Chapter 24
(Please take it easy on my English. It is my second language.)
Note: Ivan Tyrants were from the game Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. According to the official game storyline, they were special model of Tyrants used by Sergei Vladimir(A high rank Umbrella officer of Russian origin) as personal bodyguards, and two of them were sent to kill Wesker at Umbrella Russian facility. Unlike other models of Tyrants, these Ivan Tyrants had bulletproof metal "coat" covering their entire body except the head. Wesker was able to kill two of them by shooting at their heads repeatedly.
"Billy! Billy?" Rebecca's voice.
"Oh, crap. Did I forget to wake her up again?" Billy thought as he was trying to open his sleepy eyes. Ever since he started to live with Rebecca, Rebecca always depended on him to wake her up every morning during her working days. He was her live alarm clock. "What is this terrible headache?" Billy had trouble to open his eyes.
"Billy, are you ok?" Rebecca's voice again, she sounded worried.
"I am fine, honey," Billy replied while eyes were still half closed.
"He is awake. Let the boss know immediately, over," A MAN's VOICE!
"What the…," Billy tried to get up to see who was the man in his house. He was still having trouble opening his eyes. "What is going on?!" He suddenly found himself was restrained on a hospital mobile bed by 4 handcuffs. He could not get up at all.
Right beside him, Rebecca was restrained in the same manner on another mobile bed. Nearby, two secret service looking men in black were standing by. Each of them had a pistol, with a microphone attached beside their faces.
"HOLY CRAP!" Billy suddenly remembered he was not at home, but in the hospital looking for Rebecca. "How the heck did I end up like this?" The last thing he remembered was being at a hospital map in front of a wall, and heard footsteps from far end of the hall. He could not remember a thing after that. "What is the meaning of this? What's going on? Who the heck are you?" He was a little confused. There could be so many possibilities, since he was a fugitive after being sentence to death by the military. Even though Rebecca helped him to fake his death six years ago after the "Mansion Incident", he could never let his guard down. Did the government finally find out he was not dead after all these years?
The two secret service looking men did not answer. Both of them were standing on either side of the door expressionlessly.
"Ummm…" Sherry's moaning in the dark.
"LEON!" Ada's voice from the other side, she sounded mad.
"What the…" Leon suddenly realized the cute little foot he was sucking on was not Ada's. "Oh god…I did not know you two switched spots!"
The basement was really dark, Leon could not see a thing but the small area close to the one tiny window with the help of the street lights from outside. On the other hand, the two ladies were able to see everything clearly because of their super human abilities.
Ada had got up from where she was lying, and walked toward Sherry and Leon.
"Why did you suck on a toe?" Questioned Ada. "You suppose to keep watching the situation outside for the next two hours when we get some sleep!"
"I…well…I remember how cute your feet were last time we…I couldn't resist...And I couldn't see in the dark like you do, I swear I thought it was you!"
"Why didn't you say something, Sherry? You knew it was him."
"It was Leon. I trust him. Besides…it...it felt … it felt good…," Sherry's cute face was bloody red, but only Ada was able to see that.
"And you, child molester! How long do you plan on holding her foot?"
The super embarrassed Leon quickly let go of Sherry's foot. He quickly stood up and moved closer to the tiny window. "I am not a ..." He skipped the last words. "It was a misunderstanding…" He said before he turned his head to look out of the window, he wish he could fit himself through that 4-inch window and run away as fast as he could. But there were commandos on the street outside.
Ada turned her face to look at Sherry.
"I am 18," Sherry looked at Ada. "I am not a child".
"He is my fiancée, and ten years older than you. Find someone your own age, little lady," but Ada immediately regretted how she had overreacted.
Nicholai woke up in a chair with both of his hands handcuffed. He took a quick look around and found only a closed door. There was not a single window. It looked like a basement room. After a quick check on the handcuffs, he almost laughed.
Outside the room, two masked guards were standing by as a third man approaching.
"Sir, I thought we were going to pull out as ordered," One of the two masked men asked.
"A minute or two will not ruin the plan. Now open the door," The third masked man replied.
One guard quickly took out a key card and unlocked the door. The latter opened the door and walked in, and he closed it behind him.
"Now you got me. What's next?" Inside the room, Nicholai noticed the man had a big lump on his forehead as he got closer to him.
"First, I am going to beat the crap out of you for hitting my head!" The man said as he threw a hard punch at Nicholai's forehead.
"OUCH! OUCH! OUCH!" The man pulled back his fist.
"You might not want to do that. My head was the hardest in the whole battalion when I was in the Russian army," Nicholai laughed.
"Are you ok in there?" The door was opened. The two guards were right outside. They must have heard the "OUCH! OUCH! OUCH".
"Don't ever come in, unless I tell you to," The leader of the masked men ordered.
"Sorry, sir," The door was closed once again.
