March 30th 2058 - 09:10 NZDT
"Fire!"
Transom fires a missile at Thunderbird 5.
While this was going on, John was sat in Thunderbird 5 making sure that everything was in order when suddenly the emergency alarms start to go off around him. "What the fuck?" John asks himself before realising that a missile is heading for him. "Thunderbird 5 to Tracy Island. Mayday! Mayday!" but it was too late and the missile hit Thunderbird 5 and John is blow back into a wall from the explosion and getting knocked out.
The alarms start to go off over at Tracy Island causing Brains and Fermat run into Jeff's office.
"Switching to Command and Control Center," says Brains and uses a palm scanner to activate Command and Control. During this period the submarine is briefly showed getting closer to the island. Jeff, Scott, Virgil, and Gordon come running into Command and Control.
"How bad, Brains?" asks Jeff.
"Thunderbird 5 major damage sustained. Possible m-m-m-Possible strike by m-" starts Brains.
"Meteor?" finishes Gordon.
"Yep."
5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Thunderbirds are Go!
Inside Thunderbird 3, "Check retros. Go," checks Gordon.
"Go to maximum thrust," commands Jeff.
Inside the submarine The Hood sees Thunderbird 3 take off and smirks "There goes the cavalry. But who will rescue the rescuers?"
Alan is on one of the beaches and looks up at Thunderbird 3 launching, heading towards Thunderbird 5. Kayo runs up beside him and looks up as well.
"Alan! Kayo! Thunderbird 5 has been hit! Thunderbird 5 has been hit! Thunderbird 5 has been hit!" screams Fermat running towards the pair.
"Okay, Okay, Okay, Okay, Okay don't panic. Don't panic," says Alan before they look towards the ocean and hear a noise and see the submarine beginning to surface.
"On the other hand—" Alan starts.
"Run!" Kayo and Fermat shout.
The kids run and hide behind some trees and shrubs. While inside the submarine.
"We made land," says Mullion.
The Hood turns towards Transom and with a stern look says "Cut them off."
"Activating communications blackout."
"What the he-he-devil is going on? Mr. Tracy, do you copy? Thunderbird 3 please respond," Brains starts to mess around with the controls really confused with the sudden communications blackout.
While he fiddles with the controls the kids are hiding on the beach.
"How'd they find the island? Do you think it was what I did in Thunderbird 1? Do you think I ruined everything? I feel so shit," Alan questions himself.
"No! That compound we found could have some sort of transmitting capability, it's not your fault," says Fermat patting Alan on the back and giving him a weak smile.
"We have to do something," replies Kayo hugging Alan tightly making him blush which cause Fermat to smirk a little before going back to a serious face.
"My dad's in the control room, but how do we get there now?" asks Fermat.
"The vents of cause. Let's go! We have to get a message to my dad," says Alan before the three run off towards the swimming pool.
Meanwhile on Thunderbird 5 John was having the worst time of his life
"I'm losing all power. Repeat, I'm losing all power. Please someone help me." Just after saying this his dad and brothers appear on the hologram.
"Hold on, John. We're coming in. Scott, prepare for immediate docking," says Jeff.
"You got it, Dad. Reverse main thrusters on my mark. Three, two, one. Watching the roll."
"Roll index angle minus two degrees and we're locked on," says Virgil.
"Nice work. Tunnel hatch secured," relies Gordon.
"Emergency packs boys. Let's move!" cries Jeff before the brothers get to work entering TB5 and started to locate the monitoring room were John spends most of his time.
"We're in. Let's go!" says Jeff.
Jeff, Scott, Virgil, and Gordon soon find the monitoring room in the now damaged Thunderbird 5 with John.
"John! Scott, tackle that fire," orders Jeff and Scott gets to work.
"Am I glad to see you guys!" says John.
"Easy, you're hurt. Virgil, take care of your brother. Gordon, give me a damage assessment we need to make TB5 safe before goi g down to the Island," says Jeff.
Back on the island the kids are running through the jungle while heading toward the vents and the Hood and his crew are heading toward Command and Control.
"Come on, hurry!" calls Alan.
Inside the Tracy house Transom has found the closed door to Command and Control center. Using an electronic device she finds out what type of door it is and confirms it is an one-inch steel plate, with sequential titanium locking mechanism and asks Mullion to unlock it and with one look at the door, pops his joints and says; "I love a challenge."
Outside the Tracy house as the kids are approaching the vents. "Watch out for the guards," warns Fermat.
"Get in, get in," whispers Alan.
