Chapter 8
Clash in the Playground
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Eagle severely doubted his unit's navigation skills. Again, they couldn't find the right place and had been forced to ask for directions. It was getting up to what, three, and still they hadn't had lunch or had the drink Wolf had suggested. Their attempts to find a pub seemed impossible, directions however indicated that it was only around the block and just past the nearby secondary school.

"Who would put a pub near a school?" Wolf asked in a huff.

Fox grinned, "Anyone. Students are probably their best clients. It makes sense, well, not to you of course, but to people like me of the younger generation… well…."

Wolf groaned and decided to ignore the comment, no use getting into an argument that would be a repeat of the other incredibly similar ones on age. Actually, he wasn't even that old compared to Fox. He was only two years older.

Snake was walking past the school, which had seen better days, and noticed the pub in the distance. Snake walked past the back entrance of the school but as he glanced at the old, rustic gate he frowned.

"Hey guys," he called out edging closer to the gate.

He bent down by the gate to examine the lock, which had been what had caught his attention, on the ground. The lock had been bent slightly but not to by a hardly noticeable amount. Clearly professional.

Fox snorted. "Relax, it's just going to be a student getting in for test papers or a prank or something. Geez, are you as bad as Wolf?"

Snake shook his head and continued to examine the lock.

"How about we just leave it and go to the pub?" Eagle asked glancing at it and wishing for the cold, gorgeous taste of a beer flowing down his throat.

Snake decided maybe they were right, maybe it was just a student, but it was too professional for that. Surely? The lock had been at exactly the right position, not too far up that it broke it but so that it could be replaced without leaving much of a trace. Well it was very possible it was done a while ago anyways.

He stood up slowly, his leg clicking and gestured for the group to carry on walking.

It was then Wolf flicked his head up and sharply moved it in the direction of the school. His eyes narrowed and he pushed the gate open, strode through it and started to walk into the school. Eagle just followed confused with his other two teammates. What was Wolf up to? Had he seen something?

"Hey, what are you doing?" he asked Wolf hurrying to keep up with his large strides.

"Shhhhh," Wolf mumbled.

"This is private property you know!" Fox exclaimed cautiously looking around to see if anyone had seen them but there was no one in sight.

"Shhhhhh."

Wolf lifted his head and closed his eyes. When nothing happened he cupped his ear determined to listen to the sound again, but a different noise sounded.

A gunshot penetrated the air, it was faint to anyone from outside the school boundary's but clear enough for the unit to distinguish what it was.

Wolf lead the way into the school at a run, they raced through the corridors to the originating of the sound. There was the shattering of glass from further ahead and Wolf deduced the person or whoever was moving in that direction. They ran on.

Wolf looked around at the scene, there was a splintered door and a shattered window. Now where? Was there any clues left or were they going to have to listen for another sound to give away the intruder's position?

Fox took note of the bullet holes in the wall, it would suggest that the intruder was either trying to shoot the wall or someone else, Fox would guess someone else. But why? Also, why in a school for that matter?

At the sound of another bullet the group moved forward and ran down the stairs of the school, from there they were at a loss of where to go next. The group listened intently, perhaps another gunshot would lead them the right way.

Four seconds later and four consecutive bullets sounded from the right. Conversely, the unit didn't even get a chance to move before an explosion sounded.

Snake glanced shocked at Eagle, who was closest to him. The look was returned instantly. How come only five minutes ago they were going to the pub? And what was going on here? No one got a chance to voice their opinions when the sprinkler system activated drenching each of them and instead they carried on.

"Fire," Eagle shouted pointing to one of the small labs to their right that had flames spurting from inside.

The unit together moved to the labs but Eagle noticed a figure sprinting off outside.

"There!"

Fox set off at a sprint first, the others after him. Fox knew they needed to apprehend the intruder quickly, since following the bullets, broken glass and now the explosion something else bigger might happen. It seemed the figure, intruder or whoever it was was heading for the tall building in front of him. It looked like it might be a science block or something, but Fox couldn't spend time thinking of it, he ran faster at the sight of blonde hair in the downstairs room.

It was upstairs by a flash of trainers that had alerted the group that the intruder was upstairs in the upper classroom. Wolf noticed the lack of bullets being fired at this moment. It had to be two of them, he was sure as otherwise the bullets would be happening since it would be an intrusion to cause damage. No, this seemed much more dangerous. Now he needed to find out if this was an innocent in trouble.

Or something more sinister.

He stopped the group in the classroom.

"Anyone know now where they are?" he asked them not knowing where the intruders had gone.

The others shrugged; Wolf let out a annoyed grunt. If they were to late an innocent could be dead. Now where could they have gone?

