Chapter 52: The Quid Pro Quo.
Silence. The footsteps had faded outside the door, leaving the sounds of Ada's heartbeat the sole sound in the expansive room. The scientists from earlier had left before her, and now Ada was alone, trapped inside the room. Feeling her way to the door, she pressed her ear on its metal alloy, listening for any sounds outside. The door was warm, and Ada could sense that something was burning outside. "Hello!?" Ada yelled, beating her hand on the door. No response. Growing impatient Ada began searching for the emergency box, a pack of supplies in storage compartments throughout HCF, in the case of emergencies. Ada never really paid attention to the compartments, which could literally be found in almost every room in the base. Using the memory of walking in the door that day, she fumbled to the hatch for the compartment, and pulled it open. Inside, she reached in and grabbed what was a flashlight and turned it on. The slightest illumination beamed out, giving Ada enough sight to make sense of the situation. Continuing to search inside the locker, Ada pulled out a knapsack, which inside held a loaded Glock 17 and two clips, food rations with water, extra batteries for her flashlight. An emergency door opener, which hooked up to the control panels beside all doors and shunted power to deactivate the seal, completed the emergency pack. Ada wrapped the knapsack around her shoulders, and with the flashlight and Glock in both hands, she proceeded to the door.
"Hello." Ada said softly, stepping outside the now opened Mainframe door to the corridor outside. A fire engulfed the security station down the hallway, and chunks of the wall beside the doorway had collapsed, blocking the route. Ada turned to a guard's dead body, several gunshot wounds across his chest, along wit bullet impact holes across the wall his upper body leaned against. The sight and smell of his body told Ada not to even bother checking for a pulse. Continuing on, Ada made quick notice of the power failure on this level, all lights, including emergency ones, were offline, along with wall panels for quick access to the computer systems. Using the emergency door opener, with the initials E.D.O on the back, Ada entered the auditorium, which was used for mission briefings for insertion teams, and reports for visiting agents and officers by Division 6 personnel. A second fire blossomed at the podium, with a burning dead corpse lying in the center. "My god." Ada gasped, watching across the room as the blood drenched, gunpowder-smelling room seemed to engulf her body. Walking up the center row, she turned to her right and left, as new corpses seemed to jump out of nowhere, apparently a lecture was going on when the attack team came through. Reaching the auditorium doors, Ada held the flashlight and gun high as she pushed them open, checking both sides to secure her location. The lobby of Level 15 was in ruins, several pillars had collapsed due to explosive rounds or gunfire, and pieces of the marble flooring had been shot to hell. As she continued to walk down the seemingly row of destruction, her foot hit something. Lowering the flashlight in almost a split second the beam of light revealed another corpse, a single pool of blood drenching his cloths and floor. However, he wasn't one of the many Division 6 personnel, but instead he was wearing black combat gear. Ada knelt to his side, and pushed him onto his back. A strap connected to his vest led to nothing, showing his machine gun had been taken. Ada pulled the mask off, revealing his face with eyes wide open. She knew without a doubt in her mind, that Biotech had invaded Division 6.
"Quiet please..Quiet.please." Dylan said, pacing the Command Center with his MP5 in one hand, strapped to his vest. All Command personnel hushed up as Dylan showed he was in charge. "As many.well.all of you know, my name is Dylan Torres, former Agent of Division 6. Although, a better term for it would be puppet, or how about pawn.is that a good enough term for you!?" He yelled to Julia, who was sitting on a chair holding a cloth on her shoulder wound, while two other agents knelt beside her. "You just made the last mistake you'll ever make." Julia shuddered with pain, looking at Dylan's eyes with cold hate. "Ha, indeed.well as many of you can see we are now in charge of Division 6." Dylan turned back to Julia. "What's your point here.why come back?" She questioned. "Our goal is simple, while Biotech may have achieved much from our unconditional defection to their ranks, five agents can't provide all necessary information to take down The Incursion Directive. Therefore, with our knowledge and expertise, we're using your own Intel against you." A woman answered the question. Removing her head mask, Laura Collins revealed her beautiful face. Pulling the bun out of her blonde hair, she walked to Dylan's side. "Ghost." Julia whispered. "Very good." Laura replied, flashing Julia a faint smile. "Now then, on to business.uh.boys take Agent Sterling into her office and handcuff her to the chair. Laura, check in with Jeager." Dylan commanded. As Julia and Dylan entered the office under guard, Agent Collins called into her headset. "Foxhound, progress report." "We've hacked 23% of the HCF Mainframe, we'll need another half hour to break into the computer core." A man answered. "Acknowledged, what's the situation of the personnel down there." Ghost asked. "We've come into contact with several employees and security personnel, however none that proved a nuisance. Hotchkins didn't make it though, a security guard got him. Strike 4 unleashed the neurological gas into the ventilation systems as planned, which knocked out all personnel between levels 2 through 14, and 16 through 20, giving our teams sufficient access to HCF systems and access panels. Strike 5 took out the power systems for said levels, except for levels 1, and 16, and Strike 6 managed to disable the auto destruct sequence. We're currently outside the access vault for the Core on Level 16, just above the Mainframe Vault." The man continued.
