**Preface**
25, August 2001
These past three years have been tough on me. Ever since what happened at the Spencer Estate and Raccoon City's destruction, I've lost sleep, my health has gotten worse, and most importantly my family has been taken from me. I've tried finding them all over the world, but Umbrella keeps moving them and hindering me from finding a moments peace. I guess it's fair in their eyes, I was apart of the task force that put a huge set back in their bio-weapons research, and I'm still trying to prove their involvement in the release of a deadly virus which was a catalyst in the destruction of Raccoon City, the town I was stationed in. But I don't, it'll be fair when Umbrella is brought down and I'm with my wife and my two little girls. It'll be fair when the families of those people who died because of Umbrella's "experiments" in their "test site" we called home are given retribution.
26, August 2001
At 1445 hrs. (2:45 p.m.) I received a call from a man named Trent, the same Trent that contacted Jill Valentine just before the Spencer Estate fiasco, he told me that my family was fine and they would continue to be fine as long as he had control over that situation. I wanted to ask more questions about how he knew what was going to happen at the mansion, and how he knew where to contact me but before I could even get the first word out he told me "Beware strangers with gifts." and that was it he hung up. Has he been reading on Helen of Troy or what?
27, August 2001
I'm meeting up with Chris Redfield and his team at an undisclosed location tonight, the team is compiled of a rookie cop from NY; Leon Kennedy, and Chris' sister Claire. I'm glad Chris found her, I know what it's like to have your family taken from you. I'm meeting up with Jill's team at the same time, I haven't seen her since I picked her up from Raccoon when that nuke hit it and wiped the place out, I'm looking forward to talking to that former U.B.C.S guy that Jill met while escaping Raccoon City. I want to see what he still knows about Umbrella, what was his name...Carlos I think.
28, August 2001 0800 hrs. (8:00 a.m.)
The meeting was great, it was good to see Chris and Jill again, I wish that it could have been under different circumstances, but what are you going to do when a global conglomerate is developing biological weapons that can turn a person into a "zombie" and your team is sent in to investigate what seemed to be cult activities but turns out that it was all one big government conspiracy? "You do what you have to do, and you do a good job at it" that's what my dad told me when I was younger. Jill and Carlos had another person with them, there was something about that guy I didn't like nor could I trust. When I first saw him he had a box in his hand, when we exchanged formalities he handed it to me, I then thought of what Trent had told me the day before "Beware of strangers with gifts" (how'd he know). In the box was a Desert Eagle .50mm Magnum with nine clips of ammo filled and one already in the gun, much like the gun Leon had on him. Great gun, it's not the standard magnum design looks more like the .9mm Beretta the S.T.A.R.S use only bigger and more of a chrome finish, plus it holds more ammo, eight rounds plus the one in the chamber and loads with a clip, where as the standard magnum holds six round and is a revolver which is bad for immediate reloading situations (like a zombie attack). Whoever this guy is he knows his guns and he knows people, that gun didn't come cheap plus it had to be imported from the mid-east they don't make 'em here. I think I'm getting old because I can't remember his name, I think he said it was Hunk. Yeah that's got to be it, he told me his navy S.E.A.L.S buddies named him that because the women always came to him on shore leave, you can't forget a weird name like that.
28, August 2001 1300 hrs. (1:00 p.m.)
