Well this is an unexpected continuation for me. I had intended for this to be a single chapter story but due to a showing of interest by those of you asking for me to continue this path, I'll reopen this archive. I hope that the following chapters entertain you and I look forward to hearing from you on how you think the fall of Umbrella should go. After all, Until October what really happened to Umbrella is still a secret. Thanks for your encouragement to dive back in to the world of survival horror's unseen side.
Chapter 2-In the wake of Veronica
For what it was worth, the mission was a success. That's what Wesker kept telling himself. The burns to his face would heal in a few days thanks to his evolutionary enhancement, but Claire was shattered, and Chris was severely compromised. Claire was all he had left, and Wesker almost cost her her life, and he wasn't about to let Wesker forget it. They met at the rendezvous coordinates as planned. Wesker climbed out of the Black Hawk to check on his friends as Chris landed the Harrier near them. He knew he should have suspected that one coming as he lay on his back on the tarmac of the Organization run airport.
"That was too damn close Wesker!" Chris yelled out rubbing his knuckles. He greeted Wesker the only way he felt he could after listening to his sister's tale on the way back from escaping the frozen Antarctic after killing Alexia Ashford. He listened to her talk of her treatment at the hands of the Umbrella forces on her way to Rockfort and how if it weren't for Rodrigo Raval she feared she might have been beaten or even raped by some of the guards. "You worked for them! You knew getting her captured might lead to her being tortured or worse and yet you still asked her to do it! You had better tell me you got something good on those bastards for Leon to use or I swear I'll send you to the worst level of Hell for putting my sister through that!" By this point four Special Ops. Soldiers had their guns trained on Chris and Claire was climbing out of the jet to try to reason with her brother. Alice ran in front to the soldiers and ordered them to lower their weapons as Wesker rubbed his jaw sitting up.
"Mission successful Redfields." Wesker smirked; he knew Chris would have tried to kill him if he really blamed him for the situation. Chris was a smart man and just needed to vent, Claire was the only nerve Wesker knew of that anyone could pinch on Chris. "Yes I did, and Claire agreed even after all that she has seen of Umbrella."
Claire stood in between the two, facing her brother. "He's right Chris; I knew what I was getting into. I just underestimated how scary it would be." Claire was holding her brother's arms hoping that his usual sense of reason would come back to him.
"That was my favorite pair of glasses you smashed back there." Wesker remarked as he stood and brushed himself off and pulled a new pair from one of his vest pockets covering his bright red and yellow eyes.
Claire had never heard Wesker joke before; she wondered if the man ever had a sense of humor. The smile across Chris's face let her know he saw that Wesker was only trying to cheer him up and that he was back to his old self.
"And yes, we did recover some remarkable evidence for Leon. Ada is taking it to him as we speak." Wesker turned away from the siblings staring at the full moon overhead. "Spencer will think you and Claire have taken it to him. I assume he is probably getting his wake up call right about now to inform him he may want to come to HQ to be informed of my return to life and Alford and Alexia's death and failure to silence you."
"What happens now, Wesker?" Claire turned looking at the shadow in front of them.
"We will see what Spencer's move is. Then we will look for a weakness to get through to him with. If he splits his teams up to come after both of us at the same time we can divide them. If he decides to ignore you for the moment and come after me then you will simply take what's left of Stars and some of my special forces and take him down while I lead them away from protecting him. Regardless, for us to bring him to justice he cannot learn of our alliance." Wesker walked over to the Black Hawk, retrieved a manila packet and returned to the Redfields. "This is the last time we will be seeing each other for a while. These are copies of all the files and information on everything we recovered from the two sites." Wesker handed to the packet to Claire while never taking his gaze from Chris. "I leave it to you to formulate what you want to do with the others. There is a ghost e-mail address you can leave your decision to and it will get back to me so when you feel like you are prepared to move, we can take down Spencer and finish this. Leon will be able to give you any new leads from our end. I leave you in charge of Stars from now on Chris." Wesker extended his hand to shake with Chris one last time before they would be fighting this war from different fronts. Chris took it and nodded his head understanding what was he was being charged with. Wesker turned and walked back to the chopper. Alice was waiting for him; she had the soldiers already in their seats and waiting for their orders. Wesker climbed in and took his place next to her.
As the chopper started to lift off, Wesker watch his two colleges on the ground get on the motorcycles he had left them and speed off. All the pieces where in place and soon the final round of this chess game would be played, all that was left were Spencer's next move. Wesker leaned his head back and closed his eyes. As the chopper chased the mourning sun, he stared at the horizon.
"Your move Old Man, check." He said as he pulled the zipper on the body bag to inspect the frozen body of Steve Burnside. With a little luck he hoped he may be able to get a sample of Alexia's T-Veronica strand. After all, being able to turn Spencer's guardian monsters against him aught to be a fair slice of justice. Hopefully Chris and the others wouldn't be ready to mobilize till he was done with his analysis.
