(If I get the descriptions wrong, please don't freak, I'm not really sure how some of these people look especially in K-unit!.)
The bush was just big enough to cover all the students of brookland that had followed Alex.
The students that had followed consisted of Lindsey Wilson, Mark Waters, Tom Harris, Zach Mitchell, Susan Bell, and finally, Drew Palmer.
Lindsey and Drew were best friends, in the "Popular group." who came only to prove the rumors about Alex at school. Susan was smarter, and nicer, and remembered Alex before he started disappearing. She just wanted to know more about him, even though she steered clear of the rumors.
Mark wanted to embarrass and prove the rumors right, and Zach was one of his faithful goons that followed him everywhere Mark went. They both hated Alex, and bullied him at school, non-stop.
And then there was Tom.
Tom harris was Alex's best mate.
The only one that knew what was really going on.
Tom only wanted to come because he needed to know who the person in the courtyard was.
He knew Alex refrained from telling him of his details from his double life, and he wanted to know more, especially if it could help Alex with whatever he was dealing with right now.
He hates that he was spying on his best friend, that he had to do this with these bullies to figure out all of the details.
But Alex's last mission was different than the others.
He came back darker. He was more aware. He was further away, further than Tom had ever seen in the many years he had known Alex.
When there was more movement in the window, everyone looked up.
Alex seemed to be freaked out about something, and everyone listened and watched with faces contorted in confusion.
Alex continued ranting.
"He's Alive! Yassen! He came up to me! I- I- but he Died! I saw him die! No one could have survived that bullet! He didn't even have a pulse! How is he Alive!"
A dark hispanic man cam up to Alex and out one hand on his shoulder.
"Cub, what the heck are you talking about?!"
Another man, this one with sandy hair, and a scottish accent said, "What are you doing out of school?"
The students looked at each other, eyes crinkled in focus and confusion.
Who was Cub?
Alex spoke up.
"Yassen. He gave me a warning. He-"
A man with red hair and a muscled build thundered into the room, apparently hearing what Alex had said.
"WHAT?! Cub what the heck is going on?!"
Cub looked at the other man.
"Well Fox, you see, when an assassin who's supposed to be dead comes up to you at school, then you tend to take the warning he gave you about something happening pretty seriously." he said sarcastically.
The man named Fox straightened. Then exploded.
"Yassen freaking Gregorovich came up to You! How is he even-" Fox spluttered for words. "Oh, I don't know! How about ALIVE?!"
Alex winced, seeming to take whatever was going on more seriously.
The students of Brookland looked in with wide eyes.
"What the heck?!" Mark whisper yelled. "Who are those guys? What's with the weird names?"
"Assassin?!" hissed Drew.
Everyone nodded in agreement and confusion.
In the house, another man, this one shorter than the others but still well built, spoke up.
"Houston we have a problem!"
Everyone in the house turned towards the man.
"Eagle." the dark hispanic man said with obvious distaste. "What the heck are you saying?"
Eagle smiled, much to the confusement of those watching from outside the window.
"You know. With the dead assassin, and cubs backstory about to come exploding out!"
Alex scowled. "My Backstory is not going to come, 'exploding out."'
The man named Eagle frowned. "But we hardly know anything about you!"
The students hiding in the bushes murmured their agreement. "He's right!" Susan piped up. "We really don't know anything about him!"
Tom couldn't think of a truer statement. They had no idea.
"I think he's still trouble!" Lindsey sniffed. And for once, Tom agreed. But it wasn't the kind of trouble they were thinking of.
"Shut up Lindsey." Tom finally replied, annoyed with the bully's antics.
In the house, the man who called himself Eagle shouted out, "Oh, come on! Wolf, Snake! You too Fox!" they saw Alex roll his eyes saying, " you watch too much television."
Eagle scowled. "Come on Cub!"
The students all oh'd in realization.
"So Alex is Cub?" Zach clarified. Tom just nodded.
