InfectionInfection logo.Infection 2 Prologue (Remake)

A bloodied Civil Protection officer tries to escape a bunker. The narration states: Three years ago, our satellite scans were interrupted by bio-signals originating from a derelict bunker. It had been abandoned during the War, all communication lost. Doctor Breen, former administrator of the facility, sent in an elite team of Civil Protection. Their mission was to ascertain the bunker's fate.
Over shots of Civil Protection and two masked men, the narration continues: The team was led by two men, Captain Sullivan and Sergeant Alex Jacobs. They found something.
An infected Combine soldier chokes a Civil Protection officer, followed by gunfire. The narration states: More accurately, something found them. Officially, there were no survivors.
The bloodied Civil Protection officer spots an exit from the bunker, with a blast door descending. He sprints towards the door.
In a flashback, the two Civil Protection superior officers fight for their lives, ultimately leading to one, Captain Sullivan, carrying the other as he runs from the infected. The narration says: Breen ordered the neutralization of any rogue elements, and the operation was almost entirely successful. Sullivan died, Jacobs survived.
The Civil Protection survivor from before manages to just barely squeeze himself under the bunker doors right before they shut down.
One month later, a Civil Protection squad is doing a routine sweep of an apartment building. One of the officers, Adams, goes upstairs to check the second floor, against complaints from his colleagues.
As Adams' coworkers complain over the radio, he overhears a scream coming from a room in the second floor. He tells his coworkers over the radio and they tell him to grab his gun and just kill the perp before the personnel carrier arrives. Adams checks in with Combine Overwatch and moves in.
Adams raises his gun and tells whoever is in the room to freeze. He then screams in surprise at the sight of an infected man cannibalizing another citizen. The narration explains: Before his death, Alex Jacobs was active in City 17 for nearly a month. His blood carried a pure strain, and the risk of a citywide epidemic was high. Breen, now the sole administrator of City 17, initiated a second operation aimed at studying the effects of the virus.
A squad of Combine soldiers stands at attention in front of Doctor Wallace Breen, as the narration states: knowing that failure to contain the virus at any point would result in a civic emergency, Breen called upon the best fighting force available: 314. Formed after the "Omega" incident, in which a single man assaulted the Citadel, killed its highest-ranking officer and nearly assassinated Breen, 314's purpose was simple: prevent. But even the Combine's best soldiers would be tested to the very limit of their abilities by this assignment. They could not afford to fail.
An armored personnel carrier makes its way onto City 17 and parks in front of an apartment building, the 314 soldiers exiting the APC afterwards and approaching the Civil Protection guards. The narration says: The members of 314 were hand-picked from the strongest, smartest and most ruthless soldiers in the entire transhuman legion. All operations were considered top-secret.
The two Civil Protection officers on guard complain to the 314 soldiers about having to wait. Then the 314 pointman lifts his handgun and shoots them both. The narration clarifies: All witnesses were considered hostile.
The 314 squad clears the building's first floor and moves up to the second. The narration explains: Breen knew the incubation period of the virus was too short to facilitate a full squad replacement, but he was also counting on raw firepower to prevail.
The 314 squad comes across the bloodied corpse of Adams. A soldier checks the room and finds the infected man over a citizen corpse.
The infected stands up, corpses of civilians all around him in a bloodbath. The soldier aims at him and starts shooting, but the infected leaps at him. The narration resumes: what Breen was not counting on was the fact that the virus was remarkably unstable and constantly adapting. Increased host resilience, decreased cognitive capability and an uncontrollable hostility.
The other soldiers start firing at the infected. The narration declares: the exact circumstances regarding the City 17 proliferation remain unclear, even to this day. A stray bullet is seen in slow-motion going in the direction of a grenade. The narrration continues: transmissions from Squadron 314 ceased at 19:01 GMT. What is known is that within ten minutes of complete radio silence, scanners detected the virus in quadrants adjacent to the initial test site. The narration concludes: it had become airborne. The whole apartment floor explodes. Meanwhile, outside, the two Civil Protection officers, shot in the head, rise back from the dead, possessed by the infection. The comic ends.

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