Chapter 3:
To Mr. Edward Johnson.
Since the first time I knew that something was wrong, a tried to talk to you. There's no other explanation, but that there is an infection going on around here. There are three or four cases of skin infections and irritations. And all the same things that could distinguish the effects of the G or T-Virus. I got the names of the victims, just to let you know that if you can find some other clue about how this could happen here, since Umbrella crushed five years ago. I only came to you because I have no choice.
The first victim is:
Name: Marcio Pereira da Silva
Age: 46
Weight: unknown.
He use to work as the keeper of the cemetery of the city. As he told the doctor he started to feel sick for like a month or so. He felt some deep pain in the chest for an hour, and then all of a sudden it would stop, and he couldn't feel nothing at all, for a week. The skins irritation began a week ago. His state is bad. Is in a coma for three days. I could only tell that it is and infection of the Umbrella virus, because it has the same chemical base of construction and DNA. There's three or four elements on his blood that I couldn't find out what it is.
The second victim:
Name: Ana Carolina
Age: 16
Weight: Also unknown.
She entered in the hospital walking by herself, she looked just fine, if it wasn't by the fact that her neck was all bloody. She said that, she felt her neck itch, and she started to scratch. Then all of a sudden, a big piece of her flesh came to her hand, and the most important is that, she could not feel pain. Her state is normal until now.
This is the third and last victim that I can recall and report to you:
Name: Mario B. Carvalho.
Age: 19
Weight: Unknown
Just like the other victims his weight is unknown, we has carried into the hospital unconscious. His heart stopped to beat, and he was considered dead. A day after that, he woke up from the morgue, to his luck no one had an autopsy on him. He seems to be fine, for now...
I couldn't find any relations between those three victims. I know this has something to do with Umbrella's viruses, but not any of those viruses that we know. It's something new, I think that it is something that suffered a huge mutation. Since you were investigating Umbrella in 98 I thought that it would be good to let you know, that you can reopen the case. But I know it's not only to the good of your nature, you owe me something, detective. So you must do something about this virus. I'm leaving today. I think you should come and check it all out by yourself. I need to know that is going on. We can't let things go under control again.
A.
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- Son of a bitch...- a man with a cigarette on his mouth closed the letter.
He stands up of his chair, it's night, he is alone in his office. Goes to the window and gaze to the full moon taking over the attention of everyone that could look at the sky. Although it was beautiful to most of people, to him, it was just a sign of something bad. As he saw this once in Raccoon City.
September 26th, 1998:
- All right, what are we going to do now?
- Did you locked all the doors that gives access into the precinct?
- Yes.... I just hope that could keep those things out of here.
- Where's David?
- I don't know, he went with the other group.
- Please, tell me, what is happening?? What is happening, tell me it's not true, tell me that I'll close my eyes and then everything will be fine, I'm going to be in my bed, with my wife.- One man with the R.P.D uniform starts to cry.
- Keenan, stop!!! Everything is going to be all right! We're going to make it. And now, the Umbrella Mercenary Force is here to help us. Our top priority, is to find the chief, and then, try to get a way out, through the sewers!
Keenan takes a deep breath and looks at his partner Edward.
- All right! Let's do it!
Edward gets his shotgun, and Kevin a sub-machine gun, they were at the R.P.Ds Library, where it was safe. They walked through the main door of it, going out to the second floor above the main hall. They could hear shooting coming from the first floor, three man alone fighting a legion of zombies. From up, Edward and Kevin started to shoot those monster helping their teammates. After clearing up the mess, the guys down waved and thanked.
- Hey anyone of you seen the chief?- Edward asked.
- Nope, he gave us the order to rescue the survivors and wounded, also to save whatever weapons we can find. But the weapons storage is out of energy and we can't find Marvin!
- Damn!
A yelling is heard from the waiting room, on the second floor where Edward and Kevin were. They ran like crazy to the place, kicked out the door to see a women seriously wounded.
- P...please help...
- It's the chiefs secretary!!- Said Kevin.
- Hang in there!
- There's...- she hardly breathe.- urgh.... Chief...
- Calm down. We are going to take care of you!- he turns to Kevin and say.- You stay here, I'll go and get her something.
- All right! Take care buddy!
Edward runs to the small door that is on the side of the secretary's desk. He finds a corridor with four zombies walking around.The creatures started to walk towards him, and with his shotgun he begins the onslaught, pieces of human flesh fly to the walls and there's blood everywhere, he enters on a door the right side of the corridor on the opposite wall. Getting into the other room he runs to the door right in front of him ignoring a way on the left. Now he is outside the precinct. There's a pair of stairs, that will lead him to the first floor. Getting there a door opens.
