Resistance 2

Upon successfully destroying the Central Tower in London, England, breaking the Chimera's hold on the country, Hale is somehow able to escape the destruction of the tower. He finally ends up wandering aimlessly through a snow covered field outside of the city, unaware that he is believed by the British and Americans to be KIA. Suddenly, a VTOL aircraft spots Hale and lands; depositing a team of five Sentinals (Black Ops) soldiers who surround him at gunpoint. Hale briefly considers using a grenade (his only weapon) to kill the soldiers as well as himself. Hale decides against it, however, and drops the un-primed grenade and willingly steps aboard the VTOL. Upon boarding the aircraft, Hale is grabbed by two additional Black Ops, and begins to struggle, only to be held down and injected with a sedative. Once again Hale fights against his captors, but a Black Ops soldier then draws his pistol and "suggests" that he relax. The sedative finally takes effect and Hale passes out.

Hale regains consciousness as the VTOL continues to its destination, and is met by an officer who is leading the Black Ops. The officer introduces himself as Major Richard Blake; Director of Advanced Tactical Operations for the Special Research Projects Administration ("SRPA"). Blake knows that Hale is a survivor of Project Abraham; a confidential project undertaken by the SRPA. Hale was monitored during the American invasion of the Chimeran-controlled British Isles, and when his immunity was discovered they made plans to extract him.

The VTOL's destination is Dan Aric Johnson Air Force Base in Holar, Iceland. In reality it is SRPA's Base Station "Igloo". Blake, Hale and the others find the base under attack by the Chimera, and the Chimera's Goliath shoots the VTOL down. Blake and Hale survive, however, and make it into the base, driving the bulk of the Chimera back. Blake leads Hale inside the base to "Daedalus", a Chimeran Angel-like creature who is apparently its leader. When they reach it, Blake is unable to contain him and Daedalus escapes, but not before leaving a cryptic message for Hale. Hale and Blake, upon destroying the Goliath, are able to rescue Doctor Fyodor Malikov; the Director of Science for SRPA and leading scientist into creating an inhibitor to the Chimeran virus. Hale, Blake, Malikov and the other SRPA personnel in the area are able to evacuate the base, and Hale is brought to meet the "others"...The "Sentinels"; a mobile strategic reserve fighting task force formed from soldiers found to be immune to the Chimeran virus, brought together, trained and equipped for the purpose of defending the United States of America from the inevitable Chimera invasion.

Two years pass, and it is found Hale accepted a place among the Sentinels. Hale has now been promoted to Lieutenant, and made head of Echo Squad; the Sentinels' vanguard unit.

On May 15, 1953, the Chimera finally launches a full scale invasion of the United States, attacking with their huge aerial fleet of battleships, transports, and fighters on both the East and West coasts. They managed to damage one of the battleships at San Fransisco and it retreated north.

Hale and Echo squad get ambushed near Orick, California on their way to the battleship they damaged at San Fransisco. They battled through the town of Orick, then boarded the Chimeran battleship to destroy it from the inside. As they fight through Hale becomes increasingly pale and starts to look more like a Chimera. After destroying the battleship, Echo squad, which is driving a Chimeran shuttle, was identified as human by a Stalker. The Stalker shot the shuttle down and Echo squad decided to parachute. However, Hale decided to stay on the shuttle and crash landed the shuttle.

At Twin Falls, Idaho, Hale soon found the rest of the Echo squad as they fought to activate two of the towers around the Liberty Defense Perimeter before the Chimera can break through the lines. After several encounters with different Chimera, Hale and Capelli are sent to activate one of the towers while Warner and Hawthorne are sent to activate the other tower. Hale engages with a Mother Spinner as he reaches the tower and finally defeats to activate the tower just in time to bring the towers online. The guns on the towers destroyed the fleet. Hale disregards Blake's advice to go to an inhibitor station just before boarding a helicopter.

Echo squad is then sent to Bryce Canyon to retrieve Dr. Malikov. Fighting deep within Station Genesis, Hale encounters Daedalus for the second time as Daedalus continues to use his telekinetic powers to communicate with Hale and tell him that it is a useless resistance. Hale finally escapes Station Genesis with Dr. Malikov and is reprimanded for not going to an inhibitor station in order to treat the Chimeran virus. Hale dismisses Capelli, who is wary of Hale, and continues to Chicago.

