This is a LEON X ADA story, if you don't like this ship just go away and let people enjoy without problems.
If you don't like this SHIP there's no reason for you to be here, I even tag Leon and Ada as a Pairing.
I am not interested in fights, I do not 'click' on fics of 'ships that I do not like and even less treat their authors in a bad way, so I expect the same respect.
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Author's note:
This fic has already been published in Spanish. english isn't my first language, so if there are errors I will accept your corrections.
This fic is complete just like the second part, but I will edit the chapters while I continue working on the spinoff, 'Resident Evil: Legacy'
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THREE: RESIDENT EVIL 6
Ada shifted on her bed when she felt the extra weight, but she didn't open her eyes, she just enjoyed feeling Scott by her side as he snuggled next to her, feeling the small hand gently caress her cheek.
"Māma" she heard him whisper, but she was really tired, she wanted to sleep a little more and she didn't understand how that boy had so much energy at that time of the morning. "Mommy."
"We have to sleep a while longer," she murmured in response, hugging the little boy, without opening her eyes, but then her son moved trying to prevent her from laying him down.
"No, Māma" she would not allow him to throw a tantrum at that hour, but she let him move when she realized that he would sit down. "Games, park" Ada was relieved that Scott had gotten out of his bed without falling and even more so that he could climb into hers without problems, but she missed when he was much smaller and didn't feel like going back and forth. "Māma, wake up."
"Scott, it's too early," she replied, opening her eyes slightly to see her little son sitting next to her, his serious gaze was focused on her, but she only smiled, running her hand through Scott's hair to fix it.
"Māma, you promised."
"I know very well that I promised to go to the park, but you must still have breakfast and change your clothes yet." she stroked Scott's cheek in the same way he had done moments before and smiled. "If you're patient, I'll even buy you ice cream."
She saw the boy's eyes light up at the idea and had to hold his shirt when he jumped slightly on the bed excitedly. He used to be a quiet kid and even a little shy, but seeing the happiness that he radiated from something as small as going for ice cream was mesmerizing and she just loved it.
»RESIDENT EVIL: SECRET«
Ada smiled at her little son who had looked away from the drawing he was making to smile at her for no reason, although it was not something that bothered the spy, she loved to see him happy, especially because it made her forget the complicated matters of life.
One of those things was the report she was writing.
It wasn't something she used to do, but the agency asked her to do it, now that she had no direct orders and it was the least she could do after they accepted her application to prevent someone who worked for Simmons from contacting her, a small benefit for years of work. The only good thing was that Scott still couldn't read well, he recognized the words, but she knew it was still difficult when he was still confusing two languages.
However, Scott was smart and determined.
Although she didn't blame him considering the effort she made to make sure he learned as much as he could and Mrs. Ming's classes had yielded great results, but his curiosity was bigger and they had given him the tools to ask about everything that caught his attention and for that reason she had seated the little boy next to her at the table, but had the computer slightly moved so that he did not see the screen and ask for the words she was writing.
"Do I have a bàba?"Those simple words had made her put aside what she was doing, that was not what she expected him to ask, usually his uriosity was about things around him or words he had just heard, but the little boy just kept surprising her.
"Yes," she replied, and the moment the eyes that the little boy had inherited from her fell on her person, she thought carefully about every word she would say. "Why do you ask?"
"Liang calls Mr. Kento bàba" she smiled slightly, proud of the little boy's ability to speak fluently.
"Did Mrs. Ming tell you what a bàba is?" Scott nodded in response and she mimicked the gesture.
"Where's my bàba?" Ada took a deep breath, turning to face each other as the boy moved over the chair.
"Your bàba lives somewhere else" She noticed the confusion in Scott's gaze and quickly rushed to continue: "He has work to do there."
"What?" Ada knew her son wouldn't stop asking questions until he was satisfied with what she answered.
"He's an ... agent, he helps people." Scott frowned once more, another question popping into his head and she noticed it immediately. "Do you remember what I taught you about cops, firefighters, and medics?" Scott nodded attentively. She knew he understood the differences, she had made sure they were clear, despite his just four years of age, she wanted to be sure he would know what to do in case of an emergency. "An agent is like a policeman, he helps people who need it."
"He's good." She smiled delighted at the quick deduction.
"That's right, he is."
"Is he coming home?" She controlled her expression the same way she did when she worked, unable to fool her son, but she didn't want to show him that she wasn't sure either.
"I hope so" every time Scott was confused it was simply seeing an exact copy of Leon and sometimes s he wondered if that was her punishment for hiding the existence of the little one. Seeing Leon in every expression, making her remember her decision and question if she was right. "He's working, he has to travel, like me" the little boy nodded again, attentive to her. "Although ... I'll try to get him to come."
"Will he live here?"
"We'll have to see that, he works far away, do you understand?"
"I want to see him."
"You will, I'll try to make you do it soon, I hope" she caressed her little boy's cheek and smiled at him, adjusting the blond hair that was beginning to have the length that she had seen Leon in Spain. "It's difficult for now, but you will know him."
"Will he love me like you, māma?" She smiled at his question, unable to avoid approaching him and drawing him to her in a hug.
"I'm sure he will, handsome, nobody could hate you, least of all him." Ada kissed her son's blond hair and snuggled him into her arms, she still couldn't believe how much he had grown in four years and she didn't want to think about what was left for him to grow up yet.
Would he be as tall as Leon? Would his hair get darker? Those were just a couple of things she wondered sometimes, but it was a mystery she wanted to witness when it was revealed.
"Your dad is a good man, he helps people and he helped me many times, so I know he will love you as much as I do."
»RESIDENT EVIL: SECRET«
Ada closed the kitchen cabinet after taking out the package of cookies, she was attentive to Scott's movements who murmured a song while he was in the living room, drawing in one of his notebooks and moving his head from side to side, from where she stood she could see him and he seemed too focused on his drawings for her to bother to look away for a moment to open the package and empty it into a well.
She looked at him once more when he crossed the kitchen to get the glass of milk, but the little boy had only raised his gaze to fix his eyes on the television, supporting his weight on his arms that he rested on the surface of the coffee coffee table on which he was drawing.
