Containment System

Jacob and Page drive down the dirt road toward the city, Page staring at the almost fully healed bite wound on his shoulder.

"Stop," Page states.

"What?" Jacob asks, glancing towards her slightly.

"Stop the vehicle, now," She says angrily.

"Alright. I was planning on stopping at my house first anyways. We need more ammo and I need to grab something to eat,"

After driving a couple more minutes they reach his house, Page quickly getting off and distancing herself.

"What?" Jacob asks with a puzzled look as he gets off his moped, "Do I have a blood stain somewhere?" He looks at his clothes checking for anything.

"Your bite mark, it just, healed itself instantly. Jacob, I want to trust you, but how can I when there's all these things you clearly are still keeping a secret from me?" Jacob takes a second to respond.

"...Let's head inside, it's a long story, and one that I'd rather not tell on an empty stomach," And with that he heads inside his house. A bit hesitant, Page follows.

Jacob enters the kitchen and opens up the fridge as Page stands in the doorway. Jacob pulls out a steak, grabbing a pans and turning the gas stove on.

"Do I have to sit here and wait till after you finish cooking?" Page asks as Jacob grabs something from a cabinet full of spices.

"It's thanks to Luther that I am what I am," Jacob states as he sprinkles some garlic salt onto the steak, "The man was obsessed with B.O.W's, and even more obsessed with the viruses that made them. He wanted samples anyway he could, and as fresh as possible," Jacob flips over the steak and sprinkles that side, "You see, the problem with most samples are not all the pieces work due to the way they're taken out of a subject. He tried to find a way to take a virus out of an infected person and have it still be fully functioning, a way to never have to freeze or kill it. So, he tried to use me as a container for viruses,"

"Container for viruses? How could he possibly use you as a container for viruses without you becoming one of those creatures or dying?"

"By making a brand new virus from scratch…" Jacob puts the steak onto the frying pan, the steak sizzling, "The Containment System. A virus that holds onto anything that may try to infect the host, preventing it from spreading, until its killed or removed.

…

June 20, 2013- New York, Terrasave Headquarters

Jacob, only in boxer briefs, walks into the middle of a large lab, a rotatable operating table laying in the middle. Luther stands next to the table and a rolling table full of various bottles and surgical tools.

Jacob walks up to Luther, clearly not looking forward to what's about to happen. Jacob glances down at the rolling table.

"Are those all necessary, or are you going to inject those into me for fun?"

"Most of them are for aesthetics, don't worry," Luther picks up a small vial filled with a liquid that looks like blood, "This is the only one," Luther states with a grin that says otherwise.

Jacob glares at Luther for a second, then glances at the vial before he lays down on top of the operating table, staring up at the ceiling.. Luther straps his arms, legs, and neck to the table, then tilts the table slightly up. He grabs a syringe with a long thin needle, plunging it into the top of the vial. The syringe soon becomes filled with the liquid, the vial completely drained. Luther stares at the red liquid with excitement. He grabs a disinfectant wipe and walks over to Jacob's left side. Luther starts wiping a small spot on upper part of Jacob's forearm.

"This lab is completely soundproof, so feel free to scream from the pain this is about to cause, it'll be good for my notes," Luther says as he finishes disinfecting the spot. Jacob glances at him, eyes filled with a burning hatred before he looks back up at the ceiling. He puts the wipe in his coat pocket and brings the syringe up to the spot, the needle shining in the light as it nears the skin.

Jacob can feel the cold needle pierce his skin and enter his arm. The second Luther starts to inject him, a burning pain ignites in his arm. His veins become visible as the virus courses through them. He winces in pain, trying to resist the screams of pain that he knows Luther wants to hear. However, as the burning pain spreads throughout his body and becomes more severe, he soon finds himself screaming in agony as the virus becomes a part of his body.

…

March 21, 2015, 8;58pm- Mazraea, Jacob's House

"The pain lasted for several hours, then it became slightly less severe, but not by much," Jacob says as he flips the steak over, "It was at least bearable. That pain wouldn't go away for another couple of days," He chuckles a bit, "Remember those days before going to China when you asked me why I was more bitchy than usual?"

"...Yeah…"

"That was why. As much as Luther enjoyed knowing the severe pain I was in, it couldn't keep him from being frustrated at his failure. He made the virus too strong, or maybe, my aggressive behavior affected the virus. When he injected me with a test virus, rather than holding onto it, my body constricted it, tore it apart, and completely destroyed it, leaving no trace of it."

"I, had no idea…"

"Of course you didn't, no one did. To be honest, I'm glad I was the one he used it on,"

"Why's that?"

