Langford nodded his thanks to one of his men who brought him a megaphone from the boot of one of their vehicles. He switched it on and turned up the speaker volume as high as it would go. If his voice was going to reach Nine's lofty fortress it was going to have to be loud.

"Nine! This is Langford! What you are doing is in direct contravention of your hero code. This is classified as abduction and I will have no choice but to treat it accordingly! You will release Robyn immediately!"

Langford paused as he waited for some kind of response from Nine but none came.

Bringing the megaphone to his mouth again Langford shouted, "Nine! You'll be decommissioned for this! You'll be removed of your hero title and standing! Release Robyn NOW!"

Still no response came and Langford's frustration began to show. He swore under his breath as the airship started to move.

"Get me the override codes for Nine's airship! He can't be allowed to leave!" Langford barked at his men.

Two of his men ran to their burnt out base while another stepped forward nervously. He was noticed by his leader and the glare that met him made him shiver. Knowing that Langford wanted him to spit out whatever it was that he wanted to say, he did so quickly.

"I'm sorry Sir but Nine's airship doesn't have any override codes...it's too old."

"Damn it!" Langford roared, hurling the megaphone to the ground in temper and kicking it. "Get onto AMATS and tell Faas Addens that he better know a way of overriding Nine's airship."

Langford watched as his bearer of bad news commenced trying to reach AMATS on his radio.

It all seemed in vain as Nine pedaled his airship out of Lazytown airspace and into the great beyond.

Kit had long since stopped laughing and stumbled over to Langford, "You have to get her back. You can't let him take her."

"I'm sorry Kit. There's nothing else we can do here. Headquarters will have to take over and have him tracked. If they listen out for Robyn that shouldn't be too difficult. She hasn't half got one heck of a tongue on her, not to mention a pair of lungs."

Kit nodded knowingly, "This is why I try not to argue with her. She knows how to hit where it hurts and hit it hard. I don't know if Nine was deliberately ignoring you or if she'd deafened him."

Langford shrugged, as angry as he was at Nine he was also grateful that he wasn't in the man's place and feeling the force of a ranting Robyn.

Robbie approached the group assembled outside, stretching and yawning as he walked. He looked up to the spot in the sky they were all staring at and scratched his head. They were fixated on something but he couldn't tell what.

"What's going on?" He asked at last, still totally clueless.

Kit looked at Robbie incredulously, "Robyn's been shouting the town down and you slept all the way through it? Have you got too much orange fuzz in your ears or something?"

"Robyn was shouting? I didn't hear a thing. Maybe I do have some fuzz stuck in here…." Robbie trailed off as he stuck a finger in his ear and tried to dig out any potential obstruction to his hearing.

Only when he absently looked at Kit and realized that he could see the man's bottom that he ceased his ear digging and realized what had had the others so transfixed.

"You didn't…."

Langford stepped in before an annoyed Robbie set upon Kit. He had already lost control of one situation and was not about to let another get out of hand.

"Kit, go and get dressed. You and Robbie can talk about this calmly later." Langford prodded before looking over to the men still holding Morgan on the ground, "Let him up. Take him back inside and keep him monitored." Then speaking loudly to all assembled persons around him he declared, "Everyone go home! The show's over."

As everyone did as they were bid, Langford wondered just what he'd say to headquarters when he gave his report. All he could be certain of was that they wouldn't take his latest failure lightly.

It had pained him to do so but he'd no choice but to restrain and gag his granddaughter. She had snapped his last nerve and he knew it was too dangerous to fly the long distance to his home land with the distraction Robyn was causing him.

Looking over his shoulder at her intermittently he could see she appeared calm yet her eyes were darkened by the bleakness of rage. She had fallen silent under the gag but he knew that if he were to remove it she could soon resume shouting at him.

The filth that had come from her lips had astounded him and in denial he convinced himself it was just the drugs talking, not the essence of what she felt from within.