2 Clan Amir Falcon ChickChapter 06
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In mid June, 2006, Senior Captain, acting Major, Gordon Mannheim is on loan to the Green Orcas, the 2nd Royal Sea Guards, with Lieutenant Angelson and a platoon of the 3rd Claymore under Senior Sergeant Chektar. There’s always been a bit of piracy in the region, usually fast small boats involved in smuggling or raiding small coastal cargo ships. Of late there’s been some talk about slavers in the region, and the rate of missing children has risen very sharply. The chances of smuggling children out through the airports or the land routes is very small. The Royal Intelligence Service staff think the children are being moved out by ship, or are being gathered for removal by ship.
A few specially selected officers are placed on some patrol craft with a platoon of Claymore as part of a joint operation to follow up on this suspicion. Usually the Orcas don’t have enough crew to land patrols to check out suspected locations on land. They report them and a patrol is sent from the nearest military facility. Normally this is sufficient, but RIS thinks time will be a critical factor in this investigation, thus the joint patrol idea. Gerry is one of the selected officers because of his good successful prior experience with RIS in Berana, and he’s assigned to the most likely area. He’s also the senior officer assigned, and technically the officer in command of the whole operation. However, while at sea the commander of the vessel its Captain, Senior Lieutenant Mike Mason, is in charge of the patrol boat and its actions. Gerry can give strategic commands concerning the operation and the boat’s general movements, but Lieutenant Mason is the one to exercise the tactical command of the ship when carrying out the orders he’s given by Gerry.
The Orcas have been keeping a close watch on all of the small shipping, which is a very difficult task, but they manage to check out over ninety percent of the small craft. The Royal Customs Service checks out all of the big vessels that call at Berant ports. Sea Guard radar watches for any cases of small boats making contact with any larger vessels outside of a port. Many smuggling operations are caught this way each year.
In the early hours of the morning on the third day of this joint operation a Sea Guard radar operator reports an unusual blip on his radar that’s near the offshore island of Mapul. It suddenly appears near the island, is there for two sweeps, and is then gone. Many people would’ve written it off to a problem with the equipment, but not in the Royal Guards because everything has to be fully explained or investigated. He reports the oddity, and within minutes the information is being passed on for investigation by the Orcas. Since this may involve a check of the island they assign the task to the nearest of the joint operation vessels as well as the nearest general patrol craft. Both are about the same distance from the island. On being told of the report Gerry gives orders for them to make the fastest possible time to the island, Lieutenant Mason agrees as he orders the speed increase. They’ll approach from the south and will arrive off the island about half an hour before dawn. The other patrol boat has advised they’re timing their arrival for just after dawn.
Examination of the records shows little about the island. One crew member who grew up on the coast opposite once stayed on the island for a few days. He describes it as crescent shaped with a nice sloping beach inside the curve with a good natural harbour. The centre of the island rises to about forty-five metres above the sea, a cross between a large hill and a short ridge. The island is only two kilometres long and about half that wide. The seaward side is a straight drop into deep water with the side closest to Berant as the crescent beach and harbour. The island is only sixteen kilometres off the coast and not inhabited. Many people often go to the island for a weekend alone. He remembers people talking about a cave being on the island, but he never saw it.
Mapul IslandOn the off chance there are some people on the island who are involved with the matter they’re investigating they approach the island with great care. The patrol boat races toward the island with no lights showing with the darken-ship screens across all of the hatches. When they’re within five kilometres of the island the engines are slowed down and the heavy mufflers activated. The boat is now going a lot slower, but it’s a dark, silent, moving spot on the ocean. When they’re about three kilometres out the radar operator reports two small boats on his radar, one entering the harbour while one leaves it heading toward the seaward side by going around the northern edge. Mike and Gerry look at each other as no one in their right mind will use small boats like this unless they’re up to something they don’t want anyone to notice. Gerry orders Sergeant Chektar’s platoon to prepare for a night action. He also asks to be dropped ashore in a manner they’re not likely to be spotted.
Lieutenant Mason says, “I wish I could, Sir, but there’s no way we can get near that beach without them seeing us. The best I can offer in surprise is to run aground near them just before high tide, which is soon.”
