It had finally happened , a family of four had been killed right in the city in there own home, the press got to it before the Chief locked it down meaning the public now knew that there were cannibals, but also that it had been hidden.
The mayor was running damage control, and had finally had the STARS put on it.
Wesker had Zane set up a briefing and they were to leave the day after.
They were now in the station where Zane had prepared everything.
Zane started," Okay here's what we know, several months ago hikers started going missing in the mountains, at first they were reported lost, when the first bodies turned evidence was found of canine, most likely wolves, involvement, as you all know by know the next few bodys were partially eaten by what we can only assume to be cannibals, we now believe this to be some kind of cult, most likely doped up, and mentally unstable, negotiations aren't expected, be prepared for armed and extremely dangerous, okay that's were we stand now, Captain your up."
Wesker, " Thank you Harper, Bravo team will be heading in first with Alpha as backup, get ready, as Harper said, prepare for armed and dangerous, dismissed."
As Zane was about to leave he was called over by Wesker, who was already talking to Enrico, and Chris.
Wesker said, " Harper you'll be going in with Bravo, you know the most about the suspects, get ready you leave tomorrow."
" Understood sir, I'll get ready."
On the ride to there apartment complex, Zane and Rebbeca were mostly silent, talking about the case when they did.
The next day at the station, Zane was wearing a black shirt with STARS patches on the shoulders, black cargo pants, black boots, elbow and knee pads, his vest ' which had STARS across his back and ' Z. Harper' on the left breast.
( His outfit looks similar to Leon Kennedy in the ' Resident Evil 2 remake.)
He had padded fingerless gloves, a thigh holster for his pistol, his Anaconda was on the left side of his stomach, a belt with porches and mag holders, his knife was on the back of his right hip, his harness was on, and the single strap bag was across his back.
( His set up looks similar to Barry's in Revelations 2, but the backpack is a sling bag.)
As he and Bravo team had been in the helicopter for about an hour when he saw that Rebbeca looked nervous.
He said," Relax Becs , we'll be fine, remember our training, and keep calm."
She smiled , and blushed a little at the nickname, and said," Yeah your right thanks, I needed to hear that."
Enrico came over thd comms" If you two love birds are done flirting, were nearing the drop point.
Everyone chuckled, even the two in question, unaware of the horrors that awaited them.
My name is Zane Harper, rookie STARS officer in Raccoon City, my first case was a series of abnormal murders in the mountains and suburbs of the city, we were sent to investigate, I believed our traning could have prepared us for anything, I was wrong, we never stood a chance against the nightmares that we would face.
Out of nowhere a loud sound is headed and the helicopter shook and began to lose altitude.
The pilot yelled," Everybody brace, this one's gonna be rough."
And it was if they weren't strapped In they would've gone flying, but they managed, immediately they jumped out in order to check the perimeter, while the pilot tried to either fix the chopper, or sent out an SOS.
Enrico said, " All right people, check the perimeter, we don't know where we ended up."
They spread out when Rebbeca yelled ou
" Captain, you should see this."
They all came over and saw an overtured MP jeep.
Zane went for a closer look, while everyone was reading a file.
Rebbeca was reading, " Prisoner transfer, Billy Coen, ex- lieutenant, US marine corp, charged with disobeying a direct order, murder, and desertion, court marshaled and sentenced to death."
While they were talking Zane grabbed a few papers from the wreck, and saw some kind if slime dripping from the jeep. He also noticed something very alarming.
He yelled," Sir, one of the marines is missing his service weapon, most likely the prisoner took it, meaning he has at least fifteen shots, more if he took spare mags."
Enrico cursed, " Shit , alright as of now groups of two, stay together and watch your backs, we need to get a move on, this man is brutal and ruthless, so if you see or hear anything, shout we'll all come running, keep in touch on comms, move out people."
Zane and Rebbeca went a ways, when they found a train.
Zane called, " Sir are there any train tracks that go through this forest?"
Enrico answered, " No, but keep in mind we may have flown off course do to the storm, investigate the train, and remember, watch each others backs."
