2012, the year the world would end, supposedly.

But the world as we know it had been on the brink of ending for many, many years, by the hands of madmen and women, rescued by chance and a hair. Pure evil resided around every corner and made its home and name in the form of violence, disease, and addictions.

Following the events in Africa during 2009, the world became quiet. Every country was focusing even more on rooting out the criminal undergrounds they unwittingly housed, seeking to get rid of the evils that preyed on their people and the people of other countries. For each country, the campaigns for each nation lasted only a year, give or take, before the progress of their respective missions stopped being reported, because everyone saw no change come of these efforts. Either people would stop caring, worrying instead about more apparent threats, or the news would find something else to cover.

The Americans wanted to get rid of all bio-terror crime and corruption faster than the other countries, since the top is where they wanted to be. The presidents came and went, and now a man named Adam Benford was in office, rising to a voter's favorite because of his promises to crack down on all home-grown terrorists, all drug-dealers and criminals to build a safer nation that could serve as a role-model for the rest of the world.

But as he took office, a threat was sweeping the nation (among others in the world, though it was a quiet one. A new drug was being dealt and abused, "Black Velvet". People were dying for it, figuratively and literally. It would give the users a high matched by no other drug, made them feel powerful, but it was physically demanding and cost the user's health and energy and physical stability. People would be found with blood dripping from their eyes and ears, with their muscles almost liquidating within their skin, with Black Velvet in their blood. Addicts who didn't suffer the most severe effects could be easily spotted as spots appeared on their eyes and their skin would develop splotches, but it was rare that anyone didn't died after the first few hits. The real knowledge of this substance came when teenagers, kids, got a hold of the dangerous drug. The government kept news about the drug quiet and sought help.

No one knew where the drug came from, no one would oust the dealers. When the BSAA was called to investigate possible bio-terroristic traits of the drug, they could only find one constant in all of the addicts' stories: the initials R. S.

These initials, noted as a signature of sorts on the drug, meant something to only a couple of members of the North American BSAA division. Familiar with the Kennedy Report, which detailed the actions of Los Illuminados- a terroristic cult-, these agents began to investigate the possible resurgence of the cult and the involvement of Ramon Salazar. The BSAA found issues in this investigation, as Salazar was confirmed to have been killed by Leon Kennedy, and there were no other links could be made between those events and the current issue. The symptoms of Velvet and anything to do with las Plagas didn't match up. The possible connections were listed as dead ends, reseting the search for answers.

But one of the agents couldn't let it go. Something seemed suspicious about what was happening in America. The drug only being distributed to Americans, the physical damage caused by it, the initials… she had to figure out the truth. She followed her lead right to Spain.