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The sun had been shineing above the Sunlight Voyager, but almost as a purcusser of things to come, it clouded over and began to rain. At around 1430hrs, gunfire erupted off its port bow. Pirates. In small craft had caught up to the cruise ship and began to fire. Coming along side they soon got aboard and took over the ship. A broad distress signle was sent

MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY, this is the Sunlight Voyager, we have been attacked by pirares, requirei...


RBS Castaway

The RBS Castaway, a cruiser, was about a hundred miles away, she turned and began to head towards the cruise ship.

Official Communique
To the Government of The Battlehawk
From the Democratic Republic of Comorostan
We have received the distress signal from your cruise ship. If you wish, we are willing to send two teams of SWORD (Special Weapons Operational Response Detachment) commandos to assist you in retaking the ship. The SWORD commandos are well-trained in maritime counter-terrorism.

OOC-could I say there are a few Comorostani nationals onboard and RP their actions? or do you want to keep this a strictly international response RP?

OOC: Character or national or what?

OOC: Both, theres people aboard, but a distress call was sent so, nations ships can turn op

IC:
OFFICIAL Responce
TO: THe Democratic Republic of Comorostan
FROM: THe Repbulic of THe Battlehawk

Assistance from your SWORD Operatives would be appreciated, the RBS Castaway is currently the lead ship, sending co-ordinates now.

Alanea's Blue Corporation have received your signal. We are sending 4 boats with armed trained specialists. Please respond if possible on your progress. Our officers should arrive in 10-20 minutes.

Blue Corporation.

ooc RBS what is that short for

Helena Parr was reading a book when the gun shots rang out, and at first she was so engrossed by the twists and turns of the plot that she did not hear the commotion. But when the screams began and when people rushed to the windows to look at the ships in pursuit she set the book on the table and strolled over to find out what was going on. She was a calm and laid back woman, but what she saw shocked her. She said nothing. She did nothing. But she knew that she was in grave danger.

OOC: Republic of the Battlehawk Ship

One of the Pirates Shoved an AK-47 in Helena's face as she walked through a door
"Follow me" The Pirate siad

OOC: Republic of the Battlehawk Ship

ooc Royal Bank of Scotland was what pop into my head

OOC-do you mind if I RP a Comorostani national on board? if not I'll delete this post

IC-Mike Stevens was in his cabin when the gunfire started. His first reaction was to check it out. Then common sense kicked him in the face. You idiot. Yeah, let's walk towards the gunfire. Those sound like automatic weapons...but I'm sure its nothing. Stupid. Mike went to his suitcase, opened up the top compartment, and pulled out a Ruger .22 pistol. Silent, compact, but deadly. Mike remembered another Comorostani on board, a woman by the name of Trisha...something. OK, meet up with her, then get to the lifeboats. Yeah, that sounds good. Mike made sure the pistol was loaded, then slowly opened the door and sneaked down the corridor.

The commander of the small Blue Corp rescue fleet had directed his officers to slow down slightly, so as not to be detected by the pirates. The attackers were now in sight. He tells two of the boats to spread outwards and move foward towards the scene. He tries again to intercept the cruiseship's radio signal. He leaves a preset message:

THIS IS A BLUE CORPORATION RADIO TRANSMISSION. IF THERE ARE ANY LIVING CREW MEMBERS ABLE TO RESPOND, PLEASE RESPOND. WE NEED TO KNOW YOUR SITUATION.

Four Pirates were moving through the cabins, rooting everyone out of their rooms.

Eden was in the situation room for his weekly cabinet meeting when word came in, a foreign ship with Jakran tourists on board was attacked by pirates. "Take down this memo" he snapped at his secretary
Official Comunique to the Battlehawk government:
The government of Jakra is willing to deploy a NSWG combat team to assist in retaking your hijacked cruiseliner, further assistance avalible if needed.
Sincerly, John Henry Eden

The Pirates Captain listened to this message on the radio, it had been nearly half an hour since they had captured the Bridge, since the distress call had been sent. He simply ignored the Radio for now and went back to looking out the porthole.

One of the Pirates Shoved an AK-47 in Helena's face as she walked through a door
"Follow me" The Pirate siad

Helena would normally have had some witty comment to make to a person who treated her so ignorantly, but she was so shocked by this interruption to her holiday that she simply did as she was told. It was best, she decided, if she did not mention her family; she would be a pretty big ransom to Parilisa if these pirates knew who she was.

OFFICIAL Responce
TO: Jakra
FROM: ROTB

The Battlehawk would be grateful for any assistance, the RBS Castaway is the lead ship, where our own Special forces are being gathered, Co-ordinates are being sent...

