Alan sat in his cell, nervously twitching his fingers. Now that he knew his family had a plan, he felt a little more at ease with his situation, but he still had a while to go before he was completely calm, mainly when he got out of there. There wasn't much of a warning but almost instantly after Alan's door was furiously crashed open, Aiden Stalin came in and picked Alan up by the scruff of his neck, slamming him against the wall.

"You want to know something Tracy, DO YOU?" He screamed into Alan's face. Alan weakly shook his head "Well you better be careful because if your family EVER find us, which it's near impossible to find, then they are going to be in for a little surprise..." Aiden's cockiness was starting to unnerve Alan a bit; did he know about the watch, was he listening on their conversation? Alan gulped and Aidan gave a sick smile to the teenager.

"D...don't c...cou...count on an...any of your, s...s...STUPID tricks working against my...family."Alan said bravely, although he certainly didn't feel brave. Aiden growled furiously and smashed Alan's head against the back wall, making his head spin.

"You insolent little brat, I'll teach you how to..." He raised a fist and Alan flinched but Aiden stepped back. "You're just lucky I need you for my plans, if not you would be dead by morning" he threatened. Dropping Alan harshly on the floor, right onto his painful feet. Alan cried out and Aiden smirked. "Enjoy your time here while you're still alive. And with that he walked out the door, leaving alone to his thoughts. Pressing the buttons on the side of his watch he waited for his brothers to respond.

"You guys heard all that right." The watch crackled a little before there was a response as Virgil answered

"Don't worry bro, we'll be careful. We just heard from Scott that he; John and Fermat have picked up on a few signals and are on the way to check it out. Is there anything… anything at all that could help us find you, like is there a window or something to look out of?" Alan looked around the room and spotted a small, barred window at the top of the room

"Yeah there's a small window at the top of the wall with bars on it, I should be able to reach it, but it's gonna be difficult on a busted ankle." He responded, although he suddenly realised what he'd just revealed.

"Busted Ankle, Allie, we didn't hear him break your ankle." Virgil commented suspiciously. Alan sighed and decided to come clean .

"Well actually… It was my fault, you know that last rescue we went on?" He asked

"Yeah but… Alan did you hide an injury from us on the mission?" Virgil warned. Alan sighed again

"I didn't tell you because… well I'd only just made it on the missions, I didn't want you guys to think I was useless because I got injured on my first ever mission." He said sadly. He heard Virgil sigh on the other end.

"Allie… it wouldn't be the first time you've thought yourself useless would it." He said this more to himself then Alan "the thing is Al, you're not useless, and you never will be. You've done things that would make the Queen of England impressed." Alan giggled a little "This whole thing about being useless. I don't know why you ever think that. If it's because of our taunting then… GOD Allie, I dunno what I'd do. You're the youngest of our family, and I figure that's made you feel as though you have to be like us right?

"Pretty much" Alan replied sadly.

"Yeah I thought so, well let me tell you something Sprout. You don't have to be. We've all felt that way about our older brothers at one point. Heck Gordon once stopped swimming for a week just so he could focus on being smart like John. He didn't last more than a week mind. Heck even Scott's tried to complete the impossible." He heard Virgil stifle a laugh "One time he got so Jealous of Gordon's ability to swim circle's around him that he actually took up advanced swimming lessons cause, let me let you Scott wasn't a great swimmer at the time, Dad found out a month into it when he was cleaning Scott's room and found the arm bands." Alan struggled to hold in a laugh as he tried to imagine a twenty-something Scott Tracy wearing armbands to an advanced swimming class.

"What did he say?" Alan asked his mind wandering from the situation he was currently in and instead in depth with Virgil's story.

"Kinda like what I said to you, once he realised what he was learning for. Truth was dad was a little put down that his son's all thought they had to be the same. I think you were at school at the time and he told us he would repeat the conversation with you when you got back. But basically he said that we're all individual and that's what matters. It didn't matter whether we were great swimmers, or spacemen or artists or geniuses or even boy-racers (yeah kiddo I know what you're into!)" Alan blushed slightly but he knew that Virgil was right and that he wanted to be a racer. He'd wanted this ever since his dad took him to his first race when he was 7. It was a trip just for the two of them since Jeff felt he needed to get to know Alan a lot more.

