Hey guys! I know I said I'm going to be doing Caroline, the sequel to Doppelganger, but there's quite a time gap between the end of Doppelganger and the start of Caroline, so I've decided that I'm going to do this before I do Caroline. This first chapter's pretty average, but I hope you like it!

Zoe sighed and leaned against the door, watching as Dan smiled at her gently. "Are you okay?"

Zoe nodded. "Yeah. Counselling's supposed to help, isn't it?"

Dan shrugged. "I suppose it is. It's just . . . you've been kind of distracted since . . . you know."

Zoe nodded and sighed. "I don't mean to be. It's just . . . It was hard enough to get my head around the idea that I was his daughter. And now," Zoe let her head fall forward so that her hair fell in her face as she mumbled, "I'm his clone. And now I always have to be on guard because otherwise I'm going to end up as him."

Dan's fingers itched to push the hair away from her face and just this once, he allowed the urge to slip through his carefully maintained control. He reached out and brushed the hair away from her face, resting his hand on her cheek. Zoe looked up at him, the corner of her mouth quirking up into a half-smile, but before she could say anything, the door Zoe was leaning against suddenly opened, causing her to stumble. Dan reached out and grabbed her arm to steady her as Zoe looked at who'd opened it. It was a middle-aged woman, with blonde hair pulled up into a bun and pretty blue eyes that were hidden behind glasses.

"Zoe London?" The woman asked.

Zoe nodded. "You're the counsellor?"

"Well, I'm your counsellor." The woman replied. "I'm only here at the school until M.I.9 sends me somewhere else." She stepped aside to let Zoe in and then she noticed Dan for the first time. Her eyes narrowed and Dan coughed, turning his attention to Zoe.

"I'll come get you later." Dan said, causing Zoe to smile and say, "It's just a school counsellor, Dan. I'll be fine."

Dan smiled at her. "I'll see you later."

Then, the door closed and Dan walked off to go find Aneisha, as Tom was still in HQ, studying the process that KORPS had tried to use on Zoe at Sternum.

"I'm worried about Tom." Aneisha told him as he approached.

"Of course you are." Dan replied with a grin.

"Dan, I'm serious! He's become fixated on it."

Dan shrugged as a girl with her hair cropped short and dyed pink approached, yelling, "Yo! A to the N to the . . . Neisha! Lady J's new dance crew is looking for some radical movers!"

Aneisha bit back a smile. "No thanks."

"No, you need time to think, yeah. Respect! I'll show the vibe, straight from ghetto." Lady J replied and started dancing. Aneisha tapped Dan's shoulder, showing him her pencil communicator while Lady J's back was turned. Dan and Aneisha dashed off to the broom cupboard, leaving Lady J where she was.

When Dan and Aneisha got down to HQ, Tom was fiddling with the computers, but Zoe hadn't arrived yet.

"Aren't you going to blow a fuse?" Aneisha asked Tom.

"No, I'm syphoning off extra power from the school." Tom replied as the lift doors opened, revealing Zoe, wearing a long high-necked black jacket, black skinny pants and black combat boots. Her hair was twisted up into a bun and she looked apologetic as she moved to stand beside Dan as Aneisha said, "I meant a fuse in your brain. Tom, you need to take a break."

"You three need to listen to what Tom has to say." Frank said as they all gathered around the table.

"I've been studying the process that KORPS used to transfer the Mastermind's consciousness into Zoe's brain."

"We know that." Zoe said, crossing her arms over her chest.

Tom rolled his eyes. "My point is it didn't work."

"We know, we stopped it." Dan said.

"That's the point, we shouldn't have had time." Tom explained. "Look, the process only takes three seconds. KORPS got it wrong. Zoe isn't a match."

All heads turned towards Zoe, who let out a shuddering breath of relief and grinned. Somehow, Dan knew she'd been holding that breath for the four months it'd been since they rescued her from Sternum.

"So who is a match?" Zoe asked.

