Chapter 7 I'm trying to post this as soon as possible after the last one. It's not fair to the readers of this fic (you guys) that you have to wait so long.

Ami woke up to her Communicator beeping. When she pressed the button an image in 3D of Setsuna appeared.

"Hi Sets-chan, to what do I owe this pleasure?"

"Hi Ames. It seems that Jeff checked up on you with your so-called job."

"He did? Damn it, how did you solve that?"

"I made sure he reached your actual job and he got Minako on the phone, who put him through to me at the gates."

"So what did you say? I need to know, otherwise I might say something stupid and blow my cover."

"Wait, I'll send you the memory."

: Flashback:

Setsuna took the phone from Minako and went back to the gates to get a better transmission. Staying at the castle would take too much energy.

"Good-day Sir, I heard from our receptionist that you wish to talk about Dr Mizuno? What do you wish to know?"

"I was hoping that you could tell me something about her work as a doctor. I heard she was looking for another job and I might be interested in hiring her."

"So she actually did it? I guess I can't blame her. I would do the same if I were in her situation."

The phone remained silent for a while on the other side.

"What situation might that be, Miss...?"

"I'm Dr Meioh and I don't know if I should tell you this, but just recently almost all of Dr Mizuno's friends passed away in an accident. Dr Mizuno wasn't there at the time, but she still blames herself for their deaths. This town holds too many memories of those friends so she decided to search for another job. Even though I will be sorry to see her leave, I still hope she'll be going somewhere nice so she can go on with her life."

"I'm sorry to hear that. I hope she might find whatever she needs here with us. Could you tell me a bit more about her?"

"What do you wish to know sir? I can already tell you that if you were to hire her, you would find it very hard to complain about her. When she has a patient she does everything within her capability to help them. "

"I'm glad to hear that, as it is just such a mentality we seek in our employees. However, I'd like to know if… strange things sometimes happen when she's around?"

"Oh dear, did it happen again? What was it exactly sir? Did she heal someone by touching them and then faint? Or perhaps she touched a glass of water and it froze? Or… she showed up somewhere and doesn't know how she got there?"

"You mean this has all happened before?"

"Indeed it has. And it has shocked the poor girl to the core; she's afraid that if the wrong people find out about it, she'll be treated as some sort of experiment. This is also the reason that if I haven't heard from her in a few days I'll search you out sir, I will not allow you to treat her wrongly."

"I assure you I'll do nothing of the sort, but to get back on topic, these actions of hers… does she have them under control?"

"She does more or less, she has to as she can't afford to freeze a patient during a check-up. Nor can she faint in the middle of surgery after half-healing the one on the table."

"I see. Does something change about her when these things happen? Like for instance, do her pupils become slits, like those of a cat for instance?"

"No sir, they don't actually, I can only recall a sheen of light blue appearing around her, but other than that, nothing."

"Thank you Dr. Meioh. For your honesty."

"No need to thank me Mister Tracy."

"Funny, I can't seem to recall telling you my name."

"Indeed you haven't sir, however our receptionist told me your name when she transferred your call."

"Ah, that way. Goodbye then doctor."

"Goodbye sir."

:End Flashback:

"You told them about my powers?"

"Yes I did. And with reason!"

"Then please explain that reason to me since I obviously don't get it!"

" This way you can pressure them into telling you about the Thunderbirds. Since they know an important secret about you, just tell them you only trust them in not using it against you if they tell you one of their secrets."

Ami sighed and calmed down a bit.

"Indeed that could come in handy, but I'm still not convinced. I had plans about how to take care of this mission. I'm not sure if this won't ruin those."

"Oh you did? In that case I apologize, but I had no other idea of how to calm their suspicions about your sudden appearance."

"You're right about that I guess. I'm just worried about how they'll react. And I have no idea how to make them think I have no real control over my powers when I have had perfect control for years."

"Perhaps Minako can help you with that last part, and I don't think you'll have to worry about the first part."

"How so?"

