Scott Tracy stepped out of the rocket and took a deep breath. It felt good to be back on the island again, he looked behind him and saw his brothers Virgil, Jhon and alan step out along with Kayo and Brains and last but not least...his father. After finding footage that he was still alive they had made a replica of the ZERO X and went to go get him. Kayo and Brains went along because kayo missed him and brains came as technological support. Grandma stayed behind to keep Gordon company. Even though Gordon had recovered after the accident with the chaos crew, Scott still felt like he should stay on the island just to make sure, even though gordon had argued he agreed as space wasn't his environment and he often felt space sick if up there for too long. Scott made a mental note to thank Gordon, if it wasn't for him then they never would have found their dad's message and braman would be in the hands of the hood.

"How does it feel to be back dad?" John asked his father, he left 5 on auto and took EOS with him so she could 'meet the family' in a way and also help brains.

"It feels...weird after so many years" jeff admitted "it's better then I remeber"

"come on, let's meet up with Gordon and grandma, they'll be waiting for us," Virgil said leading the way and Scott took a moment to look at his family. It was complete again and he hoped it would stay that way. He quickly joined them in the elevator that would take them to the lounge. But to their surprise instead of Grandma or Gordon waiting for them, instead, they saw that the living room had looked like it had been in a tornado. Cushions were everywhere, lamps were knocked over, the stairs were damaged, chess pieces everywhere, even MAX was on the floor deactivated.

"What happened?" alan asked

"Gordon? grandma?" Scott yelled hoping for an answer, but when he was met with silence he felt his heart plummet.

"Guys, look at this" Jhon said, he was fiddling with the table in the middle of the lounge and it was flashing red. Soon the screen cleared and they could see Gordon being held down by two men and was struggling to break free when suddenly someone they all hated came into view.

"The hood" Virgil growled. The hood walked up to Gordon and seemed to be talking, but there wasn't any sound. Gordon made some sort of comment that seemed to enrage the hood and he nodded. One of the henchmen came forward and plunged a syringe into Gordon's arm and then he became limp. The hood then came another signal and the henchmen carries Gordon out and then the footage ended.

"where's grandma?" kayo wondered

"I-I-I-'ll a-a-contact lady p-p-Penelope" brains offered and opened up the link to their london agent

"brains, thank goodness you're all alright"

"Penelope, what happened?" Jeff asked

"Jeff, good to see you again. Well, a few days ago I invited Grandma Tracy to come over for some tea. She accepted so parker drove FAB 1 to pick her up. Then a few hours later the emergency alarms go off that Tracy island has been invaded. Luckily I was able to get the feed up in time to see the hood enter the house. I immediately contacted the GDF but they were too late, the hood was long gone by the time they arrived. I'm sorry"

"it's alright, it wasn't your fault" Jhon assured penolpe "how's grandma?"

"she's alright"

"how long ago did this happen?" Scott asked in his IR commander voice

"three, four days ago" Penelope said apologetically "I'm sorry you only just found out when this is meant to be a happy reunion. I meant to tell you sooner but I couldn't reach you"

"what about the birds?!" Jeff asked with worry

"d-d-don't worry m-mister Tracy" brains said from where he had activated MAX who had let out a startled beep "I-I-I found a way to hide the birds"

brains led them to his lab and took out a box with a lock.

"Phew, they didn't get the birds," Virgil said in relief

"but they did get our brother" Scott angrily shot back

"Hey, I'm trying to be optimistic!"

"what's optimistic about this?! the hood has our brother!"

"that at least we have our birds to help us"

"except we have to track him down first, and how can we do that if we don't have Gordon's signal?"

"Stop being such a downer"

"I'm not, I'm just saying"

"We have to look on the bright side. that's what Gordon would have wanted"

no-one said a word during the argument and Virgil looked down quickly after the last comment.

"err, how are the birds in there? arn't they a little too...big?" jeff asked, breaking the silence

brains said nothing excepted opened the box and taking out a tiny thunderbird 1. He then took it and placed it on its launchpad, then he tapped it and stepped back, suddenly thunderbird 1 was back to its normal size.

"how...what..huh?" jeff asked confused

"I-I-I-I invented t-t-tiny disks t-that could e-e-either shrink o-o-r g-grow objects. (like what ant-man uses).

"what if someone steals the box?"

"don't' worry dad," alan said reassuringly "brains built it so only he can unlock the box and unshrink the birds"

"that's good, for now, we have to contact cornel casey" Jeff commanded and Scott clenched his fists. he was going to make the hood pay for firstly taking his father from their family and now taking his little brother.