Chapter 1: Briefing

"James, Bruce." Chloe Blake greeted the two boys as they entered the mission briefing room. Several days ago they had received a call from Chloe and John Jones telling them about a new mission. The boys had been told it would involve several other agents. They entered the mission briefing room to see Kyle, Lauren, Ken Nakahashi ,his younger brother Toshiro who was often called Tim, Kerry ,Gabrielle and two other CHERUB's who James knew as Tyler and Richard.

"Why's she here?" James snarled referring to Bethany.

"Oh your brother's so polite." Bethany remarked sarcastically to Lauren.

John Jones came out and cleared his throat. "Can we begin the briefing?" he asked handing each of them a copy of the mission briefing.

***CLASSIFIED*** ***MISSION BRIEFING FOR JAMES ADAMS, LAUREN ADAMS, KYLE BLUEMAN, KEN NAKAHASHI, TOSHIRO NAKAHASHI, BRUCE NORRIS, GABRIELLE O' BRIEN, KERRY CHANG, BETHANY PARKER, TYLER GRAYSON AND RICHARD JOHNSON***

THIS DOCUMENT IS PROTECTED WITH A RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAG. ANY ATTEMPT TO REMOVE FROM THIS BUILDING WILL SET OFF AN ALARM. DO NOT PHOTOCOPY OR TAKE NOTES.

BACKGROUND

COCKFIGHTING

Cockfighting is when two roosters are put into a pit with blades strapped around their claws in the hopes of defeating the other rooster. Often this is a bloody act and both roosters are nearly always killed or near death. Those who put the roosters into the pit try to win money by betting on one of the roosters. Most cockfighting is done in Mexico and in South America and is an illegal act. However, in South London in the past decade it has become popular amongst those in gangs as a fast source of income.

EVOLUTION

Many who watch fights for the blood and gore began to wonder whether this would be much better with people, namely ex soldiers and martial artists. Gangs began doing this, sometimes this would lead to a fight to the death and gangs would often develop bitter hatreds with each other. This leads to gang wars and innocent civilians getting hurt. Because of this they have been known as Fist Gang Fights or FGF

CIA and MI6

Several years ago the CIA and MI6 pooled their knowledge of these fights after the American ambassador was assaulted due to an FGF going out of control. After that incident occurred, the CIA and MI6 pooled together their knowledge and sent an agent by the name of David Gauche to snoop around a major FGF war between a gang called Red Scar and another called the Bloodhounds. Gauche was unfortunately discovered and killed by Bloodhounds leader Petrov Nikolayevich. However using his existing work the CIA and MI6 were able to isolate some information about FGF's.

About six months later, the two agencies attempted to get an insider named Charles Davidson under the alias of Charles Matthews managed to complete the mission and receive full Intel on Red Scar. He is currently one of the high ranking Red Scars and remains undercover.

The CHERUB MISSION

Coincidently, the leaders of the Red Scars, Matthew "Matches" Anderson and Petrov Nikolayevich both have families. However all the children of Nikolayevich no longer live at home. The CHERUB's are to try receiving FGF information through the Red Scars gang. Matches Anderson has 8 kids from three different marriages. Douglas (17), Chester (16), Dylan (15) Alice and Erica (14 year old twins), William and Greg (12 year old twins) and Elaine (11). Eight CHERUBS' are to befriend at least one of them and the remaining two are to assist Agent Davidson and gain Intel through other sources. This should allow enough evidence to pass through to convict both gangs and stop FGF's. CHERUB's and their mission controllers are to decide amongst themselves who befriends whom for the mission.

Agents are reminded of their right to refuse this mission at any time. This mission has been classified as HIGH RISK, due agents possibly being forced to fight a much larger opponent in a no-holds-barred fight while on the mission as well as witnessing a lot of blood and gore.

John began to speak about their covers. "I will play the role of John Ferguson, a war veteran from the Vietnam war. Chloe will play the role of my niece who must take care of her four children and nephews and nieces after the death of her sister and brother in law. She has moved in with her uncle John after a bitter divorce with her husband and chose to move to south London to get away from her ex husband. What do you think?"

"I'm in." Bruce smiled. "Blood and gore, sounds like my cup of tea."

Ken and his younger brother Toshiro nodded. "I'm in." Ken smirked.

"Sounds good." Kyle said.

"Tyler, you in?" Richard asked his best friend.

"Definitely." Tyler nodded.

James smiled. "This is gonna be sweet. I'm in."

Kerry and Gabrielle agreed, followed by Bethany. There was only Lauren left.

"Well, I don't know." she said. "I mean Rat's in basic training and if he has to quit he won't know many people…."

"In short, she just wants to hang around and wait for her boyfriend." James snickered.

"James!" Lauren snapped. "Fine." she grumbled. "I'm in."

"Excellent," John said "We'll meet back here in about an hour to discuss the covers, meanwhile go up and pack."

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