Note: The characters are dark so they wont appear like they did in the games or books. I just wanted you to see a side of them thats never been seen before. So enjoy! And if you liked this then read my second Resident Evil story, Resident Evil: A New Beginning. They're a lot darker there.
There was a distant ringing in the darkness. He slowly woke up from his sleep and reached over for his phone.
"Kennedy," Leons voice was groggy.
"Leon? Its Hunnigan I have a job for you." her voice sounded wide awake.
"Good morning to you too, Hunnigan." he sat up. "Where and what is it?"
Leon walked into the police building and walked over to the front desk. "I'm Leon S. Kennedy,"
"Go down this hallway and the conference room will be the last door on the left," the secretary smiled slightly.
"Thank you," his blue eyes eyed her as she sat back down and ignored his presence.
Leon headed towards the corridor when a door opened on his right.
"Leon?" a voice called out to him as he passed the door that opened.
Leon stopped, turned and smiled as he recognized those grey smiling eyes. "Claire! How are you?"
Claire hugged Leon. "I was going great until I got a call," her smiled faded slightly.
"I'm guessing this is bigger then I thought," Leon became serious. "All they told me was that TriCell which is the company that bought WilPharma who bought Umbrella is behind it all."
"Any proof so far?" she asked.
Leon shook his head. "Chris' report was sketchy," he paused remembering Claires flare to always wanting to find her brother, Chris. "Speaking of Chris, do you know where he is?"
Claire made a face. "Like always I don't," she sighed. "Last time I heard he was coming back to the U.S. from Africa."
Leon placed a hand on her shoulder. "You'll find him and when you do you can kick his ass for never letting you know where he is," he smiled.
Claire chuckled and smiled. "You're right! I will." she nodded. "Shall we head to the conference room?"
"Ladies first," Leon grinned.
"I can't believe this is happening again," sighed Jill as she washed her face. "It doesn't matter if it happens again or if it doesn't, I'm prepared for anything now." she dried her face, walked out of her bathroom and changed out of her pajamas. "I wonder why they didn't tell me everything. It would've been easier and I would be on my way towards the infection site." Jill sighed. "If they want to keep me out of the loop that's fine by me as long as I get to the bottom of what TriCell thinks they're doing."
Jill walked towards her dresser, pushed it out of the way. It wasn't heavy, if anything it was light as a feather. She bent down and pushed on a corner of the wall. It popped out and she grabbed her pack, which she wrapped around her waist, placed a couple of clips into the appropriate compartments, grabbed her Blacktail placed it on her shoulder hoister which she strapped on to herself. She checked to see if it had a full clip, which it did. She grabbed her Emerson CQC-10 folding knife which she placed on her shoulder strap. She pulled out a box which was given to her by Chris after they got back from Africa. She opened the box which contained a silver 460 XVR Revolver. She placed it on her belt and pulled out the rest of her ammo. She closed the secret wall space and pushed her dresser back into place.
"Taxi!" she called out as she waved her right hand in the air.
A taxi cab pulled up in front of her and she walked in.
"Where to, lady?" the cab driver eyed her from his rearview mirror.
"To the NYPD," she pushed a strain of her hair back.
"You got Officer," he smiled and pulled out into the street.
"I'm not on the police force,"
"If you're not on the force then why do you want to go there?"
"Its business," she looked out the window. Welcome to New York Sheva! When Chris called this wasn't the vacation he planned for you. He lied, but can you blame him? He knew that you would need to know more about where you were going and what was happening. But if he knew that why didn't he tell you? Unless--
"Here you are ma'am," the driver pulled her out of her train of thought.
"Here you go," Sheva paid him, waited for the change and got out of the cab.
Sheva walked inside, told the secretary her name and she told her where to go. Sheva headed towards the conference room, where she opened the door and looked inside where she saw a man with blonde hair and blue eyes smiling at her and two women, one with brown hair tie into a ponytail with grey eyes and the other rose up to her feet.
"Sheva!" Jill smiled.
"Jill!" Sheva hugged her back and smiled. "How are you?"
"I'm great and yourself?"
The man and woman both raised to their feet.
"Tired," Sheva sighed. "Its a long flight from Africa to New York."
