To continue the fight

By: Bloodlover

Disclaimer: All characters I think you know who they are, belong to Capcom, except Emily Johnson and others, and they are my creations inspired by the games, don´t steal them.

Chapter 6 – Plans are made

February 10 1999 On the road to secret U.B.C.S base

Claire brushed her arms to warm herself. The night air was chill and she always felt drained after a battle. She glanced over at where her brother and Jill was sitting. Chris had his arm around Jill´s shoulder. They seemed to talk but she couldn´t hear what they said. Claire didn´t had anything against that her brother had a girlfriend, on the contrary. But tonight she felt alone and left out.

The guy that sat beside her, Carlos, also watched Chris and Jill. Claire thought that it might be a good time to start to learn the new people. She cleared her throat to get his attention.

"You know her?"

He startled. "Who?"

"Don´t try to fool me because you can´t. It´s obvious who you´re staring at."

He blushed a bit. "Ah. Yes. At least I know Jill, but not the other guy. Me and her helped ourselves out of Raccoon City."

She raised an eyebrow. "I survived Raccoon too. But I got help from Leon, the guy who was with that other group. We escaped with a little girl, Sherry."

Carlos smiled. "You survived Raccoon City too?! Maybe we should sell t-shirts and stuff with `I survived Raccoon City!´ on? That would be a great business!"

She laughed. "Yeah… I´m sure."

Carlos smiled back but then he turned serious. "We came pretty close to dying though, especially Jill. One of the monsters managed to infect her with the T-Virus. I had to find a hospital and make a vaccine."

Claire nodded. "The same thing happened to me too. Well not the infection part. But Sherry, the little girl, became infected with the G-Virus." She left out the part about the monster being Sherry´s father. "I really thought I was going to lose her, I didn´t know anything about medicine, let alone if there was a vaccine to the G-Virus. But I ran into Sherry´s mother and she gave me instructions on how to make a vaccine. I knew where the lab was, I was in an Umbrella lab, so I found the stuff i needed to make the vaccine. Sherry got through it fine. She got a little fever afterwards but according to the document, it was a probable side effect."

Carlos glanced at her arm. "Hey what happened to you? Surely that isn´t a memory from Raccoon?"

She smiled thinly. "No this is fresh. Some white haired guy surprised me and Chris in the Umbrella building. The creep shot me."

"One of the guards?"

"Ummm… no or yes I think but he wasn´t dressed like the ordinary Umbrella guards. He was dressed kind like you…"

Carlos stiffened. "His clothes were like mine?" Claire nodded. "And short, spiked hair? White?" When Claire nodded a second time, he swore. "Fuck, why am I not surprised! It´s probably Nicholai! He was one of the squad leaders for my group, the U.B.C.S. He betrayed us and nearly killed Jill and me. He killed Tyrell and possibly shot Mikhail, one of the others in my squad."

Claire got a grim expression. "So I guess we have one thing in common. We both want a piece of that creep Nicholai."

Carlos flashed his teeth in a smile which made Claire think of a predator. An angry one. "Well chica, I DO always let the ladies go first but in this case it´s `first to the prize´."

Goverment secret base

"That Kennedy! Thanks to him we lost a lot of men! It´ll take God knows much time before we can replace the fallen soldiers! And what will Umbrella do in that time?!"

"Calm down, sir." Said a woman softly. She stood in shadow, only her siloutte could be seen.

"We won a victory today, a small one. Sure it could have been better, but mr. Kennedy managed to bring at least some of the soldiers back. He did a couple of mistakes, but he learn quickly. You can´t discard him only after one single mission."

The man turned around to face the woman. Few dared to speak like that to him, but this woman were one of these few. "You are right there Wong, and even if half of the things you told me about Kennedy is true he is a valuable asset. It´s just that can´t afford mistakes now. Just look at what happened in Raccoon! You were one of the few that survived that mission." Ada smiled at him and nodded, but when he mentioned Raccoon City the smile disappeared like it never had been there.

