Disclaimer: A lot of stuff Kain reads is from the files of RE Zero, Code: Veronica and Weksers' Report

Kain held the red jewel in his claws and regarded it curiously. Such a strange object to find in such a place… and the riddle on the statue-puzzle … about releasing it's red soul… All Kain had to do was rearrange the two flanking statues to acquire it from the central figure… The strange grinding of cogs beneath the tiled floor alerted him as to when he had placed the statue in the right position. He was rewarded with this item, no doubt a bigger piece of an even bigger puzzle. What confirmed this was the previous red jewel he had acquired from the paining above a fireplace in the storeroom just before he had encountered Sherry. He had torn into the painting upon realising the irrelevance of having a fireplace in a storeroom in the first place and saw it as a puzzle, the likes of which inhabited the Spencer estate, and he had been right.

On the Internet, he downloaded a file mentioning something about a puzzle in the mansion facility that included two jewels; a red one and a blue one. He didn't get much more time to examine these findings as the website had mysteriously been taken down later that day. Umbrella was apparently making quite sure that this now sensitive topic was being erased from the public eye and had obviously sent that team of masked men to recover the G-virus to avoid any more 'revelations' but ironically it had generated quite the opposite effect…

As he moved to open the door at the end of the corridor that contained this red jewel puzzle, Kain placed the jewel itself in a hip pack he'd taken from a corpse of one of the zombie officers he had slain back in the operation room with that little human child. Beyond this door was yet another corridor that, if the directions he had received from an officer on patrol a day earlier had been correct contained the door to the S.T.A.R.S office itself. The room was of significance to the events playing out this night so a little visit was very much in order…

He opened the dingy door to a room he sensed was full of memory and felt himself shudder somewhat from the strange sensations left behind in this little office. With his vampiric senses, all Kain could detect from the entire city, including most of the R.P.D was the same sensation of total defeat and annihilation, the supernatural essences of this world disgusted and full of woe to the point that even a human could possibly be able to detect such an aura, but from the moment Kain opened the door to the S.T.A.R.S pokey little office, a wave of nostalgia hit him. It seemed this place was full of memory and want for the days when these few cluttered desks were used by the men and women of the R.P.D S.T.A.R.S.

Seeing that the room was free from immediate danger, Kain let himself slip deeper into the supernatural force that lay parallel to this world. His soul felt lighter and his moods became less and less his own as he began to enter what humans would have called a trance-like state. Ethereal forces still existed in this world, for all of its technology, and drifting within its misty power were wisps of the memories of the land. Through his mind echoed sudden female laughter, as the memories took form in his own mind in random, meaningless shards like parts of a recalled dream. On a desk was a woman in a bluish uniform wearing a beret laughing at a young man also in some kind of uniform. Kain opened his eyes as he recalled this, looking to the very spot where he saw this happen. He watched the still, messy desk where the woman had sat that summer evening, and gradually remembered why she was laughing at that young man…

He was wearing some kind of brown leather of denim, strumming a guitar and talking, joking with the woman. Kain too smiled in fondness when he saw that the same jacket was now hung on the wall next to the desk, and the image on the back tickled him slightly. 'Made In Heaven' it read, and there was an image of an angel holding a bomb and on the floor propped against the desk was the guitar, a bit worn from use but defiantly the same one the young man had been using.

Kain looked right to a communications desk full of strange lights and dials and at them saw a man in yellow working them in the images he was detecting. Alas, it was the same S.T.A.R.S operative that had been the zombie that attacked him out in front of the R.P.D, and turning his head this time to the right, he was caught off guard by what the strange other worldly sensations where telling him when he sensed two very different things off to the right of the room.

The desk closest to him was littered with replica guns and had a kind of matured and calm presence about it, but that was not what concerned had him. The farthest desk, the one with the most cluttered files and apparently presided over them all, had a similar kind of presence to it as William's soul. It was not William's presence, but that of a man in possession of a very similar wicked heart. Kains' curiosity tore him from his trance-like state as his curiosity gripped him, but to his surprise, as he drifted from his extra-sensory ability, something otherworldly stayed with him. He hadn't noticed it before because it had been masked by the presence of the S.T.A.R.S members when his mind was drifting through the sense of time and reality but now it was apparent to him.

Kain stayed still but ready as his vampiric abilities told him that the presence was of a spirit, slowly becoming stronger and stronger as it struggled to enter the world of men. Kain watched wordlessly as the figure of a blonde man slowly hazed into view, standing with his legs and lower half phased through the desk of the evil S.T.A.R.S member. The spirit was of a fairly handsome blonde man in a white lab coat with mournful blue eyes. He looked at Kain with a visage of abject sorrow, and simply stood through the desk, as if waiting….

