Prologue

WICKED Memorandum, Date 232 6.15 Time 09:06

TO: My associates

FROM: Chancellor Ava Paige

RE: Revival of the search for the cure

When the final Memorandum was sent out, we were in the beginning stages of the retrieval of subject A5. It is with great elation that our progress has been exceptional. Despite the bullet wound to the forehead he is recovering exponentially. The bullet wound cut straight through the middle without damaging his kill zone. The data gathered from this event from the control subject has been groundbreaking. We are ready to continue our search for the cure.

The cure using the blueprints of immune subjects was a failure and success, as previously stated. However, the new information we have obtained will allow us to restart our quest for the cure and enable us to save the rest of the world.

Subject A5 is kept in an induced coma during our testing so that the flare cannot develop any further. These tests have created extensive and new insight into the nature of The Flare.

Do not be discouraged by those who do not understand our methods; now more than ever we hold onto this one resounding truth. WICKED is good.

WICKED Memorandum, Date 235.9.12, Time 16:23

TO: My associates

FROM: Chancellor Ava Paige

RE: A Breakthrough

A new dawn is upon us. The progress with A5 has been extraordinary. I could not be happier with the results thus far. The fact that we had never thought to use the concoction used in the "Griever" stingers on non-immune subjects is unfortunate but we cannot dwell on our past mistakes!

The poison of the stinger was meant to affect the immune subjects because of the mutation of the flare virus we had created. When this poison is injected into a non-immune subject they go through a terrible and challenging ordeal. It appears to be horribly painful and traumatic. It is fairly similar to what Group A had called "The Changing". We found that they do not require the antidote in order to survive. Not only do they live but the flare virus ceases to progress any further.

They do not return to being how they were prior to being infected. Further testing must be made in order to revive a world near extinction. Only a small group of healthy people exist now, and we must work to preserve, protect, and restore the rest.