March 21, 2015, 7:30pm- Mazraea, City Docks
The helicopter lands on the boat, Ada stepping off onto the deck, glancing back at the helicopter as it takes off. She brushes aside some of her hair that got pushed in front of her face from the propeller's winds and heads for the stairs leading down. As she walks across the empty deck, she adjusts the sleeves of her black long sleeve and pulls up the collar of her crimson red vest to help with the cool breeze blowing from the ocean.
The smell of the ocean and the crashing of the waves reminds Ada of the time she had travelled to Spain to obtain Las Plagas. That was the last time she ever worked as a pawn for someone else, but now she finds herself in that situation once more.
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Ada lays on her bed in her hotel room, rain tapping on the glass and the sound of the heater running. The room phone on the nightstand suddenly goes off. She puts down her book and picks it up.
"Hello?" She asks as she puts the phone up to her ear.
"Is this, Ada Wong?" A man's voice asks on the other side.
"...Who is this?" Ada asks, already getting a bad feeling.
"My name is Luther, and I'm needing of your, services,"
"Whose the target?" Ada asks in a quieter tone, thinking it's another assassination request which is the only work she's really done since the China incident.
"I require, you're old services," The man asks.
"Sorry, but I don't do that anymore," Ada replies sternly, "You'll have to-"
"Oh, I think Leon Kennedy would disagree on that," The man interrupts. Ada glares at the phone at the side of her head, before looking back at the curtains draped over the windows.
"What are you talking about?"
"Hey! Hello?! Anyone there?! Let me out goddammit!" She hears Leon's voice shout shortly followed by someone pounding their fist on something metallic, it sounds like the audio's coming from a security camera.
"If you want him back safe and sound, you'll need to do some things for me, deal?" The man asks.
"Nice try, use better sounding audio next time,"
"Alright," Ada's phone vibrates as it receives a message, "Just know you have twelve hours to reply. If you refuse or don't reply within the time frame, you can kiss him goodbye," And the man suddenly hangs up. Ada sits there for a second before putting the phone down. She checks her phone and sees the message is from a hidden sender. It reads, "Do you accept?" and nothing else.
This man has to be either the dumbest person in the world thinking I'd believe him or he's put his pieces all in the right places…
She closes her messages and dials up a number. She puts her phone to her ear as it rings.
Time to see if I was right or not.
After some time, someone picks up.
"Who is this? How did you get this number?" A women asks.
"That's not important at the moment Agent Hunnigan," Ada quickly replies, "What is important is Leon Kennedy's whereabouts. I was just given information suggesting he's been kidnapped," Hunnigan doesn't respond right away, making it hard to stay relaxed.
"...Why does this concern you?" Hunnigan's response only proves her doubts.
"We have history together, you might say we're friends almost,"
"So you're Ada…"
"So, do you know of his whereabouts or not?"
"Agent Leon went...missing just a few days ago…"
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Ada reaches the bottom of the stairs, her boots tapping against the concrete floor. The whole dock appears to be empty, not a single person in sight. As she makes her way to the gate leading to the massive city glowing in the darkened sky, she can hear the wind give off an eerie howl as it rushes through all the shipping crates. She reaches the gate, opening it op just enough to squeeze through and closing it behind her. She pulls up her phone, opening her map to see a dot on it, hovering over a parking garage not too far away.
Ada puts her phone back in her pocket and walks on the sidewalk by the busy streets. Quite a bit of people are walking out of the parking garage, all of them heading deeper into the city.
He said to expect a warm welcome...but no one seems to be infected, yet.
Heading into the parking garage she spots someone in a thick dark brown coat and shades standing by a bright red car. She walks over to them, a smile coming across their face.
"Perfect timing," The man says, their voice matching that of the man on the phone.
"So, you're Luther?" Ada asks.
"Pleased to make your acquaintance," He replies with a slight bow, a smug look on his face.
"So I just need to collect a sample from the flea market, and give the police chief his, 'antidote'?"
"For now, yes, I'll give you more orders once you've completed that," He grabs something from his pocket, "The briefcase is being held by your co-worker whose already there," He pulls out a pair of keys.
"Co-worker?" Ada asks skeptically as she takes the keys.
"Yes, I'm sure you'll be happy to see them, after all they're an old friend of yours. I sent their number to your phone, so you should say high to them some time. Now, I'd love to stay and chat," Luther says as he starts walking away, "But I have other things I must attend to. Oh, and, don't drink the water," And with that he gets into a nearby vehicle and takes off. Ada glances down at the keys then at the car. She gets in, pulling up her map on her phone and taking off.
Driving through the calm, empty, fields the flea market comes into view and Ada sees they're heavily burnt like a fire had started and burned almost everything. She sees a orange and grey sports moped parked at the outskirts, safe from any damage that was inflicted on the town. She parks her car and gets out. A red dot on her map shows the location of the briefcase. It's only a few yards to her right, further down on the side of the market.
Ada heads into the charred remains of the market, hearing scurrying in the buildings on both sides of her. Each step makes a small cloud of ash and the sound echoes through the ghost town. Charred, mutilated, corpses can be seen, some of them look like they've been attacked by hundreds of small creatures, several holes in them showing bones. The concoction of burnt wood, feces and death wafts through the air, as a warning to stay away.
After walking halfway through the market, she sees one of the thing she came here for, a pile of burnt, green goo, sitting in the middle of the street. She pulls out a small vial connected to a syringe, plunging it into goo. She fills the vials and takes off the syringe, throwing it to the ground and closing the vial before putting it in a small pouch on her belt. As she stands up she sees two figures far off in the distance.
He said co-worker, so that can't be either of them. Still, are they part of this elaborate plan of his or are they just random people who got caught up in this whole mess?
Ada turns and quickly takes off. Hearing something inside all the buildings come alive, Ada quickly pulls out her grappling hook, jumping up to a nearby roof. She makes her way to the edge of town and jumps down at the outskirts, where a bike sits, briefcase attached to it. As she picks it up, she receives a text.
"New orders. You are to retrieve information from Jacob's computer at the police station. You are to do this immediately after giving chief Romero his little gift. Inform your co-worker that you have the samples, you'll be given more orders shortly.
Ada glares at her phone, letting out an irritated sigh as she walks over to her car. She adds the phone number he had sent her as a contact and types them a message.
"This is your Co-Worker, I was told to introduce myself to you and that you were an old friend of mine, though I don't have any of those. Don't worry about the samples, I have them with me safe and sound. Though I'm sure we won't ever see each other, I'll warn you now that I don't work too well with others," She hits send and takes off for the city.
Surprise, it's me, Himitsu with more story! While I work on my revision of Demon Wolf, I decided to give you guys a little something that I hope you'll enjoy and won't be too much work for me since these are events that I've already thought of in my mind and have a pretty good idea of what will happen and stuff. This will probably be around four chapters or so though, so don't expect like, an entire new book or anything. I've also thought about doing a story of Resident Evil 2 Remake, and mashing Leon and Claire's stories together along with some other little things, so let me know what you guys think and if you'd like that after Ada's Assignment is done! :)