A/N: Somewhat action packed chapter for action-loving readers, hope you enjoy it. I am very grateful to all the readers and of course Shirahane Aikawa and Mercenary Nemesis for their constant support.

Disclaimer: I don't own Resident Evil or any of its characters; they all belong to Capcom.

Chapter 21

(Leon's POV)

"Shit!", Kathleen cursed and took off running, and we followed her to the room where Ada was kept.
"Wesker!", Chris said gritting his teeth.

"Let's see who all are here Chris, Jill, young Redfield, David, Primary Target Leon and my favorite superior female Kathleen", Wesker said and we all looked at Kathleen surprised, "Didn't you tell the reason for your coming back dear?", Wesker said reading our minds, "You know not everyone can give a competition to a superior female, only another and in this game again you won. And I have a surprise for you. Francheska!", a woman came by his side that we recognized as the one who was extra among the team of scientists.

"Mom?!", Kathleen mumbled to herself but I heard her, "you all take Wesker, leave that woman to me", she said out loudly not taking her eyes off of the said woman.

Everybody agreed with her and moved in Wesker's direction, "Let me fight with you", I said following her.
"You can't", she said shaking her head angrily.
"Why not, we are better together", I argued.
"Stay out!", she yelled angrily at me.
"Look you can't fight her alone", I said being practical.
"I said stay out of it Leon", she snapped looking at me and I saw her crying for first time, and I wanted to pull her in a hug.
"Please", I said, "I promise I won't get in the way, don't you trust me?", very slowly she nodded and we ran towards her mom, who was standing at a distance with her arms crossed.

"Kathleen, my daughter", her so-called mother said dropping her arms to her side.
"What should I call you mom or Dad", Kathleen said giving her an icy stare.
"I see so you figured, Wesker gave me the brains of your Dad", her mother said.
"Step-Dad", Kathleen said.
"Oh yes but I learned a few things unlike your mom and Dad", she said smiling.
"Care to show me?", Kathleen gave her cold smile as well.
"Sure", she said, "Let's just get rid of the extras first", she said and then moved towards me super speed and I didn't know what hit me until I was flying.
"God these women", I coughed getting up as I saw Kathleen's mom doing the same to her.

Francheska was about to give Kathleen a deathly blow when she rolled out of her way. Even when she was not ready for the second, she managed to dodge it by a hair and then Francheska's third blow would have definitely killed her if I hadn't pulled her out of the way and she got away with only a cut, "Who are you?", Francheska asked me angrily.

"The name's Leon S. Kennedy", I told her smiling.
She looked at Kathleen in my arms and then back at me, "So you're Leon, I never thought I would meet you again", she said smiling.
"Enough talk", Kathleen said pulling out my gun and shooting her in chest. She fired it again and again but Francheska was fast like Wesker.
"How does she know me, I don't recognize her. Plus she's too young to be your mom", I said as we tried to figure what would be Francheska's next move.
"Wesker cloned my mum's cells and injected my Dad's intelligence genes in an developing artificial embryo using Ashford's technique as a part of his grand experiment and must have used something to develop her faster into her present form", she answered, "And I think she has some memories of my Mom and Dad both."

Again Francheska hit us and we fell but this time together and I felt something soft against my head as we hit wall and it was Kathleen's hand as she saved my head from banging against the wall, "I think she broke my ribs", I joked to her and she smiled genuinely at that.

We got up thinking from where Francheska would strike next we had our back against each other, looking in every direction, when something rolled to me and brushed against my foot. I looked down reflexively and just then spotted Francheska approaching us from the corner of my eyes. I quickly picked up the fire extinguisher and released it in her face. It got her irritated and a bit confused.

"Nice going", Kathleen said giving me an impressed look and then fired bullet after bullet in Francheska's legs, "That should ought to slow you down."
"No", Francheska shrieked in pain.
"Don't even think about it", Kathleen said pointing her gun at her head.

"No sweetie I am your mom, don't kill me", Francheska cried, "Don't kill me sweetie, you know it hurts, it hurts a lot, save me, save me sweetie, don't sweetie! I love you sweetie, I am you mom, you can't kill me like before. Don't kill me like before… boy you tell her she'll listen to you. Yes you say to her to forgive me. Don't you remember me boy? Tell her not to kill me!", she pleaded to me but nothing was making sense, I mean how am I suppose to know her. She grabbed my feet and cried more and then Kathleen kicked her before she dug her teeth in me, "Don't kill me sweetie, I am your mom!"

"My mom died before I killed her", Kathleen said putting the last bullet through her head and Francheska lied dead on the floor.

Kathleen collapsed to floor crying but only tears streamed down her face nothing more as she stared at her mother's clone, "It was a clone", I said to her, I wanted to comfort her but I don't know what would make her feel better. It was easy to read Kate but Kat, she's on a whole different level, much higher than us Agents. If we were made to lose our emotions then I could say she wasn't born with it.
"I know", she said coldly but tears were streaming down her face.
"So will you be okay?", I asked and she nodded wiping her tears. We turned to see that others were having a hard time fighting Wesker but there was someone alongside him.

