I'm so so sorry for taking so long to update! Thanks to Memorial Day weekend, I finally have enough time to write. Big thank you to ValleyOfDeath for reminding me. Chapters will come along faster now, I promise. Also, more and more secrets are being revealed!

Disclaimer: You know, there's a reason this is called Fanfiction. If I owned the rights to Alex Rider, this would be published in a book.

Chapter 8

After dinner, Alex and Ben were sitting in Alex's room discussing the labs while playing video games (Just Dance 4). Just then, there was a knock on the door. Alex hit pause on the game, then walked over to open it. David was standing on the other side, looking uncharacteristically nervous. Alex raised an eyebrow, wondering what the other boy wanted. "Can I come in?" David asked quietly, glancing down the hallway furtively. "I need to talk to you and Ben."

"Um, sure," Alex said, caught off guard a little. Earlier, he hadn't showed much interest in Alex, except to assess him as a possible threat.

Once inside, David looked around, his eyes scanning the room. Alex and Ben said nothing, a little perplexed. "Have you checked for bugs?" He asked abruptly.

"Of course we did," Alex retorted. "What do you think we are, amateurs? There aren't any bugs for a half-mile." David nodded, satisfied.

"Which gadget did Smithers give you to check for bugs?" He asked curiously.

"He didn't give it to us, we stole it from him," Ben lied, sticking to their cover story.

"Oh please," David scoffed. "What do you think I am, an amateur?" He mocked Alex. Ben and Alex glanced at each other- if David had caught them out already, Brynne would know too, and Jillian and Nathan. "Perhaps I should introduce myself," David suggested. "I work for the Research and Analysis wing of the Indian secret service. MI6 hired me to snoop around the compound, and a couple nights ago I was told that two more agents would be joining me. I didn't think they'd put their best agent on it though."

"Prove it," Ben said, obviously distrusting him.

"Well, I saw Alex checking out my earrings earlier," he said. "I got them from Smithers. Each earring has a little beach that alerts MI6 if the mission has failed or something has happened, and they can track the earring to the place where the beacon was sent from. Also, they wouldn't have sent you here without some way to contact them. Why don't you ask them yourself?"

Alex pulled out his phone and sent them a quick text asking for verification of David's story. They responded with a picture of him, and his information. "Okay, your story checks out," Alex agreed. "But why would they send three agents? Do they have that little faith in us?"

"No, the threat from the Creators is that serious," David said with a grim face. "They take their security pretty seriously in this place, even though its in the middle of Denmark and no one would ever think to look here. I've only managed to steal a few documents from them, but over the last month I've been gradually gaining their trust. Jillian and Nathan are starting to invite me to important meetings and things, and what I've learned is not good. You know how they're mostly merging human DNA with the DNA of things that are strong animals, like wolves and eagles?" Alex and Ben nodded in unison. "They're doing that because they plan in turning the hybrids into their own personal army. They'll be able to attack from the sky, from the sea, and from land. If they can clone important people, like Mrs. Jones, or the prime minister, they could have a lot of influence. And trust me, I've seen their cloning machine. It works very well. Too well."

"Their own soldiers," Ben whispered, his face pale. "That would be an incredible army. They would be mutants...faster than us, stronger than us, smarter than us..."

"Exactly," David nodded. "Imagine fighting a girl. She would look normal, but just as you're about to knock her unconscious, she reveals wings and flies off. Or if you were swimming, and a shark attacks, but it has the brain of a human, and legs and lungs. It would be so much smarter, and it could continue the fight in land. Hundreds of people would adopt cute-looking cats and dogs, only to find that they could talk and were plotting to destroy them. We've never had to deal with animals that are smart. This would destroy everything. And Jillian and Nathan Sharpe are planning to use this to destroy the world, and start over with only a few select people alive. They would start a new world. Their world."

Dun dun DUN! Sounds kinda scary, doesn't it? I like this David guy. And no, he's not my OC, ValleyOfDeath created him. A certain girl with the initials S.P. will appear soon. And when I say soon, I mean the next chapter! Yay! ;)