The Hunt for Blue October- Part Three, "Hunting the Hunters"

OOC - Sorry folks! I started out merely waiting to give little time
so everyone had a chance to get in on some of the game posts, but I
got a little caught up in some other RPG stuff along with some of
my 'usual busy August' stuff that's really cutting into my free time
and I neglected to post when I should have. Btw - while I'm OOCing I
might as well alert everyone I'm already busy (and unavailable for
simming, of course!) on August 24th thru 27th (Where I'm doing things
at the Minnesota State Fair, *hopefully* not being dragooned in
manning the Science and technology buildings display booths this
year...), and Sept 1st thru 3rd (Where I'll be accompanying a
noteworthy apprentice Chirurgeon and the Nordskogen Bard on a visit
to Canada for a SCA event in the Barony of Castel Rouge, I believe...
Sorry, that the best I can remember when I don't have my agenda
handy!).
BIC -
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Who: Dirk, Kayn, Mike, Allie, White Wolf, And bunch of moronic
Eniram's
When: Sorry, I don't understand the Eniram's stupid clock!
Where: In a Eniram sub, where umm, Dirks says we're somewhere in the
sea.
---- Snip ----
Almost an hour had gone by since they had disabled the first sub. The
Enriam subs in pursuit had begun to broadcast a message calling for
their surrender over the communications console.
Everyone in the sub was flung from their places by a sudden, violent
shaking of the boat. The message over the comm console stopped
immediately. "What was that?!" yelled White Wolf. "Are the Enriams
firing at us again?"
Dirk pulled himself up to the console to look. "No, they've submerged
again. It's coming from above. We've got Aeron ships directly above
and bombing us."
"Dive! Dive!" the hampster yelled at Kayn. The pilot complied.
"I've got good news, and I've got bad news," Dirk said.
"What is it?" asked the now concious Mike.
"The Aeron fighters have stopped their attack on us." Everyone on
board began to cheer loudly and jump up and down in victory. "But the
Enriams have resumed their's."
"Oh, smeg!" cried Kayn.
---- End Snip ----
"Release the Chaff!" ordered the huge hamster into the intercomm.
"What?!?" Replied Allie over the intercomm.
"Opps, Sorry Allie! I slipped into jargon there - I mean, stick some
more of that loose metal
into the aft torpedo tubes and fire it out." responded the large
hamster.
The Eniram's manning the torpedo room looked at the room that was
nearly scavaged clean of
metal, then at one another. And the elderly Eniram asked, "From
Where?"
"Two torpedos are in the water and closing aft." reported Dirk.
"Hurry it up back there, Allie we've got two very beligerent vistors
coming up our tail!"
yelled the huge hamster into the intercom.
"I don't care where you get it from, just get that metal into the
tubes as fast as you can!"
Ordered Allie, looking ready to pound the Eniram torpedo crew into
pancakes.
The Enirams ran into the next room and started ripping up anything
that wasn't nailed down and
running back with it and jamming it into the aft torpedo tubes.
Moments later, they released their scavagings into the sea, and not a
moment to soon, as the
two torpedos suddenly exploded within mere seconds.
"Ok, Evasive maneuvers and let's try surface as soon as we can, we
need some speed to try and
outrun them some more. Hopefully they won't follow suit." ordered the
huge hamster.
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Mike awoke from his fainting spell to hear something he only heard in
b&w movies, A familar
beep, beep, pause, beep, pause, beep, beep, of some kind of coded
message being transmitted. He
tried following the sound to it's source, but it suddenly stopped
before he could locate it.
Mike felt uneasy about telling any of the others of his suspicions
without some kinda of proof.
Because they might disbelieve him on account he was just a teenager,
so he decided to search
around the sub some more and see if he turn up anything that would
help him prove his
suspicions.
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Within a few minutes Dirk announced, "We've surfaced, Commander. The
other subs are following,
but thier not surfacing, and thier trying to get a firing angle."
"Kayn, I want you to switch to diesel on this metal hulk, that should
bring us up to 24 knots.
If they stay on electric they'd be slower than us. In the meantime,
I'm going topside to act as
look out for anymore of the Aeron fighters." Ordered the hamster,
before climbing the ladder.
As the immense hamster stood up in the conning tower and pulled out
the binoculars, a muffled
thud suddenly rocked the sub. The huge hamster quickly grabbed the
intercomm mic and called
over the speakers, "What blazes was that? Did we hit something?"
Dirk answered over comm, "No, we didn't hit anything - that came from
inside the sub."
"Well, I hope it wasn't one of the torpedo's going off or something,
Check on Mike & Allie and
see if you can find out what that noise was. I've got to do the
meercat thing and keep an eye
on your Aeron neighbors up here." replied White Wolf.