"Ada", Kate answered me.
"How? Didn't you gave her the cure", I asked her.
"I don't know… the cure wasn't perfected; maybe I miscalculated I made the virus dormant. I don't know", I felt like she lost her calm, "But don't worry I know what to do", she surprised me as she proved me wrong again; "Give me the sample."
"What sample?", I asked shrugging.
"The one I put in your jacket's inner pocket when you came to meet me in cell", she replied as I felt my inner pocket.

"What is it?", I asked giving her a vial containing a transparent liquid.
"I am not sure", she said as she pulled the cap.
"What are you doing?", I asked her and she looked at me.
"Trusting you to kill me if it goes wrong", she said looking me in eyes.
"What!?", I yelled in shock.
"Promise me you'll kill me if I turn into one of them. Just shoot me in the head", she said urgently
"You're mad", I said to her.
"Promise me Leon", she said, "Please I beg you", and I couldn't say no. She took the vial and was about to inject it to her.
"Wait…", I said and she looked at me, "all the best", I wished her.
Again she was about to inject it but she looked at me, "Keep your gun on my head, it'll be easy", she said but I didn't do it so she held my hand and made me do it. Then she injected whatever was in that vial into her. She didn't move and I didn't know what to do.

"Kathleen", I called her name, "Kat!", I said again, "Kate?", I said as I readied myself to shoot her dead. I was about to pull my trigger when she grabbed my hand and I didn't notice until her hand was already on mine.

"I am okay", she said and opened her eyes. I didn't know if it was a lighting effect or something but her eyes seemed to be shining blue, "I have 2 minutes if I am not able kill Wesker, then you guys are doomed", she told me and smiled, and literally vanished in front of my eyes.

I stood up and ran, where Wesker and Ada were taking down everything and everyone. Wesker was standing on something like a balcony laughing madly as others fought Ada, "Kennedy we need help, Wesker was losing against us but then he called Ada and she is making things worse", Chris said.

"Where's Kathleen?", Claire asked noticing.
"Uh…" I searched for her, "There", I pointed at her to make everybody see how she kicked Ada in face and blocked Wesker in a flash when he tried to stop her.
"How'd you?", Wesker was heard yell as she disappeared again, and then I don't know what happened but Ada fell to the ground with a loud crash.
"Rebecca give her another shot of the cure", Kate's voice was heard, "Now it's your turn, Wesker."

"You can't kill me, I am like God, I am God", he said like a hysteric.
"Not any more", she said as Wesker was hit by something we didn't see and he was smashed in the wall.
"What are you?", Wesker said.
"I am your dream come true", she replied, "I am the ultimate Bio-weapon you've so dying to create or super race of human?", she told him smiling her eyes still glowing beautifully blue like an Angel, "Goodbye", she said and hit him with something.
"Wow she finished them in less than two minutes", Chris said and I looked at my watch.

"It's almost time", I looked up at Kathleen, she was leaning over railing, where she had just finished off Wesker, who was lying at her feet.
"She doesn't look good", John pointed out and then she fell off the railing.
I ran to catch her, "Gotcha", I said catching her just in time. She was panting, she looked at me and smiled, the glow of her eyes was gone.

"How did I do?", Kate asked trying hard to smile.
"You did great", I told her smiling as my tears fell on her face.
"Kill me please, it… it hurts like hell", she said as I slowly lowered her to the floor.
"Becky help her", I yelled to her and she ran to her with rest of the people following her.
"She stressed her body too much. What she did was beyond a human body's capability", Rebecca said, "Her heart is beating ten folds, she's having a cardiac arrest."

We watched as Kathleen's breath become faster and she wriggled in pain, crying in my arms begging me to kill her. Rebecca tried hard to help as she mixed different things, "Relax everything will be fine", I tried to calm her down as her breath became even more unsteady and she screamed in agony holding on to my jacket really tightly.

"I can't watch this", Claire said crying too, burying her face in her brother's shoulder.
"Becky do something", I said to Rebecca urgently, feeling helpless.
"I… I… can't do anything", Rebecca said crying too, "I don't know what she took, analyzing it would take time and we don't have any."
Kathleen screamed, "Kill her kid; I can't watch her like this", John said to me.

"No", I snapped, even though she was screaming and begging me to kill her but I knew she wanted me to save her, "Kate, Kate remember, you ought have the cure for this, remember please remember", she didn't reply, she was in no condition to reply. She just cried more and screamed more in pain. I wanted to save her and I could only do it by putting a bullet through her head. I reached for my gun with a shaky hand but instead I felt something in my inner pocket and I pulled out another vial containing another water like fluid but it was shining different colors in the light unlike the previous one, "Becky give her this", I said to her as we watched every vein on Kate's body becoming clearly distinguished.

"It could make her condition worse", she said taking the vial.
"She is not in a good condition now", I was willing to take the risk to save her, "Do it Becky, I beg you", I cried.
"Okay", she said and without wasting any more time she shot whatever in that vial into Kate. Kate screamed once again and her chest rose one last time and she became limp.

A/N: Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed the story. I apologize for any typos or mistakes in the context that might have caused an inconvenience. Feel free to share your views about the story.