Alex Rider: Neptune's Code

Chapter 3

In the previous chapter

S-s-s-se-se-sergeant!"

"WHAT!?!" The sergeant yelled over the communicator. "And why are you STUTTERING?! You're a SOLDIER for goodness sake!"

"Sorry sir! We need medical help immediately sir! Please send backup sir! The lorry Unit 2 was in crashed sir! Some of the students look deathly pale sir!"

Seahorse could imagine the sergeant shaking his head and sighing at the extra work he needed to do.

"Noted. Standard protocol in action. I will send the medics there ASAP."

"Sir yes Sir!"

Chapter 3

Back in Britain at Liverpool Street, in Royal and General Bank, a not so happy deputy head stormed into her higher up's office. "What the hell were you thinking?!"

"I was thinking rationally." Came the emotionless reply as always.

"No you were not! What if his identity is busted?!" Tulip Jones yelled. Yes, yelled. The normally calm and emotionless deputy head was shouting at her superior.

"It is you that is not thinking rationally. And may I remind you of where you are?" Blunt replied calmly.

Jones calmed her breathing and popped a peppermint into her mouth and waited for the explanation.

"This is all for his own good. Scorpia is after him, and where better to send him for safety than a camp at far from civilization, and full of trained soldiers that were chosen from the very best? He can also touch up on his training and perhaps get even better. We can also spot any talent among the teens! If it works out, we can also start sending our own schools to the SAS camps. Isn't that killing four birds with a stone? Of course, we would have to come up with some sort of reason, but that is easily settled.

"You want more teen spies?"

"Why ever not? I'm amazed I didn't think if it earlier!"

Jones took another peppermint. "You know that the president hates us enough already. If our involvement in this leaks out, it'll be our heads!"

"Hate is a very strong word my dear, and besides, I'm afraid that we have absolutely no connection to this. This program is run by the CIA, and the CIA only." Blunt stood up abruptly ending the conversation once and for all. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have a meeting to attend."

✈AR✈

Jack Starbright laid the dinner plates on the table.

"J-Jack?" Alex whispered unbelievingly.

"Hello Alex."She replied calmly. "Come on, sit down and eat." She gestured towards her signature mouth-watering Japanese feast she had prepared.

"Jack, thank the gods. I had the strangest dream ever. Ian was killed a-and he was actually a spy! Then MI6 hired me a-a-and you d-d-died on a mission in Cairo!"

"I'm not dead silly." She smiled at him affectionately and hugged him, before plunging the knife in her hand through Alex's stomach.

He stumbled backwards. Red lifeblood oozed out of him and we swore viciously as it took on a humanoid shape.

"J-J-Ja-Jack!"

The red liquid human split into two then four and eight like a dividing cell.

Alex wanted to get away from the scene, but his feet were stuck to the ground. He was paralyzed! He couldn't move!