Yay someone please shoot me now. It's 4:46 AM and I am up writing this. I know where its going and yes this is a Resident Evil/Final Fantasy X crossover. Well its Final Fantasy X set in the Resident Evil universe. So it's definitely AU. Let me explain a few things before I get started. Instead of Yevon, Sin, and Seymour in this there is the Umbrella Corporation, T-Virus mutants, and well Seymour. Also, since this is set on Earth and not Spira I am planning to explain how each character got their abilities like they have in FFX. I will include a few Resident Evil characters in this just for the hell of it. This won't really be based off of the Resident Evil games, but it will be based off of the movies. It will also be rated M for strong language, violence, etc…
Empire: a very large, powerful, and extensive industrial or commercial organization.
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy X or Resident Evil.
"A group of five hundred people from all over the world gather once every year on a small island in the south Pacific. The group really has no leader, but a man who calls himself Cid organizes things. They have no name for their group, and the members no longer use their own names. Everyone that meets have one thing in common, their hatred for a certain pharmaceutical company. Every one of them has lost someone thanks to this company and since the group was formed their primary purpose has been to bring the Umbrella Corporation to justice."
"At the beginning of the 21st century the Umbrella Corporation had become the largest commercial entity in the United States. 9 out of every 10 homes contain it products. Its political and financial influence is felt everywhere. In public it is the worlds leading supplier of computer technology, medical products, and health care. Unknown even to its own employees its massive profits are generated by military technology, genetic experimentation, and viral weaponry." – Intro to Resident Evil: Genesis
"We have unconfirmed reports of a disaster at Raccoon City. A mysterious plague or viral outbreak has run rampant implicating the Umbrella Corporation in the deaths of many innocent citizens."- News report from Resident Evil: Apocalypse
"New evidence now discredits earlier reports. Fake videotape totally discredited. Apparently it was nothing more than a big hoax playing on the very real tragedy which overwhelmed Raccoon City this week. The reactor at the nuclear power station went critical. Reports say it was the worst atomic disaster since the Russian Chernobyl incident in 1986. The state governor personally thanked the Umbrella Corporation for their swift action. The perpetrators of the hoax, Jill Valentine and Carlos Oliver are now being sought for questioning by the police."- News Report from Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Rikku watched the sunset across miles of desert. The planet was withering and dying, and she could barely believe it. What was once a colorful landscape was now nothing but a desert. This was all too much. 10 years ago everything was normal but then things went to hell.
First her family's island home was destroyed by Umbrella. She had barely gotten off the island with Yuna, Tidus, Auron, Wakka, Lulu and Kimahri before a huge cruise ship had picked them up. The ship turned out to belong to Umbrella. She didn't know about the rest of the group, but they kept her for close to a year. During that time they did something to her. She was never for sure what, but she knew they had done something. After she had been in captivity for about a year she overheard Chairman Wesker talking to Seymour about eliminating the specimens that were classified as "failures" and moving the specimens that were "successes" to a more secure lab. Afraid that she was classified as a "failure" she managed to escape the facility.
Once outside she lived like a normal person, she worked at a garage, and tried to hide her fears behind the façade of a cheery smile but she always felt different. At night she was always haunted by dreams. In these dreams these scientists were always injecting her with blue fluid, sometimes green. She tried to find the rest of her group but she never could get many leads on where they had been kept. Then after two years of normal life she started hearing news about a town that wasn't too far away from where she lived.
Raccoon City, 186 miles away from Berkley. The news reports told of a man made virus, a biological weapon escaping into the streets of Raccoon. The virus reanimated the dead. The virus was called the T-Virus and it was made by Umbrella. Then about a week later new news reports called the tape they had shown a hoax, made by ex RCPD and STARS officer Jill Valentine and ex Umbrella employee Carlos Olivera. They said the destruction of Raccoon City was actually a nuclear meltdown at the nuclear power facility inside the city. Then about two weeks later there were reports of Cannibal murders in Berkley. There was no response and slowly Berkley succumbed to the walking dead.
Umbrella tried to quarantine the city just like the video footage showed it had in Raccoon City, but in an area surrounded by mountains these quarantines usually didn't work. After most of the city had fallen, Rikku stayed on the roof of her apartment. The only weapon she had was the sword her boyfriend had given her, an ancient blade made by the great swordsmith Masamune, she sometimes wondered how a sword that had been made some time in the 1300's had survived this long, but from the stories Auron had told her the maker seemed kind of magical and she had never really questioned it.
After carefully planning her route to escape the city she made her way towards the Arklay Mountains and escaped. By the time she had made it to the next city it was being overrun by the dead also. That's when she realized staying away from large cities was her only hope of survival.
Apparently anyone else surviving saw that as their only hope also because three months after Berkley she ran into a group of survivors. They took her in, kept her fed, warm and protected; in return she killed for them, looted stores and hospitals, and started helping their security team. That didn't last long though, eventually they ran out of fuel and had to go to the city. There, her convoy was taken down quickly by a huge group of carriers.
