Chapter Summaries

William and Halsey arrived at Containment Site One, where the Plague Doctor had become the center’s first prisoner. William prepared to visit the facility and collect the system’s reward, while Halsey woke after sleeping through the flight.

• The Red and White Umbrella completed Containment Site One, and the Plague Doctor arrived under Captain Mikhail Victor's escort to be held in a monitored room.
• William’s sleep at Troy Base was interrupted when Dr. Halsey arrived and insisted on visiting the Containment Center.
• William and Halsey flew to the island aboard his A380, escorted by two F-22s.
• After landing, Hunk asked William whether the USS personnel should change into combat gear, and William told them their special suits and pistols were enough.
• Halsey woke as the aircraft connected to the terminal bridge, and William told her they had arrived.

William and Halsey arrived at Containment Center One, where William promoted Victor and placed the Tyrants under his command before they went to meet the Plague Doctor. During the first interview with Subject 049, the Plague Doctor spoke of a widespread plague and his lifelong search for a cure.

• William praised Victor and his UBCS team, named their company the Obstacle Clearers, and promoted Victor to major and western operations commander.
• Victor took command of the three Tyrants as he and the UBCS members left to return to Alberta Province.
• William, Halsey, and Dielson went to the underground containment site, where Dielson reported that the D-Class personnel had resisted and tried to escape.
• William ordered Dielson to send a researcher to interview Subject 049 while he and Halsey watched from the control room.
• Subject 049 mistook the researcher for a doctor who had treated three patients, then described a plague and his lifelong effort to cure it.

William authorized Halsey to interrogate Number 049 after punishing Dilson for disrespecting her, and Halsey and 049 discussed their research for over two hours. After command of Containment Center One was handed to a lieutenant, William and Halsey flew back toward Troy Base.

• 049 explained that the people he had killed in Athabasca were infected and that he believed he had treated them, though he could not fully save them.
• Halsey asked to question 049, and William ordered Dilson demoted to D-class personnel after he objected to her request.
• William arranged a special interrogation room and assigned Hunk and six Alpha members to protect Halsey.
• Halsey questioned 049, who recognized the three strong men in green leather jackets as her work and shared his notebook with her.
• After the interview ended, security escorted 049 to containment, and a lieutenant from Troy Base took command of Containment Center One.
• William led Halsey to the Spaceport, and their plane and two F-22s departed for Troy Base.

On the flight, William received two Halo rewards: the Herendine/Yggdrasil-1 prototype armor schematics and John Campe, a child destined to become an exceptionally powerful Spartan. The system explained how it would issue future missions, leaving William to prepare for the anomalies to come.

• William listened as the system awarded him the Herendine/Yggdrasil-1 prototype armor schematics and implanted them into Halsey's memories.
• William learned that the Herendine could give Umbrella advanced fusion and energy-shield technology, though it would be extremely expensive.
• William drew Master Chief and learned the selected child was eleven-year-old John Campe, whose future Spartan abilities would include extraordinary luck and immense combat potential.
• The system told William it would notify him and issue missions only when highly lethal anomalies threatened large numbers of civilians.

William considered Umbrella’s new capabilities and discussed Halsey’s ideas about 049’s so-called plague. After Andre arranged a United Nations meeting in New York for February 1, William ended their call when Andre began urging him to settle down.

• William offered Halsey cake while she worked, and she said 049 had inspired her to develop a safe Brainwashing Device.
• Halsey theorized that 049’s plague meant negative emotions and that the people he changed had lost both positive feelings and their thoughts.
• Halsey asked William about the upcoming Kidnapping Plan, and he said they needed to wait longer.
• Hunk brought William a satellite phone, and Andre told him the United Nations would meet in New York on February 1 to discuss the Athabasca incident.
• Andre promised to send USS teams to protect William, then urged him to marry and have a family, so William pretended the signal was bad and hung up.

