Little Miss Bump- XD Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Nope, it's not good and sadly, he doesn't. But luckily those that are on their way to rescue them did pack it, just in case. Ha-ha! No, you don't sound cruel. Shoot, I'm looking forward to writing it. XD So do I. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Of course I will.

err... who am i?- Nope, not good at all. Sadly to say, I have more bad things planned for them. –ducks behind couch- Nothing good I can assure you that. He was right beside Meritaten when she picked up the snake. Unless I made a boo-boo. –scurries off to check- Yeah, he's standing behind her. Smiling. The bastard.

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. XD Aw, you make me blush! Can't say I agree with you there. I'm horrified of them. Though him I have heard of. He was on Jay Leno, I think it was last week. Just before Jeff Dunham and Walter. :P

Pinkranger888- XD Then I got the reaction I was hoping for. They'll catch up, but even worse things will happen once they do. And yes, the snake is poisonous. Egyptian cobras are very poisonous. I'll try my best to. XD

Gilian 101- XD I'm glad you enjoyed them. Yep, she's back. And she's ten times worse than Saadia. Because she knows how much the entire family cares for him via the Hood. She is completely Meritaten but she has Saadia's memories and remembers everything he told her. Nope, no ulterior motive. She just wants' to give them boo-boos because she hates Evie. XD I will. Shoot, I'm excited to write it.

Just letting you guys know, now that there is a section for Thunderbirds movie verse, I have moved it there. And the future stories I have planned involving the Tracy's will also be posted under that section. Just wanted to let you guys know. XD

And I am sorry that it took so long for this chapter. I had planned on spending last Sat-Tues(17-20) working on it, but on Saturday, I managed to catch your run of the mill stomach bug. Then on Wed I had a concert that had been rescheduled due to the snow last month. (Anything over three inches is considered a blizzard here) Then the next day, thinking I was better, I got go to an Italian restaurant that I love, only to find out when I got home that I wasn't as better as a thought. But, I'm better now so hopefully the next chapter should come more quickly as long as I don't get another bug. XD My college campus seems to be ripe with bugs going around and choir is a place they get passed around in.

Chapter Twenty Four –Sandstorm
September 13th, 2024

Evelyn sighed as she checked the gas level, which would hopefully be enough for the day. She had explained the vision shortly after landing the evening before and in the end, she was left with more questions than answers. Even if Kaphiri did know why she could not snap out of the vision as she had her previous ones, she never found out. For shortly after she finished explaining what had happened, the exhausted Medjai had fallen asleep by the fire. She didn't blame him, the guy had ridden through the night in order to catch up.

"Evelyn."

She turned around from looking at the gas gage to see Kaphiri approaching her, a small grin playing at his lips. "We have just received word from a scout that the city is less than a day away," he began. "We will ride at full speed behind you and with any luck, we should all reach Amarna early this afternoon. And we have also received word that Yuja and company should also reach the city today."

"Great," she smiled. "And we should be in the air in a few minutes."

"I will go tell Taymullah," he replied, turning to head towards where the horses had been secured for the night. He stopped a few feet away and glanced over his shoulder to smile towards Evelyn. "Good luck."

"You too!" she called as he continued on his way. She then turned back to her ultra light and grabbed her helmet and goggles. She pulled the goggles on and adjusted them so they were comfortable before pulling on her helmet and securing the strap below her chin. Once it was secured and comfortable, she sat down in the pilot's seat.

She patted the small pocket on the right leg of her flight suit, feeling the crinkling paper that Alex had given her beneath the fabric. Evelyn then reached forward and pushed the first button on the monitor. The screen flickered to life, the other four boxes on the screen already filled with the faces of her companions.

"Kaphiri just told me we should reach the city early this afternoon," she stated as she reached forward and flicked the switch, the engine rumbling to life behind her. As the craft began to move forward, she inserted her hands into the gloves attached to the bar.

"Any word on where they are?" John asked as she pushed out on the bar and the craft lifted into the air. Evelyn then leveled out the ultra light before she pushed the bar right and leaned left.

"They should also reach the city this afternoon," she replied as she began to circle the area and glanced over her shoulder to see John's ultra light lifting off the ground. "Hopefully we'll beat them there."

"If we do, we can ambush them," Tin-Tin stated as her own ultra light lifted into the air and John began to circle the area behind Evelyn.

"As long as we get them back is fine with me," John said softly. Evelyn glanced down at her monitor and gave him a small smile as she reached forward and enabled the GPS, which he returned. As Tin-Tin also began to circle the area, Lady Penelope's craft lifted off the ground.

