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<<<<<< MAJORIE BOYLE
60 W,
20 S - ATLANTIC DASH
60 W, 30 S - AMAZON
“We’re off to South America for a few days. I think you’ll find it interesting.”
“Too right blue,” said Dan and he also started carrying the remaining boxes aboard with the enthusiasm of a schoolboy for a camping holiday.
Dan had no idea why he'd find it more than usually interesting.
Dan checked the readings. “Should be okay. What’s she doing on this gig?”
“Maybe it should be the other way round. What are we doing on her gig?”
Dan looked suitably puzzled and listened for clues. John entered Charley’s number and waited. He was just about to hang up, when Charley answered. “Is that you John? I’m in the gym,” she said trying to catch her breath. Charley was indeed in the middle of a five mile jog at level 8 on a running machine. She’d ignored the call to begin with, intent on beating her best time, but eventually gave in to curiosity.
“Remember it. I can’t get it out of my mind.”
"Really, why is that,” asked John? his curiosity roused.
“If we’re talking about the same thing, you’ll probably be headed inland up a very long river?”
“You’re on the money penny, but why is this so memorable?”
“Because of what I found and rumours of latent plans for world domination from last century. Steve thought I was losing it. You may think that too.”
“Can you send us what you’ve got?”
“It’s complicated. If you’re serious about this, I’m okay to meet you, if you’ll share quid pro quo.”
“Quid pro quo and hush, hush?” offered John.
“Sounds like a deal, I need a break anyway.”
“Charley you’re a marvel. Thanks. I’ll meet you at Manaus?”
“Spot on, almost. It's just before Manaus. I'll send you the coordinates."
"You can’t miss us, next week then my treat. What will you be wearing?”
Charley laughed and hung up.
Hal chimed in, "Hi guys, I don't want to spoil things, but thought you should know the pressure is dropping rapidly, meaning high winds and heavy seas."
"Can't be," said John, looking at Dan. Who shrugged, also taken aback.
The sky turned ominously dark grey in colour as the Swann took a pounding from waves reaching forty feet, which had minutes before been just 5 feet.
All this came out of nowhere, the mariners worst fear. The instruments had not given any clue
as to what was in store from them.
Hal had been on sentry duty and gave them a good bit of warning. But even
so, had not
been able to avoid the tropical conditions, which was of itself rather puzzling and something to think on later.
There was no need for an answer and Storm didn’t wait for one; both men leapt into action. Dan felt the warning from the violent rising and falling of the
Swann, which he’d only felt once before on the east coast of Australia, but not as bad as this. Storm by name,
Storm by nature, Dan thought to himself as he braved the wind from the aft helm position, lashed by driving sea spray. He
flooded the pontoons, such that the raised hull was now in the water. In
this mode the Swann became almost invisible to radar, emulating a stealth
vessel. It was possible to make the ship completely transparent to radar,
but not in hurricane conditions.
"I'd have done all of that if you'd let me," chimed in Hal, effecting an upset tone.
John
and Dan smiled.
“That’ll teach us to relax.”
“Yup,” nodded Dan, with a bothered look on his face.
“What’s troubling thee mate,” asked
John. It wasn’t often that Dan looked worried about anything.
John wasn’t yet up to this. He cracked a Solar Tonic™ and grabbed a sandwich, which he wolfed down, then took the command seat and set about lowering the
Swann even further into the ocean by venting more ballast tank. They were indeed being blown off course into the
Bermuda
Triangle. John scanned the instruments and they were acting strangely. As the weather outside deteriorated the wind speed increased lashing their screens with salt spray so visibility was close to nothing, even with the wipers at full pace. The
weather sensors were not receiving anything and ‘Captain
Nemo’ refused to display anything for long enough to make sense.
“Blimey,” said Dan “beats the wall of death hands down.”
John was thinking the same thing. It was like riding a bucking bronco. Both men came out of their chairs simultaneously, and both re-adjusted their belts ………
THE
ELIZABETH SWANN NAVIGATES THE AMAZON
"Thank heavens the Swann doesn’t need fuel. John turned to Dan." He’d been pushing his traveling companion all the way across the Atlantic. Dan looked tired.