"Now tell me again, who was that girl?"
"Didn't you kill her?"
"I figured she might be someone more important than a hooker. But if you fail to tell me again in 10 seconds, I am going to kill her for real this time. She is right in the next room".
"Come closer, I will tell you the little secret," Nicholai replied.
"Try to hit my head again?" The man did not move. He was holding his position just two feet away from Nicholai.
"If you are not going to move closer, then I will," Suddenly the handcuffs fell off Nicholai's wrists like they were not locked. At the same time as Nicholai stood up and grabbed the man's head with both hands. He pulled the man's head toward his own.
BANG! Two heads hit together.
"How does that feel, uh?" Nicholai said as his forehead was still against the man's.
The man could not answer with all the "stars" he saw. Although he was almost blacked out from Nicholai's "special attack", one of his hands was pulling out a pistol from beside his waist. As he was turning the pistol at Nicholai's belly, Nicholai suddenly grabbed the man's hand and turned the pistol at the man himself. A shot was fired as the gun was against the man's belly. The man collapsed instantly.
Nicholai took the dead man's pistol, and he found a few more clips of 9mm ammo, and a knife. He then knocked on the door.
The guards outside must have thought their boss told them to go in. Without thinking, they opened the door. Two silenced quick shots were fired in a row the moment the door was opened.
Nicholai pulled the two dead bodies into the room and searched them. Each guard had a silenced machine pistol. One of them had a key card. He walked out of the door and closed it behind him. There he found a door just beside his room. He quickly opened it with the keycard. Inside, Claire was handcuffed on a chair the same way he was.
"Are you alright, sweetie?" Nicholai asked.
"How did you…they handcuffed you right after you were knocked out by the tranquilizer gun".
"Didn't you know all the handcuffs in the United States use the same key? Because they was produced by the same cheap company! I ordered two on the internet for 9.95 each," Nicholai took out a tiny key from inside his cuff.
"Wow, I didn't know that".
"Follow me, nothing will come to your harm if you just stay close. I am the expert here," Nicholai told Claire as he unlocked her handcuffs.
"Alright, but who are those guys?"
"I don't know yet, but I will find out soon or later".
"Let's get out of here".
"Sure we will, but I am not about to leave just yet. Whoever tried to mess with me will always regret it!"
The two of them stepped out of the room.
There were two doors on the other side of the hall. When Nicholai got closer, he noticed there was a sign on each of the two doors. One door had "Stairs" on it, while the other had "Hot chick".
Nicholai's hand was almost at the handle of door to "stairs" when he saw the sign of "hot chick" on the door right beside it. He quickly stopped his hand and stepped to in front of the other door, and he extended his hand toward the door handle.
"What are you doing? The stairs is over here!" Claire whispered at him.
"Just wait a second".
"Do you really believe this stupid sign on the door?"
"I am just curious. It doesn't hurt to take a quick look," Nicholai replied as he was opening the door.
The moment the door was opened, a woman with long hair came out of the completely dark room and patted right onto Nicholai who was right in front of the doorway, the rushing force of her pushed Nicholai onto the floor, with woman on the top.
Nicholai was completely caught off guard. Now he realized what was happening. The "woman" on the top of him had a bloody rotten face. It was a zombie! The zombie was desperate to get a bite on Nicholai's face. Claire was stunned as she watched the two struggling. It was completely unexpected.
Nicholai was a highly trained mercenary after all. He quickly gained upper hand as he had recovered from the shocking state. He was able to roll himself over on the ground and switched to the top while pushed the zombie under him against the ground. He was using his forearm pressed the zombie's neck against the floor which made the zombie unable to use her virus infected mouth.
"You bitch really scared the shit out of me for a second!" Nicholai said madly as the zombie was helplessly waving around two arms on either side of him. "Sorry, but you are not my type".
The next moment, Nicholai pressed his pistol against the zombie forehead, and he fired a shot. A stream of blood was sprayed all over Nicholai's face.
Nicholai spit on the floor three times in a row. He felt so disgusting.
"Expert? You will only get us into deeper trouble!" Claire said.
"Alright, no more fooling around," Nicholai opened the door of "Exit to stairs".
It was the stairs which lead to a higher level.
"May I have your vest?" Nicholai asked as the two of them took the stairs.
"Ok," Claire took off her pink vest which was outside of her black garment and handed it to Nicholai.
Nicholai quickly used it to clean the zombie blood off his face.
"HEY!" Claire protested.
"I'll buy you 20 new ones tomorrow," Nicholai threw away the bloody vest after his face was wiped clean. Now he couldn't stop looking at Claire who now had only tight black garment. "You look sexier now".
"Maybe you should go back to your hot chick downstairs".
"I'll pass".
Just after one level, the stairs stopped. Once again, there were two doors in front of them. One with a sign of "really hot chicks", the other with "Exit to the stairs".
