There were two rows of seats, 5 chairs in each row. K Unit got the row at the back. I was sat on the edge, with Snake next to me, Felix in front, and Nyoka was all the way over the other side. The teacher stood at the very front.

"Today" he started "We will be learning about SCORPIA. SCORPIA are a multi-national terrorist organisation. They specialise in Sabotage, Corruption, Intelligence and Assassination..." The teacher carried on like this for a while, telling us the history of them. I'd heard it all before, and with a lot more detail. Well, it had come straight from the horses mouth, so that wasn't surprising. I tuned back in when he said "...and these are some of the known assassins SCORPIA has." A picture of Yassen Gregorovich appeared on the screen. "This is Yassen Gregorovich, also known as Cossack. He was one of their most successful assassins, until he got shot on Air Force One by an MI6 operative." They'd got that wrong. It was Damien Cray who shot him. But I suppose that was hushed up. The teacher had moved on to a rather familiar face. "This is John Rider, also known as Hunter." Shit. This lesson was not going to go well. "He betrayed MI6, and his country to join SCORPIA" As an undercover agent. "He trained Gregorovich, and is considered the best assassin they had. He was shot in a trade between SCORPIA and MI6. He was a good man, before he killed a taxi driver." I saw Snake notice my clenched fist. I noticed something else. Felix Lester, computer nerd, was acting completely bored, as if he'd heard this all before. Snake saw my confusion, and noticed the same thing. At least he wasn't wondering about why I was angry at the teacher anymore. The lesson continued on like this, showing past and present pictures of assassins, who I already knew, some I'd even talked to, and Felix kept on looking as if he'd heard it all before. There was one bit that Felix hadn't heard before, judging by the look on his face, and the information made me smirk.

"There have been rumours that a teenager was trained at Malagosto, but we have no information about that teenager, and no information past that rumour." Well, the first half was true, but the second... The teacher caught my smirk.

"Something funny, Cub?"

"Well, if the enemy are using teenagers, why aren't we? It's a good idea. I wouldn't expect a 15-year-old to be a spy. Would you?" He mulled it over, then finally said.

"I wouldn't want any 15-year-old to see what I have." Too late. And I've probably seen some worse things.

After the lesson, I waited for Felix, to try and get answers out of him.

"Hey Felix." I said, as he walked past.

"Hey."

"Was that as boring for you as it was for me?"

"Yeah. To be honest, I'd read most of it before..."

"Really? Where?"

"Well... I'm not supposed to tell..."

"I won't tell anyone, promise." Felix sighed.

"I may or may not have hacked MI6 by mistake." That was a surprise.

"By mistake? How do you hack an intelligence agency by mistake?"

"You don't realise that your local bank is actually one of their bases."

"Which bank?" If he managed to hack...

"Royal and General."

"How far did you get? That must have been hard!" God, I hope not too far.

"Only into their information section, before I got kicked out of the system. That's why most of that didn't surprise me. It's also why they're after me."

"They?"

"SCORPIA."

"Why, can't they hack MI6 themselves?"
"Apparently not."

After I got back to the hut that evening, I was in for a shock.

"Ben!"

"Alex! What are you doing here? I was told you were on an undercover mission."
"I am. Fortunately, both MI5 and 6 believe in sending minors to SAS camps. And using them as spies."

"MI5 have teenage spies?" Ben was shocked by this.

"Fox!" Eagle yelled, right by my ear. I winced. "You didn't tell us you were coming back today!"

"I only found out at lunch. I thought I'd surprise you for once."

"Hey, how do you know Cub?" Eagle asked.

"We went on a mission together... Did you not tell them?"
"I did." I replied. "I just didn't tell them that you were the MI6 agent I worked with."
"So now I'm just 'the agent'?"
"Sounds about right." Wolf had been listening to the conversation.
"Wait. You met Cub, and didn't think to tell us that he was a spy?" Ben glanced at me.
"It's his secret to reveal." He said simply. Wolf just rolled his eyes.

"So Point Blanc wasn't a one-time thing?"

"Nope. Why, didn't you believe me at CHERUB?"

"You hardly told us anything!"
"How long are you staying?" Jackdaw asked, quickly changing the subject.
"For almost a month. I have some recovery time, and I'm due some training, so I thought why not combine the two?"
"So we're going to have six in this unit for a month?" Eagle said. "There's only five beds in here though..." Ben laughed.
"That's ok. I'll just use yours."
"Coo... Hey! I need somewhere to sleep too!"
"Not my problem." I tuned out here, and started to read a book I had bought with me. It was called An Imperial Affliction. It was left on the side in my CHERUB room. It was one of three books I had.
"Hey Alex" I heard Ben call.
"Hmm?" I said looking up from the book. K Unit had left. For tea I was guessing.
"Want to go swap stories at some point? It's teatime now."
"Sure."

At tea, Snake was giving me an odd look. When I asked him what was on his mind he said
"You're a Rider?" I nodded. I heard him mutter "Well that explains a lot"
"What do you mean?"
"All MI6 agents train at an SAS camp. Before you, the top two times on the unofficial MI6 assault course leader-board were held by a Jaguar, who was John Rider, and a Bear, who was his brother Ian. Their quickest was nine minutes." I smiled. Snake looked confused.
"Ian was always competitive. If he were alive, he'd go round and round that thing until he beat me..."

After tea, I followed Ben out into the forest. He lead me to a tree and started climbing.
"So it's not just me" I murmured.
"What was that?" Ben called down.
"You'll find out after you tell me your story."
It took about four hours to tell both our stories. Ben had broken his arm, falling out of a tree no less, and had only just got the cast off. I explained how I fell out of a tree at K Unit repeatedly. When I told Ben about CHERUB, he looked like he could go and kill someone. Probably Blunt.

"Hey. The surprising bit of this story is that Blunt didn't know about them."
"Seriously?"

"Yep. And I haven't been shot at, threatened with torture or defeated a bad guy in... almost 5 months now."

"That's a long time for you?" Ben asked. I nodded. Ben just shook his head. "We should get going... I suppose we'll have to call each other by our code names now, eh Cub?"

"That's my last name, for CHERUB. To them, I'm Alex Cub." Ben laughed.

"Is that how K Unit found you then?"

"Yep. They probably wouldn't have noticed otherwise."