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8 months before The Tatchi Incident.
Claire Redfield kicked down the door and immediately raised her gun. She slowly walked into the long-abandoned laboratory. It was one of Albert Wesker’s old laboratories, and as a favor to the BSAA she, on behalf of both the BSAA and Terrasave, looked through them regularly for any biohazards or potential threats. Neil Fisher, her previous boss, had strongly disagreed with this, for reasons she hadn’t known until after he had died at Alex Wesker’s fucked up island. Regardless, she headed Terrasave now, and regularly worked with the BSAA to help civilians and continue the fight against bioterror. The US government also helped at times, usually with Ingrid Hunnigan and Leon Kennedy, her old friend.
She walked into the main lobby and began exploring. She was alone this time, but usually she had Moira, Barry, Chris, Piers, Parker, Jill, or at times when his schedule allowed him to, Leon on her side. There was one partner she had had, but he was long gone. She thought about Steve Burnside for a second, who she had escaped from Rockfort Island with, and survived most of the Antarctic Facility with. Unfortunately, he had died there, saving her from Alexia Ashford. She still regretted not being able to save him, and on bad days… well.
However, that was then, and this was now. She pulled herself out from the past and focused on the various rooms. They were normal first floor rooms, a break room for employees, a nap room, a cafeteria, an office, and a doctors office. The latter wasn’t as normal in a workplace, but it made sense when you thought about how they were working with biohazardous materials.This office however, didn’t seem to deal with biohazards. Just some cold and pain meds, first aid sprays, and a computer. She sat down at it and looked at the notes beside it. A sticky note labeled with Password: password right next to the screen. For a secret base, sure is some security, huh?
She looked through the computer's contents. She was able to print out a map of the entire facility, which would make this much more easy. Thank god for idiots. She clicked on one final application, which was an image of Wesker and a prompt: ENTER PASSWORD. It was Wesker, so she guessed. She typed CHRIS REDFIELD SUCKS, and pressed enter. The bookshelf moved into the wall, and a staircase revealed itself going down. Bingo. She laughed at how idiotic Wesker was, and got up.
Holding her gun in one hand and her flashlight in the other, she descended into the unknown. The first room was a locker room, then a shower room. There it led to a circular hallway with multiple rooms on the outside, and what she could only assume was part of the main lab in the center, with the door chained up.
Exploring each of the rooms, they weren’t much. A computer lab, from which she took hard drives and USBs, hoping Ingrid could extract at least some information from them. A few closets, from which she got some bandage cloths. She doubted anything would happen, but you can never be too careful, right?
The rest of the rooms held nothing of importance, just random stuff. She unfortunately had not found a bolt cutter, so it seemed she’d have to resort to kicking it broken. She made her way to the door, and got herself ready. Raising her leg above the chain, she brought it down with force only a Redfield could achieve. Clank. The chain hit the floor.
Claire entered slowly, and noticed a terminal with an ID sitting next to it. She scanned the ID into the terminal and saw a GUI pop up, prompting her to unlock the lower levels. She unlocked them, and witnessed another passage reveal itself. She descended once more.
The first room was a computer lab, and again Claire took multiple hard drives and USBs. That was usually what she found in these laboratories, just hard drives and USBs, but there was almost always some useful information to be found in them. So she continued on. A disinfection room, similar to the one in Umbrella’s old laboratory, back under Raccoon City and long destroyed. Claire grimaced as she remembered William Birkin, the mad scientist who injected himself with the G virus and transformed into a monster. She herself had impaled his gigantic eye with a pipe as she, Leon, and Sherry had escaped that cursed city. She brought herself back to the present and moved on.
Walking into the next room, she noticed a woman in a blue dress standing in the middle of the room.