THE BRITISH SAS FOUND SOMETHING IN THE FOG
Part One:
0500 hours, somewhere in the North Atlantic:
The icy fog appeared out of nowhere, born in a matter of seconds and enshrouded the warship in a blanket so thick that the startled crew could not see beyond the sides of the ship. Still, it wasn’t the suffocating fog which set off the warning horns and call to battle stations aboard the destroyer, not that the crew could hear them above the inexplicable sound steadily growing louder in intensity, seeming to rise from the ocean itself.
The sonar technician was on her knees, headphones tossed aside, her hands pressed on her ears as she screamed in agony. Yet none of her shipmates could hear her. No one heard her warning that something large was rapidly ascending from the ocean just before she threw off her headphones as more of her shipmates fell screaming to the desk, blood streaming from eyes squeezed shut and ears pressed closed by shaking hands.
None of the unfortunate crew of the warship saw the giant black mass rise from beneath the waves as the intense, throbbing noise became fatal.
Whitehall, London, England:
“How the bloody hell does a Royal Navy destroyer simply vanish?” roared Admiral Sir Anthony David Radabar, the British Royal Navy’s First Sea Lord. The highest ranking officer of the naval service, Admiral Radabar was a tall, pale, and lanky man in his mid-fifties with a receding light brown hairline and piercing blue eyes set above a hawk like nose.
“Either the HMS Northumberland sank or she didn’t, but don’t tell me she just bloody fucking vanished with all one hundred eighty hands on board!”
The HMS Northumberland was a Royal Navy Type 23 frigate used primarily for ASW or anti-submarine warfare which operated out of HMNB Devonport. Fresh from six months in dry-dock for repairs and refitting, the Northumberland was on a routine patrol in the North Atlantic when, less than twenty-four hours ago, Naval Command Headquarters as well as the UK Military Joint Forces Headquarters reported that the Northumberland had gone missing. Only six hours after the report that all communications had been lost with the frigate, the British Royal navy as well as Allied Maritime Command from the NATO Regional Command, began rushing warships and search aircraft to the last known position of the ship.
Admiral Sir Radabar glared around the ornate conference room filled with his assembled fleet admirals, vice admirals, intelligence officers, and operation
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