176Hello again everyone, it's been a while since I last updated this story but have no fear or do so either way. I'm back with a new chapter of "The X-Virus", and now we start getting into the events of games, specifically this one being centered on the first Resident Evil game. Now, I've started Naruto off in about a little more than halfway into the game's storyline but this was done intentionally for the RE characters to develop and adapt to what they'll be dealing with for the rest of their lives with the BOW's created by Umbrella and its supposed successors in creating the viral weapons.
Now as for Naruto, he has jumped into Jill's side of the story as I've always enjoyed her side of the story, plus I just like Jill in general, she's hot in the combat outfit in 5, don't judge me, lolz. Plus having Naruto as Jill's partner here in the Mansion Incident works well with Chris having Rebecca alongside as his partner simultaneously somewhere else in the mansion, and this will be her first appearance in the story. Coupled with the fact that it will make the eventual explanation of Naruto's extra universal origins a bit more believable to someone if they witness Naruto's abilities for an extended period of time.
As for the puzzles, well don't expect too many of them. While they work well in the games, they don't work so well on paper, or rather in films, comics and reading on the site here as they tend to block the real character and story development of things and it becomes a little stale after a while and so I'm going to be neutralizing some of them for the sake of moving things along. Puzzles are meant for interactivity with the gamer/viewer and that just doesn't translate well into written content.
Now for future plans with Rebecca and Barry I don't plan on completely tossing them aside for so many years of silence like what Capcom did, I mean Rebecca has only appeared in:
Resident Evil 0
Resident Evil (Only in Chris' scenario)
Resident Evil: The Stage (Though not truly counting that since it was in a theater)
Resident Evil: Vendetta (And let's be honest she was more of a McGuffin as opposed to a character here)
And as for Barry, he's only appeared in:
Resident Evil (Only in Jill's scenario)
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (at the very end to get Jill and the others out)
Resident Evil: Revelations 2
Like, "WTF?" Capcom? Though I think the same could be said somewhat for Claire in her appearances in the series are shortened down to 3 games and a CGI film. You've got some old characters that you just briefly dust off on the occasion for a new title years later? Well I'm stopping the rant and getting back to the story.
So, onto the reviews I wasn't able to respond to in PM's –
Guest, Chapter 3; June 9th: Thanx, I wanted for Naruto to actually have to work for things and have difficulty in the universe of Resident Evil as having the Godlike-Naruto (which is ok from time to time depending on the universe it's set in) would completely kill the story and be of no interest other than to see "God Naruto curbstomps everything hilariously", which does not work in a universe like Resident Evil where the odds are against you and you have to desperately do what it takes to survive. Hence why the genre is called "Survival Horror". Naruto does have some little bit of power regained, but it's a completely meager drop of water that used to be a massive ocean of Chakra, so don't expect him to be casting Jutsu so much.
As for the pairing, well I do like Ada as she's the most ninja-like character of the franchise, but I also like Jill as well, so it could go either way honestly, but I'll let you and the readers debate on which direction I decided on :)
justanoterreader: Thanx, I do plan on going all the way through to the latest entry in 7, though things will be quite differently than what you'd expect, but I do hope you and all the other readers will enjoy everything along the way.
Tanya von Degurechaff: Here it is, enjoy.
Guest, Chapter 3; March 13th: Glad to know that you love this story already :)
1jesus: Is it Ada? I'll let you keep guessing if it's her or someone else such as Jill ;)
JavaCuck: I'm glad to see that you're enjoying this so far, and I hope you stick with it and I'll be waiting for your more constructive review.
Deathslayer1996: Here's the latest update. As for lemons in the future of Naruto and Ada? Well I didn't really write a lemon, more along the lines of saying that they had sex after leaving the bar, in which well, I'll get to that later when they meet each other once again during the Raccoon City Incident. Though the thought of lemons has crossed my mind, but only if they can be done tastefully and don't interrupt things in the story.
CuriousReader93: Talking about cocks and alphabet soup in insults? What the fuck are you 12?
Chm01: Well I'll let you guess on the pairing between Ada and Jill.
Chapter 3 – Hatred is Born
-Naruto & Jill-
The two of them backtracked the way they came in from, arriving at the chasm that Jill told him about, and plugged the crank into the socket that it belonged to. Oddly enough, instead of a bridge coming up, down or out of the wall, a piece of the cavern itself rotated around instead, with the bottomless piece rotating to the top allowing the duo to move to the next cavern.
"You ever get the feeling something's going to come right at us as soon as we go through that door?", the whiskered man uttered sardonically as if trying to alleviate some stress that had built up on their journey.
"I've been having that feeling the whole time I've been here." And she wasn't wrong. Almost every room in this hell hole held either some sort of zombie, a creature or a damn trap trying to kill her. "I almost got crushed to death by the ceiling and Barry pulled me out just in time." She snickered lightly, "He said I was almost a 'Jill Sandwich'…" Shaking her head at Barry's poor attempt at humor.
