Set after Crocodile Tears

Prologue

Pain was all he could feel. It was emotional and physical. It had been fourteen years since he had been stuck in this hell hole. A dark figure approached and stood over him, crouching low he spoke. "John Rider. You will break or we will make you, SCORPIA has its ways." His sinister laughter filled the small blood stained room. The man did not respond, he was far too tired to. Dark sucking blackness began to fill his vision. There was only time for one last thought. "Pain."

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Alex POV

BEEP. Alex's alarm clock blared. He hated them disturbing his dreams like that. "Alex! Get your lazy but down here this instant!" "I'm coming Jack." He muttered. The blond haired boy checked the calendar. Monday. The worst day of the week. He sighed as he slipped on his uniform.

Flinging open his door he ran down the stairs, scarfed down his breakfast and hurried on to school. As he neared the school he caught a glimpsed of something black and shiny. The boy didn't have time to react. He felt something cold and dark pierce his skin as he fell of his bike into a unknown man's arm. "We got Rider." "Captured." "Again." He added. Alex fell into unconsciousness as the man dressed in black threw him into a black car and drove away.