Alex Rider: Moving On

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Alex and Smithers finally meet up with Chimera, including Dmitri. They must stop them from causing a virus to infect the entire system. Can they do it?

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Chapter Twenty Four:

All Hell Breaks Loose

Dmitri smiled as he watched the final countdown reach its final two minutes.

Get ready for hell! Dmitri said to himself.

He turned towards his men and smiled at them.

"We're almost there!" he told them.

All of the men shouted in victory, excited for their mission to be almost done.

Dmitri turned back towards the timer and said silently, "From here on out... all hell breaks loose."

Alex and Mr. Smithers reached the bottom of stairs that led directly to level eight.

"Lily!" Alex spoke into his mirco-phone.

"At your service!" Lily teased.

"Where would Chimera be to access the servers?"

"Most likely on the seventh floor."

Alex and Smithers used the next emergence stairs to climb down to the next nevel.

For once, Alex was actually enjoying this. He was teaming up with Smithers. Not just any Smithers, but the real Smithers. The one person who was truely his friend when he worked with MI6. He still remembered the time when he helped him out with the whole ordeal with Damian Cray. Despite that Smithers had lied about his appearence as a fat man, Alex didn't mind. He loved the real side of him. The thin and specially trained Smithers, not the fat and gadget designer that he once knew before. He couldn't wait to see what he had in store for field work.

"You ready for this?!" Smithers asked.

Alex raised an eyebrow as they came to the door of level seven.

"Me? What about you?" he teased.

Smithers shrugged and said, "I've done this plenty of times, kid. Nothing I haven't seen before."

Alex nodded.

They readied their handguns and breathed slowly. Time itself slowed down for them.

Smithers reached across with his right hand and turned the doornob. He slowly pushed open the door and went on in. Alex followed from behind and checked his surroundings.

They could hear laughter coming from the otherside of the room.

Smithers signaled Alex and moved forward, passing the computer servers along the way. Alex did the same on the otherside. They held their guns in a professional way and continued to move slowly ahead.

This reminded Alex of the time he trained with SAS back in the Great Britain at the Brecon Beacons. He went through his training with a squad of older men. He remembered the harsh treatment they gave him, all because he was a teenager. But now he was happy about it. It made him more aware of his surroundings and it helped him learn how to do things on his own.

He also remembered old pals from the squad, Wolf and Fox. He hasn't seen them in a long while. He last saw Wolf on the mission with the "Point Blanc" case, but he has kept in touch with him with postcards. Fox, he hadn't seen him since the mission with "Snakehead", still hasn't heard from him since. But Alex hopes to meet up with them in a few more years. Have a little reunion with his pals, maybe even have Tom and Smithers along for it.

Alex could hear the conversation going on as he got closer. He put his back against the server machines and swallowed. He looked over and saw Smithers. They nodded to each other and studied what was in front of them.

Alex saw at least ten men, each with a machine gun. Then he noticed the man near the server that was plugged up with cords. He recongized him from Area 51. The same man who tortured him for information. He could feel his anger rising. He wanted payback against this man.

Alex whispered into his micro-phone.

"What do we do?"

Smithers smiled and responded, "I'm going to try out my Light EMP."

"Light EMP?" Alex asked in confusion.

Smithers took out a small round ball from his pocket.

"I've been working on this for months. It has the ability to turn off lights without hurting other equipment. I say that we go night vision on this one."

Alex smiled and nodded in agreement.

"I'm guessing that Lily showed you the eye contacts, huh?" he teased.

"Girl sure is a genuis!" Smithers exclaimed.

"I'll take that as a compilment," came Lily's voice.

Alex rolled his eyes.

Both Smithers and him activated the night vision on their eye contacts.

Smithers threw the EMP and waited as it bounced on the ground.

Dmitri and his men heard something moving across the floor. They turned towards it and readied their weapons.

They finally saw what it was and watched as it rolled towards them. It was a round ball of some kind.

"What the heck?!" one of the men roared.

Suddenly, the round ball gave out a loud sound. The lights went out and everything went black.

"We have intrudors!" Dmitri yelled. "Find them and kill them!"

Gunfire suddenly came. Men started to down.

Dmitri took cover against some servers.

Alex and Smithers were mowing down bad guys like as if they were cockroaches. The night vision was helping out a lot.

Alex took cover to reload.

"We need to stop that countdown!" Smithers roared.

"Why?" Alex fired three more bullets.

"Because the contacts were able to identify a virus being uploaded into the system!" he responded.

Alex nodded and said, "Then lets stop them!"

Alex saw that only five soldiers, including the leading one, remained.

The Chimera soldiers began to fire back.

Alex recongized the leader, the man that the CIA knew as Joseph Dmitri. He was the key to finding out who was behind all of this. They had to stop the virus and capture him. It was big break at this.

The firing suddenly stopped.

Alex could hear Dmitri laughing.

"Alex Rider!" Dmitri exclaimed. "We meet again!"

Alex felt a shiver run down his spine. He knows who I am! he acknowledged to himself.

"I know who you are, Joseph Dmitri!" Alex yelled back.

Dmitri laughed again and said, "You have been busy! But I guess that you already know who I am working for!"

Alex didn't answer back. He hated saying the name of the organization that he was hunting. The name had a evil feeling to to it. Like as if it was filled with darkness.

"You cannot stop us!" Dmitri yelled back. "We are too powerful! We have been one step ahead of you since the start! And I think you know that too!"

Alex pushed back his fear and said, "We will stop you! I've done it before!"

"Yes, yes you have! I've heard some much about you from my boss!"

"You mean Issac Cole!"

"Whoa! I got to say I didn't see that coming! You know about the leader of Chimera?!" Dmitri said, all surprised. "You have been a busy boy! I'll give you credit for that!"

Alex couldn't help but smile.

"Did you know that Issac shares a history with you?!" Dmitri asked.

Alex frowned.

"I've never met Issac before in my life!" he said. "How can I have a history with him?!"

Dmitri laughed and said, "Maybe not with him... but with someone else!"

Alex was confused and scaried about what he was being told.

"What do you mean? Who are you talking about?!"

There was a loud sounding coming from somewhere. Alex used his contacts to find out what it was. He remembered the countdown and saw that it has already reached zero.

Oh no! Alex suddenly realized.

Dmitri laughed again and yelled, "It's too late! The United States network system is under our control! Reckoning has just begun!"

Sorry! I couldn't help with the cliffy! I just wanted to have some fun and save some of the excitment!

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