"Copy, keep us informed." Laura placed her radio in the vest pocket and walked into the office. "Everything's going according to plan, the neurological gas knocked out the personnel, however we've got only an hour before they awaken. Good thing is that we only need a half hour until the Core is hacked and we have access." Laura informed as Dylan sat at Julia's desk, his feet firmly planted on the top while Julia squirmed on the other side tied to her chair. "Excellent, here that Agent Sterling? Soon Division 6's computer core will be ours, and this place will be nothing but another smoking crater in the ground when the Auto Destruct actually activates, of course, after we've gone." Dylan laughed, as one of his henchmen handed a bottle of Julia's imported wine to him. "Ghost, get down to Level 20 and oversee that the Auto Destruct does activate on time, I don't trust leaving henchmen like Strike 6 in charge of something like a Fusion bomb activating." Dylan insisted as he popped the cork off the bottle of wine. As Laura left the room with the two henchmen, Dylan and Julia were left alone. "You know.Julia, I can't count how many mission briefings where all I wanted to do was take you across the table and.well, needless to say it was a lot of occasions." Dylan taunted, taking a sip from the wine and walking around the table to Julia's side. "But it would have never worked out between you and I, after all what am I, a lone, aging field Agent and you, a stiff ass desk jockey, with your tight butt and business skirt, and that cute little pony tail and sexy way you bight your lower lip when thinking.drives me insane." Dylan implied, lowering the wine bottle to Julia's shut mouth. "Here, have a taste." Dylan pressed the bottle against her mouth, raising it and sending gulps of wine into her throat. Julia swallowed the wine, and after the bottle exited her mouth she began coughing repeatedly while spitting up half the bubbling wine onto her shirt. "Pretty good stuff, what were you saving this for?" Dylan questioned, reading the label on the bottle. "A special occasion." Julia coughed, turning her attention to Dylan. "Really.and what would that be." Dylan put down the half empty bottle and turned on her computer. With no answer, Dylan prepared to search through her personal files when suddenly a restriction marker came up. "Ah, your hard drive is encrypted is it? Not standard procedure Julia.in fact, its against the rules. You little devil whatever's on here must be important to keep hidden." Dylan winked at her while pulling out a portable radio, "Sam, get me Johnson up here, and tell him to bring his hacking equipment."
"Copy that, Foxhound out." A man said into his radio, and turned to one of the many hackers at the access terminal to the Computer Core. Ada sat in the shadows, scanning the perimeter as the hackers and dozen or so guards went on with their business. She immediately recognized the man as Sam Jeager, a.k.a. Foxhound. Yet what grabbed her attention more was the voice on the other end of the radio. "Dylan." She coughed out. "Johnson, get you and your equipment up to Command, now. Agent Torres needs your assistance." The man, Sam Jeager, ordered. Ada watched as one of the men exited the room, and proceeded to the elevator. Knowing she was massively outnumbered, Ada returned back into the hallway and raced for Level 16's office area. "Hope its still working." Ada said to herself, jumping past several dead bodies of fellow coworkers and to the Level's main administrator's office. Sitting at the desk was the administrator for Level 16, lying across the blood stained desk with a sole bullet hole in his skull. Ada pushed him aside and sat in his chair, turning on the computer. Shifting through several systems, Ada found what she was looking for, the communications network. Turning on the Mic embedded on his desk, Ada activated the software and directed the communiqué for Division 1 in Washington. "This is Special Agent Ada Wong of Division 6 to anyone listening, Biotech have infiltrated the base, repeat, a Biotech strike force has infiltrated Division 6, under the directions of two or more members of The Chosen Five." Ada said into the Mic. After waiting several seconds, a garbled response came. "This is Major Lynn Sisco of Division 1, please verify your name again." A woman answered. "Agent Ada Wong, I.D Code 10627 Echo 4. We have been infiltrated by Biotech forces, and any personnel I've come into contact with so far are dead, and for some reason the Auto Destruct sequence hasn't gone off like it would have been. I am requesting immediate assistance." Ada said. "Your I.D has been verified, what is the situation there." The Major questioned. "An unknown number of Biotech agents have taken control of our systems, and it looks like they're hacking the computer core. I've witnessed one of The Chosen Five, Foxhound, talking with Agent Dylan Torres who seems to be on Command Deck. According to Foxhound's report to a woman on Command Deck, they only need about a half hour to hack the core." Ada informed, leaning against the desk. "Copy, listen very carefully Agent Wong, we're dispatching an insertion unit to Division 6, they should be there in the next hour. You need to interfere with the hacker's work so they'll need more time, destroy equipment or something so we have time to get our team there. Next, head down to Level 20 and investigate why the Auto Destruct didn't activate. If salvageable, Optech should have a device which you can transfer the command codes for the Fusion bomb to a remote detonator, if all else fails, activate the Auto Destruct, but only do so at last resort. Next, you must find a way to render the Biotech agents on Command Deck unconscious, to give you a safe route and easy access to the area so you can lock out the rest of the squads and control the situation. If you are able to do this in the allotted time then our insertion team will have little to due. The team is more or less a safeguard in case you cannot complete these objectives. If our insertion team fails, you must activate the Auto Destruct. Be sure to set the Auto Destruct to a one hour, thirty minute timer as well, in case you both fail. Good luck, Division 6 out." The woman turned off the transmission. Ada outstretched her hands across the desk, thinking the whole situation over. "What happened to the good old days, the Umbrella Corporation, international espionage, the not breaking into our base and attempting to destroy us.." Ada quipped while walking out of the office.
