Disclaimer: Sadly I still do not own Alex Rider any more than I did in the last chapter. P.S I've NEVER been camping so I apologize but remember they just went to a random wood, no park thing or whatever! Thanks!

Camping. They were going camping. In a forest. For a night.

Alex remembered when Ian had once taken him camping to teach him some survival skills. He'd been about seven at the time and one night they were walking in the forest and he lost Ian, although now he realised that as intentional, he didn't know then so was forced to spend the night trying to locate the camp and also find food as he hadn't eaten since the morning.

Eventually he had to go to sleep as he could barely stand upright and took refuge in the low branches of the trees. After waking up Ian miraculously 'found' him and congratulated him on how he used the wilderness to his advantage. Alex wouldn't talk to him for a week (partly because Ian had to go on a mission after two days) and because of that Alex really didn't have any fond memories of camping.

It wasn't as if he could do anything though. Saying anything would just disappoint them and he didn't really want to ruin it for them, after all, they did it for him. He just hoped he would have a better experience.

"This goes here doesn't it?"

"It says attach pole A to nail B"

"Oh….this says F"

"Well find B then"

Alex rubbed the bridge of his nose as he watched the men fumble around with the newly bought tent. He couldn't believe they didn't know how to put it up. He would offer to help…but he would rather let them figure it out for themselves even though they were just being pitiful now. That is why he lifted the nail that was by his foot and handed it to Snake.

Snake looked at it and mumbled thanks and went back to work with a slightly red face. He didn't like how the kid knew more than they did but it really wasn't their fault. Who knew tents were so hard to put up, the ones in the SAS were easy, a few sticks and a cover and you were good to go. These ones were just stupid.

Now Alex, after a few minutes finding he was quite bored, decided to go for a wander around the camp and after he felt it had been a reasonable amount of time he went back to see if they were done yet.

Treading through the tree's he went into the clearing… and could barely contain the laughter he had inside him.

Wolf was angrily pocking at the fire he'd made while Fox was trying to put the tent up on his own looking thoroughly confused and agitated. Snake and Eagle had just resorted to putting the blankets over a branch and taking refuge under the limited space while playing with a pack of cards.

It was when they all stared at him at once with their varied expressions that Alex burst out laughing.

It took some time (and a bit of begging) for Alex to finally give into the demand that he had to put it up for them. He'd needed their help as well and Alex found quite a bit of amusement from bossing them around. The men noticed it but just wanted to get it over.

More smugness came when twenty minutes later they were finished and the tent was surprisingly smaller than they first thought. Wolf went to check the packet and swore.

"It's the wrong size!"

"Then why did you buy it!"

"…I had the assistant help"
"Riiight"

"It's the truth!"

Snake sighed. "Come on guys, let's just have some lunch. I'm starving"
Snake went over to the pack that held all their food and just as he placed his hand on it he noticed a hole in the back of it. Biting his lip his fears were proved true when he opened the pack and the food was gone and if you looked closely you could see tiny claw marks.

"Hey Snake, what's taking so long, food jumping away from you?" called Fox jokingly.

Snake turned to face the rest of them with his anxious expression. "Well I wouldn't say jumped exactly…"

"The foods been taken, hasn't it" said Wolf thinking of who was meant to be watching the food so he could punish them.

"....yeah"

"Great! Just great!" muttered Wolf angrily.

"We could just go back" suggested Alex who at the moment was thinking that would be a very good idea.

Fox sighed and said "I suppose but then this will be ruined"
Seeing they didn't really want to have to go back Alex came up with another idea. "What about just finding the food, I'm sure you've had exercises like this before, all that wilderness survival stuff"

"He's right; this could just be like training!" Eagle cried out.

"Yippee" said Wolf's voice, the sarcasm dripping off.

"Come on, don't be that way! It'll be fun!" said Ben clapping Wolf round the back.

"Oh yes. Oodles"

An hour later and all they had to show was a couple of berries and a handful of edible leaves according to Snake. There had been mushrooms Eagle had been eager to pick until Snake told him that one bite and he'd be sick for a week, even more and he'd be dead. Eagle made sure to ask Snake every time he found something that looked like food.

They'd ruled out meat as they had no guns and didn't want to be inhumane despite Wolf's feeble arguments of 'survival of the fittest'.

So that was why they were now sitting on their logs gazing at the excuse for food. It was depressing really; they should have been able to produce much more. Thank God the sergeant wasn't there right now.