Wolf scowled. "Well, let's deal with that later. Now that you're here, we might as well train early."
They saw Alex/Cub roll his eyes a bit, but nodded respectfully.
"Training?" questioned Drew.
Everyone just shrugged and Mark said, "Just watch." They were all confused beyond going back to believing he was Just a druggy.
Alex sighed, and got out a pull up bar.
The hispanic man spoke.
"First one to 200 wins. We are really going for it today. When that person reaches 200, then we all stop and say whatever number we have, the one with the lowest number has to do the dishes tonight."
"Well that's an interesting way to determine it." someone in the group mumbled from the brookland students hiding outside.
Five minutes, five pull up bars and five muscular men later, alex shouted out, "200!" and dropped down from his bar, barely out of breath.
He mumbled. "We should have done 500. I went too slow." just loud enough for Eagle to look at him with an half amazed, and half "you're a psychopath." look. Alex just shrugged.
Eagle dropped from his bar murmuring "127"
Fox dropped from his bar with a wicked grin. "188" seeing Eagles's disappointed look from someone getting a higher number than him, his grin grew wider.
Wolf was next. " 178." he shot a glare at Fox.
Then was Snake. His grin was the biggest, probably because he didn't have the lowest number. "131!"
Suddenly, Alex scoffed and looked incredulously at Snake. Everyone looked on in confusion. "131?" Cub asked.
Snake looked offended. "Yeah, is there a problem?" Alex looked at Snake.
"Were you even counting? You got 125. It was obvious."
Everyone looked at him, amazed. When he noticed, Alex's head shot up.
"What?" he asked.
Wolf spluttered. "How did you even notice?"
Cub just shrugged. "I pay attention to details."
Zach from the group hiding in the bushes murmured, "ya think? Weird. You think he notices everything? Even us?"
Everyone nodded while Mark just mumbled, "freak."
Tom scowled. "I don't know about you, Mark, but that would actually be a pretty cool talent to use!" there were nods, but no one really joined the argument for fear of taking sides.
Inside, with the shock of Alex's attention to detail, they moved on to a series of push ups, crunches, jogging, and weight lifting after Snake had reluctantly proven his actual number of pull ups and had committed to do the dishes with the promise that he would count more closely.
The students of brookland were amazed. They knew Alex was fit. He used to be captain of the football team, and all of the girls had thought he was cute, even Lindsey and Drew for a while, though they would never admit it.
"That was crazy!" Someone in the group spoke. "I can't exercise that much! No one can!"
Everyone nodded and murmured to each other about the physical feats that had just taken place.
Tom nodded in amazement and agreement.
He had known Alex was fit, and his involvement with MI6 probably warranted him to be one of the most physically fit boys at brookland, but what he was doing inside was amazing, he was faster and stronger than the other four men, and was hardly breaking a sweat.
"Geez." Tom commented.
But they were still confused.
What was with the animal names? Why was Alex Cub?
How is Alex so fit, even though he claims to be sick whenever he disappears for weeks, sometimes months at a time?
Why was he living here? Who are the four guys?
Questions circulated, and Tom had to remind everyone to be quiet. They complied with more eye rolling.
Inside, they moved on with a sharp, "combat practice now." command from Wolf.
Much to the surprise to Brookland.
They started the unorthodox fight, with Wolf giving the direction of, "Fight each other, no illegal or nasty hits, there technically are no rules, except for that, and try not to kill each other. Ok? For me?" he asked, only half sarcastically, shooting Cub a look.
The students of brookland gasped. They were going to see some real action.
With all of the men inside the house in ready combat mode, they began with a sharp whistle from Wolf.
The fighting was a bunch of whirls, and jabs, and kicks, some offensive, others to block moving limbs that were coming at them with amazing accuracy and speed, but by the end of 30 seconds, you could tell they were getting bored.
