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Simmons was now pacing back and forth on the ground floor of an old abandoned building. He clearly had no idea what was in store for him as the two Agents approached his location.
"What's taking her so long?" he grumbled to himself as his men made sure to keep him well protected at all costs.
It was Helena that had been the first to spot him. Quickly turning she aimed her gun right up at him as she shouted his name.
"Simmons!"
That now got her the attention of all Simmons' men and the very man himself.
"Well, this is unexpected." He thought bewildered at the surprise appearance of her and Leon.
"Give it up, Simmons. We..." Leon shouted up at him, getting cut off as the metal door behind him opened as Sherry now rushed through.
"No! Wait!" she urged them to hold fire as Jake and Claire quickly followed her on.
Leon and Helena turned to look at her before quickly turning their attention back to Simmons.
"Ah, Agent Birkin." He thought relieved until he saw her as well. "And Claire Redfield!"
Seems things had gotten way out of hand here.
"Would you kindly arrest those two," he pointed to Leon and Helena.
"They say you were involved in the terrorist attack," Sherry now questioned, completely ignoring his request. "Is it true?"
"What, are they running down the streets, screaming it to anyone who'll listen?"
"Answer me!" she screamed, wanting to hear it directly from his mouth.
"It's for the benefit of the United States and global security," he finally answered her.
"I can't see how killing the President is good for the country!" Leon snapped.
Sherry was shocked to hear this. "The President's dead?"
"We have Leon to thank for that," Simmons smirked.
"God damn you, Simmons!" Helena snarled.
"Dispose of them," he now ordered to his men, who immediately opened fire until realising he could still use Sherry and Jake. "Hold your fire! Those two are still of use to us."
The five of them quickly ducked and dived behind the metal crates for cover. Leon was now scolding Sherry as if he were her father.
"You need to be more careful," he warned her.
"Yeah, yeah. She'd had the same lecture from her mother over there," Jake replied sarcastically once again.
"I heard that," Claire glared at him.
"So, what'll we do?" Jake asked ignoring her. "Waste 'em?"
"No," Leon told him straight. "We'll take care of Simmons. You need to take care of Sherry."
"Give it up, Simmons!" they now heard someone shout behind them.
"Chris!" Claire and Leon both said in unison.
"Go!" Leon now shouted to them as he and Helena ran out to start shooting at the distracted men.
Simmons quickly rushed for cover as Chris, Jill and Piers now helped the others take down his men. He clearly had no idea Carla had been the very one that had brought the three here as she now reached out to jab him in the neck with something sharp.
"What the..." he grunted, now reaching up to place a hand to his neck.
Ripping the injector from his neck he threw it to the floor.
"Stop hiding in the shadows you coward!" he snarled. "Come out and face me!"
The night was silent, save for the gun fire and shouts of his men who were dropping like flies.
"When I find you I'll tear you limb from limb!" he snarled as the virus was now taking effect.
The veins in his neck were bulging slightly, along with the lower side of his face.
"There's no way she could have got me!" he now thought as he half dragged himself to the edge to drop onto a conveniently oncoming train. "I killed her! I made sure of it!"
"He's getting away!" Helena warned as she took cover with Leon.
"Come on!" he gestured to her as he ran out of cover, leaving it to the BSAA to handle.
"We've got your back, Leon!" Chris shouted over the gun fire. "Get after him!"
"Thanks, Chris!" Leon nodded as he and Helena just managed to drop onto the last train car.
The pair looked on as Simmons pulled out his phone, they too were now holding a finger to their earpiece at receiving a call.
"Can you feel it spreading through your body yet?" Carla's voice now taunted him.
Chris, Jill and Piers were also receiving the same call, it would seem Carla wanted everyone of them to hear what she'd done to Simmons.
"Captain, isn't that?" Piers now asked.
"Shush!" Chris scowled as he listened to what the woman was saying.
"I'm just giving you exactly what you gave me, Simmons." There was clearly hatred in her voice as she said his name.
"C-Carla!" he growled. "It can't be!"
"At first you'll be afraid, but don't worry."
It seemed as though Carla had also brought Ada into the one sided conversation as well, as she too listened in.
"What have you done now?" she sighed heavily.
"You're just becoming the monster you always were," Carla finished.
