Pugaliciousdish

The Rookie

Chapter 4

She looked in the rearview mirror as they drove away. Behind them stood a dumbfounded police officer in the rain. "He's kind of cute." She rolled her eyes, mocking her own thoughts. After a ten-minute car ride, Ada finally arrived back at her other loft. Much cozier than that putrid apartment John had been living in. She took the time after settling in to reflect on the past couple days.

Three days ago…

It was late, her plane had already been delayed before so to be finally landing was a relief. Flying wasn't her thing. Once she was off the plane, she whipped out her phone and dialed his number. "John, it's me Ada. I'm at the airport, can you come get me?" After hanging up, she went and claimed her bag. It wasn't long before he showed up. She was sitting, legs crossed in the waiting area near the exit.

"Ada!" He waived.

She stood up and grabbed her bags. "John, it's been too long." They hugged.

"Yeah I know right? It's been what, two months?"

Ada took a moment to think. "Yeah it would seem so!" She smiled. "Shall we leave?"

"Sure! Let me get that for you." He reached for her luggage, but she pulled away.

"That's sweet of you but it's quite alright."

"Oh, okay." He looked confused but returned to his normal grin. "My car is in the parking garage."

After leaving the airport, they went straight to his apartment. Raccoon City hadn't changed much in the last two months since she was here. She had bumped into John at a coffee shop he frequently goes to. He had spilled her coffee and felt the need to buy her another one. After that, one thing led to another and they were in a relationship.

"Do you like it? I moved in last month after my other contract was up. It even came with a spare room!" They moved about the apartment. She wasn't too keen on it, but it was only temporary.

"Oh yes, it's very nice." She lied.

"Are you hungry? I can order a pizza?" He asked.

"Sure, that sounds good. Do you mind if I take the spare? I haven't been sleeping too well lately so I wouldn't want to wake you in the middle of the night."

"No, go ahead. I work early in the mornings anyways." He pulled out his phone and started dialing for the pizza delivery. Ada left the kitchen and walked down the hallway to the spare. She opened it and found it wasn't as bad as the rest of the apartment. Mostly because it only had a bed, desk, and dresser. "It'll work for now I suppose." She thought. Her phone had vibrated.

Did you make it yet?

She typed back. Yes, I'll report in what I find out tomorrow. She closed her phone and tossed her luggage next to the bed. She returned to the living room when John had finally finished ordering. "Hey John, do you have work tomorrow?"

"Yes, why?" He relaxed onto the couch.

Ada walked over and sat down next to him. She leaned up against him, he reeked of air freshener. "Well… I was wandering if maybe I could tag along? You could show me what you do." She turned her head up to him and smiled.

"I uh- sure! I don't see why not." He didn't look sure of his response but that's all he said about it. "Want to watch a movie?"

She nodded. They spent the rest of the night eating pizza and watched a scary movie about a killer in a ghost mask who goes around terrorizing people, and asks what their favorite scary movie is. Ada's favorite part was when the killer tripped up the stairs.

The next morning, she woke up early and showered. She spent an hour doing her womanly regimens while John took about twenty minutes until he was ready to go.

"I'm sorry if your late." She finished doing her eyelashes.

"No, we'll be fine. I'm skipping coffee this morning, so we'll have plenty of time."

They took John's car again and drove to the main Umbrella facility in Raccoon. It was a bit of a drive and getting through the security took a bit longer than usual since Ada wasn't in their system. The place was huge, it had five stories and walkways that surrounded the center pillar which housed two elevators. It looked like something out of a sci-fi movie. "We're on the third floor." They got into the elevator with a crowd of people. It was a bit cramped for Ada's taste. They got off at the third floor and walked across the walkway. There were so many people. After some hallways and doors, they passed another layer of security which led them to John's office/lab. "Would you mind waiting here Ada? I need to go check in with my boss."

"It's no problem." She smiled and sat down in his desk chair that swiveled. On his monitor were some sticky notes.

Check in with Neal about testing.

FBX0000192

Files are in third drawer. Pin Number is 90275.

"He's not very good at remembering things apparently… Who leaves stuff like this out?" She took a chance and checked the third drawer. The pin was right, and it unlatched. She pulled it out and looked at the file names. There was one that matched the FBX number on the sticky note. Just as she reached for the file she could hear footsteps and talking. She quickly shut the drawer and relaxed in the chair as John and another man walked in.

"Ada! Hey this is Neal! He's a good friend of mine and works here too." Ada held out her hand and Neal shook it.

