Inside the medical room, Leon continues to rest. While his mind is still as sharp as ever, he has never been as vulnerable as now. From the curtain doors, a large man walks in, scanning the room and coming about the unconscious Leon. It's Ruven, after being with his friends and family, he decided to search the place for anything of interest. He stands there, staring down at the man, who has no means of escape. Ruven begins to search the room, soon coming upon a medical saw, a simple tool before technology. He analyzes it and slowing walks towards Leon.
Suddenly, someone enters the room.
Ruven drops the saw back where he grabbed it before the person could notice. He turns to see someone he hasn't met before, Helena. "W-who are you?" she asks.
"The names Ruven," he replies, "and you?"
"My names Helena Harper."
"Helena? Hmm… wait, you're Deborah's sister, right?"
"How do you know that?"
"I'm from Jacob's side of the family, we had a little get together to celebrate. Which begs the question, why didn't you show up?"
"I was recuperating after the false attack."
"I see."
Helena stands there for a moment, until she hears someone behind her. She turns to see Ustonia. "Excuse me," she says to her, "I need to get through, I have patient there."
At first, Helena thinks she means Ruven, but she looks behind him to Leon on the table.
"Leon?!"
She runs towards him and tries to get a response. Ustonia follows behind calmly. "He's unconscious, it's anyone's guess when he'll wake up."
She looks towards Ruven and walks behind him to grab her medical saw. Suddenly, Leon begins to stir. Ruven soon hurries to leave the room. "I have to go."
Before he could, Ustonia stops him for a moment. "Why were you in here?"
"I was looking for something, but I seems it's not here. Sorry for entering without permission."
With that, Ustonia lets him leave, just before Leon wakes up. At first, his vision is blurry, but he's soon able to see the person he's been looking for the whole time. "Helena?" he says while reaching out with his hand. "Yes Leon, it's me." she replies back.
He slowly sits up with a groan and shakes his head. He's soon filled with relief to see his friend was safe. "Helena, you… you…"
"What's wrong Leon?"
"... You owe me a vacation after this."
They both laugh for a moment before he realizes where he is. After a few minutes, he's able stand and, somewhat, move. Ustonia checks his joints, nerve reactions, and anything else. She's surprised to see him recover after an attack from those creatures. "Okay, you seem to have suffered no severe damage, and your friend is a few rooms down the hall to the left."
"Friend?... Chris?!"
Leon tries to hurry, but Helena stops him. "Easy, easy, there's no need to rush. The danger has past. Besides, you're not in the best condition right now."
"I've been worse on the field, but okay."
They follow Ustonia's directions and come upon an open door. They walk in to find Chris and Hunnigan, having waited patiently for his recovery. "Hunnigan." Leon says. As he comes to hug her, he stops awkwardly. "What's wrong?" she asks in confusion.
"Sorry… still getting use to the fact that you're here."
"I couldn't leave you with all the fun. Oh, that reminds me, what's the status back home."
"Ada Wong is in B.S.A.A. custody. Chris and I have been tracking a dangerous man through the forest here. He might still be out there, we need to find him, now."
"Any unique features?"
With that, Leon describes his appearance, including his name. When Helena hears his name, she freezes in shock. She soon leaves the room in a hurry to find Ruven. Leon stops and both he and Chris follow her. They walk for some time until they come upon two figures down the hall they were in. It's Ruven talking with Dylon. They only catch a bit of their conversation before they stop to see them running towards them. "I'm sorry, but they either leave or I take care of them," Ruven says.
"That's an irresponsible and ridiculous offer, why would I…," Dylon stops when Helena and the others come into view. At the sight of Ruven, Chris sprints passed Helena in anger. Before he manages to throw a punch, Dylon catches his fist in a flash. "Chris, it's nice to finally meet you, or are you Leon?"
He ignores what Dylon said and tries to reach or his weapons, only to see his armored vest is stripped of almost everything. Helena tries to stop him to explain. "Chris, what's wrong?"
He turns back at her, frustrated and angered. "This bastard killed all my men and nearly me and Leon."
"Well, those things in the forest did that of their own will." Ruven adds.
