Chapter 13

(Please take it easy on my English skills. It is my second language)

Nicholai turned around and he saw one of the black jacket guys had smashed his beer bottle onto the ground really hard. It was now in many pieces.

"You got a problem, dude?" The guy questioned Nicholai as Nicholai was staring at them

"Stop throwing garbage everywhere, especially when the trash bin is this close." Nicholai replied with a random excuse

"Someone needs a beating!" One of the black jacket guys pulled out of a knife

At that moment, the black van had finally arrived and it was on parallel with Nicholai. Nicholai did not leave it unnoticed. From the side of his view, he saw the van's windows were opened as it made a sudden stop beside the sidewalk. Two submachine guns were extended out from inside the window.

"Shit!" Nicholai made a jumping dodge toward his left to the metal trash bin.

The two submachine guns opened up just as Nicholai took cover behind the trash bin. Rounds after rounds, the bullets pounded the metal trash bin and made metal hitting sound plus fire sparks. The two black jacket men turned and ran as fast as they could in fear. They were really just two ordinary punks after all.

The submachine guns firing had stopped. As soon as the doors were opened, 6 men in grey outfits stepped off the van with Mac-11 submachine guns. They walked toward the trash bin slowly with caution. To their surprise, Nicholai was not behind the bin. One of the men cautiously opened the cover of the trash bin, nothing was in it either!

"He must have run into the alley. Go after him!" One of the men waved his arm to signal the others

Immediately all six assassins walked into the dark alley. It was one very long alley between some warehouses. There was nobody, nor any lights. Only the stars and moon in the sky provided a little light. The street was dark, but it was brighter than the alley because it was more exposed to the moonlight. The 6 men could be clearly seen from inside the alley as they entered, since their background was brighter. At the same time, they could see nothing over 20 meters ahead but the darkness.

As the six men walked cautiously into the gloomy alley, suddenly a red laser beam appeared and was pointing right between the eyes of the first hitman. Just as the targeted men realized, two shots were fired from the darkness ahead. The man immediately dropped dead. Before anyone could react, another 3 shots were fired. A second man fell onto his back, but not before his submachine gun opened up and cut down a comrade of his own who was just at his right. The remaining 3 men immediately returned fire at where the laser beam came from. All three of them emptied their magazines of 32 rounds in less than 2 seconds as the MAC-11 had a rate of fire of 1200rpm. They spread out onto each side of the alley, and against their back on the wall to minimize their exposure as they were reloading. After they reloaded, they slowly moved forward in small steps with eyes widely open. They still couldn't see anything because it was a lot darker ahead.

On the opposite side, Nicholai was crouching in the darkness behind a big pile of sand which was over a meter high. All the incoming bullets were absorbed by the sand. He was unharmed. There were only three more hitmen left to deal with, if not counting the driver left behind in the van. But the three remaining hitmen were a lot more cautious after they had learned their lessons from their dead comrades. Nicholai could no longer see them since they took cover too. He knew the laser beam on his own pistol would only expose his position to the hitmen. His pistol's firepower was no match for three MAC-11 submachine guns, especially in a close range. He knew he couldn't let them get too close without his notice. Nicholai randomly fired his pistol for one single shot at the entrance, and he immediately took cover back to behind the pill of sand just as one of MAC-11s responded with a blast fire. The bright firing of MAC-11 in the dark exposed the position of the gunner, even though Nicholai couldn't really see the gunner. Nicholai fired all remaining 6 rounds at where he saw the gun fire. These shots were followed by a sound of a man dropped onto the ground. The 4th hitman was dead.

The remaining two men did not make the same mistake. They couldn't see Nicholai for a clean shot from their positions anyway. So they were trying to move closer.

Behind the pill of sand, Nicholai knew his gun was empty. He intentionally extended his hand out from behind the pill of sand, and he pulled the trigger of the empty gun 3 times before pulled the hand back. The clear sound of empty gun was heard. Nicholai dropped his gun onto the ground heavily. He wanted the two hitmen to hear it. So they could know he had run out of ammo and he had ditched the gun.