"Who are you, spirit?" Kain commanded. There were a few moments of painful silence, before the spirit gradually said;

"…John Howe… Of the Arklay facility…"

"You were in the mansion disaster?" Kain inquired.

John just gently nodded, not letting up on his hurt expressions.

"What happened to you?" Kain asked, seriously curious

"…I… don't know exactly… We thought it was something to do with the water tank bursting in the basement… but the T-virus that infected all of us was… from a different source… I've heard since that it was a vengeance campaign by an ex-employee…"

"Much like what's happening to this city now." Kain said with a somewhat edge of humour in his tone. John didn't find it very funny, infact he didn't even react to the comment. His head slowly dropped, looking down at the files and papers he was standing through, and slowly, one thick file of paper stapled together in one corner was drawn from the stacks and fell to the floor with a soft thump.

"This was what he was looking for." John said, and Kain realised that the main desk John was standing through was messy because someone had apparently hurriedly searched it before giving up. "You should check it out. It has stuff in there that William wanted to keep from you."

"You know William?" Kain asked, but the realised that John had already vanished.

Kain frowned. John had been particularly cryptic about his responses, and Kain had taken into mind that he appeared much more saddened by what was going on that the man whom had committed this atrocity himself; William Birkin.

Kain moved over to the files on the floor and picked up the hefty wad of paper that had landed open on a page, making sure he read at that one, as John's enigmatic behaviour would likely be reflected by causing the file to land upon the page of most significance. Kain read the first line in his head.

'Bandersnatch' - OR1 – Antarctica Facility… Kain continued to read. 'Cerberus' - MA-39 – All Facilities, 'Chimera' - MA-2 – Arklay Laboratory Facility, 'Hunter Prototype' - MA-120 – Arklay Laboratory Facility, 'Hunter Alpha' - MA-121 Alpha – Moved To Raccoon City Chemical Plant; Capsule Room, 'Hunter Beta' - MA-121 – Moved To Raccoon City Hospital, 'Beta Hunter Gamma' - MA-124 Gamma – Move To Raccoon City Hospital…

It appeared that when a specimen was moved, the original location would be stated, then the destination, then the move date for example, the Hunter Prototype had next to it's name 'Arklay R. Chemical Plant - Jan '97'. This list would have been of great power to someone who desired to hurt the Umbrella Corporation, and if the man whom had owned this desk really was in the same boat as William had been, then it was highly likely he had tried to find these notes for that reason but gave up, assuming them stolen, or the alternative scenario was that a rival company member had tried to find them and had been disturbed somehow. John had left figuring out that part up to-

-Kain's yellow eyes widened when he noticed a name beneath a listing of Ivy botany experiments.

" 'Kain' – K-VAM –01 – Location Classified Antarctica Facility –" And the icing on the cake was the date. "Jul '91…"

Kain had to fight the boiling rage within his heart to prevent tearing these documents into tiny shreds. He had been in an unconscious state within similar tanks full of amnionic for at least seven years! William had not told him how long he had been in such a state, but Kain assumed that because William was amongst the men that acquired him from this 'classified location', then he would have been transported directly to his Chemical Plant for the cloning experiments, which William had made clear had taken only a couple of months but these documents revealed that he had spent a great amount of time being transported from facility to facility all over this disgusting world before coming to the final destination of Umbrella's Raccoon City Chemical Plant in October of last year. Kain flipped through the papers and found himself becoming even more offended every time the lists referred to him as 'K-VAM-01'.

"Just what were they doing with me for all that time?" Kain spat involuntarily, but as he finished those words, another file fell to the floor for apparently no reason.

Kain didn't hesitate to drop this list of experiments and pick up this one instead, some kind of report from the man who once owned this desk. As it had landed, several pages had become creased and Kain took that as Johns way of telling him he wished for him to view those pages. Kain read the first page with a creased corner aloud.

"My plan was to prolong the time in which the host would survive, so that we would gain the credit to the 'Nemesis project'. The host would be that women test subject. Her incredible life rate could survive longer against the Nemesis prototype. And even if it failed, nothing would change on our side. But the test had created a result I had not expected. The Nemesis prototype that tried to enter her brain had disappeared. At first, we could not tell what had happened. We did not expect her to consume the Nemesis. That was the beginning.

Something was happening inside of that failed experiment. We had decided to start research on her from scratch. In the past ten years, we had conducted every research possible on her, but we had decided to throw all those files away.

Within the 21 years that she lived, something was beginning to show. Only Birkin had begun to notice the change. Indeed, something had begun to change inside her. But that was something totally different from the T-Virus project. Something new and would bring a new idea to us. The "G-Virus" project was the project that had changed our destiny."

That was the end of the first page, and Kain felt his heart shiver at the realisation of what he had just read. This 'woman test subject' they kept referring to had the T-virus mutate into something more inside of her, mutate into Williams beloved G-virus, the very thing he had given his life for… but what had this to do with him?