A soft shout caught his attention, Eagle was standing in front of a spiral staircase pointing upstairs. Wolf nodded moving quickly through the assortment of desks and chairs and bounded up the stairs.

They reached the roof, Wolf glanced around for the intruder but couldn't see them. Again they had disappeared, but where? Then the greenhouses all standing in line caught his attention. Surely not? He rounded one of them and there they were, the two intruders.

Surprisingly it didn't click during the first few seconds for Wolf. Yes, he noticed the bullet being fired at the intruder who was lying below the other and then the next second he noticed the second intruder (the one that had been lying down) had jumped up, grabbed the other by the neck and had seized the gun. What he failed to notice quickly, which he would chastise himself, was that it was Cub.

However, it was Fox that recognised the boy immediately and he felt his jaw drop. Seriously? Cub? He stared at the other figure and to his shock he saw it was Cub.

"What?" he shouted to which both boys glanced up at him in equal shock, unnerved by the idea of company.

After a slight pause of awkward stares from both the two Cubs and the unit the Cubs carried on their fight. The second Cub knocked the other one down leaving the gun by the side.

Eagle pulled out his phone to dial for the fire brigade but stopped short when he heard approaching sirens in the background.

Wolf went to intercept the two fighting boys but only served to get into the way of the fight by standing in between them. It didn't help as the second Cub leaped round him and tackled the other, the other moved further to the edge of the roof. Fox tried to help this Cub by giving him an arm but only distracted him enough so the second Cub had a chance to knock the gun further to the side of the building.

Snake dived for the gun but there was another explosion and a crater appeared, sucking the gun into the vortex of fiery madness below and with it the first Cub. Wolf watched as the Cub disappeared into the smoke and fire but the other Cub stood up slowly and walked to the hole to glance down it.

Then, with slight limp he walked to the edge of the roof and began to climb down.

The unit watched from the roof, but as the sirens echoed louder they retreated to the streets near to where Cub was walking home.

Wolf couldn't help but wonder whether Cub had just died…although how would he know?

Eagle raced ahead, not much of a feat considering Cub was limping, to beside Cub.

"You want some help there?" he asked happily before, without an answer, taking hold of the kid's arm round his shoulders. Cub realising the futility of refusing him just sighed.

Eagle waited a few seconds before he gave up holding back the questions.

"So you're Cub right?" Cub just nodded.

"Right… so what was that?" Cub only replied with a shrug.

Eagle frowned, Cub wasn't being very talkative. "Want to play I-spy?"

Cub shook his head and looking ahead said, "I'll just head back. You can stay around."

Snake coming up to the two of them added, "Well we might as well make sure you get hope, anyways maybe if we do you can tell us which direction the pub is now."

"Hey," Wolf exclaimed, "I told you I knew where it was."

Fox sniggered, "Well that isn't going to get us anywhere. We'd be better off walking around with our eyes shut." Wolf elbowed him in return and then the two of them got closer to Cub.

Snake noticed the kid getting more uncomfortable as they gathered around, probably thought they would hit him or something. What a wimp! Although, the choice did sound extremely tempting… Maybe if he pretended to fall?

As they turned onto a street Eagle recognised it. Had they been here before? Then he realised that this was Chelsea Manor. He brushed it off as a coincidence to be on the same street twice and he even brushed it off as Cub stopped by the gate of the house they had visited.

"Well. There you go. I'm home. Now the pub for you is down the rest of the street and then to your right and I assume you can follow some directions with the sergeant," Cub said as he opened the gate

Fox couldn't believe this was the same house. This couldn't be a coincidence, was the spy his father or something? It would make sense if it ran in the family. Wolf on the other hand was preparing for the worst, Mrs Jones had seemed a bit off about the whole situation.

The unit watched as Cub closed the gate and rang the door bell. The door opened with the view of the ginger woman again, although this time she looked worried.

"Thank goodness your alright!" she said pulling Cub into a hug.

"It's fine Jack."

She, Jack, stood up straighter and glared at the unit.

"Now what are you doing here again?"

Wolf staggered to explain, "Well…"

Fox interrupted. "Maybe it would be better if we took it inside?"

Jack gave a fake smile and opened the door wider to let the unit walk through. Jack gave them another smile as they passed her and Cub but Fox swore he saw a flash of a metal pan hidden behind her back. With Wolf told to go into the living room they all followed.

End of chapter.

I'm surprised I managed to get this out before a fortnight, although, I can't promise it'll be the same for the next chapter. Well, this is the end to Point Blanc and after a few (hopefully quick) filler chapters to introduce people and set the scene this story can move onto Skeleton Key. I'm thinking by chapter 11 the chaos at Wimbledon will have started.

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