Alex Rider: Moving On
Get ready for a speed chase in this chapter! It should get things going for the next several chapter ahead of this one! Hopefully.
Enjoy! This is going to be a wild ride!
Chapter Twelve:
Speed Chase
Alex was in HUGE trouble!
"Alex? What's happening?!" Lily was freaking out now.
One of the men walked forward. He had to be the leader of this group of pyscho killers.
"Who are you?" the man asks.
Alex remains quiet and just stares at the man.
The giant fella, who was holding Alex, punched him in the stomach. "Hey! He's talking to you!"
Alex groaned in pain.
"ALEX!" Lily screamed in horror over the micro-phone.
"I'm going to ask again," the man repeated, "who are you?"
Alex laughed.
"I'm the guy whose going to kill you!" he said.
The man's face lit up red. He lashes a punch at Alex's face and did it again and again.
Alex could no longer feel the pain. He was used to it now.
"WHO ARE YOU?!" the man yells. "Does the government send teenagers to do their dirty work now?!"
ALex laughes again and says, "You want to know who I am? Okay, then let me tell you! My name is Alex Rider! I've been an orphan since I was a baby! I am a teenage spy! I have destroyed the organization known as Scorpia! I have saved the world more times than you know! And I suggest that you let me go! Or else!"
The man chuckles. So does the rest of the men.
"Or what?" the man mocks.
Alex smiles.
"This!" he brought up his foot and rammed it into the big guy's groin. Judging from what Lily told him about the shoes being able to go through walls, the man was going to have bathroom problems for the rest of his life.
Alex fell to the floor and re-activates the camouflage suit and disappears from sight.
"Where did he go?!" one of the men shout.
Alex moves forward and dives behind a counter. He took out his gun and aims towards the lights above him. He fires countless times and the room went dark.
Suddenly, the alarm system goes off. Red lights start flashing everywhere.
"Lets get out of here!" one of the men yells.
Alex heard them leaving the lab.
"Alex?! Please don't tell me that your dead!" Lily spoke.
Alex smiles and says, "Not yet I ain't." He activates the night vision on his eye-contacts and pops up from counter. He aims and searches his surroundings.
They're gone! his mind yells. Get after them!
Without thinking, Alex runs forward and heads down the hallway. When he arrives at the tunnel he sees the four sedans and the semi pulling away.
"Lily! The group that has killed Jason are getting away and they have bombs on a semi!" he nearly yells.
"Well, then get after them!" Lily says. "You're the famous Alex Rider! You do the impossible!"
Alex smiles and looks over at the jeep that was sitting across from him. An idea hit his head. He rushed forward and hopped into the driver's seat. He saw the keys in the igniton and twisted them forward. The jeep came to life and Alex switched the gears from Park to Drive.
"Stop right there!" came a pair of voices from behind him.
Alex turns to see some military soldiers running for him. He turns back around and floors the gas pedal.
The jeep takes off with a rush and goes forward.
Alex hears gunfire and ducks under the wheel for cover. Once he knew it was safe, he came up and pressed down on the gas pedal again. The jeep got faster and faster.
"Alex, where are you?" asks Lily.
"I'm heading out of the tunnel!" Alex said. "I'm in pursue of those men! I have to stop them from making off with those bombs!"
"I'm on the way to provide air support! Just keep up with them!" Alex could hear the helicopter engines from the background.
Alex drove out of the entrance to the tunnel and saw the vehicles right ahead of him. This was going to be a speed chase! Alex has never had one of those before!
Flooring the gas pedal some more Alex started to get closer to the running cars.
As he got near them, Alex notices the sedan in the very back slowing down.
They're coming to finish you off! Alex realizes.
Alex takes out his gun and readies it with one hand, while the other is on the stearing wheel. He fires off one bullet at the sedan, but it bounces off.
The car is bulletproof, Alex tells himself. Aim for the tires!
Leaning up, Alex fires three bullets but misses.
Suddenly, bullets come flying his way. He looks up to see men leaning out the windows with machine guns. Taking cover behind the wheel, Alex activates the x-ray vision on eye-contacts and is able to steer without being in the way of the bullets. When he sees that the men were reloading, Alex pops up and fires again. He hits the sedan's front tires and it goes spinning off the road and starts rolling into the darkness of the desert.
Ouch! Alex couldn't help but smile.
He continued on and was able to catch up with the second sedan.
This time... he knew what to do.
Once the men popped from the windows, Alex dives under the wheel and uses the x-ray vision as his guide.
But the bullets were now damaging his engine. The jeep couldn't take no more. He needs to get rid of these guys and take out the semi.
Taking his chance, Alex leans up and fires at the wheels of the sedan. But as he fires his weapon, a man leans out the window of the car and fires. Two bullets catch Alex in the stomach and almost send him back into the seat.
The black suit is able to stop the bullets from entering his skin but the pain was another story.
Ingoring the pain, Alex fired again and catch the tires of the sedan. It too flipped out of control and went rolling on the highway. Alex had to stop in order to avoid impact.
"NOOOOO!" he roars and hits the wheel. They were getting away.
Alex watches as the sedan came to a stop on the side of the road. On his side and leaning up towards the sky. He also watched as the semi and the other two sedans got further away.
Furious, Alex got out of the jeep and aims his gun towards the beatup sedan. He walks forward.
A man punches through the wind-shield of the sedan and rolls onto the road. He gets up and walks forward, with a gun in his hand. He aims for Alex.
Alex fires first and hits the man in the heart. He falls backwards and hits the ground. Alex rushes forward and kicks the gun away from him. He brings his knee down on his wound and aims his weapon at the man's head.
"Who are you?" Alex asks.
The man groans in pain from the weight of Alex's knee and then begins to laugh.
"You cannot stop us," he says. "You cannot stop Chimera. We are far too strong. You and your government have never faced us before."
"I've stopped many people who have said the very same thing. You and this Chimera organization are no different."
The man laughs again. "But our leader... believes... in his own cause... and so... do we..." He was beginning to die.
Alex suddenly got angry and shouted. "Don't die on me! Don't! I'm not done with you! What are you planning?! Who leads Chimera?!"
The man's eyes started to roll up his head.
He said his final words.
"Reckoning is coming!"
The very words made the world feel dark and scary. It was like some evil was predicting its own victory.
Alex watched as he shut his eye lids. Even from his own knee, Alex could feel his heart stopping.
Standing up, Alex heard the helicopter coming and landing on the ground.
"Alex!" came the voice of Lily over the micro-phone. "We need to go!"
Alex ran forward and didn't waste time as he got onto the helicopter. While flying for Las Vegas, Alex Rider replayed the words from the man again and again.
Chimera!
Too Strong!
Reckoning is coming!
Alex didn't know who Chimera was or what the man meant by "Reckoning". Some part of him didn't want to find out either.
But Alex did know one thing for certain: A new enemy has risen!
I got goose bumps for that last part! Sure hope that you loved it! More will be explained about Pandora and Chimera in later chapters. We will get them next time.
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