CHAPTER ONE

In his jungle temple, The Hood was sitting in his throne and wickedly pondering over his thoughts of "International Rescue…!" He was thinking of finding a way to locate their headquarters and destroy them from within. He knew that their base had to be some sort of island, but exactly where. He decided he would have to ask his half-brother, Kyrano for help.

The curtain of beads opened wide revealing the chamber where Kryano's statue was. "Kyrano, the time has come." He said wickedly "You know that you cannot resist me. Kyrano! KYRANO...!"


While back at the island, it had been a month since Madelynn was brought home to the island. Uncle John was spending his last few minutes with her before he had to head up to Thunderbird 5 to relieve Alan. There were some things that being married with a child just didn't change.

"Aw, I'm gonna miss you a lot." John said to his little niece as he playfully touched her little nose. Madelynn giggled and cooed. Soon he passed her back to Tintin. "Say goodbye to Uncle John." Tintin playful said as she gently made the baby wave her little arm.

At that moment, Jeff and Kyrano came in., "All set, Son?" Jeff asked "Alan's edging to get home."

"Sure." John said "The sooner I get up there, the sooner Brains can get back to his project. What's he working on anyway, Tintin?"

"Oh, I'm not certain. I never asked, what with Madelynn and everything."

Everyone felt they would know soon enough. For now, John bid his final goodbyes before he and Scott were sent on their way down on the sofa elevator, and all the way to Thunderbird 3. Soon they blasted off and were well on their way.

Kyrano continued to watch until the rocket was out of eyesight "There they go."

"Yes, Kyrano…" Jeff said "I'll sure be glad when Alan gets back.

"Me too…" Virgil said "The way Madelynn keeps crying for her daddy to come home, I don't know how much more of this I can take."

Jeff couldn't help but chuckle at that remark "When you boys were little, I had to listen to you scream twenty-four hours a day."

"A geez, Father… No sense in carrying a grudge." Gordon teased.

Everyone laughed...

...But suddenly, Kryano wailed as he felt dizzy and his head aching in pain.

"Kyrano!" cried Jeff "What's the matter?"


It was The Hood's evil magic getting to him. "Kyrano…! Now, you will tell me—where is the island that International Rescue base is located?"

Kyrano tried to resist all he could, but his evil half-brother's eyes began to glow putting more of a strain on him. "Answer me! Tell me where the island is located!"

Kyrano struggled to catch his breath. "I… I don't know!" he cried "It is… some… where… in the… pa...cific!"

His eyes stopped glowing, and Kyrano was released from the spell. He was all sweaty and tired.

Tintin came into the lounge. "What happened? I was just putting Madelynn down for her nap."

"Oh, I… I became very dizzy." her father answered.

Jeff wasn't going to take any chances with Kyrano. Madelynn was about due for her monthly check-up, and Jeff was going to request the doctor look after Kyrano as well.

"Oh, it is nothing really." Kyrano insisted, but everyone disagreed, and Tintin escorted her father to his room for a rest.

After a long while, Thunderbird 3 returned to its hanger, and Alan was so happy to be home, especially to see his little Madelynn again. The little baby was happy to see her daddy too.

Brains also asked Alan if he had brought back the configuration systems form the satellite that he needed for his project. "Sure, here it is." Alan said handing him one of his suitcases.

Scott's patients finally gave in. "Enough with the secrecy already, Brains. What the heck have you been up to?"

Brains decided to explain it all at dinner, that way everyone could hear his news.

At dinner, it was hard for everyone to eat, as the sight of Alan and Tintin feeding Madelynn was so adorable. "Come on, honey." Alan said "Show daddy a smile." Madelynn would then open her little mouth wide in a big smile giving her mother the chance to give her the spoon of baby food. It was both cute and gross the way the way the food came spilling out of Madelynn's mouth like that. "Aw, shucks! Isn't that cute?" Scott said "She knows already she doesn't like the taste of broccoli."

As everyone ate, Brains finally decided to share his project with them. He was working on a cloaking device "Which should, uh... um... in theory, prevent our machinery and our base from being detected, and photo-proof."

"A cloaking device…?" Virgil asked "Gee that sounds pretty useful."

"It certainly is." Jeff agreed "With a device like that, it means we'd be able to move around without fear of being tracked by outsiders, and photographing our machines would be completely useless."

"That is... the... idea, uh-uh-uh... Mr. Tracy." Brain said.

"And that's why you needed Thunderbird 5's system plans?" asked Alan.

"Y-Y-Yes, Alan. That is… correct." replied Brains; he continued to explain that Thunderbird 5's plasmatic deflecting armored coating already prevented it from being detected by other systems, and it was necessary for him to obtain the configurations systems to produce the formula he needed for his project to work, but he also required the configuration of FAB-1, Lady Penelope's car.

"Well, you'll get your chance soon enough, Brains." Jeff told him, and then began telling everyone that Penelope was coming to visit the next day.

"When will we get to see your project finished?" Gordon asked, to which Brains replied "Oh, uh, um, not for some time yet… uh, Gordon. I'm, uh, still… in the… um… experimental stages, but if all goes well tomorrow. I should be able to begin my first test- Provided that nothing goes wrong."

The others didn't like it when he said things like that, but soon they all gazed at the baby. "Will you look at that." Scott said as Madelynn yawned and stretched out in her highchair. "It's bedtime for you, Madelynn." Tintin said as she scooped her little daughter up in her arms. Alan, already finished with his dinner went off to help his wife.

"Gee, those two are so lucky." Gordon said, and the others agreed.

Madelynn needed a bath before bed for slopping her food all over her. Soon, she was all squeaky clean, in a fresh diaper, in her fuzzy pink pajamas and sleeping in her little crib. "Oh, she's so adorable." Tintin said.

"She really is." Alan whispered so as not to wake his daughter. They continued to watch their daughter sleep away for a while before getting ready for bed too. As they sat in bed and read a while to help them sleep, Tintin asked "What's that you're reading?"

Alan showed her it was a magazine containing articles of Supercar, the famous marvel of the 1960s. Back then it was believed to be the greatest machine in the world, much like the Thunderbirds themselves. It could travel in space, under the sea, fly through the sky, and performed all sorts of missions and stunts. Next to the car was a picture of its pilot and owner, Mike Mercury. He had been dead for some time, but Alan really looked up to him, and it was Mike who was his very inspiration to be an astronaut. He was like an idol to him. "I always dreamed one day it would be possible to meet him, but that's silly. He's been dead for some time, and Supercar is nothing but a relic in a museum of technology."

He gave a huge sigh. "I guess I can pretty much kiss that though goodbye."

Tintin flirtingly snuggled close to her husband "...But you can kiss me goodnight."

Alan smiled and kissed his wife tenderly, but the moment was interrupted when Madelynn began to cry and squeal from her crib across the room. The parents sighed and got up to see what she wanted.

It wasn't until long after that everyone was sleeping blissfully in the peaceful night.