There lay a woman in the hospital bed at the Washington Umbrella Military Hospital. She had an IV stuck into her arm and several bite marks upon her body that were now scars and reminders of a horrific event that started everything. The lickers and zombies getting loose on the world. One bite mark lay upon her right hand, just between the index finger and thumb. Her first infection. Another bite lay upon her left forearm. And the last one, that was given to her by her best friend J.D., was engraved upon her neck.
The board that was attached to her bed had the name Rain Ocampo on it. She was laying there staring at the t.v. with an expression of anger and confusion upon her face.
"Bullshit" whispered from her mouth as she saw a picture of Jill Valentine flash across the screen and the voice of the t.v. newsman say in a monotone voice, "Wanted for questioning regarding the meltdown of the nuclear power plant in Raccoon City. Which resulted in the demolition of the entire city. A horrid event that has killed several people. Also wanted for questioning..." Rain flicked the off button not wanting to hear anymore and then threw the remote onto the ground, she heard a satisfying shatter. "Those bastards... how could they do this." she said glaring at the bed sheets, her knuckles clenched.
She sighed and nearly jumped as she heard a voice, "You work for those... bastards... if you'll remember, Ocampo. Or perhaps your little trip into the hive made you develope acute memory loss?" It was the voice of a man that had just entered the room. He was a tall man, stood at about 6'1, he had a military outfit on that bore a small red and white Umbrella symbol on the left side of the chest and Major patched onto the right side of his chest. He had blonde hair that was cut into a crue cut, and a mustache barely visibile with his light hair colour and skin tone. His left eye was light purple and slightly swelled. Rain heaved a disgusted sigh and then replied in her usual sarcastic tone, "Oh hello, Carl. How's it going? You know... covering up your mistake of telling everyone I was wrong and crazy about what happened in the Hive. When it turns out... oh I don't know... that maybe I wasn't full of shit like you told everyone. And now look whats happened. The whole world is infested now." The man glared at her for a moment, "It's CAPTAIN Paulson, Ocampo. Let's spare eachother the informalities. Since we both know, neither of us like eachother so we should therefore at least keep it professional. And it's going fine... no bad downfall for me telling everyone you're crazy. I think they already suspected that anyway." Rain stared at Captain Paulson a moment and then replied with thought, "They never thought I was crazy, CARL. They just knew not to mess with me. That's where you were deeply mistaken. Speaking of which hows that eye of yours? Still a light purple colour to it." She stopped talking a moment looking at him and then replied, "Oh and I like pissing you off by calling you Carl. It seems to lighten my gloomy life.. Why the fuck are you here?" She finished off this last sentence with an accusing tone.
"I have a mission for you to go on." he says. Rain stared at him for a moment as if thinking and then replied, "What kind of mission?" Rain said. She was surprised at the nerve of Umbrella sending her least favourite person to covince her to go on another mission. Also that they even asked her after what they did to her and her team showed true stupidity. But curiousity was getting the best of her. She did want to know what mission she would be asked to go on before she turned it down. Carl Paulson stared at her his green hued eyes looking at her as if trying to read her expression. He finally spoke after realizing he couldn't get any emotions from her expression, "We need you to track down a little acquaintence of yours, Lieutenant Ocampo." Rain's brow furrowed as she gave him a confused look, "And when was I made Lieutenant?" she asked. He spoke, making sure he said the right thing, "If you take this mission you will be made a Lieutenant." She spoke, "Which acquaintence are you speaking of?" He gave a satisfied smirk and replied, "Her name is Janus Prospero. Also known as Alice." Rain blinked, the name didn't ring a bell. Rain didn't like being confused and at the moment she was very confused, "I don't know who that is." He chuckled and shook his head. He moved a few steps forward and sat down on the hosptial bed, "The Hive. The security operative placed there. Blonde headed woman... blue eyes. One of the only two people who TRULY made it out of there. Of course I am not counting you. You were too weak to make it out on your own." The expression on her face showed she wanted nothing more than to hurt this man in the most horrific way possible. But she tried to keep her temper. "Alice..." she said remembering the woman who had tried every possible way to get all of Rain's team out of there. "Alright... you want me to track her down. Why?" she says. He looked at her and said, "Because she knows you... you can get close to her. She won't kill you at first sight as she would anyone else who would try and eliminate her." Rain's brown eyes widened, "You want me to kill her? Why do you want her dead, man. What did she do?" He sighed heavily and then replied, "You know that that is not needed information to allow you succeed. It is not a mission objective for you to know why we want her dead. But I will humour you. Her very existence threatens Umbrella corporation. She could bring us down... so that we couldn't ever get back up again. We need her gone from the picture, Ocampo. And we believe only you can do that." Rain stared at him and then smirked, "Alright sounds good. I'll take the damn mission." she said.
