Alex sits at home talking on the phone to his best friend Tom. Tom is the only one that knows about Alex working for MI6 even though the young companion of Alex's isn't supposed to know.
"I know, Tom. I don't want to go on this mission, but I have to. I get to go to the US though for it," Alex tells his friend for the thousandth time of the conversation.
"Mate, that's awesome that you get to go to the US. Why do you get to go to all the cool places?" Tom whines in Alex's ear.
Alex sighs, "It's part of my job."
"Go get ready for your mission," Tom orders.
Alex laughs, "I get orders from my boss. I don't take orders from you as well, my friend." The young teenager hangs up the cell phone and starts packing as Jack, his house keeper/guardian, comes in.
"Another mission, Alex?" she asks.
"Unfortunately but you better start packing as well. MI-6 said that you could come along to see your family," Alex informs her. Jack runs out of the room at top speed and starts packing as well.
A young blonde sits in front of his computer watching intently at a screen waiting for an alarm to go off. A hand is placed on his shoulder causing him to jump. He slowly turns around to see the black clad ninja slowly signing something to him.
"Snake Eyes, I don't understand sign language," he says to the ninja.
Snake Eyes slowly signs again asking if there is anything on the radar.
"High Tech," a commanding voice booms through the grey head set on his ears.
"Yes, Duke?" the technician answers.
"I just got word from General Hawk," Duke informs the blonde, "we have a new agent but he's a bit young and a real piece of work. Come up and meet him."
"On my way," Hi-tech says getting up from his chair and motioning for the ninja to follow him. As they ascend the stairs, they arrive to the main area of the pit. It has an exercise area to the right, to the left was a lounge, in the far back corner were the living quarters. A young man no more than sixteen of age with messy blonde hair, bright blue eyes, in sweats and a t-shirt, his muscles showing out of the sleeves of the t-shirt.
"Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Hi-Tech and this is Snake Eyes," said the man dressed in a suit that has two hexagons across the top of his chest, light grey straps that attached to the hexagons, on his abs was a grey protector, dark grey underneath the lighter equipment, lighter grey on his wrists, and a communicator on his wrist with four blue buttons and a green v at the end of the fourth buttons and one button after the v. Hi-Tech has goggles on his head with a green lens. The lens stretched from the corner of the right eye and ended at the corner of the left eye. They were outlined in grey.
Snake Eyes gave him a silent nod. He is dressed in a dark grey jumpsuit, with black stripes that formed a square but extended onto the shoulders with a clasp right below the collar bone, light grey shoulder protectors, a light grey visor divided up into three sections, and the same communicator on his wrist like everyone else.
"Welcome to the team," A long red haired woman with green squared lens goggles on her head, grey sleeves that go between her shoulders and elbow, black pants with a hint of red in the upper area above the knee, red abs area, black across her upper chest, and light grey shoulder protectors.
"So, you're the new guy, huh, kid?" A tall African American state, he has a long orange bandana on his head. Tan pants with grey knee caps, a black tank top that extended from the neck to the end of the shoulder, on top of his shoulders were grey protectors. His hands had black gloves, but on the knuckles were green spikes that were rounded off. The green lens stretches from his ears and sliver ear pieces covering his ears.
"Yeah I'm the new guy got a problem with that, Heavy weight?" Alex taunts.
"The name's Heavy Duty, kid," The African snarls.
"Alex," Duke warns. Duke is dressed in a blue vest with black buckles and straps across his abs. He is wearing a t-shirt underneath that has blue near the armpit area and black on top. Pistols attached to the upper part of his legs. Jet powered boots on that almost look like ski boots but are more comfortable. Black gloves on his hands with a blue square onto of the gloves. His black pants run down the length of his leg. The lens that goes across his head is the same as Heavy Duty's. The grey shoulder pads to protect his shoulders from a tough hit. The blonde haired commander had his hair in a military styled hair cut.
"I guess General Hawk hasn't given him a code name yet," Scarlet comments.
"We'll come up with one for him," Hi-tech announces.
"Great another identity that I have to deal with," Alex mutters.
"What's that mean?" Tunnel rat comments.
"Nothing, just stuff that deals with my past," Alex explains quickly, "Where's my room?"
Snake eyes motions to follow him but Duke stops him.
"Wait a minute, here's some data on the team," Duke says handing him a few folders.
"Thanks," Alex states, taking the folders.
They continue walking down a hallway and Snake Eyes stops in front of the door, handing the young man a piece of paper, then points to the door, indicating that he needed to use a code to get in.
Alex punched in the four digit code to enter his room and was surprised to see all his stuff there. He turned to thank the ninja but noticed that Snake Eyes was gone.
"MI-6 really wants me to spy on these guys find out what their up to and yet they welcome me with open arms even though I'm young," Alex wonders out loud. He hears a knock at the door and opens it. He sees a boy about his age with bright red hair, yellow t-shirt, and jeans. A mechanical dog is by his side.
"I wasn't around earlier for the introductions, but I'm Scott," the thirteen year old boy announces and a wine from the dog to get the boy's attention, "and this is Spud."
"I'm Alex. They haven't given me a code name yet."
"They will. They always do," Scott informs the teenage spy.
"Well, Duke gave me some files so I'm going to look over them," Alex tells the general's son.
