Chapter 26 Bootcamp

Disclaimer: This is the second part of my story which will soon come to an end, as I just posted them straight from draft so I didn't actually check through any mistakes thoroughly. After I finish the whole series I will go back to chapter 1 and edit them into perfection. (and maybe add forgotten details)

Sorry for the wait! (Not actually sorry, but I took my time huehue)

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6 months after the Kennedy brothers started their house building project in Boston, they successfully finished the 2 storey (overground) home.

Summer 2024

'Welcome aboard Lia.' Jesse grinned at his sister who just hopped into their Tesla backseat. The Kennedy brothers picked up their sister from her boarding school to spend their summer holidays together at home.

'Hello monkeyheads.' Lia giggled while strapping in her seatbelt.

'We're going grocery shopping, mom and dad are coming tonight.' Johnny said happily to his siblings. They then headed to a local supermarket to pick up their essentials.

On a flight from Washington DC to Boston

'Why do you think our sons are so obsessed with building a house?' Leon asked his wife, who is snuggled up to him in their first class seat. Ada got herself comfy resting her head on Leon's shoulder, lazily yawned.

'Just let them be.' Ada gave him a small smile.

'I wished they could stay with us in DC, together.' Leon said, slightly sad.

'You can't tie them up, also you don't stay at home whole day. Besides, you got me.' Ada hugged him tighter and breathe in his scent deeply.

Leon chuckled and held his wife in his arm, planting a kiss on her forehead.

Leon and Ada landed in Boston after an hour and a half, Jesse was already waiting at the arrival hall with his little sister. They waved at the sight of their parents.

'Hello, mother father.' Jesse grinned happily and took their bags with him, signalling them to follow him.

As Lia was bantering with her parents in the car, Jesse drove them to Sucker Brooks Conservation Area, because that's where they bought their land to build a house on, so many trees around which can provide them with enough shades and privacy.

The house looks pretty much normal from the outside. Ada was amazed with its interior however, the house is equipped with nanocapacitors and loop energy amplifiers which Johnny put his effort in saving energy, as well as disguising their house away from being a high energy consuming unit. Johnny has a thing for super computers and his hobby of monitoring the stock market had him installed a few in his house to help him with the task.

There's also a full gym with a sparring ring in their basement, a few guest rooms. Jesse had installed an emergency bunk which has an underground walkway to escape to a nearby hill of forest completely equipped with storage of rations, weapons and emergency clothings. Beside the emergency bunk there's an armory and lab which is where the brothers do their R&D in. Johnny also installed a satellite dish which is masked with stealth panels and signal diverge transponders, a technology he and his friends worked on to hide signals as well as IP jumping. All windows can be tinted at a flick of a switch and they are all bulletproof.

The Kennedy brothers didn't go soft on their budget, whole house was built with red bricks and steel, even their roof was covered in a special carbon awning before layer it again with roof tiles.

Jesse showed his parents around the house with pride.

'Master bedroom, for mom and dad.' He grinned. 'And these are your keys.' Jesse winked cheekily and passed a pair of keys to their parents.

'Didn't expect anyone would buy us a house.' Leon made a face at Ada and laughed.

Over the dinner, Jesse coughed to get everyone's attention.

'Dear mother father, Johnny, Lia. I applied to be a soldier, and I'll be in the boot camp next month.' Jesse proudly announced.

'That's... great.' Leon was surprised by the news, but nonetheless accepted his son's decision. Johnny just grinned at his brother, being supportive as ever.

Ada on the other hand just kept quiet over the dinner. Jesse eyed his mother, seems to noticed her silence. Leon decided to crack some jokes to ease the tense atmosphere.

Jesse caught his mother after their meal, sipping her wine staring outside the window.

'Hey mom, what's on your mind?' Jesse asked cautiously. 'You don't approve of me going into the army?'

'No, not at all. It's something else.' Ada replied calmly. 'I've been wondering, why did you defect Umbrella at the last minute?'

'Alex Wesker was mad, at that point I already knew there was no turning back when she transformed. Also, the self destruction of the facility was activated. Might as well just save myself first.' Jesse shrugged.

'And what were you going to do till then? You didn't know I was your mother.' Ada frowned.

'I don't really know. Tho I was really shocked when I got to know I have a family. Was actually going to join Piers while looking for other jobs in the Middle East. It's a gold mine there for mercenaries.' Jesse answered emptily, while glancing at his mother.

'I see.' Ada replied. 'Sorry for asking you blunt questions. Something from work bothered me.'

'Its fine. Let's go back to the living room ok? Johnny had some games set up.' Jesse smiled at his mother. Ada nodded and followed him.

