Double agent

Ch 1: How it started (please excuse my writing. I cannot write)

Being an agent is too much. Never in my life would I ever want to be an agent. I can't keep secrets so being an agent is totally out of the question right? No matter how movies show that being an agent is cool and all, I will never want to take up that responsibility...

Ali bin Ghazali was your average 12 year old boy. He had the same life a lot of people had. Nothing was special about him apart from his father. the most irresponsible person you could ever meet. Of course, like any other boy, he was a bit of a troublemaker for himself and others. Well not in the way you're probably thinking. Ali was always clumsy, he had poor tardiness, was always late for school, didn't want to clean his room nor listen to his father.

And like any other boy, he really loved to game. He would always play games with his friend, Victor, playing some fighting game. But of course, gaming doesn't really help your grades. In class, Ali was always last and always does badly for his tests. As much as his father would like to take it away, he couldn't since they live in a city full of technology called Cyberaya. So it was kind of no use.

So Ali was not a really good nor a bad person. Nothing special about him, just an ordinary boy... right?

One day, Ali was sleeping on his bed when he heard his phone ring. At first he wanted to ignore it but he thought that maybe it was something important.

"Who is it?" Ali said as he picked up the phone and his words slurring since he had just woken up. "It's me!" someone exclaimed at the other side of the call. Ali quickly recognised the voice as his uncle, Bakar. "Uncle? Why are you calling me in the morning?" Ali asked. "I didn't think that you would be able to answer. Don't you have school today?" Bakar asked. "Oh shoot! I forgot!" Ali shouted before quickly getting ready to head out. "I'm gonna hang up first alright. You go on and get ready, you don't want to be late now do you?" Bakar said before he hung up the call.

After some time, Ali was done and quickly sprinted out of the house. He got on to his scooter which made traveling time lesser for him. After a few turns, he realized that he was gonna be late at this rate so he decided to take a shortcut in the alleyway. As he was zooming down the alleyway, he heard voices. He wanted to ignore it but there was a voice that made him stop, the voice had called out for help. Before Ali knew it, his body moved on its own. Soon enough, he arrived where the voices were. He saw a classmate of his getting bullied by two other kids who were in the same school as him.

"Hey! Why don't you pick on someone your own size!" Ali shouted, hoping it would stop the two. The two bullies turned their backs to face Ali. "So you want a piece of me, huh?" one of the bullies spoke out as he slowly walked towards Ali. Ali, on the other hand, focused on getting his classmate out of here. He rode on his scooter and dash passed the two bullies before grabbing his classmate and zooming out of the alleyway. After some time, the two were out. Ali could no longer see the two bullies so he slowed down and came to a stop. "Are you okay?" Ali asked his classmate. He nodded back before Ali went ahead and continued his journey to school.

After some time, Ali reached his school. He saw that he was late. This was bad news... He had to face a scolding from his teacher. Ali quickly kept his scooter and ran to class, he saw that class had already started. He quickly sneaked to the back door of the classroom to ask Viktor to distract their teacher, Puan Munah.

Of course, this was a daily routine for both of them. As Viktor was distracting Puan Munah, Ali slowly snuck to his desk when he bumped into something he thought was a table but actually, it was Alicia, one of the student prefects of the school.

"Why are you late, Ali?" Alicia asked as she folded her arms. Damn it... Why does Alicia always have to ruin everything... Does she not have better things to do... Just before Ali could get up, their teacher had noticed Ali. Just his luck... "Yes, Ali... Why are you late to my class almost everyday!" Puan Munah shouted. "I'm sorry! I woke up late today..." Ali said. "At this rate you are going, you will fail my class!" Puan Munah shouted again. "How long are you gonna sit there? Get up and sit down!" Puan Munah shouted and Ali quickly scrambled to his feet before sitting on his chair.

"Ali, you will have to serve punishment for your multiple lateness." Alicia said. "Yeah yeah... what is it...?" Ali asked. "You will stay back and clean the library," Alicia said. "What?! That's gonna take me forever!" Ali exclaimed. "I don't care. This is why you have to be early." Alicia said before she went to her desk and sat.

A few hours later, school had ended. Ali was relieved but soon he remembered that he had to serve punishment. Lucky him...He wanted to go home quickly so he decided to get it done and dusted.

Ali quickly packed his bag and headed to the library. Once he was there, he got what he needed to do from the librarian and quickly got to work. After three hours, he was done. The librarian was quite impressed. Ali was always a late comer, someone who always scored the lowest in his class and never made an effort to improve but this showed that Ali had good qualities as well.

Ali said goodbye to the librarian before heading out. As he was heading down to the canteen, he ran into his uncle who was working as a janitor in his school. "Hi uncle! Why are you still here?" Ali asked. "I had to take an extra shift since one of the janitors got sick," Bakar said. "Well, I'm gonna head back now." Ali said. "Hey Ali, before you go, your dad told me to give you lunch since he wasn't able to cook any." Bakar said before handing Ali a green container. Ali said thank you to Bakar before heading out of the school.

As Ali was heading to the front gates, he bumped into a stranger which caused him to drop his food. Ali quickly got up and went over to the stranger. "I am so sorry! I should have been looking at where I was going!" Ali said as he helped the stranger up. "It's alright," the stranger said. Ali was gonna grab his food when he saw that the stranger had also dropped a container with the same color. Ali just grabbed the closest container to the person, assuming that it was the stranger's. Ali gave the container to the stranger before they left. Ali grabbed the container that was left on the ground before heading home.

Just before Ali could move, he heard his uncle call out to him. "Uncle? I thought you had an extra shift?" Ali asked. "Ah well, they decided to let me off... Why don't I accompany you back home?" Bakar asked before the two headed to Ali's house. Once they were at his home, Ali quickly went to his room to put down his bag while Bakar sat on the couch. "Uncle! I'm gonna go and take a shower!" Ali shouted from above. Bakar was gonna watch the tv when he heard his phone.

His phone showed a logo with a 'M'. Bakar clicked on the logo which caused the screen to change into a map. This map showed that something was near, something that he needed to retrieve. What was Bakar up to?

He had to retrieve something called IRIS after it got stolen. The IRIS was a very, very powerful but dangerous device. It can be used for good but it will be very dangerous in the wrong hands. Bakar was think about how did the IRIS manage to land in Ali's house

Did Ali take it by accident? These questions will be answered later but right now Bakar has to retrieve it back before it falls into the wrong hands. He followed the map which led him to the kitchen where the green container that he had given Ali was on the kitchen counter. Odd... He was sure that he gave Ali actual food.

Bakar went to the container and opened it. Low and behold, it really was the IRIS but how? Things did not add up but he didn't care. All he needs to do right now is to contact MATA, an organization he was working for, about the IRIS. Bakar quickly kept the IRIS in his pocket before throwing the container away.

Thank god for Ali, making his life easier.