"And we will," Evelyn began as she pushed the bar to the right and leaned left, turning her craft south west before straightening out as Fermat lifted off the ground. "We have the Medjai on our side. If it's a fight they want, they're going to get it."

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In the long hours after Alan had been bitten by the Egyptian cobra, the blond had quickly gone from bad to worse. The little venom that had been injected into him had quickly begun to do what it was supposed to do. Virgil had pulled the leg of the flight suit back down to protect the wound, for he doubted that the people that had set a snake on his younger brother would give them a bandage to protect it. It had quickly swollen and within a few hours the skin around the wound had begun to blister.

When they were forced to move out the next morning, with some help from Scott and Virgil, Jeff had been able to get Alan onto his back as securely as possible, seeing as the youngest Tracy was in no shape, physically or mentally, to walk on his own. The teen had become increasingly lethargic within a few hours due to his rising fever, though he did not start vomiting until they had left the temple far behind them.

A grimace crossed Jeff's face as he shifted the teen on his back, who simply continued to lay his head against his father's shoulder as the group walked under the hot sun. The Tracy patriarch could clearly hear his son wheezing as he tried to breath as he lay against his father. Jeff glanced towards Alan and noticed that his skin now had a gray tinge to it as the blond lifted his head and met his father's gaze. His mouth was clamped shut and his weary blue eyes seemed to be pleading for him to stop.

"Scott," Jeff called as he stopped walking. His eldest was quickly behind Alan and Jeff, putting his hands under the teen arms as he vomited off to the side, barely missing his father's shoulder. While Alan continued to heave up the little that had been in his stomach, Gordon moved to stand beside Scott and began to rub soothing circles on the blonds' back.

As Gordon moved, Virgil hurried around his father to look into Alan's face, being careful to avoid standing in what his younger brother had just thrown up. With a gloved hand he wiped away the tears that had leaked out of Alan's eyes as he vomited. He then cupped Alan's cheek with his ungloved hand and cleaned his mouth with the other.

"It's alright, Alan," he soothed. "You've just got to hang in there until help reaches us."

Alan opened his eyes too look at Virgil, his blue eyes showing his exhaustion from what the snake venom was putting him through. He nodded slightly, leaning into Virgil's hand as his eyes closed once more. With his eyes closed and the gray tinge disappearing from his skin, Alan rested his head on his father's shoulder as he had before he had vomited. Virgil smiled at him sadly and removed his hand from his cheek. He pressed the back of his ungloved hand to the teen's forehead and frowned at the heat radiating from Alan's skin.

"Virgil."

Virgil removed his gaze from his youngest brother to meet his father's eyes. Jeff glanced towards Alan, his blue-grey eyes full of worry for his youngest son.

"How is he?" in inquired as he stepped to the side to avoid the vomit before continuing forward, Scott and Gordon coming around to walk on his other side.

"His fever is rising," he reported quietly, running a hand through Alan's damp blond hair as he walked beside his father. He pressed his fingers against the teen's neck and frowned as he felt the rapid pulse beneath beat against his fingers. His frown deepened as Alan shivered just after he had removed his hand from his neck. Virgil rubbed his hand up and down Alan's arm until he stopped shivering. He sighed as he tore his eyes away from the teen and looked at his father. "If he doesn't get anti-venom in a few hours, he could die."

Virgil watched as all color left his father and brother's faces as they stopped in their tracks to look at him. They all knew that the chances of getting their hands on anti-venom was slim to none, and even if John and Evelyn reached them in time, they might not have the anti-venom with them. Footsteps behind them alerted them to the presence of Kyleigh and Narmer, both looking towards the front of the party in curiosity.

The Tracy's glanced back at them for a moment before also looking forward and seeing that the party had come to a stop. A camel moved at the front of the party and a number of large structures were visible on the horizon. The city of Amarna. One of the guards at the front of the group shouted and pointed to the east.

Jeff tore his gaze away from the city to look in the direction the man was pointing. A large, black mass was moving on the horizon, heading towards the city, a large cloud of dust trailing behind them.

"The Medjai," Narmer whispered as the group continued to watch the large black mass. Narmer looked away from the mass as one of the riders towards the front of the party shouted.

"In the sky my lord!" the man shouted, pointing to the area above an in front of the Medjai. "The Medjai are following something in the sky!"

Narmer looked to where the man was pointing in the sky to see five dark shapes flying towards the city, at least two hundred feet above the Medjai and a mile or two ahead of them. They were much too large and moving too quickly to be birds. "What in the world?"

