Fairbanks: I am ready.

Then with a swift move the five women assisted by three other troopers jumped down off the roof and flew through the windows with guns in hand and Porter watched as Tina ducked with such timing almost as if she was expecting it. Piezecki grabbed the other figure who was moving throughout the house and pushed him chest down on the floor.

Tina: Who the hell are you!

She said standing and staring at the people hidden behind helmets.

Trooper 6: S.T.A.R.S.

The female voice stated.

Piezecki: Take a look at this.

Porter wondered over the man and pointed her gun at him.

Porter: Who are you?

The man looked up with angry blue eyes.

Man: Tim Haspel. FBI.

Porter turned to Peabody.

Porter: Look for a badge.

She moved back over to Tina and looked at the blonde before taking off her helmet which they all did. Tina looked from face to face.

Porter: I’m Bette Porter; I work for the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System. Alone with my colleagues Alice Piezecki, Shane McCutcheon, Helena Peabody, Dana Fairbanks, Brian McKinney, Lindsay Patterson and Melanie Michaels.

Tina just stood there and nodded.

Peabody: He’s FBI.

She said as she looked upon his face seeing the seriousness. Alice took the links off his wrists and he stood up rubbing his arms.

Tim: I’m here to assist you into the hive.

Tina: The hive….

Bette nodded.

Bette: Miss Kennard, we need to get down there. You know what has been going on, working for the Umbrella Corporation.

Tina looked at Bette and she didn’t know. She couldn’t remember. She merely nodded and they began to move down into a corridor and through the house. Tina and Bette led the way and Tina strangely enough knew where she was going. Down they went through hallways and stair cases until they reached a huge door. Bette looked at a little GPS computer system on her arm and saw no movement beyond the door.

Bette: Patterson.

Lindsay moved and went to a panel of number and took a plug from her wrist and inserted it into a small plug in on the side. She pressed a few numbers on the pad and the doors opened to reveal what looked like a storage place filled with tall metal cases. They walked through cautiously and made it to a train that would take them down into the hive. They filed into it and went down further underground.

Tina sat beside Tim and Shane.

Bette stood and passed information from her small computer to the passengers.

Bette: Down in the hive there was an accident involving the new substance and drug called the T-Virus. It has an antidote but as far as we know, it is hidden in a room guarded by the red queen, a computer generated security system invented by the scientist who created the T-Virus. Someone in the hive must have made a mistake in dropping a phial of the T-Virus which has released it into the air conditioning system which has effected all the occupants of the hive. I don’t know how we will get to the red queen but where there is a will there is a way.

Melanie: What are the effects of the T-Virus on humans?

Bette looked at Melanie who was masking her fear with a serious demeanor.

Bette: The T-Virus effects the heart and spinal column. The heart implodes inside the chest cavity and the spinal column shifts into the brain killing the person instantly. All that is left is a shell of the person still alive.

Dana: Still alive?

Bette: Yes.

Tina: Zombies.

Bette: Zombies.

They made their way down into the ground. Each of them, a separate person of fear. Bette stood strong while Helena shook her head.

Brian: God help us.

TBC….