The Kennedy's spent the rest of the evening playing games that test their family relationship, such as the Uno cards which nearly sent Johnny throwing them at Jesse who kept making his brother add more cards into his deck.

The weeks before Jesse goes into boot camp.

'Hey brother. Don't you think this girl looks hot?' Johnny showed his brother a photo from his phone, smiling happily.

'Uh, sure.' Jesse gave his brother an unimpressed look, while shoving the phone away from his face.

'She's new in my class. I think I'm having a crush on her, her name is Mary.' Johnny mumbled.

'Bro, it's nothing if you don't make a move and ask her out.' Jesse mocked his brother. He knows Johnny seemed like a friendly nice guy, but he is also very similar to a younger Leon's character. Secretly an idiot when it comes to love, innocent and straight forward. At least he's honest with his feelings.

'You're right.' Johnny agreed. 'I think I should.'

Johnny immediately called a number on his phone and went out from Jesse's room. After a few minutes, he reentered the room in a hurry.

'She said yes.' Johnny looked confused.

'Yes to what?' Jesse asked his brother, amused.

'Dating.' Johnny said blankly. Jesse cooed at his shy brother who is blushing at what he just said, and patted him on the shoulders to give him some encouragement.

'Congratulations on your first step to… *Coughs* getting laid *Coughs*.' Jesse laughed.

'Don't say that you monkey.' Johnny seemed to be happily annoyed and chased his brother around.

Johnny dropped his brother at the Army boot camp while Jesse gave his parents one last phone call to bid goodbyes.

'Take care in there.' Johnny hugged his brother tightly before pushing him away. 'Don't worry about Lia, and our parents. They are old enough to take care of themselves.'

Jesse nodded and waved his brother goodbye.

2025

Ada has been doing private investigation on the red haired man at Sherry's wedding whom Jesse has seen in Umbrella facilities. Turns out his name is Raymond Vester, a survival of Terragrigia Panic. After the merge of FBC with BSAA, he continued to run counter bioterrorism espionage missions. He doesn't talk much with anyone including his colleague unless needed. These few years Raymond had been clean, unlike what Jesse had described the time when he was seen in the Umbrella facility. His alibi checked out.

Ada wanted to ask her son a few more details regarding this mysterious man but to no avail. With Jesse in the army now and his personal belongings confiscated, Ada is unable to reach her son without pulling some strings with Leon's rank. She didn't want to alert Leon with her investigation of the current BSAA operative. Regardless, Ada still dropped a message on Jesse's PDA hoping he will see it when he is available to access his private belongings.

Leon got hold of some intel about potential bioterrorism attack in USA, also Sherry has delivered a report on the investigation of where did the Umbrella get their money from to rebuild its facilities. A lot of it are coming from undisclosed accounts from Swiss banks, others are mostly from various European countries. Today, he is going to travel to Paris to have a meeting with the French defense minister to discuss about this.

Chris Redfield has been leading missions of cleansing old Umbrella-Tricell facilities to double check their aftermaths of destruction are totally clear with Ada's guidance. They have gone through Falklands twice, Asia, Arctic and the one in Germany. So far the missions have been smooth, they didn't encounter any live BOWs from any of the Umbrella-Tricell facilities. Today he is leading another scouting mission in North Africa.

However, one of these facilities was being bought by an African chemical shell company with its money laundered from Tunisia. Despite it was being purchased on the table, there's absolutely nothing in this facility, at least Chris has encountered nothing so far.

Things are about to change.

'Where's Smith and Woodlet?' Chris turned back to his team and counted heads, 2 members from his team has disappeared. No one has seen anything or heard any sounds. It was a team of 8 members, now it's 6. Chris frowned and checked his surroundings.

'Don't know sir, didn't notice they were gone until we requested them to update their location.' One of the BSAA members replied.

'Alright, radio check every 15 seconds. Stay tight together, we need to go back and find them.' Chris instructed his team and lead the way. They went back to a hall which looked like a central hub of the facility, with Umbrella's logo faded of colours but still visible on the walls. The decorative plants were long dead from the lack of water and now they are just dried branches and soil. Most of the furniture were destroyed or burned down like black charcoal.

'Sir, Randy is gone.' One of BSAA members gasped.

'What?' Chris was shocked. 'I don't like where this is going, that makes 5 of us. We should walk back to back, that way we can immediately know when someone is missing.'

'Roger.' Rest of the team replied in unison.

Chris and his team continued to find their way out but they were 4 floors below ground in order to reach their evacuation point. Suddenly blunt suppressed gunshots can be heard from the other end of the hall, an area they haven't clear yet.

'We should go check it out.' Chris ordered.