"They plan on teaching you to control your powers so you can help them defeat one of their enemies. If I'm not mistaken there was some information about him in the file you got. He is called the Hood?"

"Ah that guy, yes I see why they want my help."

"If that is all, I'm afraid I have to leave you now, something happened and I must go and check it out."

"It's alright pu-chan. I hope it's nothing serious?"

"No not really, but it could be if I left it alone, so I've got to go now. Bye Ami-chan."

And with that sentence the connection was broken. Just when Ami was about to go back to sleep, there was a knock on the door. She tried to look as sleepy as possible and slowly went to open it, trying to look as if she just woke up.

When Ami saw who was at the door she was a bit surprised: he was one of the last people she expected.

"Ehm, hi I, uh..." she stopped him there and took the translator first. She had to keep up the act after all.

"Right I forgot you, uh, needed that. Should've brought one myself." The guy said the last part to himself. "Look, I don't know why I acted that way earlier, but it was anything but appropriate. I just wanted to apologize and, uh, I was hoping you'd let me show you around?"

She looked Scott right in the eyes, and noticed that that strange hint she saw at the beach wasn't there, and he obviously meant what he said. So she gave him a happy smile, nodded and gave him her translator.

He was a bit confused but put it on and corrected the language. When he was done she smiled again and talked.

"Apology accepted, I understand your paranoia since you were just looking out for your family. My friend is - excuse me - was the same way when someone new came to the gang."

After the slip up her smile became sad and Scott felt even guiltier, but he was glad she accepted his apology.

" I'm glad you wish to show me around. I haven't seen much of the island and I'm quite curious. It's seems like a perfect paradise. Please lead the way and perhaps we can get another translator first?"

He grinned a bit sheepishly and offered her his arm, which she accepted with probably one of the only Japanese words he knew : "Arigato." "Thanks."

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John had read the whole book and found this so-called 'Silver Millennium' quite fascinating. Since the book he found first had only limited information about it he searched through the library to find another book on the same topic. When he finally found one he took it with him outside. He figured he'd spent enough time inside the house and since it was a nice day he went outside and sat underneath a tree.

Apparently people believed there used to be a kingdom on the Moon, this was able to exist because of a powerful crystal. And the other planets in the solar system were populated too? How odd. It wasn't that impossible however, since there were still a lot of things they didn't know about the history of the solar system.

John always kept an open but slightly critical mind about these sort of things. Just because things don't seem possible doesn't mean they're impossible. After all, before International Rescue a lot of people probably thought that machines like the Thunderbirds were impossible too.

After pondering about this he read further.

The 'Silver Millennium' was so named because of 'the Silver Alliance', a treaty between all the planets of the solar system. They all had their royalties and worked to help Earth develop.

According to the book, their intelligence was more developed than that on Earth, which caused the humans to be jealous. Out of their jealousy a dark creature was born named Metallia.

At the same time the Prince of Earth fell in love with the Princess of the Moon. This was forbidden as relations between people of the Moon and people of Earth weren't allowed.

When this was finally settled Metallia had gained enough power to make the people of Earth attack the Moon kingdom. The attack resulted in the ruining of the Moon kingdom and with it the death of the Princess and their own Prince (who gave his own life to save hers).

The Princess' guardians were killed as well while trying to rescue their charge and her love.

When he read this last part John wondered about these guardians. So he looked them up. Apparently they were the Princesses of the other planets: Mercury, Mars, Venus and Jupiter.

How strange, he thought, four princesses defending another princess even though they are of the same stand, and princesses fighting. Times certainly have changed since then. Oh, what am I thinking? of course times have changed, this supposedly happened thousands of years before our civilization even started!

Suddenly John was shaken out of his thoughts when his grandma told him his brother was on the phone.

"Which one?"

"Alan, my dear."

That made him hurry up. He hadn't been able to talk to him in ages! What with him in school with a time difference and all.

"Hey Sprout! how are you doing?"

"I'm doing great, but imagine my surprise when I heard one of my favourite brothers wasn't on the island when I came back."