Gerry asks, “How long before our other boat will be close enough for the radar of a ship on the seaward side to pick it up on their radar?”
Mason replies, “About another thirty to forty minutes, Sir.”
“Can you get close enough to the southern point to keep an eye on the beach while you act like part of the island for anyone going by?”
“With the steep cliff there we can drop buffers over and secure against the cliff with the nose sticking out far enough for someone to watch the beach from the bow.”
“You can get up against the cliff? Do so, we’ll go ashore there!”
A stunned Mason says, “But that’s a sheer cliff.”
Sergeant Chektar says, “Sheer, shmeer. We can climb anything that’s not horizontal with us under it, even then we’ll give it a go.” He goes below to ready his team for a climb.
Gerry turns to Mason, “Get the other boat on the radio via the satellite link. Have them head further inshore because we don’t want them scaring our target.”
They slowly close on the island with the radar operator reporting the boat movements. They seem to be making ten minute round trips from the beach to an unknown ship. They’re about to move around the point when the radar operator reports the boat in the harbour leaving while the other one hasn’t returned yet. The radio operator reports no signal interceptions of any sort. Gerry orders all of the preparations halted. They nudge up against the point and wait.
Tensely, they wait. Fifteen minutes later they see a coastal freighter pass them slightly to seaward and it has some funny sheeting attached to its shore facing side. The radar operator reports a fuzzy contact to seaward. Gerry and Mike look at each other. This ship is less than a kilometre away, yet the radar signal is extremely poor. Getting on the satellite radio link Gerry orders the other patrol boat to head out to seaward of the island at maximum speed, and he tells them why. Again they sit to wait for further developments.
The ship takes seventy-five minutes to leave visual sight and move over the horizon. By then the other patrol boat reports it’s on their radar plot and they’re tracking it south while they close in on it.
Island CheckGerry orders Mason to take them ashore near where the boats had been going ashore. Using five inflatable boats they’re soon ashore a few metres up the beach. They can easily see where many people have walked back and forth on the beach, many are very small footprints toward where the boats were. Using infra-red sensors they follow the footprints back into the scrub covering the island. They vanish into the middle of two large bushes.
Two Swords take care to part the bushes to show the path leading between them to a cave behind the bushes.
Slowly they walk forward. Sensing someone ahead Gerry signals the men to be careful and quiet. They enter the cave, and a few minutes later they round a sharp bend to find four men sitting around a card table counting a large pile of money. The first squad charges forward and takes them down before they even know they’re under attack.
Once they realise they’ve been captured by Royal Guards the men claim innocence of any wrong doing. They’re also highly amused to see a fourteen year old boy in charge. Looking around the cave Gerry can see evidence of its recent occupation by a large number of people. He also sees some dropped toys and dolls.
Suddenly he spins toward the men, he lifts one up, and says, “Were there any kidnapped children amongst those who were here earlier?”
The man says, with a sneer, “No, and I dare you to prove otherwise.”
Gerry knows he’s lying because he can tell by the man’s emotions. He’s very angry. “Do you know anyone important in the organisation of this operation.”
The man truthfully says, “No.” Followed by a lie of, “There ain’t no organisation or operation.”
Stepping back Gerry drops the man. Using his left hand he draws out an ID wallet, opens it, and shows it to the men, one after another. They look at it and shrug. He says, “Do any of you know what this means?” They shake their heads. “This says I’m a special agent of the King. I can do anything I want to you and not have to answer to anyone except the King. I can legally torture you or kill you.” They look shocked, he turns back to the first man, “Care to change any of your answers.” The man shakes his head no and spits at Gerry’s foot. Gerry steps back and shows the ID to Sergeant Chektar and the Swords with him, they all look at the ID and gulp, except the Sergeant. They’d seen pictures in training, but only the Sergeant has seen a real one before, once, this exact one a year or so earlier.
