Resident Evil: No loose ends

Prologue

Brandon couldn't believe it. His life had gone from good to bad…all within 5 months of meeting Birkin and that mysterious man in shades. He had worked under Birkins supervision up at the Arklay labs…then, after the sudden disappearance of co-founder of Umbrella, Professor James Marcus, everything changed. Many of the younger members from his team joined Birkin down at the new labs.

It was at these labs that he had personally studied the new G-virus, and had helped Birkin himself in the "Nemesis" project. Soon after this transfer, around May of '98, they had lost contact with the Arklay labs and the training facility…only to find out that the idiots had been contaminated. Birkin just shrugged it off; he said he was glad that he hadn't been working with such "aged fools".

That was when Umbrella planned "V-day." The S.T.A.R.S of Raccoon city, now led by Birkin's ex-partner, that man in shades, would be sent in to fight the B.O.W's, giving them much needed tactical data.

It was with this that many of the S.T.A.R.S members were slaughtered. The man in shades was killed…Birkin came back the day after the Arklay event, he was happier than usual…he wouldn't say anything, except that it had worked. He was asking for a few volunteers, he was going to do some research of his own…

This was when Umbrella sent down some men…they forced him and his colleagues into a helicopter, and that was the last thing he could re-call.

Brandon had been lying on the floor for about 10 minutes, thinking. And that was it; he was lying on the floor of a windowless room. There was smashed glass all over the floor, and cryo-stasis fluid everywhere, including all over him. He stood up, and immediately lost his balance; he fell forwards and steadied himself on the wall. He looked up and saw the familiar symbol of Umbrella, along with a series of Biohazard warning signs, and a small indication of where he was. Apparently he was on basement level 5.

When Brandon turned to look behind him he couldn't believe his eyes. There were two other stasis tubes, both shattered, the same as his.

Maybe he's only been here for a few hours?

"I don't look any different…" He coughed; he obviously hadn't used his voice in a long time…so he's been here for more than a week.

Brandon searched the room he was in. He found several documents, it seemed that all of his team mates had been tested with the G-virus…only three had survived the initial testing, himself and two others, there were no names attached to the data…just numbers. Brandon sat down and read the various files scattered across the desk.

File#: 01

Project: G-type

Codename: Genesis

Project supervisor: Birkin, William

Project team: Annette Birkin, David Hadley, Derek Indoe, Karen Boucher

Date: July 26th 1998

Recommendation: Due to his recent breakthrough with the prototype "G-virus", project supervisor Birkin has put forward the proposal to start testing the virus on human beings. He already has several candidates for this project.

Birkin requests authorization to start the testing immediately.

Signed,

William Birkin

File#: 02, In reply to File# 01

Date: July 31st 1998

Request verified. Testing is to begin immediately.

Signed,

Trent

"So…I've been in here for what? Three weeks? Maybe more…" Brandon mumbled to himself as he searched the rest of the desk for any more information, an indication of how long he'd been here…and how the test was going. He found one more document…he read it slowly, over and over again, not believing what he was reading.

File#: 03

Date: August 4th 1998

Subject#: CA336458

Gender: Female

Age: 27

Condition: First signs indicate that this subject will react well with the virus, hopefully growing to be the ultimate weapon.

Subject#: CA336459

Gender: Male

Age: 32

Condition: deceased. The body did not react well with the virus due to an unknown heart disease.

Subject#: CA336460

Gender: Male

Age: 25

Condition: As with Subject# CA336458 the virus has reacted well with his body, he has been moved with the other surviving test subjects to Level 5.

Subject#: CA336461

Gender: Male

Age: 28

Condition: His body reacted well with the virus; he is now on level 5.

Subject#: CA336462

Gender: Female

Age: 30

Condition: Deceased. It seems that anyone over the age of 30 has a low chance of reacting well with the virus.

File#: 03.5, memo attached to file# 03

Date: August 4th 1998

So far test results are good, I was hoping for better though. CA336460 is doing much better than the other 2 subjects…he is the most promising of them all, I shall study him closely. Muscles on all three have increased to non-human capabilities; intelligence has increased so much so that they are using a higher percentage of the brain than a human being. I have this un-nerving feeling that all three subjects are aware of my presence at this moment. But I know they appreciate what I am doing for them.