"Understood." The video call cuts off and Frank turns to face Maddie and Tom, the latter of the two only just turning away from his computer at that moment, "Guys, get the team, Sebastian and the molecular accelerator back here safely. They want all of you upstairs with me protecting the Prime Minister."

"The Prime Minister is here?"

"Apparently so?"

Maddie looks back at Frank in confusion, "But why would the PM be here?"

"Hey guys!" Maddie runs down the corridor and over to the others, who are back from the facility with Sebastian and the molecular accelerator in tow, "Good, you guys got Sebastian."

Sebastian lets out a long and rather unnecessary groan, which honestly makes him sound rather immature, "Not another little kid! Where are the other adults around here?!"

"Who are you calling little?!" Maddie snipes back. She points one of her fingers to the side of her head, "I've probably got more going on up here than you do and you're a grown man!"

"Okay, okay! Easy!" Dan grabs Maddie by the shoulders and pulls her to the side, speaking to her in a hushed voice, "I know that he's fairly annoying to deal with, but he's our responsibility."

"Fairly? He's a jerk!"

Dan shrugs, "He only called you little."

"Okay, fine then. He's not a jerk, but he's still patronising! I am not little!"

"Yes, and I know that, but there's no use in trying to convince him that, is there? Especially when he's not going to be our problem for long." Dan says calmly, "Frank sent us a message. He wants us to send him down to HQ alone."

"Why?"

"Mr Flatley's been made the new acting Prime Minister."

"Flatley?!" Maddie gasps, "Frank said that the PM was here, but I just assumed that it was the regular guy."

"Yeah, well, it's not. So we need to get to him and guard him."

Maddie nods and walks back over to the others, turning directly to Sebastian, "HQ isn't that far from here. At the end of the hall, make a left turn and continue down the next corridor. Then make the first right turn after that. The broom cupboard will be down that corridor."

"Right!" Sebastian begins to walk off in the directions that Maddie explains, "There better be another adult waiting there for me."

"You know, if it wasn't for the fact that he's an MI9 researcher, I would've slapped him." Maddie sighs and turns back to the others, "Okay, so, what now?"

"Well, once we get changed, we go and find Mr Flatley."

"Frank, where is Sebastian?" Maddie asks as she and the others, who are now wearing their appropriate school clothes, run over to Frank in the corridor.

"I thought he was with you."

"You sent us a message, said he had to meet you by the broom cupboard."

Frank shakes his head at Dan's statement, "I didn't send a message."

"Well, if you didn't, who did?"

"I don't know. People have been getting strange calls all day." Frank reaches into his pocket and pulls out his phone, "One of you should get down to the base."

"I'll go." Dan glances back at the others as he begins to run off, "Look after the PM."

"How did he get elected anyway?" Aneisha asks.

"We don't know, but we think KORPS was involved." Frank replies formally, "Until we find out more, he's the acting PM. We have to look after him."

"Or we could just lock him in a room until this is all sorted out." Everyone gives Maddie incredulous looks at her suggestion, "What?! It works, doesn't it? It'll keep him safe and it'll save us from having to protect a PM who shouldn't even be a PM!"

Aneisha sighs and grabs onto Maddie's arm, beginning to pull her down the corridor and towards Mr Flatley's office, Zoe, Tom and Frank following shortly afterwards. The spies move and sit at the table in the middle of Mr Flatley's office whilst Frank remains just outside of the room, likely to make some calls to MI9 Headquarters.

"Ah, Maddie. What do you think of my new idea of transport?" Maddie turns towards Mr Flatley as he addresses her and forces an interested look onto her face, "Cars that are powered by Morris Dancers."

Maddie honestly thinks that the idea is stupid, not to mention scientifically preposterous, but instead chooses to smile and nod at his idea, "That sound amazing, sir. Truly revolutionary."

Maddie is forced to endure about ten more minutes of Flatley's ridiculous ideas before Aneisha taps her on the arm and motions to the door, where Frank is signalling for them to come over. They get up from their seats and walk over to Frank, Tom quick to jump in with the questions.

"Any word from Dan?"

"Not yet." Frank replies shaking his head, "Stella thinks there's some kind of super spy behind all these strange events. And now something has happened to my spy pod."

"What's going on exactly?"

"I don't know, but I'm guessing it's something to do with that."

Maddie looks over at what Tom is pointing to, which turns out to be the small TV at the side of the room, which is currently playing a news broadcast.

"Technology everywhere is winding back to an earlier version of itself with airships in the sky above Heathrow and steam trains clogging up the railways."

"Something systematically replacing only new technology with old technology. It's like someone got hold of the molecular accelerator and reversed it somehow." Frank says, "That must be why my spy pod turned into an old communicator."

"That's it. I'm going after Dan."

"Whoa, now, hold on a second." Tom interjects, "We don't even really know what's going on. We should step back and assess the situation before we do anything."

"I don't need to assess it to know that something isn't right about all of this. I also don't need to assess it to know that my brother is alone, without backup, whilst all of this is going on. Which is why I'm going to find him." Maddie replies as she begins to make her way down the corridor, "I have a really bad feeling about all of this."

The first thing that Maddie notices when she steps out of the lift and into HQ is the odd outfit change. It's not her usual spy outfit. It looks as if it's been ripped right out of a movie from the 50's, and she's not the only one who looks this way. The clothes that the others are wearing mirrors this style, and it's incredibly strange.

"How lovely! All together again and ready for action."

Maddie turns towards the source of the familiar voice, shocked at who she finds stood beside her strangely dressed brother, "The caretaker?"