Zane and Rebbeca climb up, but behind them the door slams, and locks itself.
Zane remembers a piece of poetry he read once, And now the door to saftey is locked.
Zane and Rebbeca look around.
" Hey Becs, you noticed all the blood."
She said " Yeah, but no bodies, mabye a wreck, injuries but no fatalities, but still this is alot of blood."
They went to the next cart where they found a body in the seat, at its feet was a radio, Rebbeca picked it up, but then they hear a moaning sound, both turn around and the body, with grey, flaking, skin was standing, and moving , Rebbeca was ready to run, but when they turned they saw two more shambling out, they quickly drew there weapons and Zane opened fire.
Three shots hit one in the chest, one going through the heart, it barely stumbled, before going at them again.
Zane was stunned, " What the fuck?"
Rebbeca was fairing no better, her shots just slowing it down, but they were getting closer, Zane remained, and put a 9mm directly between one of the things eyes, it fell like a puppet with cut strings.
He yelled to Rebbeca, " Headshots, aim for the head!"
He saw the other was to close, so he quickly put away his pistol and unsheathed his knife, he dodged to the side when it lunged at him, the thrust the knife up in to the back of it head, directly into the brain.
He looked back and saw Rebbeca had taken care of the one near her as well, but she was shaking and beginning to freak out , and to a degree, he could guess why, Rebbeca believed in facts, science, in there being order in the world, what they just saw, corpses walking, put everything she believed to the ultimate test.
Zane tried to calm her," Rebbeca, are you okay?"
She looked at him and began to shake her head, " No, nonono, Zane what did we just see, that man was dead, dead, the dead don't walk around, and you shot that one in the heart, how was he still moving, Zane what's happening ."
Zane just hugged her while she freaked out, after a minute she started to calm down.
" Okay, okay I'm better wh- what do we do now?"
They walked to the next compartment, guns ready, and went into the first cabin.
In it was a book on the counter, and a body on the bottom bunk, Rebbeca was reading the book, while Zane took a look at the body.
He found some handgun ammo while Rebbeca read the book. He also noticed the bodie was covered in slime.
Rebbeca told him, " Zane this is a journal, it's talking about some kind of virus, mutations, and controlling effects, what the hell did we stumble into?"
Zane said " I have no idea, but if there is some kind of virus we need to be very careful, good thing I packed a few provisions. We can't trust any of the food here."
They both moved back out into the train.
At that moment two men in full tactical gear walked to the stopped train, they climed up and went to the control room, and began to start the train.
" Control, eclipse train will be moving any minute, once at hidden station we will begin perimeter check and report in, over."
" Rodger, remember this misson is time sensitive, if these killings are related to the virus we need to contain the outbreak, the next team will be arriving in a week, after that we can begin production, over."
" Rodger, we'll be ready, the train will be moving soon, over and out."
Zane and Rebbeca went to the next room, which seemed to be safe, all things considered, where they found more papers, and herbs.
While Rebbeca used her kit to process the herb, Zane took the time to read the papers he took from the jeep, they went into more detail on Coen's crimes, his team apparently went on a mission after being told to return, when the team sent to retrieve them found them, a village of twenty three people was dead, and the three remaining members of his team testified that Billy had opened fire on the civilians, at which point his team knocked him out.
Zane looked and saw Rebbeca reading the file that was in the room.
He asked " What's that?"
She told him " Parts are covered in blood, but it seems to be some kind of mission briefing, somthing about a lab out in the woods, could that be where this train goes."
Zane had a thought " Mabye we could find a shceduel, or something tha could tell us where we are, or at least where this train was going?"
With no better idea Zane went to look in the carriage they came in while Rebbeca checked ahead, she almost immediately came upon a body that had been nearly torn to shreds, she was getting a key out of its hands when she heard steps behind her, she spun around and saw a man in his mid twenties, long brown hair, gray sleeveless shirt, jeans and, boots, also the small fact that he had a pistol aimed at her.
She said, " Billy, lieutenant Coen. The prisoner being transferred for execution."