She poured herself a cup of tea and left everything on the tray she took to go to where her little son was standing, but had to hold it tight when she noticed what had caught Scott's attention. She never thought it would bother her to see a virus outbreak on television, but she was sure she did not like the idea of her son having nightmares because of the images they were showing, even though the news seemed to no longer have the censorship they had before, at least there was nothing explicit and horrendous that could traumatized him.
"Māma, what is it?" Asked the little boy, turning his head to see her while pointing a finger at the television.
"These are people who are ... sick," she replied, thinking about the words she would use, she set the tray on the coffee table, bringing her eyes back to the screen.
"Are they okay?" Scott asked. Ada pouted her mouth, hearing about how Edonia had been attacked and nearby countries were on alert.
She knew that China was careful about outbreaks, but the only reason she lived there was because of her contacts to get out of there if something bad happened and the fact that for a good sum of money she could ensure that their identities were kept hidden, so it was impossible to track her there and she was already thinking about calling one of her contacts to have everything prepared in case that virus outbreak spread.
"Not everyone" she bit her tongue when she noticed the concern in Scott's gaze, regretting her words, but she quickly took a seat and patted the place next to her, which her son quickly understood and took sit next to her, staring at the exact moment when shaky, long-distance recordings showed a BSAA team facing the zombies. "But, there are people who help those who need it. People like them."
Ada pointed to the television and the little boy just looked like it was the only thing that existed in that world. He seemed too fascinated for him to understand what all that was really about and how something very similar had made her path and Leon's cross, although she did not think it was a story that she would tell her son, not at least until he was old enough to understand everything.
"Is my bàba okay?" She stood still for a moment, surprised by her son's question and although she had been thinking about her answers for months, she simply couldn't help but be speechless for a moment.
"Yeah, he must be, he doesn't live there." Scott nodded, a silent response without taking his gaze from the television.
Two months ago he had asked about Leon for the first time, even though he was only four years old and there were things he just didn't know how to ask, when it came to the Agent Kennedy, he just seemed to be older and had no problem speaking fluently.
Does my bàba look like me? Does he like sweets? He is tall? He is strong? Is he old or young? He has a dog? Does he like cars? Does he like stories?
"Where does he live?" She didn't think teaching him geography would be appropriate for his age, but would find a way to explain later, with pictures if necessary.
»RESIDENT EVIL: SECRET«
Ada cursed Simmons once, twice, and three times as she made her way through the woods on her way to the Cathedral. Everything indicated that she should find a laboratory there and she had not hesitated to leave Scott with the Ming couple for a few more days when she heard what Simmons had in store.
Six months had passed since what had happened in Edonia, but anyway she had kept her contact to leave the city prepared and did not hesitate to call him to get Scott and the Ming couple out of that place, safe until she make sure to clear her name and, above all, she could guarantee the safety of her son, who knew was in danger from the moment she received the call during her mission.
Mrs. Ming did not question anything when she told her that they should get out of there, an unexpected call that she did not hesitate to make when she was on dry land, the older woman thought that Ada worked in a security agency or something very similar, at least that It was the lie that she had told, one of many lies and security measures that she had taken to protect her son, she always left everything ready in case she needed to get out of there and she had the rest of the important things assured to worry about material losses.
That is why she calmly continued her personal mission, while keeping in mind the strange fact that obviously everything seemed suspicious, from the fact that Simmons knew the place she was going to enter during a mission that had nothing to do with him, that the submarine already had her fingerprints registered and the details of a mission that she never received, but that coincided with the date of the Edonia attacks.
There was something strange about all that, but what worried her most at the time was that the first attack had already occurred, she had heard about the outbreak in Tall Oaks and that had started her countdown to stop everything as soon as possible before it was too late.
She was not the leader of Neo-Umbrella and she did not intend to allow people to think that. Simmons was an idiot if he tried to mess with her, because she wasn't going to be anyone's scapegoat.
She fired her Hookshot and when it was secured in the tower, she pressed the hook to be lifted, despite the rain she remained standing on a beam from the taller tower. Ada had been right about the area where the Cathedral was located, she could see it from her position, but she had to find a way to enter the laboratory.
She only took a few steps forward before a noise caught her attention and she was surprised to see the D.S.O. agent in that place, he was accompanied by a woman with dark hair that she did not know, and both had kicked a gate to enter with their weapons ready to shoot, clearly he should know what was hiding in that place and she was not surprised that he was involved in another bio-terrorist attack.
"Leon! So... you've been caught up in this too." she said as she watched him enter the cemetery. "Hope you have the stotmach for it."
Although inside she knew he would, she couldn't help wishing that Simmons didn't know about him, if she had stayed away from him it was because of herenemies and she knew very well about Simmons' unhealthy obsession with her.
Although inside she knew he would do it, she couldn't help but wish that Simmons didn't know about him, if she had stayed away from him it was because of his enemies and she knew very well of Simmons's unhealthy obsession with her.
Overcoming obstacles was not difficult for her, nor was understanding that she needed to complete Simmons's family crest, she did everything quickly and without stopping, but she did stop her walk when she heard a woman speak and from the platform on which she was standing she saw to Leon.
The woman called a Deborah, but Ada only saw a person whose body was wrapping itself in a kind of chrysalis and she already knew very well what came out of those things, so without hesitation she prepared her crossbow when it started to burn and Leon pushed the woman away.
Calm and professional as always she prepared to shoot, aiming as she waited for it to come out to put an end to it, but the moment she saw that thing reach out to the woman she fired.
Her arrow went past both of them, but Leon didn't move and they only reacted when it hit that thing right in her forehead and knocked it back against the ground. Ada stepped off the platform, stealthy as always, and approached them both, the crossbow still in her hands and calm when Leon pointed his gun at her.
"Ada" Leon quickly recognized her, lowering his weapon, and she couldn't help but respond to his surprised expression.
"You look like you've seen a ghost," she joked, glancing quickly at his face, noting the small changes that had arisen in the almost two years of not seeing him face to face, but mostly his confused expression.
She knew from other spies that he was fine, every so often she checked how he was and once she had seen him in the distance during one of her missions, but this time their paths crossed again and she knew deep down that no matter how much time passed, they were destined to meet again and again.
The image of Scott asking about Leon passed through her mind, feeling a weight on her shoulders when she thought of the secret she kept, but all that left her mind when she noticed the woman pointing her gun at her.