- Edward!
- Meyer!
- What's up bro? Pretty ruff today, huh?
- Man, all I want to do is get the fuck outta here!
- And leave your teammates here to die?
- ...
- Look, never mind that right now. Where are you going?
- I'm going to the keeper's room.
- Why?
- I'm going to get Firs Aid Kit, he have a wounded with us.
- Oh well, we have wounded people everywhere, man! Anyway, have you seen David?
- No, I'm looking for him too.
- That jerk! Man, I gotta go, see ya around, if you or me don't die that is.
Meyer runs the stairs up, getting into the door. Edward enters in the door on the first floor. On his right there's a door. He run towards it, but it's locked.
- Fuck!
He gets back to enter in the office, suddenly the main blue double door opens with two man screaming. Edward run towards them.
- Hey!
- Fuck, did you see that???- one guy says to the other.
- Oh man! Oh man!! Whatta fuck is going on?
- What happened?- asked Edward.
- Some.... THING! Tried to kill us, it's disgusting..... there's no skin at all, and..... the tong.....
- Fuck....
- Say, have you seen Eddie?- one of the guys ask
- Nope....- Edward says.
- Man, if we find him, we can talk to the chief!
- I wonder if David's all right!
- David? He was with you guys?
- Yeah, but he ran to the main hall.
- I HAVE to find him.
- He is the only one that still has the contact with the outside.
- But how, if every radio we have is fucked up?
- He has a phone. Look, you find Ed and talk to the chief, I'll find David and I'll try to contact Brad with his helicopter, to pick us up!
- All right! God luck, man!
The both man run away. And Edward enter on the blue double door. Getting into the reception hall, the place was infested with zombies. Is shot gun had a feel more shots so he could clear the way to the door that would lead him to the main hall. Getting there, it seemed to be calm. He could see a bunch of zombies going to the waiting room.
- Oh no!!!
He sees that the emergency leader is not down.
- SHIT!
He starts shooting the monsters, but he runs out of shells. He can't believe in his rotten luck. And then R.P.Ds main door opens and more zombies enter the place. He can see that the zombie were walking senseless, it seemed that they were not walking towards him. It was enough to make him go the counter behind the woman statue, and find shotgun shells. He reloaded his weapon and ran to the nearest door.
- David!
- Edward... man it's good to see you're still alive.
- Meyer is looking for you.
- .... There's a war going on out there....- his eyes looked distant.
- Dave, are you ok?
- Yeah......
He starts to walk out the room.
- Wait! It's dangerous out there.
- So? We era all going to die anyway...
- What the hell is wrong with you??
- It'll be better if we just give up... it's the entire city against us....
Edward punches him on the face!
- You idiot! What are you saying? We have to fight! That's why we exist, to serve and protect!
- ... I want to hear you say that, when you find yourself be eaten by one of those creatures...
- Shut up! We are going to make it! Now give me your phone!
- It's no use.... the line is dead, like everybody else....
- Fuck!!!!
They both hear shooting from outside. Edward and David run to see what was going on, and there it was the Umbrella Mercenary Force, they destroyed all the zombies in the main hall. Two men wen to talk to them.
- Are you okay?
- Yes, there's two more with me. A man and a woman.
David runs away back to where they both were.
- David!!!
- All right! All we have to do is to get you guys on the roof, we have three more units coming to rescue the remaining survivors on this building. We will only take those who can still walk!
- What?!!?!?- Edward remembers of the secretary.
- Yeah ,seriously wounded people will only slow us down.
- Damn!!
He goes running back to small door near the entrance of the precinct, getting into de blue double door, passing to the office, ignoring the locked door and back to the door that will lead to the stairs. He goes all the way up, and pass through another one. As he enters on the green corridor, crows starts to go after him, he runs just straight ahead to find the door that will take him out of there. Safe for the moment he walks back to the waiting room. Opens the door, and see the secretary up, her clothes are all bloody, on the floor is the corpse of his friend, his insides are outside. The woman now is a zombie.
- Shit!
She goes almost running towards him. Edward aims at her head and push the trigger, and her head is all around the room, the rest of the body just falls like an old doll. He can hear screaming coming from the hall. Ignoring his dead buddy, Edwards go and check what's going on, and another battle broke out. This time there was zombies coming from everywhere and the guys from the Umbrella Countermeasure Service were being slaughtered. Another bunch of undead people were coming from the library. He opens the waiting room ready to go back, but through the opposite door more creatures were coming.
