The soldiers on the Helicopter didn't even ask who they were as everyone was taken onto the helicopter.
"Did you have to bring that with us?"
Chris complained to Olga, whom had brought the case with the virus and the cure with them. Truthfully he would have been happier if they had just destroyed it, there was no reason for its existance anymore.
"It's just a contigency plan, lets hope it won't reach that stage"
Olga said as she looked at the soldiers around them, she trusted non of them and still held one hand on her gun. Alice and Rain were the same, still hugging their weapons as if they were their babies.
Nick was silently blending with the others, trying not to stand out at all, it was as if he was the most unconspicuous out of all of them. He was like a snake in the grass.
The helicopter took off and the pilot was shocked to discover that the helicopter flew by itself, he didn't remember there being an autopilot on his heli.
"Where are we going?"
Chris asked the A.I. which was hiding inside his wrist device, but there was no answer, he didn't know why the Red Empress wouldn't answer, but one of the soldiers did.
"We're taking you to our base not too far from the borders of the City, the General wishes to talk with you"
The soldier said, causing everyone to feel as if something was going wrong.
"Problem! we've got a problem!"
The co-pilot shouted, as he left the pilot's cabin.
"What's the deal? why not use the speakers?"
Their commander asked.
"The Heli has been hacked, all electronics aren't responding"
The solider said, but the answer to his words was a shot in the head by non other than Nick. Which followed with Alice and Rain, swiftly taking care of the rest of the soldiers, now only the pilot remained.
The problem was that killing him would be difficult, unless they wanted the heli to fall.
"Don't go inside, just wait until he decides to come out"
The Red empress said, causing everyone to stop what they were about to do, problem was that the pilot had heard her as well.
A shot came out from the pilot's cabin, going right through the gap left by the door, finding Mike in the chest. Alice kicked the door to cause it to shake, then opened it and then pernamently disabled the threat with considerable ease.
Mike was thankfully wearing a bulletproof, but as he was shot he hit his head and was bleeding. Olga begun to give whatever first aid was needed in this situation, making sure that he was alright. It was a show of how feeble mortal people were, because Mike had internal hemorrage, it was insane how unlucky he was, the chances of saving him, on a moving helicopter were really low.
The next 10 minutes Olga did her best to save him, but it wasn't enough, another member of their group died, a rather undeserving death, but it proved that they were only human in the end.
Chrysa was mourning him with tears in her eyes and unable to come to peace with what had just transpired. Rain came to comfort her, but one could only question her methods. She forcefully kissed her and Chrysa tried to push her away, but the other was stronger than herself.
In the end it looked more like taking advantage of her rather than comforting, but it did stop her mourning pattern and turn her into a red tomato.
It was insane how crazy all this was, the Red Empress had taken over the plane and her piloting skills asked for much to be desired. The heli trembled and the people inside prayed for their own lives, the corpses wer stripped of ammunition and weapons and thrown outside, only the two pilots were put back in their seats, just to create the image that someone was flying the heli.
At the General's tent, an officer came to report.
-We've lost contact with the Heli, the target must be inside the helicopter, they are headed towards our blind spot!
-How is that possible, do we have a traitor?
-We fear that the assumptions were correct, the people inside must be the ones responsible for the Red Queen's Rebelion
-Then we have to capture them, right now, he who controls the Red Queen, controls the world, if we can capture them, we will all be filthy rich!
-What about the mission?
-Fuck the mission! can't you see the bigger picture, we've got the hottest potato in our grasp, why care about some coal
-Sir, what are your orders?
-Every unit, begin moving, close the encirclement, send the messengers!
It was funny how they even had message pigeons in the first place, but in this situation it worked to their favours, while motorcyclists were sent to pass on the message to the closer units. The Red Empress could control communications to some degree, but she couldn't stop people, she could even block radio signals, by using satelites to corrupt the signal to become inaudible.
The people in the helicopter were shocked when the Red Empress gave them a command.
"Everyone you have to jump, then have go on foot, right now the army is looking for a helicopter, your target location is 10KM away, it's a military base, where you can get another vehicle, I've sent the helicopter to crush a good distance away"
Jason was the most frightened, he plainly refused to jump from the moving helicopter. But this time Hera and Jonas were there for him, they jumped together and this parashuting experience they would never forget, they had to open the parshutes almost instantly after jumping, there wasn't enough height to do otherwise, problem was that they couldn't steer well and ended all over the place at the mercy of the winds.