“Partner, I know the scenery is irresistible, but you’d better get your head down. We’re meeting Charley up river at the airport. I’ll take the next six. Okay?”
Rivers need considerably more careful navigation skill than the open ocean. Although it is possible to plot a course on the autopilot with the accuracy of modern GPS receivers, in practice it takes so many waypoints, it’s simpler to steer manually.
"I
can manage that quite easily," said Hal,
in a voice of feigned indignation.
“You win skip,” said Dan secretly happy at the opportunity. He left the com to turn in.
The river broadens in its final stages across the floodplains to create temporary habitats where the view is unimpeded. As the
hybrid trimaran cruised upriver, vegetation sprang up on the banks, turning into tall shrubs and jungle in just two days sailing. They’d covered 700 miles taking it in turns to crash their bunks. As an experiment John had input waypoints for the next 500 miles.
The Swann
had some unique advantages over other vessels of her size. The instruments were integrated better than other boat systems, and with more sensitive equipment the results were impressive. The sonar
on this small ship was more sophisticated than on most nuclear submarines
costing billions of dollars. It could be used to identify the propulsion system on a submarine several miles away, or it could be used to see obstructions in shallow river waters. Set up as an early warning system and fed into a computer autopilot program, the
Elizabeth Swann could wend its way upstream, avoiding shallows and keep away from the river banks, should the
DGPS for any reason not tie in with the map coordinates, such as to confuse Captain
Nemo.
Charley had seen the films, The Boys From Brazil, and The Bourne Identity, so had conjured up all manner of theories, based on the runner her reporter friend, Steve Green, had asked her to research. She had a while to pass, waiting for that laggard John Storm and his chum Dan Hawk, so thought to do a little detective work. Charley asked about in some of the outlying villages, affecting the air of a lost explorer.
Only a few of the native Amazonians spoke few enough words of English to converse. The mature tribes people were most assuredly friendly, but clammed up with the mentioned of soldiers. And just walked away, arms waving wildly, when she asked if they knew any German settlers in the locality.
Finally a little girl playing by a stream volunteered a vague direction, after catching sight of a candy bar. Charley guessed the real compass heading, after the girl aimed her hand in one direction upriver, as a reflex, then hastily re-adjusted ninety degrees inland, effecting her broadest smile, not looking her in the eye.
The exchange completed, Charley aimed as indicated, but once out of sight, changed course, and was she glad she followed that hunch.
Meantime, John and Dan had docked suitably off to one side of what appeared to be the somewhat rickety main terminal, to remain as inconspicuous as possible.
"We're up for meeting Jack Mason somewhere along the trail."
Don't you mean Jack will catch up with us when we've taken the heat," said Dan wryly.
John nodded. It seemed the CIA's calling card on his watch. But then, at least they took the trouble to join the party occasionally. More than could be said of MI6, or Blue Shield.
Hal chimed in, "Charley is heading upriver, some twelve hundred meters north-west."
"How does he know that?" said Dan to John.
"Elementary my dear Watson. Calculating molecule dispersal rate from her perfume, against wind direction - probability. But most simply of all, from her iphone and smart-watch gps triangulation - I imagine."
"Both. Well deduced Holmes," Hal responded. "You'd best get a move on. Charley is now almost stationary, possibly meaning that she has found something."
"Or, is resting," said Dan.
"Charley. Resting?" John scoffed.
"John, if you walk briskly, or jog, you can be there in seven to ten minutes. I'd consider jogging. It might be prudent to take a couple of tazers?"
"Too right, thanks Hal. Look after Elizabeth while we're out. Come on Dan, follow me."
John and Dan set off along the trail Charley had taken. It was easy to follow. But they could track her smart watch if they got lost.
The going was tough, but they reached a group of buildings blending into the jungle, some fifteen hundred yards north-west of the where they'd docked.
Noises were coming from one of the buildings.