"Here we go." Johnson said, hacking Julia's computer while she sat helplessly. Dylan was standing at the window overlooking the Command Center when he heard those marvelous words. "Excellent, get back down to the Computer Core and get that damn door open." Dylan ushered him out of his seat and began typing on the computer, "You know, I wouldn't have to spend so much time hacking the core if you hadn't erased my I.D code for the Mainframe." "How rude of me." Julia retorted, fiddling with her handcuffs. As Dylan skimmed through her documents, he finally found what he was looking for, a surprise. "Hello, what's this." He exclaimed, opening a filed email from someone he never expected.
-To: Julia Sterling J_SterlingD6@HCF.net (Secure email) From: Donald Marcus D_MarcusHC@HCF.net (Secure email)
Dated: July 12th, 1994.
Dearest Julia,
I've studied the list of names of candidates you sent me, I agree on three of the five names including Agent Wong, however I don't believe Agent Quinn can take Agent Torres's place in this matter, she may not be up to the task. However, I agree with your thought that the plan must take place soon, within the next few months in order for Project Liberty to stay on schedule. I do not however believe of your idea that Biotech could be an asset, but you have been known to be right before. In order to fully accomplish Operation Overthrow it must be at a very discrete pace, and if we do need Biotech's aid it will be a last resort.
Sincerely,
Donald Marcus.-
"Operation Overthrow? Got a little operation on the side, Julia?" Dylan said to her. Julia remained silent. "I see, well what I find most intriguing is the fact that you planned me to carry it out, along with others.along with Ada.Where is Ada, by the way?" Dylan asked. "Who knows, she was scheduled for the day off." Julia replied. "Really.? How convenient." "Go ahead and check the work schedule." Julia coughed out, in agony of her wound and a little tipsy from the wine she consumed earlier. "Well it seems your telling the truth.a shame really, I miss her you know.no matter, I want to know more of this.Operation Overthrow." Dylan insisted. "Burn in hell you bastard." Julia yelled, sweating from head to toe in complete pain. Dylan no longer showed humor, instead of smiles, he now drew a serious expression across his face. Circling around the desk, he stopped behind Julia, out of her sight. "Either you tell me, or I forward this email to the High Council server. And I'll personally see that you're delivered to their doorstep. Needless to say, the things they'd do to you are immensely worse then what I could do, when they learn that you're betraying them." Dylan taunted now. Julia turned her head to the left, seeing him out of the corner of her eye.
"Alright, I'll tell you. But you must consider my request too." Julia insisted. "Quid pro quo Julia, you tell me things.I tell you things." Dylan replied, sitting back in the chair.
"Excellent." Ada said to herself, unzipping her business suit jacket, revealing a white blouse drenched in sweat. Ada placed the submachine gun down and pulled her white blouse off, revealing a gray muscle shirt underneath showing sweat stains as well. Wiping her hands on her black pants, she walked in front of the mirror, and took her shoulder length hair into a ponytail, tying it in place. Racing around the weapons depot room, she grabbed a combat vest from the wall rack and placed it over her, strapping the buckles in front. Her bare arms and neck showed the scars of a soldier, with bullet wound scars on her right arm and neck, each from its own mission, and a knife scar on her right shoulder blade, a memento from her first field mission. Placing submachine gun clips into the combat vest, she grabbed a newly stocked and newly developed P90 machine gun, in favor of her previous choice the MP5, from the rack and pushed in a clip. Testing the laser sight, she was ready for anything. "Now for the backup." Ada said to herself, holstering a Beretta 9mm along with extra clips, and a flashlight. Filling the knapsack with essentials, such as the hacking device for the Fusion bomb and a flashlight, other clips, water, and finally low yield grenades, Ada set off not as a lone agent, but as an army of one.
"How much time?" Jeager yelled, growing impatient waiting. "Another twelve minutes, we're 67% there." A hacker replied. Ada crept back into the shadows of the room, and pulled out a grenade from her knapsack. "Enjoy boys." She whispered, pulling the pin and rolling the grenade out to the open. Jeager turned to the sound of footsteps, catching Ada in his sight just as she exited the room. "Who the.!" He yelled, when the soft tumbling sound of the grenade stopped beside him. Using literally last minute instincts, Jeager kicked the grenade away and dove in the opposite direction, just as the low yield explosive went off. Two hackers and several guards met their fates with the furious fire, while the others dropped to the ground injured. The fire alarm went off, as the power was active on this level, immediately initiating the sprinkler system to go off. Ada sprinted down the corridor as sprinklers activated behind her, in sequence one by one turned on as she raced for the open elevator doors, yet no lift was there. Stopping at the doors, she jumped to the cables and grabbed on, and buckled a grappling device on. Strapping the device to her vest, Ada slid down the shaft to Level 20.
