Chapter 8: Perfect Timing
Derek picks up the phone and the screen immediately turns on, a fingerprint icon showing up. He presses his thumb onto the screen and a blue line goes up the screen. The whole screen becomes a dim bluish-black as it shows a large map, a white dot and a red dot in different places on the map. He zooms in, and the names of rooms show up. As the dots go off screen a white and red arrow show up pointing in their directions. Scrolling up to the red dot, the room reads, "Main Lab". A small notification appears as he nears the red dot. It reads, "Objective: Get to the Main Lab,"
Scrolling down to the white dot it reads, "Sitting Room," This room appears much smaller than the lab one, and its connected to rooms on three sides.
The room below it is the "Cell" and the room under that are the "Showers". The white dot must be his location. He scrolls up to the red dot, the notification showing up once more. He taps on it, and a red line appears on the map connecting the two dots and going through various rooms. The line goes through the left side.
Both doors have card readers. He approaches the left door, and swipes the ID Card, but there's a rejection beep. He tries the other door, and it unlocks. Walking through the door he checks the phone to see if the path has changed, it hasn't. With a sigh of annoyance he puts the phone away into his pocket as he opens the door and enters the room. It's a long and thin room, counters on both sides with lots of scientific equipment like microscopes, flasks, and a bunch of other do-hic-ees that anyone who isn't a scientist wouldn't know the names or purposes of. In the middle of the room are several metal tables lined together going along the length of the room. Nothing seems to be in here besides him.
Making his way through the room he reaches another door, this one without any sort of lock or handle. To the right is another door, this one with a handle. He tries to open it but it's locked.
Pushing the handle-less door open, Derek enters a room about half the length of the one he was just in. Two large test tubes illuminated by lights from underneath stand on both sides of him. Inside are two large creatures, easily a foot taller than him and have armor like what the thing in the showers had, but bulkier and sharp. On the other end of the room sits a desk, two objects shimmering in the light. He cautiously walks up to the desk, glancing back at the tubes to make sure the things inside are still unconscious.
Walking up to the desk, he finds another card, this one with various numbers on it and a red stripe going along the top of it. Next to it is a pistol. He takes the card, placing it in his pocket before he picks up the pistol. Taking out the magazine he sees it's full. He puts it back in as he turns around. He slowly makes his way back to the door and lightly presses his hand on the door. Derek jumps a bit when the one to his right twitches a bit.
Derek's relieved when it once more sits still, floating in the tube like it's sleeping once more. He goes back into the room and quickly makes his way to the sitting room. He goes inside, pulling out the red card and swiping it through the reader. As the door clicks, one of the tubes in the other room start to drain. He opens the door, pulling out his phone to see where he needs to go. The line goes through a door in the top left corner of the room, not too far from him.
This room is about the same size as the room with the tubes, a large table in the center with counters and shelves lining the walls. Walking to the door in the corner, he hears something bang hard against metal. He glances back to the sitting room, knowing what must have made that noise. He quickly puts the pistol's safety on before jamming it into his left pocket. Holding his flashlight in one hand and the phone in the other he rushes through the door. He hears lots of banging and things being thrown not too far from him.
He quickly scans the map, seeing where he is and which direction to go. Hurrying through the room he enters another room, than another, than another. The thing is hot on his trail somehow. He only has four more rooms to go.
How big is that damn place?!
He quickly enters a very large room, several empty tubes lining the walls and in a row down the middle. The door he needs to go through is on the other side of the room. As he gets about halfway there he hears banging coming from the door he entered through. Glancing back he sees the door is severely bent. As he shoves open the door to exit the room the other door is broken off its hinges. Checking his phone, it's a straight shot to the lab, just three hallways.
He just reaches the end of the first hall when the thing breaks through. He glances back to see the massive creature barreling towards him. He bursts through the door and down the next hallway. On the other end is another one of those things that was in the showers. He doesn't have any time to fight it. The thing lets out a screech before it starts running towards him. As it nears him, he elbows the thing, just barely pushing it far enough to let him pass it. The larger creature breaks through this door much faster, as it continues its pursuit. Derek reaches the last hall, light coming from the door on the other end, he sprints as fast as he can. Getting halfway through the hall the thing comes crashing through the door.
How can something so big be so damn fast!?
The distance between them quickly closes as he reaches the door. Running through, he quickly comes to a stop when he sees Luther, pointing a magnum at him.
"Move," Luther states. Derek doesn't hesitate to jump to the side and out of the guns direction. With a loud bang, Luther fires the gun. It easily penetrates the door, and not soon after a loud thud comes from the other side. Luther opens the door to see the creature on the ground, still partly alive. He shoots it once more and it dies for good.
"Needs a more potent dose," Luther says to himself as he examines the magnum. He puts the magnum in its holster as he walks back into the room with Derek, whose still catching his breath.
"You did good, running rather than fighting, conserving what you have is key to survival," Luther says as he walks past Derek and starts typing something into a nearby computer.
"Are you, going, to answer, my questions now?" Derek asks between breaths.