OPERATION LEVIATHAN >>>>>>
On the return trip to the Mediterranean, the Elizabeth Swann passes through the Straits of Gibraltar
THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM - Queen Cleopatra retreats leaving Mark Antony to lose against Octavian and seek a new deal with Rome. THE POISON ASP - Hotfoot from Actium, Cleopatra's plan to seduce Octavian backfired leading to a suicide pact with Anubis and Isis TANZANIA - THE STORM BREAKS - Fanatical DNA collector, John Storm, finds Homo erectus skull, Olduvia Gorge, in Tanzanian dig site. WRATH OF THE GODS - 365BC destruction of Thonis and Alexandria, Anubis and Isis watch on in horror as Cleopatra is submerged. WWII ENIGMA - The birth of computers at Bletchley Park under Alan Turing, and his visits from Anubis and Isis, who see the potential in his ideas. SYDNEY WILL READING - John's uncle Douglas vanished, declared dead, the adventurer inherits keys and a note from George Franks. ANGEL OF DEATH - Anubis and Isis occupy Josef Mengele's and Adolf Hitler's subconscious as spirits steering their legacies. INNER CIRCLE OF SIX - Joseph Mengele's Fourth Reich plans an escape to Brazil to develop Nazi-funded human research laboratories. NELSON BAY - John visits the coordinates George gave him, to discover the Elizabeth Swann, ARK and Hal, AI computer. BRAZIL BOUND - Doctor Death bargains for funding and logistics of relocation to Amazon South American base via Argentina. NEW WORLD ORDER - A former Neo-Nazi plan to regenerate Aryan supremacy, develops into a cause for good. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE - Having reached the end of his PhD, William and Jane Bates have epiphanies, Will should follow his dream. ROADBLOCK - Nobody would fund his R&D, William and Jane Bates are blanked by DARPA, computer and software houses. THE AFTERLIFE - Cleopatra's tomb lay lost for centuries submerged and out of sight with little change of discovery. QUANTUM LEAP - Jane and Will find backers, then US military and computer processor chip makers cyber attack, hack and bug them. WASHING MACHINE - Inventor Franco Francisco comes up with the Incubus, artificial uterus concept while repairing his household appliance. EXIT STRATEGY - Realising they will always be a target from industrial and military espionage, Jane & Will devise a cunning plan. PATENT APPLICATION - Franco Francisco files his Claims with the Italian Intellectual Property Office (IPO) in Roma, Italia. CYBERCORE GENETICA - Nano computer technology is purchased at an auction by a semi religious sect, New World Order. INCUBUS - Roberta Ferrara secures the expertise of Franco Francisco for knights of the New World Order: Neuwelt Rittertum. SPLICE - Klaus and Eva von Kolreuter find a way to live forever using cloning technology; Genonimo Investments, Geneva. TREMORS - Cleopatra's feels vibrations after a shift in the tectonic plates triggered a tremor off the coast of Alexandria. PANAMANIAN RUNNING MAN - The secret is out, an enhanced human is spotted running at unbelievable speeds. THE ARK - NeuWelt Rittertum headhunt John Storm seeking access to his genetic DNA map of life on earth, but they fail to reach agreement. MARJORIE BOYLE - Sam Hollis tracks down sexy backpacker, Majorie Boyle, to Brighton Point in Trinidad, beautiful Caribbean Island. THE AMAZON - Charley agrees to meet John & Dan at Manaus, but is a little too inquisitive. OPERATION LEVIATHAN - New World Knights, Klaus and Franco go to Plan 'B' to track and steal the Elizabeth Swann & The Ark DNA database. TOMB RAIDERS - Safiya Sabuka and Musa Bomani dive among sifting sands to discover precious artifacts and golden treasures. SCOTLAND YARD - The famous London DNA database is stolen, the biggest data heist to date. The Yard initiates a cover up. OPERATION ALEXANDRIA - Neo-Nazi occultists recover Cleopatra's sarcophagus from underwater tomb near Palace. SALVAGE RIGHTS - Entering Cleopatra's mausoleum, locating sarcophagus and raising with air bags to the