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The soldiers stayed were they were, silence hung in the air paralysing them. What they just witnessed was nothing small. What they just witnessed was impossible.
They remained still for minutes which felt like hours. No one breaking the thick silence that hung like a death sentence.

The sergeant was the first to recover but he was the one who was the most shocked because he and he alone out of all the soldiers knew the boys age. The sheer impossibility of the situation was impossible to comprehend but he knew as the leader
that it was up to him to get the soldiers back in line. They were after all soldiers. They were taught to keep their heads in these situations.

He managed to take out his pocket knife and cut the rope. He then stood up startling the soldiers out of their thoughts.

He then proceeded to help the soldier next to him and they helped others and within minutes everyone was up.
"Soldiers, I understand that this is a complicated situation and I assure you that I too will be spending my nights thinking about this but right now we have around 20 scorpia assassins in this room and one passed out soldier." He refrained from saying
cub "Our immediate attention turns to securing the assassins and getting the soldier to the infirmary.

The soldiers quickly came over their shock and began to move.

Within 3 hours all the assassins were taken by mi6 for interrogation. The sergeant did not tell them about cub or about gregorovich. He was not sure what to make of the whole situation and decided to keep it between the camp.
Also cub was in the infirmary. The doctors said that cub was suffering from mental and physical exhaustion and his unwillingness to wake up will keep him in this semi-coma semi-unconsciousness for as long as he wants to. When cub is ready to wake up he
will. The doctors can't do anything to help. It's all up to cub.

Now the soldiers were awaiting his orders in the mess hall and for the first time the sergeant was in complete loss. Never in his entire career has he even expected such thing to happen. He was glad none of the soldiers knew Cubs age. That would have
been very difficult.
Now they were waiting in the mess hall for answers. Answers he did not have. He decided to go through it in his head.
Cub is an mi6 agent. The sergeant knew that. That's the only thing which made the slightest bit of sense.

Cub trained with scorpia. That had completely thrown him off. Cub was a spy who had trained with scorpia. The sergeant wasn't going to lie. That made cub a potential threat. But the sergeant didn't want to think like that. Cub was one of his soldiers.
And over the years the sergeant had become to think of his soldiers as his children. If cub was a threat then...
The sergeant didn't want to think about that. He didn't know what to tell his soldiers , should he tell then to be wary of cub. He couldn't do that, not when the mention of cub brought the image of the lost and Broken boy who had tears streaming down
his face. The sergeant, a soldier, hardened by war, most feared man on this camp, felt his heart break at the sight of the Broken boy begging for help. He couldn't warn his soldiers about a boy.

But then again, cub was a trained assassin and spy. (He didn't want to think about age at the moment). He could tell his soldiers to be careful when around cub ( if cub woke up). And then came yassen gregorovich: the biggest mystery of all. The worlds
best assassin was used as black mail to loosen Cubs tongue. What cub was hiding wasn't something small, it was god damn huge: being a fricking assassin, so how important must gregorovich be to cub? How the hell do they even know each other in the
first place?
And how could the sergeant forget the cub that knocked 20 assassins unconscious. That cub was not human. The eyes held no warmth, no trace of humanity. He was a machine. A whirlpool of destruction. A killing machine. That cub was dangerous and lethal.
Maybe he should warn the soldiers, thought the sergeant.
Then the image of the weak and defenceless cub came to mind and the sergeant was right back at square one.

No more time to think. The sergeant has to face his soldiers.

He entered the mess hall and all conversations were immediately cut off as the soldiers stood to attention.
"At ease soldiers"
The soldiers relaxed.
"Now soldiers, I understand that the events of today have left many, if not all of us, shocked, confused etc and I assure you that I too am trying to wrap my head around what happened. For this reason I believe that training tomorrow will be pointless
as minds would not be focused so I am giving you soldiers tomorrow the day off to get your thoughts together.
Any questions?" The sergeant knew that the soldiers would not have been surprised at the fact that they were having tomorrow off. They already were at the limit of being surprised. Right now all their minds were on one specific soldier who lay unconscious
in the infirmary.
"Permission to speak sir" snake asked
"Granted"
" how is cub sir?" Snake asked Worry lacing his words
The sergeant considered his words before answering.
"Cub is in the infirmary. His situation is stable, however he is still unconscious and the doctors are unable to say when he is expected to wake up."
Silence Hung in the sure for a moment before another soldier, Bear, spoke
"Permission to speak sir"
"Granted"
"With all due respect sir, we just found out that one of the soldiers is a spy for SO, has been trained by scorpia and has a relationship with the worlds most feared assassin. Doesn't that make cub dangerous?"
The rest of the soldiers looked down and sifted their feet uncomfortable. The sergeant could tell that, just like him, this was the centre of their worries.
He remembered the dangerous cub and the broken cub and he pondered how he was going to answer this question.

"Innocent until proven guilty" the sergeant began "that's how I think the saying goes. No matter what else cub is, to us he is a soldier first and until we can find anything to suggest otherwise then he is innocent.
Like I previously said, at the moment cub is unconscious so their is no danger but we will keep an extra eye on him in case anything happens. But other than that their is nothing we can do"
The soldiers let jay sink in before once again the silence was broken, this time by Lynx.
"Permission to speak sir"
"Granted"
"Why is cub here sir? Surely he is too young. And he hasn't even passed selection!"
"Cub is here for training" the sergeant hated the way the half-truth rolled of his tongue.
The soldiers looked unconvinced and the sergeant hated lying to them.
"And protection" he added. Let MI6 got to hell.
"Permission to speak sir" jaguar asked
"Granted"
"Protection from who sir?"
"I wasn't told soldier. It is not my place to ask this question and neither is it yours. From who is none of our concern"
The soldier nodded his head, reprimanded.
"Any more questions"
Silence
"Good. You are dismissed"
The sergeant paused for a moment then spoke again.
"K-unit stay behind"
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