UNDERCOVER: Mission Failed?

Chapter 1

"Number one clear." I said in a hushed voice into the walkie talkie.

"Number two clear." Caleb Jones spoke into his walkie talkie.

"Number three clear." Ashley Bennet said.

"Number four clear." Jack East informed us. 

"Close in." I said back to all of them as I sneaked up closer to the enemy target. 

I held my breath as I stealthily peaked behind a wall. A man dressed in all black with a gun in one hand and a bag of white powder, presumably cocaine, in another was running down the hallway. 

"He's heading your way, Jack." I informed him through the walkie talkie.

"Got it." He replied. 

You may be confused about what's going on right now, so let me inform you about everything. Jack, Ashley, Caleb, and I are all secret agents. We are all members of the FBI and we're currently on a mission. Us four are always put in missions together because our boss, Kirk, says that we have good teamwork. After all, we've been training and going on missions together for many years now. 

Jack and Ashley are my really close friends while Caleb is my brother. I started training to become an FBI member with Caleb since we were ten. Caleb and I's first mission together with some other adults was when we were eleven. We then met Jack and then met Ashley when we were twelve. The four of us had our first mission together when we were thirteen. Yes, we were all very young, but we had our reasons. Ever since then, our missions have always been a success. We've never failed a mission and we're not planning to anytime soon. 

"There's another guy. I need backup." Jack informed all of us with an out of breath voice. 

"Coming for backup. Ashley, Caleb. Close in some more." I informed all of them simply as I started running towards where Jack was. 

I turned a corner and saw a guy take a punch at Jack, but he was too inexperienced as Jack was able to simply dodge it and knee him in the stomach. Another guy kicked Jack on the side, causing Jack to fall to the ground. The guy I saw earlier, who had the bag of white powder, started to pull his gun out of his pocket. 

Before he could even aim it at Jack, I was already on his back and tackling him to the ground. No, I am not heavy. I just know how to take them down. 

The other guy tried to pry me off the guy I was held onto, but I simply kicked him in the face. I saw Ashley and Caleb coming into view. Caleb signed something to me. I squinted my eyes to see what he was signing since he was far away. 

'The police are here.' He signed. I nodded

"Jones! Watch out!" I heard Jack yell at me, using my last name. Whenever we're out on a mission, we always call each other by our last names. We have to keep our identities a secret in case of nearby enemies. 

I turned around to see why Jack was yelling at me, but was welcomed with a kick to the shoulder. I landed on the ground, but got up quickly.

"Weak girl." The guy who just kicked me spat. At his words, I grit my teeth and ran at him. I did a flying kick at his face and stood above him when he lay on the ground numbly.

"Shut up." I muttered.

I saw the police take the guy I just kicked away. The police also took away the other guy who Jack took care of.

"Good job you four." Kirk, our boss, said.

"When did you get here?" Ashley asked, surprised. 

"Just in time to see the two men get arrested," Kirk then turned to look at me. "I need to speak to you tomorrow morning at seven am sharp.” I was confused, but simply agreed.

"Okay." Kirk never likes to be questioned. He may seem like a nice guy, but he can be really strict when he's mad. 

"Good work, Jones." Caleb said as he patted me on the back. I rolled my eyes.

"You can say my name. The men are already arrested and nobody is around." I said. Caleb nodded his head.

"Alright. Good job, Skylar!" Caleb said happily as he picked me up and placed me on his shoulders. 

"Put me down!" I exclaimed in shock. Caleb let me down.

"Fine. Be that way." He said as he fake pouted and walked away.

"Let's go back to the agency base guys. It's already one in the morning and I'm so tired." I said to Jack and Ashley. They nodded their heads and walked with me to the cars which will drive us back to the base.

Jack, Ashley, Caleb, and I all live at the base. We have our reasons though.

Jack's mom passed away and his dad is in jail. Jack's mom actually passed away when he was only nine. His dad would then constantly be coming home drunk and abusing Jack. Because of this, Jack started learning karate to defend himself. One day when Jack's dad got home drunk, Jack didn't want to put up with him so he tried to leave the house. Jack's dad followed him outside though and started abusing him. Jack used his martial art skills, but almost died that night. One of the neighbors saw what was happening and called the police. Down at the station, the police arrested Jack's dad and informed Jack about how he was actually a member of the FBI. Because his dad is now out of the FBI, Jack was forced to become a member of it. 

Ashley's story is a little different. Ashley's parents were both secret agents of the FBI, but they kept it a secret from her sister and her. While Ashley was in the car with her sister and parents, they got into a car accident. Her parents didn't survive, but her sister and her luckily did. Since Ashley's parents are now dead, her and her sister were forced to become members of the FBI. Her sister unfortunately died because of a heart attack during training. Her sister's heart became weak because of the car accident and it caused her to get a heart attack when a knife was thrown next to her face, but not close enough to cut it, during training. 

Caleb and I's parents are also members of the FBI. We knew about it though, but we tried to stay calm about it and not make it such a big deal. Our parents died in an accident which caused Caleb and I to be forced into being a secret agent. The story will have to be told later though because I'll probably start sobbing if I think about it. The death of my parents still makes me feel depressed. 

For now, I need to get sleep. After all, I have to meet up with Kirk in less than six hours. 

***

"Morning." Kirk greeted me at exactly seven pm sharp in his office, just like he planned.

"Morning." I replied back to him, keeping back a yawn. Kirk's smile that was recently just on his face, instantly disappeared as he looked at me seriously.

"I have important news to tell you. It regards another mission." Kirk started off. 

Another mission? Usually, all the secret agents have around a week to rest before they have to go on another mission. What could be so important besides the normal missions I always do?