"Sir, we have a fire alarm activation on Level 16, location, Computer Core!" A henchmen exclaimed as he read off sensor analysis reports from a console. One of the lead Biotech agents, banged on the office windows, catching Dylan's attention. As he exited Julia's office, the henchmen pulled up the sensor reports on the huge wall screen. "Damnit.Jeager, come in! Foxhound, do you copy!? Anybody!?" Dylan yelled into his radio. When no response came, Dylan grabbed the henchmen at the terminal by the collar. "Get down there, and find out what's happening!!!" "Yes sir. Kowalski, Simons, you're with me!" The man said, racing for the elevator. "Ghost, come in." Dylan continued into his radio.
"Yeah?" Laura Collins said, pacing the platform overlooking the main generators of Division 6. This is what was nicknamed as "Hell" by all Division employees, due to its high temperatures and natural rock walls. "We've got a problem, looks like an explosion or fire erupted at the Computer Core, I need you to hurry up and secure the systems down there and get back to Level 16." Dylan ordered. "Well, we've set the timer for the Fusion bomb, and I've dispatched Strike 6 back to Level 17 to secure the escape route, I'll be back.stand by." Collins paused as a sound echoed through the immense room. Pulling her strapped on MP5 out from behind, 'Ghost' began walking towards the source of the sound, which was a dark corner near the elevator shaft. Pausing at the elevator, she knelt down onto the gas powered lift floor panel and picked up a single bullet, quickly looking up, it didn't stop Ada from dropping atop her, knocking Collins out.
"Laura.Laura!!" Dylan screamed, holding onto the computer console to ease his frustration. However Dylan didn't get the response he expected. "I'm on my way.Nomad." Ada said into Collins' radio. Dylan stood upright, with the radio still planted firmly near his mouth by his hand, and after pressing the reply button said, "Ada."
Ada dropped the radio by Collins' unconscious body and walked up the steps to the catwalk, which separated the Generators on the right and Fusion bomb on the left. Placing the hacking device on the Fusion bomb console, Ada deleted Ghost's implemented codes and inserted the device. Activating a one and a half hour timer along with an instant remote activation code for the other part of the device which she carried Dylan repeated her name over the radio. "Sorry Dylan, you lose." Ada said to herself, placing her right hand on the handprint scanner to the right while water gushed below the catwalk, the entire room built in an underground cavern. "Initiate Auto Destruct sequence, authorization Ada Wong, HCF Division 6 CTU, security code Alpha 15274 Gamma, and activate the following command sequences." Ada said.
Auto Destruct sequence initiated, all personnel evacuate immediately. Attention Auto Destruct timer is set to one hour, thirty minutes. The computer rang out.
Dylan looked through the office windows at Julia, instantly making eye contact with her. As he prepared to go back into the office, Ada's voice came back on the radio. "I'm coming for you Dylan." Dylan stopped in his tracks, and instead faced the opposite direction. "And I'm waiting, Ada." He insisted.
"You're going to lose Dylan, you know that?" Ada said, sitting at the stairs of the catwalk and pulling out a water bottle from her knapsack. "Oh come on Ada, so you've activated the Auto Destruct, big deal. I've got Agent Sterling herself in the palm of my hands, she'll deactivate it for me." Dylan said, causing Ada to laugh. "If you so much as say another word, I'll use this handy little remote detonator to send this place sky high.thank you Optech." Ada replied, gulping the water.
"Touché, Ada. Very well played. Unfortunately, you don't seem to understand.that I.am in.control!!!" He began to yell at the end of his sentence. "Dylan, do you take me for an idiot, I.don't answer that." Ada's speech trailed off as gunshots erupted on the other side of the radio. "Oh I've been waiting for this." Laura Collins voice came on the radio, ringing out in the pauses of gunshots. "Ah, the sweet sound of gunfire.let it all out Laura." Dylan laughed into the radio.
Ada dove back onto the catwalk and jumped ontop of the generator, racing to the other side and concealing herself on the catwalk running across the right side wall. Pulling her P90 out Ada returned fire, forcing Ghost to take cover. "You know, for a Ghost you're not too invisible." Ada said, firing and hitting Collins in the arm as she dove behind a pillar. "Bitch." Ada continued, pulling her knapsack and tossing it to the floor. Shifting through it, Ada found what she was searching for. "Enjoy this one." Ada screamed, tossing the stun grenade over her shoulder and listening as it exploded. Jumping up with the P90 facing forward, Ada raced to the pillar and saw Collins familiar unconscious body. "Thanks for that." Ada whispered, and turned back to the elevator. "Your welcome." Collins rang out, firing her holstered Glock 17. Ada fell to the floor, as her vision faded.