Chris found himself alone, but not for long as Alice, Rain and Olga had landed not too far away, unexpectably however Nick was also not too far away.
Other groups were also formed, but they spent considerable time, just finding all the people. They could see the flames from the helicopter in the distance, the crush couldn't be good, what they hadn't expected however was that Jonas had broken his leg during the landing. Olga had done some first aid, but he wouldn't be able to walk, at this moment it was Jason who decided to carry him, it was good to have friends.
Everyone else landed without any major injuries, other than some scratches and bruises. The group was terrified when they saw a full armed vehicles company passing by their location and heading towards the crush site, the last APC stopped and the Empress told them to take it over, the electronics inside stopped working and before the soldiers inside knew it, they were gassed out and shot to death.
Everything happened so fast that the company charging in front didn't even notice it, until a few minutes later. The chase continued, but this time they had no way of knowing where the APC had gone, without the Radars and satelites, it was as if they were looking for a needle in a haystack, even worse in the chaos, they couldn't tell which APC vehicle was theirs and which was the one captured.
In reality however Chris and the others had long left the danger zone, riding into the horizon, it was impossible for anyone to catch them unless they brought fighter jets or helicopters in their pursuit.
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Which however would also be partly useless without their radars and radio devices. The escape was only a matter of time as the APC arrived at the said base and they were all told to take the civilian vehicles parked there. Why there were cars and bikes in the base was beyond them, but they were parked right there at the entrance of the base. Now 3 cars and 3 bikes were headed towards their next destination, another city not too far away.
=Objective No 5 - Unleash the virus in any Major City in 72 hours=
It was an insane, mission, they had three days to destroy a Major city and potentialy plunge the whole world into chaos. Suddenly from heroes they were becoming the villains of the story, this was the crux of the system, if there was no danger before, then they would have to create some for themselves. They had 3 days to destroy this world and the locals won't like it one bit.
"Is it a new mission?"
Suddenly Olga whom was driving asked him, puting Chris in a rather hard position, he was the only one riding with an NPC, since Rain and Alice prefered to ride a bike instead, it raised their combat ability.
"Come on spit it out, what is it?"
Red Empress also asked, she had no access to their missions and she wanted to know what they had to do next in order to plan ahead.
"They want us to relese the virus you're carrying in a major city"
He said, causing Olga to almost crush the car. Alice and Rain came over to ask what was going on, but Olga's face was agast.
"Sounds like a really easy mission"
The Red Empress said, causing both Chris and Olga to look at the little floating red girl. For some reason they hadn't seen her twin for ages now, which was a little suspicious in of itself, but calling killing thousands of people an easy task, so typical of a machine.
"Isn't it simple, all we have to do is evacuate a major city and then release the virus into an empty city"
The Red Empress explained, causing them both to feel like idiots, if they could do that, they literaly did the mission with no victims or danger, the other alternative was to release the virus in some sort of enclosed safe werehouse or something, but the system might not accept that as a success.
Alice and Rain looked concerned as the approached the car, Nick on the other side was ready to kill them all at any time. The other cars decided it would be wiser to keep their distance, at any moment this might turn into a new battlefield.
"What's up?"
Rain asked as she approached the door.
"They have a new mission, this one might go terribly wrong with the tiniest of mistakes"
Olga said, not revealing the mission.
"Is it that difficult?"
Rain asked with some disbelief, they had passed through hell, what could be so difficult to do, that would make Olga so distressed.
"Is everything alright?"
Alice asked with some concern.
"Nothing big, just some difficult new mission"
Rain said without thinking much about it, but that didn't erase Alice's concerns.
"Can you tell us the mission?"
Alice asked a bit concerned and a bit suspicious, as if she could smell Nick's and the others' concerns. Something about the thing was really suspicious and she was ready to shoot any one of them at any moment.
"It has to do with the Virus and believe me you might react the same as me at first, but with the Little Red Empresses' help we might pull this off"
Olga said making the other two even more curious as to what the mission was about. The other players were sweating bullets, thinking that they might have to fight against Alice, whom by herself was like a one man army.
"Remember once we reach the city, you owe me a presidential suite and a ton of sex"
Olga told Chris as she hit the gas.