Chris has informed me in on all details of Umbrella's Antarctic base and on the uncharted island in the South Pacific. He told me that Captain Wesker is still alive and working for a new bio-weapon research company, he also informed me that the "good" captain had "changed" so to speak, apparently Al injected himself with a viral agent that gave death like symptoms when infected, when the infected person wakes up they have "super-human" abilities, there is nothing human about Wesker, there never was and there never will be. After holding my family hostage and forcing me to betray my teammates, I should have made sure he didn't come out of that house, maybe that's why I'm losing so much sleep at night, God was telling me that it's not time to rest yet, that I still have to make sure Wesker can't hurt anyone else. On another note I've received yet another call this and time it was from the only surviving member of the Bravo team, Rebecca Chambers. Poor kid just eight-teen and she had to go through what we all did in that house, well she twenty-one now and she still carries the scars (mentally) she's matured so fast, most kids her age are in college but she's stuck in a lab coming up with all kinds of viruses to counter the effects of the Umbrella bio-weapons because she some sort of child genius. She informed me that the main S.T.A.R.S office would send in reinforcements if needed but nothing over what is needed and that they cannot be linked to the assault in any way that could openly hurt relations with Umbrella. In other words the S.T.A.R.S main office is going to stab Umbrella in the back but won't support us if Umbrella catches us in the act. So now we can't use any S.T.A.R.S issued weapons or uniforms, we have to back ourselves with the weapons but they'll supply the people. That's just like them, what good are people if you don't have any weapons to give them? Oh well I guess it's still a blessing. I think I can give them some stuff but not enough, I'll find something I always do.
28, August 2001 2045 hrs. (8:45 p.m.)
It's been a long day, it's been bad for my health and I'm starting to see cracks in the team starting to form. I haven't told anyone about what's going on with me, I can't either. I don't want them to think that I'm weak. I'm too proud, Kathy was always humble. I miss her. I need her strength, her guidance, and her love. She has so much faith too, I guess I can say that's what I love about her, no matter what she always kept faith, rather it be in God or in the fact that I'll come home from a mission safe she always had that kind of strength, something I think I need to work on.
29, August 0200 hrs. (2:00 a.m.)
I've been up for the past hour and a half, I can't get back to sleep. I'm starting to have dreams again, this time Wesker has a gun to Kathy's head and a guy in Umbrella biohazard fatigues and what looks like a gas mask is holding my children at gun point. Wesker is telling me to release the Tyrant on my S.T.A.R.S. teammates or he'll kill my family starting with my daughter Moira, I release it and it kills the other S.T.A.R.S., it then turns to Wesker and skewers him, he just laughs and quickly disposes of it, then I hear gun shots and I fall and see a hole above my heart, then three more shots heard and I woke up. I'm starting to have chest pains I think I'm going to get Jill or Chris to take me to the hospital. This is going to be my last entry for a while I think. I pray Umbrella doesn't have contacts there.
2, September 2001 1100 hrs. (11:00 a.m.)
I was just told by the doctor that if I had been ten minutes later I'd have to have open heart surgery or I'd be dead, thank God I didn't. While I was in the hospital I received a visit from a man, it was Trent. The meeting wasn't a good one, he and I talked for an hour about the Spencer Estate, Raccoon City, even about how my team is starting to crumble. He told me there was a traitor amongst them, about how they all trust him, but Hunk isn't trusted by any one but Carlos and Jill. That's where the fault line is but who is causing it to shift, he said earlier that I should "Beware strangers with gifts" but why, is it because Hunk is from Umbrella, is it because Hunk is the traitor or is it because he could cause problems? That's got to be it, he's only causing problems because they don't trust him enough, this doesn't mean I will though. There is still some speculation about him. Other things we talked about was his backing us in fighting Umbrella, I can but I can't believe that he is a high ranking official in Umbrella, I wonder why he wants them taken down. He has offered to back us with all the weapons we need and other resources. And then he left, but before he did he told me not to tell anyone of this visit.
9, September 2001 2100 hrs (9:00 p.m.)
I just came back from the hospital, they wanted to keep me an extra week for observation. Hell if I had to go and stay over night for every problem I've had in the past three years I wouldn't be out until next May. Leon Kennedy, the rookie from Chris' team, told me about a raid that had happened during the time that I was gone it involved Bio-port, a new company up for the "FREAKS-R-US" title, and Umbrella, Bio-port lead the attack on Umbrella with very heavy casualties on umbrella's side. It seem that this new company has successfully infused animal DNA and human DNA, Becca tells me it's called gene-splicing, I just try to stay out of that stuff......unless I have to shoot it. What disturbs me the most isn't that there is a new company to fight against, that just plain scares the hell out of me, but it's that Wesker was in charge of the attack, or a man fitting his description was. The S.T.A.R.S. team that went in to investigate told us that there was nothing left, at first I thought they meant that there was nothing left alive, I guess I was wrong they cleared it out, it was spotless according to the report. I'm afraid that something bad is going to happen to us soon, we need to move out fast.
