A/N
Yeah, my first thunderbirds story. I've had the start written for a while and had the idea of the actual mission but only recently did I put the two together. Its mostly movie-verse because although the original series was better, I feel that I know more about the movie. I've kept a few T.V aspects, including Gordons hair colour :)
Also, for people that may not know, 'SES' stands for State Emergency Service.
Scott glanced at his watch, it was 8.30am, and he was still the only one awake. He sighed and looked back out over the deck, taking in the breathtaking views that Tracy island gave of the ocean.
It had been a long night, the Thunderbirds had been called out to help rescue 13 people trapped in a collapsed building near Mexico's capital. They had only gotten back a few hours ago, but his stupid body clock had decided that he was going to wake at 7am and not be able to get back to sleep.
He heard a faint rustling behind him and he smirked. Virgil would never be able to pass as anything close to a ninja.
"Hey Virge," he heard his brother curse and then come around the corner into view.
"Hey, why arn't you asleep? Dad and Gords are sleeping like logs"
Scott shrugged, ''Stupid body clock''
Virgil nodded, ''Me too, but I was gonna get some milk and try to get more sleep'' Scott shut his eyes and listened to his little brother walk over the kitchen, heat up the milk and head back to his room.
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Blinking as the sun streamed in through his half open curtains, Gordon rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. Groaning when the blankets fell of his bed as he stretched, he glanced out the window. God was it daylight already? And by the looks of it, almost lunch time too. He crawled out of bed as slowly as he could before giving up and just walking over to his wardrobe. Pulling on some swim shorts and grabbing a towel, he headed out and down towards the pool whistling a song he had heard on the radio. He didn't even notice Scott sleeping on the deck chair until he threw his towel on it and it moved. His scream woke up his oldest brother and Scott sat bolt upright looking around the deck for the 'danger'. Glaring as Scott started laughing, he leaned back a little and crossed his arms across his chest.
"You scream like a little girl!" Scott said between laughs.
"Yeah? Well...at least i'm not wearing a pink shirt!" Gordon smirked as Scott looked down.
"IT IS PALE PINK AND IS THEREFORE AN APPROPRIATE COLOUR FOR A MALE"
"Its still pink though, thus, making you look like an idiot" That was it for Scotts temper, and he lunged at Gordon who yelped and ran towards the pool before diving in without so much as a splash. Scott crouched down behind the pot plant near the pool and waited, Gordon would come up for air and would have expected Scott to have followed him into the pool and when he started to look around for his oldest brother, Scott would pounce. This was standard 'morning after a rescue' behaviour and Scott knew all of Gordons' "tactics".
Sure enough, Gordon popped up from under the water, his auburn hair dripping water onto his face. A quick glance around showed him where Scott was. He decided not to completely ruin his brothers morning and continued looking around the pool deck, a false look on confusion on his face. Smirking to himself quickly before gulping a lungful of air, he ducked under the cool water as Scott went flying overhead.
A now furious Scott who hadn't anticipated on Gordon moving climbed out of the pool and headed inside, taking Gordons' towel for good measure.
"Oh come on Scotty!" Gordon pouted, "where are you going? I was just mucking around!"
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Ignoring his brother, Scott kept walking. His patience wasn't very good when he was tired and he didn't want to snap and say something he didn't mean to. Sleep was a great option at this point. Walking past a now-awake Virgil on his way to bed, he grabbed his brothers sleeved and muttered, "If there's an emergency wake me up, other than that, keep Gordon out of my room at all costs." Virgil smirked but nodded.
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WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP
Less than half an hour later, the emergency signal startled Scott back into conciousness. He ignored how tired he was and ran to the control room, the second last of his brothers to arrive as Virgil came running in behind him. He looked up at his dad, with the same look he gave him before every mission. It was now like a code between them, translating roughly into 'here we go again, where to this time boss?'.
"Bushfire in Australia, a few kids are trapped in th..." Jeff didn't even get to finish his sentence and his boys were gone, headed to the hangers via the system that connected them through their portraits.
Jeff looked at the computer screen that connected base to Thunderbird Five. The one of the only screens in the whole Tracy residence that only served one purpose. "John, status update, what's happening?"
"The fire is on the western side of Australia, in the Perth hills and there seems to be three kids trapped somewhere in the blaze, the authorities know they are alive because the kids were smart enough to grab a pair of basic 2-way radios before they fled their house. The local SES and fire crews have narrowed it down that much, but the fire is ridiculously huge and they can't get to them." John paused, "also, the 2-ways are going to go out of range pretty soon too, and these kids are quite literally running for their lives through the bush"
"F-A-B." Jeff turned to another screen, "Thunderbird 2 this is base what's your ETA?"
Virgil had just downloaded the coordinates and quickly put them into the system which gave him an almost instant response "Base this is Thunderbird 2, we will be there in 37 minutes"
"F-A-B, Scott what about you?"
"About 13 minutes"
"Good, I want you to find them and help them stay as far away from that fire as you can until Thunderbird 2 gets there"
"F-A-B Dad"
The emergency is actually based on my paranoid mothers fears, we live in the middle of the bush and so bush fire is a huge threat to us and she is paranoid that us kids are going to get stuck in one when she's at work one day. And for anyone who cares, the boy and younger girl are my actual brother and stepsister :) (they requested that they, along with our dogs, be put in one of my stories)