(Last chapter for awhile because I'm going away for a week, enjoy)
Executioner
8:34PM
Below Paris, Umbrella Paris Facility.
Leon slowly approached the door; he leaned against it and pressed his ear next to the cold metal, Nothing. Gradually and deliberately Leon twisted the door handle and inched it outwards, he took a peak outside and saw a long metallic hallway. Fluorescent yellow lights were dotted along the middle of the walls, security cameras were based just outside the door and watched impassively everything that moved. At the end lay a few crates and an enemy soldier dressed in olive green BDUs, black webbing and wore a grey ski mask over their faces in the soldiers he gripped an M4A1- just what Leon wanted.
But if Leon wanted to find Ada then he needed an element of stealth to get through these Labs in one piece and get Ada out as well. He unsheathed a smooth combat knife from a holster near his ribs; Leon jumped up gracefully and with one gloved hand grabbed a security camera. He severed the connections and repeated the actions on the opposite Leon dropped down and absorbed the shock with knees.
With his knees bent and combat knife pointing downwards Leon bit by bit crept down the hallway, he unemotionally watched the soldier at the end of the corridor unaware of Leon's presence. The soldier turned and Leon darted behind a crate, the trooper squinted down the hall nodded it off and twisted back to his original position. Leon began his crawl again and ended up a foot behind the soldier; he flexed his leg muscles and came head to head with the soldier.
Leon whipped his hand around and smothered the soldier's mouth with his thumb and index finger Leon pinched his nose shut. The soldier squirmed unable to scream or breath, Leon ended his agony quickly and stabbed downwards behind the soldier's collarbone cutting into the Aorta artery, Leon sawed side to side and in three seconds the soldier hung limp in Leon's grip. Leon moved backwards and dumped the lifeless corpse behind a couple of stacked crates; he yanked out his combat knife now soaked in blood.
Grabbing the soldier's Colt M4A1 Leon checked it was loaded and threaded the silencer he had pocketed earlier on onto the barrel. Leon pulled up the M4 and swept a new area in front of him, it looked like a square corridor warped around large room in the middle that had 'SERVER' embellished on the door a humming sound was being emitted from the large room. Leon looked left and right and spotted two more security cameras 2 muted cracks from the M4 disabled and sent a trail of smoke up to the ceiling.
Leon took the left turn and spotted another enemy sentry guarding a corridor, a stack of crates leaned on the soldier's right side. Leon used this blind spot to advance closer without being spotted; gingerly Leon hopped up onto the boxes and leaned over the edge to see the scalp of the soldier. Leon propped the M4 on the side of the crate and aimed downwards, he fired a single shot that tore through the soldier's skull and exited through the ear. Blood and brain sprayed across the wall and floor as the sentry buckled and collapsed in a heap.
Leon hopped elegantly down and dragged the body into a shadow of the corridor. With the body well hidden Leon stopped and listened for 3 full seconds, nothing except the humming of the Server room. Good the longer Leon stayed unnoticed the more chance he had of getting out alive with Ada.
Leon rolled from the corridor to the wall of the server room; he pressed his back against it and pushed to the edge. Leon popped his head around the corridor and saw two other sentries, shit he couldn't take them out without being noticed there had to be another way around. Leon backtracked until he reached the Server room door; Leon opened it and slipped inside.
The room was filled with racks of servers in 10 rows of 10 at the end of the rows were computer linked up to them servers, cables trailed down and along the floor and connected everything. Christ this thing must contain all of Umbrella's data and history along with roosters of personnel, all the facilities and a list of the ruling hierarchy. Leon couldn't let this opportunity go all this information could bring down Umbrella for good.
He walked up to one of the server computers and tapped the enter key twice. Leon was presented with a login screen he typed filled in the lines:
LOGIN: LSPENCER
PASS:
READING…
ACCESS DENIED.
LOGIN: AWESKER
PASS:
READING…
ACCESS DENIED.
