away team Actionette - 'The hunt for Blue October', Part one!

>"Well, it wouldn't be the first time we've lost one, Right Kayn?"
>Quipped the hamster smiling in Kayn's direction before continuing
>stopping at the edge of the sea water, "now are you all with me,
>Shall we take that sub or Not? I don't like getting in the water
>unless I have to, especially since no hamster ever swam that good to
>my knowledge - So I need to hear decisions *right now*, we aren't
>going to get a second chance at this!"
>
>A smile creeped up on Dirk's face. "Let's rock."
>
> "White Wolf, you adorable creature you, you can just be counted on
for anything,
> so I'm with you one hundred percent on this," Allie agreed.
> "Terrific!" White Wolf exclaimed.
> "There's just one thing," she continued.
> "What?" Dirk asked.
> Allie pointed to the H on her forehead. "I'm a hologram. I can't
go in water without
> destroying my light-bee. It's designed to withstand getting a little
> wet, but doing this will ruin it."
>
> "Is there something we can do?" Kayn inquired.
>
> She shrugged. "I can switch off, but one of you'd have to carry me
around in
> a water-tight container."
The goliath hamster reached in his cheek pouch and pulled two ziplock
baggies, "I think these should do nicely. Hop in Allie, your going to
be Dirks 'surprise in baggie' for this operation. Dirk, since I'm a
lousy swimmer, I want you to take Kayn and Mike over to the far side
of the sub when it surfaces, the three of you will need to be ready
to release Allie to help you do a surprise capture of thier captain,
while I try to distract them from the near side of the sub. Probably
by nearly drowning. Anyways, once we have the captain in our control,
we'll commandeer the ship and go from there. Ok, let's get going!"
The colossal hamster dove into the surf, and slowly dog peddled his
way towards the slowly surfacing sub as the rest of the group quickly
out distanced him making thier way over to the farther side.
Just as the enormous hamster was about to give up, he touched the
side of the sub. He looked up, three Eniram's were already standing
in the conning tower, and two were making thier way towards him. The
monstrous hamster reached up and started scrabbling aboard.
As one of the men pointed and exclaimed "Egads, is that some sort of
sea monster trying to get aboard?!?"
The authoritative looking guy at the conning tower ordered, "I don't
care what it is, get it off my ship!"
"Aye, Aye, Captain." Replied the two men in unison.
The huge hamster shook his immense body to get some of the sea water
out of his fur, and wound up looking looking very spiky furred. As
the two Eniram rapidly came towards him, and Dirk, Kayn, and Mike
slipped onboard the other side unnoticed, the huge hamster raised
his paws up and said loudly to everyone to make sure he got thier
attention, "Err.. Pardon me, But do any of you happen to have any
gray poupon I could borrow?!?"
"What?!?" exclaimed one of the approaching Enirams to the hamster.
Dirk quietly climbed the ladder towards the conning tower, as the
Kayn and Mike slipped into one of the open rear hatches.
The hulky hamster suddenly reached out and grabbed the Eniram seaman
and yelled in his ear, "I said, Pardon me, But do any of you happen
to have any gray poupon I could borrow!!!"
"OW, you don't have to yell! Besides what is grey poupon anyway?!?"
replied the startled seaman as the other tried to grab the hamster,
but wound up getting thrown into the water by the resisting hamster.
The other seaman soon followed him into the water.
Dirk stood up behind the three men on the conning tower. Just as one
of them half turn and startled at seeing him there, Dirk punched the
man, and quickly openned the ziplock baggie and released Allie.
"What the?!?" Exclaimed the Captain, as he spun around and saw Allie
appear out of thin air and grab him by the throat.
"We're commandeering your ship, you can cooperate with us and live,
or you can get a permenant pass to visit the fishies as a Deadie, You
choice.", replied Allie.
"Urk. You realise the other sub will attempt to sink us, as such this
sub would be useless to you, What could you want to fire more
missiles in this war?!?"
Dirk took this opportunity to go down the conn towers hatch, and gain
control of the command area below as the huge hamster scrambled up
the ladder, stood up in the conning tower and spoke to the
captain, "We just just want to get back to our ship, and since the
Aerons consficated our transport, we're going going to use your sub
instead."
The Captain angrily responded, "I will not order my crew to take you
anywhere."
"That's your decision as Captain of your boat, But as Commander of my
ships crew, I can guarantee that If you cooperate, We won't kill you.
But, don't get any ideas we need you or your crew to operate your
sub. I only need your sub, because I know enough about your
technology that I could operate it with this."
The hamster pulled out his vidman, activated it and spoke to
it, "Sam - Set your ECM to initiate this subs diving sequence, 15
degrees down bubble, ahead two thirds speed."
"But the hatches aren't secured!" exclaimed one of the other two men.
"Exactely, I'll send each of your crew on a express trip to davey
jones locker, if you don't cooperate with me." Replied the hamster,
as waves started to wash over the subs decks, "it looks like you have
less then thirty seconds to decide."
The Eniram Captain started sweating, and glanced at the Allie still
holding his throat, and then replied "Alright, I'll do whatever you
want."
"Good, Let's all get inside and get these hatches closed, you Enirams
go down first." ordered the huge hamster motioning towards the open
hatch.
Within minutes, the group was inside, and the sub was fully
submerged, as one of the sensor crewman yelled "I have a torpedo
contact 5 degrees off our bow, I estimate it'll hit in three minutes
Captain!"
The captain exclaimed to the hamster, "Our other sub must have seen
you capture us, thier going sink us!!!"
"Captain, I have two more large contacts approaching off our aft -
they must be the other subs of our floatilla." exclaimed the sensor
crewman.
"Well, aren't you going to take some Evasive action?!", exclaimed the
huge hamster back.
"I hear the two contacts off our aft opening thier tubes!" intoned
the Sensor crewman as if he was immune to the conversation going on
behind him.
The Captain merely shook his head and replied, "We're as good as dead
with other subs after us, We haven't been trained for Sub to Sub
warfare, we've only fought Aerons up until now!"
"Gggreeeaaaatttttt! I had to commandeer a ship full of sea faring
morons!", muttered the huge hamster.
Allie inquired, "White Wolf, Can't you control this sub with your
vidman?"
The huge hamster whispered in her ear, "Sam can only manuever this
sub much like a radio controlled car, and can only do one task at a
time, that's no where near the control we need to handle combat
situations. Either we need to give orders to the crew for this, But
since there's three basic functions to this sub, and we could run
this baby if we wanted to - Kayn could take the helm to pilot this
beast, Dirk could take it's sensors, you could handle the torpedo
firing, and I can provide the tactical orders and miscellanous
running about that's needed, which do you want to do?"
To be continued...
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OOC - Ok, I'll let guys elaborate a little on how you helped capture
the sub, and how we begin to figure out how we get out of this mess,
and maybe how we start shooting at the Starbug that's looking for us.