Author's Apologetic Note (The Second): Erm Hi, been a while eh? Anyone still reading this after all this time? I honestly am sorry, I'd had a few chapters written but my computer broke and I can't get any of my files back. So this is me, on a new computer, starting to type again. This chapter to be honest I think is pretty terrible cause I'm trying to type this at the same time as packing to go on holiday! It's a two days till I'm on the flight to Spain but I'll try to type in the meanwhile!

Five Hours Later

Leon and Ada pulled up at the airport they were flying from. Leon got out of the car first, instinctly keeping his hand near his gun as he looked around the car park. It was quiet where Ada had parked with only a large black SUV nearby. He turned to Ada as she got out of the car, taking her laptop with her. Leon noticed her stumble slightly as she got out of the car but she quickly recovered.

"Is it just a coincidence we parked near a black SUV with tinted windows?" He asked her. She turned round and smiled at him slightly but didn't answer.

"Stay there." She said, striding towards the car. Leon watched as the window rolled down and she spoke to the person in the car. He tried to listen to what they were saying but they weren't speaking English. Ada walked back a few minutes later and the car promtly drove away.

"Plan on telling me what that was about?" Leon asked her as they both started walking towards the airport.

"Not a chance." Ada said calmly, hiding a smile.

Within half an hour they were on a plane heading to Italy with all their weapons. Leon and Ada sat across from eachother with a table separating the two of them. Ada tapped away at her laptop while Leon checked his hand guns. After a few minutes Ada spoke suddenly, making Leon jump after the silence of the near deserted plane.

"Give me your PDA." She said, laying her left hand on the desk, waiting for him to give it to her, while she kept typing with her right hand. Without asking he handed it to her and she linked it up to her computer and within a few seconds she handed it back. Leon looked down at the screen before looking back to Ada, waiting for an explanation.

"I managed to get everything I found translated into english. You're gonna need something to take back to the US when this is all over. And the vaccine, you'll need to take that back too. Apparently another case of C2X has been reported in mass outbreak around 50 mile out of Zeya."

"Shit. We need to put an end to this." Leon cursed. Ada nodded in reply.

"The first step to that is getting away from the BSAA and the US Government agents. Then the vaccine, and I have no doubt whoever is behind this will be waiting for us in Italy."

"Nice to know we'll have a welcoming party." Leon said sarcastically. Ada didn't take much notice as she shut down her laptop before standing up and putting it in the overhead compartment above her. As she tried to sit down she stumbled and Leon stood sharply, grabbing her arms to steady her.

"Are you okay?" He asked her. She pulled her arms away from him.

"I'm fine, just turbulence."

"Well that's a coincidence, you stumbled not more than an hour ago when we got to the airport too. You gonna tell me that was turbulence?" He asked her sternly, Ada glared at him but didn't answer. "C2X is starting to take effect and you know it, Ada. You sure you can handle this if you're starting to struggle to stand upright?"

"I'm fine Leon!" She snapped at him, "You might want to read up a little on the virus. With B.O.W's its like they say, knowledge is power."
Leon picked his PDA up from the table and flicked through the information Ada had given him.

Plenty of information. But will this be enough to convince the Government I'm still on their side? Leon thought as he flicked through experiment reports. He stopped at one file titled 'Our Leader Ada Wong's Success's With Ustanak'. Leon's curiosity forced him to look further into the file. A short video clip ran on the right hand side of his screen, showing Ada in a blue dress and red scarf walking towards a huge monster with a stump for one of it's arms.
The same monster from China Jake and Sherry had been fighting with me and Helena! And that's the same dress Ada was wearing in China too. Or at least for some of the time...

He turned to Ada who had been idly staring out the window.

"I've been looking for an explanation for what Chris said about you a few weeks ago since. And now I need one for this too." He showed her the PDA, the clip of Ada walking towards the monster and stopping beside it still looping. "Please, Ada. What the hell happened? And how the hell does everyone seem to think you run Neo-Umbrella?"
She sighed before taking the PDA from Leon.

"It's compli-"

"Uh-Uh, no. You're gonna tell me everything you know about this." Leon interrupted. Ada held Leon's gaze for a moment before sighing and starting to talk again.

"Her name," Ada said handing the PDA back to Leon, "is Ada Wong. Or at least she is to you, and was to herself for quite some time as well. And back in China, Chris Redfield watched her die. Well, die being a relative term. But that's why he told you I was dead, because he honestly thought it was me he saw get shot in the chest. But in reality, he saw Carla Radames die."

"You just made me even more confused." Leon said bluntly, looking between Ada and his PDA.

They are the same person though, this clip is of Ada. It had to be, it looks just like her.

"Carla Radames was a scientist who worked for a mutual enemy of ours, everyone's favourite, though thankfully dead, mad scientist Derek C. Simmons. She practically discovered the C-Virus single handedly. And dear old Simmons was smart enough to realise the full potential of the virus, or so he thought anyway. I used to work for Simmons, before I realised how dangerous he was and left. But since then he had been trying to create a clone of me. I don't know what I ever did to make him that desperate for me to love him but he did. Simmons used over 12,000 test subjects trying to create a clone of me with Carla Radames working faithfully at his side. Until, however, Simmons decided to use his own dedicated scientist to make the perfect me who would love him. He was sick to even think about doing that. I didn't realise till after you and me met in the catacombs of Tall Oaks, why exactly you were so confused when you saw me."

"Yeah that video, it showed you hatching out of some C-Virus caccoon." Leon stated, "But wait, do you mean that was Carla on the video?"

Geez this is confusing, I think I preferred not knowing.

"Yeah, Simmons trained her to be just like me, same instincts, same training. It wasn't hard for her to kill the whole of Redfield's team twice. Though she was a cheap knockoff at most. But after a while she went crazy, started remembering what Simmons did to her. So she sought revenge. If her revenge was against Simmons alone, I would have helped her but the damage she caused in the process wasn't worth it. She was the leader of Neo-Umbrella, she's the one who set it up to destroy order and allow the world to fall into chaos. Though ultimately, Simmons brought this on himself." Ada finished explaining. Leon looked at her slightly blankly as he tried to take it all in, though he was ecstatic to know Ada was innocent of all the crimes put to her name (Well, some of the crimes) he was also irritated it was all blamed on her.

She wouldn't have been hurt back in China if it weren't for Carla and Simmons, and none of what was happening now wouldn't be happening if it weren't for Neo-Umbrella.

Ada wouldn't be dying right now if it weren't for Simmons.

I will try to see if I can get a chapter up by Friday but it isn't a guarantee I'm afraid.. But we will see. I hope some people are still sticking with this story, it isn't abandoned, honest! I'll be in Spain for two weeks but when I get back I get my summer holiday and will have more or less nothing to do so I should be able to get this finished relatively quickly.