"Well, now I have an immunity to all viruses, plus as a side effect, I heal slightly faster than the average person, and if it's an infectious wound I heal even faster. Plus, I was able to get a good look at his lab,"

"Why would that be a plus?"

"Made it easier for me to sabotage it before I left for Africa. I had to make sure he couldn't harm you before I went against his orders. He was keeping a very dangerous B.O.W. he was making in the lab, and had I defied the orders, he would have released it into the Terrasave headquarters, making you a possible casualty and Norton would find a way to put the blame on me,"

"Norton?"

"You think Norton's a good guy?" Jacob glances at her before looking back at his steak and shaking his head slightly, "He was in on most of it. Him and Luther had sent us rookies to that town in africa, knowing that B.O.W's were there. It was just a test, one that none of us knew about, and you and I were the only ones who passed it. They chose me rather than you because of my background probably," The steak fully cooked, he grabs a plate and puts it on it, than grabs a steak knife and a fork.

"But that's a whole nother story for another time," He says as he pulls out another steak from the fridge, "What spices you want on your steak?" He asks nonchalauntly.

"What? I don't want to eat anything right now,"

"Trust me, you do. You've gone all day without eating and I'm sure getting to my office is not going to be a walk in the park. No doubt everyone in the damn city is infected by now and who knows what other B.O.W.'s could be waiting there for us,"

"...fine...let me see what you have," She says as she walks over to the spice cabinet.

Picking what she wants, Jacob prepares the steak and throws it on a different pan, the other one now in the sink.

"So, if Norton, was, working with Luther, why did he get rid of him then?" Page asks.

"Simple. Norton wanted viruses to make super-soldiers and B.O.W.'s to have power, meanwhile Luther had much bigger plans, wanting to use the viruses to kill everything living thing and, 'evolve' humans into a greater species. You know, the usual bio-terrorists mindset. Main difference though, is unlike the other bio-terrorists, Luther wasn't using just one virus, or turning just one into a slightly better version," He flips her steak over, the delicious smell reminding Page that she is hungry, in fact, she's starving after not eating for so long, "He wanted to make a virus that had all the strengths of every other virus but without any of the weaknesses.

He called it the Descendant Virus. Luckily he doesn't seem to be anywhere near completing it,"

"What makes you so sure of that? All those years in Terrasave we've foughten lots of different things, he must have had plenty of time and lots of different viruses to work on,"

"True, but that thing on the plane, what symptoms of infection did it have?"

"Well..it was once human, I think," She places a hand to her chin as she searches for the information in her head, "But was clearly injected with a very potent dose of virus. It had the green shell-like skin like victims of the C-Virus...and it had those creepy giant eyeballs like G...but it using other zombies to make itself stronger, I don't know what that was, I've never seen anything like that...wait I do remember a report, from China. What was his name...Derek Simmons? Yeah, the reports from those two government agents, Leon and Helena, they mentioned him using other zombies in a similar fashion…"

"There you go. From what we saw, it only had three different viruses. Though I have no doubts that he's gotten quite far with the D-Virus, he still has quite a ways to finish it," Page's steak done, Jacob gets another plate, puts it on it, and hands it to Page, giving her the necessary utensils to eat it.

The two sit down in the living room as they eat and enjoy the moment of peace from all the chaos.

"...So, Luther is the cause of all this…" Page says, "We're in another one of his tests...What happens if I don't contact Terrasave at all? Surely Norton will send people,"

"Let's hope we're off the island before that happens,"

Page was going to ask "why" but the answer popped up in her mind.

Norton wouldn't send help at all. He would only send agents to destroy any evidence, which would probably include me. Still...I can't let Jacob convince me so easily, at least not until he shows me the files. I need to make sure to keep an eye on him in case he tries to do anything funny.

After they finish eating, Jacob heads to his room with Page's bag. He soon comes back with a chest holster, pistol inside, and the bag refilled with handgun ammo.

"You ready to go?"

"Let me go to the bathroom real quick, where is it?"

"Right here," Jacob says, pointing to a door behind him to the right. Page goes inside, before she uses the bathroom she pulls out her phone, she's gotten messages and missed calls from Norton.

Shit, I forgot to take it off silence when I landed! I guess it was for the best since Jacob won't know that Norton has been trying to contact me.

Opening up the messages they read:

"Have you located Agent Jacob?" "Page, answer me" "Notify me of your status ASAP"

...Should I respond? … No...I'm, I'm going to trust Jacob...I owe him for everything he's done for me, even if he has been doing stuff behind my back...