Disclaimer: I don't own Alex Rider or any other characters…unfortunately.

I made this story up in Maths. My Maths teacher is really dull. This happened after Ark Angel. He was flown back without Snakehead happening.

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They had been sitting in Maths when it happened.

Their Maths teacher had his back to the class, writing something on the board. There was a shatter of glass. The teacher had swivelled round to yell at the student who had broken the window. But what he saw made him stare in disbelief. There in his normal chair at the back of the class right next to the window was Alex Rider. The only difference was he had blood coming out of his chest, right where his heat should have been. He was almost dead, you could tell by his face. It was already extremely pale. He had less than a minute to live. Alex looked down at his chest, no look of surprise on his face; instead, he looked a little…relieved. His face was calm and he wasn't shocked to see the crimson liquid cascading down the front of his school uniform.

The all the girls and a fair few boys all screamed as Alex slumped forward in his chair, his upper body, face and arms resting on his desk.

The screams got the attention of the classes on either side of the classroom. The teachers entered the classroom ready for almost everything but this. They froze in the doorway starring at the body. One of the teachers unfroze and she went down the corridor to the principles office.

Everyone jumped as the window broke again and a rock with a piece of paper tied around it came smashing into the room hitting the dead body in the back of the head.

The door was slammed open and someone no one was expecting came in.

Tom Harris ran over to the fallen body, eyes wide. Tom had gone deathly pale. He had reached inside Alex's pocket that was covered in blood, and he pulled out Alex's mobile phone. Everyone saw him fiddle with it before he started talking in it.

"Hello?" He had said. "No this isn't he, this is his best friend…yes there has been some trouble…it involves a sniper…room 13…thanks bye." He had hung up and then the principle came in and took action immediately.

"Right I want everyone but Mr. Brewson-"(the maths teacher)"-to leave the room."

Everyone had done what he had asked except for Tom who was looking out the window. He then looked at Alex's body before moving. He did this several times before he stood facing the gym at a 60° angle.

Mr. Brewson had tried to touch the rock but before his hand could touch it, Tom slapped it away from the rock. The principal had tried to remove Tom but Tom had slipped out of his grasp so he was left alone. A couple of cars skidded to a halt and ten people got out of the cars. One was a female dressed in a smart suit, there was a plain looking man in a grey suit and the other eight men looked strong and determined.

They all ran into the school and up the corridor. Two stayed at one end of the corridor while another two went to the other end. When the remaining six entered one stood by the door, another two stood at either end of the window and the last one went over to the fallen body. He instantly spotted the rock and he untied it carefully. He spread it out on the desk next to Alex's. The letter/note read:

Dear MI6,

This is what happens to people who meddle with things that don't concern them.

The boy lied and stuffed up our plan. We took him in and he betrayed us.

He survived the first bullet. No one survives the second.

Like father like son, eh?

Scorpia Never Forgives,

Scorpia Never Forgets.

He stared at it in shook. He handed it to the woman and she starred at it, her eyes watering. The man read it over her shoulder. The man who had found the note went over to the body and pushed it so it was slouching in the chair.

"Cub?" He breathed.

The man by the door's head snapped around so fast it gave him whiplash. "What did you say Snake?"

"Wolf I think this is Cub…"

"What?!" The man, Wolf, left his position by the door and walked over to the body. "Holy shit, Snake, it is Cub."

"What?" both men by the window said.

"Cub?" a voice questioned.

Everyone swivelled around to see the principal and Mr. Brewson sitting on the floor backs against the wall at the front of the classroom. "What did you mean when you said Cub?" The voice said again. There on the desk was Tom. He slid off the desk. "Are you the men he talked about when he mentioned SAS training?"

"You must be Tom, I'm Mrs. Jo-"

"I know who you are. You're Jones and Blunt and if my theory is correct then they are K-Unit, Wolf, Eagle, Fox and Snake. You, Jones and Blunt are the reason my best friend is dead."

Wolf raised an eyebrow. He liked this kid already.

"If you hadn't recruited him he wouldn't have left Venice like he did, he wouldn't have angered Scorpia, he wouldn't have gotten shot the first time outside your HQ and they wouldn't have tried to kill him, this time succeeding."

Blunt looked taken aback.

"Yes that's true. But think about it; if we hadn't recruited him the Stormbreaker virus would have succeeded, there would be clones running around the place, half the world would be blown up. Millions of people would have died in the explosions in the fields next to their towns and the children who hadn't been killed by the Stormbreakers would have been killed by Invisible sword."

"Rider did all that?" Mr. Brewson said from the floor, obviously surprised.

"Do you mean to say that Cub made sure that none of that happened?"

"Yes."

"You could have gotten another agent to make sure none of that happened!"