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I was a human protector and a good one. I glanced at the Kaire teenager following me and shook my head. Why had she insisted on coming here and why had her father allowed it? He was a major clan leader and she was only a daughter and one from a later litter. Kathera or Kat as she asked me to call her was golden with black strips. That was not a uncommon coloring for her people so she did not stand out. We were on a vague and very distant world once called Aur where some of the Kaire were wild...
Barbara watched in anticipation as the computer attempted to recover the data from the transmitter, fearful that the computer would give her some sort of error and she’d have to basically start from scratch in finding her friend and fellow vigilante, fellow Batgirl. Each minute that passed made Barbara a little bit more sick. FILE TRANSFER SUCCESFULLY “Yes!” Barabara went to work sifting through all the data immediately. More specifically, Barbara was looking for the audio logs...
My netpar bahot sestory padha phir mujhe bhi khiyal aaya my bhi apni eak sache story aapse shear karon main Maddy chandigarh ka hon aur mere mamma ki ac mecanik eak Showroom hai bha par bahut se mechanic hai main apne holidays me bha gya hoea tha meri umar 19 saal hai agar aapko mere story pasand aaye to mujhe mail zaror karen mera id Eak dafa Main ac thek karne mechanic k sath eak ghar gaya beal bajane par eak bahothe khobsorat aunty darwaja khola maine bataya main ac thek karne aaya hon...
Just before 6:30 a.m. spies inform King Ahdeed the Rebels will strike today. He relays the information to his loyal field commanders and the Shuken Clan Father. Mardrik passes the information onto his people, and thus to the public at large. The remaining palace retainers grab their things and they immediately leave the Palace for places of safety. With the remaining Dragon’s Teeth of B Company for protection Princess Opal leads the people out of the Palace. They go through a secret tunnel...
Just after midnight Force Apache makes contact with Rebel troops patrolling the border area. Coming up very fast from behind them 4th Platoon, C Company, 2nd Royal Armoured Guards opens up on them when they start to pass by. Ninety seconds of fierce fighting while they drive by results in five Rebel vehicles burning on the side of the road with forty dead troops lying in and around them. The Lieutenant in charge of the Raptors is upset because he missed most of it. He was knocked unconscious...
Two days later they’re staying in a hotel in Queanbeyan, NSW, just outside of Canberra, ACT, as Ed has an appointment to talk to a Member of Parliament the next day. The MP is a close friend of a cousin. During the drive down he’s had a few long talks with the girls. They informed him their main reason to be in Australia is to hire troops to help restore the Royal Family to the throne in Berant. Mara has jewels to finance the task. They also explain the claims about all of the Royal Family...
During the day of Tuesday the 21st of December Claymore soldiers enter Berana in small numbers to meet at prearranged points so they can prepare for the task ahead. Because of the need to keep secrecy as long as possible the plan is to take out all of the auxiliary positions first. Thus, overwhelming forces are assigned to each target. The whole of the Royal Army is used to ensure a quick capture of all of the civilian and small military targets in the city. At 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday the...
General Grant carefully sweeps the bridge and its approaches with his binoculars while he and his troops race down the road. From his position in the command vehicle he can’t see any of the defensive troops, nor can he see anyone else. His chief of staff says, “Maybe they’re all running for the mountains or hiding in cellars.” General Grant replies, “I’m sure I saw troop transports racing across the plain. If I did, those troops will make a stand somewhere. And it’s a telling point this...
Between the events depicted in The Dareed War and these events the following changes have occurred in the Royal Guards organisation. Naturally they’ve also had upgrades in equipment, weapons, training, and procedures during this time. Many as a result of the lessons learned at Marley’s Landing. The 3rd Claymore are officially given the unit insignia of a rock, along with their name of The Rocks. The Claymore has two more regiments. The 4th, the Falling Angels, a parachute insignia, air...
The dinner is just as boring and full of politics as can be expected of such affairs. Many of the senior diplomats are upset about their junior advisers having been invited, and invited in a manner to make refusal seem rude. Instead of being the long sit down dinner with speeches most expect it’s a buffet style meal with soft dance music. Those who want to can dance, which many of the younger ones do. Or they can gather in groups and talk, which many of the serious lobbyists do. The Berant...