"Guys, Jemima Thursday." Dan motions to the caretaker, well, at least who Maddie thought was the caretaker, "She's amazing. She's turning things back so we can keep our jobs. We can stay together."

"Dan, don't you realise what she's doing? The molecular accelerator isn't just rewinding MI9's technology. It's affecting everything. Imagine a world where medical advances are reversed and people get ill when they don't have to."

"Aneisha's right, Dan." Maddie sighs, "This isn't right and you know it. We can't risk the safety of the entire world for our jobs."

"But, we can all stay together this way." Dan replies, a crestfallen look on his face, "I thought you wanted that, Mads. I thought you all did."

"We do, Dan...but not like this. We have a job to do, a purpose." Maddie sighs, "Our purpose is to save the world. Even if it means we can't save our jobs. If we can't even do the job we still have, we don't deserve to keep doing it."

"Oh, really!" Jemima scoffs, "Noble ideals are all very well, but they don't catch criminals."

Maddie looks to her brother cautiously. She would usually say that, without a shadow of doubt in her mind, Dan would do the right thing immediately. But she fears that his judgement may have been clouded by Jemima.

It turns out, she soon finds out, that she was wrong.

"You know what? They're right." Dan moves to stand beside Maddie and the others, "Shut down the accelerator."

"No! Daniel! You can't!" Jemima yells, "Activate defences!"

As they reach the desk where the molecular accelerator is located the defences activate, causing the lift doors to open up again and reveal a large turbo-powered fan, which seems to be acting more like a vacuum than a fan. Everybody desperately clings to something as the fan begins to take effect and suck various loose items towards it, although Jemima isn't as lucky. She loses her grip and is pulled along the ground, just about managing to grab onto the door of the lift before she is pulled into the fan.

"The molecular accelerator has even affected the security systems!" Tom yells above the noise, "It must have reinstated the old defences from years ago!"

"I'm wearing magnetic boots! Hold on to me!"

Maddie reaches out and grabs hold of Tom, joining the chain of people holding onto Zoe, who is rooted to the ground thanks to her magnetic boots. Maddie grabs onto Dan's hand as he turns to face her, saying that he has got to help save Jemima.

Maddie gives him a stern look, "Dan, don't even think about it!"

Dan doesn't listen to her, instead lowering himself to the ground and stretching out as far as he possibly can towards Jemima. Despite being against his idea, Maddie keeps a strong grip on his hand. She'd be an awful sister if she let go, wouldn't she? Even if she thinks that his plan is ludicrous.

She can't hear much of what he's saying to Jemima due to the fact that he's turned away from her and that the noise from the fan is incredibly loud, but she can definitely hear the last part when he turns back towards her and the others, "Zoe, the hairdryer is a fusion ray! Use the hairdryer!"

A few moments pass until the lift doors close and the fan goes away with it, signalling that Zoe has successfully used the fusion ray on the molecular accelerator. Maddie, amongst the others, lets out a sigh of relief, whilst Dan moves to help Jemima up off of the floor.

"I'm sorry." Jemima sniffles, "All this reminds me of when I was a spy. A good one."

Dan gives her a reassuring smile, "You are. The best. You're the reason I want to be a spy."

"And you are the reason we're still spies. Although what you did today was wrong, if it wasn't for you, we'd be finished."

"They're right, Jemima." Maddie shrugs, "But next time, I'm just going to go with my other plan and release the sheep."

Everybody looks at Maddie quizzically for her statement, to which she can't help but laugh and smile at them all, "Don't even worry about it."

"The molecular accelerator's circuits have blown. Sebastian doesn't think he can repair it. In fact, he says he's not even going to try. So, we're back in the game."

Maddie smiles as she walks alongside the others out of the front door of the school and into the outer quad. Although everything that Jemima did almost led to catastrophic results, at least it led to one positive outcome. They still have their jobs and nobody got hurt in the long run, so in hindsight the situation could've ended up with everybody being much worse off.

"She's still a hero, no matter what she's done."

Maddie turns and looks over at her brother, who is staring sadly at an old photo of Jemima. She puts a reassuring hand on his arm and smiles up at him, "She's human. It'd be unnatural if she never made any mistakes. Deep down, she only wanted to fight for what's right."

"Maddie's right." Aneisha adds, "And at least all the technology has gone back to normal."

The others begin to walk ahead and Maddie reaches for Dan, pulling him back before he can follow after them. She looks at him sympathetically, "You sure that you're okay?"

"Yeah. Yeah...I'm fine." Dan nods and sighs sadly, "I just...well, part of me thought that she'd change her mind sooner than she did. I'm glad that she did in the end, but it was a bit too close for comfort. She's the one who inspired me to become a spy, after all. I guess I thought that she'd be more...righteous. You know, full of good morals and respect. I guess I was wrong about that."

"Don't feel so guilty about all of it. In fact, don't feel guilty about it at all. It wasn't your fault. And like I said, she's human. We, as a species, are prone to making mistakes. It happens, even to the best of us." Maddie gives him a confident smile, "How about, before Mum makes dinner later, we go through some of your old spy stuff and build something. You know, use all of the old technology to make something new. Jemima was right about some of the old tech. It can actually be rather useful."

Dan smiles warmly at Maddie's suggestion, which instantly brightens up her mood. She's usually not the best at cheering people up, so it's nice when she can make somebody's feel better. Especially if it's her friends or family.

"That sounds great, Mads." Dan replies, "Although, I do have one rule about it all."

"Sure. Hit me with it."

"Don't blow anything up."

Maddie smirks over at her older brother and shrugs innocently, "Hey, I can't make any promises."