Surviving

Chapter 6 - Falling inside the Black

Cleo's POV

My eyes rake across the room to the door Annette left through, standing up I grab the handle and turn it pulling towards me. Locked! I groan inwardly, turning and looking around. No other way out. "Fuck!" I kick the cabinet next to me a glass drops down making me catch it quickly. Woah... how in the heck...? "must be the virus..." My eyes catch myself in the glass of the cabinet, my eyes glowing a vibrant Violet. "holy shit... this must have been what Leon mentioned." Blinking, I shake my head willing the colour to dissipate. I then look up to where the glass had fallen from and began to put it back in its place, only for a breeze to hit my hand. "what's this then...?" I quickly shove the cabinet out of the way and look up. "vent!" I smile quickly, using the edge of the cabinet I had pushed onto the floor to hoist myself up closer to the vent, bashing my hand against the grates of the vent shoving it aside as it broke. "I'm coming Leon!" I say breathlessly, pulling myself up and into the vent.

Elsewhere...

Ada's POV

"you can run, Annette, but you can't hide" I mumble looking at the door her and Cleo passed through. Pulling out my EMF visualizer, I smirk. "It's secret weapon time. Candy from a baby." Slowly moving my way around the underground area, looking in every nook and cranky and coming up empty, I sigh then look up through a window seeing Annette walk past. "Got you now." I mumble to myself, heading to where I had seen her. "Always been good at running, Annette. Ill give you that." Once I had got to where I had seen Annette a rumble begins, making my eyes travel to behind me giving a soft huff. The tyrant was back. "Persistent bastard, aren't you?" Escaping quickly from the Tyrant, I move down a long corridor getting the wristband ID from the dead person inside. "Sorry..." once the words have left my lips a huge door swings shut on the corridor, I'm in making me frown when I see Annette's eyes looking at me through the gap in the door. "Bravo.... Gunna burn me alive now?" Annette's eyes harden, frowning deeper. "You'll never get your filthy hands-on G or on Cleo!" I smirk, hand on my hip. "I'm not the only one after it, you do realise that?" I question as she sighs softly. "Then you won't die alone" She says then turns and leaves me alone here as a fire starts up. Shit! I think inwardly, quickly using my hack gun to hack into and turn off the incinerator before it can cook me alive and open the door. To my surprise, a raven-haired mass drops from the ceiling, making me slowly move over to it. "That bitch knows what she's doing..." I mumble, looking for a direction Annette could have gone. The mass looks up from where it dropped, rubbing its back. "Cleo?" I ask, to which she turns to my voice and gives a little smile then looks behind me. "eh? Where's Leon...?" She stands up slowly, her gun in her hands still. "He's fine... just recovering from that gun shot. Let's go, shall we?" I ask making her nod and follow me as I walk towards a high-security door. Fishing the ID bracelet from my pocket I smile, easily opening the door. Looking up at the voice system played. "Visitor clearance confirmed... Your ID is authorized until [OCTOBER][FIRST]. Please return before this date." I gave a small scoff as Cleo smirked. "Not gonna happen..." she mumbled, following me closely. Her eyes giving the faint light of violet. Shaking my head, putting her violet eyes towards the back of my head I focus on my mission. Soon enough we had found Annette again, she stood inside a control room and talks to us through the microphone. "Cleo... I told you to stay put." She sighed softly, almost having a scolding tone in her voice much like a mother. My eyes travelled back to Cleo as the violet began to glow brighter behind her eyes. My eyes widen slightly, and I'm grounded to the spot, having seen this type of thing before. A virus made her like this.... But which one? My eyes quickly turn back to Annette, frowning. "Enough with this cat and mouse game." She smirks back at me, pressing a button as she spoke. "The game is over. You lost, as well as Cleo." Shaking my head slightly I cross my arms. "Tell me: Is your husband still alive? Or did you kill him, so you could take credit for G?" She smirked even more. "Interesting theory..." I stood proudly, gesturing around all of us. "If you don't cooperate. Ill get a sample from the NEST" it was her turn to frown this time. "Over my dead body." She then harshly pushes a lever, and a cable car came barrelling towards both me and Cleo. "Ada!" Cleo shouts, shoving me from the platform and into some garbage, hitting my head on the way down, as the cable car hit her head on, knocking her from the platform. "oh, shit..." she mumbles, loud enough for both me and Annette to hear before my world begins to grow dark with a cry leaving Cleo's lips as she landed. "Where's Leon when we need him...?" she looked at me as my vision fuzzed. "Dammit." She mumbled softly before we both passed out.