Chapter 2bis: Not alone

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July 23, 1998, Raccoon Forest, time unknown, the train, and an unlocated control room.

A soldier is outside the door of the engine car speaking into a radio, "This is Delta Team, this is Delta Team. We have gained control of the train. Over."

In a control room where two men are positioned. One is sitting, with blonde hair, sunglasses, and draped in a black uniform with the word, S.T.A.R.S., on the back. The other man is wearing a white lab coat and is deeply engrossed in the file he has before him. The men could be no one else but Captain Albert Wesker of the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team and Umbrella Researcher, William Birkin. Wesker leans in and speaks into the microphone.

"Understood," said Wesker.

"This does not make any sense. How was the T-Virus leaked? And why did it contaminate both the lab in the mansion, as well as a train almost three miles away?" said Birkin.

Wesker cups his hand over the mic, "That's irrelevant! We must make sure no knowledge of this gets out. Destroy the train. Completely!"Wesker speaks into the mic again, "How far away are you from the nearest branch line?"

Behind the soldier on the other end of the radio in the train leeches are oozing out from behind the fence. It seems that he doesn't spot them, "About ten minutes to.."

The soldier turns as he speaks and spots the leeches just before they attack. The creatures swarm all over his body, sinking their teeth into his body. The man howls in agony and fires off his machinegun in desperation. Wesker hears the gunfire over the radio and yells, "What happened?"

Another soldier comes out from the control room to see what's happening and is also covered in leeches and killed. After the men are dead, the leeches retreat.

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