William prepared to negotiate Umbrella’s agreement with the United Nations while funding Halsey’s research and strengthening the underground facilities beneath Halifax. Five days after the first containment, he arrived at the United Nations building in New York with a heavily guarded convoy.

• William agreed to give Halsey five billion dollars for new research at The Hive.
• Halsey returned to The Hive, while William went to his seaside villa and considered Halifax’s underground complex a last-resort refuge.
• Agents around the world began containing anomalies, and Umbrella classified them as Safe, Euclid, Keter, and Exafanistei.
• William, Hunk, and Alpha Squad traveled to the United Nations headquarters in a convoy guarded by USS personnel.
• USS guards secured the area around the United Nations building, including nearby rooftops, before William entered.

William Russell arrived at the United Nations for a meeting about the Anomaly Protocol, where he thanked his USS bodyguards and received Canada's support. He began his speech by showing combat footage of UBCS soldiers fighting zombies.

• Hunk and Alpha Squad escorted William into the United Nations building under heavy security.
• William thanked the USS members for protecting him, then followed a receptionist to the meeting hall.
• Paul Heller told William that Canada's prime minister supported Umbrella and authorized it to do what was necessary.
• At two o'clock, William addressed the gathered representatives and introduced video materials from a USB drive.
• The first video showed an Obstacle Clearers squad receiving Victor's order to fire freely and efficiently killing a horde of zombies.

William Russell showed national representatives footage of anomalous objects and explained that Umbrella Enterprises had been founded to contain them. He secured a secret international agreement to let Umbrella lead containment operations while governments helped suppress information about dangerous anomalies.

• William showed footage of the Obstacle Clearers Company fighting anomalous creatures, then played a recording of Object 049 killing D-Class personnel 9527 and resurrecting him as one of the living dead.
• William explained that 049 was a Euclid-class Containment Object and warned that supernatural anomalies would continue appearing around the world.
• William claimed the Russell Family had prepared for anomalies for generations, and Paul said Canada had already partnered with Umbrella to limit losses.
• William asked other countries to help suppress information about Euclid-class and more dangerous anomalies while Umbrella handled containment, winning support from several nations.
• After days of negotiations, representatives established 336 clauses, and countries secretly signed the Athabasca Protocol with Umbrella Enterprises on February 6, 2007.

William considered Umbrella’s need for an aerospace carrier and a global rapid-response force, then learned that a mysterious cargo had arrived for him at his New York hotel. The cargo turned out to be a woman in a white dress who had somehow passed the security detail.

• William recalled how Russell’s influence had helped secure the Athabasca Protocol and Umbrella’s international support.
• William planned to use Halsey’s aerospace-carrier technology to create an ODST force capable of reaching emergencies around the world.
• William decided to visit Marvel’s headquarters in New York while Halsey finished debugging new UBCS and USS combat systems.
• Hunk told William that a cargo delivery had arrived, and William opened the suite door to find a woman in a white dress with Hunk and several Alpha personnel.
• Andre had ordered Hunk to sign for the cargo and deliver it to William after confirming William was still awake.

Andre arranged for Megan Fox to be delivered to William, worrying that his lack of interest in women meant something was wrong. William learned that she had been taken from the Iron Man set by men in suits, and the chapter ended with her explaining how she arrived at his suite.

• Andre ordered Hunk to deliver a woman to William, insisting the mission was safe and important.
• Hunk and the Alphas locked Megan Fox in the suite with William and left them alone.
• William questioned Megan and recognized her as the future Transformers star.
• Megan told William that men in suits had taken her from the Iron Man filming location while she was working as a supporting actress.

William learned that Megan’s family had accepted money to let the USS take her, so he arranged for her to stay safely and offered her a contract with his film company. The next morning, he brought her to the Iron Man filming location, while his guards mistakenly tried to arrange a male companion for him.