Naruto decided to keep said bad joke going, "You should make your own brand."
"Ha, ha; funny Fishcake. When we get out of this, I'm running your bar tab into the ground."
"Good thing I'm rich in that regard."
Jill & Naruto were ready for whatever came from behind the door, after positioning themselves on the sides while Jill kept her shotgun ready, although she had been thinking maybe she didn't need to be so twitchy after watching Naruto kill two of those creatures so easily. In retrospect his movements spoke worlds to the S.T.A.R.S. member of one that knew what he was doing in such a situation, his positioning was fluid yet taught to be able to react in a short time to any threat that may appear.
Naruto took the door handle slowly as he pushed the door open with the Lightning Hawk aimed in front of him. He gave a quick look around as luck seemed to be on their side, "Clear."
Moving into the room as Jill shut the door behind them, they noticed a structure setup for an underground elevator, usually the type found when mining operations were set up. "Must head deeper underground." Naruto commented offhandedly.
Jill only needed to take a whiff to know that there was something rotted down there, "Ugh… I think after tonight my nose might be dead from all the rancid smells here." The mansion back up top was bad enough from the zombies she killed, but that seemed to amplify from the other creatures down here that were no doubt taking shits and whatever else was creeping about.
Naruto was trying to make sense of this place, "Do you have any idea what this place is to Umbrella?" Jill just shook her head, "Honestly, I have no idea… I'm not even sure. Enrico said that we had a mole in S.T.A.R.S. but I don't know who would've sold us out to Umbrella." The ninja tried to think of some reason, but he had no guess. However, that hidden camera back outside did give him a small suspicion, "Maybe some kind of testing site?"
"For what, all of this crap that we've been killing?" Jill gestured everywhere since pretty much the whole place was rigged and set to kill them. He tried to make some sort of gesture to say yes, but he couldn't come up with it, if one did exist, "I noticed that there was surveillance camera hidden as a bird in a tree back outside. And someone shot your comrade, but made one hell of a quick getaway. I'd say that on some level at least they're testing these things as some sort of living weapons." Having been viewed as such by many, he was no stranger to such things, and his tone almost gave it away.
Jill raised a brow at his intonation, "You sound like you have some experience with this sort of thing." Naruto slightly clenched his stomach in remembrance of his previous life, "Something like that…" She seemed to catch on to the way he said, "Part of your long story?" He didn't say word but merely nodded in response.
Shaking her head dismissively Jill decided to let the matter drop, it was likely all she was going to get out of Naruto before they got out of here.
Eyeing another door adjacent from them, they performed the same maneuver as before. But upon closer inspection inside the room gave them pause, "I'm guessing there are giant spiders in this little shop of horrors too, aren't there?" Jill took a peek inside form the crack that Naruto made, and glimpsed large spider webs, "Ughh… first a giant snake, then lizard men, and now giant spiders." Jill groaned.
"Giant animals..." Naruto shivered in remembrance of being swallowed whole by a snake and then by Son, "Why is it always giant fucking animals?"
She heard a small thumping against the wall, although she wasn't expecting Naruto to lightly bang his head against the wall, "Always giant fucking animals I gotta deal with…" He reached into the duffel bag for something while Jill was a little lost with what he said, "…alright, time to deal with this shit really quick and get the hell out of this place."
Pulling out a wad of paper bombs compressed into a ball, he figured that it would be enough to take everything out from the glance he got of the webbed-up room, "What's that?" Jill asked with both curiosity and doubt.
"A nice little explosive with paper bombs wrapped up around a small ball of C4." The ninja responded nonchalantly. Jill on the other hand, he eyes went wide in disbelief, "How the hell did you get ahold of C4?!"
Naruto channeled the small bit of chakra he had to activate the makeshift bomb, "You'd be surprised what I can get my hands on." Grasping the door handle, Naruto opened it wide open as he tossed the bomb straight into the room and shut it as quickly as he could, "Fire in the hole!" Both of them turned away from the door as a large explosion rocked the room along with the door being blown away from the explosion.
Naruto peeked back into the room and saw the corpses of giant spiders currently dropping and twiddling their limbs as they died, "Wow. Good thing I didn't use anymore, otherwise the whole room would've collapsed." He commented offhandedly.
Meanwhile Jill just couldn't believe such a thing just happened. Turning back to Naruto she just looked at him like he just said he went in public naked one day for shits and giggles, "Ok, there is no way in hell what you just threw in there could do that! What the actual fuck was that?!"
