𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐏𝐄𝐑 | 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐋 𝟐

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍

| EAST STORAGE ROOM |

Leon took a quick glance out of the Clock Tower room to make sure that tyrant wasn't around. When he looked the tyrant just so happened to be coming through the door from the library, Leon motioned to me for us to trade spots so I could see. I looked out the door and looked over at the tyrant who looked confused, looking around. I was shocked he couldn't see my head poking out and looking around.
I poked my head back in the door and quietly shut it. "Shit. We can't leave while he's still out there." I whispered to him, I didn't know if this creature had fucking super hearing or some shit like that but I thought it would be best for us to whisper. "Let's give it a few minutes before we move." As soon as Leon spoke, I heard the giant and loud footsteps again, banging back and forth from the walls he walked down. They pounded in my head as he walked, and they grew closer. "Shh come here, just wait for him to pass us." Leon whispered, motioning me to come over to him. I walked over and hugged him tightly, even as a S.T.A.R.S member this tyrant terrified me.
He held me tight while we waited for the monster to flee back to where he came from, we stood completely still and silent the whole time. I was scared he could easily come through the door, if he knew we were in here. But I didn't understand why he wouldn't check this room? But I sure as hell wasn't complaining that he didn't, it just didn't make sense to me!

| WALKING TO PARKING GARAGE |

Minutes had passed by now and we no longer heard the tyrants footsteps, Leon and I let go of eachother and sighed. I poked my head back out of the door and he wasn't there anymore. I motioned my hand to tell Leon to come on and we bolted for the door across the other side of the hall.
We had to unlock the door before going in but once we did we realized this was the storage room we had been in before we first met the tyrant..when Leon got hurt. "Great, now all we need to do is get back to the parking garage and unlock that jail-cell." I heard Leon say from behind me while we carefully treaded through the room and out the other side. We walked down the steps and through the hallway passed the heart door and made our way back to the Fire escape. We walked down and back into the Police Department and back into the Watchman's Room and down the steps into the Parking Garage. We took a right and walked to the door straight ahead which led us back to where we had come in contact with some woman claiming to be FBI. Instead of it being empty there were a few  infected dogs walking around the cars. "Shit, you got my back?" I glanced at Leon with my machine gun raised - ready to shoot. "Got it." Leon and I placed our backs against eachother and began shooting the infected dogs that came running at us. One of the dogs ended up jumping on one of the cars and launched itself towards me, I remembered my S.T.A.R.S. training and immediately went for a kick, my leg jolted up in the air and my whole body shook when my heel came in touch with the dogs face - I kicked it all the way across the parking garage.

| JAIL |

Letting out a sigh I looked at Leon and placed my gun away while he did the same. "Damn..nice moves you got there." He chuckled which made me laugh, "Yeah thanks, I guess that training did come in handy. I'm glad I took the training course."
We started walking over to the Jail and walked back down to the cell where we had come in contact with Ben and Ada earlier, 'Poor Ben..he seemed like a nice guy..'
"Here..have this Leon." I handed him the electronic box that I had and showed him earlier. "Thanks. Hopefully this is what we needed to open the cell."
He placed both boxes in the panel and began moving some of the cords around, connecting them to different ones and trying to figure out which ones would turn the panel on and unlock the cell.
It took him about seven minutes before we heard a *Ding* and the cell door slid open. "Good job!" I praised him, patting his shoulder while heading into the jail cell. I grabbed Ben's parking garage keycard and Leon grabbed the tape recording that was in Ben's hand.
Leon began playing the recording and held it up to his ear. I reached behind the toilet and grabbed a first aid spray that we'd most likely need if we got attacked again. There were a few papers spread out on the wooden table that was in the fell but I didn't feel like going through them. "Anything useful?" I turned to look at Leon who was done listening to the recording, "He was an informant for Ada..apparently there's rumors of an underground lab and there's a tunnel leading to it right under the city..maybe that's how this broke out?" My eyes widened at what Leon had just told me. There had always been rumors of Umbrella around the city that I heard here and there but I tried not to pay much attention to it like Jill did, I knew I would've gotten suspended like her. 'I wonder if Jill's alright..'
"Huh..maybe we should give the recording to Ada, i'm sure she could decipher this." My gut was telling me not to trust this woman, but who else were we going to ask? We needed answers and we needed them fast. For all we knew the three of us were the only ones left alive.
"Alright well if we run into her again i'll give it to her, until then let's get the hell out of this place." "Agreed."
We walked out of the cell and started down the hall when the sirens started going off, the cells started opening and zombies started pouring out of them. "Oh shit..come on!" I told Leon, hurrying to our left I pulled the lever down to open the side door as another way to escape. We started running down the hall when the tyrant came around the corner. "Give me a break!" Leon called out, I immediately started shooting at its head with my MG while Leon hand his shotgun out. We made him drop his hat and eventually drop to his knees again.
We immediately ran passed him and was met with a crowd filled of zombies. "Shit.. what do we do?!" Leon looked at me, I was lost in a train of thought when I remembered the Hand Grenade I had picked up when we got the tool for the bookshelves!
I reached into my pocket and held the lever down while pulling the pin, in seconds I threw the grenade at them and pulled Leon back with me.
In a matter of moments it exploded, we ran back passed the tyrant that was still on his knees and ran through the main section of the jail to get back out to the parking garage.
I started running to the machine where we could use the keycard when I heard Leon began to struggle for breath. I immediately turned around and seen the tyrant holding Leon by his throat. My eyes widened and I immediately started shooting st the tyrant. "LET HIM GO!" I screamed, seconds later a police van rammed the tyrant into the wall and he dropped Leon.
I quickly rushed over to him and helped him up, "Leon are you okay?!" I spoke frantically, checking him for any more bruises than he already had.
He coughed when he tried to speak and regained his breath. "I'm fine..now..god I thought it was over." He chuckled, rubbing the top of my head. "Thanks."
Ada stepped out of the police van and looked at us, "This is getting old...Saving your ass, that's twice!" It sounded like she rolled her eyes while she spoke, and walked passed us which was a few feet away from the van. "I didn't realize you were keeping score." Leon replied, rubbing his throat with his hand. "Look, this isn't a game! Nothing dies down here!"  "You gotta be kidding me." Leon noticed the tyrants hand began moving, seconds later the van blew up and I quickly moved back with Leon so we couldn't feel the flames. The van blew up and we all covered our faces.
"I take it you have the keycard?" Ada asked Leon, without looking at me. "Yea. Valentina does. Maybe you might be able to explain what's on this?" Leon held out the tape recorder and threw it in her direction. "Maybe... after I hear it." She raised her brow at Leon and immediately began listening to it.
I walked over to the machine and slid the keycard in it, it clicked and the sliding door began to pull up, allowing us to escape.
Were finally going to make it out of here alive. All that's left is to leave this place. It shouldn't be too hard right?!
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HIIII POOKIES!!! Another chapter?! WELL, I just have so much muse to write like I said!!!! I really enjoy this story and I enjoy writing for it.
I hope you guys enjoy this chapter, and I look forward to writing and publishing the next one. Thank you guys for the love and support. MWAH! 🖤🫶🏻