OK, so this is my second story and my first CHERUB one, so if it's not very good, please tell me! This is for everyone who ever wondered how Dana Smith came to CHERUB.
By the way, I made almost all of the mission briefing up - there isn't actually a group called War for Peace who are going to come and bomb us all while we're sleeping..........
I hope! :)
I don't own CHERUB or any of the characters apart from the ones you won't actually meet until I can be bothered to write more...........mwa ha ha XD
Enjoy! :D
Her name is Dana Lawson. She is seven years old. She lives in a children's home in Melbourne, Australia.
They tell her that her parents had died in a car crash. They say she has no relatives. That's why she is in the children's home. She doesn't know. She's been there since she was three, but she still doesn't know what happened. All she knows is that she is alone. No-one cares for her. No-one would worry if she comes back to the home with scraped knees or a ripped t-shirt. No-one wants anything to do with her.
Sometimes she looks at the picture of her parents - the only thing she has of them - and wonders. She wonders what her life would have been like if they were still alive. She wonders if they were nice, or strict. She wonders what they would have looked like. They look happy in the picture. Like they didn't know that in just a few hours, they would be dead. And their only daughter would be landed in a care home for the rest of her childhood. If they'd known about where she is now, what would they have thought? Would they have cared?
She doesn't know. She carries on. She lives her life from day to day, not knowing what might be coming next.
And nothing could have prepared her for what happens next.
CHERUB campus, England. November.
It was breakfast time. In the canteen it was noisy as everyone chatted to their neighbours and caught up on the latest gossip.
"Amy! You've got a mission briefing in Zara Asker's office, at six o' clock. Something big, down under," Meryl Spencer, Amy's handler, called to her.
11-year-old Amy Collins grinned at the prospect of a big mission. She had earned her grey shirt the year before, but since then she'd only done a security check on a house in Lancashire, and a recruitment mission in London. All her mates had been on big missions already, and Sophie, her best friend, had even got her navy shirt. Amy was the one who stayed on campus, watching her friends go off to America, China and even Zimbabwe. Finally, an important mission for her! Her big brother John would be pleased too. He was 17, nearly at the end of his CHERUB career, but he still had time for another mission or two.
"Wow, Amy. A mission in Australia. That's pretty big," said a red-headed girl named Jess.
"Yeah," Amy answered, but her mind was racing ahead. If she was away for say, three months, John would have left CHERUB to travel round the world. She wouldn't see him for another six months at least, until he came back to go to university next autumn. She desperately wanted to go on the mission, but at the same time she wanted to be with John.
The dilemma was solved for her. At six o' clock, she arrived on the eighth floor, at Zara Asker's office. Zara was 25 years old with long brown hair, and was known as one of the best and nicest mission controllers. She worked as senior mission controller alongside Dennis King, so Amy knew that this mission had to be particularly special.
"Come in," Zara called when Amy knocked.
She entered the office and was surprised to see John lounging on a sofa with a Diet Coke. "John!"
John smiled at her. "Uh-huh. You didn't manage to get rid of me."
Zara threw Amy her mission briefing. "Read it carefully," she said. "It's a really big mission. We're dealing with terrorism here."
**********CLASSIFIED MISSION BRIEFING FOR AMY COLLINS (11), NATASHA PORTER (13), JOHN COLLINS (17), AND ELLA MCKINNON (17)**********
**********DO NOT PHOTOCOPY, MAKE NOTES, OR REMOVE FROM THE MISSION PREPARATION OFFICES**********
The Start of War for Peace
In October 2004, Australian army troops were preparing to travel to Iraq to assist the American and British troops already there. It was a week until the departure date when the commander of the troops received an anonymous message. It warned him not to go ahead with the plan and to disband the troops immediately, 'otherwise your lives will be in danger'. ASIS (Australian Secret Services) decided the message was a prank and the army went ahead to Iraq. They never arrived there. Halfway across the Indian Ocean, the planes the troops were travelling in supposedly malfunctioned and crashed into the sea. Over 1000 men, including the commander, were killed. There were no survivors of the crash.
