The Night the Resident Evil Outbreak Began: I'm Just a Delivery Guy

Zombie Outbreak | Film Adaptation | Leon | Two Male Leads | Gender-Swap Dark Comedy | Apocalypse Survival | Raccoon City | Working Stiff's Apocalypse | Road Escape | Fighting Side by Side

Resident Evil: Outbreak Night, a film adaptation.

Brian is a medical courier. He takes a rush delivery with double pay, bound for the laboratory on the twenty-eighth floor of Raccoon City General Hospital. It is already dark when he drives into Raccoon City. The streets are empty, and the streetlights keep flickering. He thinks the whole city has simply lost power because of the blizzard.

Then he runs into a little girl in an alley. Her right foot has already mutated, her bones jutting out, and she lunges at him. Brian pulls out his gun, squeezes the trigger, and blows her away. He looks himself over: no bites, no scratches, completely unharmed. He leans against the wall and throws up for thirty seconds, then wipes his mouth and carries on with his delivery.

As he rushes out of the alley, a car nearly hits him. Behind the wheel is a young police officer in RPD body armor, his face covered in blood and his eyes even more panicked than Brian's. The officer rolls down the window and asks, "Are you hurt?"

Brian says no. He glances at the gun in his hand and the body behind him, and the officer seems to get the picture.

The officer's name is Leon. He was late on his very first day, arrived at the station to find it full of zombies, turned around and ran, and decided to drive out to the suburbs. Brian has a package to deliver to the hospital. They're headed in different directions, but having company on the road is better than being alone.

The problem is that Brian is ready to give up at any moment. At every crossroads, he thinks, "Why not just dump the package and run?" But with Leon beside him, he is too embarrassed to say it.