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Liability
Chapter 1
"We need you again." It was a stern female voice at the other end. Alex simply cut her off, placing the Android phone back into the right pocket of his jeans. It buzzed several times; they were calling again. He ignored it and kicked the white and blue Chelsea football to his friend, Tom. The vibrating stopped. He ran towards Tom and tackled him from behind and somehow they both ended on the up on the grassy ground, ball forgotten, in a friendly tackle on each other.
"Come on Alex! You can do better than this! I'm winning here!" Tom said as he used his weight to pull himself on top of Alex. Tom pressed his hands down onto Alex's chest, stopping him from getting up but the lack of hold gave Alex a gap and he grabbed Tom's upper arms and sat himself up, pushing Tom off of him.
"Ha! I know I can do better, and I just did." Alex teased; he stood up and thrust out a hand to Tom who was still lying defeated on his back, his black spiky hair no longer as spiky, just messy. Tom took the hand and was helped to standing.
Once again the phone buzzed in Alex's pocket, but he ignored it instantly and ran to the ball. He lined himself up so he was aiming at Tom, ready to kick. He pulled his right leg back when Tom pulled out his phone, placing it to his ear. Alex lowered his leg and waited for Tom to finish.
"Good afternoon, Thomas," The voice said, no one called him Thomas. "I'd like to speak to Alex, please." The voice was female and stern. He held up the phone to Alex and beckoned him over. Alex knocked the ball forward and jogged towards Tom a couple of metres away. He took the phone from Tom's grip.
"Who?" He asked simply.
"They want to speak to you." Alex sighed and brought the phone to his ear and forced himself to listen to what they had to say.
"Alex, I would appreciate it next time that you don't ignore me." She said.
"There won't be a next time." Alex told her brusquely.
"Alex." She warned. "I need you to gather a team for this mission." It was a secure line so Mrs. Jones was able to say what she wanted down the phone. "You're not going in alone."
"A team?" Alex's heart seemed to skip a beat. A team! Alex was almost surprised that they were giving him a team; people who he could trust.
"How many?" He wondered.
"Four others." Alex already had one person in mind. He cut off the conversation and handed the phone back to Tom.
"I've got to go." Tom had expected an angry conversation to happen but it did not and there seem to be some relief in Alex's expression.
"Why do you even bother? Can't they sort their problems out with their own agents?" He told him, voice laden with anger and disappointment. Alex looked at him, he knew he was right but he was one of their agents, so they didn't pay him but he was still an agent just like his father and uncle; whether he liked it or not.
"Tom..." He said, but Tom was already walking away kicking the ball lightly in front of him towards his home on the other side of the park. Alex would call him later.
He grabbed his bike he'd put in the bike racks on the edge of the park and cycled towards Liverpool Street.
The building that belonged to MI6 rose up in front of him and he walked innocently through the glass push doors into the marble floored lobby. There were desks for customers to discuss their accounts on two sides of the room and a small help desk at the back in front of the lift. This was where Alex walked up to. He showed his MI6 ID card and the young man at the desk nodded his consent.
"Right this way." He pressed the button and the lift doors opened instantaneously as the lift was rarely used. Alex walked inside and leant against the bar at the back. The lift was not elaborate as some can be but was rather simple. He pressed the button for the twelfth floor and the doors closed. A small jolt and Alex's stomach leapt a little as the lift made its way up. It took only a few seconds for it to reach the designated floor and the doors pinged then opened revealing a long tiled hallway with doors leading to agents' offices on each side. The twelfth floor was the main floor for the use of MI6 with the agents' offices and the grand, albeit bland, office for the head of MI6, Mrs. Jones.
He knocked on the brown door and looked up at the brass sign on the door.
T. Jones, Head of Department
He waited to be called in and eventually the calm, collected voice of Mrs. Jones came through the door and Alex entered.
"Afternoon Alex." She said, she was wearing her usual nondescript suit and an open neck, pale pink blouse. She pulled a pen out of her pocket and wrote something in shorthand on the A4 lined pad in front of her before placing it on her desk aligning it with the pad and looked up at Alex. Alex wondered what she had written but he could neither read shorthand nor read upside down that well. He pulled the navy blue chair from the front of the desk towards him and sat down awkwardly in the strange silence.
"As you know, you can have a team of four for your next mission. I've had William compile a set of files of the agents you may require to work with during this mission. We have had reliable intelligence from an agent sent to do some extra surveillance on where we thought they might be. Scorpia currently have four strongholds based in Moscow, Belgium, Shanghai and right here in London.