"Dibs on that one" called Eagle unexpectedly causing Alex who was sitting next to him to judge. Eagle pointed to the largest berry they'd found (it was a good three times larger) and unknown to him or the others, Alex, who was starving, also wanted the biggest one and he wasn't afraid to let his teenager side out for it.

"You don't get it just for dibs. If anyone should get it its me!"

Eagle raised an eyebrow ready for a challenge while the rest of the men watched the exchange.

"Oh yeah and how'd you figure that?"

"I'm the only one who's managed to get anything done here"

"Well you could have stepped in sooner so you don't deserve it"
"Do to"

"Do not"

"Do. To."

"Do. Not!"

Alex gave a quick smirk and then changed it to a resigned look.

"Alright then. You win; I guess I just don't have it in me"

Everyone BUT Eagle knew something was up so they weren't very surprised when Alex got up, took a few steps forward and then darted back grabbing the berry. Before he could shove it into his mouth Eagle just leapt on him and although Alex felt the twinge in his chest he was too busy trying to keep the berry from Eagle without squishing it.

"Give me it now!" Eagle yelled and almost burst Alex's eardrum.

"Never!" Alex yelled.

The small wrestle continued until Ben felt it time to step in and he pried the two of each other.

"Right, you two, apologize now" Ben commanded as he held Eagle while an amused Wolf held back Alex. Boy and Eagle were giving death glares at each other.

When neither spoke Ben said in a more menacing voice "NOW"

Alex scuffed his foot and mumbled a sorry while Eagle humphed and said sorry.

"Cub, give me the berry, we've all got to eat you know"

Alex gave a sad look at the berry and passed the berry to Ben (who made sure to push Eagle away as far as possible) and promptly stuck it in his mouth and swallowed.

Ben lifted his head down and saw two gob-smacked faces looking at him. He gave himself two seconds to jump away and run when he fell flat on the floor with two lumps flat on his back.

He turned his head just enough to look at Wolf who grinned and waved.

Now it was a two on one fight and just as Alex moved past Eagle he felt a drop of something fall on the back of his neck. He stopped and looked up at the sky and saw blue skies turn to grey and dark clouds cover the skies.

"Hey, I think it's about to rain"

The others looked up and the little drips of rain became bigger and faster and soon they were running through the trees soaked to the bone and trying to remember where the tent was.

It took a while but that was because soon they were so wet trying to avoid it would be pointless so they just allowed the rain to fall on them. Their past cheerfulness was gone and replaced with a gloomy depression at how it was all turning out.

"Well, at least it can't get any worse!" said Eagle trying to be cheerful but all he got was a whack from Wolf who replied "You've cursed us now!"

"Huh?"

They entered the campsite and at what they saw Eagle got another whack twice as hard.

"I told you so!"

The tent had been completely soaked and it may have said it was sturdy but it didn't look like that now. It was flat on the floor, the nails having sunk into the wet mud.

Even more depressed than they were before they waited for the rain to pass which took about an hour and then set about trying to fix the tent. Twenty minutes later and it was sure that the tent wouldn't be back up any time soon so instead Snake stared on making what he considered 'dinner'.

Placed on the damp floor they looked at the mush on their plates that was the mashed berries mixed into the edible leaves. Honestly it looked disgusting but it was the best they were going to get and they thanked Snake.

"I feel like a bloody rabbit" muttered Alex under his breath.

"Language" scolded Wolf without realising it and then mentally cursed himself.

As the others smothered laughs Alex retorted "Bloody isn't a swear word and you've said worse"

"I'm allowed to"

"Why"

"Just am now shut up"

Alex snickered and then a question came into his head.

"What's your name?"

Wolf stopped eating and glanced back at his other team mates who nodded.

"He might as well know" said Snake.

"Ok then… My name is James Lobezno [1]"

"Young Wolf?" said Alex faintly surprised.

"You speak Spanish?" said Wolf also in mild shock.

Alex nodded and then Eagle butted in with "Wait for our turns before you start some Spanish thing where you will probably mock us!"

Wolf chuckled and let the others get their turn. Eagle started.

"I'm Derek Young! And that's without the wolf"

"Fitting" said Alex and Eagle looked at him in confusion before looking at Snake.

"John Gray"

"Alright" Alex was about to leave it there seeing as he knew Ben but then both of them realised the others didn't.