• William asked Megan whether she had been mistreated, and she said she had been fed and rested but had no freedom.
• Megan told William that her mother and stepfather had accepted money and asked him to take her to the filming location instead of home.
• William agreed, offered Megan a contract with his film company, and ordered the Alpha guards to protect her overnight.
• Hunk brought William a handsome Alpha who volunteered to serve him, but William insisted that he liked women and rejected the offer.
• William took Megan to the Iron Man filming location, where the crew gossiped about her return and her connection to their boss.

William discovered that Marvel had created the popular Abnormal Crisis comic based on rumors about the Athabasca Incident, then bought Microsoft shares to support Umbrella’s cultural ambitions. After returning to Troy Base, he visited Halsey and was startled by her changed skin color.

• William learned that Marvel’s Abnormal Crisis comic portrayed Jill Valentine, Carlos Oliveira, and STARS escaping a fictionalized Raccoon City, and its sales quickly surpassed the original Super Hero series.
• William decided to buy Microsoft stock and planned to make Abnormal Crisis the launch game for Umbrella’s Xbox console.
• William returned to Troy Base on February 14, 2007, after settling matters in New York and arguing with Andre.
• William visited Halsey’s dormitory, where she allowed only him inside, and he was shocked to see that her skin had changed color.

William visited Halsey, who revealed a new look and teased him about a newspaper scandal linking him to Megan. At The Hive, Halsey showed William her UBCS exoskeleton design, then began a live test against zombies, Zombie Dogs, and Lickers.

• Halsey showed William her changed appearance and confronted him with a newspaper photograph that made him look intimate with Megan.
• William explained how the photograph had been taken, and Halsey believed his account and said her darker skin would return to normal in a few months.
• William and Halsey observed a testing ground full of zombies, Zombie Dogs, and Lickers as they discussed how many soldiers would be needed to clear it.
• Halsey presented the UBCS Advanced Armored Exoskeleton System, which offered protective armor, enhanced strength, and thirty-six hours of power.
• Halsey ordered six UBCS soldiers wearing the exoskeletons into the testing ground, where the trial began.

A live demonstration showed the UBCS using AAES armor to clear a zombie-filled testing ground, though fast attackers remained dangerous. Halsey then showed William two unfinished armor projects: Thor's Hammer for the Spartan Force and Herendine, a more difficult suit intended for ordinary pilots.

• Corporal ■■ led five UBCS soldiers into the testing ground, where their AAES-assisted gunfire efficiently killed zombies and a machine gunner shredded a charging Zombie Dog.
• A Licker attacked Corporal ■■, but he threw it off with his exoskeleton and crushed its head, ending the live broadcast.
• William watched the UBCS clear the testing ground and praised Halsey, who explained that the armor was an inferior prototype and that fusion-powered suits were in development.
• Halsey told William that Wang Zhaofeng's engineering team was working on a fusion reactor design that could provide Umbrella facilities with nearly limitless energy in three or four months.
• Halsey brought William to the weapons research room and showed him the unfinished Thor's Hammer armor for the Spartan Force and the Herendine concept suit, which could take a year or two to complete.

Halsey showed William the costly Thor's Hammer and Herendine armor, then introduced new armor systems developed to prepare for dangerous Containment Objects. She explained the capabilities and steep biological costs of Biochemical Power Armor, leaving William to marvel at her extreme methods.

• Halsey revealed that Thor's Hammer and Herendine had consumed several billion dollars, explaining that their final forms required extensive materials and systems research.
• Halsey told William that ordinary soldiers could contain Euclid-level objects, but Spartans would be needed against Keter and Exafanistei threats while the Spartan Program developed.
• Halsey showed William five suits of AAES, explaining that each cost twenty-two million dollars and that production could reach about fifty suits per month.
• Halsey revealed that she had developed Biochemical Power Armor using serum derived from Tyrant T-103s to boost a wearer's strength, endurance, healing, and reactions.
• Halsey explained that each suit required four thousand milliliters of serum, or the yield of forty Tyrants, and William concluded that her methods were extraordinary.

