A/N: Thanks a bunch Shirahane Aikawa for her valuable review and all the readers that took interest in this story.

Disclaimer: I don't own Resident Evil or any of its characters.

Chapter 2

The bike started to slow down and even before Leon could tell the woman about it or get back to handle it, a bullet just going past his ear reminded him of the firefight that they were in and he started to shoot back at the enemies. He grabbed the accelerator with one hand and tried to drive the motorbike as steadily as he could manage for the moment, while shooting at the pursuers at the same time..

And then another bad news came from Percy's side, "aaaahhhh Leon hit the brakes jump off do something there is a cliff ahead of you it's just a mile away!"
"What?!", Leon asked as he wasn't able to listen to him, since he was two busy coordinating two things at a time
"We need to slow down there's cliff up ahead", the woman told Leon. And just then to make things worse another enemy chopper came from nowhere. Leon wanted to get back to hit the brakes but he had to keep shooting at the two choppers to delay death.

Leon shouted between the noises, "I am running out of ammo and we need to hit the brakes ASAP!", loading up his gun somehow.
"I am out", she told him as her guns clicked empty once again, "I'll drive and you shoot", she ordered pushing him back and getting down to drive, "No, the brakes are out!", this was the last thing Leon wanted to hear and before Leon could say anything she turned on her communicator and said, "I need help, I am near the dead end." Then she got back to the bike tried to slow it though not much otherwise they'll be caught and this moment it was better to go down the cliff than being caught. Leon cursed as his guns clicked empty too.

Then something caused both the choppers to explode and Leon and woman nearly escaped the explosion. But still the cliff was ahead and they could see it and they could not jump off the bike as men on wheels were continuously behind them. Then at that very moment Leon heard another chopper which got as close to them as it could but did not fire at them, then the men on the chopper said, "Need help guys?", and dropped them a rope ladder Leon quickly grabbed it as he was standing, then with the help of the guy he grabbed up girl, who nearly drove the bike off the cliff.

He pulled her up on the chopper and she fell on top of him and for the first time he saw her face and she was really beautiful, so much so that Leon was stumped for a minute or so, "You're really beautiful", he couldn't help but compliment her as she got off him.
"Thank you!", she said indifferently again which was almost arrogant, if not for her searching something in the cabin, which made her seem distracted.

Leon turned to the guy who dropped the rope ladder. "For which agency do you guys work, I have never seen you before", Leon asked him. Of course he doesn't know all the guys at work but he definitely can tell by the looks that they didn't work for same as he did.
"We call ourselves A.M.", the man replied proudly showing him the patch on his jacket.

The woman finally stopped searching. "You guys are great, I want to meet your boss", said Leon addressing the her, he thought it best to have as more help as you need to defeat Umbrella and the same. After all enemy's enemy is friend.
"My boss!?", she exclaimed totally confused.
"Yeah A.M.'s boss", Leon made his point clear.
The woman smiled and removed her bullet proof vest then drew a bundle of cash from her inner pockets and tossed it toward one of the guys saying, "I don't work for them", and at once jumped out of the chopper and Leon saw her parachute.

"Hey she didn't pay for you, we Air Mercenaries do not work for free. Either you jump down or we have to throw you out", said the man. Leon at once took a parachute and he also jumped off the chopper.

When Leon landed on ground he had no idea about his location all he could do was wait for his teammates, who he had contacted through his wireless headset once he was down. With the latest tracking technology they didn't take much time and found him waiting for them. So they returned to their headquarters.

Leon washed himself with disinfectant and Rebecca had him go through, some tests due to standard precautionary measures. Once he was through with that he made his way to the conference hall without any rest or further delay because he had to report about his little adventure to their Chief, who was waiting impatiently with the other survivors from the Raccoon city and similar.

"What you didn't get anything", shouted his chief trembling with anger, "You know Kennedy how much trouble we faced to get you inside the facility undetected. All our months of hard work wasted. You ruined everything I should have sent Redfield for this job. He could have done better than you. Now we will never get the chance to break in that facility or any other facility. They probably had tightened the security by now." He stopped finally to catch his breath.

Taking this opportunity Chris Redfield spoke up, "Chief this is not his fault I was monitoring this mission with Percy when he went there the camera on his headset captured everything. The security alarm rang even before he touched anything. They must have somehow known that we were coming or anything else. But I won't say that it was Leon's fault."

