Chapter Three: Paris
At first she couldn't see anything but the blinding light in front of her eyes, but when she turned her head, she could see the hunched form of a well-built man next to her. Billy.
"You okay?" he asked, noticing that she was awake.
"Yeah," Rebecca replied, "Where have they moved us now?" The last thing she remembered was being grabbed from behind and injected with some kind of sedative, and now she was in comepleteley different surroundings.
"From what I heard the guards talking about: Still in Europe, but for some reason they cleared out their main head quarters..."
"any id-"
Before Rebecca could finish, the door to the room they were in opened. Both Becky and Billy looked towards the door, expecting to see some random scientist with a needle, as always. But that wasn't what they saw. Instead, Wesker stood there, flanked by 2 of the guards. Normally, Rebecca would have made a rude comment, like she always did to the scientists, but the look on Wesker's face suggested that to make any comments would be unwise.
"Grab him." Wesker said, blandly, "I've got the girl."
The guards nodded, and stepped past Wesker into the room, and tried to hold Billy back as Wesker started for Rebecca. Another man entered the room, this one a scientist, carrying two syringes full of blood-red liquid. Wesker held Rebecca's arms tightly behind her back,
"Let's see you resist this one, Rebecca...Even Sherry wasn't able too," he muttered to her.
Holding her arms with one hand, he took one of the syringes from the scientist with the other. "You do him, I've got her."
Billy struggled against the two men that held him as the scientist approached him. He kicked at the man, catching him in the face, and kocking him back into Wesker and Rebecca.
"Idiots!" Wesker yelled, as he grabbed for Rebecca, who had managed to slip out of his grasp.
Billy broke free of the guards, and the pair hauled ass out of the room, and down the long white hallway, ramming into people as they went. They heard Wesker yelling for someone to catch them as they ran.
They were quite a ways away, when the guards caught them as they were rounding a corner. One of them slammed their fist into Billy's face and another caught Rebecca as she tried to skid to a halt and run the other way.
"Nice try." Wesker taunted, approaching from behind them, "But not quite good enough. Though you've managed to earn yourselves an extra day without being infected. It will be a while before two more doses are ready..though I must say, it would be interesting to see what dear Mr. Coen would do with his beloved Becky trying to kill him," he grinned wickedly, "So maybe we'll only need one.."
Billy, already worked up, threw a puch at Wesker. It caught Wesker off gaurd, and he was unable to block it. Billy's fist connected with the side of Wesker's head, sending the man's shades flying. The gaurds immediatly lept on Billy, holding him down.
Wesker calmly bent down and picked up his shades, laughing. "pitiful," he muttered.
"Um...Sir, should we maybe put 'em in separate cells this time?" the guard holding Becky wanted to know, "They've been nothing but trouble together..."
"No," Wesker replied, "They'll be even more trouble apart. and besides, what would you do without the entertainment?"
With that, Wesker turned and went off down the hall. Time to talk to Spencer.
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She didn't understand...What was going on? The inside of the base was empty. Deserted. Everything had been cleared out. Just when she'd thought every thing was going her way, too. Ada kicked the wall in frustration. Now she was going to have to find out where they'd moved to, and how to get there. And more importantly, how to get the STARS there...
"Oh look who it is," said a voice behind Ada, "the bitch who brought us here,"
Ada turned her head in the direction of the voice; Claire was the one who had spoken. The others were right behind her. Ada didn't reply to Claire, instead she calmly said "Well, it's about time. I was wondering if the Silencer had killed you,"
A hand grabbed her shoulder and turned her roughly around, as Leon said "Claire, don't!"
No need to worry handsome. Ada thought. She wrenched herself out of Claire's grip, and had her gun drawn before the girl could recover. "Listen, Kid. I don't have time for you to be mad at me, or jealous of me, okay?"
Before Claire could reply or Ada could reacte, Chris was next to them, his gun drawn, and pointed at Ada. "If you want to continue your existance, I suggest you lower the gun," he said.
"Would every one just calm down!?" Leon and Jill said together.
"She started it," Ada replied cooly, "But,as you wish," she holstered her 9mm, and crossed her arms.
Claire remained silent, glaring at the older woman.
"So why is no one here?" Jill wanted to know, "I thought this was the main base,"
"It was," Ada replied, "But they moved appearently...I don't know why they would have, unless they knew someone was coming, though I doubt you would be enough to scare them off,"
"So why did they leave?" both Redfields wanted to know.
"Likely because Spencer got tired of this place..He tires of many of these places...He prefers things like the mansion in the Arklays. The only question is, where did he decide to move too? There are a number of places to choose from,"
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Paris...Near Paris. That's what the computers said anyway. But they had seen earlier that computers could fuck up. So what to do? Trust the only files they had been able to recover from the computer and go to Paris? Or struggle about on their own and hope to find Umbrella's new location? Both could weild equally disasterous results... Though the Paris route would mean a higher chance of sucess...
"Okay guys," said Chris, "Time to decide where we're going, and who's going."
"I say we go to Paris," Ada said blandly, "not that my opinion matters... And I have to go. You need a guide, remember?"
"I'm going," was the reply from Leon.
"Me too," said Jill
"Okay...and we find a way to get Claire home." Chris said, hearing the other's replies.
Upon hearing this, Claire rounded on her brother, "Christopher Micheal Redfield! We've been through this already, I'm going!"
Chris heard his full name and didn't even bother trying to argue. It was truly sad when your full name became a sign that you had lost. "Fine. I guess we'd better get moving,"
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Jack arrived to find the building desserted. But they had been here...He had seen their plane go down, and there were no bodies there other than that of the pilot... Bood pooled around his feet, dripping off of his blade-arm. The cat-things in the forest had been child's play. A little disapointing, really. He had been hoping for a challenge. But then, he could feel the effects of the virus beginning to take hold. He was getting stronger by the hour, he even surprised himself. He did a quick yet thorough search of the rather small facility and confirmed what he'd already guessed, everything was gone. He slammed his normal arm into the cold cement walls, turning the area into dust.
