John woke up to a massive headache, he slowly opened his heavy eyelids to find 6 blurry figures in front of him, he groaned.

"he's waking up!"

"Virgil do you have anything that could help him?"

"Yeah, hang on..."

suddenly the pain lessened and john fully opened his eyes to find his family staring at him with looks of relief on their faces.

"What happened?" he asked in a croaky voice, looking around the room he realized that he was no longer on thunderbird 5. THUNDERBIRD 5! suddenly memories flashed before him. Him talking to his family. Thunderbird 5's alarms going off. Seeing the symbol. he suddenly sat up only to send his vision swimming, a hand gently grabbed his shoulder and gently but firmly pushed him back down.

"easy little brother" Scott said as he looked at John "as for what happened, we were hoping you could tell us"

"where's EOS?" john asked, ignoring Scott

"she's here john," Alan said as he held up her holodisk and John let out a sigh of relief.

"you think you could tell us what happened?" Virgil gently asked and John paused to think

"well, after you disappeared, I asked EOS what happened but she went offline, suddenly my screens turned off and showed the star, then the gravity cut off and that's about it" John explained and listened as the others filled him in on how Virgil and Alan came up to rescue him and that he was off duty for a few weeks; at least until his ribs were healed.

Suddenly Kayo entered the infirmary.

"Kayo, did you catch the thief?" Alan asked with hope in his voice

"no, he got away," kayo said and everybody frowned, these guys were good if they were able to get away from Kayo, "but, I did manage to get the name of the group," she said

"what is it?" Jeff asked, having been briefed on what happened when he returned from the mainland and found john in the infirmary. still not used to hearing his voice, john jumped but luckily no one noticed.

"they're called 'the phantom pirates'"

"kinda fits if you ask me," Alan said making everyone look at him. "I mean, they steal treasures like pirates do and nobody sees them do it"

Scott sighed "what I don't get is how they managed to hack into our systems, after the mechanic we were careful and now they just hacked it like it was nothing."

"How are we going to find them?" Virgil wondered, at that moment Penelope appeared along with parker

"I think I can help, parker told the GDF of some bars where criminals go and hang out, and after the run-in with kayo, we managed to get on of the thieves on camera entering one of these bars"

"then what are we waiting for? let's go!" Scott said

"I'm afraid it's not that easy Scott, taking down one group of criminals is tough but taking an entire bar full of them would be impossible. According to my hexpert at least"

"hmm, do think captain Rigby will lend us a few undercover agents?" Scott wondered

"possibly, why?" kayo questioned

"I have an idea..."

*Meanwhile*

The phantoms gathered around a table in their base.

"so the hood wants us to break this 'havoc' person out of the GDF prison?" White asked "sound simple"

"it's not," Indigo said and brought up plans of the prison "she's being held in the center of the prison and is being watched 24/7, her gear is being held here" he pointed to a point on the lower floor of the prison "and is heavily guarded"

"then let's pretend one of us gets captured," Blue said, his prosthetic arm twitched slightly as Yellow was making modifications to it "that way we can get info about the GDF while they 'interrogate us' and then once we have the info we want, send out on EMP pulse and boom"

"Not a bad idea," Red said and his pet eagle landed on his shoulder pad, he reached up and scratched it gently under its beak "now, who should get captured?"