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Leon felt a lump of dread in his stomach as he walked through the corridor to the briefing room. He knew he had screwed up. Okay maybe not a TOTAL screwup, but still a screwup. Men had died and he couldn´t stop thinking what would have happened if he had stayed instead of running off to help ms. Claire Redfield and her brother. What´s done is done. You did the right thing. If you hadn´t helped, they would have died and surely that Valentine woman. But he still couldn´t get rid of that feeling. When he arrived he had met Ark and he had said something about the boss being furious.

Now he saw the big door that went to the boss´s room. He braced himself and opened it.

The boss sat at his ordinary place at his desk. One thing was strange. The bodyguard that was always with him wasn´t there. Instead a woman stood by his side, but when he got closer she quickly went through the other door in the back, so he never got the chance to see her. Strange woman… And why go out now? Was it because of me? No… it can´t be it, can it? The other strange thing was that the boss smiled at him! The boss hadn´t even snickered the time Leon had knew him. And why NOW of all times? "Leon! Welcome back!"

Leon saluted him. "I´m sorry for the loss of the men…"

The boss grimaced a bit at that. "Yes, but I also knew that you did a great job despite this. Sure we couldn´t take out that HQ but that was because of some… interferences. I already red the report that you e-mailed me on your way here."

"But what now sir?"

"We´ll need some time to rest and heal. During that time we might as well make some useful work. Your next assignment will be a stealth operation. You and a contact, whom will be meeting up with you, will sneak around and gather information. The rest of your group will meet up with the remains of the S.T.A.R.S and U.B.C.S. When the time is right… both groups will strike at the main HQ of Umbrella. Check mate!"

Leon resisted the laugh that threatened to burst out. He knew from Ark that the boss loved schack and other games. It was one of his few passions. "That sounds like a good plan. When will I meet this contact? And where?"

"I´ll send for you when it´s time. In the meantime, get some rest. You´ll need it… Dismissed!"

With that Leon returned the salute and went to his own quarters.

U.B.C.S base

"Home sweet home!" exclaimed Emily as they drove up to the main gates. "Well as home as one of these bases can get…"

Carlos jumped of the army truck. "How long do you think we´ll call this home?"

Barry followed him. "As long as we´ll need it. Depending when we strike, when Leon´s group contacts us… During the battle it doesn´t matter. If we succeed… well that´s a problem for later."

"Hopefully there will BE a later." Replied Richard grimly. Donnie patted him on the back supportly. "Come on Richie! We must think we´ll win, we have to keep out spirits up."

Richard glared at him. "Don´t call me `Richie´ or I´ll show you how I keep my spirits up. On your expense."

"Enough children." Said Emily.

"I agree. Now I just want to take some time to wash up and relax. It was a pretty intense battle." Said Rebecca and sighed.

Carlos laughed a little. "You call THAT intense?! If you just knew what battles I have been through…" Emily gave him a look but not as stern as she looked like. "Later Oliviera. I´m just thinking of the group´s best. If we were to listen to all your BATTLES it would take forever to stop you. In that time Umbrella would fill the whole world with freaks."

"Then all the more reason to relax and get ready, right?" asked Claire. Emily nodded.

After Claire came the others, Chris and Jill among them. Claire noticed once more that Carlos looked at them strangely. What happened in Raccoon? What´s the deal with him and Jill? Is he.. can it be that he loves Jill too, oh boy! Claire shook her head a little. The last thing they needed was some "two-men-and-a-woman" triangle. Those often led to battles and they had to stick together. She cast another glance at Carlos and decided that if it was needed, she would take care of the problem herself. Or better yet ask Jill how she felt about the whole thing. But what, in the case she can´t make up her mind, will I do? Set up a fight? Boy, I never had two boys running after me. Memories of all the guys on her school came over her. She wondered briefly what the others did at the university? Did they missed her? Did they try to call her? Of course they do! After this is over I go back to school. But then came the memories of Steve came mercilessly. Oh Steve, where are you? Claire fought down tears and drove the thoughts away.

Emily finally came up to a couple of double doors and opened them. Inside was a briefing room. Rebecca groaned. "Come on! Can´t we rest for awhile?! I´m so tired that I´ll fall down any minute!"

Emily gave her a stern look. "It won´t take long. Pull yourself together Rebecca! You was in S.T.A.R.S. Act like a proffesional." Rebecca nodded as an apology.

