Ch 5
AN
Thanks to everybody go has review: yummypie193, Sierra (Guest), Echo
Yummypie193 - Thanks and Good luck decoding the message
Sierra (guest) - I was going for Alex to be a bit more mature after all the experience from his MI6 mission. To relate to the Police enthusiast, I try to explain this in the previous chapter but I will give more detail here. Alex after the last Scorpia confrontation moved with the Starbright to the USA, while living there he is acting as a spy and reporting it to the police any drug transaction. The cops were struggling with the huge amount imported and sold that any tips for the phone would have help. Later on, Alex saw that even though he called in anonymously there were many drugs pins that were getting away and decided to take a more active role. He continued working and he created a name for himself. But as you say the police do turn a blind eye and during prosecution, his involvement was not mentioned because it would make the case invalid.
Echo - Good job on decoding the message, I didn't expect someone to decode this early. The reason Fox condition is not written in the message is because Toymaker (Smither) doesn't want Alex to get upset and attack who ever injured Fox.
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Saturday
6:30am
If anybody walking out the police station decided to look up at the roof of the building across they would have noticed a scene of a figure crouched there facing the police station. More specifically the office in which the BAU had set up shop. That figure was Alex Rider, he had decided this Saturday morning to find more about the FBI that were in town.
Alex lay across the roof look across into the station's conference room that was full of files, whiteboards & evidence boxes. The files from the angle that Alex was observing made it hard to read but he was able to tell some were copies of each other. Turning to the boards he first observed that one was holding a map of the county with at least two different color pins with labels and string attach to them. Upon another board there were four picture of boys with blond hair and similar physical description as Alex, they were also athletic. With a flick of his finger on his scope, there was a click and the content of the board where capture on film. Look back to the "pin-up" map he -observed- that a couple of red pins were located near High schools which he had cough "worked" cough at to get rid of their drug epidemic. Alex look up from his binocular and mull over something Mr. Blunt has once stated "I don't believe in coincidence. Where some People see coincidence, I see conspiracy.*"
Alex thoughts where interrupted by the black, bulky car that just screamed government pulling up to the station. He lay low on his stomach to avoid detection, and observed the occupants of the car enter the station and saw them reappear through the window of the conference room, which he was previously observing. The first to enter was a tall, lanky young man that went directly to the board with the map. He was followed by a dark haired man with a serious face that showed a nonsense attitude ("must be the boss"), a brunet woman, and older black haired man with a goatee that went to the table with the files. The African-American agent, that he recognized as the one in the scene yesterday, went directly to the talk lanky man and handed him an evidence bag with a note. Alex zoomed in and upon a glance realized that it was a coded note, his coded note. "Damn it, I thought I left that at home. I need to do something to prevent them from decoding it. But then even if they decode it they won't understand the second layer of code."
He has broken away from his thoughts with the arrival of a blond woman, "must be one of them", that brought to them more files. Upon a closer inspect he could those where files of cases that the police had about his, mmm, "help" that he was involved with. He saw the blond pick up a yellow pin and place it at where he had done his first gig when he started to help the police. Feeling that he had seen enough, he place his binoculars in his bag and walk to the stair case.
"It's time to make another delivery"
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Pulling up early morning for another day on the case. It was getting to Morgan, there were no clues what happen to the victims after they are kidnapped and he was afraid of finding a mangled body. The only thing he knew is that the unsub targeted teenage boys from different high schools and there was nothing link the each victim to each other. "What was the driving force? Why does he specific target those boys? And why a different school each time? Does this devil character have anything to do with this?" Morgan though was as he walked to the entrance of the station. Morgan walked into the conference room seeing Reid was trying to decipher a patter from the board he remembers the note tuck away in his coat.
"Reid, how good are you with a code?"
"Fairly good, what do you have?"
By this point, most of the team was listening without looking at us. From my coat, I pull out the note still seal in the evidence bag.
"I found this yesterday and kept it as a hunch, I was hoping that you could decode it"
"Sure," Reid takes a look, "Morgan you are the best, this is quite a brain teaser I should have it by 24 hours or so."
"Only 24 hours?" look up Prentiss, giving up the pretense of not listening to their conversation.
"Yes, only 24 hours because it seems the code is a simple letter shift code and I will need only to find a single letter that repeats that could represent 'a' or 'I' and three letter word that repeats that could be 'the'. It's a pretty basic but tedious code."
"Thanks, pretty boy you're the best."
Reid unable to contain himself sat down to scrutinize the note. Hotch approach me while the rest of the team resume shifting through the files.
