Alex Rider: Moving On

Alex Rider is infiltrating the most secure military base in the United States and is about to meet up the villians of this story. Pandora will be seen in this chapter and its own power will be (sort of) revealed.

Enjoy this chapter! It may be my gruesome yet!

Chapter Eleven:

Loose Ends

Dmitri watches as they drove through the tunnel. It seems to spread on for miles and miles underground. A tunnel without an end.

Soon enough, they finally reached their destination and parked all the cars, including the semi. Dmitri wanted to get this over and done with fast. No distractions or interferences.

They followed Jason from the cars and to a glass door that slide open for them.

"Did you disable the camera footages?" Dmitri asks.

Jason nods. "Yes. Nobody will notice what we are about to do. It will be like almost it never happened."

Dmitri smiles.

Good! he told himself.

They followed Jason on through some hallways.

Suddenly, a group of security guards came around the corner. They became startled by the sight of the Chimera soldiers.

Jason raises his left hand to ease them.

"They're with me," he said. "Protocol search. My orders."

Dmitri rolls his eyes and takes out his handgun. He fires at both of the soldiers.

Jason falls to the floor and lets out a girly scream. He backs up against the wall.

"What the hell?!" he chokes up. "What did you do that for?!"

Dmitri shrugs and smiles.

"Loose ends," he said. "Definitly don't want those."

Jason, slowly, got up and looked away from the dead corps. Then he led the group towards the lab ahead of them.

Alex arrived at the outpost. He activated the camouflage suit and put the eye-contacts on his eyes. He uses his eyes to switch to x-ray vision and takes a look around. To his surprise, there is no one there.

"Lily?" he speaks into the micro-phone.

"Alex? You alright?" Lily's voice is filled with concern.

"Yeah, I'm alright, but we got a problem."

Then... he noticed the dead bodies on the ground. He looked away in disgust.

"Alex? What is it? What do mean something is wrong?"

"They're dead, Lily!" Alex nearly said too loudly.

"W-H-A-T?! Who?! Whose dead?!"

"The guards."

Alex switches the x-ray vision off and rests for the moment.

"Who killed the guards?" Lily asks.

Alex shakes his head and says, "I don't know. But I fear that we may not be the only ones who are after Jason."

Alex could hear Lily gasp in the background.

"Alex, you must get to him first. What ever the CIA wants from him, it most be important."

"I know."

Alex stands up and begins to run forward.

"I'm going in."

He runs past the gates and past the bodies. He enters the entrance of the underground tunnel and begins a long run forward.

Jason leads Dmitri and his men into the labortary.

Unforunately, they weren't the only ones who were inside. A few scientists were doing their job around the huge lab. They look their way and fear fills up in their eyes.

Jason moves forward.

"Don't worry," he tried to calm them down. "This is just a-"

Suddenly, Dmitri nods to his men and they take aim with their machine guns. They begin to fire on the scientists.

Jason screams and throws himself on the floor for cover.

Dmitri smiles as he sees every single scientist drop dead on the floor.

After the soldiers lower their guns, Jason rises and forward towards Dmitri. He points his finger at him and yells. "WHAT WAS THAT?! IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY!"

Dmitri shook his head and took off his sunglasses.

"They are loose ends. They needed to be taken care of."

Jason chuckles and says, "I want an extra million! You just made things more difficult for me! How am I supposed to explain this to them?!"

Dmitri smiles again and he quickly reaches out towards Jason's arm. He grabs it and twists it around.

A loud snap is heard. Jason lets out a cry of pain and falls to the floor. His arm was broken.

"You, Jason, are a loose end. A loose end that must be dealt with. You have failed to make sure that the scientists were not in the lab when we arrived and you didn't make sure that the guards were away from this sector. You have failed to live up to your promise. Now..." he bends down and punches Jason in the face, knocking him out cold. "... Now you must die for that failure."

Dmitri rose up and looked at his men. Then he looked over at the biochemical weapons around the lab. The ones that read: Pandora.

"Load them onto the truck," Dmitri ordered. "But leave one. I want to see what kind of power that this weapon has."

The men nod and immediatly get to work.

Alex was breathing heavy as he ran through the tunnel.

How long is this place? he asked himself.

"You sound like a dying dog," Lily teases him. "In fact... it actually sounds kind of sexy, coming from you."