"Mr. Harris, how is it that you know more about this than us?" The Principal asked.

"Because unlike some people I trusted him, knowing he would eventually tell me, because I was his best friend. Oh and maybe, I didn't think he was a drug addict."

Eagle raised an eyebrow, "people thought he was a drug addict?"

"Duh. I mean he was away so much and each time he came back more battered and bruised then last time. People thought he was in a gang, a thief, on the run from the law, a drug addict and I don't think the last one was serious but I heard people say he illegally immigrated to Australia and then Spain. And that Jack bashed…oh shit."

"Mr. Harris! Language." Mr. Brewson snapped.

"…What are we going to tell Jack?"

"Jack?" Fox asked.

"She looks after Alex. She is…or was his …nanny; I guess you could call her."

Finally, MI6 understood what had happened. They got everyone-the whole school, not just the three classes-to go into the theatrette. This is where they had assembly every fortnight.

"By now I'm sure most of you have heard what happened in room 13 period 4 earlier today. Now I can't explain it to you because I don't understand half of it so Mrs. Jones is here to explain it."

"Hello, I'm Mrs. Jones and I'm the deputy of MI6." Gasps and confused looks passed through the room. "Today one of our best agents was killed here in your school, room 13 to be exact."

"What was one of your spies doing at our school?" Someone in the middle row called out.

"He was learning. He needed an education like the rest of you."

"But he's an adult!"

"No, he wasn't." A soft voice came from the doorway. Everyone turned his or her heads to see who it was. It was Tom. "He was my best friend, the supposed drug addict. He was the reason you're all sitting here. He risked his life for you, all of you, so you could live to see another day and you call him a liar, a thief, a drug addict when he saved you and you never realised. Alex saved all of you and you ignore him."

"Sure he did Harris, we all believe you," a boy in the back said sarcastically.

"Don't you dare insult Tom or Cub!" Wolf thundered. No one had realised K-Unit was there behind Mrs. Jones and next to Alan Blunt.

"Who the bloody hell is Cub?"

"Cub is Alex. You all remember when Alex was away for the few weeks after his uncle died? Alex was recruited by MI6, he went through a fortnight of SAS training where no one accepted him, and then he was thrown to Sayle Enterprises where he would have failed if it weren't for the fact that his uncle had been on the mission just before he died. He shut down the Stormbreakers and then he came back to school after confronting the man who murdered his uncle."

None of K-Unit or the school knew any of this so as was expected there was a fair few gasps.

"Then he was shipped off to the Alps. He went to Point Blanc under the name Alex Friend and when he found out that all of the troubled spoilt boys there were being replaced by clones of Dr. Greif, who had had surgery to like the people they were posing as, he had to snowboard down the mountain on an ironing board that he turned into a snowboard."

"Surely he could have hid in the building!"

"Well he could have, but they had every room being filmed and if he was found he would be used as a live human dissection. I think he preferred the snowboarding, don't you?"

"Tom I think they get the point…"

"You're right, but the way they treated him…"

"I know, now Alex Rider was one of our best agents and we want you to be careful. Scorpia has been aiming to kill school children for a long time so be careful because if you don't Alex's sacrifice will have been for nothing. Any questions?"

"Why did Rider disappear from Venice?"

"He went to find Scorpia. In the end, he was almost killed by them twice. One way the same as us if he hadn't blown up there hot air balloon."

"How would that of killed us?"

"The injection we had had at the start of the year."

"But Rider hadn't gotten his!"

"He got it when Scorpia had had enough of him. And the other time he almost died was the Saturday before he didn't turn up after he got back from Venice. He was shot barley above the heart." Now everyone was wide eyed, pale and mouths agape. Well except Blunt, Jones and Tom.

"What?! You mean he was shot and I wasn't informed!" Snake growled.

"Uh yes…"

"I'm the unit's medic officer and he was in my unit so I was his medic officer and no one thought to tell me he was shot JUST ABOVE THE HEART!" Snake thundered. The schoolchildren coward while the rest of K-Unit winced. When Snake was in a mood, if you didn't get out of the way fast you didn't get out unscratched.

The day went on like this. The day morphed into a week, the week morphed into months and finally it was the day of Alex's funeral.

Jack and Tom arrived together. Tom looked around at the people. There were some teachers and students from school, K-Unit was there, and members of MI6 were there. Tom couldn't name some of them but Jones and Blunt were both there, there was an overly large bald man who had a black moustache and the man Tom had a feeling was Crawley. There was also a girl with dark hair. Maybe Sabina? Even still Tom let his tears finally fall, the tears running down his face in a continuous line. No one was ever going to be able to look in Alex's brown eyes and tell that they have seen too much. No one, they had abused that privilege and now it was gone.

Alex Rider was dead…