Resident Evil : The Story Continues...
Chapter 2
(Please take it easy on my English skills. It is my second language.)
Note: Do not skip, or you will be totally lost. This chapter might seems to have lots of conversation and character's thinking at first. It is all just a prelude which connects this story to the canon plots. Soon some exciting events will take place in the next chapters. So don't stop here. :) You have no idea what is ahead. :P
The time at the beginning of Chapter 2 is the same time as at the beginning of Chapter 1.
Leon was driving a jet-ski on the water. Ashley held him really tight from behind in order to not to fall into the water again.
"Ashley, you don't have to hold me that tight!" said Leon, "a chopper will be coming for us any minute now."
"Really?" Ashley replied with disappointment. "Are you sure you do not want some overtime after this is all over?"
"I was very serious," Leon replied without looking at Ashley.
"Why?" Ashley asked.
"If you still do not get it," Leon stopped for a second, "My heart has belonged to someone since six years ago"
"Was that the girl in red dress?" Ashley kept asking.
"May I keep some private secrets?"
"I'll take that as a Yes!" Ashley said playfully, "but why did you just flirt with the other lady during the transmission?"
"It was just a joke, not flirting! I was making fun of her for not wearing glasses. Nothing more," Leon did not sound happy.
"Easy, easy, I'll just keep my mouth shut from now on." Ashley was very disappointed. Leon clearly had no interest in her at all.
Soon, two attack helicopters and one transport helicopter appeared in the sky.
"Our ride is here," Leon said with a relief in his voice and he took off the jet-ski key and put the entire keychain into his inner pocket close to his heart.
One hour later, they arrived over a city. Three helicopters separated and two of the attack helicopters headed for the nearest military base, since it was no longer in the unsecured zone. Soon the helicopter that carried Leon and Ashley landed at a U.S. embassy. Immediately after landing, Ashley was taken into a building by a group of U.S. secret services. Lots of heavily armed U.S. marines were standing on guard outside the building, while secret services were in every corner inside the building. Outside the embassy wall, there were both U.S. marines and Spanish police everywhere. It looked like the president wouldn't be taking any more chances to have his daughter being in danger again.
Leon was asked to follow a couple of secret services into a different building. On his way, aside from marines and secret services, he saw numerous Special Forces from the U.S. There were commandos of CIA, Delta Force, Navy Seals, and the special force from CTU. All the most elite Special Forces came all the way from the U.S. to Spain, but nobody had sent them to aid Leon. It was a nightmare for him. Leon was not very happy about the person whoever was in charge of this operation.
Once inside a big conference room, where Leon's superior officer Agent Smith was waiting, a servant handed Leon a glass of water.
"Good work, Leon." Smith greeted.
"It was nothing," Leon replied.
"Leon, we are going to have a briefing meeting right now."
"It's ridiculous!" Leon thought but he did not speak out. He was so tired from the last two days' horrible experiences. Almost non-stop battling Saddler's men and monsters, with little food and water, no sleeping unless you count the time he was unconscious. And now he had finally completed the mission that normal person wouldn't even consider possible for a single man, his superior wanted him to brief him as soon as he got back to safety.
"OK, sir!" Leon replied while hiding his anger.
"Leon, first we probably know more than you think." Smith sounded cocky. "We have a satellite watching the area you were investigating the whole time."
"Surprising…" Leon answered expressionlessly. It was no surprise for him. He wasn't happy why he couldn't get the backup that he needed during the most critical moment. He was sent to investigate the village, not to fight a war all by himself! The moment he reported that the two officers had been killed and he was attacked by hostile villagers, they should have already sent in special ops to assist…but they didn't.
"Anyway, Leon, tell me what you know first." Smith ordered
"The man behind the kidnapping is called Saddler," Leon responded, "but he isn't just an ordinary kidnapper or even a normal terrorist."
"So who is he?" Agent Smith asked.
