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anyway moving on...
They reached Dominic's 2 minutes early.
"That. Was. AWESOME! "Alex said as he sat in a waiting room chair and caught his breath.
"I no." Shelley said, grinning hugely.
"ALEX! SHELLEY!" Eagle ran in a huge grin on his face.
"YOU"RE BACK!" Cat said skidding to a stop next to Eagle.
"Uhh…" Alex looked at the two soldiers, freaked out by their overly pepped up state.
"I think that would explain it." Shelley said pointing to a couple of Starbucks cups in the room the soldiers had just come from.
"Yup yup yup! We are caffeinated up to our toes!"
"Uh…Shelley lets go find out what Blunt wants." Alex said grabbing her arm and pulling her away from the soldiers she was goofing off with.
"Aww Alex don't be a party pooper!" Shelley said pouting.
He laughed, still pulling her arm along.
"Come on."
They walked into Blunt's room. They didn't expect anything less than what they saw. The man in a grey suit sitting in front of a desk that obviously hadn't been there when he had been brought in. next to him was Mrs. Jones in a new red work suit and hair in the usual sleek bob.
"Those incessant doctors won't let us leave so we'll just brief you here." Mr. Blunt said.
Shelley and Alex stood with their arms crossed and nodded their consent.
"You will still be going to SAS Camp and training with the units. The house you have bought, Alex, has been modified as you'd asked and I see you've already found your new car, Shelley. We've had it modified as you asked Alex. You are free to leave camp but you have to be back in time for training. Security has been doubled around the house and around camp after the bombing on your old house. And we have decided to provide you with guns. Both of you will have Glock 27s waiting for you at the house. Goodbye."
Alex and Shelley walked out in silence. They walked into the waiting room and found the whole unit there, waiting for them.
"Seriously? They couldn't just send us a note or something?" Shelley complained.
"Well it wouldn't be the safest method in the world." Alex replied.
"Who cares? Everybody else doesn't seem to care."
"True. Let's go talk to the unit."
"Ok." Shelley said.
"We have to go back to camp now. Training starts again in two hours and it'll take a while to get back to camp." Wolf said as soon as they walked up.
"Ok."
"Come on, the jeep is waiting outside." Snake called over his shoulder.
Shelley grinned at him.
"Actually, we'll be taking my car. Come on Alex. You guys can follow us."
"You don't even know how to get there, Shelley." Snake said exasperated.
"It's called a GPS. Ever heard of one?" she said back.
Snake rolled his eyes.
"Your funeral if you get lost."
Alex and Shelley walked out, followed by the unit. They walked to the sleek black vehicle and turned around to see the unit standing there, lusting over the beautiful car.
"Come on, we have training!" Shelley yelled, grinning at their expressions. She really loved the car.
She climbed into the car after Alex. She turned and saw him smiling at her. She smiled back.
"What?"
"You really shouldn't tease them like that." He said smiling wider. "But it's really funny to see Wolf's mouth hanging open like that."
"Yea I know." Shelley said and started laughing. she sat in the car turned the ignition and blasted out of the parking lot.
They got to camp in less than half the time it usually took.
She probably broke every traffic law that ever existed, Alex thought. But, damn, that was so much FUN! And she's usually telling me I should drive better…
They went back to K-Units barracks and played poker until K-Unit got there. They could hear Wolf talking from outside the window.
"Where's her fancy car now? They weren't even anywhere in sight after we left the parking sight. The brats probably got lost on the way here."
Stepping inside, Wolf's gloating face was immediately replaced by a look of surprise.
"Wha…how…huh?"
"Hello? Didn't you see the car in the parking lot? You cannot be that dense." Shelley teased.
"Stupid, shiny, new, black Ferrari." Wolf muttered as the rest of the Unit walked in, smiling at Wolf's babyish behavior.
"Awwww…its okay Wolfy," Eagle said as the rest of the unit questioned his sanity once again.
"Mommy will buy you a new car. It's cooler than this one cause you get to make your own noises with it! See!"
