Chapter thirteen
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 thirteen of my Sea Patrol Story! Possibly this wasn't an ordinary abduction. What will happen to Daisy and Spider. Let's find out in the next chapter of my first Sea Patrol Story.
29th October, Lyons headquarter, 2030, 3 hours before Daisy's abduction
Mitchell entered his office, followed by Kailey. "The police colonel wants a summary of all the patrol reports of the last week. Can you get that ready around noon tomorrow?" Mitchell asked Kailey. "Yes sir, no problem." "Ok, I'm calling it a night." Mitchell said. "Me too, the rest is waiting for me at the pub." Kailey replied. "Have fun!" Mitchell said happily to Kailey. "Sir, is it possible the colonel and officer Fawns know each other?" Mitchell turned around abruptly. "No, I don't think that." He said suspiciously. "Why do you ask that?" "I saw him blinking at her." "When was that?" "Just 5 minutes ago, when she left your office." "What are you talking about, she left before me." "Yes, but she returned here." "Fawns went in my office? Why?" he said almost shoutingly. Kailey became pale. "She euh… she had left her phone here. She went in looking for it." Kailey said almost scared. Mitchell looked at his assistant. He had to play his cards straight and he calmed down "No, I don't think they know each other." "Ok, good evening." Kailey said and she hushed out of this office.
"Fawns was here, in his office, looking for her cell phone. That was a cock and bull story! He was absolutely certain she didn't held her phone in her hand, when she was in the room. So what did she do here?" he thought. "He looked at his laptop. Everything looked normal. He typed in his password. "Damn, god knew what she did, but she definitely mumbled at his laptop." The documents that he was working on, were now shut down. He was sure he didn't closed them, when Kusuma wanted to speak to him. "So she must have done something." he thought. He took his phone and called Saskia.
"We have a problem," he said and explained what had happened. "We don't take risks. We must know if she stole something. This is what we do… " a couple of minutes later, three muscled guys from Lyons security left to look for Daisy.
30th October, Samaru field hospital, First watch 0030
"He waking up." Jayllin said. Kate, buffer and a couple of others were staring down at him. "What happened?" he wanted to say, but only mumbling came out. "Daisy, she's been taking!" he thought. Spider wanted to sit up, but his head didn't liked that idea. He moaned from the pain. "Stay down." Kate and Jaylinn said together. "What happened?" Spiders CO asked. Spider told of the restaurant, the walk home and the three guys who attacked them.
"You were found on the street by a passenger. He called an ambulance. When the medics saw you had a Australian military passport, they contacted the police." Kate explained. Kates phone rang. After a minute she returned. "Captain Flynn just called" She still thought it was strange referring to her husband as 'captain Flynn' but navy protocols were to be followed at all time. "He was contacted by ASIS a couple of minutes ago. The spying program just reported that Mitchell has erased all data from his laptop. After that the signal was lost. That, together with the abduction, makes it clear, Mitchell knows he is hunted down. That isn't good. ASIS is going to the copied data on their server, looking for possible locations. The Arunta has aborted her pirate hunting mission and is coming to the harbour. She be here within 4 hours."
Again Kates phone rang. After the call she said: "That was Kusuma. The police raided the Lyons headquarters. The regular security personel surrendered immediately but they met heavy resistance from a group that were certainly military trained. They were all killed in the firefight that followed. So no way of questioning them. Daisy nor Mitchell nor Saskia were in the building. They turned it inside out. They weren't there. Kusuma thinks they must be taken of the one of the insurgents training camps. But until now, none of those were found."
Spider moaned. He didn't want Daisy hurt. She was a nice gall. "Ma'am, I want to help in the search." Spider said, while standing up. His head still hurt but the pain was going away "I thought you would say that." Kate turned to Jaylinn. "You and Spider will join me to Hammersley." "What no, …" Jaylinn protested but she was interrupted by Kate. "Listen! The situation is escalating. An unknown military force has already taken one Australian civilian hostage. I don't want any more of those. We must assume whatever they were planning, they will executed it immediately. This isn't a game! This could be another coup like we had 5 years ago." Jaylinn wanted to stay in the hospital, but she knew Kate was right. "OK. I live 2 streets up. Let me pack some things and I come to Hammersley." "You have 15 minutes. Buffer go with her! We wait outside the your building" "Yes ma'am." Buffer said, and Jaylinn went to a supply cabinet and took some things out. Then she and Buffer took off to her flat.
30th October, Samaru harbour, First watch 0100
20 minutes later Buffer and Jaylinn walked out of the apartment building with her things. They got in the military van and all together they drove to Hammersley.
When the van entered the harbour area, Hammersley was docked, a police couple of police cars neared the ship. Kusuma and a couple of his officers came out. "Captain McGregor," Kusuma said, "captain Flynn, called me and asked me to come to the ship. He will call us any minute." "On board then!" Kate replied, "XO, I want 2 armed guards in full kevlar, on the gangway." "Yes, Ma'am" Alex replied, "You expect troubles?" "Yes I am. Nav, X, join us to the ships office." Both of them and the rest of the team entered the office. The space was crowded with everyone in it. RO entered 10 seconds later. "Nav Com, ASIS, Samaruan military command and captain on the line, ma'am. A fourway call." he said. RO put the sat phone on speaker and laid it on the table. "McGregor here, you are on speaker with me, the team and local police." "good night Kate," Mike said, "I'm sailing in. I'll be in the vicinity in 3 and a half hours. We'll making full speed. But that's not why I'm calling in. ASIS believes they have something usefull." "yes exactly, captain" an unknown voice on the phone. "I'm Jake Rikey, IT-agent from ASIS. The suspects laptop had a shitload of data on it." Everybody looked at each other. "Is that a technical term?" Mike asked. The team laughed. "of course captain, it gives a measurement of quantity. It's more than a little dump but less than crap load. Perfectly normal in IT-terms." Everbody grinned. "Listen, we are mailing you and the military HQ the locations of the training camps. The insurgents have approximately 1800 armed men in the 2 camps."
"We'll take care of them. the 8th, 11th and 20th infantry brigade and the 4th para battalion is ready go out." Another voice was on the phone now. Spider recognized the voice of the general who was on HMAS Arunta in the meeting.
Police-colonel Kusuma asked: "Do you have any leads on a place they could use as a retreat camp?" "Well, we have intel on the residence adresses of his employees on Samaru, the headquarters, those 2 military camps and there is one compound. I believe it is a supply camp on Malinu island, just outside the contaminated zone." "That must be the place they took Daisy to." Mike said. "Kate, take out Hammersley with the police and check out that supply camp on Malinu." Captain White said on the phone. "I'll make sure you have the coordinates and other relevant intel on your arrival at Malinu." "Ok," said Kate, "Hammersley, out." And she hung up the phone. "Nav, set sail to Malinu. I want to arrive within 90 minutes. Colonel, with me to the bridge. Buffer, take Jaylinn and the police officers to the galley for a bite and then to the ward room. Everybody else to their stations." Kate said and she marched to the bridge.
Under a clouded sky, Hammersley took out at full speed to Malinu island. Hopefully they would arrive in time.
I hope you like the proceedings of my story. The end rather near now. Only or two more episodes and that's it. I hope to publish again on coming sunday. Please give me your comments. I really want to know what you guys and girls think this story.
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