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It took me a moment to realize what was happening when I woke up. I had been fast a sleep a second ago and now I had a man pinned to the ground.

"What the hell Jaguar!" It appears to be I had pinned Cheetah.

"What happen?" I asked. I actually didn't know.

"WHAT HAPPEN?! what happen was I went to wake you up for Breakfast and the next thing I know you had me pinned to the floor!" he sounded quite angry. Maybe I wounded his pride?

"Ah, that. Sorry I don't like being touched while I'm sleeping. I tend to have violent tendencies when it happens. Just throw something at me next time." I said as if it were obvious. Really though, they were acting like they'd never seen somebody pin an elite soldier while they were still sleeping. Oh wait... that is really weird. I guess I was never really normal and the whole "spy thing" kind of intensified it. I better watch myself in the future, usually I'm an early riser.

"We have to get going, breakfast starts in five minutes." Donkey said.

We headed to the mess hall and got our food. Oh disgusting slop, how I missed you! Not. This stuff was gross, I've had worse though. I ate it without showing any complaint. I guess that surprised my cabin mates. They looked at each other, shrugged and went back to eating. I could see that people from other units had taken notice to me and whispering to each other. I couldn't really bring myself to care so I went back to eating. Until a hand clamped down on my shoulder. It took everything in my power not to defend myself.

"What are you doing here? You barely look old enough to drive, this place is for soldiers, not brats. We have done things for our country unlike you." It was a gruff man who seemed extremely unpleasant.

I glanced at my unit and saw them watching. They were taking this as a test to see how I react. Fair enough, I understood.

"I'm here so that I can do something for my country. At one point you were a newbie just like me. Everyone was at one point or another. I recognize you have accomplished things and I hope one day I can too." I replied my unit looked surprised, so did everyone else who had stopped eating and decided to listen. What, did they expect me to flip out and act like a brat or something?

"It still doesn't change the fact that you are a little runt and weak." he sneered. Ah, I did not like being called weak. I may lie and say he had done more for this country than I have, but I would not stand for being called weak.

"I don't like to be called weak" I said calmly forcing his hand off of my shoulder by the wrist "I really hope you aren't a fool who will underestimate me" by the end I had squeezed his wrist tightly and had took on a completely blank face and tone of voice. I had taken on my "spy mode". I could tell I was hurting him by the look on his face, so I released him. I didn't like causing people pain, I could see almost everyone had stopped and was watching.

"I'm done eating, I'm heading back to the cabin to check my timetable." I said to my shocked unit.

Once I reached my cabin I sat down on my bed. It's only the first day and I've already drawn attention to myself, great! I checked my timetable and groaned. First thing today was shooting practice. I haven't gone near a gun since the whole thing in Cairo went down. I wasn't scared, I just didn't have a reason. I guess I was pretty lucky though. I didn't have nightmares often and no random flash backs during the day. I had heard of things like that happening to people. I heard my unit approaching and they were soon in the cabin.

"What was that back there?" questioned Giraffe.

"What?" I asked innocently.

"What he's asking is, what was that whole thing with Mule about? You had a completely blank face when you spoke to him." Cheetah said. So his name was Mule. I found it fitting for him. I wonder how I should answer? Might as well go with the truth.

"He annoyed me. I don't like being called weak." there that was good.

"Something is different about you. You are too calm about things. You also have some weird tendencies like this morning." he said. This wasn't good, I couldn't arouse suspicion.

"What can I say? I've always been different. I must say, shouldn't we be heading to shooting practice now?" I said glancing at the clock and changing the subject.

"Crap, you're right, This isn't over though." he said as we headed off to practice.

We were met there by our shooting instructor, I found out his name was Elephant and he was an expert at shooting.

"Jaguar, how are you with shooting?" he asked me.

"I'm pretty decent I guess" I answered, if only they knew..

"I would like to see you disassemble and reassemble this gun." he told me.

I took the gun and felt it in my hands. It was strange how one thing could do so much damage and inflict so much pain. I took it apart and put it back together as fast as I could and hoped it was good enough. My skills were a bit rusty since I haven't practised in a while. From the look on their faces I guess I did well.

"Bloody hell kid! You obviously know the parts to a gun well! Who taught you?" he asked.

"My uncle, he thought it was a good idea for me to have some military skills" I said. Since I was no longer Alex Rider I had to create fake family members too. I made them have the same fates as my family so I wouldn't have to lie. Of course my father and uncle were "bankers".

"Let's see how you shoot then." he said gesturing towards the targets.

I took a breath in and let it out. I remembered all the training I did with SCORPIA. I lifted the gun and fired off six shots, one for each target. I did it quickly and instinctively the way I was trained. He brought the targets in and was very surprised, I had six perfect bulls-eyes. I didn't expect anything less. I looked at my unit and noticed they were extremely surprised too, they probably thought I was a complete newbie. I looked at Elephant and noticed he was thinking hard.

"Why do you know instinctive firing? There's nothing wrong with it, except for the fact it is most commonly used by assassins." he said.

"I learnt it because it was a highly accurate way of shooting. If I was going to learn, why not learn the most proficient way?" I said simply.

"Okay, I'll accept that. Now why are all of you just standing here? Get to work!" He shouted the last part. I could see he didn't really buy my answer, day one and everybody is already suspicious of me. Wasn't I supposed to be MI6's top agent?

For the rest of the hour we kept shooting and I continued getting bulls-eyes. I looked how everyone else was doing. None of them shot as fast as me, I could see clearly. Cheetah was a decent shot managing to get close to the bulls-eye every few shots. Giraffe was around the same level as Cheetah. Donkey was pretty good, he got bulls-eyes every few shots and managed to stay close to it on the others.

The rest of the day went by normally. We had a few lectures on first-aid and weapons. I had already received a more detailed lecture so I didn't pay too much attention. I noticed the SAS focused more on teamwork than SCORPIA did. It made sense since we were almost always in four man squads here. After dinner we headed back to the cabin.

"Can we ask you some questions?" Donkey asked as soon as we were inside.

"What questions do you have?" I asked, if they weren't too bad I might answer them.

"Why did you really learn instinctive firing? Why did your uncle want you to know how to shoot? And again, how were you able to pin Cheetah down in your sleep? He's the best at hand to hand combat!" Donkey rattled off.

I thought for a second before answering "I've decided that I don't want to tell you. I'm going to have a shower." I said heading to the showers.

I was exhausted, I didn't like adjusting to new places and I didn't sleep well the night before. There was no one at the showers which was good.

After my shower as I was getting dressed I heard the door open and a few people walk in. Oh shit! I though as I came face to face with them. I recognized my unit along with a few other people. Their faces were shocked but quickly turned horrified. I forgot about my scars, they especially stood out after the shower. How could I have been so stupid? My unit would have a lot more questions to ask after this.