God Needs An Enemy. (Semi-Open)

Alice dipped into cover and moved along with him, she wasn't much for conversation at the moment, her current goal was getting to safety so that she could formulate a plan. She already had her first step in mind, she was going to find answers and then the hunt for Birkin would begin or Ocelot, she wasn't entirely sure which one she wanted to kill first just yet. At the moment she was gathering her wits and piecing together one thing after another, she needed to reconnect with JW, Harker and Big Boss from there it would only be a matter of time working down the line to get to her smaller assets and the army.

The problem was not knowing who Umbrella had gotten to. The world had changed making it far easier for them to get into the lives of others now. Generations had grown and people had established relationships, it was only a matter of time before another Barry Burton incident happened putting everyone at risk. She assumed this is what had gotten into James Anderson.

"How much farther," Alice asked.

"Adam, don't jump to conclusions, you haven't seen the one I mentioned," Grace said appearing in the room. Alice and Sarah both stared at her and she lowered her head, "Hello Alice, Sister."

"You've got to be kidding me," Alice said.

"I'm not, Amy made this as a fail safe. I have no memories following but I have all of her memories and experiences prior to this," Grace informed, "I am a synthetic intelligence."

"So," Sarah began, "theoretically Amy Grace isn't dead dead... Just..."

"Amy Grace is dead," Grace said definitely, "please, pay attention."

The display played out another of Chambers interrogation scenes between him and James Anderson...



Finally Alice spoke up, "I didn't give any orders for Amy to be killed, I followed through with a lead that Birkin was operating in New York and relayed the information up the chain. I lost contact with Amy after she deployed she began using another channel than the Wonderland one."

Grace was looking Sarah up and down, Sarah finally looked at her and squinted her eyes, "Sorry."

Alice continued, "It wasn't a matter of getting sloppy, the information network went down and Amy began taking information from another source. Her involvement extends far from my reaches even if you all want to believe that I have my hand in every channel. I was good at this, Amy was better. Something else happened. Is there anything else Chambers has for us?"

Grace chimed in, "no that was the last thing he sent, he's sent other documents along with the first video and second video both detailing assets that I... Amy was using but nothing conclusive just yet."

"Is there a way to get me directly connected to Chambers?"

"No," Grace replied.

"Amy, I need-" Alice stopped and shook her head, "never mind. Adam, I need to know who you've come into contact with, dead or alive, since you've gotten here."

"Good," Alice replied, "so we'll work on getting things back running again because you're not going to get very far by just walking into locations and shooting everyone you think is an Umbrella employee. Good work so far, but all you've done is make yourself a public enemy and a target."

Sarah took the beer handed to her, the top of it just popped off without her touching it and she caught it tossing it onto the counter, she took a drink from her beer and the Grace AI approached her again.

"Okay, what do you want," Sarah asked finally fed up with being stared at.

"You're really Sarah Grace, A-G-02," Grace asked.

"Yes, why?"

"The last time we saw you you almost killed me and Adam and then you just vanished through the streets of New York. What happened to you," Grace asked.

"I grew up," Sarah replied, "god it's fucking giving me the creeps is there any way to turn her off?"

"Stop," Alice told Sarah, "the AI is just a Ghost, let her be. She's our ace in the hole."

"Adam, do you remotely even know what you're talking about," Alice asked him actually questioning him like a grown man rather than a child for once, "do you understand what it takes to build a network? You don't just go back to what you know. You don't just grab familiar people, why do you think you and Amy got shut out? Why do you think Chambers works for GENTEC? Do you have any earthly idea on how to do anything other than murder things and be given orders?"

Grace piped up, "Adam, she's not wrong. You're only looking at the small failures and none of the success we've made from this."

"Ocelot was thrown into the mix because Sears trusted him, he joined with Big Boss and obviously deceived us all, not just me but to think that was my failure when I wasn't running that show just goes to show the bias you have against me," Alice said, "if you want out, there's the door, I'm done treating you like a child, grow the fuck up or go get yourself killed fighting a one man war against Umbrella."

"Results? You've killed some grunts on the ground and just put your face in the camera for the whole world to know you're going to kill more of them, if that's results then yes you've done it, bravo Adam," Alice said, she hadn't been this fired up in a while, she took a deep breath in and popped off the top of her beer and took a long hard drink from it setting down half a beer, she turned from the table and leaned on it crossing her arms, "okay, let's start over..."

"Thank god, I was getting tired of hearing you two argue," Sarah said holding up Amy's rifle aiming it out the window getting a lay of the land.

"Look, Adam, you've been out of the picture but our biggest asset right now is Outer Haven, Big Boss took out Albert and Alex Wesker in a joint operation with Amy's group. I'm not getting myself involved with them but they are definitely on my radar. I think the best starting spot to getting to the bottom of this is to tear apart Amy's inner contact group, everyone she was involved with and worked with. There is a leak somewhere and we both know it isn't her and it wasn't Chris."

"What about Leon Kennedy or Jack Napier," Sarah asked.

"No idea, but if we locate them then we've got two of her circle," Alice said.

"It's not a magic trick Adam," Grace said, "Leon is going to be extremely hard to find, he's an off the grid kind of guy and probably one of the most deadly non-BOW's alive. I don't know much about Jack but if we can get a picture or any kind of information on him I can start following up leads."

"Alice, maybe you should go see him," Sarah said.

"Who?"

"Arix Himura," she replied.