"I don't remember Dad ever having that conversation with me... Although he probably wanted to but I got into an argument about something." He said solemnly. He heard Virgil sigh again.

"I'm sure he didn't mean it Allie, and I'm sure you didn't either. And by the way... don't put yourself down because of these fights, it's completely normal for kid's to argue with their parents, that and dad doesn't see you that often so if you did something from like three months ago, he's gonna have to make it up to you in the holidays." He joked, although it had the opposite effect on Alan as the teen hitched a breath. "Sorry Allie, I didn't mean it like that." He begged hoping he hadn't rubbed on a sore spot. "Tell you what Sprout, after all this is over, and we've taken Scott and John away from smothering you, we'll organise a big family day out. Just us, no thunderbirds, no problems just good old family time together, would you like that?" Virgil asked. Alan thought about it and tried to remember the last time the family had a day off. They had a rescue every other day, and Alan was at school a lot, not to mention the boys own free time activities. That, and even though their father didn't work half as much as when their mother died, he still worked a large amount and was often caught in his office hosting video meetings or on the phone sorting out a business deal.

"I'd love that Virgie." He answered with a smile. He could almost see Virgil's returning smile as he said it. All of a sudden he heard a sudden beeping. "Virgil what's going on?"

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Earlier that night

Aiden Stalin was seated in a comfy armchair in a small block room. The room was rather cramped but only had a small coffee table and an old radio. Aiden fiddled around with the controls until he found the station he was looking for.

"This just in, fire-fighters have finally managed to take control of the massive blaze surrounding the bank of London, witnesses are stepping forward saying there were traces of an explosion before the initial blaze, prompting investigators to suggest the ideas of terrorism" Aiden hid a grimace. He'd been the one to set that bomb of and wasn't too keen on not getting credit for it like he usually would, although considering the rest of the world believed him dead aside the Tracy family, he wasn't expecting much. "In other news, police chiefs around the country are requesting for the return of the Thunderbirds." Here Aiden turned up the radio, intent on making sure is plan went into motion. "However..." The radio reporter continued "With a recent development in the Thunderbirds team, the team alpha has called for the Thunderbirds to be on temporary hold until this matter is resolved. This is leaving the world asking, they saved us before, why can't they do it again..." But Aiden didn't listen to the rest. too blinded in frustration and anger he knocked the table over and slammed his hand on the radio. Seeing red he immediately ran towards Alan's cell...

Present time

Aiden's thoughts drifted back to that news report and he felt angered. He had intended for the Thunderbirds to be too busy saving all the people at risk with his attacks than for the Tracy family to focus on their youngest. But with the Thunderbirds out of commission, he realised he would have to put his plans into effect sooner than he intended.

"Blast those Tracy's they think they can ruin this for me!" He mumbled angrily to himself. However his musings were interrupted by the sound of an alarm in the corner of the room. Aiden immediately stood up and ran into the room next door. This room was slightly bigger and looked like a war room, it held a number of computers, gun's , bomb-containers and the thing he was looking for, a security screen. The alarm set off signalled there were either planes or submarines within 50 miles of the vicinity. The camera twisted round and Aiden clicked a number of buttons which caused the screen to zoom in. And in the approaching distance, there was Thunderbird 2.

Well that's all for now. Little Author's note for you at the bottom. But if you've read it in any of my other recently updated stories then don't worry but otherwise - READ IT!

To all my faithful readers

The length of time this update took was on my own part completely unacceptable and I should have had it up quicker. For that I apologise and hope I can get updates up quicker. So far I am in the process of writing

Baby sister and

My Son Luke.

Don't worry I haven't stopped writing my others, it's just I'm trying to right chapters for these stories all at once so I'll finish these one's then get started again on the others. I've also nearly finished one or two of my new ones but as I said I'll focus on these first. Again sorry for the lateness, ever though I'm finished college I still have work so my days are still taken up a little :(