Tyranny in the Homeland (16 page)

              “Missiles tracking true and the first should impact in ten seconds. The plane has exploded. Another has been shot down. Wait, there are more planes inbound.”

“Shoot them all down.”

“Order the F-18s to kill any planes that get through the missiles and have Stingers and Phalanx stations read for close in support.

Plane after plane exploded, but just when they appeared to have shot them all down, five more were detected skimming the water at just above the waves. They were still 20 miles out and were easy targets. The missiles were on target when a blinding flash came from the direction of the inbound planes then a shock wave hit the ships. It did no damage, but rather rocked the ships a bit. The crew saw the easily recognized fireball growing in the distance.

Admiral Jones realized that all ships and planes were a potential nuclear threat. He immediately barked out new orders, “Kill any plane or ship that is not in our fleet now. Use all means possible. They just detonated a small nuke at 20 miles; it may be a cover for something else."

              The Admiral was looking towards the west when a large blast occurred miles away and grew to enormous size.

              “Prepare for the shock wave. Turn the ship…”

              He never got the words out of his mouth before the shock wave hit the Ford blowing aircraft and men into the sea. The radar domes and antennae were sheared off at their bases and the ship was tossed around like a cork in the surf. Admiral Jones saw Commander Cox thrown up against the window, which shattered with glass and blood was flying everywhere. The ship was tossed around like a toy in a bathtub. Several crewmen were tossed around like leaves in a hurricane. Suddenly the noise stopped and all was calm.

              Admiral Jones and one of the crew rushed to assist Cox who lay unconscious on the floor.

“Get a medic on the bridge for Commander Cox.”

              “Sir, we must get the ship heading towards the blast. There will be a huge wave coming like a freight train in a few minutes.”

              “Thanks, Ensign, you may have just saved our lives. Captain, steer to the blast. Now, what is the status of the ship? Can you see the wave on radar?”

              “Sir, all communications and radar units are dead. We are blind. I have lookouts posted and communicating to our remaining F-18s from one of the damaged aircraft on the flight deck. Wait. One of the aircraft reports an extremely large wave just a mile from our position. We have a minute or so. Good luck to us all and may God bless everyone on board. Sir, I have also warned all other ships and Mobile Command."

***

              John and Beth were sound asleep when the earth shook them awake. A glass fell off the kitchen counter and the baby started crying.

              “John, was that an earthquake? Mobile doesn’t get many of them down here do they?"

              John started to answer, when there was another jar that shook the room. This time it knocked books and glasses onto the floor. John was still half-awake when it dawned on him that this earthquake was much closer or much more powerful than the first.

              “I need to check in with Bob. That could have been two nukes going off in the distance. I can’t tell the direction since we are underground in the bowels of the Compound, but I can assure you that whatever it is, it is far away.”

              Just then, two more tremors jarred the compound. John’s phone rang and Bob asked him to come to the command center. Lindsey and Billy ran into the bedroom and jumped in bed with Beth.

              “Baby, I’ll be back as soon as I can. Bob told me that the fleet is under attack and that at least four nuclear weapons were used against the fleet. They have lost contact with most of the ships. I will call you when I know something.”

***

              “What do you mean; you can’t tell me if we were successful?”

              “Senor, all of our assets was either destroyed per plan or has no communications due to the EMP from the air blast. It will be days before we know the outcome of the attack. We don’t have hardened equipment that can withstand an EMP blast like the Americans.”

              “So, the damned ISA knows what happened, but we don’t."

***

              “George, there was an attack on the fleet this morning. Several nukes were used against us.”

              “We felt the blasts and first thought that they were earthquakes. Was it the USA? Those bastards were going to use them sooner or later.”

              “My hunch is that it wasn’t them. I think it was someone in coalition with the UN, perhaps the Chupacabras.”

              “How bad is the damage?”

              “We don’t know yet. The fleet took a beating and we are only getting disorganized info from walkie talkies and a couple of vessels searching for the Ford.”