Silence. The footsteps had faded outside the door, leaving the sounds of Ada's heartbeat the sole sound in the expansive room. The scientists from earlier had left before her, and now Ada was alone, trapped inside the room. Feeling her way to the door, she pressed her ear on its metal alloy, listening for any sounds outside. The door was warm, and Ada could sense that something was burning outside. "Hello!?" Ada yelled, beating her hand on the door. No response. Growing impatient Ada began searching for the emergency box, a pack of supplies in storage compartments throughout HCF, in the case of emergencies. Ada never really paid attention to the compartments, which could literally be found in almost every room in the base. Using the memory of walking in the door that day, she fumbled to the hatch for the compartment, and pulled it open. Inside, she reached in and grabbed what was a flashlight and turned it on. The slightest illumination beamed out, giving Ada enough sight to make sense of the situation. Continuing to search inside the locker, Ada pulled out a knapsack, which inside held a loaded Glock 17 and two clips, food rations with water, extra batteries for her flashlight. An emergency door opener, which hooked up to the control panels beside all doors and shunted power to deactivate the seal, completed the emergency pack. Ada wrapped the knapsack around her shoulders, and with the flashlight and Glock in both hands, she proceeded to the door.
"Hello." Ada said softly, stepping outside the now opened Mainframe door to the corridor outside. A fire engulfed the security station down the hallway, and chunks of the wall beside the doorway had collapsed, blocking the route. Ada turned to a guard's dead body, several gunshot wounds across his chest, along wit bullet impact holes across the wall his upper body leaned against. The sight and smell of his body told Ada not to even bother checking for a pulse. Continuing on, Ada made quick notice of the power failure on this level, all lights, including emergency ones, were offline, along with wall panels for quick access to the computer systems. Using the emergency door opener, with the initials E.D.O on the back, Ada entered the auditorium, which was used for mission briefings for insertion teams, and reports for visiting agents and officers by Division 6 personnel. A second fire blossomed at the podium, with a burning dead corpse lying in the center. "My god." Ada gasped, watching across the room as the blood drenched, gunpowder-smelling room seemed to engulf her body. Walking up the center row, she turned to her right and left, as new corpses seemed to jump out of nowhere, apparently a lecture was going on when the attack team came through. Reaching the auditorium doors, Ada held the flashlight and gun high as she pushed them open, checking both sides to secure her location. The lobby of Level 15 was in ruins, several pillars had collapsed due to explosive rounds or gunfire, and pieces of the marble flooring had been shot to hell. As she continued to walk down the seemingly row of destruction, her foot hit something. Lowering the flashlight in almost a split second the beam of light revealed another corpse, a single pool of blood drenching his cloths and floor. However, he wasn't one of the many Division 6 personnel, but instead he was wearing black combat gear. Ada knelt to his side, and pushed him onto his back. A strap connected to his vest led to nothing, showing his machine gun had been taken. Ada pulled the mask off, revealing his face with eyes wide open. She knew without a doubt in her mind, that Biotech had invaded Division 6.
"Quiet please..Quiet.please." Dylan said, pacing the Command Center with his MP5 in one hand, strapped to his vest. All Command personnel hushed up as Dylan showed he was in charge. "As many.well.all of you know, my name is Dylan Torres, former Agent of Division 6. Although, a better term for it would be puppet, or how about pawn.is that a good enough term for you!?" He yelled to Julia, who was sitting on a chair holding a cloth on her shoulder wound, while two other agents knelt beside her. "You just made the last mistake you'll ever make." Julia shuddered with pain, looking at Dylan's eyes with cold hate. "Ha, indeed.well as many of you can see we are now in charge of Division 6." Dylan turned back to Julia. "What's your point here.why come back?" She questioned. "Our goal is simple, while Biotech may have achieved much from our unconditional defection to their ranks, five agents can't provide all necessary information to take down The Incursion Directive. Therefore, with our knowledge and expertise, we're using your own Intel against you." A woman answered the question. Removing her head mask, Laura Collins revealed her beautiful face. Pulling the bun out of her blonde hair, she walked to Dylan's side. "Ghost." Julia whispered. "Very good." Laura replied, flashing Julia a faint smile. "Now then, on to business.uh.boys take Agent Sterling into her office and handcuff her to the chair. Laura, check in with Jeager." Dylan commanded. As Julia and Dylan entered the office under guard, Agent Collins called into her headset. "Foxhound, progress report." "We've hacked 23% of the HCF Mainframe, we'll need another half hour to break into the computer core." A man answered. "Acknowledged, what's the situation of the personnel down there." Ghost asked. "We've come into contact with several employees and security personnel, however none that proved a nuisance. Hotchkins didn't make it though, a security guard got him. Strike 4 unleashed the neurological gas into the ventilation systems as planned, which knocked out all personnel between levels 2 through 14, and 16 through 20, giving our teams sufficient access to HCF systems and access panels. Strike 5 took out the power systems for said levels, except for levels 1, and 16, and Strike 6 managed to disable the auto destruct sequence. We're currently outside the access vault for the Core on Level 16, just above the Mainframe Vault." The man continued.