"I know," Jill smiled.
"I see you're not a blonde anymore," Sheva pointed out.
"Of course not," Jill smiled. "I dyed it back to my natural color and I feel better then I did in Africa."
"I honestly think you couldn't pull of blonde anyway," Sheva smiled.
"Right," Jill nodded and looked at Leon and Claire. "Sheva this is Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield." she eyed Shevas expressions. "Yes, she's Chris' sister."
"Hello Leon, hello Claire." Sheva smiled.
"Hello Sheva," they both smiled.
"So you where the one Chris worked with in Africa," Claire nodded to herself.
"Yes," Sheva nodded. "He's quick on the trigger."
"Sometimes," Claire smiled. "So who called you?"
"Chris did," she smiled.
"You talked to Chris?" both Claire and Jill took a step forward.
"He hasn't called any of you?" Sheva looked at them both.
Both Jill and Claire shook their head.
"It looks like Chris only had time to call one person," Leon sat back down. "I wonder if he'll show up."
"He better," Claire looked at him. "Or else I'll go looking for him again."
"And then you get into trouble, like always." Leon grinned.
Claire rolled her eyes with a smile. "None of us know anything besides there being a possible infection somewhere. How much do you know?"
"Looks like you guys know more then I do," Sheva sat down. "All Chris said was that he wanted me to take a vacation to New York and then he said its more of a job then a vacation." she shrugged. "That's all he told me. He wouldn't answer anymore of my questions after that."
Chris Redfield took a deep breath as he walked down the corridor towards the conference room where he hoped everyone was getting along. He know they would with Sheva and Leon around but he wish he know who else was going to show up.
He looked down at his watch and as he looked back up he bumped into someone. "I'm so sorry," he apologized. "I should've seen where I was walking."
"It's okay," the woman smiled. "Its way better then bug repellent in your eyes."
"Rebecca!" Chris hugged her as he laughed. "That hurt, I never want to see a can of repellent in your hands ever again."
She smiled even more. "And I don't want to spray it in your eyes again," she paused. "I'm guessing your here for the same reason I am, huh?" He's still as handsome as that day in Raccoon City. I would've died if he hadn't walked into that room and helped me escape. I owe him big time!
"Yes, I am." he made a face. "At least I know another person."
"Who else is here?" they headed towards the room.
"Leon S. Kennedy and Sheva Alomar," he smiled. "Sheva is from an assignment I did in Africa."
"I read your report," she nodded.
Chris smiled. "I'm glad you liked it,"
She rolled her eyes. "Well, all the complicated words you put in it fit perfectly."
He grinned. "Still the brainy act I see,"
"Always," she blushed as he placed a hand on the door handle. The way he looks now reminds me of the time when we were in the Spencer Estate. When I lost my gun in the woods when I ran away from those Cerberus. Its something I should forget but I know I never will.
The door opened and Leon saw everyones attention turn to the door. A young woman with the same shade of brown hair as Claire only her eyes were green. She had a warm smile and someone else stepped into the room after her.
"Chris!" both Jill and Claire stood up.
Chris stare dumb fondly at Jill and Claire. "Jill? Claire? What are you two doing here?"
"We got a call," Claire hugged her brother. "I'm so glad to see you again! I've missed you so much!" she pulled away and punched his arm. "That's for not calling me, jerk!" she smiled.
"Sorry," he smiled lightly. "I was busy with something." he looked up at Sheva and Leon. "Sheva, Leon."
"Hey," Sheva smiled.
"How's it going Chris?" Leon and him both shook hands.
"Pretty good and yourself?"
"I was taking a vacation when I got my call," Leon smiled. "But like the rest of my life I can never have one."
"Its because your still young and you need to be broken into," Chris grinned.
"Or I'm extremely good-looking and Hunnigan can't keep herself from calling me." Leon smiled.
Chris shrugged and turned to Rebecca. "Everyone this is Rebecca Chambers,"
"Its great to see you again," Jill hugged her.
"You too," she hugged Jill back.
"Hey Rebecca," Claire smiled and extended her hand towards her.
"Hey Claire," she shook her hand.
"I'm Sheva Alomar," Sheva smiled.
