Attacked Beneath Antarctica by Dave Robinson

Author:Dave Robinson [Robinson, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Doc Vandal Publications
Published: 2017-08-27T22:00:00+00:00

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Doc slipped into the forward seat and fastened the harness around himself as the submarine settled deeper into the water. He flipped on the floods, only to see one of the creatures clinging to the glass in front of him. It shivered as the light caught it and then sprang away, covering its face with a tentacle. The last Doc saw of it was its open mouth; teeth spinning like a buzz saw.

“Here we go.” Doc rested one hand on the throttle and slid it forward. The submarine hummed, came forward a few feet and then jerked to a stop. He backed the power and took a look around the controls until he found the one for the anchor. As it rattled up into the hull, he fed the propellers a little more power and took the submarine forward.

Once they got down about thirty feet he opened it up to about five knots and took them through the archway. Kehla caught her breath behind him, as they slipped out into inner space. Surprisingly, it was not completely dark in the subglacial lake. Faint glimmers of light trailed off to both sides, marking out a stone wall.

Looking upwards, Doc caught a glimpse of the underside of the icecap. He aimed one of the lights upward so that it pierced the surface and splashed off the ice above him. It had been hidden from the surface world for millions of years, and his eyes followed the channels fresh melt had carved out over aeons of deep time. This was something even his artificial mentors could only guess at.

“Uh, Doc?” Kehla's hand fell on his shoulder. “Focus. We still need to find Gilly.”

He blinked, then turned his attention forward. This was a whole new world to explore, even if he wasn't the first one to discover it. Doc smiled, no wonder Hansen had been drawn down here. A faint star shape drifted through the edge of his vision, making him wonder how life had adapted to conditions so far below the cold.

But scientific exploration would have to wait; he had Gilly and Hansen to find.

They were far enough south that a compass was useless, but the German engineers had fitted a gyrocompass in the front instrument cluster, along with the depth gauge and log.

“Where to?” Kehla gestured to take in the entire underwater landscape in front of the window.

“Well, according to this chart, the Nazis have another base at the far end of the lake, but I'd rather not pay them a visit if we don't have to. Still, it may be a way out if we can't figure out how to work the elevator.”

Kehla raised an eyebrow. “And that leaves?”

He stabbed his finger at a mark in the shallows that divided the two lobes of the lake. “Right there.”

She leaned closer, almost pushing him out of the way with her heavy shoulder. “What is that?”

“According to these symbols, it's what Hansen was looking for.” Doc shrugged his shoulders. “It's also about a hundred miles from here, well inside this submarine's range.

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