"Narmer?" Jeff asked, tearing his gaze away from the Medjai to look towards the younger man behind him.

Narmer pointed to the five shapes in the sky as they moved directly in line with the party. Jeff followed his hand and after a few seconds of searching, found the five shapes that he had been pointing at. Beside him, his son's and Kyleigh did the same. Jeff frowned for a few minutes as he studied their shape, a shape that was very familiar to him after seeing his daughter fly around the island several times.

"Ultra lights," Jeff stated, looking towards his sons. He saw smiles form on their faces as they looked back towards the ultra lights.

"It's Evie and John," Gordon smiled, raising a hand over his eyes to see the ultra lights better, hoping that he could possibly tell, though it was impossible to due to the distance between them, which one was his twin.

"And it looks like Fermat, Tin-Tin, and Lady Penelope came too," Virgil added as the group looked towards the ultra lights on the horizon.

"Uh-oh," Kyleigh muttered. The Tracy's looked away from the ultra lights and glanced back at her. She nodded for them to look towards the front of the party. Yuja had climbed off the camel with Meritaten and the Hood a few feet behind him. They stood facing east, just off to the side of the camels.

Yuja raised his arms, as he did so the ground before his crackled loudly before the sand rose high into the air, forming a giant wall of sand that went up several hundred feet. The wall hovered in place for a few moments until Yuja pressed his palms forward and the wall quickly moved east, towards the ultra lights and the Medjai.

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"Yes! I see the city!" Evelyn reported happily. After several hours of flying, she had been able to make out the buildings of Amarna on the horizon. She glanced down at the monitor to look at the map and smiled at the readout. "Just over eighteen miles to go. We should be there in about an hour."

She pushed the button on the monitor and the map disappeared, the faces of her companions sliding back into place. "With any luck, we could head home with them later today."

"Going home sounds good," Tin-Tin replied.

"Yeah, it does," John added, a small grin playing at his lips.

"And I'm guessing one of Onaha's cookies sound good to you too huh?" Evelyn teased. She smiled as her older brother's cheeks turned a light pink and he mumbled under his breath as he looked away from the monitor. The smile disappeared from her face when she heard something that was most defiantly not them. Her brow furrowed in confusion. What in the world was that?

"Did you guys hear that?" Tin-Tin asked.

"Yeah," John replied, glancing down at the monitor. "Anybody know what it was?"

John watched the screen as his companions shrugged in response. It was the strangest sound. It sounded almost like the sound of thunder, but yet completely different. He watched as Fermat looked at the landscape to their left before looking right. He watched as the teens eyes widened behind his glasses.

"I-I think I know," he replied. John looked away from the screen and to the west. His blue eyes widened at the site of the wall of sand coming swiftly towards them.

"What in the world?" he heard Lady Penelope ask. In the center of the wall of sand, a shape of a face was formed and it glared at them.

"I think this is what Alex warned us about!" Evelyn yelled as the mouth of the face opened a roared as it closed the distance between them, capturing them in the faces mouth of sand.

The group yelled as the wall of sand hit them, scratching the little exposed skin on their faces and entering their mouths as they yelled. As the wall of sand engulfed them, the landscape around them disappeared from view and making it impossible to see the ultra light in front of them.

"We need to land!" Evelyn screamed into the mic over the howling wind that swirled around them.

"Obviously!" John yelled in reply as he carefully began to take his ultra light towards the ground, hoping that they wouldn't hit each other as they tried to land.

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"Oh my God," Kyleigh muttered as she clapped her hands over her mouth, watching in horror as the wall of sand sped towards their rescuers, hiding them from view. "He's trying to kill them by making them crash."

She glanced up at Narmer when he set a hand on her shoulder and noticed he had gone pale. Though neither of them were as pale as the Tracy's. First Alan had been bitten by a cobra, whose venom was slowly beginning to kill him. Now they had to watch as Yuja attempted to take two members of their family out at once and they were helpless to stop it.

"Scott no! Virgil!"

Kyleigh looked away from the wall of sand at Jeff's yell and her brown eyes widened further as she spotted the eldest Tracy son. He had broken past the guards and now ran towards Yuja with Virgil not far behind him, yelling for his eldest brother to stop. Jeff grabbed Gordon's shoulder to stop him from running after his brothers. The guards jumped off their camels as they passed and began running after them. Narmer removed his hand from her shoulder and began to run after Scott and the guards, his expression determined.

