My Little Wesker

by Iamdanny0


Albert Wesker and the Conflict

Author's Note: Finally, the party has finished and stuff can happen now. Wild stuff... crazy stuff... important stuff. Got two weeks off from uni now that my exams are over so I'll probably be updating more often. Enjoy. Beta'd by REV6Pilot, of course.

Wesker gritted his teeth as he watched the cyan pegasus approach. He could still taste vomit in the recesses of his throat, his legs shaking profusely as he used the wall for support. The dark voice was still resonating around his consciousness and he found himself desperately trying to place it – as far as he could tell, it was female, and certainly belonged to no pony or human he had ever met. His mulling over the subject was disrupted by the speech of Rainbow Dash. "What was that about, Al?"

Her voice was laden with suspicion, and the earth pony found his hackles rising at the sarcastic familiarity she let out when uttering his new nickname. He'd reached the end of his tether, and now the rope was starting to break.

He tossed his glasses aside as he pried himself away from the wall, and slowly walked towards the pegasus. "I don't see how it is any of your business, Miss Dash."

Rainbow raised her eyebrows at Wesker's confrontational tone, but with equal vitriol in her voice, replied "It's my business because you're acting really strange, and…" She hesitated briefly. "... I don't trust you."

Wesker leaned in towards the mare, annoyance written all over his features. "And I don't like you, Miss Rainbow, so it appears we are at an impasse." Rainbow Dash flinched at his acidic words, and the blond pony didn't waste the opportunity to twist the knife. "I'm not entirely sure which insecurities you suffer from, but projecting them onto me is not a wise move, dear heart."

She snorted in derision. "Insecurities? That's got nothing to do with it! Something about you isn't right, and I don't know what it is, but I'm gonna find out."

Wesker ran a hoof through his mane in an attempt to calm himself down. Relentless, dull-witted, prying, ignorant cretin! When he trusted himself to reply, his tone was originally even and flat, a frightening level for those who actually knew the former human's traits and personality. "Something's not right, is it not? What exactly do you suspect that is? Is it the fact that I made you look like the fool you are? Was it the fact that I was able to move faster than the so-called 'best athlete in Ponyville'? Or is it because I'm new here and detracting away from the constant attention your unwarranted ego demands?"

By the conclusion of his rant, Wesker's expression had degenerated from one of guarded indifference to an outright snarl. One of his special talents throughout his adult life had been intimidating others, and he was putting it into full practice here. But rather than shy away, as he had expected, Rainbow's expression matched his own. "That's a load of baloney! You wanna know why I don't trust you? Because you're big-headed, and you clearly think you're totally amazing! If you've got no memory, then what have you got to be so arrogant about? You say that your amnesia makes you more jumpy but when I pulled that prank, you didn't look scared, you looked ready to kill somepony." The cyan pony's expression turned grave. "And something tells me that you already have."

Wesker was internally surprised at the seemingly simple pegasus' intuition; her assertion that he had killed before was more accurate than she could ever know. However, he still had an advantage in this interaction. "Fantastic perception, dear heart," he drawled sarcastically. "I can't wait to hear the swathes of evidence you must have to back up this theory." He arched an eyebrow, ignoring the pounding in his eardrums and the creeping sense of unease he was feeling. "You do have evidence, don't you? It is incredibly uncouth to accuse a stranger of murder based on nothing more than pin-headed instinct." He saw a kernel of self-doubt bloom in Rainbow's eyes and instantly seized it. "That's what you're doing isn't it?" Rainbow looked mutinous, but unable to refute his allegations, so he summed up as much false righteous self-indignation as he could before continuing. "You have a great deal of nerve, Miss Rainbow. I appear in your town lost, alone and friendless, unable to recall my life and with no way of ever seeing those who I may have left behind, and you have the pig-headed stubbornness to accuse me of a most heinous crime based on nothing but pure dislike." The ex-Umbrella agent put a hoof to his thumping head to further the picture of frustration. "I don't know why, but I expected better from you, dear heart. Clearly, I shouldn't assume the best of ponies in this town."

Wesker had always been a skilled orator and manipulator, and he was going all-out in this verbal battle. He could tell that Rainbow's dogged diligence was fuelled by a misguided sense of loyalty to her friends, and probably to Ponyville itself. By making it clear that he thought well of, and posed no threat to, both her companions and the other citizens of the small town, he was undermining her line of attack.

Sheesh Al, you really can't just have a normal conversation can you?

As expected, Rainbow's intense gaze faltered slightly and her features softened before she let out a sigh. "Okay, I'm sorry, maybe that was a little harsh. But something's not right about you, Al, and not just because you're different or because you're super smart. There's just something... off about you." She paused slightly and gave a small, sad smile. "I want to be wrong, but I don't think I am." The lack of anger in her reply allowed Wesker to drop the level of intensity in his speech and scoop up his sunglasses.

"You want to know what's different about me, dear heart?" He made sure his voice resonated with fake melancholy when he carried on. "I am lost in a world I don't recognize. Where was I born? Do I have a family? Tell me, if you lost your memories of being a filly, what kind of pony would you be? Don't you believe you would seem 'off'?"

The blond pony savored her thoroughly guilty expression as she looked down at her hooves. "I'm so sorry, Al, I never thought of it like that. I... I just wanted to make sure my friends were safe, and I can't trust anyone or anything that might hurt them. I see that I was wrong." She looked up at Wesker and gave a half smile. "I still don't like you, though... you make me feel dumb."

A surprised Wesker let out a snort of laughter. "The feeling is mutual, Miss Rainbow, you make me feel far too intelligent for my own good." The blond pony's smirk grew as the cyan pegasus grimaced. "I mean that in the most affable manner possible, of course." Rainbow gave another small smile. Both knew that friendship was most likely never going to be an option, but neither had any real reason to object to neutrality, and so they left it at that.

Suddenly, the pegasus started as a previous thought resurfaced in her mind. "So why did you run outside, Al?"

Wesker rolled his neck, grunting with satisfaction as the joints cracked. "I felt nauseous and had to exit to vomit." He didn't have to tell her any of the 'juicier' details, and he certainly wouldn't if he could help it.

Rainbow's nose wrinkled in distaste. "Why didn't you use the bathroom?"

Her concern for your health is touching, Albert.

He rolled his eyes behind the mirrored lenses of his glasses. "I wasn't exactly thinking lucidly. I was preoccupied with not leaving a mess on the dance floor."

Rainbow nodded sheepishly. "That makes sense. Wonder what caused it, though, the cake seemed fine."

"It wasn't the cake, that's for sure. If it was then I would not be the only victim."

Rainbow looked thoughtful and turned to walk back inside. "You okay, Al?" When Wesker confirmed that he was, she gave him a grin and moved to leave.

So much death, Albert Wesker. So much deceit, what a mind you have.

The former human let out an involuntary groan as the shadowy voice ripped through his mind once more, the pain growing to such an intense level that he didn't notice Rainbow Dash shouting for help as he vomited once more into the bush outside Sugarcube Corner, right before sinking into a merciful darkness.