"Copy, keep us informed." Laura placed her radio in the vest pocket and walked into the office. "Everything's going according to plan, the neurological gas knocked out the personnel, however we've got only an hour before they awaken. Good thing is that we only need a half hour until the Core is hacked and we have access." Laura informed as Dylan sat at Julia's desk, his feet firmly planted on the top while Julia squirmed on the other side tied to her chair. "Excellent, here that Agent Sterling? Soon Division 6's computer core will be ours, and this place will be nothing but another smoking crater in the ground when the Auto Destruct actually activates, of course, after we've gone." Dylan laughed, as one of his henchmen handed a bottle of Julia's imported wine to him. "Ghost, get down to Level 20 and oversee that the Auto Destruct does activate on time, I don't trust leaving henchmen like Strike 6 in charge of something like a Fusion bomb activating." Dylan insisted as he popped the cork off the bottle of wine. As Laura left the room with the two henchmen, Dylan and Julia were left alone. "You know.Julia, I can't count how many mission briefings where all I wanted to do was take you across the table and.well, needless to say it was a lot of occasions." Dylan taunted, taking a sip from the wine and walking around the table to Julia's side. "But it would have never worked out between you and I, after all what am I, a lone, aging field Agent and you, a stiff ass desk jockey, with your tight butt and business skirt, and that cute little pony tail and sexy way you bight your lower lip when thinking.drives me insane." Dylan implied, lowering the wine bottle to Julia's shut mouth. "Here, have a taste." Dylan pressed the bottle against her mouth, raising it and sending gulps of wine into her throat. Julia swallowed the wine, and after the bottle exited her mouth she began coughing repeatedly while spitting up half the bubbling wine onto her shirt. "Pretty good stuff, what were you saving this for?" Dylan questioned, reading the label on the bottle. "A special occasion." Julia coughed, turning her attention to Dylan. "Really.and what would that be." Dylan put down the half empty bottle and turned on her computer. With no answer, Dylan prepared to search through her personal files when suddenly a restriction marker came up. "Ah, your hard drive is encrypted is it? Not standard procedure Julia.in fact, its against the rules. You little devil whatever's on here must be important to keep hidden." Dylan winked at her while pulling out a portable radio, "Sam, get me Johnson up here, and tell him to bring his hacking equipment."
"Copy that, Foxhound out." A man said into his radio, and turned to one of the many hackers at the access terminal to the Computer Core. Ada sat in the shadows, scanning the perimeter as the hackers and dozen or so guards went on with their business. She immediately recognized the man as Sam Jeager, a.k.a. Foxhound. Yet what grabbed her attention more was the voice on the other end of the radio. "Dylan." She coughed out. "Johnson, get you and your equipment up to Command, now. Agent Torres needs your assistance." The man, Sam Jeager, ordered. Ada watched as one of the men exited the room, and proceeded to the elevator. Knowing she was massively outnumbered, Ada returned back into the hallway and raced for Level 16's office area. "Hope its still working." Ada said to herself, jumping past several dead bodies of fellow coworkers and to the Level's main administrator's office. Sitting at the desk was the administrator for Level 16, lying across the blood stained desk with a sole bullet hole in his skull. Ada pushed him aside and sat in his chair, turning on the computer. Shifting through several systems, Ada found what she was looking for, the communications network. Turning on the Mic embedded on his desk, Ada activated the software and directed the communiqué for Division 1 in Washington. "This is Special Agent Ada Wong of Division 6 to anyone listening, Biotech have infiltrated the base, repeat, a Biotech strike force has infiltrated Division 6, under the directions of two or more members of The Chosen Five." Ada said into the Mic. After waiting several seconds, a garbled response came. "This is Major Lynn Sisco of Division 1, please verify your name again." A woman answered. "Agent Ada Wong, I.D Code 10627 Echo 4. We have been infiltrated by Biotech forces, and any personnel I've come into contact with so far are dead, and for some reason the Auto Destruct sequence hasn't gone off like it would have been. I am requesting immediate assistance." Ada said. "Your I.D has been verified, what is the situation there." The Major questioned. "An unknown number of Biotech agents have taken control of our systems, and it looks like they're hacking the computer core. I've witnessed one of The Chosen Five, Foxhound, talking with Agent Dylan Torres who seems to be on Command Deck. According to Foxhound's report to a woman on Command Deck, they only need about a half hour to hack the core." Ada informed, leaning against the desk. "Copy, listen very carefully Agent Wong, we're dispatching an insertion unit to Division 6, they should be there in the next hour. You need to interfere with the hacker's work so they'll need more time, destroy equipment or something so we have time to get our team there. Next, head down to Level 20 and investigate why the Auto Destruct didn't activate. If salvageable, Optech should have a device which you can transfer the command codes for the Fusion bomb to a remote detonator, if all else fails, activate the Auto Destruct, but only do so at last resort. Next, you must find a way to render the Biotech agents on Command Deck unconscious, to give you a safe route and easy access to the area so you can lock out the rest of the squads and control the situation. If you are able to do this in the allotted time then our insertion team will have little to due. The team is more or less a safeguard in case you cannot complete these objectives. If our insertion team fails, you must activate the Auto Destruct. Be sure to set the Auto Destruct to a one hour, thirty minute timer as well, in case you both fail. Good luck, Division 6 out." The woman turned off the transmission. Ada outstretched her hands across the desk, thinking the whole situation over. "What happened to the good old days, the Umbrella Corporation, international espionage, the not breaking into our base and attempting to destroy us.." Ada quipped while walking out of the office.