"He was experimenting a bio-weapon. It is called Las Plagas. It is some kind of parasite," Leon continued. "They injected an egg of the parasite into each human being. Once the egg hatches, the parasite takes control of the person's mind."
"You got be kidding me!" Smith responded with a higher voice, "It's like some kind of science fiction story. If wasn't the Raccoon City incident from 6 years ago. I wouldn't believe it at all. So, continue!"
"When I arrived at the village, apparently all the people in the area were being controlled by the parasites. They acted like insane killers. This Saddler person was somehow controlling all of them." Leon continued his report, "Saddler wanted to take over the world by planting Las Plagas into every human being on this planet. And he was injecting Ashley with one too, so she could return to the U.S. and help him do the work there unnoticed. But it was removed."
"Wow, another crazy man who wanted to take over the world," Smith sighed, "Nice try to him. The entire place was blown up somehow afterwards. We saw it on the satellite. Anything else you want to say?"
Leon thought for a moment whether he should tell the other plot or not, and he responded "Wesker seemed to be after the sample of Las Plagas."
"Really? That bastard is still hiding somewhere. I wonder what he is up to. How do you know he was after the sample?" asked Smith.
"His agent was there," Leon replied
"Who? Was that the woman in red dress we saw on the satellite?"
"No." Leon had made up his mind not to speak out about Ada. "Krauser, he was still alive and working for Wesker to get the sample."
"Didn't he die two years ago?" Agent Smith doubtfully asked.
"Apparently not. He somehow faked his own death." Leon told Smith, "Wesker sent him to pretend working with Saddler, while having him to steal a sample. By the way, it was Krauser who kidnapped Ashley for Saddler in order to earn his trust."
"Ok Leon. We did see everything happening outdoor at the village. Somehow the satellite link was interrupted by something after you headed for the island. We were unable to reconnect until the moment before the island was blown up. But we did see you and that woman in red dress together on the boat. Do you want to tell me about her?"
"Damn," Leon thought fast trying to cover up for Ada. "She was…"
"Ada Wong?" Smith answered for him. "This name had come up quite a few times recently. We know this Chinese girl seems to be working for Wesker. Leon, are you trying to hide something?"
"Sir! For all do respect, please do not treat me like a traitor!" Leon replied.
"Of course not. I know you well, Leon. And you had just rescued the President's daughter. It just seems that there is something troubling you. I am your superior officer. If you have a problem, tell me about it." Smith said it while trying to look like he cared for Leon.
"She was not involved in this kidnapping. I have already confirmed it. And she is not working for Wesker, either. I can only confirm so much, but why she was there is unknown to me." Leon found out he has to tell some of the truth.
"It is ok for now." Smith looked at him for a while. "Now go get some food and rest."
From years of experience being a secret service, Smith could read people well. He was 90 percent sure there was something between Leon and this Ada Wong. Although he did not know Leon had known Ada since the Raccoon City incident, because Leon never mentioned it in his report right after the incident since he thought Ada was dead and it would hurt him so much just to think about it.
Leon went back into a room which was assigned to him before he went onto the mission. He sat on a couch and took out the keychain. It was the only piece of something Ada had left behind. For all these years, he could only think about Ada with his imagination alone. Now finally there was something he could get a hold of.
He could not get his mind off Ada, the beautiful Chinese girl he met in Raccoon City during the T-virus outbreak. Although they had only spent a short period together during that incident, they had saved each other's live multiple times. In a creepy environment where numerous undead zombies and other monsters were running around in every corner, they felt strongly attached to each other as they were the only a few humans left. They watched each other's back, helped each other out, and took care of each other when they were injured. Leon did have an incredible warm feeling toward Ada. But he did not realize his true feeling until…until he thought he had lost her forever…as Ada was dying in his arms after a Tyrant crashed her into a computer console. The kiss they shared before Ada's death reminded him the pain forever. He could also feel the pain of Ada, and the pain in his own heart. He only wished he had confessed his own feelings for Ada just like Ada had confessed her love for him. But Ada was gone before he could say it. It made him even more heartbreaking.
