Nelson Follies
Chapter Seven
Captain Lee Crane was worried about this meeting with the owner of the submarine Seaview. Stopping in his tracks standing in front of the cabin door, he takes a deep breath before knocking on the door. Afterwards he knocks hard with his knuckles to hear the usual response to come on inside.
Admiral Nelson was sitting down at his desk reading some sort of a file. "What's going on Lee?" He asked calmly placing the file back down onto his already packed desk.
"Sir, we had another transmission, I had Kowalski using the scanning device to have him stop in front of Doctor Teo Reign's cabin door." He stopped for a moment to sit down perched at the edge of his desk.
"And?" Expecting another answer.
"Kowalski decided to tell me in the Control room while I decided to wait on arresting him sir. What more was there to be done Admiral Nelson?" Lee says with rubbing a hand through his hair with having to be slightly nervous for the moment.
"Actually you did the right thing Lee. We need to find out what exactly he's up to with the other doctors on the project, otherwise we just wait and see what happens next." Nelson said to have Lee shaking his head indicating that he wasn't approving of the idea.
"What happens if he tries to blow up the Seaview and everyone else on board the submarine?" Lee asked with moving off the desk to stand directly in front of his friend and boss of the Nelson Institute.
"We try and catch him before it happens Lee." He moves up from his chair asking his friend on whether he wanted a cup of coffee.
"I will have one sir before I head back to the Control Room. I will be sure sir to keep the security patrols going until we finally arrive back to Santa Barbara, California." He watches the Admiral pouring the hot coffee into two separate cups placing them onto the white saucers and adding the creamer and sugar. "Thanks."
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The next 24 hours had everyone on their toes including the security patrols. Sergeant Suzanne Moore walked the hallways with the high cells. She kept on looking at her watch with nothing happening. Doctors Reign and Seamus were in the lab working on the device. They had made a change with the control panel having turned up the power levels.
Though this time something began to happen in the reactor room with Chief Sharkey and Patterson working this time for the watch. They began to notice that the reactor was beginning to lose 10% with a power lost. Captain Lee Crane had called from the Control Room to let them know.
"Patterson and I will check it out sir." He turned to face Patterson behind him. "You heard the captain, we need to find out where the power lost is going." Sharkey said with annoyance in his tone and order.
"Aye, however if the reactor is losing power. I would have to say that something or someone is using a device to drain the power." Patterson says to have Chief Sharkey not believing in what Paterson was saying.
They began to check all of the control panel circuits, while the device in the lab continued to drain the power until the two doctors decided that it was time to shut it down for now. Admiral Nelson had come into the lab to check up on them and the device. "How's everything going Doctor Seamus?"
"Just fine Admiral Nelson. We made the changes to have the device working within the perimeters for the U.S. Government, Military and the project Institute. We will be ready to give a full scale demo tomorrow Admiral Nelson." Doctor Seamus relayed the information with Doctor Reign needing to move faster with needing to destroy the device and damaging the Seaview in order for him to get off the submarine.
Placing the device back into the locked cabinet before leaving with the security guard to keep watch. Admiral Nelson walked out with Doctor Seamus asking on whether liked to have lunch with him in his cabin.
"Thank you, I will Admiral. Doctor Reign carrying on with the rest of your day and evening. I will see you back here tomorrow." He stated with passing the security officer ordered by Captain Lee Crane. Doctor Teo Reign headed for his cabin to wait for his next move. He had found out with checking the diagrams with using the ducks to reach into the lab from his cabin.
"Great! Why did you shut the device down Doctor Seamus?" Nelson had to asked with his usual curiosity in his demeanor.
"I didn't wish to over do it after finally getting it corrected with the power source and levels. Tomorrow will be the biggest test with the device and continuing with the project and feeding the population of planet Earth." He announced with great pride in his voice even though Doctor Teo Reign was dying inside wanting to get away from the doctor and hide in his cabin.
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It was around eight o'clock in the evening when Captain Lee Crane had gone off watch leaving Commander Morton and Commander Jeff Adams in charge of the Control Room. The entire vessel was on alert for anything out of the ordinary. Master of Arms had been staying back from getting close to Doctor Reign's cabin. Even though he had left it once for dinner in the mess hall. It was somewhat busy with crewmembers having dinner either coming off watch or heading to work for particular stations and including the Reactor room, lab, circuitry and engineering sectors.
Lee walked down to the where the doctor's cabins were located to speak with Sergeant Suzanne Moore given the watch to keep an eye out inside the lab this time. Orders had come down from Admiral Nelson to have the security officer to stay inside expecting some form of an attack.
Sergeant Moore was ready for anything with making sure her rifle was filled to the hilt, as with her small revolver just in case.
Standing straight against the door. She heard a knock on the lab door expecting it to be either the Admiral or Captain Lee Crane. Moving to open the door with concern, she sees the captain.
"Is everything all right Sergeant?" Lee had to asked since it was his job as Captain of the Seaview.
"Aye Captain, it's quiet as a mouse. Please be sure it's not going to stay that way the rest of the evening into the early morning." She stated with a slight chuckle knowing full well something was bound to happen tonight.
"Very well, I will inform the Admiral. If you need anything or a break please be sure to call the Control Room with Commanders Morton and Adams in charge will send you a relief." He smiled before leaving the area...