While this was happening Brains is sitting nervously in the Command and Control room, whistling nervously and reading a magazine upside down. On the other side of the door there is muffled banging from where Mullion is trying to break open the door before the door bursts open and Mullion, Transom, and the Hood walk in "Who-o-o-o- What's going on?" asks Brains.
"So, this is Mount Olympus. And these are the Thunderbirds. I should have guessed. Jeff Tracy, the billionaire, ex-astronaut, of course. Isn't he the one who lost his wife in an accident? Avalanche wasn't it? How tragic," says The Hood sarcastically as Alan, Kayo, and Fermat were crawling in the vents toward the one that leads to the Command and Control room.
"Just keep going straight ahead," whispers Alan blushing madly from behind Kayo.
"Okay," she whispers back.
"Professor Hackenbacker? We met at last year's international conference on nanotechnology. I thought your thesis on neutrinos was extremely, stimulating," says Transom but with one look from The Hood replies to him saying "Sorry, sir. The command control switch, is here. Fingerprint recognition system."
"Professor. Please. Activate the control switch," politely asks The Hood.
"N-n-n-n-n- You must be kidding," replies Brains.
"Professor, you and I share an interest in the science of the mind. The difference is, I was born with my powers. Trust me when I tell you, you've barely touched the surface-," The Hood gets Mullion to grab Brains and forces him to walk over to The Hood "Even the strongest minds can be broken. It would be a pity to break yours," he finishes.
"N-n-n-n-n- Fuck!" stammers Brains.
"Activate the control switch, Prof!" says The Hood and starts laughing as Mullion drags Brains over to the command centre like a puppet and forces Brains' hand to touch the activation pad.
"We have control," conferms Transom.
"Get up," calls Mullion and pulls Brains up from his knees.
"Sorry, Professor. Nothing personal."
Back on Thunderbird 5 when things seem that they can't get any worse, the control panel starts buzzing indicating a warning from the EPS system. Jeff asks Scott to attempt a manual override but that fails.
"Right let's get back to Thunderbird 3 now," says Jeff and turns to help an injured John, "John, we gotta move."
"The locking mechanism's jammed!" cries Gordon.
"Attention, Thunderbird 5. As you can see I have taken over your facilities. You no longer control your operational system," says The Hood.
Above in the vents the kids can now stick their heads out of the vent and see into the Command and Control Room, but they are hidden behind a panel and the Hood and his minions cannot see them.
"They've taken over," whispers Alan.
"Warm them up, Transom," cries The Hood.
"Increasing temperature to maximum," is the reply. The children are now looking into the Command and Control room as Sally is dragged in by 2 guards.
"Who's the bald freak?" asks Alan.
"You?" asks Sally but The Hood gets Transom to shut her up.
"Sally!" whispers Kayo.
"They've got m-my dad," whispers Fermat.
"Okay, you have our attention. What do you want?" angrily asks Jeff.
"Oh how rude of me. Listen here Jeff. We won't be negotiating. I'm going to use the Thunderbirds to rob the largest banks in the world, starting with the Bank of London. The world's monetary system will be thrown into chaos and the Thunderbirds held responsible." replies The Hood.
"You'll never get away with it," shouts Scott.
"Why the Thunderbirds?" asks Jeff.
"An eye for an eye, Mr. Tracy," says The Hood.
"An eye for an eye?" questions Jeff.
"Perhaps you're forgetting our history, but surely you remember saving the life of my brother, Kyrano?"
"The one you later killed you ignorant little baldy," replies an angry Sally.
The Hood laughs at her and then turns to the guards "Take her away," he orders.
"Yes, sir."
The kids lift their heads back up into the vents.
"Shit," says Alan.
"There he is, the bastard!" Kayo says angrily. Alan places a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"I guess every family has a black sh-sh- a black sh-" starts Fermat but before he could finish he sneezes and everyone in the Command and Control room looks around, while Brains pretends that it was him that sneezed. He turns to look at Alan "This room's murder with my allergies." The kids stick their heads back out the vent and look at what is going on in the Command and Control room.
"You left me to die that day. You may have broken my body but you've no idea how powerful my mind has become. And now you will suffer, as I suffered, waiting for a rescue that will never come," says The Hood and makes a motion for Transom to cut off the call with Thunderbird 5.
"Wait!" calls Jeff but the video link cuts dead and then this start to get worse on Thunderbird 5 when Jeff asks Scott for a status report and the reply was.
"CO2 levels are rising."
"Alright, wire the oxygen scrubber to the emergency batteries. Clean the air," calls Jeff.
"How long will that give us?" asks Virgil.
"About four hours," relays John.
Back with the kids looking into the Command and Control room Fermat begins to start sneezing again. Alan quickly puts his hands over his nose and mouth to try and muffle the sound but it didn't help.