The incident was reported as a tragic accident in the papers, not as a terrorist attack (which was what ASIS now suspected it to be). Three weeks later, that suspicion was confirmed when a telephone message was sent to ASIS headquarters. It acclaimed responsibilty for the attacks and was supposedly from a group who called themselves War for Peace.
Thus War for Peace was formed.
About War for Peace
War for Peace is a terrorist group who aim for world peace. This in itself is not unusual, however War for Peace do not mind harming or killing innocent people in their drive to attain their goal. The name War for Peace highlights this.
Evidence would suggest that War for Peace is a predominantly female group. The message sent to ASIS was a female's voice, and close monitoring by ASIS would suggest that only females are allowed to join the closely-knit organisational group, but men are allowed to join the main group.
War for Peace is considered a dangerous group. They have killed many people before and they pose a serious threat to national security. A recent statement made by a spokeswoman for War for Peace was, "We are prepared to kill and maim in order to attain world peace. War threatens our society. It disrupts our precious world. War is almost always caused by men, and, as women, we are determined to stop war - whatever it takes."
The CHERUB mission
On the 15th May 2009, Richard Lennon, the Australian Minister of Defence, was killed by a car bomb in Brisbane while he was attending a conference on fighter planes.
On the 22nd May, exactly one week later, Jacob Edwards, the Head of the Munitions Department in Australia, was also killed. Six masked women burst into his bedroom and beat him to death with crowbars.
War for Peace claimed responsibility for these deaths. Their objective is obviously to wipe out the heads of the government departments concerning war and defence. Nobody will replace the two killed men, and all over the country, munitions experts, gun manufacturers, and soldiers in the Australian army are resigning. No other countries will assist Australia in fear of getting killed themselves.
ASIS has tried to infiltrate the organisation, but War for Peace obviously has inside knowledge of them. They knew the secret location of ASIS headquarters, and they have anticipated all ASIS's moves and attempts to find out the leaders of War for Peace.
This is where the CHERUB agents come in.
ASIS believe that War for Peace are based in Melbourne, Australia. They meet in an electrified compound posing as the company Victrix Artillery and Weapons, which does not actually exist.
A woman named Jenny Lambert is believed to be one of the main characters in War for Peace. She quit a successful ASIS career three years ago to 'pursue her interests in weapon design and manufacture'. However, she is currently unemployed. She has three daughters who attend Greendale Park School, a fee-paying school in the outskirts of Melbourne, where she lives in a large detached house. Her voice roughly matches the voice of the message sent to ASIS in late 2004.
The CHERUB agents will pose as the children of a rich widow (Zara Asker), who has recently moved to Melbourne. Assistant mission controller will be Chloe Blake. The family name will be Cooper. Everyone will use their normal first names. 'John Cooper' and 'Ella Cooper' will take the place of twins who have just left school. 'Amy Cooper' and 'Natasha Cooper' will attend Greendale Park School.
The aim of John Collins and Ella Mckinnon is to infiltrate War for Peace and hopefully find out their future plans and, if possible, the names of the leaders.
Amy Collins and Natasha Porter will try to befriend the children of Jenny Lambert as follows;
Amy Collins (11) - Emily Lambert (11)
if possible Jess Lambert (12)
Natasha Porter (13) - Laura Lambert (14)
if possible Jess Lambert (12)
Once they have made friends with their targets, they will attempt to place recording devices in the Lambert family home.
WARNING;
THE CHERUB ETHICS COMMITTEE ACCEPTED THIS MISSION TWO TO ONE.
THIS MISSION IS CLASSIFIED AS HIGH RISK. AGENTS MAY BE AT RISK FROM BOMBING AND/OR VIOLENCE. CAUTION IS ESSENTIAL WHEN DEALING WITH WAR FOR PEACE.
THE EXPECTED LENGTH OF THE MISSION MAY MEAN THAT AGENTS WILL BE AWAY FROM SIBLINGS AND FRIENDS FOR A LONG TIME.
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Amy didn't know what to say. The mission was especially close to her heart after her parents had died in a terrorist attack on a plane when she was just two, John just eight.
She looked over at John. He grimaced, then gave a tiny nod.
Amy looked down at her mission briefing. She felt resolved.
"Yes. I'll do the mission."
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