In Media Res - The Hive (Threshold of danger)

Five hours ago in the Hive, a top-secret genetic research lab located in the basement of Raccoon City, there has been an alarming situation and in response, the artificial intelligence that controls the complex, known as “The Red Queen“. has sealed the entire plant, killing all employees.

Umbrella Corporation, owner of the Beehive, has sent two of its teams. The first, the Alpha team, penetrate into the complex to find out what happened. The second, the Bravo team, will have to find the directors of the Beehive, the only survivors of the disaster, and retrieve some biological samples the directors have taken with them.

This is the story of team Bravo ...

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Chapter two - upcoming briefing and recap.

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The team assembles at the end of the line. At the end the grey walls of the tunnel gets tiled with orange squares of polished metal. At a gap in the wall, a crystal clear, solid sheet of glass covers a hallway in to the Hive.
Inside the glass, two cameras almost undetectable follow the activity on the platform.
The sound from hidden speakers come from the square lighting fixtures embedded in the metal tiles to the left and right.

Collins moves the scanner over everyone in the party:

Johnny
Kim
Heather
C.L.
Larsen
Crawford
Hale


Collins then monitors his own vitals...
Collins only (ImpInTraining),The civilians [b]Johnny [/b] and [b]Kim[/b] have three hours left before they turn in to a comatose state. [b]Heather[/b] is affected at a ten times higher level. But she is, as it seems from the reading - immune to the virus. [b]C.L.[/b] is bad, he´s in the last stages of the respite before coma. He seems unaware of it and is not wearing his mask. A cigar sits nailed between his lips as he covers the tunnel from pursuers. According to the reading he should feel acute fatigue and sensory loss of his arms and legs. His heartbeat is alarmingly elevated. [b]Larsen[/b] shows no signs of being affected by the virus. [b]Hale[/b] and [b]Crawford[/b] neither have been infected. As [b]Collins[/b]... Checking his own readings again, Collins is sure that according to the machine - he´s safe. The prognosis for C.L. and the two civilians are bad if not critical. The girl... is another matter, she should be dead ten times over. Even though she has been running for a good spell, she´s hardly breaking a sweat. No abnormal levels in her system. Just the toxin from the virus. And that is not affecting her.
Heather heaves herself up on the ledge by the subway platform and lets herself be monitored by the medic.
She feels safe and calm as she´s been saved by this group of people. Maybe the world can be saved after all?

C.L. stays on the tracks and bites his cigar and aims down the tube with his MP5, flashlight off.

Larsen Lets Collins check his status. As do Hale and Crawford while watching the odd entrance to the Hive.

Kim takes a seat by the little girl and puts an arm around her. "Don´t worry, we´ll be right out. These officers are really good at what they do." At least, she hopes they are...
Johnny (Kabukiman),Johnny knows how he got out by this hall, however there was no glass barrier here then.
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Update posted.
OOC: I need a CONx5 check due to the ordeal of the last couple of hours. At this time, fatigue might set in. Should you fail to roll below CONx5, you´ll act with half value on your skill checks.

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In spite of the grueling ordeal, Larsen's adrenalin is still surging. He is relieved that he has been reunited with the rest of his team and that his suit had not been breached. "Once the scans are done," he says, "we'll have to see about getting inside. I can try to interface with the Hive's systems with my laptop and see what I can find out."
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Kim looks at Collins as he surveys her status. What had he said earlier?
Knowing she´s probably in no good condition, having no mask to use and having been unconscious she shrugs and decides to help with figuring out a way to get inside. She still feels alright and has some knowledge of opening doors...
She gets up on the platform and moves closer to the glass entrance. As she steps closer the message from the speakers stops abruptly. By her feet, the tiled floor she just stepped on recessed slightly. There are two rows of black marble tiles.
The lights in the fixtures creating a checkered pattern fade away, leaving the platform slightly darker than before. Only the lights from inside the corridor spill out on the platform. Kim stops at once.

Larsen checks the laptop. He gets up an overview of the Hive.
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A blinking icon indicates their position at the bottom of the conical structure. Then the image flickers and the hardware goes offline. -No Signal- CHECK WIFI!
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"Dammit," mutters Larsen. "I had a map, but my connection just went down. I don't know if the Red Queen cut me off, or if there's some other cause. I'll try to reestablish it." He tinkers around, doing his best to find a way back in.
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Trying to hook up to the Umbrella network again shows being fruitless. Larsen attempts to access some of the logged files from the previous session... However the image is jumbled and no specification data can be regained. From memory Larsen can recollect that there was a mention of a control room, a dining hall and the Red Queen chamber - all at the bottom of the Hive structure.
This entrance is probably leading to all three of these locations.

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Crawford checks her tracker. "I can only access the mall from this... Eh, what used to be the mall."

