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Chapter twelf

Welcome to my first Sea Patrol story. It's really the first time I write a story, so please comment on my work. I'm from Belgium, so English isn't my native language. I don't own the show or the rights to the show. This story is my creation. I used the original characters, but I added some of my own.

This story starts approximately 2 years after season 5.

Enjoy chapter twelf of my Sea Patrol Story!

29th October, HMAS Arunta, Hall B2, Afternoon watch, 1545

Spider and Daisy had to wait more than an hour in the small hall before the door opened again. The two generals and the police commanders left together with some officers of the Arunta. "Daisy, Spider, you may come in." Mike said. Both of them entered the room. The tv screens were black again. "Sorry to keep you all waiting. We had no idea it would take so long. Do want a brew?" Mike said and he pointed to a small table in the corner with coffee, tea and bottles of water. Daisy helped herself to a large glass of water, Spider took some coffee. "Have a seat, we wait until the others come in and then we continued."

Ten minutes later, Kusuma and the officers of the Arunta came back in. Donovan, Alex, Nikki, Bird, Charge, Buffer and 2Dads walked in. They all took a seat at the long table. "Go ahead Kate," said Mike. "we've called you all in because the situation has escalated." Kate started, "First of all, you all know that we are in Samaru to keep order at the sea. Canberra is very scared the merchant ships to the US would become targets for pirates. Until now, this didn't happen. So we succeeded there."

Everybody nodded and Kate continued: "Second, a very big question was: where did the insurgents come from? The political movement that caused the first rebellion 5 years ago, is completely destroyed and her leaders are arrested. Ray Walsmen is still in a Australian prison and his organisation didn't went underground. So, where did they came from? Where did they hide and why didn't the army or police found any training camps? It is just they came out of nowhere. That has always been a very big question for Canberra and Samaruan government."

"Thirdly, the attacks. The attacks appeared not to be political of nature. No government buildings have been attacked. That is strange for an uprising. All the reports stated that it were always police and army convoys and small villages that were attacked. The attacks were so viciously that the Samaruan police is at 35% of her regular strength. The police force has a lot of killed and injured men and women. And lately, because of the attacks, a lot of officers resigned or just mutinied. But, no political or government buildings were attacked. Some of the attacks happened here on the main island, but for one reason or another, most of the attacks happened on Malinu island, which only has 2 dozen villages. It's basically a small rural island with a bit of tourism and a lot farmland and jungle. So, why the attacks there? We didn't know."

All the crew listened intently. You could feel a needle fall on the ground.

"But last week something very strange happened. A young woman from Malinu island was brought to the hospital. First, the doctors thought she had a very stubborn flu, but then it appeared she had acute radiation sickness."

The crew went beserk and started talking to each other. How was that even possible? Radiation? On an island nation like Samaru?

"One moment, please." Kate said and everyone went quiet again. "The colonel and his team, checked out the Malinu island, where the woman comes from, and the entire west flank is radioactive contaminated. Within an hour HMAS Arunta, as the biggest ship in the area, will sail to Malinu and pick the inhabitants up. They will be settled on the other islands of Samaru. We will evacuate the entire Malinu island. A lot of local ships will help with that operation. That's a couple thousand men, women and children that must be evacuated. Chance is, they will never see their home again."

"Ma'am, can I ask a question?" Charge said and Kate nodded. "Where did the pollution come from. There isn't any form of nuclear activity on the Samaru islands except the radiology department at the hospitals. So where did the pollution came from?" "Maybe there's uranium in the ground?" 2Dads responded. "No, that can't be it. Then a lot more people would've become sick over a longer period of time." Bird said.

"you're right there. The contamination must have happened recently. We don't know how it happened or who's behind it." Mike said, "But here, Daisy Fawns comes in our story. I believe she brought us a vital piece of the Samaruan puzzle."

Daisy looked bedazzled. Everybody in the room looked at her, Spider included.

Mike continued: "Daisy heard a telephone call were Ben Mitchell from Lyons Security referred to 'Adaland'. A farmer we arrested also referred to that company. The colonel searched but only found a big international company in Indonesia. The moment Daisy gave us the information, Australian intelligence service checked the name out and there is a second company with that name. very small, not known by many people. No address known, only a mail box in Paraguay. Only three shareholders are active. They are only known by their initials: SL, BM, JAC."

