SCAR by Michael Cole

Author:Michael Cole [Cole, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-21T20:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

Two Hundred Miles Southeast of Savannah Bay, Georgia

Cruise Liner Adventurer. Return trip from Grand Turk.

The excitement aboard the nine-hundred foot cruise liner was starting to dwindle. The seven-day trip around the Caribbean was now drawing to a close. By the end of the day, the ship would dock and unload its eight-hundred-and-fifty passengers.

From the depths looking up, the ship looked like an asteroid gliding across the surface of a young star. The world beneath it was quiet, dark, and hundreds of feet deep. A few fish and sharks glided between the seabed and the ship, all of which evaded its presence in fear that it was a giant predator that would swallow them at any moment.

The only creature that did take an interest did not have gills. In fact, it was bound by the land, only able to venture into the ocean through craftmanship. Blue flippers waved up and down like the natural ocean dwelling mammals, though the creature’s speed was mostly provided through the use of a propulsion vehicle.

The diver had departed from a mile out. In twenty minutes, he would return to the location where he had dived, and vanish, not from a ship, but a plane. First, he had to reach his prey. Unlike the other creatures around him, there was no fear of the leviathan above. This predator knew how and where to strike. He was not looking to kill, though he had the means to do it. It was not through teeth or crushing limbs, though he had both, and had used both in his forty-one years of life.

Instead, his method was through the inventions of his species. It was an evolution from the spears his ancestors constructed to take down sabretooth tigers and woolly mammoths. That evolution led to bigger spears, then to arrows, and into swords, and eventually to muskets and cannonballs, then eventually bullets, artillery, and ultimately, population-destroying weapons. The one this predator chose was only a tiny fragment of such power. His intent was not to destroy, but to harm—to do just enough.

Terrify.

The shape grew larger as it ascended. Eventually, it got so close that it blotted out the bright sun. The diver traveled along its belly, then settled near the port quarter, where he implemented his instrument of death. To the untrained eye, it looked like a small nylon block, harmless as a child’s toy. But in its belly was hellfire, waiting to be unleashed.

He secured the package to the ship, then accelerated with his propulsion vehicle to the extraction zone. It was fifteen minutes of continuous travel before he reached his destination.

The aquatic plane swooped down like an eagle. Its rear ramp opened wide, and two men dressed in black gear reached out to help him in. They could see the cruise liner nearly a mile out.

“Has Farcas hit the cruise line to Bermuda?” the diver asked.

“Detonation was two minutes ago,” one of his comrades replied. The diver pulled his mask and gear off, while a couple of other men secured the diver propulsion vehicle and air cannister.

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