July 1998, Raccoon City

There are outlandish reports of families being attacked by a group of about 10 people. Victims were apparently eaten.

July 23, 1998, 10:00 P.M.

The Raccoon City's Police Department sends S.T.A.R.S. (Special Tactics and Rescue Service) Bravo Team to investigate in the manner, however, their helicopter experiences engine failure and they make a forced landing. The team ends up being ambushed by a pack of wild dogs and cannibalistic men. The only survivors of the incident are Rebecca Chambers and Enrico Marini.

July 24, 1998

S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team was sent in on a rescue mission to save their Bravo Team comrades. In an attack by the vicious dogs, Alpha Team's helicopter pilot, Brad Vickers had fled in an act of cowardice. The survivors: Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, Barry Burton and Albert Wesker were pushed back into a giant mansion which held many of the incident's secrets.

It was found out that a multinational pharmaceutical company Umbrella Inc. was responsible for the incident. The corporation had created an agent called the Tyrant Virus or T-Virus which they used to create Bio-Organic Weapons (B.O.W.) The virus would transform a human into a man eating zombie. It would also transform virtually any other species into a B.O.W. The S.T.A.R.S. had found their way into Umbrella's underground laboratory where Albert Wesker, the squad leader turned out to be an Umbrella employee and a traitor to the S.T.A.R.S. Wesker had blackmailed Barry Burton, telling him that unless he follows Wesker's every order, his family will be killed, "Don't blame Barry for everything, I hear that his better half and two lovely daughters will be in danger, if he doesn't do everything I tell him to." His plan of stealing the research had failed thanks to the efforts of Jill Valentine and Barry Burton, after finding out that Barry's family was in no danger. Chris Redfield had managed to rescue the Bravo Team member Rebecca Chambers. The four of them sent a signal to Brad Vickers and were about to escape when Umbrella's most dangerous experiment, the Tyrant attacked S.T.A.R.S. Chris Redfield managed to destroy the Tyrant with the help of a rocket launcher.

A journal was found speaking of another type of Virus called the G-Virus. At the time, details were unknown.

September 28, 1998

An accident occurred in an Umbrella laboratory and the T-Virus outbreak invades the city. Unlike Chris Redfield, Barry Burton and Rebecca chambers that had left the city, Jill Valentine stayed and was forced to survive the nightmare. Umbrella had dispatched a Tyrant-Parasite code named Nemesis was dispatched to dispose of any remaining S.T.A.R.S. members in Raccoon City. Brad Vickers suffers the wrath of Nemesis while Jill Valentine had managed to get away from the monster. She met up with a few members of U.B.C.S. (Umbrella's Biohazard Countermeasure Service) who claimed that they were sent in to rescue civilians. Among these members were Carlos Olivera, Nicholai Ginovayev and the wounded Mikhail Victor. Nicholai and Mikhail suffer death while Jill and Carlos manage to reach a designated spot where a helicopter is supposed to rescue them. Nemesis shoots down the helicopter with a Rocket Launcher and infects Jill with the T-Virus. Nemesis is fought off while Jill falls into a coma.

September 29, 1998

Claire Redfield came into Raccoon City looking for her brother Chris only to find the city infested with man eating Zombies everywhere. She finds a rookie police officer named Leon S. Kennedy and a young girl named Sherry Birkin. It is found out that Sherry Birkin was the daughter of Umbrella's leading researcher William Birkin, who was working on an experimental virus called the G-Virus which had effects even more powerful that those of the T-Virus. Umbrella had sent in a salvage team of soldiers to retrieve the G-Virus; however William Birkin would not give it up and gets near-fatally wounded. He injects the G-Virus into himself and extracts his revenge on the team of soldiers. However, his wrath does not stop there, since he loses all intelligence, he goes after his daughter. Umbrella also dispatched a Tyrant to retrieve the G-Virus and it also goes after Sherry Birkin who, unknowingly, possessed the virus in a locket she worn around her neck. Another agent is sent it to steal the G-Virus. Her name is Ada Wong and she was sent in by an unknown corporation. She falls in love with Leon S. Kennedy and dies at the hands of Annette Birkin, the wife of William Birkin. Annette dies from a sudden collapsing of pipes near a ceiling. Leon, Claire and Sherry escape Raccoon City by means of a train on the morning of September 30th. A surviving agent Hunk, of Umbrella's salvage team manages to survive and escapes the city with a sample of G-Virus in hand.

October 1, 1998

Carlos Olivera finds a vaccine to the T-Virus and Jill makes a full recovery. Nicholai Ginovayev turns out to be alive and had been sent in by Umbrella not to rescue civilians, but to gather combat data from the battles between his soldiers and the monsters that roamed Raccoon City. Carlos also finds out that at dawn Umbrella would launch a missile barrage which would destroy the city. Nicholai escapes the city with the only helicopter that Carlos and Jill had. They are saved by Barry Burton who flies in just in time to rescue the two. The helicopter flies off into the distance as Raccoon City is bombarded by missiles.