The woman in shadow who threw him a rocket launcher during his final fight with the Tyrant sounded like Ada, but he thought he was imagining and mistaking someone else for Ada, because he was sure Ada was gone. He might be a new cop, but he knew how to check people's pulse. Ada was truly gone after the kiss he could never forget. How could it be Ada? How could she recover so fast in a matter of a few minutes? It couldn't be her! Just no way! The girl he loved was gone, and for that he would make Umbrella PAY! He joined an underground anti-Umbrella organization soon after.
It wasn't too long before he was blackmailed and started to work for a secret government agency. He was not happy, but at least as a government agent he had access to lots of files he wanted, while still had connection to the anti-Umbrella organization. The full reports of surviving S.T.A.R.S. of Raccoon Police Department were soon coming in. The name Wesker came up on the list of men who were responsible for the disasters. But he was confirmed dead, killed by a Tyrant inside a mansion right in front of the surviving S.T.A.R.S. members, Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, Rebecca Chambers, and Barry Burton. Then the mansion was blown up.
Just a few months later, new reports came in.
Wesker was alive! Former S.T.A.R.S. member Chris Redfield encountered him on Rockfort Island, a solitary private isle owned by the Ashford family of the Umbrella Corporation.
"As Wesker confessed himself, he had injected himself with some kind of virus in advance. He programmed a Tyrant to kill himself, so he could fake his own death. As it seems, the bio-engineered virus which we once thought that could only turn humans into undead in fact turned Wesker into a superhuman," written in Chris' report, "He not only has the similar regenerate ability of a Tyrant, but also their power, and speed. Perhaps more…"
Chris' report interested Leon.
"How could it be?" Leon thought, "If this is true, then that woman in shadow could be…"
If Wesker could revive himself from the dead, why did not Ada? It sounded almost convincing. The voice of "Use this!" was indeed Ada's voice when Leon received the rocket launcher from the woman in shadow.
Soon more and more reports came in. There were just too many reports on what was left over of Umbrella and everyone who was involved.
In one of the reports it mentioned there was an Asian woman in red address involved in a case where the government agents expected Wesker to show up. The description of the Asian woman matched Ada's.
How could it be? Ada was working with Wesker?
Leon did not want to believe it, and he had the reason not to because there was no report to confirm it.
Just yesterday, when Ada suddenly showed up in front of him in a Las Plagas infested village after six years, Leon was stunned. There was no other reason to come to this hidden village, Ada must be sent by someone who would be interested in any bio-weapon they could get hands on to perfect their B.O.W.
So out of disappointment, Leon said "So it is true..."
"True about what?" Ada asked playfully.
"You work with Wesker."
"…What is it to you?" Sighed Ada.
And BOOM! Ada dropped her smoke bomb sunglasses and ran away.
Leon now felt so stupid. That saying must have turned Ada away. She was going to say something else before he said this dumb thing. She held it back because of it, and she dropped the smoke bomb because she probably thought he would turn her in! She wouldn't keep running away from him if he hadn't given her a hard time during their first encounter after six years.
"I was so stupid! SO STUPID! SO STUPID!" Leon was angry at himself.
Even after he did such a terrible way of saying hello, Ada still looked after him from time to time during the past two days. He counted total five times where Ada saved his butt big time. If it wasn't Ada, he would have been crashed by Big Cheese, or got his throat cut by Krauser, or become a mindless puppet of Saddler, or got killed by Saddler right in front of Ashley's holding cell, or being torn into pieces by the mutated Saddler monster. Little to his knowledge, it was also Ada who rang the church bell which distracted all the crazy villagers. Otherwise, he could have died during the first 5 minutes of running into the village.
The more Leon thought about it, the more regret he had for his own attitude when his first encountered Ada in the castle near the village. He shouldn't say she was working with Wesker. He knew nothing. He should not have kept asking her why she was there. She must have her reasons, and it was not a good time to answer questions.