"Nice to meet you Neal."

"You as well. John has never mentioned you before. I can see why now! She's too pretty for you John." He laughed.

"Oh, you're too much." She laughed and internally rolled her eyes.

John gave her a tour of his office showing where he kept basic stuff, then he moved to the lab area of it. "We conduct all kinds of cool experiments in here. We're working on curing diseases and developing new medicines. I do more of the small testings though, at our other facility they do the big ol' mama jamas. It's the best.

"Where's that at?" Ada wondered.

"It's underground somewhere in the city, I haven't been there but have seen the product footage."

She took note of that. John showed her the break room next and then finally the archives room. "Hey Ada, I'd love to show you more, but I got to do a bit of work first."

"It's okay. I wouldn't want to keep you from that." She grinned as she walked back behind him. Over the next few hours she studied him from a chair in the corner. Every once in a while she'd ask a silly question, then a more serious one. It kept him clueless from what she was gathering. When he got up to go do something, she'd slide into his chair and check his computer. She discovered multiple testing results for a virus that was plagued in a newly developed medicine. Then after that there was cure results for the virus caused by the medicine. "Curing a problem so you can add on your own. Sounds like something a pharmaceutical would do." After some more digging she found the same FBX number in a digital file. Instead of opening it, she reached down and took off her shoe, she rotated the heel off and rotated the middle of it to reveal a flash drive. She inserted it into his computer and copied all the files she'd seen. After a few minutes she unplugged it and returned the monitor to its original screen. She put her shoe back on and sat back into her chair and swiveled when John coincidentally came in.

"Hey, I'm going to take a lunch break, want to go grab something?" He asked.

"Sure, can we get Chinese?"

"Yeah of course, I found a new place downtown, it's so good."

After filling up on Chinese, John finished out his work day with Ada. She had sketched a layout of the facility she would need to know before they left. "It'll be in and out." She told herself. "Say John, what time does the facility usually close up? I can't imagine they'd want to run this much electricity twenty-four seven?"

"On a day like today, probably eleven-ish." He unlocked the car doors and they both got in. "Ready to go home?"

She felt ill at the thought of calling that place home. "Sure…"

"Everything alright?" He started up the car.

"Yes, just feeling a little under the weather. That's all."

After another drive, they were back at the apartment. "Hey John, I'm going to run to the store. I'll be back in an hour."

"Do you want a ride? If I would've known I could have drove you?' He offered.

"No, it's alright. Thank you though." She grabbed a coat from her luggage and left. She started walking down the street and pulled out her phone. She sent a message saying. Meet up?

After a few minutes there was a reply. K.

She walked for about ten minutes until she reached a dark alleyway, she leaned up against the corner wall facing the street. Against the other corner wall facing the alleyway was a person. "Here's what I found." She pulled out her flash drive and handed it around the corner.

"Good. Get a sample." The voice was deep and weary.

"And John?"

"Get rid of him."

She could hear the footsteps trail off. On her way back, she planned out her next steps carefully. John was still oblivious, but she couldn't take any chances. "If they close by Eleven, I can be in by Twelve. Out by Three at max." She reached the footsteps to John's apartment building. "Sorry John, enjoy your time while you have it." She pitied John that night, he was a man who was doing his best to make something of himself. He must have now to have been on this hitlist.

"Hey Ada, as a Lawyer, do you get a lot of weird cases? John asked.

"I guess you could say I do." She couldn't think of any fake stories to come up with.

"Like what?"

"Well… One time a man was assaulted by a monkey in a zoo, so he sued the zoo." She laughed a little.

"Ha!" He busted out laughing.

She kept thinking of how she would do it, she'd have to wait obviously. A hundred different possibilities floated through her head. By the time the clock had struck eleven-thirty, John was asleep, and she was ready. She went into her luggage and pulled out a small black backpack. She was dressed in all black now, she put her grapple gun to her waist and filled her bag with ropes and small EMP bugs.

