CHAPTER 4!

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The students of brookland watched with surprise and sympathy.

Tom gulped on air. He knew who Alex was visiting, he had come with alex a few times to the cemetery.

"Guys, we shouldn't be here." Tom felt guilty. They were ruining his time with his family.

Alex took Sabina's hand. "Are you ok?" they knelt next to a stone, and Alex laid a single rose on the 6 continuous stones.

She nodded sadly. "Yeah." Alex bit his lip.

"It was my fault." He said quietly.

Sabina pushed his arm.

"No!" she said a little too forcefully. Then quieter. "It wasn't your fault. It was those- those-" she seemed to struggle for the right word. "Murderers! Assassins! I don't know!"

"Assassin's?" Lindsey hissed. Everyone looked on, unable to say anything.

Alex nodded sadly, comforting her. After a minute, he spoke up, startling Sabina with his words.

"Why don't you come live with us? Sab? It would be better than your current arrangements.

Sabina's smile lit up the gloomy Cemetery.

" I would love to!" She yelled at him.

She hugged him and he hugged back.

Alex turn towards the stones.

hey Mom hey Dad he started " I miss you."

Sabina also turned towards the stones.

hey Mom hey Dad she mimicked Alex I miss you she said solemnly

the students of Brooklyn Gasped.

they had no idea who Alex was visiting. who had died to make him so sad.

Tom looked towards the group.

he explained how everyone he knew but Sabina and him were dead.

Susan had tears welling up in her eyes but the rest of the bullies just looked on with Melancholy looks.

Tom looked towards Alex from their hiding place.

" I went here with him a few times." he said to them . "His most recent Guardian who was also his best friend just died after knowing him for many years. at least five." Tom said to them.

They watched Alex who was talking about Jack to Sabina.

They listened to Alex recall funny memories, her fiery red hair and personality, and how much they cared for each other.

They learned who was at the cemetery.

Jack, Alex's closest housekeeper and friend, who knew some "secret" of his. (which brought up questions from brookland.)

Ian- his uncle who also shared this "secret."

His mom and dad, John and Helen Rider- who died in a plane crash when he was barely one. (for some reason, he kept talking about this secret he had, which just made the students of brookland curious.)

And Finally, Sabina's parents- Liz and Edward Pleasure- who were murdered by the same people in Alex's secret.

The students that had followed him didn't know whether to be sad for Alex and Sabina, or to come out at that moment and demand to know this secret that had killed his family, and girlfriends family.

They were all nervous and curious now, and wanted to know the truth about Alex rider.

Just who was this boy with so many secrets?

Mark spoke up. "Let's make a list of what we know so far." The brookland kids complied. They wrote the list on a stray piece of paper they found in Susan's pocket and Zach's pen.

They began, tom saying out loud what they were writing down, quietly, so Alex didn't hear them.

"Well, he skips school all the time, and disappears for weeks, months at a time, he always comes back with injuries, broken bones, scars, bruises." they all nodded, even more curious with everything they wrote.

"Well, some man named Yassen Gregorovich came up to him with a warning at school today, making Alex ditch school, Again." Tom rolled his eyes and they continued.

"He lives with four big men that can do hundreds of pull ups, and exercises without breaking a sweat, that also use animal names, and freaked out when Alex told them about stuff like Yassen, and SCORPIA…"

"Whatever that is…" Mark muttered.

"He has Scars, including a Bullet wound over his heart."

"Oh, my god!" Lindsey whisper yelled.

He continued. " he knows martial arts, he was crazy good when he was fighting, is the most athletic, even though he claims to be sick, knows a bunch of languages-" Zach was interrupted when Drew asked,

"How many Tom?" she asked, getting murmurs from the group.

Tom took a deep breath, and stated the list of languages that Alex knew. It was crazy long. "Well-"

Mark interrupted. "It can't be that much! Like, what English, a bit of Spanish, a few words in Chinese or french or something? Even I can do that!"

Tom just glared.

"No, he knows Fluent Spanish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, portuguese, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese."

Everyone listened, mouths to their jaws.

Much to everyone's surprise, he continued.

"He is also teaching himself, and almost fluent in Mandarin and Japanese, Dutch, Turkish, Swedish, Swahili, Korean, and Hebrew. He is starting and very quickly advancing in Hindi, Catalan, Irish, and all of the other versions of all these languages, like Ancient greek, Old french, ect. Why he needs to know all of these languages, you'll probably find out, but even then, with his talents, it's a lot. He practically can learn a language within a few weeks, to a month or two. Depending on the situation, and how much he needs to, or practices."

"Oh, MY GOD!" everyone shrieked.

Tom reminded them to be quiet as they continued with the list.

they were there for at least half an hour and we're beginning to get bored when Alex stood up.

"Hey sab." he said. " let's go pack up your things."

She nodded, still melancholy from the cemetery and it was starting to rain.

suddenly Alex looked up sharply. he looked around and motioned for Sabina to be quiet.

She complied, obviously scared, but used to it.

"What's going on?" Drew whispered, fright lacing through her voice.

Tom stays completely still. He had seen Alex like this when he had first found out about SCORPIA, MI6, everything.