- Fuck!!
He has to think fast, come on... the things are coming!! He looks up and see the third floor, and then he got a light! He ran towards the library room, but in the way he had to bust out the zombies' heads. He was running out of ammo, there's nothing much to do, just to stay alive. There! Inside of the library he found that there was more dead people walking around. There was a stair that could take him to the second floor of the library and the third floor of the R.P.D. Getting up there he runs to a door on his right. Now he is in the bell room. He finds a wooden stair leading up. He runs up. On the upper level there is a shaft.
- Now I'll have the access to the underground area....... Damn, if I could only remember where the hell is the dog's room....... I've been there before....... there's a sewer entrance there.....
He can hear the door opening.
- All right! I'll have to remember it once I get there.
And then he goes sliding down the shaft, and then one thing came to his mind. What if there was infested with zombies?? But that was a risk he had to take. Fortunately the place was safe. Edward had a little time to breathe. Now... where the hell is the dog's room? He asked to himself. He goes walking to the left, and then he found a door. Passing through...
- Bingo!
The sewer entrance was open. He ran towards it. But before he could reach it he saw something disgusting. Some kind of monster... without skin and it seemed that it's brain was outside.... he had huge claws for hands.
- What the...?
The creature stopped moving. Edward stood there watching, and for a moment it was walking senseless. Edward made another move, and creature stopped once again. Then he could understand that the monster was sensitive on the movements, so really slowly he points the shotgun to the creature. So quiet... so slow... The finger is on the trigger, he stopped breathing, and suddenly he blew the thing out. It fell on it's back, but fast it got up again.
- FUCK!
The monster made a terrible sound and jumped to attack Edward, that ran to the sewer entrance, and before the thing could come with him he closed the sewer. Went down the ladder, and ran on the corridors of it. He could hear the terrible sound again. It was the thing again. Edward now couldn't fight back, he was out of ammo. Out of the sewer he was at the sewer disposal facility. He closed the ironed bar doors. And creature as throwing itself against it. He turned away, in front of him there was "Septic Pool" written on the wall. He was almost where he wanted.There was a huge metal shutter blocking the way to it. Edward heard the iron door blowing up, and the creature coming after him. He stood still, trying not to make a move. He still had two doors to go, and that was going to be hard with this new threat. The thing was not moving either, it seemed that it was trying to find him by the movement. He could hardly breathe now, and when he tried to give a step on the side, the monster jumped on him and scratched his arm really bad, it got to the bone. The things was about to blow another attack when all of a sudden it's head blew off. From behind it a man appeared. Edward was holding his arm in deep pain.
- Who... who are you?
- A friend.- he answered.
Edward couldn't stand the pain and passed out.
Some time later...
Edward wakes up in a room, he is on the floor, he looks around, and then try to stand up with his wounded arm, he screams in pain, forgetting about it. Then he sees that there is something on his arm. Some kind of bandage... In the room everything is destroyed, like a battle broke out in there. The light was blinking without a rhythm. Slowly he walks around the place, behind a table he sees a pair of legs. Edward walks towards it, to find that there was only two pair of legs and nothing else.
- Oh F....!- he says turning his face disgusted.
- Not a beautiful thing to see, isn't it?- a voice comes from behind him.
Edward turn away to see a tall man dressed in a black uniform, he has blond short hair, with sun glasses.
- You!
- Nice to see you too.
- But... you were supposed to be dead.
- I was supposed to be a lot of things. How's your arm?
- It's alright...
- Good.- the man walks to the other side of the room.
- Where are we?- Edward looks around.
- We are in a safe place, miles away from the city.
Edward look at the pair of legs again.
- It doesn't seem safe enough...
- Don't worry, it's an inoffensive pair of legs.- he smiles to Edward.
- I don't want to end up like that, Wesker.- Edward answers annoyed.
- Don't worry, I saved you didn't I?- Wesker walks to be face to face with Edward.- You should be thankful for that... Really and truly thankful for that... It is your life you know?
Edward looks at him seriously.
- What do you want?- he asks saying word to word.
- I want every information you have about Umbrella.
- What? I don't know what you're talking about.
- Oh yes you do, you were investigating Umbrella undercover, I know all about that. And you are going to help me in every way you can, right?
- How did you find out?
- That is not important, the important thing is that you are going to help me, right?- Wesker's face is serious now.
- Do I have another choice?
- No.
- So? What can I do for you?
- I want a confirmation. Is Umbrella developing a new virus?