"I've been looking into that too. It's a girl called Keri. Apparently she was given some special treatment away from the others that makes her ideal. KORPS thought it hadn't worked and got rid of her. It looks like they were wrong."

"We need to hurry." Frank said. "If we can work out that Keri's a match, then so can KORPS."

"After a short time in a children's home, Keri was adopted by a regular family." Tom explained as the four of them walked through the halls of St Heart's High School.

"She won't have any idea about any of this. I just hope that we get to her before they do." Aneisha said, before Lady J appeared in front of them. "Yo, Neisha! Check it and respond!"

She started dancing and too concerned about finding the Mastermind's clone to worry about Lady J's dancing, they brushed past her.

"Frank, can you send us photos of Keri?" Zoe asked into her pencil.

"I'll send them to your spy pod." Frank replied. "Good luck, team."

The four of them, somehow, managed to huddle behind a pair of trashcans only several metres down from a bus station as a girl with auburn hair the same colour as Zoe's approached a pole that said all the bus times on it. Dan glanced down at his spy pod and opened it, confirming that the girl was in fact Keri.

"How about we tell her she's won a holiday, but to collect she has to come with us?" Tom asked.

"How about we tell her the truth?" Aneisha shot back.

"Guys. How about you stop fighting and help me save my sister?" Zoe asked, getting up as two guys dressed in KORPS suits grabbed Keri. As Dan and Zoe, crept around behind the two guys, Tom and Aneisha grabbed a trashcan each.

"Hey!" Keri cried, struggling. "Can you weirdos let me go? If I'm not at Trina's in an hour, she'll never speak to me again!"

"Excuse me!" Tom shouted as he and Aneisha approached, causing the KORPS thugs and Keri to turn their attention to them. "Does the number twelve bus stop here?"

Keri glanced quickly between her captors before she looked back at Tom and Aneisha. "They don't really know about buses. They're more the 'Oi, you! You're coming with us!' types. The twelve doesn't stop here."

"That's okay." Aneisha said as she and Tom came to a halt in front of Keri. "We only said that to get close enough to rescue you."

Keri looked confused as Dan and Zoe appeared behind the KORPS soldiers. Dan kicked one while Zoe grabbed the other and pulled him away from Keri. Tom and Aneisha dumped a trashcan each over the guys' heads. Zoe shoved the two guys together, and they crashed into each other, falling to the ground. Dan grabbed Keri's arm, but Keri pulled back. "Hang on. I don't want to go with you either. I've had a really busy day and you've all clearly got me mixed up with someone else, so I'll just . . ." She turned away and Zoe glanced quickly between her friends. "The truth?"

Dan nodded and Zoe turned to her sister. "Your name's Keri. You've got a mark on your arm like this," she said, pulling up the sleeve of her school blazer to reveal the code stamped onto her arm. Keri stared at it and then lifted up her own sleeve to reveal 'J.4.5.K.3.R.1.' stamped into the inside of her elbow as Zoe continued speaking.

"The greatest threat to the world is called The Mastermind. He created you in a lab from his own DNA and now he's looking for you so he can put his mind into your head. My name's Zoe, I'm your sister, we work for M.I.9 and we're trying to save your life. Any questions?" Zoe asked.

"Yeah." Keri said, sounding and looking a little dazed. "Do I have any super powers?"

Zoe glanced at Dan as he said, "Shall we go before the gorillas sort themselves out?"

Keri nodded and trailed after them as they took off running down the street. As they ran, Dan glanced over at Zoe to see how she was coping with meeting Keri. He was surprised to see that she looked a little more at ease with herself now, as if meeting Keri had made it well and truly sink in that she was safe from being turned into the Mastermind.

As they walked into the school and Tom blindfolded Keri, Dan walked behind Zoe and murmured in her ear, "You okay?"

"I'm fine." Zoe replied. "I'm a lot better than I was, actually."

Dan smiled. "I'm glad."

I know this was a pretty average chapter, but it will get better! I promise!