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******April 10, 2068; Pod Repair Bay; 6:15 p.m.******
As soon as they finished dinner, Virgil and Brandon went down to the pod repair bay next to the lab, where they noticed Brains and Kat had returned to finish sorting the equipment needed to repair Thunderbird Four. Brains saw the two men approaching. "Ah, good, you're both here. I need you two to handle the exterior while Kat and I look at the interior."
"You got it, Brains." Brandon looked down at the equipment they'd be using remarking, "Looks like we've got a bit of work ahead of us, Virgil."
Virgil shook his head. "I've never seen Four look this bad." He took a turn around the little submarine. "Looks like most of it is cosmetic, though." He glanced at Brandon. "We'd better do a very careful job on this or Gordon will ask for our heads on a platter!"
"Oh, don't worry about that. I have EVERY intention of staying on his good side." Brandon smiled as everybody laughed.
"I think we all want to stay on his good side, Brandon," Brains remarked.
Brains and Kat climbed into the upper hatch to enter the sub. When they both were inside, they looked around. "Hmm," said Brains, "there doesn't appear to be any damage done in here, but just to be sure, we need to run the diagnostics." He led her to the control panel. "I'll enter the sequence to begin the check."
Kat became curious. "How do you do that in Thunderbird Four? I haven't had time to go over that with Gordon."
Brains showed her where the diagnostic activation buttons were on the control panel. "If it runs smoothly, it should be done in about five minutes. While that's going on, we'll check the rest of the interior." Brains showed her around, checking hatches, seats, and lockers for structural damage. "We'll need to check all the outer mechanisms, too, and make sure they weren't damaged. I'll show you how to operate them."
While Kat and Brains were working inside, Brandon and Virgil got started on the exterior of the craft. "Okay, Brandon, the first thing we have to do is replace the damaged panels. Would you hand me the oxyhydnite torch?"
"Sure thing, Virgil."
"Virgil from Brains," sounded Virgil's communicator.
"Go ahead, Brains."
"I need you and Brandon to do me a favor. Can you take a look at the front end and tell me if anything has been damaged?"
"Okay, Brains. Brandon, you may want to watch this part, since you'll have to learn the proper diagnostics eventually."
"Yes, sir." Brandon shifted to the front of the little sub and watched carefully as the grabs slid out of their housing. "Looks good so far... wait, the grabs are about to hit the lighting trough. Can you swing it upward?"
Brains tried to activate the trough's positioning arms. "Hmm. They seem to be stuck," he replied.
Brandon moved around to the side and noticed the lighting trough's supporting arm on their side of the ship. "Brains from Brandon. We have a problem with the lighting trough on the port side; the arm appears to have jammed." He looked over at Virgil, who nodded at him.
"Same thing here, Brains," Virgil added
"Hmm, this is serious," Brains murmured. "Can you see what the problem is?"
"There could be something wrong with the socket, but I can't say for certain. Mechanics aren't exactly my specialty," Brandon said as he walked back to the front end of the sub.
Brains looked at Kat. "Ready to put your mechanical skills to work again?"
"Yes, sir!"
"Very well. The rest of the interior is all right, and the diagnostics program shows no damage to the computer. Let's get out there and fix that trough."
As Brains and Kat started working on the lighting trough, Brandon shook his head. "I'm surprised the damage wasn't more than what it is. Four took a really hard beating out there."
Virgil concurred with him. "That's why we built Thunderbird Four out of cahelium. She was made to withstand almost anything thrown at her."
"Shall I give you that oxyhydnite torch you requested earlier?"
"Thanks, Brandon. Let's get to work on those panels. There's enough space for us to do our job without interfering with their work."
Brandon and Virgil went to work on the right side of the sub. Virgil said, "Looks like we'll have to change two panels on this side, one over the nacelle."
"Yeah. The panels aren't that big. This won't take too long."
"No, but then comes the hard part...repainting the sub, hence the airbrushes."
For the next four hours, all four people worked hard to fix the damage done to Thunderbird Four's port side. Brains and Kat finished repairing the lighting trough at about the same time Virgil and Brandon completed replacing the damaged panels.
They stood back, looking at the work they'd done. There were bare spots of metal where the repairs had been made and the things they had used were scattered on the floor.
"Nice job, everyone," said Brains. "Too bad we still have painting to do. Grab some primer, and let's get started." The other three groaned at his remark but understood that the job was still not complete. "Relax. Once we get through with the primer, we'll stop for tonight. It's getting late, and it'll need all night to dry anyway."
They each grabbed a can and started working on the paint job for Thunderbird Four before calling it a night.
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