Meeting Leon
Aconite looked out the window of the R.P.D. at the chaos outside in sorrow. How had this happened? Why was the T-virus running rampant in the city?
'I need to find Dr. Birkin; I promised to protect Sherry if anything happened.' She thought as she checked her ammo for her Samurai Edge Beretta 92F, Shotgun, and rifle, reloading her Beretta, she began planning.
'I need to get out of here; the military pulled out an hour ago, which means the president ordered the area sterilized.'
Hearing a commotion outside, she spotted a man dressed in the R.P.D. uniform with short blond hair backing away from some of the infected.
Storming out of the R.P.D., she dispatched the infected and called out to the man.
"Hey, moron! Get in here!" she ordered as she shot a zombie rushing toward her. "Who are you?" the man asked as they slammed the R.P.D.'s doors.
"Aconite Wesker, why are you in an R.P.D. uniform? I know just about everyone in the force and don't know you." Aconite stated as she got a good look at him.
He, again, had short blond hair that was shaved underneath and longer on top and had crystal blue eyes that reminded her of her father's, though a few shades lighter.
"Leon Scott Kennedy and I'm new, just transferred," he said, holding out a hand which she took.
"One hell of a time to join probie, I remember filing your paperwork now, just call me Aconite. We should focus on getting out of the city Mr. Kennedy."
"Call me Leon, Mr. Kennedy makes me feel old. Why do we need to leave?" Leon asked in confusion, making her sigh.
"It's code red out there, or did you forget about the dead eating the living? The military pulled out about an hour ago, which means the president has declared Raccoon City is expendable and has ordered it cleansed."
Aconite explained, and Leon paled.
"By cleansed, you mean..."
"Raccoon City is going to be wiped off the map. It'll be nothing but a crater in about 48 hours to contain the outbreak."
Aconite explained, and Leon gulped before cursing, "Shit! We need to find Claire!" causing her to raise a brow.
"Who?"
"A girl I met when I got here, Claire Redfield, she was looking for her brother C-"
"Chris Redfield, shit. Chris would kill me if I let his sister die." Aconite groaned.
"You know him?"
"Yeah, and I also know he isn't in the city." She informed before whipping around at the sound of shuffling behind her to see Marvin, a man who worked in evidence lockup.
"Marvin!" she exclaimed, rushing to him as he collapsed.
"Hey Aconite, that the *cough* newbie?"
"Yeah, when were you bit?"
"Three hours ago, it's too late for me. Get out of here, Nite, save the other survivors." Marvin said with a grin and a thumbs-up as blood leaked out of the corner of his mouth.
"Marvin...go in peace." She whispered sadly; she liked Marvin, he like the other S.T.A.R.S. members didn't treat her differently after she'd been forced by Cheif Irons to reveal her status as a B.O.W., Bio-Organic Weapon.
"Go, take pretty boy there with you," Marvin ordered, causing her to nod.
"Okay...Leon, we need to go. There's nothing we can do for him." Aconite said as she stood.
"Once bit or scratched, you turn." She informed somberly as she undid her messy braid and tied her hair into a high tail, revealing her crimson eye.
"Why do you have bi-colored eyes? And white hair for that matter? And why do you know so much about all this?" Leon asked as he stared into her eyes, noting the red one had a slit pupil like a cat.
"Short story, I was experimented on by Umbrella, who is responsible for this hell. From the time I was two to six, I'm infected with the virus that caused this, the T-virus or Tyrant virus. Unlike the dead ones, I'm not infectious because the virus bonded to my D.N.A. Now, we need to head for the old S.T.A.R.S. office upstairs. I have evidence against Umbrella and a few other things I need to get."
"Okay, Claire was supposed to meet me here in the R.P.D., maybe she'll find us." Leon agreed, and she inclined her head.
"Maybe, but for now, we focus on us." Aconite informed as she led Leon upstairs.
On arrival, Leon began exploring the office while Aconite went first to her desk to grab her flash drive before going to her father's desk and hacking into his computer.
"Let's see; there should be some classified data on Umbrella here. Daddy didn't completely trust them from what Birkin said," she muttered to herself as Leon's gaze was drawn to a picture on the wall.
"S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team: Captain Albert Wesker, weapons expert Barry Burton, sharpshooter Chris Redfield, operations manager and medic Aconite Wesker, maintenance supervisor Joseph Frost, B&E specialist, and rear security Jill Valentine, and piolet Brad Vickers."
Leon whispered, reading the plaque under the photo. "Huh, she didn't mention anyone other than Chris, though I didn't ask, could they be dead?" Leon wondered, unaware that he was thinking out loud.
"That picture was taken when I was sixteen; I was just appointed operations manager and medic." Aconite said without looking away from the screen.
"Who was on Bravo, since there was an Alpha team I'm guessing there was another. Did you know them all?"
"Yes, there is. And yes, I knew them all. I was there when they were recruited and picked out most of them."
"Bravo was made up of captain Enrico Marini, point man Keneth J. Sullivan, Omni man Forest Speyer, rear security Edward Dewey, medic Rebecca Chambers, and back up coms expert Richard Aiken."
"To answer your other question, most are dead. Out of both teams, it's just me, Rebecca, Jill, Chris, Brad, and Barry." Aconite informed gruffly as she logged out of her father's computer.
"I'm sorry for your loss; your father died; it can't be easy."
"Don't be; my father turned out to be an Umbrella agent who led my family, my teammates, to their deaths using me. I try not to think about hi...something's coming." Aconite grunted as she aimed her gun at the door.
When a red-haired woman walked in, she lowered her gun, knowing Chris's sister by description alone.
"Claire!" Leon exclaimed at the sight of her.
"Leon! Who's this?"
"Aconite Wesker, Chris' never shuts up about you, Claire, nice to meet you." Aconite introduced herself as she grabbed a picture of her, her father, and Chris removing it from the frame.
It was her seventeenth birthday party, and Chris had insisted on a family photo of them in party hats, to her father's annoyance.
"Do you know where he is?!" Claire asked, and Aconite sighed.
"Not in Raccoon city is all I know."
"Shit"
"Indeed, now we need to get going." Aconite said as a fax came through which Claire grabbed and took off.
Going to check on Marvin at Leon's insistence, Aconite sighed as he turned before their eyes. "Sorry, Leon, but as I said, once bit or scratched, you turn," she said detachedly, not looking at the corpse as she shot it in the head.
"It's just a...shocker is all. You've seen it before?"
"Twice, the first time when I was still an experiment, the second when S.T.A.R.S. was dispatched to a mansion infested with the infected. When I was an experiment, I wasn't the only one." Aconite said with a distant voice,
"There were 34 of us, 16 girls and 18 boys. I was labeled F-O2-16, Female-Age 2-Subject sixteen. We were kept together at first, then F-14-01 turned and killed female subjects 06-02 and 10-03 and male subjects 07-11, 12-07, and 02-14." Aconite said, avoiding looking at Leon.
"They obtained me at 18 months, but the experiments didn't start until I was two. Then I was put through things you couldn't fathom before my father took me away."
"Shit...I'm so...no, nothing I can say would make it better."
"It's alright; I'm mostly past it. It's been twelve years since then. After the virus bonded to my D.N.A., I advanced swiftly, by the time I was twelve, I was studying subjects like Quantum Physics." Aconite shrugged as she led Leon to the ammo room, and he whistled, "And your eighteen now?"
"Yes, you?"
"Twenty-one."
Aconite raised a brow at that impressed. "You must be proud, graduating the academy so young." she praised before they headed for the garage.