              “Thanks for the update. You called, what can I do for you?”

              “First, make sure that all of our team is ready for an attack. Second, reach out to all of our sources and try to find out who was behind this. Third, pray for us.”

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“Gabe, either tell me the whole story now or sleep on the couch for the next ten years. We have been married for over thirty two years and I did not know about the property down here or that you are friends with the President of the ISA who is an enemy of our country.”

“Do you want to go back?

“No, but we will miss our friends. Thanks to Josh getting involved in their politics, our lives are in danger back home.”

“Let’s have supper and fix a couple of stiff drinks and I will tell you about Gabe Logan-Super Spy and ISA Sleeper Cell Master. If you behave yourself, I’ll introduce you to my handler. You know all of my team in the USA; they are our closest friends. Several worked with me at the dealership.”

“Gabe, do I know you at all? Is everything I know about you a lie?

“What you know is the truth. I fell in love with a wonderful woman; we married, had children and had a good life. All of that is true. I did not want you to know anything about my work for the ISA to protect you. You know you and the kids would have been tortured or killed to get me to talk if captured. The less you knew, the safer I thought you would be.”

“Gabe, did you think I’d leave you if I found out about you being a spy?”

“I just didn’t know and I loved you so much. I also did not want to place you in any more danger than necessary to get the mission accomplished. Our lives were secondary to the overall security of the ISA. ”

Gabe took her back in time to the first contact he had with John and Gus. He had met them by accident during one of the early battles in lower Indiana. He wandered into the middle of a firefight and was wounded. Gus saved his life and convinced him to spy for the ISA. He hated the Presidents socialism and DHS making people disappear that disagreed with the administration.

“So, we were married for a couple of years before you became a spy?”

“Yes, remember my trip west and the car wreck? Well, it wasn’t a car wreck that put those scars on my back. It was a shotgun blast and a .223 round. Gus and John made sure that I was taken care of and then helped me get back home safe with a cover story.”

“What about the property, this house and are we rich?"

“I made good money at my job up north, but a spy gets paid very well. Most of my pay was not in cash. The ISA paid me with farmland and just enough cash to get the farms up and running. I hired a manager to run it for us. We own over ten thousand acres in Tennessee and Alabama and I have a small army tending the farms, processing the products and operating our stores.”

“Now, don’t tell me that you own Logan’s Organic Foods!”

“Yes, dear, we own them. Don’t be surprised after all I am a good businessman.”

“Gabe, this is so much to take in all at once. Why did you do this so long? Don’t spies eventually get caught and killed?”

“Luck and good work are the short answer. We were very slow and methodical. We never did anything that could be traced back to Columbus. Remember that sleeper cell that blew itself up about six years ago? They were planted there to take the blame for our work and take the heat off our cell. We did that several times over the years. We always had a plan ready that would misdirect the DHS.”

“What were some of your successes?”

“I can’t go into that. We did very good work and our several cells kept the ISA ahead of the USA over the years.”

Gabe enjoyed the drive from his house south of Smyrna to the Capital. There were no signs of the devastation that the area had suffered over the last twenty-eight years of constant war and cold war. The USA did not try to remove bombed out buildings and signs of war. The President thought that constantly seeing the damage would make the people hate the ISA. This did not work and just made the people hate their masters even more. The USA was much like the USSR back in the 1950s. They mainly lived in communes and camps while the local leaders lived in mansions and lived the high life. Most citizens barely got by day to day. Gabe made a good living selling cars to the elite and was considered one of them.

The capital of the USA was now in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and the “White House” is a remodeled mansion from the early 1900s. All surrounding buildings had been razed for over half a mile around the capitol grounds. There were fountains, reflecting ponds and statues of the last three Presidents all over the grounds. There were anti-aircraft missile batteries in numerous locations a few miles out in all directions and several underground bunkers with thousands of the best soldiers in USA. All of this was to guard the President and her cronies from the ISA and the people of the USA.

