Alex Rider felt a surge of excitement flow through his veins. His house keeper and guardian, Jack Starbright, was taking Alex to Boston, Massachusetts in the United States to see some of her close friends. Alex had no interest in Jack's friends, but he wanted to see some historic sites in Boston. Alex was also excited because he was an Atlantic Ocean closer to his girlfriend who moved to San Francisco shortly after they had foiled Damian Cray's Operation: Eagle Strike.
"Alex! Are your bags packed?" Jack shouted from downstairs.
"Yes, don't worry!" shouted Alex down the stairs.
"Our plane is in two hours, so we need to leave soon!" she shouted again.
"Don't worry Jack!" Alex shouted. "We're not going to miss the plane!"
"Be down in fifteen minutes!"
Alex went into his room and got dressed into his clothes from his pajamas. He had a nasty bruise from where a Scorpia sniper had shot him. He also had some more recent cuts and bruises from his entanglements with Nikolei Drevin and his Ark Angel space station. He remembered the trip into space like it was yesterday.
When Alex was dressed in jeans and a white t-shirt, he laced his Nike's and went downstairs with his luggage which was only a small bag of some clothes and a book.
"It's snowing in Boston so you should bring your jacket," said Jack when Alex entered the kitchen where she was cooking eggs and bacon.
Alex ran back up to his bedroom and grabbed his snow jacket that was hanging next to a shelf covered in his multiple soccer trophies.
When he went back downstairs, he wolfed down his eggs and bacon. He drained his orange juice and he and Jack went outside to their car. The stench of vomit overwhelmed Alex as he stepped into the car. Jack once had a dog and it left its scent.
They drove the Heathrow Airport and made great time. They still had an hour before the plane took off. Alex bought a magazine at a shop at the airport (he was almost done with his book and he needed something else to keep him content.)
A short time later, everyone on the eleven thirty non stop flight from Heathrow International to Logan International airports loaded onto the plane. Alex was glad that they only had carry on luggage because it was a full plane and Alex didn't feel like waiting on a long line at the baggage claim.
Thirty minutes in the air and Alex found himself falling asleep. He hadn't slept to his usually ten o'clock so he was making the lost time now.
But Alex didn't know that one of the flight attendants, was actually an agent for Scorpia, and that they were hijacking this plane.