It was lunch break at Wharton academy when the familiar cry of "the Thunderbirds are gunna be on tv" rang out across the school. As usual Alan and Fermat went to the front of the crowd of students to watch what turned out to be a highly unusual rescue. "The dam at Lake Volta in Ghana is almost at bursting point after five days of unnatural storms have buffered the area. The only village in danger from this flood of water stands on a hilltop with lowland right around it. We can only hope that the thunderbirds arrive soon enough to rescue them before the flood completely surrounds their village cutting off all hope of escape.

The rain pounded down on the dirt and the wind howled, buffering even thunderbird 2 around in its fury. "Thunderbird 1 coming into land now dad" Scott's voice rang across the intercom "just bringing her down on the hill, there is plenty of space for two to land here as well"

"F A B son, be careful" said Jeff from control room back at Tracy island, as he watched thunderbird one jolt onto land on his TV screen, "thunderbird two you are now cleared to land" He spoke into the intercom, his eye's on the television.

"No worries dad bringing her down is a piece of cake" Virgil's voice had a cocky tone to it as he smoothly bought his bird into land next to thunderbird one "easy as pie" he laughed

"This is no time for jokes Virgil, we need to get those people out of that village and into Two before the dam breaks" Scott was already outside of his bird, getting ready to go down to the village.

Virgil and Gordon left two and ran over to Scott "let's go then" Gordon's voice came muffled by his helmet as he started towards the village.

"Be careful boys" their father's voice came through the speakers in their ears "this could get messy"

After escorting the first group back to thunderbird two Virgil stayed behind to load them into the thunderbird while Gordon and Scott ran back towards the village. They were almost at the village when an immense rumbling filled the air "SHIT" cried Gordon "the dams breaking."

The pair only just made it too the village when a massive rush of water spilled down the river, bursting its banks and completely surrounding the hill.

"Scott, Gordon are you alright?" Virgil's worried voice came across the intercom "this looks bad, there is no way I can get thunderbird two close enough to that village to airlift you away, and I cant by myself anyway. I don't know what too do"

"Just get those people you already rescued to safety" Jeff's face appeared on the screen in the thunderbird one cockpit "we can come back and work this out once they are safe"

"F A B dad" Virgil nodded turning back to thunderbird twos controls "Thunderbird two taking off for Accra"

Just as Virgil was about to take off, a second rumbling filled the air. "What the hell" Gordon's voice came across the intercom "I thought the dam bust already"

Looking around Scott could see the locals all pointing at something in the sky "what is that?" Scott asked in shock "It looks like a plane, Vigil can you get a reading on it?"

"There's no data, it must be shielded. John can you get anything?" Virgil said shocked checking all of thunderbird twos data.

"Nothing at all" johns voice came across puzzled "who could that be?"

As the plane came closer it soon became obvious that it wasn't actually a plane but a kind of space shuttle type thing. It looked like a cross between thunderbird one and thunderbird 4 a high-speed rocket with jet propulsion, made for speed and not cargo.

The rocket had jets balancing it out and stopping it from being thrown about by the high wind and heavy rain. It was a pale blue and written in striking red letters down one side was 'ShootingStar 1'

"Thunderbird two this is ShootingStar one do you copy?" a clear female voice rang out through the radio "Thunderbird two do you copy?"

Virgil stared at the radio in shock "dad…" he said warily into his headset " there's another craft here and they are attempting contact. Do I accept?"

Jeff stared at the screen in front of him, trying to decide what was best to do "sure son go ahead, but be careful, and mind what you say" he sighed.