-But you're pregnant, you shouldn't have sex
-You idiot, I haven't even a round stomach yet, it's perfectly fine to have sex in the first to second months, even during pregnancy it's not entirely prohibited, some even say it's beneficial
Chris didn't know what to say, he had no idea about those stuff, most people wouldn't know, but Olga being a medic knew some stuff about the matter.
Reaching civilization was a boon of itself, everyone was excited, they had at last earned two days of rest, even more so there were already plans, they were to stay at a luxurious hotel and not leave for the next 3 days. Only Chris was to go do the mission, since he had the Red Empress that made everything a lot easier and the NPCs trusted him almost to a fault.
Their first visit to the hotel was rather haphazard, a bunch of people wearing military uniforms entering a luxurious hotel made everyone alert, until they came inside and asked for the closest ATM, before checking-in.
All the people of the hotel were amazed to find that non only were there rooms that were supposed to be ready for them, but they were also paid for.
It was insane, the first thing they though was hacking, but the money was deposited, thus it was even more strange and mysterious. Non wanted to chase away a paying costumer, even if they were strange to a fault, if they payed for 3 days in the best suite and 4 of the best rooms in the hotel, it was madness to drive them away, even more alarming was them withdrawing tons of cash from the ATM, these people seemed terrifyingly loaded.
Their arrival though wasn't left unnoticed by some people, although Umbrella was literaly no more, there were other organizations that were looking for them and they left no electronic trail at all, using code words and written texts, made it impossible to the Red Empress to even suspect them. Even worse there were three of them whose eyes fell on the wealthy newcomers. Was it the system's manipulation or sheer bad luck, non could tell, but three new organizations were now after them, each with different goals in mind.
Chris and the three NPC girls got the Suite, the others could suspect that something was going between the girls and him by now. It wasn't strange since him and Olga had something long before that, but allowing him to coinhibit with them was enough to tell that they had a rather weird relationship right now.
Chris and them would have been in bed right now, but they were warned by the Red Empress that something wasn't right. There was a 36% chance that they might be in grave danger, it might be less than 50%, but it was enough to make all four of them to go on alert.
Nick had taken the money and disappeared, he didn't trust hotels and the only place he could feel safe was the secret piece's spot. All other places were no different than death traps, just waiting to kill you in some way, he wouldn't find it strange if he was mugged or some serial killer attacked him in his sleep.
The others had completely let their guard down, until they were visited by Chris and the others and one by one were informed of the potential 36% of danger. Which many of them laughed off, at least those that understood math. So that you know that means that there's 3 in 10 chances that you might face some dangerous situation.
The problem was that it was the Red Empress who warned them, meaning that it's valid to some point, thus they just decided on splitting up.
Each group would do its own thing, Jason's group decided to go to a private hospital for Jonas, whose leg was broken or something.
George and his group that consisted of him, Xiao and now Chrysa, decided to go find another hotel to stay, after they finish with shoping, they didn't like the soldier look, it made them stick out too much.
Chris and the NPCs as if they disappeared from earth's surface, after changing clothes at some cheap store they left and were never to be seen again, with a rented car and a lot of money they rode into the horizon.
This was the beginning of another adventure for Chris, while to the others is was a different sort of experience.
George was going around stores, the two women spent hours deciding what to buy, in the end spending as much as they found fit to buy the things they liked, after they bought four large traveling bags, there was an agent following them around, but he got really disappointed as the three of them looked no different than tourists. They followed them three days strait before they lost all interest, understanding that something wasn't right about them.
That night, another person approached them at the bar and after a long time of drinking they knew that these three weren't important, they were more like dead weight and the real people they should be after were the five that left no clues behind, Nick, Chris and the NPCs.
George and the other two were had a great time, as they were like open books, giving out information without a thought, they hid nothing. The story was that they were kidnapped and forced to play some deadly game and they survived and got more money than they could ever spend.
Jason's group was even more mundane, they had the same story, but they were more beaten up and more believable, one could even call them crazy. The main problem was that there were no records of them entering the country, but that wouldn't be too strange. The strange thing was that they were really loaded and their english weren't very good, they were no different than regular tourists whom were kidnapped and forced to play a survival game for money, sounds farfetched, but there are lot of crazy rich people around the world.
Nick was living life as a normal person, he rented a house and begun enjoying the little things in life, living like a normal person with a lot of bucks. Only not flaunting them around like an idiot, it was almost impossible to trace him in the crowded city and his lifestyle was neither extravagant nor noteworthy.