Spy School: Into the dark

Chapter 1

Bens POV

I woke up to beeping on my digital clock, the time read 08:30, I jumped out of bed, as I realized I was going to miss breakfast, I groaned, then started to get ready. I quickly brushed my hair and my teeth before running out of my room to the hallway. Sorry, I missed an introduction, my name is Ben Ripley, and I am a fourth year at spy school, and I go to a secret espionage academy. Anyway, As I ran out of my room into the hallway, I bumped into somebody, it was Zoe Zibbel, one of my best friends at the spy academy.

"Hi Ben!" She chirped energetically

"Hi" I said with less force
She rolled her eyes of the lack of enthusiasm

"Hurry up, we're gonna be late!" She said while motioning to the slop hall

"Ok ok" I muttered as Zoe ran across the hallway. I followed her to the slop hall, where my fellow student were eating what the academy called pancakes, which were really just hard pieces of slightly cooked dough. I grabbed my food and sat down at my table, "

"Hey man" Mike said, Mike was my best fried since I was 5, but discovered the academy when we were 13 on a mission to Vail.

"About time" Chip muttered, Chip was my friend since I came to spy school, he was vey fit, but his brain was just a little slower than all of ours. I also saw Jawa, but he didn't say anything, I became friends with Jawa about the same time as Chip, except Jawa was a all rounded student, he was fit, smart and knew just about how to do anything, but still was not the best student of the academy, that's when I saw Erica Hale gracefully walk into the slop hall. Erica was by far the best student at the academy, and even better than most of the teachers, she had an icy attitude, and thought of friendships as liabilities to spying, but shortly opened up to me and my friends. Everybody's eyes locked on her when she came in, but she shot them an icy glare, which resulted in everybody quickly looking away, to what they were doing beforehand. She sat at a table by herself, as nobody had the effort to sit with her, after one kid who did ended up paralyzed for months, so it was safe to say most people tried to stay off her radar.

"Looking at the ice queen?" Zoe said while frowning:

"N-no I wasn't, I-I was looking at the umm food" I said unconvincingly

"Yea right." Mike said. It was true that I did have a crush on Erica hale, but just about every boy at the academy also had a crush on her, but she has gone on more missions with me and my friends, so that we know her a lot better, as well as even kissing me in vail, which she described later, saying that it was to calm me down under the stressful situation. Anyway, Right as I was about to start eating, I heard the Principle's (AKA the idiot's) speaker go on "

"Hello, is this thing on, HELLOOO" he bellowed through his speaker, which vibrates through the mess hall

"We can hear you you idiot!" Zoe screamed, everybody laughed and you could practically hear the principle's face redden.

"Um can Zoe Zibbel, Mike Brezenski, Erica Hale, and Ben Ripley please report to my office, thank you." He said, embarrassed. I groaned, as I assumed that I was going to be deployed again,

"I hope we are going on a mission!" Zoe said excitedly while getting off of the table

"Me too." Agreed Mike, while also getting up from the table. They both looked at me, waiting for my response

"We have to go" I responded, avoiding the question. We started running as fast as we could, as we did not want to be scolded for being slow, which could easily happen depending on whose in the office. We got to the idiots office, panting heavily, only to be greeted by a small group of people.

"About time" muttered Cyrus Hale, one of the best spy's in the world, and Erica Hale's grandfather. Erica was sitting it a chair, her beautiful blue eyes glistening, looking as if we took an hour instead of 30 seconds. Cyrus got straight to business

"You four are being deployed on a mission" he said gruffly, and handed us a folder, which read, for your eyes only.

"The mission is identified as operation Red Fox, where a new organization by the name of VULTURE, where they are going to threaten to bomb major locations and kill millions of innocent lives, making the government pay millions of dollars a day to them, just to stop them form bombing the cities, the organization blocked all contact to the army, spies, the navy and all the threats to them from the government, but the man used his life to tell the CIA what was happening." Cyrus said, displaying no emotion

"Wow" we all repeated

"How do we know this information is not counterfeit" Erica said Cooley while looking over the file

"The man was a former member of the CIA, and he used his own life just to get the word to us" Cyrus shot back

"VULTURE even sent a video of the man being killed, saying this is what would happen if we tried to stop them, they would kill innocent people one bye one." Cyrus said with a hint of sadness. I didn't know what to say about this, so I stayed silent, while thinking about the money and lives that could be wasted throughout this mission.

"We meet tomorrow at 04:00, at the north side of the gym" Cyrus said while leaving, meaning we really had to be there by 03:30 to be on time by Cyrus's standards. There was silence for about 30 seconds, before Erica stood up

"We have to go to class" Erica stated, then walked away.

"How do you think this mission will go." Zoe said, looking worried

"Don't worry, everything will go fine." I said, while placing a hand on Zoe's shoulder. She smiled, then agreed,

I hope what I said is correct, I thought, while walking out of the room.

How wrong I was.