Three weeks later she found another group. This one was much the same. She worked hard and they kept her fed and warm. Then one night she woke up, her clothes were bloody and there was fresh blood on the Masamune blade. She looked around the group's makeshift campsite only to find all eighty of her group, dead. Killed in the night, all of them decapitated. She couldn't understand it at first. Then bits and pieces of the night's events came back to her. She had killed her own convoy, even if it had been against her own will. What had caused her to do that? She respected and was beginning to really care for everyone in the convoy. So why had she killed them? What made her do it?
After that she took a jeep and what supplies she could haul in her jeep and left. She kept to herself and actually hid from large groups of people. One night about five years ago she had torn the CB Radio out of her jeep. She had been so tempted to try and communicate with someone looking for survivors, but she knew that bad things could happen if she did. After that she only stopped when food, ammo, or fuel got low.
Now she sit silent on top of her jeep, looking through her binoculars. There was a small house up ahead about two miles, a fence surrounded the house. Around 50 zombies, or virus carriers since she still didn't like calling them zombies, surrounded the building. The carriers wouldn't gather like that at just any location. There had to be someone alive inside.
She carefully observed the carriers. They seemed to be the normal carriers, not the ones that seemed to be pumped up on steroids or something. She'd had a few run-ins with those super-zombies or whatever, and they were almost impossible to deal with. She watched these normal zombies as they banged on the building. None of them were smart enough to open the door. The super zombies or whatever would have had the door open and stormed the survivors inside long ago if they were the monsters here.
She needed to get in there if there were survivors she could free them from their death trap and help them get away. Then she would just go back out on her own. Of course getting through the crowd of zombies wouldn't really be easy, but surviving for this long hadn't been a walk in the park. She studied the terrain and decided on her options. She could use the rifle and take over half of them down from here, then drive in closer and pick the rest of them off from the jeep; she could take over half of them down with the rifle from here and drive through the fence and use her sword to take down the ones still standing; or she could throw one of her propane tanks into the crowd, drive back to her current place and use her rifle to shoot it causing an explosion.
She knew her best option was to use one of the propane tanks, after all they were great for crowd control. Her only problem with that plan would be the fact that several of the zombies would follow her, but all of her plans had drawbacks. She jumped off the top of her jeep and grabbed a tank out of the back. Then she threw it in the passenger seat beside of her. She turned the key in the ignition of the jeep and began driving towards the fence. She would have to be very quick to get this done right, but she always was fast.
As soon as the tank landed in the crowd of zombies she went in reverse and swung the jeep around. Then floored it back to where she had been watching the zombies from. She jumped out of the jeep hands already clutching her rifle, climbed on the jeep, made sure she had three shells loaded and took aim for the tank. The first shot put a hole in the tank, and the second caused the tank to explode. She grabbed a handful of rounds from her vest pocket and loaded the rifle. Then as soon as the smoke cleared she shot the zombies that had chased her, those apparently was fast enough to get away from the explosion.
Rikku flipped the safety back on, and dropped the gun back in the jeep. Then she drove back to the fence. She drove through the hole and right up to the doors. She reached in the back and grabbed Masamune, her side-pack, the shoulder sling for the rifle, and her handgun before hopping out and opening the door.
"Hello is anyone in here?" she yelled. Maybe yelling like that as soon as you walk into someone house isn't a good idea, but if someone was still alive in here they would need to know she wasn't a zombie so they wouldn't shoot. There was no one. The house was one big room with a few shelves lining the walls and a table in the middle of the floor. Rikku began walking up to the table. Suddenly one of the floorboards creaked and the table separated. The floor in front of her opened up into a large square hole and a mechanical noise from somewhere down in the hole started up. Some kind of machine was coming up through the hole.
After a few minutes a lift appeared. She stood there for a few minutes considering her options, get on the lift and go down into who knows what, or leave. Leaving wasn't really her thing. She got on the lift and pressed a button. A panel moved up revealing a monitor and keyboard. "Hit enter to start" began flashing across the monitor. Rikku hit enter and waited. A diagram of an underground structure showed across the monitor. Then a window popped up asking for her to enter her destination. She studied the structure carefully before pressing the "B" and the "1" keys and then hitting "enter". Another window popped up asking for a security access code. Rikku tried typing in "password". The words "Access Denied" began flashing across the screen. She then tried B2 followed by B3 and B4. Nothing seemed to work. Around B12 it asked for a Level 6 Employee ID. Then finally she punched in B19 and the lift began to descend.
After a few minutes the ride was over and two large metal doors were opening for her. She walked through them into a cold dim hallway. Some of the lights were flashing, which gave her enough light to see bloody handprints along the walls. Finally she saw a glass case on one wall with one flashlight. She took it out and tried it. Amazingly it still worked.
As she walked down the hall she wanted to turn and run back. Then as if to reinforce her fears she saw a large symbol painted on one wall, a red and white umbrella. So she was in the belly of the beast, a facility owned by the death-bringers themselves, a secret lab owned and operated by none other than the Umbrella Corporation...