"Here we go." Johnson said, hacking Julia's computer while she sat helplessly. Dylan was standing at the window overlooking the Command Center when he heard those marvelous words. "Excellent, get back down to the Computer Core and get that damn door open." Dylan ushered him out of his seat and began typing on the computer, "You know, I wouldn't have to spend so much time hacking the core if you hadn't erased my I.D code for the Mainframe." "How rude of me." Julia retorted, fiddling with her handcuffs. As Dylan skimmed through her documents, he finally found what he was looking for, a surprise. "Hello, what's this." He exclaimed, opening a filed email from someone he never expected.
-To: Julia Sterling J_SterlingD6@HCF.net (Secure email) From: Donald Marcus D_MarcusHC@HCF.net (Secure email)
Dated: July 12th, 1994.
Dearest Julia,
I've studied the list of names of candidates you sent me, I agree on three of the five names including Agent Wong, however I don't believe Agent Quinn can take Agent Torres's place in this matter, she may not be up to the task. However, I agree with your thought that the plan must take place soon, within the next few months in order for Project Liberty to stay on schedule. I do not however believe of your idea that Biotech could be an asset, but you have been known to be right before. In order to fully accomplish Operation Overthrow it must be at a very discrete pace, and if we do need Biotech's aid it will be a last resort.
Sincerely,
Donald Marcus.-
"Operation Overthrow? Got a little operation on the side, Julia?" Dylan said to her. Julia remained silent. "I see, well what I find most intriguing is the fact that you planned me to carry it out, along with others.along with Ada.Where is Ada, by the way?" Dylan asked. "Who knows, she was scheduled for the day off." Julia replied. "Really.? How convenient." "Go ahead and check the work schedule." Julia coughed out, in agony of her wound and a little tipsy from the wine she consumed earlier. "Well it seems your telling the truth.a shame really, I miss her you know.no matter, I want to know more of this.Operation Overthrow." Dylan insisted. "Burn in hell you bastard." Julia yelled, sweating from head to toe in complete pain. Dylan no longer showed humor, instead of smiles, he now drew a serious expression across his face. Circling around the desk, he stopped behind Julia, out of her sight. "Either you tell me, or I forward this email to the High Council server. And I'll personally see that you're delivered to their doorstep. Needless to say, the things they'd do to you are immensely worse then what I could do, when they learn that you're betraying them." Dylan taunted now. Julia turned her head to the left, seeing him out of the corner of her eye.
"Alright, I'll tell you. But you must consider my request too." Julia insisted. "Quid pro quo Julia, you tell me things.I tell you things." Dylan replied, sitting back in the chair.
"Excellent." Ada said to herself, unzipping her business suit jacket, revealing a white blouse drenched in sweat. Ada placed the submachine gun down and pulled her white blouse off, revealing a gray muscle shirt underneath showing sweat stains as well. Wiping her hands on her black pants, she walked in front of the mirror, and took her shoulder length hair into a ponytail, tying it in place. Racing around the weapons depot room, she grabbed a combat vest from the wall rack and placed it over her, strapping the buckles in front. Her bare arms and neck showed the scars of a soldier, with bullet wound scars on her right arm and neck, each from its own mission, and a knife scar on her right shoulder blade, a memento from her first field mission. Placing submachine gun clips into the combat vest, she grabbed a newly stocked and newly developed P90 machine gun, in favor of her previous choice the MP5, from the rack and pushed in a clip. Testing the laser sight, she was ready for anything. "Now for the backup." Ada said to herself, holstering a Beretta 9mm along with extra clips, and a flashlight. Filling the knapsack with essentials, such as the hacking device for the Fusion bomb and a flashlight, other clips, water, and finally low yield grenades, Ada set off not as a lone agent, but as an army of one.
"How much time?" Jeager yelled, growing impatient waiting. "Another twelve minutes, we're 67% there." A hacker replied. Ada crept back into the shadows of the room, and pulled out a grenade from her knapsack. "Enjoy boys." She whispered, pulling the pin and rolling the grenade out to the open. Jeager turned to the sound of footsteps, catching Ada in his sight just as she exited the room. "Who the.!" He yelled, when the soft tumbling sound of the grenade stopped beside him. Using literally last minute instincts, Jeager kicked the grenade away and dove in the opposite direction, just as the low yield explosive went off. Two hackers and several guards met their fates with the furious fire, while the others dropped to the ground injured. The fire alarm went off, as the power was active on this level, immediately initiating the sprinkler system to go off. Ada sprinted down the corridor as sprinklers activated behind her, in sequence one by one turned on as she raced for the open elevator doors, yet no lift was there. Stopping at the doors, she jumped to the cables and grabbed on, and buckled a grappling device on. Strapping the device to her vest, Ada slid down the shaft to Level 20.
