Code Veronica

Chapter Seven
Code Veronica
The Assault on Rockfort Island

         We had been preparing for months on end for this important mission. Even though Rockfort Island was as much as a back water shit hole as any other Umbrella base, its importance was second to none in this mission. Our objective was to go in and capture Alexia, the creator of a more powerful strain of the T-virus, codenamed: Veronica. I wore a black suit like Weskers, and hand my trusty Desert Eagle and combat knife with me, my main weapon though was an M4 carbine that I had received from a special arms dealer only a week or two earlier, all the others carried M16s. As we rode on the stealth boat to the Island, I went over the plan with my 15 man strike team. “Ok, we are approaching from the cliff on the Northwestern side of the Island, we will climb the cliff and have the element of surprise, meanwhile Wesker’s forces will work their way over to us from the opposite end of the Island, the Island is presently guarded by a mere skeleton crew of officers and guards, once we’re in all supervising officers need to survey the area for any and all information regarding the T-Veronica virus.”

         I paused and looked into my men’s eyes, seeing a fierce sense of determination in their eyes I continued the briefing. “Our spy ceased contact with us two days ago, he asked that when we commandeered the island, that his son be rescued, therefore, do not shoot any man that goes under the name Burnside, until he is brought to either Wesker or myself, we are to ensure that he gets off the island, that is all, once we are done with this mission, you will all receive bonus’s and a well deserved vacation, courtesy of our employers the… “ETA, 10minutes” called the captain. “Ok, break communication, we will regroup once we’ve made significant landfall on the island” I called out coldly. We waded through the rushing waters that pounded the cliff mercilessly, and climbed nearly to the top on the wet and slippery rocks. I noticed two guards at the top, smoking, I shifted to the left side of the cliff and got up to where I could barely peer over the rocks at them, they stood talking, one of them propping his Ak against the wall and going over to the right side of the cliff and taking a leak. I slowly drew my knife, and sprang. I landed behind the other guard and slit his throat from behind, and then hurled his dead body at his comrade, who went falling off the cliff into the deadly rushing waters below. “Ok, lets move!” I commanded as my men quickly scaled and got to the top of the cliff. We rushed through the catacombs, surprising a lone officer sitting at a desk with a typewriter, he reached for the alarm, but I swiftly flung my knife at him, catching him in the neck with sinister ease. I heard talking in the next room, and kicked down the door, I mowed down the other three men in that cavern, while the door that went flying off its hinges hit and killed another sitting on a rock across from it.

         I called the elevator, and quickly ascended to the next floor, we opened fire on the five men that were in the middle of the room,  I noticed a body in near the lift we had come off of, it was our spy Burnside. “They must’ve figured him out and killed him” I thought. We ran into the next courtyard and killed two men standing guard near the tank, then into the rec yard and killed the four men there that were in the middle of a training exercise. We went inside the training facility and killed two men in the main office, surprising more in the locker and shower rooms. We made our way down to the labs, and were in the storage area nearby when I received contact from Wesker. “We’ve made landfall and are tearing through their forces, there seems to have been a prison break before we arrived, we are liquidating the prisoners on sight, what is your status?” “We’re in the basement of the training facility, presumably near the main labs” I replied as my team opened fire on men in the storage area, one of them beginning to cut through the wire that blocked the entrance to another storage area outside the main lab. “Good” Wesker replied “see you on the surface then.”

         “Of course” I replied. We entered the main lab, a solitary scientist stood on the other side of the entrance pointing his pistol at a large canister labeled T virus. “COME ANY CLOSER AND I’LL BLOW US ALL TO HELL” he shouted loudly as we entered the room. I glared at him, and made a half step toward him, he redirected his aim at the canister, and I stepped back. I still had my knife in my hand, I turned around, “lets go” I ordered coldly. As they all went to leave, I heard the man’s half sigh of relief as we were leaving, I started to sheath my knife when, faster than his eyes or reflex’s could follow, I spun around, flinging my knife at him, it embedded itself in his chest, his eyes wild with surprise as he slumped to the floor, dropping the gun out of his hand. I walked toward him, and roughly pulled the knife out of his chest.

         “You five stay here and survey the area” I ordered pointing to four soldiers and one officer. “ The rest of you spread out and conduct a detailed analysis of the area, anything that you find can and may be used to learn more about our mission objective” I barked, “ now move out”. I met with Wesker in the courtyard of the Palace, his men had already cleared the prison area, and after a heated fight, pushed the enemy back to the Palace. Presently only a few of Umbrellas security were still alive, most hiding in the palace, others had been captured and were being executed, along with the prisoners. Not but a couple of minutes after we had met up and were devising a search parameter, we heard a loud explosion. I then received a garbled message from my men stationed in the labs.