"Your team will group together once chosen and go through two weeks of intensive training to get you all working together in your array of skills and able to quickly to decide of tactics of how you will approach this mission. You will target each location and also target the Scorpia Executive Board Members. Most of them now reside in the UK, but due to the nature of who they are MI5 have allowed us to handle all strongholds rather than splitting it and causing confusion. Once you start you'll need to watch your back and your teams'. Once the stronghold crumble and board members start mysteriously dying they'll be after you and your team.
"Here are the files of the agents that are available for this mission, make sure you choose them carefully for their skill and expertise that you may need." Mrs. Jones handed him eight manila files, some of them were thicker than others, some of the older agents who had been on a lot of missions and some were very thin.
"Thanks." Alex said.
"I'll want the team by tomorrow morning." She demanded. That gave him about five or six hours to read through and work out who was going to be in his team.
Alex turned and headed out of the office and down the hallway. He stopped outside an office with the same brown door as everyone else and the same brass plate.
Agent A. Rider
It had been changed recently as it was his uncle's old office. They had offered to clear out all Ian's old stuff to make it more his own but he refused. Alex wanted all Ian's stuff left where it was. He opened the door and sat down at the desk, the chair was far too large for his slight body but it was comfy and Alex could only just reach the floor. He lifted the lid of the sleek, black laptop that had also once belonged to his uncle and switched it on. Mrs. Jones had given it to him a few weeks ago, along with the office, a bribe for him to stay perhaps.
Alex had asked Smithers to decode the series of complicated password systems that Ian had, it was easy as it was Smithers who had designed it in the first place. Smithers also helped Alex set up his own password protection system and he tapped it in. The laptop whirred into life and loaded up quickly. He opened up the MI6 database and signed it with yet another set of password combinations. Simultaneously he opened up the first file: Ben Daniels. He'd worked with him previously and thought of him as a friend. It was lucky that he was available.
Biographical Information
Name: Ben Daniels
Alias: Fox
Title: Agent
DOB: 27/02/1990
Age: 23
Physical Information
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Hair: Black, cut short
Eyes: Dark blue
Skin: Tanned
Present Condition: Recent Injury (see Snakehead file)
Relationship Information
Status: Married
Family: Twin brother: James; Younger brother: Aaron; Younger sister: Lauren; Mother: charlotte (deceased); Father: Bruce; Wife: Kerry; Son: Ethan
Affiliations: SAS
Occupation: SAS Special Forces Soldier; MI6 Agent
Attributes
Skills: Fluent in French, Arabic and Russian, proficient in Spanish. Has Special Forces military training.
Weapons Training: Fully trained on small arms and handguns. As soldier in SF he was trained on using knives and other small weapons. Has very little sniper training.
Psychological Profile
BD was seconded to MI6 from the SAS in January. His mother was killed in a car accident when he was seventeen, is father never remarried. He has a younger brother in the Parachute Regiment and a twin brother still in the SAS. His father was in the army and taught Daniels well in his young life and he became a very capable soldier. He applied to the SAS at 20. He was denied leave for the birth of his son (Ethan) as he was on a mission (Red Crescent).
Past Assignments
Iraq
Did a tour in Iraq as a soldier in the British Army
Afghanistan
Did a tour in Afghanistan as a soldier in the British Army
Operation Snakehead
Mission was to investigate Scorpia Board Member Major Winston Yu. Met Agent Rider while on the job after he found out he was in Bangkok. He was involved in the shooting of Anan Sukit and aided in Rider's escape. Daniels was part of the rescue team that retrieved Alex from an Australian Jungle. Daniels then went on and led a joint MI6/ASIS raid on the Dragon Nine Oil Rig. He shoots double agent, Agent Howell before getting shot in the shoulder by Major Yu.
Operation Red Crescent
Mission was to do surveillance on a drug cartel in West Africa who were importing drugs into the UK. His injury on his past operation slowed him down a little and he found it difficult. Daniels was unable to complete the mission.
Biographical Information
Name: Luke Donnelly
Title: Probationary Agent
DOB: 09/08/1993
Age: 19
Physical Information
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Hair: Light Brown
Eyes: Green
Skin: Fair
Present Condition: Excellent condition
Relationship Information
Status: Single
Family: Mother: Teresa Donnelly; Father: Matthew Donnelly (deceased); Younger Sister: Kia Donnelly
Affiliations: None
Occupation: Probationary MI6 Agent
Attributes
Skills: Excels in computer skills and hacking. When Donnelly was younger he was caught by police for hacking into databases several times. MI6 picked him out during his second year of university. Also did training on decoding and deciphering.
Weapons Training: Fully trained on small arms.
