Inspired by: girlinthetrenchcoat
i do not own Alex Rider.
Summary- Alex Rider has left the U.S. after the pleasures died in a "freak accident". Alex Rider is now Alex Daniels and is enlisted in the SAS with a new unit (X-unit) with the occasional visit from k-unit including Ben. When the sergeant calls a surprise meeting, Alex never expected his family to walk on stage.
"Hey Cub, wait up!" Meet Alex Rider AKA Cub. Alex has lost nearly everything and is living at the SAS camp in Brecon Beacons to pursue his career, voluntarily, as a British soldier. His new Z-unit has just been called to the meeting hall for a surprise meeting along with all the other units in the camp.
"Hey Ben, thought you had swimming with k-unit, no exceptions?" He says as Ben reaches his side.
"How many times so I have to tell you? You have to call me Fox when we are here." He replies in an amused tone.
"At least once more, Ben. So did Searge let you off this time or are you just skipping." Alex already knew the answer to his question. No body skipped class/session unless you had a death wish or you were already dying.
"No searge told us that the meeting is too important to miss. I wonder what it is about." Ben replied. I felt extremely lucky, despite my horrid past, whenever I have Ben by my side. Just his presence seems to melt all the horrible memories away, even if for a brief period of time.
"I don't know, but I have a bad feeling about this." Me and Ben lock eyes. We both know that if I feel something is wrong, something is WRONG.
When we reach the meeting hall, Ben and I sit in our respectful seats which happen to be right by each other. Even though nobody admits it, somebody read my file *cough cough sergeant cough cough* because whenever Ben is back with K- unit, we are almost always placed together in the schedules.
With all the excitement buzzing through the soldiers, I can sense that something big is about to go down.
"SILENT"
As soon as the sergeant says this, all you can here is the moving around of ADHD soldiers (i.e. Eagle 2 seats away)
"Today we have some special guests that have risked their lives time and again , to protect everyone in this room."
I sit quietly wondering who these people are. I know first-hand what protecting people over and over again feels like.
"Please welcome John and Helen Rider and his brother Ian rider, along with their newborn daughter, Emma up to the stage."
I feel as if my stomach has dropped to the floor, jumped to the ceiling and fallen straight into my lap. Ben places a firm hand on my soldier as he stares up onto the stage. The surrounding soldiers, excluding k-unit who are looking at the duo with confused expressions. They know they heard Cub being called a Rider on more than one occasion.
Up on the stage, a man and a woman come out to behind the podium. The tall man looks almost like a replica of the young Cub staring up at him. Everything that is different comes from the woman who looks up into her husband's eyes. John has his arm wrapped protectively around his wife and is staring down at the bundle currently lying in the pink blanket carried by Helen.
Right behind them, a similar looking man walks to the other side of Helen Rider. He has a blank face and is looking out into the crowd. I restrain from standing up so that I can listen to the story they have planned to tell all the soldiers.
John talks first. "Good morning Gentlemen, I would like to thank you for using your time to come and listen to us during your stay here at the Beacons. I remember I always hated the lectures and meetings, sorry Sarge." A few chuckles and a grunt from the amused sergeant follow his statement.
"We are honored to share our story with you all today. So, I shall begin. Around sixteen years ago I had been a lead ranking in the MI6 SO. I had been selected for a mission for a deep undercover in the heart of SCORPIA operations."
As John was talking, Alex's mind was running 60MPH. 'why are they here?' 'Why didn't they come and find me?' 'How are they alive?' 'How as nobody noticed that the man looks exactly like me?'
"I had successfully managed to transfer many documents and information to the heads of MI6. I had to train assassins at their training island, and unfortunately assassinate a few people myself, which I hate about myself to this day." John continues
'Why doesn't he hate himself for not finding me?' Alex thought. Alec was too shocked and confused that his real anger hasn't set in at the moment.
Ben who was sitting next to him though was fuming with anger. 'How dare they leave their son?' he thinks.
X-unit and K-unit are slowly making the connections between the guests and their fellow soldier.
"After a while I couldn't stand the life I was put into and wanted a future with Helen and A- Ian." John paused a slight moment and Alex looked up to the stage. The men/woman still have not noticed their own son/nephew.
"So me and the heads of '6 decided to fake a kidnapping. SCORPIA had also kidnapped a very important son of a very important man and I decided, why not trade us but fake my death during the transaction. It almost worked too. When Helen and I were going to board a private plane to France, Ian had heard a rumor about a bomb being placed on the very plane. Helen and I were sent to a safe house and were put in a safe house in a small Irish town, isolated from our loved ones. Ian had continued on to become a successful MI6 agent, and I will turn to him for his story."
"Did I not even exist?" I say. All eyes turn to me. My gaze reaches the stage and I look into my "fathers" eyes. Ian Rider pales dramatically.
"Alex?" he mutters.
Hello! hope ya'll are having a great year so far! This is my first fan-fiction and just kind of thought of it after reading "Redemption" by girlinthetrenchcoat i just kind of thought what would happen if it happened differently so i'm sorry if you get mad at me, i just wanted to share and i just couldn't stop thinking about it. Like I said this is my first fan-fiction so i would really appreciate it if there is only constructive criticism because i am new at this. Please review if you have any comments or anything, i just thought people might enjoy this story and i don't want to offend anybody!
