Chapter 3:
A/N: I am so sorry to anyone paying attention to this story. I just started college and life has been a little bit more hectic then what it use to be. Now that I have my schedule sorted and know what my weeks look like updating may come a little bit more quicker then what it was this past week or two. So sorry for the delay, but enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything you recognize. This is the re-uploaded Chapter 3.
Another hour passed before the van finally came to a stop. The men up front got out, and it took a few minutes before they came around to gather their captives. The door opened and they were roughly grabbed, and pulled out of the van. The sunlight blinded them and Alex fought the urge to sneeze, before they were pushed through a door that lead them into darkness. The door closed behind them with a loud bang.
They followed a corridor that keep twisting and turning. Alex, trying to keep track of which way they were going, became lost and confused after, the third right turn. No matter how hard Alex looked he couldn't find anything that would help him find his way if he ever got the chance to escape. The pain of his foot as they forced him to walk made it hard to stay focused and he eventually gave up. He instead invested more energy into trying to keep upright and not stumble over his own feet. More twist and turns and they came to a big metal door, beyond the door they followed more corridors. After a few more left and right turns and after what felt like an eternity they finally came to yet another door that lead into a large caged area. Several cages were nestled into one large cage. In order to get to a smaller cage you would have to enter the larger one before making your way to the door of a smaller one.
Wolf, Snake, and Eagle were shoved into three separate smaller cages, while Alex was left in the large middle area. Cages were lined along the wall like a prison and he was the warden, only most wardens don't get caged into an area themselves.
"I hope you enjoy your sty at hotel non-escapable" sneered Messy.
"I hope you enjoy you enjoy your stay in hell, after I kill you" Alex returned, nothing showing on his face. It almost looked as if he was having a friendly conversation with one of his friends, if it weren't for the venom that dripped from his words.
After giving them one last dark look, Messy turned on his heel, and closed the door behind him a bang.
Sighing Alex leaned against the wall, slowly sliding down it, till he was sitting on the dirty floor. His head pounded as it laid against the concrete wall behind him. Pain radiated up his leg as his foot throbbed a continuous reminder of the bullet in his foot. The adrenaline was starting wearing off, bringing forth all his injures and the pain that came with them.
Reaching down he undid the boot laces on his left foot. Very gingerly he pulled off his boot, hiding as much of his pain as he could, stopping for a moment or two when the material rubbed against his injured foot in the wrong way. After what seemed like forever the shoe was finally off.
Luckily the SAS issued boot had slightly slowed the bullet down, making it so it didn't go as deep as it could have. It was still pretty deep so he had no chance of getting it out here, but he had to wrap it up so that if it started bleeding again something would help stop it, hopefully it would help slow any infection that may set in as well.
"Anyone got a strip of cloth?" Alex looked up to see everyone staring at him.
"Here you go, Alex" Someone in one of the cages behind Alex threw a piece of cloth in-between the bars where it landed next to Alex on the floor.
"Thanks, do I know you, or are you just another person that knows me due to my status?" Alex asked as he peeled his sock off and wrapped the cloth tightly around his foot, insuring it wouldn't fall off. He pulled his boot back on, and while it may have hurt, he knew he was better off with the boot on then off. Not only would it keep the foot stable, but it would also help prevent infection better than just having the cloth wrapped around it.
The man laughed before answering Alex, "No we worked together once. Don't tell me you don't remember!"
"I'm sorry, but I'm not in the mood for guessing games," Alex suddenly stood up, using the wall for support as he adjusted to the pain shooting up his leg.
"Umm…Cub I suggest you don't walk, right now. You could damage your foot even more, potentially move the bullet around that could cause more harm." Snake finally spook up after watching Alex walk over to the door of the cage with a slight limp. As the medic in the Unit he would be the one to worry about the wound.
Alex gave a humorless chuckle. "Don't worry Snake, I'll be fine." Alex leaned his hand out between the bars only to quickly bring it back in as a small shock of electricity travelled up his arm. Alex cursed before mumbling under his breath "Should have heard it."
"Yeah sorry should have warned you about that," The hidden man said apologetically.