End Transmission

Still without a response, the commander reluctantly sends a third boat closer to the pirates. Some of the specially trained officers dive into the water to perform a stealth assault. The rescue fleet has not yet been detected. The commander wonders whether he heard a scream in the distance.

Mike saw the pirates drag a woman out of here room. He was halfway down the hallway, moving slowly from shadow to shadow. When they neared his cabin, he started running stealthily to the end of the hallway. When he reached it, he ducked around the corner, pistol ready.

Near the Cruise Liner
One MH-53 helicopter flew towards the the RBS Castaway. Once near, the pilot opened up communications. "RBS Castaway, this is Charlie One. Request permission to land on your ship. Do you copy?"

An officer from the Aquatic Stealth section of Blue Corp pulls himself onto the deck, narrowly out of sight of patrolling pirate. With tranquilisers and his entire body covered in a black swimming suit-including his head-he attaches a time-delay SleepSmoke device to the side of the cabin entrance door. If he could establish how many there were on board he'd make his next move swiftly...

RBS Castaway

"Charlie one, Charlie One, you are cleared to land, the Pad has been cleared" THe Castaways opereations cief said

Cruise Liner

The Pirates entered Mikes room, which of course was empty.
"Strange" One commented

Cruise Deck

THe last of the pirates climbed aboard from the boats and began to patrol the deck. Ahead they saw the Blue Corp officers and fired at them.

RBS Castaway

"Charlie one, Charlie One, you are cleared to land, the Pad has been cleared" THe Castaways opereations cief said

Roger that, we are landing now. The MH-53 descended to the pad. The SWORD commando's leader stepped out and requested to speak to the leader of the anti-terrorist group.


Cruise Liner

The Pirates entered Mikes room, which of course was empty.
"Strange" One commented


Mike saw the pirates enter his room. "Sh*t." he whispered to himself. He quickly went down the hallway, heading for Trisha's room. He remembered where it was. But how close was it to the lifeboats?

A SHADOW Officer walked towards the group, the Shadow Corps, that was now the Primary Special Forces unit of the Battlehawk, for both normal and 'The Battlehawk wasn't involved' special forces issues. He stopped about ten paces from the group.

The Blue Corp commander surged forward in his own boat and fired ruthlessly at the vulnerable pirates who could not aim accurately at the sudden flux of boats and stealth officers who quickly scaled up the sides of the boat.

The stealth officer already on deck, Jonny, has made it below deck and waits forthe signal to set off the special device. He sees a woman being carried out onto the deck by a pirate. The pirate's back is turned and Jonny quickly dispatches of the pirate with a single tranquilising to the neck. He reassures the woman he is here to help, then moves on.

The SWORD commando leader saw the SHADOW officer. "Are you in charge here? What's your plan for getting on that boat?"

The two Jakran Ospreys (V-22s) orbited around the RBS Castaway and requested permission to land.

"Get of this ship or everyone aboard will be killed" THe Pirate captain said from the Bridge "We have a large bomb and will not hesitate to detonate it"

RBS Castaway

"Jakran Aircraft, you are cleared to land,"

"Some idiots have gone in guns blazing, we're holding postition here, while other help arrives.

OOC: Dude, stop the attack, they do have a bomb aboard, besides it's meant to be a multi-national effort

The commander saw the aircraft and the panic of the pirates on deck. Now at the boat's side, he demands Jonny to set off the SleepSmoke device. In thirty seconds the deck should fill with an invisible gas that will put all inhalers into a deep sleep. The stealth section has just lost two officers due to a pirate wielding a machete. The commander angrily sends more officers clambering up to the deck.

Mike reached Trisha's room. Empty. D*mn. What to do now? Mike quickly searched for anything useful. He found some money and, lo and behold, apparently Trisha packed. A H&K P-10 pistol was buried under her clothes. Better than a .22. And she won't be using it. Mike slipped the pistol into his pocket, transferring the .22 to his back pocket. Now on to the lifeboats. Then he heard the gunfire. (OOC-the pirates attacking the Blue Corp officer) Sh*t, sh*t, sh*t Mike took off down the hallway, from what he could remeber, the nearest lifeboats were at the back of the ship. Got a ways to go. he thought.

The Ospreys touched down, Commander Williams(of the NSWG team) had his mean gather in the shade between the Ospreys and ready their gear while he went off to find who was in charge. Suddenly he saw a familiar face, a SWORD commander he knew and was friends with from cross training excercises talking with some other guy. He left his lutenent in charge of the men and went over to the SWORD commander to see if he knew who was in charge on the ship.

