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Everything went as calculated. We only had to wait
two days for our enemies to try to reach the bomb.
The bulletproof vest covered the soldier well. The
soldier guarding the tanks had orders to drop to the
floor and hit the alarm installed on his belt. That
would give us the required time so they thought they
were alone and show us where the bomb was hidden.
Since the silent alarm sounded, we were following
every step they took, at this time there were only
three. They went quietly. Two of them went to the
pond where a few days earlier I had been shot, where
the whale was. The other guy walked further back to
where dolphins circled around and jumped without
stopping in a few cubic meters of salt water. In the the
bottom of the tanks were some kind of running
basement where connections and piping needed to
keep the animals alive. They uncovered panels giving
access to those spaces beneath tons of water. We let
them act. One of them stood out in the hallway
watching, but one of our well prepared cadet O'neals
acted quickly, a martial arts expert in defense,
neutralized them with only two movements of his
hands, others followed and responded to the alert.
A few seconds later, the two men who had entered the
basement tried to leave. It was relatively easy to catch
them with the panels uncovered. The five other men
were also arrested. The operation was a success. Now
in custody, the small enemy group in a small
makeshift jail inside the ship, I went to the central
control room to report what happened to the
commander Pot. I waited impatiently.
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- Excuse me, Commander. I told him to get his
attention.
- Go on, Colonel. Report what happened.
- Everything went as planned. They themselves took
us to the bomb, two ponds were under two explosives
that were hidden inside the pipes that run the wires
that fed power to the venting of the tanks. They tried
to remove the pump. The pump was able to enter the
ship and it was decommissioned in three parts. But
where the dolphins were was a conventional
explosive charge and a wedge smaller to act a striker.
One of those arrested worked in the repair shops of
Apollo 918 and I thought that this way build a bomb
of plutonium needed to put it together, we are
currently reviewing every millimeter of the whole
place.
- Did you try to interrogate detainees? The General
asked, crossing his hands behind his back.
- Yes, I tried, but they did not say anything and I
doubt they will, given the degree of fanaticism that
these men possess.
That night, we slept so calm, the threat had passed,
we had in our power the pump and its detonator, our
enemies were arrested and would be tried when we
got to our next destination.
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