In the end of a minute, they seemed to be all ganging up on Alex/Cub who had fire in his eyes. His changed posture when fighting that seemed to make all of the other men on edge.
"Oh, my god!" Lindsey shrieked.
Alex merely fought back with lightning fast reflexes and jabs that didn't slow.
Like he was fighting for his life.
Fox suddenly backed off, startling Alex who stopped for only a second, but it was enough for Wolf to give him a good jab to the chest
Alex gasped in pain and crumpled. Fox rushed over to him.
The students of brookland gasped. What had just happened? It wasn't even that good of a jab.
Wolf turned pale. "Oh, geez, I didn't mean to!" though he regained his colour, and pretended the sympathetic moment didn't happen.
Cub's eyes were closed.
"What the heck?" Eagle screeched. "Cub is one of the strongest guys I know! He doesn't just pass out with a single, and no offensive wolf, but not even that good of a blow! Not even to the head! The chest! What- oh my gods! Do you think he's dead?!"
Wolf shook his head. "One, no offensive taken, but say that at camp, or anytime else, and you will have a clear definition of pain," Eagle took a terrified step back. "And," Wolf continued. "He's Not dead! He'll be fine, what happened Snake?"
Tom let out a breath he didn't know he had been holding. Alex was going to be fine.
Everyone looked over to Snake, who had taken the boys shirt off to inspect the damage. He was staring at a certain scar, his face turning deathly pale.
The students who had followed looked to Alex's torso with horror, and surprise.
His tanned torso was littered with scars, a few burn marks, some whip marks, and cuts, and covering his body were also an arrangements of old bruises, and marks that had yet to healed from his last mission.
Snake spluttered as Alex stirred, and sat up, wincing a bit, and was almost successful at covering it up. He didn't fully recover as snake imploded.
"Cub-" he started, deadly, and quietly serious. "What in the world is THAT?!" pointing at the wound over his heart.
Alex looked down to see that he was lying on a counter and shirtless. He gasped, making a beeline for his shirt that was lying a few feet away. Snake stopped him.
Alex only glared and stopped struggling.
"Why is there a Insert choice words here BULLET WOUND OVER YOUR Insert choice words here HEART?!" Snake had never been one for swearing, but the current he was letting go at the minute in full medic mode was amazing in the sense of no one should be able to talk that fast, much less find that many abusive words to say that fast.
The rest of the unit was now getting a look at the wound. Wolf cursed in Spanish, making Alex cringe.
"He knows Spanish?" Zach asked, and Tom nodded. "He knows a bunch of languages." he admitted, much to the amazement of the rest of the group.
In the house, Alex got down from the counter murmuring one word.
"Scorpia." he said quietly. "Scorpia did this."
The students didn't know what anything meant other than their classmate had scars, been shot over the heart, and was incredibly fit, could do martial arts, and speak multiple languages.
Meanwhile, K- unit was freaking out.
"Scorpia?!" They thundered.
Alex could only nod, and he told them everything that had happened with Julia Rothman, Nile, Venice, His dad and Yassen, including his warning that he was given today, and everything, not able to hold back once he started. Tearing up when he told about his dad, much to his attempts not to.
The unit and Brookland listened in amazement. They both had a new understanding of Alex rider.
They all now knew that Alex rider, The druggy and gang member was really just a rumor.
After The teenaged spy finished his story, he got up and said something to his nodding Unit.
Alex walked out of the door, and Brookland was on the move again.
LINE BREAK! DON'T MIND ME!
The followed him to a shop where he got 6 roses, and then he walked out and went and sat on a bench.
"What the heck?" Mark asked.
Suddenly, a pretty girl came up to Alex yelling, "Alex!" he looked up at her, smiled, and they kissed, much to the now gossiping and surprised students following Alex.
Tom just smiled.
Alex spoke up. "You ready Sabina?" She nodded, sadly, and they walked off.
They followed him all the way to the cemetery.
They gasped. Just who was Alex rider?
