A Blast from the Past.
Bridge, USS Franklin D Roosevelt
Pacific Ocean nearing Indonesia
Wilson had been clutching his head in pain when he heard the voice come over the speaker.
'What the hell is the Holy Britiannian Empire? How does this mystery entity have a fleet without anyone else knowing it? Wait; maybe the vortex was one of the Bermuda Tornados. It couldn't be; they are only known to form in the Bermuda Triangle. Never mind that I need to the inform the Captain so he doesn't fuck up and get us all killed.' Wilson thought to himself, he stood up and faced the captain.
"Captain Harrison, I believe I know what is going on. Stop the emergency blow and I can explain." Wilson said addressing the Captain.
"Do it." Harrison ordered, a frowning look appearing on his face.
"Yes sir"
"Alright now that we have some time to talk, I can tell you my theory of what might have happened. Over the past 40 years the CIA has gathered evidence that disappearances in the Bermuda triangle have been caused by what we call Bermuda Tornados. All we know about these is that they appear to have some sort of bridging capability between universes, or they are big fucking vacuum cleaners. Never mind what they actually are we know that they form vortexes in the air, sea, and land. We know from some salvaged data from a weather buoy that they appear to begin by a large energy build up in an area. In our case it was the noise that was the waves generated by the build up that we heard. Next they appear to release the energy and form a vortex. Does this sound familiar? I recommend that we take this Britiannian threat seriously and prepare military response." Wilson said to Harrison hoping he would believe it.
"Your insane, kid. I don't know what pills you have been taking, but whatever they are they must have seriously messed you up" Harrison responded with a tone disgust and disdain.
"Fine, you don't have to believe my information. Hell you can assume that I am having a psychotic episode, but what you cannot fake is that out there," He pointed out towards the front of the boat. "Is a fleet that wants to destroy us? If you don't take action to fight them, then everyone on is boat is as good as dead" Wilson responded with an angry tone.
"Wilson calm down, I'm sure the captain believes you, right?" Mina said in a soothing voice.
Wilson watched Harrison with eyes that screamed of exhausted anger.
"Fine, I'll choose to believe you that there is fleet out there to kill us. What do you propose we do?" Harrison asked in a tone that hinted he would be open to suggestions.
"Alright, first we need information on how numerous our enemy are and where the hell they are located so I suggest we raise up to periscope depth and launch the weasel." Wilson explained in a mindful tone.
"What the hell is a weasel?" Harrison asked anger beginning to return to his voice.
"Ah, my mistake. We call it the weasel in the CIA, you probably know it from your submarine specs as the UAVP. Anyway it is basically a soup can shaped and sized probe that is launched from the subs body using pressurized air. It flies about 300 feet in the air while spinning. It gets a 360 scan of the whole area surrounding, before it falls back into the water and is recovered." Wilson explained.
"Ah I see now. That sounds like a good plan. Joshua raise boat to periscope depth and set boat speed to ahead 1/3." Harrison ordered.
"Yes sir."
"Captain you wouldn't mind me being able to use the ship wide speakers to page some?" Wilson asked.
"Its fine." Wilson immediately picked up the microphone.
"Dax and Alexis please report to the bridge." He said into the microphone. He set the microphone down.
"What do you have planned Wilson?" Mina asked in inquisitive tone.
"A jump back in time" He responded. It was metaphorically correct for what he had planned.
"We are at periscope depth, Captain." The helmsman Joshua reported.
"Beginning spin up for UAVP." James, the secondary helmsman, stated towards the captain.
"Excellent" responded Harrison. Before another word could be uttered, the echo of footsteps became audible.
"What's happened and how can we help?" were the first words uttered by Alexis as she walked with Dax who said nothing.
"We were apparently sucked in by a Bermuda Tornado, and now what we assume is a fleet is threatening to turn us into a scuba diving exhibit." Wilson responded.
"UAVP is ready for launch, Captain." James reported.
"Launch" Harrison ordered.
There was a small thump that was heard inside the sub as the weasel was launched into the air. As it spun it gathered vision data from all around the submarine and relayed it back to the screens in the bridge. What was shown was a fleet of 24 ships that oriented directly in straight line in front of the submarine. They were roughly 3.7 miles away from the submarine.
