Chapter 9 – Situation Gone from Bad to Worse
A/N- This chapter is a bit on the depressing side but I am trying not to make it too depressing.
"Alan, where are you?"
"Gordon I am in a cabin with four young children."
"Alright Alan, we will be right there." Gordon ran towards the control tent to see if there was anyone could help find and rescue Alan and the four young children. The next thing Gordon or Virgil would have to do is contact base and inform them on the current situation.
"Thunderbird 2 calling Base and Thunderbird 5."
"Base here"
"Thunderbird 5 here."
"Right. Scott is still in the sickbay dehydrated among other things. Now the problem is Alan is trapped in a cabin with four young children surrounded by fire."
"Alright, John I want you to check on Alan and the children. Virgil, I want you to lockdown the Thunderbirds with Scott in it and then I want you to both go to the cabin to save your brother and those children."
"FAB"
Both Virgil and Gordon locked down the Thunderbirds to head to Alan's last known location and find the cabin. "Virgil, it is all my fault that our youngest brother is trapped in a cabin surrounded by fire."
"Gordon it isn't your fault you weren't to know this was going to happen."
"I asked him if he wanted any help and he said no. I should have told him I was coming to help."
"I am sure Alan is fine with those children they are probably having fun, now have a little faith in your brother."
"FAB"
Meanwhile back at the cabin Alan was looking after the four young children in which one of them were hurt quite badly with a broken arm and leg, along with smoke inhalation and other injuries. The young girl was in a critical condition and Alan was becoming more worried about her. He started to talk to himself 'what would Virgil do?'
'He would try and stabilise her in hoping help gets here quick.' So, Alan did just that, tried to help the young girl who was in desperate need of medical aid. "Come on you need to stay strong for me, come on little one stay with me."
Alan could tell that she was slowly fading into the darkness, with all the blood that she had lost. "Gordon, where are you?"
"We are about 20 minutes out from the cabin. Why Alan?"
"There is a young girl who is in a critical condition with a broken arm and leg, along with smoke inhalation she has lost a lot of blood an in need of medical aid."
"Ah I see your problem Alan. We will be there as soon as we can try and keep her calm also awake."
"FAB Virgil. Please hurry she is getting weaker and not going to last much longer." Both Virgil and Gordon hung up and get back to the to the jobs at hand.
About 15 minutes later Virgil and Gordon arrived at the cabin and saw what Alan meant with the young girl she was in a really bad way. Virgil didn't know if she was going to survive after she had lost too much blood and with an open fracture with an infection setting in. Virgil thought it would be a good idea to pull Alan.
"Alan, I am going to do all I can to save this girl but I am not hopeful."
"Please do whatever you can to save her"
"I will try" Alan and Gordon took care of the other children whilst Virgil tried to stabilise the young girl.
"Virgil, are you ready to go?"
"Not yet Alan. I am still trying to get her stable it is going to take a bit longer."
"Alright Virgil but we don't have long before this cabin is on fire as well."
"FAB Alan."
It was 10 minutes later when Virgil was finished with the girl and was ready to leave but the fire was right around the cabin with no way out. "Right the fire is right around the cabin. I have a few smoke grenades left but it will only give us a few minutes to get out."
"FAB Virgil, me and Alan will take the other three kids which allows you to take the ill one."
"That sounds like a plan to me."
"With the change of the plan it took a bit longer to get sorted especially as Virgil was closely monitoring the young girl. "Right I am ready."
"As are we"
"Let's get going then." Virgil, Gordon and Alan got the children by the door ready to go. Once they were ready Virgil got the smoke grenades primed and ready. As they walked out the door the smoke grenades were thrown which gave them away out of the cabin and back to the Thunderbirds.
Both Gordon and Alan had hold of the other three children and ran towards the gap Virgil had made with the smoke grenades but they still had a good 20-minute walk back if not longer because of the children.
"Virgil is the girl alright?"
"She is the best she can be." Virgil could tell really; she was fading and she wasn't going to make. Unfortunately, Virgil knew it was going to be hard on Alan and didn't want to tell him that she probably won't make it.
It was nearly 2 hours since Virgil and Gordon left to go and help Alan. Virgil handed the young girl off to the doctors hoping that they would be able to help her but he wasn't hopeful.
Gordon went back to unlock the Thunderbirds and check on Scott which they left in the med bay asleep just where they left him. Virgil decided to contact base and inform them that Alan had been found and rescued along with the young children, but also told them that one of the children were in a really bad way.
Alan slowly walked into Thunderbird 1 where he knew he could have time to think about everything that has happened over the last couple of hours. When Virgil and Gordon came out of Thunderbird 2 to find Alan the doctor that Virgil handed the young girl to came running up behind them.
"Excuse me!" Virgil and Gordon stopped.
"How can we help you?"
"The young girl that you brought to us, sadly didn't make it as she had lost too much blood."
"Damn. I knew she was bad. Thank you for telling us." The doctor turned back around and walked away.
"What are we going to doing about Alan?"
"I will speak to him, but I will let him relax and cool off first." As Virgil looked up at Thunderbird 1.