Anger, that was the only thing she saw in her gaze, but Ada didn't even bother to point her crossbow at her, she looked at her defiantly, even if Leon looked at the brown-haired woman and then at her for a moment, with an expression of doubt, but Ada wasn't intimidated.
She had two options, the woman would shoot, although she didn't really think she was capable, and she would either respond to the attack or Leon would get in the way, as he always did to avoid conflict. Ada knew the latter was more likely and was not surprised when the agent raised his hand and rested it on the woman's gun, motioning for her to lower it.
Ada knew that Leon would not allow that woman to harm her.
She saw the woman finally break down, she obviously couldn't control her emotions and cried, regretting something she didn't know and didn't care about.
Ada Wong had a rule of not showing her emotions at work.
It was unprofessional and a sign of weakness, poor control.
"Ada, what the hell is going on here?" Leon asked, his voice serious and a look full of questions, the same expression Scott did.
"It's complicated" she didn't have time to explain him too much and she preferred to keep him out of the whole thing, even if he didn't seem convinced by her answer.
The catacombs shook around her and Ada remained calm, despite the impending collapse. she saw Leon help the woman up from her knees, though the agent was more attentive to the movement around him.
"but this isn't the time or the place" Ada added. They weren't a bad team, but she had matters she preferred he didn't know about, although that didn't mean she wouldn't try to help him get out of there alive.
She saw the woman approach what she called 'Deborah', Ada really wouldn't have done it considering the mutation status, but she didn't say anything to her even when she heard her apologize while hugging her, although she regretted the moment that thing mutated."these walkways won't hold. We need to get to the lower levels."
Even if the woman asked them not to shoot Deborah, she did it because of the danger it meant, but wounded and uncontrolled, the mutation hit a column that hit the ground, which quickly collapsed.
They did not fall much before the constructions that were one level below, being on a platform with Leon in what looked like corridors of rotten wood and which spiraled down to a point that she did not knew, but knew was safer.
She did not hesitate to guide Leon down the corridor, going down as low as they could and confirmed that they made a good team when without needing to say anything, he prepared to help her jump up to a rope in the center, with her weight she balanced enough to get it to get to a safe distance for Leon to jump and hold, both of them jumping in a coordinated fashion to the other side of the platforms.
"Here" Ada said throwing the ring for Leon to catch it, she had things to do and she supposed it would help Leon to continue on his way later.
"A ring?"
"Don't get the wrong idea. It'll make sense later"
"Ok" Ada smiled slightly, unnoticed by Leon before continuing to guide him escape through the platforms.
The unknown woman helped them by activating a lever that cleared the way for a mine cart, glancing at Leon to make sure he got the idea again before preparing to jump once more, this time to another rope in the center of the place.
However, when she had managed to get the rope to swing once more while she was attentive to Leon, the mutation leapt against them, hitting them both and causing her to fall onto a platform lower than planned, quickly getting up to look for 'Deborah' and calming down when she heard Leon speak, obviously fine despite the fall.
"Watch out, you two! She's strong!"Leon warned the moment Ada saw her on a beam on the other side of where she was.
"Watch out for yourself" she replied. Ada always had quick answers and even a little arrogant, but she knew that Leon had a tendency to put himself in danger for others and it didn't hurt to say that.
She shot the 'Deborah' mutation until all three fell once more when the ground gave way, again. Although this time she was next to the unknown woman and could not help but make sure that Leon was okay on the other side when they fell on other platforms.
They had no problem getting on a mine cart that would obviously take them down, but she did not hesitate to shoot the zombies that blocked the way of Leon who had to go down the corridor to reach them. Even if he asked for a 'little help', it wasn't that she was surprised. Leon always seemed to be in trouble, but as always surviving one way or another, and she was there to help him once again.
Getting to the bottom was slow compared to the moment when Leon released the brake of the car and the three inside the car had to avoid obstacles while going down the rails and still paying attention to 'Deborah' who kept trying to attack them.
She even questioned that the woman continued to worry about who had already mutated to that extreme and was trying to kill them, but the conversation ended when the car fell into the void when the rails finished. Ada quickly reacted to hold onto the edge of a platform when she hit it and rolled once without being able to stop.
Leon had fallen next to her, but better, and did not hesitate to go to help her. She felt the strong grip of the agent when he held her hand and the force he applied to help her up, his other hand secured the grip on her forearm and when she was on the platform she felt his hand behind her back for a moment.
However, they quickly drew their weapons that they had secured moments before the fall and shot Deborah trying to help the woman that Leon called Helena, but the injured Deborah lost her balance and they both approached in coordination, their weapons ready to shoot but they stopped when they heard her say something they both distinguished before she released before she let go of her hand, dropping Deborah into the void.
Helena said goodbye, a bitter goodbye witnessed by the couple on a platform not too far away, causing the two to look at each other. It was a brief moment in which their gazes were focused on each other, but they did not need words to say what they felt and that scene brought too many memories for both of them.
Raccoon City simply did not abandon the memories of both survivors, it was something they had rarely mentioned when they were together, since it had not been the best experience for both of them going through that hell, but that first meeting had been what had started everything and seemed to be part of fate, although she didn't used to believe in such things.
When they got off the platform Helena told them about Simmon's threat, how she had helped the man break the security of the President of the United States, which did not surprise her when she realized that Simmons would be exposed if that man spoke about what happened in Raccoon City, Ada knew that Simmons was capable of a lot in order to protect his Family.
"Why the hell would he do all this?"
"It's a long story," was the only thing she could answer.
Clearly Leon had not been informed about her false responsibility for everything that was happening and she really did not want him to be in the middle of that chaos, so she discarded the idea of explaining that to him when she could solve it alone. As for her former boss, she knew there were rumors about his involvement in what they called the 'Sterilization Operation' that had resulted in the destruction of Raccoon City, and she didn't need proof to know that this madman was capable of that.
Ada was saved by the bell, or rather the call that came into the cube-shaped communicator she kept. However, she would not leave without one last warning, walking towards Leon as she spoke.
"We're up against the people who really run this country" The communicator did not stop ringing, but she did not take her gaze from Leon when he fixed his blue eyes on her, following every step as she got closer and closer to him, but the agent did not move when she walked after him, surrounding him, and he only turned to see her when she was on the other side. "in a very dangerous game, and if you don't play your hand right...".