Chris immediately turns back to him and lands a punch right on his face. The blow knocks his mask clean off. Aside from flinching from the punch, Ruven shows no care.
Dylon stands in between the two and speaks to both of them. "Chris, calm down, there's no need to resort to violence," he pauses and turns to Ruven, "and you, treat him with some respect, otherwise I'll be the angry one."
Ruven nods and reaches for his mask on the floor. "Okay, will play it by your rules," he says while putting his mask back on. Chris comes towards Dylon with a demanding attitude. He says while pointing into his face "Listen here, I don't know what you are, but this freak of nature…"
He stops as Dylon grabs his hand and slowly begins to squeeze it. The growing pain causes Chris to drop to his knees. "This freak of nature is family, but I assure you, he won't go without a punishment. What he did was thoughtless and idiotic."
He releases his hand and walks down the hall with Ruven and the others following behind.
Dylon escorts everyone into the library, except for Ruven, along with Piers, who watches him. Dylon has a chair in front of his next to the fireplace. He gestures to Chris to sit down. Reluctantly, he does so while Leon, Hunnigan, and Helena stand to the side. "Listen," Dylon starts, "Ruven already told me about his time when he separated from Jacob."
"And?" Chris asks.
"I find his trip… unpleasant, however, he wasn't after you and the B.S.A.A. intentionally."
"I know, he was after Ada Wong and killed everything in his path like a psychopath."
"That's just it, the encounter with this Ada was accidental, he just so happened to take his chance for revenge. He showed me this."
Dylon pulls out a small piece of cloth. The cloth has a patch on it that only had the initials "E.S.F." and nothing to indicate what it stands for. He hands it to Chris, who examines it thoroughly. "What's this?" he asks.
"A patch Ruven snagged from a group of soldiers he was chasing to begin with. He said he found them hiding down in one of the abandoned buildings in the town in Europe you and your team were in. He killed them all and encountered Ada. You know the rest."
"But… I don't understand. Who's 'E.S.F'? I never seen a military force with this initial."
Hunnigan walks towards Chris asking "may I see that?"
He hands her the patch and she looks at it from each angle, but with no luck or clue. She turns to Dylon saying "please, you must have some technology here, any computers, just so I can analyze this."
Dylon ponders for a while before standing and turning to the bookshelf. He grabs one of the books and reaches behind the spot it was in. A click sounds off and part of the wall begins to move. Chris stands up and backs away as it reveals a destroyed entrance. Suddenly, the door opens and Piers's voice could be heard. "Uh… Dylon?"
They look to see Maya stomping over to Chris. She immediately starts punching and kicking him in the leg with the power of a kitten. "Big meany, you wanna hurt Uncle Ruv!"
"Sweety," Dylon says walking over and picking her up. "Now is not the time. I am trying to help our friends."
"That was cute, seeing her angry." Ruven says with a chuckle. He walks in with Piers behind him. Dylon takes Maya to Helena, who holds her in her hands. "Helena, watch over Maya while I help Hunnigan," he pauses and looks to Piers. "Piers, I might need your help too."
Dylon stands by the entrance as Hunnigan and Piers walk over. They look through it to see it's an elevator, the ground too far down to see. "You might want to hold on," Dylon says, instantly grabbing onto them and jumping down. Everyone runs towards the entrance and look down to see them disappear into darkness. A loud thud comes and Chris calls out. "Piers! Hunnigan! Are you alright?!"
A response comes back. "Yes! Shocked, but okay!"
The three find themselves in what remains of a destroyed lab. Hunnigan is shocked to see such technology, recognizing how advance it is, yet how destroyed it was too. "If we could find a power source, we could activate one of these terminals and you could use it." Dylon says, gesturing to Hunnigan.
Right after what he said, he and Hunnigan turn to Piers. He understands why Dylon wanted him to come down with them.
After a few minutes of searching, Hunnigan finds a relatively undamaged terminal. Dylon opens up the panels and find wires to connect to the electrically charged prongs on Piers's mutated arm. he gives some juice and the terminal instantly powers up. it even has what was on the screen before being shut down abruptly. Hunnigan gets to work. From the inside of her glasses, she pulls off what appears to be a small usb stick. Dylon is surprised she had it. In response, she says "I always come prepared."