LOGIN: AASHFORD
PASS:
READING…
ACCESS DENIED.
Those names had worked before but it looks as though Umbrella have changed their accounts, Leon thought for a moment then remembered the username he had used back in Raccoon in the Umbrella Lab him and Claire and got into.
LOGIN: GUEST
PASS:
READING…
ACCESS GRANTED.
Yes. Leon pulled out a sleek 1GB USB memory stick from a pocket in his webbing and plugged it into the back of the PC tower, he clicked to download everything and a small window flashed on a screen a percentage flicked on and slowly began to fill. It would take awhile so Leon decided to go and sought out the final guards and then come back here and grab the data.
Leon chambered a round into the M4 and moved to the right side of the room. Leon nudged the door open with the muzzle of his M4 and took aim on the soldier standing right in front of him. The sentry spotted the barrel of the weapon and pulled his weapon round to bear. The M4 puffed once and the soldier dropped, blood sprayed from bullet wound that tore through his thorax and out the back he couldn't scream. The soldier started to spasm and Leon finished him off with a round to the head.
Leon creaked the door open and rolled to were the dead body was, he dragged into the shadows and satisfied it was well hidden Leon looked to his right and watched the movements of the two soldiers. Every minute or so one of them would march down the corridor and leave the other one alone who would watch Leon left and created a blind spot. If Leon timed it right he could execute one soldier while the other walked down the hall but he had to time it just right.
The other sentry returned waited a minute or so then turned around and walked back, Leon darted into action and in three strides he had his back against the wall four feet away from the guard. Leon pivoted into the path of the guard and punched him in the Adam's apple disabling his ability to cry out Leon grabbed him and swivelled back to were he was. Leon twisted the soldiers head and with a brutal snap his neck broke, the soldier fell floppy and collapsed into Leon's arms. He tossed the body away from the door and drew his knife ready for the next guard.
Seeing his fellow guard gone the soldier rushed down to the end of the hall and stepped out he swept the opposite side of Leon with his M4. Leon took this chance and grabbed the guard around the chin; the soldier grunted Leon lifted the soldier's head and jammed his combat knife into the guard's jugular Leon sawed back and forth then glided the knife out and sheathed it one deft movement.
The soldier collapsed to his knees grabbing his throat as he did and tried to scream but was cut short by his own blood filling his mouth and it turned into a loud gurgle. Leon watched blankly as the last guard dropped to the floor and crimson sprayed out if the hole in his neck.
Leon returned to the Server room and was pleased to find the download finished; he yanked out the memory stick and walked out. He looked around and tried to figure out which way to go, he tried the left and right doors but found them to be looked solid and left with the door the two soldiers had been guarding. It seemed strange though that those two doors were locked out of pure curiosity Leon checked the door he had first come through and found it to be locked just like everything else. Something wasn't right about this mission it felt as though everything was planned; Leon pushed the thoughts aside and decided to keep his mind clear of trivial things. If anything did happen then Leon could deal with it when it came.
Leon existed the area and walked into another cold metallic corridor; this one went straight ahead and had another hall running through the side. Leon gripped the M4 squatted down and moved across the space checking side to side.
"INTRUDER, KILL HIM!" A soldier screamed as he ran down the hallway followed by a dozen others, Leon twisted and was about to run the opposite when he saw more troops flooding towards him.
"Shit," Leon sprinted forward as the soldiers opened fire, his adrenaline spiked and lactic acid began to burn his leg muscles. Leon didn't stop until he came upon a metal door simply labelled TR007, Leon prayed it was open and was relieved when he pulled on the handle and it opened. Leon pushed through and slammed it shut behind him.
He rested his hands on his knees and looked at the floor catching his breath back, it took a couple of seconds and he felt normal again Leon wondered were he was. He looked up and his breath escaped him as he started disbelieving at what lay before him, Leon couldn't fully believe it himself but as he spoke the words in his mind it seemed more real. No doubt about it, it was the Arklay Mountains.