CH 2
An hour later, MacGyver walked onto the bridge and over to Mike's chair.
"MacGyver, thanks for fixing the problem."
"No worries, Sir and the four guests are in the dining room having leftover quiche with bread and butter and a drink."
"Thanks for doing that. Now as for your actions on the wharf... X and Buffer told me what you did, and Ray Walsmen, the man you told to shut up, they all said that what you did took guts. X is recommending a commendation for what you did."
"Thank you, X, but I've got a feeling there's a but… Sir."
"Yes, there is. Don't do anything like that again or you will be off my ship, understand?"
"All due respect, Sir, if it happens again, I'll do the same thing. I helped save four lives. If I died to save them, to me it would be worth it… Sir" The bridge was silent all eyes were turned to Mike and MacGyver.
"The Navy doesn't want to lose you, MacGyver. You can't go around risking your own life like that, understood?" giving her a look she knew all too well.
"The Navy, Sir or you. You don't want to lose me because of who I am and what I'm capable of doing. But you don't want me to be like you, a cowboy. Remember what I said to you years ago about how some of you rubbing off on me?"
"Yes."
"You know what I was like back then, I know you don't want to lose me as a friend and crew member. I get that, Sir. And you won't."
Mike didn't say a thing for a couple of minutes. Then he shook his head, "don't try to pull the same stunt again, understand?"
"Yes, Sir… so we heading home?"
"Yes, we are."
"Good. I hope the techs fix the problem once and for all or they will have me to deal with. And we'll find out about our electrical tech please, or I'll go on a warpath, Sir and you can tell commander Marshall that."
"I will."
"Thank you, Sir."
When Hammersley docked, the four men left Hammersley. The crew did their duty assignments before leaving for their shore leave. The techs had arrived and were on board fixing the problems that Hammersley has been having.
"I have a Message from MacGyver," Mike said to the tech crew,' fix the problems once or for all or you'll be dealing with me and you don't want to deal with a pissed off MacGyver'…. Her words."
"No, Sir, she had a go at us the last time we didn't fix the problem properly," One .said.
"Have it done by Saturday morning, that gives you forty hours"
"Yes, Sir."
"Dismissed" Saluting they went to get to their work.
Mike turned to Kate, "dinner tonight?"
"You told MacGyver that you would take her out tonight."
"Yes, I did, so tomorrow?"
"Sure, my place, milk not dark," she said as she walked away leaving Mike smiling.
That night Mike took MacGyver out to dinner. "Are you ok MacGyver?"
"Remember when I asked you about what Ray Walsmen was doing on the Island?"
"Sure, he said business, what did you do?"
"I checked him out. He's a multi-millionaire, widower who has a seventeen-year-old daughter. I checked out his business. It all looks normal but..." taking a sip of her beer,
"You found something didn't you."
"Yes. There is no business or businesses on Samaru Island. So it got me wondering, what is he hiding and what is really going on?"
"It's none of our concern."
"It should be… Mike."
"June, let it go."
"My gut won't let me, Mike"
Mike just looked at her shocked. The last time she said that was about Rick Gallager and she was right about him all along. And there were other times that she was right. She was almost always right.
"Alright, when you say your gut won't let me, what have you found out so far?"
"Ok, but one very interesting thing is that neither he nor any of the three men that were with him have a connection or ties with the UN. So, where did they get that jeep with the UN seal? There's been no UN on the island since the war started weeks ago. They were all shipped out and there are no Australians on the island''
Are you sure?"
"Yes the only way for Mr Walsmen to get on the island is by seaplane or a boat and my guess is it was by boat, he owns four of them."
"Perhaps he hasn't written anything down about why he was on the island yet."
"Or doesn't want anyone to know what he is up to."
"MacGyver, June, forget about it, it's not our problem."
"Yet, but I've got a feeling we'll be going back there."
"I think you just might be right, June."
Two days later, Mike arrived on Hammersley smiling at Kate.
"Morning, X."
"Morning, Sir," smiling.
"Where's MacGyver?"
"Checking to make sure the techs did their job properly this time before leaving port."
"I've got some good news for her."
"We're getting an electrical tech. Temporary until a permanent one is found."
"That is good news or... not?" when she saw the look on his face.
"It's ET, we pick him up tomorrow."
"Really. Does anyone else know?"
"Just you, so keep it quiet."
"Sure"
"It would be great to have the gang back together again."
"Yeah it would be, here's MacGyver," Mike turned around and smiled at her.
"Morning, Sir."
"Morning MacGyver, how did your inspection go?"
"I call their superior and gave him my verbal report."
"Which is what?"
"Everything's a go but..." she took a deep breath," they could've bloody cleaned up their mess. I found bits of wires, fuses, and bits of plastic everywhere where they were working. Charge's not happy that some damn tech left a greasy rag down where the motor is for the anchor. It could have gotten caught and it would blow the motor and catch fire."
"Well, you and Charge must have checked everything out?" Kate asked.
"We know what Charge is like with the engines, they are his new baby"
Mike and Kate's grin knowing this is all too true.
"Has charge written up his report?" Mike wants to know.