"Would you please identify yourself, I'm tired of talking to a dark shadow." It came out more hostile than what was intended, but Alex found he got his point across as the man slowly came out from the corner of his cell.
"Ahh…Ben I should have guessed; only you would try and joke around in this type of situation." Alex showed no sign of emotion, his face was blank like always, all though inside he was happy to have someone he trusted and knew here to help him. He turned back around looking for cameras, he saw a few but he had no chance of getting to them.
And just like that the spell was broken. "Wait, cub how do you know Fox's real name?" Eagle was the first to voice what the others were thinking.
"Long story short, we worked together." Alex replied blankly.
"Oh come on Cub you got to give us more than that," The whine in Snakes voice did not go undetected by Alex. Snake, who was a full grown SAS solider, who had been though some of the hardest training in the world.
"No I don't, actually." Alex slowly limped back over to the wall, and once again slid down until he was sitting on the grimy floor.
"You know Cub, we've been working together for a while now, and we know nothing about you. Seeing as we aren't going anywhere any time soon, why don't you tell us about yourself?" Wolf never asked questions, it was an order.
"I have no family and I'm training with the SAS. Anything else?" Alex was bored, he had been captured before, and he always hated waiting to see what was coming next. Why do they always make you wait?
"Cub, I swear if you don't…" That's as far as Wolf got before Alex cut him off.
"You know, Wolf, it's not good to swear, especially around a teenager." Why not have a little fun, Alex thought. He had always been good with sarcasm, and now that there were bars restraining Wolf from killing him, he could let lose.
"I don't give a fuck weather or not it's good to swear Cub, we want some bloody answers and you're going to give them, even if I have to wring them out of you." Wolf was growling, giving Alex his all to famous death glare.
"Come now Wolf I thought we had learned that your silly little glare doesn't scare me. And I'm sorry to disappoint you but we are currently separated by bars, so there will be no question and answers session tonight." This was all said with a straight face, nothing showed, his mask was always in place.
Ben was quietly laughing from his cell. "What are you laughing at Fox?" Snake asked his voice a little shaky. He was obviously affected by Wolf's glare, even when it wasn't directed towards him.
"I'm laughing at the fact that Wolf can be so easily affected by a fourteen year old." Wolf directed his glare towards Ben which only caused him laugh harder. "Please Wolf in my new line of work, there have been scarier dogs."
Alex couldn't help it. His mask cracked, he had smirked. Suddenly all eyes were on him and the only sound that could be heard was Ben's quiet chuckles. "What?" his smile left as quickly as it came.
"Nothing, just… we've never seen you smile." Eagle sound like he was in awe "How'd you do it Fox?"
The attention was suddenly shifted over to Fox. "How'd I do what?" He asked completely confused. He had been laughing too hard to pay attention to what had happened.
That's a bad fault to have. Anything could have happened when he was laughing; he needs to pay more attention to what's going on around him, no matter what he's doing. This was another side effect from his SCORPIA training. He was always able to pick out the smallest faults in people, including himself. But want all bad, as it could help in a fight for your life.
"Ben you need to pay attention better." He wanted to help him; he didn't want Ben to die in action.
"What are you talking about?" he was obviously confused on what Alex was talking about, as he and Eagle had been talking when Alex had suddenly said this.
"No matter what you're doing, even if you're performing surgery, you need to pay attention to everything around you. It could be the difference between life and death in the field."
Everyone was staring at Alex again.
"What?" He was becoming annoyed with all the attention.
"And you would know this, how?" Wolf asked coldly.
"That is something you aren't going to find out anytime soon." And with that Alex leaned his head back against the wall. He had a feeling things were only going to head downhill from here. "I suggest you all go to sleep, we don't know how long we have until they come back for us." He heard a mumbled 'yeah' and 'true' before everyone was quiet. It wasn't long before he heard the loud snoring from Wolf, the gurgling from Eagle, and the shifting from Snake. Looking over he saw Ben, who was asleep as well. The only one missing was Bear.
Not long after Alex too feel into a restless sleep.