Suddenly Dan felt a searing pain shoot up his arm, and he stopped falling.
He looked up to see Tom, leaning over the edge of the air vent as far as he could go, gripping Dan's arm as tightly as he could.
"Quick, pull him up!" Keri said.
Tom pulled as hard as he could, and Dan heaved himself into the air vent just in time, as not two seconds later, the door opened and the security guard looked in.
He saw the fake part and assumed all was well, and left again.
The four agents in the air vent stopped holding their breath, and started to make a speedy retreat down the air vent.
"Are you okay?" Aneisha asked Dan as they exited the air vent.
"Yeah I'm fine, just a shock that's all" he replied. "Come on, it's 3.00 already".
They ran down the corridors and down the stairs, just making it to the entrance before Mrs King's register.
On the bus back to school Dan rubbed his sore wrist.
It had hurt when Tom had grabbed his wrist, but at least he hadn't fallen, or they would've been in huge trouble.
When they returned the school the four agents made their way to the lift, before entering HQ.
"Did it go well?" Frank asked.
"Sort of" Keri replied, "apart from the rope snapping and Dan nearly falling 15ft to the ground, yeah" Aneisha added.
"Luckily Tom's actually got good grip" Dan said, laughing.
Tom looked at the ground whilst the others laughed, and Frank looked on in amusement.
Aneisha gave the part to Frank, who put it in a small black box before locking it.
"This is going in an M.I.9 vault to keep it safe, especially after what happened last time" he said.
The four agents all looked at the ground, all feeling slightly guilty.
Frank left the base with the box, and the agents sat down at the table.
"Is your wrist okay?" Keri asked Dan.
"Yeah it's fine, just stretched it a bit".
"Sorry about that" Tom commented. "First thing I thought of".
"It's okay" Dan said. "Better than us getting caught".
"KORPS are still using that weapon" Aneisha said, fanning herself with a file.
"It's boiling down here!".
The four agents headed back up to class, and the weather kept changing.
By the end of the day the roads were covered in knee deep snow, and the students had to climb out of the windows, because the door had frozen shut.
"Oof" Tom said, as he landed face first in the snow.
Dan, Keri and Aneisha looked on and laughed at him, as Tom tried to stand up.
"Just help me up" he said, as Dan shuffled over to him.
Dan pulled him up, and they all tried to get out the school gates.
"I'm glad we didn't lose the weapon part" Keri said.
"If we had mucked it up this time, M.I.9 could've fired us!".
"Tom! Wait up!" Someone said from behind them.
The team turned to see Emma walking as fast as she could under the circumstances, trying to catch up with them.
"I swear, that girl is spying on us" Dan whispered.
"She just wants a friend" Tom said. "I don't think she's got any proper friends yet".
"I feel sorry for her" Aneisha said. "She's just trying to fit in".
"Sorry, just wanted to not look like a total loner for once" Emma said, catching up to them.
This silenced the team. What if she really just wanted a friend?
They walked along the road for a while, until the sun came out and the snow rapidly started to melt.
"Bye" Emma said as they went their separate ways.
"See you tomorrow" Tom said, waving goodbye.
"Come on" Aneisha said, pulling Keri down the road.
"Frank told us to go the vault to work out what the part does in the machine".
Hi readers! I'm back from France and I have loads of ideas for this story, so the chapters should be coming thick and fast for a while now. I had a lovely holiday and I am so pleased I am off school for the summer, yay! Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter, please review if you like it :-) I'd just like to thank the people who have reviewed my stories, they just make me want to write even faster!
Bye for now, Tayxxx