"Nice to meet you Sheva," Rebecca nodded.
"And I'm Leon S. Kennedy," Leon smiled.
"The pleasures mine," Rebecca grinned. Very handsome, but I'd say Chris is still better looking. Although I would like to see what he can do with a gun. "Is this everyone?" asked Rebecca, looking at Chris.
"No, we're still missing two more." he made a face.
"Do you know what's going on?" asked Leon, taking a step towards him.
"Yes," he nodded. "It'll be better to just say it once everyone arrives."
"Do you know who else is going to be here?" asked Sheva.
Chris shook his head. "I didn't even know Claire, Jill and Rebecca were going to be here. I knew Leon was because he's the "special agent" the President sends and I chose you to help out in this matter."
Leon smirked at the air quote Chris had done. "At least I'm special,"
"Because you work for the President, huh?" Chris smiled.
Leon nodded. And because I graduated at the top tenth from a top-notch academy. Oh, and I did survive Raccoon and I saved the Presidents daughter after she got kidnapped. This special agent went from a rookie cop to a special agent in a matter of minutes. "From the looks of it we've all had our taste of Umbrella or WilPharma or TriCell, from the looks of it. I'm going to take a guess but the other two would probably have gone through the same thing."
"Probably," nodded Rebecca. "Chris, Jill and I experienced the T-virus when the attacks were first starting in Raccoon."
"After the S.T.A.R.S. cleared out Leon and I experienced the aftermath of the Spencer Estate," Claire sighed as she sat down close to her brother.
"Chris and I had to deal with Wesker in Africa," Sheva made a face. All of that was months ago and yet it feels it only happened a couple of minutes ago. I doubt I'll ever forget all those people we -- I -- had to kill just to get to Wesker. That son of a bitch deserved what he got! "At least Weskers dead."
"A lot of the people who got their hand on the T-virus have been taken care of in one way or another," Leon placed his feet on the table and rocked back and forth on the hind legs of the chair. I almost forgot about the events in Raccoon. Or at least I was trying to forget them. My first day on the job and I was scared shitless by the walking dead. At least I didn't get scared shitless because of some guy shooting people out on the street. He stopped thinking for a minute. I did think that one woman was sniped down and I did get scared. Alright, so I got scared over everything that day! You can't blame me can you? No you can't!
Carlos Oliveira paused in front of the door not wanting to get dragged back into the world Umbrella had introduced to him all those many years ago. He didn't want to shoot a single person, at least not innocent people that became zombies. It wasn't him. He had given that up to become your average police officer. He kept his past under wraps and that how it stay until yesterday. That stupid phone call dragged him back to his worst nightmare. Its a nightmare no one should ever live.
He reached out for the door handle when he heard someone walking towards him. He turned to look at the person and saw a man in a baseball cap and sunglass. The man stopped in front of him and smiled. Carlos didn't want to be rude so he turned the handle and let the man walk in first.
"Thank you," the man nodded as he walked into the room before Carlos.
"Rebecca?" the man looked at her and removed his sunglasses slowly.
"Yes?" she titled her head to one side.
"It's me, Billy." he removed his sunglasses completely and his sunglasses.
"Billy!" she jumped up to her feet and hugged him.
The man Billy had seen outside came in and closed the door behind him.
"Carlos?" Jill stood up.
"Jill, what are you doing here?" Carlos looked at her.
"Same reason you're here," she smiled.
Everyone introduced themselves and once introduction came down to Billy Chris racked his brain to figure out where he had heard the name before. Billy sensed Chris scrutinizing him mentally and he shifted where he stood.
"How did you get involved with this?" Chris asked.
"Billy helped me when Alpha team was attacked. I ran to this train and he was the only survivor." Rebecca answered.
"Billy Coen!" Chris realized where he heard the name before. "You're the ex-marine that killed an entire village from Africa. You're still wanted."
"He's dead," Rebecca stood up for Billy. "He's innocent! His group didn't want to leave empty handed so they kill the villagers and Billy was blamed for it all!"
"Why not clear his name if you knew he was innocent?" Chris looked at Rebecca.
"You don't believe me so no one else would've," Rebecca stood her ground.
