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The Hubbell Research Group had been a frantic hive of activity for several weeks.  Five years was a long time to be idle, and the staff was straining to handle the volume of leads that Barney was producing.  But even with so much work to be done, nobody commented when Jack came in on Friday morning with his usual stack of tabloids.

"Hey Barney."

"Hey Jack."

"The Dog Boy got engaged to the Turtle Girl," he said, flipping through The Snoop.

"I'm certain that will be a fascinating wedding registry.  Anything in the headlines jump out at you?"

Ada Wong took one look at the tiny impish .. thing and snorted to herself.

Her superiors had certainly never mentioned anything about this peculiar little creature; perhaps because they hadn't known themselves, but more likely because it was so harmless and .. but why would Umbrella breed something harml ..

Before Ada could conclude her thoughts, the creature puffed itself up, to become a tiny sphere and then just as swiftly deflated again, filling the whole chamber with a thick cloud of glittering spores.

When Karen was about 10, a fortune-teller at a state fair had told her that one day she would be a "big girl" and change the course of history. Right now, she would be satisfied with just paying off her student loans and getting control of her life. Like most French History majors, her career prospects were rather dim. She had been somewhat lucky, therefore, to find a relatively well-paying job cleaning house for a rich Senator's wife.

Just a mere mile away from the old temple where Kamiko and Tomoko resided was small deep lake. The shoreline was nice and shallow, but the middle of it dipped down at least twenty feet below the surface. It was early in the morning and the sun had just broken off from the horizon to fill the sky with sunlight.