Chapter 29
Entry
"What is on your mind, Leon?" Wesker asked and Leon knew the other man was looking at him through his glasses. They had been in Edonia only a few hours and Leon's mind was buzzing with thoughts. They had met their Edonian unit already, Gomez had left with them to catch up and find out how he could help the unit. Leon was sure that in a mission like theirs, Gomez's spying abilities could be more than helpful for their unit seeing as they had suffered many losses by now.
Edonia was in chaos.
Leon wasn't sure how long it had been like this. The country seemed to have suffered long enough from the civil war and this new kind of B.O.W warfare didn't really help them. Leon hadn't seen any locals and maybe it was a good thing. Most buildings were near collapsing and street conditions were so poor even vehicles could hardly use them. All of it was upsetting in a way. The good heart in him wished the people could have avoided all this bio-terrorism like the C-virus.
"This is quite the opposite to the environment in Finland," Leon finally said, still wondering. He picked up his weapons, double handguns. He had been practicing aiming with two guns at the same time and now with the virus he had noticed that his aiming had improved with his sight. He hardly had to think of using the guns in his hands to hit both targets.
Wesker was wearing a black outfit and a tactical belt, just like he usually did in combat. A sniper rifle was lying on the living room table next to his magnum of choice along side the Samurai Edge that Leon had returned to Wesker. The gun seemed to follow them wherever they went and Leon was glad it was with them. The past was history and at this point it was a hindsight dwelling on the origin of the gun. Now it was there to protect them and to put a hole between Alex Wesker's eyes.
Wesker came closer to him and took off his glasses, examining him carefully. His hand came up to touch Leon's face. "Now is not the time to let your mind wander."
"It never is." Leon stated, not able to hide the dark tone. Too much had happened and he kept wishing he had more time to comprehend everything that had happened to him and between them. He didn't dwellin the past, but things changed so fast that he barely had time to understand where they were. Russia. The USA. Finland. Now Edonia. Damn, he didn't even know if Wesker was still completely back to his normal self. Now they needed to find someone with the perfect antibody and stop Alex from getting the cure.
Wesker seemed to sense this and Leon could have sworn that Wesker read his mind. It wasn't really an impossible alternative anymore. Wesker's eyes burned, but not with anger. Now he seemed troubled, wondering and thinking.
"I never imagined saying this," Wesker began, maintaining eye contact. For a moment everything zeroed out, it was just them and what they shared. "Whatever may come from now on, I will not let you out of my sight. Alex is dangerous and he knows I'm following him to the end of his days. He will try to harm you again to make me surrender." The masked anger dripped through his voice, low and threatening. "You are the worst mistake that I have made in my life and still, perhaps, the most successful experiment I have ever accomplished. If I had left you in Spain, I would have been spared from such troubles. But here you are, human no longer and perhaps with time your virus may adapt to your body even better than mine. I haven't noticed any fatal side effects, just increasingly impressive abilities." The last sentence Wesker almost said with the pride of a scientist.
Leon had to smile at that. He barely felt "impressive" but he was starting to get used to it. "You're one hell of an asshole, no matter what happens. I still wonder why you ever came to save me in that mansion. I thought I was just your toy last you told me."
Now it was Wesker's time to smirk. "You were a very important toy. I don't like to share."
Without any further words and even if the connection wouldn't have been there to tell that Wesker cared, Leon knew it deep in his heart that Wesker was back to himself and ready to fight next to him, just like he was for Wesker.
-XX-
He examined the needle carefully. They said it was good for him, but he doubted it. He had nothing against vaccines, but this was more than suspicious. Well, whatever, he jabbed the needle where he was told to, straight in the neck.
"So it do anything for you yet?" He asked the other mercenaries in the other room. "S'posed to be some kinda energy booster, but...I don't feel any different."
A fellow mercenary approached him and he chatted to him, knowing already that something odd was going on. "You know, between me and you, we should'a asked for more money." Then his comrade attacked him with a knife, growling and grunting as the blade stuck in the weakened wall. He smirked, he had known something was up. "A lot more." He could see his comrade wasn't the same anymore. Facial features had changed and even body movements. "Pretty sure this wasn't part of the contract, but I am willing to renegotiate." The B.O.W came at him again and it was hardly a couple moves on his part before he was grasping his former comrade's jaw tightly with one hand. This was what he did best: beat up people and erase them for money.