"You are not fooling me twice!" Nicholai opened the door to "Exit to stairs".
As soon as the door was opened, three zombies fell right onto his and pressed him against the ground.
"AHHH, get them off me, get them off me!" Nicholai was once again caught off guard.
All three zombies on the top of Nicholai tried to get a bite on him. With the weight of three zombies on the top of him, he couldn't move his body at all. He did his best trying to keep their heads away. But with only two hands, it was hard to keep three heads away from him.
Claire quickly grabbed one of the zombies' legs and pulled him off Nicholai. With one less zombie, Nicholai got a hold of both of the remaining two zombies' necks in his big hands. With his strong build, he overpowered the two zombies and was able to stand up while holding both of their necks. Two zombies were pushed toward a wall and had their heads cracked open on it. Both dropped onto the floor as Nicholai let go of their necks.
Claire was still pulling the zombie's one leg backwards all over the place. The zombie tried to turn around to grab her, but she just kept pulling it in circles so it couldn't do what it wanted.
"What are you doing, little lady? There is no time for games".
"Can't you see I am trying not to let this freak bite me! Hurry help me over here!"
Nicholai picked up the pistol he dropped and shot the last zombie in the head in a single quick shot despite it was still on the move because of Claire's pulling.
"Woot. Close one. You did well, sweetie," Nicholai complimented Claire.
"Stop calling me sweetie already. I am not your girlfriend".
"Ok, Claire," Nicholai opened the door beside the fake "Exit to stairs".
Behind the door, it was the real stairs.
"Damn bastards! They played me for fool," Nicholai bit his teeth together when he cursed.
"Twice," Claire reminded the dummy. "May I have a gun?"
"Umm, no. It's better to let me handle this".
Claire did not argue further.
They went up another level, and found themselves in front of two doors again. One door had "Stairs" sign on it, while the other one had "Wolverine".
"What is a wolverine?" Nicholai asked.
"It's a kind of carnivorous mammal. Adult ones weight up to only 60 pounds. Or, a fictional superhero mutant from the X-men. Name Logan. His could extend out some metal claws under his skins from both of his hands, and he uses them as weapons".
"lol? Ok, which door should I open now?"
"No idea. We have no way of knowing which one is the trap this time. You will just have to pick one, and open it with extreme caution".
"Ok. This time I will kick some asses of whatever is behind that door!" Nicholai picked the door of "wolverine".
As soon as he opened the door, a claw came out of the darkness and wiped through his face.
Nicholai immediately took a few steps back, and there were 3 bloody claw marks on his left cheek. He quickly covered his cheek for a second and took a look at the hand. Three lines of blood were on his hand.
"You son of bitch! My beautiful face!!" Nicholai exploded in anger. He raised his pistol and moved forward toward the wide open door.
Just one step later, something came out of the dark room. Nicholai stopped. A creature on two legs was in front of him. It had green skin, with two pairs of sharp claws.
It was a Hunter!
"DAMN YOU!" Nicholai lower his pistol and fired a shot at the approaching Hunter's right knee. It caused the Hunter immediately dropped onto its knee with only one leg still supporting.
Nicholai fired again and hit the Hunter in the other knee. Now with both knees damaged, the Hunter on the ground had only two arms supporting its upper body.
Two more shots were fired. Nicholai hit both elbows of the Hunter. With all joint points were damaged, the Hunter dropped onto the ground with its face against the floor. It tried to stand up, but it was futile with all four legs disabled.
"You ruined my beautiful face!" Nicholai moved forward and landed a really hard kick on the Hunter's head. Then he kicked again, and again, and again…
"Ok, I think that's enough. We should move on," Claire urged.
"No! It's not enough!" Nicholai stepped onto the Hunter's head and he started to jump repeatedly on Hunter's head.
After about ten jumps, Nicholai got off the Hunter. He used one foot to turned the Hunter over onto its back
With the Hunter facing up, Nicholai pulled out the knife.
"You are going to get away that easy!" He waved his shining knife in front of the Hunter's face when he said it.
The next moment, Nicholai started to use the knife to cut words on the Hunter's face.
"Oh come on. We don't have all day," Claire complained.
"Just a moment," Nicholai was still writing with the knife on Hunter's face.
Claire moved closer for a look just as Nicholai was finishing.
She saw "I am a big sucker" on Hunter's right cheek, and "Owned by Nicholai" on its left cheek.
Nicholai stabbed the knife between the Hunter's eyes really hard before he stood up. The Hunter was dead with the knife still on its face.
"I am screwed! Chicks will never like me again…"
"It's not that bad…really. It's on your lower left cheek near the edge".
"Does that mean you love me?"
"No!"
The two of them opened the other door and went up along the real stairs.
Soon, they found two more doors on the higher level. One door had "Power rangers" sign on it, and the other had "Emergency Exit".