Ada did tell him not to worry, and that she would take good care of the sample. It must mean she would not turn it to Wesker.
Ada's gorgeous face and fine legs couldn't get off Leon's mind. Those were not all. He loved Ada as a person. He now knew what he really wanted!
"If only I have another chance to meet with her…" Leon sighed, "I will never let the chance to slip away!"
6:14pm
Looking at the teddy bear on the keychain, Leon suddenly noticed there was a zip on the back of it. He quickly opened it up. There was a piece of folded paper inside.
Leon opened it and read
"Dear Leon,
I am sorry for showing up and leaving like that. Please trust me. I have a good reason for what I did. Call me!"
And there was a phone number.
Signed by Ada with a red mark of her lipstick.
"Oh my GOD!" Leon's heart beat really fast. This was unexpected, but it was what he would love to happen.
6:15pm
Leon quickly grabbed his communicator and walked into the bathroom. After locking the door from inside, he made sure nobody can hear it with two doors in the way. He quickly pressed the numbers, and he waited for the answer as his heart beat even faster than before.
"Yes?" Ada answered.
"Ada! It's me, Leon!" Leon said it as soon the screen was turned on
"Leon! You finally found my little secret inside the teddy bear on the keychain. I was getting worried." Ada's exciting voice
"Yes!" Leon answered in excitement.
"So what do you want to talk about?" Ada smiled at him through the screen.
"Hey, you left me the phone number. You tell me!" replied Leon with a playful face.
"I was thinking if we could spend more time together to get to know each other better. Of course we already know each other well. But I guess we have a lot to talk about. What do you think?"
"Sounds great! Where shall we meet?" Leon asked.
"Not right now. It is not a good time for me to talk much at this moment," Ada said while driving the car with one hand at high speed.
"Are you driving?"
"Yes. I still have a little unfinished business, but soon it will be all done. Then I will be free for a while," Ada replied, "Let's say, could you stay three more weeks in Spain?"
"I think I can, but I need to talk to my superior first. Don't you worry, I am sure I can!" Leon replied.
"Ok then, handsome. I am going to call you back in about 3 hours," Ada laughed. "Your number is recorded on incoming calls."
" Ada, Wait!"
"What is it, handsome?"
"Oh, it's nothing. I just want to say…take care of yourself. Please be careful on whatever you are about to do!"
"How sweet! Leon, there is nothing to be worried about. I can take care of myself. You should know that by now."
"Ok, then I'll talk to you later."
"Bye," Ada cut the communication.
Leon quickly found Agent Smith, who was still talking with some other agents in the conference room.
"Sir, I need a break! Both my mind and body need some good rest. Give me three weeks, please!" Leon asked nicely.
"I guess you deserve it. Go ahead then, but it looks like you won't be heading back with us on the same plane." Smith replied after considering for a short moment. "By the way, on the order of the President, we have already deposited a huge bonus onto your bank account. Have fun with your vacation!"
"Great! Then I am off! Thank you, Sir!" Leon replied while exiting the room.
Leon packed up all his belongings into two large cases. He turned on the TV and wait patiently for Ada's call.
On the TV news
"The US President's daughter Ashley was just rescued from a terrible kidnapping and she is already on a plane ready to head back to the US."
"She is finally gone!" Leon took a deep breath and felt very relaxing. He still had trouble to get the creepy "Leon, help!", "Leon, help!", " Leon, help!" voices out of his head.
TV reporter continued
"Neither the US official nor the Spanish government had released the information on the details of this kidnapping, but according to a trusted source, it has something to do with anti-US Muslim terrorist groups based off Europe."
"Yeah right!" Leon almost laughed his butt off "Never trust TV news!"
Two hours later, Ada arrived at the location where she made a switch of package with the mystery Organization's operator (the second employer of hers). She received another check with a huge number on it. It was not the only thing she received. The organization's operator had complemented her good work and said the company couldn't operate this part of the plan without her. It only made her laugh so loud in her head. These fools had no idea.