Halsey explained the dangers of her biochemical power armor, and William agreed to obtain more D-class test subjects. The chapter then documented the secret abduction of John Campe and ended with fourteen Spartan candidates arriving at Minos Island for training.

• Halsey told William that the armor's T-Virus injections caused severe pain and could lead to organ failure and brain death, and William agreed to seek more prisoners for experiments.
• A classified file detailed how Dr. Halsey selected fourteen children for the Spartan Program and used clones to conceal their removal.
• Colonel Andre Kapushkin Ostrovsky's Gamma Squad abducted John Campe from his home in Toronto, and Umbrella altered the surveillance footage.
• William and Halsey arrived at Minos Island with Hunk and the fourteen candidates on February 22, 2007.
• The frightened children disembarked at the island base, while John silently assessed the guards and considered escape before realizing he had nowhere to go.

William brought the fourteen children to Umbrella's Minos Island base and revealed that they were clones, then told them they had been conscripted for military training to defend humanity. The USS took the distressed children to their dormitories, leaving William and Halsey alone in the conference hall.

• William arrived at the Minos Island base with Halsey and met Allen Kent, who had prepared a training plan for the children.
• At William's invitation, John asked whether Umbrella would harm the children's parents.
• William showed the children videos of their clones living with their biological parents and explained that they were clones.
• William showed footage of combat and Safe Containment Objects, then declared that the children had been conscripted to train as humanity's defenders.
• Kent ordered the USS to escort the children to their dormitories, and the children struggled and cried as the conference hall emptied.

William eased the Spartan children’s transition into military life by arranging comforts and rewards, while Halsey cared for them and secretly began preparing their bodies for augmentation. After two weeks of training, William gave the children toys, comics, and movie equipment for their free time.

• William accepted Halsey’s suggestion to reward the children with toys and activities, and she stayed on Minos Island to comfort them and explain their Spartan heritage.
• Halsey secretly injected the children with a tailored T-Virus and vaccine, and the Hive technical team arrived on February 26, 2007, to oversee the process.
• Major Kent began training the fourteen Spartans, assigned them numbers instead of real names, and designated John as number 7.
• The Spartans completed two weeks of demanding physical, academic, and tactical training before gathering in the conference hall on March 11.
• William acknowledged that the children might resent him, then offered them toys, comics, models, and movie nights as rewards for their free time.

William left Minos Island with Halsey to return to Umbrella Corporation’s expansion, while a report recounted three Umbrella agents in Deschambault Lake as a blizzard stranded a group of teenagers in the forest. The chapter left Sean studying a map and considering the missing children’s last known location near an abandoned mine shaft.

• William checked the Spartans’ loyalty, then left them with Major Kent and departed Minos Island with Halsey for a military base in Kenya.
• William decided to return to Haifa and let Umbrella Corporation continue expanding.
• A report introduced RCMP agents Sean Patrick, Adam Gale, and Andy Clement, who served Umbrella in Deschambault Lake, Canada.
• During a severe blizzard, parents reported that their children had gone camping in the forest and could no longer be contacted.
• Sean examined a map and identified the children’s last known area, which contained an abandoned mine shaft.

Sean and his team investigated an abandoned mine after a missing-children case and a legend of a deadly collapse led him to suspect an abnormal phenomenon. They entered the mine’s open dormitory, where Andy found something horrifying and a voice invited them to taste something delicious.

• Sean ordered Adam and Andy to prepare the pickup and gather equipment after remembering a fatal mine collapse fifty years earlier.
• Sean called Umbrella’s agent hotline and secured a UBCS squad to support the investigation.
• Sean told Adam that the mine stood on sacred Blackwood Mountain and that a blizzard had once killed thirty miners, twelve of whom were never recovered.
• The agents reached the dormitory, found its entrance wide open, changed into combat gear, and entered to search the building.
• Sean noticed panicked snowy footprints, including abnormally large barefoot prints and palmprints, before Andy called him to a room.
• Sean arrived to find something horrifying as a voice said, “Delicious... Aren’t you going to try some?”