"How?" he hissed, completely crushing his phone in his mad rage. "How is this possible? I killed you!"
"Give it up, Simmons!" Leon stepped up to him, gun pointed directly at him. "We've got you!"
Simmons turned to face him.
"You chase me while that woman is on the loose," he snarled.
"She'll be taken care of," Leon reassured him.
That now told him that the voice hadn't been a recording after all and that she was indeed still alive.
"Carla!" he screamed. "When I get my hands on you, I'll make sure you stay dead!"
"You won't be seeing her again anytime soon, I'll make damn sure of that!" Leon snarled.
Simmons growled in response. "Don't you see?" he roared. "If she's done this to me then what else is she capable of?"
"Once we're done with you, we'll see to Carla." Leon informed him.
Simmons could only glare in response.
"She's capable of..." he started.
"She wasn't the one to kill all those people back in Tall Oaks!" Leon snapped back at him.
"And I wasn't the one to kill the President, Agent Kennedy!" Simmons smirked despite the pain he was now in.
"He was infected!" Helena snarled beside Leon. "Because of you!'
Simmons just laughed before dropping to his knees, his body steaming as if he were burning up from the inside. Helena now started to back up a little, along with Leon just as Simmons' body burst into flames. However, this time it wasn't like all the others. The flames were now dying down and Simmons was now standing, his skin cracked all over his body making him look like some kind of jigsaw.
"Leon!" Helena looked to him.
"We can take him," he assured her.
Taking up her gun again, she was ready or so she thought. Simmons screamed in pain as his body then tore him apart, reforming his structure completely, bones, muscle and organs all shifting and changing in different shapes and sizes. Forcing him to become what looked to be a giant sabre toothed cat like creature with bone and muscle on show.
"Oh boy!" Leon could only sigh as he looked to the large cat just in front of them.
This was going to be a long night indeed.
oOo
At having listened to Carla's little speech and having gotten to high ground Ada could now plainly see a large cat like creature on top of a train, only it wasn't the only thing there.
"Leon," she smiled. "I'd have never taken you as a cat lover."
Jokes aside she knew it was time to help the pair out, once again. Thankfully there was a helicopter on a landing pad not far from her, in which she now borrowed.
oOo
The top of a train was clearly no place to be fighting such a large thing as Simmons had become, but they had no other choice as there was no jumping off now.
"We're going to have to put some space between him and us," Leon warned. "We'll get..."
Simmons now jumped right over them to then lash out, catching Helena to send her over the edge. Thankfully, she managed to grab the bar.
"Helena!" Leon shouted as he ran over to help her up, only Simmons was now making that hard for him to do so. "Hang in there, Helena!"
"Alright," she called back.
The dreaded sound of a helicopter moving in on them had Leon wondering how he'd actually get through this. Gun shots now rained down, thankfully not a one had hit him. Much rather whoever was in the helicopter was targeting Simmons. Leon used this opportunity to run over to help Helena as cat Simmons roared behind them.
"I've got you," Leon reassured, grabbing her wrist as her other hand slipped from the rail. "Come on, get yourself back up here."
Once he'd pulled her back up, she dropped to her hands and knees. Leon looked over to see Simmons had now reverted back to his normal form as he'd taken a good amount of damage from the bullets. Turning back to his partner, he asked if she was alright.
"Helena?" he asked worriedly.
"I'm fine," she reassured him. "Just a little winded."
Simmons roared as he transformed back into the cat like creature again, this time to turn on the pair just as a tunnel was coming up.
"Come on," Leon called to Helena as she unloaded the Hydra right in Simmons' face.
She turned as Simmons backed up to shake his head, clearly not taking kindly to the shots to the face. The pair dropped down to then open the door to slip inside, startling the few people that were on the train with them.
"Get to the back of the train, now!" Leon snapped at the few passengers, just as the roof was torn away as if it were made of paper.
The panicked few quickly ran from the car to head to the very last one. He wasn't quite sure if they'd actually survive this or not.
"Shit!" Helena shouted as Simmons dropped in with them.
Running to the end carriage was out of the question as that was where the passengers resided.
"Come on, we're going back up."
Helena reloaded the Hydra before unloading it again on cat Simmons. She then followed Leon back onto the roof just as cat Simmons swiped at them. The pair now awaited the end of the tunnel in hopes that the one in the helicopter would help them out again.