"As promised," Luther says with a final click of the keyboard, "We'll start with the beginning. Shortly after you were killed during the whole Lanshiang incident I recovered your body for research purposes,"
"Research? Couldn't you have just picked up any of the thousands of other infected for that?"
"Well, you were infected with a very special version of the C-Virus. In fact, it's so special, I've had a hard time recreating it, and tinkering with it hasn't been any easier. At least, with the one by itself. I've managed to make tremendous progress with the one inside of you,"
"Inside me...so I'm not cured?"
"Well, that's hard to say a solid yes or no to. As you can see, you're like any other human, mostly. You aren't being mentally affected by the virus, but you are slightly physically affected by it. You're stronger than most people, but not by much, so an intense workout regimen is definitely going to be a must if you're going to be useful. You can also heal faster, you no longer have any tears in your body and even look a little bit younger,"
"If the virus is still in me, how am I, stable?"
"Well, after I had replicated the virus that's in you, I killed most of it off, but the problem is like with most of these viruses, it regenerates very quickly. So, I made a little device that prevents its growth, in fact its been on you this whole time, right behind your right ear,"
Derek places a hand behind his ear, feeling a small bump.
"That thing is the only thing keeping the virus from taking you over like how it did back in Lanshiang. Try to do anything against me, and I won't hesitate to turn it off," He says coldly.
"Why are you keeping me human? Why revive me in the first place?"
"Isn't it obvious? Having a living dormant virus in a living host is the best way to test out how strong it is. Plus, I can't have some giant T-rex thing or saber-tooth tiger wrecking my labs. I also need someone who can be out in the field, being my eyes and ears. I have a very special test I'm going to be conducting in the near future and I need someone to record the results for me,"
"Like the one I just did?"
"Not quite. I'll let you know when the time comes. But for now how about we start training? You don't want to waste your second chance at life,"
March 17, 2015- ???:
The past month has been nothing but intense training. Combat, firearms, B.O.W's. In a large training room Derek's punching a punching bag, the hard thuds from his hits echoing through the room. His sweat covered shirt has been thrown to the side revealing his much more toned body. Originally just having an average build he's manged to pack on a couple pounds of muscle, the black t-shirt he had put on the first day he woke up now a bit snug whenever he puts it on. Given a couple more days, he'd probably have a six-pack. The beard he woke up with has been shaved down to a five o'clock shadow.
As well trained and built his body is, his mind is another story. He's spent the whole time living in the labs, though he has occasionally gone outside for training. It's nothing but dense snow and denser forests as far as the eye can see. Still having no idea where he is brings him unease, and his past life constantly creeps up on him. Flashes of that night in China haunt his dreams.
Have I really been given a second chance at life? My appearance has certainly changed, but take away the training, and it's all the same. Working with people who make and use viruses, make B.O.W's. Though Luther works alone, he certainly does just as much work as The Family or Umbrella. I've heard him talking about some new virus that's he been making using mixtures of various others. Uroboros, C-Virus, T-Virus, I wouldn't be surprised if he has Las Plagas and G-Virus as well. How the hell did he get all these different viruses though?
His thoughts get cut off when his earpiece goes off, Luther's voice talking through it.
"Derek, come to the main lab, now," Luther says sternly
"Got it," He replies as he grabs the punching bag to stop it from moving, "I'm on my way," He grabs his shirt, draping it over his shoulder and heading out.
Heading into the lab Derek sees Luther typing on the computer once more.
"Though this is a bit sooner than I would have wanted, it's time to test my virus," Luther says, glancing at Derek, than back to the screen as he continues to type at a million words a second.
"What?" Derek asks, completely confused.
"I've found the perfect test subject for my virus and I have to act fast," He presses enter and Derek's phone vibrates, "I'm going to be sending you to an island in the Atlantic. More information is on your phone. Get dressed and ready, I'm taking you there in an hour," Luther hurries out of the room as Derek pulls out his phone.
Files have been sent to him. Opening them up he reads some files. The first one is from some anonymous person talking about finding some person named Jacob. There's a picture attached showing several people in a market, the focus of the picture is on a man with dark brown hair with shades on. That must be him. The next file is from Luther himself. It reads:
"Jacob was one of the best agents at Terrasave that I've worked with. He's a now wanted man and has been in hiding for some time but was recently found on a remote island making this the perfect opportunity to test out the virus on a large scale. You are to keep your distance from him but watch him carefully, I need to know exactly how he handles the outbreak so I can best make modifications to the virus. If he dies I need to know exactly how. No doubt Terrasave is going to be sending agents after him, I'm sure he'll have no problem dealing with them himself. If it seems like they are going to get him, don't hesitate to take them out, they are disruptions to the test at that point. As for you, don't get caught or seen by them. You may be considered dead, but I'm sure you don't want them to see you. Don't die,"
There's another file that's a list of all the equipment he's going to need.
How the hell did he type this up so fast?
Confused and baffled, Derek puts his phone away as he leaves the lab and heads for his living quarters to get ready to depart.
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TIWHimitsu Hmm...maybe Page's mission won't be so easy... Anyways! This is the end of Derek's segment and the next chapter will be going back to Page. Hope you're enjoying the story so far and any comments would be much appreciated! :)
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