In this chapter, Raccoon City is going to fall victim to the T-Virus! Oh no!

I guess they're going to have to change the city's name to Zombie City.

RIP

I figure I'll feature Claire and Leon in this story. In case you're a newcomer to Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 are set at roughly the same time and place. So I don't see why not.

This is my first time writing survival horror so forgive me if this fanfic isn't perfect.

That's not to say that it's my first time writing one though.

Chapter 2: The Outbreak

Jill decided to talk to Frank.

Currently, he was sitting on a bench.

He was starting to think there was something going on in Raccoon City.

"Can I help you?" questioned West.

"About the murders...did you see a smoldering crater in the forest?" asked Jill.

"Yes." nodded Frank.

"That used to be a mansion." noted the woman.

"It did? Who would want to blow up an expensive estate like that?" questioned West.

Was it some huge insurance scam?

"Rebecca did...she was worried that the murders would continue if we let the mansion be." explained Jill.

After all, some of the bioweapons inside the mansion were pretty dangerous.

Unfortunately, this meant they didn't have evidence that Umbrella was responsible for those murders.

"Rebecca?" asked Frank.

"She was a member of Bravo Team." explained Valentine.

"What happened to the others?" questioned West.

Something told him that the mission hadn't ended well.

"Slain by the walking dead...and other bioweapons Umbrella was working on." noted Jill.

"The walking dead? Reminds me of Willamette." remarked the news reporter.

It was thanks to him the infection didn't spread worldwide.

"So you've encountered zombies before." noted the woman. What were the odds?

However, it seemed that these zombies weren't made by Umbrella.

"That would make for a great horror movie." noted Frank West.

"I suppose it would." nodded Jill.

At that very moment, Chris showed up.

He figured he would check on his partner.

Chris became dizzy from seeing Jill in her new outfit.

"Are you alright, Chris?" asked his partner.

She sure hoped that he didn't have the T-Virus. The T might as well stand for Terminal.

Chris nodded, clearing his head.

He had decided to come back to Raccoon City to check on his sister. He had left the city to make sure that Umbrella wouldn't hunt him down.

Chris realized he hadn't written to her in a while. It was his mistake.

Something told him that something big was going to happen to the city, and he wanted to make sure she was safe.

Suddenly, a zombie approached them.

Chris recognized him as a citizen of Raccoon City.

Thankfully, Chris had a gun.

He shot it before the zombie could do any harm.

Still, the sight made him worried.

"It was bad enough that outbreak occurred in the Arklay Mountains, but now this?" asked Chris.

The mayor might as well resign from office.

Speaking of which, he heard that he was planning to leave Raccoon City, leaving his daughter with Brian Irons as protection.

"I have a pilot." said Frank.

Jill noted that perhaps Frank had a few things in common with them.

Unfortunately, when they found Ed Deluca, he was being attacked by a Tyrant.

Our heroes watched from a distance.

"What the hell is that?" asked Frank.

"It must be a Tyrant..." spoke Jill.

Though unusually, this Tyrant was female.

Perhaps Umbrella thought making it female would cause its foes to underestimate it...and pay the price for it.

"Let go of me!" demanded Ed, who had been lifted off the ground.

Unsurprisingly, Hel had superhuman strength. One could thank the T-Virus for that.

Frank attempted to use his gun, but it was already too late for Ed.

Hel ripped Ed Deluca's head clean off.

In the process, blood began to drip from it.

She then tossed the head on the floor.

Frank was going to miss him.

"Kill...Frank West..." spoke Hel.

Frank West was confused.

"Why is it after me?" questioned the news reporter.

At least now he knew why she had killed his pilot. She was cutting off his escape routes before going in for the kill, it seemed.

"I don't know, but you've got to get the hell out of here!" exclaimed Chris.

Luckily, the two of them knew a pilot.

Unfortunately, as it turned out, there was a Tyrant after Brad as well.

"STARS..." said Nemesis.

Seemed this Tyrant was targeting STARS members.

