Four Years Ago, Mantle, Atlas

"Alright, now be good for your mum tonight, ok Anna?" Wesker gazed lovingly at his daughter.

Her hazel brown hair and green eyes shone brightly in the morning light. "Especially when you go out shopping with her later ok?"

Anna gave a huge grin and hugged Wesker, who then gave a quick kiss to his wife before departing his home for work.

Wesker didn't have an amazing job like being the CEO of a company, or anything of that calibre.

Instead, he was a simple man who did maintenance on the network and computers at his workplace.

Arriving around eleven that morning, Wesker went about his usual tasks, making sure the computers were functional, the internet connection was stable.

Wesker was on his break in the lounge when one of his co-workers approached him. "Hey, Wesker, how is everything?"

"Alright, my wife and daughter are going shopping for whatever they can get their hands on"

"Yeah, the storms have been pretty harsh this year. Get all that you can I suppose. I heard Mantle managed to get other cities to give us supplies"

"It's a start. We have managed to salvage something to help us last. Unfortunately, we still need to work so we can pay the rich buggers up in Atlas" Wesker seemed disheartened about this situation.

"Can't believe we have to pay those up in Atlas just to get supplies. They have an abundance of them, I would know, my cousin works up there"

Wesker rolled his eyes at the corporate greed of those in Atlas, hoarding resources when Mantle was starting to struggle to keep themselves afloat.

Wesker's watch beep several times, he silences it and stands. "Back to work" He smiles at his co-worker, "I hope your sister is doing well"

Wesker continued with his job for the next few hours and everything seemed fine.

The sky had gone dark, it was that time of year, after all, there were shorter days and longer nights.

Wesker was tapping away on his phone, checking in with his wife, the two were still in the market. When the lights in the building abruptly cut out.

Wesker put his phone away and darted for the circuit breaker in the basement, wondering if a switch had tripped somewhere.

He had to travel twelve sets of stairs to get to the basement but upon arrival, he was only met with more questions.

"Odd. The switches are on, so the power should be on" Wesker thought out loud, a low rumbling shook the building.

Wesker bolted up the stairs to the top floor, gazing outward to the centre of Mantle. It wasn't just his workplace that lost power.

It was the entirety of Mantle.

The city was lit up with balls of smoke and fire followed by a loud and low bang.

Wesker reached for his phone and rang his wife in the hopes she and Anna were ok.

"I'm glad you are ok, where are you?" Wesker's voice filled with panic and fear as he fled the company building to his car.

"In the market square. Anna and I are heading to. Oh no"

Wesker heard screams of terror through his end of the call, followed by gunfire.

"No. No. NO!" Wesker screamed as he got into his car and started it up, ignoring his seat belt he floored it towards the market.

As Wesker drove down, the roads too icy to properly steer the vehicle, he ended up crashing passenger door side into a concrete wall, rocketing him to the side and smashing his head into the window.

Wesker bleeding from his head as he tried to stagger upwards, fell backwards limply unconscious.

Wesker woke when someone was banging on the driver's seat window, he felt sick and nauseous.

Wesker's vision was blurred, hazy and not at all focused. He saw reflective jackets or something that looked like that grab hold of him and pull him out of the car.

He fell back unconscious, completely at the mercy of whoever got ahold of him.

Wesker woke four hours later, his head throbbing but he looked around to adjust to his new surroundings.

Wesker was at an emergency treatment point. "Must have established this when the White Fang tore into Mantle" Wesker pondered the thought before standing to his feet.

"Carol? Anna? Where are they?" Wesker dragged himself to one of the health carers who was alarmed at Wesker's sudden movement.

"My wife, my daughter. What happened? Are they ok?" Wesker's eyes filled with dread at the thought of losing them.

"What's your name, sir?"

"Wesker Lowbell"

"The names of your wife and child?"

"Carol and Anna Lowbell"

Wesker sat down, waiting to hear the news whether or not his family had been admitted to the emergency treatment part of the safe point.