"Power Rangers? I remember watched a few episodes in the hotel room when I was bored," Nicholai said. "It was a really shitty show".
"Make you pick. Quickly, we need to get out of here".
"Alright, you have said it many times," Nicholai quickly opened the door of the "Emergency Exit".
In front of them, it was the outdoor! They could see an alley outside, with the moon in the sky!
"It seems to be too good to be true. Maybe this is another trap," said Claire.
"You think so?"
"Yes," Replied Claire.
"Lady first," Nicholai said.
"Just go," Claire responded by pushing Nicholai forward.
The moment Nicholai stepped on the other side of the door, the ground below him collapsed. He fell into a hole, or rather a trap pit.
"Are you ok?" Claire kneed down, and she carefully only extended 1/3 of her head beyond the edge of the pit to take a look.
Nicholai was at the bottom of the 12-feet deep trap pit with his face against the floor. His pistol was tossed aside.
"Can you move?" Claire asked again from the above.
"You pushed me into this…" Nicholai finally moved his leg, and then he supported himself up with arms. He moved closer to the edge. The walls of the pit was smooth with nothing to get a hold of, and it was too high for him. "Find a rope or a long stick or something…anything"
"I am sorry, I…" BANG! Suddenly the floor below Claire collapsed too. She too fell into the pit.
Inside the pit, Nicholai once again had his face against the floor. Claire was on the top of his back.
"You are heavy!" Nicholai complained.
"Give me a boost. I might be able to get up there and then find you some ropes," Claire suggested.
"Yeah, we'll try that".
Nicholai crouched down at the edge of the pit to let Claire stepping onto his shoulders.
"Still too high," Claire said after Nicolai stood up, "Could you crouch down again?"
Nicholai quickly crouched down.
"Now what?" He asked.
Claire crouched down Nicholai's shoulder.
"I count three. You jump up as high as you can. When you reach your peak, I will make my jump and try to get a grab of the edge. Are you ready?"
"I am ready," Nicholai replied.
"1…2….3"
Nicholai suddenly jumped up with his full strength. Just before he started to fall down, Claire made her jump on the top of Nicholai's shoulders. Nicholai was falling down toward the bottom fast because of opposite force from Claire's jumping, at the same time Claire was reaching the top edge. Her arms were pointing straight up as she was flying up. But her hands stopped just half a foot away from the edge, and she started to fall down again.
At the bottom, Claire dropped on Nicholai hard. Once again, Nicholai was pressed against the bottom floor with Claire on the top.
"Ouch, that hurts…ok, no more boost!"
"Now what? Any idea?"
"HELP!" Nicholai suddenly started to scream.
"Any good idea?" Claire was surprised. "Now you are going to attract the kidnappers to us!"
"Fifty-fifty chances. Either someone will come to help us, or the kidnappers will come. Either will have to get us out of this hole. It's a perfect plan".
"But…'HELP!' sounds chicken!"
"Ok, how about this one," Nicholai took a deep breath, and he shouted again, "WHICH COWARD DUG THIS HOLE? COME DOWN 1 ON 1 WITH ME RIGH NOW IF YOU GOT GUTS!"
"That's creative…"
In just a moment, they heard a sound of a door being broken down. Followed by the sound of some really heavy footsteps came closer and closer.
Soon there were two men arrived at the edge of the pit. At first, the two men were still a few feet away from the edge. Thus from the angle of where Nicholai and Claire were standing, they could only see the heads.
The two men were both wearing weird helmets. One was blue, the other was red.
"Power Rangers!" Nicholai had his mouth stayed open.
The two "power rangers" moved closer and jumped down into the pit.
Now Nicholai could see. The two "power rangers" were both over 8-feet tall in shining trench coats. It was a dead give away.
"Ivan Tyrants...damn," Nicholai thought. "Where did they come from? I thought the only two ever produced were destroyed in Russia over a year ago…and what's with the helmets…"
The two Ivan Tyrants were both barehanded, but both had two grenades hanging on their waists. They walked toward Nicholai slowly.
"…1…on…1…" The Ivan Tyrants spoke in a weird voice. Not much different from the way HUNK's T-106 saying "…L-a-s…p-l-a-g-a-s…"
"Yeah, I'll give you that!" Nicholai pulled out two machine pistols he stole from the two masked guards and he pulled the trigger. Two sounds of clicks, no bullets were fired. Both guns were malfunction!
"SHIT!" Nicholai dropped the two machine pistols and stepped back as the two Ivan Tyrants moved toward him. Soon he found himself hit the wall with no way out.
"…1…on….1…" Both Ivan Tyrants moved closer.
"It's TWO ON ONE, DAMNIT!!" The cornered Nicholai protested.
