Chapter 1- Another Arrival
Disclaimer: I do not own Alex Rider. All I own from this story is the minor addition of Spider and the plot line.
Note: It is at least post Snakehead, so minor spoliers for all books up to and including SH.
Edited: 25/2/12

He had changed. Wolf wasn't the most observant man but something this different wasn't about to go unnoticed. Even for someone like him.

It was all through the arrival of Cub he had noticed; Cub had changed, it was if Wolf was standing in front of a completely different person. He certainly wasn't the same weak, pathetic teen that had arrived about two years ago. No this was someone different. Stood before him was a stout, muscular young man with an intimidating stance that just boasted danger unlike anything he had been before.

Cub stormed into the barracks threw his rucksack onto the issued bed and exited as quickly as he came. The rest of the hut was rarely silent, all the occupants taking a few seconds to take in what had just happened.

"So, Cub's back then. That's different." Came the burly voice of Eagle from his game of cards. And that seemed to be the end of the conversation of Cub, almost everyone returning to the game of cards.

All those from the K-Unit but Wolf, he didn't seem as inclined to just let go of his thoughts of Cub. The whole unit -well with the unit two years ago with Fox- had been shocked at the appearance of their fifth team mate who had arrived unannounced, and then they were shocked again by his sudden disappearance. Seemingly for the rest of his comrades the shock wasn't present this time at his arrival, apart for Wolf. Wolf hadn't anticipated Cub coming, of course he'd been informed an old member was set to reappear, but in all honesty he'd been expecting the returning of Fox. He would have enjoyed the company of his old mate and it would have been great to see him once again, there would be many things to catch up on and such. Yet it wasn't Fox, it was and Cub wasn't the company he had desired, and that made Wolf annoyed to say the least.

"Oi, Wolf coming to join us sane people with poker or are you just going to stare at the door?" asked Snake who was currently engrossed in a game of cards.

Wolf agreed hoping to get his mind of the topic of their younger teammate, joining his other three teammates in a game.

An hour later Cub hadn't returned and without a smudge of worry the unit retired for the night readying themselves for their enduring training in the morning.

It was the next day and Wolf was interrupted from his dream state in the early morning with the slight move of another's hand which left him falling onto the floor.

"What you do that for you-"

He was met with only a kick and a short answered 'time to wake up' from an equally drowsy Spider who had been given the frivolous task of waking everyone up. So it wasn't long before Snake was hurrying around trying to find some of his equipment and Eagle was irritating everyone with ridiculous tales of his wins from last night's poker. Which Wolf knew wasn't in anyway true. The unit were almost ready when Spider nudged Wolf.

"Wolf, what do I do about Cub?"

Wolf looked towards Cub's bed to see a heap under the covers, thinking quickly he brought a finger to his mouth. Creeping towards Cub he loaded his face with a sly smile, revenge was a great start to Wolf's morning. Manoeuvring his arm Wolf took aim at the heap, trajectory perfect his fist collided with the heap and scattered the covers.

Underneath however was nothing, it seemed Cub wasn't there.

"I hope you weren't planning to hit me, because I don't like people who do that sort of thing. And people I don't like don't tend to stay around for very long," Cub remarked from behind him and stared coldly at him. This came as a surprise to Wolf, true he was going to just kick the brat but he never wanted to do anything else to him, since their time together at Point Blanc Wolf had came to respect Cub. That respect had just gone down the drain. Along apparently with Cub's innocence.

Wolf narrowed his eyes, he could tell a threat from a mile away. It was strange to compare what Cub had been and what he was now. Now he seemed confident enough to just go around threatening innocents, well Wolf certainly wasn't going to let that continue.

"Well, brat. Is your bite as big as your bark? Because nothing you can say is going to work on me sunshine. Hope you get that soon or there might just be an accident," Wolf growled fully intent on fulfilling his threat if need be.

Eagle intervened hoping to at least protect the kid, who in no way deserved Wolf's actions. Last time he had just ignored what had happened but during the two years he had regretted it, now he would stop Wolf's threats as he ought to have done a while back.

"Wolf man, don't you think that's a bit far. Can't you see he's just a ki-"

"I'm not a kid," Cub snarled infuriated, "And I don't need know-it-all-soldiers to stand up for me."

Cub spun away from the unit and literally threw himself through the door hurryingly, in an obvious act to desperately get away from the unit.

"Wow, what crawled up his ass this morning?" Snake wondered aloud from his bed. Eagle looked slightly hurt by what had just happened but was quick to put on a mask of indifference. Wolf knew Eagle had been feeling guilty about his lack of support for Cub last time, but for Cub to throw it in his face directly was pretty harsh. Wolf realised that he had been slightly wrong to threaten Cub, inevitably due to his bad-temperedness and that he shouldn't have said those things to Cub. Maybe trying to whack Cub out of bed was wrong.

"Let's just lay off Cub, maybe what I said was wrong. Ok Eagle, stop with the glare. It was wrong of me so maybe we should just give him some space and just leave him alone," Wolf announced to his unit much to their shock that Wolf, their bad-tempered and hot-headed leader, would dare say something so out of character.

Eagle grinned, "Well, anyone for breakfast. Bet Wolf dude here will be able to apologise to Cubby for us."

Wolf sent Eagle his infamous death glare before residing to leaving with his Unit to the mess hall for breakfast.

A/N: So how was that? Was it too descriptive, not enough? Too long, too short? Do you think I could improve something? Any constructive critism you can give is VERY appreciated! So first chapter and I have already pre-written a few more, just wanting to know from your responses so I know if it's worth updating or just deleting it and continuing for myself. Hope you enjoyed that chapter and should be updating in a few days- if not feel sure to bug me about it, well that is if I continue. Thanks for reading.