"Alright now that we know this we can prepare a strike plan," Wilson said before he zoned out beginning to think up a plan.
'We can't escape as they probably are faster and have more ammunition than us. We also can't, as they definitely know that we are so they can just comb the whole area with depth charges until they get us. We could launch a torpedo attack, but even 4 torpedoes wouldn't be enough to take enough ships out action for us to slip through the gaps. We need something to really give them a bloody nose so they leave us alone. Wait, We might have a Mark 60-N on board. Yes, that could actually work!' He thought exactly
"Captain, do you by chance have a Mark 60-N on board?" Wilson asked. Harrison tensed up at the question.
"I am not at liberty to answer that question." He responded, his words somehow being heard as stiff.
"Jesus Christ, we aren't in the same world anymore, tell me the truth so we can get out of this mess." Wilson yelled at Harrison.
"Fine, We have roughly 5 of the them. To supplement the rest of our torpedo's, we also have a some ACM-S's." Harrison responded.
"Wilson what is a Mark 60-N torpedo?" Alexis asked.
"The Mark 60-N is guided torpedo armed with a 30 kiloton warhead. It was intended for the destruction of battle groups such as this, it was designed during the height of the cold war as Mark 48. Now with some modern upgrades it is the Mark 60-N" Wilson explained.
"Even if we were to use a Mark 60-N it would take 10 minutes to get them ready, time which I assure you we don't have" Harrison said.
"Rouge Submarine, this is your last warning surrender or be destroyed" The speaker in the bridge squawked.
"Alright, now that I know that I have plan. You need to follow my instructions to letter, ok?"
"Fine."
"Good, first we need to lob two anti-ship missiles at the center boat and the starboard escort. If we can land two good hits we can probably put them on the defensive. Have your weapons bay crew members begin loading 3 regular torpedo's and one Mark 60-N. The Mark 60-N should take roughly 5 minutes to prepare to launch. Mina, and Dax you two are the strongest and should therefore help them load the Mark 60-N. Alexis you stay here and help me with the small details of our plan."
"Got it Wilson, lets go Dax." Mina said as she began walking towards the torpedo bay.
"I hope you get us out of here alive" Dax said before he followed Mina out of the bridge.
Wilson nodded to Harrison who picked up the microphone and set it page the weapons bay officer.
"Mr. Freeson, I need you to load 3 sonar guided torpedoes and 1 Mark 60-N. Authorization code THOR, I repeat Authorization code THOR. Also load 2 anti-ship missiles specifically a Tomahawk-SC." Harrison spoke into his microphone in a loud, but calm voice.
"Roger, that I can have the two cruise missiles ready in seconds, the sonar torpedoes in 2 minutes, and the Mark 60-N in 5 minutes." The speaker in the bridge squawked.
"James set us ahead 2/3. We are gong to give these guys a scare of their life." Ordered Harrison.
"Yes, sir" was the only reply as the ship lurched as it increased in speed.
Within 30 seconds of time the monitors in the bridge sparked to life with the launch data. Harrison used his interface to target the center ship and the portside escort.
"Lets give them something to think about" Harrison said with a smile as he pressed the launch button.
Classroom A318, Ashford Academy
Japan 2 months before Shinjuku Ghetto incident
Lelouch had been just staring at the screen in his classroom. For the past couple minutes he had just been watching as the report caught with all its glory, the incompetence of the Britannian military. He saw things that no one else saw, bad orders, stupid reasoning, and spineless and stupid officers. He was sure no else saw it in the Britannian. He was still watching the screen when he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned to his left to look at Rivel.
"I bet they made up the claim of their being a submarine so they could look efficient as they 'scared it away'" Rivel said before having a small chuckle.
"Yeah, probably. I bet they –" Lelouch began to say before the screen began to blare a sound to loud it cut him off, he looked back at the screen to see two missiles flying at the ships.
On the screen he could hear the Admiral yelling at his escort captains to shoot it down. He looked like some noble blood who inherited the position.
Meanwhile, the missiles appeared to flying in formation with one in the others radar shadow.
'These missiles are communicated and acting together to hit the ship!' Lelouch thought in excitement as he continued to watch.
