Chapter 25: The End Of The Beginning

Everyone around the room stopped and stared at the man with the northern European accent, entering from the blown doorway which Chris had entered from.

His long hair was dark brown verging on black and stood proudly at around 6ft2 from what Jake could tell as he wasn't much taller than himself. His eyes were a piercing green, and skin a milky white tinted with a little brown from sun exposure.

The man's clothing was similar to Wesker's Chris thought, having been in all black, but he was a lot more gothic.

Alex's trousers were tight fitting leather, showing off his well toned legs that were tucked into large military boots that ended at his knees, with many buckles.

On his upper half he wore a very dark plum coloured shirt that was open two or three buttons down; showing off his hairless muscled chest, and his coat was a velvet trench in military style.

He was quite handsome; a pretty boy, considering who and what he was.

Immediately Jake grabbed his gun and raised it, smirking.

"Who are you? Dracula?"

Ada smiled and shook her head.

"He is your-" Ada started to be silenced with a raised hand by this new character.

"Uncle, of sorts."

"My... Uncle?" Jake scoffed, looking briefly to Sherry who was as lost as everyone else.

The gothic man looked to Chris and smiled, his teeth were perfectly straight and white, he blinked softly and flicked a stray strand of dark hair from his face before speaking.

"I am Alex Wesker." He waited as sharp intakes of breaths echoed around the room, "I was Albert's surrogate brother... You know of me, do you not Chris? Jill?"

The two were stunned, they had heard of one other remaining Wesker child, but he had stayed hidden for so long they believed him dead.

"Surrogate... brother?" Jake asked sarcastically, though he was curious.

"Your Father and I were part of Umbrella's Project W. Oswell Spencer wanted to create-"
"Yeah, yeah superior race and all that shit. I've heard of it." Jake interrupted, causing Alex to smile.

"Miss Wong was correct, you do have a very feisty personality. You are..." He sighed lightly and shoved his hands into his coat pockets, "Defiantly Albert's son."

"Well no shit!" Jake replied tightening his grip around the gun he held.

"Alex... What are you doing here?" Ada spoke up from beside Leon.

The Wesker child laughed in his Scandinavian accent and looked pitifully at her.

"With Kennedy running around, I knew you wouldn't be able to finish the job... So here I am! Doing it myself, like you suggested." He glowered, eyes turning a menacing red before flashing back to green. "I knew you would fail, pitiful creature! Romancing with him! When there are more important things to be doing." He spat looking darkly at Leon.

"I wasn't going to fail you." Ada sighed in her usual monotone voice, "You were the one who ordered me to watch over Jake and Sherry."

"That was part of your job Wong... not him." Alex laughed.

"The two were fine, if you hadn't ordered me to protect them your job would have been done a lot quicker."

"You know why I need them alive." Alex whispered as he took long strides over to her. "Besides! They were not fine, as you were cavorting around with Kennedy, Miss Birkin was hurt." He got closer to Ada, to the point they were almost nose to nose. "You didn't complete your mission in any way, shape, or form. You know the consequences Ada."

For the first time in Leon's life and knowing Ada he had never seen her looked scared before, but as soon as it came it was gone and a childish smile emerged.

"I do Alex, only too well." She smiled letting it fade into a dark scowl, "But I did my job. If you'd let me carry on, I would have gotten what you wanted. Haven't I always?"

Alex smiled and laughed full throated before looking to Sherry and smiling again.

"I know you Ada, I trained you. Your love for Leon will always hold you back when he is near. You almost died in China by Simmons, because of him."

Ada looked away from everyone and down to the floor, as much as she hated it, it was the truth.

"Look asshole, I've had enough of your-"

"Mmm..." Alex smiled to Sherry, "You smell like cherries. I can see why he likes you." A dark grin passed his face as he waltz passed Ada on route to Piers. "You gave us all a very good show earlier."

Leon snarled having caught Jake and Sherry's performance too, and stepped backwards away from the man.

Sherry gulped and turned a bright shade of red, whoever this man was she didn't like him.

"Hey!" Chris started as the man put a hand on Piers' forehead, "Get away from him!"