And out of nowhere, Eagle pulled out a toy black Ferrari and starting running around the room with it making really annoying noises.
"Vrooooom….vroooooom….powpow, oh no the po-po is shooting at us! Ahhhhhh! Faster, faster! Vrooooom…"
It went on and on, while Wolf's face got more and more red until finally, he snapped.
"Eagle you have until the count of ½ before I take your stupid car and throw into the lake with you still attached to it."
In less than a ¼ of a second, the car was flying out of the window and out of sight and Eagle was whistling while fixing his bed.
"Hey we should probably go, training starts in-"
BRRRRRRIIIIING!
"-now." Alex finished.
The unit walked outside. They all walked together to the assault course.
"Today, you soldiers are gonna be doing something different," the man standing in front of the two assembled units said.
"A-Unit and K-Unit will be going on a little camping trip. You'll be jogging to an area about 27 km from here." He continued.
He walked over to a pile of backpacks that were so filled upwith stuff; it surprised Shelley that they hadn't burst yet.
"Each of you will have one of these," he said grunting slightly as he threw each bag to one of the soldiers.
Shelley as petite as she is, would have been knocked over from the weight of the bag if Wolf hadn't been standing right behind her.
"Each bag has a compass, a map, a bottle of water, a little bit of food, sleeping bags, and other survival necessities. You will be expected to find your own food because the food in the pack is very limited. You will stay in the forest for three days. You must reach the camp by 0800 tomorrow morning."
"Now, MOVE IT SOLDIERS!" he bellowed.
The two units jogged into the forest.
"Let's sing a song!" Eagle suggested five hours later.
"Eaaaaggle no!" Cat complained.
"But I'm bored!"
"I have a better idea…" Shelley said a sinister gleam in her eye.
"Oooh I like that face!" Eagle said.
"Well the map says there's a small waterfall near here. So this is what we'll do…" Shelley started.
Alex could hear Shelley and the two SAS men talking but he didn't know what about. He didn't really care at this point. His chest was twinging and he just wanted to get out of this godforsaken forest! The air was humid because of all the wetness around him from an earlier storm and the sun had made a rare appearance over the SAS camp. And Alex was starting to get really crabby. The other unit had separated from them two hours and 37 minutes ago. He was counting the minutes until he could finally get out of this place. He hated the forest. His heightened senses picked up every movement of every bug, every sound of every animal moving through the forest. Every slight touch of a leaf left a lingering feeling of closeness that Alex hated. He didn't like being touched, Shelley being an exception. All the things his senses picked up on could cover the real things he needed to look out for. The real enemy could have been right next to him but he wouldn't notice because he was too occupied noticing every other detail of this stupid, stupid forest!
Alex's bad mood made him snappy towards Shelley. She had been talking about the beautiful lushness of the greenery around them. The same looming trees and shrubbery that caused Alex to feel claustrophobic and paranoid amazed Shelley. She loved to look at the different animals and insects on each plant and guess which plant was which. But even though he admired her optimism, the constant noises were starting to make Alex's head hurt.
"Shelley, go talk to Eagle or something. My senses are overloading and even if it was a good distraction before, the constant chattering is not helping at all."
"Fine." Shelley said insulted. She decided she was going to make Alex lighten up a bit, even if it killed her.
Suddenly, the entire group came out in a small clearing. They were standing on a small cliff and a fifteen foot water fall was running off of. Before he could understand what was happening, Alex heard a familiar voice say: "I never knew you liked to swim so much."
And then he was in the water.
His face blanched when he realized what had happened. Shelley had pushed him into the water! Slowly, Alex swam over to where Shelley was. It was hard going against the current but years of training meant that he could and would make it to where he was going. He made sure to stay low.
Wolf and Snake were shocked when they saw Shelley push Alex in. they rushed to where she was standing and started to scour the water for Alex. Eagle and Cat, on the other hand, were mimicking Alex's surprised expression right before he fell in. They doubled up with laughter.