Echo squad must now deactivate a "hub" tower in Chicago to stop more Chimera forces from breaking through the Defense Perimeter. Hale and Echo squad encounter heavy resistance at Michigan Avenue but ultimately dispose of the hundreds of Chimera sent to reinforce the position. Hale encounters a mutated Chimeran creature named the Leviathan. Standing above the Chicago skyscrapers, the Leviathan attacks Hale and the SRPA forces trying to take it down. While Hale is able to take the Leviathan down, Dr. Malikov is unable to deactivate the Chicago tower. Malikov learns that the Chicago tower was activated remotely from Iceland.

A large contingent of SRPA forces, including Echo squad, head to Iceland to kill Daedalus. While at first the missions seems to be succeeding, it becomes increasingly evident that SRPA has walked into a trap as numerous SRPA helicopters are shot down and the soldiers are subsequently pinned by heavy Chimera forces. While Command recommends that Echo squad scrubs the mission, Hale decides to push forward and rescue as many SRPA forces they can as they head towards Daedalus. Once inside the Chimeran tower at Iceland, Hawthorne is killed by Daedalus. Hale, Warner, and Capelli split up in order to find Daedalus. Warner finds Daedalus first but is no match for him as Daedalus then kills Warner in front of Hale. Daedalus stabs Hale in the stomach and Hale passes out.

Hale wakes up six weeks later, almost a full-fledged Chimera, to Dr. Malikov's face. Malikov informs him that when Capelli found him after Daedalus had stabbed him, the virus had progressed too far and that Hale had less than 3 hours before converting to a Chimera. After Hale leaves, it is suggested by an intelligence report (Dr. Malikov's journal) that Dr. Malikov commits suicide by lethal injection of morphine. Malikov writes that he does not wish to be judged for what he has unleashed on the world. Once outside, Capelli informs Hale that after the Iceland tower was activated, towers all around the world were activated and connected by arching beacons of light. The Chimera broke the defense perimeter and mostly wiped out the 80 million people residing within it. The survivors are now stranded around America. There are still around 3 million people in the Baton Rouge protection camp so SRPA and the remains of Echo squad head there to make a final stand.

In Louisiana, SRPA decides to execute one last mission in an attempt to take down Daedalus. The majority of the Chimeran fleet are hovering around the Gulf of Mexico around a crater on the Yucatan Peninsula. Blake, Hale, Capelli, and some SRPA soldiers successfully hijack a shuttle and bring along a fission bomb to wipe out the majority of the Chimeran fleet. Blake and the SRPA soldiers split up with Hale and Capelli as they try to place the bomb near the core reactor of the ship. Blake and the SRPA forces are ambushed with the fission bomb and the Chimera take the bomb and try to remove it from the ship. As he nears the bomb, Hale encounters heavy resistance and finally Daedalus.

Hale learns "Daedalus" is really Private Jordan Adam Sheppard; another Project Abraham test subject, but transferred to Malikov's division, as his version of the virus infecting him would have turned him into an Angel, and was subjected to his experiments into creating Chimera-human hybrids (the end-result of which was "The Cloven"). Daedalus believes resistance is useless, and pressures Hale to join the Chimera. Hale is able to retain enough of his humanity to refuse, and battles him instead.

After a massive battle, Hale kills Daedalus. Hale is drawn to Daedalus' corpse and, upon touching it, is engulfed by energy that advances his mutation and grants him psychic powers. Hale activates the bomb, and, before the bomb detonates, Hale and Capelli escape on a Chimeran shuttle. The bomb goes off, destroying the Chimeran fleet and breaking the Chimera's hold on the United States and Mexico. The shockwave from the explosion hits the shuttle, however, and despite Hale's efforts, the shuttle crash-lands in Mexico.

Capelli wakes up, un-harmed, and finds Hale is no longer in the shuttle. Capelli walks outside and finds Hale gazing at the sky, now visibly red. Hale then turns to face Capelli; he has now finished his transformation into a Chimera, his eyes completely gold, his face distorted, his skin turned pale-white and in mental contact with the other surviving Chimera. Hale, his voice full of an un-natural energy, echos Daedalus' words from the prologue and tells Capelli "They are calling to us. Can you hear them? It's beautiful." This implies the Chimera will continue to fight regardless of Daedalus' death. Capelli responds immediately by drawing his M1911, forcing Hale to not come any closer towards him. Hale confirms the Chimera's intentions by saying "This is only the beginning."

Consumed with remorse, entirely contrary to his earlier attitude towards his superior officer, Capelli whispers "Forgive me, sir. It was an honor." Capelli shoots Hale in the head, presumably killing him. Speculations by fans of the game suggest that this may have been a hallucination on Capelli's part caused by the impact of the ship or otherwise; this, however, remains unknown.