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Tate nodded at the guards, who pushed Juan down into a chair, the sa the video chat

“You’ll get to watch the whole thing,” Tate went on “I’ve even equipped the assault team with GoPro cameras so we can watch them take over your ship in real time Won’t that be fun?”

Juan sneered at Tate but said nothing Tate had underestimated his ability to save Overholt, but it looked like Juan had ue Now his crew ht pay the price, and Juan would have to see it all happen live This was Tate’s idea of torture

With a flourish, he pressed a button on his armrest

“Yes, Commander?” came a voice over the intercom

“Are you in position?” Tate asked

“Yes, sir The disruptor is ready Helicopter standing by”

“Good” Tate threw a s operation”

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Linda was doing her best to help prep the Gator for the upco dive, but she still couldn’t hear ht be a fewback, but Linda orried that it would never return to normal In the meantime, she wanted to show she was useful nobut paperwork for the last few days in her role as the Corporation’s VP had bored her to death

She had Mark Murphy hastily whip up a special speech-to-text app to use in conjunction with his old Google Glass headset She felt like a geek while wearing it, but now she could understand what so the words projected on the sround noise was a proble at once could be difficult to decipher The translation was even worse than when she was dictating a text h for her purposes It allowed her to assist with the checklist of the Gator’s cockpit functions before it was launched for the nuclear sub search

Froood view of the technicians in the Oregon’sthe final check of the dive gear Raven was behind Linda in the sub each item off a tablet

Oil press her? it read on the glasses

“Oil pressure nominal,” Linda replied She wished she would actually be piloting the sub, but Mark Murphy was going to be co down from the op center soon to take her position for the dive