A/N- I recently finished reading an AWESOME book series called 'The Mortal Instruments' which is why I haven't updated in a while. Sorry :(

And if anyone has read the series Keri's 'altered personality' is sort of based on Maureen's character.

R&R

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Chapter 8

Annabel's P.O.V

"So what exactly are we looking for?" I asked as Tom lead me into what I assumed was the main part of their base.

"Any known air borne virus that has bizarre side-effects on people who inhale it," Tom replied.

I nodded my head and sat down at one of the computers to begin my research.

I don't know why it amazed me but their technology was incredible. It was so much easier (and not illegal) to be able to go right through MI9's files and search engines without having to hack into them first and then deal with more firewalls when the file you wanted to nose around in was authorised personnel only.

It was great working alongside Tom, someone of who actually understood what I meant whenever I started ranting about sometime that I'd tried to do something technical and it had either gone really badly or my brother had given me shit about it. Like when Jake convinced me into 'working my magic' so that he could upload a youtube video via our Mum's account. It didn't end so great when Dad did a random check of Mum's youtube channel, apparently what he found on there didn't impress him and Jake and I got grounded for a week and Jake being Jake didn't let me forget that I had been caught. Of course I also explained what processes I went through to get into my Mum's account to Tom, if I was doing something by myself sometimes I'd mutter the steps to keep myself completely aware of what I was doing but when anyone else was there I would never speak the steps because they would just ask questions.

Awhile later we had found several air borne virus's but none that had the desired effect on the person. We had a few that made them lose feeling in there nerves (although one of them was more of a mist), one that makes you weak, another that makes you smell food, but no one that made you go insane or crazy or anything even close, But alas we kept on searching.

Frank's P.O.V

As soon as Tom was around the corner I kept looking and in an interrogation room lay one unconscious Daniel Morgan. Something more seems to have happened to Dan because neither Aneisha nor Keri had fainted, they had both been conscious during the entire ordeal. I wasn't even sure if either of them had slept. I made a mental note to make sure they were eating.

I bent down onto my knees and slapped Dan's face gently. Nothing happened so I slapped him a little harder "Dan," I said.

Again I slapped his face harder until I decided I would be hurting him if I slapped him any harder and I could probably get fired and/ or sent to jail for child abuse.

Suddenly he started breathing or should I say gulping down air, fighting for another breath of oxygen and then his eyes shot open and he sat bolt upright. Suddenly completely rigid he just stared and then let a hollowing roar out.

"ZOE!"

It was as though I wasn't even there. Dan got up and tried to take off running but I stopped him and started working my way towards the cells.

With Annabel and Tom

"I have a question," I said swizzling my chair around to face Tom.

"Okay, what is it?"

"Who was first to get hit by the chemical?"

"Keri and then Aneisha," he responded.

"In that order?" I asked.

"Yes," Tom confirmed.

"I just found an airborne chemical that effects people with a weak psychological state. It takes either their greatest fear and turns it into their reality or just turns the, plain crazy. It works on almost everyone but depending upon their psychological state determines how long it will be before it takes effect, It's very new and the only place you can get it is at an out of use Petrol Station on Brimming stone road," Annabel said.

'That's strange' Tom thought because he knew that, that Petrol Station was a dead-drop for KORPS agents. But MI9 had swept it only a few days ago.

"That's an enemy organisation dead-drop point," Tom revealed," but senior agents swept it out only a few days ago and they found no traces of any chemicals at all."

"Nothing at all?!"

"Nothing," Tom confirmed," well nothing substantial there was the couch, a television set and a replica of the Mona Lisa."

"The Mona Lisa?" Annabel questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"Who knows. Maybe the Crime Minister has a passion for art," 'Crap' Tom thought he'd told her too much.

"Who's the Crime Minister?"

It was better she knew rather than going into the dark.

"She's the head of the criminal organisation KORPS that we- MI9, are currently at war with," Tom explained.

"So did KORPS own said warehouse?" Annabel queried.

"Yes."

"If they're at war with MI9 they must be smart."

"They're very cunning, well the Crime Minister is, I mean it took two scientist generals to figure out how to get the Mastermind into Keri's brain and it took me 3 weeks to figure out how to combat that."

"Well not everyone has a super computer built into their brain."

"It that your way of saying I'm intelligent?"

"Like you need to be told you're intelligent," Annabel said.

"I know but it's still good to hear it."

"Oh haha, but anyway what are we going to do about the chemical?"

"Well I think we should go check it out."

"Okay then that's sorted, just let me tell Frank what we've found," Tom said as he went to get his communicator

With Frank

Since Frank couldn't bring Dan to consciousness and decided that it was probably better if he didn't, so Frank picked Dan up and slung one of Dan's arms over his back. Frank dragged Dan in the direction of the cells and considering one was out-of -use so Frank had to decide whether to put Dan in with Keri or Aneisha. He decided that it would have been better if Keri and Aneisha had of been in the same cell from the beginning but they were both too unstable to be moved at the moment, they would probably just wander off to god knows where. So Frank (in his opinion) picked the lesser of two evils and put Dan in with Keri, because Frank figured that when Tom went it would be better to put him in with Aneisha. He hoped that Tom had managed to convince Annabel to help him.

When Frank got to Keri's cell she was standing on the one of the beds tracing patterns on the roof with a texta of which he had no idea how she got it; swirly, intricate lines and symbols that meant nothing to Frank, and to be honest they probably meant nothing to Keri either.

Keri saw Frank with Dan and stopped drawing on the ceiling and jumped down from the bed.

"You have brought my Prince back to me and for that I am ever in debt to you," Keri said and bowed slightly to Frank as he put Dan in the cell as well and closed the door, with an odd expression on his face.

Unfortunately for Keri her 'prince' was currently asleep.

"Our fun will begin when you are awake," Keri said as she took grasp of the texta, stood up on the bed and continued drawing.

With Annabel and Tom

"Tom," Annabel said, "I don't think calling him is necessary."

Tom turned around to see Frank standing behind him. Tom then explained the whole situation to him.

"If we are to even investigate it we need more agents," Frank said.

"We don't exactly have any at our disposal to investigate a hunch of a civilian," Tom said, "no offence," he added.

"What about Jake?" Annabel asked, "come on, I know you were listening in on his interview. Do you think I'm stupid? He wasn't lying about chasing the pick-pocket half- way through Ebisu. When I saw it I was amazed, I never knew he could do what he did and I know that Dan is better than Jake at it but seriously-"

"Wait, Annabel how do you know that Dan is our parkor expert?" Frank asked.

"Anyone with half a brain can look at him and tell that he's athletic and considering the job that you guys all have and his reaction Jake mentioned Dan having when Jake told the Ebisu story it in his interrogation left me with two possibilities so I took a calculated guess, and clearly I was right."

Tom and Frank looked at each other for a minute. Annabel tried to figure out what unseen communication was passing through their brains.

She knew what she was offering was a risk for them to take and that if they agreed they'd probably get in trouble later but she really didn't want to go to Siberia.

"Okay, are you going to tell me the verdict or are you going to continue staring at each other for the next 15 hours?"

"We'll let you go with the promise that when this is all over you'll never have to see us again and you can just go back to your normal life," Frank said.

"But," Tom said, "you have to cut back on your certain technological uses."

"Does that include Blade Quest online?"

"No, I think Blade Quest is alright," Tom said.

"So, do we have a deal?" Frank asked.