Disclaimer, Anthony Horowitz may read his fanfiction, but I'm not him and this isn't my characters or base plot line, but I swear he reads his fanfiction.

A/N Now, let me tell you something about this story. You're going to want to read this AN for the story to make ANY sense. This fanfic, this AU. Alternate Universe takes place in the future, in a time where water is short. Somethings are futuristic like robot dogs, other things are not like sail boats. Now, the first few things are supposed to be news clippings and report cards. This hasn't been edited very well but once I get a few chapters in I will send it to my betareader- whom I can't find now. I've got over twenty thousand words for this story, and I will do my best to update regularly. Before warned once again, this isn't edited again.

Now, moving onto my other stories I have about five hundred words for A Run In, and I'm sorry its taking so long. Enjoy.

Technology prices rise! Soon the only ones with the Internet will be the rich. How….8/23/200

Water is scarce! 9/5/208

How long do we have? 12/20/208

The land between the two tropics, Capricorn and Cancer are becoming increasingly like a desert, it is only a matter of time before everything is a desert waste land.

Too a crisp 10/30/209

Millions of people die as heat streak raced around the globe, unfortunately almost everyone in the tropics have died, and the tip of the United States has become submerged in saltwater, causing the Evergreen swap to grow by miles.

Will of Helen and John Rider. 10/24/210

In case of our death our son custody goes to Ian Rider, John Rider's brother. If Ian Rider dies before us, our son Alex Rider will belong to the Military intelligence Six division. Our house will go to Ian Rider…..

A British plane shot down over Germany 6/19/211

The small air craft was carrying only three people, the pilot and John and Helen Rider, they left behind a son.

The Wars have begun! 12/7/215

Yesterday, China launched an attack on Japan. The reason was for water in China's southern lakes. Then after it's attacked failed the Republic of China launched an attack of the country of Russia, this time they succeeded in taking a small lake. It is uncertain that the treaty between the two countries will remain.

File R16 – date submitted 1/15/216

The British government has agreed to make a division of the army dedicated for children; a unit from the SAS shall be in charge of their training. Children between the ages 12 and 18 will be drafted. They will be trained in extreme climates, shooting, poisons, and various other topics.

More attacks. 10/21/218

The United States stands strong in their allayment with Britain by helping the them with the recent attacks by France, it is unsure how long these attacks will continue. We do know that the reason behind them is water. France has made a pack with Spain in effort to gain more water. Things are not looking good for either side.

An unfortunate accident. 10/25/224

Ian Rider dies whenhe accidently steps in front of a moving tram, it is unsure whether it was a suicide or a murder, investigators are looking into the matter. He leaves behind a nephew who is fourteen.

File on one Alex Rider

Alex Rider, son of John Rider who was in MI6; who is deceased. He is the only Rider left, his uncle died on 11/13/224 leaving him to go to the children's military. Alex Rider has had training by his Uncle who was also a spy for MI6. He knows how to do everything that is taught at the facility, he can only get better.

Report Card for Alex Rider in his first year evolution. Year 2224

Gun's teacher, Mr. Watt-Alex being 14 I thought he would behind his fellow peers, but it seems he has already surpassed many of them he might even be the best student we've had in a long time. If Alex continues like this, I suggest he gets moved to a higher division were his talents aren't wasted. Alex still has that small part of a child in him, if that gets taken away he will truly be the best killer machine, I strongly advise to not send him into the war zone now.

Survival expert, Ms. Weis- Alex shows amazing capabilities, suggest that he gets moved to the A division. His success in this class is no doubt because of his Uncle.

Technology- Ms. Z Alex is doing fairly well, he knows most of what we are currently doing, but his is often turning the project at hand into something else after he is done, he is incredibly able; but he needs to stop turning into something else after he makes it.

Therapist- Ms. May- Alex seems conflicted over how is uncle had been treating him, after he found out that his uncle was training for this, hopefully he can get over this soon. The shock of being at the camp has done little to help and I am afraid of what he could become. Right now I strongly advise not sending him into the current battle area in northern Europe. Things will only get worse, I also advise for him to take a small break. The break would only last two days and it would help him get his mind together, so he could think clearly.

Poisons- Mr. Frey Alex has been adapt at finding poisons, making them is proving rather difficult for him. If he gets better I will nominate him for A unit….

