Chapter 3: The Yellow Cat
The day after Alex's shooting…
It was morning and James Lockney was giving his morning briefing to two agents.
"Now as you must know, Alex Rider has been shot. He is still alive but barely, now Alan Blunt has asked us to look into this personally, so we must pull out all the stops to find out who did this. Now I have my suspicions but no facts so if you could present me with…"
"Bloody hell, James we all know who's behind this," said the loud mouthed Joseph Leech an MI5 operative.
"And who is that Joe?" James Lockney the junior head of special operations of MI6 said icily. It was known throughout MI6 that Leech had always wanted the junior head of special operations job, and had gotten very annoyed when he found out that it was Lockney he even threatened to kill him if he didn't give it up.
"Scorpia! And as for facts I've got all the facts you need, I had a look few all the heads of Scorpias bank accounts and it looks like one of them a Mr Ying, has paid a hefty £5,000,000 to a certain person named Dylan Jordan, aka the yellow cat aka the worlds most dangerous assassin," Leech said triumphantly.
"But how can you be sure that it was him who killed Alex," said Adam Marshall an agent of special operations.
"Ah, that can easily be proved by a certain object I happened to find at the top of the building where the killer shot from," said Leech.
"That's impossible, the place was searched an hour after Alex was shot, there is no chance you could have got this "piece of evidence" it's not possible."
"Au contraire James, did I say the building he was shot from, I meant the building the order for him to be shot from, because I suppose you know that the yellow cat is blind, that is why on each of his missions he needs a partner to be his eyes, but this guy wanted the yellow cat found so he left a calling card telling us where we could find the yellow cat."
"That's amazing Leech, let us see this amazing piece of evidence then."
"Well you see I've kind have…"
"Yes?"
"Well you know how it is… you take home a piece of evidence, next thing you know you wake up next morning and your house has been ransacked in the night and that bloody piece of evidence has gone."
"You do realise I can have your job for not giving this evidence straight in, so you better start telling me and Adam the truth."
"Yeah, what he said," Adam said quietly.
"OK, I'll tell you what happened. I was on my home from work, after I'd searched those buildings around the area and I decided to congratulate myself and went to a bar, met a girl and well you know… in the morning she was gone and so was the recorder."
Lockney and Marshall were pissing themselves with laughter.
"So basically you're a complete twat," Marshall said with more confidence this time.
"No I'm not could have happened to anybody," Leech said indignantly, "anyway I think I can remember it I listened to it quite a lot."
"Oh yeah and what did it say?" Lockney asked.
"It was sort of said like a letter from what I remember it said something like this: Dear MI6, I suppose you're wondering who I am well all I am going to say is that I am White hound. It might have been black hound or white hand though I can't remember but this bit I do remember: I suppose you are wondering where the yellow cat is as well. This I am going to tell, you: you will find him in Geneva, he stays in the Swiss hotel in the middle of the city you can't miss it. You will find him in room 465 he is staying in the name of Miles Tobin, an American. When you get there however you may find more than you expect, or less."
"What that's supposed to mean you may find more than you expect or less?" Lockney said.
"By the way I don't know if it helps but I'm pretty sure the speaker was Russian," said Leech.
"We better organize someone to go to Geneva and meet "Mr Tobin"" Marshall said, "and I think I should do it sir."
"OK then Marshall, but this is an undercover mission so I think we might have to get you a family for this mission." Lockney said
"I've got the perfect boy for you sir," Leech said.
"I think I know of a girl we can use for you as well Marshall," Lockney said.
Chapter 4: Paige