January, 1999

Claire Redfield, in search for her brother, gets captured by Umbrella and is sent to a prison on a remote island, Rockfort. The island is attacked by an unknown group and Claire is released only to find herself stuck on a zombie-infested piece of rock. She meets up with a teenage boy named Steve Burnside who was also a prisoner on the island, and sends an E-Mail to Leon telling him the information she had received concerning the whereabouts of her brother and the fact that he was being monitored by Umbrella. That E-Mail was also an S.O.S. message for Leon to inform Chris of Claire's whereabouts and rescue her. As she and Steve escape the traps of the island's owner, Alfred Ashford, and his sister Alexia, few things become clear. Alfred Ashford suffers from multiple personality and had actually cross-dressed as his, supposedly nonexistent, sister Alexia. It is also becomes evident that the S.T.A.R.S. traitor, Albert Wesker, mysteriously turns up alive and with incredible strength and speed. It was, in fact, Wesker and his soldiers who had attacked the island. The name of the company, that Wesker had sold himself to, was not specified, however, based on the initials H.C.F. it is presumable that Umbrella's rival company is in fact Health Care Foundation. Claire and Steve escape the island only to find their plane is being led to the Antarctic via autopilot. In an Antarctic Umbrella base, Claire and Steve separate and get captured by an unknown being.

Around that time, Chris Redfield arrives on Rockfort Island, which is now in ruins. Soon after his arrival, Chris also discovers that his former comrade Wesker is alive and somehow has achieved the strength and agility beyond that of a normal human. At that point, Chris also finds out that Claire was now in the Antarctic Umbrella base and flies off to rescue her. Upon his arrival to the Antarctic base, Chris finds Claire, but they get separated quickly by the creature that had captured Claire in the first place: Alexia Ashford. The sister of, at that point, deceased Alfred Ashford was real after all. She had been infected with a new type of virus called the T-Veronica Virus, which turned her into a creature more powerful than any Umbrella creation in the past. Claire soon finds Steve, imprisoned, but their reunion is interrupted as Steve transforms into a giant behemoth as a result of being infected with the T-Veronica Virus. Steve is unable to control himself and attacks Claire, nearly killing her. A giant tentacle crashed through the wall and constricts Claire in order to set her up for the kill. However, Steve fights his urge to kill her and lashes out against the tentacle resulting in his own demise. Chris finds the self destruct system of the base but after setting it off, he is attacked by Alexia, who is growing and mutating rapidly. After a vicious battle, Chris manages to destroy her using an experimental weapon. As Chris goes to reunite with Claire, he discovers her held captive by Wesker. Chris decides to fight Wesker, but his human strength is no match for Wesker, "Sure, I'm not human anymore! But just look at the power I've gained!" Chris manages to wound Wesker thanks to a few metal beams and an explosion, he then escapes the island with Claire, but Wesker said that they would meet again.

An organization had been set up to battle umbrella and to expose them for their illegal work, however no real evidence so far has survived. This organization consists of the former S.T.A.R.S. member that survived Raccoon city as well as Leon and many other survivors of Umbrella's evil.

May 23, 2003

The survivors of Raccoon City are still battling Umbrella. Barry Burton was sitting at his desk in a small apartment building. He, Jill and Leon had worked in that apartment temporarily, they would move from place to place to seek security from Umbrella. Jill and Leon were out on a mission to Europe at the moment and Barry was left all alone. Rather, with his best friend: The custom .44 Colt Python magnum revolver. Barry was looking through some paper work at 11:00 A.M. when the phone rang. The caller ID did not identify a name or number. Barry picked up, "Hello?"

"Barry?" The voice belonged to John Carlton, one of the people who were in the alliance against Umbrella. John was spying on Umbrella from one of their main buildings in Europe. The whole building was dedicated to White Umbrella. White Umbrella was the name of the branch of Umbrella which was in charge of their military, viral weaponry and genetic research.

"Steve! What is it? Any news?" Barry was anxious to hear from John, because calling an outside line from the White Umbrella building was extremely risky, whish meant that John must have had some news.

"I don't got a lot of time to talk, now, Barry. White this down," John was whispering apparently not wanting to be noticed. Barry picked up a pen and got writing.

"There is an underground Umbrella lab in the western forests of California, somewhere in Tahoe forest. Couple of days ago we lost contact with their lab," he said as Barry wrote everything down, "We suspect that T-Virus leaked. So far, the civilians don't suspect anything, but the risk of an outbreak is potentially high. You gonna check it out?"

"I don't know," said Barry, "I'm here alone, but I'll find a way to check it out soon enough, there should be plenty of evidence there to put Umbrella away for good."

"Right, think of something. Listen, don't expect to hear from me for a while, I', gonna keep on the low pro for a while."

"Alright, take care of yourself, Johnny."

"Thanks. Listen, say hi to..." Then the phone hung up.

"Hello? Hello! Johnny?" No answer.

Damn it Johnny, be careful! Barry thought to himself as he turned on the computer, went on a search engine and searched 'Tahoe Forest'.