Capítulo 36: Collapse
As Jacob enters the security room, Derek has to enter in sideways so Page's body doesn't hit the doorway. Jacob walks up to the main monitor, pulling up the map and scanning the area. Derek glances at the monitor before looking back down to Page.
This, feeling, this, pain...I can't recall ever feeling this way...not even with Ada…
"So, have you been infected with the C-Virus this whole time, or were you injected?" Jacob asks as he stands up, closing the map and turning to Derek, finally noticing that's he naked and his skin has separated like plating.
"I was infected the whole time, but Luther had this, device, on my neck that kept it from spreading so I could benefit from the virus without becoming some, mindless monster…" He looks back down to Page as Jacob looks at him slightly perplexed.
"Then," He glances down at Page and looks back up, examining Derek's stern expression that tries to hide his grief, "Why are you, you, still?" Derek looks at his body, seeing all the tears in his skin, exposing some his muscles.
"I, don't know…"
"Well let's hope you stay that way, at least until we can fix you,"
The two leave the security room and start to walk down the hall towards the broken door.
"That ways a dead end," Derek states, "Something broke the door at the other end and it doesn't open,"
"Looks like we're taking the scenic route," Jacob states before turning around and heading for the outdoor court. They walk back out into the rain, both of them glancing at the bull's corpse to make sure it hasn't regenerated. It hasn't. Walking through the rain to the gated stairwell Jacob checks the door in front of them, but it's locked.
"Damnit," Jacob states, "This is the only other way to the storage room. The main office should have a spare, hopefully," He states before heading upstairs. Jacob and Derek walk through a broken off door and past the lower torso of a large creature, it's upper body completely missing. A grenade launcher has been tossed to the side.
"What the hell was that?" Derek asks.
"The remains of a cop that I arrested a couple months ago,"
Going deeper into the hall darkness starts to everything, Jacob having to turn on his flashlight to provide any sort of vision. They turn the corner to the right and walk down a hall where several indents in the walls, showing where the creature had swung. They reach a pair of dark brown wooden double doors. Opening the doors, Jacob's light shines onto the corpse of an officer sitting behind a desk, a bullet hole in his forehead. Walking up to the desk, Jacob pushes the chair with the corpse aside before he starts brushing some blood-stained papers to the side. No keys appear to be on the desk.
Checking the drawers he finds a key-ring. He takes it and puts it in one of the pockets on the duffel bag. As they start walking out Jacob suddenly stops.
"The laundry room is right down the stairs through that door," Jacob states as he stares at a door a couple feet away across the hall, "I'll go get you some clothes, stay here,"
"...Alright," Derek says, feeling his face heat up a bit.
I've worn suits for most of my life, yet I entirely forgot I've been walking around naked…
Derek steps back into the main office as the creaking of a metal door opening and then closing echos through the hall. He tries to look around the room but is barely able to even make out the outlines of objects. With everything so quiet, he can just barely hear what sounds like a riot coming from somewhere far off. Must be the zombies in the cafeteria, sounds like they're attacking each other. Something catches his attention though when he hears the faint sound of a helicopter turning on. The sound soon fades away though. It feels like several minutes have passed before Derek is slightly started by the sudden noise of a door opening and closing.
A flashlight illuminates the room as Jacob walks in, putting the clothes down on the desk. He places the flashlight on the desk facing the ceiling so the whole room is very dimly lit up. He walks over to Derek.
"I'll hold her while you get dressed,"
Derek hands him Page before walking over to the desk and grabbing the clothes, which are usual inmate clothes, some underwear, which looks to be just cleaned luckily, some orange pants, an orange short sleeve, and black sneakers. As Derek starts putting on the underwear Ada barges into the room, quickly covering her eyes when she sees him.
"A-Ada?!" Derek exclaims as he quickly pulls the underwear all the way up.
"You seem to have forgotten all forms of proper etiquette it seems," She says as she turns around, "Hurry up, Luther just took off with Norton in a helicopter and the island's set to blow up in thirty minutes,"
"What?!" Derek exclaims as he pulls his head through the top of the shirt.
"Derek, grab my light, and calm down, we'll be just fine," Jacob states before heading for the door to the hallway.
"Calm down?" Derek asks as he grabs the light and joins Jaocb and Ada into the hall, "What do you mean calm down, we're about to be blown up!"
"You'd be surprised how many times Page asked me that," Jacob states as they hurry down the hall at a quick-pace, "I'm sure you've had your fair share,"
"Don't get me started," Ada replies.
