WHHHAAATTT UUPP! sorry i haven't updated in a while! theres been loads of stuff going on, and i just haven't found the time! do not worry, i am not abandoning you! Next chapter!

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Hours later, Keri and Aneisha were in base, teasing Tom.

"Come on Tom! Tell us who your love is!" yelled Aneisha.

Tom turned a delicate pink and didn't reply. He just carried on scanning London for Dan. The truth was, Tom had a little bit of a crush on Aneisha. He liked the way she would tilt her head to the side when she was thinking. He liked the way she smiled. He loved everything about her.

Keri interrupted his thoughts by throwing herself dramatically onto his lap.

"Kiss me Tom! I'm your crush!" she said, grabbing Tom's shirt. He turned a deeper shade of red as he imagined Aneisha there instead of Keri.

Frank walked into a very strange scene. He saw Keri on Tom's lap, about to kiss him, and Aneisha laughing hysterically from the middle table. He threw a questioning look at Tom. Like the way Keri had told Stella and Aneisha about her huge crush on Dan, Tom had confided in Dan and Frank. Tom shook his head slightly as an indication that no, I do not suddenly like Keri, and yes, they are mocking me.

"What's this about?" Frank asked. Keri jumped off Tom's lap.

"TOM'S GOT A CRUSH ON SOMEONE!" she shouted. Tom folded his arms.

"All right, no need to tell the whole of MI9," he muttered.

"Speaking of MI9, have you found Dan yet?"

They all turned around. Stella was on one of the screens. "What's all this about Tom having a crush?" she asked, smiling at Tom. Stella could be such a teenage girl sometimes.

"We'll tell you later. Have you got anything on Dan?" Frank said, taking over.

"No. You? Finished that search yet?"

Frank looked at Tom. He shook his head.

"I've only done the west side of London. This would be so much easier if Dan would just turn on his tracker."

"Guys, do you think Dan would want to come back, if the Crime Minister's told him... you know?"

Keri snorted. "Don't be silly, Neish. Course he would want to come back. He's not gonna turn into a criminal..." she looked at Frank and Stella, who had exchanged glances at her words. "... Is he?"

"Think of it this way," Frank said in a low voice. The mood, which had been happy and confident moments before, changed to worried and serious. "If, one day, you woke up and found out your entire existence was a lie, that you were kidnapped and made to believe that you were MI9, that your mother spent all these years mourning you, that the very system you trusted had broken its own rules, how would you react?"

Keri, Tom and Aneisha looked at each other. They would react very badly, they all knew that. But Dan? Dan was a bit unpredictable. Would he really turn?

The question hung in the air, until a beep broke the silence. Then another beep. Soon, the computer was beeping rapidly. They all gathered around Tom as he turned to face the computer. Frank moved the computer forward for Stella so she could see too, and she gave him a grateful smile. His heart leapt and he smiled back.

"This is the location of every KORPS base we know of and any new ones the computer has just found. You guys need to search these, see if you can get any intel on Dan."

"What? There must be 100 on there!" Keri and Aneisha exclaimed.

"150, actually," Tom corrected. Then, seeing the girls faces, especially Aneisha's, he added, "I'll conduct a computer search of the furthest ones. But for the closest ones, you're on your own."

"Or rather, I'll be guiding you," said Frank, frowning at Tom. He didn't usually go soft like that. Then he looked where Tom was looking which was Aneisha's face, and he needed no more explanation. He grinned.

Stella caught sight of Frank's grin, and immediately demanded, "What? What's so funny?"

Frank waited until Keri and Aneisha had left. "Oh, nothing, Stella. Tom just has a crush on Aneisha, and he softened up for her, doing some of the searches himself."

"FRANK!" yelled Tom, turning red as Stella laughed. "SERIOUSLY! YOU ARE WORSE THAN DAN- AND THAT'S SAYING SOMETHING!"

"I wont tell anyone, promise," Stella smiled. She turned around at a call from her office door. "Oh, ok, I'll be right there. Sorry. Somethings come up. Stella out," she said. The call ended.

Back in the KORPS base, Dan woke to find himself surrounded by people in white lab coats.

MWAHAHHAHAHA! CLIFFHANGER! i know. im evil.