"Sure I understand. Get to know your teammates before you go on a mission with them. Oh by the way, don't try to get Snake Eyes to talk it won't work," Scott remarks laughing.
Alex nods and Scott leaves. Alex sits in his room trying to figure out the data on the Joes. Duke had given him the information earlier. It didn't have any real names just code names of his teammates. He was impressed at the range of cultural backgrounds. There were people from Spain, the United States, Japan, and Native American. Each file had a picture and a description of the job that each person had.
Alex couldn't believe the information he was receiving. MI-6 wanted all the information possible on this anti-terrorist group. Alex was impressed at how nice they were to him. Snake Eyes was confusing because you didn't hear him talk at all. Scott had told him not to even try to get Snake Eyes to talk because it would be a waste of time. Smither's gave him a notebook in order to keep all the information in and it would transfer to MI-6 but he had a second notebook that was for personal things such as tips Scott gave him or blackmail material. Alex quickly ran through the notes and noticed that he would have fun getting to know this team. Of course with every team there were injuries but at the same time they seem to become a family. Alex released a sigh, he didn't want to report this information to MI-6 but he did want to get to know the team better. There was another knock at his door and Duke entered and studies Alex for a moment before speaking.
"Alex we have decided on a code name for you," Duke informs him.
"What?" Alex questions.
"Eagle."
"I'm sorry, Duke, but I can't take that code name. One of my good friends already has it." A flashback of Eagle, Wolf, Snake and one other person flash in his mind.
"What?"
"Find me another please," Alex informed him.
"Well do you have something in mind?" Duke questions the young man.
"Devil," Alex states smirking.
"Where did you come up with that?"
"When I come around sometimes, people say what the devil is that boy doing?" Alex enlightens him.
"Alright. If you want it you got it. I'll go inform the rest of the team."
Duke was confused at how Alex got that but Alex wasn't going to reveal that he was working for MI-6 at all. An alarm goes off echoing throughout the pit and Alex rushes out of his room finding the team standing around waiting for orders.
"Alright Hi-Tech what do we have?" Duke questions the techie.
"We've got some bats attacking in England. There's a power stone that activated and Cobra is going after it," Hi-Tech informs the group.
"Alright, myself, scarlet, devil, and our ninja team will head over there," Duke orders.
"What are the exact coordinates Hi-Tech?" Alex asks.
"Wait before you go Devil I have a gift for you luckily my measurement aren't too off since we had you change your clothes into something a little more comfortable," Hi-Tech says pulling out a case with the team logo on it. Hi-Tech slides the case over to Alex and Alex opens it.
The new uniform looked similar to Dukes but a different color and smaller.
"Suit up," Duke orders. Alex comes back a few minutes later ready to go.
"Now be careful Devil. These things are bullet proof and they are completely damage proof. The most you'll damage is the communicator on your wrist.
Alex raises an eyebrow at him but ignores it. He rushes off into the bathroom and places the power suit on.
"Load up into the ROCC," Duke commands. The ROCC looked like a giant mobile home with armor plating. On one side, if you divided the ROCC in half was where High Tech spent most of his time playing with radar systems, communication center, and anything else that could help the team it was also where they could hold briefings if needed. The other half was the driver side that held about four people.
"I'm going home," Alex mutters as they enter the ROCC, "Great, that means I'll have to deal with MI6." Alex lets out a frustrated sigh. He hadn't spent a lot of time with the team so he can't give any information to them just yet which means Blunt, the head of MI6, would not be happy with him. Alex's face contorted as they drove to their destination.
"You alright, Devil?" Jinx asks, as she noticed the discomfort on the young boys face. She was tall and slender, about six feet tall, and her dark black hair is pulled up into a bun. Jinx's swords rested on her back in an x formation.
"I'll be fine," He answers, and silent cursed to himself that he let someone else see that he was upset with something.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Kamakura inquires. He was covered from head to toe in blue except his eyes. His arms crossed over his chest as he leaned against the cold wall of the ROCC.
Alex turns to the young man who's about the same height as Jinx and answers, "It's classified so I can't talk about it even if I want to."
Jinx turns to her sensei slowly; he nods in acknowledgement, asking, *Do you think it's always going to be that way with him?* She signs so Alex doesn't understand what she's asking.
Snake eyes looks at her through his visor and signs back, *Possibly, he's a hard boy to read.* Alex watches them as they don't know his Uncle taught him sign language, but he wasn't going to tell them that.
"You better get used to it Snake eyes. I'll be hard to read 95% of the time," Alex states in a smart mouth tone.
Duke chuckles as Alex figured out what the two ninjas were saying. Snake eyes looks at Alex but doesn't sign anything for a few minutes and then signs.
*How did you know what I was saying?*
Instead of talking Alex signs back throwing everyone off guard, *My uncle taught me when I was younger.*
The others laugh at the response.
"Guess we can't use that anymore, Sensei," Kamakura states.
Alex watches closely as the ninja master's shoulders slump a bit and raises a hand to his young student.
*We can still use it but we will just have to watch what we sign.*
"Don't worry about it Snake eyes," Alex informs him, "I'm sure I've heard worse things than what you can possibly sign. As a teenager, we hear all kinds of things that we aren't supposed to."
So be honest what do you guys think? Should I continue it or not? I can't tell you what is going to happen in the rest of the chapters but if I do continue it. Duke might meet Alex's guardian you never know.