The Hidden Inviso

"What?" Ali exclaimed, shocked. "Under arrest? What for? What did I do wrong?"

"Zane, I think something's heading towards us," called the previous girl he had recognised earlier from the cockpit. 

The guy beside him stood up and went into the cockpit. Sitting opposite Ali were two other agents, perhaps Neuro and Tekno, according to the colour of their suit. Though both of them were helmeted, so Ali couldn't tell who they were. Feeling rather awkward, Ali gave them a nervous smile, which none of them returned.

"Oh my God," Zane whispered, though his voice was so deep and rough that Ali could hear it. "We're under attack, agents!" he added in a louder tone, though Ali didn't know why he needed to, his voice was already loud enough. "Terran, you take the offence," the Neuro agent nodded, "Manish, you take the wheel," the Tekno agent saluted and rushed into the cockpit, "Serporia-"

"Eh, Serporia?" Ali repeated. Out of the cockpit came out the disgruntled, black haired Inviso girl which had been his classmate. Not to mention, extremely talented in art. 

"Serporia!" Ali called out, earning a dull glare from her. "It's me, Ali, your classmate!"

At first she looked confused, then her expression softened as comprehension dawned on her face. "Ali? You're in MATA too?"

Zane was looking from Ali to Serporia, and back again. Then he cleared his throat loudly and said, "Serporia."

"Oh, yes Agent Zane," she said, turning her attention back to the Kombat agent.

"You try to get the enemy down. Use offence if you need to."

Serporia curtly nodded. And, with a last glance at Ali, jumped off the helicopter. Once she was gone, Zane made to shut the door. But as he reached his hand out to close it, something crashed into the helicopter itself. 

Ali fell off his seat and slid the length of the helicopter, unable at all to control his directions. He was inches away from sliding completely off from the open door of the helicopter, where he could hear the sinister howling of wind. But something grabbed his feet. He lifted his head to see that Zane had caught hold of his feet, and was struggling to tug him back up. 

But then there was another deafening explosion, and next thing he knew, Ali was falling.

Through the cold rushing of wind, he screamed on and on, feeling his entire body drop like a stone into water. However, not much than a second later, it stopped. At first, he had thought he had dropped back into the forest, but then the drop should be painful, isn't it, so why isn't it so?

He looked beside him to see the bold, grinning face of Jet. His friends had came to save him.

"Thanks for the lift," Ali said, giving a short bark of nervous laughter.

"No problem," Jet said, before his mechanical wings gave an almighty lurch and they flew up higher and landed inside another helicopter, the door closing behind him. This helicopter had a slightly warmer air about it, even though it was nearly the same as the one he had been in. Ali was sure it had nothing to do with the temperature, but rather the fact that inside here were all his friends, including Khai, Iman and Moon. 

"You want help with that?" Iman asked gently, indicating the two rings still tied around his body.

"Oh, yes please," Ali said.

Iman grabbed her yellow scarf from her back and lashed it out at Ali, who closed his eyes in fear. Rather than feeling pain, he felt himself being released from the tight grasp of the rings as they fell with a clatter onto the metal floor.

"Thanks so much, Iman!" he said happily, stretching his arms.

"You're welcome," Iman smiled. 

Jet walked pass them into the cockpit, where instead of where Serporia sat, was Khai. 

"Turn back to headquarters now, we've got Ali," he said loud and clearly, so that Khai could hear him over the whistling of wind and the spinning of the blades.

"OK," Khai replied, making the helicopter take a u-turn. 

They had barely turned when something went wrong. Suddenly, the helicopter had gone into a dive right for ground. The helicopter was alight with fresh screams from each of its occupants. But before it even reached the canopy of leaves, it had pulled back up again, brushing the leaves instead and soaring straight right up into the air. Everyone who had been flung forwards were now flung backwards, groping wildly for something to hold on as they did. 

Even Khai, who was supposed to be driving, was screaming at the top of his lungs.

"Khai, stop it, it's not funny!" Moon sobbed, as she held onto a metal stick protruding from the wall.

"I'm not doing it!" Khai yelled back over the whistling of the wind as they zoomed towards the clouds.

Ali tried to lift up his head. There were two seats in the cockpit, one of which was taken by Khai and the other one unoccupied. But something funny was happening to the steering wheel of the unoccupied seat. It was moving of its own accord.

"Khai!" Ali shouted. "Beside you!"

"WHAT?" Khai screamed, apparently too transfixed by the incoming storm of clouds to register to anything else. 

They were about to crash into it when the helicopter balanced again. Unceremoniously, each of them fell down in turn. There was a loud howling of wind from his left, and Ali knew that the door to the helicopter must have slipped open. He got up, eyes welled up with tears, rubbing his throbbing head which had just banged against something particularly hard. He had barely looked up when something shiny flashed across his eyes.

There was a clink, and next moment, Khai was saying, "Erk, what is this?" 

Two golden rings had cuffed themselves around his middle, denying him the use of his arms and also, to control the helicopter.

Ali tried to look around to locate the source of the trouble. As he did, Iman was seen dodging a floating cloth that swiped in her direction. Something invisible must be on board. 

"It's somewhere there!" Ali yelled, pointing to where the other end of the cloth was, which had suddenly disappeared into thin air. 

"Huh, where is what?" Jet said, looking around frantically, apparently unable to see anything at all.

Two golden rings had materialised out of nowhere and was heading straight for Jet, which, in his wild search for something invisible, had not seen it coming.

But luckily, Ali noticed this a fraction second earlier.

"Be careful!"

Jet somersaulted, narrowly missing the golden rings, which crashed into the helicopter wall with an echoing bang. As Jet rolled, he collided with something hard and sent the something toppling over too. There was a blur of colour and a ponytailed Inviso girl appeared under Jet, groaning painfully.

"Eh, who's this?" Moon asked curiously, bending down to observe the girl, which was Serporia with interest.

Upon noticing that she was no longer invisible, Serporia quickly pushed Jet from her and hurriedly leapt up to her feet, breathing heavily.

"You'll hand over Ali now or else-" 

But before she could continue, she had been cuffed around her wrists by two metal bracelets, which beeped rapidly.

"What the-" was all she could say before she was slammed down against the cold floor.

"Karma," said Rudy coldly, who had both his hands splayed in front of him.

Next moment, Khai had been released of Serporia's golden rings and Serporia herself was locked in a seat with her mouth salitaped shut. 

"Did you deal with the copters?" Jet asked Rudy, as they set off again.

"Crashed one," Rudy shrugged. "Diverted another off."

"I just hope that they won't notice anything," Iman said, eyeing Serporia fearfully. 

"As long as we bring this copter back before anyone notices," Rudy said hollowly. 

And they changed back to their original course, heading straight towards MATA's Headquarters as fast as they dare.