The two men did indeed hear it, but they were not fooled easily. They were still moving forward slowly along the wall. It was not too long before they were right on the opposite side of the big pill of sand. The two men made a sudden turn simultaneously from both sides, and both of them pointed their MAC-11 at behind the sand. To their surprise, Nicholai was gone. His pistol was on the ground, with its laser beam pointed at the sand.

"He really ran out of ammo. It is our lucky day." The two remaining hitmen thought as they took a look at each other with a smiling expression.

Their "lucky feelings" were cut short, as one of the hitmen suddenly dropped forward onto ground on his face. A knife was stunk on the back of his head.

The last hitman turned around really fast and fired a blast just as he saw a shadow disappeared into an opening of an abandoned small building just about 15 meters away.

"Damn!" The last hitman thought as he was the only one left "Oh well, now you do not even have a knife left. You are mine!"

After Nicholai entered the door, he realized the small building had only this one exit. It was a single room building. It looked like used to be a small warehouse. It was high enough to have a second floor, but there was none. There was not even a single window. Nicholai had no place to run or hide, although he immediately noticed only advantage. The room was even darker than the alley outside. He could see what was coming in at the doorway as the background was brighter, while anyone who walking in wouldn't be able to see a thing at first. Nicholai suddenly found a metal ladder against the wall. He looked above and realized there was an attic. Nicholai quickly climbed up the ladder without making a noise. He now was 4 meters from the ground prone on the attic. There he noticed some small holes on the floor of the attic, so he took a peek down through one of them.

"Perfect." Nicholai could see lower part of the doorway from one of the holes on the floor of the attic.

He put up a sinister smile while taking off a backup pistol from above his right ankle. It was a small silenced pistol without laser beam.

It did not take long before a pair of feet appeared at the doorway. Nicholai couldn't see anything above the feet from his position, so he patiently waited. After a short moment, the pair of feet slowly moved in with very small silent steps. Soon more and more parts of the hitman's legs were exposed into Nicholai's view. He could see two knees perfectly, and his pistol was aiming at them.

Nicholai fired his gun at the two knees. The last hitman dropped onto the ground as Nicholai continue to fire. All 12 rounds from Nicholai's backup pistol had hit the two knees. The hitman breathed rapidly as his knees were turned into bee hive like with many holes. His MAC-11 was dropped aside, and he had no strength left to reach it.

Nicholai laughed out loud as he stepped off the attic from the ladder. He picked up the MAC-11 of the hitman's, and pointed it at the badly wounded hitman.

"Who sent you?"

There was no answer.

Nicholai grabbed the shirt of the wounded hitman and pulled him onto sitting position, and he pointed the MAC-11 right at the hitman's face.

"Who sent you? And why?" Nicholai asked again

The assassin opened his mouth but there was no word coming out. He looked too badly injured to answer Nicholai's question. The 12 shots had deal so much damage, the man wouldn't even live long if he could not be treated in a few minutes because of the losing blood.

After a few tries, the man finally spoke "Fu-ck you…". He was a professional hitman, and his mind was strong. He wouldn't even confess even he knew he could get killed.

Nicholai was about to give him some further punishments just before he realized the man had already passed out. He dropped him back onto ground, and searched him. There was no ID, but a few extra magazines of MAC-11 ammo. Nicholai sliced them into his own pocket. He checked the gun quickly before he stepped out of the warehouse. He left the man to die.

Outside the alley in the van, the driver was sitting on his seat and waiting.

"Did you get him?" He asked on a microphone

Nobody answered him.

"Can anybody hear me?"

"Yes." Nicholai suddenly appeared outside his window with a MAC-11 pointing at his head. "Step out of the van. Or I will blow your head off."

"Oh, shit!" The driver quickly stepped onto the accelerator try to get away. He was not going to listen to Nicholai.

"You asked for it." Nicholai fired his MAC-11 at the getting away van.

The driver was immediately hit and collapsed in his seat. The van was still moving forward at high speed because of the driver's foot was still on the accelerator. It moved another 50 meters before it crashed into a closed shop on the side of the street.

