Double agent

Ch 3: The secret's out

He went on with life as per normal again despite whatever that happened until another fateful day. Ali was walking around the school during recess, he was bored since Viktor had stuff to do and he was Ali's only friend that he spent time with. Ali realized that he had wandered too far into the back of the school, where the clubs were at. He was about to turn back when the two bullies from a week ago snuck up on him.

"Can I help you?" Ali asked. "You let our punching bag escape so now, you will be our new punching bag." One of them said. "Why are you doing this anyway..." Ali said. "Because we are bored so shut up and take this!" The other said before punching Ali in the guts. Ali tried to get up when he was kicked in the chest. "Stop!" he shouted but the two bullies never stopped. Ali had no choice but to fight back, he did not want people to see him like this, especially his father and uncle.

Ali quickly took out a small device before smashing it to the ground, this caused a fog to disperse from the device. Both bullies were distracted and confused, Ali took this opportunity to run. Since the fog would only distract the two for a few moments, Ali quickly ran to a shed he saw, the door had a number label of '52'. He balled up his fist and ran towards the door. Why did he do that exactly? He did this so he could phase through the door without opening it physically.

Once he was in the shed, he was panting and coughing out a bit of blood. Seems like the bullies did a number on him... Ali was about to move when he heard something opening, a bookshelf started to move? The bookshelf had moved to the side revealing a door that opened. There were two people who walked out of the door and Ali immediately recognised both of them

It was his Uncle and Alicia!? What the hell was going on? Ali decided that he wanted to leave the shed before they had seen him but it was too late. Alicia's eyes had already laid on Ali who was leaning against the shed door while clutching onto his stomach and was bruised up.

"A-Ali? What are you doing here?" Bakar asked. Ali was about to say something but words never came out, it seemed like his body was still shocked. "Ali!?" Alicia exclaimed with an angry tone.

"U-Uh... he he... I have to go to class or else I am gonna be late! Bye!" Ali said quickly before phasing out of the shed. He quickly ran for his life once he was out of there despite still being injured, not once did he look back, he was afraid of what they were going to say next. Just as Ali made some distance from the shed, he felt something round hit him. This caused him to fall to the ground. Ali was about to get up when he was suddenly hoisted into the air and onto someone's shoulder.

Soon he realized that he was being carried back to the shed by his uncle. "U-Uncle! Please put me down! I won't tell anyone what I saw!" Ali pleaded. Of course, Bakar did not put him down until they were in the shed again. "Ali... I want you to be serious with me. Tell me, what did you see when you were here..." Bakar said sternly, he had to be serious even if this was his nephew, he cannot risk Ali jeopardizing their identities as an agent. "I-I just saw all of you exit from the door behind the bookshelf and that was it!" Ali said. "Is that all you saw? Do not lie to me," Bakar said. Oh how he hated being stern with Ali, he was supposed to be the fun uncle not a boring one. Regardless, he is an agent in MATA so he has no choice.

"Yes! I'm being honest!" Ali exclaimed. He was slowly getting scared with what was happening, he did not think that it was gonna be that serious. "Ali, do not tell anyone what you saw. Not even Victor," Bakar said sternly as Ali quickly nodded. "How did you even get in here? We clearly locked the shed..." Alicia said as she crossed her arms, she was thinking about the ways Ali could have gotten in.

"Well... I made a phasing tech which allows me to phase through solids," Ali said. Alicia was stunned with what she heard. Ali? Making devices? No way... He was too dumb for it... But then again, Mr Ghazali was a smart man and so was the mother.

"Why did you phase through the shed?" Alicia asked, she was even more perplexed as Ali was never the type to go into small spaces or go into creepy structures. "There were just some bullies... Nothing I couldn't handle..." Ali said. "Serve you right for always being late and never paying attention in class," Alicia said before turning away, still crossing her arms.

Ali rolled his eyes before turning his head over to his Uncle. "Um... Uncle? When can I get out of here? I think I already missed a class..." Ali said. "No need to worry... Someone will make up an excuse for you..." Bakar said before he walked over to a shelf of books. He clicked a button which caused the shelf to move that revealed a door.

"Come on, Ali. We would like you to meet an important person," Bakar said as he walked over to the door. The door opened which revealed a lift. All three of them entered and went down the lift. Of course, Ali was curious as a cat. "Where are we going, Uncle?" Ali asked. "Everything will be brought to light soon enough," Bakar said as he gave Ali a reassuring smile. Soon the lift reached its destination and all four of them walked down a hallway with a door at the end.

What was Alicia and his Uncle doing coming out of a secret place?