"I'm Ben Daniels"

Alex had to hide and grin and Ben did too he noticed. The SAS men looked at them and knew something was up but they had no doubt that they wouldn't be able to get it out of them.

"Oh and repeat them to ANYONE or speak it outside this forest then you will be like the animal I wanted to kill"

Alex laughed and held up his hands. "I wouldn't dare…James"

As the tent was out of commission each person had chosen a spot to call their bed. As Alex was small enough he'd been able to go on a few braches up in a tree with a blanket. It wasn't the most comfortable but it would have to do. At least he was out of range of Eagle's snoring.

Night fell and each man was asleep meaning the boy was awake climbing down the tree. He'd woken up and needed to do his 'business'.

Alex had been able to make no noise as he went down and he went quite a far way away; he didn't want any of them stumbling upon him.

Alex did his business and turned to go back when he heard something rustle. It could have been an animal but after this spy stuff he'd learnt to expect different.

"Who's there" Alex called out.

He'd expected (or hoped) to see a sheepish Eagle or some other SAS man pop out but instead he heard a larger rustle and was too late to stop the cloth that was shoved onto his face.

Reactively taking a deep breath he smelt chloroform make its way into his system so he digged his shoulder back into his attacker and got the cloth away from him. His attacker stumbled back and when Alex looked he was of course wearing all black and covered anything that might give him away.

Alex stood in the fighting position and the man copied him. Seeing as a large amount of fighting might reopen some wounds he allowed the man to strike first and he would stay defensive until the right moment.

He didn't have to wait long and the stranger attacked with a strong palm heel strike that, had it made contact, might have possible broken his nose and it could have been pushed back into his brain [2].

To avoid it Alex did an upper block and pushed the man off him and with amazing speed the masked man who came with a groin kick which Alex almost let hit. Just as the leg came at him he dove out of the way into a roll and stood up breathing just slightly harder than normal, his body still recuperating his endurance.

The speed the man was moving was now getting ridiculous. It seemed he didn't waste anytime and one attack came after the other and Alex was finding it difficult to breath through it all. His bullet wound was pounding causing him to lose focus and he was quite sure the dressing had come off a few of his burns but it was too dark to see.

Alex had just come up from a duck to the floor to find he couldn't see the man anywhere. He turned and then an impending force came onto his back and he could feel hands latch around him in a bear hug.

Reaction made him do an escape bear hug but it drained the little strength he had left and he could not dodge the front kick that was aimed right at his bullet wound. The strike hit and Alex let out a silent scream as the pain flared through his whole body.

Alex was unconscious before he hit the ground.

I'm not going to apologize for the late update as this will probably be the regular wait time. The names were revealed and thanks to everyone who voted or told me! I hope you don't mind the action but I looked up the names of the moves, and btw I am pretty bad at them, more action to come as well, so sorry if your face palming right now. The I apologize for the randomness in this chapter but I was in a really good mood.

Shoutouts for everyone once more and of course a new language! Another thanks to UnfortuanlyMortal for this. Tack för ert stöd! And I was just wondering if we could get to a hundred reviews for this chapter cos I think it would be so cool and nice to have three digits, if not fine but I would be nice as I said :). Babbling over…R0-Z 28 – Sorry if u didn't like the camping but there was action! I'm still only on the first chap on Croc Tears -_-'but thanks so much for all the reviews, and seriously, I babble to...its fine!!! yamiyugi23- Hope there was enough chaos! Thank youu :) Dottie-10 – Thank you soo much :D tobyisking – Awww thank you!!! I feel bad for Alex but its hard not to add it all loser94 – Thanks :D K-UNITisHERE- Here is your update :D FoxGlade – Ah, I see and thank you :) marisje – Thank you!! :D hollyblue2 – Merci :) eaglestriker – Here is the chapter!!! :) i- Sorry really quick updates wont happen :( but thank you and thank you for the lovely review. .Weasel – Um, I guess you didn't like the beginning then but thank you for the review.

Seriously all the reviews are lovely and just make me smile. I actually managed to write two pages before school today cos I felt like reading them and got so hyped up! And…until you read this again XD

[1] I was going to put Lobo which just meant Wolf but it didn't really sound very good.

[2]I don't remember where or how I found that out but I did and felt like adding it.

P.S you'd be surprised how research websites have become my friend during this. XD in case you were wondering, more past dreams next time.