"Ding, Ding Ding…" The sound of bullets hitting mental. It was Claire. She had picked up the pistol with silencer that Nicolai had dropped the moment he fell into the pit, and the bullets hit the Ivan Tyrants from the right side. The special full body mental suits the Ivan Tyrants were wearing easily repelled the 9mm pistol rounds. Equipped with the new helmets protecting their heads, these new Ivan Tyrants truly have no weakness compare to the two killed by Wesker in Russia a year ago. Aside the sound of impact, there was not even a sign of the Tyrant was shot.
One of the Ivan Tyrant turned around and walked toward Claire.
"Now you just made them angrier!"
"At least I tried," Claire dropped the emptied pistol and stood her ground facing the approaching Ivan Tyrant.
The Ivan Tyrant in front of Claire extended out its right hand tried to grab her. By the time its hand was halfway across the air, Claire suddenly lowered herself and made a rush. She passed the Tyrant to its behind from below its right arm. Out of her surprise, the seemly slow Ivan suddenly turned around its body by 90 degree to the left with a suddenly speeded up movement, and it grabbed Clair's shoulder with its left hand before it was fully turned around The Ivan Tyrant lifted Claire into the air with only one arm.
"Put me down!" Claire screamed.
"Like it will listen to you…" Nicholai said on the other side of the pit as the other Ivan Tyrant was getting closer to him.
The Ivan Tyrant holding Claire waved its left arm, and Claire was thrown out of the pit and disappeared from the view.
"Come on! Try me!" Nicholai took a step forward and kicked the Ivan Tyrant between the legs…Only found his foot was against a hard piece of mental. "Ouch!" Nicholai's foot was hurt, and he fell backwards toward the ground from the rebound force of his own kicking.
His falling body suddenly stopped in the air. The Ivan Tyrant had grabbed his shirt. In a second, Nicholai too was lifted into the air like Claire was.
10-feet beside the pit on the ground, Claire sat herself up. Just as she was trying to stand up.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH….." Nicholai was thrown out of the pit, and landed right beside her in a prone position.
"Hey…" Claire tried to say something but she was stopped by Nicholai as Nicholai used his one arm pushed Claire back onto the ground.
"What…" Claire was once again stopped by Nicholai. This time he was showing her the two fuse rings on his fingers.
"BOOM! BOOM!" Two HE grenades explosions took place in the pit right behind them. A wave of flame rose up from the bottom of the pit toward the sky, and lighted up the alley.
"MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, SUCKERS!" Nicholai stood up and pulled Claire onto her feet as well.
At the desert military base,
"General Zhao, there is an incoming transmission from General Chan," An officer walked into a conference room where General Zhao and a group of military commanders were having a meeting.
This General Chan, a retired military man, was once one of the most influential old generals in China who had participated in World War II, Chinese Civil War, and Korean War, skirmish against USSR, border war with India and Vietnam. Since his retirement almost 20 years ago, and he was living in manor in a remote mountain area far away from the population, along with many guards and servants who the government paid to serve him.
"Put him through to my office," General Zhao stood up and walked into a room beside the conference room and shut the door behind him.
Inside the office,
An old man looked like at least 75-year-old in a General Uniform with 4 stars appeared on the screen on a desk.
"Hello, long time no see, General Chan. What have made you calling at this moment?" General Zhao asked. "I am a little busy here".
"I have been hearing reports about your recent actions".
"What actions are you talking about?"
"Don't play me for fool, Zhao. You allow military council representatives being assassinated…"
"It wasn't me. They were assassinated under General Wong's nose. He was in charge of the security…"
"Ha, I was waiting for you to say that. You, a general of People's Republic of China, allow your personal feelings come before the job. Jeopardize the safety of the country, her citizens, for personal gain…"
"It's not like I started the outbreak…"
"I am not finished. You are the one attacked the secret Wesker's lab on an island in South China Sea, you are the one attacked the secret T-virus laboratory of unknown origin in Sand City. You set off alarms to those criminals, and the outbreak could be the direct result of retaliation! That's not it. Why are you intentionally acting slow on evacuating the civilians? Why did you tell President Hu that you can retake the city?"
"President Hu agreed with…"
"President Hu was not a military man!" The old man interrupted General Zhao once again. "Unlike us, he is a politician. You took advantage of it and made him believe your lies, and you had him removed General Wong, the man you hate, from the command position. How convenient?"
"Did General Wong tell you this? He is …"
"Be quiet!" General Chan stopped General Zhao before he could finish. "Who gave you the permission to knock out a foreign satellite?"
"It's just a satellite owned by the organization who released the B.O.W.s It was not a government asset."
"Excuses, more excuses!" The old man was getting more and more angry as he was questioning General Zhao.
"General Chan. I know where you hear all these from, but I really don't have the time for this right now. We are about to launch a counter attack on the city. We can talk about everything later," this time it was General Zhao's turn to interrupt.
"Don't ever interrupt me!" The old man said as if he was the daddy here.
