The four teens ran quickly, dropping to a crouch outside the large black warehouse.
"Why are we here again?" Keri asked, squinting in the sunlight.
"After what we reported to Frank last time before we got suspended, he wants us to try and see that weather machine" Dan told her.
"Tom, you got anything?" Aneisha asked, turning to her friend.
He was sat kneeled on the grass, looking through his spy pod at the building.
"Not a thing" he replied, closing the black device and slipping it into his pocket.
"Can't see anything from here- must have incredible disguising technology" he said.
Dan paused outside the large door, looking it up and down in distaste.
"One, two, three!" He whispered, and kicked the door open, all four of them bursting in; poised for an attack.
However, there was no-one in the large, grey corridors, and all of them began to relax.
"This is a different entrance than last time" Keri observed.
"We went in from the west side last time, today the east" Tom said.
They all began to venture further down the corridors than last time, not even surprised when it began to hail on top of them.
Upon coming to another room, Tom once again held up his spy pod, x-raying the room inside.
"No-one inside" he said.
Keri tentatively opened the door, fumbling around for a light switch.
When they eventually found one, the only light source in the room came from a lone bulb hanging from the ceiling, so they had to make do with the circumstances given.
"Looks like an old repairs room" Aneisha said, holding up a spanner.
Tom moved further away from the group into a different room, not without scanning it first of course.
However, in here there were no lightbulbs whatsoever, so he wandered in practically blind.
In the darkness he tripped over a chair leg, stumbling forwards into blackness before his hand met cold glass; halting his fall.
Immediately a red light shone out from his handprint, and he snatched his hand away with a shout, revealing a grubby looking mirror.
"Tom! Tom are you alright?" The others cried, racing into the room.
gWithout warning there was a quiet hissing noise, and the air vents began to spill out green gas.
"Get down!" Tom yelled through his blazer sleeve, watching as his teammates dropped to the floor next to him.
The green clouds continued to pour out for at least half a minute, and they all wondered if it was ever going to stop.
The girls were beginning to gag, Dan didn't look like he was particularly enjoying the ordeal and frankly, Tom wasn't either.
Suddenly the entire room shook, and a wall the opposite side slid sideways, not unlike the ones they saw in the maze.
The green gas flowed out in an instant, and the four of them shakily stood up.
They all looked at each other for a moment, before the blonde stepped forwards and clapped his friend on the back with a laugh.
"Well done! I see you are of some use occasionally!" He said jokingly.
Tom rolled his eyes.
Beyond the now disappeared wall, there lay a plush carpet and wooden walls, the kind of hallway you would see in an old mansion.
The lavish surroundings seemed to be a cause for unease amongst the spies, as not many of them seemed keen to venture further.
"What is this?" Keri asked, peering down a long spiral staircase into the darkness.
"A very cleverly hidden hiding spot. " Aneisha muttered as they walked down the stairs, cringing as the wood creaked underneath their feet.
Suddenly there was a loud thumping noise, and all four pairs of eyes widened in fear.
People were coming.
A lot of people.
"Quickly! Run!" Keri hissed, as they all turned and ran down the long corridor, turning at every corner possible.
At long last they could no longer hear the echo of footsteps all around, and skidded to a halt outside a brown door.
Without a second thought Aneisha flung it open, and they all rushed inside, closing it firmly behind them.
As they all took a deep breath, Dan was the one to say what they were all thinking.
"What now?"
"It's definitely KORPS down here." Aneisha said, noticing the key was in the lock of the door.
"Dan, the lock" she murmured.
The blonde turned the silver key in one swift moment, letting it fall to the floor with a clang in the small cupboard like room.
"At least now no-one can get in" Keri said, trying to be cheerful.
The others managed a small smile, before everything began to go wrong, anyway.
"Tom" Aneisha said, nudging the boy slightly with her elbow.
"What is it Neish?" He asked.
"I don't feel right, something's wrong" she whispered almost silently.
"What do you mean wrong? Do you think it's the gas?" He asked, as her eyes began to slip shut.
"No Neish stay awake! Please stay awake!" He cried, siding down the wall to sit next to her on the cold floor as she passed out.
"Dan! Keri!" He panicked, looking over to see his friends in a similar situation- except Dan was already unconscious too.
"Oh no, please no" he begged, already feeling the darkness take him as his mind shut down.
authors note:
*guiltily shuffles back into a story i should have updated ages ago...*
I am honestly so annoyed at myself for not updating this, and sorry to have kept you guys waiting for so long. In the meantime, thank you to those lovely reviewers that spurred me on to keep writing, and now the summer holidays are here, you should expect more regular updates- things are about to get even more complicated and Tom's world is about to come crashing down; this is just the start ;-)