Everyone has a bad day

Chapter 7

"Well, I am confident that you have nothing to do with International Rescue." Hofstead said as he stood at the bottom of the steps leading to his plane.

"Why are you hunting them anyway?" Gordon asked. The Tracy's, along with the Hackenbackers, Kyranos and Rachel were stood on the tarmac, Dominic in Jeff's arms.

"They need to be held accountable for their actions. They have been running loose for too long." Hofstead said.

"Please send any information you have to our techs at NCIS. We can look over it and see if we can help." Evie said, still glaring at him.

"Of course. I was curious as to why no one from NCIS had contacted me." He murmured, making G also glare.

"Maybe because we were spending our time chasing actual criminals." He snapped. Hofstead quickly boarded his plane, realising the hostility that the Tracy's were displaying.

"What do we do now?" Scott asked once the plane was out of sight. They had yet to move from the tarmac.

"We have to do something." Jeff said. "Rachel, can you use your contacts to find out any information on Hofstead?"

"On it." She said, already typing away on her phone.

"Brains, can you call Lady Penelope? We may need her expertise." He said, looking at his friend.

"O-o-of course." Brains stuttered, walking towards the house.

"John, I need you to get some info on those satellites. Anything we can use." He said. John nodded before running towards the house.

"Scott, Gordon and Alan, I need you boys to go to Tracy Enterprises to keep up appearances." The boys nodded before running to their rooms, starting to pack.

"We'll get some food and coffee sorted." Kyrano said as he and Onaha started to walk back to the house.

"Dad, G and I will go to LA. We can do more there than we can here." Evie said, making Jeff nod.

"We'll take Tintin and Fermat with us, if it's alright with you two?" G said, looking at the two in question.

"Why do you want us to go with you?" Tintin asked.

"Because the two of you are great with computers, and we wouldn't ask you if we knew you couldn't handle it." Evie said, smiling at them.

"Go and get ready. The sooner you get to LA the better." Jeff said before beginning to walk away, still holding Dominic.

"Hey Dad," G called after him, finally in the habit of call the Tracy patriarch Dad. "Can we have our son back?"

"You can have him back when you leave. Until then, I am spoiling him!" Jeff called over his shoulder as he disappeared into the house.

"I can't wait until your brothers have kids." G said as the four started walking back up the path. "We might actually get to see our son."

"The only way you will stop Jeff from kidnapping his grandchildren would be to leave him on 5." Tintin said with a laugh.

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An hour later, Tracy two was flying over the pacific, G and Fermat piloting, letting the girls sit with Dominic and allowing Evie to do some work on her laptop.

"This is crazy." She snapped, glaring at the screen.

"What is?" Tintin asked, looking over from where she was rocking Dominic to sleep.

"I've been digging into Agent Hofstead, and this guys is clean! Not so much as a parking ticket." She said, looking at the younger woman. "The only records that I can find of him before he joined the CIA is a birth certificate. I can't even find the documentation of him changing his name!"

"What did Eric say?" Tintin asked, referring to Eric Beal, one of the technical operators with NCIS.

"He can't find anything either." She sighed, leaning back. "Something is not adding up about this. I think it's time for International Rescue to make contact."

"Shouldn't you run that past your Dad?" Tintin asked, frowning.

"He would say no. Is he asleep?" Evie asked, nodding to Dominic. Tintin nodded before Evie made a call from her laptop, ensuring that it was untraceable and the video was off.

"This is Agent Hofstead. Who am I speaking to?" Hofstead answered, his voice carrying around the plane.

"This is Female Thunder with International Rescue." Evie said, making sure that the voice masking program was running. She couldn't let him recognise her voice. "You can't have forgotten me already."

"Why are you calling me?" He asked. Evie could hear someone typing in the background and smirked.

"I wouldn't bother trying to trace this call. It'll say that I am in space." She said with a laugh. She was bouncing the call from Thunderbird 5, meaning that the trace would place them there instead of where they were. "And I want to know why you are hunting me and my team down."

"You need to be held accountable for your actions. The Global Defence Force believes it best if you operate under the US government from now on, only going to rescues that we permit you to go to and only doing what we deem acceptable actions while on rescues." He said.

"There is a reason that we are not tied to any government, and that is because we help everyone, no matter what they have against one country or another." She snapped. "And as for acceptable behaviour, if we didn't do half of the actions we did then we would lose a lot more innocent lives."

"That is not my problem." He said, making Tintin glower.

"Not your problem?" She snapped, making Evie look at her in shock. "You would be held accountable for any lives that are lost if we follow your orders. Are you willing to live with that?"

"Who the hell do you think you are?" He asked, making them smirk.

"Female Thunder. I already told you that. Man, Nemo was right about you being an idiot." Evie said with a laugh, taking the attention away from Tintin, before turning serious again. "Back to you, Agent Hofstead. Why don't you tell me your real name?" There was a moment of silence before he replied.

"What do you mean?" He asked, his voice calculated.

"Oh please. Did you really think I wouldn't run your name?" She asked with a laugh. "I am very good at spotting an alias, and yours is one of the worst I have seen."

"And why do you think I am using an alias?" He asked, Tintin noted the change in his voice and knew from years of living with the Tracy's that he was trying to hide something.

"Because if you weren't, then I would be able to find documents on you in the time period between birth and joining the CIA. There are no medical records, no school reports, no jobs, nothing." She said. "So why don't you tell me your real name and we'll go from there." There was a moment of silence before the call terminated, making the two girls glance at each other.

"So he's using an alias, and he is probably pissed that you caught him out this easily." Tintin commented.

"What next?" They turned to see G and Fermat stood behind them.

"How long have you been there for?" Evie asked.

"Long e-e-e-enough." Fermat said, his eyes hard.

"What do we do now?" G asked, looking at his wife.

"We have to do some investigating. Once we land, we'll go to Ops and Eric and Nell can put Tintin and Fermat to work. We'll wing it from there." She said, nodding to them. They had already had permission from Hetty to take the two to their Operations Centre, which meant that they could work the case with G's old team and hopefully get some results.

Here you go guys. I am so sorry it's taken me so long to update. I will try to update a little faster from now on.

Hope you enjoy

Emma