"General Chan, should I remind you that…You are RETIRED! It is none of your business any more to interfere with how I do my job," General Zhao fired back.
"What did you say?? Don't you know the unwritten rules in this country? We older generations still have more say than you do! During the time when we were fighting against the Japanese in WWII, fighting against KMT in Civil War, fighting against UN in Korean War, how old were you??"
"Yeah right. All you did was human wave assaults. Now enjoy your retirement with tax payers' money, old man. Let the younger people who still can think straight to handle everything like it suppose to be".
"I am warning you, General Zhao. You are finished. You know as well as I do, this 'counter-attack' on the Sand City is nothing more than a show after you had General Wong removed from his position while had yourself become President Hu's 'new favorite'…If you can't retake the city, you will be finished. Do you hear me? You will be court-martial and spend rest of your life in prison cell with nothing but a hard as brick bed and a toilet! I will personally talk to President Hu to make sure of it if you fail!"
"That, you don't have to worry. Sand City will be under control," replied General Zhao.
"One more thing, I will have Snow Wolf Commando Unit arrive at Sand City by tomorrow. You will be closely watched! See you on judgment day!" General Chan cut off the communication.
"What an old fool!" General Zhao cursed, he knew General Chan was a good friend of General Wong. Even as General Chan had retired a while ago, he still had strong influence among many high ranked government officials especially within the military. The situation did not look good for General Zhao. He had miscalculated, he forgot the most important thing when he 'dropped the hammer' on General Wong. "Why hasn't he died yet? Who is he thinking he is? A retired useless old man! So called old revolutionist from A LONG TIME AGO who could use nothing but human wave assault tactics! Judgment day? We'll see about that!"
General Zhao pushed a button, and a commando officer with masked face walked in.
"Yes, General. May I help you?"
"I have a special assignment for you. Get yourself ready in 3 hours from now. On chopper 031 at heliport #4, there is a sealed plastic cage," General Zhao pulled over a map. "I want you to drop this cage off at this coordinates. Remember, there is a few buttons outside the cage. Enter this password and press the button 'release' before you drop the cage at below 50 feet," He handed a piece of paper to the commando.
"Yes, General. Is there anything else I should know?" Even though the commando was naturally curious like anyone would, he did not directly ask what was in the cage, nor what the goal was for this mission.
"You have to fly below 90-feet the whole time. Once you enter the mountain region, you still must keep your attitude no more than 90-feet above the tree line. Once you finish the dropping, return to base immediately".
"Yes, General".
The "below 90-feet" was clear for avoiding radar detection, but the coordinate was on Chinese territory. Why would General Zhao want a mission that must avoid the detection of his own country's military? None of these concerned the commando. His job was simply following the order of his superior.
After the commando left the room, General Zhao picked up a phone.
"You have two hours to reprogram them, here is what you are going to make them do…"
"How many of them are here now?" Leon asked as he watched through a tiny window in the basement. Another commandos' helicopter had landed a squad of commandos into the neighborhood not far from their house.
"Forty, maybe fifty of them," Replied Ada.
"Why do you think they here?"
"Nothing good for us, that's for sure".
A communicator rang. This time it is Leon's.
"Agent Smith…my former boss", Leon told Ada after he checked the incoming number. He was about to turn the communicator off but was stopped by Ada.
"I know you do not like him, but we are in a special situation here. Perhaps he has some useful information to offer," said Ada.
"I guess you are right," Leon turned around to have the communicator's screen facing the wall without Ada nor Sherry in the view.
"Agent Kennedy", Smith's voice.
"What do you want? I am not our employee any more".
"Listen Leon, I am trying to help you here…"
"Help me? What a surprise! Have you actually helped anyone before?"
"Leon, I am going to say this only once. You are in trouble!"
"I am always in trouble, thanks to you…"
"This time it is different. You are about to be put on trial by the U.S. government for being a traitor!" Agent Smith said seriously.
"Traitor? What did I do?"
"For having connections with Chinese government and spy agencies"!
"Uh?"
"Oh, Leon, don't play dumb with me. You are in China right now, we knew it the moment your plane headed there from Spain. Besides, our spy satellite had seen you hanging out with Chinese military personals, and we saw you entered MSS headquarter. We have enough evidence that you are doing something against the United States of America".
"I am only here to share information about Umbrella, you are way off!"
"Oh? But unfortunately nobody hear thinks that way".
"So what do you want from me since I am a 'traitor'?"
"You have one chance to make it up to proof your loyalty to us".
"In the other word, you tried to use those bull 'evidence' to frame me?"
"You can say whatever you want to call it. Your only option right now is, either do exactly what I am about to tell you to, or you'd better stay in China forever, because you will be arrested wherever country you go and being sent back to the U.S. to be …well you know…"
"I know what?"