"Any minute now," Leon sighed as he watched the tunnel shorten.
The sound of tearing metal told them Simmons was once again on the war path. He pulled himself up and turned to the pair with a roar. Leon was now shooting wildly to keep Simmons at bay, while Helena quickly reloaded. Thankfully the tunnel was now coming to an end and the one in the helicopter was now free to help them out once again. Simmons was once again reverting back to normal as the bullets rained down on him again. Once Helena saw an opening she pounced on him, pinning him down to beat him bloodier than he already was.
"This is for my sister!" she snarled as she kept hitting him.
"Helena!" Leon called out, snapping her from her fury.
She was thrown off as Simmons transformed yet again, this time he kept the body of a cat but his head was on a rather long neck much like a giraffe. By means of his head, it was Simmons' actual head on a long spiny muscular neck with spikes around his head much like a frill. He jumped from the train to run on the tracks opposite them.
"What the hell?" Helena thought as Simmons was now openly speaking out to them.
"How about I reunite you with your sister, Agent Harper?" he snarled in a demonic voice.
The pair could only watch now as Simmons grew out a large tendril in the form of an arm from the side of his head to completely wreck the oncoming train. Nothing was stopping him it seemed.
"Oh god!" Helena now watched on in horror as the train cars collided to be thrown off the track as if it were nothing but a toy.
They watched him as he now ran on ahead, jumped to their track to now run back to do the same with their train.
"Leon!" Simmons yelled as he headed right for them.
"Shit, aim for his legs!" Leon shouted as they both aimed at the creature coming towards them at full speed.
Thankfully they did it and Simmons was sent flying through the air while reverting back to his former self once again. He groaned as he rolled over to now stand up.
"I'm going to kill you!" he threatened as he changed back only to have another helicopter hover at the side of them.
Simmons kicked up a piece of metal from the roof and threw it at them. The pair ducked just in time, now leaving Helena to pull off a nice head shot. Simmons roared then turned to look up at the helicopter.
"Leave him!" he heard someone say.
"No!" he screamed. "How could my Family abandon me?"
His back paw slipped from the train car making him fall to the tracks to then get caught underneath the train, causing it to derail.
"Now what?" Leon frowned as they had no other choice but to run back.
Luckily the helicopter was now back and hovering just above them.
"Jump!" Helena screamed as she jumped up to grab hold of the bar.
Leon quickly following, holding on for dear life as the helicopter got them out of there to drop them off by the roadside. Once they were off, he quickly looked up to try and see just who had saved them.
"Damn, wish I knew who that was." He sighed.
Once the pair were safely dropped off, Ada now made a few rounds of the rooftops trying to find a good spot to land. She caught sight of someone upon one of the rooftops, which she intended to land upon. Once the helicopter touched upon the landing pad, Ada now climbed out to walk over to clearly see it was Carla. The woman looked to have been watching all that had happened with Simmons on the train as she was still holding onto a pair of binoculars.
"Enjoying the view," Ada asked as she walked over to her twin.
Carla straightened up from leaning against the wall to now cross her arms.
"Is that what you intended to show Simmons as?" Ada now asked as she stood beside her.
"No, Simmons was always a monster. But no one could see, not even me. The child genius!" she snarled at the last part.
"We're all blinded by something," Ada reminded her, though was this even true for someone as such as her?
"Don't, I already feel sick at looking at that thing." She gestured.
Ada smiled as she took the binoculars from Carla's hand to now look down on the mess. Her smile soon turned to a look of frustration at now seeing the train move.
"Seems I've got my work cut out for me."
Carla continued to look down on the wreckage as Ada made a move to the helicopter.
"You coming?" she asked.
Carla huffed in response. "Why should I?"
"Well for one this is your mess, and for another don't you want to be the one to get revenge?"
Carla lowered her head, thinking things through.
"And then what?" she asked bitterly.
Ada stayed silent.
"You think everything will be just fine? That things will be normal again? But what of me?"
"You're free to do as you please, Carla."
Carla stiffened at the sound of her name again, but quickly raised a hand to her head as her conscience took over once again.
'Stop fighting, Carla. Please just accept who you really are.'
Carla groaned as she came to, feeling a hand resting on her shoulder.