"The mission you just completed was your three hundred ninety ninth mission. All your missions have been a success and I am exceptionally proud of you because you went on your first mission when you were only eleven years old." Kirk said to me.

"Why does it matter that I've gone one three hundred ninety nine missions?" I asked him. 

"It matters because this next mission I am putting you on right now is a dangerous mission which will take longer than normal missions. Since you've never failed a mission before, I think you're ready for this type of mission." Kirk said.

"What's the mission?" I asked curiously, yet cautiously.

"There is an illegal gang on the loose. Information about any of the members of this gang are unknown. However, all I know is they've kidnapped people and stolen drugs." Kirk said.

"I don't get why this mission is so dangerous. Why did you say this would take a long time? I've gone on multiple missions like this before." I said.

"This isn't like any other gang you've caught and arrested. Did you know this gang has killed more than forty people? This gang is sneakier and more malicious than any other gang member you've met." Kirk explained. I saw the look in his eye though. He was leaving something out.

"What are you not telling me?" I asked suspiciously.

"Well, it's just a minor detail about the mission." Kirk said.

"Tell me." I urged him.

"You need to recruit four other people for this mission." Kirk said.

"That's not what you were going to tell me. Just tell me already!" I nagged. Kirk sighed.

"You're going undercover as high school students." Kirk said.

***

"WHAT!?" Ashley shrieked.

"Did you just say that we have to pretend that we're normal high school students!?" Jack asked shocked. I nodded.

I just told Ashley, Caleb, and Jack about the mission. They've been in all of the missions I've gone on so of course I was going to choose them to be on the team. That's three down. One more person to recruit.

"Who else are you going to recruit?" Caleb asked me, not really fazed by the situation.

"I honestly don't know. Do you guys want to go take a walk in the training center with me? We can go see if there are any agents there that are good." They all agreed.

The training center was a huge room which was connected to around forty other big rooms. The training center is where all the secret agents train. There's guns, knife's, axes, bows and arrows, and basically any weapon you can think of. There's many rooms that are filled with obstacles and training dummies that are good for training too. 

Us four split ways as I started walking with Jack around the training center.

"What about him?" Jack asked, pointing to a guy who just threw a knife at a rubber dummy's chest. I scoffed. 

"Let me demonstrate." I said faking an over dramatic voice as I walked up to the barrel which held some knives. 

I picked up two knives and threw them straight at the training dummy without looking. The guy who previously threw a knife at the dummy's stomach stood with his mouth gaping open. 

I turned around to look at the dummy myself to see that I've hit its brain and heart. 

"Lift your shoulder up more and don't make your wrist too stiff." I advised the guy. He nodded and thanked me.

"Dang girl. You got some fine throwing skills." Jack said playfully. 

"Why thank you very much." I said in a posh accent. 

"What about her then?" Jack asked me as he pointed to a girl with blonde hair, tied up in a ponytail. She looked a couple years younger than me.

"Let me watch her for a second." I said as I stared at her intently. 

She was practicing her sparring with another secret agent. The girl was training on attacking right now while the other secret agent was simply defending all the attacks. 

The girl was actually doing well. 

"She's pretty good." I admitted. 

"Does she defend good though?" Jack asked. 

"Maybe a little sparring with me can answer that question." I said as I started walking over to the girl. I felt a hand hold me back.

"Go easy." Jack warned me. I scoffed and nodded.

"I barely know her. I'm not that cold hearted." I said to him as I got out of his grip and walked up to the girl. 

My plan was to do a little sparring with this girl. I've seen her around a couple times, but I never really got to meet her.

"Hey." I said once I reached the mat. She turned to me and instantly smiled.

"Hi." She greeted me.

"Is that okay if we do a little sparring?" I asked her. I watched as her face went pale for a second.

What's the matter? Oh yeah, I never lost a spar.

"I'll go easy. I promise! I just want to see how well you do." I said.

"Alright then." The girl said.

We got into position and started to do a short spar. She tried to kick me in the shoulder, but I blocked it with my arm as I sent a kick flying back at her. She barely dodged it and she attempted to punch me three times. I blocked two of them and dodged the last one as I sent a punch back at her.

We sparred for three minutes. 

"Good job." I said as I shook her hand.

"Thanks! You too." She said.

"What's your name?" I asked her.

"Julia Jackson." She answered.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Skylar Jones." I said.

"I know who you are. You're one of the top agents here." She said shyly.

"Would you like to be one?" I asked her.

"What do you mean?" She asked me back confused.

"How many missions have you been on?" I asked her. Every agent always remembers how many missions they've gone on.

"Two hundred and sixty." She replied.

"Well, I'm going on my next mission. Would you like to join? I'll fill you in on everything." Julia looked at me and I smiled ear to ear.

"I would love to!" She said happily.

***

"Skylar!" I heard somebody call my name. I turned around and saw Kirk walking towards me.

"Yes?" I asked him when he was nearer.

"I heard you recruited your team members for your mission. Two boys and two girls, right?" He asked.

"That's right." I answered

"Here are your disguise plans." He said as he handed me a document. After that being said, he walked away like nothing happened.

I took the document back to my room. The front of the document simply read 'Disguise Plans.' Why do I have to be disguised?

I turned to the next page of the document and saw my mission clearly written out there. Everything then just clicked. I remembered Kirk saying that my team was going to have to go undercover as normal high school students. That means we would have to disguise ourselves somehow in case the illegal gang won't recognise us. 

The disguises for Caleb, Ashley, Julia, Jack, and I are making us look like some stereotypical teens. 

I sighed and put the document away. I don't see how this mission is dangerous or hard at all. We're just capturing an illegal gang. We've done this many times.

Whatever happens, this mission has to be a success.