"Ok!" Dirk replied, while switching the channel and
continuing, "Allie is everything alright
back there?"
Allie glanced around, and replied over the comm, "It seems like it
from here. What's going on?"
"I Don't know yet, I'm going to go check on Mike, and I'll get back
to you if I find out
anything.", responded Dirk.
"Good luck!", Called back Allie.
He took off his headphones, and picked up his gun, and glanced at
Kayn. Who gave him the thumbs
up.
As Dirk went thru the compartments, Mike was nearly ready to give us
his search when he
suddenly smelled smoke. Mike followed the acrid smell, and came
accross what looked was a
Communications room that was now blackened and entirely gutted.
Mike's face paled again, just
as Dirk arrived and asked, "You alright?"
Mike nodded replied, "I was trying to find where a beeping noise I
heard earlier was coming
from, because it sounded like someone was sending a coded message,
but all I found was
this...", he pointed. Dirk poked his head into the little blackened
room and looked at the
damage.
Dirk went over to intercomm box and rung up the Conn, "Commander? I
think I found the what that
noise was."
The gigantean hamster lowered his binoculars, grabbed the intercomm
mic, and answered, "Yes,
what was it?"
Dirk continued, "Mike here says he heard something that sounded like
someone was transmitting a
coded message, and it looks as if one of our Eniram crewman has done
a number on the outside
communications equipment."
"How bad is it?", replied the mammoth hamster.
"Well, we're not going to be putting in any calls to anyone outside
the sub anytime soon...
Shall we try find the crewman who did it and put them in the brig?"
The capacious hamster cursed and replied, "No, I doubt your going
find out who did it. Just
alert Kayn & Allie to keep on the look out for other acts of
sabotage. Oh, and while your at it
- see if you can get the Eniram engine crewman to juice up those
diesels with something, we
need to get a bigger lead on those Eniram subs, before the Aeron
attack fighter show up to bomb
us again."
"I'll get right on it, commander.", said Dirk while clicking off the
comm.
"You want me to head over to the Torpedo room and let Allie know,
Dirk?" asked Mike.
"No, I'll handle that, Mike. Why don't you continue searching the
sub? White Wolf is probably
right, whoever did this probably has more stuff in store for us, so
be careful and stay in
touch with one of us."
<20 Minutes later>
Dirk had spent nearly 15 minutes trying to explain to the Eniram
engine crew his idea for
giving a boost to the engines, but they still weren't getting it when
Mike called over the
intercomm, "Dirk, I think I found something that looks like a bomb in
one of the crew cabins.
The timer thingy is set to go off in about 10 minutes, What should I
do with it?"
Dirk looked around for the intercomm mic as he thought furiously,
because he didn't like the
idea of talking Mike through disarming a bomb. Then he got an idea as
he found the mic sitting
one of the crewmens workbenchs, he grabbed it up and responded, "Umm,
Is the bomb attached to
anything? Can you pick it up?"
"Yeah, I think I can pick it up."
"Good, Bring it to Allie and have her flush that thing out of one of
the tubes!" replied Dirk.
As he dropped the mic back onto the workbench, he heard a loud squeal
come from some large cube
like object sitting on the engines main screw trench that he didn't
really notice before.
As he walked over to examine it closer, he saw a few sparks come from
beneath it. He grabbed it
and realised it awfully heavy. He knelt down and looked into the main
screws trench as it
went underneath it and saw that something was extended into the main
screws trench and that's
where the sparks were coming from.
"Sneaky devil applied a makeshift brake to the main screw!", Dirk
muttered outloud almost
admiringly.
Dirk ordered some of the Engine crewmen, "You there! Help me move
this thing off here."
As Dirk was helping the Eniram crewmen heave the huge block like
object off the main screws
trench, the sub violently shook from some underwater shockwave
causing him to lose his grip on
the huge cube along with two other crewmen.
The heavy cube tettered as he and the other two Eniram desparately
scrabbled to get out from
underneath it. Unfortunately, one of them steps too close to the main
screw, and his loose pant
leg get caught up by the high speed rotating drive shaft. But before
he react, he's instantly
flung to the trenchs metal bottom and his blood splatters on Dirks
face as the drive shaft
rapidly flings his body against the trenchs metal bottom several
times as the shaft continues
to spin around with him still attached before one of the other Eniram
crewmen can hit the
emergency engine stop.
As the engine suddenly grinds to a halt, and White Wolf inquires over
the intercomm what has
happened. Dirk stands still in a state of shock for a few moments as
he realises he close he
came to just the fate as he lifts his foot inches from the other side
of the same drive
shaft...
White Wolf continued to call over the comm, "Dirk, Tell me we didn't
just lose our engine,
we've got Aeron company on the way and we need to dive as soon as
possible!"