Psychological Profile
Has a gap in his agent training due to the death of his father at the beginning of this year. However, it seems to have made Donnelly more determined. He was reluctant at first to use his skill that he'd been previously reprimanded for.
Past Assignments
N/A
Biographical Information
Name: Dylan Birch
Alias: Cheetah
Title: Agent
DOB: 30/11/1983
Age: 29
Physical Information
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Hair: Short, curly, black hair
Eyes: Brown
Skin: Black
Present Condition: Shot in the arm during a recent mission, not too much concern.
Relationship Information
Status: Separated
Family: Mother: Julie Birch; Father: Timothy Birch; Ex-Wife: Harriet Garner; Daughter: Jessica Birch (Birch has full custody of Jessica)
Affiliations: SAS; MI6
Occupation: Former Soldier in infantry of British Army; SAS; MI6 Agent
Attributes
Skills: As a soldier Birch was a Sniper. He was trained in advanced navigation and route selection and also how to disguise himself and remain hidden in the field. He was trained to do undercover work without enemy detection. Due to this he is always one step ahead and is a tactical specialist.
Weapons Training: Infantry Sniper. Small arms and other small weapons.
Psychological Profile
During his first tour to Iraq he struggled as he was still young. He was covering a convoy of British Army when insurgents took their position and killed his best friend and spotter Cpl Laggard. It was at this point he applied to join the SAS, passed selection and carried on his career as a Sniper. He was seconded to MI6 for his exception abilities.
Past Assignments
Iraq
As an Infantry Sniper he went to Iraq on tour. His spotter was killed when their position on a mountain side was taken by enemy insurgents; Birch was injured with a single bullet to the arm.
Operation Jules
SAS Protection duty for Prime Minister when he had a conference in Albania
Unnamed operation
In search of Agent Rider he was part of the team that raided the old house before the warehouse.
Monaco
Agent Birch was sent to Monaco to target Gerald Firmer, a Scorpia Agent who was planning an attack on the UK. Mission was a success.
Biographical Information
Name: Ava Williams
Alias:
Title: Agent
DOB: 14/08/1991
Age: 21
Physical Information
Nationality: British
Gender: Female
Hair: Dark Brown
Eyes: Greeny-Brown
Skin: Olive
Present Condition: Excellent condition
Relationship Information
Status: Single
Family: Mother: Taylor Williams; Father: Matthew Williams; No siblings
Affiliations: MI5
Occupation: Former MI5 agent; MI6 agent
Attributes
Skills: Proficient in French and has been taught a little Mandarin Chinese. Fully trained field medic. Tactical specialist
Weapons Training: Fully trained on hand guns and small arms
Psychological Profile
She is an outstanding agent who has performed with total success in both MI5 and MI6 duties.
Past Assignments
Operation Red Panther
MI5 (Mission details in MI5 database)
Operation Spark
MI5 (Mission details in MI5 database)
Operation Zircon
MI6; led a small team of agents in Ukraine, bringing down a trade who were smuggling people from Ukraine into the UK. Mission success.
Alex looked down at his watch and saw it was getting late, he turned off the laptop and placed it in the middle drawer of the desk and locked it. He gathered the files of the agents who were going to be in his team. Ava Williams, the team's medic and tactical specialist; Ben Daniels, the languages specialist who was also SAS and had worked with him previously; Dylan Birch, their sniper and main form of cover, tactical specialist and excelled in armed and unarmed combat; and Luke Donnelly, the fresh agent, five months into the agency, this was to be his first mission, he was the technology expert. Alex himself, well he was a mixture of all of them and knew Scorpia, having confronted them several times.
Standing up, Alex took the files and headed off to Mrs. Jones' office. He knocked on the door. A young man answered the door, he was wheelchair bound after a nasty accident on only his second mission. He was Mrs. Jones' PA.
"Oh, hi Alex," He said, beckoning Alex in and shutting the door behind him. "They sending you on another mission?" He asked. Alex nodded and handed him the files.
"Can you give these to Mrs. Jones in the morning?"
"Of course. At least you'll have a team of people you can trust, eh?" He flipped the cover of the first file over. "She's a wonderful agent Alex, you'll have a great time working with her, she's one of our best agents; well before you got here anyway." He smiled. Alex felt a little embarrassed about his status within MI6 as their top spy. "You're so much like your uncle, you know." William said and Alex nodded.
"As I do my father, I've been told." Alex took a step back. "I'll see you in a couple of days."
"Goodnight Alex." William Dearly wheeled himself behind his desk and placed the four files in the blue 'out' tray. Alex left the room.
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