"So Tricell and Umbrella were working together?"
"Yes, a very long time ago. Around 1966, a rumor spread that whoever consumed these flowers would gain special abilities, appearently it was all wrong, but they discovered something else instead. They discovered the Progenitor Virus."
You walked ahead towards a large Tricell tent, filled with tables full of old science equipment and journals.
"Where did you learn that?" Sheva asked, looking at the tables in particular, finding a small dish containing a pressed flower, completely drained of its color.
"I read countless journals on it when I first arrived here. I spent a few hours searching this place, most of the scientists should be dead by now." You headed towards the door at the back of the tent, showing a hidden semi-hallway with a door leading onwards.
A new hallway opened up, showing various yellow doors containing old Umbrella tech and notes from the last inhabitants. The rest of the hallway was blocked, leaving you no choice but to open the next door, showing a room full of large clear glass tanks, filled with strange liquid and the same type of flowers from before.
"Is this where they studied these flowers?" Sheva asked, coming close to one of the tanks, still operating and bubbling due to the slow operating generators.
"They tried everything to figure out how to extract Progenitor from these flowers: water change, soil, sunlight, everything. But they found a way to succeed, this was one of the steps they used to do it." Your hand touched the glass, cool against your covered fingertips.
"So the making of biological weapons started from these flowers," Chris looked at the next tank, containing more preserved flowers than the one you and Sheva looked at. "Unbelievable."
"It didn't all start from here, but... yeah, In a way it's awfully unbelievable." You stepped away from the tank, heading towards the door.
"Wait," Chris stopped you, making you turn your head to face him. "Yes?"
"What's your part in this? How are you an 'unwilling participant'?" You bit your lip, thinking on your choice of words. You recalled the data files Chris looked at, showing pictures of Jill and someone else being experimented on.
"Remember the little girl in the data file a while back?" You spoke, receiving a slight nod from the man.
"That was me."
"That was you?"
"They experimented on you when you were a child?!" Sheva cut in, a look of astonishment and pity written on her features. You nodded slowly, your hand going towards the door. "As much as I hate to say it, they have me tied on DNA files, that's all I can say. We have to keep moving."
You opened the door, your first step freezing with a gasp escaping your lips. A large blood splatter was against the wall, slowly dripping towards the ground. Three large claw marks scratched deeply into the wall, making your heart race.
"What's wrong?" Chris stepped forward, quickly catching eye of the sight. "What the hell??"
You turned the corner towards the hallway, seeing more similar blood splatters on the walls and ground, one in particular reaching to the ceiling. The familiar stench of heavy copper and rot hit your nose, making your stomach churn in the worst way.
"These weren't here before," you spoke, slowly walking past the massacred walls. If they were what you expected them to be, you're going to literally kill Wesker.
"What made these markings?" Sheva kept her gun out, following your slow pace down the hallway where more blood splatters decorated the walls, the floor under your heels really sticky.
Faint chirps or cries of animals echoed down through the room the three of you entered, leading you close to the caged animals. Chris approached the handle dripping with blood on the wall, pulling it downwards to move the large metal wall blocking thin windows. This area was an examination room, where they released animals and did research on them through glass.
They must've been confident that wild animals would behave, the glass is so thin.
Once the metal wall rose up, they were welcomed with a scene of more blood splattered along the floor and glass. A figure could be seen on the ceiling, it's sharp bloody claws tapping against the surface as it crawled away, causing major suspicion inside the other two.
"What the hell was that?" Chris approached the glass, seeing the streaks of blood left behind.
"Something I've regretted seeing since day one," you pulled out your gun, bashing the end against the thin glass, shards falling around your feet in uneven sharp patterns. "Lickers. Be cautious."
Your heels crunched under glass as you stepped inside, Chris and Sheva following quickly behind you. "I see they experimented on animals," Chris walked past the cages containing possums, goats, even dogs. "They happen to experiment on humans too?"
"Trust me, you'll see everything once we're up ahead." You continued walking, already expecting his reactions as soon as he truly find out. The entire room echoed with the sounds of shattering glass, followed by ear scratching screams and frantic clicking.
"(Y/N) look out!" Chris shouted, grabbing ahold of your arm and yanking you away from a Licker who jumped your direction, capturing you in his arms catching you completely by surprise. Sheva grabbed Chris's shotgun, shooting the bloody looking beast straight in the head. The first shot had the Licker land on its back, two more shots had it dead in a matter of moments.
"You alright?" Chris looked down at you, not noticing your horrified expression underneath your mask. Your eyes were wide, your heart pounding like massive bullets in your ears, you were sure Chris could hear or feel due to the chest to chest contact. You took a moment to collect yourself, your head slowly turning towards Chris's direction.
"Yeah," you stepped away from his chest, feeling his hands firmly on your shoulders. His gaze towards you was rather odd looking, seeming rather distressed or... captivated even. Seeing him this close made you recognize his eye color more clearly, the blue hue reminding you of Leon.
They sort of look like his.
Quickly, you snapped out of it, turning your head away fast, gently pushing his arms off your shoulders. "Thank you Chris."
The three of you quickly fought off the rest of the Lickers, staying together in attempts to appear larger than the enemy. Lickers tends to be attracted towards more solo parties. After going through a door inside the Licker's cage, you heard or saw no more sources of Lickers for now, taking comfort in the momentary silence.
"Thank God there weren't more of them." Chris commented as you entered a room full of monitors, hooked up to security cameras watching all the animals and Licker cages. You approached the counter while placing your gun next to the table, hoping to delete the footage for future precautions.
"Yeah, we couldn't last in a fight with a whole horde." Sheva stared at the black screens, seeing your fingers press multiple buttons after the power button didn't work. "What is it?"
"It's not turning on," you pressed more buttons, clicking the monitor controls but to no avail. "None of them are. These monitors should show footage of us fighting those things earlier."
"Were they turned off on purpose?" Chris reached over, pressing random buttons in hopes that anything would flash on or make a strange sound: Nothing.
"That could be a possibility," you grabbed your gun, letting out a confused sigh. "But that would mean one thing." You looked towards Chris and Sheva. "Someone must've been watching us."
"That's not good," Sheva commented, watching you head out the room first. "You're right, it isn't." You continued down the hall, worried thoughts roaming your mind. "No one's supposed to know I'm helping you guys, if someone saw me with you they'd probably tell-" you stopped immediately.
"Tell who?"
You kept silent. You quickly gestured your finger to your lips, or in this case, the beak of the mask.
"(Y/N)-" You cut Chris off by placing a hand on his chest, putting a finger to your mask again with your free hand.
"Trust me. It's better you find out for yourself, it'll make things more real to take in. Come on, we're almost to where we have to go."
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Vengeance of the Crow-Resident Evil 5
Fanfiction(Read "Shady Promises" before reading this.) After all this time, you finally received the answers you've been waiting for. In exchange, you were to work with Wesker again, settling his plans for his 'New World', containing meta-humans evolved by...
