CHAPTER 6

"We'll lose them through the buildings, c'mon!"

"Okay!"

Leon led the both of them through the mess that Carla left as her parting gift, massive hordes of zombies emitting a constant moist crunch and hungry growls at panicked citizens struggling to escape. It was pure madness, just like how she wanted it to be. The BSAA soldiers who were unturned helped to escort the two agents out of the city engulfed in blue. They pushed through the distraught streets, slipping into the nearest building that appeared to be like an apparel flagship.

"What a waste…"

One of the soldiers said aloud to himself, which earned Helena a small tug at the corner of her lips. They began scanning about the first floor, looking about to figure out their next plan from there. The soldiers begun to relax as they stared blankly at the murderous horde banging helplessly on the glass windows, it was a mistake.

"LEON!"

"Helena! Up here!"

Just as Leon and Helena were scrambling up to the exit above, they could hear muffled growls turning into vivid horror audios accompanied by the sound of shattered glass. Moist crunches and rapid stomping becomes more audible as the horde greedily pinned down the unfortunate men who were too stunned to flee the scene. Helena tore her eyes away from the slaughtering mess, already submitting behind her mental walls to keep her sanity in the insane setting. Leon strode on ahead to the exit, totally unfazed by the shit brewing everywhere around him. There's no time to grieve.

"Hey handsome, long time no see."

"Ada…"

"And is that all you can say every time we meet Leon?"

"What are you doing here?"

"That too handsome…"

A ghost of a smile appeared on his face, he definitely didn't see this coming.

"What are you doing here at my garage?"

"Well…it depends on how you'll act."

He chuckled internally, what a way to ask him for a date. There was no question that Ada and Leon had something more than comraderies or rivalry, it was much sweeter than that.

Leon could barely feel his surroundings, it hurt so much that all his senses were on overdrive. The explosion definitely did serious damage to his back, but he thanked adrenaline to push all that aside. Helena was ready to go all the way as the zombies swarmed them, her muscles tensed visibly giving cue to her partner to put on his game face. Just as he readied his trigger finger, the sounds of bullets cracking asphalt and flesh broke their concentration. They had to shield their eyes from the sudden blinding light, for moment they were confused until their hearing had zoned onto the low humming of a chopper. The two agents shared a look at each other before lowering their arms for better look at their savior.

She sat comfortably in the pilot's seat, her experienced hand steadying her ride's balance. The last thing Ada wanted was her chopper ripped apart because of the narrow street. She watch her rookie cop's eye widening, a small relieved smile formed without warning.

"Leon…"

"Leon, it's…"

"Ada! I thought she was dead?"

Apparently not...what the hell is going on Ada?

His head didn't have enough time to wrap around the fact she was still alive, only enough to physically giving consecutive headshots at the growling undead flailing towards them. Helena had held her fight well enough, considering she was knocked out shortly after her head made that impact on the car.

"Shit, there's too many of them."

Grateful that Ada was there to spray a storm of bullets as a cover, he was pretty sure that he hadn't had much ammo left.

"Leon, this way!"

They eyed the narrow alley filled with obstruction that was passable by human agility, alright, they had to bite. They had no plans to die tonight, or anytime soon. Quickly zipping through to crawl space and hauling themselves over crates, they stopped to breathe in the safe zone. His eyes wander towards the moving spot light which vanished soon after. The street was decorated with corpses, a full wipeout.

"C'mon, let's get to the rendezvous point."

"Yeah."

It was the longest elevator ride he ever had, literally. Helena stood behind him, indulging in the comfortable silence as Leon's mind played back the shitty journey he had since Tall Oaks. After their narrow escape and discovery that Ada Wong wasn't dead after all, the whole cycle of death repeated again. They were lucky that the chopper he attempted to salvage before slamming into a building didn't crash like the plane they were riding before, Helena had almost categorized him as a jinx. They met Simmons, again, but this time the virus had already consumed his body entirely which allowed him to mutate into a T-rex. On the plus side for Leon, Ada was there to aid there Jurassic attack which they finally took down after much running and exchange of bullet and mutant spit.

Ada, all questions but no answers. What is her motive? Why was she related to Neo-Umbrella? Or in fact, why did she worked for Wesker and the old Umbrella? The tape, Simmons, how does everything add up?

There was something he was missing, and it frustrated him. He always knew that he didn't know Ada Wong well, but somehow whenever he had to work with her during their occasional 'partner-up-or-die' moments…it felt so natural. As if they knew each other inside out. Well, he wasn't so far from that deduction.

"She's more than just a friend, isn't she?"

All of his thoughts come to a halt, woman, who was he kidding anyways. Helena wasn't blind, neither were his acts of affection minimal too.

"You have feelings for her."

His eyes glanced up quickly to meet her statement. Though it shouldn't had come as a surprise, it still shocked him. The fact that he had never really admitted it to himself, made it a real shocker when Helena spoke as if it was nothing big. But to him, even the tiniest act to affirm his love for Ada felt forbidden. Internal conflict as they call it. But the world had no time for his drabble as an explosion causes the elevator to be pushed into mid-air swinging like a pendulum. To make matters much severe, the glass panels shattered which left the agents open to a kamikaze.

Instantly they held themselves tight to the hand rails. However, things just had to get worse when they heard the cable above snapping. They were still in the midst of the elevator's wild swinging when they decided to take a gamble – leaping off for the other elevator's roof. No hesitation, they jumped full force which made the impact a lot harder onto the metal. Just as they got up, Leon cursed under his breath as the elevator below them decided to take a quick ride down to hell. Scrambling to climb onto the cable, they watched it fall fast below them. They day couldn't salvage itself anymore. I would definitely trade in for an eradication job any day.

