The Harvardville outbreak took place in November 2005, and occurred when the t-Virus was released into Harvardville International Airport. A small-scale zombie outbreak soon followed, infecting a large number of the Terminal's occupants.
Bioterrorist Attack
Initial Infection
Shortly before the outbreak became noticeable, US senator Ron Davis was due to meet up with WilPharma Corporation executive Frederic Downing to discuss their controversial Air Dome Laboratory.
A mass-protest organized by Terrasave; an organization helping victims of bio-terrorist attacks, occurred outside of the airport due to WilPharma's recent use of the t-vaccine in an apparent clinical trial in India. Protesters wore zombie masks in demonstrations.
Meanwhile, an infected WilPharma employee due to meet up with Davis and Downing at the airport succumbed to the virus on a plane journey to Harvardville and subsequently bit an air hostess and passed on the virus to the rest of the plane.
The passenger plane carrying the first victims of the outbreak crash lands into the airport.
Back in Harvardville, Ron Davis walked through the airport terminal with his bodyguards shunning away reporters. An apparent zombie walked up to the senator, but was revealed to be one of the protesters. This choice of costume for the protesters would lead to the spreading of the virus. Seeing another zombie, a security guard tried to pull its "mask" off, only to be bitten by the real zombie. The two would then kill Davis' security guards. Other zombies that went unnoticed by the public; again due to the protesters' choice of costume, were then revealed to be all around the terminal and mass-panic from witnessing the deaths of Davis' bodyguards allowed the virus to spread after people ran right into more of the undead.
An emergency announcement was given on the telecom telling everyone to begin mass-evacuation. This was not because of the virus, however. The pilots of the infected plane had perished, causing it to descend on a collision course right for the terminal. The zombified passengers and crew exited the plane into the terminal.
Witnessing this and now cut-off from the exit, Terra Save employee Claire Redfield; eight-year-old Rani Chawla and the senator evacuated and locked themselves up in a VIP room where an aide was already hiding. Claire called 9-1-1 for help.
Rescue
The rescue team discuss the plans of their mission.
The Airport was placed under a Bioterror alert and a number of people were called in to help the survivors. Letting survivors out of the locked-down lobby a few at a time, surgeons began to operate on the wounds, but to little effect. The "Special Response Team" taskforce and armed police was also called in to guard the perimeter around the airport and prepare for insertion inside the building.
After several denied requests by the S.R.T. to begin insertion, Government agent Leon S. Kennedy was sent to help with the outbreak. Leon, along with Angela Miller and Greg Glenn inserted via helicopter to the roof of the Atmos Airlines terminal. After a brief tutorial by Leon, the team encountered a large group of zombies that almost killed Glenn due to his failure to obey the survivalist rules set by Leon.
Eventually, the group of trapped civilians realized that they could not stay locked-up in the VIP and expect rescue as well. Claire voluntarily left the room armed with a red and white umbrella for protection (which greatly resembles the Umbrella Corporation's logo). Making awkward contact with the rescue group, the survivors meet up and make their attempted escape by going straight through the terminal and out via the lobby.
During the evacuation, Greg was bitten by a zombie when the group became surrounded. Choosing to stay behind and not risk infecting the outside-world, he began killing all infected on-sight to slow them down from hunting the survivors. He eventually succumbed quickly due to the elevated amount of t-virus in his body from multiple bites.
While eliminating the surrounding zombies at the plane crash site, Senator Davis began to panic and accidentally put Claire and Rani into danger. Claire managed to dispatch the immediate threat, while the cowardly Senator Davis made a dash for the exit and made it outside of the building.
Aftermath
With the survivors successfully extracted, the mission should have been over; the Marines, under direct order of the President (a plan organized by Hannigan), proceeded to cleanse the rest of the infected inside of the terminal. WilPharma, who apparently implicated the incident, brought the virus' vaccine to the Airport to inoculate all of the survivors and airport personnel. The trucks containing all of the vaccine produced were sabotaged by a bomb, destroying all possible chance of inoculation.
Sources
- ↑ Resident Evil Archives II. BradyGames. p. 215.