"Did you take your dose?" A young woman ran into the room out of the blue. Who was she? A new recruit? "Yeah, if you want your own hit, you gotta sign up with the lady downstairs." The body next to him started disintegrating into bright ember colored ash before even that light went out. What an odd day. "Wouldn't recommend it, though." He joked to the newbie. Yes, he did take things seriously, but in his life, taking things too seriously would make him nuts in seconds. Humor was his choice to keep on going in this not-so-perfect world.
The young blond woman didn't seem surprised by the disappearing body. "No question, you've got the antibodies."
"Thank you very much." He thought it was a compliment, but come again? "Wait, what?"
The woman opened the hatch to a near by disposal chute and turned to him, seriousness on her expression. "You could be the key to saving this world, Jake Muller."
He smirked. This young lady must be joking?
They had no time to chat. People, no, freaks ran into the room. "Better save myself first." He stated and jumped through the opened chute, falling down, expecting the young woman to follow his lead.
Today wasn't going to be an ordinary day for sure.
-XXX-
"We are approaching the destination. Prepare yourselves for landing." Their pilot called out. Chris was more than ready for action and so was his whole team.
After what had happened at the BSAA headquarters, his boss had wanted him to stay out of Wesker's way. He was too involved and so was his sister. He was ordered to focus on this mission in Edonia and leave Wesker and Leon to other teams. Chris was a bit worried for Claire. Seeing Leon betray them all had shocked her deeply. Chris knew his sister maybe better than himself and knew that Claire wasn't going to back off even an inch, no matter what the BSAA told her. She had quit working for them and even though Claire told him she was not going to search for Leon, she would the second Chris turned his back. Chris sighed. He should have known that Wesker had messed with Leon. He had been such a fool to think anything but that out come.
Still, there was a doubt in his mind that he didn't want to accept. What if Leon wanted to change sides? What if Leon was doing this by free will? Chris couldn't believe it. Wesker was a master of manipulation and betrayal. He could make anyone believe anything, even Leon. Still the thought pained him. Leon had fooled him all that time. He had known that Chris would take him to Wesker and believe him. No, he had to trust in Leon. He wouldn't betray them by his own will. He was just lost in Wesker's darkness for too long giving Wesker time to change his reality. He had to trust in Leon.
Their chopper landed. It was his first time in Edonia and the poor sight showed that it wasn't really a tourist resort. The ruins matched well with his current state of mind.
"Captain, what is our current objective?"
Chris pushed his own thoughts back. He had a mission. These men were his responsibility.
"We need to find the source of the C-virus. Let's end this here before it's too late."
He needed to save the world once again. One man could wait.
So little did he know. Their ways were going to cross again.
And not only theirs.
-XXX-
Her feet touched the street, again a perfect landing. The identity thief was here and she was going to find her. This time things were personal. She had made a mistake working for this mister Alex after working for Wesker. Alex, if that was his name, was crazy, but she hadn't expected that he would be so obsessed to make a doppelganger of her. He didn't seem an emotional man, crazy, but not emotional.
She had never had a twin sister and she wasn't going to have one even now. Carla Radames would be dead as soon as she found her. Nobody stole from her, especially her identity. Then she would find the true identity of her former employer. She had thought that he was only interested in her for her information of Wesker, but he seemed to be out of his mind completely. What the hell would he accomplish with her doppelganger?
The woman in red had made an entrance in Edonia.
A/N
At first I didn't plan to take Ada here at all, but then I thought that maybe this could work. Some of you maybe have noticed by now that I write RE canon my own way (I might have told this before already). Resident evil 5 and Lost in Nightmares I tried to have in this story when Leon was kidnapped in Africa. I don't really plan to have Jill in this story, but you never know, I changed my mind with Ada already. The thing is that the more I have characters, the harder I keep on track what they do. As the author of this story, I need to make some my own decisions to keep this story somewhat in line with the canon story but not mess up you guys with too many characters.
This said, I hope you enjoyed the chapter! I have had so busy time last four months and I have studied too much. Things are slowly getting better but I still need to adjust my life. I hope I have more time and energy to write this story since now I think things are slowly reaching the end and getting very interesting!
Tell me what you think. Was the chapter good or bad? Your feedback is always important and I take every comment into consideration. We write this fanfiction together. Without you I wouldn't write this anymore, you know.
