Resident Evil: Vengeance

Chapter 49 - Gifts

Ada enters the stairwell, already hearing another door somewhere down below closing. She heads down the stairs, each step echoing into the surrounding darkness. She reaches a door, and slowly turns the handle, opening it slightly to peek inside. The floor looks exactly the same as the one above, only no walking corpses, and no Jacob. She closes the door and starts heading down once more, when she hears the door overheard open up, and mȯȧning. She steps back from the railing when a zombie comes falling down the stairwell, landing on some stairs a few floors down with a heavy thud.

Ada carefully continues down the stairs, treading softly to prevent her shoes from making any sounds. Her cone of light from her handgun is all she can see. The groans of the dead bite her ears, caving in around her as it seems to come from every direction. She reaches the next floor, opening the door. It's the same as the other floors. She's about to close the door when she hears a gunshot followed by glass shattering. She heads into the floor, gun at the ready, but sees no zombies. This floor is heavily trashed, like the people here saw the chaos happening outside before they either succumbed to the virus or fled and got mauled by zombies.

The window on the fer left facing the street has been shattered into a million pieces. The roar of raging fires, car alarms, and the occasional distant screams can be heard from outside. Reaching the large center area, Ada spots Jacob, standing on a suspended scaffolding, aiming a sniper rifle somewhere out of sight. The sound of some sort of mechanism moving suddenly goes off. Ada stands behind a cubicle, looking over it at Jacob as he puts an eye up to the rifle scope. He fires.

"Take that you piece of shit!" Jacob exclaims, "Turn around so I can shoot your face!" After a few seconds, he fires again. He lines up for another shot, but then lowers his rifle, "Damnit, he ran away. That fuċker," He mutters as he stands up. He puts the rifle back in his bag and pulls out a flashlight. Suddenly the sound of glass breaking comes from above. Jacob quickly jumps back inside the building as shards of glass and a couple zombies come crashing down onto the scaffolding. Ada ducks for cover as Jacob comes running. As he nears her, she sticks her leg out, tripping him.

Rather than falling face first into the carpet, Jacob rolls forward. He looks behind to see no one there, Ada hiding behind another cubicle.

The rest of the journey through the next couple of buildings proceeds to be Ada bordely watching Jacob make his way through the zombies, occasionally talking to Page on the walkie-talkie. They reach a building that's under construction and devoid of zombies, across the street and a few buildings down from the parking garage and entrance to the docks.

Jacob walks through the baron concrete skeleton, some caution tape floating in a light breeze. Ada leans against a pillar, reading a file about some experiment Luther had done on Jacob.

"I swear if he does anything to Leon…" She mutters to herself as she closes the files and puts her phone away. She glances over at Jacob, whose halfway across the floor now.

Something doesn't feel right about this. What's the point of him having me just watch someone walk across a city. I can't help but feel like I'm walking into a trap…

"So, why are you working for him?" Jacob suddenly asks as he stops in his tracks and glances over at the Pillar Ada's behind. She doesn't respond, not sure if he's talking to someone else or what.

"You're that Ada chick, right? The one who had a clone that nearly destroyed all of China?"

"How do you know that?" Ada asks as she steps out from behind the pillar.

"Luther told me, back when I worked for him. So, why are you working for him? Money? A virus? Blackmail? He doesn't work with anyone he doesn't have any control over,"

"All you need to know is that you need to get your ȧss to wherever you're going so I can be on my way,"

"Alright," Jacob shrugs, "Luther certainly is the kind of guy to keep his to his word, so I'm sure whatever it is he'll certainly not go against his word,"

"Sounds like you're speaking from experience,"

"Anyone whose smart can easily tell he's not trust worthy. Which is why I fuċkėd up his plans to blackmail me. I have a knack for that sorta thing. Maybe if you help me kill Luther, I can help you get whatever it is you're after, or…" He walks up to Ada, "I could cook you breakfast one morning?" He asks with a slightly raised eyebrow.

Ada throws a right punc at his face, which he quickly blocks with his left arm. She quickly goes for a left punch at his gut which he also blocks. She pulls back her arms and does a backflip, Jacob jumping back in time to avoid getting kicked in the face. As she lands on her feet, she does a right side kick. Jacob does a left side kick, connecting with her's. They quickly switch legs, practically at the exact same time.

"Could have just said no," Jacob states as he stands there, his ankle pushing against hers. Ada glares at him for a few seconds before putting her foot down.

"We capture Luther, I get what information I need from him, then you can do with him as you please," Ada states sternly, "Deal?"

"Sure thing," Jacob replies.



After some more time Jacob reaches the docks, opening up the gate and waving for Page and Derek as they run from a mutated bull.

What the hell does he think he's doing?

Ada stares down as the three of them run into the docks, closing the gate behind them.

The three enter the shipping yard. Ada walks to the edge of the floor, and shoots a crane on the other side of the concrete wall, separating the docks from the city, with her hookshot and lands on top of some freights. A helicopter comes flying towards one of the ships. Ada gets a message from Luther.

"Infect the pilot, use the special gun so you can stay hidden,"

Ada opens up the case and grabs one of the syringes.

If I'm gonna have any chance of getting what I want, I'll have to play the teacher's pet...Jacob you better know what you're fuċkɨnġ doing.

She loads the syringe into a tranq gun with a scope attached and aims at the helicopter. Some people just got off the helicopter and it's starting to take off. She shoots, the shot going straight into one of the pilots necks. She puts the gun back in the case and watches as things start to unfold. As she sits on the crate, she gets another message.