Dirk stood for a few moments, his mouth opening and closing with
nothing coming out, as he
looked at the gory mess in the main screws trench a bit longer. Then
as one of the Engine
crewman said, "Just give us a few minutes to pull him out, ok?" Dirk
muttered distractedly,
"yeah... Yeah, Sure."
Dirk stepped over and picked up the intercomm microphone and dazedly
spoke into it, "Um, it'll
take a minute or two, their pulling me... Um, I mean... the guy that
got crushed, out of the
main screw."
"You ok, Dirk?" Called back the huge hamster.
There was a pregnant pause, and the hamster repeated his words again.
"Um... Ahh... Yeah, I'm ok. But, I'm counting my lucky stars, though.
That could've been me!" replied Dirk coming more to his senses.
"Well, I'm glad you weren't hurt, Dirk. Can you tell me when we're
gonna be able to get underway again? Cos those Aeron's are only a two
minutes away." replied the Brobdingnagian hamster nervously.
A tense minute past, and then the engine crewman finally pulled the
dead Enirams remains clear of the drive shaft, and restarted the
engine.
"Just in a nick of time!" called the huge hamster over the
intercomm, "Dive, Dive!!!"
The sub submerged in a record 30 seconds, as the Aeron fighters bombs
shook the sub again.
"Kayn, we should be far enough ahead of the other Eiram subs to evade
them if we don't draw attention to ourselves. Rig for running
silent." Ordered the overgrown hamster as shook the water from his
fur.
Kayn nodded.
Mike called over the intercomm to Dirk, "Um, Dirk?"
Dirk clicked on the intercomm mic and responded, "Yes Mike, what is
it?"
Mike nervously replied, "Um, I found another bomb. But I can't move
this one, It's bolted right to the sidewall of the sub!"
"Where are you right, now?"
"In the officers head."
"Head? oh, you mean the Water closet? I'll be right there."
"Hurry, this one's only got five minutes on the timer."
"I didn't need to hear that..." Muttered Dirk as he dashed out of the
Engine room towards the officers water closet.
The huge hamster who was listening that conversation, ran over to the
intercomm and called, "Allie, you come forward and take the Conn,
while I go back and help them."
"Your putting me in charge of the conn? ... I'll be right there!"
replied a startled miss Fletcher over the intercoom.
The hamster met Dirk at the door of the Wc, and answered his
qeustioning look, "I overheard you two on the intercomm."
They both looked at the bomb that Mike was indicating.
"It's against the side of the sub, and this room next to the Water
closet has a water tight door. If we close it, perhaps we could
withstand the explosion." Said Dirk.
"A little risky, the damage might not be confined here. We need to
get rid of it somehow." replied the huge hamster while looking around.
Allie called over the intercomm, "I found our sabotuer! He was trying
to incite a mutiny, shall I shoot him now, Commander?"
The huge hamster pounced upon the intercomm, "Wait a minute! Don't
kill him yet, I've got an idea. Bring him back here along with some
scuba gear and a welding torch. Kayn, bring the sub up to periscope
depth."
Two minutes later, Allie showed up hussling the angry Eniram in front
of her.
White Wolf grabbed him and spoke to him gruffly , "Your going to put
on this scuba gear, and cut out a hole around that bomb of yours
after we close these water tight doors, Eniram."
"And if I don't?" Sneered the man.
"Suit yourself - at least, If you do it my way you get a chance to
live. Your way - well, you'll be the first to die because your tush
is going to be next to that very same bomb. You make your choice -
either way, we're locking you in here." Replied the huge hamster, as
he threw the gear on the floor, and motioned the others out of the
room, and closed the water tight door.
"Ok, let's all get out of here in case he decides against it. Head
for the bridge, and be ready to escape through the top hatch in
neccessary!", ordered the large hamster while scrambling accross the
room.
"How much more time do we have?" Called mike as he dashed through
hatchways, being beat by Allie to door.
"About a minute." replied Dirk, following behind.
They barely made it to the Bride, before the minute finished and the
Sub rocked and listed hashly to one side, but it slowly righted
itself.
"I guess he decided to cut his way out." Muttered mike.
Dirk sighed, and sat down at the sensor console.
The huge hamster went over to the periscope and looked through it, "I
see him, swimming off our aft."
The huge hamster spun the periscope around, and exclaimed "There's
the blue dwarf! It's under attack by more of the Eniram subs."
"How are we going to let the BD know we're here without the
Communications?", Inquired Mike.
"We might be able to do that by sinking a few of the Eniram subs.
Beside we've got to help them. To your battle stations!" Replied the
huge hamster.
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OOC - OK, Onion you can wrap us up if you like!
- Tim/WW