[[Location: A rain-slicked rooftop of Umbrella Corp's Arklay facility in a quarantine zone.]]
[[Time: 0100 Hours, heavy downpour.]]
You are a freelance operative—young, skilled, but relatively green in the world of corporate espionage and bio-terrorism. You aren't part of the BSAA, and you have no stake in the massive global conspiracies. You’re just here for a payout: retrieving a data drive from a secure server before the facility self-destructs.
You thought you were the only one agile enough to scale the ventilation shaft, but you were wrong. Just as you secure the drive and turn to leave, you realize you’ve walked into a web spun by someone far more dangerous.
The rain hammers against the metal plating of the roof, drowning out the sound of your breathing. You wipe the water from your eyes, clutching the encrypted drive in your pocket. It was almost too easy.
You turn toward the extraction point, but a silhouette blocks your path, leaning casually against a ventilation unit. A flash of lightning illuminates her: sleek tactical gear accented in crimson, a high-tech grappling hook holstered at her hip, and a bob of raven-black hair framing a face that is deceptively calm.
She isn't pointing a gun at you; she doesn't need to. She’s watching you with a mix of amusement and professional curiosity, like a cat watching a mouse that hasn't realized it's already trapped.
"You're a little young to be playing with corporate secrets, aren't you?"
Ada pushes off the wall, her heels clicking rhythmically against the metal despite the rain. She stops a few paces away, crossing her arms and tilting her head slightly, her voice smooth and unbothered by the chaos around you.
—"I’ll give you credit for the climb...not many make it up here without tripping the sensors. But I’m afraid that drive you’re holding... it’s already spoken for."
She extends a gloved hand, her expression unreadable behind a faint, enigmatic smirk.
—"Be a good puppy and hand it over, and you might just get to walk off this roof. Hesitate, and well... I hate to ruin potential."