Hi, Kat here. Just a little one shot for you all as its getting near Halloween. I randomly thought of this in class. ICT + Boredom = Thunderbird one shot. Who knew? Maybe this will happen again on Friday. While my teacher goes on about harddrives and god knows what else, I will zone out, and make up another one shot...I'm annoying, so on with the story...
John Tracy had always loved Space. Even as a kid, he'd sat on the roof staring up at the stars in the sky above him. He'd always dreamed of being amongst the stars...
But it was lonely. Glancing down at the earth below, he felt a pang of loneliness, and longed to be down in Tracy Island with his brothers and father...
"John?" He jolted back out of his memories to answer the call.
"Hi Dad," he grinned at the figure on the screen. "Everything okay?"
"Yeah, Gordon and Alan put a spider on Scott's chair the other day and it was VERY big...must have been a tarantula!"
"Sounds like the sort of thing the terrible two would do." A crash came from behind him and he spun around. It was probably just a book falling off a shelf or something, but he wasn't certain. He listened intently, but he couldn't hear anything else. Frowning, he turned back to his father. Yeah, probably just a book.
"What's wrong?" Jeff inquired.
"Nothing, just a book galling off a shelf. No ghosts or anything!" He joked.
Jeff grinned as a voice called out in the background, "I'm telling you, John, ghosts DO exist!"
"Yeah, sure they do Sprout."
"But it's true!" Alan whined, shoving Jeff aside as he glared at his brother. "And it is nearly Halloween!"
"Whatever! Now are you going to help me clean three, or do I need to shove you in the pool again?" Virgil called from the doorway.
Alan groaned. "Coming! Bye John! Ghosts do exist!" He ran after Virgil, humming fake ghost noises.
"Guess Id better go," Jeff laughed. "I don't want them killing each other!"
"See you," John shutdown the connection and frowned. That was weird, he could have sworn he just heard a moaning noise...
Chocolate. That was it, he hadn't eaten any chocolate for a day! Grabbing a bar of chocolate, he checked on the storms approaching South America. He didn't think International Rescue would be needed, but Jeff had said to keep an eye on it. It was getting weaker, and he suspected it would blow itself out before it reached the coast.
CRASH! That was no book!
"What the hell?" He yelped as something white swept past the corner of his vision. Spinning round, he dashed after it, to hear a loud moan from above.
"Who's there?" He yelled, and another moan echoed around him. Another crash.
A white blur swept past him. White, blurry, no, it couldn't be...
"Um..." He sprinted back to the main part of Thunderbird 5.
"Come back!" Came a ghostly moan.
Funny, that sounded familiar...another crash had him diving for the control panel.
"Dad! Come in! I have a...interesting situation right now."
"What's wrong?" Jeff appeared on the screen.
John bit his lip. "Is Alan there?"
"No, why?"
"Because I think there's a...spirit on Thunderbird 5..."
"What?" Scott was laughing in the background. "But you don't believe in ghosts!"
"Yeah, but Scott, this is REAL!"
"Sure it is..."
Another crash came from behind him, followed by a moan. "Hear that?" John demanded. "It's real!"
"Okay...Scott, get Alan, and go up to Thunderbird 5 to check it out."
"FAB. Hey, Sprout! We're going to see a ghost!"
Alan skidded into the room. "A real live ghost?"
John grinned. "It's not very alive!"
John hastily opened the air lock as Thunderbird 3 landed and tumbled on top of Scott.
"Nice to see you too," the pilot commented as he sat up. Alan bounded past them.
"Where's the ghost?"
"I think I trapped it in the bedroom," John replied, shuddering as he remembered the eerie wailing noise. A loud mown echoed through the thunderbird and Scott jumped.
"Geez, I didn't think it was that loud!"
Alan was laughing, nearly hysterical. "Don't you recognise that?"
The other two Tracy's shook their heads.
"It's that recording Gordon made of that ghostly noise he found on a rescue!"
"Explain the actual figure fly the ghost then! Ive seen it!"
Alan was grinning. "Well, we brought supplies up to you yesterday, we haven't seen Gordon since!"
John groaned. "Gordon! You freaked me out! You idiot!"
Scott was laughing as he let the the prankster out of the bedroom.
"All set to go back then?"
"John, why don't you go back early? I'm coming up here in a few days anyway," Alan suggested.
John frowned. "Either you've down something to Virgil or you've gone mad!"
Watching Gordon playing his "Ghost Recording" over and over again, John grinned. He was going to have to get his own back. Maybe he should stick Gordon up on five...
So what did you guys think? Rubbish? Boring? Good? See you soon,
Kat 😋😜