After around ten minutes, the nurse returned, he looked calmly at Wesker. A dark husk in his eyes gave Wesker a gut-wrenching feeling that what he was about to hear would not be pleasant.

"This way sir" The nurse took Wesker through the several rooms. It made him wonder which building they were using as the safe point.

Eventually, the nurse stopped and gestured to the door in front of him a small glass window.

Wesker looked through, he saw Carol on a bed, her family around here.

Wesker stepped into the room, Carol's family turned to him. Their eyes red and swollen from crying, as Wesker approached Carol he noticed she lay still like she was sleeping peacefully.

As tears streamed down his face, he began to sob at the fear of his daughter's death. Carol's family embraced him for it was not just Wesker who had lost someone close to him.

"Where's Anna?" Wesker asked the nurse who now stepped into the room.

"Her condition, is not favourable" The nurse led him into a different room, he wanted Carol's family to say their goodbyes first.

Wesker soon found Anna hooked to machinery, and what appeared to be a form of battery.

"A battery?" He asked as the doctors turned to him and nodded.

"I'm afraid so, with the main generator out, we only have the external power batteries to power machinery. It's the only thing keeping your daughter alive, but that won't last long" The doctor informed Wesker as he began to shake.

"How long do the batteries last?" Wesker's voice was hoarse and nervous, anyone could tell he felt anxiety and pain just from the tone of his voice alone.

"We estimate she has roughly a week before the batteries run out. We don't have any spares either. All of them are being used for other patients"

"What's my condition?" Wesker asked the nurse with a cold voice.

"Nothing too serious, though you have a mild concussion. You are conversing properly and nothing was broken judging from the physical examination"

"Am I safe to be discharged?" Wesker's eyes were fixated on Anna the entire time.

"Yes, I'll have it put down you were discharged. The doctors will try to keep your daughter alive for however long the batteries can last" The nurse added as he watched Wesker hold Anna's hand.

"Stay strong Anna. I'll be back, I've got to see your mum"

Wesker returned to Carol, he informed Carol's family of Anna's condition and suggested they see her.

They left the room after hugging and embracing Wesker but left him on his own.

"I love you, Carol. I always will, I won't find another woman like you. I best get going, I've got something to take care of" Wesker stood to leave as he said his goodbyes before kissing her forehead.

"I'm going to keep Anna alive till the day she can open her eyes again. I won't let Anna follow you, not before me" Wesker found it hard to hold back the tears, instead he let them flow down his face freely.

Wesker left the safe point after collecting his belongings, he gave his co-worker a ring in the hopes his sister was ok.

Someone picked up the phone much to Wesker's relief. "Wesker?"

"I'm glad you're ok, what about your sister? Is she ok Steve?"

"She's fine, she was driving back when there was a landslide but avoided it. A broken arm is nothing to worry about. Are Carol and Anna ok?"

"Carol's gone. Anna's not looking good. I need a favour"

"You sure about that?"

"I've got at least a week. I know the surveillance system has an inbuilt battery, they upload the footage they have to a single network"

"Are you serious about hacking into a Schnee owned security system?"

"I am going to find the bastards that took not only my family but everyone else's"

"You need to get to the next town two hours away right?"

"Please"

"Meet me at the southern entrance to Mantle"

"Thanks, Steve"

After Wesker and Steve met at the southern entrance, Steve drove Wesker to the town two hours away, they were lucky that the power generator they had there was owned by the Schnee Corporation, which meant it would still be up and running.

The two pull up at an internet café, on the news they see the situation in Mantle that had occurred only hours before.

Steve pays for the usage of a computer and Wesker goes ahead and sits down.

Wesker has to figure out what the security network does to encrypt files as well the connection in order for him to even come close to deciphering a way to bypass it.

They spent an hour there before moving on to another place where Wesker would do the same.

Again and again, Wesker would go from place to place with Steve as his escort.