After about a minute, Shelley started to get worried. She knew Alex could swim well but a minute was a long time to hold your breath.
Maybe his head hit a rock… he could be bleeding to death down there!
Don't be ridiculous; the water would be tinged red if he was bleeding, she berated herself.
Well maybe his old injury started acting up…what if-
Before she could finish her thought, she felt a hand grab her ankle and a voice that filled her with relief say "Care to join me?"
And suddenly Shelley was in the water too.
The two teens surfaced for air and realized they were about to go down the water fall.
Well it's not that far. I've taken bigger jumps before. Like that waterfall in Africa all those years ago. And that was with a kayak! All the extra wood was way more dangerous than this.
And suddenly, as Shelley watched with horror, Alex had transferred the hand he was holding on to a solid rock on the edge of the water and dived over the edge of the water fall.
Alex felt the adrenaline coursing through his body. He felt the wind rushing through his hair. He looked down and saw the spray of water. He felt it land on his body and before he could register much more, he was in the water all over again. He popped out of the water laughing with exultation.
Quickly the Unit ran over to the cliff edge. They looked down and instead of seeing the dead body they had expected, they saw Alex laughing his head off.
What is he nuts?
Shelley climbed out of the water and ran over to where the unit was standing. She saw Alex's laughing figure. And then she was back in the water, flying through the air.
Alex climbed out of the water and started running up the hill to where the unit was now watching as Shelley back flipped over the cliff and into the water.
Suddenly all the guys had their shirts off and were running towards the cliffs, doing tricks and stunts as they jumped off.
They're lucky Shelley thought to remind them to bring at least one extra pair of clothes. Alex thought.
Then he pulled off his sopping shirt and joined in.
About half an hour later, Shelley said she was going to go change in the woods. She decided to save her energy for the rest of the hike. She walked off to the woods to go change her clothes out of sight.
Another half hour later the rest of the Unit decided that they should save energy too.
They all went and changed.
As they were walking back to where their packs had been dropped earlier Alex realized something.
"Hey, did any of you guys see Shelley out there? I haven't seen her since she left to change."
"Now that you mention it, neither have I…" Snake replied.
"Yea none of us saw her."
Something's wrong.
Alex felt it in his gut. And a good spy knows his gut is never wrong.
"Something's wrong." Alex said voicing his earlier thoughts.
"Come on. We have to go find her."
The unit, trusting Alex's word ran into the forest after Alex's already sprinting figure.
Shelley walked into the forest to go change. She was just finished when she realized that it was reeeally quiet here. She couldn't hear any birda or insects or even feel any wind. suddenly she felt in her gut.
Something's wrong.
She whipped around and noticed a black clad figur before she could do anything, he shot to darts and she was falling to the ground.
It is done. i have left scorpia's mark. the black clad figure said.
he hung up the phone and watched as the girl was lifted away. then he turned around and walked into the forest.
Five minutes after entering the forest, Alex noticed a bunch of Shelley's wet clothes.
So something happened right after she finished changing.
He went over to the clothes and almost immediately noticed the signs around him.
The leaves in this area had been stepped on. The dirt was loose and it looked like there had been a fight. Before he could go into full blown panic, Alex decided to see if there were any more clues. He realized that the unit had finally caught up.
"There was a fight," he said, emotionlessly. "Look for any clues on how they got her and who they were."
Snake knew that the emotionless mask Alex had put up was just that: a mask. Alex was holding back panic and rage so that he could think clearly.
Damn. It must be really bad, he thought as he started to look around. Suddenly he saw something glinting in the waning sunlight. It was wedged into a tree trunk. Going closer to it, he saw what it really was. He stepped back in shock and tripped over a log.
Alex spun around and looked at Snake sitting on the floor.
"What is it?" he said.
"Tran-tran-…"
"Spit it out."
"Tranquilizer."
"Shit."
Alex walked quickly over to the dart and pulled it out. The insignia on it was expected but still left him breathless.
A silver scorpion…
Scorpia.
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