She didn't complete her sentence, she just pulled out her Hookshot and fired. Leon didn't stop her, maybe he couldn't do it like many other times, when she was on the platform, she answered.
"How are you feeling?"
"Why don't you come down here and I'll show you?"She asked sarcastically and annoyed at all that trouble. Clearly Leon had his own mission to stop Simmons, but now she really needed to do it before he did. Not only did she want to prevent him from thinking that she was behind all this, but she would prevent the two men from meeting.
"I think I'll pass, but there's something I'd like to show you"
"More games?" She no longer had the patience for that, although she had never really liked having to deal with other people's unhinged ideas. However, she stopped to listen seriously, thinking about every piece of information she had collected so far.
"Not quite, just something I think you would benefit from knowing" She couldn't just leave any loose ends and would have to know what he meant, so she listened to his next instruction. "Proceed to the research lab".
»RESIDENT EVIL: SECRET«
It took her a while to get to the laboratory, the place seemed like a maze and zombies simply abounded in the corridors, but without problems she found the place, noticing the capsules with chrysalis inside, although they did not seem to represent a danger due to their states.
The various monitors were on and one of them, in the center of the wall, produced only static. Lowering her weapon Ada approached, noticing that there was a VHS in a player, obviously someone had watched and had not bothered to remove it, although that stopped being important when she noticed the words written on the object that she removed from the machine.
'Happy Birthday Ada Wong'
A damn joke, it was the only thing that came to her mind when she saw that, but without hesitation she put it back in its place and played the recording.
Seeing a reference to an experiment with C-Virus appeared on the screen and with the name of 'Project Ada' in order to create a new form of life from a chrysalis was sick. She couldn't see the date, but due to the state of the VHS it must have been a long time ago.
12,235 attempts and it was obvious that only that had been the most successful, the 'complete metamorphosis' was a sign that her clone, or whatever that thing was, must be alive.
The chrysalis that was in the middle of the shot looked like the rest of the ones she had seen in the last hours, but seeing how someone had mutated and that it was similar to her simply made her angry and understand something she had noticed when she met Leon.
"Hmph. Look just like me. No wonder Leon is confused" she said when she saw her clone lying on the ground, alive and looking exactly like her. Leon had to have been the one who watched the video before her, after all they came in opposite directions and he should have gone through that place before.
When she saw the hand appear on the screen, she quickly reached for the button to stop the video upon recognizing the ring. The communicator rang, but Ada quickly realized that there was no point in him wanting to show her something like that, since it was not his modus operandi.
That experiment would obviously have given her a reason to kill him, he knew that she went to all the necessary extremes when it came to her own safety and that mutation was against her interests, which she obviously would not forgive, but it didn't make sense that he wanted her to go against him, did it?
"Enjoy the show?" The man seemed to enjoy all this, a revenge too elaborate for her not to notice the details.
"Yes. It was quite... revealing" she replied, a sarcastic tone of voice, but obviously something in all that didn't fit.
"How do you mean?"
"Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it you on this tape 'Ada'? You're the one behind Neo-Umbrella"
"I... don't know what you're talking about" She noticed the doubt in his words and knew she was right.
"Simmons would never be foolish enough to show his cards. He and his Family want one thing. To stabilize and sustain the system they've created, But you..." she replied, clarifying what her clone obviously hadn't taken into account that she would know. Simmons and his group did everything possible to maintain control over the United States government, a world power that made it easy to control the world, a bio-terrorist attack that spread and just at the time of a dead president, it would only generate chaos and that would jeopardize the control of the Family, something the man obviously would not allow to happen. "You want to destroy it"
"And the world will blame you".
Her clone cut the call as soon as she said the last word and Ada understood that this was only the beginning, that it was not over yet and she did not intend to lose against anyone.
She took out one of her timer bombs, the game had just started and she would not miss the advantage of knowing who was behind all this. She activated the bomb and pulled out the communicator to dial a number.
"If she wants a game, she'll get one with the real Ada Wong"
"Who is this?"
"An old friend, Simmons. Ada Wong."
"Ada!?" Every time he called her, she encoded her communicators so that he couldn't find her again, the only way they could get in touch was when the agency made the calls and she rarely answered, so she understood the fact that he was surprised with her call.
"Let's ditch the pleasantries and get right to it" Ada had no time to waste and started walking towards the exit as she spoke, annoyed by the experiment and that she was now in trouble for his decisions. "That little doppelgänger you brewed up just told me she has her heart set on destroying the world."
"What—!?"
Ada cut the call before he could continue talking, at least with him in the game she would buy time if he went after her clone, so she could stop them both if the opportunity arose and if she fell, she would not do it alone.
"Looks like the race is on. Let's see who comes in first"
»RESIDENT EVIL: SECRET«
Her plan now was simple, if Simmons didn't find her clone first, she would, either way she would find a way to stop her. She knew he would not allow his precious control over the world to slip out of his grasp and he had the resources to go after the woman, thus saving her time.
Ada was working for Simmons when the Raccoon City incident happened, but the following year she had resigned and the agency that got her missions had agreed to pretend she didn't exist, when he took control of old companies and found her again.
More than ten years had passed and Ada only carried out some of his missions, but her requirement was not to have contact with him, the only way was indirect and only when she needed to get rid of some organizations that were looking for her.
She had not liked his attempts to get close to her and what had happened in Raccoon City had simply changed her, and the proof that this man was crazy was the videotape she had watched just knowing how far he had gone was detestable and she was going to get rid of him too if it was necessary.
The mission that was in the video in the submarine had not been for her, but for her doppelgänger and she did not really want to know how long that woman had been alive and the things she had done without worrying about being blamed.
»RESIDENT EVIL: SECRET«
After a couple of calls, she had gotten a seat on a plane that went to Tatchi to evacuate people, paying to keep the secret that she was on her way and making a call to Mrs. Ming she was able to move safely through the city when she was sure her son was safe, they were in a safe place and would be taken to her old apartment in New York.
She had managed to get a ticket for Liang, the couple's son, as a way of thanking them for taking care of Scott and she had arranged for someone to meet them in the United States, the entire escape plan had worked perfectly and now she just advanced through the city without problems looking for her objective.
