RESIDENT EVIL: Ascension

Godric turns to the mini fridge, opens it, and takes out a water, then hands it to the man...after untieing him.
"im watching you...do NOT try anything funny..."

Novak takes a sip.

"Thank you."

He sets the bottle down on the coffee table.

"Leon, is it? Yes, that's his name. He kept asking about a shipment of BOWs and I kept telling him that I'm not involved in that kind of business anymore. But... he didn't believe. He beat me within an inch of my life and threatened to kill my family, just like those bastards at Umbrella!"

Novak begins to hysterically weep. Claire looks at Godric with an extremely puzzled look.

Godric shakes his head from left to right.
"Tell the girl what she wants to know..."
He shakes and he leans the man back up from weeping.

Novak sniffles and wipes his tears.

"He... He forced me to contact another former co-worker of mine. Dr. Harold Vaine. He forced me to set up a meeting with him that night. Then, before he left he said that if he didn't get what he wanted he would kill my family in front of me then kill me!"

Novak gets riled up again.

"And that thing! I'm sure he was the one who sent it after me! Please you have to help me, he'll go after my family next! PLEASE!"

Claire slaps Novak straight across the face.

"Was that the last night you saw him?"

"What? Uh... Yes. After I arranged the meeting, he left in a hurry. I never saw him again."

Claire storms out of the living and secludes herself in her bedroom with her thoughts.

"well sit tight..."
Godric zipties novak once more after he takes a gulp of water, and godric heads to the window to check out their surronding.
After closing the curtain and giving her time to think, Godric heads over to her door and koncks twice.
"Claire?"

Claire looks up at the door with a tear-drenched face.

"Fuck!"

She mutters to herself, smearing the tears off with her sleeves. Her face still red and puffy she invites her partner in.

"Yeah, come in."

Godric notices all the small details that she was crying. Her red face, her bloodshot eyes, the smears on her shirt.
"Alright whats going on?"
He says as he closes the door behind him.

Claire sighs then lays back on her bed with her arms above her head.

"In 1998... in that hellhole... Leon saved my life. I was a complete stranger to him, yet he risked his life to save mine. And now...this..."

She begins to tear up again.

"that man he is describing...does not sound like the leon i know!"
he sits at the edge of her bed.
"Have faith! lets go out there, and find out what really is going on!"
He smiles at her, making her feel better.

"Yeah...you're right. Leon would never do anything like that."

Claire looks deep into Godric's eyes and smiles gently.

"Thank you."

She then darts up from off the bed and walks toward the door.

"Come on, let's get the real story out of this bastard."

She opens the door, walks out then gasps.

"Oh god..."

She darts out of Godric's sight and into the living room.

"What!?"
he shouts as he enters the room to see claire.

"He's dead..."

Claire is kneeling down by the corpse of the suicidal scientist.

"..There's no pulse..."

She stands up and faces Godric.

"I don't understand he was perfectly fine just a moment ago..."

"His hands are still tied...possibly a hidden pill in his mouth...or possibly an activated death by someone else..."
Godric says while checking his entire body.

Novak's eyes are rolled into the back of his head, but other than his nonexistent pulse there was no sign of foul play.

"Jesus..."

She rubs her forehead in frustration. Then snaps her fingers as if struck by lighting.

"Godric, the briefcase!"

"already on it..."
Godric says, as claire's hair falls from a bun to long. He swiftly, and sneakily grabbed one of her bobby pins in her hair and is now using it to picklock the lock on the briefcase.

Claire searches Novak's pocket. She discovers a small key, a wallet, and what looks like a Security Key Card for a facility of some sort (HINT!HINT! lol). She walks over to Godric and hands him the small key.

"Here, this might help."

her looks at the key, after a slight !chick! sound goes off.
"oh yeah?"
He smirks as he lifts up the broken boby pin and gives it back to claire.
"lets have a look here shall we?"

Claire chuckles at Godric's attitude. But her smile fades as the briefcase is opened and bunches of papers burst out and fly everywhere.

"What the hell?"

She tries to collect some of the papers.

"Wait...."

Claire glares at the documents before her eyes.

"This is data on the Uroburos Project!"

Her face becomes solemn as the situation has now become very grim.

"but wasnt that...shut down? When Wesker was killed?"
Godric asks.

"but wasnt that...shut down? When Wesker was killed?"
Godric asks.

"It was supposed to be... But these bastards got their hands on some!"

Claire shuffles through the scores of documents.

"...Project...Ascension?"

Just then, a heavy knock on the door breaks the mood and sparks tension throughout the air. Claire shoots Godric a nod to go answer it, while she waits behind the door pistol ready.

Godric slowly walks to the door, combat knife in hand,
"Yeah?"
He places his shoulder on the door and hand on the handle.

"Sorry to bother you, Mr. Kraus, but I have recieved a call from your co-worker. He says it is urgent."

The man behind the door was the hotel clerk. Claire gives Kraus a puzzled look, remembering him saying something about contacting somebody when they got back to the hotel.

"Shit!" Thank you ill take it in here!"
He rushes towards the phone in the room and picks it up.

Godric-
"Hello?"

"Godric! This has to be quick."

"Marco? what is it?"

"I have found out some information about that man that your trying find."

"go for it."

"Ok, well that man meet a woman. Apparantly that woman used to work for Umbrella. They made her into a project and now she is fighting back. After the umbrella corp. was shut down and a man named Wesker was killed, someone else took over the project and made it into a new one."

Godric looks at Claire, this whole time the phone call was on speakerphone.
"Who is this someone else?"

"the info i have leads me to beleieve that..."
A large boom is heard over the phone, and godric's friend stops talking.
"Marco? Marco!?"

"Oh god! No!...Godric ill call you again...stay frosty!"
Marco leaves the phone, but it still says one, he was possibly using a phone booth, and noises of explosions and heavy gun firing is heard.

"Is everything alright?"

Claire approaches Godric with concern, still holding the documents in her hand.

***

Meanwhile, Mr. X waltzes into the lobby of the hotel, his soft thumping echoes throughout. The hotel clerk comes out from the elevator and lets out a small shriek.

"Oh.. I-I'm sorry, sir... Uh, how may I assist you?"

He lifts up a PDA with a BSAA badge with one hand, and a mugshot of Claire and Godric in the other.