"Sir, we have a fire alarm activation on Level 16, location, Computer Core!" A henchmen exclaimed as he read off sensor analysis reports from a console. One of the lead Biotech agents, banged on the office windows, catching Dylan's attention. As he exited Julia's office, the henchmen pulled up the sensor reports on the huge wall screen. "Damnit.Jeager, come in! Foxhound, do you copy!? Anybody!?" Dylan yelled into his radio. When no response came, Dylan grabbed the henchmen at the terminal by the collar. "Get down there, and find out what's happening!!!" "Yes sir. Kowalski, Simons, you're with me!" The man said, racing for the elevator. "Ghost, come in." Dylan continued into his radio.
"Yeah?" Laura Collins said, pacing the platform overlooking the main generators of Division 6. This is what was nicknamed as "Hell" by all Division employees, due to its high temperatures and natural rock walls. "We've got a problem, looks like an explosion or fire erupted at the Computer Core, I need you to hurry up and secure the systems down there and get back to Level 16." Dylan ordered. "Well, we've set the timer for the Fusion bomb, and I've dispatched Strike 6 back to Level 17 to secure the escape route, I'll be back.stand by." Collins paused as a sound echoed through the immense room. Pulling her strapped on MP5 out from behind, 'Ghost' began walking towards the source of the sound, which was a dark corner near the elevator shaft. Pausing at the elevator, she knelt down onto the gas powered lift floor panel and picked up a single bullet, quickly looking up, it didn't stop Ada from dropping atop her, knocking Collins out.
"Laura.Laura!!" Dylan screamed, holding onto the computer console to ease his frustration. However Dylan didn't get the response he expected. "I'm on my way.Nomad." Ada said into Collins' radio. Dylan stood upright, with the radio still planted firmly near his mouth by his hand, and after pressing the reply button said, "Ada."
Ada dropped the radio by Collins' unconscious body and walked up the steps to the catwalk, which separated the Generators on the right and Fusion bomb on the left. Placing the hacking device on the Fusion bomb console, Ada deleted Ghost's implemented codes and inserted the device. Activating a one and a half hour timer along with an instant remote activation code for the other part of the device which she carried Dylan repeated her name over the radio. "Sorry Dylan, you lose." Ada said to herself, placing her right hand on the handprint scanner to the right while water gushed below the catwalk, the entire room built in an underground cavern. "Initiate Auto Destruct sequence, authorization Ada Wong, HCF Division 6 CTU, security code Alpha 15274 Gamma, and activate the following command sequences." Ada said.
Auto Destruct sequence initiated, all personnel evacuate immediately. Attention Auto Destruct timer is set to one hour, thirty minutes. The computer rang out.
Dylan looked through the office windows at Julia, instantly making eye contact with her. As he prepared to go back into the office, Ada's voice came back on the radio. "I'm coming for you Dylan." Dylan stopped in his tracks, and instead faced the opposite direction. "And I'm waiting, Ada." He insisted.
"You're going to lose Dylan, you know that?" Ada said, sitting at the stairs of the catwalk and pulling out a water bottle from her knapsack. "Oh come on Ada, so you've activated the Auto Destruct, big deal. I've got Agent Sterling herself in the palm of my hands, she'll deactivate it for me." Dylan said, causing Ada to laugh. "If you so much as say another word, I'll use this handy little remote detonator to send this place sky high.thank you Optech." Ada replied, gulping the water.
"Touché, Ada. Very well played. Unfortunately, you don't seem to understand.that I.am in.control!!!" He began to yell at the end of his sentence. "Dylan, do you take me for an idiot, I.don't answer that." Ada's speech trailed off as gunshots erupted on the other side of the radio. "Oh I've been waiting for this." Laura Collins voice came on the radio, ringing out in the pauses of gunshots. "Ah, the sweet sound of gunfire.let it all out Laura." Dylan laughed into the radio.
Ada dove back onto the catwalk and jumped ontop of the generator, racing to the other side and concealing herself on the catwalk running across the right side wall. Pulling her P90 out Ada returned fire, forcing Ghost to take cover. "You know, for a Ghost you're not too invisible." Ada said, firing and hitting Collins in the arm as she dove behind a pillar. "Bitch." Ada continued, pulling her knapsack and tossing it to the floor. Shifting through it, Ada found what she was searching for. "Enjoy this one." Ada screamed, tossing the stun grenade over her shoulder and listening as it exploded. Jumping up with the P90 facing forward, Ada raced to the pillar and saw Collins familiar unconscious body. "Thanks for that." Ada whispered, and turned back to the elevator. "Your welcome." Collins rang out, firing her holstered Glock 17. Ada fell to the floor, as her vision faded.