No one is quite sure who came up with the idea, but it made sense: there would be someone rich enough to pay for you to cause a natural disaster, and if you waited long enough then it was basically inevitable. Easy money. Like taking billions of dollars from a rich man. SCORPIA didn't expect it to go quite this far however - they're being blamed for WHAT now?

Desmond McCain thought he was being clever by keeping half of the money that people donated to his charities. Those management costs really just.. add up, you know? He is disgusted when his charity is praised for its low management costs by the Times Magazine.

Alex has the worst superpower on the planet. He can transform anything into aluminum. It was useless until this mission.

Poor Crawley has to write up all of John, Ian, and Alex's missions. Good thing he has Gordon Ross to complain to. Drinking Buddies!

Stuck in an airport. Everyone from SCORPIA is wishing that they had ignored accounting and chartered private jets for this. The flights all got delayed for reasons?

Alex knew that fourteen years was pretty long for a cat to live. After finally going through Ian's shit, he sees that the cat has been in the family for much, much longer.

Alex must infiltrate a riding show to spy on the cartel of cocaine dealers that use it to peddle their wares. Smithers has a great idea... and a horse suit.

Cyborg Alex from the future is sent back to the age of the dinosaurs. After fighting off Pterodactyls, and befriending a T-Rex, he manages to make his way back to 2021, only to discover that the local chickens remember his mutually beneficial relationship with their age-old feathery ancestor. Well, he HAD been planning to revisit MI6...

"I'm looking for...something deadly..." - "Mate, this is a pet shop. What do you want me to do? Feed a hamster steroids?"

Possible Devilverse? [Spoiler: It's Devilverse.] Alex decides to get a pet. A beautiful stag finds him. Honestly, they said "no large carnivores." Deer aren't carnivores.

How Brendan Chase met his wife. Play on reality TV romance tropes. Basically, Chase is a fucking dumbass who is definitely relying on his good looks.

This fic started out being this scene from Knight and Day ( and it evolved from there. Basically, Alex gets kidnapped, Blunt does nothing to stop it, Ian gets mad and calls in a favour from a friend!

When Alex gets a warning at school from someone who's supposed to be dead, he realizes that something is about to happen, and that no one is safe. Not even his classmates. But when some of his classmates follow him to see what he does when he isn't at school, what will happen? Will Alex do? What about the warning?

This is a collection of Alex Rider Drabbles based on one word prompts. The body of each work (excluding titles and the endnotes) is exactly 100 words. Each work is titled by the word prompt. Word prompts used: Letter, Father, Collection, Table, Arson.

Alex, to his shame, had never actually been to most of Britain's tourist attractions. Jack has decided to make him finally go.

Alex decides to take up butterfly collecting, much to his friends' fascination and horror.

Book Store AU! A very done Alex Rider opened a bookstore in Venice. Who in the hell needs a book about 14th century antidotes at three in the morning! AU after Eagle Strike.

So, how did you two meet? "Darling, why don't you tell the story, you tell it so much better-" "Well, we both used to work for different banks. And then I tried to kill him." AlexXOC. Further summary inside.

Nile is going to write his swords a short dainty little poem. Why? Because I say so!

Maybe a Werewolf AU with one of the minor characters in AR? I'm thinking of someone who doesn't get a whole lot of love…[Filled with Professor Yermalov from Scorpia].

Tom Harris unknowingly leads Doctor Three around Brooklands for a parent tour. Three is very done and someone please get this clearly ADHD child medication.

Witches AU! Tom has gotten them kicked out of yet another coven by accidentally stepping on another witch's familiar. In Tom's defense, it was a literal cockroach.

Tom always thought Alex working as a spy was cool. Now he realised his idea of espionage and reality were two completely different things. For Febuwhump prompt 18: Forced to watch

Alex gets stuck coaxing Tom's pet snake out from under the couch. It does not want to come out...until it does.

Alex finds a map in Ian's study. What does he do? Put an ad on Craigslist [changed to mass email] and let the first five people who reply join him.