Scorpia hadn't assigned guards to the cathedral, and Alex knew why. They had nowhere to run. The cathedral in itself didn't matter. It was only the place where Kurst would be able to address them all. The entire country was under lockdown. As the terrified Croatians milled around the cathedral, Alex, Alexandra, K unit, Ben and Yassen were able to slip out and find a way back to the lab.
"So," said Wolf as they sat down on the concrete blocks. "We have twelve hours to live, huh?"
"We'll find a way out."
They sat in silence for a bit.
"Just out of curiosity," said Alexandra. "I think we should open the cases. I mean, we were going to when we were captured."
"Yes…" said Yassen slowly. "But we already know that there are humans in here, correct? I mean, we saw the SatInt images."
"But don't you want to see if they're really in there?" Alexandra persisted. Alex looked at his sister.
"Let's open them anyway. I want to see what's inside."
"It'll take a lot of work," warned Eagle. "Those lids look freakin' heavy."
"Do the SAS men doubt their own buffness?" Alex mock-gasped.
They took off the lid of the one Alexandra was sitting on.
A brown haired man was revealed, of a build extremely similar to Yassen's. The eyes were closed and the whole body was frozen in a block of ice, an oxygen mask over the nose and mouth. Alex again got the feeling of walking into a science-fiction movie. As Alex scraped some of the frost away from the top of the ice block, he noticed the man was wearing a slightly looser variation of the Scorpia
ninja uniform, but without the silver pin at the throat. Then he noticed that Yassen, standing beside him, was as frozen as the body in the concrete case. A worried glance flashed at the older spy revealed that the blue eyes were wide with shock, a condition they were not often in. "Yass?" Alex said tentatively. "What's wrong?"
By now the others had noticed as well.
Yassen was in no condition to answer.
Blunt and Jones, meanwhile, had a distraught Jack Starbright sitting in front of them. "So, Miss Starbright, we don't know exactly what's happened in Zagreb, but as the MI6 aircrafts couldn't get into Croatian airspace, we conclude that Scorpia have managed to capture the Riders and the others and lock down the country."
"Why did you send them there anyway?" growled Jack. "Couldn't you have sent another agent?"
"The team we sent work together more efficiently than many of our other agents, Miss Starbright. There wasn't meant to be any danger," said Blunt smoothly.
"There wasn't meant to be," Jack almost shrieked, "But there is anyway! Now Alex and Alexandra have probably gone MIA because of you and taken K unit, Ben and Yassen along with them! Are you so heartless you'll condemn two fourteen year olds to death and not bat an eyelid over it? You sick son of a –"
"Miss Starbright, control yourself, please," interjected Mrs. Jones. Privately, she knew what the American was going through. She closed her eyes, and the faces of her lost children flashed before her.
I'm sorry this was so short, but I'm doing this quickly cuz I'm going to Canada for Christmas to visit relatives and we're in a flurry of packing. Plus we've got to put up the tree here because my dad's staying behind for work. We leave on the 18th of December so if I can update between then and now I will. When we go I won't be able to update for about a month because we'll be staying at my grandparents and they won't have wifi because they're not too technologically advanced. Anyhoo, if I can update before I go, I will, but if I can't, leave a review for me to see when I get back! :)