         “3...dead… t… virus… leak… infected…ughh!!!” came the struggling voice over the radio. “Shit” Wesker said aloud. He received the same message from his men, confirming our fears that the T virus had leaked onto the island. I received one more, and final message. “sci…scientist…not… dead… destroyed… canistarrr” I decided that since now Wesker and I were the only living beings on the island, that we should continue our search. While he went back down to the airport, I entered the palace. A remarkable place, at least at some point in time, as I continued my investigation, I noticed someone come into the mansion, I was standing in the casino room at the time. It was Claire Redfield, sister of Chris Redfield. “What the hell is SHE doing here?” I asked myself surprised that she was even on this Island. “Not important” I thought, and left the room and entered the office door on the 2nd floor. I went around and saw a gun crest and arms, kicking in the door, I saw a modestly sized office.

         Against the western wall, I saw a large clock, I went over to it, and noticing a mansion on the hillside, outside the large window, I destroyed the clock, revealing a hidden passageway behind it. I followed this passage, until I came upon a bridge and received a message from Wesker. “Ada says that all of our men excluding the sub crew have been infected and have died, I just encountered Claire Redfield” “Yes, I know, what is she doing here?” I asked. “Don’t know, not too concerned about it really, what is your status? Found anything worth mentioning?” he asked. “I’ve come across a large mansion on the hillside, hidden in the fog, overlooking the training facility, I’m going up to investigate it now.” I replied quickly.


         Upon reaching the mansion, I couldn’t sense anything out of the ordinary. I went inside, and to my surprise a large doll hung suspended in the center of the room. I went up the flight of stairs, discovering that all of the doors excluding the top most door were locked up tight. “Hmpf… probably on the top floor” I noticed a long hallway, and went to the left, I heard voices coming from the room on the right, one of them sounded like Alexia. I entered the room, it was her room, I noticed a hole in the roof and climbed up into it, a sort of strange play area was in the attic, I climbed on top of it, and saw a small study area built into the side at the top. I looked around up there for a couple of minutes until I came across an article, it read “Brilliant 10 year old girl is awarded job of head researcher by Umbrella”. I smirked, shoved the article in the inside pocket of my fatigues, and dropped back down. I then dropped back into Alexia’s room to wait for her. Only she stood, her back to me, near the window looking out into the hall. “Greetings Alexia” I said, and noticed something “strange“ about her. She turned around. “Who the hell are you?” I asked, the strange man wearing Alexia’s dress gave me a puzzled look. “Alfred! You cross dressing freak!” I yelled, and moved toward him, picking him up by his throat.

         “No!” he said desperately, “I’ll tell you were Alexia is if you let me go.” Suddenly, I heard a voice like Claire’s enter the main stair case room down below. “You get lucky this time Alfred, the next time we meet you wont be so lucky” I said, flashing him a devilish grin, I flung him across the room. I walked out of the door of Alexia’s room, and heard Alfred talking to himself, one voice his, and the other his Alexia impression, I watched as Claire ran away from that rooms out looking window, once she was out of sight, I made my way out of that rancid place. I was on the bridge, when I heard someone coming, I jumped over the side and clung to it, after the running footsteps passed, I jumped up on top of the roof of the bridge, and saw the back of Steve Burnside running up to the mansion. I was at the docks with Wesker, when the self destruct alarm sounded. “Don’t worry about it, from what I know, that destruct mechanism has weakened over time, it probably wont even destroy this airport” Wesker said coolly. “We should get back into the sub, just in case that system has a back up power supply” I replied knowing that time wasn’t on our side. “Very well” he replied, “lets at least take this precaution, I think we’ve had just about enough surprises for one mission so far, don’t you agree?” “Indeed” I replied. We then returned to the sub and awaited for the destruct mechanism to take its toll. About 10minutes passed, we heard the explosion, waited another 10mins and went back up.

         The place was mostly ruined, Wesker stayed at the airport, I went over to the control room, the one that Alfred had released a tyrant from. I sat in a chair, at this control panel, watching the monitors, and hacking the Umbrella mainframe for information. Hours had to have just flew by in this time, when I heard the lift at the end of the room come up. Suddenly, an image appeared on the screen, and I heard a voice singing a familiar voice coming over the intercoms. “Who is that?” a voice said near me. It was Chris Redfield, he had not noticed me yet. I slowly got up and got behind him. After the image faded away, I chuckled loud enough for him to hear. He spun around surprised. “Its been quite a long time Chris” I said smirking. “You! You’re still alive?” he said startled. “You attacked the island, and my sister!” he said, anger in his voice. He raised his gun, I moved like with super human speed and slammed him in the stomach with my elbow. He flew and slammed against the console. I moved again, and picked him up by his throat.

