Chapter 8: Left behind? I don't think so, Sosuke!


Kaname blushed, feeling embarrassed and the Captain and Sosuke fiddled with the belt, trying to get it to work. Finally, Kaname strode forward, plucked a pin out of one of the bags and inserted it through the belt. The wire was pliable enough to where Kaname could bend it so that the belt would stay.

"There." Kaname looked at Tessa, trying to hide the jealousy of the shorter girl's waist from her eyes.

"Thank you Kaname."

Tessa took one look at Sosuke and then shut her eyes. She felt for the torpedo room. Suddenly, she was all the sounds, all the things in the room. She was the creak of the hull, the rustling of the chains. She felt water rush around when she was the Danaan herself. She concentrated on the torpedo room and imagined herself there. When she opened her eyes, she quickly strode over to the torpedo hatch controls and fiddled with them for a moment. Then, the hatch opened. Water rushed in along with the body of a certain Mithril Sergeant. Tessa tweaked some more buttons and the water drained leaving quite a sopping Sosuke lying in the hatch.

"Come, Sagara. Let's go." Tessa reached a hand out to Sosuke.

Back at the boat, Kaname Chidori did not like being left behind. Muttering angrily with herself, she tried to see how she could work this situation to her advantage. Too bad saving Sosuke those years before had drained her of her Whispered power so only a bit remained. The ability to feel resonance and to contact other Whispereds came and went but something as big as teleportation was definitely out of the question. Did she miss her power? Sometimes and sometimes not. She was definitely glad to be rid of those hands... Kaname shuddered. Then, that brought her attention back onto the current situation. She needed to get to that sub. Her eyes fell on the weapons bags. Sosuke left her some tools. Kaname lurched forward and grabbed the bags, shaking hands searching in their depths. She pulled out a spare weapons belt and a heavy gun that looked pretty dangerous. She strapped ammo onto her belt and put a bandolier of ammo around her shoulders. All of it weighed a lot but that was what she was counting for. She glanced at her watch. Sosuke left 45 seconds ago. This was definitely going to be a close race. Kaname grabbed the codec, secured it in its waterproof pouch and jumped out of the boat.

The weight from the weapons carried her down and down and down and down, quicker than swimming could have ever done. She reached the sub quickly just in time to see Sosuke's heel vanish into the hatch. Kaname reached the hatch and slipped in just as it was closing. Sosuke was already getting out so he didn't notice her follow. She watched as Tessa helped Sosuke up and as the pair disappeared. She climbed out of the hatch with a heavy metal clank. Then, she stood up. All her equipment had remained intact. This was going to be interesting.

Tessa turned a left at the fork and split up with Sosuke, a slight squeeze on her arm being his idea of reassurance. She carefully tiptoed around, hiding in shadows and listening for sounds that might help her.

She was the fly buzzing around that officer's head.

She was the lurch and fall of the waves.

She was the bandages on Kalinan's arm.

Kalinan! Tessa rushed to the room on her left and pulled out two thin metal picks. She inserted them both and felt around. This lock had four metal things that she had to turn. She wiggled the picks around until she felt resistance. That meant she was in the right quadrant. Then, Tessa jerked around forcefully but gently until that part of the lock came free. Soon, she had all four parts of the lock turned and she slipped inside.

Kalinan was inside, blood dried on some messy bandages around his arm. The rest of the Danaan's crew were there too. Tessa pulled off some handguns from her belt and out of her bag and began handing them out. Several grenades went to the more prominent fighters. Like Kurtz Weber and Melissa Mao. Urzu 6 and Urzu 2, respectively.

"Hey Cap-i-tan." Kurtz said with a nasal French accent. "Whatsup?" Tessa sighed. Yes, indeed she had found the crew. Kurtz was the only crew member who seemed to get away with informality. Tessa stepped up to the front of the room.

"We need to regain control of this sub. Sergeant Sosuke Sagara is in the control room and Captain's quarters liberating those areas. You can reach him by Codec on frequency 120.67 He is to be referred to as Urzu 7. Remember that not all channels are safe. Keep your voices down, practice some stealth, and let's not go Rambo ok?" Tessa whispered to the crew. They all nodded.

"Let's go."

Kaname made a right turn at the fork she came to. She looked around nervously. Didn't they have bathrooms in this place? Nature's call was pulling her to the bathroom, whether she liked it or not. Finally, she found a metal door with a female silhouette on the front. She carefully pushed it open. Inside, an officer stood fixing her hair. Kaname noticed the arrangement of ribbons and decorations on her shoulders. This was the captain. Sosuke had taught her how to recognize officers and their ranks but Kaname was half listening. She was surprised she remembered so much. Kaname quickly strode up to the Captain and put her in a headlock, another thing Sosuke had taught her, and swiftly put a gun to her head.

"Hands, up." The captain complied and Kaname patted her down, removing several card looking things and two guns. "Let's go Captain."

Kaname dragged her along at gunpoint, hiding in alcoves and eventually becoming so paranoid that she gagged the Captain for fear of being revealed. Kaname found the door labeled "Controls" and waltzed in.

"Hands up or the Captain bites it." Kaname shouted, remembering her lingo. Taken by surprise, the control room navigators and officers raised their hands.

"Come on out everybody and line up, arms width apart." They complied. "Weapons on the floor, kick them toward me." Kaname knew from what Sosuke had told her, never to have them slide the weapons toward her. It would be easy to remove a pin from a grenade and slide it or simply pick up the gun and fire. Kicking was the safest method. Kaname handcuffed them with rope lying around (rope is everywhere on a sub, trust me) and tied them to poles or ladders or chairs. The captain she kept with her. Kaname bent down and pressed the button on her codec, setting the frequency to 120.67 .

"Urzu 7, Urzu 7 this is Angel speaking, over."

"Angel, this is Urzu 7 I copy, over."

"Control room secure. Head honcho with me, under surveillance, over."

"What? Roger that, Angel. I'll be right over, over."

Click.

Kaname sat and waited. When she heard the door click, she raised her gun just in case. Sosuke strode through and Kaname relaxed.

His eyes widened. Indeed. Kaname had taken over the control room.


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