All of them sat down, except for Emily. She cleared her throat. "Okay. First of all Im overjoyed that we all met up. Also that Chris and Claire managed to save Jill." She nodded to the Redfields and Jill. Claire spoke up.

"Leon helped out too!"

Emily nodded again, this time with a bit impatience. "Yes. Leon Kennedy and his group was a great help. But now I want to recap what me and the other survivors of the U.B.C.S went through, it may have importance for the mission. On our way here, we got a tip from some guy, who said that the coordinates to the real Umbrella HQ might be in the Paris lab. We then was about to meet up with Oliviera" she nodded to Carlos and Barry "and Burton. But we were suddenly attacked by soldiers, no doubt from Umbrella. Someone most have leaked information about us. Therefore I ask you what you think of this. If the guy who gave us this tip is the traitor, then there is a BIG risk for using them."

All sat silent. Jill finally broke the silence. "Well, we don´t have so many alternatives so I think…"

Claire interrupted her. "That can wait. I agree that this is our only chance, but I think we should wait for Leon to contact us before we make our move. He said he would contact us later. With them we would have a better chance. Do you remember their arsenal?"

Emily looked suspiously at her. She wasn´t the only one. "Claire, I know that he helped you out of Raccoon…." When Claire started to protest she held up a hand. "And he helped you save that little girl Sherry too. But we have to be careful."

Claire was still angry. She stood up and put her knuckles on the table. "What do you suggest then?! That we wait for Umbrella to knock on the door?! Or maybe until they destroy the world?! I said myself that we should wait, but only until we got ahold of Leon."

"Easy Claire." Chris put his hand on her shoulder to try to calm her down. "Emily isn´t accusing Leon, she has a point.

"I don´t think Leon is a traitor, even though he should have better manners. What Emily means is that we shouldn´t trust this group he is with too easily. Leon may be on our side, but what plans has the group he´s with? We shouldn´t trust someone new too easy." Barry crossed his arms. "But the best thing to do now is to get some rest. Then we´ll decide."

Emily nodded. "You´re right. This isn´t the time to make decisions. I just wanted to make a point what we may be facing. We´ll sleep on it and tomorrow we hold a meeting at dawn. Dismissed!"

All of them rose from their chairs and started for the doors. Jill turned to Emily. "Do you know if there is a telephone on the base that can´t be traced?" She nodded and pointed to the communications room. When Jill started to walk down to it, Chris followed her.

"Who are you going to call?"

She turned to face him. "My parents. There was months ago since I contacted them. The first time was after the Spencer case, I told them to leave the country and go into hiding. The second was after Raccoon City. I just wanted to let them know I was still alive." She looked down at the floor. "We may go to the last battle soon. I just want to hear their voices one last time… in case I…I…"

Chris took her into his arms and embraced her in a strong hug.

"It´ll be okay." They released each other and then walked to the communictions room. Since she was an expert in machinery, it didn´t take Jill too long to start up the communications device..

"Hello?" answered her mother hesitately. Jill took a deep breath.

"It´s me mom. Jill. I just wanted to say hello."

"Jill?! Oh thank God, we were so worried about you! Where have you been all those months?! When can we see you again?"

"Not yet mom. You have to stay away. Please don´t worry about me."

Her mother sighed. "I know. But I hope this nightmare with Umbrella will be over soon. Then you can come back to us."

Jill felt the tears coming up but fought them down. "It will be mom. Sooner or later it WILL!"!

"What will happen now?"

"We may have a plan. Hopefully something that will stop Umbrella."

"I hope you will too, both for ourselves and for the world. You be careful now? And come back!"

Jill felt that she now knew what they had to do. There was really no other way. At least not something she could think of. "Of course mom. Say hello to everyone for me. Goodbye…"

Jill ended the transmission and burst into tears. "God… I hope I´ll be able to keep that promise. That we all make it back."

Chris embraced her. "Yes when we defeat Umbrella. Sooner or later…"

Jill looked up at him. "So you have made up your mind about using the coordinates?"

"We don´t have much choice, do we?"

"No we don´t."

Together, they went to their room.

To be continued!!!

So what will happen next? Will the heroes walk into the obvious trap? Or will they use it to their advantage? Is ther really not another way? And when will Leon and Ada finally meet…? Stay tuned!