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“FivefourthreetwooneJump!”

Juan pushed the pack over the side and followed it into the slipstream

The sound of the plane receded quickly and was replaced by the sound of the wind buffeting him in free fall The pack exerted less resistance to the wind than his body, so it dangled below hi hiet whatever plans to capture or kill him in motion

He wouldn’t haveto open his chute as low to the surface as possible A thousand feet was the target The altimeter counted down every five hundred feet in his ear It went awfully fast

Juan took a moment to verify that the pack was still securely attached to his harness During D-Day, US paratroopers invading Nors that strapped to their legs Apparently, they’d never been tested in battle conditions before because s ripped loose when the chutes deployed The packs then pluround and were lost in the darkness

If Fred the Duht to the bottom of the harbor, and his an He’d never tested this scenario out in a real-world environht

“Two thousand,” the mechanical voice called out “Fifteen hundred”

Juan anticipated the thousand announcement and pulled the ripcord when it came The parachute yanked him upward, as the harness around his chest and waist cut into his wetsuit, but it held The pack sildly beneath hi what it was

The water calance around him No boats were anywhere close to him He pressed the RECALL button on his wrist, which started the re his way At the sa to land as backup

When he splashed down, Juan pulled the release on the chute and turned around until he saw the s bell He swa pack behind him

When he reached the buoy, he removed a tiny tank called Spare Air that was clipped to his harness It was for divers to use in the case of eh air for fifteen breaths That was all Juan would need

He put in thethe dummy to release the air inside It sank and pulled Juan doith it

Juan snapped on his headla on the muddy harbor floor

As he got closer, he spotted the bomb stuck to the hull As he expected, it was Tate’s fail-safe But Juan’s old CIA partner wouldn’t have gone to all this trouble just to kill hi

When he got to the top of the diving bell, he took out a s the interior and exterior caned to insert itself into thethe video and then rebroadcasting it The display indicated that it was successfully intercepting the signal