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This report card has been approved by the heads, Blunt and Jones. If one Alex Rider continues to get better in all of his classes he will be moved to A unit.

The Remains of Mexico has invaded the United States. 4/12/224

Canada has agreed to Share some of its water with the United States 6/25/224

England bombs France with a Hydrogen bomb, the death toll is unknown, the bombing was in direct response to recent attacks by Frances and Spain, it is uncertain…

Year two Report card. Year 2225

Alex Rider is now fifteen, progress overall seems to be getting better, his small training missions have all been a success.

Shooting , Alex has been doing better after the short break he had. He is at the top of the class. Everything we are doing is now to easy, he needs to be moved up to another level

Hand to hand fighting. Alex is doing extremely well, he has out ranked all of his fellow peers, I know have to fight him personally and even that is becoming a challenge. I strongly advise he gets moved, before he ends up hurting one of his fellow mates, even though he shows amazing self restraint.

Survival Expert. In our latest expedition to the American Everglades, Alex was the only one to finish on time, and he was even early. I strongly advise him being moved to a more advanced class.

Technology, Alex is doing better, I have decided to let him explore his creative mind with all the things we have in the lab, he has come up with some amazing things that are going through testing at the moment so that can be used safely on the field. I suggest that he takes the gadget makers class with Mr. Smithers.

Poisons, Alex has yet to get sick from eating the food tests, which is a amazing capability, while making the poisons are still difficult his determination is strong and he will pull through, right now in class he is building a resistant to sleep poisons.

Therapist- Alex is doing much better, and I believe he is ready for a real mission once he hits his 16th birthday, right now small street based missions would be for the best.

Alex Rider gets moved to Class A, which is supervised by K-Unit- Date 12/1/225

Laying on his bunk Alex Looked up to the stucco ceiling. He was clearing his mind for his next training mission. The basics were to break into the building and disarm the alarm system, avoid the robo dogs and break into the safe that was guarded three electronic ninjas and a bunch of lasers. He was chosen to be the team leader, he had no idea why but he wasn't going to question orders. Ian had told him that it was never a good idea unless you knew something was not right. Ian… he had died hit by a train that someone pushed him in to. The question was who did it, and what did his uncle do to them?

Alex got an uneasy feeling….what if those same people came after him? Ian and taught him almost everything he knew if they were able to kill him, that how much a threat was he going to be? A hard one, Alex thought, he would train has hard and as fast as he could. He would bring the people who killed his parents and is uncle to their graves. A small smile graced his lips; they would pay for what they did to not only him but to his family. The last Rider was lethal.

Alex heard the truck stop outside. The gas powered vehicle chugged its way to a stop. J-Unit hoped out and started yelling to him and his fellow trainees to get on so they could hurry up with the exercise. Hydro vehicles had been outlawed some thirty years ago and now the most common vehicle was electric, but the odd gas car was still around. They were collectibles now. Alex guessed that those too would also be illegal because of the amount of pollution it gave off.

"Get in the truck Rider!" Alex snapped to attention and heaved his bag over his shoulder as he hoped in to the truck. One of his best friends was Tom, who was also on this exercise. Tom was an expert in poison and he did fairly well in hand to hand combat. They had struck off when they first meet as bunk mates. Tom was funny and an awesome sidekick to help him with his pranks…not that he pulled any on the teachers. Tom was also great with Tech and when ever Alex needed new ideas Tom was there to help him.

The road they were on was bumpy and few words were exchanged as the group of six including Alex sat in silence. Alex hoped that this mission would goes as planned, things tended to get complicated when he was around. Alex got out the ear communicators; they all had fake codenames that they all hoped would become real if they entered the A Class. So instead of their last names they would get an animal name, which fit them. Everyone in A Class was either 18 or older Alex hoped that he and Tom would be the youngest ones in. This was their final test mission to make it, everyone in the van had a chance of making it to the top, but only four would reach the criteria. These four would make up the class that was to replace the last one. The last class was all nearing the age of eighteen, the age when they could back out of the military, or continue with their life as it was. Alex wondered how the others thought about him, did they think he was a bastard?

Did he care if they did? No he decided he didn't. Alex mused on for the rest of the time they were in the truck. When the gas using truck stopped everyone hopped out and took a com from him.

"Alright" Jango said, he was the leader of J Unit.