         “Chris, I did not attack your sister, I’m only here for the woman that just appeared on that screen.” I said smirking. “Bull shit!” he cried, and hit me in the face. I felt my rage boil inside, and I knew that my eyes had revealed their now frightful appearance, I could tell by the frightened look in his eyes. “I’d like to kill you now, but I’m afraid I don’t have time to, now if you‘ll excuse me, I‘ll be on my way” I replied, not taking my eyes off of him. I slung him against the wall and walked out the nearby door. I returned to the airport, Wesker informed me that he had freed the hunters, and that he had traced the location of that image, it was coming from the Antarctic. “What are we waiting on?” I said, “ lets go!” “Not so fast, you go ahead and get the sub ready, I’m  going to go pay a visit to Mr. Redfield” he replied smiling sinisterly. “Fine” I replied “but hurry it up, we don’t have much time.”

Chapter Eight
The Blonde Demon

         I went to the sub, Ada was inside. “What’s going on?” she asked. “We’re all going to the Antarctic” I replied. “Why?” she asked. “Alexia is there, and we must capture her” I replied “Wesker wants us to prep the sub for departure, he is on his way.” About 30mins later, Wesker climbed down the ladder. “Okay” he said “lets get going.” And so we went, to the Antarctic. The ride was long and boring, it got cold quickly. Wesker and I went over the layouts of the base, and decided that we should hit the mansion first. Hours later, when we arrived, at an underground cavern, that made a perfect sub port. We departed, and went in search of alexia. I found an underground area, with a large, what looked like a cocoon of some sort in the center. I went into the room on the right, and found the area that apparently had held Alexia for so many years. However, I saw no capsule opened, I went to the control terminal next to where the capsule was supposed to be, and hacked it. The capsule shot up and out fell the body of Alfred Ashford. “So, Alfred is dead?” I thought. I then reflected on the research that I had done on the T Veronica when I had been a researcher here, I thought about the effects that it had on Alexander after seeing his dead body suspended in the packing room, and wondered what they had done to Alexia, since she had slumbered for 15 years in order to make the virus coexist with her body’s cells. I returned to the central room and took the elevator back up. I soon arrived at a mansion courtyard.

         “Hmmm… this must be it.” I thought. I entered the mansion. I looked around, and saw that part of the right side of the main hall, which resembled the Spencer mansion, had been destroyed. Wesker came through the door not long after, and we looked up and saw a beautiful blonde woman standing at the top of the staircase. “At last, I’ve found you Alexia” Wesker said, I could hear his feeling of triumph in his voice. “Come with me” he then said. She merely laughed. He took a step up the stairs, I noticed Chris crouching in the corner. “Your responsible for the creation of the T-Veronica virus, and now the only existing sample, is in your body, I want it… NOW!” he commanded boldly, holding out his hand. “You want it?” she replied smiling sinisterly, “You are not worthy of its power!” With that she laughed again, batted her eyes, and took a step toward us. On her descent down the stairs, she transformed! In a blazing inferno of fire, her cloths vanished, her skin became a light green color, some dark patched here and there, and she no longer resembled anything human. She looked upon us with murderous eyes.

         Wesker took a step back, stunned by this awesome transformation, she hit him in the face, and he went and back flipped landing on his feet at the base of the stairs. I watched him land, and turned around just in time to be hit myself. I landed in the same manner, next to Wesker. She jumped at us, and we both rolled out of the way. “You’re Coming with Me” he said boldly. She turned and flung a wave of fire at me, I ran and ran off the side of the wall, at the same time she turned and did the same to him, I flew through the air and hit her in the face in midair, Weskers punch followed directly after, she fell on the ground briefly and got back up, Wesker and I both rolled as we landed, putting out the fire on our clothes in the process.

