K unit stepped onto the street, careful to remain out of the sight of the lamps that littered the pavement giving it a slightly eerie quality. They had parked an unmarked and inconspicuous van a road away, not wanting to alert their quarry to their presence with the sound of its engine. Stalking silently up the street Wolf was confident that they had the perfect approach, after they had received the call from MI6 each of K-Unit had done a walk by of the property they were going to break into and each had come up with what they thought was the best way of tackling the house. After about ten minutes they had come up with a plan that suited them all.


Alex was pretty sure MI6 would come by to pick him up quickly, after all when had they ever waited before? He had been watching out of his flat window for three hours before he saw anything remotely interesting, it was just as he was beginning to think that he may have been a bit hasty in moving out. A man caught his eye. It wasn't that the man was acting suspiciously, in fact it was quite the opposite, the man looked so normal. But through that, it was slightly abnormal, especially when he walked back past the house a few minutes later. From the way he was built Alex guessed his life was physically demanding on a daily basis.

Alex picked up his binoculars, safe in the knowledge he could not be seen from inside the sparse but unlit room. The man on the street kept glancing around casually as though he didn't have a care in the world, Alex knew better though, he was scoping the place out and as the man's face turned towards Alex's flat he got the shock of his life. Alex knew this man! Snake! Ale's jaw dropped as pure shock was written across his face. It took a few seconds for his brain to catch up, what on earth was he doing here!

Then he got it. MI6 had called in the SAS to pick him up. When Alex realized this he was crushed, even a K-Unit was out to get him now; there was no end to the betrayal that life could hand him. Alex slumped down in his chair, his plans were now useless, if MI6 had told the SAS they wanted him there was no way he would be able to get into their training programme without them turning him over to MI6.

Alex spent a few minutes mourning what he considered his last remaining option. He couldn't hide from MI6 in the SAS. His head came up as a realization came to him. Alex shook himself and he tried to pull himself together, he was getting quite angry now. If he didn't stop feeling sorry himself how was anything ever going to change? If he was going to get anywhere in this world, he was going to have to do it from himself, with this new knowledge firmly lodged in his brain Alex set himself back to watch what would happen when Snake and whoever was with him decided to invade the house. A wicked smile took up residence on Alex's face. He was going to enjoy this. He just hoped all of K-Unit had come.

About fifteen minutes later Alex had seen every member of K-Unit walk past his house, he was very grateful now that he had taken anything identifying him from the house, because although he was sure K-Unit knew who they were going after, he didn't want them to go after any of his friends or relatives.

After five minutes and no more SAS guys walking down the street Alex figured that they were working out a plan of attack, it occurred to him that the SAS wouldn't put this much time and energy in if they knew it was Cub they were after, maybe they didn't know, perhaps K-Unit hadn't betrayed him? He clung onto this hope like it was his only lifeline. Alex wasn't allowed too much time to dwell on it as out of the corner of his eye he saw movement, if he hadn't been paying enough attention, it would have escaped his notice but now that he focused he couldn't see a slight movement. Picking up his binoculars he looked down the street, only now wishing that he had picked up a night vision pair, he couldn't see a bloody thing! Alex sighed in frustration, he would have to wait until they got to the house, then he would be able to see everything. The evil grin showed up again, K-Unit deserved some payback.


Wolf motioned the others forward with a gesture of his hand, they were being as covert as possible so if a neighbour looked out of the house they wouldn't see four SAS operatives mounting an assault on their street. Discretion was a huge part of training and this operation needed to be as discrete as possible as it involved a child. It just wouldn't do for the government to be seen kidnapping young boys.

They crept slowly along the street, weapons aimed at the floor. K-Unit had decided that two in the front and two in the back would work best, whoever was in there would probably be too scared of their guns to put up a fight. At least that's what they were hoping. As they approached the house Snake was leading their group, he signalled Eagle who winked as he opened the gate. The second he had a loud alarm went off along with a bright light shining down on them.


Alex stifled a giggle.


This was not covert! And his unit were like sitting ducks waiting to be picked off by the nearest sniper. He chose warning over silence. Wolf flung himself to the solid ground as his training kicked in and he yelled,

"Get down, GET DOWN"

His team flew into action making themselves as smaller targets as they could by flinging themselves down; at least it was harder to shoot them in the head from this angle. Wolf knew the light needed to go out, in a normal situation he would shoot at it but he couldn't give away that there were guns here to the locals. The lights and the yelling would have attracted far too much attention already. Wolf scowled to himself but even as he was considering different ways to get the lights to go out they dimmed from there blinding intensity. K-Unit looked to each other, a little bewildered.

"Must be on timer, " Fox muttered under his breath.

He got up gingerly, searching the house's windows for any sign of movement, after a few minutes and still nothing he moved towards the steps that lead up to the front door, the rest of the unit watched; this was the procedure. If one went to the door, the rest covered him looking for signs of an imminent attack. Fox put his foot on the first step and yelled loudly as he slipped over backwards. Wolf's mind went into panic as he and the others jumped up, their guns pointed towards the house thinking a sniper had got to their friend.

"Man down!" Wolf said a little louder than he had intended.

Fox lay on the grass and moaned in pain, this only served to scare his team mates more. They were moving towards him with their guns still trained on the house.

"Fox! Wolf called trying to get his attention and to assess how much damage had been done to him.

Fox opened his eyes,

"That bloody hurt!"

"Huh?" Wolf said dumbly, looking down at him for the first time with a very comical expression on his face.

"What?" Fox asked, anxious suddenly at the fear in Wolf's eyes.

"Are you okay? Did you get shot?" Wolf demanded to know.

"Huh?" it was Fox's turned to be thoroughly confused, "shot? No I slipped on something and there is something underneath me, it's not comfortable" Fox said indignantly as pulled himself up and looked down at where he had been. There was a patch of flat grass where he had crushed it, along with something else amongst the green.

Eagle saw what fox had been lying on and laughed. Down on the floor were lots of plastic soldiers. "Oh the irony" he smiled.

Many of them lay crushed but the odd one still remained standing. Snake looked to where Snake was pointing and winced, the little plastic guns must have hurt he thought, looking across to where Fox had been, but he had moved and was now examining the step he had slipped from.

"Jam!" he exclaimed.

"Erm, I think I speak for all of us when I say, what?"

Fox muttered to himself for second before displaying his finger for inspection, he had rubbed his hand across the step, wondering what could have caused him to fall. When he had felt the sticky substance he had immediately yanked his hand towards himself, ignoring the conversation going on round him. Fox's first assumption had been that it was blood, but after he had smelt it, he was pretty sure it wasn't and after a quick lick he was certain he knew exactly what it was.

"Damson, if I'm not mistaken. Not as good as my Grandma's though" his face showed a little disappointed.

"I have a bad feeling about this house" Wolf announced, " I don't think that was there by accident."

Fox nodded, it was just too perfect. As one they turned their heads to look at the house, narrowing their eyes. K-Unit still had to go inside.


Alex watched from across the street, the lights were still bright enough for him to see everything that was happening. The second k unit stepped through the doors more lights inside would go on. Alex was quite proud of himself for managing to wire the lights to the gate being opened, and was smiling smugly. When Fox had fallen he had felt a sense of accomplishment, although when the guns were in his line of sight for the first time, he was a little upset. They obviously thought he wasn't going to go quietly. Alex sat back in his chair, when K-Unit entered the house it would just keep getting better for him, of course the fact that it was this particular group of people he was watching made it ten times funnier. He hadn't forgotten Brecon beacons and felt he was entitled to a little childish revenge.

Alex couldn't wait until K-Unit entered the house...

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