Coen said, " You seem to know me, been fantasizing about me have you?"
She saw a movement behind him, " Sorry I'm spoken for, in fact, speaking of..."
At that moment Zane grabbed Billy's wrist, disarming him and using some zip cuffs he had on him.
He looked at her, " Can I leave you alone for one minute, reladed note, were was this guy hiding, he must have gone straight past me."
They were preparing to bring him when a body was thrown through the window, and crashed against the wall, looking closer they saw the body belonging to there companion, Edward's.
Rebbeca ran over, " Edwards, oh my God, what happened."
Edwards looked bad, he was torn up and bloodied, he weakly looked at them and told them.
" You two n-need to be careful the f-forest is full of z-zombies and monsters."
Having said his piece he slumped over and died.
Rebbeca cried for his passing, Zane closed his eyes and saw he was holding a box of ammo for their pistols, he took it believing Edwards would want them to have it.
They heard Billy mutter, " I'm sorry, I know what it's like, to lose a teammate, for what it's worth."
Zane said, " It's worth plenty, thanks."
They went to the ' safe ' room and sat on the floor, Zane asked Billy questions, intending to find out if he was guilty, by looking for micro movements to know if he was lying.
" Billy Coen , ex - second lieutenant , US marines, correct?"
Billy nodded, " Yes, all correct."
He now had a read on him and asked the big question.
" Are you responsible for the cold blooded murder of twenty three innocent African villagers?"
Billy flinched, " No, My team was dropped away from our objective, a suspected terrorist base, on the way through the jungle we were hit relentlessly by gureila fighters, and a fever hit killing more than half of them on the way, when we finally arrived there were four of us, we made it but it wasn't the gurrilla base, it was just a small village. The others didn't care, I'm pretty sure they were sick too, they decided instead of going back empy handed, to kill the villagers and incriminate them as rebels, when I protested they knocked me out, when I woke up I was in handcuffs and on my way to a court martial, I didn't kill those men in the jeep either, some kind of freaky dog got in the way of the jeep, when they turned we crashed, when I got up I heard those things so I grabbed the guard's pistol and ran, well that's the whole story, so Mr. shrink you believe me."
Zane had been paying attention to his reactions the whole time, he had shown anger, regret, disgust, and resignation, but nothing that made him believe he was lying.
He stood up, walked over to Billy, and used a lockpick to get the cuff off his wrist.
He told the stunned ex-marine, " I believe you, I don't trust you, not yet, but I believe you."
To Billy this meant alot, since he woke up from that nightmare of a misson no one had believed him, his team, the murdering traitors, had claimed he lost his mind to the fever that killed the rest of them, his commanding officers just found him despicable, and the courts wanted him proven guilty as quickly as possible to avoid a diplomatic incident, this was the first time someone was willing to believe him.
Zane handed him his weapons back, " Prove to me that you can be trusted, and I'll see what I can do about clearing your name, deal?"
Now both Billy and Rebbeca were stunned, if she were by herself Rebbeca was honest enough to admit she would probably just let him run, but Zane was willing to put his career, and freedom, on the line.
To Billy, who over the last few months had lost all faith in the system, it ment a chance to live his life again, he knew he would never serve again, but he wouldn't have to live on the run, that was worth the risk.
He took the gun and knife, " Deal, it- this means alot to me, both the trust and the chance, so thanks."
Zane said, " Well looks like we're in this together now, so let's get to it.
That's this chapter done, you may have noticed, I tried to make a somewhat realistic reaction from Rebbeca, and intended to try to keep that going, when I mentioned how Zane will try to clear Billy's name I have a long term plan for Zane and his part in the fight against bioterrorism , also it was kinda spur of the moment to include Billy, but what can I say, So something some of you may have noticed this is not a perfect recreation of the game with an OC for a few reasons 1 some people just skip parts because there just that, 2 There are alot of Resident evil games and trying to remember all the details of each nearly gave me an aneurism, but here we are hope everyone is excited for the next chapter, read and review and everyone have a good one.