"He will once we set sail." "
"That's good, how's the food orders?" Kate asks.
"Got everything that was on the list, including toilet paper, Sir."
"We don't want to run out of that!"
"No Sir, we don't," she said smiling.
An hour later, Hammersley left port and headed north for its patrol. The next day they stop next to HMAS Melbourne where they watch someone get into the HRIB and it heads back to Hammersley. MacGyver who was on the back of the boat when she saw who it was.
"Bloody hell! Hey guys! Look at this ugly mug!" they look over the side of the ship at the RHIB.
"Hey, guys miss me already?" Everyone cheered when they saw it was ET.
"Welcome back ET!"
"Thank you, Sir, she's a beauty!"
"That she is but with teething problems and your dentist," MacGyver said then she looks up to see the look on Nav's face and then she looked at ET's face.
Fifteen minutes later ET walked up onto the bridge while talking to Mike. He showed ET what is what on the new bridge.
"Wow lot more space up here." Just as charge walked up the steps and walk over to his seat.
"At least we not tripping over each other," Kate said from the captain's seat.
"Yeah. Hey Charge, I see that they let you up here."
"Of course, thanks to Bill Gates. " ET went over to where Charge is sitting to have a look at Charges console.
A couple of hours later, they pick up two men in a dinghy to learn what had happened to their boat. Thanks to Coast Watch, the boat was found and they headed towards it and then boarded it. They found a body with a special forces Russian tattoo on his arm.
MacGyver who was part of the boarding party was on the boat look around when she noticed a partly open door. Looking in, what she saw shocked her, she closed the door and locked it. She then goes over to the body while pulling on a pair of gloves and pulling up his pants leg.
"MacGyver, what are you doing?" Buffer asked her.
"Here's how he died, he was bitten by a snake," she said showing Kate,
Spider, and Buffer the puncture marks.
"How did you know?" Spider asked.
"Let's get up on the boat deck, it's not safe for us down here."
Assembled on the deck, MacGyver tells them what she found, "In the next room, there were at least twenty snakes, five of the most poisonous and deadly snakes like the brown and tiger snakes, in Australia. Maybe the world." MacGyver said.
"So the snake or snakes could be somewhere else on the boat?"
"Yes, X, I suggest we anchor the boat here and have a snake expert to come and take care of them and the body."
"Why can't we?" Spider asked.
"What if there's a brown snake up the guy's pant leg, and we take that body on board. A crew member who happened to go into the rubbish room got bitten by it, we don't have any anti-venom on board," MacGyver said.
"She's right Spider," Kate told Mike what was going on while Buffer sorted out the anchor.
They secure the boat and return to Hammersley.
Mike notices that they are close to Ray Walsmen's private island so he decided to go and see him. Mike, Buffer, Spider, and MacGyver went to the island after Mike spoke to Ray over the radio. When they saw his place they were amazed. Mike went on to talk to Ray while Buffer stayed close by.
MacGyver walks over to the railing, looking over at the sea. She was watching the Hammersley while Spider's talking to Ray's daughter, Carly. MacGyver turned around when she heard Carly cough so she walked over to the pool where she had been swimming.
"That cough doesn't sound good, how long have you had it for?"
"A week," then she started coughing again.
"Can you come around to the ladder, I want to take your pulse."
"What is going on?" Ray asked as he walked over to them.
"She wants to take my pulse."
"What? No way, who the hell are you?" Ray said.
"Ray, MacGyver is a medic, She wouldn't ask without a reason."
"I heard the way she was coughing, Boss and she did say she had it for a week."
"She's just getting over a cold," Ray said.
"Which can turn into a chest infection or pneumonia." MacGyver pointed out.
"She does know what she was talking about," Buffer said.
"Alright, Carly, please darling" Carly swam around and got out of the pool.
"Please sit down," MacGyver directed her. MacGyver held her wrist while looking at her watch. Carly started to shake. "Spider pass me that robe." Taking the rose, she wrapped it around Carly.
"Mr Walsmen, do you have a first aid kit here?"
"Yes," he went to get it when he returned MacGyver was still taking her pulse.
"Thank you, Sir." Looking through it she found the thermometer and stuck it under her tongue.
"Your temp is up a bit," then she again looked through the kit.
"you haven't got any Panadol, Sir?"
"Ah, not until the supply delivery tomorrow. Should I be worried?"
"Not yet Mr Walsmen." Addressing Mike, " Sir, I need Swain to bring the medkit and sheet of Panadol."
"Are you sure?" Mike asked
"I want to check her lungs to make sure there is no water in them or she sounds congested."
"OK, Spider head back down to the wharf and wait for Swain."
"Yes, Sir," then he was on his way.
Mike spoke to Kate over the radio while Ray tells Macgyver about Carly's medical condition.
"Thanks for telling me that, Mr Walsmen."
"Do you think it might be that?"
"No, but I'll listen to Carly's heart."
"You're sure you know what you're doing? You're just a medic."
"Yes, I do Mr Walsmen. I know of someone who's got the same condition as Carly so I know what to look out for."
"Ok, she's all I've got."
"I understand, Sir."
"MacGyver, X is sending Swain over."
"Thanks, Sir."
