Chapter 1:

Fox opened his eyes. He could hear Wolf's snoring, Eagle's muttering, and Snake's silent sleeping. He could feel the cool night air linger as the first rays of dawn creep into their cabin. 'Time to leave.' he thought. As silent as he could be, he grabbed his already packed bags and closed the door behind him. Yesterday he was a SAS soldier, now he was a MI6 agent. As he headed for the sergeant's office, his mind flashed to his briefing the week before.

Ben felt uncomfortable sitting across from the grey man, who continued to shuffle papers without acknowledging his presence. Ironically, his name was Alan Blunt. After two minutes the man finally looked up from his neat pile of papers.

"Welcome to MI6, Agent Daniels." Ben sat straighter and shook hands with the man. "The only reason why you were sent in earlier is because it is more practical to brief you about your mission before you leave. We have a missing bomb, the Royal Blue to be exact, and we know who did it. The prime suspect is SCORPIA, an organization set up after the Cold War by unneeded assassins. Now it is on an illegal trade system set up by Snakehead, another organization. The bomb is currently in Bangkok, where you will be going. However, you won't be going in alone. You and Mrs. Jones," Blunt gestured to the woman on his right side, "will be going in together. That's all for now. You may go back, and come again in a week."

Ben found himself on the sergeant's doorstep. He knocked on the door. Moments later he heard the sergeant's voice order him to come in. Ben saluted. "At ease, soldier." The sergeant stared him right in the eye. Ben returned his gaze, unblinking and unmoving. "So you're leaving already?"

"Yes, sir."

"Have you told the unit?"

"No, sir. I was hoping you would inform them for me, sir." The sergeant chuckled softly. At first Ben thought he must have been mistaken, but, no, he heard it. He hears everything.

"Well then, I'll certainly do that. You may go now, agent." Ben saluted and left.

He kept walking until he reached the fence. There was a security box where Monkey was guarding for the morning. Ben tapped against the clear window, startling the tired SAS man. Monkey looked up before scowling at him. Monkey was the unit leader of S-unit and his unit and K-unit were often sent in on assignments and training lessons together.

"Isn't it a bit early to be taking off, Fox?" Monkey inquired.

"Not if I'm to work for MI6." Ben dropped his bag of combat boots and uniforms in the doorway of the security box. He wouldn't need these anymore. Ben turned on his heel and headed to a Rolls Royce that had pulled up in front of them. He left Monkey staring in the direction of the car even after they were out of sight.

The alarm went off at exactly 5 o` clock. Wolf stumbled out of bed. "Get up!" he growled at Eagle. Snake groaned and sat up in bed. Eagle turned onto his side and held the pillow over his ears so that he could block out Wolf's morning ravings. Snake grudgingly went to change. He glanced at Wolf who was currently dragging Eagle out of his bed. Literally.

Five minutes later they were awake, Eagle was bruised from the dragging, and about to take off to the mess hall when Eagle spoke.

"I think you forgot to wake up Fox." Wolf growled before he marched angrily back to the cabin.

"FOX, YOU BETTER GET YOUR LAZY BUM BEFORE I-"

"Wolf! Just grab him and let's go." Snake wasn't having a good morning, just like all mornings. He didn't know how much worse it was going to get.

K-unit made their way silently to the mess hall. 'Fox is probably there.' they thought. But when they entered they didn't see Fox. Eagle knew something was wrong. He just did. Fox wouldn't leave the cabin unexpectedly without telling them. He has always relied on them, and they have always relied him. 'Maybe we're just overreacting. He's probably at one of the training courses.'

As they slid onto the benches with their "breakfast", they were surprised to see the sergeant. The three of them stood up and saluted him. Well, two of them. Eagle did his signature mock salute. Usually, the sergeant would make him run laps because of this, but to their surprise he didn't seem to have noticed.

"K-unit, I have some… disappointing news from Fox." The sergeant looked uncomfortable and slightly disgruntled. The entire mess hall was suddenly quiet. They were obviously interested in what the sergeant had to say.

"Sir, if the news is from Fox, then he isn't here, but he's alright?" asked Snake. The sergeant nodded. Wolf seemed to relax a bit.

"He had gotten a promotion of a sort. He is now an agent of MI6. He left this morning for a mission." With that the sergeant left. Everyone was quiet for a moment before suddenly clamoring about the news.

"That coward! I can't believe he left without telling us! How could he? We were a unit, for goodness sake! Did he think we didn't care? Who does he think he…" Wolf had been ranting on and on about Fox's departure. It had been a big hit for all of them. The biggest thing was that he is on a mission, all alone, at who knows where.

'Will he finish his mission? Will he get hurt? Will he return? Will they seem him again? Will he die?' Snake had never actually thought of his best friends dying, and he didn't want to start now. The three of them were waiting for… something. The sergeant told them they could have a day off. Wolf was having enough fun ranting, Eagle kept fiddling with his radio, and Snake was thinking. 'Please be careful, Ben. I will never forgive myself if you die.'