A/N: I have re-read this story and I absolutley HATE it! So, that means this is going to be the final chapter. Yeah, the final chapter. There will be no sequel! I have lost my will to finish this story, so please bear with me on this last chapter. I thank all of you for reviewing, favouriting, etc. this story even though it was awful. I promise I will do better in the future. I DO ACCEPT REQUESTS! With the way I am updating now, I may need more ideas for another story *hint hint*. Again, thank you all for reading this.

(Alex)

It has been two days since I woke up after literally falling through the floor. Jeremy entered the room and handed me a piece of paper. On the front, there were only a few words: 2 young 2 die, Hunter? I glanced at him and he smiled, "It's time for your challenge, Alex Rider."

I followed him down many hallways and stairs, eventually arriving to a room. Already, I could smell blood. Jeremy opened the door and pushed me inside. "Your challenge is to kill the person in this room. Only then will we accept you as Alex Rider." The door closed.

I looked at the person in the room. It was a boy, no older than me. He was sitting in a chair with an IV attached to his arm. Burns littered his body as well as stabwounds and other cuts. I walked over to the boy, fearing my suspicions were correct. "Tom?"

He looked up with dead eyes, "Alex? I knew you didn't die. What are you doing here?"

Could I tell him everything? I wondered and looked around for any cameras. I decided to tell him after not seeing any. "Okay, Tom. I'll tell you. Yassen saved me before the bomb actually exploded and we lived normally for a little while. When we heard this organization was growing, we came here." I stopped there. Could I really tell my friend that I was here in this room to kill him? "Tom, MI6 recruited you, didn't they?"

"They offered. I wasn't blackmailed. I wanted to see for myself if you were really alive and I wanted to get away from my parents... It was the best way I could think of. Alex, you have to get out of here, they're going to destroy everything." Tom stopped for a moment.

I was confused, "Destroy everything?"

Tom nodded, "Yeah. They have a large number of bombs around the entire world and even in the oceans. They're going to set them all off and it's going to kill everbody; innocent or agent, it doesn't matter."

"Don't they realize they'll die, too?" I asked.

He nodded again, "They're prepared to die in order to complete their mission. Now, Alex. Why are you in this room?"

I didn't say anything and held the piece of paper in my hand.

"You're here to kill me, right?" He asked.

"Tom, I can't kill you, okay? I'm not goi-" I was cut off.

"Alex, please, you have to kill me. Kill me, then find N-Unit and K-Unit. Please, do me this one last favor." Tom stated, "Only then can I be truly free from my parents, MI6, all of it..." Tom still held the dead look in his eyes.

I shook my head, "I can't kill you."

"I'm already dead, Alex." He replied.

I shook my head again, "Tom, do you know where the device for the bombs is?"

"Yeah," Tom nodded. "I can tell you wh-"

"No, you don't have to tell me." I walked over to the door and knocked on it, hoping somebody would open it. Luckily, a guard did. I punched him in the temple, knocking him out and looked around for others. There was nobody else. I looked back at Tom, "You're coming with me."

(Lion)

We still did not have orders to invade the building, which was a great annoyance. Our team member was in there, dead or alive, we didn't know. We could only hope for the best and expect the worst. Gunfire erupted from inside the building. I looked at Fly, "Notify headquarters, we need to know what to do from here."

(Tom)

I sat behind a large pillar with Alex at my side as bullets raced past us. Alex had a gun now (he grabbed it from a guard) and was shooting at anything that moved. The gunfire ceased for a few minutes, so Alex got up and looked around; there was no enemy to be seen. He walked back over to me and grabbed me by the arm and gently lifted me to my feet and wrapped me arm around his shoulders. There was a loud explosion and we both fell to the floor. Alex whirled around and started firing the gun toward the rafters, a body hit the ground seconds later. I looked over at Alex who had his hand pressed to the lower part of his back. Blood seeped through his fingers.

He looked at me, "I'll be fine. How much further?"

"Just around the corner." I stated.

Alex rose shakily to his feet. "I can do the rest."

"Not without me you're not." I replied and grinned. "We're in this together, right?"

My friend looked at me concerned, "You sure?"

I nodded, "Let's get this over with." I got up with Alex's help and we stumbled around the corner. Now, in front of us, was a large computer. There was a link on the screen that lead to the bomb's self-destruct. Alex walked over to it and I sat down in the floor. "Bad news, Tom." Alex stated, "I can disarm the other bombs, but there is one stationed here to blow up the building. I can set it to explode, but we wouldn't get out in time."