- Yes. And it's already running out on the city. Creating new type of mutants and monsters, some zombies have them too.
- So it isn't the T-Virus infection?
- It is, but not only.
- What is it?
- A new virus called the G-Virus, developed by a scientist called William Birkin.
- William??
- Do you know him?
- Yes, he was one of the researchers with me in Umbrella, one on the T-Virus project in the mansion.
- So it is true..... What Jill and others said is true.
- And the zombies walking around aren't proof enough of what they said?
- You are a traitor, Wesker!
- Well, you could say that... What else can you tell me?
- What if I don't want to tell you anything else?
- You, your mother, your father, your brother, your sister, your wife, your daughter, your son, and even that little puppy dog that you have called Skip, will die.- Wesker said getting his face close to Edward's.
- You....son of a bitch!- Edward said with a scared trying to keep cool tone.- Don't you dare touching one of them!
- Don't need worry Edward, they are safe, in a nice house in New York.
- What do you want from me?
- I want everything you know.
- Ok... they found out that the T-Virus wasn't good enough, and tried to improved it's power. Meanwhile William was in the end of his new creation, the G-Virus, a complete different virus in the base of the Mother Virus, unlike the T-Virus, it can revive dead people, by creating new life support organs. Like, if you don't have a heart, it can create a new pumping system to your body.Things that you can never do with the T-Virus. It's regeneration power is amazing, if you lose an arm it can make another one.
- WHAT??
- Yes, but that's what he told me, I don't know if he tested or anything.
Wesker gets a mobile phone and press a button.
- It's me. Call the woman and Hunk, we have a new mission, ask the HQ to provide supplies, I'm coming back to the base.
Wesker hangs up, and walks to Edward.
- Thank you, you were very useful, but don't think that will be all, you can go, I'll call you when I need you again.
Wesker starts going out of the room when Edward said:
- Wait!! You can't leave me here!
- There's a car outside, the keys are on the engine. Just start and go.
Wesker left. Edward looks around the messed up room one last time and walked out of it too. Outside the night was beautiful and the moon was full, there was something dark about it all, not only the fact that death was the only word for him and Raccoon City, there was something beyond, something evil.... He gets in the car and goes to road. Leaving the city where he lived, to die.
FIVE YEARS LATER:
Edward opened the letter one more time, his eyes passed all over the paper, giving a deep breath, he walks out of his office. At home he opens the door quietly, his wife comes.
- Edward?
- Hey...
- Hi!- she kisses him.
- Ann..... we need to talk.
Ann's face turned concerned.
- What is it?
- You know the guy from the rescue service that brought us here?
- That Wesker guy right? He is from the anti-umbrella organization, right?
- Yes, well, they want me to investigate something.... and they think that there is something about Umbrella.
- WHAT?? NO!
- Ann, honey, listen to me. They don't know anything yet.
- Oh great!!!! They don't know anything and send to some dead zone to be killed, is that it??
- No, Ann, wait.
- Edward please, don't you remember what happened to Raccoon City? Do you have any idea of what was that???
- I know!! I was there, I fought with those things!! How could I forget? And that's why I'm doing this! I cannot allow this to happen again! If there is something going on I'll try to stop it, I'll not run away again!
- You're acting like you have nobody else.........
- It's not that, Ann.... you know I love you!
- So stay.... think about us! Think about Emilly and Kevin, what am I going to tell them? That their father went somewhere to be killed by dead people? Come on Edward, think about me!
- But that's why I'm doing this damn it! I would hate to see my entire family killed by zombies or turning into them.
- We are in New York Edward, not in some middle tiny city.
- So what we are in New York?!?!?! Don't you remember September Eleventh? Two buildings and the PENTAGON were attacked, who could imagine than that could happened? It's the Pentagon for the love of god! And look what happened. There's no such thing as a safe place, if those things could happened so the zombies can! I HAVE to go.
Ann looks at him seriously with tears in her eyes.
- Fine.- she says angry.
- Ann...
He goes upstairs to his room, and pack up things, in the package of the latter was the destination and a passage to go, he looked for his passport, and walked out of his room. Near the door Ann runs towards him and hug him tight crying.
- I love you, honey! Just come back alive for my, I'll kill you if you die, you bastard!
Edward smiles and kiss her with dearness.
- I will. Tell the kids I love 'em.
- Ok...
And then Edward leaves to the airport. His destination.... Brazil.
a/n: Man this chapter is huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge!!!!! So.... wait for the next chapter guys, if there is someone reading it....