         “Chris!” Wesker cried in surprise. “No, don’t take your attention off of her!” I thought as Wesker ran toward Chris and got his arm burned by a stream of fire flung by Alexia. “Chris! Since you’re one of my best men, I’ll let you handle this” he said smirking and ran out the door. Alexia flung fire at the door, which blocked it, Chris bolted for the stairs, Alexia saw him and flung fire at him, he dodged and was right in front of her. She picked him up by the throat was about to fill him full of her flammable blood, I intervened and ran forth, and slammed her in the side, she went flying and hit the wall, but quickly recovered. I then busted down the door and ran. “What was that all about?” I asked Wesker when I caught up to him. “Let her kill Chris, then when she is weakened we’ll go back and finish the job” He replied. “I’m going back now, and finishing the mission” I replied angrily. I returned to the mansion, shocked to find Alexia’s body laying on the ground, lifeless. Suddenly, she got up.

         She gave me a murderous look, and started toward me. I ran toward her, and locked hands with her, it was a power struggle, we pressed heads together, trying to overpower one another. She was strong, stronger than she looked anyway. I knew no simple trick would be able to defeat her. I overpowered her and flung her against the wall. Suddenly with superhuman speed all of her own, she ran toward me and tackled me to the ground, I kicked her off with ease, and got up. She crotched like a tiger ready to spring and got back up. She flung fire, I sidestepped it, she flung several times, all the while I dodged and sidestepped it. She spat acid at me from out her mouth, which made me want to kiss her even less. I tackled her to the ground, and drew my knife, and attempted to plunge it into her throat, she grabbed my arms and was fending me off.

         When all of the sudden, she looked away, and then spat acid at me, I barely moved my head as the acid stream flew by it. She kicked me off, and looked toward the top of the stairs. I landed on my feet and looked at her puzzled and then looked in the direction that she was looking. Then a tentacle shot out of the wall and hovered above her. “We’ll finish this later” she said, casting me a smile. The tentacle engulfed her, and she vanished with it. “What the hell?” I said confused. I went in the direction of the stairs, and found a secret door at the top, I punched it down, and pressed on. Wesker caught up with me afterwards, and we entered a prison like area. I saw a door opening into another room, I peered inside. Inside, part of a tentacle, similar to the one that had engulfed Alexia, lay on the floor, next to the body of Steve Burnside. “Wesker!” I said, he quickly came into the room. “I think, he is infected with the T veronica” I said, as my eyes widened. “I’ll call the crew, and have them transport his body back to the sub” he said, I saw expression of triumph in his face.

Showdown One

         Suddenly the self destruct mechanism alarm sounded, indicating that it had been activated. “Lets go!” I said, and lifted the body up and carried it through a hole that Wesker made in the wall, it emptied into the tunnel that lead to the subs docking bay. Ada was standing outside with the crew, I released Burnside over to them. “Go ahead and prepare the sub for departure” I commanded. Ada had the crew transport the body onto the sub, and went in, herself. I stood outside and waited for Wesker. He appeared only moments later, Claire Redfield, head locked his arms. He threw her to me, and I head locked her. Chris Redfield appeared next. The time for the final confrontation to begin had finally arrived. Wesker and Chris spoke for a minute, Chris vowed to defeat Wesker and I in the name of his fallen comrades. I released Claire and watched in interest as Wesker pummeled Chris, displaying his awesome powers that he and I both shared in the process. It was amazing seeing Wesker pummel Chris like he did. It was completely one sided. “Serves Chris right, for ruining out plans the first time, and Wesker’s not going to let him do it this time.” I thought bitter hatred of Chris rising up within me. Chris dodged a fatal attack by Wesker, rolled and released the suspended girders on Wesker. I unfolded my arms, in shock.

         Then the girders moved and Wesker rose up out of the pile of them. “Your going to have to do better than that!” he said tauntingly, and smirked. Suddenly, a nearby gas canister exploded. Wesker looked up horribly burned by the explosion. “Not invincible?” I thought bitterly. The fallen canister separated them. Wesker taunted Chris about it was time for him to go. “You have a lot of dumb luck, today’s your lucky day, but next time… don’t count on another” he said, holding his left hand over the left side of his face. He let out a laugh as Chris ran from the chaos, only precious minutes left before the base blew. Wesker and I returned to the sub, Ada treated Weskers wound which healed up almost immediately after we were on the sub. “Mission Complete” he said, pride swelling up in his voice. And we departed, only hearing and feeling the vibrations of the explosion about 2 minutes later. We would return to base, with our new virus samples, and a donor body for experimentation. I knew that we would have a lot of research to go on for the next couple of years. But once we perfected the T-Veronica, and combined it with the G-Virus… I couldn’t wait to see what was on the horizon for our new research. And so, we returned to our employers, with our catch, they promoted us and we began research on the T-Veronica.