Author's Disclaimer: All referenced characters, monsters, and locations are copyrighted properties of both Capcom and Konami and this is a respectfully passionate fan work of both their franchises. WARNING: This game story contains scenes of explicit violence, gore and disturbing verbal imagery which may be considered cruel. Parental discretion is advised.
~Introduction to the Worlds of Survival Horror~
In the year 1998, a bizarre incident occurred in the outskirts of a Midwestern suburb called Raccoon City. Outlandish murder cases were reported of families being attacked and eaten by a virtual army of unidentified assassins. The Raccoon City Police Department dispatched the Special Forces unit called S.T.A.R.S. into the heart of the Arklay Mountains where they felt was the hive of the activity. What they found were scenes of ghoulish slaughter in which they could never have expected from any madness of a motion picture. After 3 days of being lost without radio contact, only 5 of the 12 surviving members of the S.T.A.R.S. teams sent in to investigate report engaging in combat with a legion of mutated monsters as well as the undead residents of both the Umbrella Management Training Facility and the Arklay Research Facility. It is also reported by the survivors that the Umbrella Corporation was behind the outbreak, the T-Virus, that claimed so many of their comrades lives. Their claims went unbelieved and eventually ignored, due to the influence the Umbrella Corporation already had over the RPD.
After 2 months had passed since the Arklay Mountains incident, another outbreak, the G-Virus, resulted in monsters taking over what remained of Raccoon City. For over a week, the undead walked the streets. The world for the first time finally bared witness to what they felt religious groups had called, the Apocalypse. On September 30th, the President of the United States of America held a press conference for the media to declare Raccoon City a "lost cause" and that after much heated discussion among himself and members of Congress, it was finally decided that the city must be sterilized for fear of the viral threat escaping. On the dawn of October 1st, "Mission Code: XX" was ordered and a nuclear cruise missile was launched at the city of the dead. Nothing in the city survived. Nothing in it remained.
After the destruction of Raccoon City, the President resigned due to public backlash over the contingency decision. Umbrella, however, continued their biological experiments despite heavy investigation from the newly informed media. When the ruins of the city were gated away from the world to see, Umbrella built one more research and testing facility on those hollowed grounds. The U.S. Government would perform random inspections of the facilities to ensure their activities were solely just for experimental tests for small traces of active T-Virus within the area.
Finally in 2003, the U.S. Government issued an indefinite suspension of business decree to the Umbrella Corporation. Once stock prices crashed, the Umbrella Corporation finally collapsed. The U.S. Government then took over the Ground Zero facility and focused on the activities within the compound Umbrella once did. The area was deemed highly classified, and military guard watched for any trespassers or future biohazard threats.
On October 1st, 2010, the U.S. Government had lost contact with the Ground Zero facility and sent agents to investigate into it. What they found was what appeared to be an infinitely deep massive crater where the ruins and the facility once were. This phenomenon was unexplainable as there were no reports from neighboring townships of any sounds of explosion or any biohazardous readings being detected by radiation equipment. The investigation was never resolved as there were no leads to what happened to the facility grounds and all of its staff. That was until October 1st, 2011... 36 hours ago.
Highway troopers from a neighboring police precinct reported their involvement in a high speed back-road chase involving four teenagers driving a 1979 Dodge Ram van in the woods of the Arklay Mountains. After several minutes of losing track on the assailants, they finally found the van abandoned by a trail that was known to lead to where the test facility used to be. Police radioed in for backup and searched for the suspects. The officers claimed to have heard what sounded like an Emergency Alert System wailing in the air. After following the source of the sound, the police found the four teenagers on the edge of where the facility grounds once were. The officers, who were questioned and cross-examined for 10 hours after they submitted their paperwork on the incident, swear that upon finding the four teenagers, they also found that the source of the sirens came from what looked like an untouched Raccoon City shrouded in thick fog. They told our agents, "…It looked almost as if it never went away."
Author's Note: As you've read and noticed, I thought the best way to start off a fanfic involving Resident Evil was to begin the first prologue chapter with the classic "Umbrella Corp Recap" introduction that is used in almost all the RE games while weaving into it the plot of this "new nightmare." Stay tuned to find out who was on the receiving end of this "Top Secret" briefing…