Unexpected {Ejen Ali Fanfic}

A Friend for An Enemy

After an hour of skating, Ali's mouth was getting cold dry and he and Viktor decided to rest. 

"Terrific, your skating was," Alicia said sarcastically as he sat down beside her with a steaming mug of hot chocolate.

Ali scowled. "Skate lah if you can do it better."

"You know, I'm going to go look for the pen drive." Alicia said, standing up.

"What? Won't it be suspicious, if Viktor finds out?" 

"You can avoid that by saying that I've gone to the bathroom or something," Alicia said irritably.

On the floor, Ali's bag gave a shudder and a head of a white cat poked out of it. It sniffed in the air curiously, then found Ali holding a mug of hot chocolate and meowed longingly. 

Ali smiled, and allowed Comot to drink some of his drink. Once it drank its fill, it retreated back into the bag and did not emerge. Viktor sat down on Alicia's seat with another mug of his own. 

"Eh, where's Alicia?" Viktor asked curiously, casting about for a sign of her. 

"She's gone to the toilet," Ali said casually, taking a sip of his hot chocolate. He nearly choke as the hot drink came into contact with his tongue.

"Eh, you wanna go for lunch later?" Viktor asked.

"Oh, sure. Can we come back for another skate, though, once we've gone out?"

"Of course. C'mon, let's go." He got up.

"But what about Alicia?" Ali raised his eyebrows.

"You can text her ma," Viktor grinned tauntingly. 

Growling, Ali swung his bag over his shoulders and together, they went to find a decent restaurant to eat. 

"Ha, how bout this one?" Viktor pointed to a green restaurant named 'Sakae Sushi'. 

"Japanese food?" Ali sighed exasperatedly. 

"Eh, why? You don't like Japanese?"

"Ha? No, no, of course. Let's eat there."

So they stood at the front of the queue, and a waitress led them to a table for four. 

Ali's phone rung in his pocket and he took it out to see who is was.

"Alicia," he mumbled to Viktor, and accepted the call.

"Ah, hi, Alicia...Uh, yeah, we've gone to eat lunch. What? No, that wasn't my intention! Ha, yeah...at Sakae Sushi...see ya."

"What happened?" Viktor asked interestingly. 

"It's nothing," Ali said distractedly.

A few minutes later, while Ali and Viktor were still choosing their meal, Alicia joined the lot. Viktor called the waiter and told them all their orders. The three settled down into an uneasy silence. 

A waitress swept over to their table and placed down three cups of hot green tea in front of them. 

"Three hot green teas," she said, and she swept off again.

"Eh, when since we ordered green teas?" Ali asked, prodding the cups with his finger.

"Must be a mistake." Viktor scrunched up his face as he searched for someone to talk to. "I'll be back."

This left Ali and Alicia alone at the table. Alicia was looking about; she wasn't one to be easily distracted from her mission. 

"Got any clues yet?" Ali muttered to her out of the side of his mouth.

"No. And maybe if you helped, we might find it faster." she shot back. Why must she always make small things a big fuss?

Viktor came back with the previous waitress as she apologised with the utmost regret for the mistaken order.

"It's OK," Ali told her, as she took the cups away and placed them on the table behind theirs. He rather thought he caught a glimpse of silver as Viktor sat down, but rather thought it was just the waitress' wristwatch. 

They went through their meal quite well, and were going to go back to the ice skating rink for round two when Alicia told them they should not exercise immediately after eating.

"It's not exercise, ice skating," Ali puffed, crossing his arms. 

"Fine, if you want to go. Don't expect me to cry over your writhing body in the hospital when you get in trouble." she snarled.

So they were forced to take a walk around the mall for half an hour before going back to the rink.

"She's annoying, you know, Alicia," Ali told Viktor when Alicia was out of earshot, taking his anger out on his wretched tight skates by kicking them.

"She's just worried, that's all," Viktor said, helplessly watching him.

Luckily, when Ali had entered the ice skating rink again, he had to divert his attention on more important things, like trying to not fall and soak up his bottom. He had managed to skate (or rather move without slipping) around the rink for two times when Alicia called them out. Ali was most annoyed when she did.

"What do you want?" Ali whinged irritably.

"The pen drive is near," she said in undertone, so that Viktor, waiting for them nearby, couldn't hear.

"What?" Ali said. All his anger with her seem to evaporate at that moment to be replaced by astoundment. "But then where is it?"

"It's somewhere around here. Keep your eyes open." she said, nodding towards Viktor. 

He came over immediately. 

"So, you two done? I've been wanting to try out my new move."

"Alicia doesn't want to stay here anymore," Ali said, rolling his eyes so as to show he truly did not agree to the statement.

"Eh, why?" Viktor questioned, clearly bewildered. 

"She thinks it's boring here. Maybe we should do something else." Ali suggested.

"Hmm..." Viktor thought. "Let's see..."

But then at that moment, someone most peculiar was walking in their direction. Ali expected the spectacled black and purple-haired woman to drop into a seat nearby. But surprisingly, she wanted to talk to Viktor.

"Oh, hi, Aunty," Viktor said uneasily when he noticed who was tapping his shoulder.

"Aunty?" Ali asked, confused. Then the it came to him. "Ooohh...you must be Viktor's aunt, right?"

The woman looked in his direction, and if Ali's eyes did not deceive him, flinched, and spoke hurriedly into Viktor's ear, and Viktor nodded impatiently. He withdrew something silver out from his pocket that made Ali gasp loudly.

"You have the pen drive!" Ali shouted, pointing from the pen drive to Viktor, and to the pen drive again. Something like fear exploded in him when he realised the most horrible possibility, but it couldn't be-

But then the woman was most probably Dos-

Alicia had already changed into her agent suit and was holding her blastique aloft at Viktor and Dos, who both were evidently frozen to the spot in shock.

An image flashed inside of Ali's mind which he didn't dared believe to be true, but how else?

"You..." Ali whispered fearfully, unable to find words to describe his horror. "You're...Quarto?"