"I told you; a small ball of C4 wrapped up in paper bombs." Naruto explained as he slowly stepped through the room and over the carcasses, "The latter of which is part of my long story." He saw the largest spider trying to get back up to which he put two rounds in its head, "And that's that." Turning back to Jill, he motioned for her to follow behind while she carefully tried not to disturb the dead spiders… no telling if they'd come back just like the dogs…
Jill had noticed that Naruto seemed very indifferent to all of the creepy death stuff going on around them. Hell, even the sight of the giant spiders sent shivers up her spine, but the blonde saw it as an annoyance.
Opening the door to get out of the currently still burning spider nest, the duo kept moving until they came to a long cavern that stretched on for a bit, "Well, this certainly doesn't spell 'Death Trap' at all." Naruto spoke sarcastically. He could already see just how many things could go wrong down here.
"Looks like there's another doorway further down." Jill gestured down towards the other end off to the other side. Taking the lead, they continued onwards until Naruto heard something coming their way, "Wait Jill, you hear that?" Jill turned back to the ninja as she shook her head while trying to focus on just the sounds. Nothing was really coming to her, "I'm not hearing anything." Did Naruto also have a better sense of hearing as opposed to her?
Naruto focused on the sounds reverberating throughout the cavern, to which the rumbling got closer and closer from up above them while Jill finally caught on, "Oh shit…"
"What is it?"
"Fucking run!" Jill pointed back to rumbling as it finally arrived; a massive boulder was rolling downwards towards the two and crush them with its weight Not quite sure if he could actually stop the boulder without the usage of his Senjutsu, Naruto followed Jill's advice and holstered his Lightning Hawk while he ran to his surprisingly slower partner and scooped her up bridal style as she still held the shotgun.
"Holy crap, your fast!"
Jill was surprised once again as she was shocked by just how fast Naruto managed close the distance between them and pick her up with all of the things they were carrying on their persons, "Yup, part of my long story, excuse me but I don't want to reenact that Farrison Hord movie!" Naruto dove for the lit sideway passage that Jill pointed out and watched as the boulder smashed up against the wall. The S.T.A.R.S. officer could only stare at the ex-ninja, as he didn't even look like he was breaking a sweat. Though after the rush of adrenaline had left her she let out a small chuckle. "It's Harrison Ford you dummy."
If only she could see the overly excited face of Birkin currently flipping papers and pulling out hair in amazement by what he had witnessed on his monitor, and the steely eyed gaze of Wesker staring into the monitor like tried to burn it with his eyes.
Naruto continued to hold Jill for a bit before she broke the tense air, "You know… you can put me down now." He turned his head back to Jill, whom had a small blush going, "Oh, uh, sorry about that." Letting down Jill, he coughed to try and get back to business, "So… in here I guess?"
"Might as well." Making the same maneuver as before, Naruto and Jill were on opposite sides of the door while she slowly cracked it open to peer inside, "Clear."
Jill stepped inside while Naruto kept them covered with the magnum and closed the door behind him, "Another goddamn puzzle…" Jill more or less mumbled to herself, despite the other occupant in the room hearing her loud and clear, "You've had to do some puzzle solving in this madhouse?"
She walked over towards the statue that was next to box settled into the cavern wall, along with a large opening, "More than you'd think." She looked to the identical statue that was out of place. Naruto was currently looking for something in the room while she tried to figure out the puzzle this room had in it. "Hey, what are you—?"
Naruto had spotted the cameras in the room, hidden as rocks, which weren't very convincing to him. And with wanting to hurry the hell up due to his own impatience combined with getting Jill, Chris and the others out to deal with Umbrella, he went to take them out, "Killing the cameras in here."
He threw a pair of kunai at both cameras, thus eliminating Umbrella's chance of getting info on him, for the time being. "Alright, so we get that statue into that slot…" Gesturing towards said object, Naruto decided to try and test out his unenhanced strength to see if he could pick it up rather than do something complicated due to the room's design. "…and we get what's in the prize box." Pointing to said box.
Jill was currently looking at the crank then to the floor on the weird design, but then she heard something grinding against the floor. "Hey, Naruto do you…" She stopped speaking at the sight of Naruto lifting the statue with his arms and moving it into the slot, "There we go. Glad I'm strong enough for that." He said plainly, not seeing the rather convincing goldfish impression that Jill was pulling off as she looked at him.
The wall-box opened up to reveal some silver ring that Naruto took in his grip, "This something we need?" He gave it look over and saw slashes etched into the ring, but he didn't know what the hell for. He turned back to Jill whom was trying to figure out just what the hell Naruto was capable of. She gazed at the ring that Naruto held and strode over to see just what it was exactly; taking it out of his hands, she examined it closely and did catch something odd within the etches, "It…looks like these are the top half of roman numerals. But I don't know where the bottom half of the ring is."