"Not to worry dear Chris, I won't harm him."

"Yet." Ada commented with an amused smile.

"That's it!" Jill reared holding a gun up, aiming at the man's head. "Step away now, or I swear I will blow your god damn brains out!"

Alex sighed and shook his head, and in a flash he was standing in front of Jill, and placed one hand around the long barrel of her rifle, his eyes glowed bright green and bent the barrel upwards to the ceiling.

Jill gasped in shock at the sudden sight of him before her, then at her twisted rifle, which was now useless.

"He moved just like... like Albert." Jill commented, stunned.

Alex smirked and looked towards the floor, again diving his hands into his pockets, looking like a naughty school boy.

"I have Ada to thank for that."

"Ada?" Leon asked quietly, feeling somewhat betrayed, hoping it wasn't true.

"Yes, she has been nothing short of marvellous over the years. All the virus' produced by Umbrella and all the other subordinate companies, she has obtained for me to continue my ground breaking research." Alex smiled proudly, "My Organization has stolen every one of Albert's research, and improved it tenfold."

"Organization?" Leon asked, he knew he'd heard of that somewhere before.

"I feel I have said too much." Alex pondered aloud before his eyes turned red and looked to Ada. "Nevertheless, this conversation is beginning to bore me. I need the new C, that is why I'm here."

Jake growled deeply, his Uncle was there to steal Piers; the new strain of C.

"Well you aren't getting it." Jake smiled and took steps to cover Piers. Out the corner of his eye he saw Chris frown not understanding what the underlying problems were. "Explain Sherry."

"Piers has the new C, Chris... This man wants to take Piers." She told like Jake had said.

"Hmph, thank you for ruining the mystery Miss Birkin." Alex huffed shaking his head, "The man before you does contain the new strain of C, if I am not mistaken Chris he injected himself to save you, and now he is out of the controlled environment Taaj created he will die." He smiled coyly.

"And let me guess," Jake started. "You have an environment just like it in your lab, to save him, right?"

Alex smiled and nodded.

"You have seen right through me Jake. Yes I do have a very similar confinement for Mr. Nivans, otherwise he will die and the virus in its beginning form along with him. Once he mutates completely he will be useless... Unfortunately, I cannot have that."

Chris gritted his teeth and looked to Piers whose veins were getting darker by the second, as the mutation was running amok throughout his body.

"Why does it have to be a controlled environment?" Chris asked angrily.

"It's fairly simple, at a low temperature the Virus does not mutate at a high level, therein slowing down the process and maintaining the subject for longer." Alex smiled sadly. "I know you don't want Piers to die Chris, and I know you don't want him coming with me... But you cannot have it all ways, so choose! He dies here or survives for a little longer with me."

"Either way Piers dies!" Sherry shouted, "And if he goes with you, you'll extract the virus and make it stronger."

"There are no grantees it will be stronger, my Cherie."

In silence everyone looked to Chris, this really wasn't a matter for anyone else to decide, it was his.

"Chris?" Sherry called from across the room.

"I would rather him die in my care." Chris spoke up, "Even if he does turn into one of those monsters, I would rather kill him myself than him die by your hands." Every word was spoken with the upmost respect and pride, notable as the Captain he was.

Alex smiled darkly and laughed in the same manner, he was amused by the man who had killed his 'brother' not so long ago.

"Redfield, how do you think you would stop me?"

Jake gritted his teeth and went in to intercept Chris' words.

"In every way we can, asshole."

A chorus of 'we will' swept through the room.

"Even you Ada?" Alex asked with a frown, receiving a curt nod. "After all these years, you decide to go against me to throw your lot in with them?"

"You need to learn that I will never play by the rules."

"Damn right!" Jake hollered with a frown and pulled the trigger on his handgun.

Alex flew out the guns harmful path towards Piers, in the blink of an eye he was holding what looked like a syringe and lurched it in to the unconscious man.

Sherry also raised her gun and fired at the man, but it was too late he had already stole the sample and fled towards one of the doors for escape.

