okay. i know i havent updated in a while, but its been frantic! anyway, i do hope you like this chapter. i think it includes something that is kinda expected but at the same time i hope that you enjoy reading it! i said to myself last week i would update all my stories in the next week but ive only done this one so im ashamed :( but oh well! hope you enjoy and dont forget that replies put a smile on my face! enjoy!

Meanwhile, upstairs Eagle dashed into Alex's room, only coming to a halt when he took in what he saw. 5 year old was smiling angelically, looking at him with the puppy brown eyes. In one hand was a green crayon, and in the other the box of 100crayola crayons.

And the walls. Damn. Well….

Snake was NOT going to be a happy bunny.

"Alex" Eagle choked out weakly, taking in the scene before his eyes. A rainbow of colours, scribbles, covered the bottom half of the wall, stopping from where Alex could no longer reach. And in the centre there was a gap, taken up by the drawing of a tractor. Admittedly it was a good tractor. The kid was really good at drawing it seemed, shame that it'll be wasted a voice said in the back of his mind. Shaking it away, he looked back at the grinning 5 year old.

"Do you like my picture?" the boy exclaimed, blinking with those big round brown eyes.

"Err" what was the man supposed to say? He wasn't sure whether Snake would think this was cute or whether he was gonna blow his top off. And Wolf…well Eagle was thankful that Alex was so adorable.

Alex's face fell, and his bottom lip wobbled dangerously. As in he might start crying.

"It's a very good picture Al, but you shouldn't really have used the wall should you?" Eagle asked, approaching him and crouching down to his height.

"B-but the paper wasn't big enough" he stuttered, his eyes glistened.

Eagle sighed. He really wasn't the man for this. "Hold on Al, don't do anymore colouring" he muttered, and dashed out the room.

He entered the lounge, and all pairs of eyes met his at once. "Hey guys" he said nervously.

"Eagle what is he doing?" Wolf growled dangerously.

Eagle let out a short, nervous bark of a laugh. "Ha! Why would you think anything was wrong?" oh damn, eagle thought to himself.

Before Eagle had a chance to do anything, the others had already jumped up and sprinted towards the kid. Eagle ran after them.

The K-unit, minus Eagle, all stared in shock at what was on the wall. From Wolf's point of view, he saw a mess of colours and a hell of a lot of painting over before it would be invisible. Fox was actually grinning in his amusement, remembering when his little brother had once done this, only on a more…minor scale. And Snake didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He wanted to laugh because it was so adorable in its own way, but at the same time he knew that Alex was only going to get naughtier during the time he had him.

Eagle burst through the door, eager to see what would happen.

"Alex wh-"Wolf started, but was cut off when Fox's work phone shrilly rang, cutting through the near silence. Automatically the adults tensed, the child sensing something was wrong.

He quickly grabbed it out his pocket and hit the accept button.

"Fox speaking"

The voice on the other side of the line spoke quickly, they couldn't hear from the low volume, but they could tell it wasn't good by the way that Fox's voice wavered slightly in the next sentence and a frown showed on his normally funny face.

"Yes sir" and with that he hit the end button, he looked up. "We need to get out of here; Scorpia's made a possible hit"

They burst into action. The unit had already had a talk about what they were going to do in an emergency procedure: Eagle was to get the weapons bag stored under Wolf's bed; Snake was to get Alex and the emergency bag on top of the boy's wardrobe. Fox was to get the car keys and getting the car ready to drive and Wolf was to stand guard and communicate with MI6.

"One minute guys" he commanded, and they all ran to do what they needed, all with guns out apart from Snake. Fox chucked the phone to Wolf, who then held it in a tight grasp and stood just out of the view of Alex with his gun. Snatching the bag from the top of the wardrobe, Snake scooped up Alex; who knew it was better to not argue, but he did grab his teddy from the floor as he was (rather roughly too!) snatched up. Snake ran from the room to the awaiting car, Wolf on his tail, meeting the others who had already got what they had needed and made their way out. They were the SAS. It was their speciality. Although each had had special possessions in that house, they needed to prioritize, and the super important stuff was on their person.

…

Wolf, the designated driver, pulled out of the drive, already speeding towards the location Fox was directing him too. Fox had the shotgun seat, and in the back they had moved Alex to the middle for safety. Eagle sat to the right with Snake to the right. Alex was tense, and wanted to cry. Snake sensed this.

"Alex? It's gonna be alright kiddo" he muttered softly, leaning over to try and look into his eyes, to try to see what he was thinking, even if he doubted that he would get through.

"Why?" he whined, and Snake sighed. He knew what had been coming; it was only to be expected from a 5 year old really.

"Some…some bad people want something…so we have to go…away for a bit…while some other people sort it out" Snake explained to the best of his ability, hoping Alex wouldn't understand, but his eyes told the real story. Alex understood the meaning of what was happening.

"Is it to do with the bank?" he asked softly, eyes slightly glazed, but Snake could tell he was thinking hard, and had just made a link between the two things.

"Not sure bud, just get some sleep, ok?" Snake asked, tucking the tucking dog on the floor under Alex's open arms. Alex nodded and closed his eyes. Minutes later his thumb was in his mouth and everyone knew that he was asleep.

"Status update?" Snake asked his now cold voice cutting through the tense atmosphere.

"Scorpia sent a death threat saying that they'd need to get the fire-fighters out to unbury our bodies from the rubble. Apparently it's Scorpia getting cocky." Fox replied.

"SO where are we going?" Eagle piped in, his voice serious.

"SO gave us a postcode, it's about 40 miles away from base, shouldn't take long as I'm driving at 100." Wolf once against replied, slight malice within his voice.

Outside it was getting darker, as autumn continued to develop and change to winter. Outside it was cold, but thankfully not raining; that was the last thing they needed. Outside the rest of the world continued as though nothing was wrong. Outside a group of men with big guns wanted to kill a 5 year old. Eagle tried to shake the thought from is head, and concentrated on the hum of the engine, on the cold gun in his hands. Sure, he had had dark thought before, who hadn't? But now, with his current job, well it had given him a new perspective really. Everyone had said he was naive, and before now he had laughed and argued back like the child he was most of the time. And now he was starting to see that maybe, just maybe, they were right. Never before had he thought that Scorpia would take time and money and effort for revenge on the last of a family who had shown them up. Thinking about it now, he realised just how naïve he really was. Wow.

They'd been driving for roughly 30 minutes, and there had been no nothing. No shooting, no communication from MI6, no stirring from the sleeping child. In fact, there was a sort of eerie silence, apart from the ever going hum of the engine and the wind whistling just outside the metallic skeleton protecting them from it.

The last instruction Fox had given was follow the road round for 20 miles, so Snake assumed that they couldn't be far when Fox said "take the next left." In a quiet yet clear voice. Soon after, the car lurched to the left, and Alex shifted slightly.

"Wolf, drive gently mate. The last thing we want is him to wake up" Snake said in a low voice. Wolf merely grunted his reply. In Fox's hand now was a GPS, and from where Eagle was sitting he could see a moving blue light; one that was obvious be them. something that bothered both and him and made Fox curse, was the 4 fast approaching red dots on the screen, obviously not good from the way Fox practically shouted:

"Wolf, speed the hell up. 4 fast approaching and back-ups minutes away" the car sped up considerably sped up. Then he turned to Eagle and said "get the guns out dude, this could get nasty."

Snake prayed, not to God; he didn't believe in that, but to luck. Luck that this wouldn't get nasty.

To be honest, he had a very bad feeling.