Thunderbirds: A Hood Over The World

Chapter 9: You Can't Save Everyone

Tokyo FireFlash Wreckage.
(Scott's POV)
I took the path to the right and began to search through every corner I could find, from the biggest to the smallest of gapes I searched through everything. As I made my way through the rubble and the pieces left behind from FireFlash, the hope that I had going into this faded as I came across a large amount of blood,
"Scott to Tracy Island come in" I say through the commlink
"Tracy Island here, what's up Scott?" Alan answers
"Can... Can you scan for any signs of life?" I ask hesitantly
"hang on" Alan says as I hear some typing before it suddenly stops
"Alan?" I question
"nothing's coming up on the scanners, but that could be from FireFlash's lead lined Fusion Drive hold" John answers for Alan
"where's Alan?" I ask
"don't worry, he just had a small panic attack so I took over remotely from Thunderbird 5" John answers
"how can I not be worried" I state
"Scott, focus on the rescue and do what you can, I'll make sure Alan is ok" John says
"fine, but John there is a lot of blood around here and some of it looks burnt" I state as I look around a bit to take in the area
"do what you can, I'll see what I can find on this end" John says
"alright" I say
"hold onto hope Scott, Thunderbird 5 Out" John states ending the communication Link leaving me to get back to searching, this rescue wasn't going to end well I just knew it.
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Thunderbird 5, Geostationary Orbit.
(John's POV)
After finishing the call with Scott I activated the monitor in front of him so I could see him as he sat on the chair in Command and Control. Snapping my fingers to get his attention, I soon get it as he moves his head to look at me,
"Alan, everything's going to be ok" I say
"But there was nothing on the scanners" Alan states
"I know Alan" I answer
"How do you deal with things like that?" Alan asks
"truth be told Alan, I don't and same goes for the others" I say
"what do you mean?" Alan asks
"with some rescues you  can't save everyone and in others you can't save anyone at all, the way you get through that is by using it as a way to motivate you, you learn from your experiences and try with everything you have to save who you can, but there are times when something happens and we can't get to someone in time" I explain " but those are always unforeseen events just like this, no one could ever predict the cost these disasters and tragedies have Alan but its our job to try and save who we can if we can, but all we can do is try and have hope, you can't save everyone, that's the cost of being a rescue organisation" I further explained
"but you guys don't ever show how it effects you" Alan says
"Alan, another part of doing rescue work is to never show the effects the job has on you, for the sake of the families and friends of people we rescue you show a brave face, look I know you don't go out in the field as much so you've never had to experience this until now but trust me Alan you have us if it ever becomes to much" I explain
"I'm sorry about this" Alan says
"there's no need to apologies Alan, how about you focus on pulling up information on the area so our brothers know what to expect and I'll focus on all the the things to do with locating people" I offer to which Alan nods before I switch the scanner controls and readings  to my monitors on Thunderbird 5 and send information on the local area to the monitors in front of Alan so he can start off from where I had stopped, with that I began so scan the danger zone for any sign of life as Alan pulled the information I left him.
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Tokyo FireFlash Wreckage.
(Gordon's POV)
I had just finished talking and assisting some of the rescue workers on site and had begun to move further into the centre of the wreckage, the debris and rubble making a small incline as I reached a section of FireFlash. the section was one for the wings of the plane with a lot of burning cars and twisted metal around it, looking up I could see that damage to the buildings with the obvious markings of the wings through the windows. I couldn't look at that all day though as I had to look for survivors but as I started to look I saw blood and then the remains of about five people and my heart sank,
"Virgil to Gordon come in" I hear over the communications link
"Gordon here" I answer
"how is it on your end?" Virgil asks
"no survivors yet" I answer
"Scott to Virgil and Gordon" Scott's sudden voice adds
"we're here Scott" I say
"you guys find anyone yet?" he asks
"no" Virgil answers
"not one person" I answer
"The further I look the more blood I come across" Scott says
"Same here" Virgil adds
"I found about five bodies where I am and the rescue workers I was helping said they found about fifteen" I add
"I'm beginning to lose hope" Virgil states
"aren't we all, but what can we do?" I ask
"there's nothing we can do, we just keep looking" Scott says
"there has to be someone out here right?" I ask
"there has to be" Virgil states
"lets... keep searching" Scott says
"F.A.B" I say
"F.A.B" Virgil says
"Scott out" Scott says leaving the communication Link
"Virgil out" Virgil says doing the same leaving me to search for survivors here, and so that's what I began to do as I looked through the mountains of debris and rubble that was all over the place. We couldn't save everyone I've known that for a long time now but during rescues like this you only hoped that you could save at least one person. The way this rescue was going however it was becoming clear very fast that no one might have survived FireFlash's crash landing but we wouldn't know for sure until we had finished searching the entire area.
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Thunderbird 5.
(John's POV)
Alan and I had gotten into searching for as much information as we could, Alan searching for buildings and structures of weakness and myself searching for people within the wreckage both of us keeping the communications channel open to make it easier for us to confirm information and update each other,
Emergency Beacon Activated.
Location: Russia
The computer announced to me  as we were searching through the information on our screens,
"computer, display rescue details" I state as a holographic image of a Monorail train appears and I send a copy to Tracy Island so Alan can see as well
"A monorail?" Alan questions
"looks like something destroyed the bridge it was beginning to cross" I answer
"its breaks activated so they weren't faulty" Alan says
"no this looks like it was intentionally done" I say and I know only one person who would do something like this
"do you think it's the Hood?" Alan questions as we glance at each other through our monitors
"There's a big possibility" I answer as we look at the holographic image, this whole situation just got a lot more complicated.

TO BE CONTINUED...