7 The Pirates Are Here. Time to Shock and Awe (1/2)

Lance was placed in a quarter with another first lieutenant since the cabin for a superior officer was lacking, and he didn't want to sleep on the chair of his admiral either. So the option of sharing the bunk bed with another officer seemed to be good at times. His bunk buddy apparently had an enormous fear of rats and always imagining that there was a giant rat hiding under their bunk bed. He always woke Lance up and disturb his sleep during the two days of cruising.

”General, this is a different case, a ship has been spotted a hundred kilometers from here,” the lieutenant said, tried to warn him.

”What? A hundred kilometers? You wake me up for that? Fuck you, lieutenant,” Lance said as he sat down again at his bunk bed.

”Sir, this is an important target,” The lieutenant tried to wake him up.

”Lieutenant, respectfully, when is the last time you are exaggerating about things?” Lance said to the panic lieutenant.

”Last night, sir,” he said.

Lance woke up, and with a lazy posture, he said, ”That's right, that is fucking right. Last night you woke me up in the middle of the night, telling me that there was a rat under our bunk bed, so we went on a rat hunt yesterday, right? Guess what, we didn't found any. And guess what? You woke me up, later on, that same night, stomping my belly with combat shoes pretending that I was a large rat under your bunk bed. You were lucky that I'm your very super duper uber mega humble flag officer,” he said to his junior officer.

”But sir, this thing is different. There are pirates,” The lieutenant said.

”Then what? Just let the bushmaster 40mm deal with them. Why did you have to wake me up?” Lance asked.

”Sir, the leader, was wearing a hood on his head,” the lieutenant said and made lance awoke like a beaver in the morning.

”Hood? Get the seahawk lieutenant,” He said as the lieutenant saluted and ran towards the outside of the aircraft.

He ran to the landing deck of the CVN-78 and saw the white helicopter that was ready to take off from the landing deck. The helicopter was empty with only the pilot and the co-pilot and one door gunner.

”General, good afternoon,” The door gunner said as he gave Lance on of the UH-60 helicopter helmet that has a skull decal on the mouth protector. Lance sat down on the door gunner, who was equipped with an M134 7.62 minigun.

The helicopter took off and flew across the floating ships, which seemingly covered the entire ocean. The trip took about half an hour since the ship was about a hundred kilometers away from their position.