Chapter 2 - From bad to worse
"You ok, answer me please,"
"John, please answer me" Gordon was now very alarmed, as his older brother still lay un-conscious on the moles floor, as he had collided with the supporting metal bars in the roof as the rock around them shuddered like a stone dropped into a pond.
"Oh no.. do I have to go to school today mom." John murmured still in the midst of oblivion.
"Err John its erm. me Gordo, remember the mission the people in the caverns, the rocks fell around us, and you really must have hit your head hard." John's face was losing confusion and filling with embarrassment as he remembered but the mission and what he had just said.
"Err... Gordy you wouldn't mind just forgetting what I just said would you?" John said quietly.
"Johnny as long as your ok, I'll never say a word, but you really scared me when I couldn't wake you."
As Gordon finished his sentence Scott's booming, father like voice blasted through the radio.
"John, John, Gordon, Gordon, you ok? Gordon, John answer me."
"Hey Scott just calm down were ok, John hit his head but I think he's ok, It's a delicate position on John not like Alan, his head is just empty. Oh god Scott how's Virgil and Al?"
Not letting Scott answer Gordon's question John ran instantly to the radio, suddenly forgetting his headache, to radio his brothers.
"Alan, Virg, you two ok?" Silence answered him
"Alan, Virgil, answer me now, you alright? John was starting to panic, as was Gordon.
"John, John its OK" John felt an easiness until he realised it was Scott's voice answering him, not Alan's or Virgil's.
" Your just to deep under the surface I have heard from them" Scott created relieve from the brothers in the mole.
"There OK they are just getting to the survivors, they were under a ledge when the rocks fell and so were protected. Just hurry and get those people out so we can all be safe?"
"FAB," both brothers chimed.
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"Virgil, I can see them," Alan shouted to his older brother who shone the light down into the cavern as he descended. As the last slide had only made the walls safe enough to support one person and so the brothers were left to transfer each survivor to the surface individually, as they were now.
"Ok Alan and be careful please"
"Sure Virg"
"Its ok, were going to get you out of here were International rescue" Alan yelled down to the people who he now saw were just children of about 11 and 12.
"Are you alone?" Alan asked shocked, but tried to show he wasn't.
A 12yr old girl rushed towards him and hugged him.
"Its ok, were going to get you out of this hole" Alan said to 4 clearly petrified kids, and understood there condition more when he saw a older man's body, who had obviously been killed by the slide, behind a pile of rocks.
"Damn, I hate losing people! but I am going to get these kids out before I lose them to" Alan thought
"Ok kids just listen carefully to me, each one of you is going to be lifted to see a friend of mine on that ledge up there, and from there he will help you get to the surface and then you be safe ok" Alan said clearly to all the attentive children.
"Ok Virgil you ready?" Alan shouted to his older brother who was just only about 15 meters from the surface, but peering over a covered but delicate ledge.
"Right Alan put them in the harness and I will pull them up" Virgil said quickly, as he was sure the rocks would fall again soon.
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"Right that all of them" Gordon told John as he shut the moles hatch and John started the engines.
"Lets get out of here then. I know I am used to the darkness in space but not this dark and murky," John whispered.
"Well we got all of our people out I just hope Alan and Virgil got the rest of their folks out in time." Gordon pondered
"Mobile control from the mole, resurfacing now all survivors retrieved" Gordon told an attentive field commander.
"FAB, Gordo, I will be glad to go home there just been something about this mission that hasn't felt right" Scott contemplated
"God, you sound like Virgil" Gordon laughed, as John treated the survivors to a drink and some blankets at the back of the mole.
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Meanwhile, Alan and Virgil had transferred 3 of the 4 children to the top of the cavern using the rescue equipment and now they were in the safe arms of Scott to be handed to the traditional emergency services and mountain rescue.
Scott sighed as he walked back to the open cavern he had just taken the three children to the mountain rescue service to be flown to a hospital and now was waiting to hear from Virgil about getting the final child, Alan and himself out of the cave.
"Right Scott, Al's just about to send up the last child to me" Virgil said into his wristwatch still perched on a ledge about 55 metres above Alan who was still at the base of the cavern.
"FAB Virg, the mole will be surfacing with John and Gordon's survivors in about a minute" "FAB Scott"
Just as Scott was starting to feel relief that this mission was going to be over soon and hoping that creepy feeling my go away, he saw out of the corner of his eye the mole resurfacing from its steep accent above his position but further around the sharp mountainous edge. As the drill finally reached the surface the ground began to shake and collapse from all around in all directions, causing Scott to instantly dive under the safety of the caverns entrance wall, shouting strongly to his brothers far below him to take cover.
As a sheet of rock sliced down from the peaks above on the far side of the mountain John and Gordon could only watch in horror as rocks fell like raindrops out of the sky on to Scott, as he tried to dived for cover only to be hit by a falling rock. And to here a scream from Virgil into the radio as the mountainous fragments fell and collapsed the cavern in which they were contained, then nothing was no longer heard, the airwaves were silent. In that cavern one voice would never be heard again.
Jeff felt his chest tighten and waves of nausea fill his body as he had been listening to the radio exchange since Scott had radioed in to tell him everything was going ok. Now he had never felt worse had the worst possible event happened? The thought passed Jeff's mind, as streams of tears flowed down his face.
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Have I killed 3 Tracy's? Erm, what's the word oops !!!!!!!!!!!