Sighing at the thought of going through another fucking puzzle, Naruto felt that perhaps he should make some sort of backup plan, or hidden ace up his sleeve for the future. Since he wasn't sure what would come swinging their way, but he didn't doubt that Umbrella had something big at the end of this. Making use of his Senjutsu via Shadow Clone wasn't a bad idea, and given how he took the cameras out, along with there being only one way in and the door swung into the room, as opposed to out, he could use this as a safe room of sorts for that very thing. But there was one big problem: Jill was right here.
Despite how he cared for her as a friend, and knew that she was a good person, but still… brining out a Shadow Clone in front of her made him pretty damn nervous about her reaction. Enhanced physical abilities was one thing but breaking the laws of physics was a completely different matter. He looked Jill in the eyes as he brought her attention back to him, "Jill, we've been friends for a good while now, right?"
Giving him an odd look, she nodded, but was trying to mentally prepare herself for whatever came next, "Yeah…" Putting his hands in a placating manner, "Ok, so just please… PLEASE. Don't freak out for what comes next." After a moment of thought she gave a thumbs up, signaling for him to do whatever it was.
"Alright here it goes." Forming his signature handsign, he did his thing like always used to.
'Shadow Clone Jutsu'
A puff of smoke appeared, and another Naruto stood right next to the original.
"Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" Well guess seeing this would freak anyone out regardless if they said they wouldn't. "How the hell did you do that?!"
The original and clone looked at each other and would have gone into a nice explanation, but this wasn't the time or the place. "I made my Shadow Clone here for a backup plan. Now I told you I'd explain after this—"
Jill got up in his face as she interrupted him, "Uhn, uhn. No. You explain to me now. Abridged version. Just what the hell are you?!" Both blondes felt a small stab of indignation at the 'what' in her question before the original looked to the clone and nodded as he sat down up against the wall to begin drawing the Senjutsu into itself.
Turning back to Jill, he was a little ashamed for this, but he had his reasons, "Ok, abridged version it is then… I'm quite probably from a different dimension. I'm a ninja that got stranded here after some teleporting shit went wrong on the moon, and I've been here for the last five years living alone."
He waited for Jill to say something, watching as her face went through a myriad of different emotions, genuine confusion, shock, disbelief, but maybe some understanding…? Hell, he wasn't sure if she believed him. After a few tense minutes, Jill just gave up and threw her hands up in the air, "You know what. This whole night has been one mindfuck after another, what's another one with some super ninja looking after my back."
Closing his eyes, he caught on to what she was implying, "Yeah, I wouldn't believe me either."
Shaking her head, Jill explained a bit "No, it's not that it's just…" Jill let an exasperated sigh out from her lips, "…I just… I… I-It's not that I don't believe you, but I'm kinda freaked out by what you told me. I mean I always knew that you kept something hidden from me, maybe a secret family you have in some other state, a real skeleton in the closet, but nothing like that."
They both just stared down at the floor in silence, unsure of what to say next, until Jill broke the air with her voice, "Then again, the dead are walking, I was attacked by inside-out dogs and I'm in a trick house that would make the late Mrs Winchester's look like a day care center, nothing makes sense today so what's another dollop of craziness on the side? Well, I guess we should back track our way to the elevator shaft since we can't go any further this way." The two made their way back to the elevator shaft while stepping over the still burning spider corpses and gave the cavern a quick look if anything came their way.
Naruto peered down into the bottom of the elevator shaft while Jill fiddled with the nearby controls, "Crap, no power." Naruto strode over to the machinery that looked like it was some kind of generator and stared at the thing with Jill walking up next to him, "Do you know how to get this thing back up and running?"
He shook his head, "This thing looks like it hasn't run in years…" The fact that cobwebs, rust and loose nails showcased a very old generator, he didn't know what did, "…who the hell knows if…" He looked at the lever that activated it no doubt and fiddled with it for a bit, before he noticed that it was fake and attached to a small cabinet door that swung out to reveal some form of gold-plated item inside.
Jill grasped the item and pulled it out to examine it, but then she noticed the same etches on it as the silver ring did that Naruto had taken from the box, "Wait a second, let me see that ring you got from before." Pulling said object out of his pocket, Naruto handed it over to Jill whom connected the ring to the golden object as it fit right into it, sliding them together until a snapping sound reverberated through the cavern. Taking it as the cue to reinsert the item back into the slot it was, Jill cranked it clockwise until the generator for the elevator came back up, "Now we're getting somewhere."
Naruto heard the creak of the door come from the other side of the cavern, to which he pivoted while pulling his gun out towards the one coming through. Jill was a little slower as she brought the assault shotgun out, however they lowered their weapons with the appearance of another STARS officer as Jill was relieved to see him still alive and kicking, "Barry?! Thank god you're safe."