"Narmer!" she yelled. She knew he heard her, but he did not acknowledge and continued to run after Scott and Virgil, pushing down some guards as he went. The guards picked themselves up and drew their swords as they ran after him. Kyleigh growled in frustration. The idiots were going to get themselves killed! She caught Jeff's eye and saw the same fear and frustration she felt mirrored in his eyes.

Just feet away from Yuja, Scott fell to his knees and clutched his head, his scream of pain echoing across the landscape. Kyleigh, Gordon, and Jeff, with Alan on his back, began to jog towards his eldest son as Virgil knelt down beside him, yelling for the Hood to stop using his powers. His response was a cold, cruel laugh.

Losing his focus due to the noise around him, Yuja growled and let down the wall of sand to glare at the Hood. Scott's screaming ceased as the Hood was lifted into the air, looking down at Yuja in fear. The man's arm was outstretched as he held the Malaysian man in the air, Meritaten grinning beside him.

"This is your second warning," Yuja growled as the Hood continued to hover a few feet off the ground. Though he could not understand what Yuja was saying, the Hood understood the meaning perfectly by the look on the Egyptian's face. "Your usefulness is coming close to its end. One more distraction like that, and I will kill you."

Scott leaned against Virgil as the two watched the exchange, glancing back for a second as Narmer was grabbed by the guards a few feet away from them. Yuja glanced over towards him as Kyleigh, Jeff, and Gordon stopped a few feet behind where Narmer was being held. Yuja dropped his hand and simultaneously the Hood dropped hard to the ground.

"Release him," he ordered. The guards holding Narmer let go of his arms and pushed him to the ground. Yuja smirked as Kyleigh ran around them and dropped to the sand beside Narmer. "Return to your camels. We make for the city with haste. We must reach the city before they do."

"Yes, my lord," they replied before he and Meritaten headed back towards their camels with the Hood a few yards behind them, glaring at Yuja's back. As one of the guards that had come after them went to retrieve the camels, Jeff and Gordon make their way to where Virgil was helping Scott stand, the younger of the two mumbling under his breath.

"Stupid, stubborn, idiot," Virgil grumbled. "You could have gotten yourself killed!"

Jeff put a hand on Scott's arm and giving it a gentle squeeze. Scott glanced up at him for a moment before becoming interested in his feet. "You alright?" he inquired.

Scott looked up at his father and nodded. "Yeah, I'm alright," he replied before looking back down. "But John and Evie probably aren't."

"I know that you just wanted to stop him from hurting them," Jeff began. "But getting yourself killed in the process won't accomplish anything."

"Not to mention they would probably find a way to bring you back just so they could kill you themselves for getting yourself killed," Gordon smiled. Jeff glanced over at his second youngest and shook his head, chuckling.

"Yeah, I know," Scott replied softly, looking up from his feet and smiling towards his father and brothers. "Sorry."

"And you shouldn't be worrying about them," Narmer added, the Tracy's turned around to look at him as he approached, hand in hand with Kyleigh. "Yuja is ordering the group to move faster, telling them we have to get to the city before they do. Which means that there are still people left to follow."

Jeff looked to the east. The mass of Medjai had come to a stop, the cloud of dust behind them beginning to settle. With so many miles in between, it was impossible to tell if the ultra lights were somewhere within the mass of black.

"So it's possible that they are fine?" Virgil asked.

"They're probably coughing the dirt out of their mouths right now, but yes, it is possible that they could be alright," he replied. Kyleigh squeezed his hand and smiled up at him, glad that he could give the family a little bit of hope. Narmer squeezed her hand in return and smiled down at her.

"And for even more good news," Narmer began, a grin spreading across his face. "It seems the Hood has pissed Yuja off once before and is currently working on Yuja's last nerve. He was not to happy with him for what he did, though that is probably obvious with the way he was lifted off the ground. But with any luck, he may be dead before we reach the city."

"With the way our luck has been so far, I doubt we'll get that lucky," Gordon said as the guard returned with the camels and yelled for them to start walking.

As the group began to move forward towards the city once more and the guards resumed their places around them, Alan groaned and lifted his head. The blond blinked wearily towards Virgil beside him. Scott was on his other side and looking down at their youngest brother in seconds.

"Hey sprout," Virgil greeted softly, running a hand through the teens damp blond hair as they walked. "How are you doing?"

Alan simply shook his head, fighting his dropping eyes as he looked up at his brothers. His eyes closed and he tensed, a grimace forming on his features. Virgil sighed and once more ran his hand through the teen's hair, reminding him that his brothers were still there for him. He glanced towards the black mass to the east, hoping that his brother and sister were alright and would get to them soon, and hoping that they had brought the anti-venom with them.