Under my Feet
Author's Note: Based on a single line in a song by the Moody Blues and happens some time before the prologue of Goldeneye.
Disclaimer: Yadda, yadda, yadda – not mine, never was, never will be
Under my feet, the Earth gave way…
"Tell me, 006, do you ever come back with your equipment intact?" Alec Trevelyan shrugged. The truth was that he had fully intended for this operation to go without a hitch. It was supposed to be a simple mission – get in, destroy some machinery, and kill anyone connected with it. He had not, however, been counting on an earthquake in the middle of the operation – the earth had given an almighty shudder, like a dog trying to shake off after getting wet, and then he had been falling, only landing on his equipment in a garbage dumpster by the grace of whatever deity was looking after him, and so….
"Er… No?"