With the mall partially blown up, the radio scrambling is down. Now, the team gets all kind of reports from the emergency area surrounding the mall. From those reports, they hear that a couple of teams are sent down in the rubble to look for the terrorists who set this plan to work.
By that it is evident that using the comms from now on is a bad idea.
Crawford motions to the others to shut the comms off. Then shouts in her mask "Shut down!!" She makes a horizontal movement with her right hand at her neck.
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Larsen nods and disables his comm. "From what I remember of the map," he says, "the control room, dining hall, and the Red Queen's chamber are all at the bottom of the Hive, where we are now. We'd have to go up to get back to the surface and any exit from the Hive, but the Red Queen isn't about to let us walk out of there. I think once we get inside, we'll need to deal with her. Her defenses will be strongest there, however. She is programmed for self-preservation, so it won't be easy to shut her down if it comes to that."
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You are actually entering at the bottom level via this entrance you are at. That is if you gain access.
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Kim senses the urgency for them leaving this place. She gauges the sheet glass and picks up a break-glass-hammer from her tool bag. "Might work for opening this door as well..." She takes one step closer to the glass.
As she does, a red line start to shine around the rim of the opening in the wall.
The red line moves inwards towards the center of the sheet glass, creating a square pattern of light inside the thick glass.
Then at the far end of the corridor a similar pattern shines up.

A hissing sound can be heard and suddenly the air between the two doors is filled with red laser light. A maze of red shining lines make her face looks as red as her hair.

"Maybe not." She mutters and takes a step back again. The hissing stops and the lights abruptly disappear.
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"Some kind of pressure plate," says Larsen, examining the floor carefully. "We'll need to find some way to neutralize it - or the lasers. Smoke blocks lasers. Does anyone have any smoke grenades?"
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Johnny was feeling very tired.
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C.L. tosses two smoke grenades Larsen´s way. "Here, L" His breathing is getting a bit heavier.

The mechanic stands still and waits for Larsen to get the grenades.

From the tunnel, they all hear rubble being moved as if a rubble plow or tunnel drill were moving it forward.
In the comms the UBCS officers hear a feed get clearer. "Get down! Those beams. Not lasers - cutters!!! Aaaaah. Hssssss - peeeeep."

The speakers hidden within the metal tiles come to life again. "Sector 2F secured."

Johnny
feels that the weight of the gun sack he´s carrying will slow him down even more than the fatigue. If he is to vacate this platform he better drop it and pick a favored weapon for the last bit of this journey.

"Get those doors open!!" Crawford shouts.

The girl named Heather turns towards the glass entrance and pulls her sweater tighter as if seeking some kind of comfort.
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"Everyone stay down!" says Larsen, dropping low. He retrieves the smoke grenades and speaks into his radio. "This is Larsen of the UBCS. Who's in there? Can you let us inside?"
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-Anyone need a extra weapon and ammo? Cause I'm getting tired of having it at my backs.
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The radio sputters. "Ah, ahhh...This is UBCS ALPHA team. Redfield here. We´ve been cornered in the dining area. Z-3. One of the corridors leading to the queen´s chamber was trapped. The team got minced by laser cutters. I´m injured and retreating through Z-3. Where´s your location? Over!"

Kim helps Johnny with the bag and picks a shotgun from the it and slings the rest over her shoulder. She takes cover behind the ledge of the platform as Larsen ordered and pulls Heather with her.

From the tunnel comes four blue light beams, scanner lights that flickers and a crashing sound comes as something breaks free from the rubble.

"Keep a steady aim!", Hale shouts. C.L. nods and spits his cigar out. "Come on baby.."

While down on the tracks, Collins uses the med scanner to verify what´s coming their way. It reads: Processing data...
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"We're Bravo team," replies Larsen, "and we're just outside the underground entrance to the Hive. We came through the subway from the mall. There's some sort of pressure plate that activates a whole slew of red beams that look like lasers in the entrway, probably more of those cutters you mentioned. Something big and probably dangerous is coming up behind us, so we need to get inside fast!"
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"Can´t assist... wounded...I´ll let the door to the dining area stay open. I´ll block it with a table." Redfield reports.

From the subway tube comes the thing in view that shines the scan lights. A mechanized evac module with recording devices. It is shaped like an armadillo with a large drill as a nose with sensors and prods on the sides. Two of the four scan lights feel their way towards the end of the tunnel and the UBCS members´ position.

Collins looks up from his device. "It´s remote controlled. Unarmed - just a scavenger drone."
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"Remote control, eh?" says Larsen. "Sounds like it could be useful to us. If we can take control of it, we could use it to take point. Let it set off the traps instead of us." He tries to establish a connection to the drone with his laptop so that he can take it over. If that doesn't work, he'll go up to the drone and try to interface with it manually.
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-Drones? Are you sure you can be smarter than the bitch queen?
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