He was dressed in a trench coat. And he was wielding a rocket launcher.

While this Tyrant looked less human than Hel, he was still smart enough to wield weapons.

Again, it was too late to do anything to save the victim.

Brad had a tentacle rammed through his chest and he knew no more.

However, chances are he would later return from the dead and become a zombie.

Nemesis dropped him to the ground and began searching for other STARS members.

It looked as if it would not rest until the entire team was wiped out.

While Jill was understandably angry at Brad for abandoning them during the Mansion Incident, she did not wish such a fate to befall the unfortunate pilot. Especially since he eventually came back for them.

She would mourn his death if she escaped the city alive.

It seemed their best bet was to go to the Raccoon City Police Station.

There they could formulate a plan to escape.

Though they weren't sure how long the police could hold out.

None of them had experience dealing with the zombies...other than the surviving STARS agents of course.

Elsewhere in the city...

Leon's first day on the force was eventful, to say the very least.

He needed a job, so he decided to join the RCPD.

He had been sent to arrest a drunken man in his underpants.

You could say it was a psychopath fight, like in Dead Rising fame.

However, he was not very dangerous. The RCPD wouldn't have sent a rookie otherwise.

But shortly after he sent him to jail, he encountered a few people who seemed to be suffering from an illness.

He could tell they didn't have good intentions.

"Freeze!" exclaimed Leon, pointing his gun at the zombies.

Unfortunately, zombies were essentially deaf.

They didn't listen to him.

Leon resorted to shooting them.

Perhaps actions spoke louder than words.

He could tell they were planning to eat him.

But the zombies didn't seem to notice, which disturbed Leon.

Seemed they didn't feel pain.

However, shooting them in the head worked well.

They all died.

Leon was disturbed he had to kill people on his first day.

He wondered if he should leave the city.

He had been hearing reports about a fever...and he got the feeling this was connected to the people that attacked him.

Perhaps these were the cannibals that had been in the newspaper.

Though he wasn't sure why they would want to enter Raccoon City when it was easier to murder people out in the wilderness, where their actions would be less likely to be discovered.

Whatever the reason, he figured maybe he shouldn't leave the city yet.

He felt he should warn people first.

That way he wouldn't have anything on his conscience.

Ironically, despite being a rookie cop, Leon had a far greater moral compass than Brian Irons did, even though he was the police chief.

It was one of the mysteries of the world.

Meanwhile at Raccoon College...

Life was going well for Claire Redfield.

Why?

Because she was getting good grades.

She had also received compliments for her good work.

But it wasn't all good.

Her brother hadn't been writing to her lately.

It seemed he was busy dealing with Umbrella, which supposedly was an evil organization that liked to experiment on innocent people underneath its benevolent facade.

Chris had warned Claire not to trust them.

He also seemed to think his boss Brian Irons was untrustworthy.

He had been receiving a lot of money recently. And he didn't talk much about that.

And as of late, there was a fever going around.

She wasn't sure how it was started.

But those who had been infected had been sent to the hospital.

Luckily, she didn't have a fever.

Suddenly, a police officer approached her.

He was frightened about something.

"Can I help you, officer?" asked Claire.

"I just ran into the walking dead outside!" exclaimed Leon, sweat coming down his face.

Was he stuck in a horror movie?

After that, it seemed like it was possible.

Luckily, he had been issued a gun, even though he was a rookie.

He wondered if Brian Irons was the best police chief around, giving a gun to a rookie, but he wasn't going to question something that saved his life.

He had not run out of ammo, thank goodness, but perhaps he should run from the zombies before he tried fighting them.

He didn't know what else he was going to run into.

"The walking dead? My brother told me about that." noted the college student.

"He did? What were the chances?" asked the police officer. He heard that before him there was a team known as STARS. But Brian Irons had disbanded them.

Perhaps he hadn't been hallucinating...and shot a few innocent people. Wouldn't want to get suspended from the RCPD, now would they?

"I guess Umbrella really was responsible for that." noted Claire.

"Umbrella did this?" asked Leon.