The ships had turned all their close range weapons on the missiles, but they had a hard time struggling to get a hit on the missiles. As missiles closed to an uncomfortable distance, one lucky shot hit the missile below and it tore it in half, rocket propellant stage careening into the water, and warhead stage falling and ineffectively exploding on the armored deck of a escort ship.
The second missile closed on the ship to the left of the where the center ship was. The missile then proceeded to explode into a swarm of mini darts that ignited small rocket boosters and hit all around the battleships hull. There a few tiny explosion visible, but Lelouch guessed that the real damage was being done on the inside.
Magazine, HBNS Camelot
Pacific Ocean nearing Indonesia
Alfred hadn't expected to join navy. He hadn't expected many things in his life and he certain hadn't expected to be trying to pull a warhead out of his best friends body. No he had certainly not expected that when he was two.
"What are you doing sailor" Yelled an officer who ran down.
"There's a warhead in him, I need to get it out!" He yelled in desperation. Tears fell down his face.
"Get your hands off him, he is of royal blood!" The officer tried to pry Alfred off his friend.
"NOO" He yelled as he held onto the shell. He heard and felt a bang. The officer had shot him in the heart. He fell face to face with is friend. As he stared his vision beginning to cloud in he saw his friend give him a wink, he winked back. He saw the officer try to lift his friend up before, he dropped him and all he saw was a flash of light and he knew no more.
Classroom A318, Ashford Academy
Japan 2 months before Shinjuku Ghetto incident
The screen lit up in an explosion that probably reached 1000 feet into the air. Girls screamed in terror as they watched explosion.
'They must have hit the magazine in the ship, whoever did this must have their stuff down. Now we get to see the great admiral piss himself.' Lelouch thought to himself. A small smile appeared for half a second before being hid away by a frown.
The screen showed as the Admiral had just frozen up. It took several prompting of the cameraman to get him back to his senses. In a stammering voice he ordered that all ships form a tight circle around the central battleship. The ships closed the distance between each other from 1000 feet to 200 feet in a very short time. The Admiral ordered that depth charges be launched at the point where the missiles were launched. 30 depth charges were launched at the locations where the missiles originated. There was an explosion of water from the location and the Admiral proclaimed victory.
Bridge, USS Franklin D Roosevelt
Pacific Ocean nearing Indonesia
"They almost got us with that salvo of depth charges Captain, I suggest we speed up to ahead full." Wilson suggested to Harrison
'This kid knows what he is talking about, I might have misjudged him in the beginning.' Harrison thought to himself.
"Good idea Wilson, Helmsman—"Harrison began to say before being cutoff.
"Yeah I know captain, Speeding up to ahead full" Joshua said in nonchalant tone.
'The crew is getting to used to me, I will need to reinstill discipline in them through some punishment.' Harrison thought to himself before he looked up, all his bridge crew was operating at an efficiency never seen by him
'Actually, I'll let this one slide.' He thought to himself before being snapped out of his thoughts by the speaker.
"Torpedo's are loaded. We still getting the Mark 60-N ready." Freeson reported.
"Good job. James get out angle good for a torpedo salvo." He ordered as he watched his console preparing the firing data.
"Roger" James said. The Submarine lurched as it angled down to launch the torpedoes.
"Firing angle achieved, torpedo tubes flooded, and connection established your all good to go captain" Gaius his first officer reported to him. Gaius had been very quite during this whole incident. Harrison assumed he hadn't recovered as fast to noise as most other people.
"I feel like I'm 20 again" Harrison mumbled. He double-checked his targeting data; all of the front ships in the circle were to be targeted. He pressed the fire button and felt the thump of 3 torpedoes being launched.
Classroom A318, Ashford Academy
Japan 2 months before Shinjuku Ghetto incident
Lelouch's attention had been held by the screen had began to wane. He tapped Rivalz on the shoulder and whispered.
"Dude, I pretty sure we might get school out for this if it continues how I think it's going to go. You want to go hang out in the town later if we get out early?" Lelouch asked.
"Sure, How do you think this is going to end?" Rivalz whispered.
"Just hold on I am pretty sure that are going to—" Lelouch began to say before being interrupt by screen by another outburst of noise.
He looked up to the captain yelling orders for his ships to take evasive maneuvers, but they couldn't when tightly packed together. He counted down the time until impact of torpedoes. When they finished the countdown they saw the missiles had been to deep and would not hit the hull. A few breaths were released. A huge rumble was heard as the camera shook violently, it point to the front 3 ships that had been ripped in half. There was torrent of water blown into the air.