Gabe had recently learned some critical information that had to be hand delivered to the ISA military. Gabe had scheduled a visit to lower Ohio to make the drop of info to his contact, but the rescue of him and his family were a week before that. He was not proud of what he had to do to get the information from the Chief of Staff’s administrative assistant, but the info was crucial to the survival of the USA. He did not want Betty to know of his dual identities in the USA. A courtship and marriage to the young lady were all in the name of service to the ISA. Drugs, sex, bribes and murder were the tools of a spy and he was a good spy. He got what he needed and his bride had an unfortunate accident.

***

“Good morning, Mr. Logan, I will let the Secretary of Defense know of your arrival. Please have a seat.”

Gabe only had to wait a few minutes before a staff member came to usher him to a conference room. He recognized most of the people in the room from their wanted posters that were plastered all over the USA. These people were the enemies of the USA and all had a bounty on their heads.

“Gabe, I welcome you to the ISA and want you to meet our Joint Chiefs.”

“Gus, I am pleased to finally come out of the cold and get my family safe. I am pleased to meet all of you.”

Gus quickly introduced him to the team and they got down to business.

“Gabe, we have a set list of questions to ask you to make sure that we are up to date on the USA’s military, then we will give you time to give your report.”

Gabe interrupted and said, “Pardon me, but I have urgent info of a major attack on the ISA.”

“Go ahead.”

“The President of the USA wants to inflict major damage on the ISA and make you pay to stop the attacks.”

“Gabe, short of a nuclear attack, the USA doesn’t have the ability to defeat us and I doubt that they could inflict enough damage to bring us to our knees and beg for help.”

“The UN and the Chupracabras have joined the USA in a joint attack on the ISA and PSA. They have been smuggling supplies and soldiers into the country for several weeks. The attack is scheduled for early January. No specific date had been set as of a couple of weeks ago.”

“Gabe, how reliable is this info?”

“I personally got the info from the Assistant to the Chief of Staff. We also have agents watching the ports and training compounds. They have seen foreign soldiers wearing the blue hats training with the soldiers of the USA. They plan to attack three locations--Port Arthur, Mobile, Louisville and several targets in the PSA.”

“So, my guess is the Chupracabras attack from southeast Texas and hit Port Arthur and the PSA, the UN from Mobile Bay and the USA attacks Louisville.”

“John, you are correct. The UN has gathered all of the ships in their command and they are willing to sacrifice them to wipe out our fleet. The big surprise they bring to the party is that they have obtained some nukes from Pakistan and the USA!”

Gus jumped in and said, “Our intel said most of the Pakistani bombs had been either destroyed or sold to the Cabras.”

“The USA thought that also, until an arms dealer came forward and tried to sell them to Libya. Egypt caught on and stole the nukes and the money during the transfer. They sold about eight to the Cabras. They placed the rest under the UN command. The unholy group have built some stealth boats and plan to run them into the fleet, Mobile, San Francisco, San Diego, Charleston, Jacksonville and Seattle. They also plan to launch missiles at Nashville; a first strike scenario that they think will bring us to our knees and sue for peace. The nukes and stealth boats are being assembled in two locations and we have detailed maps. They will be ready in eight weeks.

“Scott, the Joint Chiefs agree we must pre-empt their pre-emptive strike.”

“Gus, give me the bullet points and a copy of the plan to study later. The bottom line is, will this stop this power mad bitch? We will kill millions of people when these birds fly. Will it be worth the price?”

Gus looked Scott in the eye and replied, “Our way of life will cease to exist and all of our people will die or become slaves if we don’t stop these mad men.

The USA’s lady president may be a liberal, socialist piece of shit, but she has more balls and ambition than any two men that I know. She also is a bloodthirsty bitch with aspirations of taking and holding more country and rebuilding the old USA plus Canada and Mexico. She and people like her have to be destroyed."

THE END of this story but the beginning of:

Book IV - Revenge in the Homeland

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Revenge in the Homeland

The Adventures of

John Harris

Book IV

By A. J. Newman