A/N It has been quiet on the rescue front for 2 days and Gordon is bored. Those two things combined are never good news!
Gordon Tracy is bored. And a bored Gordon is a formidable opponent. They have not had a rescue in nearly two days and even Grandma has given up making them clean!
"Hey Virg, can we play truth or dare?" he asks his bear like brother who has been practising the same piece for the last three hours and is driving Gordon crazy.
"Absolutely not, the last time we played that you fell off the barn roof back in Kansas remember?" Virgil replies laughing.
"Yeah but I am older now and more mature"
Virgil snorts with laughter, Gordon will never be mature!
"PLEASE" Gordon pleads.
Those eyes are shining on him, the ones Virgil has never been able to resist.
"Okay fine, but you do NOT tell Scott. Go and grab Allie and meet in my room in about five minutes."
Gordon skips happily from the lounge and gathers up his younger brother and herds him into Virgil's room and the pair get comfortable on Virgil's bed.
"So what are we not telling Scott?" a familiar voice pops out of the communication device on Virgil's bed side table.
"John! Stop doing that, you nearly gave me a heart attack!" Alan claims.
"Do you really want to know?" Gordon asks.
John pretends to think about it for a brief second before laughing and saying "No" and exiting the conversation before he can incriminate himself.
Virgil arrives a minute later carrying a tray with drinks and a plate of nachos.
"Ooo snacks" Gordon says brightly, claiming the nachos for himself!
"So what is this about?" Alan asks, still confused.
"Truth or dare!" Virgil replies with a grin.
"Can I go first?" Gordon asks.
"Fine. Gordon: truth or dare?" Virgil asks.
"Dare, and make it challenging!" Gordon replies.
Virgil thinks for a moment, "Okay I dare you to sneak into the hangars where Scott is working on Thunderbird one and steal his tools and replace them with Alan's old toy toolbox right under his nose."
Gordon smiles back "Easy. Be back in five minutes!"
Gordon leaves the room and enters Alan's room for the toy toolbox before sneaking down to the hangar where he finds his eldest brother dangling from the nose cone of his beloved plane. The toolbox is in plain sight, and he knows that Scott is distracted enough for him to swipe the box and replace it with the toy tools. Too easy!
The boxes are switched in seconds and he is home free. But that was a little bit too simple. He needs a challenge! Sneaking back down he goes over to Thunderbird Shadow and grabs a can of spray pain. Painting "Gordy was here!" in yellow on the rear wing, again unnoticed by Scott. "Perfect!" he thinks happily as he makes his way back to Virgil's room.
"Well?" Alan asks in anticipation.
"Let's see" Gordon replies flicking on Virgil's television and turning to the security camera just as Scott reaches for a hammer.
His reaction makes all three burst out laughing as Scott roars with anger "GORDON!" he shouts angrily, stomping towards the elevator and back up into the lounge. "WHERE ARE YOU FISHBOY?"
"You called Scooter?" Gordon replies sarcastically, poking his head out of Virgil's room.
"Where are my tools?" Scott demands.
"I don't know" Gordon replies with a shrug, "where did you have them last?"
"Down in the hangar, but they have been replaced with plastic toys" Scott says in outrage.
"Well why don't you ask the one who owns the toys" Gordon replies with a shrug.
"Oi, I am not going down for this. this was your dare!" Alan says.
"Don't throw me under the bus Rocketboy!" Gordon replies but he is laughing now too.
"I will throw you both under a bus in a minute!" Scott growls. "Give me back my stuff!"
Gordon is saved from answering by Kayo bursting in through the door. "YOU!" she calls pining the aquanaut to the wall. "Get downstairs and get Thunderbird S repainted!"
"What, that was not part of the dare!" Alan says with a giggle.
"Yeah well, I told you to make it challenging!" Gordon replies, but he is saved from further arguments by John popping back up. "Sorry guys but we have a situation" and everyone scarpers to get ready for another day as international rescue. Gordon gives Scott his tools back but doesn't offer to repaint Thunderbird S!