"Then whose fault is it Redfield? He not only ruined the mission but also lost a hi-tech gadget", their Chief flared angrily. "Months of hard work down in the drain because of you", he shot at Leon who didn't know what to do, he had failed everyone. "If only you could have gone with him we had a better chance, Redfield."
"He couldn't have gone with him he was very much injured from his last mission in Africa", Rebecca replied instead of Chris, Chris was like brother for her. And before their boss can say something she continued, "No one from us could have gone with him."
"Yes Ark, Bruce, Billy and me were a part of President's security since you called for Leon we had to put up with Ashley", said Carlos in agreement and he sounded exhausted anyone who had to put up with her sounded that way only.

"All the other girls including me were not really fit for such a mission, I am for example still recovering", said a blonde Caucasian woman sitting right besides Chris whom they were used to see as brunette but the fact that she was still alive had been a reason for party for a couple of months now. Chris and Sheva had found and rescued her from Wesker. Even though whether he was dead or not was still a mystery. All the women comprising Claire Redfield, who after airport incident had decided to be rather fighter than rescuer, Sheva Alomar and Fongling nodded in agreement.
"And I have been looking after them", said their field medic Rebecca.

"And I can't be on field I am technical expert and don't know how to handle firearms", said Percy rather pompously and in one breath as he also feared their chief. He was a new recruit and mostly looked after their gadgets and communications. He may not know how to handle firearms but knew to handle gadgets and all those stuff that have microchips in them.
"And Barry's off to get his family settled in his new home, you sent him yourself", Chris reminded him.

"Enough. That's enough you guys making lame excuses like 5 year olds to save your sibling", shouted out their Chief as he could not take it anymore.
"Now David just give us kids a break will you. We are all tired and for hell it's 4:00 AM in the Morning", said a lazy male's voice that was directly in front of David sitting next to Leon having his legs up on the table. "And you're not the Boss". Everybody's head turned in his way only one person was to talk to David in that way when he was angry he was none than John Andrews one of their combat specialists and communication expert.
"And what the hell were you doing when he went off to the mission John. I don't see you injured or anything", shot back David.
"I was feeling too lazy", replied John in cool tone. Everybody knew John can crack joke out of anything and lift tension as he did so but he surprised everybody by this statement.
"Lazy?" David eyed him in disbelief.
"Yes midnight is the time when you sleep not the time when you go on some mission or anything", he said pretty casually.

Everybody was looking at him and then they heard someone laughing and they turned to see David was laughing, so everybody who were holding their laughs until now laughed out loud. Every few moments they stopped laughing and then again roared into laughter. When this series of laugh and stop was over David apologized and said, "I know I am not your boss but we're a team we're into this together, we represent different groups but yet we're one."

He was very much right although he was not very old but everybody looked him as the team leader with sharp intellects and decision making. The few people here have survived the horror and were more experienced than others in their job. And yes they were kind of representatives for their organization, Leon, Ark and Bruce being the representative of the secret government agency. Jill, Sheva and Chris were being the representative to BSAA. And rest where the part of their unnamed agency. Yes it was authorized by President himself but have much more freedom from the government policies as only few knew about it, only the people working here, the President and the respective heads of their organizations.

Sometime after the airport incident it was established by none other than these guys, it made them go through a lot of hassle to convince the President. But after forming an Official Agency they realized that they worked best when together. Percy and Sheva were their new recruits. Everybody who had gone through the hell and back and were able to take care of themselves, were its members.

"Now my apologies everybody can go back to their beds after all its time to sleep now. I don't want anyone to stress themselves up. We'll discuss this tomorrow morning sharp at 11:00 AM", he said more calmly then before and moved out of the conference room.

Even though he had told them to sleep yet nobody went to sleep. Everybody knew that the nightmares they had and it was almost morning so nobody bothered to sleep. Instead they gathered in recreation room playing different games pool, cards, billiards, you name them. This underground facility, situated below a hospital was like a home, though they all had proper houses but once this facility established they hardly went home, since for past 6 months they had been vigorously planning the infiltration, which all went for naught of course.

As they were busy playing, the doors to the room almost blast open and everyone pointed their gun at the door even John, "Hey you could hurt somebody" said a muscular man in hoarse voice. It was none other than Barry Burton.

"Barry you scared the hell out of us", Jill said relaxing a bit.
"Sorry guys that geek over there told me you had a meeting and I hurried here to know the outcomes", he could barely keep the curiosity in his voice down.
"We'll be discussing it later so calm down", Claire informed him about it.
"Oh okay", he said looking rather disappointed, "can I join you guys?"
"Yep, so what's your bet Burton" said Carlos sliding a chair towards him.

A/N: I haven't played RE 5, but know its basic plot and for this story. I have taken his death to be a mystery. Thanks for taking out time to read!