After several more hours, Wesker finally finds a way in through the Schnee security system.

Going through some of the footage of the incident Wesker finds the moment in which the White Fang stormed the market and unleashed a barrage of gunfire on innocent civilians.

"How is this wanting peace? They are the same as you, they were also people. What gave you the right to murder innocent lives?" Wesker's thoughts were interrupted by Steve who brought him coffee to keep him awake.

Three days pass, going from town to town, analysing the footage, eventually, Wesker finds something that might be a clue.

He spots a blurred image of a White Fang member removing their mask at an unmanned checkpoint.

Wesker takes a screenshot and begins to clear the image up.

After clearing up the image, he see's the face of one of the people responsible for the attack. A young slightly toned skinned girl with auburn hair and freckles.

Wesker etches the image of her face into his brain, memorising every little detail.

He then proceeds to go through the footage of the CCTV in one of the neighbouring towns, he finds the same girl wondering around hours before as if they weren't a criminal.

"Steve, I've got something"

Steve comes over and looks at the images on screen, "That's this town"

"Yeah, see that behind them. That's the bar about ten minutes away from here" Steve added much to Wesker's surprise.

"You close everything down, I'm going out" Wesker had a cold, almost deathly stare to him.

Wesker leaves the internet café, he ends up finding a place where he could get a small handgun. Albeit it was an illegal purchase but he didn't give a damn.

Wesker checks out the bar, after asking around, sure enough, they say that a girl of similar description came into the bar.

Wesker after asking and persuading others with the use of money he had pulled out of his bank account.

Steve had paid for everything, Wesker headed up a mountain nature trail, the trail led through a series of caves.

After inspecting the caves he saw signs of people camping out.

Looking up he saw a person black hair, who looked like they hadn't gotten a good nights sleep in a few days.

"Shit. We've got to book it, we've been found" They screamed out into the caves, three others bolted outwards prompting Wesker to draw the gun.

The three of them back away slowly.

"You with the auburn hair, you were in Mantle a few days ago" Wesker turned the safety off, one of them decided to rush Wesker, only for him to have a bullet lodged in his kneecap.

"No, you don't. You with the auburn hair, why did you do it? Why did you take part in the massacre of all those innocent lives?"

"I-I'm not proud of what I've done. I did something unspeakable, but no one did anything for me when I lost my family" Ilia replies.

"Just because no one did anything for your family, doesn't give you members of the White Fang a reason to kill anyone else that's innocent" Wesker barked, unaware that one of them rushed Wesker, grabbing his arm and the gun.

Wesker turned the safety on and wrestled the attacker, Ilia tended to the injured member as the other one joined the attack on Wesker.

Wrestling him to the ground, they took the gun off Wesker, aiming it at his head.

Laying on the ground, cold and in pain. One of the gang grabbed and secured Wesker's arms, pinning him to the wall of the cave.

Pulling him back and slamming him to the floor with a hard thud.

Ilia watched as Wesker was about to die, "I've had enough of all this killing! Can't we stop? It's painful to watch and feel all of this" As Ilia cried out, The White Fang members walk towards her.

"He shot one of us, he's here to kill us!"

"Damn straight he is" The other agreed not realising Wesker had got back up and tackled the one holding the gun to the ground.

Wesker ripped the gun from his hands and fired into the young man's shoulder.

He screamed in agony as the bullet tore into his flesh.

Wesker turned and fired, incapacitating the others except for Ilia.

Ilia stood there cowering in the face of what she thought would be death.

Instead of death coming, Wesker and Ilia turned their attention to the Schnee military aiming their guns at all of them.


I do not own RWBY the show and its characters belong to RoosterTeeth and it's writers.

A/N: There is more, but I felt this was a good spot to leave this chapter at.

I loved writing this chapter, in terms of Wesker's past.

I hope you guys enjoyed this, let me know what you think of this.

I'll see you later!