Piers POV

Search day 01

BSAA HQ

"She said yes?"

"That's right. Thought you'd like to hear it."

"That is fantastic news, mate it really is. I'm so happy for the two of you."

"Thanks, Becker. That's kind of you to say."

"Hey I heard what happened to Chris. I hope you find him, man. If there's anything that I can do to help, just let me know."

"Thanks, Becker. I really appreciate that."

"Good hunting." I hung up my phone and quickly boarded the plane that was taking me and a search team to New York. Our first place to begin looking was Chris's hometown. I had already contacted many of his friends and family to keep me posted if they found anything that could help us find him. Next to the Redfield family, Sheva seemed to be the most distressed. She wanted to fly over to our division, but I told her to stay in Africa with Josh and her division. I promised to text her if I found anything, Abby said that she would report any additional intel that she found and pass it on. Becker said that in engineering he's met many friends who could keep their ears open for him. I was glad that I had such a good group of people backing me up with this. I missed Abby, but I was glad that she wasn't too close to this….I still don't know just how bad this could go.

"You shouldn't be calling me now." I protest sarcastically as I answer my phone again. "I'm working."

"And I'm on my lunch break, so I win." Abby giggles through the line.

"You're impossible." I chuckle as I look out the window to the increasingly small land below. "Did you find anything new?"

"I've been scanning Chris's cell phone and Credit cards. Last time both were used was in New York, but I may have found somewhere more specific. I managed to track them to an apartment building in Queens."

"No offense, but I doubt that Chris can afford a place in Queens. Hell I can't afford a place in Queens."

"Piery, I don't think that anyone can…well maybe besides Becker. He's practically made of cash."

"Yet another thing that I don't know about the guy."

"But you do hang out with him?"

"Yeah, we have beers and watch soccer every Wednesday."

"Aw that's nice."

I roll my eyes with again on my lips then speak again. "By the way…he's really happy for us…about the wedding I mean."

"I'm happy to hear that." She sighs sounding relieved. "I've known him for so long….. We've always been protective of each other….our line of work has made us that way."

I nod my head in agreement. Abby and my fields of profession may be different, but I understood what she meant.

"I've got to go, but I'll call you later."

"You better."

I grin brightly, I have to admire her fire, had to admire how much she cares about me. "I love you." I finally say, which was one of the only things that I want to say to her for the rest of my life.

"I love you more."I reply then hang up the phone. We'd have boots on the ground soon, but I hated waiting. I didn't know how long this would take, but it wouldn't matter it still has to be done. The next thing I knew boots were on the ground. This was a strict covert opp, which meant that guns and bullet proof vests wouldn't be necessary. We didn't want to raise alarm, especially in a busy city like New York. Winter had already sent me quadrants on my phone. Each one pin pointed a location to where Chris was last seen. If he was at any of these three markers then the only hard part would be to bring him back to HQ who still had very little details on why he ran off in the first place. "Roberts, Wilson get to the 1st quadrant. Miller, Jones quadrant 2. Conner, Philips you're both with me. Watch each other's backs and radio what you find."

"Copy that." Miller nods as he heads of with Jones right behind him. Roberts and Wilson soon depart.

"Let's get moving." Philips smiles as she bats her eyes. The streets were busy, but that was nothing new. I didn't even know why I was keeping my head down most of the time, Neo Umbrella isn't our target and as far as we knew they aren't hunting us. But the name Ada Wong just kept buzzing in my head. I re read Mercy Vonnas file before I left. It turns out that she was affiliated with Wong before Neo Umbrellas foundation. Maybe if the BSAA found Wong she could lead us to Mercy and then to the heads of their organization. I push the idea out of my mind for the moment; I have a bigger mission to focus on.

"How far are we from the quadrant?" Conner asked as he adjusts his sunglasses.

