From Brookland to Brecon Revised~ Adopted~ 11
Fallenqueen2: since this story is in such high demand I will update it sooner rather than later, warning my other stories will now take longer to update :( So a HUGE thanks to MisteryMaiden for kicking my butt into gear and the questions that are asked in this chapter :)
Thanks for all the support! You guys are amazing!
Disclaimer: I do not own the awesome characters of ALEX RIDER, I wish I did because if I did this totally would have happened.
"Alright Cub, start talking." Wolf ordered as he pushed Cub onto a chair in K unit's cabin. Alex crossed his arms and stared back at the unit leader as the rest filed in and took up various positions around the cabin.
"Oh i can talk, in fact when I get going I sound like Tom." Cub smirked.
"That's not a good thing." Fox added in.
"So what do you want me to talk about?" Alex asked leaning back in his chair, balancing it on one leg.
"Your missions. This time you can't give us that classified bull." Wolf demanded with a victorious smirk.
"What if I don't want to tell you about them." Cub said his voice turning so cold that even Yassen was slightly proud.
"How about we just ask you questions and you can answer them?" Fox spoke up trying to make this easier on the 15 year old, Cub thought for a moment before nodding his consent.
"I'll go first and we will work clockwise around the room." Snake suggested and everyone agreed to this. It was going to go Snake, Wolf, Eagle, Fox and then lastly Cobra. "So Cub, how did MI6 recruit you?"
"After I figured out that my Uncle Ian wasn't killed in a car crash, I did a little digging, found his car and in the process beat the crap out of some people MI6 uses after almost being crushed by a car crusher." Fox paled at this since he hadn't been told the details of what happened at the junk yard. "They called me in the next day, left me alone in a room next to my uncle's office, I wanted to see it so I edged my way onto the window ledge, jumped, hung onto the union jack for dear life and then entered my Uncle's office. I read some files before they shot my with a dart, knocking me out. Closely followed by some Blackmail by MI6's head, I was shipped here to hell to train with you guys." Alex explained, in a as brief way he could muster.
"Holy hell Cub!" Snake exclaimed.
"Damn Cub you really are crazy." Eagle whistled, Cub merely shrugged since looking back that was actually a walk in the park.
"My turn, we get that you were then sent on a mission after you finished training here and again We are extremely sorry for the way we acted when you first came here Cub." Wolf said mournfully.
"I forgave you wolf when you took a bullet for me, same with Fox. Cobra the second after he 'died' and the rest of you lot when you helped us take out that sniper that almost killed Tom, Jack and Fox." Cub said, a small smile appearing on his lips.
"Thank you Alex." Wolf said softly, almost to himself using Cub's given name for once. "My question is, on any of your missions did you have back-up?" Cub thought about it for a few minutes, running over each mission in his mind.
"Mission 1-No. Mission 2-Sort of, that was the mission in France Wolf. I called MI6 to get me out, but no one came and I was almost dissected alive for that. Mission 3-I went in with backup but they were killed when they went on ahead, leaving me behind and I was almost adopted by a crazed man who tried to nuke the world. Mission 4-No. Mission 5- Not until the end…Mission 6- Ehhh near the end, but at the very end no and Mission 7- I got stuck with Fox and the ASIS." He winked at Fox, who rolled his eyes.
"So overall, no backup and when you did have backup they were either never there when you needed them or they were killed." Wolf summed up, feeling horrified that MI6 never gave him backup and that he had obeyed orders to stay put at the base of the mountain to wait while the kid was almost dissected ALIVE!
"Next question Eagle?" Cub turned his head lazily to the hyper man of the unit.
"Err, well…" Eagle hummed before snapping his fingers, eyes turning hard. "Why did '6 send you instead of an adult agent?" He asked, feeling his anger bubble up at the thought of what MI6 blackmailed the teen in front of him into doing.
"Many villains have asked me that exact same thing, and all of them ended up dead." Cub chuckled humourlessly. "Well Blunt had told me many a times that no one would suspect a 14 year old child to be an undercover agent, I have skills and size that other agents don't have, yada, yada, yada." Cub waved his hand horizontally at the end. Eagle couldn't think of anything other than swear words, aimed at Blunt to reply to Alex's answer.
"Alright Cub, how were you discovered, captured and how did you escape when on your 1st mission." Fox asked, he always had wondered about that.
"Well I had just found out what Sayle was up to and I got spotted so I ran right into Sayle's tongue less henchman, who knocked me out. After I had to listen to Sayle go on about his childhood and why he hates school children so much and being a dumb ass told me his plan. He left to the grand starting of the computers and the virus, Nadia Vole tricked me and I ended up in a tank with the Man of War. Using a metal eating cream Smithers gave me, I got out, Vole died and I managed to get to the science museum to stop Sayle. I got 2 bullets in him, one of the bullets well… It hit the Prime Minister in the hand." Alex rubbed his neck at the last statement.
"That was you!" K-unit minus Cobra yelled.
"My bad?" Alex said slowly. Wolf shook his head, Snake rolled his eyes upwards and Eagle just sighed loudly.
"Cobra, question please?" Alex almost begged with his uncle.
"What were you feeling when Sayle aimed the gun at you point blank before I shot him?" Cobra asked, wanting an in to what his nephew was feeling at the time it wasn't everyday a 14 year old looked into a barrel of a gun and came out un scarred.
"…Honestly, I felt anger and sadness." Alex said after thinking back to that time. "Anger that MI6 couldn't track this one injured man down, that they had put me in harm's way in the first place. Sadness because I knew when I was shot I would be leaving Jack and Tom alone."
"No feelings for yourself?" Yassen asked surprised as the others in the cabin.
"None, I figured that if it was my fate to die then I would take it peacefully. Plus… I had a chance to be with my family again…" Alex whispered softly, Ben heard this none the less. The older man strode across the room and engulfed the blonde into a bear hug. "Thanks Ben." Alex muttered into the man's ear, not knowing that he needed a hug until hugged.
"Dog pile on Cub!" Eagle shouted and everyone, yes everyone (Wolf and Yassen were legit dragged in) hugged Cub, who felt very happy if slightly lacking air.
"Well isn't that the cutest thing you have ever dang seen?" A voice with a fake texas drawl came out. "Is Cubby even alive in there?"
"TOM!" Alex shouted muffled from the middle of a group hug, he wormed his way out of Ben's arms and crawled under the other's legs and saw his best mate sitting on his cot, eyebrows raised at the scene before him. Once the soldiers noticed Cub was gone they all parted very quickly.
"Hey mate, did you uh enjoy that group hug you had going on there?" Alex's cheeks heated up without his permission so to draw attention away from them he shoved the shorter boy off his cot and sat down on it, crossing his legs looking annoyed.
"Shut up Tom." Was all Alex said before a thought occurred to him, a way to get the others to stop asking him things about his missions… "Hey guys why don't you ask Tom here some questions?" Planting that idea in their minds easily and it took hold as Eagle cheered and turned his gaze to the boy now on the floor.
"Take a seat Harris." Fox grinned, clearly he was going to enjoy questioning the insane teen. Tom gulped as he took Alex's now empty chair that was facing the 5 men in the room while Alex looked on from his bed with a huge grin.
Fallenqueen2: hope you guys enjoyed that one, next up is tom's questioning and a the 1st revenge prank on K-unit. Look forward to it!