A young man in army fatigues drops the paper down into the trash can it was balled up in "Sir" the man said "it seems they've left." the man he was talking to started turning red in his face "Can't you see I know that you idiot, that's why we're here in the first place, to find out where they went!", the younger man was astonished to see that his c/o was so angry, "How was I supposed to know that's why we're here, I'm just a grunt." he thought. "Look boy I ain't like Albert Wesker, I don't have fools under my command , are you a fool boy?" the man asked "no sir." the younger man replied "Good now that is over with I want you to go and find something else that could lead us to Burton and his team, and since you ain't on the official company payroll I'll make sure you don't get a chance to be on it if you don't find anything, you got that!" the man barked "Yes sir." the young solder said with a quiver in his voice. "Barry, Barry, Barry you old fool, soon I'll have my revenge for what you did to me, and don't think Redfield and Valentine won't get theirs, oh they will Barry and so will my dear little brother, all the S.T.A.R.S. will pay, ALL OF THEM!" the c/o was cut off by another solder "Captain we've found something." he walked over to see what was discovered "Excellent work boys, simply excellent you found something more useful than the obvious." the Captain said. The young man had felt the beam of pride cut off with the sudden yelling that ensued "BURTON!! who does he think he is leaving this behind, if he was anything like me, that's just it he not like me he's trying so hard to be me he's being stupid, he thinks that by leaving this it'll discourage me from hunting him down he's so wrong!" with that he stormed off. "What'd ya think made him so pissed, it's just a picture." the young man that discovered it said "It's a picture of him, Burton, and the other man is Captain Albert Wesker of S.T.A.R.S and a traitor to Umbrella." a man from the shadows said "How do you know that?" the young officer asked "Because, I took it ten years ago." the man said "Plus" he added "I'm a former S.T.A.R.S member like them."
25, August 2001
These past three years have been tough on me. Ever since what happened at the Spencer Estate and Raccoon City's destruction, I've lost sleep, my health has gotten worse, and most importantly my family has been taken from me. I've tried finding them all over the world, but Umbrella keeps moving them and hindering me from finding a moments peace. I guess it's fair in their eyes, I was apart of the task force that put a huge set back in their bio-weapons research, and I'm still trying to prove their involvement in the release of a deadly virus which was a catalyst in the destruction of Raccoon City, the town I was stationed in. But I don't, it'll be fair when Umbrella is brought down and I'm with my wife and my two little girls. It'll be fair when the families of those people who died because of Umbrella's "experiments" in their "test site" we called home are given retribution.
26, August 2001
At 1445 hrs. (2:45 p.m.) I received a call from a man named Trent, the same Trent that contacted Jill Valentine just before the Spencer Estate fiasco, he told me that my family was fine and they would continue to be fine as long as he had control over that situation. I wanted to ask more questions about how he knew what was going to happen at the mansion, and how he knew where to contact me but before I could even get the first word out he told me "Beware strangers with gifts." and that was it he hung up. Has he been reading on Helen of Troy or what?
27, August 2001
I'm meeting up with Chris Redfield and his team at an undisclosed location tonight, the team is compiled of a rookie cop from NY; Leon Kennedy, and Chris' sister Claire. I'm glad Chris found her, I know what it's like to have your family taken from you. I'm meeting up with Jill's team at the same time, I haven't seen her since I picked her up from Raccoon when that nuke hit it and wiped the place out, I'm looking forward to talking to that former U.B.C.S guy that Jill met while escaping Raccoon City. I want to see what he still knows about Umbrella, what was his name...Carlos I think.
28, August 2001 0800 hrs. (8:00 a.m.)