While she was dealing with the mutation with the chainsaw, she listened to the B.S.A.A. communications that she had interfered. Apparently her clone was heading towards the canal and two teams were after her. She had no time to play games and making the subway train hit the mutation she fired her Hookshot, letting the speed of the vehicle and the retractable mechanism of the weapon pull her to hit a window and enter the moving subway.
The subway allowed her to move faster and more smoothly, still partly surprised by the level of destruction in the place. Climbing to the roof of the train, she advanced a couple of steps before noticing the plane that was falling, passing over her and losing itself behind a few buildings a few meters away, something curious, but that did not stop her to fire her hookshot once more, this time in a building and then move forward, closer and closer to the place where they had sighted her doppelgänger whom she wanted to meet to end all that.
Although something told her that maybe it was a little late if they were chasing the clone.
On a rooftop she advanced with her rifle ready to shoot if necessary, although what caught her attention were two people in the part near the river. Through the scope of the weapon she could recognize Sherry Birkin, the young blonde woman who was on the mission that had been given to her clone, but who she obviously knew was the daughter of William and Annette Birkin, she had heard about her. a couple of times when Leon had mentioned her, when he was allowed to see her while she was living under the government custody and she knew she was just another survivor of Raccoon City.
The other had to be Jake Muller, Albert Wesker's son, and it had to contain the antibody to the C-virus if she remembered correctly.
However, they weren't alone, and despite the fact that she shot the mutation with the chainsaw, she decided that maybe the rookies needed help dealing with that thing.
"I suppose I should retun the kindness their parents showed to me. This is as good a time as any." she said moving forward to find a better position to continue shooting, thinking of the irony of helping the children of a former boss who had no scruples to get what he wanted, a man who unleashed a virus and the woman who was not only part of them, but instead shot her when she had lowered her gun, just at the moment when she recognized that she could not shoot Leon and that had even wounded the then-rookie-cop when he took a bullet for her.
She had to go from building to building, even firing her hookshot to reach some platforms when she followed them , they were going on some kind of airboat while being chased by that BOW. Even when that thing hit a sign and was electrocuted before falling into the river, she followed closely behind them, curious that the son of someone like Wesker was working with the good guys.
Although she was nobody to say anything, her sides changed depending on the situation and the person involved, in this case ruining Simmons' plan was not a bad idea, so she fired what was necessary even when the BOW returned, it was so hard to kill that it was obvious that for those 'rookies' it would have been different if she hadn't helped them.
The moment Sherry was left on a raft alone with the BOW, after that thing's third return, she simply fired her hookshot when she saw the helicopter propellers spin menacingly and then she jumped over to where the blonde woman was. She did it in such a way that she reached for Sherry, holding her stomach with her free arm and lifting them both up with the cable of her weapon.
Swinging them both, she managed to pass over Wesker's son and then released Sherry, Jake had been quick to catch her and Ada continued on until she reached a ceiling. Although she did not pause for long when she again heard the communications from the B.S.A.A. which reported that her clone was advancing south towards the military port.
She walked only a few steps to the south and could see the red car speeding on the highway, her clone in the driver's seat trying to escape from a military truck on which she recognized Chris Redfield shooting incessantly.
"It's like a Raccoon City reunion"she couldn't help saying when she realized that the B.S.A.A. agent was there, Shery Birkin and her, she supposed that Jake could take Wesker's place in the memory.
She looked at the two rookies one more time before leaving, she still had to go after her clone.
»RESIDENT EVIL: SECRET«
Reaching the aircraft carrier where her clone was located was no problem for her when she used the jet ski she found, although she encountered some obstacles on board, even running into Chris Redifeld who was obviously chasing after her doppelgänger and had confused them, but she didn't stop at the command she yelled, although it did not bother her to see him and his companion again when they fought against the Fake-Ada's minions, generating a distraction that allowed her to advance without so much trouble.
In order to save time and effort, she avoided confrontations as best she could, using vents and small spaces to slide once more until she reached what appeared to be an office.
A briefcase was on the desk and she did not hesitate to go through it, finding a tape recorder that reproduced Simmons's voice, obviously recorded during his experiments, words that were chilling for those who did not have the stomach to listen to an obsessed man, folders with details about the procedures and finally some reports in which there were two attached photos, in both appeared the same blonde woman who should be Carla Radames if the file was correct and Simmons with her in one of these.
"Now I understand," she said as soon as she finally realized everything that had happened.
Her clone was in fact a person who had been used as a test subject, Carla had been mutated to become a 'perfect' clone of Ada in Simmons' eyes.
She found one last object with the inscription 'QUAD TOWER' on the edge of the base, obviously a clue where she should be heading.
A gunshot outside alerted her, she took her weapon again and went out into the corridor outside when she heard the helicopter. However, the moment she looked where it came from, she saw her clone fall in front of her. When she looked down and noticed the scene she realized it was late.
And that this was more disturbing than she expected.
It was really seeing herself dead, a pool of blood under her head and slowly spreading.
Despite this, she decided to go down to where the clone was, her communicator receiving the signal from the B.S.A.A. with the confirmation of an attack on the mainland, which had been warned by her… well, by Carla. It was an action that was not to her liking at all, she was a spy and a mercenary, but she would never harm others at that level.
Although with what she had read and just hearing Simmons' obsession with reaching the perfection of creating the clone, she understood Carla's actions.
She approached with slow steps when she finally reached the place where Carla's body was found, unable to help saying what she thought, since that woman's hatred for Simmons had pushed her to do all that, obviously that was the product of what was left of the consciousness of the original woman that she had been and that the experiment had obviously not been completely erased.
She would have helped her if she hadn't done what she did.
I wouldn't have had a problem if it had been any other way.
The movement of Carla's hand when dropping a syringe and the subsequent sound it produced alerted Ada, who quickly recognized the problems when her clone revived, mutating, gushing out a kind of gray viscous liquid. Dodging what Carla threw out of it, she stopped to look at her.
"Get over yourself. Help me?"— Ada saw the woman's difficulty in standing and how she held her hand around her neck as her voice distorted, threatening. —"I'm the real Ada Wong! I don't need help from anyone! My plans aren't failing, they're thriving!"