"If you are lucky, you will be staying in jail for the rest of your life".
"Cut to the point, what do you exactly want?"
"We know there is an outbreak in Sand City right now, and it was caused by unknown B.O.W.s I want you to find out as much information as possible, and bring me back…Ada Wong".
"What are you talking about? The last two words shocked Leon.
"I know you are with her this whole time. We have long suspected her of being a double agent. I guarantee you that she will not be harmed. We just want information from her, like the Chinese did with you".
"Is that all?"
"By doing that, you will prove your loyalty to the United States. Then you can continue to work in the agency".
"Under you? Again? Just like how you got me into the agency in the first place by using Sherry to blackmail me six years ago?"
"Leon, it is not that bad working for your own country!"
"I just don't see how working under you as a part of it! You blackmailer!!"
"Whatever you say. I know Sand City is quarantined, so I will give you two weeks to get back to the states. Or you will become the most wanted by your own country," Said Agent Smith. "When things come to that, there will be no place for you to hide unless you stay in China forever under their protection. Any more questions?"
Leon knew he couldn't be reasoning with Smith. After all, he was dragged into the agency by him six years ago in a similar manner.
"How did you get through all this jamming interference and call me?" asked Leon.
"Don't forget your country is still the most powerful country on this planet. Our electrical Warfare technologies are more advanced than China's. Whatever tricks they can come up with, we can neutralize it in no time".
"Oh really? Then tell me which direction of the Sand City has least troops?"
"That I don't know".
"Can't you just use satellite to check it out?"
"The whole area is still being blocked by their satellite blinding technology. Our satellite still can't see through that piece of black 'cloud' thing".
"I thought you just said you could neutralize everything they throw at you".
"Not this one. It is still unknown to us what kind technology they used for this trick, nor how it was done. But as far as communication jamming goes, we found a hole in their jamming frequencies, so it is useless against us at this moment".
"Then how did you see me on the satellite if you can't by pass that 'dark cloud'?"
"That was before the outbreak. The 'dark cloud' was in place after the outbreak started. You went to MSS headquarter before that".
"Anyway, since you can't provide me with the information I need. I will have trouble to sneak out of here," said Leon.
"Why do you need to 'sneak out'?" Aren't you being hanging out with the Chinese military?
"It is complicated," Leon decided not to mention Sherry, since last time Sherry disappeared soon after he let Agent Smith got his hands on her.
"Fine. Our military in Afghanistan had already planned to send a F-22 into China to take photos on the situations and record military communications around Sand City. I will let you know the information you requested as soon as the F-22 complete its mission".
"Send a warplane into China's air space? Isn't it against international laws and is an act of war?" asked Leon.
"Who cares. We do that all the time. If wasn't the need of the photos, we could just have an EP-3 spy plane recording all their communications from outside China. Besides, they don't have the technology to see our stealth F-22. They will never know," replied Agent Smith.
"Recording all communications from outside China?"
"Sure EP-3 can do that. It never needs to get close to the target to do electronically spying. It has all the equipments to tap into all secured communications within a couple hundred miles".
"Umm, in other word, you just admitted the EP-3 spy plane collision with a Chinese jet in 'international airspace' in 2001 was spying on China?"
"Well of course. Why else was it flying in that direction? But whatever, you will get your information on Chinese military dispositions very soon. I have to attend a meeting in about 15 minutes. Good luck!" Agent Smith disappeared from the screen.
"Are you going to bring us to this jerk?" Sherry asked.
"Of course not," Ada answered for Leon, "Leon wouldn't do that".
"But he'll be in trouble if he doesn't…"
"Don't worry, kiddo. We'll think of a way somehow. Now our priority is to get you out of China safely," said Leon. "Out of the reach of General Zhao," he added.
At that moment, another chopper landed at a crossroad just one block away from Ada's house. As soon as it landed, two men in military uniform stepped down and walked toward Ada's house. One of them was General Wong, the other was a soldier assigned as his bodyguard.
"Ada, look. It's your dad," Leon whispered as he was the closet to the tiny basement window. The commandos were all over the places on the nearby streets. He couldn't shout loudly.
Both Ada and Sherry moved closer. All three heads were side by side and were trying to look through tiny window.
As General Wong and his bodyguard soldier walked toward his house, the commandos on the streets followed but kept distance.
"What is the meaning of this? Why are you at my house?" General Wong had arrived in front of his own house, behind him there were at least twenty commandos.
"You know it," A familiar voice. One of commandos who arrived by the latest commando chopper took off his helmet mask. It was General Zhao.
"General Zhao, you have no business here. I am here to evacuate my wife."
"Evacuate? Nothing is going to happen with my men around," said General Zhao. "Why don't you invite me go inside? So we can talk".