"BM could be Ben Mitchell and SL, Saskia Lyons." Daisy said. "That was our idea also." Kate replied. "And who is JAC?" "That we don't know."

"Captain, the general asked me an our ago how long miss Lyons hair was and if she was injured. What was that about?" Daisy asked Kate. "2 victims who survived the attacks stated the insurgences got their commands from, and I quote, 'a tall woman dressed in black with short blond hair'. We know the woman in command was wounded on the left upper arm when a fisherman swung a small knife at her a couple of weeks ago. With what we know now, that blond woman dressed in black could be Saskia Lyons." Kate replied.

"Ma'am? I don't get it" 2Dads said, "Why would Lyons Security attacks farm villages? Samaru is not a third world country, but the people who live here, aren't that rich. Why would they attack the police service that they assist and why would they poison half an island? How do you even get your hands on nuclear stuff. You don't by that in the shop around the corner. I don't see how they would benefit from it."

"That, 2Dads, are questions we hope Daisy Fawns can answer." Mike answered. Daisy became as white as snow. "Captain, I swear, I have nothing to do with all this. I only …" "Calm down, Daisy, we know that. The last hour, ASIS has been checking you out. You came out clean. You could say they were thorough. The agent in charge even told me what you wore on your sister's wedding last year." Daisy didn't like the direction of this story. Why would the Australian secret service check her life's story ?

"We want to plant a mole in Lyons Security and you are perfectly qualified for it."

"NO! I don't want to. I'm not James Bond. I just can't! …" "Relax," Mike said, "You don't have to be James Bond. We would just ask you to do one small job. ASIS send us a program that must be installed on the laptop of Ben Mitchell. It's on this USB key. That's all. Just install it and it's over. Then ASIS has full access to Mitchells laptop and hopefully we get all the information we need."

Daisy was desperate. "Sir, even if I wanted to, I don't know how to install programs. I don't know the password of his computer and..." "You don't need to know. You just have to start his laptop up with the USB key in it. Then the program installs itself and ASIS has access the moment he connects to the internet."

Daisy looked at everyone in the conference room. She looked in Spider's eyes. "Ok, I'll do it," she said. "Great!" Mike answered. "I'll put you and Spider on a secured line with ASIS in Hammersley. They will brief you on your mission." "Any more questions?" Mike asked. "No, good, then everybody out. We'll leaving tot Malinu for the evac-mission." Everybody left the room.

29th October, HMAS Hammersley, Bridge, Last dog watch, 1830

"Is everything clear?" Kate asked Daisy. They just have been briefed by ASIS. "Yes, ma'am." she answered. Tomorrow after my patrol I'll install the program when I bring in my reports. "Good luck, Daisy" Kate said.

That night Daisy couldn't catch her sleep in her hotel room. Spider was on board of Hammersley. He couldn't stay always with her. Kusuma didn't want to give her a bodyguard. "It could attract attention", he stated. "as soon as the program was installed, she could get out. Until then, she was on her own. She was so scared. Imagen that Mitchell would find her while she was messing around with his laptop?

The next day, she and her collegue Jason had patrol duty on the east side of Samaru town. Everything went smooth but she noticed that the people reacted differently towards them. The Samaruans were no longer friendly. This wasn't new. Everything was changing. More and more, the locals reacted hostile towards them. It was strange, but it was the first time Daisy was glad she had a gun with her to protect her. Although, she still was scared of the cold metallic thing on her hip. She never believed she would actually would use it if it was necessary.

At 1800 they returned to Lyons headquarters. They both put their weaponry in their lockers. The uniforms were trown in a basket. Tomorrow they would take fresh ones from the laundry. Jason kissed her goodbye. Together with some of his collegues, he would have a drink at a local pub. Daisy said she would make the daily report and deliver it to Mitchell. After 45 minutes, the report was ready. She walked to the office of Mitchell. "Hey Kailey, is the chief in?" she asked as calmly as possible at Mitchells assistant. "Yes, just walk in." "Damn, she thought. If he was in the office, there was no possible way, that she could have access to his computer." "Aah ok, Kailey. I have the watch report of the todays patrol." She said. She grabbed her phone and texted spiders number: "You can put dinner on", she put her phone away, knocked on the door and entered.

