Raccoon City 1998

Chapter 4: Gaining The Puzzle Pieces

Unlocking the next membership door, Leon steps into a hall and looks down each end, but he turns to the right end of the hall and walks down it, making the turn, but as he did, the sound of a chopper's blade gets his attention as could hear a chopper.

He follows the sound, running down the hallway, but with a flash of light, the chopper went crashing into the building. Making it rumble from impact, Leon stumbles catching himself from falling.

Once it was quiet and stable, Leon ran down the hall, making the turn, and saw the crashed plane blocking the way. He exhales to himself, then looks back at the hall, seeing a door was just down at the end. So he ran back towards the door and steps outside.

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Jacob pulls at the door, seeing it was locked, he huffs to himself and looks around, "What's wrong?" Claire asks him. "Door's locked, gonna have to go around." he tells her, she looks around and spotted a side door, "There," she tells him.

He looks out and grins back at her, "Good eye." he states and they ran towards the gate, Jacob opens the door, rushing through, letting Claire pass and he immediately closes the gate shut and locks it.

Claire exhales to herself as she looks at the station, "Leon... I'm bet you beat me here." he states, Jacob shot a look over at her "He's here, I'm sure of it." he assures her, Claire shot a smile at him and nods, "Come on, let's move." he tells her and they both turn back and wait ahead.

They step past the wet freshly dug graves then pass an open pit and they saw body bags of the dead just piled in on each other. They carefully step past the grave and step into the open walkway and headed down the stairs.

But the sound of a chopper's blades grabs their attention and they hurried down the steps, into the tunnel. "So, what was your unit like?" Clare asks him, Jacob kept his eyes forward. "My men and I were a butch of outcast of society. High school dropouts, orphans, runaways. Kids that couldn't adapt to the natural way of things. Born freaks, so we came together and formed The Mercenary Taskforce. Whatever you want to be done, we get it done, for the right price. Umbrella hired us to search and rescue any civilians that didn't make it to the evacuation rendezvous. They were willing to pay handsomely for it, we didn't know how bad it was until we were stranded here." he informs her.

Claire shot a worried look at him, "They were like your family, huh?" she asks him. He exhales to himself, lowering his gun, and nods at her. "I was the big brother of the unit, kept them out of trouble, encouraged them to get into trouble. All that crazy shit," he said with a fond smile.

But it was immediately replaced got a sour frown, "Come on, we have to move. Don't want to attract any of those things." he informs her, she exhales and nods as they remained themselves to be careful because they were not alone, then carefully they walk up the steps. But the chopper flew right over them and came to a sudden crash. The two exchanged looks then raced up the steps and onto the sidewalk that leads to a blocked-off construction sight. They both walk up towards the gate and grips hold of it. "Think there's a way around it?" she asks him.

Jacob looks down at her, "Possible, but I don't think we're going to find it." he states as they looked around, but something on the side of the building got their attention. He pats Claire's arm. "9'oclock," he warns her.

Claire looks over and saw the camera aimed right at them, "Survivors?" she asks, Jacob looks behind in wary. "No the people that killed all my men?" he asks as well and Claire shot a look at him, seeing the caution in his eyes. They then looked back at the closed off-site, then looked into the crashed plane and saw the pilot. "HEY!" Claire calls out to the pilot, Jacob just looks at him "Save your breath, the pilot is already dead, no way he would survive a crash like that." he informs her.