"Until the next time, Ada." The man winked and vanished, his super human speed giving him the advantage.

"Shit!" Chris cursed loudly looking towards his downed comrade, and how his appearance was changing quicker than before.

"The sample he took wasn't big enough for him to adapt it." Ada explained monotone, "He needed the whole body to experiment on this time."

"There isn't time for this." Sherry snapped from beside Claire, "We need to get out of here."

"That will be tough considering Nivans' state." Ada replied calmly, "He doesn't have much time left, it's better to put him out of his misery before he turns."

"I know that." Chris bellowed, "Everyone leave."

"Chris?" The two women closest his heart started.

"I will follow... I just..."

Everyone nodded in silent understanding and made way to the closest door, arms wrapped around the injured to help them leave.

"He'll be fine." Jake whispered to Sherry as they left, he could tell she was tense and upset. "Piers was a good man, but nothing can stop the mutation... You know that."

She nodded silently and held his hand tightly.

"Captain?" Piers croaked eyes closed, with the last of his remaining humanity.

"I'm here Piers." Chris hushed kneeling next to him and holding his human hand.

"I... I'm sorry for what's happened... and... all you've gone through... But... Please... Shoot me while... I'm... Still... Human... I don't want... to die... As one of... those... things."

"Piers." Chris whispered shaking his head, not believing what he was hearing.

"Please... Captain!" The man shrieked with all his might as pain surged throughout his entire body.

"I'm sorry... Piers." Chris whispered again, as he squeezed the man's fragile hand in one last shot at showing his love for the brother and comrade he was about to lose, again. "You will always be remembered as the brave soldier you are." He said sternly, tears wisping down his rugged face.

"Thank you... Captain." Piers murmured with a delighted smile and lay there deathly still for end.

A single shot rang throughout the halls in the lower facility, and the whole party including Ada looked downwards in sadness.

It had been almost a week since that incident, and now that she sat with Hunnigan in her office at the DSO re-telling the drama and horror, she realized how much she loved Jake and the others.

Hunnigan had given Jake, Leon and Sherry time off to recover from the hell they had endured in the Middle East once they returned, and even though they had all disobeyed orders they were congratulated on their efforts and able to keep their jobs.

Sherry sighed as she sat back into her seat, the black car she'd owned for a long time, and looked over to the passenger seat to see Jake looking pensively at her.

"Was she tough on you?" He asked with a smirk.

Sherry shook her head and started up the car, her mind was riddled with the next task at hand.

"You're worrying about it already, aren't you?"

"You know me, Jake." She smiled at him, "I always worry."

Jake nodded also smiling and settled down into his chair to let her drive without hassle.

He stared out the window for the entire ride back to her apartment, it was the first time he'd ever been to 'Proper America'; the place was packed with hustle and bustle of people in their normal everyday lives; almost naive to the risk of another outbreak like China or Raccoon.

Soon he started to muse in his head about how nice it would be to have a life without a worry or care, at that moment he realized it was fate that had brought them together, all of them: Claire, Sherry, Leon, Chris, Jill, Helena, Piers, even Ada.

They were the ones who were made to protect the world from hellish creatures brought about by his very Father and the other remnant companies of his demise. They were there to protect this primitive way and balance of life, it made him smile proudly.

"Thank you." He whispered to the window.

"What?" Sherry spoke in a soft voice, confused at his words.

"You made me realize how strong I can be... Even at my weakest, you made me a better person. Thank you Sherry... Thank you for making me fight for the right cause, for making me fall in love with you, now I have something real to fight for."

Sherry slammed on the breaks and looked at him.

Jake frowned and looked in the side mirror for on coming vehicles, thankful it was a desolate road. He was about to spout his mouth off but she spoke first.

"I love you Jake." Sherry whispered as happy tears rolled down her face, her hands going to cup his cheeks and pull him into a sweet kiss.

"As the world crumbles, you'll be in my arms, right?" He smiled back, she nodding.

"Our next Chapter?" Sherry smiled.

"Alex Wesker." Jake smirked.

UPDATED: 16/01/2015 - Spelling, Grammar, Minor story changes.