"Someone's there," says a guard and Mullion walks over to the ceiling, he is standing directly below where they are. The kids are trying to leave the vents when his hand shoots up through the ceiling and grabs Alan's ankle. He lets go after Kayo bites his hand and he gasps in pain. The children are now talking loudly and everyone in the Command and Control room can hear them.
"Run! Run!" shouts Kayo.
"No, jump!" replies Alan "We can get through to Thunderbird 2." The children scream as they fall down a tunnel leading to the silos.
"Apparently, the island is not as secure as you thought," says The Hood and he looks at the old photos that were on Jeff's desk. "Children! Did you find any children?"
Transom starts using the security cameras to see into the silos "Here they are. Thunderbird 2 silo, in the loading arm."
Mullion and two other guards run off to get them.
"Seal them in," commands The Hood.
"Hold on!" shouts Alan.
"The doors! You guys, let's go! C'mon," says Kayo.
"Go! Go!" calls Fermat.
The children reach the door that leads to Thunderbird 3 just as it closes. So they run toward the still closing Thunderbird 1 silo door but it was too late as the door closes before they can get through it "No!" complains Fermat.
"They've got us trapped. What now?" asks Kayo.
"If we can get to Thunderbird 1, we can escape through the service tunnel. But we need a plan, Alan." says Fermat.
"I'll use the Thunderizer on the door," Alan says proudly just as the guards are in the elevator heading down to come get them.
"You guys get the goons with the Firefly!" says Alan.
"Alan! This equipment is only to be used in an emergency," Fermat says but Alan and Kayo give him looks "I guess this qualifies."
"No shit Sherlock," Alan answers.
"Here they come. Fermat, can you drive this thing?" asks Kayo.
"Uh, no."
"Hey, watch it!"
"I took microbiology, not driver's ed. Set the pressure to maximum."
"Got it."
Mullion and the guards walk out of the elevator and see Kayo pointing the Firefly at them "Retreat!" calls Mullion but they fall over and have trouble getting up due to the slipperiness of the stuff fired at them.
"Let's move it," calls Kayo.
"That's it. Time to thunderize," says Alan and creates a hole in the door "Yes! Come on, let's go!"
"Get 'em!" shouts Mullion.
"Where's Fermat?" asks Alan.
"Fermat!" calls Kayo.
"Fermat!" they say in unison.
"Coming!" he calls.
"Hurry up," says Alan and they now in Thunderbird 1's silo "What were you doing back there, Fermat?"
"I had an-n-n idea."
"Just try and keep up, okay? I'll open the tunnel. We gotta keep moving," and Alan types in a pass code
"Go back. Yell when you see them coming," he calls and tries another pass code but it doesn't work and when Alan turns away from the door for a moment the camera shows The Hood on the other side of the door. Alan turns back and sees him.
"Alan. You can run if you want. Were you surprised to hear what your father did to me? It is frightening when we realize our parents aren't perfect. But perhaps you already suspected that about your father. Why did he build these magnificent machines? Do you suppose it was guilt? Because he let your mother die," The Hood begins and Alan shakes his head no "Open the door, Alan," Alan continues to shake his head no. The Hood chuckles at his refusal before sternly saying "Open, the, door," and he tries stare Alan into submission but nothing happens.
"We can't go this way. He's there," Alan shouts and The Hood forces open the door and Mullion and the other guards appear at the other doorway, leaving the children trapped.
"No!" says Fermat and he falls slightly "Ow. What are we gonna do, Alan?"
"I don't know. I'm thinking, okay?" replies Alan and he starts to look at the control panel behind the Hood and sees a button that will open part of the floor under Thunderbird 1. "Keep backing up. I've got an idea," and Alan takes his rock launcher from the pouch it is in on the back of his pants. and fires it at the button, but misses.
"That's your idea?" replies Kayo clearly angry that Alan missed.
"It's not me you're angry at, Alan," says The Hood.
"It's not you I'm aiming at," is the reply and Alan fires another rock and this time hits the button and the floor drops out from underneath Kayo, Fermat, and Alan. Kayo, Fermat, and Alan scream as they fall.
"Get them!" shouts The Hood.
"Transom, fire up Thunderbird 1. And set it on broil!" Mullion demands. The kids look behind them while they are falling down the tunnel and see the flames coming from Thunderbird 1 behind them. Kayo screams even louder. The tunnel opens up and leads to the ocean and back in Command and Control Transom looks at the cameras and says "No sign of them."
"Of course not, the little brats went up like firecrackers. Pop, pop, pop!" laughs Mullion at Brains and Brains moves to punch him angry as he thinks his son is dead.