"You have thirty seconds" The Pirate captaion said as more pirates rounded on the more boarders, these the more experianced pirates, had become pretty good shots.

Jonny has been cut down. The commander has no time to ponder. He pulls down his mask and joins his officers in the fighting on the deck.

An injured Blue Corp stealth officer shouts to Mike that he should go to the side of the boat, where there are empty Blue Corp boats. He also tells him he should cover his mouth and nose when escaping, as the gas is surely everywhere now.

The commander dispatches of five pirates in less than thirty seconds. He motions for the rest of the officers to go inside and retrieve the innocents.

OOC-Mike is on the opposite side of the boat, so you wouldn't know he's there.

The gunfire grew louder. Mike, from a hidden vantage point, saw more and more pirates streaming away from where they seemed to be guarding the other passengers. An ida grew in his mind. He slipped out of the hiding place, and began sneaking towards where the pirates were keeping the hostages. If I can free the hostages, the pirates won't have any bargaining chips left. Mike Stevens was ex-SWORD, and all that training was coming in handy.

Pirates and slow-to-catch-on officers start falling unconcious as they breathe in the gas.

OOC-dude, if you keep this up, the pirates are going to blow up the ship. this is an international response, not a one nation show

OOC: DUDE...STOP, THERE ARE OVER 200 Pirates aboard, they have all convered on your postion,

"Twenty Seconds" The Pirate Captain commented as he activvated the air systems and vented the gas

OOC-Mike reached the hostage holding area. There were 20 pirates, armed with AK-47s. Mike went back around the corner and started working on a plan. There was no way he could take out 20 pirates with 10 rounds of P-10 ammo and another 8 .22 rounds. Mike decided to go back to the hallway. He could find a lone pirate, kill him, then take his AK. Then he'd have some serious firepower. Mike went back into the hallway. He spotted a lone pirate, running to the battle. Mike fired four .22 rounds into his head, and another 4 into his chest.

OOC: Twenty, the rest on deck or about the ship

Blue Corp stealth officers have hidden some tourists in an empty room below deck.

The commander, experienced in bomb disposal, has heard the shouting about a bomb on board. There are now more pirates than Blue Corp on deck. The gas seems to be losing its effect. There aren't many rounds left in his T-G. He had not expected so many pirates. There was not enough time for more Alanean backup. He had to do something quickly.

He walks towards who seems to be the leader of the pirate possy, hands raised and saying 'I surrender' in Alanean.

With the pirate dead, Mike armed himself with the AK-47. He went back to the corner, sighted on the nearest pirate, and fired twice.

The Commander was wrestled to the ground by pirates and was soon in an execution postion. The rest of the officers where tied up and were on their way below decks, under heavy escort.

The stealth officers below deck are attempting to take some of the safe tourists up a ladder and onto a safer area of the deck. The process is slow and risky..it's difficult to prevent them from being distressed. Pirates are heard arguing in the hallway. An officer attaches another SleepSmoke device to the ceiling, and carefuly shuts the door of the room holding the innocents.

OOC-Battlehawk, my guy just blew one of the guard's heads off.

The Pirates turned and fired back at where they shots came from, one took a shot to the lef

OOC: Yea I know, the post to your post is the one above this on NUmber 45

The commander is choking but trying to remain calm. He asks the pirates what they're after, in a hope to forge some kind of black bargain...

Mike ducked back around the corner. When he bullets stopped, he went back around, firing the AK on full-auto at the pirates, making sure not to hit any hostages.

The commander scorns after the man with the AK who seems to have not seen him being taken hostage. The pirates have relaxed their hold of the commander, but it's not safe enough to try anything silly.

The Pirate captain gave a pistol to his First Mate, the First mate took teh gun and held it behind the Commanders had, when the Captain nodded her fired it into the back of his head.

Hold.

The Pirates used the hostages as human shields, firing at the unknown

RBS Castaway.

"Alright, the crazy attack failed" The Shadow officer commented "Follow me to a planning room"

The device below deck has been activated. Gas fills the hallways and anybody who comes into contact with it falls to the floor. The gas lasts longer and spreads further in the contained hallways.

Inside the closed room, the last of the few innocents rescued by Blue Corp. quietly make their way to the deck. The officers begin lowering tourists into the boats and another SleepSmoke device is thrown onto the deck, for good measure, as the remaining stealth officer climbs into his boat. The boat leaves. It will alert the nearest nation.

The Smoke below decks was vented slowly out by the enviroment systems. The Pirates on deck dragged the dead body of the Commander away.

