Trial by Vulture

[Ayen]

“Albert Wesker. So good of you to finally join us. Please have a seat.”

"The Vulture has a lot of enemies, so does an esteemed war hero. Is it really hard to imagine that someone would frame Meryl in an attempt to get to her uncle?"

"Mere speculation, Mrs. Campbell. Unless you have some evidence on the contrary I suggest you don't waste the court's time."

“Hurry it along. I have a game of Killing Floor in a half hour.”

"On the night of the attack Meryl was seen picking up a data filed as A-Level Security Clearance. Meryl is a Private, she doesn't even have C-Level Security Clearance. Yet according to video evidence she is seen committing treason for a piece of data she would know nothing about and have no way of finding out about it. Her psychological profile is already on file and it's sound. Why would my client sacrifice everything for data she knew nothing about? On this disc is data on a holographic project where anyone who has it on can be whoever they want to be. Keeping in mind what I've already said the defense argues that on the night of the incident Meryl, the real Meryl, got separated from her squad, replaced by a fake who did have A-Level Clearance and then proceeded to steal the data found at the scene."

“Zzzzzzz!”

General Vulture has fallen asleep.

[Kragen]

Nobody in the court room seemed surprise by Vulture's sudden nap at his chair. Rose had to suppress a look of irritation to keep herself from getting shot on sight as she tried to continue this case in spite of the General demanding it be ended shortly. She had to keep it going even if it meant enduring Vulture's terrible snoring. Her eyes locked onto Red Queen now who was now trying to drag Drake's name through the mud as well. "There is no proof that my client had any talks with Mr. White about the data in question."

[Meryl Silverburgh]

It was becoming more and more difficult for Meryl to hold her tongue in this courtroom. First they wanted to pin blame on Drake which would have easily tore down their entire defense if they deemed it unnecessary to back it up with any evidence of their own. And now General Vulture didn't even care enough to stay awake for the trial. She looked at Rose making it clear that any longer and Meryl was going to snap on everyone.

[Elena]

"Evidence on our part isn't required. There is video recording of your client and eye-witness testimony to support it. Not to mention that none of the members of Ms. Silverburgh's squad testify ever separating with her prior to the events in question. It's very unlikely that your client was replaced by an impostor. I see no reason to continue this trial any further and find the defendant Guilty. Do the Judges agree?"

[Ayen]

“What?”

The General woke up in his chair, just in time to hear Red Queen pass her verdict on Meryl as he quickly recollected himself after falling asleep.

“Guilty!”

[Kragen]

"Guilty." "Guilty." "Wait!" Rose was desperate now. Before she could even get a word in four judges has already declared Meryl guilty of treason and it didn't look like the other four votes would be any different if she didn't do something. "Don't I at least get to cross-examine the witnesses? If I can't find a contradiction in their testimony then the defense accepts this court's ruling."

[Meryl Silverburgh]

Meryl couldn't take it anymore. If she was going to die here then she was going to die under her own terms. On her feet with her head held high not sitting down in a chair waiting for all the judges to say what everyone has been expecting to hear from the start of this trial. "I accept no ruling from this court! This whole trial is a sham. If this is all it takes for the Vulture to question my loyalty after my service here then kill me now. I stand by what I said when I was first taken. Kailix was the one who attacked me and my men and framed me for treason to cover his tracks. If you don't believe me then it'll be your own undoing!"

[Elena]

"You aren't in any position to accept or reject anything, Mrs. Campbell. This court has already made its decision to rule."

By that point Meryl stood up from her seat and said her piece. Red Queen only looked at the Private with a small smile on her holographic red lips before turning her head to look in the direction she knew General Vulture was sitting in the courtroom.

"I believe that concludes today's hearing. General?"

[Ayen]

"Don't I at least get to cross-examine the witnesses? If I can't find a contradiction in their testimony then the defense accepts this court's ruling."

"You aren't in any position to accept or reject anything, Mrs. Campbell. This court has already made its decision to rule."

"I accept no ruling from this court! This whole trial is a sham. If this is all it takes for the Vulture to question my loyalty after my service here then kill me now. I stand by what I said when I was first taken. Kailix was the one who attacked me and my men and framed me for treason to cover his tracks. If you don't believe me then it'll be your own undoing!"

"I believe that concludes today's hearing. General?"

A large smile grew on the General's lips as he stood up from his chair and held up his right hand to the sky.

“Fire the Novalith Cannon!”

As soon as Vulture finished his order a little red dot appeared on Meryl's forehead. Right between her eyes...

