Adopted Soldier

"What are you doing here Matthew?" Alex who was beside Matthew whispered softly so that only he could hear. Matthew on the other hand acted as if he didn't know Alex and answered.

"Please do not speak to me like that Mr. Samarita. I am your teacher." Alex already checked and knew that no one was following them, so he answered.

"Stop messing around Matthew, and answer the question." The moment Alex said this he directed a bit of killing intent at Matthew's way. If Matthew kept on messing around he would attack him regardless of the situation.

"Hey no need to be so aggressive, I was just joking around." Matthew raised his hands as if to say he surrenders.

"So answer me already, what are you doing here Matthew?" Alex's voice got a bit colder as he said this. Matthew was truly surprised, every time he thinks Alex has changed he shows him that deep down he was still the same.

"Yesterday my master called me and told me that Lyner came and defeated him. It was a close battle and master didn't reveal any of secret moves, but a win was a win. So because of this, master ordered me to stay here for the time being, and learn what I could from Lyner. Seeing as I can't be a student here in this school, knowing that I already graduated, I decided to become a teacher here instead."

Alex hearing Matthew's answer was surprised so Lyner won against another SS rank merc.

"Tell me everything."

...

While Alex and everyone were in school, someone had entered Oliver's home. This man was none other than Specter. After following Oliver yesterday he learned of the location of his dwelling. Specter waited the whole day for Oliver to leave the premise, once Oliver headed to school Specter entered the house.

On the outside the house look like any normal house, but inside it was anything but normal. Inside the house was full of gadgets littered all over the place. The place was filled to the brim with weird looking gadgets. Though the house had still the normal everyday items, what filled it more were items that look like there suppose to be in a sci-fi film. Still the items in question looked like toys, Specter knew that they were not as simple as they looked.

Specter was now even more sure that Phil and Margie were living with Oliver, since those two were once the top inventors of the Shadow Mercenaries. They were the ones who completed the mind swiper. There were also the ones responsible for the start of the nano machines project. They weren't there when it was completed but they were the reason it started, and now Specter was using it as his weapon.

...

Specter checked all the rooms, he saw one room in particular and knew immediately that it was Oliver's room. The room was filled with model guns, and airplanes. The posters on the walls were that of war heroes. He even had some heavy looking weights on the floor. Yet the most noticeable thing was the sword that had it's own shrine. Even with his mind swiped and his memories most probably erased Oliver, remained the same on the inside. He was still James Bourne of the Shadow Mercenaries.

Specter looked around Oliver's whole room and found nothing of interest. He then continued to search the house, but was unable to find anything useful. He saw the room that was supposedly Phil and Margie's room but there was nothing there as well. It even looked more normal than anything in the house, it was a normal looking room. It had a T.V, a bed, a closet, and everything else that you would normally see in a room.

...

As Specter was checking all the rooms, he found it was weird that Oliver's supposed parent's never left the house, yet yesterday though he didn't get a good look, Specter saw the silhouettes of other people inside the house.

So how come they weren't here? He was watching the place the whole time, and he saw no one aside from Oliver leave the house. There must be something that he was overlooking. Specter did another clean sweep of the house and found nothing.

'Both those traitors did like making those hidden doors and such. They would always make a switch that no one would suspect to open a hidden door. It's been a long time since I last saw them so I'm really not that sure, but whatever I have no other leads at the moment.'

Specter then began pulling on every book in the bookshelf. He started to see if there was a switch hidden in the random objects in the house. While pressing, pulling, and checking all the things in the house, Specter finally noticed that all the pictures present were only of Oliver.

He wondered what was happening. It couldn't be that Oliver didn't notice that his mom and dad never took a picture. Maybe he did ask it and was told some excuse, or Oliver's mind was programmed not to ask this question.

As Specter was thinking about this, he finally gave up and sat on the couch. He looked everywhere, pressed, pulled, and pushed everything in this house yet nothing happened. He checked every nook and cranny of the house, even the rooftop and found nothing.

'Those b*stards really do know how to hide. Maybe if I confront James directly he might be able to remember me and be back to his good old self. Still when it comes to Margie and Phil one must always expect the unexpected. Those two had a lot of failsafes just in case something happens, so they might have done something similar to James... Maybe I can befriend James as a transfer student in his school, and slowly gather the information from him. Yeah, that might be possible. I can definitely do that."

When Specter finally decided what to do next, he noticed that a large picture of Oliver was crooked. He was about to leave the house, but he also noticed that the whole place was wrecked by him. This will most probably alert Phil and Margie, so Specter was thinking if he needed to clean up. It was at this moment Specter found something strange, there was no security cameras inside the house.

He had checked everything and he was sure that the whole house had no security cameras. Phil and Margie would never leave their house this defenseless and easy to infiltrate. Specter felt that this was a trap of some sorts, and waited in the living room in full alert but after a few minutes of waiting nothing happened.

'If there are any security cameras here, Phil and Margie must be laughing there butts off watching how stupid I'm looking.' Specter sighed as he was also getting a bit irritated, by the crooked picture on the wall. He then couldn't help it and fixed it, when he did so he heard something opening in the master bedroom.

Specter quickly headed there and saw the closet had move a few inches to the right, now revealing a hidden area.. Specter smiled as he finally found what he was looking for.