TEOTWAWKI
#138 : SeaMonsters
Now the real fun began. Henry put the The Retribution on autopilot at a fair depth in a wide circle. The water was deep, nothing could happen to damage her before it got his attention. Now he and Wilbur could go sport fishing.
To do so they each used a smaller version of The Retribution. They were drones about the size of a jet-ski. They were fast enough to catch any fish and armed so that they could kill it with no visible damage. The dead fish was then carried back to The Retribution by smaller shark-sucker like drones to be ZAP’d and preserved as a trophy fish while they each looked for more.
The method was NOT very efficient. It wasn’t intended to be. They were doing it this way for fun and it was a LOT of fun. They intended to only catch five or ten. They got carried away and caught twenty-five, each. Then they closed up shop and headed the drones back to the barn.
“Dammit Boy!” Henry said. He was tele-operating his CFFD, in hydrofoil mode, back to the barn personally. He could have put it on ‘return to sender’ and it would have found it’s way back to The Retribution by itself, but he was enjoying the view. Wilbur’s CFFD (cuttle fish fighter Drone) was slaved to his.
“Wazamatter?” Wilbur asked, somewhat distracted. Henry had been seeing a lot of neat stuff, like pods of whales, dolphins and flying fish. Henry was also hard of hearing, and was thus loud when he spoke. He spoke to himself a lot when he saw neat stuff.
“You got to see this” Henry almost yelled. “It’s a Coast Guard Cutter. It’s fighting a sea monsters!”
“Say what?” Wilbur tuned in.
“Well I’ll be damned” Wilbur agreed “ If that’s not a sea monsters I don’t know what it is. ”
“Oh shoot!” Henry almost screamed. “It’s trying to get a mouthful of Seaman. If it does it’s going to swallow.”
Sure enough. A sailor was in trouble. He was wrapped in tentacles and fighting for his life.
“Gotta do something” Henry muttered. He put the pedal to the metal and sent his drone toward the fight. The drone was already in hydrofoil mode and were almost instantly skipping across the water at sixty knots.
“Hang on buddy don’t let it pull you down.” Henry shouted to himself.
Just as the Sailor was pried free from what he was holding onto Henry’s CFFD’s leapt from the water and landed on the creature that had him. Henry clamped down HARD, had the drone bite it’s antagonist and dumped the full load of reserve energy from the Drones accumulators. A megawatt equivalent of electricity fried the creature’s tentacle. It dropped the sailor who scampered away.
The drone was dead. It had no power. It couldn’t move. It would take awhile to recover sufficient power do anything more than watch.
“Here you go Wilbur. Keep an eye on things with this one. I’m taking over the other one now” Henry handed over control of the de-powered drone to Wilbur and took control of the one that still had a charge.
The drones had been operating remote a long ways away from The Retribution. By the time The Retribution could get to the fight it would be over, unless desperate measures were taken.
The electrical shock had destroyed one tentacle and gently encouraged the huge seamonster to back away from it’s prey. It had burnt the equivalent of a finger. That thing STUNG. The monster disengaged from the Coast Guard cutter. As the ship steamed free deck guns were brought to bear. The tentacled monster had caught it by surprise. It was no longer unaware. The deck guns chewed the monster apart.
“I bet that hurt” Henry said. He stopped his drone dead in the water. They had a front row seat.
For a very brief time, Wilbur agreed. The two sat and watched. What would the Patrol Boat do?
The captain of the The Patrol Boat decided that discretion was the better part of valor. The ship turned and run.
Shelby: Sea Monster?
Wilbur: Yeah. Hard to believe ain’t it? But you got the video’s.
Henry: Big bastard to. It had crawled partway up onto that Coastie, most of it was still in the water but it was causing trouble. The Coastie wasn’t a little ship either, but it leaned over pretty good.
Shelby: Thanks for telling me about it.
Henry: We thought it was the thing to do.
Wilbur: Yeah. Kinda scary ain’t it?
Shelby: It certainly is. Bye now.
Henry: Bye
Wilbur: bye.
ArchMage to All
I’ve extended the underwater
surveillance net and increased it’s resolution.
It will go off if anything bigger than a catfish
get’s within twenty miles.
There WILL be false alarms.
Please treat this seriously regardless.
New and VERY Dangerous SeaLife has been
spotted in the water.
The Next Episode Is
#139 : Your Ship has come In.…
The Previous Episode was
#137 : In Search of the Wily Sushi…
The First Episode was
# 1 : Prologue…
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Book One: SoulStone
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it's hard to tell what’s true or when they are lying isn’t it? It seems that they are more interested in influencing public opinion than they are reporting the facts.
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More water, more room to roam, bigger fish, just like when we had more land, bigger animals. different climate, different size, the animal kingdom adapts, humanity has moved out of the animal kingdom or so they like to think, so those thinkers have a hard time adapting.
Now maybe not one but two new threats to Shelby's Family, sea monsters, and other sea farers.
At least this beginning of the fishing has been very active, nothing boring, for Wilbur and Henry, even with a sea monster they have fought ... apparently these deep waters hide some powerful inhabitants that can cause damage to those who that are not prevented ... Already Shelby put on alert his security and surveillance command ... We are waiting for the appearance of the next sea monster.