"Morgan, why have you keep the note? You could have violated some rules"
"Notch, I don't know how to explain it but I have a hunch that this Devil guy and the case could be related."
I pull out of the room with Hotch following.
"Look at what we were told, this guy has been operating in the area for some time and a couple of months later the kidnapping begin. There is also the description of the guys is very similar to the victim, what happen if the unsub is a dealer that was caught by this guy and looking for revenge"
"It quite a theory Morgan and one to take into consideration, we'll start by seeing if there are links between the two"
"HEY CHIEF WE HAVE A NOTE FROM DEVIL," came the voice of the lieutenant that was manning the reception desk. As one Hotch and Morgan moved to the lieutenant.
"Who deliver the note and where are they?" Hotch question.
"He over there he just walked about."
Looking at each other as one they began to rush to the entrance. Morgan turned to his right to see the guy. Without much incentive, both began to move to intercept the guy. From the distance between them Morgan could tell that the guy was a young male, could be a high schooled or a college student, was blond and athletic. Hotch and Morgan began to follow the kid. The kid turned into an alley where a bike was pulled out and the kid pedal out of the alley surprising Morgan and Hotch into a chase.
The kid pedal between pedestrians with no notable destination in mind but showing that he knew he was followed. The kid suddenly turned into the shopping center which was just opening up and the early shopper where starting to trickle in. The crowd in the square was light enough for the kid to move but also gave Morgan and Hotch a clear view. The kid kept on going without slowing down heading to the street which was filled with few car that early in the morning. Around the corner of the street, a large truck head toward the kid that was pedaling in the middle of the street. With horror, Morgan was sure that the kid would be hit, bases on the speed of the truck that didn't seem that would stop in time.
SCREECH. Echo in the atmosphere and Morgan and Hotch gave up subtlety and ran to where their suspect was last spotted. Once arriving at the spot only to find that a bag was drop in front of the truck and the kid on the bike was nowhere to be found.
"Hotch who ever this guy is his very good at disappearing and losing a tail," Morgan say.
Hotch just turned to Morgan, "Call Garcia and see if she can get an image of our boy from the station cameras or ones nearby"
With that Morgan turn around flipping open his phone calling Garcia. Hotch gave one more look around to see if their mystery guy was still around and he pulls out gloves out of his pocket to lift the bag from the street.
"Hotch, the kid had a similar description to the victims" Morgan began.
"Let get back to the station and look into the theory, let's start with a timeline on his work"
"Agent" came a shout behind them. "I follow by car but lost sight when he cross in front of the truck"
"No problem, could you get us back to the station"
"Nooo problem sir, but I was just radio that a body was called in"
"Has the rest of the team been notified?"
"Yes sir, they are heading there at the moment"
"Could you take us there?"
"Yes sir, just hope in"
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Walking to the station was easy but getting out with my identity intact was a challenge. And I like having a challenge once in a while. I knew that once the officer manning the front desk announced that a package from devil was delivered the two FBI officer nearby would be interested and question the messenger, moi. As soon as the officer open his mouth I quickly turn to the door and left. Walking toward the alley where my bike was stash I saw through the mirror of a parked car the two agents exiting the station and walking toward me. Without pausing I walk into the alley and mount my bike. I began to swerve between the early morning crowd and without missing a beat cross in front of an unsuspecting truck. I was home free, I had a good challenge is losing tail and ready heading to my next social call. \
I will have to admit, this chase could have led to them getting too close to get a face for recognition. Anything could have gone wrong and prevented me from making my own investigation of the missing students. I suspect that it could be related to my activities. I will need to keep an eye on the team and their investigation to see what evidence the find and close they are to connecting the case to me. Now I just need to concentration of biking toward my destination.
I pull up to the front door of the Hospital, Mercy General Hospital, when an ambulance speeds by toward the side entrance. I walked in and headed to the reception, "Hello how can I help"
"Hello, can you please direct to room 416, please"
"Sure just take a left down this hallway and take the elevator on your left. You should exit on the fourth floor and take a right, the room should be on left."
Once arriving at the front of the room, I take a deep breath and walk in. "Hi, Ben how you been doing?"
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So sorry to my follower, reviewers, and people who favor the story. I will try to update as much as I can but you know life happens. I will tell you that I'm in my third year of college and studying for the MCAT (Medical school entrance exam), so my time to write is kind of limited. Also, I kind of ran into a bit of Writer look for a couple of weeks since I last posted.
Also please review for my story they give me inspiration keep on writting my story
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*Direct quote from Point Blank, of the Alex Rider Series.
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