The admiral was screaming at his captains to fill the gaps where the destroyed ship were. 4 ships in the back broke formation and slowed down to rescue survivors from the 3 destroyed ships. This gave cover for a escort to break and look for survivors from the Camelot. The admiral was shown screaming into his microphone for the ships to return to formation.
'This is great. I mean I don't think this level of incompetence has been caught on tape before.' Lelouch thought to himself ecstatically. On the outside he was frowning, but on the inside he was celebrating.
The reported said they would now be transferring the to the hovering news helicopter. The screen swapped over to helicopter camera, which managed to only capture picture of the lead escorts which were firing depth charges at the front area.
Torpedo Room, USS Franklin D Roosevelt
Pacific Ocean nearing Indonesia
Weapons officer John Freeson, checked over their handy work. With the help of the two CIA agents they were able to get the torpedo ready in half the time it would normally take.
"Good job guys, time to make history." James said with a rhy tone as he walked over to the telephone.
"Well, I guess nuclear annihilation isn't to bad of a way to go." The tall boy named Dax said.
"It will only be annihilation for those who aren't on this submarine." The girl named Mina added. James reached the telephone.
"Mark 60-N is ready, lets make history captain." He hung up the phone and pulled out a cigarette and lit it."
Classroom A318, Ashford Academy
Japan 2 months before Shinjuku Ghetto incident
Lelouch had been absolutely rapt with the screen. The gears inside his head had been turning.
'If one rouge submarine can do this, then maybe I can actually destroy Britannia; If I take out the naval capacity of Britannia, and get the Chinese federation and the E.U. to work together, then all of Eurasia and Africa could be united to fight Britannia.
The announcer in the helicopter called out that he saw another torpedo racing towards the fleet. Lelouch turned his attention to screen. The torpedo passed under the first ship. He watched as it headed towards capital ship.
'I guess this is the end for a our dear friend' Lelouch thought to himself with a certain giddiness. He watched as the torpedo passed under the capital ship.
Unlike the others there was a massive flash of light underneath the ship. A torrent of water that looked 1000's of times bigger and stronger than the previous formed under the battleship. The battleship was ripped in half, but not before being launched into the air about the same height as the news chopper. The rest of the fleet didn't fair much better, ships were ripped and destroyed from blast. It did not help that their dear friend the admiral had bunched all his ships around the capital ship. Roughly 95% percent of the ships had been destroyed. There was only one survivor ship within the blast radius and the 5 ships that disengaged to help the destroyed ships.
'What ever that was, it was amazing. The water probably cushioned most of the explosive force of that thing, imagine if it was used on a city. The destruction would probably destroy a whole city. I need to get one of those' He thought to himself.
He had been so inward focused that he hadn't heard the screaming and crying of the people surrounding him. Girls were either crying or screaming in terror, boys just stared in disbelief at the screen as they had their first look at total devastation.
'Whatever follows this is going to be world shaking for sure' He thought to himself.
Captains Quarters, USS Franklin D Roosevelt
Pacific Ocean nearing Indonesia
Harrison had return to his room after he had guided the sub past the former fleet. Sitting down in his swivel chair he reflected on the days events. He sighed and began to fall into his own mind.
'By god we somehow made it through that meat grinder. Now we have to get a plan in action to survive, set up a port of call somewhere, and just travel the seas. That kid wasn't to shabby in a command role, what the hell did CIA do to those kids to get them to where they are today?' Harrison was snapped out of his thoughts by Gaius asking him something.
"Can you repeat that again Gaius."
"Sir, the CIA member named Wilson has set up a meeting in recreation room he requested that you be there."
"Alright, lets go now" Harrison said as he walked out of his room with Gaius.
Arriving in the recreation room soon there after he was greeted by the sight of the four members of the CIA squad and the whole squad of Green Berets sitting around a large table with 2 chairs left open. Harrison and Gaius sat down in them. Wilson stood up and addressed everyone.
"Alright now that everyone is here we can begin. First I would like to thank everyone for coming here on such short notice. Secondly, I hope that anything said here be regarded with a sense confidentiality. You all might be wondering why I called you here. Well it is my belief that we need to come up with a clear strategy to survive in this new world we have been thrown into. So what do you guys propose?" He finished before sitting down.
