Will anyone save Robin? Can Ruth save the day? What about Esther, Zero, and James? And did Ferb and Gretchen manage to get Rosie to safety? Find out the answers to all these questions in either this chapter or the next one.

Zero woke up as Esther and James were carrying him out of the medical bay.

"What…?"

He looked to his left and saw the person he had been worrying about. "Esther! You're okay!"

"Yes, thanks to James."

She shot an admiring look at James, who wasn't paying attention. Zero caught this look and couldn't help feeling jealous. He had wanted to be the one to rescue Esther. Now Esther might have feelings for James.

"Ferb and Gretchen saved you," Esther told Zero. "They got the piece of stone off you."

"Where are they now?"

A scream interrupted their conversation. Everyone jumped and looked upwards.

"I got it!" Ferb's voice yelled from somewhere in the distance.

"Well, there's Ferb," Esther stated.

"Come on," said James. "We need to get everyone out."

Leaving the little girl, Rosie, with Gretchen, Ferb raced to find the source of the scream. He almost wished the voice would scream again—even though that scream had been one of the most chilling things he had ever heard—so that he could locate the person quicker.

It sounded like a female scream. It couldn't have been Esther or Gretchen and he was sure it didn't sound like Ruth Summers, so Ferb was wondering who it could have been. He didn't know of any other female agents at BOWCA, though of course it might have been a member of staff.

The wind had died down to a slightly heavy breeze, though a tremor shook the building as Ferb made his way over to where the scream came from. He stumbled but maintained his footing and carried on, knowing that someone needed him.

He found a large, shattered window with a woman hanging out of it. Her legs and lower body were hanging out of the window while her torso was flat against the ground and her hands clutched the carpet tightly. She was only moments from falling. Ferb darted forwards and gripped the woman's wrists.

"Let go," he said.

She gave him a look. That was when Ferb recognised her. Of course! Robin! I can't believe I forgot about Robin!

Robin looked scared but she did as Ferb told her to do. She let out a gasp as her wrists slipped out of Ferb's hands but the green-haired man just as quickly seized her hands and pulled Robin onto solid ground. No sooner had he done that than the wind flared up and blew at almost a hurricane level. Ferb and Robin were pushed up against a non-shattered window. They both braced themselves, eyes tightly shut, as the hurricane flattened them against the window. Both agents prayed that the window was strong enough to withstand the attack, for both their sakes.

Ruth was now halfway through the vent but she couldn't see much for the wind whistling in her face. As soon as she had unscrewed the vent, the wind had changed to hurricane level. Ruth was under the impression that the vent had been filtering the worst of the wind out of the office. Stephen had given her a boost but now Ruth couldn't even see Stephen through the wind.

She was finding it hard to breathe; the wind was blowing directly into her face. She was relying on just the strength in her torso and arms. Using this strength, she just about managed to climb into the vent and to the side, where the wind wasn't so bad. She surveyed the inside of the vent. It was just large enough to hold her if she crawled on her hands and knees. She looked down. The wind must have thrown Stephen into the wall; he was lying at the base of it with his eyes closed. He wasn't moving. Ruth knew he was unconscious because his eyes were only lightly closed. If he was awake, his eyes would be tight shut, trying to keep the wind out of them.

In the direction the wind was coming from, she could just about see a metallic looking machine. That must be where the wind is coming from.

Ruth crawled over the opening and, straining against the wind, made her way over to the machine. She grabbed hold of it with one hand to stop herself from flying away. With some difficulty, she took off her left blue pump and smashed it into the machine over and over again like a maniac until she heard a kaput sound and the machine shuddered off, making the wind abruptly stop.

Stephen jerked awake. His subconscious must have detected that the wind had died down; he woke up just as it stopped. He pushed himself onto his elbows and looked up at the vent. Ruth lightly dropped down and landed like a cat on the carpet.

"Did you stop the wind?" Stephen's voice came out as a heaving gasp from his lack of oxygen.

Ruth held out her hand to Stephen, who took it. Ruth helped Agent Two to his feet.

"Yes, yes I did." Ruth looked very pleased with herself, if a little shaken. "There was a weird machine up there and I hit it with my shoe until it broke."

Stephen suddenly noticed that she was only wearing one shoe. The other was dangling in her hand. "Wow," was all he could say. "And that made the wind stop?"

"Yes. Now maybe some efforts to find what's causing the tremors can be made."

As if on cue, a massive tremor shook the building. It felt more like an earthquake. Stephen clutched the wall of the office cubicle while Ruth staggered backwards and fell against the printer.

"We seriously need someone to stop these earthquakes," stated Ruth as the ceiling shuddered once more. "Or this building is going to come down on top of us."

So one of the dangers has been resolved: the wind! Next chapter, the source of the earthquakes is revealed.