"Everything will get sorted in the end," Ada reassured her. "Once they find out the truth, you'll be a free woman."
Carla looked to her, then turned away.
"I've done a lot of...bad things," she told her, acting like a child that was a little afraid to admit what they've done wrong in front of their parents.
"You have, but I can clearly see why you ended up doing what you did." Ada reassured her. "Simmons forced you to become me, he's the real threat behind this."
"But I was the one to..."
"Listen to me," Ada now turned on her. "You've clearly started to see your wrong doings and you're starting to come to the realisation that you're not me, so stop fighting this."
Carla didn't know what to say in response.
"What's going to happened to me, Ada?"
"You'll get through this and make a cure for that what you created."
Carla nodded beside her.
"Then that means Jake Muller has to survive."
"And by that?" Ada asked as she now crossed her arms.
"Jenkins, needs to be stopped."
"Jenkins as in?" she asked.
"Ustanak," Carla informed her, plain and simple.
"Your pet," Ada sighed.
Carla scowled at her. "My creation," she replied smugly.
"You scientists are all the same," Ada now sighed at the very thought of Annette, then to their little fight that had her push the woman off the side of the railings. Not that she intended to do the same with Carla that was. "Time to get Leon on the phone."
oOo
Leon pulled out his mobile as soon as he heard it ring, the pair had just made it halfway up the road.
"Ada," his face set in surprise at seeing her calling. "Was that you that helped us?"
"You got me," she smiled before getting serious again. "Listen, there's a Tyrant after Sherry and Jake."
"We dealt with it back at..."
"Did you hit its weak spot?" Carla now forced her way into view of the phone screen.
"Weak spot?" Leon asked, looking to Helena who was looking as confused as he was.
"His chest," Carla sighed. "If you weaken his chest enough, you'll expose the heart. It just takes one hit and he's down."
"Alight, I'll warn Chris right away." Leon acknowledged.
"Leon!" Helena pointed as a tanker was now headed their way.
The vehicle was tossed on its side as if a huge force had thrown it. Upon landing it burst open, one spark was all that was needed for it to send the two flying through the air.
"Leon!" Ada frowned at the screen as the connection was cut. "Come on, we've got to stop what you've started!"
Carla wasted no time climbing into the helicopter as Ada now took control to have them hovering over the area in search of Simmons. Saying that, it wasn't too hard to find a large cat like creature bounding down the road taking out anyone and anything in its path, J'avo included as they now crawled their way out of the woodwork.
"Looks like your friends are back to stir up trouble," Ada turned to her.
Before she even had time to tell Carla to take up the guns, she was already on it. Firing at Simmons and the attacking J'avo.
oOo
As soon as Leon had come round, he now found himself face down on the floor. His body ached all over, but he knew this wasn't the time for a break. Turning to the side, he could clearly see his partner was out cold.
"Helena," he reached out to her with great difficulty. "Helena, come on."
She wasn't responding.
"Hang in there, Helena." He grunted as he pushed himself to his hands and knees.
He looked over the area, finding his phone which had flown out of his hand what with the blast. It seemed unresponsive, but he slipped it into his pocket anyway.
"Come on, Leon, push yourself." He forced himself to stand or at least try to stand.
The sound of heavy breathing meant only one thing, the J'avo were near.
"Is it too much to ask for just one quiet moment!" he complained as he made his way over to his partner.
Tucking his hands under her arms he pulled her up slightly just as the J'avo gathered around them. What followed was the thundering sound of something large and heavy heading their way. The J'avo turned at the oncoming disturbance and started shooting, the creature roared as it rammed a car into the air. Thankfully it flew right over the pair. Leon was back to dragging his partner to safety just as a helicopter now stopped to hover over them.
"I sure hope that's you, Ada." He thought as he shielded his eyes from the brightness of the search light.
Bullets rained down upon them, taking out the J'avo and also forcing Simmons to keep moving on.
"Wait!" Leon now realised. "Simmons! He's still alive!"
Helena now groaned, forcing him back to taking care of her.
"I've got you," he reassured her as he dragged her over to the alleyway.
Once in the safety of the alley, he pulled her to her feet by draping her arm over his shoulders. He led her up a wooden ramp, which quickly gave way sending the pair crashing back down to the floor again.
"Damn!" he hissed as Helena groaned.