Alex smiles. He loves this girl's sense of humor.

"How about you come and try to run five miles across a long tunnel of never-ending," he said back.

Lily laughs.

Soon enough, Alex finally came to the end of the tunnel and stopped to catch his breath. After a few minutes he walks on.

ALex suddenly hears some voices across from him. Coming from the semi. He switches on the x-ray vision and sees a large number of guns, loading some stuff onto the semi. Activating the camouflage suit, Alex disappears from sight. He silently walks closer towards them.

"Hurry up!" yells a man. "We don't have much time! We don't want to miss the testing of this baby! Dmitri is giving us a front row seat to this thing!"

Alex ignores him and manages to pass the men as they load the large, unknown, bombs on board. Then... he noticed the name.

Pandora.

Remembering back to the mission in Las Vegas, Alex remembered the file he had taken a look at.

Project: Pandora.

Was this what the file meant? Was this what the CIA wanted to keep hidden? What was Pandora? Chemical? Alien? Toxic? Virus? Wouldn't be the first time!

Alex forgot about the bombs and moved into the door way, nearly bumping into a guy on the way in.

Thank God for camouflage suits! Alex thought.

Alex continued on. Heading towards the labortary ahead. That was when he saw Jason Castro, his target. But... he was being held captive.

"Lily?" he whispered.

"Yeah," she responded.

"I'm too late. They already got to him first."

Jason saw glimpses of light around him as he came to.

Then he realized that he was trapped in a testing glass tube. It was designed to hold all kinds of animals. So that the scientists could experiment.

Jason got up and saw Dmitri standing on the otherside of the glass. He was smiling at him. An evil smile.

Jason ran forward and rams against the glass.

"Let me out!" he roars. "We had a deal!"

Dmitri holds out his hands and says, "Don't look at me like that. You should have known this was going to happen. We need to cut all loose ends. Including you."

"Please!" Jason began to cry. "I don't want to die!"

"Of course you don't. Who doesn't? But, we all have to die some day. Today just happened to be yours."

"They'll... they'll... they'll stop you!" Jason warned. "The CIA, NSA, or even the FBI will find out what you have done here!"

Dmitri laughed.

"Do you have any idea how powerful we are?!" he asks. "No one can stop us. We have been planning this for over a year and we finally have the means of doing what we want to do. This country is going to die. Die a horrible death. And if we are lucky... the whole world just might go with it."

"Your crazy!" Jason yells.

"Maybe I am," Dmitri says. "But it isn't stopping me." He turns to one of his men right by the control pannels. "Do it."

The guard nods and presses a button.

From the events came a dark, green mist. It began to spread across every corner of the glass tube.

"NO!" Jason yells.

Suddenly, Jason feels something inside of him. It was painful and it was spreading across his body. Then he came to realize that his insides were burning up. Literally!

Blood came out of Jason's mouth, eyes, ears, and even from his skin. He collapsed on the floor and began to bleed out to death.

But that wasn't the worst part.

His skin turned black and started to fade away. It looked like he was aging all the way to a hundred.

His bones began to break. All of them.

The pain went on for a few more seconds and Jason slowly closed his eyes and died.

Alex watched all of it in horror. He couldn't breath. Couldn't move. Or even speak.

"Alex?!" Lily's voice became worried. "Alex, what is happening? Is Jason dead?"

Oh yeah, he's dead alright! Alex thought to himself. Totally dead!

"ALEX!" Lily roars.

Alex could have sworn he had blown our an ear drum from that yell.

"Lily... he's dead..." Alex barely said.

Suddenly, Alex is shoved forward. He watched as the camouflage suit was forced to return to its ordinary settings.

"What the... What are you doing here?!" came an angry voice from behind.

Alex came to realize that one of the men had backed into him by accident.

The man grabbed Alex by the suit and lifted him up into the air.

Alex took notice of the guy and saw that he was pretty big.

"Great!" he complained. "Just when Andre the Giant couldn't stay dead!"

The man's face got angry and yelled out towards the others. "Hey guys!"

Everyone looks their way.

"We got ourselves a spy!"

Cliffhanger! Sorry, I just had to do that! Things will get more exciting for the next chapter!

Review on how you thought of it! Did you like the effects of the Pandora chemical bomb?