Detour

[«Wraith»]

"What he said" Adam said pointing over to Kreiger as he kept scanning around the room. He couldn't see anything which meant that either there was no switch or... "Hey Krieger, I know this is going to sound crazy but start pushing on the tiles on the wall around the door." He requested noticing that the walls of the room were tiled, and old school Umbrella just loved stupid and elaborate puzzles to safe guard their secrets like they never heard of firewalls or anti-hacker kill codes.

[¤Amy Grace¤]

"Uh okay," Krieger said and then began punching at the tiles rapidly breaking them one by one, Jolie pushed her chair to the other corner as debris started flying, she yelled Jesus Christ as she did and then he hit a switch and they all heard something tick, click, then a loud bang.

"Yo," he said and walked over to the door unlocking it and ripping it open, there were stairs that lead straight down into a basement level of the bank, something not on the blue prints, most likely the wall he broke through to get into the room to begin with was once a quick way into the room but then the tunnel system came into play, "Umbrella is fucking weird man."

[«Wraith»]

"Yup, if you're at an Umbrella own place pre-2002 they've got stupid fucking puzzles and mazes and gas traps and stuff for security instead of like laser grid hallways and remote killer AI's that just watch you and let B.O.W.s on you." He replied walking up and looking over Krieger's shoulder down the long spooky stairwell. He pulled out a flash light from the book bag over his shoulder and turned it on shining it down the stairs.

[¤Amy Grace¤]

"I don't play with this shit, I just break it," Krieger said and pulled a red stick off his hip and lit it and tossed the flair down the stairs, it went down the stairs and then dropped off into darkness, at the bottom of the stairs was a small platform with an immediate ladder, "He Jo, you wanna go on an adventure?"

"Nah, I think I'll play support on this one and hang out up here," she said and took out a USB stick sized device and tossed it to him, "you know the drill, turn it on sync it up, don't break it. You walk I get a detailed map based on sonar. Keep in touch."

"Yeah yeah, I got it," he said.

[«Wraith»]

"I'm coming with, we never got to explore places like this." He said setting down his back pack and pulling out speed loaders for his ammo. He looked over at Jolie; "Spare gun in there in case you need it." He was pointing to the bag he waited for Krieger to head down.

[¤Amy Grace¤]

He stepped down the stairs and looked down the hole, there was a ladder there and at the bottom deep down was a small red light from the flair he threw, "Jesus Fuck, gotta be a hundred feet down."

Jolie said, "dun dun dun duuuun," then started whistling a tune as he turned facing her and flipped her off then stepped backwards free falling the ladder counting in his head then grabbed the sides of it with his hands and feet and rapidly slowed himself down when he came to a comfortable stop at the bottom.

[«Wraith»]

"You clear down there?" He called down and waited for a response before just vaulting over the edge he watched the red glow grow as he got closer before he created an air burst that was enough to cushion his landing but soft enough to not knock anything back or trigger anything. He ended up landing in a crouch with his gun and flash light out and scanning the area. It was straight habit, "Habit, my bad." He apologized as he stood up and holstered his gun.

[¤Amy Grace¤]

"Nah," came a reply back, he had already started walking, the tunnel was large enough to fit a vehicle, it was mostly brick and the floor was concrete. Up ahead he could almost make out doors or passage ways, he wasn't entirely sure just yet then as Adam landed he formed a ball of extremely hot plasma in his hand, it was brighter than any light source and threw it ahead of them like a fastball.

As it traveled he scanned the area behind it, nothing all the way until it hit a door at the far end of the tunnel and then sparked out of existence like a firework. Krieger continued walking, he was very casual about how he moved unlike Adam's entrance going straight into a readied stance, Krieger was a lot like his father in that regard, he liked to take a hit or two before dishing out a fatal counter.

