Ada had now made it back to the rooftops having seen the glow beneath the water, thus deciding to stay around to watch for anything happening like right about now.
"I'm surprised at you, Claire." She frowned. "You of all people can't even protect little old Sherry. Well, I suppose it's my turn again."
Throwing down the sniper rifle as she knew she wouldn't need it anymore, she pulled the grapple launcher from the holster on her leg, aimed it at one of the cranes and threw herself off the side of the building. She swung around, her free arm held out to wrap around Sherry's waist as soon as she was in range. Sherry gave a startled cry as she was suddenly lifted off her feet by a mysterious woman, one of whom she couldn't really make out at the moment as she was more worried about where she was going. The B.O.W. had now met its final demise as it was now sliced and diced in the rotating helicopter blades. There was no way it was getting back up from that.
"You seem to be lacking a little since Raccoon City, Claire." Ada scolded her as she dropped the young woman into Jake's awaiting arms. "Then again you're not exactly the bright young woman you used to be."
"Look who's talking!" Claire gave back as much as she received as the woman now landed on the edge of the building to look down on her.
She really had no idea the severity of the conditions Leon had left Ada in back at the underground labs in Raccoon City. She was far more preoccupied with finding Chris than asking Leon about what had happened to make him look as glum as he did.
"At least I have the ability to..."
"Get on people's nerves!" Claire finished for her.
It would seem to others the pair couldn't stand one another with how they acted, however that wasn't the case as Jake now looked on as he set Sherry back on her feet.
At that Ada gave a smile. "You just can't stay out of trouble, can you?"
"No, mother!" Claire frowned at her, placing her hands on her hips.
"Where would you be without me?" Ada now asked.
"I survived Raccoon City without you," Claire now waved a finger up at her. "I even survived two Island's."
"You had help," Ada reminded her with a smirk.
"Don't you have anything better to be doing?" Claire now frowned.
"You know her?" Jake asked as he came to stand next to Claire.
Claire gave a nod. "I was stuck with the grumpy ass for the past six months!" she shouted, sending the remark back to Ada as she answered his question as well.
"No need to thank me!" Ada feigned annoyance.
"Thank..." Sherry now rushed over to thank her as the pair had finally stopped their bickering. However, the ringing of her phone cut her off.
"You're welcome, sweetie." Ada replied to herself.
"Yes, we thank you. I thank you." Claire frowned at her. "We're all in your debt, oh great Queen of Mystery!"
Ada gave her a royal wave in response before disappearing from sight.
"Yes. We just had a run in with a chainsaw B.O.W." Sherry was now heard as she spoke to someone over the phone. "Yes, we're fine. We're on our way now. Yes, I understand. No, we'll be alright."
"Wait, the past six months?" Jake asked, grabbing Claire by the arm.
"Yeah, why?" Claire questioned.
"Me and Sherry were taken captive by that woman for six months, and here she is saving her. Now you go saying you were with her for the past six months, what has she got an evil twin or something?"
"She held you captive?" Claire now turned on him.
"Yeah," Jake nodded. "She needed my blood, she also did some tests on Sherry too."
"That wasn't her," Claire now frowned deeply. "There's an impostor that looks like her."
"Impostor, not evil twin?" he thought.
"I don't know much about it myself, but if I got my hands on her I'd strangle her to death for ever hurting Sherry."
"You and me both," he smirked, getting a smile from Claire in return.
Seems he wasn't at all like his father.
"I'll be there as soon as I can. Yes, he's alright."
With that she cut the call and just stood there unable to move as she wondered if it all was true about Simmons.
"Sherry?" Claire now looked to her.
"It's about Simmons, isn't it?" Jake now asked as he now walked over to her.
Sherry gave a nod.
"Everything's going to alright," he reassured her with a smile. "OK?"
Everything was not going to be alright though as Claire knew deep down there was something about Simmons, Sherry had to find out for herself.
"Claire," Sherry now turned to her.
"We should let Simmons tell us himself, alright?"
She gave a nod. "Let's go, he's waiting on us."
Claire turned to look at Jake, the poor kid was clearly new to all this.
xXx
Simmons was now pacing back and forth on the ground floor of an old abandoned building. He clearly had no idea what was in store for him as the two Agents approached his location.
"What's taking her so long?" he grumbled to himself as his men made sure to keep him well protected at all costs.
It was Helena that had been the first to spot him. Quickly turning she aimed her gun right up at him as she shouted his name.
"Simmons!"
That now got her the attention of all Simmons' men and the very man himself.
"Well, this is unexpected." He thought bewildered at the surprise appearance of her and Leon.
"Give it up, Simmons. We..." Leon shouted up at him, getting cut off as the metal door behind him opened as Sherry now rushed through.
"No! Wait!" she urged them to hold fire as Jake and Claire quickly followed her on.
Leon and Helena turned to look at her before quickly turning their attention back to Simmons.
"Ah, Agent Birkin." He thought relieved until he saw her as well. "And Claire Redfield!"
Seems things had gotten way out of hand here.
"Would you kindly arrest those two," he pointed to Leon and Helena.
