Hello you all, I'm back. Short chapter this time, but necessary. Hope I still have all my followers.

John Tracy approached the Hub ship, matching speed, direction and movement.

"How are you holding up?" He asked over the comms.

"The ship is creaking something awful after the collision," the Hood responded. "It could come apart anytime. It won't be the first ship I've lost though." His hologram glared at John, who smiled as he recollected helping Scott and Virgil take the Hood's previous ship apart.

"Great, the pod is just arriving," John reported. "Are you all in spacesuits."

"Stupid question. Of course we are."

"Great, I can have you all evacuated in five minutes. I'll have to leave a lot of you floating in orbit to make that time frame as it is, but I can maneuver Thunderbird 5 to pick you up. Agreeable. "

The Hood nodded in approval, barely keeping his excitement in control. He'd always wanted to get inside International Rescue's communications hub. "Very, very agreeable. The Hub ship will be entering the atmosphere in six minutes, so to make sure it doesn't crash anywhere, I'll blow the ship up after we evacuate. Havoc, set the self destruct."

"Got it, Dad," Havoc typed in some commands. "Wait a minute, did he say 4 or 5?"

"I said 5," John confirmed.

Alarms started blaring. "INITIATING SELF-DESTRUCT SEQUENCE IN 4 MINUTES."

Havoc turned red as a beetroot and dodged her fathers extremely annoyed fist.


Up in Thunderbird Five...

EOS was not surprised to receive a call from Colonel Casey. 5,617 to 1 to see if she could help, but I.R. Was in desperate need of it anyway.

"Greetings Colonel, and how may we help you?" She made her voice sound a lot older.

"I know I.R. is busy Eloise, but can you do me a favour and take a look at this footage, will you?" Casey played her conversation with 'Howard Yost' over the link.

(What? Don't look at me like that, Colonel Casey can't know that I.R. Owns an artificial intelligence).

"Howard idea is excellent, Colonel. But why are you showing me this? Did you think he was lying or something?" EOS calculated possibilities and made a reminder to access Yost's company computers later.

"No, I am fully supportive of his idea, I would just feel safer if you and John could remotely oversee the operation instead of Yost, your systems are more secure, efficient and quicker than everyone else, you know," the Colonel flattered.

"Oh, I see," EOS considered. "Very well, when will you be ready to allow me access to your systems."

"Now."