"I'm sorry Alan, but Grandma hadn't been to Lady Penelope's estate before and Dad thought I should go with her."

"Don't worry, I understand, besides that wasn't the biggest surprise when I arrived. Imagine this picture: Gordon being kicked out of the med bay by a naked girl who'd just slapped him."

"Wait what? Did he see Tintin naked? And you're smiling about it? I'd think you'd be furious!"

"Correction, I never said it was Tintin, I just said: a girl."

"And what other girls are there on the island besides Tintin?"

"Ah I see they didn't have the time to tell you yet. Oh great, I get to give you the news!"

Alan's smile suddenly became much more mischievous. John became a bit uneasy; what had happened on the island that no one had found the time to tell him?

"Apparently a Japanese girl was found on one of the beaches by Scott. Nobody has any idea how she got here. Not even she herself. Her name is Ami and she has blue hair, strangely enough."

The youngest Tracy stopped his story momentarily to see his brother's expression of shock and revel in it. (It was seldom you could stun John with information.)

After a minute he seemed to get a hold of himself again and asked a question,

"And what happened between her and Gordon? No wait, before you answer that question, answer this one: Do I want to know?"

"Yes you do, you see when Scott found her, the girl was exhausted so he took her to the med bay after giving Dad a call. When he arrived, Virgil gave her a check-up and left to tell Dad about it. When he was gone Tintin decided to wash Ami's clothes, leaving her lying underneath the covers of the bed. Since we obviously couldn't leave the girl alone, she ordered Gordy to sit with her in case something happened. Later on the girl woke up way sooner than expected, was shocked to see our brother's face, and as an immediate reflex smacked him and jumped out of bed …"

At this the older man groaned. "Oh no, tell me she didn't."

"She did and when she caught Gordon staring she looked down and saw exactly what he was staring at. She yelled something at him and picked up the sheet as fast as she could. Apparently fish boy was still too much in shock to do anything, so she just kicked him out and closed the door. At least, that's his account of the story. I still have to hear hers, but it's not like I could just ask her. I mean she's already embarrassed enough."

"Any idea what she yelled at him? I'm quite curious about that."

"He said it sounded like 'And-Tai' or something like that."

The white haired boy pondered for a while, but then started laughing loudly.

"I believe the word he's looking for is 'hentai'. Tell him to look it up, I'm sure he'll be glad about the impression he made on her."

"What does it mean? Please tell me. I promise not to tell Gordy. That would spoil the fun of making him search for it."

"It means 'pervert', sprout. Which isn't strange after he saw her naked."

Alan started giggling at that, a girl calling one of his brothers a pervert was kind of funny as the girls usually threw themselves at them for their looks and money.

"And that's not the only brother of ours she told off. Scott was kind of suspicious of her and expressed it a bit too clearly so they got in a bit of a one-sided argument."

"His or her side?"

"Hers, definitely hers."

"I must say I'm quite curious to meet this girl. Hmm, how long do you think it will take before Dad allows me to go back to the island?"

"I thought you were having a vacation over there."

"Grandma is, I'm here because Dad hopes the change of scenery will help me with some of my… problems. I miss you guys, and now that we've got the chance to be together, all five of us, I don't want to miss that."

"So those nightmares aren't over yet are they?"

"No, not exactly, but they've improved very much," John said while thinking back to the blue girl, not noticing the smile that appeared on his face every time he did that.

"Well that's a good thing, perhaps that'll convince Father to let you get back sooner."

"I hope it does Sprout. So anything else happen worth mentioning? How was school?"

After that they got each other updated about their lives and closed the conversation hoping they'd see each other in person soon.

When John turned around he saw his grandmother smiling at him. He smiled back, got out of the chair and hugged her softly. Something he didn't do enough. She hugged him back a little harder. It was as if she was afraid he'd fall if she were to let go.

Well that was it for chapter 7. Hope you guys liked it and if you have any questions or suggestions please let me know. (thanks again for this all awesome beta of mine: TheRimmerConnection)