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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 5127728" data-attributes="member: 3285">Righteous Triad Fists: Part 5 – We All Live in a Giant Submarine"They're down there," said Jim-Bean, pointing at a narrow ladder to the bridge.  "They're waiting for us.""All right.  We're going in hard and fast," said Hammer, pistols cocked.  "Jim-Bean, you take point.  I'll provide cover.  Caprice, Guppy, see if you can make it to the control panels.  We need to find out what happened to the book.  Archive, you hang back, provide support as needed.  Ready?"They nodded."Jimmy, go!"Gripping the ladder with the insides of his feet, Jim-Bean slid down the rail.  He was immediately peppered with gunfire.  Jim-Bean held one hand out and the bullets ricocheted off harmlessly.Hammer was next.  He hit the ground hard, rolled and came up firing. The gunfire stopped for a moment as the guards ducked behind control panels.The other agents followed, each letting loose a volley of retaliatory fire so that another agent could slide down.Lining the walls of the chamber were seven consoles with matching chairs. The consoles were for RADAR, the diving control center, the quartermaster post, radio, sonar, SINS (Submarine Inertial Navigation Systems), and the complex’s computer. A periscope flanked by a radio antenna and a radar antenna stood in one corner of the room. The tcho-tcho guards piloting the horseshoe were dressed entirely in black — slacks, turtleneck sweater, and deck shoes. Colonel Feng Ho stood at the center of the mass of men, firing his pistol. Canister-shaped grenades were tossed over into the center of the room."Gas!" shouted Hammer.The agents all flipped their breathing masks up. In the smoke and fumes, something big and heavy ka-clunked on one of the operating panels.Feng Ho's voice was audible in the darkness. "Let's see you stop this.""Chain gun!" shouted Caprice.In the interim Ho had three men mount a belt-fed chain gun.  Ho's hand swiveled it to aim at Jim-Bean."'Bthnk! Ftaghu! Fhtagn!" Archive pointed one finger and Ho froze in place, hand still on the trigger.Jim-Bean cackled. "You think that's going to stop me?  Try this."  He tore the pin of a grenade out with his teeth and tossed it."Jimmy, NO!" shouted Hammer.The bridge crew could only look on in horror as the fragmentation grenade bounced its way towards them.  Ho, shaking himself free from the spell, dove over one of the consoles.Then a localized explosion tore through the pressurized sub.</blockquote>

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