"Hey! Watch the merchandise!" Kit shouted as Nine stormed into the room and ripped Robyn from him.

Robyn tried to fight against Nine as he bundled her in a blanket from the bed but he was too strong.

"Let me go!" She cried as she continued to struggle against him, "What are you? Some kind of twisted pervert? You were watching the whole time!"

"GET OUT NOW!" Nine bellowed pointing at Kit and ignoring Robyn's accusations.

Not knowing what else to do, Kit grabbed Robyn's pillow and placed it over his manhood before jumping from the bed and running from the room.

Practically throwing Robyn onto the bed, Nine rifled through her drawers and wardrobe as he pulled out clothes and undergarments.

"Get dressed!" He ordered as he tossed a bundle of clothes at Robyn.

Nine turned away sharply as Robyn stood and ripped the blanket from her, revealing her nakedness. Her eyes were burning into his back as he heard her pulling on clothes. When her movements ceased he turned back to face her.

Matching her look of anger with his own he stood firm, "You're coming with me!"

Langford was taking part in the early morning patrols when he heard someone shouting his name. Ordinarily on seeing an almost entirely naked Kit running towards him he would have presumed himself to be the victim of a crude joke but the look on the clown's face told him this was something entirely different.

"Langford! You have to come quick!" Kit panted as he tried to catch his breath, "Nine's flipped, he's on one big time! You have to stop him!"

The time for asking Kit what had happened and why he was naked would come later. This was an urgent matter and Langford had to deal with it now. Signaling for another of his men to join him he burst into a run just as Nine emerged from the house carrying a kicking Robyn over his shoulder.

"PUT ME DOWN!" Robyn yelled at the top of her voice.

Unfazed by Robyn's volume, Nine continued to walk relentlessly towards the ladder of his airship. His ears were filled with a tirade of insults as he drew nearer his target.

"Have you totally lost the plot? When was the last time you had a shit because no one gets as grumpy as you do without having been completely constipated for the last six years!" Robyn shouted, "No wonder Lily's a bloody head case! I'm not surprised your children slept together, it's probably the only way they could cope with having you as a father! I've known you six weeks and I'm bloody sick of you already!"

Despite the situation unraveling before his eyes, Kit couldn't control his urge to laugh at what he was hearing.

Morgan appeared in the doorway of the Mayor's house having become aware of the commotion outside and surged forward with the intention of freeing his sister but was quickly tackled to the ground by several of the Network officers standing by in case they were needed.

Langford moved to approach Nine but found himself pushed out of the way as the older hero barged past him.

Nine's gait was wavering under Robyn's constant struggling but he remained strong, fuelled by his anger. Reaching his ladder he became to climb, Robyn's continued hurling of insults and slander incoherent to him. Climbing the ladder using only one hand and carrying his struggling quarry was dangerous yet he remained determined. As soon as he reached the platform he called for his airship to retract his ladder, preventing Langford or his men from scaling it.

Observers of the chaos woken from their slumber by Robyn's shouts looked on with disbelief as Nine commanded his platform to rise and he and Robyn disappeared from view.