A Rose Just As Sweet!

A year before the episodes begin, Alan is sent out on a mission to rescue a family on vacation for the summer (given they have better fuel and rockets in 2059) who is in distress because they got caught in a sudden asteroid field that wasn't scheduled to be near them at all. It knocks out their life support and badly damages their ship. They are barely able to reach Thunderbird Five, who quickly deploys Thunderbird Three containing Scott and Alan. While Scott is working on getting inside the partially smashed ship, Alan connects Thunderbird Three's life support to the ship. He establishes communication and meets the beautiful blonde, Leilani Rose, who is fifteen years old. She is freaking out and using her air as she in part of the ship that is the most damaged. Alan talks to her and calms her down. The two instantly become good friends in the few short hours that Alan and Scott are working on helping her and her family.

After returning to Earth, Alan and Leilani keep in contact even after she starts her sophomore year of High School. After school starts and Leilani is asked what she did over the summer, she mentions the trip and then how she had to be rescued by International Rescue. No one believes her before some mean girls who's always been a thorn in Leilani's side spread rumors that she's a compulsive liar. The school believes the girls because the two girls are major popular and when Leilani tries to defend herself that she's not a liar, it only makes things worse.