"I have the watch report for you, sir" Daisy said. Mitchell looked up, "Thanks, anything special?" he asked. "No sir, easy day, today." "Ok", he said. "Daisy, are you still seeing that sailor?" he asked. "Spider? Yes, sir. Why?" "Do you know when he's heading home" "Why was he asking that?" she tought "why that question?" "I don't know, sir, not for another 5 weeks, for certain." After the attack on the Kingston, they are ordered to stay, until relieved." He looked at her with staring eyes. After a few seconds he said: "Ok, that's all." His cell phone ringed, the moment she left the office. "Ok, I'm coming." He said and they both left his office. A few moments later, colonel Kusuma walked to Mitchell in the hall way and they talked about something. When Daisy was sure, Mitchell wasn't paying attention to her, she saw that Kusuma blinked towards her. "Here, I go" she tought.

"Ooh Kailey, I'm so sorry, but I left my cell phone in Mitchell's office." "Just go in, and grab it." Kailey said smilingly. Daisy entered the Mitchell's office again and closed the door a little bit. She ran to Mitchells laptop and put the USB-stick in an empty drive. The screen was locked but the IT-girl from ASIS said that she had to push the power button for 5 seconds. The pc would shut down and then she had to wait a few seconds and then push the power button again with the stick in the pc. She did as told. "I can't believe it worked." She thought. "There was one chance in two that Mitchell would be in his office. In that case, she had to text Spider to say that he could start on the dinner. Spider was just outside the building with police colonel Kusuma. If he received such a message, Kusuma would enter and ask if he could speak to Mitchell. Just a few minutes would suffice. If Mitchell's assistant wouldn't let Daisy in, Kusuma would ask something to Mitchell, so he would have to call Kailey. That would by enough time, to install the Trojan horse program on the pc of Mitchell. And that plan worked!"

After a minute, the pc was rebooted and again on its lock screen. She took the USB-stick out of the pc, stood up, put the USB in her pocked and took her cell phone out. She walked out of the office.

"Found him, he must have fallen out of my pocket. He was under the chair. Good evening!" Daisy said to Kailey, waving with her cell phone. "Good evening," Kailey returned and she looked as Daisy walked away and past Mitchell and the police colonel who were still talking. Daisy looked at Kusuma and he looked back. After a few seconds, Kusuma en Mitchell shook hands and the police officer walked off. Mitchell returned to his office.

29th October, just outside Lyons headquarters, Last dog watch, 1930

Daisy's heart was beating as if she had ran a marathon. Never in her life she had been so scared. She walked back to the her hotel room, as she was briefed yesterday on Hammersley. When she entered her room, Kate, Kusuma and Spider were already waiting for her. "It worked." She said, then she ran to the bathroom and emptied the content of her stomach in the toilet. "Just give me a second." "Take your time" Kate replied. When finished, she stripped out and took a shower to wash the sickness away. Spider stood ready with a towel when she was finished.

After 10 minutes she left the bathroom. "ASIS called in, when you were in the shower. The data from his laptop is pouring in." Kate said happily. Within half an hour we will have all the data on the ASIS servers. You did great!" Kate said comfortingly. "Thanks, I was so scared." "I can believe that, but you did great." "Spider, why don't you stay here to 'debrief' her. I don't expect you back until 0900 tomorrow morning." "Yes ma'am, thank you ma'am" Spider said. Kate and Kusuma left the room, blinking at each other.

29th October, Abouha restaurant, Last dog watch, 2300

"Thanks for taking me out." Daisy said. "I like it here." "I believe the patron likes us also, he always puts us on his best table and today we got the wine for nothing." Spider said. He had taken her out for dinner. After the stress of her intel mission, she wanted out and they decided to have dinner in a small restaurant where they have been a couple of times already. The first time, it was so great, Spider had tipped the owner so much, from then on, they always got the best treatment the owner good give them. the nicest table, candles, flowers, … to modern standards, the restaurant wasn't that much, but for Spider and Daisy, it was almost like coming home.

Around have past eleven they left the restaurant. They were chatting and giggling while walking back to her hotel room. Suddenly three muscled guys showed up from a dark alley to their left. Spider saw the first punch coming. He pushed Daisy out of the way and ducked as quickly as possible. The assailant missed him. From his kneeled position, Spider swang his fist in the stomach of the first guy. He went down, gasping for air. The second one, grabbed Daisy and pulled her towards a windowless van in the street. Spider went for Daisy, but the third guy grabbed him. Spider wanted to turn and take him out, but before he could, he was hit hard on the back of his head. Then all went dark.