The meeting was great, it was good to see Chris and Jill again, I wish that it could have been under different circumstances, but what are you going to do when a global conglomerate is developing biological weapons that can turn a person into a "zombie" and your team is sent in to investigate what seemed to be cult activities but turns out that it was all one big government conspiracy? "You do what you have to do, and you do a good job at it" that's what my dad told me when I was younger. Jill and Carlos had another person with them, there was something about that guy I didn't like nor could I trust. When I first saw him he had a box in his hand, when we exchanged formalities he handed it to me, I then thought of what Trent had told me the day before "Beware of strangers with gifts" (how'd he know). In the box was a Desert Eagle .50mm Magnum with nine clips of ammo filled and one already in the gun, much like the gun Leon had on him. Great gun, it's not the standard magnum design looks more like the .9mm Beretta the S.T.A.R.S use only bigger and more of a chrome finish, plus it holds more ammo, eight rounds plus the one in the chamber and loads with a clip, where as the standard magnum holds six round and is a revolver which is bad for immediate reloading situations (like a zombie attack). Whoever this guy is he knows his guns and he knows people, that gun didn't come cheap plus it had to be imported from the mid-east they don't make 'em here. I think I'm getting old because I can't remember his name, I think he said it was Hunk. Yeah that's got to be it, he told me his navy S.E.A.L.S buddies named him that because the women always came to him on shore leave, you can't forget a weird name like that.
28, August 2001 1300 hrs. (1:00 p.m.)
Chris has informed me in on all details of Umbrella's Antarctic base and on the uncharted island in the South Pacific. He told me that Captain Wesker is still alive and working for a new bio-weapon research company, he also informed me that the "good" captain had "changed" so to speak, apparently Al injected himself with a viral agent that gave death like symptoms when infected, when the infected person wakes up they have "super-human" abilities, there is nothing human about Wesker, there never was and there never will be. After holding my family hostage and forcing me to betray my teammates, I should have made sure he didn't come out of that house, maybe that's why I'm losing so much sleep at night, God was telling me that it's not time to rest yet, that I still have to make sure Wesker can't hurt anyone else. On another note I've received yet another call this and time it was from the only surviving member of the Bravo team, Rebecca Chambers. Poor kid just eight-teen and she had to go through what we all did in that house, well she twenty-one now and she still carries the scars (mentally) she's matured so fast, most kids her age are in college but she's stuck in a lab coming up with all kinds of viruses to counter the effects of the Umbrella bio-weapons because she some sort of child genius. She informed me that the main S.T.A.R.S office would send in reinforcements if needed but nothing over what is needed and that they cannot be linked to the assault in any way that could openly hurt relations with Umbrella. In other words the S.T.A.R.S main office is going to stab Umbrella in the back but won't support us if Umbrella catches us in the act. So now we can't use any S.T.A.R.S issued weapons or uniforms, we have to back ourselves with the weapons but they'll supply the people. That's just like them, what good are people if you don't have any weapons to give them? Oh well I guess it's still a blessing. I think I can give them some stuff but not enough, I'll find something I always do.
28, August 2001 2045 hrs. (8:45 p.m.)
It's been a long day, it's been bad for my health and I'm starting to see cracks in the team starting to form. I haven't told anyone about what's going on with me, I can't either. I don't want them to think that I'm weak. I'm too proud, Kathy was always humble. I miss her. I need her strength, her guidance, and her love. She has so much faith too, I guess I can say that's what I love about her, no matter what she always kept faith, rather it be in God or in the fact that I'll come home from a mission safe she always had that kind of strength, something I think I need to work on.
29, August 0200 hrs. (2:00 a.m.)
I've been up for the past hour and a half, I can't get back to sleep. I'm starting to have dreams again, this time Wesker has a gun to Kathy's head and a guy in Umbrella biohazard fatigues and what looks like a gas mask is holding my children at gun point. Wesker is telling me to release the Tyrant on my S.T.A.R.S. teammates or he'll kill my family starting with my daughter Moira, I release it and it kills the other S.T.A.R.S., it then turns to Wesker and skewers him, he just laughs and quickly disposes of it, then I hear gun shots and I fall and see a hole above my heart, then three more shots heard and I woke up. I'm starting to have chest pains I think I'm going to get Jill or Chris to take me to the hospital. This is going to be my last entry for a while I think. I pray Umbrella doesn't have contacts there.