Nicholai ran after it. He tried to check the license plate of the van, but there was none. He quickly left the scene.

Midnight,

Inside a house near the country side of Zion Township, Billy Coen sat on a bed watching TV. The local channel he was watching suddenly interrupted by a news report.

"A car bomb just set off outside a local bar on the main street about two hours ago. Nobody was hurt. Then just 2 miles away on the same street, there was a shoot out took place just 25 minutes later. Seven men were found near the scene, six dead and one heavily injured. They all had submachine guns. Are these two events related? There was never a report of gangs or mafia in this peaceful town. Does this have anything to do with the terrorists?" The news reporter said in a tone that tried to make everyone curious. "The local police offered the advice of not to go out at night for the next a few days. Although they believe these are isolated incidents. It is for the best to stay at home after 10pm."

"It has been a while since there was something going on in this tiny town." Billy Coen was worried "I wonder why Rebecca hasn't come back yet."

Six years ago during the mansion incident just two months before the Raccoon City outbreak, the convicted ex-marine Billy Coen was sentence to death. He was accused of killing 23 people during a special ops' operating in Africa. The military transportation vehicle which was carrying him went through Raccoon forest. They were attacked by zombie dogs. The soldiers guarding him were killed, while Billy escaped alone onto a train nearby. There he met the youngest S.T.A.R.S. member Rebecca Chambers of the Bravo team. The two of them went through the nightmare together, fought off numerous zombies and monsters together, cared for each other, saved each other. After told his story, Rebecca let Billy go and made a false report to the Raccoon City Police Department to report that Billy was killed during the mansion incident.

Billy escaped to the nearby Zion Township after the first half of the mansion incident, while Rebecca went to the second mansion where she would later met with Chris and Jill who were from the Alpha team of S.T.A.R.S. Rebecca soon resigned from the R.P.D. just a few weeks after the mansion incident. The two of them contacted and rejoined at Zion Township just one month before the Raccoon City outbreak took place. It was their lucky choice.

The 18-year-old Rebecca had worked as a medic in the S.T.A.R.S. With her medical skills, soon she was able to find a nurse job inside the Zion hospital. She had the same job ever since. Billy Coen on the other hand, he couldn't be employed. Although he was officially considered dead with the help of Rebecca's false report, he still had to be careful. Working in the United States requires his social security number, which was not an option for him since that would expose him immediately. As a man eight years older than Rebecca, he did not want to be fed by a woman who was much younger. So he opened an account on eBay under the name of Rebecca, and he was selling items to make some money online.

The two of them lived together for the past six years. Although they had enough money to spend, Billy spent most of his time at home during the week days since he tried to avoid unwanted attention. During the weekend, they often go out for some camping trips with their VR. Once in a while when Rebecca was on vacation, they would go out for a long traveling together, but when they were at town Billy always avoid people as much as he could. His official name for cover was Bob Chambers if some random people asked.

Just over one hour ago, Rebecca suddenly got a call from her hospital. They said there was an emergency and require her to report to the hospital. So she left in a hurry, she even forgot to bring her cell phone. Now the news report just said there were some bombing and shootout on the main street of this peaceful town. It was already over midnight. Billy was so worried, but he couldn't call her nor went out to look for her. It would be bad if the cops stop him on the way and ask for identification.

Billy raised the arm with big tattoos and supported himself off the bed. He took out a loaded Magnum pistol from a box under the bed and hid it into his pocket. He walked back and forth inside the house for a while. Just as he decided to go take a look in the front yield, he heard a car pulled over in front the house. He was excited. Soon the door was opened, a young girl walked in. It was Rebecca.

"Cutie, I was worried. The news said there was a bombing and shootout on the main street."

"I know. That was the reason they called me to the hospital. One of the seven men they found at the shootout scene was not dead by the time the cops arrived, but he died on the way to the hospital. So I was able to come back early since there was nothing for me to do." Rebecca told everything to Billy

They shared a kiss after Rebecca put down her purse.

"It is late. Let's get some rest now. You still have to go to work tomorrow morning." Billy suggested as he put his Magnum pistol back into the box under the bed.