Ada was alerted when the gray substance covered Carla when she seemed to explode slightly, somewhat scared by the limits to which all that had reached and the threat that she kept saying.
"And soon this frail shell of a society will collapse!" Ada held her weapon tightly as the liquid began to spread across the surface and the woman would not stop speaking, despite the clear suffering she was going through. "After that, you know what will be left of this world?"
It was not reassuring the maniacal laugh that the woman began to produce before answering in a high tone of voice, screaming until she ripped her throat.
"Nothing! Hell will rise and chaos will reign" Carla's body just suddenly spilled out and then the voice seemed to come from nowhere in specific but it sounded in the air and Ada could hear it clearly. "And I, Ada Wong, will be Queen of the New World!"
Ada searched around her for the source of her voice, but couldn't find exactly where it was coming from before the mutation violently spread, mercilessly against her. The spy quickly reacted, moving quickly away and heading toward the door that she slammed to stop the advance. Through the window she could see the gray liquid and could not help thinking about the repercussions of that experiment and how damaged Carla had been.
"Hate to break it to you, but you're nothing but a cheap knockoff, at best."
She saw the liquid move on the other side of the window and she truly regretted what that woman had to go through. Carla had stopped knowing who she was and she believed herself to be Ada, although it was obvious that something inside her was trying to remind her that it was not like that, that little awareness had made Carla reveal herself against Simmons.
"Rest in peace, Carla."
Although she thought that it was all over, it was clearly not the case when what was left of the woman mutated again, expanding throughout the ship, obviously an effect of what she had injected into herself and Ada did not hesitate to escape, especially when everything turned into what looked like the inside of a monster.
She could hear Carla's voice still screaming, exclaiming her hate and about being the real Ada Wong , but she was already fed up, she wanted to end all of that soon and get out of there. When she finally reached the elevator, she quickly looked for another exit, finding a helicopter that she was obviously planning to borrow.
She noticed the jet take off from the same aircraft carrier and decided that she would leave Carla's disaster to the agent Redfield and his teammate, she had another objective in mind at the moment and she wasn't wasting any time.
»RESIDENT EVIL: SECRET«
She moved through the city in the helicopter seeing the destruction that Carla's decisions and actions had caused. The woman hadn't lied about the hell she would raise and she really didn't like it at all.
An explosion alerted her, even as she listened to BSAA's transmissions. The whole place was worse than it could be described and one more damage seemed to be just part of a great chaos, but anyway she got closer and as soon as the lights of the helicopter lit up the street, she recognized someone that she really did not expect to see there.
She knew he was after Simmons, but she hadn't heard from him since she had left him behind in the catacombs of the Cathedral, finally if it was a Raccoon City reunion with him in that place, but she really didn't want him to be there, not with the danger that still existed.
"Leon" the name came out of her lips without being able to help it, it was something natural for her.
She did not hesitate to help him when she noticed that Helena seemed injured and they needed a hand, she shot trying not to hurt them, even when she heard his voice through the communicator she carried, she had intercepted his signal and she couldn't help but be surprised to learn that he thought she was dead.
"I'm beginning to feel like your personal bodyguard, Mr. Kennedy" she said to herself, not surprised to help him once more when more infected got closer, too much for the two of them, but not for her who was with a helicopter in perfect condition.
"I wonder if this is a part of SImmons' plans?"
"I doubt it. Even Simmons wasn't this sloppy" She responded even though Leon couldn't hear her, but she had taken it upon herself to know her enemies and she knew that this man was too obsessive with control for a situation like that to occur.
When the path was finally clear and Leon was safe, she decided to move on, they were on their own right now and she needed to end all of that soon. She observed them one last time before going in the direction her target was, although she did not expect to meet other helicopters that were obviously enemies, without hesitation she shot them down one by one, clearing her way to the tower that they were clearly trying to defend.
»RESIDENT EVIL: SECRET«
By the time she had reached the tower Leon and Helena were already there, their weapons pointed at what was Simmons, obviously a victim of some kind of C-virus, she supposed, but she remained calm when she heard him yell in her direction when he recognized her.
Or maybe he didn't.
Ada was sure that he was mistaking her for his clone when he blamed her for disobeying him, for making the virus stronger with Wesker Junior's blood and Ada did not regret that, it was the least he deserved after everything he had done.
She shot the man as he tried to attack Leon and Helena, with enough precision not to hurt either of them, watching for movements to anticipate her own actions. Although seeing Leon hitting Simmons, trying to stop himr, was not the worst until Simmons mutated, this time he was some kind of dinosaur and she had to move away to ensure her distance each time he mutated again.
A military vehicle appeared after she fired on some tanks that exploded and helped Leon and Helena to get away a bit, moving in circles around the place while she chased after them trying to help them.
Ada did not hesitate to mock the consequences of what he had done for the love of a woman. Even when Simmons reached the truck and made it roll over, she didn't stop, sure Leon was fine when she heard him speak, she kept moving to try to defeat Simmons and dodge every attempt to shoot down the helicopter.
A blow that Simmons managed to give the helicopter caused the alarms to sound and she had to go back far enough to be safe, she heard her name shouted by Leon with a clear worried tone, but she had to avoid the cars that the man threw while he was transformed.
When the presidential adviser seemed finally defeated, she moved closer to where Leon was standing once more, illuminating him and Helena with the helicopter's spotlight.
"Can't stay out of trouble, can you, Leon?" Ada wasn't very surprised to see him always in situations like that, he was too correct to let the enemy have his way and too determined to abandon everything, but, unfortunately, little was what he anticipated. "And always one step behind"
She decided it was time for them to leave, she could at least ensure a way for them to escape while she finished doing what she had in mind, the place was still standing and she still had to find whatever it was they were hiding there.
She was not going to leave any loose ends before returning to her son, because she was not taking any more risks.
She noticed the confused expression still Leon's face, how something did not seem to fit in his mind and Ada supposed that what happened to her clone must have confused him and she didn't blame him, but she had told Scott that she would meet his father someday, so she had to get him out of there safe and sound.
She motioned for him to follow her when she shook her head, she was sure he could see her from where he was standing and then she raised the helicopter. On the rooftops she saw survivors, green flares lit, but she had no time but to help them a bit by shooting the zombies to give them a little more time.
