Quickly Virgil and Alan made their way to thunderbird 3 and prepared to launch.
"how do you think thunderbird 5 fell out of orbit?" Alan asked as he guided his bird out of it's hanger
"no idea, it could be the guys who blew up the GDF base" Virgil commented as thunderbird 3 left the atmosphere.
"These guys are really dangerous aren't they?" Alan said with fear in his voice. Virgil didn't answer knowing that if he did, his voice would hold the same amount of fear as alan's instead he watched as they came closer to a falling Thunderbird 5. Alan quickly activated the arms on thunderbird 3 to catch it.
"Thunderbird 3 to Thunderbird 5. John, you do read me?" Virgil said into the comms but received no answer "I don't like this" Thunderbird 3 soon got thunderbird 5 back into orbit.
"ok, I'm going to hold it here, you have to enter and reactivate 5 so it stays here" Alan told Virgil not taking his eyes off Thunderbird 5.
"FAB" Virgil said and left to grab his helmet and an astroboard, soon he was surfing towards 5. He entered the access code and found boxes scattered everywhere. 'John's not going to be happy' he thought, he knew his little brother had OCD, his bedroom was always the neatest when they were kids. He carefully made his way to the control room and found John on the floor unconscious and ran towards him, checking him for injuries, luckily he found none, except for a bump on his head. He gently tapped his cheeks to wake him up, but John only groaned. Virgil decided to get 5 back online first as he knew Alan couldn't keep hold of it forever, he entered the gravity ring where the main control panel was located and pushed the red button and 5's lights came back on. Allowing alan to let go and dock thunderbird 3, soon EOS came back online.
"Virgil?, what happened? where is John?" she asked, turning her camera towards Virgil.
"John's fine EOS, except for a bump on his head" Virgil reassured her as Alan entered and joined them
"EOS, what happened?" Alan asked, looking around at the scattered boxes
"unfortunately I am unable to answer, someone shut me off" she said following them as they made their way back to John.
"I think john should stay planetside for a few days, just until his head gets better," Virgil said as he gently picked up John and carried him in his arms. Luckily for him, due to being in space so much John was lighter. "plus, I want to do a medical scan just to make sure there's no brain damage.
"do you think I should stay here?" Alan asked as they made their way back to 3.
"no, not at the moment at least" Virgil immediately answered, he didn't say anymore as he strapped John down in a seat and climbed into the co-pilot's seat. While he strapped John down Alan set himself about getting 5 on auto and grabbing EOS's holodisk so she would come too, soon they were heading back to earth.
"how do you think Kayo's doing?" Alan asked his brother as they entered earth's atmosphere
"Knowing her, she's probably got them on the ropes," Virgil said knowing how good their sister was at tracking down thieves.
*New York*
Kayo arrived at New York and parked shadow on the side of the museum, making sure to put it in stealth mode. She carefully entered the museum and found herself facing the back of one of the people that blew up the GDF base, all around her the guards were all unconscious, but not dead.
"so, you finally arrived Kayo or should I say Tanusha?" the thief said in a male's voice, "I thought you'd come sooner" turning around to face her. Now that she had a closer look she could see the thief was wearing a green jacket with a Griffin on the shoulder, green shoulder pads and white gloves, a dark green belt with the star on a silver belt buckle, green pants and green boots. A green tricorne hat was on top of his head and a green mask that covered his face, he was currently clutching the jewel in his hand.
"How do you know my real name?" she asked, she hardly used her real name, only her adoptive family, the GDF, Penelope, her uncle and her father knew it.
"We have our ways," he said glancing behind her before he reached for a gun from his belt and shot a guard who was beginning to come round, the guard collapsed to the ground dead.
"Why did you kill him" she demanded not turning around
"Why not?" he shrugged, smirking coldly, she rushed towards him, but he simply flipped over her head and landed behind her, she turned around and saw that he was running towards the exit.
"oh no you don't," she said chasing after him, even though he was a villain, she had to admit. He had good reflexes. H expertly dodged cars and avoided bumping into people without slowing down but eventually, she managed to trap him in an ally.
"Nowhere to run now," she said walking towards him, he raised his arms and turned towards her. She realized that he had something in his other hand, she realized that it was his belt buckle. Smirking he pressed something on the side that released a grappled line that attached to the roof of the building next to her.
"Nice meeting you. Till next time" he said, mock saluting her and disappearing along with the jewel, she quickly got her grapple line and went after him. But once she got to the roof, he was gone, she looked around to see where he had gone, she looked down and saw a card with the star on it. She picked it up and flipped it over, all it said was 'the phantom pirates'
"Kayo, did you manage to catch the thief?" Rigby asked her snapping her out of her thoughts, she looked at her communicator.
"no, he got away," she said before cutting the transmission and summoning Thunderbird S.
*unknown*
The 7 phantoms were sitting in a booth at the back of a bar where people such as thieves, drug dealers and many more often exchanged information or generally hung out when they needed to lay low from the police, not that they would dare enter the place, soon the green one entered and placed the jewel on the table.
"Good job," the red one said picking it up and inspecting it closely, "our client will be very happy"
"you run into any trouble?" the black one asked
"Nothing I can't handle," the green one said sliding into the booth "so, how did the 'rescue' go?"
"not bad, their AI is second-rate compared to ours," the gold one said flicking a crumb off his shoulder pad.
"That reminds me, we got a new job offer if we accept we'll be made handsomely," the red one said
"who's the employer?" green asked taking a sip of his beer that had just arrived
"a man named the hood..."
ok, so would you rather a list of their real names or having them interact with each other and they call each other by their real names?