Not so far from the scene...

Nonchalantly scraping a bit of ninja from his boot with the aid of an antique ivory shoehorn, Captain Carlton Contagion listened to relevent radio traffic. Forking out his five-fold share of the last six-months' booty on this state-of-the-art listening post would be worth it, after all, he thought.

"Lads!" He called out, to little avail. "Lads!" This time he added a shot from a flare pistol, aimed square into the chest of an unfortunate hostage, and so managed to rally his comrades in arms, who had been engrossed in a series of expensive wagers on fights between a couple of up-armoured giant crabs and an irate cat.

"It's time, if you'll be agreeing with me."

Having already voted on the matter, Contagion's mates hurried to their vessels, while frequency-hopping radios alerted comrades already at sea. International forces had already begun to respond to a hijacking in the region, and so some two hundred and thirty kilometres distant, the Boucanierians closed-in on a growing backlog of other cruise ships and commercial vessels that had been advised by their various responsible authorities to make new arrangements in light of the unfolding terrorist drama.

Popping up from the wavetops just a short distance out from a second cruise ship traveling a similar route to the already hijacked ship, a gyrocopter clattered overhead and planted itself roughly on deck, close to the ship's bridge, and three heavily armed men alighted, guns blazing. Apparently expert shots, they quickly dispatched several officers on and around the bridge, and a small explosion heralded their take-over. The immediate and repeated use of deadly force saw to it that their capture of the bridge was most rapid and unchallenged.

Shortly, a couple of large speedboats, powered by up to four outboard motors a piece, drew up, and more of Contagion's men were hauled aboard. They quickly set to looting, robbing passengers, and using threats of execution to prise open the ship's safes. Within minutes of the attack starting, one speedboat was already full of loot and heading away, and there was little sign that the other raiders intended to stay for long.

A few miles away, however, just over the horizon, a third ship was under attack, this one also by the Boucanierian squadron of Carlton Contagion. This was a large freighter under some other flag, and it was confronted by Contagion's own vessel, a submarine of at least forty years vintage and armed with a large deck-gun, which had just surfaced giving the civilian target little option but to comply with demands to heave-to and prepare for boarding. The Captain himself had already shot the freighter's helmsman with his trademark M-93 Crna Strela 12.7x107mm heavy sniper's-rifle, indicating that he was more than serious.

From the conning tower of the rusty old diesel-electric sub, a chilling banner was fluttering in the ocean breeze...

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OOC: Hi! Hope you don't mind my butting in! These two ships -a cruise liner on a similar route to the OP's and a large cargo freighter- are supposed to be two-hundred and thirty-ish kilometres from the original hijacking, and may belong to anyone who wants to claim them. Contagion is using the OP's terrorists to create confusion and distraction as he launches a well-practiced co-ordinated strike, which he hopes will be just out of range of assets sent to deal with the original issue.

The human shields unnerved Mike. He stopped firing and began running towards where he had seen the boats. When he got there he grabbed an empty boat and sped off to the Battlehawk ship on the horizon.

The SWORD leader followed the Shadow officer towards the planing room. The rest of the team stayed by the helicopter, checking and rechecking weapons and equipment.

The Blue Corp boat approaches Captain Contagion and request to know where the hostages came from. The distressed tourists on the rescue boat don't speak Alanean, and by Blue Corp. law the officers must not leave hostages on their own, but can only deliver them to their appropriate nation. The officers also stated that a bomb may be on the cruiser.

The Planning room was high tech, a holographic image of the cruise ship and surroding sea. Thermal scans had been taken and showed roughly how many people were aboard. The Anaylsts had already exaimined specs for Dynamic entry routes.

Mike approached the cruiser. He was hauled on board by the SWORD team, and asked for his identity. "I'm Mike Stevens. I was on the cruise liner. I know where they're keeping the hostages, I know the layout. I'm ex-SWORD, I need to talk to your leader." Mike was ushered to the planning room.

The Door swung open and Mike was ushured in
"Who are you?" THe SHADOW officer asked

The Blue Corp. Minister in his Alanean office of Johnson City hears the news. He contacts the SWORD security centre and informs them of some of the hostages in Blue Corp. hands. He would also like an informed report of the current situation on the attacked boat, particulary how many pirates are still alive. If the Battlehawk requires backup, he has contacted the Black Corporation, where a more advanced operation will be carried out. Number of hostages freed by Blue Corp: 18. Number of Blue Corp. Fatalities: 8

The Blue Corp boat approaches Captain Contagion and request to know where the hostages came from. The distressed tourists on the rescue boat don't speak Alanean, and by Blue Corp. law the officers must not leave hostages on their own, but can only deliver them to their appropriate nation. The officers also stated that a bomb may be on the cruiser.

