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Located
Leon swept the hallway with his light, making his way down the hallway, both hands gripping his pistol. Behind him, Helena made sure no infected appeared behind them, as well as sweeping the ceiling for any gaps while Leon watched the walls.
"So Leon, heard from Ada recently?" Helena asked.
"No," Leon said. "But she seems to always show up during problems like this, so I'm sure we'll see her in a few hours at the latest."
"You don't sound as excited about that thought as I'd expect," Helena noted.
"Yeah," Leon said, stepping around a corner and then staring.
Helena stepped around as well but it was an empty hallway, just like the rest.
"I guess I've just been...doing a lot of thinking recently," Leon said. "About everything. I'm getting too old for this job. I guess, part of me wants to be able to settle down. But Ada won't. Probably ever."
"I'm sure she would if you asked her," Helena said.
"I have," Leon said. "She contacted me a while back and I brought it up retiring. She said that she's not done messing with this world just yet."
"I see," Helena said. "So what'll you do?"
"I don't know," Leon said. "Maybe it's time for me to finally move on."
"You're going to break up with her?" Helena asked.
Leon stopped just shy of an open door. "It's not breaking up. We were never actually together. We just...I don't know. It was never a relationship."
He stepped into the doorway, quickly sweeping his light around the room, only to find it completely empty and pristinely clean, just like everything else. They continued down the hallway as Helena watched her partner.
"If you did move on, what would you do?" Helena asked. "I struggle to see you on Tindr."
Leon smirked, shaking his head. "No, I think I know someone already who I might be able to settle down with. Maybe."
"Been working on Hunnigan again, have you?" Helena smirked.
Leon laughed. "No no. I gave up on Hunnigan a long time ago when she threatened to shoot my balls off and cauterize it so I couldn't get a transplant. No. There's some one else. Someone that's actually very important to me."
Helena quirked an eyebrow just as a door further down the hallway groaned. They stopped, both sighting in on it.
"Chris?" Leon called. "Sherry?"
The door swung slowly closed again and the two quickly walked to it, stopping, Leon's hand on the door nob. Helena nodded and Leon yanked the door open, Helena tensing but not firing. Leon shoved the door out of the way and aimed through the doorway as well only to stop, staring at the empty room inside.
"I don't like this," Helena said.
"Neither do I," Leon said. He stepped inside, looking around, but all that was in the room was a couple bookshelves along the walls and a single chair. "Who decorated this place?" He stepped back out into the hallway and they continued on in silence for a while.
"So, this girl, do I know her?" Helena asked.
"You could say that, yeah," Leon said.
"Really?" Helena grinned. "Is it Carrie from central?"
"Nope," Leon said.
"Ashley from the CIA?" Helena asked.
"No," Leon snorted.
"Hailey from the Bureau?" Helena asked.
"Oh God no," Leon laughed.
"Well how about-"
She stopped as a metallic impact echoed through the hallway. She spun, raising her pistol, Leon doing the same. After a moment, a panel dropped from the ceiling, Chris and Jill crashing down on it, both groaning and looking around.
"Leon," Chris grumbled, pushing himself up and helping Jill up.
"Chris," Leon said. "Thank God. What the hell happened to you? You said this place was overrun."
"It was," Chris said. "We got away two levels down, but they were on their way up. We can't let them get here. We have to seal the base. And destroy it."
"A base like this should have a self destruct," Leon said. "They always do. We just need to find it."
"It'd be in the control room," Chris said. "On the bottom floor."
"We can't go there," Jill said. "This facility isn't just storing old viruses and B.O.W.s. It's reviving them."
"What?" Leon asked. "Reviving who?"
"All of them," Chris said. "There are chambers near the bottom. Rooms where powerful B.O.W.s that we destroyed, ones that we really didn't want to return, are being revived and restored. Most of them are in stasis now, but there are a few that they've finished work on. Others, they're upgrading."
"Who?" Leon asked.
"Ustanak, Ubistvo, Haos, Krauser, Deborah, Nemesis, Saddler, Simmons..." Chris trailed off, staring at Leon. "Wesker."
"Deborah's alive?" Helena asked, Leon hearing the faint trace of hope in her voice.
Leon stared at him in silence for a moment. "You saw Wesker?"
"Yes," Chris nodded. "He's stabilized with the Uroboros. And his sister's here too."
"I see," Leon nodded. "Then this base needs to be destroyed."
"Agreed," Chris nodded.
"Who's up and about?" Leon asked.
"Ubistvo, Krauser, and Ustanak is pretty close," Chris said. "What do we do? The self destruct may not be enough to kill Wesker."
"Maybe not," Leon agreed. "He has a nasty habit of surviving everything. Where are Sherry and Stone?"
"they got separated from us," Chris said. "Shit got a bit chaotic when we were swarmed by three Uroboros rejects, an El Gigante, and were being shot at by J'avo."
"Sounds it," Leon nodded. "Okay. We need to find them. And then we need to destroy this place."
"Right," Chris nodded.
"Weren't you listening?" Jill asked. "We can't go there."
"We'll be fine," Leon said. "If you want, you and Helena can head back to the exit and wait for us there. Make sure the villagers don't come in behind us."
"No," Jill said. "I'm coming with you. Someone has to keep Chris alive."
Leon nodded. He looked to Helena, who nodded as well. Then, they turned, continuing down the hallway, Chris and Jill leading this time.
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