[Der-Sprecher-des-Wahnsinns]

Wesker had pulled out his phone when Guilty was rang out through the entire courtroom. It was time to get to work. He flipped the phone open and pressed *1111. As the Novalith cannon fired, which it did fire. The reactor core on it began to melt down and exploded wrecking the cannon completely. Anyone without a full body pressurized suit would be killed as the air was rapidly sucked out into space. The Captain himself was floating around in a desk chair with his coffee firmly still in his mug despite the lack of gravity. He survived because as the captain always said, "Pressurized suits are damn sexy."

No one would suspect a thing just yet until the Red Queen reported what had happened. Luckily she had underestimated him when he was rooting around through the computer systems and labs. He dialed in *316 and suddenly her signal would become jammed through the entire city as network connections began linking to one another rapidly spreading the coding from point to point cutting her off from returning in the system here. With the element of surprise out of the way the only thing to deal with now was the armored guards and what ever forces show up outside.

What ever happened to Meryl was out of his control when the cannon fired. What could be told would be that it would accompany the usual 13 Lancer Rifle guards. Wesker was more than ready to kill each and every one of them if he had to. All eyes would be on him by this time anyways, he was holding his cellphone out like it wasn't shit.

"Our service with one another is over," was all he said to the Vulture before buttoning the buttons to the front of his coat and pulled his black leather gloves tight on his hands.

[Kragen]

The moment the little red dot appeared on Meryl's forehead, Rose knocked her out of the way. Sending both crashing out of range of the resulting blast from the cannon as the defense desk and the floor underneath it was destroyed and the sound of chainsaws could be heard coming from behind as Rose helped Meryl up. "We need to get out of here." Without looking back Rose ran for the exits with Meryl taking full advantage of the distraction caused by Wesker.

[Meryl Silverburgh]

This was it. The end of the line. Meryl had no regrets, she chose the life she wanted to live and then went out and lived it. Closing her eyes and clenching her fists Meryl breathed what she believed to be her last breath before Rose knocked her over away from the defense table when the blast from the Novalith Cannon came and then looked behind her to see the blonde in shades turning on Vulture and the armored unit wielding chainsaws. Thanks to Rose and this man she had avoided certain death. With no time to think Meryl ran out of the courtroom by Rose's side. She was going to get out of here, she was going to meet up with Drake and then she was going to make them regret turning their backs on her.

[Elena]

Red Queen noticed a problem when the space platform was no longer responding but before she could say anything her signal jammed. She faded out on the monitor in the courtroom and everywhere else throughout the city until the only place she remained was the core of Isafaro where the main military base was located. She looked around the monitors that were now black and a look of anger appeared on her red holographic face.

"You will regret this, sir. That I promise."

[Ayen]

"Our service with one another is over,"

Vulture stood up from his seat as he chewed on his cigar and smiled madly as the 13 mutated soldiers with chainsaws and lancers entered the scene and went after Wesker.

“I always knew you were shady. Kill him!”

The chainsaws came alive as the first six charged Wesker looking to slice and dice him into bits.

[Der-Sprecher-des-Wahnsinns]

Aug 21, 2012 7:35:02 GMT -6 Elena said:

"You will regret this, sir. That I promise."

"I wont."

Even though Wesker couldn't hear her he knew exactly what she would say as he dialed the next number 3825968 (fuckyou). The base where the Red Queens computer was located suddenly imploded in on itself before every corridor and hallway collapsed, the sheer heat alone melted away and glassed the entire area as it caved in on itself eliminating the Captain and the Red Queen from the Isfaro picture for a long while.

All that was left was the Vulture himself.

Aug 21, 2012 22:47:54 GMT -6 Ayen said:

“I always knew you were shady. Kill him!”

Of course the Novalith Soldiers began firing on him but each bullet that came for him hit the wall and floor around him as he disappeared and appeared in several different spots gaining ground on them in a matter of seconds unharmed. He first drove the palm of his hand into ones chest obliterating the armor, disappeared and appeared as he drove his elbow into the one on the left throwing it into the wall causing it to collapse down on its body.

Wesker turned his body rapidly avoiding the chainsaw slash as it came down. The next moment he was holding his pistol to the corner of the Novalith Soldiers head, he looked over at the other ones moving in on him and pulled the trigger ending its pathetic life. Wesker moved yet again toward them in an instant colliding his foot to ones head and turning disappearing and reappearing in the same spot but in the opposite direction as he put his fist through the next ones chest ripping his heart out.

The final one he appeared next to slamming his fist into its armored body throwing it into the air. He appeared above it driving his foot down on the back of its neck forcing it into the floor breaking its neck and rendering all six dead in less than ten seconds.