A.N Well, here you are guys. Sorry for taking so long to update but I've been busy with Uni and also I've been ill over the last couple of days. Hope this makes up for it though

Chapter 5

"How sure are you about this?" asked Jeff, staring levelly at Errika trying to hide the obvious hope and joy at this latest bit of news.

From the general sounds of things, Alan's mate Buzz had been scanning as many airwaves as he possibly could and using a couple of hacking tricks he had learned from collage at military training, he had located a possible location to Alan.

It was a hell of a long shot but at least it was something to start with.

"From what I know of Buzz, Mr Tracy, there are very few times that he is ever wrong about this sort of thing. He'll have double and triple checked that signal and re-routed it through several others to check that it wasn't a dud. If Buzz says he's there, then he's in that area at the very least" said Errika, keeping her voice far more level than Jeff.

Jeff looked down, sighed but then flicked a button. After a few seconds, Penelope's voice and image appeared, "Penelope Creighton-Ward reporting, what's the matter Jeff?" she asked, well-trained British tones allowing very little emotion to show through.

"We may have details on Alan's where about...but we need your help" he said, keeping his eyes on the screen.

"How?" the question was simple and straight to the point.

"We need a copy of the maps of the London Underground. Can you get them for us?" asked Jeff, praying to God that they weren't that hard to come across.

"That will be no problem Jeff. I shall send them direct to you. FAB" said Penelope before shutting off communication.

Jeff sighed but did not turn around.

Maybe if he had he would have seen Errika turn the top part of her watch around to the left, which set off a small signal.

But no one suspected little Errika of anything.

The Hood lifted himself off the ground and gently pushed himself to a sitting position. Gently he rubbed his eyes with the balls of his hand and looked around.

The room was basic and not to the normal standard he would have selected for containing a highly dangerous prisoner but then again Rachel and David were both a bit on the amateurish side when compared to his criminal genius.

He carefully searched the perimeter of the room and finally came to the conclusion that all of the security was on the outside of the room.

The doors and vents were all monitored by motion detectors and a sheer drop came from the only window in the place.

Sighing like a dejected dog, The Hood flopped to the floor and stared gloomily at the wall opposite him.

There was nothing particularly interesting about the wall, but at least it was something to stare at.

He growled in frustration and threw a shoe at it...he had no idea as to why but it was a bit of a relief from the amount of anger and stress that was building up.

"It's not fair, I'm trying to save the boys life and what do I get? Trapped in a god-forsaken-room with no chance of escape! It's not fair!" tears welled up in his eyes but they couldn't fall.

Slowly he rose and stared.

In the bottom corner, standing out like a discarded brick was a ventilation shaft that went into the building, instead of out of it.

Curiosity overwhelmed every other sense that The Hood had and carefully he scanned it with his mind powers.

It was clean. No security there at all.

Moving quickly forward, he scrambled against the metal edge and tried to break the plaster around it.

"Come on move you stupid piece of junk!" he shot at the metal. Almost as if the metal could understand him, it gave way and fell into a darkened room beyond.

The hole was far too small to fit a human through and since he only had his bare hands, The Hood started to pull at the exposed plaster hoping that it would be easy enough to break and make the hole bigger.

"Help me" came a croaked voice and The Hood jumped back as a hand reached up and tried to grab hold of his hand.

"Please help me. I don't want to die"

AN Heh I'm a sod for doing that, aren't I? Still wanna know what's going on? Review