Again sorry if it's full of mistakes I will try and correct as many as possible. *
"You ok, answer me please,"
"John, please answer me" Gordon was now very alarmed, as his older brother still lay un-conscious on the moles floor, as he had collided with the supporting metal bars in the roof as the rock around them shuddered like a stone dropped into a pond.
"Oh no.. do I have to go to school today mom." John murmured still in the midst of oblivion.
"Err John its erm. me Gordo, remember the mission the people in the caverns, the rocks fell around us, and you really must have hit your head hard." John's face was losing confusion and filling with embarrassment as he remembered but the mission and what he had just said.
"Err... Gordy you wouldn't mind just forgetting what I just said would you?" John said quietly.
"Johnny as long as your ok, I'll never say a word, but you really scared me when I couldn't wake you."
As Gordon finished his sentence Scott's booming, father like voice blasted through the radio.
"John, John, Gordon, Gordon, you ok? Gordon, John answer me."
"Hey Scott just calm down were ok, John hit his head but I think he's ok, It's a delicate position on John not like Alan, his head is just empty. Oh god Scott how's Virgil and Al?"
Not letting Scott answer Gordon's question John ran instantly to the radio, suddenly forgetting his headache, to radio his brothers.
"Alan, Virg, you two ok?" Silence answered him
"Alan, Virgil, answer me now, you alright? John was starting to panic, as was Gordon.
"John, John its OK" John felt an easiness until he realised it was Scott's voice answering him, not Alan's or Virgil's.
" Your just to deep under the surface I have heard from them" Scott created relieve from the brothers in the mole.
"There OK they are just getting to the survivors, they were under a ledge when the rocks fell and so were protected. Just hurry and get those people out so we can all be safe?"
"FAB," both brothers chimed.
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"Virgil, I can see them," Alan shouted to his older brother who shone the light down into the cavern as he descended. As the last slide had only made the walls safe enough to support one person and so the brothers were left to transfer each survivor to the surface individually, as they were now.
"Ok Alan and be careful please"
"Sure Virg"
"Its ok, were going to get you out of here were International rescue" Alan yelled down to the people who he now saw were just children of about 11 and 12.
"Are you alone?" Alan asked shocked, but tried to show he wasn't.
A 12yr old girl rushed towards him and hugged him.
"Its ok, were going to get you out of this hole" Alan said to 4 clearly petrified kids, and understood there condition more when he saw a older man's body, who had obviously been killed by the slide, behind a pile of rocks.
"Damn, I hate losing people! but I am going to get these kids out before I lose them to" Alan thought
"Ok kids just listen carefully to me, each one of you is going to be lifted to see a friend of mine on that ledge up there, and from there he will help you get to the surface and then you be safe ok" Alan said clearly to all the attentive children.
"Ok Virgil you ready?" Alan shouted to his older brother who was just only about 15 meters from the surface, but peering over a covered but delicate ledge.
"Right Alan put them in the harness and I will pull them up" Virgil said quickly, as he was sure the rocks would fall again soon.
************
"Right that all of them" Gordon told John as he shut the moles hatch and John started the engines.
"Lets get out of here then. I know I am used to the darkness in space but not this dark and murky," John whispered.
"Well we got all of our people out I just hope Alan and Virgil got the rest of their folks out in time." Gordon pondered
"Mobile control from the mole, resurfacing now all survivors retrieved" Gordon told an attentive field commander.
"FAB, Gordo, I will be glad to go home there just been something about this mission that hasn't felt right" Scott contemplated
"God, you sound like Virgil" Gordon laughed, as John treated the survivors to a drink and some blankets at the back of the mole.
************
Meanwhile, Alan and Virgil had transferred 3 of the 4 children to the top of the cavern using the rescue equipment and now they were in the safe arms of Scott to be handed to the traditional emergency services and mountain rescue.
Scott sighed as he walked back to the open cavern he had just taken the three children to the mountain rescue service to be flown to a hospital and now was waiting to hear from Virgil about getting the final child, Alan and himself out of the cave.
"Right Scott, Al's just about to send up the last child to me" Virgil said into his wristwatch still perched on a ledge about 55 metres above Alan who was still at the base of the cavern.
"FAB Virg, the mole will be surfacing with John and Gordon's survivors in about a minute" "FAB Scott"
Just as Scott was starting to feel relief that this mission was going to be over soon and hoping that creepy feeling my go away, he saw out of the corner of his eye the mole resurfacing from its steep accent above his position but further around the sharp mountainous edge. As the drill finally reached the surface the ground began to shake and collapse from all around in all directions, causing Scott to instantly dive under the safety of the caverns entrance wall, shouting strongly to his brothers far below him to take cover.
As a sheet of rock sliced down from the peaks above on the far side of the mountain John and Gordon could only watch in horror as rocks fell like raindrops out of the sky on to Scott, as he tried to dived for cover only to be hit by a falling rock. And to here a scream from Virgil into the radio as the mountainous fragments fell and collapsed the cavern in which they were contained, then nothing was no longer heard, the airwaves were silent. In that cavern one voice would never be heard again.
Jeff felt his chest tighten and waves of nausea fill his body as he had been listening to the radio exchange since Scott had radioed in to tell him everything was going ok. Now he had never felt worse had the worst possible event happened? The thought passed Jeff's mind, as streams of tears flowed down his face.
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Have I killed 3 Tracy's? Erm, what's the word oops !!!!!!!!!!!
Again sorry if it's full of mistakes I will try and correct as many as possible. *