"They say you were involved in the terrorist attack," Sherry now questioned, completely ignoring his request. "Is it true?"
"What, are they running down the streets, screaming it to anyone who'll listen?"
"Answer me!" she screamed, wanting to hear it directly from his mouth.
"It's for the benefit of the United States and global security," he finally answered her.
"I can't see how killing the President is good for the country!" Leon snapped.
Sherry was shocked to hear this. "The President's dead?"
"We have Leon to thank for that," Simmons smirked.
"God damn you, Simmons!" Helena snarled.
"Dispose of them," he now ordered to his men, who immediately opened fire until realising he could still use Sherry and Jake. "Hold your fire! Those two are still of use to us."
The five of them quickly ducked and dived behind the metal crates for cover. Leon was now scolding Sherry as if he were her father.
"You need to be more careful," he warned her.
"Yeah, yeah. She'd had the same lecture from her mother over there," Jake replied sarcastically once again.
"I heard that," Claire glared at him.
"So, what'll we do?" Jake asked ignoring her. "Waste 'em?"
"No," Leon told him straight. "We'll take care of Simmons. You need to take care of Sherry."
"Give it up, Simmons!" they now heard someone shout behind them.
"Chris!" Claire and Leon both said in unison.
"Go!" Leon now shouted to them as he and Helena ran out to start shooting at the distracted men.
Simmons quickly rushed for cover as Chris, Jill and Piers now helped the others take down his men. He clearly had no idea Carla had been the very one that had brought the three here as she now reached out to jab him in the neck with something sharp.
"What the..." he grunted, now reaching up to place a hand to his neck.
Ripping the injector from his neck he threw it to the floor.
"Stop hiding in the shadows you coward!" he snarled. "Come out and face me!"
The night was silent, save for the gun fire and shouts of his men who were dropping like flies.
"When I find you I'll tear you limb from limb!" he snarled as the virus was now taking effect.
The veins in his neck were bulging slightly, along with the lower side of his face.
"There's no way she could have got me!" he now thought as he half dragged himself to the edge to drop onto a conveniently oncoming train. "I killed her! I made sure of it!"
"He's getting away!" Helena warned as she took cover with Leon.
"Come on!" he gestured to her as he ran out of cover, leaving it to the BSAA to handle.
"We've got your back, Leon!" Chris shouted over the gun fire. "Get after him!"
"Thanks, Chris!" Leon nodded as he and Helena just managed to drop onto the last train car.
The pair looked on as Simmons pulled out his phone, they too were now holding a finger to their earpiece at receiving a call.
"Can you feel it spreading through your body yet?" Carla's voice now taunted him.
Chris, Jill and Piers were also receiving the same call, it would seem Carla wanted every one of them to hear what she'd done to Simmons.
"Captain, isn't that?" Piers now asked.
"Shush!" Chris scowled as he listened to what the woman was saying.
"I'm just giving you exactly what you gave me, Simmons." There was clearly hatred in her voice as she said his name.
"A-Ada!" he growled. "It can't be!"
"At first you'll be afraid, but don't worry."
It seemed as though Carla had also brought Ada into the one sided conversation as well as she too listened in.
"What have you done now?" she sighed heavily.
"You're just becoming the monster you always were," Carla finished.
"How?" he hissed, completely crushing his phone in his mad rage. "How is this possible? I killed you!"
"Give it up, Simmons!" Leon stepped up to him. "We've got you!"
Simmons turned to face him.
"You chase me while that woman is on the loose," he snarled.
"She'll be taken care of," Leon reassured him.
That now told him that the voice hadn't been a recording after all and that she was indeed still alive.
"Ada!" he screamed. "When I get my hands on you, I'll make sure you stay dead!"
"You won't be seeing her again anytime soon, I'll make damn sure of that!" Leon snarled.
Simmons growled in response. "Don't you see?" he roared. "If she's done this to me then what else is she capable of?"
"I know Ada, and what you did to Carla!"
Simmons could only glare.
"Ada would never go that far, and if Carla has Ada in her I know for sure she wouldn't do anything drastic!"
"Then you clearly don't know her as well as you thought!" Simmons hissed.
"She wasn't the one to kill all those people back in Tall Oaks!"
"And I wasn't the one to kill the President, Agent Kennedy!" Simmons smirked despite the pain he was now in.
"He was infected!" Helena snarled beside Leon. "Because of you!'
Simmons just laughed before dropping to his knees, his body steaming as if he were burning up from the inside. Helena now started to back up a little, along with Leon just as Simmons' body burst into flames. However, this time it wasn't like all the others. The flames were now dying down and Simmons was now standing, his skin cracked all over his body making him look like some kind of jigsaw.
"Leon!" Helena looked to him.
"We can take him," he assured her.
Taking up her gun again, she was ready or so she thought. Simmons screamed in pain as his body then tore him apart, reforming his structure completely, bones, muscle and organs all shifting and changing in different shapes and sizes. Forcing him to become what looked to be a giant sabre toothed cat like creature with bone and muscle on show.
"Oh boy!" Leon could only sigh as he looked to the large cat just in front of them.
This was going to be a long night indeed.
