It seemed it was.  “Bon! Allons-y!” said Adrienne, pushing her blue and white striped cap firmly down between her little red ears. (That’s French for “Good! Let’s go!”, by the way…) She curled her bushy tail neatly behind her (that looks comfortable, thought Dot) and pulled back gently on a lever to her right. The humming got a little louder and the search engine rose up into the sky over the Internet search zone.

Dot gulped. It was like going up in a lift, but without a building all around you to make you feel safe. She felt another wave of panic inside her as she looked down on the net floor, now at least 50 metres below them. How where they ever going to find poor Wiz in all that?

As far as she could see, just like before, the sparkling, many-coloured lights flicked on and off, showing where the information needed by millions of people all round the world could be found.

Somewhere in all that was Wizzie. But where???

“O-K!” said Adrienne. She tapped a code onto a tiny blue screen in front of her, her little paws clattering on the surface of the touch-screen as she went. “Now… Monsieur le Baron Blackshanks… we are coming to get you!”

Just as she finished speaking, a series of little “pip-pip-pip” noises came from the screen.

“Ah-HA! EX-cellent!” went Adrienne. She turned round to Dot and smiled. “We ‘ave a sector fix on ze Baron I think!! Now watch!”

She hit a big red button marked “SearchFind NOW” in the middle of the panel in front of her, and sat back with her paws behind her head. She seemed amazingly relaxed to Dot, because immediately the little search engine began to go faster – and faster – and faster! With a squeak, Mr Mouse buried himself inside Dot’s T-shirt, in his favourite place on her right shoulder, his tiny paws digging into her for a firm grip. Dot grabbed the bar in front of her and shut her eyes. The search engine went even faster, the lights below them turning into a pink, green, golden, purple blur.

Adrienne looked round again. “Oh don’t worry Dorothee” she said with a laugh, tapping Dot’s hands as she hung on to the safety bar of the search engine as tightly as she could. “I show you! Just let go for a moment!”

Dot felt scared. “Ermm… well… ”

“Go on! Trust me my friend!”

Very slowly, Dot let go. As she did so, Adrienne leant over to her right – and the search engine flipped completely upside down!

Dot opened her mouth to scream – then realized she wasn’t falling out. In fact, it felt like she was still sitting the right way up – totally safe! Then, even more amazingly, the search zone floor slid over to where the sky had been when they were upside down – below them! They were the right way up again. Only they hadn’t flipped back – the whole search zone had moved instead!

In a second Dot stopped feeling upside down, even though the search engine still hadn’t flipped back. She shook her head so that her bunches bounced up and down. Weird!!

Adrienne giggled. “You see?” she said. “On ze Net everything is possible!”

Pip-pip-pip-PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!

“A-ha!” went Adrienne again. Smoothly the little red train started to slow down again, and to curve back towards the floor below them. Down and down they went, till they were just a few metres above it.  – and suddenly Dot gasped. There was Wizzie!!

Only… it was Wizzie, and at the same time it wasn’t. WHAT had happened to him?