"Not too far…and take that damn hood off. You look like a drug dealer." Phillips laughs quietly at my comment while Conner does as I suggest. We didn't need anyone on the street calling the cops on us because we looked like kidnappers. The streets smelt like exhaust fumes and occasionally smelled like tobacco when we passed certain alley ways. I knew that I defiantly preferred Philadelphia to this place, all this city air isn't my style. Pulse all this noise was driving me crazy, I don't ever think I've hear so many cuss words dropped in one sentence in my life. One man sitting on a street corner gave Jenna a very alluring look, but she only rolled her eyes and kept on walking.

"Oh come on, Phillips. He was totally your type." Grieg snickers.

"Shut up, Conner." She hisses between her teeth.

"Cut it out, both of you." I order once we reach the quadrant that we had been assigned. The building had been abandoned for a long time. The roof had all but caved in as well as one of the brick walls. an array of ivy covered the remaining standing structure.

"Its' beautiful." Jenna sighed. "But sad."

I slowly nod my head then begin to make my way inside. I lifted part of the broken door enough so that I could slide under. "Come on, Grieg." I grunt as I lift the door up again so he could make his way in.

"I got cha." He says while he grips the door with me long enough for Jenna to join us inside. I take her hand in mine and bring her up to her feet.

"Congrats." She smiles when she sees my engagement ring

"Thanks." I grin back then drop the door. The inside was cold and dark, it would be getting darker soon, and the sun was already setting.

"Why did HQ send us here?"

"Not much word on why. They have their reasons I guess."

"This mission ain't worth shit if HQ ain't bein honest with us." Grieg huffs with his arms folded.

"Calm down, Conner. And this mission is worth a lot to me." I glare as I walk through the second set of double doors and step into a huge theater hall. I had to watch my step in several different areas because most of the steps have caved in a dropped down to the basement below us. It would hurt like hell if we hit that floor. I take my time getting up the flight of stairs then guide Jenna and Grieg through, making sure that they stepped where I had. Grieg had one close call but safely made it through.

"This was a theater house?" Jenna gasped as she looked around in amazement. I bet this place was beautiful once. Red carpeting covered over the white stone floors, black marble columns kept what was left of the upper floors up and the stone steps were cracked in various places. Many of the seats were still in their bolted down positions, but the red seats were ripped and pulled out. Red curtains lay in tattered ruins. Greek statues had been brutally smashed and scatters the floor beneath my feet.

"Sorry." I whispered when I accidently stepped on the already damaged arm of the Athena statue. I pulled my phone from my back jeans pocket and reread the text that Abby had sent me earlier. "Intel is saying that Chris was here about two weeks ago with someone."

"Who?"

I already knew the answer to Jenna's question, but I also knew that it was personal for Chris so I didn't say. "Don't know." I reply as I slide my phone back into my pocket. "But intel did say that one agent from our division spotted him come in here."

"Guess we can't really ask why if HQ or Intel doesn't even know."

"Fan out and see what you can find." I order. I was taking my time looking very close to the ground for anything that could help us find Chris. I was looking for even the slightest hint that could possibly help us out. The more time we wasted here the more I knew that this was just a huge waste of time. I checked the very back of the stage, where I found more broken chairs, mirrors, pieces from makeup bags scattered the floor and shattered lights hung from very thin cables. I sigh deeply as I begin to make my way back to Grieg and Jenna. "There's nothing here. Did you guys find anything?"

"Ain't found shit." Grieg calls from the upper floor balcony

"Get the hell down from there before you-" Jenna was cut off when the floor beneath Griegs feet gave in. I gaps escaped Jenna and my lungs as he fell but managed to grip onto part of the busted railing then boosts himself up. "I rest my case." Jenna groans in frustration before she runs back up to the main entrance, I don't take long to follow her.

"You alright?" I ask once we reach Grieg

"Yeah…I'm good." He nods while he catches his breath. "We should probably get a move on. Let HQ know that nothing's here."

"Alright, let's get a move on." I didn't want to waste anymore time in this place, but I couldn't help but wonder why the hell we were sent here in the first place. Maybe Winter could find out for me when we got back. I was practically praying for the others to be having better luck than us.