Chris and his team moved to the source of the sound, as they reached a corridor he could hear a few men talking to each other, but their sounds were near whisper. Then, the sounds were gone. Still nobody in sight, he suddenly felt another 2 members in their formation disappeared when one of their members gasped and unable to grasp one of their members who got abruptly pulled into the dark.

'Sir, he was getting dragged but nothing's on the ceiling whatsoever.' The voice of that soldier trembled.

'I understand, but we have to stay calm and alert.' Chris too was a bit shaken from what is going on, because not knowing your enemies is worse than getting defeated, you lost before you even tackle them.

The four of the BSAA members continued to walk forward back to back following Chris's lead. As they reached a junction of the walkway, Chris had to make up his mind on which route to take.

'Captain, which way?' One of them asked. Chris stopped his steps in order to listen if there's anymore sounds of the men talking or any suppressed gunshots. He decided to take a random guess and signalled his team to move to the walkway on their right.

The team proceed to move quietly with absolute alert. Suddenly the 3 soldiers behind Chris's back were getting tackled. Before Chris could turn back to see what happened, a hand emerged from his right ear's direction and pushed him aside, another leg hooked his left leg, causing Chris to fall forward. All these moves happened in a blink of an eye and Chris was not fast enough to react. The figure stepped on his assault rifle and kicked it aside. All of the BSAA members were defeated in a blink of an eye.

'Freeze.' A cold voice said, while Chris's legs were spread with a pair of legs pushing them apart.

The figure cleared Chris's sidearm swiftly while putting his knee on his back, increasing the weight pressure to keep Chris on the ground.

'Clear.' Another low voice whispered.

The figure on Chris's back turned back to him and began to check his uniform.

'BSAA?' The figure grasped Chris's shoulder, to turn his badge over for a better angle putting his flashlight clearly to read the words on it. The figure then caught Chris's arm and yanked him strongly upwards to make him stand up. The figure shone his flashlight on Chris's face making him squint.

'Who are you?' Chris asked the figure. 'Take that away from my face.'

'Sorry.' The figure put his flashlight away while signalling his teammates to let the soldiers go. 'US Navy Seal, Delta team 2.' The rest of the BSAA members got up with some parts of their body sore from how they got apprehended.

Chris took a good look at the soldier in front of him, about the same height as himself, all of them wearing full black tactical suit, complete with facemasks and fully tinted glasses or goggles. None of their faces could be seen.

'We're here to rescue an African chemist named Youssef Mohamed, but we ran into pretty strange stuffs and separated from our captain's team.' The shadow held out Chris's assault rifle, returning it to him.

'Thanks.' Chris frowned while handling his weapon back. 'My name is Chris Redfield, I'm leading the team here.'

The soldier in front of him nodded. 'Shadow.'

'Wolf.' A second voice spoke.

'Frog.' A third voice spoke. One of the BSAA members chuckled at the name, another BSAA soldier nudged his arm signalling him to stop. Luckily the Seal team soldiers weren't offended. Chris nodded at the Seals, understanding the soldiers of special operations use their codenames instead of real names on battlefield.

Shadow then spoke again. 'Now that you're here, kind of explains the stuffs we ran into.' He returned Chris's sidearm to him. 'They turned one of us grey and he started attacking us like he had lost his mind. Gut feeling told me there was BOWs here.'

'How do you know the term BOW?' Chris raised an eyebrow.

After a short pause, Shadow spoke again. 'Let's just say, I've got some education. The chemist is still nowhere to be found and our captain is somewhere North.'

'I've lost 4 members of my own, didn't even see what pulled them away.' Chris said.

'We've lost one and killed the same soldier who turned on us.' Frog answered. 'What is your mission here Redfield?'

'Clear this facility, it was supposed to be empty from BOWs. We are sent to double check after intel told us there might be something here.' Chris said. 'Why would your mission be rescuing a chemist when no one was supposed to be in here? This facility was destroyed in the first place for bioterrorism risk.'

'We're just following orders.' Frog replied, a little annoyed from Chris's questions which probes about their secret operation.

Shadow stepped in and patted Chris's shoulders. 'Keep it cool. We have missions.'

'We should keep going.' Chris nodded in agreement.

Wolf nodded and replied. 'Understood, let's stick together. I'm not feeling well from the way this mission is turning out.'

'Agreed.' Chris nodded and instructed his teammates to merge formation with the Seal team. 4 BSAA and 3 Navy Seal soldiers moved back to the junction on Shadow's lead and took a right to the corridor moving North, trying to locate the lost Captain of the delta team.

'Where is Youssef?' Chris asked.

'Don't know. We went to the meeting point but he was not there, only signs of blood and struggle. No body.' Wolf replied. They then reached another hall which looked like the central hub which Chris was in before, but this one looked much taller with more glass windows dividing the hall with the rooms behind. Dark surroundings with only glimpses of emergency light which barely bring any vision to the walkways. The team stopped moving when one of them let out a soft gasp.