"Honey, wake up. We have a plane to catch." Leon pushed Ada on the bed. He was too excited to continue sleeping, because Ada had promised him to give him the answer by that morning. On the other hand, Ada was still sleeping comfortably.

"What time is it?" Ada opened her sleepy eyes and asked

"Exactly 7am." Leon replied and he leaned down to kiss Ada

"Still early." Ada closed her eyes again

"No, it is not. The morning traffic of big city is very unpredictable." Leon learned it from yesterday. He and Ada had visited some tourists' hot spots in Shanghai after they got off the international airline. There were several traffic jams on the way.

"Alright, just give me another 10 minutes." Ada still wanted to take her time on the bed

"Maybe I should do something to wake you up." Leon laughed as he lifted the blanket away from Ada. He threw the blanket onto a sofa. On the bed, there was lying the beautiful nude body of his lover. Leon bit his own lips for a second in a smile before he grabbed Ada's fine legs and pulled her to the edge of the bed.

"Not again." Ada protested

"Oh you will like it. It will be different from the first time." Leon did not stop as he was about to make love to Ada again.

"Ah" Ada slightly screamed as Leon felt something stopped his advance again.

"What the…" Leon leaned down to check. To his surprise, Ada had fully regenerated back into a "virgin", at least physically. "How… This is unexpected…"

Ada was fully awake. She quickly moved away from Leon and sat up onto the bed with her legs closed. She looked worried.

Suddenly, Leon realized something. Last night when he was making love to her for the first time, he noticed there was sadness in Ada's eyes. He thought it was just the result of her traditional values conflicting with what she was doing. He now was sure there was more to it.

"Sweetheart, is there something troubling you?" Leon asked

Ada did not answer. Her eyes were filled with fear now. Leon was not sure exactly what had happened, but he had a guess he wanted to confirm.

"Honey, please do not worry about it. If there is anything bothering you, please just go ahead tell me. I will share your pain. It will only make you feel worse if you keep it to yourself." Leon tried to persuade her

"I…" Ada finally spoke, but she stopped again with lots of worry in her eyes.

"Go ahead tell me, honey. Don't worry about anything. No matter what had happened, I will help you get over it."

For the next several minutes, Ada told Leon how Wesker had experimented with her right after they escaped from Raccoon City. Wesker had make Ada follow him into one of his secret facilities. He pretended to lead Ada for a tour. By the time they reached a small room inside a lab, he suddenly locked the door behind him and grabbed Ada's arm at the same time by surprise. Ada tried everything, he was just too strong. Since he already got a hold of her, her speed helped nothing. Despite Ada's intense resistance, protesting, begging, Wesker restrained her onto an operating table. There, he stripped Ada clean and extracted an egg from Ada's ovary against her will. Later, he told Ada that he had fertilized her egg with his own sperms. He said he want to experiment with "the second generation superhuman". He had even shown her the tube with the growing zygote in it from a monitor screen. With his growth acceleration technologies, within days the zygote was already looking like a tiny baby. It made Ada felt sick just to think about Wesker and her had a kid together. Afterwards, Wesker had given her a check to "make it up" to her. She torn it into pieces and threw back at him. After Wesker let her leave the facility, she tried not to answer Wesker's call any more. But the brazen Wesker had kept on calling, and he had left text messages said that there were very important missions with very high pay. He was so sure she would just forget it in front all the money he had offered. She still wouldn't accept them if was not because her agency urged her to come up with more new information soon. Her job was conflicting with her feelings.

"Was that everything?" Leon held Ada into his arm. It was not as bad as he guessed if Ada was telling him everything.

"Yes. You don't think it is bad?" Ada looked him with widely opening eyes

"He didn't rape you, did he?"

"No, but he roughly restrained me, stripped me, and extracted one egg from me against my will! He did touch me in process although he was wearing lab gloves the whole time. His equipments had penetrated me at sensitive parts. The worst of all, he had a kid with me! Could you imagine it? I had a kid with Wesker! It makes me sick just to think about it." Ada was getting very emotional

"I hear you. I totally understand why you are so upset."

