Herold Sayle grinned smugly to himself as the Prime Minister stood up, beaming at the cameras and preparing to activate the Stormbreaker.
Alex was presumably dead, and everything was in order. He waited for the Prime Minister to pull the trigger that would kill all of the schoolchildren. Unknowingly, of course.
"And now...I'd like to make an announcement." said the Minister loudly. He was sprouting a bushy beard that most certainly hadn't been there yesterday.
"I'm quitt'n polyteeks!" he bellowed.
There was a sharp intake of breath from everyone.
"Sir, sir, what brought this on?" asked a rather heavyset man named Drew I.
"I AM A GAMEKEEPER!" the Minister bellowed, and waved his arms in a manner that he thought was graceful. In reality, it sent Drew flying across the room and through a window.
"Oops." The Minister blushed.
He whipped out an umbrella, and flew away, a la Mary Poppins, destroying the trigger on his way out.
"NOOOO!" Sayle screamed. His plans were ruined. To top it all off, there was Alex Rider, standing on the windowsill, a parachute on his shoulder.
He ran.
A/N: I suck. So does Robbie Coltrane.