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“KEEP SHOOTING!” Tagaan yelled to his guards “They’ll have to come up eventually”

Twenty uely human, but no bodies bobbed to the surface

Tagaan had recognized the man who’d been in the missile-armed truck that had taken down the helicopter Mel Ocao drop But the burning re to hijack the ship else

He didn’t kno the two men remained underwater, but he

knew that so to have to pick them up For that, he had a solution

“Get the Kuyogs ready to launch,” he said to his lead mechanic

Thetwo objects floating in the water next to the dock Painted a glossy black, each of the sleek watercraft was the size and shape of a Jet Ski, with the seats and handles removed The only protrusion that interrupted the strea sensor that could detect anything bigger than a scuba diver’s ed by a laser, the internal sensor would lock on The Kuyog would then doggedly continue its pursuit until it caet and detonated the hundred pounds of Semtex inside

An accoaan had designed the Kuyogs hiht, an unliet, which hy he’d given the name for swarm

Locsin had known that to control an island nation like the Philippines would require taking out its Navy, and the Kuyogs were specifically designed for the task Asyaan had learned the lesson fro of the USS Cole, an Alass boat that had coside and detonated four hundred pounds of explosives But with Tagaan’s expertise, they now had a s were already in various stages of construction, and this shipment from China was the final load that would allow a communist takeover of the country with the help of foot soldiers fueled by Typhoon

Tonight was supposed to have been the test run for the Kuyogs Tagaan had been planning to launch theo was unloaded froe If no boat showed up to pick up the two uised cargo ship that had fired the ellan Sun

The , then said, “Ready, comrade”

Tagaan held the powerful targeting laser as he scanned the sea His drone showed the h speed It would be in range of his laser as soon as it came around the northern point of the bay

Then Tagaan’s eye was drawn to movement two hundred yards away He wouldn’t have seen the s if it hadn’t been for the twoout of the water onto it

“Launch now!” he shouted

The s raced away froh rate of speed that they rose up out of the water to ride atop drag-reducing hydrofoils jutting from the hull