"You will be trying to break into a house that is five clicks north from this spot, in five minutes after you start we will come after you, if you get caught by us you fail the mission. At the house you will try to break into it, without setting off the alarm. Then you will find your way to the Master Bed room where you will find a Safe, crack that and get out without getting caught by the three robotic ninja's that are in the house, if they manage to knock you out and you're still out by the time we get there then you, fail. Oh, and watch out for those robotic dogs, I hear they have a nasty bite." With that final word of advice Jango sent them off into the woods. The other members of the unit started to talk, all making various hand motions, finally Alex saw Jango smile and nod his head. Alex spoke softly into the com.

"Everyone, I believe are conversation is about to be listened upon, I suggest you all flick the switch that wasn't there before." Alex heard multiple clicks and several rustles against the microphone. The switch was something he had added to, it scrabbled anyone trying to listen in on their conversation, he had tested it once and he knew it work, now all he had to do was to make sure that none of the coms' got into J-unit's hands, that could prove disastrous. If anyone fails, I'm telling them all to go radio silent; that would mean they would have to stay within eye sight of each other and use their own hand signals. Hopefully Alex thought no one will fail till we reach the house, and if we're lucky, no one will fail at all.

The crunching of leaves told him that all his classmates were close by, he whispered into the microphone again.

"Remember nothing ever goes to plan, if something goes majorly wrong contact J-Unit. Now let's finish these clicks before we waste anymore time, remember to watch out for traps and the dogs. Try to keep radio silent as much as possible. Rider out" He heard several mummers in agreement and then everything went silent.

Alex heard the wind through the leaves and on the back of his neck his hair stood up. Quickly he side stepped and ducked, while continuing to move forward. He heard the wisp of something fly past his ear and he looked back briefly to see a metal star sticking out of the tree.

Ninjas. Not the fake kind either, the kind that had real mental, and pointy star tips, with real poison on them. The Ninjas that were attacking them now were vicious human beings. They were part of small percent of the humankind that did not care whether or not they used a lethal move in a hand to hand combat against a child. Alex gulped, should he tell the others? Or leave them to get killed, no he couldn't do that; he would have to tell them and hope they wouldn't panic.

"Guys, contact J-Unit we've got real Ninjas on us. We should be nearing the house I want everyone fighting like your life is on the line and do not stop running, even if one of us ends up in their hands. That would be the end. Harris take point, I will bring up the rear. If my assumption is correct they already have J-Unit."

Everyone started to group together and move faster towards the house. Soon Alex had dropped back a little and started to keep an eye out for any flashes of the ninjas going by. Alex saw one to his left and then another one to his right, a swish of wind told him he dodged another star. Swallowing hard he moved faster, yelling ahead.

"There on us, move, move, move!" then one of his class mates yelled out, he had been hit square in the back, he feel to the ground dead. Now there was only Alex, Tom, Smith, Jones, and Gregory. Alex was bruised; Tom seemed to be bleeding from a cut above his eye. Smith, as Alex knew him by his last name. The other boy seemed to be grasping his shoulder tightly. Also, he thought Jones couldn't keep up the pace for much longer, it looked like his leg was bleeding and he was slowing down. Alex didn't have time to see how Gregory was because at that moment he went down, the other boy had fallen into a trap that J-Unit had set up. Moment later he heard the boy whisper softly into the com.

"Go! I'll be fine… I'll take the pill". Alex gulped the death pill, that all the agents took were ever they went in case they got caught by the enemy. No! His team was falling apart!

"No!" He screamed. Alex stopped in his tracks, turned around and dropped to the floor, his outstretched hand reached into the pit. Gregory looked up at him in surprise, wasting precious seconds. Finally the boy took Alex's hand and Alex helped hauled him out of the wet pit. A mental star imbedded in a tree next to them. They starred frozen in shock, till another star landed right by Alex's foot. Shoving the other boy forward they ran as fast as they could to catch up to the rest of their class. When Alex got in eye sight of the group, he noticed they had slowed, probably waiting for him, and he also saw that Jones was becoming paler, and looked about ready to pass out. Alex gulped they weren't going to make it to the house, heck they probably couldn't make it another hundred meters.

Confusing no? So, once again I'm back to updating my profile. I'm sorry to everyone who was waiting for a update to my other ones I'm working on it. Please review, and tell me how much you hated it or loved it.