She begins using the terminal to gain access to her computer files to scan the patch. The terminal has a useful scanner by the side of it. She loads the patch into the opening and it begins scanning. After about ten minutes, the scan is complete. Hunnigan is given file after file of encrypted information, however, they're child's play for her. Once they were decrypted, she goes to work, reading each one. Suddenly, she gasps in shock. "What's wrong?" Dylon asks.
"These files… they say the soldiers came from the company that owned this lab."
Dylon is just as shocked. He recalls Ruven saying the soldiers were following him and Jacob. He realizes it was the same people. He becomes angered by this, but soon calms down and decides to bring them back up.
Everyone, along with Scott, Hunter, and Ustonia, stand around Dylon and Hunnigan while she holds a hand-held computer. She points the screen to everyone and starts. "Okay, from what we could gather, and a few of us know, this place was created by Entity, a company similar to Umbrella. When I learned of this, I figured they were making the same mistakes. But, it's much worse. The encrypted files talk of one main goal, 'Extinction of the Human Race'"
Everyone was in shock, especially Chris and Leon.
Hunnigan continues. "It seems Verden, the head founder of this company, discovered what Umbrella was doing in Raccoon City. He revealed his knowledge of this and considered a proposition. In exchange for 'Unique Specimens', his company would have access to the T-virus and conduct studies of their own. Unknown to all who worked for him, verden somehow saw the 'Specimens' as something more. He went crazy and saw the specimens as new beings to inherit the earth. So he created this lab on this unknown island and, along with the other creatures being produced, sawed out to create the monstrosity under this mass of rock."
Dylon adds "the guardian of this place. They nicknamed it 'Apocalypse'."
Hunnigan continues. "However, one of the scientist saw the "Specimens" as the only ones needed to wipe out humans. In his delusional state, he destroyed this place, which was supporting Apocalypse, and actually put the creature in a state of Hibernation."
"However, it was still active, guarding this place, as its home, from any non viral or parasitic creatures, seeing them as his own kind." Dylon adds.
"So what does this mean?" Leon asks.
"Well… if it somehow awakens… it will carry out its purpose, global infection."
No one could process what she said. Entity created a doomsday creature, and they have been above it this whole time.
Hunnigan finishes. "So, we can't let this thing live. Dylon has allowed me to contact the B.S.A.A.. Unfortunately, any transmitter here is too damaged and weak to be of any use. Also, if either I, Chris, or any of use not infected try to leave, we'll be killed."
"So, for the time being, we'll discuss a plan for one of 'us' to go and try to warn them," Dylon adds, "any attempt to mask non viral beings, like Helena or Leon, or any of you, is too risky. Tomorrow morning, we'll decide."
With that, the whole room is silent. Now that they know what damage this creature could truly do, they must be wary.
Dylon remains in his library, reading one of his books. He hears the door open and sees Chris walk in. He stops reading and asks. "Yes Chris?"
"... Deborah told me some things about you," he pauses for a moment to gather his thoughts. "Listen, I do what I do to help the human race survive. And I want to say… I'm glad you put aside any issues you have with humans to help us."
Dylon give a quick sigh. "It's not that I hate humans. It's just that with the uncertainty of those you can't trust, as evident in your history, I couldn't take any chances. So what will become of me and my family?"
"After what you're doing and what Piers and his team do, I'll be glad to stand by you, along with the B.S.A.A., to come to an agreement. None of you will get hurt, I promise. But…"
"But what?"
"Ruven still needs to be dealt with."
"... Yes, his actions can't be left undealt with. Unfortunately, with the years of abuse he has endured, anything short of killing him might not be satisfactory."
They begin to search the mansion for Ruven, however, he's nowhere to be found. They walk outside, hoping to find him in front of the house. All that's seen are tracks leading to the shore, along with Jacob's ship being gone. As Dylon walks back in, Chris stand there for awhile, all before cursing under his breath. "... Damn it."