Chris made a face.
"If Rebecca believes your innocent then I believe her," Jill smiled at Billy.
"Thank you," he nodded.
"I can clear your name," Leon smiled. "Working for the President has its perks."
"That would be the best!" Billy grinned at Leon and turned to Rebecca. "So,it looks like you still remember what I've told you. Been fantasizing about me still, have you?"
Rebecca rolled her eyes as she remembered that he had asked her that same thing when they first met on the train. Still the same Billy even when he's on the lamb.
"I don't mean to sound bossy or anything but can we get to the reason we were all called her?" Carlos sat down on an empty chair.
Chris nodded. "Right, well, it turns out TriCell is continuing Umbrellas work." he paused. "A couple months ago I was assigned to Africa, where Sheva and I discovered that TriCell was stationed there. Now I never really found out what they were up to but a rookie BSAA agent had read my report apparently. She had infiltrated TriCell and found out everything they were up to. But a couple of months into it people became suspicious of her and she fled to fill out a report. She was in a hurry from the look of her writing." Chris pulled out her report and handed it to Claire who scanned it and passed it to Sheva. "She wrote in the report that TriCell unlike Umbrella didn't know how to control the T-virus. TriCell has somehow developed the T-virus to the point where it bonds with the carrier but after a certain amount of time they become zombies." he cleared his throat. "TriCell from what she writes has developed more experiments. They have the G-virus as well and have found a way to control the genetic growth of it." He pulled out a large paper and placed it on the whiteboard. "She was last seen here," he pointed to a red dot. "From the only eyewitness account someone had attacked her from behind and was carried off. The eyewitness was found dead the following morning."
"Don't mean to interrupt but do we even know if she's alive?" asked Billy.
"A couple of days ago BSAA got a report of someone who looks like her," Chris looked at Billy. "She's in South America and from the looks of it TriCell has covered all of its bases. Any proof of TriCell has been erased from there, but we believe that they don't want her back in the states they placed her in a little town in the middle of nowhere where she's being held hostage."
"So this is a rescue mission?" Leon leaned forward, arching his brow. "I don't see why we all need to be here."
"Neither did I until I got this," he handed Claire a folder that contained a photo.
"Sherry!" Claire held on to the picture.
"It turns out that TriCell has not only kidnapped an agent but the daughter of William Birkin, the creator of the G-virus." Chris made a face. "She was under U.S. government protection and they still got her. She's located in a different part of South America but close to where our agent is."
"BSAA agent Kathryn Moreno?" Leon read the name on the report. "Last I heard from her she thought she was being followed."
"So you know her?" asked Chris.
Leon paused before answering. If by 'know her' you mean that we went out and had wild and crazy sex then yes. "Yeah, I know her."
"BSAA wanted to sent people who are familiar with what Umbrella had let loose in Raccoon," he looked at Claire. "From the looks of it they felt we needed eight people to rescue two people."
"How bad is South America?" asked Jill.
"Imagine Raccoon, the Spencer Estate and Africa all into two small towns." Chris looked at her.
"Who goes with who?" asked Claire, already mentally picking Leon as her partner.
"I was thinking, at first, that I would assign everyone to someone but from the looks of it we know each other and have worked together before so get together with someone you've partnered up before." he looked at everyone. "Then I'll pair you off with another group and sent you too either where Sherry Birkin is or agent Moreno."
Everyone got to their feet and walked towards their partner and sat down. Chris looked at Rebecca who was partnered off with Billy, Claire was obviously going to partner off with Leon, Jill was with Carlos and Sheva was left for him.
Chris nodded. "Claire, Leon with Rebecca and Billy. The four of you will go get Moreno. Jill, Carlos with Sheva and I. We'll go get Birkin."
"Equipment?" asked Carlos.
"I'll be giving everyone a GPS tracking device and weapons," he eyed Jill. "Unless you haven't brought your own."
Jill smiled. "I can't help it if I always have to be prepared,"
"I got my own as well," Leon smiled.
"As do I," Sheva smiled.
"Then everyone else will get to choose their weapons before we leave," Chris walked towards the door. "We need to get to the airport now."
Leon got to his feet and everyone followed suite.