He eyed her suspiciously and leaned in, his face inches from hers, "If you try to pull any shit... I will personally kill you." The gleam in his eyes showed the true extension of his insanity. Rain stared at him and then replied slowly, "I... seriously doubt that you could kill me. But it seems you need a little convincing that I will not... 'pull any shit' as you phrased it. Here's the way I see it, man. She is part of the reason my team is dead. And I want to rid myself of anything that reminds me of that day. I'll kill her. So, get the fuck out of my face. Or I will give you another black eye to match that other one I gave you." she said. He looked at her and then he slowly sat back, afraid of being hit again by Rain. He wouldn't lie, getting hit hurts quite a lot. Especially getting hit by Rain Ocampo.
He was obviously convinced, "Alright... we have her basic location. However the exact location we were not able to get. We have confirmed that she is with three people. Officer Jill Valentine, Sergeant Carlos Olivera, Angela Ashford, daughter of Dr Ashford, creator of the T-Virus and a civilian by the name of Lloyd Jefferson Wayne." he said. Rain nodded, a few of those named definitly rang a bell. "Alright. Give me the location and weapons and I will be on my way." He nodded and lifted himself off the bed into a standing position. "Alright... I have a truck outside waiting for you. There are weapons in the back. We want you to get working ASAP. We have an apartment ready..." but he was cut off by her, "I don't need any living quarters. It won't take that long to find her. All I need are weapons and the damn location." she tilted her head and then finished off her sentence, "So chop chop. You are wasting enough time sitting here chatting." He glared at her, "Don't tell me how to do my fucking job, Ocampo. Get off your ass and get dressed." She stood up standing six inches shorter than him as she stared into his eyes, "Don't tell me how to do my fucking job, Paulson." she says copying him with a sarcastic and impudent tone.
His fists were clenched tightly his knuckles slowly turning white. He spun around and walked to the door, "You have five minutes to get dressed and meet me downstairs at the car." He shut the door and his footsteps were soon unable to be heard. Rain muttered, "asshole" and then turned walking to the closet pulling off her hospital clothes and putting on a black spaghetti strapped tank top and baggy camo pants. She pulled out some thick combat boots and bent down into a kneeling position putting them on tying the laces. She slowly stood up walking over to the window and looking down towards the street. She saw Captain Paulson standing next to a black expedition which had tinted windows that were unable to be seen into, two men in the front seat the window rolled down on the passenger side as they were engaged in conversation with Captain Paulson. She sighed, "What am I doing?" she then turned leaving the hospital room and heading down to the street.
Moments later she arrived out the door. Captain Paulson said tapping his watch, "It's been five minutes and fourty-three seconds." She glared at him walking over to the back right hand side door, "Fuck you, Paulson." she said as she slipped inside the vehicle slamming the door shut. Captain Paulson soon took his place next to her on the left side of the car and said, "Your weapons are in the back in the silver case with the Umbrella Corporation symbol on it." She turned around and lifted the case from the back and back around facing the front and sat the case on her lap opening it, "You could have gotten better guns, man... but okay. This'll work." she pulled out the MP5 and said, "Didn't think I could put them together myself or something" She cocked the gun and put the safety on setting it back into the case. She felt something land right next to her. She looked over and saw Captain Paulson had set two more cases down, "These are yours as well. An AK 52 as well as ammo for your guns, which I am sure you have a few other guns at your disposal and we didn't want to burden you with a whole lot of weapons that are not necessities. Also a VAIO Laptop with the location software ready to use. It will not give the exact location but the general location in which it detects her at. It will also pick up large cities in which those Zombies have overcome already. Now..." he opened up the case and withdrew the laptop tapping a few buttons he went on, "We believe she is in Manhattan which as you know is an island. They have taken measures, less 'brutal' I suppose you might say, than they did in Raccoon City. They eliminate only those that there is no hope for. As in those that, with lack of a better word, have already died. We will take a helicopter there and you can begin from there. If you do not believe she is there in Manhattan then you can contact us with the laptop. There is a communication link between that and one that we have back at base."
Rain was staring out the window taking in what he said but also thinking at the same time. She saw there were drawing up on a landing pad stationed on the ground. An Army helicopter lay upon the landing pad. This was her transportation to Manhattan. Soon she found herself aboard the helicopter heading to the island in which she would have to track down Alice.