"Doesn't the fact I was ruined by him once bother you? I said I was a virgin last night." Ada was worried "You wouldn't dislike me for it, would you?"

"Not at all. I am not that conservative. I don't care." Leon smiled "Besides, physical has NOTHING to do with being a virgin. As long as you never made love with a man, you were a virgin. It IS the truth! Since he did not rape you, I am glad I was the first man you had. Not to mention, physically you were still a virgin too thanks to your regeneration power."

"I wouldn't care even if you weren't a virgin. I am an American. We don't care." Leon added

It looked like Ada had relaxed a lot after she had heard what Leon just said. She smiled.

"Honey, don't worry about it. It wasn't that bad. Of course Wesker will still get what he deserves. I promise you, one of these days I will bring back his neck in front of you if that makes you happy," Leon tried to be funny

"Punish Wesker? That sounds nice, but what do I need his neck for?"

"I don't know. Kick it, step on it. Or maybe target practice".

"Not interested. Honey, you don't have to please me like that. We both know Wesker probably still can take you down even with both of his hands tied behind his back".

"Ah, you are no fun," Leon laughed with a joking face "Alright, I just have one more question. Was the kid boy or girl? I am just being curious".

"Boy. That shameless Wesker even sent me a picture. The boy looked like already one-year-old by the time he should be only two months old. Wesker said he will stop the growth acceleration injections by the time he is twelve. So he can take his time to study him."

"I warned him not to bring it up again. So he hasn't mentioned the kid in more than 5 years. I don't know how old he is now or where he is." Ada added

"Don't worry about it. That kid is not your liability. You were never impregnate. He is not yours. Forget about it. He might already be turned into one of the hideous monsters for all we know." Leon replied "Just take it as another experiment of Wesker's"

"Ok, but I am afraid I won't be able to share your … pleasure, since I will always fully regenerate every part of my body every time." Ada said slowly "It will hurt me every time"

"Yeah, that can be a problem. Don't worry about it, we will figure out a way soon or later." Leon replied convincingly

Ada was very satisfied with Leon's reactions. For all these years as a spy, she lived in a restless life. There was never anyone this understandable to her feelings. Leon, the man she loved so much can truly understand her. His comfort really made her feeling great.

"Now tell me, former Miss Virgin Mom." Leon laughed as he stood up from the bed to knee before Ada while holding one of her hands in one of his own, and holding the engagement ring in the other hand "Would you marry me? You promised to give me the answer this morning."

Ada froze for a second and she smiled.

"I would like to say yes. But before I do that, I have a few conditions." She was now back to her old self again. All the fear and worrying of hers were gone.

"What conditions?" Leon asked curiously

"First, never call me a Tyrant again, ever."

"That's easy" Leon laughed

"Second, Chinese women do not take their husband's family name. If we get married, I want to keep my family name too."

"Oh?" Leon had never heard of this before. It is true that Chinese law forbidden women to take their husbands' family name after 1949, as another "sign" of women equality. "Not a problem. It's no big deal." He said. "Is there any other conditions?"

"Just don't make me do anything against my will, ok?" Ada added

"Sure. But I have a little request of my own." Leon said

"What is it?"

"What about the kids? Will you force me to let them take your last name?" Leon tried to sound like he was half joking

"haha, you are already thinking about the kids. They'll use their dad's last name if we will have any." Ada replied while laughing

"Alright, my princess. Now please tell me, would you marry me?"

Ada smiled at him and said

"Yes, I will!" She got off the bed and accepted Leon's engagement ring "You are the perfect man for me." She put on the ring and said.

"Great. Now I can meet your parents as their lovely daughter's fiancé instead of just a boyfriend." Leon held Ada and kissed her again "Let's hurry, honey. We still have a plane to catch."

"How is the progress?" Nicholai asked as he walked into the end of the tunnel.

"Just 30 meter more. It can be done in another 10 hours or so." A mercenary under Nicholai's command answered as the workers behind him were still digging. "I heard you were attacked last night, Sir. Did you find out who did it?"

