Alex Rider: Moving On
We go back to Joe Byrne and Mrs. Jones. We get to see them go into detail about Alex Rider and about the road that he is heading down.
Here is chapter twenty-one! Enjoy!
Chapter Twenty-One:
Past Sins
Joe Byrne and Mrs. Jones talked in the small office of the CIA outpost in Las Vegas. Joe was more than ready to get out of Sin City. He wanted to go back to Langley.
"You shouldn't have called Alex in!" Mrs. Jones raised her voice. "I made it clear that once the mission at the casino was done, he was to be left alone! But I end up finding out that you used him for a mission, involving Area 51 and that terrible weapon, Pandora!"
Joe stared at her with his hands folded. He nodded as if he was agreeing with her words, which he didn't.
"The agency felt that Alex was capable of handling the job," he responded. "I tried to..."
"Don't tell me that you tried to tell them not to, Joe!" Mrs. Jones was yelling now. "I know that you decided to use Alex without the knowledge of the CIA! In fact, my contacts tell me that the agency doesn't know about Alex working for you!"
Joe didn't protest. He just nodded.
Mrs. Jones continued.
"We can't let Alex fall into our world! He deserves more than this! Out of everyone in this building, he is the one who should take a chance to live a normal life! I swear Joe, this is final time that Alex does many more missions! The whole thing with Scorpia in Cairo should have been the end of it! I can't believe that I allowed him to be used all those years ago!"
Joe stared at her. He didn't agrue with her words and remained firm.
One of the many things that Joe knew about Mrs. Jones was that she once had two kids, but they were taken. No one ever knew the rest of the details, besides Smithers and Alan Blunt. It still remains to be mystery if her children were dead or alive.
"Tell me, Mrs. Jones, do you consider Alex as a son?" his tone of voice made it sound like a statement.
Mrs. Jones's face was turning red. But she somehow controlled her anger.
"I consider him a lost teenager who has been through enough," she said.
Joe raised his arms up in defense.
"We need to get back to the point here," Joe finally changed the subject. "Chimera has the Pandora bombs and God-knows what they plan to do with them. Alex, Smithers, and Lily are our only agents capable of getting them back. Let's hope that they can achive their mission before things get out of hand."
Mrs. Jones nodded in agreement.
"What do we know about the commander? This Issac Cole?" she asked.
Joe shrugged.
"Nothing much. Like I said before, his parents are unknown. His birth place was in Paris and he was brought to the United States after he was adapted at the age of fifteen. It wasn't long until he went to the Marines at the age of seventeen. He later joined the CIA at the age of nineteen, but his job only lasted a year. He was turned by Chimera and brought into their ranks. Other than that... I don't know. It is like he was able to keep off the grid from birth to now."
"There has to be more," Mrs. Jones leaned forward in her seat. "We need a team to research as much they can get about him. Starting in Paris. If we can find out who is mother or father is then we can get more information on him."
Joe nodded and said, "I'll have my team back in Langley get right on it."
"Good. I'll make sure that MI6 will be helping out. I just hope that we can end this before our past sins cause more damage."
Joe frowned at her choice of words.
"What do you mean by "past sins"?"
"We created the Pandora weapon, Joe. It's our fault that thing even exists in the first place. We should have destroyed it a long time ago. If I was in charge of MI6 and not Blunt, then I would have made the vote to have it gone from this Earth. We are at fault for a lot of things. Now they are resurfacing to cause destruction."
Joe looked to the desk and back up at her. He had always hated bringing up the past. He perferred to leave it be, make things a lot easier.
"I guess the past doesn't hold much relief for us, does it?" he said.
"No, no it doesn't. Not for people like us. That is why I want Alex to move on with his life. I want him to be able to live the rest of his days without regret. I know it is what his parents would want."
Suddenly, the front door swang open and a woman ran into the office.
"Somethings happened!" she said.
Joe and Mrs. Jones rose from their chairs and rushed out of the room.
I wonder what happened. Guess we have to wait and find out later.
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