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Hi Guys here's the next bit, it almost didn't get written tonight as thunderbirds are go was on TV and I couldn't resist! Thank you for all the views, favourites and follows. Feel free to R&R I welcome your feedback!

Over the last 24 hours Rose, Penelope and Parker had gathered enough Intel to warrant an arrest; the arrest of Jonah Lee. It was 11.30am.

They had received Intel from Jeff Tracy that a terrorist attack was imminent. Both he and Lady Penelope were convinced that London was the Target as the capital; it also couldn't be a coincidence that Jonah was here. He had been working for this mysterious Agent Seven-Nine from the beginning. Rose had decided that they needed to intervene right away. She reached out to her contacts and now there was a fast response police unit on route along with the terror unit. Parker pulled up a few cars away from the black Land rover that they had been following.

Penelope was shifting uncomfortably in the back seat. 'Dear! This is most uncomfortable'.

'It won't be so uncomfortable when it saves your life, if you are insisting on being at the front of this pursuit then you will wear it, I need to know your safe'. Rose grabbed her cuffs and stuffed them on her belt in a hurry.

'Ah; I suppose so' Penelope sighed.

'Parker wait here until we return and be prepared to follow by car should the criminal make a quick getaway'.

'Yes milady'.

Jonah and another dark-haired man stepped out of the Land rover. Both were wearing grey duffel bags slung over their shoulders. They walked with swift purpose cutting tracks through the crowds on busy Oxford Street. 'Which one do you want Darling?'

'Jonah is not leaving my sight' Rose started after him intently. 'Very well I'll take the other- maintain contact at all times.' Penelope was referring to the small mike that they both wore on their coat lapels. 'F.A.B' replied Rose, she had no idea what it meant but had heard Penny use it to sign off a few times now. Penny smiled. Both women quickly broke off and slipped into the crowd behind their targets.

Rose watched his head bob up and down over the crowds as he slunk off down a back alley behind the shopping centre. She followed at a distance, hands on the gun that Penelope had supplied ready in the folds of her coat. She quickly ducked behind some bins as he flipped a quick look over his shoulders before heading through a back door. Rose quickly ran up and tried the handle it was locked. She swore to herself before quickly dropping to one knee to pick the lock, something she had quickly learned off Parker, she hadn't been idle in her recuperation. She heard the satisfying click as the lock turned back. She opened the door and scanned the area before advancing down a dark corridor. It appeared to be a stockroom for one of the shops in the centre. She ran swiftly across the darkened room to the door that she could see ajar. She blinked as the bright light of the shopping centre hit her unaccustomed eyes. She looked left and right along the corridor but all she could see was swarms of shoppers. She was consumed with panic as she heard children laughing, it echoing in her ears. People were going to die unless they did something. She ran to the banisters on the top floor and scanned the crowd below. Classy store fronts and red sale signs flashed past her peripheral vision. 'Penny I've lost him!' She kept honing in on several men that caught her attention but it wasn't him!

'Fire exit to your left both men are heading to the roof, I've still got eyes on.'

Rose flew along the hall, her boots squeaking and slamming across the marbled floor as she did so. Several people watched her go in shock and surprise. She crashed into one woman who lost her shopping everywhere. 'Sorry' she shouted as she pushed on the fire exit door. The Alarm had been severed, she noticed as she headed up the staircase and out onto the roof. She saw Penny hiding behind a service hatch and slunk up next to her. Her cheeks were flushed against the cold air from the exertion but Penny barely looked out of place from just finishing a photo shoot in her blue parka with her head scarf and pristine ponytail. 'Just over there, they appear to be ready to detonate a charge.'

'Where are the units?'

'Main efforts are focused on evacuating this area just in case; the snipers are just getting into position.' Just as Penelope finished Jonah was shouting to his partner and scanning the rooftops. He hastily started grabbing the case at his feet and made a run for it. 'Damn it! He's spotted them!' Rose started running. 'Rose no!' Penelope hissed but it was no good. Penelope shook her head and ran after her.

Rose knew she had the element of surprise. Jonah hadn't anticipated having to deal with snipers let alone someone from behind him, this was her window of opportunity to jump him and his partner, otherwise they would get away. There was every chance she could be shot by snipers but she had done her best to radio her intentions. She closed the gap quickly and launched herself at Jonah's back. He dropped his bag and grabbed her arms around his neck as she sunk the tazer into his back. He knocked it from her hand before she could use it. It skittered to the edge of the roof. Rose maintained her grip as he yelled in fury. Meanwhile Penelope was already in hand to hand combat with the other guy and had just delivered a powerful kick to his chest which sent him reeling backwards into the wall at the end. His Gun was lost over the edge, the case open behind Penelope. She backed up and waited for the next assault.

Rose was sent rolling across the floor as Jonah threw her down and grabbed her by the throat. She pressed into the sockets of his eyes with her thumbs; he screamed in pain and hit her in her old wound site. She felt the skin tear and could hear her own scream of pain in unison. He continued to press into it with his knee and choke her with his hands. Her eyes started to water and redden. 'Hurts does it? I thought I recognised you. You're that interfering bitch that screwed up my shot!' Rose managed to grab the gun from her side and bring it up to his thigh; she was seeing black spots on her eyes as she mustered the strength to pull the trigger. He yelled as the bullet ripped through his leg. Jonah rolled off her grabbing at his leg as she gulped in lungful after lungful of cold crisp air. Penelope appeared above her head. She had a thin cut that ran the length of her cheek, like a knife had slashed it. 'Don't move either of you or I shoot'.

Rose had gathered enough strength to pick herself up and slap the cuffs on Jonah, by then the armed unit had arrived and carted him off as he screamed obscenities at her over his shoulder. She collapsed where she stood Penelope just having time to catch her and lower her against the wall. Paramedics came to attend to her. 'No, no what about the bombs?' her voice only came out as a whisper after the strangling she had received so she tried to rip the blanket off to make a point. 'It's ok the bomb disposal unit have located and destroyed them.' Satisfied she allowed herself to be dragged off with Penelope following behind her.