"Not a clue. The company is investigating it as we speak. It was easy though. I hope they send more or better hitmen next time." Nicholai replied as he did not really care "You guys need to be careful too. Do not go out, we are almost done here. They might be after more than just me. Someone might have smelled our operation here."

"Yes Sir."

10:30pm at Sand City,

Leon was lying in a sleeping bag on the floor of a bedroom. Beside him on a bed, Ada's father was snoring like thunder. Ada was sleeping with her mother in another bedroom.

"I feel sorry for Ada's mother, if she usually sleeps in the same room with him." Leon thought as he couldn't sleep in such loud snoring.

About 12 hours earlier, Ada and Leon got off the plane at the airport of a desert town in Xingjian – Sand City. The town was at the edge of one of the largest deserts in the world - Taklamakan Desert. Sand City had a population of around 250,000, and it was considered as a small town in China. The reason Ada's home was here because the base of this specific department of Ada's agency was located within a military base inside the desert just 80 miles from Sand City, and Ada's father General Wong was the commanding officer of the military base and also in charge of this department of the agency. Ada's father General Wong and Ada's old schoolmate Colonel Lee came with a government vehicle assigned to General Wong. The car took them to a restaurant where Ada's mother was waiting. The young Colonel was not happy to see Leon. Leon could tell from his eyes although he did not do anything nor said anything. Ada's parents both greeted Leon politely as Ada introduced him as her fiancé. All of them except Colonel Lee talked a lot. After the lunch, Colonel Lee left. The four of them went to Ada's home. There they talked whole afternoon, whole evening, until 9:30pm.

Ada told her parents everything. Included how she met Leon at Raccoon City during outbreak. Leon did encourage her to tell every secret. She also felt there was the need to have more people to understand her feelings, and to know what she had been through. General Wong approved to let Ada's mother listen, even though parts of the story involved Ada's top secret work that not even family member should know.

General Wong was impressed by the relationship between Ada and Leon. He obviously approved this young American man to be his precious daughter's fiancé. And he did recognize Leon from the TV news of Ashley's rescue.

Ada's mother was asked to leave by General Wong when they were about to talk pure work. Ada reported everything she knew.

General Wong also told them a bad news.

Just two days ago, his rival, General Zhao had finally convinced the military council to launch an immediate attack against one of the Wesker's bases that Ada had previously reported. A secret lab located on an island in South China Sea which hid behind the label of International Ocean Research Organization. Regardless General Wong's strong protest with the reason of do not alert the targets before locate all their bases, General Zhao had sent a task force to attack the island anyway. His force had succeeded in the mission as the latest reports said.

There was divergence within the council. The opposing side did put up another strong argument after the attack was already underway. So the council decided to have another meeting with some of the agents report everything about current situations first hand, which was why Ada was called back to join the meeting. The meeting would start the next day, with a few representatives from the military council and several high rank agents along with the commanders who in charge of the operation include General Wong and General Zhao.

Both Ada and her father would be going for the meeting the next day. Leon would have to hang around without Ada's company. He felt bad. Worse, now Wesker had been alerted by this attack. It would be harder to trace his movements and to find the other secret bases which were still unknown.

Ada said there might still be a few secret labs of both Wesker and other Umbrella reminders within China mainland, under the names of foreign investment companies. They were not located yet. Wesker's secret lab on the island in South China Sea was the only one located so far that was right under China's nose, it was reported by Ada not too long ago. It was exactly the excuse used by General Zhao. He said China must get ride of any of these detected dangerous bio-weapon labs in China's territory immediately. His action not only made it would be harder to trace the remaining labs, but also might expose the undercover agents such as Ada. He did not care, as he only wanted immediate credit for himself for further promotion.

Leon was too tired. He finally fell into the sleep despite the loud snoring of General Wong.

7am in the next morning,

Leon had breakfast with Ada and her family. He had tasted the delicious rice cake which was covered with sweet-scented osmanthus for the first time. Soy milk was better taste than he expected. He still asked for some milk afterwards since he got more used to its taste.

After the breakfast, both Ada and her dad got onto a government vehicle drove by a soldier who was assigned as General Wong's bodyguard and left for a local airbase. There a helicopter took them into the desert to the military base where the secret agency headquarter was located. There was no road to the base. Everything went in and out by air.

