Stephen and Zero were in the records room, as Esther had ordered. They were on opposite ends of the room, while Stephen's daughter Rosie sat on top of a filing cabinet, swinging her legs.

"You know what I don't get?" Stephen asked eventually, inspecting a record.

"What?" James asked absently from the other side of the room, looking over another record.

"Who could have attacked Robin?" Stephen turned to look at James, who was facing away from him. "There were no intruders. Ferb and Gretchen were with Rosie. Zero and Esther were together. Ruth and I were together. You were-wait, where were you?"

James hesitated. "I-uh…"

"Oh, I know! You were with Robin," Stephen remembered. "Robin said she was going to catch up with you after you left. So you two were alone together. Did you see anybody around? Anybody who could have hurt Robin?"

James scratched his ear nervously. "N-no. I don't think so."

Stephen turned round and looked out the window. "Esther thinks the person who attacked Robin was the same person who gave the secret information to OWCA."

James's voice hardened, though Stephen failed to notice this. "Does she?"

"The people who could be linked with both the leak and Robin's attack must be very few. Robin can't have attacked herself, and Ferb was with Gretchen. And I know it wasn't me because I was with Ruth. The only person left is-." He broke off suddenly as he realised. "You…you were with Robin alone. You were given the information. It-it must have been-!"

"Daddy!" screamed Rosie suddenly.

Stephen whirled round and found James holding his terrified little daughter roughly around her waist. "Rosie!" Stephen yelled, drawing his gun. "James, let her go!"

"You're a lot smarter than I gave you credit for," James snarled. "But then again, refusing to come to the records room with you would have looked very suspicious."

"Why?!" shouted Stephen. "Why did you leak the information?"

"I'm not the bad guy here!" James yelled angrily, completely skirting the question, Stephen noticed. "Mr Greenland down there is the real enemy!"

"Bannister's locked up," Stephen snapped. "As you will be soon." He cocked the gun. "Just as soon as you let go of my daughter."

"Daddy…!" whimpered Rosie.

James grinned, then he drew his gun. Stephen prepared to dodge a bullet but all James did was throw the gun at him. Stephen ducked, but the distraction allowed James to kick one of the wheeled filing cabinets towards him. It pinned him between it and the wall, snapping his head back and stunning him terribly. He collapsed on his side, the gun going flying from his hands. The last thing he heard before passing out was Rosie's terrified voice screaming, "DADDY!"

Guns drawn, Zero and Esther raced towards the records room. On their way, Ferb stopped them. "Guys, Bannister's escaped!" he panted. "Gretchen's gone looking for him but he's loose in the facility!"

"Just keep looking," Esther instructed him. "Keep looking, okay?"

"Okay."

Esther and Zero burst into the records room. Esther immediately spotted the unconscious Stephen and ran over to check on him. Zero, gun at the ready, checked round the room.

"Stephen, can you hear me?" Esther tried to keep the worry out of her voice as she examined her friend. "Stephen?"

Stephen's eyes fluttered open and registered Esther's face. "Esther?" he slurred.

"Are you okay?" Zero asked, coming over and standing above them. "What happened?"

"J-James…" Stephen suddenly tried to sit up. "James!"

"Hey, keep still." Esther gently placed her hands on his back to keep him steady. "You hit your head quite hard. What's happened to James?"

"He's the traitor," Stephen said urgently. "He leaked the information, and he's got Rosie!"

"What?" Zero demanded.

"He took Rosie," Stephen said again, his eyes beginning to glaze over. "You have to…have to stop him…"

Then he flopped back in Esther's arms. She quickly checked again for breathing and a pulse, while Zero stepped back, looking upwards. "He can't have gone down or we'd have seen him," he said. "The only place to go is the roof."

"Then go," Esther said, looking determinedly up at her partner. "I trust you."

Zero nodded, turned, and hurried up the stairs.

"Just hang on, Stephen," Esther said softly, stroking Stephen's arm. "We'll get Rosie back."

Zero burst through the door that led to the roof, gun drawn. No sooner had he come through the door than someone kicked the gun out of his hand, sending the weapon flying off the roof. Zero turned and saw James flying to attack him. Zero leapt backwards and kicked James in the stomach, pushing him backwards.

"I'm not the bad guy!" James yelled.

"Could have fooled me," Zero said back.

James and Zero were BOWCA's second and third best agents respectively, and their fight was exactly as fast and furious as one would expect. Neither was winning and neither was losing. Both were aware of the small fighting space and both were trying to use it to their advantage.

Then a six-year-old girl's voice let out a scream. Zero kicked James away and reacted just in time to wrap his strong arm around Rosie before she fell off the building. As he worked to hold onto the wildly flailing girl, he twisted his head round, expecting to see James attacking him while he was distracted, but James had his hands over his mouth and he was stumbling backwards.

"James, watch out for the-!" began Zero.

But he was too late. James's foot slipped and he fell off the edge of the building.

"James!" Zero yelled in alarm.

He watched as Esther appeared out of nowhere and leapt, managing to catch hold of James's hand before he fell. As she began to slip off the building too, Zero set Rosie down quickly and grabbed her leg with one hand and seized a metal pole by the door with the other.

"I'm so sorry, Esther!" James cried. "If-if I had known that Isaac…th-that what I did would lead to Isaac's…"

"Just be quiet for once, James!" snapped Esther.

James fell silent.

"All I want to know is why you sold the secrets." Even though this was Esther's only demand, she was scared of the answer.

She didn't want to lose her trust in James.

Had to split the chapter into two! D: amirite? But it's okay, I've already written the next chapter XD