surface, Safiya Sabuka tomb raider. COASTGUARD PATROL - Safiya and Musa surface off Alexandria to a waiting customs vessel, they pretend to be sports divers fooling the officials. UNESCO - Catholic Church fear grave desecration heritage theft, asks agencies for help. Interpol issue Red Notice. KIDNAP - Charley is taken prisoner but John rescues her, in the process becoming injected with a serum. SARCOPHAGUS OPENING - The wooden inner casket is opened revealing Cleopatra's mummy, golden crown and death mask, perfectly preserved. AWAKENING - In the afterlife, the DNA extracted from Cleopatra's mummy triggers a divine stirring with Anubis and Isis comforting the Nile Queen. REPLICANT - The Society reproduce Cleopatra using Francisco's RepliVator™, uploading synapse sequence and implanted memories. BRAIN CONDITIONING - Klaus and Franco upload digitally recreated memories in historical order to trigger correct learned synapse firing sequence REBORN - The former Queen of Egypt speaks for the first time to her creators, proving that her brain is working, the implants succeeded. FULL STEAM AHEAD - Storm speeds to Thonis, then uses the Swann's AI sensors and the Ark database to find tomb has been plundered. PROPOSAL - Baron von Richhofen's gambit, a union of Royal ancient and Aryan blood, for strength and intellect, a powerful heir as her successor RITUAL SACRIFICE - The Baron prepares a drugged Cleopatra for ceremonial impregnation. MANAUS TO ALEXANDRIA - A hydrogen powered race across the Atlantic Ocean in nine days, John Storm guided by Anubis and Isis. SANCTUM INTERRUPTUS - John finds secret Nazi hideout near Alexandria, disturbs ritual - rescues Cleopatra, arresting conspirators. THE CHOSEN ONE - The reincarnated Cleopatra falls for her rescuer. John comes under her spell, despite her being a replicant. MOVIES, WHAT ARE THEY - Reincarnated Nile Queen asks John and Dan to explain films, they show her 20th C. Fox 1963 Elizabeth Taylor biopic. MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE - John suggest a tour of the Wadj Ur, Thalassa Nostrum, to relax Cleopatra, Hal plans the ultimate experience. JOHN'S BLOODLINE - Dan and Hal trace trace John's noble lineage back to the iconic figures of Ancient Egypt & Roman General Mark Antony DÉJÀ VU - Dan and Hal reveal John's family tree as being related to Roman General Mark Antony via Julia and Queen Drusilla of Mauretania. MEDICAL EXAMINATION - Jack Mason talks John and Cleopatra into agreeing to a check up at Port Royal, Jamaica, working for NSA and CIA GEORGE WARNS OF TORTURE - Franks radios Swann to tell John & Dan that New World Knights are being tortured at Guantánamo Bay, you're next. JESUS CHRIST - Cleopatra asks about this man. John, Dan & Hal explain he is an ancient religious preacher from Galilee, son of Yahweh, Hebrew god. BIOCORE BRAIN IMPLANT - Dan and Cleopatra drill John's skull, occipital bone implanting biological chip to interface with CyberCore Genetica. DARPA, NSA & CIA - National security and military intelligence chiefs Iras Charmian and Dr Stefan Raengst, plot to remove all human obstacles. MILITARY INTERVENTION - The military detain Cleopatra to appease stakeholders, despite media & medical protests. Storm distraught. BATTLE ARMOUR - Thanks to some unexplained divine intervention, Dan Hawk talks John Storm into wearing a bullet proof suit. GUANTÁNAMO BAY - History repeats itself, US military kidnap Cleopatra, John forced to rescue puts Elizabeth Swann at risk. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - Commander John Storm, in Navy SEAL mode, attacks the Cuban torture camp at Guantánamo Bay, in stealth mode, black op. MISSILE LOCK - USA military try to hack into Hal, anticipating a strike, as the DOD launch Tomahawks, John hacks into NORAD, and redirects them. PRESIDENT LINCOLN TRUMAN - Hails the Swann to find out why John is shooting missiles at Guantánamo Bay, Storm sets the record straight. FINALE
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