Resident Evil: Vengeance 28 An Old "Friend"

Derek sits against the side of the house near a window, listening in on the conversation Jacob and Page are having. The smell of freshly cooked food reminding him that he's had nothing but a half-empty bag of trail mix between this morning and now. The sound of a the front door opening catches his attention, and soon after his phone vibrates. He checks his phone to see he's gotten a message from an unknown number.

"There's some food in the kitchen, better eat fast, back door key is under mat,"

The h.e.l.l? Did, Jacob send me this?

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Derek heads to the back of the house and checks under a floor mat. A key. Unlocking the back door he opens the door, and hears the sound of Jacob's moped starting up. He heads to the front of the house, finding a cooked steak on the counter. He grabs a fork and knife and eats it. Finis.h.i.+ng up, he hurries over to the bathroom, washes his hands, wipes his face off and hurries out to his bike. As he turns it on he gets another message, this one is from the Co-Worker.

"Meet me at the Atlantis Police Station, I have new orders Luther wants me to give you in person,"

Derek closes his messages and brings up his maps, putting a marker at the police station. It didn't take him long to find since he's been there a couple times already from following Jacob around. He takes off towards the city, seeing the lights from Jacob's bike far off in the distance. As he drives towards the city he sees all the lights go out.

That can't be a good sign.

Nearing the town Derek hears the sound of a bull roaring, than sees a light turn on at the edge of the town which quickly takes disappears into the city. A large creature soon follows, though he's too far away to see what. Nearing the edge of the town he sees the streets are filled with zombies. Derek glances down at his phone, which is sitting in between the handles and sees the police station is a straight shot from here. He speeds up as he nears the jumbled mess of zombies swarming the roads. Reaching the first intersection he sees the street ahead is completely blocked off by zombies, so he makes a quick right. Far down the road he sees the large creature again running down the same street, chasing after something.

Seems like that things clearing a way, lucky me.

Derek follows the large beast, having a rather easy time avoiding the zombies since all the zombies in its path get stomped into the ground or go flying to the sides. The bull makes a left and Derek follows. Most of the road ahead is blocked off by several crashed cars. The beast charges head on at them, knocking them into the air and to the side. One of the cars comes flying towards Derek who swerves to the left to avoid being crushed as it lands right next to him. Driving past the broken barricade he glances down at his phone to see where he's at.

Heading in the general direction of the station, good. I should see if I can't take a shortcut though.

Looking back to the road he sees a car come flying through an intersection up ahead. It drives out of sight and the sound of it cras.h.i.+ng quickly fills the air. Reaching the intersection where the car crashed, Derek makes a left. The road ahead is filled with crashed cars, some of them on fire. The middle of the road is generally empty though, thanks to that runaway car. He drives past a couple intersections before he makes a right, now a straight shot to the police station. As he's driving, he sees Jacob and Page turn onto the street a couple intersections ahead of him, heading in the same direction.

The creature following them quickly follows, and Derek's close enough to see that it's actually a bull with two tails.

"What in the h.e.l.l?" Derek mutters to himself as he drives down the road behind them. Some distance down the road there's another barricade of zombies blocking the way. Derek comes to a halt at an empty intersection as he watches Jacob and Page stop mere feet away from the horde. Jacob starts to rev up the engine as he turns the scooter towards a building to their left.

"What on earth are they doing?" He asks himself out loud as he watches the bull near them. They suddenly take off towards the building, disappearing out of sight as the bull continues to charge, running head first into the zombies. The bull runs through them like a knife through b.u.t.ter, making a large gap in the wall.

Seems like they're heading to the same place. The station isn't far from here, and if I can get past through that horde of zombies, I should be there in a minute or two.

Derek quickly pulls on the gas and heads for it. As he nears the zombies, the hole starts to fill itself in as zombies start to swarm together once more. No more than a few feet open now. There's barely any s.p.a.ce for him. He drives through the horde, sc.r.a.ping past the zombies, some blood splattering onto the sides of his bike as the side-view mirrors break off from hitting zombies. As he breaks through the wall, he turns the front wheel to the right and breaks as he sees the bull only a couple yards in front of him, flailing about as it attacks some zombies.

As Derek comes to a halt the bull turns and sees him, then it lets out an angry snort before it starts to charge.

"Oh s.h.i.+t!" He quickly takes off, swerving to the right and driving on the sidewalk to avoid getting impaled by the bull's horns. As Derek drives past the bull, it manages to avoid running into the zombie wall and quickly turns around. The police station isn't far, he'll reach it in seconds. The front door and windows are all barricaded with metal shutters. Derek sees a parking garage across the street and drives in there. He drives into the parking garage, and sees lots of zombies walking around. Swerving around them, Derek accidentally goes down instead of up, entering the sub-level. The bull close on his tail, he keeps driving forward, seeing light at the end of a tunnel going away from the parking s.p.a.ces.

Derek heads down the tunnel and past a crashed gas truck and reaches the end of the tunnel. With the bull close on his tail he jumps off his bike, ditching it, and running through the door. Seconds later he hears the bull hit the cement wall, than it lets out a furious roar and he hears it stampeding away. As he looks around the stairwell he ran into, he realizes his phone was on the bike. He walks up to the door leading to the tunnel, and opens it slightly, peeking at the tunnel and seeing the bull already at the other end.

He walks out and walks over to his bike, his hone still sitting between the handles, partly cracked but seems to be in perfect working condition. He grabs it and opens up the map as he hurries back through the door. He's at the station. Judging by the lights in the tunnel and the lights on in the stairwell, it's safe to a.s.sume the station must have some sort of backup power.

As he goes to message the Co-Worker, he hears footsteps echoing from above. He glances up only to see the slightest silhouette of someone heading down the stairs. The silhouette disappears he hears a door open then close. He starts walking up the stairs when he gets a message from the Co-Worker.

"Meet me in Jacob's office, 8th floor,"

Derek quickly makes his way up the stairs, his legs starting to feel like they're made of heavy metal by the time he reaches the top. Exiting the stairwell, he enters a long hallway that's well lit, with the only noises being the faint buzzing of the lights overhead. Something about the quietness and stillness in the air seems more unsettling than calming. Walking down the hall he reads labels on the wall next to doors. He stops at the one marked Jacob G. He places a hand on the doork.n.o.b.

This is it, time to see who this Co-Worker of mine is. They said Luther told them I was an old friend of theirs…

Derek opens the door to see someone in a red s.h.i.+rt with a chest holster, black pants, and boots. They're bent slightly over doing something on a computer at a desk, the briefcase with the viruses laying against it near their feet. As the door creaks open the person at the computer straightens up and turns to him. Derek and Ada both look at each other with looks of disbelief and shock.