Anyone who did not know Ada Wong would think that she simply did not care about other people, but, although they were not her priority, she was no longer the spy she used to be, maybe before Raccon City and her son she would have simply left all those people to their fate, she was an intelligent and skilled spy, she knew and could do what was necessary to complete missions without problems, but not for that she would simply accept something like what was happening in that place.
She cleared an airstrip that was in the tower after shooting some zombies, finally landing the helicopter safely, she went down without first leaving a small gift for Leon which was obviously something common that she already did at that point and then she took out her makeup caseand opened it, taking out one of the memories she had saved after stealing them from Carla.
She supposed that would help the blonde and would also be a point in her favor, not needing to stay to have to explain everything when, for the moment, she had other matters to attend to. She put the makeup case on the seat and then got out.
She was going to clean up what was left of Carla and Simmon's disaster, one way or another she was going to prevent that problem from dragging her on, so she advanced through the corridors, her weapon in hand and attentive to anything, the city seemed to be on fire on the outside and she didn't have much time.
However, just like before in the streets, an explosion caught her attention and she ran down the hallway until she reached one of the windows, observing an elevator that was swaying dangerously and then Leon and Helena jump to fall on top from the other elevator, narrowly saving himself.
"Leon, ever the survivor" Despite all the troubles Leon could be seen to be involved in, he just seemed to always be able to survive them one way or another, sometimes with Ada's help, but she had to admit that he was no longer the rookie she had known years ago and that he had made great progress, enough to stay alive despite adversity. "oh well. No rest for the weary"
She loaded her gun and approached a space, which was left from the elevator doors that exploded, checking the exterior without showing herself she was lucky that an elevator just came down and used it as a platform to shoot Simmons, who just didn't seem to give up on anything.
The presidential adviser seemed to be coming back for more no matter what, and she already had enough to want to end the man once and for all. When the elevator gave way due to Simmons' attack, Ada fired her Hookshot to go to the top of the corridor where the man was. The heat was unbearable with everything burning around her, but it was finally a chance to finish with him.
Hearing Simmons talk about finally getting back with him, being destined to be together and how he had "created" her was a sick thing and confirmed her suspicions that he was mistaking her for Carlait would be a big surprise for him if he found out that she was the original and would never obey anyone whoever it was.
As the man, now with his body mutated into another form, talked incessantly about how "she" belonged to him and she must obey, an upper platform gave way due to damage and Ada quickly dodged the structure, quickly to fire and avoid falling into the void, reaching the other structure that Simmons had climbed to.
"You're disgusting. Let's get this straight — I'm not your little doll, Simmons" she snapped, fed up with the man "In fact, the only thing I have in common with her is hatred for you"
She noticed the shots from the other side, in the same direction she had seen Leon before going up to that place, but she preferred that Leon left that place, and so she would deal with all that alone, without being worried and waiting to know if he was okay.
"Appreciate the gesture, but I'm a big girl. I can handle this one alone, Leon" he couldn't hear her, but she was really sure she could handle it, even if she took a little damage, she kept shooting and dodging.
Every time she heard Simmons speak she simply felt more anger inside her, the same rage that unleashed in the blows she gave him when he returned to his human form and lunged at him. She kept shooting and fighting until that bridge fell too. Once again she fired her hookshot to climb another bridge connecting the towers, but Simmons didn't follow her this time.
"Ada! If you can hear me —Shoot him, now!" She quickly looked for Helena after hearing her voice and could see how she and Leon tried to climb one of the suspension cables of the elevator that had obviously fallen. However, Simmons was chasing them, climbing with his own claws and too close to Leon who was climbing behind Helena.
"He's off to kill the competition" she said, noticing how curious the situation was. If Simmons really knew that she was the true Ada and the nature of her relationship with Leon, that would have driven him even crazier and was what she feared. However, she did not hesitate to aim her weapon.
He was very close to reaching Leon when she noticed that he stopped, before she could react he threw himself towards her and then against her, the blow was hard, so much that her body seemed numb and her head spun.
"Ada!" She heard her name being called out by Leon, but it seemed a distant sound and her body had simply betrayed her.
Although Ada knew that it just couldn't end there, not when they expected her to return and everything she had done to get there. Her body seemed to be moved, the sounds seemed to have an effect of being underwater and she knew she could react, only that she was exhausted.
"Ada... can you hear me? Don't let it end like this" That was Leon's voice, she had no doubt, but she couldn't answer, she felt something against her back and then she heard Simmons again, this time his voice distant.
"Get away from her, Leon! You're not half the man she needs!" she could hear the gunshots next to her, drowning out her enemy's voice a bit, though she made out a few words. "Come with me, my love. We'll be together, forever!"
"Not if I can help it." Leon's response was clear, even with the shots. but really she couldn't just let Simmons beat her. She had come out of worse situations and now she had many more reasons to simply let that blow get the better of her."Come on, wake up."
Māma, wake up.
She heard Scott's voice inside her head, she wanted to open her eyes and find herself in her bed, on those mornings when he was going to wake her up, the moments of a quiet life that she never expected to have and that was what she wanted most at that moment.
"If you're really Ada, I know you can pull through this. We both can"
Without a doubt it was Leon's voice, he was the one who was with her and then she heard how Simmons shot those things from his body, Ada felt some arms wrap around her, she heard the groans of pain, the sound of impacts.
It was time to continue.
She opened her eyes, looking directly into Leon's blue gaze who was holding her. Her back was supported by one of his leg and obviously the agent, as good as ever, had covered her from the attack.
Sometimes she regretted breaking his heart so many times, leaving without looking back until their next meeting and hiding things from the agent, because she knew that this cat and mouse game was getting old and they were both already tired, every time he showed her that it seemed that he was the best she could find, her defenses simply lowered and it was a luxury that she could not afford in the field of her work.
"I was just resting my eyes" she brought her hand over the one he had on her shoulder, looking away because she knew how vulnerable she felt and there was still a problem to solve before she could rest.
"Shouldn't sleep on the job" Leon's humor had changed so much over the years that it was always curious to her how ironic he had become and how similar he sounded to her in his responses, but she was grateful that he said no more.
