Aekhem

XIX

The beach was calm at the other side of the island but in the ocean there was a lot of movement. Small boats heading towards a submarine on the surface three miles into the sea. Helicopters flying on top of it. The boats were carrying people and they were full. The helicopters were downloading missiles to the USS Virginia Submarine, a new design and still pending approval from the US Government submarine.

At the top of the submarine, almost to the front of it, a beautiful was using binoculars to watch the beach and the sky. She could feel them, sense them, smell them, she knew they were coming, she knew they were there, hiding behind the trees, she had to hurry.

An asian girl, her new assistant, using an electronic pad connected to a wireless modem which was communicating to the submarine computer, she was ready to take notes.

Isabella put the small radio transmitter in her mouth:

"Captain, let's get going"

She heard the response in russian:

"Yes Ma'am!"

An alarm went off and a strobe light turned on. The load was in the submarine. It was time to go. She extended her arm and her assistant gave her the electronic pad. The GPS receiver was working perfectly fine. The place they were heading to was relatively close. She changed the app on her screen and went into the submarine's computer. The seismic sensor in the submarine showed the spot where the constantly increasing movement was being generated.

Everything was going well.

She took the electronic pad and threw it in the water. Her assistant didn't even look at what she did, she just followed her in silence. The only thing Isabella cared for was that her assistant had guns on the sides. Safeties off. Ready to shoot, ready to protect her. Damn Japs, they were more cold blooded than the germans. Kamikazes, ninjas, samurais, if that had an objective, they get the job done, her assistant's job was to watch over here and one mission only, obey her.

She went down and stood in the middle, looked at both sides one side to the control room and the other to the missiles, engines and reactor, she went to the control room. She sat down on a chair next to the young officer in front of the sonar. The officer handed her a set of earphones and turned them on. She heard a tapping sound. She removed the earphones and watched the captain giving orders to the crew and his orders were repeated by a crew member.

The location of the spot they were going to was clearly on a map on a screen showing information. Temperature, distance, latitude, longitude, altitude. Another screen showed seismic activity in the area. Immersion was fast. Three thousand feet down. The submarine increased its speed, she could see on the screen they distance to the location was getting shorter.

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