A black car was already arranged for her outside, it only took twenty minutes to get to the facility. There was security but nothing she couldn't handle. She hopped the gates and made note of cameras outside, she snuck behind buildings and through bushes. When she finally reached the side of the building she grappled up onto the roof. The ceiling had glass entry points which seemed so faulty to her. She repelled down the one that was closest to Johns area of the building. Two guards we're making rounds across the walkways. "Childs play." Before repelling all the way down, she stopped. A security camera was following the guard's movements. She pulled out an EMP bug and her launcher and loaded it. With steady aim she fired it directly onto it, causing it to shut down for a while. She quickly repelled down and followed behind the two guards quietly. Once they were in a dark enough area, she ran up and tranquilized them both. They were out within seconds. "Night boys." She made her way to John's office. Once she was inside, she booted up the computer and dug out the file in the cabinet. There was a testing room listed on the file, her next destination. She pulled up a map layout of the entire facility on the computer. "Let's see… Wow there's four more stories underground, and a train car that leads to… Hmm Interesting." She found the room and shut down the computer. After cleaning things up, she made her way down a level to the testing rooms. Inside the room she found various vials and labeled cabinets. One specifically caught her attention. "FBX0000192, bingo." She looked in the cabinets for the test results. After finding them she took a photo and sealed it back up.

She took an hour to go through more of what was there, she found one labeled corrosive distortion. Its results were fatal. She took a sample of it. She knew Umbrella had ties with arms dealers, but to send stuff like this off was preposterous. "I think it's time some of these little tests came to a close." Ada reached into her bag and pulled out a matchbook, she took one of the vials labeled oil: highly flammable and poured it all over the floor. She walked out into the hallway and struck a match. She grinned at the flame, then flicked it into the room. It was set into an uproar of fiery blaze. Glass shattering, small exploding pops. The facility alarm started ringing and the room shut itself off from the other areas to contain the incident. "Time to go." She left the way she came, through the roof and down the side walls. This time no guards were in the courtyard, so she snuck back through and hopped a side gate. The car was still waiting in the distance and she made her way there. She opened the door and got in.

"Boss says that wasn't part of the plan." Said the driver.

"Well plans change." She replied. She closed her eyes for the car ride back, except she wasn't taken back to John's. They pulled into a parking lot downtown. "Where are we?"

"Boss wants to talk." Ada exited the car. A man in a trench coat was smoking a cigarette and facing away from the car. She walked over to him.

"What happened?" He asked.

"I got what you wanted." She held out the FBX vial. The man reached out and took it from her.

"You ever play the game of baseball, Ms. Wong?"

"I played some softball as a child. Why do you ask?"

"Strike one Ms. Wong, you know what happens on strike three." He brushed past her and took her spot in the black car and it soon drove away.

She felt a little chill down her spine but pushed it aside feeling annoyed. "Thanks for the ride home assholes." She pulled out her phone and dialed for a taxi. After half an hour, it showed up and she was taken back. She'd been out for four hours now. She made it back to his apartment by five. Feeling exhausted she walked into her guest room and fell right asleep.

It was noon by the time she woke up. She walked out into the living room and saw John on the couch drinking water and watching tv. "Hey, are you not working today?"

"Morning sleepy head, and no apparently there was a fire or something at the facility so no work!" He was still clueless. "I'm messaging with Neal right now, he apparently had to go in because his department was one of the main sources of the fire. He thinks someone else triggered it though."

She was struck by his words. "Really? Any idea who?"

"No, not yet. He said he's looking for footage with the security team right now." John finished his water. This was Ada's sign, she walked back into her room and grabbed her bag. She pulled out the vial of corrosive and returned to the living room. "That does sound exciting. Hey want more water?"

"Oh, yes please, I don't know why but I'm super dehydrated this morning." She took his glass and went into the kitchen. Pulling out the vial from her pocket she poured it inside and filled the rest with water.

"Here you go." She handed him the glass and he took a huge swig.

"I'll be right back, I need to grab my computer charger from my room." He got up and stood there. "Hey Ada, was there- AH!" He let out for cry of help. "What's happening!" He fell to the floor. "My stomach, it hurts!" He started clawing at his stomach, he attempted to get up. He dug into his chest now with his nails.

"Sorry John… Wasn't my choice."

"Why… Ada?" Covered in blood he brushed against the hallway walls. She followed as he tried to wobble away into his bedroom. He collapsed onto his back. It was then he clawed deep into his intestines, after that his stomach erupted, killing him.

"What a painful way to go…" She felt a little guilty, but she set it aside and cleaned up her mess. Nothing should trace back to her. "Someone must've heard it." She thought. She went to his computer and saw Neal sent an email. It was subjected as Get out! Umbrella knew she had broken it, but it was clear they wouldn't go public with it. After all they had enough dirt on them to get locked up longer than she would've been. She erased the conversation with Neal. She'd need to get out of here before anyone saw her. She shut off all the lights and opened the front door an inch. She could barely make out a cop walking up the stairs, she quickly let go of the door and ran back into John's room. She hid behind the door…