"In case you haven't noticed, Simmons doesn't take rejection well" They were both firing by the time she spoke to defuse the atmosphere, reloading her weapon that had fallen to her side after hitting the ground.
"Is there some back-story I should know here?"
"Nothing worthwhile" she said avoiding the topic, even so, she could see how the agent looked at her sideways and looked at Simmons with a different face, one that she could recognize and for which she smiled. Jealous, that expression was the one the blue-eyed had, it was a face full of jealousy directed at whoever had dared to try to touch her.
Simmons seemed not to stop, every time he seemed to return to his human form, he just mutated again, although she managed to knock him down a couple of times to hit him with all the strength she had, but again she had to move away when he turned back into that creature.
Although time passed, they maintained that connection that helped them coordinate to defend each other, thus saving their lives, but in a moment of carelessness Simmons, transformed into that strange creature, jumped against Leon and made him lose his balance, pushing him due to the force and the agent was only saved by his quick reflexes that made him react to hold on to the edge of the structure.
"Leon!" Ada exclaimed when she saw him hold on luckily, Simmons approached him in his human form and stepped on one of his hands mercilessly.
"Do you want to live? Then beg! Beg for your life!" Ada did not hesitate to run towards the man when she heard him speak, threatening Leon, who was holding himself with only one hand.
"I'll pass" she heard Leon reply before she drew one of her arrows, with a movement extending it and then launching herself at Simmons.
"Can't always get what you want, Simmons!" Ada quickly buried the arrow in the side of the man's abdomen, a scream of pain escaped from Simmons' mouth, who had not managed to react and tried to turn around, but the spy moved the object, aggravating the wound and then used force to drag him with her. "Let's call this closure. You really should've moved on, Simmons"
Before falling further she drew her hookshot and fired, releasing the man who fell onto the platform below as she was pushed by the force of the weapon onto another platform.
From that place she heard the screams and watched as Simmons burned, writhing in pain. It was something satisfying to see after everything that had happened, although at that moment it stopped mattering when she looked up a little higher, to the place where she had been before and where Leon was already standing after climbing.
The blue gaze had been fixed on Simmons first, but it did not take long to go to where she was and Ada watched him from where she was. For a brief moment she was lost watching the man who had unknowingly given her the most precious thing she had and who, despite the distance, could tell that was confused.
She pulled out the cube-shaped communicator she had carried all this time, searching for the draft of a message she had written in a brief moment of peace as she walked down the tower after leaving the helicopter. As soon as she found it, she looked at Leon once more, his despite the years that had passed and his physique that had changed.
"So cute. You're really confused by all this, aren't you, Leon?" It was obvious that he was, but it was not the time to reveal secrets or give explanations, she was always impressed by Leon's ability to get into trouble, despite the years, without really discovering everything that happened in the shadows, but that's what she was for. She only had to stay alive, secrets were her thing and the confusion generated by ignorance was one of the things that kept him safe from her world. "It's kind of fun to watch"
She hit the send button and then put the communicator away, watching Leon once more, memorizing his face before continuing on her way. She saw him receive the message, noticed how quickly he read it and when his expression showed that he understood that it was time to say goodbye. She raised a hand in farewell form, turning her back to not regret it and stay.
"Ada!"
She heard her name exclaimed once more by Leon, but kept going, memorizing his voice now, but unable to stay. There was one last stop left and she really wanted to see her son soon, their son, so she had to end all of that to ensure his safety.
»RESIDENT EVIL: SECRET«
The advantage of her doppelgänger was that she did not need keys or codes to enter, her fingerprints were in the system and they continued to operate, despite the state of the towers. Finding Carla's lab made her understand something she was wrong about when she activated the system of the place.
"Another failure. Bring me another subject" Carla's voice, her voice, gave orders and then the images of the laboratory that she had destroyed in the Cathedral showed her experimenting.
Finally Carla was not like her more than in appearance, but the twisted mind could only be compared to Simmon's. Carla had also experimented and her plans could not be the best considering the hatred she held, so Ada really understood now why Carla had condemned herself.
When the footage stopped, she walked down the corridor that connected to another room and observed the chrysalis in a container. Slowly breaking apart and a hand emerging from within. Ada was fed up with all those games and wanted to claim first place in order to be able to return to her son, to have the security of before.
"We're beyond sympathy at this point." She raised her weapon, held in both hands, and aimed at the experiment. "We are beyond humanity."
She fired mercilessly, using all the bullets from a cartridge, listening to the screech of the creature and then reloaded more, pointing her weapon at the rest of the room, destroying everything in her path and as soon as she exploded a tank she reloaded the weapon again.
She felt anger at everything that had happened, for having been in the middle of a damn game and how damaged she could have been if she did not intercede, the danger that not only she was in, but also her son and the disgusting feeling of have been used. Her image, her person, manipulated even if it was Carla.
She fired without stopping until everything exploded, releasing everything inside her. She tossed the cube-shaped communicator toward a screen with the photograph of Carla and Simmons before the experiments, then turned her back on the place that was being consumed by the flames.
She felt a weight less and when her cell phone rang she stopped to answer it, they had a job for her, after everything that happened she did not dislike the idea of extra money, she had no more plans and after seeing her son she would go back to work in order to start a new life.
»RESIDENT EVIL: SECRET«
She had wounds that still burned, plus she needed to sleep at least eight hours without interruptions, but she did not hesitate to go to the apartment in which she would now live and even less to hug her son when he ran towards her.
"Hello, handsome," she kissed the boy's cheek as she didn't stop hugging him, she had lifted him in her arms, despite the complaint of her muscles. "You do not know how much I miss you."
"Māma" It felt so good to know that her son was safe and she was back by his side, his voice was cloying and she didn't think she could ever get enough of that sound.
"Did you miss me?" She looked at Mrs. Ming over her little one's shoulder for a moment, smiling at her to let her know she was fine when she noticed how the older woman's brown eyes analyzed her from head to toe.
"Shi."
"I love to hear that."
"Was it a long trip?" She nodded in response to the woman's question. Without leaving her son, she advanced through the place, observing that she would need to buy some things because of how abandoned that department was, in which she had stopped living since her pregnancy.
"Yes, but it's over, now we'll have a little vacation, okay?" She looked at her son who smiled radiantly and she couldn't help but imitate him.
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