Chapter 4- Cub Conspiracy
Disclaimer: I do not own Alex Rider, but I do own Spider and the plot.
Note: Post Crocodile Tears

For the billionth time in the past three days Wolf was thinking about Cub, in fact he was resting in his barracks after a hard day of training with the sole intention of just sitting, and thinking of Cub. He'd tried to tell his unit his observations (of Cub) but they kept ignoring him due to him having said not to talk about Cub. How he wished he hadn't said that. His idea that not talking about Cub had well and truly back fired and now he was left with the consequences that no one was listening to him. Having given up after his attempt at lunch, he refrained from trying again to tell the rest of his unit that night, if they were going to ignore him so be it.

Cub was also, similarly ignoring him but additionally was avoiding Eagle, Spider and Snake. This didn't help him with trying to figure out just what Cub was up to. He needed to try to understand what exactly Cub was doing? Why he had changed? What he had become? But now that Cub was avoiding them it wasn't going to be easy.

That day Cub had just ignored the unit, shown great stamina in the tasks and refused to co-ordinate in group tasks earning kitchen duty for the next few evenings. Which Wolf decided served him right. This was the perfect for Wolf to chat to his friends about Cub, or so he had thought until they ignored him, he could even try to talk to his comrades if his unit hadn't disappeared to have the longest showers in SAS history. Every few days the unit would go to the shower house and as the name implied shower. Wolf had a fairly normal length shower but the rest of the unit seemed to find endless entertainment in the shower block doing who knows what. Wolf didn't particularly want to think about it. So he was alone thinking of Cub because that was all that his mind was currently focused on.

Wolf decided to make a mental list of 'Cub', if everything he knew was evaluated mentally then perhaps he possibly try to understand Cub more. Perhaps not but it was at least worth a try.

First: Cub came about two days ago unannounced, and apparently from MI6 if Wolf had heard correctly. So that sorted out why he was here; Cub was here to train for MI6. Maybe a new operative but then Wolf had seen him in the mountains, so maybe a fairly good spy that needed improvement for some mission.

Second: Cub was making strange phone calls in the night that were intended to be secretive. Maybe it was MI6 on the phone but Wolf didn't think that was a strong possibility- if MI6 wanted some files they would have operatives on it quickly. These 'files' wouldn't really be a hassle for such a big organisation like MI6. If MI6 wanted something, they got it. It seemed fairly odd and out of place that it would be them, but it could be a possibility Wolf supposed. Although this still didn't answer the question of what was Cub doing.

Third: Cub was different, his behaviour wasn't the same. Was it a mission that had changed him? Wolf knew of many soldiers that changed after their comrade died or faced battle one too many times. Was it some kind of mental trauma or accident that had made Cub what he was now? Was he being too harsh on Cub if it was something that had affected him in a negative way? Something that wasn't his fault? Maybe Cub was just annoyed with his life and just wanted to take revenge, and happened to be taking revenge on them because they were closest to him. It was a possibility but just didn't quite seem to fit, Wolf couldn't quite think what would be a reasonable explanation.

Wolf was pulled from out of his thoughts by his unit returning decorated in foam from the showers. Wolf didn't want to know. All he wanted to do, hypocritically, was talk about Cub. Despite him telling the rest of his unit not to talk about him. Although just earlier he had vowed not to speak about Cub he did really need to tell his unit that there was something drastically fishy about their fifth member.

"Guys, did you see Cub last night?"

The rest of his unit looked at him oddly, shaking their heads.

"Well Cub took my mobile and-"

"Wait he took your mobile?" Snake questioned sceptically.

"Did you not just misplace it, I seem to do that with my socks all the tim-" Eagle began to babble on.

"No, nothing like that. Cub took my mobile. Rang someone in the middle of the night. Deleted my call history, all of it, and my credit and then returned it!" Wolf fumed, his face reddneing and his temper growing.

"Really?" Snake questioned once again sceptically, "Did you bump your head? Why would Cub delete your credit, in fact why would Cub borrow your mobile? Did he even know where it was, or that heck, you even had one?"

"Well I didn't even know he knew. And you haven't heard the worst bit. You know that thirty quid by friend gave me for before we left last break?"

Eagle nodded remembering Wolf's brags about the credit.

"Well Cub managed to use it all. All of it!"

Spider frowned, "All of it?" To which Wolf nodded angrily.

Snake walked to Wolf's bag before dragging out his comrade's mobile.

"May I?"

"Sure. You'll see that my credit is all gone, plus my call history is gone."

It was about thirty seconds where Snake was on Wolf's mobile looking for evidence Cub had been using it, whilst the unit was surprisingly quiet. Snake suddenly put the phone down.

"So did you see what he's done?"

Snake slowly shook his head, "Your credits all there and your history is. There's no sign of any call from last night so… Cub mustn't of."

Wolf gave a confused look before snatching his mobile off of the barrack's floor intent on proving Cub had in fact wiped his history and used his credit. He checked his history and it was there, he checked his credit- £30- so it was still there. But Wolf knew it hadn't been there last night, he was sure.

"It's obvious he didn't steal your phone, it was probably just a dream Wolf," Eagle told him softly, Wolf faked a nod but inside he knew Cub had made that phone call, had used his credit and had deleted his history. He had seen it last night and he was positive it hadn't been a dream, but then why had it not been there? And why had it returned? Wolf had no idea but he was going to monitor Cub all the more carefully. He would find out what Cub was up to.

A/N: Hope you didn't find this chapter too boring, but the drama side to the plot is picking up next chapter-ish. Thanks to It'sFun2BCrazy, Simple. Yet. Difficult, Dani9513 and alex. reader. 22 (who's name has difficulty showing up) for reviewing. :) Thanks to the alerters and favouriters as well. Next chapter will be up latest Thrusday but might be updated Wednesday if possible.

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