"That being said, he is the owner of GENTEC and MEDTEC," Sarah informed Adam, "he's taken on Spencer Harkers role after assassinating him."

"I'm with Adam on this one," Alice said, "if he has it out for me still then there's no telling how far he might go to put me away if he's sure it's the real me."

"What about Chambers, he works for GENTEC," Grace said.

"He's also using an old school Hellsing channel to relay information to you, I don't think he's the right person to speak to Arix for us, it seems he's trying to keep his stuff under wraps," Sarah said.

Alice paced the room thinking of what assets she had left. Surely Nine was looking for her by now or had just taken over her role like she had been threatening to do for the last week. LJ was still in Raccoon so he was out. At this moment she was wishing Carlos was still around, he might be able to point her in the right direction. Things were easier back then. She wondered what Seven would have done in this situation...

"Any ideas Adam," Alice asked finally.

Sarah sat down her empty beer, and thought carefully, "I'm one of the shareholders, my job has nothing to do with GENTEC and is everything to do with MEDTEC so it's the opposite end of the spectrum but I might be able to still pull some strings. It would be out of my way though given that I don't go by the name Grace, I may have to probe Arix in another way. I'll see how close I can get before I'm public enemy number one on their radar. If it comes down to it I'm sure we can just get Chambers to do the hard work in the end... Maybe he'll interrogate Arix like Anderson."

"I've got something for you guys," Grace said and the screen by the couch lit up, "not Jack or Leon but someone closer to our older contacts from 2005. A direct connection to old school Hellsing, Peter Fergenson."

"The old man who used to run Hellsings military," Alice asked.

"The same, you had a couple run ins with him I believe when you were running ops in 2006 for Hellsing," Grace replied.

"He's got to be ancient by now," said Alice, amused.

"He is close to his eighties but his age was undisclosed in Hellsing's database, when Alucard went down Fargason remained in America to help Roy Campbell maintain the shelf of America, he moved from D.C. with his daughter a year ago to live in New York to get away from the politics. Regardless, he may have some inside contacts with D.C. and if anything may be able to get us in touch with Campbells people at Foxhound," Grace informed.

Alice caught his phone, "alright, I'll see what I can dig up with Fargason. Sarah you've got Arix, what are you planning on doing Adam?"

The computer dinged, Grace spoke up, "got a message from someone with the user S.H... Alice I know you are alive I'm requesting a meeting with you or one of your people. I have valuable information on H.H. and B-U. I'm in New York around City Park currently, look for the White Rabbit it'll lead you to me..."

"Who wants to take that one," Alice asked the group.

"If it is a set up, then we can cross that one off the list," Alice said, she was wearing a completely different outfit than before, now dressed in dark blue jeans and a black wife beater. She was pulling a leather jacket around her as he walked in and zipped it all the way up, "if I find anything out from Fargason I'll relay the information to Grace. Sarah already left, she said she was heading home for sleep but would dig up some things in the morning."

"Hey guys, we have another problem," Grace said, "there's a group that popped up a while ago calling themselves the Patriots, given the files, I know Krieger is definitely dead, but this group might be a remnant of them, its like Adam set something off there and they came out the woodwork. Their messages are all over the forums right now. I'll look into it and see if I can get any leads."

Once Adam was out of the room and on his way Alice looked to Grace, "tell me everything you know about Amy's hidden lines. Everything, do not leave a single thing out, you can't protect her."

"Even still, I have my secrets," Grace replied.

"She had her secrets yes, but she is dead and you are not her," Alice said sternly.

Grace narrowed her eyes and then disappeared appearing once again at the armory near one of the consoles there, "Amy was in touch with most underground groups ranging from the Patriots all the way to the Kings and Reapers. I'll give you access to everything, but I will not help you from there."

"Fine."

"Grace has given me connections that only Amy had before, took a little bit of time to go through them but I have a trace on Jack Napier now," Alice informed, she was sitting at the console by the armory but rotated her chair and got up grabbing the files off the counter and began thumbing threw them. Her original plan had fallen through, she was back to just a wife beater and her jeans for comfort. Alice sat them down and grabbed a box opening it, "haven't had New York Chinese in a while."

Grace had appeared and was looking at the files, "Alice, can you do me a favor, put these face up for me so I can start looking over what I did after I created... me? Fuck okay why is that so confusing to think about?"

Alice did as she was asked and separated the files then began looking through the black folder while she chowed down on the Lo Mein. Nothing caught her eye right away but she was seeing a pattern, "okay I get it, Sazon wants us to see the truth here. Hija Himura has never been met by any of us up until recently. He's just had people stand in for himself and claim to be him."

"I wouldn't say body duplicates, that's what I do. He's just flat out using anyone because no one actually knows what he looks like," Alice replied, "Sears used a body duplicate in the early 80s to continue the legacy of Big Boss while he took on the Government, but even still Big Boss hasn't been active for more than five years now."

Grace looked up at Alice, "Hey, speaking of which, Big Boss recruited Amy after Ocelot pretty much tortured the programming out of her, right? What about your own programming?"

Alice glanced over at Grace, "I'm safe, I broke free of that during a stint in Death Valley."

"I see," Grace said going back to the files.

"There's something else here," Alice said sliding a page over to Adam, it was mostly black bars but there were several key words written on the pages where Sazon had begun decoding the documents, "A-G-03."

It was written in red and circled at the bottom of the page. Grace appeared over Adams shoulder looking at the page, she finally spoke, "a third Grace project?"