Barry held his .500 magnum, the 'Silver Serpent' as he nicknamed it, was a powerful revolver that put holes in people's heads, nay, just made holes in general regardless of material. As he came through the door, he held the magnum up if he walked into an ambush of one of those things again, but he dropped it as soon as he saw Jill, "You too, Jill." Then of course he saw Naruto standing next to here, "Naruto? What're you doing here?" He was surprised by the gunsmith's appearance down below, as he wasn't supposed to be here to begin with. Naruto opened his mouth to explain a bit, but Jill placed a hand on his shoulder signaling him to keep quiet, "He's here because Umbrella blackmailed him somehow…" Looking back to Naruto she continued, "…but after this, we'll figure it all out."
He caught on to what she was saying, in short: 'You'll be explaining the unabridged version not just to me, but also the others once we get out of this hellhole with us.'
Thoughts raced through Barry's head with Naruto now here. This was never part of the deal that he was forced to make with Wesker, it was just with the STARS unit, and no one else. Why wasn't he told this? Was his family now in jeopardy? Did Umbrella get to them and Wesker didn't tell him a thing? He just didn't have a damn clue what was going on now.
He didn't want to betray his friends, but he couldn't let Wesker kills his family. But if he got a lucky shot… well, that would be for later if he did get lucky. Barry was focusing on the here and now, with what was in front of him, "Either way, a noise brought me down here, but…" He took a step onto the elevator with the other two occupants in the cavern, "…I didn't expect to find a place like this." He came to the edge and peered down into the dark abyss below them, with a scrunch of his nose, "Any idea as to what might be at the bottom?" He shook his head in disgust as he turned back, "Other than the crap smell?"
"Hopefully a way out of this mess.", Naruto just shrugged his shoulders while Jill fiddled with the 'made before she was born' elevator controls, "Well, there's only one way to find out." Jill finished with the controls and flipped the lever to bring them down further into the cavern system.
The darkness that coated the decent downward was almost like the night sky, with only the dim light of the elevator to give them any sort of semblance of sight.
"Wow, what a CAVERN!" Naruto said dramatically putting emphasis on the last word trying to lighten the mood. "LOOK AT THIS. Wha'dya think of it?" Jill let out a small chuckle, knowing that Naruto was attempting to lampoon something the Barry had slurred out when drunk one night."
Naruto noticed that Barry was tense, more so than Jill was when he first saw him. But he was also surprised. There was something on the large man's mind, he knew when to spot someone hiding something. And Barry was having a hard time keeping the mask up… he'd deal with that in a bit just to see where his state of mind was. If Barry was somehow involved with this…
The elevator came to a halt as the lights in the cavern lit up with the new presence of people within it, but something else came with it, as Barry walked out to try and hear it. Naruto could hear much better, and from it sounded like, "Is someone saying 'momma'?" Barry turned around a bit astonished that the blonde could make out the moaning, "You can hear that?"
Jill just kept her mouth shut knowing that somehow his hearing was better than hers. His strength was greater than Chris', that his speed surpassed Brad's when they pulled that Pennywise clown prank on him last Halloween. What was one more superior thing he had over her and the rest of her unit? She cradled the Remington shotgun for anything that came their way, which odds are there would be.
Naruto nodded, "Somewhat." Thumbing the safety off from the Lightning Hawk he held the heavy-duty magnum ready to put holes into the thing moaning 'momma'. Stepping out away from the STARS officers, Naruto decided to venture on ahead to the source of this hell hole and gave them a few words as he glanced back to them, "Jill, Barry. You two stay with the elevator just in case we need to make a quick escape." Facing the door that led further into the caverns, and where the moaning was at, "I'll check things out myself."
Now, one could say that Jill felt worry for Naruto, but on the other she did think he could take whatever came his way after how he dealt with the things from the Black Lagoon so quickly, as if they were just flies getting stomped on. Though Barry didn't know…
"Jill, head with him." She saw that one coming.
"I can handle myself Barry, I've killed a few of these things. You and Jill are better together." And she saw that coming too.
Jill simply walked off the elevator right next to Naruto, "It's pointless to argue with Barry. He'll just pull experience and rank on me." Looking up to him as he glanced back to Barry who just nodded, "Plus, technically, you're a civilian here out on a police investigation. Which could potentially result in you being classified as civilian oversight and if you're injured, wounded or dead, then that just looks bad on the department and the STARS unit as a whole since we're specifically investigating this."
Well, that certainly was unexpected, "The dead are not at rest and you are worried about bureaucracy and standard operating procedure? America is fucking weird..." Naruto shook his head, Jill noted that his America comment hinted back to his bold claim of not being from around here.
"It's less of that and more peace of mind for me, actually." Barry retorted. He could care less about reputation, not when lives were on the line. But he was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Though this just gave Barry the chance to try and come up with something to make it look like he was getting them killed on Wesker's orders, but simultaneously giving the gun toting duo a chance to make it out of here alive. Wesker gave him a map of a few hidden passageways for him to use to move about the Mansion ground unnoticed without running into more freakshows or the STARS members, but it also showed a gondola that they could take underground up to the old shack not to far from the mansion itself.