The first to stand was the second lieutenant of Green Berets; her name was Claudia Hayle.
"I think we should first figure out a way to intercept and read the communications of this world. We need to find a way to acquire communication gear and learn the protocols. I say we raid some islands for gear and collect information."
"I will add on to Claudia's proposition by saying we go for biggest and best target, Japan. We don't know what happened to Japan is this timeline, however we can assume they are at least at the normal technological curve and therefore should have. I would add on that we might want to infiltrate the society depending on what we find. If we were to do so we might be able to secure supplies." Wilson said.
"I think that we should make setting up a port of call for our submarine before we start any of these boondoggles. We could take a small pacific island and make it our own. We need a place to exact repairs on the boat." Gaius inputted.
"That is also a good plan, but need to know where the most isolated location would be. I say we do our raid and gather up maps, and intelligence along with everything else. Then we set up a port of call in a remote area of the world." Wilson said.
"We would need way more materials than we currently muster to build a base. I suggest we also gather building materials. I can engineer a port for us to hide undetected. If we go through with this we will also need materials to build more hydroponics facilities and fishing boats." Dax added.
"Alright, How about we do the land raid and gather materials and intelligence. The CIA guys could stay on the land, while we return the materials back to the sub. We can then begin building our own base of operations. I think we should also take moves to ally ourselves with a major power that is ideologically different than the Holy Britiannian Empire or whatever it is really called." William, the captain of the Green Berets added.
"It sounds like a good plan is this agreeable for everyone?" Wilson asked, he was meet by almost a unanimous vote of yes except from Harrison who stayed quiet. Everyone turned to face him to see what his objection was. Harrison sighed before he decided to speak.
"I think we might be acting to hasty, but I don't have a counter plan so I'll approve of it." Harrison said, he watched as everyone had sunken back into their seats from relief.
"Alright, We should be ready to land in Japan in 5 days. Everyone prepare physically and mental for this operation. I think with that we are done here everyone is dismissed." Wilson said before he stood up and beckoned Harrison walk with him to bridge so they could plan out the landing.
Recreation Room, USS Franklin D Roosevelt
Pacific Ocean Coast of Japan
5 days after the Battle of the Indonesian Sea
Higgins had double-checked his gear. Instead of going to Indonesia they were now going to be raiding Japan. Truth be told he was scared, it was his first real military operation. He waited nervously as his Captain planned out the squad placements. He hoped he was paired with Dizzy she was nice and she was the only one on the squad he was comfortable to talk with. He felt a hand fall on his shoulder and he looked over to see it was Dizzy.
"Higs you look a little frazzled, are you ok?" She asked a look of concern crossed her face.
"Yeah, I'm fine I mean it's just my first operation." He answered.
"You'll be fine, I was like this on my first op" She answered. Before Higgins could respond Captain Churchill ordered they form up.
"Alright, Ladies and Gentlemen I have our squad assignments. In the first squad we have Claudia, Davey and Higgins. On the second Squad we have yours truly, Alphonso and Dizzy. First squad will be launched out of the torpedo tubes, followed by second squad and the finally CIA kids will follow us. We launch in 3 minutes get your last minute checks done and get in your tubes." Captain Chruchill said.
Higgins put on his rebreather pack, picked up his m4 and got into the torpedo tube. He put his the mouthpiece in his mouth and waited as they flooded the torpedo tube. When it was fully filled he felt his ears pop and felt a great rush as he launched out into the Pacific Ocean and he began his long swim ashore.
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Authors Notes
Well here it is the second chapter. Firstly I would like to thank you all for all your wonderful reviews and encouragement. Secondly, Yes I will be fleshing out the characters more. The situations they have been in however haven't allowed them to fully show of some of their traits. I hope to take this story to places where other fiction hasn't gone before and focus on the E.U a bit, some of the areas and how they would react. Lelouch will still be very important in this story, but his role will be altered a bit. Also if you feel so inclined as to leave a review could inform me if you thought the switching perspectives in this chapter was any good. I felt like they needed to be there to allow you guys to understand what was going on and how I envisioned it. Many thanks to all of you.