Somewhere in western part of China, there was a manor in the middle of nowhere. The manor was surrounded by a stone wall of 10 feet high. The whole manor was over 90 meters long, 60 meters wide. Several fancy houses were inside, and there were a few natural ponds. It was a quiet place with fresh air. Some dark blue uniform armed guards were visible outside the buildings. Outside the wall, there were endless mountains covered by green trees in every direction. Not too far away, a medium size waterfall had crystal clear water falling down. The only road led to outside of the wall ended just 150 meters away at an open field with two heliports. The whole place was isolated, and being surrounded by hundreds miles of mountains and trees. Only helicopters can get in.
In the basement of one of the houses inside the manor walls, two guards were looking at several screens. One of them was a radar screens with nothing on it.
Just over a mile away, a large military helicopter dropped a wooden cage from only less than 15 meters above the trees. It quickly left, and the cage disappeared into the trees.
190 miles away, two more military helicopters were flying among the mountains at the direction of Manor. Aboard them, a few dozens masked soldiers in complete White uniform holding assault rifles were sitting side by side. On every of their arm badges, there were the words "Snow Wolf"…
Inside Ada's home, in the basement.
"Can you hear what they are saying?" Leon asked Ada.
"No, not a word of it," replied Ada.
"Me either," Said Sherry.
"I thought you girls have super human hearing".
"I wish!" Said Ada.
"It's not a part of the abilities we obtained…" Sherry explained.
Upstairs,
General Wong was sitting on a sofa in the living room, his bodyguard soldier was standing right behind the sofa. General Zhao was sitting on another sofa on the opposite side, two commandos were on the either side.
"Why are you here? Shouldn't you be busy planning your 'counter-attack'?" General Wong asked.
"That, had been taken care of already, my old friend. We have more important businesses to talk about," replied General Zhao. "Tell me, how does it feel when you are no longer in control of your own fate?"
"What does this suppose to mean?"
"You are under arrest for being a traitor of this country," said General Zhao.
"I never thought you could go this far," General Wong replied after a moment of silence.
"First, your daughter is associated with Wesker. Second, you too are associated with not only Wesker, but also with the American secret services".
"Bogus! You just made that one up! Where is the proof?"
General Zhao looked at General Wong with piercing eyes, "First, with your little arrangement from the inside, the B.O.W.s were able to penetrated MSS defenses, and successfully assassinate the Council members. Second, you and your daughter helped the daughter of Wesker to escape. You have connections to both Wesker and the U.S. government secret services".
"The B.O.W.s had nothing to do with me. I was in danger too when they were inside MSS headquarter! You know that! As for the daughter of Wesker, the council members agreed to let us release her for the sake of continuing to spy on Wesker," General Wong stopped for a second, "How low can you go?" Added him.
"Not as low as you. Your daughter is a super soldier just like the daughter of Wesker! We had analyzed her blood. There is something in her blood, a certain part of the DNA structures, were exactly the same as that girl's!"
"How did you get a sample of my daughter's blood?"
"In the hotel room she stayed at Shanghai, where she made out with the American spy Leon Kennady".
"You bastard. She was a victim of her mission. Everything she did was for this country! Do you have any idea how much pain she had suffered?" General Wong was really mad. The blood veins were popping up along his face.
"Why didn't she report back to the agency? She never mentioned a word in her reports. She is a defected agent, a double agent, a disgrace to this country, just like her father," said General Zhao.
"Enough! Your accuse will not work. Neither me nor my daughter can be charged without absolute evidences, which is non exist," General Wong stood up as he became more angry. "We will see about that when we meet at the court!"
"Court? What court?" General Zhao stood up too with a sinister smile. Both commandos beside him raised their assault rifles and aimed at General Wong.
"Drop your weapons!" The soldier behind General Wong pulled out his pistol and pointed it at the commandos.
"Son, he is a traitor to his country, and he is going down. Do you want to go down with him?" said General Zhao as he pulled out his pistol and aimed it at the soldier. His pistol had a silencer on it.
"I am not your son!"
"Pity," General Zhao pulled the trigger and shot the young soldier in the head. The young man instantly dropped onto the floor. "Your soldiers are all useless. Even your hand picked bodyguard," General Zhao said with a perfect normal tone, as he turned the still smoking silenced pistol at General Wong. He did not look like he just killed someone.
"You will not get away with this! I had already explained everything to General Chan. He will be meeting with President Hu personally tomorrow afternoon. Plus this murder! You are going down!" General Wong.
"Tomorrow afternoon? I am afraid he will not make it. You know, old people…they die randomly…"
"What have you done?…"
"Worry about yourself, my old friend. I have been waiting for this day for so long. Now, you will die too for resisting an arrest with deadly force".
"You will kill me too? Here? Soldiers, can't you see? This man is committing murder!" General Wong said to the two commandos.
"Why do you think I brought only these two into the house? They are not like the others, these two are my diehard followers. Now say goodbye!"…
To be continued…
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