Alex sat down, with a frown on his face. He hadn't wanted to come to MI6 but as usual, they had forced him to 'hear them out' which usually meant that he was going on another life threatening mission. He could easily have escaped Crawley the guns and the guards, but he had to know about to know about Sabina.
"So Alex," began Mrs. Jones. "I take that you've moved back to London permanently?" Alex glared at her and said icily, "Cut to the chase. I'm not interested in your pleasantries." Blunt raised an eyebrow and said, "Fine. You want to know what's going on? I'll tell you what's going on. Sabina Pleasure has been kidnapped by a group of old friends. And if you don't go in, they'll kill her."
Alex's breath caught in his throat. "What did you say," he whispered. Blunt repeated the words in an emotionless voice. Alex clenched his fist and said, "How do I know that you're telling me the truth? For all I know, this could be some cheap trick to get me to work for you'll and spy on these 'old friends' that you speak of." Blunt smiled wryly.
Mrs. Jones said quietly, "Actually, that in itself will make you believe us." Alex snarled, "Just spill it!" Blunt closed his eyes. "Scorpia."
Alex nearly fainted. When he recovered, he bellowed, "SCORPIA?!" Blunt glared at him and said, "If you calm down and maintain your dignity, I can tell you a bit of a story."
Alex sat down, bristling and said, "What is it?"
"What I am telling you now will not leave this room. Is that understood?"
"When you were sent in to investigate Scorpia, you weren't trusted at all. As you know they even planned to kill you at the end of the Invisible Sword. Anyway when they found out that you were working for us, they tried to kill you. Fortunately for us, you escaped. Also, one of the nine main people working in Scorpia, Julia Rothman was thought to be dead. One of our agents even saw the metal from the hot air balloon fall on her." Blunt paused and Mrs. Jones took over. "She survived. No one knows how, as you can guess, she wouldn't have been taken to a hospital, because the government would have known she was from Scorpia and that would be the end. Strangely enough, she did go a to a hospital, and was treated. When the authorities found out that she was on the wrong side, it was too late. She was gone. Apparently a person in the hospital covered her. He was paid about twenty thousand U.S. dollars. Apparently the money didn't reach him. He was killed. Scorpia were afraid that he would squeak."
"Any vague ideas on how she survived?" asked Alex.
Blunt shook his head. "Not much."
"Alright" said Alex. "How does this have anything to do with Sabina?"
"We're getting there. As you know, Scorpia are lunatics. They always do things for money. You've seen to what lengths they would go to so that they could do the job properly. So you can imagine what it's going to be like when things get personal. From what are sources say, nearly every Scorpia agent has been pulled of their normal jobs, and Rothman has ordered everyone in her division to work towards capturing you. Normally they would have killed you on the spot. But not this time. Rothman wants her revenge on you."
They were silent for a few minutes. Then Mrs. Jones spoke up. "There's something else you should know Alex." The teenager raised an eyebrow. "Do you remember Nile?" Alex nodded. "Of course." He wouldn't exactly forget that black and white man.
"I don't know about you, but it seemed strange to us that a man with no history of crime could get himself landed in the middle of the world's largest terrorist organization. We looked into it. And we found out a terrible piece of information."
"What was it?"
Blunt said, "Contrary to popular belief, Scorpia wasn't founded by a group of twelve members. In fact, it was thirteen. The last one was always hiding behind the scenes, coming up with the master plans. He was an undefeatable strategist, and a ruthless fighter. He was known to have been able to use a group of four men to defeat the entire security force in a highly secure government building. But that's besides the point. No one knows his name, but we do know one thing."
"What?"
"He was Nile's father."
Alex gasped. He spluttered, "N-nile's f-fath-father?!" Blunt nodded quietly. "He was a very hard man, and cared about nothing except his son and wife. He lost his wife when Nile was born. And now that the only person he cares about is gone, I'm sure you can guess that he's after the responsible person's blood."
"Great," thought Alex. Life couldn't get any better, could it? Two crazy terrorists were baying for his blood, and now he had to go in to rescue the girl he cared about, armed with nothing but a few gadgets developed by a fat man in a toyshop?
He was about to get up, when a voice behind him said coldly, "Please stop right there, young sir, or I will be forced to blow your brains out."
There's Chapter 2. Kind of short I know but it gets interesting in the next chapter. I guess that you'll don't know whom it is that is about to blow Alex's brains out. Let's say he's an old friend. Review and I'll update. REVIEWS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!