Naruto just sighed in slight irritation. He could just unload on them both how he has more experience than all of them combined, but that would just give things away to Umbrella, who no doubt found a way to listen into everything. "Alright then, let's go, Jill."
"Well don't sound too excited, having little ol' me watching your back." Jill was jested to try and lessen the atmosphere. Naruto moved towards the door and carefully opened it slowly to see what was beyond it; only strung up lights like the caverns above them along with the rotten stench accompanied by the moaning, "Clear."
Naruto and Jill moved further as they shut the door behind them to give Barry a bit of protection, since the creatures they've been killing didn't seem to understand how to open a door. Least they aren't raptors…
The lights gave them a bit of clarity to see the wet surface that paved the caverns down below, what followed next was a smell that hit Naruto, "There's fresh water down here, among other things..." Sniffing the air to try and get past the odor of crap.
As the two ventured deeper, the sound of the elevator heading back up reverberated through the cavern without warning, prompting Naruto & Jill to head back to see what just happened. Opening the door, they briefly caught Barry's boots before disappearing back up, "Barry?!" Jill was confused about what just happened while Naruto was silently cursing himself for not doing something about this.
"Son of a bitch left us to die down here, that's what just happened, Jill." Naruto had a feeling now that Barry was now part of the whole operation going here with the creatures and Umbrella, along with whoever was pulling the strings here.
Jill turned back to Naruto at his words. Barry did appear to be acting strangely back in the Dorms, sounding like he was talking to himself, but now that Naruto brought that up along with what just happened and Barry ordering her to go with him it was looking more like Barry had a hand in the events of tonight, "So Barry's the traitor?"
Naruto just shrugged his shoulders in response, "Maybe… I don't know. Either way, we need to find a way out of here. There has to be another way out since the people who built this place would've needed a second way out if the elevator stopped working." Turning back to the door he pushed it open to head back to the source of the fresh water, thinking that they may have carved out a way to the outside.
Jill was right behind him as she shut the door if one of the lizard men came down the shaft from a secret passageway that they didn't see.
Lights illuminated the way around for them to see which way they were going, and it appeared that the cables were bundling up to lead to the power source down below, but a small shift of the shadows signified that someone or something was heading their way. They heard the rhythm of feet shuffling on the ground accompanied by the sound of chains clinking together. Jill knew what was coming and didn't like it, Naruto on the other hand didn't so she pulled him behind a large crate despite the confusion evident on his face, "We hide. Do not engage!" She silently whispered to the blonde, as she did what she could to hold the Remington in position to shoot off a shell to give them some bit of time.
Naruto not sure on what was coming but took Jill's not-so-obvious-warning as advice not to piss off what was coming their way. Taking a small reflection mirror out of his pocket, he angled it to let him look around the crate to see what it was that got her spooked.
Slowly turning the corner of the cavern way, he saw it, and had to hold in part of his lunch at what he saw. It was tall, easily nine feet with hunchbacked posture. The creature was wearing a poorly stitched together tunic and draped to cover the main body itself, but the stitching was failing to hide an eyeball that blinked for a moment, while its skin was grey and decayed along with yellow and broken toenails. The disturbing part of the humanoid was its head, pieces of different faces stitched together crudely and wrapped around its face, while a hole revealed that part of its lips was torn off, black teeth left much to his imagination on what the rest looked like. Finally, he saw that the oversized skeletal hands were locked up in a crude yet heavy duty stockade.
Overall, it was something you wouldn't want to meet at night, or in a place like this.
'Fuck my life it's both of those things...' Naruto despaired at the irony of the situation.
Jill nudged Naruto to pull his hand back before it spotted them and took a pebble next to her and threw it down a different cavern way leading away from where they hoped they could find a way out of here.
The desired effect occurred when it started to slowly drag its feet and head down the darkened cavern way while it moaned, "…mo…mma…" As the clinking of chains ceased to exist, the two got out of cover from behind while Naruto looked to Jill for info, "What the hell was that… thing…? I thought I was gonna puke when I saw that things face." He shook a bit before regaining his posture.
Jill glanced briefly to where the creature went while she readied her shotgun to continue on the hopeful exit, "I encountered that thing topside in a shack, and when I put a few rounds in its head, it got back up. It just didn't die like all the others… which, honestly? That's scary right there." Naruto followed her as he kept his magnum at the ready, "And that's saying something, after all the things we've been killing are already dead and with their heads blown clean off, or a couple rounds put into the skull puts them down no problem."
Naruto pulled his sword out and gave it a once look over, "Maybe chopping the things head off next time we see it will do?"
"Maybe."