"Stay quiet, and whatever you do, don't move!" he commanded, his breathing coming in shallow gulps, because for once, he was scared.

Scared for him, and scared for Alex.

Alex stepped back, so he was hidden in the bushes, completely still, and invisible to the other students, and before he could warn Sabina to do the same, men, all clad in black, came storming out, and they heard Sabina scream.

"Stay there! Get me later!"

The students of brookland were confused at Sabinas words, but realized that she was talking to Alex.

Tom knew Alex wasn't going to do that, and he was right when they saw him amerge and take a gun from his hip.

The students gasped. What was going on?

Sabina stopped struggling, much to her attackers surprise, and she could get loose before Alex struck the gun over the head of the man who was holding Sabina.

Alex cocked the gun, and shot another attacker in the leg, and he fell over, and hit his head on the concrete, unconscious.

Alex fought wildly, with two other, large assailants attacking him with kicks and jabs.

The students of brookland looked on with horror.

Alex knocked another man unconscious, and they were almost free, the fight almost over when a shot rang out, and alex fell to the ground in shock, and pain.

He tried to get back up again, but was stopped with pain and blood, soaking into his clothes and the ground.

Another man took the opportunity, and slipped a silver syringe into his arm, whispering, Night, night, rider."

Sabina, who had been holding her own until she realized Alex had been shot, was pricked with the syringe also, and both teenagers were thrown into the back of a van, unconscious.

"Not again…" Tom trailed off.

Everyone looked at him with horrified looks, and terrified eyes.

Tom just looked to the van that was carrying his best mate away.

His eyes became suspiciously wet, and he was more scared than ever until he reminded himself that Alex had done this kind of thing before.

But there was so much red…

He struggled with his thoughts, until Mark pushed his arm.

"What the heck is going on?! What do you mean again? We want answers, Tom, and you seem to know exactly what's going on! Alex and his girl were just freaking Kidnapped!"

Tom looked calmly at the group, though he looked frazzled, and scared. "It's time I tell you guys everything. I know what Alex has been hiding, where goes when he's not at school…" Tom trailed off.

"Everything." Tom got up and walked away, saying behind his shoulder, " It's time to meet those guys we saw in Alex's house. They are- well, I'll let them explain. Time to meet K-unit. I'm going to go get them, and then some… other help." He explained.

The others nodded, planning to stay there, while Tom got whoever he was talking about, and some help. No matter what they thought about Alex, he needed to be rescued.

Tom walked off towards Alex's house. K-unit were going to be having an even worse day when they heard about this.

The minute Tom walked away, he didn't know how he was the lucky one that had escaped.

The second he was completely gone, he didn't hear the protests of the rest of his fellow students, Mark, Zach, Lindsey, Drew, and Susan as they too, were roughly forced in the back of the other van after silver syringes with a murky liquid were pressed into their skin, and they all fell limp.

The van that had come just minutes after the first one had left.

They were being kidnapped, and none of them knew why, except that it had something to do with Alex rider.

The van even passed Tom as he walked by, the drivers paying no attention to him, and all Tom saw was the silver scorpion on the side of the van to know something was seriously wrong.

He ran back to the cemetery, and when he didn't see his classmates, he knew what happened, as he jetted down to K-unit/Alex's house.

He pounded on the door, and when a man answered, Tom, out of breath could only get in one word.

"Kidnapped!"

They all thundered to the door. Tom was breathing hard.

"What's wrong kid?" one asked.

He couldn't manage to much, as he was out of breath and was absolutely terrified.

"Kidnapped. Alex and some of his classmates, SCORPIA, it was them. I- I know what Alex does, MI6, everything."

He explained everything he knew, some information about Alex, and what they were doing that day. When he was finished, the man with red hair and ember eyes, Fox, spoke up.

"Oh, my god. Not again." he mumbled.

"Wolf, we need to embark on rescue mission, field play 188."

Everyone nodded, and Tom, confused and angry yelled, "This isn't some football game! Field play? We need to help him!"

Fox gently explained what a field play 188 was, and how it was their way of saying a plan to help Alex. Tom agreed, and sat down, but couldn't stay still.

He fidgeted, and stood back up, only to sit back down and try to be useful, collecting weapons, and first aid materials, which just frightened the black haired boy even more.

Alex could be getting hurt as we speak.

Tom had the worst feeling in his gut, like it was heavy and sloshing.

Something bad was going to happen.

"I think I'm going to be sick." he murmured, hurrying to the bathroom just in case.

When nothing came up, he washed his face, his green eyes dull with worry, and black hair soaked from tap water.

He took a deep breath, and walked out of the bathroom.

Everything was going wrong. It wasn't supposed to end this way.

It was supposed to be about the truth. He was supposed to prove the bullies wrong, learn more about his mysterious best mate.

Come to Alex with a laugh, and joke around, go to school the next day like nothing happened.

But something had happened.

The truth was coming out, but not in the way they thought it was.

It was supposed to be the simple truth. Alex wasn't a druggy, he wasn't in a gang, and the students of brookland could see he was a nice, normal, (mostly normal except for MI6.) and a positive guy.

It could have been all fun and games.

The simple truth.

Not a kidnapping.


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