Kain continued to read onto the next creased page.

"But the "G" had no need for such a thing. No one can even expect what lies ahead with the mutations. And even if we think of a way to stop the mutation, the virus would just mutate to accommodate.

7 years ago, Birkin found this in that woman. At first look, the woman had no changes on the outside, but inside, various mutations had occurred and had kept on consuming each kind of virus injected and had lived on. And over the 21 years of mutating, it had mutated so much that it would even consume the Nemesis.

The G-Virus project was to take this mutation to highest point possible. But this could lead to the "Ultimate life form" or it could end due to a disaster...could this even be called a weapon?"

The rest was illegible. Blood had stained the sheet and the ink of writing ended there for him, but Kain felt sick when the report stated that William discovered the G-virus 7 years ago, the same time Kain was first brought to a laboratory for experiment. What had they done to him? Kain leafed back through the files and read more on that woman, how she had been a test subject for all kinds of viruses for over 30 years, chained to a bed like a mindless animal, and how William Birkin had said something under his breath when he first saw her, something that the author of these files couldn't make out whether it was cursing, swearing or praise. Kain sat on the desk with the replica firearms reading through these file, and finding not one mention of himself, not even a scenario that sounded similar to his or even the very hint that he existed. This man knew Birkin and Birkin was responsible for abducting Kain while he slept; why was he not mentioned? Even an incident as petty as William growing jealous of a child genius named Alexia was logged here, so why not something as juristic as the discovery of the vampire race?

Kain skipped to another ceased page, this one badly tattered as though it had a rough journey. The only thing Kain could make out was the had written paragraph;

"At last... I've discovered a way to build a new virus type with 'Progenitor' as a base. Mixing it with the leech DNA was the breakthrough I needed... I call this new virus 'T' for 'Tyrant'." It would seem that the T-virus was acquired using the same method the G-virus was discovered; through some kind of injecting of a virus into a host and then allowing it to mutate… Kain suspected the potency of the G-virus was down to the power of the female host and the length of time it was within her…

Kain found the last creased page, another hand written file, but this time it had been photocopied, as if taken in a manner in which no one would notice it was missing… This one began to niggle at a suspicion in Kain's mind…

"After discovering the remains of an ancient virus within the genes of a queen ant, I have been concentrating on the research of ants. The ecosystem of the ants seems truly ideal to me. There is one queen ant in each anthill, and the soldier and worker ants are the queen's slaves. They dedicate their lives to the queen. The death of the queen ant means the doom of the entire anthill.

However, the soldier and worker ants can be easily replaced as long as the queen ant is alive. This is exactly the same relationship between myself and other ignorant masses. I have succeeded in creating an ideal virus by implanting the queen ant's gene into the mother virus that Spencer found.

I used my otherwise useless father as a test subject. However, as I expected, the virus caused a rapid change in his cells, triggering the complete destruction of his brain cells and body flesh. Furthermore, a special type of poison gas was generated inside his body, that the blue herb had no effect against.

Because of this, I created an antidote in case of an emergency, and stored it inside of the weapon/chemical warehouse on the B2 floor. I have decided to name this virus with unimaginable potential, the "T-Veronica" virus. When I find out how I can fully utilize the power of wonderful virus, my great research will finally be complete.

-Alexia Ashford."

Kain was beginning to understand…. There had been a theme in all the files John had wanted him to read, and that theme was finding the right DNA to make a superior version of an existing virus with. Kain flicked through a few pages and chuckled when he discovered that this 'Alexia Ashford' woman had placed her body into stasis to gradually change her body to co-exist with the T-Veronica virus, but his laughter died in his throat when he suddenly took note of something…

His discovery coincided with the discovery of the G-virus; he was transported to Alexia's Antarctica base and placed into a kind of stasis, like her… and seven years on, he had been released… A new kind of danger was becoming apparent to him… What if they had done something similar to him with the G-virus what Alexia did to herself with the T-Veronica? Or what if, because of his vastly superior physiology, he was the target of even more genetic experiments than William told him? William only told Kain what had happened from his latest roll in the story, the roll that was most likely the only one to come up in this incident; the fact that William had made a savage copy of Kain. William didn't need to tell Kain this…

But currently, everything Kain had deduced were 'what if's and he had no real proof of the occurrence… but Kain wondered that now he had been freed from stasis this weakened, if he had been subjected to more testing, did that mean the mutation was incomplete? If so, then he would become a failed experiment, like Alexia's father…

Kain moved to the door of the S.T.A.R.S office with more motivation in the quest for answers than he had had in a great while. He needed to get this information confirmed by William, for if he was infected, William could be the only man to tell him if his life was under threat, and if so, how to overcome this.