"Yes. According to my brother, they invented a virus...which has apparently made its way into the city's water supply." remarked the college student.

But she could point fingers at them later.

For now, she needed to focus on escaping the city alive.

It was a good thing she had met a policeman.

"I don't think it's safe in Raccoon City anymore." noted Leon. Not with flesh eaters roaming around.

Though he wondered if flesh eaters were just a taste of what was to come.

Since Leon hadn't found any other survivors, he figured he should focus on his survival along with Claire's for the time being.

Though Claire wondered why she and Leon weren't infected.

Maybe there were some people immune to the virus?

It was possible.

Unbeknownst to Claire, her brother was also in the city.

Small world, wasn't it?

Luckily, she happened to be a good shot...like her brother.

It wasn't hard to tell they were related.

After all, their names were similar.

She wasn't sure whether their parents weren't very creative or they simply liked the letter C.

At an Umbrella laboratory, a scientist approached Wilford.

He had urgent information to tell him.

"Why do people keep mistaking me for a pharmacist?" asked Wilford to himself.

Maybe it was because Umbrella made medicine.

"There's been a T-Virus leak!" exclaimed a scientist to Wilford.

"What?!" exclaimed Wilford.

"Our attempt to get the G-Virus from William Birkin went horribly wrong!" shouted the scientist.

Apparently, some rats thought it was a bright idea to put the T-Virus in the town's water supply, which had spilled out of Birkin's briefcase.

Wilford realized the situation was bad.

Chances are they were going to have to nuke the city.

Or the US government was going to have to do it anyway. They couldn't risk the T-Virus spreading to other parts of the world.

It could result in an apocalypse.

However, he did not intend to leave the city without Hel.

Once she was done with his task, he would take her with him and then leave the city.

The scientist wondered what Wilford's obsession with Hel was.

Surely there had to be a reason for it.

Meanwhile...

Marvin Branagh heard the reports of a fever going around.

Apparently, victims were constantly hungry. They never seemed to stop eating, ever.

And they always seemed to have a hankering for meat...which was weird when the victim was a vegan.

It reminded him a bit of the stories that STARS had told them.

Seemed that the cannibals that had been lurking in the Arklay Mountains were victims of a virus that caused you to become a mindless monster.

Chris had encountered a diary that had been pretty disturbing. It detailed a man's gradual transformation into a zombie. It seemed it was a slow (and itchy) process.

Brian Irons had told them not to believe those stories, even though STARS Bravo had all but gone missing after investigating the Arklay Mountains.

Was there some truth in those stories?

Curious, he noticed Brad Vickers outside.

He recognized him as STARS Alpha Team's pilot.

But there was something off about him.

Surely the stories STARS Alpha had said about the zombies couldn't be true...

...right?

"So...hungry..." remarked the zombified Brad.

He took a bite out of Marvin's arm, much to his alarm.

Unfortunately, it seemed Alpha wasn't crazy as Brian had said.

And to make matters worse, he was probably going to develop the same fever that had been going around.

He figured there was a possibility he would end up like Brad would.

He considered shooting himself, but for some reason, Brian Irons was hiding all the weapons, so he didn't have a gun.

Marvin wasn't sure why the chief was doing so.

It seemed the best thing he could do was isolate himself from everyone else.

He could also drive to the hospital, but he figured the fever would make him woozy.

He just hoped that the fever wouldn't spread further.

This could end up like the Arklay Murders, but on a much grander scale.

Would Raccoon City ever be the same again?

Probably not.

Uh-oh! Raccoon City has been infected with the T-Virus! Can our heroes escape?

One can only hope.

I like to ship Claire with Leon personally. I know Leon likes Ada but Claire seems to have more in common with him than Ada does. And Ada seems like a loose cannon to me.

Fun fact: Brian Irons was supposed to be a good guy at first. But then they made him pure evil. Perhaps they figured Marvin Branagh could fill the role he had previously.

Claire was also going to be Elza Walker. But I think it was a good idea to make her related to Chris Redfield.