'Isn't this one of your soldiers?' Shadow spoke while kicking a corpse on the floor, which he just step into.

Chris looked to the direction where Shadow is standing and checked the corpse. 'Randy.' Chris grunted.

'Another one.' Frog then pointed his gun and flashlight at another corpse, not far away from Randy's body. The team discovered all the missing BSAA members' bodies throughout the hall, scattered around.

'Damn it.' Chris grunted.

'I'm sorry, let's continue to move.' Frog suggested. Chris had no choice but to agree. The team continued to move through the hall until one of the Seals stopped and crouched down to check another body.

'A Seal. He's from the Captain's team.' Wolf spoke.

'There's only one way from here to go further in.' Shadow replied.

'Let's move then.' Chris suggested. The team followed the direction from the dead Seal and stumbled upon a few more bodies of the Navy Seal soldiers.

'Captain…' Frog said while removing the body's dog tag. 'Still no signs of Youssef. And we can't contact HQ from here, signal's been lost since we went underground.'

5 of them came across a room which looked like a logistic vault, with metal racks by the walls all burned and black. There's no doors besides the way they came in, a dead end. No signs of life can be detected except themselves.

'What now?' Wolf asked. Chris was about to answer, but an object came flying towards him. Chris did a quick dodge and looked at what came for him. It was a burned chair. He then looked at the direction of who might have thrown it, he saw a pair of glowing orange eyes on a figure of a man who looked like how the Seal members have described one of their teammates turned into. Grey and crazy, covered in blood and hysterical sharp teeth. Eyes widened in full killer mode.

'Youssef.' Shadow whispered. 'He has turned.'

Just as Chris was about to fire, Youssef charged at the team of soldiers and took Wolf out. Wolf was quickly bitten and threw against a far wall, Youssef took out two other BSAA members in a blink of an eye. 4 of them ran quickly dodging Youssef's superhuman speed while trying to find a good shot of the mysterious monster. While Youssef was charging at Chris's teammate, Frog took a shot at its head precisely. Youssef screamed in pain, only to have more shots followed up from Shadow. Youssef fell on the floor and stopped moving.

Chris ran over to his teammate to get him back up, checking if he was injured. Suddenly Youssef's body sprung back to live, not with two legs on the ground but four, crawling at a high speed like a scorpion on drugs. Youssef charged at Shadow but the Seal soldier quickly rolled to his side. Chris taking his gap of opportunity and shot at Youssef's back, only to earn his attention and the mysterious monster charged back at Chris.

Shadow aimed his rifle at the fast moving creature and took 2 accurate shots at its head. Youssef's body sprung mid air, contorted into a weird roll and fell limp on the floor. Frog followed its fall and took another shot at its head. Shadow move towards Chris to check on him.

'He's dead this time, I hope.' Frog said while still pointing his rifle at the dead creature.

'What do you think, Redfield? What is this?' Shadow asked.

'Don't know, they usually die once after they take shots in the head.' Chris replied while taking a closer look at the dead Youssef. 'He is a lot faster and stronger than the ones I've seen.'

'Looks like our mission is a no-go and we lost our Captain.' Frog sighed at the body of Youssef.

While Frog and the 2 leftover BSAA members contemplating what to do, Shadow crouched down at the body and took pictures of Youssef's face. He turn into one of his pockets and pulled out a small vial which looked like a test kit and took a sample from the dead creature. Shadow then looked at Chris. 'Need a sample?' He said while waving the vial at him.

'Yes.' Chris took the vial over. Shadow then took another sample for himself in a second tube.

'Do you think there's more?' The other BSAA soldier spoke.

'Don't know, but we cannot let our guard down.' Frog shrugged.

'That means we cannot recover any bodies at this point.' Shadow sighed and stood up. 'Let's get out of here.'

Frog nodded and joined the other 3 soldiers into a formation and moved back outside. As they move towards the exit, surprisingly nothing was in their way. Chris's BSAA teammate gave some questionable 'hmph' regarding the odd atmosphere in this creepy Tricell facility while the Seal soldiers just kept quiet all the way. As Chris reached their evacuation point, the Seal members informed him that their evac point is 5km away from the BSAA's.

'I guess we'll part here. I'm sorry for your loss, Captain Redfield.' Shadow spoke.

'I'm sorry for yours too, I wonder why military missions have crossed ours.' Chris frowned then nodded at the Navy Seals. 'But I'm honoured to meet you. Frog, Shadow.'

'Private.' Shadow spoke and shook his hand.

'Corporal.' Frog replied and shook Chris's hand. They then bid their farewell and left in their helicopters.

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