Oh well, he would get them next time... First things first, find out where they had gone. Then the fun would begin. This in mind, he set out to located Ada and her friends, imagining the bloody deaths they were going to suffer...
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Paris, or at least the outskirts of it. The computer had been right. For in the distance, Jill could see the building. It looked like an old mansion. Umbrella and their mansions... It looked big too, at least twice s big as the Spencer mansion.
"Of course! How could I have been so stupid?!" Jill heard Ada say to herself, and she wondered what the woman meant, but didn't ask.
They were in an old house maybe 6 miles from the 'Lab', The sun was just about to rise. Jill wished she could watch it...It had been a long time since she'd actually had the time to enjoy the sunrise, but what Ada had suggested when they arrived was the right idea. Stay there until nightfall, and get what sleep they could until then.
"Okay," said Chris, "We need to figure out how we're going to get in, now, instead of waiting,"
"That's easy," said Ada, "I acutally know this place. This was the main base till about a year ago, when they moved to the base we were at...But I comepletely forgot about it, and it's location, until I saw it,"
"Okay, so how do we get in?" Claire wondered.
"Easy...The basement. There is one window into the basment, it should be unlocked. If not, after dark, there will be no one down there so you could break it. It's staying out of sight once you're in that's the problem. Though I'm sure yu can think of something,"
They talked for a while more about how to get in and get to Wesker, and finally decided it would be best to get to sleep.
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As she had the last time, Ada sat awake as the others slept...Only this time, the reason was different. She had given the STARS enough information to get in and find Wesker, that was the extent of the help they'd get for now. Just as soon as she was sure none of them were going to wake up, she would leave and get to the base. She would then start the chaos.
Just when she thought it might be safe to leave, someone sat next to her; Leon.
Neither of them said anything for a long while, they just sat there, every now and then, glancing at one another. Finally the silence was to much to bear, and Ada said,
"So, still can't sleep or are you awake for a reason?"
Leon laughed at her, "Actually, I thought I might be able to get some straight answers out of you now, but now I might have changed my mind..."
"You never know...depends on the questions you ask," Ada replied.
"Okay," he sighed, "How did you get out of Raccoon?"
This surprised Ada. She had expected the usual 'why are you helping us' question. "Wesker. He got me out."
"Is that why you work for him? Because he got you out?"
"Honey, I worked with Wesker long before that. Wesker and I...go way back." Leon heard the sadness in her voice as she said the last part, and he wondered why.
After a few morminutes he asked the question Ada had been expecting, "Tell me the truth, why are you helping us?"
"As I said before, that's a story for another time, and another place."
Leon sighed. At least she had answered a few of his questions..but her answers had left him with even more questions swimming around in his brain. And he doubted she'd answer them. He was about to get up and go back to sleep when she spoke again,
"I'm sorry," her voice was barely above a whisper. He froze, waiting to see if she would say anymore. When she didn't he couldn't help the disappointment he felt.
"Sorry for what?" She didn't answer him. She didn't even look at him. He placed a hand on her shoulder, "Sorry for what?"
Ada just shook her head, and remained silent. On impulse, Leon leaned forward, his lips meeting hers. This caught Ada off guard, but for a moment, nothing of what was going to happen later seemed important. All that mattered right then was them. However, reality reared it's ugly head when Leon broke the kiss, and Ada remembered exactly what she was supposed to be doing, and for the breifest moment, wished she didn't.
Leon cleared his throat akwardly after another moment of silence, "uh, right...Sorry 'bout that,"
This got a laugh from Ada, "No need to apologize, Handsome,"
He smiled at her, rose and left the room. Ada sat there for a moment, and decided it was time for her to leave, before she lost her nerve.
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The building loomed in front of her, dark and forbidding. She had never liked this house...She always felt that something was watching her when she was there...It was one of those places that you stepped into and instantly said it was haunted, for the hair on your neck would stand up , and chills would run down your spine.
The mansion in Raccoon forest had been creepy, yes, but she hadn't acually been afraid of it. Like the Spencer mansion, the basement levels were the labs, with the upper area of it being used for the employees. Spencer and Wesker had done nothing to try and rid the place of some of it's creepiness. Ada had the feeling that the old man liked the scary atmosphere. Another likeness it had to the original mansion; it was full of riddles and traps, and secrets. The kind of house Ada hated.
Sighing, she opened the front door. She hadn't needed to worry about guards, the 2 at the gates had been some of her employees; Tim Green and Tyler Matheson. Upon opening the door, she saw the rest of her 'team'; short little Amber Davis, tall, mysterious Phyllis Ryan, blonde and goofy Mathew Booker, and the forever-flirting Justin Le. They seemed to be heading for the door as she opened it.
"Well look what the cat drug in," said Mat, "We were just on our way out to find you, boss said you'd been gone to long,"
Amber looked her up and down, "What the hell happened to you?" she asked Ada bluntly.
"Long story, right now I need a shower and clean clothes," was Ada's reply. She hadn't noticed how dirty she was, with bloodstains and dirt all over her, along with bruises and cuts. She walked past them, "I assume my rooms are where they always were?"
Justin nodded, "you got it, Dollface,"
Ada ignored him, Justin was always calling her cutesy names. As she headed for what had once, been, and now was again, her rooms, she heard Phyllis call out behind her,
"Wesker said he wanted to see you as soon as you returned."
Without turning around Ada said, "Well then, I guess I haven't returned yet,"