"So we're going to die if we make the other ones self-destruct, right?" I asked.

He nodded, "Looks like."

"Do it." I replied, then I saw something. "Give me that radio beside you."

(Fly)

We were all sitting there, waiting for something to happen. Finally, something did.

"Cheetah to N-Unit, over." A voice said over the radio.

We all scrambled to get to it, Cardinal got to it first, "Cheetah? Mission status."

"It's fine. Get everybody away from the area, though." Cheetah stated.

Lion grabbed the radio, "What are you planning? What's going on?"

"Just do as I say." Cheetah replied.

"No, Cheetah. What are you planning? Don't you dare say you're going to kill yourself for this mission." Lion replied.

Another voice came across the radio, "This is Cub of K-Unit. I'm ordering you, Lion, to get your unit as well as mine away from the area."

"Cub, don't you dare do anything stupid." Wolf's voice came across the radio.

"Wolf, you heard me. If you do not do as I say, you will be disregarding an MI6 operative's order, now do as I say." Cub replied. "We're giving you thirty minutes starting now."

Even when Lion and Wolf tried to talke to Cub and Cheetah, no answer came across the radio. We wanted to save our friends, but we knew it would be futile.

(Alex)

I sat down on the floor beside Tom, feeling the blood seep from the bullet wound in my back. It was getting harder to breathe and stay awake, but I was going to see what happened in the end. "How much time is left?" Tom eventually asked.

"You sound like a little kid on a long road trip." I laughed, "I don't know, I can't see too well right now."

Tom glanced over at me, "You know, I never thought something like this would happen."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

Tom shrugged, then winced in pain. "I don't know. I never thought we would end up on the same mission. I was afraid I would find you here, but I was terrified at the thought of killing you. How could I kill my best friend?"

"I asked myself the same question when I was ordered to kill you." I replied and rested my head against the desk. "You know, if you would have killed me, I would have haunted you for the rest of my afterlife? Any time you would get a girlfriend, I'd scare her away."

Tom laughed, "Please tell me you're joking. Well, I'd have to do the same to you."

We both laughed. It was strange considering we were about ready to die.

We shut up at the sound of a door being busted down. Alex grabbed the gun, but it shook in his hand; he would not be able to kill anybody if there were even within five feet of him. Eight men entered the room and I prepared myself to die right then.

Then I realized who the men were, "Lion, Cardinal, Dragon, Fly... what are you doing here?"

"Fine, don't even mention K-Unit." Eagle stated. "We came to get you two out of here. I figure we still have a few minutes to spare, right?"

Alex laughed, "Only a few. We told you to leave."

"Like we were going to listen to you, brat." Wolf replied. "Now, let's get out of here."

*Twelve Minutes Later*

The building exploded. A shockwave raged throughout the area. I looked back at the building then at my comrades. A look of relief covered their faces and a helicopter landed in an open area. We all got in the helicopter and Tom and I were sent to a hospital immediately. Finally, after hours inside the Critical Condition Unit, we were put in the same room with guards at the door. Even though the hospital policy forbade it, there were more than five people inside the room: N-Unit and K-Unit.

Tom and I were eventually released from the hospital and, after a lot of threatening from Lion, Wolf, the Prime Minister, and the President of the United States, Blunt left us alone. He had to of course because he was practically fired from his 'job'. As for Yassen, he never returned, so I figure he is dead. Tom and I are now twenty-two years old and work as SAS members. I am a member of K-Unit, he belongs in N-Unit. We have went on a few missions with each other, but none will ever be like the first one so many years ago. We survived the experiance along with many others, and, to me, that was all that mattered.

"Oi, Cub! Are you going to stand there all day daydreaming or are you coming?" Wolf yelled. Both N-Unit and K-Unit were waiting for me so we could arrive at the zipline on time. The two units were good friends now, even went on missions together, which was fine by me.

I smiled, "Stop being so impatient, Wolf! It makes you age faster and, believe me, you don't need to age anymore!"

"Cub! I'm going to kill you!" Wolf yelled.

I smiled again. Yep, the rest of my life was going to be interesting. I followed the two units. To other soldiers, it looked like one unit walking to the zipline. We were a force to be reckoned with; we were unstoppable... We were family.

The End