2. Bravo S.T.A.R.S. Preparation for Operation Arklay

Rebecca Chambers, the eighteen-year-old biochemist and medic of the Bravo S.T.A.R.S., was walking down the hall passing by many of her RPD "colleagues." She felt proud that she was the youngest ever to be recruited onto the Bravo S.T.A.R.S. especially whizzing through university in a mere year.

She had always dreamed of wanting to become a biochemist, or forensics scientist, or a microbiologist, or a pharmacist, or even a virologist, but she never really expected to fall into the line of duty—

But I got to be a biochemist for this job. She thought to herself, walking up the two flights of stairs and then down the hall. She made a left and through the door which led into another hall and then finally the S.T.A.R.S. briefing room.

The sun was shining through the windows, the fans above her hummed away, swishing warm hair down at her. She brushed her bangs out of her way, her bandana wrapped around her sweating head. Her dark brown hair was short, only so it wouldn't bother her when she was working in the labs. It was one of the lab rules, tie back long hair, which is why she had it so short.

"Becca, wait!" came a voice from behind her. She recognized the voice immediately, one of her fellow Bravos.

Rebecca turned around and saw Forest Speyer running down her way, holding a piece of paper in hand. "Hey, Forest, what's up?"

"You have to look at this…" he said, panting and waving the piece of paper in front of her. She took the paper; it was a newspaper clip from today's paper.

"'A jogger was found mutilated in Raccoon Park at 12:30 this after noon by passersby. When the Coroner had reached the park they had found teeth marks all over the jogger's body. It seemed that her fleshed was ripped off by what could be an animal or that of humans. The Coroner took the jogger's body in today shortly after taking pictures of the jogger's mutilated body.' Are you saying that this might be another cannibal attack—and in the same vicinity?" Rebecca asked Forest, handing him back the newspaper clipping.

"Well, Maria, from the Coroner's told us that those marks are in fact that of a human. But what's strange is that the body had only been dead for a mere fifteen minutes or so. But what's even stranger is the coagulated blood found on her wounds, and also rotten flesh. The body doesn't decompose until hours, right?"

"Well if the body was open-wounded and left out in the sun it could possibly rot to any extent, but coagulated blood?"

"And here's something else, the blood found on the victim's body didn't match hers. So it must've come from the predator, which's carrying the other victim's blood on him—possibly his mouth." Forest said, squirming at the thought of a person walking around with blood on his lips. Rebecca recoiled as well, not really wanting to picture someone walking around with coagulated blood and rotten flesh on their lips.

"And there also seems to be something extra in the coagulated blood that was passed on to the victim. But the Coroner has yet to discover what it is, exactly." Forest said, and then walking up closer to her and put his hand on her shoulder and said, "Well, we had better get to the briefing."

"Yeah," Rebecca said, turning around, still having the thought of a psycho with rotten flesh and blood on his face, it was disgusting.

The S.T.A.R.S. office was nothing special, there were only three desks, plus one for Captain Wesker, which was all the way in the back. The communications system was up in front next to the weaponry locker. Brad Vickers was their communications man, he wasn't really the combat type, and he was a sort of coward really. The S.T.A.R.S. had given him a nickname by the name of Chickenheart Vickers. She didn't really like him.

Rebecca walked over to the desk that she shared with the Alpha team's Barry Burton, who wasn't there at the time. The desk that she shared with Burton was right in front of Wesker's, her back facing him, but he wasn't there at the time. The Bravo team captain was Enrico Marini, a tall and brutal-looking man.

"Alright men—and woman—we've been called in to inspect the happenings of the cannibal attacks near the Arklay Mountains. We are to investigate and find any clues that lead us towards the culprit or culprits behind these sick attacks. Wesker left me his floor plan of the Arklay Forest so we'll be entering somewhere around sector seven-B, people. That's where the jogger was found, near the opening of the forest and then into the park.

"If any one of us finds any shred of evidence report it to me, ASAP. Now remember, these psychos could be hostile—"

"Could be hostile, Captain?" Kenneth Sullivan shouted.

"Fine, they are hostile psychos, and they could be looking for more chances to attack so we're gonna have to be extremely careful. And also, due to past animal attacks near the parks and forests as well, we might as well suspect that they have guard dogs roaming around for them so be extra diligent. Alright then, men, pack up and get ready to head for the helipad in five!"

Rebecca got out of the chair she was sitting in and walked down the aisle and then making a left where she kept her utility belt and compressed kit. She was like a walking laboratory. She checked her health supplies—first aid spray, band aids, rubbing alcohol, cottons, gauze—the works. Then she checked her other pouch, her "portable" laboratory which she brought in case she needed to collect some evidence.

"Flasks, tubes, beakers, pipettes, forceps, Ziploc bags—check and check. Now, let's see," she walked down towards the locker where the weapons were stored. She took the key from Edward and unlocked it and took out all the weaponry they can take. She took a box of ammo for herself and handed out the rest for the others.

She took the standard S.T.A.R.S. Beretta and loaded the magazine with a fresh clip. She handed Richard a fresh clip as well as he walked up towards her. She always had a feeling that he somewhat liked her, she didn't mind, really, but she really cared for an Alpha…Chris Redfield.

"Thanks, Becca," he said, taking the clip from her hand.

They were now ready for liftoff, but first she needed to head down the lockers and get the duffel bag to carry all of their supplies.

She walked past a fellow officer, Marvin, the African-American man, who was really nice towards Rebecca. She then made it to the locker and grabbed the duffel bag and threw all the ammo and weaponry she could find in the locker room. She walked over to her locker and opened it; she found a nice romance book at the bottom. On top of that she found she found her sweatshirt and vest, a special Kevlar for the medic, in which she was the medic.

She was about to leave the lockers when she saw Chris Redfield enter. She froze in her place and stared at him with much affection.

"Hey, Becca," he said.

He was only a couple years older than her; there was nothing wrong with that. She replied to him, waving him hi, "Hey, Chris,"

"Are you guys leaving already?" he asked her, she said nothing but nod at him. "What's the problem this time?" he asked her, placing himself on one of the cots.

"The cannibal attacks, sir," she said. She was used to addressing her superiors that way even though it felt weird.

"C'mon, Becca, you don't have to go along with the 'sir' crap. Just call me Chris," he said. "Well, you'd better be going, I saw Kenneth and he told me to come and get you 'cause they're ready for liftoff."

"'Kay, thanks, sir—I mean Chris," Rebecca said, taking the duffel and walking back to the helipad.

"Hurry, Chambers!" Enrico exclaimed over the humming of the blades of the 'copter. Rebecca rushed over to the helicopter, with the duffel slung over her shoulder. She climbed into the 'copter and they were now fully ready for takeoff.

Rebecca found her seat next to Richard Aiken, handing out more gun magazines to the rest of her teammates as well as the floodlights for the guns. She snapped hers on as soon as she gave one to Richard.

"Alright, we will reach our destination in thirty, by then it would about nightfall," Enrico said, stating it to the lot of them. "And once we land we'll split up and search the entire vicinity."