Resident Evil: Zero Hour

Resident Evil: Zero Hour is a novelization of the video game Resident Evil 0 published in 2004 by Stephani Danelle Perry. It is the seventh Resident Evil novel written by Perry, but precedes the others in chronological order. It follows the same continuity as Perry's previous novels based on the game. Zero Hour is the first in the selection of Stephani Danelle Perry's book series which novelize Resident Evil. The others created so far are: Zero Hour, The Umbrella Conspiracy, Caliban Cove, City of the Dead, Underworld, Nemesis, and Code: Veronica.

Story
The story begins as you follow a man getting onto a train. A tapping of rain hits the side of the train and the man turns to regret not bringing a umbrella. Then a louder tap of what he thinks is rain smashes onto the window that he is riding,"Hail, of course." He thinks to himself. Then a loud scream rings in his ears from the left of him, he turns to see a passenger screaming and a strange leech on its neck then feels a similar leech on his neck. ..

After the train incident you follow Rebecca Chambers and a crew of S.T.A.R.S. members. The crew is riding in a helicopter, everyone is fine except for Rebecca Chambers for she is worried but not showing it, it was her first mission in the field. All she was was a medic. Then something goes wrong with the helicopter, a crash landing has to take place. When the S.T.A.R.S. members are searching the area they find what appears to be a jeep flipped over, and two men dead, devoured. There was a file that showed they were taking a criminal to be executed, Billy Coen was his name, the S.T.A.R.S. members decided to go and search for Billy. Rebecca goes on alone in the woods she is surrounded by. Finally Rebecca finds a train, the train that the S.T.A.R.S. members came to find in the first place. What luck, she thought to herself. Then she continued on to slowly walk into the train. She had a gut feeling that Billy was concealed in the train. She then found herself walking down the halls of the train and she heard a passenger on the train get up, she thought that someone had survived whatever had happened there. She was incorrect. The passenger came at her with his hands up and him grunting in a way to show hunger. She asked the man if he needed help but she didn't know what he was. The man came at her and she heard two other men behind her rise. She pulled out her Nine Millimeter. A shot rang out of the barrel, it was a shot to the foot, she didn't want to kill the man, just to injure him. The man got back up ready to bite into her flesh, but with just enough time she shot the man in the right upper brow. He fell and blood poured out of his forehead. Then the two other men came at her, which she had forgotten about. Rebecca warned the two men but they didn't listen to her warnings, so she shot both of them in the forehead, with amazing precision.

Billy Coen, who is the escapee from prison that they think killed the men in the Jeep, started slamming his handcuffs against the bar of a train part, then the right cuff fell off, but the left was too difficult to waste time on, so Coen just got up and looked for a weapon. He heard five shots blowing out of a gun down in the train, so he needed to be prepared. Finally finding a Nine Millimeter, Billy ran around and ran into a zombie, he shot it after it didn't participate his warnings. A woman found him, the woman was wearing a S.T.A.R.S. uniform. Billy stood up and told the woman, that he took to be at least 18 years of age, that he didn't even want to be bothered by a kid like her, so he stood up and walked away.

Rebecca knew that she wouldn't shoot him, she didn't have enough courage to do so, so she walked away. Rebecca later finds Billy again and because of all of the zombies being found and sadly having to be killed they group together for a time just to be safe. The two then realize later that they have a bond that keeps them together.