"What's behind door number one," he said and pushed and it didn't budge, once again he formed a ball of plasma in his palm and pressed it against the handle and it immediately melted through as he pushed and then the door came open. They then saw the room beyond, they were technically on the top floor of a staging area. There was stairs to their left going down onto a loading dock, they were mostly surrounded by Umbrella logos on the side of shipping trucks, "no shit. This has always been here and no one even fucking knew about it. Bet there's samples in the back of most of the trucks at the loading docks."

[«Wraith»]

He caught up with Krieger and let out a low whistle. "The shit in these trucks must be ancient by now though." He said the pointed at one of them, "That looks like a transport container. Like, what they used to use to ship B.O.W.s... think anything is still 'alive' inside of it?" He asked kind of curious then again the triggering mechanisms were probably fried though he wasn't going to chance it. He still remembered the first time he accidentally triggered one of those things and inside it was like a whole swarm of hunters betas.

[¤Amy Grace¤]

“I wouldn’t doubt something might be alive down here but then again, the city went up in flames and hasn’t had power in years so unless they have internal generators that kept this place running for twenty or so years... Honestly, we’re likely to run into Crims and Rotters,” he said moving down the stairs, “if we can secure this place it would make a nice bunker for the people living in the ruins to have shelter while we build them homes.”

It seemed like they were going to have to force everything open as there was no power to the facility, the quiet was rather eerie but then again he didn’t mind it so much.

[«Wraith»]

"That's a possibility, but wait a second there was technically a third stage of that whole V-act thing zombies do wasn't there?" It'd been so freaking long since he had to deal with Zombies or zombie physiology that unless he actually concentrated he almost forgot in a way. Honestly though it was so weird seeing all of this, it took him back to when he was younger than the guy with him. And it wasn't like any of the official missions he was usually sent on, this was way more relaxed if anything.

He had time to look around and explore with his eyes it was weird being how he was now. He wondered if this was how Amy felt all those times in 2014 when they were raiding facilities and she didn't really have a care in the world because she could murder literally everything in the facilities. "Not gonna lie, really thankful this place is probably pre-Himura take over."

[¤Amy Grace¤]

“Not sure,” he said looking around using a ball of plasma to light the entire area. He moved over to the lift and pressed a button on it but it didn’t move, he wasn’t surprised. There was a ladder access that went down further and he opened it and dropped the ball of plasma down to the bottom as it hit the floor there was something that screamed and moved away from the base of the ladder.

“Definitely something down there,” he said to Adam, “your call, go down or explore the ground level?”

[«Wraith»]

"We should probably clear this place out if you guys plan on using this as a bunker or shelter for people." He replied pulling out his revolver and checking his ammo count and then slapping the cylinder back in. He didn't exactly like the sound of that scream, it didn't sound like anything he recognized from back in the day. He descended the ladder, once he was on the rungs he slid the rest of the way down and scanned the area forcing his eyes to adjust to the really low light levels of the area as he scanned it with his gun ready.

[¤Amy Grace¤]

He guessed that meant they were going down to clear out before clearing the ground level, he stepped over to the ladder and waited until Adam was clear of the ladder to descend as well. Krieger moved quickly getting to the bottom of the ladder and then immediately lit up the area. The darkness there was some sort of black spiky growth, there was some sort of ominous red glow deep inside the growth.

"The fuck is this shit," Krieger asked moving alongside Adam, around them he could hear some sort of god awful hissing, it wasn't coming from the room they were in but it was definitely close enough.

[«Wraith»]

"I don't... know." He said in a low tone as he investigated one of the spiky buildups. He'd never seen anything like this before. The red glow coming from the core of the spikes definitely set off alarm bells in his head and he made sure to not touch it while also communicating that idea to Krieger.

The hissing however snapped his attention and he raised his gun walking towards the noise. It had been a while since he actually did a mission without his unit or another hunter much less without his armor, it took a minute to get used to the feeling of being so open and not having that connection between himself and the tech giving him live feed back data beyond what he could see and hear.