Naruto & Jill continued onwards until they came to the source of the fresh water; and underground stream along with the bundles of cables all together and heading upwards along with a gondola that rode to the source. "Finally. This should take us out of here, and hopefully back up." Jill started to give the controls a once over before hitting the button, while Naruto noticed something out of the corner of his eye. Turning his head to get a good look at it, he saw that it was some sort of specially crafted pendant made to looks like the Umbrella logo, only with a decorative lion on it.
No doubt thinking that it'd come in handy, he waltzed over to the stone structure containing it and took the pendant out of its place, while strode back over to Jill on the gondola, "Think this might be useful later on?" Jill looked right at it and nodded without even second guessing, "Take it. I've learned that somehow this whole damn facility needs special things like that to keep opening some doors around here and there."
Punching the button to take them up, up and away. The two rode the gondola up in silence for a few minutes before Jill decided to try and spark up a conversation with her friend, but to also get a better understanding of him.
"So, when did you start?"
Naruto perked up, "Hmm?"
"When did you start doing your… 'old job' I guess I should call it that before you…" pausing trying to find the right words to not sound so crazy, even though it seemed like he was telling the truth, which he more than likely was no matter how ridiculous it sounder, "…before you arrived in Raccoon?"
So, she was just trying to get an understanding on how he became so skilled and much 'more' than she or anyone on this Earth was, taking a deep breath he answered, "I started getting taught when I was 6…" The shock on her face told him that this conversation would be quite the controversy, 'Oh yeah, child soldiers are illegal in this country...continent...world.' "…and then I started taking jobs when I was 12."
Jill was left speechless at this. Her mouth was closed in silence and her eyes wide with shock. She had joined the army when she was 18 and did her 4 years of service before becoming a cop in Raccoon City, but she had a relatively normal childhood. Naruto's was practically taken away from him, at least in her mind it was, "That's too young…" She mumbled loud enough for him to hear while she looked down in shame.
Naruto knew that Jill was already feeling sorry for him, which he felt that he should correct quickly, "I chose the life, because I was on my own, no parents, no penny to my name and I didn't want to be moocher for the rest of my life, or let other people fight my own battles for me, while I just sat back and lazed away somewhere." While it may have gotten Jill to respond, "But you shouldn't've had to! Every kid's childhood are the most precious years… you shouldn't be forced to, to become a-a, whatever you were to get by!" It was one he kind of expected.
This world had the notion that kids shouldn't be taught how to fight and kill until they signed the dotted line to join up with the military or some other armed forces branch, or become a cop. But he didn't have much of a choice, and he wanted to gain the village's respect and admiration, so becoming a ninja was a no brainer in his eyes and mindset.
"I chose the life, Jill. I made my choices in life and it made strong and it helped me out of something that I was struggling to overcome…" Not really saying the main reason of being vilified and subject to the misplaced hatred of the villagers, "…I don't regret making that choice." The gondola stopped as they reached their destination as Naruto took the lead walking towards a ladder leading up out of the caverns, while Jill silently followed with some shed tears that she wiped away.
"I'm sorry you didn't have a choice." Jill quietly mumbled to herself, knowing that Naruto would hear her regardless.
He felt a small tug in his heart from what she said…
-The Birkin Residence-
Annette left the lab a little early after watching some of the live feed from the cameras at the Arklay complex. She was frightened of the skill and ferocity that the X-source was capable of, knowing it was only a matter of time before he came knocking on their door. Wesker and her husband were somehow convinced that they could subdue the man with the T-002 stored at the facility, but after watching the Deacon rip one in half, she wasn't holding her breath.
The Deacon was in fact an animal. An intelligent one at that whose instincts and odd motives made her squeamish and afraid of what it might do if it broke free from the containment lab. The source of the blood that became a key component in creating the powerful and unknown X-virus was a very smart man no doubt, that could track everything back to her and William, and then kill them and anyone else who was involved with the manufacturing of the virus, along with bringing the Umbrella corporation into the public spotlight in viral weaponry and distribution.
She gave the nanny they hired to look after Sherry when they weren't around a call, which if she was being honest with herself, felt horrible despite the fact that she and her husband loved her dearly, off the rest of the night and paid her on the spot as she left.
Heading upstairs to her daughter's room she cracked the door open to see Sherry was already out cold asleep. She remembered when she was always there to tuck her into bed and tell her 'night, night sweetie', but those days were long gone ever since she and William doubled down on the viral work.
Heading back downstairs, she opened up their office to go over any paperwork and mail that came through the day. Bills that were confirmed to have been paid for, magazine subscriptions, which she quickly chucked down the trash bin, and the usual city announcements and newspaper that came with being a resident of Raccoon.
"Sometimes it's nice to get away from work and go through junk mail at home." Annette said to herself. She sat down in the leather chair, set next to the desk she went through more and more junk until she found a vanilla envelope that had been opened.