Ada's mother companied Leon for the next two hour. Although Ada's mother did not speak English, Ada and her father had translated for her yesterday. Now she showed Leon all the photos of Ada from since she was a baby, a little girl, a schoolgirl, a college girl, to until she left home. Leon was amazed. Ada was so cute and pretty since she was little. He really wanted to ask for a copy of the collections. Ada's mother read his mind from the way he looked, and she gave Leon the photos and she meant he could keep them. She obviously liked him, after hearing all the stories between her daughter and this foreign young man.

Ada's mother was also about 50-year-old just like Ada's father was. There was resembling of Ada on her. Leon could still tell she was really pretty when she was younger.

"Even if Ada can grow old, that's not bad at all if that's how she will look like." Leon thought and he almost laughed at himself

About 9:30am

A friend of General Wong, Colonel Tao had arrived. He was asked to take Leon for a tour around the town of Sand City, and to company him until Ada and her father could return. This young man spoke English very well too just like Ada and her father.

Leon had fun visiting quite some tourists' hot spots. He almost ate a whole Beijing Roast Duck during the lunch, because it was so delicious. By the time about 4pm, he was asked to make a choice of where he wanted to go next. The choices were, a gun club, or a dojo, or a bar, or a movie theater. The first two were financed by the military.

Leon chose the dojo. He always wanted to practice kung fu. Colonel Tao had received a call from General Wong said the meeting was over for that day, and they would be back in town by 5pm. About the same time, Ada called Leon and asked him about the day. Leon happily told her that he was very satisfied with the traveling and all the wonderful food. Although he missed her very much, he had a good day. And he told Ada that he would be going to the dojo. Ada told Leon it was a very good dojo financed by the military. It was moving with the military unit which General Wong commanded. Ada said she was training in this dojo when she was in high school, and she said she would be joining him as soon as she got back to town.

After arrived at the dojo, at first Colonel Tao and one of the employees at the dojo took Leon for a tour. Leon saw many people doing different levels and different styles of martial arts trainings in different rooms. At the end, they arrived in a big duel training room.

"What a pleasant surprise." Colonel Lee stood up from a group of people who sat around a training room. He was wearing a martial arts suit just like the rest of the people in the same room.

"Hey, we meet again." Leon extended his hand forward try to give Colonel Lee a handshake. Lee shook Leon's hand, but not in a very friendly way. He was still upset about Leon stole his high school sweetheart, although it was only one sided love. He had been waiting for Ada's return for over six years.

"So Mr. Kennedy, I heard you are a U.S. secret service. And you were on the news. Single handedly saved the daughter of President of the United States. You must have been through lots of tough trainings. Would you like to have some fun with me?" Lee asked

"Colonel Lee, he is a guest of General Wong's family." Colonel Tao reminded Colonel Lee "And the fiancé of the General's daughter"

"Tell me about it" Colonel Lee replied with sarcasm

"Former secret service, not any more. I quit." Leon replied as he was smiling even though he knew Lee dislike him "Just call me Leon. I'd love to see some material arts for myself. Let's do it. Just take it easy on me, ok?"

"Really? Why would they fire you after you just rescued the president's daughter?"

"I said I quit on my own. I fired them."

"Very well, Leon. You need to change your clothes first."

Only Colonel Lee and Colonel Tao understand English, the rest people in the room did not understand what they were saying. While Leon went to change, Colonel Lee had explained to them that he would challenge the secret service of the United States into a duel. He added that Leon had single handedly rescued the daughter of the President of the U.S. from a kidnapping. All the people inside the room got excited. They really wanted to find out how this could turn out.

As everyone in the room was talking, Leon had changed his clothes and came back into the room.

"Shall we begin?" Colonel Lee asked

"Whenever you are ready." Leon replied

"Hand to hand combat first?" Lee asked again

"Sure." Leon replied

Both of them stood face to face about 5 meters away from each other.

"Go" Colonel Tao waved his arm between them then he stepped back to sit down…

To be continued…

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