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K-Unit was quiet. As soon as Alex had hissed the word Scorpia, Snake, being the most sensible of the group, had radioed the situation in back to headquarters. All the units had been ordered back too their barracks. Cat remembered Alex's murderous face from his push up position on the ground. Alex had turned around and sprinted back towards camp before Snake had even finished explaining the situation to the sergeant. By the time the rest of the Unit got back he was already gone, along with Shelley's car. Not for the first time Alex Rider was gone without a word. The unit just hoped he would eventually come back, and if they were lucky, without a coffin.


Alex had stopped at their new house for only two minutes to change cars since Shelley's was out of gas. Then he had made his way to Royal and General Bank. But as soon as he was done yelling at Blunt and Jones and gotten the information he would need, he was back in his car driving towards the house. He needed his gadgets and a disguise and then he would be in a helicopter to the one place in his memory he hated more than anywhere else in the world.

Malogosto.

Alex screeched into the garage. Quickly he was out of the car and in his room. He walked into his room, almost an exact replica of Shelley's other than the men's clothes in the closet and the blue paint.

he was walking to his closet when suddenly the doorbell rang.

What the hell? No one knows this address but MI6. And they'd just storm their way in.

Instead of opening the door he made his way over to the bank of computers in his closet. The security cameras were hooked up to it and showed four familiar looking men standing outside. As soon as Alex saw the backs of the heads of K-Unit, he was at the door, wrenching it open.

"inside. Quick." That was all he said.

But instead of coming inside a small whirring was heard and Alex was slumping to the floor.


Snake felt guilty about shooting Alex with the serum and he had no doubt that he would be pissed when he woke up. But he needed to sleep before he was going anywhere as dangerous as where Blunt had told them he was going to go. He had asked the sergeant to send the unit in as back up almost as soon as Alex had left his office.

Mrs. Jones had been the one to suggest making him sleep. Obviously, since its not like Blunt cared about him as long as both of his best agents were back.

And once he had seen Alex, Snake had agreed to making the boy sleep. Spy or not, you need to sleep. And after what Alex had been through in the last couple of hours, he probably needed it more than anyone else.

He was jolted out of his thought as Wolf began to give orders.

"Cat and Snake, take him to his room. Actually maybe you should take him to Shelley's room. It should be whichever one is messy as hell. That girl is one of the biggest slobs I have ever met."

Nobody laughed though they would have any other time.