July 26
0900 hours
Ben's POV
I woke up in an unfamiliar room. Then I remembered everything. I was on a CIA plane headed to Egypt to confront SPYDER. I looked around and saw that Mike was already up and about, changing out of his pajamas and making his bed. I yawned, "morning Ben," Mike greeted. "Morning," I replied. "You might want to get up, the others are already awake and eating breakfast," I nodded. "Yeah, I coming, tell them I'll be out in a few minutes." I said as Mike left the room.
I sat up on my bed and yawned. I walked out into the hall and in the direction of one of the two bathrooms on the plane. The bathroom was very pleasant and was decorated with a painting on the wall above the toilet. There was a spacious shower at the back of the bathroom. I locked the door, undressed and stepped in the shower.
Five minutes later, I emerged from the bathroom with a towel rapped around my waist since I didn't bring my clothes and walked to my room to change. As I was changing, the door suddenly open and the absolute last person I wanted to see in my undergarments walked in. Erica Hale.
I was instantly felt very self conscious. I was pretty scrawny but my time training in spy school gave me some muscles so I looked like a kid who's underfed and work's out. Which was partly true as I have been working out. I looked at Erica, she was staring at me, when realized what she was doing, she quickly glanced away and said in an unErica like way, "um, mom told me to come check on you." I was still shocked, "could you close the door and wait for me outside please," I said rather uncomfortably, which given the circumstances, was understandable.
"Yeah sure," she replied her face red, and closed the door as she walked out. I was pretty sure my face like hers, was burning. Holy crap Erica just saw me in my underwear , I thought. Well that was embarrassing . I quickly finished changing and followed her. We walked towards the dining room together, as we were walking, she said, "If you even think about telling anyone what happened just now, I will find you and I will kill you slowly," I gulped and nodded. "Wouldn't think about it."
When we walked in, none of us thought of how red our faces were, which was a big mistake as Catherine saw it almost immediately. "Hello Benjam----wait, why are both of you blushing?" she asked. Everyone glanced our way. "Whoa, so this is what happens when Ben and Erica get some alone time," Mike said with a smirk. Both Jawa and Chip snorted into their cereal but quickly shut up when Erica shot them a ice cold glare. "What did you two do to each other?" Catherine asked. I silently thanked that Cyrus and Alexander were piloting the plane as Cyrus probably would've stomped me into a grease spot right there. Zoe was also with them trying to learn the basic's so I didn't have to deal with her either.
"We didn't do anything mom," Erica said, annoyed. "Now can me and Ben just sit down and have breakfast now?" Catherine nodded, "Fine, but me and Ben are going to have a little talk later," she said, glancing at me. I gulped, well that's something to look forward to. Erica just sighed, indicating that she gave up and just sat down on one of the chairs at the table.
I also walked up to the table and took a seat next to Mike. "So, what did you guys do?" Mike whispered to me. "Can we just put this all behind us and act like it never happened?" I asked. "Nope," said Mike with another smirk. I sighed and went back to eating my breakfast, which consist of toast, some eggs and a few slices of bacon. Murray would have liked that.
Thinking about Murray got me thinking about SPYDER, which got me thinking about the mission. "So what's the plan when we get to Cairo?" I asked. "Well we'll be checking into the Tolip El Galaa Hotel, Jessica in staying in a resort, the Dusit Thani Lakeview Resort to be exact," Catherine said. Typical, of course Jessica would staying at an expensive resort , I thought to myself. Before Catherine could continue, I saw something weird outside plane. I set down my spoon and walked towards the window. What I saw made my blood run cold. "Um guys, I think you should see this," I said with a yelp. Once again everybody looked at met, then at the window. Erica muttered a curse that would probably have got you suspended at a normal school.
The planes engine has caught fire.