Alex was suddenly pulled into the car from a hand that came through the sunroof. Suddenly, a gun was pointed at Alex. A hand pulled him into the backseat.

"Hello Alex Rider. I am Robert Clay. How are you doing?" asked Clay. He then laughed. Amarken laughed too.

"Where is she?" asked Alex.

"You mean you girlfriend? She is fine. It was lucky that I spared to life. I could have had her fall to her death down that shaft, but one of my agents was there to catch her on a mattress. My man was killed, but she is alive and locked up," said Clay.

"How do you know about me?" asked Alex.

"Herod Sayle was a good friend of mine. I helped him identify the fish he caught," said Clay.

"I thought you were a marine biologist. Your supposed to love fish, not want to kill them," said Alex.

"I am a marine biologist. I shall tell you my story. I was going to graduate first in my class. I was the top student, until a new child came and got better grades than me. My professor was the owner of the New England Aquarium and he was going to give the aquarium to the top student. That would have been me. But the new child was better than me and he is now the owner of the aquarium," said Clay.

"So that's why you want to destroy it?" asked Alex, "for revenge?"

"How do you know what I intend to do?"

"You should have looked at some of the vegetables in your soup," said Alex.

"So, you are MI6. Or are you CIA?" asked Clay.

"You don't seem to smart too me. Why would a CIA agent have an accent?"

Clay pretended like Alex had never said that. "When we get to my apartment, you will be locked in the closet with your girlfriend until it's time for the detonation. I'm afraid that you will be right on top of the bomb when it goes off. You will be the first to be killed," said Clay.

"Why do your men have the marks of Scorpia on them?" Alex asked.

"I didn't have time to raise an army myself, so I hired some men from Scorpia. I ordered five originally but you killed one, the other was crushed by your girlfriend, one got run over by some cars, and the other just got killed by you again. I ordered five more. They even gave three of them to me for free because their performance was below par," explained Clay.

"Why can't you just except that there are people out there that are better than you?" asked Alex.

"I take that as an insult!" Clay shouted. He took up his fist and slammed it into Alex's face.

Alex cried out in pain. "Please, no!" said Alex to Clay.

Clay beat him again on the back. Alex fell to the floor of the car. Clay kicked him in the stomach.

Before everything blacked out, Alex though, He's going to beat me to death.

Alex awoke in a small cramped space. It was totally dark except for a small ray of light coming out of a crack.

Alex remembered Clay saying something about locking he and Sabina up in a closet.

Suddenly, Alex heard a yell.

"Alex! You're alright!" It was Sabina. "I though that you might be dead. Your whole face is bloody!"

Alex felt his face. His hand was drenched with blood.

"Don't worry about me. I thought that you were dead," said Alex.

"I would be. I almost think that Clay is nice. He did spare my life," said Sabina.

"Clay is no nice man. He is going to kill hundreds of people. Your father might be one of them," said Alex.

"Why, what is he doing?" asked Sabina. She was suddenly frantic.

"He has a bomb and he's going to destroy the New England Aquarium," said Alex.

"When?"

"Tomorrow at three."

"Oh no! That's when my father is going to be there!"

"That's why we have to stop Clay before it's too late," said Alex. "Let's try to get out of here."

Alex slammed himself against the door. It didn't budge. He slammed himself again. It didn't budge.

"This is a great position," said Alex sarcastically.

The door opened as Alex was about to hit it and he found himself at the feet of Daniel Amarken. Amarken stomped on Alex's back.

"It is futile to escape. This whole place has security cameras. It also has six armed guards patrolling. And, it has me," said Amarken. He once again stomped on Alex's back.

"Why?" was all Alex managed to say before Amarken kicked him in the face. Blood got onto Amarken's shoe.

"These are my new shoes!" yelled Amarken. He picked up Alex and started punching him. Alex had a feeling that Amarken would beat him to death. What would he do to Sabina? Alex though.

Sabina came out of the closet and picked up a near by chair. He slammed the chair against Amarken. He dropped Alex and fell to the floor.

Alex was about to jump onto him, but he stood up and punched Alex to the floor. He then started to kick him.

Blood was stained in the rug everywhere. Alex was certain that he would be kicked to death.

Every bone in Alex's body ached. His head was about to explode.

"Please" he begged to Amarken in a weak voice.

Alex grabbed Amarken's leg and tripped him. Using all his strength, he punched Amarken.

He got up and Alex punched him back. Alex kept it up until he was at the edge of the picture windows. Alex saw that this was the top floor and the drop was very far down. In fact, they must have been more than one hundred feet in the air. One more punch and Amarken would crash through it.

"Please no!" said Amarken.

Alex punched Amarken one more time, but the glass didn't break. It was bullet proof.

"Looks like your little maneuver failed," said Amarken, comfortably leaning on the glass.

"That one did, but not this one."

Alex took out the CD Smithers had gave him. He placed it on the glass and turned the plastic. The glass shattered.

Amarken felt himself fall thing backwards, he didn't realize what was going on until he saw the room becoming farther away. He turned his head and saw that he was falling. He screamed as he fell towards the ice covered lawn.