Hey! this story is not dead! yay!

Kayo stayed behind at the GDF prison to try and help sort out their technical problem but no luck, not even with EOS, Jhon said that once he was cleared to go back to Thunderbird 5 he'll keeping trying. He would have let EOS do it herself but didn't in fear of her trying hacking into something she shouldn't. Kayo eventually went back to Tracy Island and found everyone waiting for her

"John filled us in" Scott said as soon as she entered the lounge "you want to talk about it?" Kayo didn't answer as she sat down on the couch.

"not at the moment" she replied "at the moment we have to focus on catching those thieves"

"I'm afraid the GDF won't be able to help," Eos said as her avatar appeared "GDF computers are still down so they attempted to access their systems through their backup computer, but the passwords have been changed"

"Ohh, that's the evilest thing in the world" Gordon joked and everyone looked at him weirdly "what? I did that with John's computer once and boy, was he mad"

"and I still am" John growled glaring at him

"at least you got the jewel back right? That's good, right?" Virgil said trying to lighten the mood, but Kayo still looked sombre

"no, it was fake, they somehow managed to switch them," she said and sighed heavily

"Wow, they must be really good" Alan muttered

"ok, so the GDF are out of the question, so now what do we do?" Scott wondered

"hey, what if we pretend that we're some sort of criminals and we hire them to steal a fake jewel that has a tracker in it and follow them back to their lair" Alan suggested

"that's not a bad idea," Scott said, with the plan in mind they wandered off to relax in case they got called out again, Brains decided to contact the Mechanic to see how they could improve their security. Suddenly Jeff's desk started to flash and everyone came rushing back to see what was wrong.

"there's an earthquake in Taiwan, multiple people are trapped in buildings, they need our help" john informed them

"right, Scott, you fly ahead in Thunderbird 1. Virgil you follow in Thunderbird 2 with Gordon and Alan." Jeff commanded

"FAB" the brothers said as they ran to their lifts

Soon Thunderbird 1 and 2 left Tracy island and on their way to the rescue

"Woah" Alan said as he saw the collapsed buildings and fallen trees

"John, where are the survivors?" Scott asked

"there are at least 20 in the school, 10 people trapped in individual buildings and from what I can see at least 12 trapped families" John replied in his usual calm tone

"where are the rescue services?" Virgil asked

"they're busy on the other side of the city, they've asked us to take this side"

"FAB John. Virgil, you and Alan will work on the people trapped in the buildings, I'll save the families and Gordon will go to school. That sound good?"

"FAB"

"okay"

"got it"

"Alright then," Scott said after his brothers replied and flew Thunderbird 1 off towards one of the houses while Virgil landed Thunderbird 2 in a large clearing after confirming that it was stable, he donned on his exo-suit while Alan and Gordon configured the pods. After lowering the ramp he hitched a ride with Alan to one of the buildings while Gordon drove in the other direction.

"Hello? This is International Rescue! Can anyone hear me?" he called and to his relief, he could hear the faint cries of someone. "Stay there! I'm coming towards you!" Gordon carefully walked through the halls avoiding the debris as best he could, glad that he decided to leave the pod outside until he could determine if he needed it or not. He eventually reached a large classroom where at least 17 kids and 3 teachers were trapped, luckily they didn't seem to be too injured. "Hi, I'm Gordon from International Rescue, are you ok?"

"yes, we're fine," the nearest teacher said holding out her hand "I'm Anne Murphy; the principal"

"nice to meet you Ms. Murphy" Gordon shaking her hand "is anyone injured"

"no, we're fine. When the first quake hit I went around to tell everyone to evacuate but I ended up getting trapped here, I ordered the students not to move and wait for help"

"you did the right thing mam" Gordon then turned to the frightened children and knelt down so he didn't seem so intimidating "hey kids," he said in his usual happy rescue voice "I'm gonna help get you outta here!" the kids looked at each other before looking towards Ms. Murphy who nodded. Gordon then led the kids towards the pod "you know I never thought that I would have to go back to school once I joined International Rescue. Never the less that it would be Middle school" Gordon joked knowing that the kids needed a laugh and to his relief, he saw that many of the kids had smiles on their faces which helped the teachers relax slightly. As soon as they emerged from the school, they climbed aboard the Pod and Gordon drove them back to the module just as Alan and Virgil arrived.

"hey Gordon, good to see that your rescue went well," Virgil said

"of course, did you ever have a doubt?" Gordon joked

"well, you're here now. That's what matters" Virgil said and began escorting the teachers and students into the module so they could be taken to safety. "Ok, John. everyone's loaded up, is there anyone else?"

"Not that I can see, looks like you got most of them out. Rescue services say they can handle the rest" john responded

"Alright, then Virgil will take the survivors to the hospital so they can get checked out and meet up with their families, I'll head to San Francisco to pick up the Mechanic" Scott commanded

"FAB" the brothers responded as they climbed aboard their respective thunderbirds and took off. Meanwhile back as his base, the Hood laughed evilly at how well the Phantom Pirates had gotten Havoc out, but she refused to do anything until they got her brother out, but he was being kept in another facility meaning that they had no idea where he was. He stared at the card that they had given him after their recent meeting. He stroked his chin thoughtfully as he wondered if they would be willing to join him to help bring down International Rescue.

Sorry, this took so long, I've never written a rescue before and that's why it's so short and only focuses on Gordon. Plus I had trouble writing this, not sure when the next update for this will happen so be patient.

And as for why the mechanic is in San Franciso? He wanted to go sightseeing