After having exchanged the package, Ada went straight to a Swiss bank. There she ordered a secured locker to put the package of fake Las Plagas sample in. Then she deposited the two checks into her own secret bank account.
Once outside the bank, Ada made a call to Wesker. She told Wesker that she would not be meeting his new operator. And she gave him the password of the locker in the bank. Wesker was not very pleased that Ada did not stay with the sample until his new operator could arrive, but he did not have a choice. Ada just did it. She already did it. And he had guessed it was probably safe enough, since it was a highly secured international bank in downtown Madrid. Although he always ordered Ada around, he knew Ada well. This girl had some attitude. She did not like to follow orders exactly, but she usually got the jobs done…the jobs that no others could do…well almost no others.
Ada felt very relaxed at the moment. All her missions were done, at least for now.
Now it was time to call Leon back.
So she called
"Leon! Could you come meet me at East #3 dock at 8:30am tomorrow morning?"
"Why the dock? Oh sorry…I mean Sure thing! I just talked to my superior, and I got my 3-week vacation!" Leon said with an exciting voice "Is there anything I need to prepare for?"
"Not really. Just bring yourself!" Ada laughed.
"Good! Then it's settled!" Leon answered happily.
Inside a private mansion in the countryside of Madrid, two men were arguing while a group of mercenaries entered. Some of them were wounded and needed others' help to walk.
"What is the meaning of this? How could you not tell me about the new contract?" Carlos Oliveira said angrily to the other man, "Aren't we in this together? How could you have grabbed my sniper and sent him out with your men while not informing me? You just want money for yourself and your own men!"
"Easy, Carlos. There was no time! We had only 2 hours to prepare. And we lacked a sniper. So I grabbed your best sniper along," replied Sergeant Wolf.
"And you still failed your deal. Served you right!" Carlos laughed at him.
"We still got the prepaid portion."
"Yeah, right and that's only 1/3 of the amount of if you successfully delivered the package!"
"Report!" Sergeant Wolf said to the entering mercenaries.
"I thought we have already done that on the radio, Sir" said one of the men.
"Well, Carlos here wants to hear it again!" replied Wolf.
"We did get the package. But as 4 of us were leaving, we were attacked just 500 meters away from the ambush location we set up. We were taken by surprise. The package was taken away while most of us were still cleaning up the ambushing zone," answered a man with a bleeding nose.
"Who attacked you?" Carlos asked.
"A girl in a red dress! First, we didn't see her coming. She shot our wheel from off the road. When we exited the car, she jumped onto the road and knocked all 4 of us down and took the package. If I hadn't got up again, we wouldn't even have known it was a girl! None of us had taken a good look at the attacker at all. We all only saw a red flash first. Thanks to my superior strength, I stood up again and took a good look at her," answered the mercenary with a bleeding nose.
"Before she knocked you out again?" Carlos laughed out loud.
"Yes, Sir…" The soldier answered, "She was so fast…"
"So how did she look like?" Wolf asked.
"She was a really hot Asian chick!" answered the soldier.
"Interesting…" Wolf said with a deep thought, "There isn't any Asian in that area usually."
Sergeant Wolf was an experienced professional mercenary. He was always the one planning everything, and he was very intelligent, but very greedy.
Carlos Oliveira was very upset.
After his escape from Raccoon City six years ago, Carlos left the U.S. because he thought he should go as far as possible away from the cursed city. With his military experience, soon Carlos formed an elite mercenary team of his own. Soon he found out many bigger missions were much highly paid, but he did not have the manpower. About 4 years ago he joined force with another mercenary team led by Sergeant Wolf. Together they had 36 highly trained very experienced soldiers. They were now one of the top of the line mercenary teams on the European market.