Helena breathed hard as she hauled herself up the cable, her mental capacity to even fear falling to her death was ignored as the events of the day had completely scrambled her ability to process emotions. *BAM* Leon turned his head around to peek at the falling infrastructure, immediately noting that Simmons was still very much alive (why?) with Ada attacking. Both were treading dangerously on collapsing architecture.

"Simmons! He's still alive."

Ada did a cartwheel backwards easily while landing a shot at Simmons's still mutated form. It has taken up a beast-like form, moving on fours which made him quite an opponent. Especially when her fighting ground had only so much to move about.

"…She really shouldn't had ditched the helicopter."

Leon desperately tried to pull himself higher and faster, but his arms couldn't meet his needs. So he slipped, but survival reflexes wouldn't allow him to die. The cramps his arms were feeling was escalating.

"LEON!"

"I'm alright!"

The younger agent was already on solid ground, her arm outstretched waiting to haul the older agent. Regulating his breathing, making sure the oxygen was getting to his tiring arms. All he could focus on was to put down Simmons, it gave him strength to reach solid ground. He and his partner stood firm as they readied their weapons in their hands, carefully watching the spy dance a deadly routine of bolts and bullets. The last thing Leon needed was a bullet plummeting into the wrong body.

For the fool to pull his weight above a walkway suspended in mid-air made everything so much more pain in the ass for Ada. All logic was clear thrown out of the window for Simmons, the connectors were collapsing one by one as they were forced to proceed onto a new battle ground every few minutes. She ran at full speed, her right heel kicked hard on the metal giving her much air time before gravity took hold. The spy eyed onto the beast successfully making it to another platform, the fight was wearing her patience thin. In one smooth motion her hookshot had fired straight for the platform, leaving the rest to momentum. Simmons charged ahead when his eyes caught Ada. She wasn't dumb, she knew very well that fighting him in this form was impossible, even for her. A timely retract from her grapple and there sat her Ammo Box in her hands, already spraying covering fire until her heels met the solid metal.

"You'll be…mine…Ada!"

Confidently, right arm up in a side stance, her signature coy smile plastered on her face cocked on one side. This time, her eyes zero onto the made shift head of the ugly son of a bitch before her.

"I'm afraid my heart doesn't belong to you, Simmons."

"ARGGHHHHHHHH!"

An inhumane roar ringed hard in her ears, she readied herself to maneuver past Simmons. Ada Wong wasn't foolish enough to play hero, it was all a simple ruse for the beast to revert back into his most vulnerable form.

"ADA!"

…Leon.

Her legs failed her when Simmons came in too fast. It shocked Leon thoroughly when saw her body flailed back onto the hard glass panels and metal beams, he looked back Helena and to find a similar pair of wordless orbs glaring back at him. In that moment, he knew what he had to do.

"Helena, cover for me!"

"Leon!"

His legs stretched for the metal beams of the shaft's open exterior, his other kicks onto it generating enough force for Leon to tumble a few meters behind Ada. She's just there! Blue shades look up to see Simmons ready to fire a B.O.W.'s version of a machine gun.

Ada was still out cold.

"Ada…Can you hear me!?"

He pushes his heavy body over to the limp body of the spy, cradling her. His back faced Simmons in a vain attempt to shield Ada. His eyes locked onto the face of someone he knew for so long, but it felt so foreign. The little nicks and scratches visible on her exposed skin, dirt smeared black in contrast of silky white. She wasn't as formidable looking as he pictured, ironically, she hadn't looked so fragile and weak before. Reminding him once again that Ada Wong was human, a living and breathing being.

"Don't let it end like this."

He was crouching with Ada's head resting on his leg, boy it would be great if the setting wasn't looking so apocalyptic. Simmons was approaching slowly, the cocky bastard had reverted back into his human form. Clumsily striding nearer and nearer. A surge of rage and bravery backed Leon's broken back, he had to protect Ada at all cost.

"Get away from her, Leon! You're not half the man she needs!"

Oh boy, his happy trigger finger give Simmons a great time to his head. But he was dealing no visible damage. He was still etching nearer. His grasp was nearing his butterfly, threatening to take her from him. Panic started to kick in.

"Come with me, my love. We'll be together, forever!"

He had the nerve to spout that rubbish so arrogantly.

"OVER. MY. DEAD. BODY."

His shots quicken, with deadly speed and accuracy the bullets land onto Simmon's flesh. Futile attempts, shit, he wasn't going to let things end in his way.

"Come on, wake up!"

His teeth gritted, he could feel the muscles in his jaws clench. Panic was already running amok. His arms shook in fear, but also in rage. No, I believe in her.

"If you're really Ada, I know you can pull through this…We both can."

Panic had turned into adrenaline as his fiercely unwavering faith was challenged by Simmons turning into the beast he truly is. The beast raised its make-shift machine gun. Ada was still out cold.

HEY YA'LL ! It's been a while eh ? Sorry for the looooooonggg hiatus, my 1st semester of my new year occupied a hell lot of my time. It's been a rough time for myself too, internal conflict (heh referencing from the lines above). Couldn't churn anything more than a paragraph for the past few months, ugh, I was miserable... So lucky me it's like an anniversary celebration in Singapore, extra days of holiday ! YAAAYYYY \(^v^)/ Gave me a good amount of time to grind out two chapters, so stay tune for Chapter 7 ! The end is near :3 By the way, please rate and review my story yes ? Good or bad, just shoot ! Just don't dump something like 'This sucks' and walk away yeah ? (HAHAHA it ain't very nice...) THANK YOU FOR READING.