Chapter 43: Answers

Minutes after Wesker spoke to Mercer through the hologram, he teleported outside of Adrians' house, skillfully sneaking inside, and quietly tried to find Calvins' room. After a brief search, he found it, but instead of finding Calvin asleep in the bed, he found a topless Katrina and Akeno, making him blush madly as he snuck back out of the room. He heard a toilet flush, and saw Calvin entering the hallway, getting his attention.

"Wesker, what the fu-?!" The conduits mouth was quickly covered by Weskers hand, and using his superhuman speed, he dragged Calvin outside. Once outside, Wesker released Calvin, allowing the conduit to catch his breath.

"I need your help Calvin," said Wesker. "I got attacked earlier tonight by someone whose powers resembled yours and Kesslers. I managed to get in contact with his croney Mercer, and he will talk to you and only you tomorrow morning." Wesker paused, allowing Calvin to think, until he spoke again. "Calvin are you even listening?" The devil conduit glared at Wesker,

"Don't you think...a phone call...would have worked?!" Gasped Calvin. He shook his head, "Pretty sure you gave me whiplash motherfucker!"

"I apologize," said Wesker. "But are you going to speak with Kessler?" Calvin glared at Wesker,

"If there's another guy running around with powers like mine, then Kessler is my only option to talk to." Calvin started to head inside the house, "Now if you don't mind, I got two sleeping beauties in my bed, and would like to join them on that sleep!"

The hours ticked by, and Wesker and Calvin stood outside the abandoned church, the latter carrying his amp in his hands, and the sun barely beginning to peak over the horizon.

"So he wants to speak to me alone, right?" Asked Calvin. Wesker gave him an affirmative nod, "Well then you wait out here, and have your guns ready." Calvin walked up to the doors, and kicked them open, charging up his amp as he glanced around the main entrance. He slowly walked in, keeping his caution up, until the doors slammed shut behind him.

"You actually came." Calvin turned to the alter, seeing Kessler in his white robed glory,

"You wanted to speak with me," said Calvin, keeping his amp ready. Kessler looked at Calvins weapon, impressed.

"Interesting weapon of choice. Your own design?"

"I had it made." Kessler nodded at the answer.

"The weapon alone won't save you, but if you use it right, it could definitely help you against the Second Coming." Calvin gave Kessler a confused eyebrow.

"The what?"

"Have you ever heard of The Beast?"

"The one thing Cole MacGrath fought in New Marais? Yeah." Calvin slowly began to lower his amp.

"Well, unfortunately, there is something far worse coming. Worser still, from what Mercer heard from Wesker last night, it might already be here. The Second Coming. The Beast Reincarnate. Or simply Zeus." Calvins eyes widened, and remembered Katrinas' words.

Kill Zeus. Calvin looked to Kessler.

"So what do you know about it?"

"It is the reason why I'm here," said Kessler. "It destroyed my home. My family. And it will do the same here, if we don't band together to stop it." Calvin grew suspicious from those words.

"If that's true, why hasn't there been anything in the news? Something that powerful would have been noticed by now."

"That's just it," said Kessler, "It hasn't been in the news because it hasn't happened yet." Calvin took a step back, keeping his amp ready.

"What do you mean?" Kessler sighed,

"I think it would be easier to simply show you." He held his hand out to Calvin, making the conduit glare distrustfully at the old man.

"Why should I trust you?" Kessler gave Calvin a look of understanding.

"Because I am your only chance." Calvin continued to glare, and slowly inched his hand to Kesslers, and in a flash of white electricity, they both teleported to what seemed like a destroyed city. Calvin turned around, seeing crumbled building and pillars of flames wherever he looked, moans of injured civilians echoing from every direction.

"What the fuck is this? Where the fuck are we?!"

"The vision you are seeing is what Zeus did to my home town...Kuoh Town to exact..." Calvin turned to Kessler in shock, "...about six months from now." A new set of moans, more gutteral than before, began to surround them, and Calvin saw what looked like people, with odd orange red spores growing off them, charging around and towards them. Calvin let go of Kesslers hand, and readied his amp, but the second he let go of Kessler, the old man grabbed his shoulder, and in the same blinding flash of white lightning, they were back in the church where they started. Calvin started to convulse, and fell to his knees, his devil wings spreading, and to his shock, the once black wings began to change to bright white! "Yeah, I forgot to mention the bleaching of the devil wings. It's a result of the time travel." Kessler then spread his own wings, revealing to Calvin what he truly is.

"You...! You're a...!"

"Stray..." said Kessler, "...after Zeus killed my master years ago. Or at least...years ago from my point of view." Kessler knelt down next to Calvin, "He took everything from me. My family, friends, everything. Including my then girlfriend, who at the time was carrying my unborn daughter...a daughter I will never meet..." Kessler rose up again, "...That's why I hired Shao to kill Katrina. So then you will never have to suffer losing your daughter like I did. Instead I only hastened events, and it is only growing worse from here." Calvin stared at Kessler, rising to his feet as well,

"What do you mean you hastened events?"

"...You don't know? Katrina was with child that night..." Calvin froze, feeling bile crawl up his throat at the awful realization. "...She wasn't supposed to be. But she was, and instead of having her killed before she was with child, Shao gave her a miscarriage." Calvin turned away from the old man, no longer able to hold in last nights dinner, using his amp like a crutch. "You're taking the news better than I hoped. But my reason for doing this is so then you don't get clouded by emotions like I did. Those same emotions kept me from getting the job done, and my family and friends and the entire world paid for it!"

"SHUT UP!" Shouted Calvin, shoving back the old man, startling him, "I will defeat Zeus, but when I do, I will come for you next, and I WILL kill you!" Kessler stared at Calvin, and hung his head in shame,

"I would expect nothing less." He began to walk away, but not before shooting one last comment to the young conduit, "You may not have had a major role in this story, but your shining moment is coming soon!" He then vanished into white light, and Calvin fell to his knees, letting a shout of anguish escape his throat. The doors to the church bursted open, and Wesker swept the area with his vision, desert eagles at the ready. He saw Calvin, and rushed to him,

"What happened?!" Wesker placed a hand on Calvins' shoulder, and the young conduit shoved it away, tears streaming down his face. "Calvin...?"

"That night...when that Shao freak fought Katrina...he killed my daughter Wesker...HE KILLED MY DAUGHTER!!" Wesker backed away, seeing electricity crackle around him, "And he did so to prepare me...!"

"For what?"

"That asshat who attacked you last night...Zeus." Calvin stood up, tears already dried, and his face as hard as stone,

"I'm going to kill Zeus, and then I'm going to kill Kessler, if it is the last thing I do!"