Color inside the line
Chapter 25th
The Seaview headed for the island to get their men off. However with the enemy submarine destroyed. Admiral Nelson was more worried about the Exeter and what they might do with unable to contact their personnel on the hot and humid island.
Nelson headed for the Control room now that the hull has been repaired by Kowalski and Patterson. He was going to have them get some sleep after all of them have been through. Kowalski and Patterson were at their stations. Executive officer Stu Riley had taken off for Commander Harrison with Commander Morton still on sick list by the doctor and his concussion.
"Mr. Riley I need for you to get Kowalski and Patterson reliefs for the next six hours to eat and sleep. Understand?" Meanwhile Kowalski and Patterson had heard the Admiral's order while Riley came over to them.
"You heard boys get going already. I will have Hanson and Robbie take over your station."
"Aye sir." Kowalski will say with glee since he was barely able to keep his eyes opened.
Nelson gave the order to change their position since he didn't like being a sitting duck. He asked the navigation to change course at mark 341 true.
"Roger sir. Mark 341 true. Ensign Gomez will say with the order request.
Nelson than moved to the radio shack to speak with Sparks on sending a message to the Exeter that they have two of their men while two others are dead. "Please explain to the captain on what exactly has been going on with a spy among us." As Nelson was shaking his head with not believing the entire situation.
"Aye Admiral Nelson." Sparks will announced with going to work to contact the Exeter.
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Meanwhile on board the Exeter..
The captain woke from a sound sleep after being on duty 20 hours. He was exhausted with the exercises. There was a knock on his cabin door with a yeoman carrying a coded message for him from the Seaview.
"What is it Yeoman Barrows?" The captain gruffly will say with his exhaustion getting up from his bunk in his cabin on D deck.
"I have a coded message for you sir. It's extremely important from Admiral Nelson." He says the 27 year old male yeoman Washington, D.C.
The captain takes the message to begin reading with telling the yeoman to leave for his other duties. He leaves to head for the communications center down below. Meanwhile he began to read the message to have him cursing every which way. He will have to speak with Nelson on what his plan of action was going to be. Since he had no choice to call the radio shack to speak with Admiral Nelson. Opening up the intercom to the radio shack. "This is the captain please send a priority message to Admiral Nelson that I wish to speak with him."
Radioman first class James Alman answered his request over the intercom. "Roger Captain. I will send the request right away."
When General Norton had found out what the Captain was doing to speak with Admiral Nelson. He told the radioman to stop what he was doing with sending the message.
No one knew just what the hell was going on with the two battle of wills. General Norton had gone to the Captain's cabin to speak with him.
Knocking on the metal door loudly. The captain still half asleep when he opened the door in his night clothes.
General Norton wasn't pleased at all with the entire situation. "What the hell do you think you're doing Captain? We are in an exercise to prove to see if we can beat the Seaview and we plan on doing so in the first place." He will scream at the fifty plus year old captain.
"General Norton we have two dead because of the god damn exercise with a spy on board the Seaview trying to destroy the Seaview. Even though the plan didn't work. However sending to drop the explosive to scare them with Colonel Bracken in his plane to miss by five hundred plus feet."
"What about the other two Captain?" He needed to asked with his temper flair.
"Captured sir and in the Seaview's brig I might add and why Admiral Nelson is calling us in the first place.
"You will not talk with him further. He's going to try and surprise us with his own special brand of attack for the exercise. I want you to change our position to head for the island and figure out where they are located. And then I want you to use your F 16's and Colonel James Bracken to drop his bombs again with his four team members. Make sure you're able to have Chief Daniels understand the order. Do I make myself Captain?"
"Yes." He wasn't liking it at all...
Meanwhile the Seaview was on red alert. No one knew what was going to happen with moving away from the island. Even though Admiral Nelson had advised Executive Officer Stu Riley to be ready to dive at a moment's notice since the depth of the waters was 1000 feet. Since Kowalski and Patterson were able to repair the hull they would be able to dive without any further trouble.
Admiral Nelson was angry in a big way that General Norton or the captain was calling them back. Since two of his crew members had been murdered along with two others in the brig.
An hour later inside the Control room. Radarman Ron Hanson had noticed a number of planes in the air following them. This is when he called over Executive officer Stu Riley about the planes. The moment he saw them on the screen heading quickly their way. He advised the navigation officer to head on down to 1000 feet with the general quarters alarm blazing alerting the crew members asleep.
"Attention this is the Executive Officer please be advised enemy targets are on the screen and heading our way. Admiral Nelson to the Control room right away." He will order over the intercom and with Admiral Nelson heading his way down the spiral staircase needing answers.