OOC: I am a bit confused. Captain Contagion is aboard a submarine that has waylayed a freighter some 230+ kilometres from the Battlehawk cruise ship. I'm not directly involved in the Battlehawk hijacking, just using the chaos and likely re-routing of other ships in the area to lay my own ambushes of a second cruise ship and a freighter.

"My name is Mike Stevens. I was on board the cruise liner. I'm an ex-SWORD operative, so I tried to rescue to hostages. That didn't work out. I know the layout of the ship, where the pirates are concentrated. I'd like to help in any way you need."

OOC-Im going to be off for a bit

"Alright, we've got a SWORD team here" The SHADOW Opeartive commented

Blue Corp. sends another transmission:

SHADOW OPERATIONS. WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT SITUATION. 18 HOSTAGES ARE IN ALANEAN HANDS. PLEASE RESPOND.

Commander Williams was confused and irritated, the last of his patience was worn out he had watched some boats assault the cruise ship and watched one return. He had asked numerous crew on the ship who was in charge and everyone knew but no one knew where the leader was, williams decided to get some damn answers. He jogged into the planning center, his 2 team chiefs at his heels. Once inside he adressed the room "I don't intend to be direspectful, but what in the holy hell is going on around here?!"

The Minister of Blue Corp. sends a message to the Republic of Jakra.

To whoever it may concern. We have recently rescued 18 hostages who were on the cruise ship in question. By Alanean law we cannot simply leave the at the nearest state, nor can they come to Alanea as they are no longer in immediate danger. We request whether your county knows where the tourists on that cruise ship came from. The Blue Corporation s experiencing difficult time after the death of a Commander and several officers, so we would like to quickly relieve ourselves of this matte so that our people can grieve.

Thank you, Jonathon Collins, Blue Corp. Minister

The nation of Comorostan has no knowledge of the homelands of any of the hostages. The whereabouts of two Comorostani nationals are known: one is being onboard the RBS Castaway, the other is confirmed still hostage.

"Sorry, that would be me" THe Shadow Officer commented "Of the rescue anyway, sorry for keeping you waiting, I did send a privvate to find you"

"As i said I meant no disrespect" replied Williams "It just seems that there are several different rescue efforts happening at once and it becomes rather frustrating, but now that I understand what's happening let's get to work"

Reply to the Alanean Government From President Eden;
We will screen the hostages you freed and evacuate the Jakran nationals as soon as possible, Commander Williams onsite will handle that until our Customs team arrives to verify passports in several hours.
Sincerely, John Henry Eden

"We are the current teams involved, how many men have you got?"

[IC] The Blue Corporation has temporarily placed the freed hostages on Alanea's Vetting Island. We will also undergo screenings, although none appear to be of Alanean origin.

The Blue Corp. Minister asks Commander Williams if the piracy situation has been neutralised.

Blue Corp. Report.

"My team has 35 men. 30 of them are shooters, 5 are intell/liaison people." replied the SWORD leader.

"Alright, SHADOW team currently aboard the ship has twenty men,"

Jakra's NSWG has 38 men, 30 are shooters (in teams of ten), 6 Intel/ liason, and 2 officers (Commander Williams and Lutienent Drebon) Plus 6pilots/mantinence (75th Special Aviation Group)

"Ok, so we've got about 70 combat personnel, so if we split into 7 teams, we should be able overwhelm their defenses, do we'd need four Choppers, all with fast rope"

"We can supply additional MH-53s. They have fast-rope, and are armed with 3 miniguns for support."

"We've got four between us, are they all suitable?"

"We can supply as many as necessary."

[ooc] am i discontinued from this rp?;

"Both of the Ospreys have ropes and nose mounted miniguns"
OOC-now we have 80 people, I forget Charlie team.

"Alright, Choppers one and two, should take a orbit and put down minigun support, whilst three and four, fast rope onto the deck, before switching over, agreed?" Shadow Captain siad "If so, we should get a briefing for the teams"

Williams mentally walked through the paln for a moment "I think this will work" he said "but their is one detail... what about the bomb?"

"We'll have to rush them, get to the bridge, take our there leader, and let a bomb team take out the bomb threat, it's the only option"

"I don'y like it but it is our only option" Replied Williams "alright let's do it, I'll go and brief my team" and with that Williams left and walked acrosss the deck to where his team relaxed between the 2 Ospreys.