"I've had experience too, but I was the one giving the orders, not the one who was actually in the place that was going to blow up!"
"Did you hear how?" Jacob asks Ada.
"The island's power plant, it's going to overload and start a chain reaction all across this place," She replies as they reach the gated stairwell.
"Lucky us, this prison has a hidden tunnel somewhere in the storage room. Only way is down this hall" Jacob says as they reach the bottom of the stairs, "The key to the door is in the small pocket," Ada quickly unzips it, pulling out the keys and unlocking the door. They head down a hall, going into the force door they reach which leads to a set of stairs going down. They enter a large storage room full of tons of boxes. There doesn't look to be any way further down or out of this room except the stairs they just went down. A tarp covers the wall at the far end of the room. The group quickly hurries over and Ada pulls down the loosely hung up tarp, revealing an ordinary wall, a small round indent in the wall.
"Knew this would come in handy," Ada states as she pulls out what looks like a small stone but is actually made entirely of metal. She places it into the indent, which it fits into perfectly, and suddenly they can hear a mechanism on the other side start to move. The wall suddenly opens down the middle, revealing a well lit staircase leading down to a long hallway.
They all hurry down, Ada in the front and Derek in the back as they make their way down the long hallway. A single metal door is at the other end. Reaching it the door slides up into the ceiling They enter what appears to be a large laboratory room, spanning a couple yards in length. Several scientists are aimlessly walking around, and upon turning to the group, show their already rotting faces. The room is split up into a left, middle, right section from four large tables going down the middle of the room. All of them have a couple zombies in the way.
"Derek, take Page, Ada, keep them safe," Derek takes Page from Jacob, giving him back the flashlight, "Try and find a safe place to put her, there's gotta be something in here we can use to bring her back,"
"I don't know if you've noticed, but we don't exactly have a lot of time,"
"You let me worry about that," Jacob says as he grabs his knife, "Stay safe,"
"Wait-!" Ada exclaims before Jacob takes off down the middle isle to the other side of the room, sliding over a table ot get past some zombies, "Damnit! He's lucky I don't have a rid of this island or I'd just leave him to die…" She checks her gun's clip, only seven bullets left, "This place better have ammo somewhere, come on," She says before walking down the right aisle.
Approaching a zombie, Ada shoots it in the face, causing it to stumble back a bit. She kicks it in the abdomen, causing it to fall backwards onto the floor. Ada and Derek hurry past it, walking into a side door. They enter a room just as large as the one they were in. There's a door on each side of the room, no zombies are in this room, but some blood stains leading to some of the doors suggest where they went. Heading to the door on the left, which is the only one not stained with blood, Ada opens the door to a large room where a raised platform is blocking a hole in the ceiling. Lots of surgical equipment are on some tables, and some large test tubes with weird masses of body parts and eyes floating about aimlessly line the walls.
"Nope," Ada states as she shuts the door. They walk over to the door on the other end of the room they had entered from. She opens the door to a long hallway, several doors lining both sides. As they step foot into the hallway an alarm suddenly goes off, along with an automated message.
"Warning, power plant in critical condition. Twenty minutes until meltdown. All personnel evacuate the facility immediately,"
"Jacob I hope you know what you're doing…" Ada mutters before they continue walking down the hall. Approaching the first door on the left, they open it up to a small room, a bed on the right side and a desk with a computer on the left side. The room is spotless surprisingly. Derek lays Page's body down gently onto the bed.
Take your time, we have plenty of it...
Ada says in her mind. She would have said it out loud if she didn't see how troubled he is by her death. For once she doesn't see him entirely as a monster.
"So, any idea how to bring her back?"
"Uh...no...Jacob and I were hoping there'd be something in here that'd do that," Ada lets out an annoyed sigh.
"You died in China, do you have any idea how he brought you back?"
"The virus is my only guess, though he said he changed it a bit,"
"Hmm...I think I know where Jacob was going with this…but I don't think you're gonna like it,"
"What? What is it?"
"My best guess is Jacob planned on giving her the virus you have,"
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TIWHimitsu
TIWHimitsu It just can't be a Resident Evil story without something self-destructing can it? Did Jacob really plan to do that, or are Derek and Ada about to do something really stupid? Either way, let's hope it's not the last thing they do before being blown up to pieces. Hope you're on your toes and let me know what you think. :)
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