The Hunt for Blue October- Part two, "Evading the Hunters"

> Allie's green eyes gleamed with excitement. "Oh, torpedos,
please,"
> she gushed with pure exhilaration.
> "Good, get to it," White Wolf instructed.
> Allie pressed a few buttons on her control belt and an exact copy
> of a WWII helmet appeared on her, the dark green making her eyes
seem
> even brighter. Humming an old marching song triumphantly, she
headed
> to the torpedo section. Several seamen were waiting, obviously not
> for her, but for orders from their captain.
> Standing dominantly in front of them, she began shouting, "All
> right, you bunch submersible maggots! We're going to get an order
> from my Commander White Wolf, who has taken control of this vessel,
> on where to shoot these damn torpedos soon. And when he gives me
that
> order, I will relay them onto you. Then, you move your lily-white
> asses and shoot the frelling things exactly where you're told.
> Understand?"
> The men looked at each other skeptically.
> "You will give me an 'Affirmative' now, smegheads!"
> "We only get our orders-" one of the men started.
> "You will not speak unless you are asked to speak, worm!" she
> screamed at the top of her lungs. "Now, where's that
> godamn 'Affirmative' I asked for?!!"
> The men seemed to finally surrender. "Affirmative, ma'am!" they
> replied in unison.
> Allie smiled. "That's better. Now, take positions!"
> The men scattered to their posts.
> The hologram couldn't help but sigh with satisfaction.
"Aft subs are taking up for firing positions, incoming torpedo impact
in one and half minutes!" Exclaims the sensor crewman.
The huge hamster glanced at the captain again, and shook his head
while muttering "I guess we're going to have to save you lazy lobs.",
and pulled out his vidman, and spoke to it, "Sam, I need to set this
subs drive system to execute a 15 degree barrel roll to the starboard
that should put out of the path of the oncoming torpedo, and force
the two subs to recalculate thier firing solutions."
As the sub banked to the right, the sensor crewman intoned while
listening to the whir of the torpedo, "Oncoming torpedo is correcting
course to a bow on course..."
The large hamster cursed, and jumped to the sub's intercomm,
activated it and spoke, "Kayn, I want you take the sub's helm, I'm
gonna need you to pilot this thing so we don't get hit by that
torpedo because Sam won't be able to maneuver this thing precise
enough in combat. Dirk, I want you to come up here here and take over
their sensors, I need you to be my eyes underwater."
The hamster paused in thought, and the his face lit up with an idea,
and activated the intercomm and spoke again, "Allie, Find out if the
Eniram are using proximity triggered torpedos!"
In the torpedo loading area Allie glared at the men, and asked, "Ok,
you heard what he said, are they?"
Several of the men stayed silent, and Allie stepped up and backhanded
one of them, while exclaiming, "I won't ask twice!"
An elderly man spoke up, "The torpedo are set to to arm and home in
on presence of any sizable quantity of metal, and will explode on
contact."
Allie yelled into the Intercomm, "Did you get that?"
The huge hamster replied, "Yes, now I need you to load any of the
excess metals into the forward tubes 3 & 4 and be ready to eject them
both when I order."
Allie grabbed the Elderly Eniram, "OK, you do exactly like he says,
or I'll stuff your head inside your ribcage!"
The men quickly complied.
Allie called back over the intercomm, "We're ready!", as Kayn and
Dirk arrived in the bridge to take over thier position.
The huge hamster turned to Dirk and asked, "How Far away is that
torpedo?"
Dirk listened on the headphones and glanced at his instruments,
before replying, "about 25 yards now."
"This is going to be close... Eject the metals Allie! Kayn,
accelerate to attack speed, 45 degrees down bubble, Now!" Yelled the
rotund hamster.
The sub tilted deeply and creaked as it rapidly decended as the
whirring sound of the torpedo got louder.
Dirk called out, "Aft subs veering off, 10 seconds to impact."
Suddenly everyone heard torpedo's sonar pinging as it approached,
then the sub rocked slightly during the explosion as it struck some
of the ejected metals.
Everyone let out a little cheer, except the hamster, who grimly
said, "It's not over yet. Allie load the aft torpedos tubes 5 & 7
with torpedos, those subs will be on our tail real soon, tell me when
your ready. Kayn, level us out at 300 feet."
Allie yelled at the Torpedo crewmen, "Get too it you Goofballs!", and
they scrambled to load the tubes.
Dirk spoke, "Aft subs are actively pinging us, I think one of them is
angling for our aft, the other might be trying to anticipate another
dive from us. The one that fired upon us earlier is above us now
attempting to circle back."
"Good." Murmured the hamster.
"One of the subs pulling level with our tail." reported Dirk calmly
as he could.
As the torpedo crewmen hurriedly slapped two torpedo's into the
tubes, the elderly Eniram quickly gave a thumbs up, "We're ready!"
Called Allie over the intercomm.
"Fire tube seven!" Ordered the hamster.
"Torpedo seven away!", called Allie over the intercomm.
"That sub's veering off, the others are attempting to assume firing
positions." reported Dirk.
"Kayn, 25 degrees up bubble and come level at 200 feet, then slow to
half speed! Dirk, count down to when we are going to pass 250 feet."
Called the hamster.
Dirk, counted down, and as he got to "10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5...
4... 3... 2..."
"Fire tube five!" ordered the hamster.
"Torpedo five away!", called Allie over the intercomm.
"The two other subs are veering to avoid the second torpedo. The
first sub has cleared our first torpedo and is attempt to come into a
firing angle with us once again, and he's coming on fast."
The Eniram Captain chuckled, "You missed them both!"
"That's what I intended, I only wanted to shake the other two sub
long enough for us to go one on one with the one that's behind us
now." replied the hamster, then turning to Dirk and smirking he
asked, "Ok Dirk, now we're going to need some of handy work to pull
off some really down and dirty tactics, it's a bit tricky and rather
dangerous so please be careful. Kayn, Do you know the air combat
maneuver where then hit the retros and fall behind the enemy and then
gun the afterburners while firing your guns?"
Kayn tentatively, "Yeah, I know of it, but how are we going to do
that here?"
"Dirks going to guide you through it!" replied the huge hamster as he
patted Kayn's shoulder.
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OOC - Alright, I'll let you bunch take it over from here!
- Tim/WW