About 2 years ago, Wolf started to deal with a mystery Russian woman who claimed to be a contactor of someone who she couldn't speak of. From that day on, they only accepted the missions from her. The pays were good, much higher than many others willing to pay. Although they had no idea who was behind everything, it did not matter to them. They were just mercenaries doing their job, and to get paid. They did not care what was going on as long as there were profits. Wolf was greedy, and he always had some hidden agendas of his own. Carlos on the other hand, wouldn't want to take on the missions which seem obviously he was the bad guy. But so far, he did not see the missions too bad. Every time they were forced to kill someone, those targets were obviously not "clean." It made him feel a lot better that he was not the obvious bad guy.
This time Wolf had gone a bit far on his greedy side. He took the deal without notifying Carlos. Not only that, but he brought along a sniper under Carlos' command without Carlos and more of his men's involvement. So Wolf did not have to share the pay with them.
Leon headed out of the embassy. He was almost jumping in joy.
"I will never let this chance go! It has been six years! How many more years can I wait? No I can't wait any longer!" Leon thought "I must do something to make sure of it."
On his way out, he met a regular guard of the embassy.
"Hey, pal. Do you know which one is the best jewelry store in town?" Leon asked. The guard had been working there for a long time and must know the way around.
"Buying yourself a pair of nipple rings?" the guard joked.
"Yeah, right. Show me the location of where I can buy the best nipple rings!" Leon joked back at him.
"It's called Heaven Stones Jewelries. You can find it by taking the Subway #5, and get off at the third station from the north." The guard answered, "You will find it as soon as you exit the ground level."
"Ok, many thanks," Leon replied, "I'll just take a taxi."
"Everything there is very expensive! Usually people who need fancy engagement rings and wedding rings go there."
"Even better!" Leon walked out of the embassy.
8:20am the following morning,
Leon got off a taxi and walked toward east #3 dock with some dark red roses in his hand. He looked like a happy young boy who was going for his date. All the people who walked by him looked at this strange American's exciting face.
To his surprise, Ada was already there. She was in her usual butterfly red dress waving at him. Her sweet smile made her already very gorgeous face look even more beautiful than ever. Her sexy body in the red address looked just perfect. All the passing men turned their heads to stare at Ada even as they walked farther away, like they saw a beautiful angel.
As Leon was approaching Ada, Ada walked toward him and she quickly extended both her arms toward Leon and held Leon's hands like a little girl who just met her first date. Leon handed Ada the roses. Ada smelled it and gave Leon a kiss. Leon held her as long as possible. It had been six LONG years since their last kiss! Leon couldn't get enough of it.
All the passing guys looked at this happy couple and they all were thinking jealously "damn American! Why do they always get the hot chicks!"
"So where do we go?" Leon finally let go of Ada's sweet lips and asked.
"Here." Ada took out two tickets and handed one to Leon.
"Two-week trip on the sea," Leon read the ticket.
"Yes! We are going onto a 2-week voyage!" Ada pointed at an awesome looking huge pleasure-ship not too far from them. "We can have lots of fun together."
The pleasure ship looked like having 10 floors. It was huge, and very fancy.
"Nice!" Leon smiled. "This is great! Sounds like a good vacation!"
"Let's get onto it now!" Ada held Leon's one hand.
"Wait, I didn't bring my clothes. If we are going to stay on there for 2 weeks…"
"Don't worry. I have bought everything you ever needed." Ada laughed
Leon noticed two suitcases at where Ada was standing. Ada handed Leon one case, and Leon opened it for a quick peek. Ada had bought all the clothes he ever needed on this trip. She had a good taste, too. Aside from clothes, she had bought him everything else including a shaver.
"Women," Leon laughed.
Two of them got onto the ship after they had checked in with the ticket man.
"Hello? Carlos? Are you there?" a mercenary's voice on the phone.
"Speak! What is it?" Carlos answered phone.
"I just saw the Asian chick in red dress, the one who attacked us and stole the package!"
"Are you sure?" Carlos asked doubtfully.
"I am sure of it! She kicked me in the face…man! Twice!" The mercenary answered while the pain on the face still reminded. "She just got aboard a pleasure-ship."
To be continued…
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