2, September 2001 1100 hrs. (11:00 a.m.)
I was just told by the doctor that if I had been ten minutes later I'd have to have open heart surgery or I'd be dead, thank God I didn't. While I was in the hospital I received a visit from a man, it was Trent. The meeting wasn't a good one, he and I talked for an hour about the Spencer Estate, Raccoon City, even about how my team is starting to crumble. He told me there was a traitor amongst them, about how they all trust him, but Hunk isn't trusted by any one but Carlos and Jill. That's where the fault line is but who is causing it to shift, he said earlier that I should "Beware strangers with gifts" but why, is it because Hunk is from Umbrella, is it because Hunk is the traitor or is it because he could cause problems? That's got to be it, he's only causing problems because they don't trust him enough, this doesn't mean I will though. There is still some speculation about him. Other things we talked about was his backing us in fighting Umbrella, I can but I can't believe that he is a high ranking official in Umbrella, I wonder why he wants them taken down. He has offered to back us with all the weapons we need and other resources. And then he left, but before he did he told me not to tell anyone of this visit.
9, September 2001 2100 hrs (9:00 p.m.)
I just came back from the hospital, they wanted to keep me an extra week for observation. Hell if I had to go and stay over night for every problem I've had in the past three years I wouldn't be out until next May. Leon Kennedy, the rookie from Chris' team, told me about a raid that had happened during the time that I was gone it involved Bio-port, a new company up for the "FREAKS-R-US" title, and Umbrella, Bio-port lead the attack on Umbrella with very heavy casualties on umbrella's side. It seem that this new company has successfully infused animal DNA and human DNA, Becca tells me it's called gene-splicing, I just try to stay out of that stuff......unless I have to shoot it. What disturbs me the most isn't that there is a new company to fight against, that just plain scares the hell out of me, but it's that Wesker was in charge of the attack, or a man fitting his description was. The S.T.A.R.S. team that went in to investigate told us that there was nothing left, at first I thought they meant that there was nothing left alive, I guess I was wrong they cleared it out, it was spotless according to the report. I'm afraid that something bad is going to happen to us soon, we need to move out fast.
A young man in army fatigues drops the paper down into the trash can it was balled up in "Sir" the man said "it seems they've left." the man he was talking to started turning red in his face "Can't you see I know that you idiot, that's why we're here in the first place, to find out where they went!", the younger man was astonished to see that his c/o was so angry, "How was I supposed to know that's why we're here, I'm just a grunt." he thought. "Look boy I ain't like Albert Wesker, I don't have fools under my command , are you a fool boy?" the man asked "no sir." the younger man replied "Good now that is over with I want you to go and find something else that could lead us to Burton and his team, and since you ain't on the official company payroll I'll make sure you don't get a chance to be on it if you don't find anything, you got that!" the man barked "Yes sir." the young solder said with a quiver in his voice. "Barry, Barry, Barry you old fool, soon I'll have my revenge for what you did to me, and don't think Redfield and Valentine won't get theirs, oh they will Barry and so will my dear little brother, all the S.T.A.R.S. will pay, ALL OF THEM!" the c/o was cut off by another solder "Captain we've found something." he walked over to see what was discovered "Excellent work boys, simply excellent you found something more useful than the obvious." the Captain said. The young man had felt the beam of pride cut off with the sudden yelling that ensued "BURTON!! who does he think he is leaving this behind, if he was anything like me, that's just it he not like me he's trying so hard to be me he's being stupid, he thinks that by leaving this it'll discourage me from hunting him down he's so wrong!" with that he stormed off. "What'd ya think made him so pissed, it's just a picture." the young man that discovered it said "It's a picture of him, Burton, and the other man is Captain Albert Wesker of S.T.A.R.S and a traitor to Umbrella." a man from the shadows said "How do you know that?" the young officer asked "Because, I took it ten years ago." the man said "Plus" he added "I'm a former S.T.A.R.S member like them."