"There's some gifts for you in the helicopter by the way, you should see if they survived. Let me know if they didn't so I can move onto my backup,"

Ada glances over at the helicopter wreckage and then at the group of three as they run from the massive monster. She makes her way from crate to crate, then onto the boat's deck. She heads to the crashed remains, and finds a heavily armored box. She drags it out from the wreckage and opens it up, an rpg and a remote detonator inside. A note is also inside pinned to the detonator, "Make sure they don't leave the island just yet. Here's some extra fire power in case they don't survive my experiment, and it comes for you,"

She puts the detonator in her bag and gets a firm grip on the rpg before she gets a safe distance from the boats on top of a freight. She places it down and pulls out the detonator. She watches as they take down the creature.

"Sorry to ruin you're moment," Ada mutters to herself as she turns on the detonator and pushes the buŧŧon. One by one the boats are consumed by explosions, and sink into the ocean. Soon after she sees the bull that had chased them into the docks break through the gate.

"Come on!" She hears Jacob exclaim. They finally take down the bull by getting a freight to fall on top of it. However, it's mangled boy comes breaking through it nad quickly heals back up.

At this rate they'll be here fighting that damn thing all night.

Ada grabs the rpg, aiming at the bull, and fires. With an explosion the bull becomes nothing more than corpse with half of its side missing. As the group down below gathers their bearings, Ada gets a call from Luther.

"I heard the explosions, how are things going?"

"They took out the thing from the virus with ease, however an infected bull came charging in a proved to be quite the challenge, however they took care of that too," She says as she watches the group head for the parking garage.

"An infected bull? That sounds like quite the happy surprise. I have some important information for you that I need to tell you in person, regarding Jacob, meet me at the prison, I'll be in the far back office,"

"Got it," As Ada hangs up the sound of a car alarm going off fills the streets, attracting hoards of nearby zombies. She quickly hook shots to the garage, landing in a much higher floor. She finds a car that's still running somehow, shooting a zombie in the driver's seat and throwing them out from the car. The car alarm has gone quiet now. She gets in, pulling up her map and finding out where the prison is. releasing the brakes and putting it in reverse, she backs out before puts it in drive, running over the zombie she had thrown out as she makes her way to the down ramp.

Getting closer to the street level, the floors become more and more filled with zombies, the windshield becoming almost completely covered with blood by the time she makes it out onto the street. As she drives through the chaotic streets, she has to swerve to the left to avoid getting hit by an oncoming car. Once she makes it out of the city she's able to finally to ease her grip on the wheel, the windshield wipers now stained red. Reaching the prison she spots Page, Jacob, and Derek heading for the entrance. They all stop and turn as she nears them and comes to a stop.

"You promised you'd let me interrogate him before killing him," Ada says as she exits the car and walks up to them, "Yet you left me in the dust,"

"Hey, I didn't know he was here, and besides, I'd knew you catch up in time,"

"Hmph," She huffs irritably, "Well I'm suppose to meet him asap. I have no doubt he's aware of you finding me out, so hurry before he tries anything funny,"

"Will do," Jacob replies as Ada starts walking away to the left side of the building.

As she rounds the corner she uses her hookshot to get over a fence, landing in a courtyard. A nearby window in the second floor is open. She grapples up to it, crawling inside. She lands inside a dark room. Her flashlight shows several plastic chairs lined up in rows. Beside her is a podium.

A preaching room or something?

She walks up to the door, the air naturally quite for a prison, especially in this type of situation.

With the power out, shouldn't the prisoners be trying to break out or something? Or perhaps Luther has already infected them.

Ada creaks open the door slightly, surprised to see the lights are on. She looks in both directions before stepping out into the hall. It's unsettling how quiet it is, nothing but the buzzing of the lights overhead. Reaching the corner, she glances down the hall to make sure the coast is clear. Right as she's about to walk down the hall a pair of double doors halfway down open up. She quickly move back out of sight as two men come walking out of the room.

"You're positive nothing is going to be found? Nothing that could lead this to us?" A man's voice asks.

"Relax Norton," Luther's voice replies. Ada silently walks up to the corner of the hall, glancing over to see two men disappear down some stairs. She hears a door below open then close. She takes the chance to walk down the hall and enter the room they were in. She spots a strange stone laying half-hazardly on the edge of the desk. Touching it, the stone feels much more like metal. Shr grabs it and puts it in her bag.

If I've learned anything from this line of work, it's that random shit like this is useful for something. Guess I should wait for Luther to get back, he did say meet in the back office afterall. As Ada sits down in one of the chairs she's caught off guard by the lights suddenly going out and an alarm going off. She grabs her gun when the door suddenly opens up. Luther puts his hands up as she aims at him.

"Calm down, I'm not a zombie," He states. Ada puts her gun down.

"You're rather late, but that's not important, come with me, quickly," He states, signalling with his hand. She follows, entering the hall to see another man with Luther, who is probably Norton, and they walk down the hall towards where she had come from.

"Now, I would love to stay here, but me and my friend have some business we must attend to," Luther states, "So, I need you to stay here while we go off to my lab to examine the results we have so far,"

Results, what results? I haven't even told him anything yet?

"Alright," Ada states as she follows through a door onto a roof where a helicopter is waiting, grabbing something from her bag.

"Oh, but before we go," Luther states, as he stops in is tracks, Norton heading onto the helicopter, "I must tell you something else," He grabs Ada's right hand, shaking it firmly, "It's been a pŀėȧsurė working with you, it truly has," He says with a sincere smile that just gives off a suspicious energy, "And thanks for bringing this," He snatches the briefcase before quickly heading into the helicopter, its blades already starting to rotate and waves goodbye, "Oh, and here's one last gift!" He exclaims as they fly off.

Gift? What-

Ada's thoughts are cut off when she sees something come flying at her from above.

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