Looking up he now saw a door blocked by a wooden beam. Gently laying a hand on Helena's shoulder he told her he'd be right back just as soon as he'd opened the door. It wasn't long before he was heading back to pull her up again, this time he tucked a hand under her legs to heave her up into his arms.
"Leon, just leave me." She told him weakly.
"Not gonna happen," he frowned deeply. "You're my partner."
Her head dropped back as she lost consciousness once again.
"Helena, you hang in there!" he told her as he slipped through the building to place her upon the floor.
He gave his phone a try again, but it wasn't turning on. Looking to Helena he searched her for her phone to give Hunnigan a quick call.
"Hunnigan! Helena's in a bad way."
"Do you have anything on hand?"
Leon looked around seeing a abandoned humvee. Quickly heading over he looked inside to luckily find a first aid box.
"Yeah, just found some first aid."
"Good," Hunnigan nodded as Leon now headed back.
"I wasn't able to get in contact with Chris, as we were just attacked again by Simmons. He needs to know that there's a Tyrant after Sherry and Jake."
"Alright, you see to Helena. I'll talk with Chris."
Leon was just now patching up Helena's arm.
"How you feeling?" he asked shortly after.
Helena looked to her arm then back up at him. "I'm fine."
"Good," Leon smiled as Hunnigan called back. "Everything alright with Chris and the others?"
"They're under attack by it as we speak," she informed him.
"So it's found them," he frowned. "Alright, you'll have to tell them that they need to break through the things chest to get to the heart. That's its weak spot."
"Got it," she nodded. "How's Helena?"
"I've cleaned her up as best I can," he said as he looked down on the young woman. "She says she's alright."
"Good to hear," Hunnigan smiled. "And Leon."
"Yeah?"
"Be careful," she warned him.
"I always am," he reassured her.
xXx
The battle with the bulking creature, known as the Ustanak had been a brutal one indeed.
"Aim for the chest!" Chris was now shouting.
"Why the chest?" Piers asked.
"If we do enough damage we'll expose the heart, it's the things only weakness!"
"Got it!"
They all ducked and dodged the claw, knowing that thing could crush them in an instant. Claire had been told to take Sherry and Jake to safety, but the three had insisted on staying. Chris was just now reloading as the thing rushed them.
"Captain!" Piers yelled.
Chris had already seen it coming and rolled to the side. Piers unfortunately was knocked off his feet, landing rather harshly onto the stone flooring of the abandoned building.
"Piers!" Chris yelled as the bulking creature rammed himself through the pillar of the building, bringing the flooring above down on him.
Piers awoke to an almighty pain surging through his body, upon opening his eyes he was met with Chris who was holding up a large slab that had almost fell on top of him.
"You alright?" Chris asked as the dust began to settle.
"My arm!" Piers now cried out. "Oh god, my arm!"
Chris pushed back the heavy slab with a grunt, getting help from Jake as well.
"Ahhh!" Piers screamed, now turning to see his arm had been completely lost to the large concrete block next to him.
"Chris! Piers!" Jill's worried voice came over their earpieces.
"Jill, keep that bastard distracted. We got a situation here. A bad one."
"Alright," she responded, hoping she could keep the thing at bay with Jake now heading back to help.
"Piers, look at me!" Chris tried to get his attention on him now.
"It's bad, Captain!" Piers groaned in pain. "It's real bad."
"Just hang in there," Chris tried to ease him.
"Fuck, it hurts!"
"I know," Chris tried to calm him before activating his earpiece. "HQ, I need the medical team here right away! Piers is in bad shape!"
"We'll get them to your location right away, Alpha!"
"Good!" Chris cut the connection to turn his attention back on Piers. "Stay with me, Piers."
He held out a hand and Piers automatically gripped it in his.
"I'm alright, Captain." He smiled weakly.
"You better be, soldier!" Chris smiled as he pat his shoulder.
Claire and Sherry now rushed over, Sherry couldn't help but put a hand to her mouth in shock. Claire on the other hand was forcing Chris aside to take his place.
"Go help Jill and Jake!" she told him.
He gave a nod, grabbed his gun and hurried back over to help deal with this thing. Jake looked to him and he looked to Jake, knowing this wasn't the right time for confrontation they both set their differences aside and helped each other out.