No doubt William had already read the contents, however what was strange was that there was no receiving or sender address on the envelope, only the American flag on it. Scrunching her eyebrows in confusion, she opened it up and took the letter inside to which she read silently to herself.
Mr. Birkin,
We understand that you and your wife have been working on the manufacture and creation of several viral weaponry, most notably your work on the T-virus, G-virus, and your more recent new virus that has yet to be named.
The United States government is more than willing to offer triple the pay that Umbrella is paying you and your wife, along with a substantial package of being developers for viral weaponry for your country. Including new identities for you and your family along with a new place to live, the best education your daughter will be able to acquire, and college tuition paid for, by us.
Umbrella will no doubt remark upon your achievements but will only give you so much in return for your work and loyalty. However, they will likely discard you just as Dr. Marcus, your mentor, was discarded in which you no doubt will seek protection from anyone in exchange for you and your work.
We can make this happen.
If you wish to contact us again, be sure to head over to the edge of town and speak with the motel owner. He is your contact and direct line to us. Should you find our offer to your liking, ask for a man named Simmons.
We hope to hear from you soon.
Annette could only fold the letter in fear of what her husband had been doing as of late, and without breathing a word of it to her.
-Wesker-
The Umbrella insider had been watching the survivors progress so far. Barry had been doing what he wanted of him with abandoning Jill and Naruto down in the caverns, along with sabotaging the ballast tanks in the FI-03 Neptune lab to try and get Chris killed, only to fail with Rebecca showing up to pull his ass out of deep trouble.
He kept an analytical eye on the caverns with Naruto showing off a bit more every now and then with his enhanced strength, speed, senses and his unusual weaponry.
If it came down to it, he'd release the Tyrant to kill the whiskered man and drag his corpse back to Birkin to cut open and dissect, which they technically could clone him, though it'd be a moot point since it would have no memory of how to utilize its abilities. Though a vivisection would tell them more a dissection may have to do.
Glancing back at the T-002, he noted how odd it was given that only 10% of the global population would be able to become Tyrants when exposed to the T-virus, and yet they had come by one of those individuals in South America, to which after working out a deal with the man; Javier Hidalgo, they began using him as a template for cloning to create more Tyrants.
The T-001 that had broken free from its gestation chamber at the Training Facility attacked and attempted to kill Rebecca Chambers and con-on-the-run Billy Coen, but he was the one that finally put it down as he left the facility and had Birkin destroy the complex.
Though when Sergei confronted him and sicced his bodyguard onto him, he couldn't help but get the feeling that what he was fighting was merely another Tyrant, but the way it moved, and appeared was not like the finalized T-002 in the room with him, which made him think that they managed to find a new source of cloning template for Tyrants.
Either way, he'd still needed the finished combat data of the T-virus to showcase to Excella, a young and rising TRICELL executive that was rather cutthroat and the secret sect within the government that he managed to acquire as well. All that was left was to allow the Prototype virus in his body to mature and manifest when the time was right, and then head on over to Rockfort Island and kill that annoyingly stupid boy Alfred and ransack Alexia's records for her T-Veronica virus.
And lost but no least would be the G-virus that he could get from Birkin no doubt, and the X-virus that he now carried with him and the data they've already preformed on the subjects and their changes to biology, he could start up his own bio-terror market to fund whatever he wanted.
After all, when one learns to create, one becomes a god. And with all he would one day hold, he would become the God.
Staring at the video feed from inside the puzzle cavern room that Uzumaki took out the feed, before he bore his eyes directly at him as he looked at each of the cameras, "You are nothing compared to me… to what I will become." Hate was already beginning to consume him. And it would all he needed for the future.
End part 1 of the first Resident Evil game for this story. The next chapter will wrap up the first game's events and afterwards there will be a chapter or two before the events of the Raccoon City Incident begins. Now, I know many of you guys did enjoy Outbreak, sadly I never got to play either one of them an given what events play out during both 2 and 3, along with what I've planned out to include parts of Operation Raccoon City, I won't be including the Outbreak events, though I may end up making some references to the characters and events of the games.
Since I've completed my structure on Raccoon City, I'll be using the amalgamated storyline that I've used from the original 2, 3 and ORC, but with the Remake of 2 coming out within a few months, I may alter those portions of the story to account for the slight changes they've made to the story to make it more akin to what 6, or at least that's what the story or RE:2 is looking like to me, who knows. As for the chapter count of Raccoon City, it's looking like a total of maybe 25-30 chapters to cover what I've written out for the main pieces of meat for the arc.
Now, for the events that take place after Raccoon City, I do intend for Naruto to have a couple of arcs of his own that helps bring Umbrella down along with tracking the X-virus leading to the end of Umbrella and into the new era of bioterrorism.
As for my other stories, I'm currently working on them as well so please be patient with me, as I want to deliver good chapters and stories, and the growing plot bunnies don't help either.
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