was controlling was coming in quick,
Natasha saw the bulky metal crane coming their way, it hit the Nemesis the very second it leapt forward towards them-
Natasha watched in slow motion as every bone in its face was pulverised into bloody shrapnel.
It landed on the ground looking more and more like mincemeat from the constant assaults on its form.
"Now get on!" Carlos said as the crane stopped in front of them.
They both tirelessly climbed onto the big crane, Natasha looked around and realised that she couldn't see Nikolai anywhere,
Jill raised her arm in the air signalling Carlos to start lifting-
"I'm gonna melt this fucker into mush!" Carlos announced as all the Tanks began to pour the corrosive into the arena below them.
The Nemesis roared into the air as the solvent began to dissolve it, the greenish liquid below quickly took on a red-ish colour, the smell made Jill's eyes water.
The crane stopped near the exit where they both leapt off,
"Alright I'll meet you both up ahead" Carlos announced as they thankfully exited the Disposal Room.
Natasha winced from the swelling in her arm-
"Jill- I need you to set my shoulder back in" Jill wanted to retch
"What?" she asked as they quickly restocked in a weapons room
"Its ok, I snap back together like a LEGO person, just feel around for the socket in my shoulder and then push my arm back in"
It would be a 'field patch-up job' but there would be time enough later for proper medical care.
"Uh- ok" Jill did as the Black Widow instructed, she felt herself cringe as her fingertips found the socket of her shoulder, she really didn't want to do this.
There was a very good reason they had the likes of Rebecca Chambers on their S.T.A.R.S team and that was because none of them were exactly the health care giving kind.
The arm went back into Natasha's shoulder with a loud crack.
Natasha growled through the pain whilst Jill verbally retched at the noise and hoped that she never had to do that again
"Thanks" Natasha mumbled as she wiggled her numb hand-
"Now lets go and get Nikolai and get that vaccine back".