Elite 3 Part 2

Six days to this day

0614hrs

The morning loads of fishes are being hauled in by the fisherman’s in their trawlers. But this morning, it brought in a new load of fishes among its usual loads. They are named the ‘Barrucuda’; a newly formed mercenary team under a Major Tuan ( pronounced as Tun ). There are seven of them in the squad, and they have just landed.

The Barrucuda don’t travel light too; they have some heavy luggages and three SUV was waiting for them at the jetty. The three SUV left the jetty with a sinking Trawler on its berth as its bottom was breached. As for the owners of the trawlers, the sharks had pieces of them three hours ago.

0817hrs

Across the island on the remote beach, a trawler has just berthed at the jetty at 0943hrs; that used to belong to General Sebastian’s estate. Since the last destruction, the place has been abandoned and the current owners unknown. The men from the trawlers started unloading their cargo; ten long boxes on the jetty and left. Once the trawler cleared the sight of the jetty, six men which came in early this morning came out of the nearby palm trees and started moving the cargo into the abandoned house.

All this was completed by 0959hrs

1118hrs

The man in the old Volkswagen looked at the young lady who just left her home for school. She is lanky like her mother and ages thirteen now. She is dressed in a jeans and a yellow jacket over her red blouse. She is also carrying her ‘stuff all in’ bag and is seen mounting her bicycle now. She rode off in the direction of her school which is about a mile away. The local time here is 0919hrs  and she is going to be late.,

The man in the Volkswagen then packed his breakfast and drive off. He will now position himself near her school gate and wait for her departure as always. He has been doing it for over two weeks now.

Another man in the park opposite the house is doing his morning exercise. He is waiting for the someone to come out and walks to her bus stop. She will be taking the 0920hrs bus and be at the office by 0955hrs. She will be there until 0420hrs and back to her place by 0520hrs if she is not shopping or having a drink with friends. They have recorded all her movements and the information for the last two weeks.

Three days to this day

1118hrs

This morning is no exception. The young lanky teenager left her house on her bike as usual. The man in the old Volkswagen looked as the young lady cycled away. He got out of the car and walked to the house door. He left a package there and walked back to the car. The local time here is 0922hrs  and the teenager is not going to school today. She is going on a flight to the island via a private jet.

At 0917hrs the mother came out of the house and saw the package. She picked up the package and opened it. Her left hand cupped her mouth as she read the note in the package. She appears very worried on the note. It looks like she will not be on the bus that the bus that morning as she will be busy packing her personal items for a flight to the island. She also sends out an SMS on her phone to a personal number. All this time, she is praying for her beloved daughter’s life entwined in hers’ now again.

Melanie Selvi is now on the way to the airport for her international flight. She got a prepaid ticket on the afternoon flight to her previous home on the island.

1118hrs

The late morning ferry arrived at the jetty, and among the eighty odd passengers is one man with a small suitcase. He is an Eastern European nationality and he hardly smiled. He walked up to the Arrival Hall and was met by two other men wearing dark shades. They exchanged some words and all verifications were established. The European hands over the suitcase in exchange for the envelope from one of the two gentlemen. Inside the envelope are the details of the funds transfer. While the European man is reading the details, the two men walk away with the suitcase containing the item needed to paralyze the whole island; Mahburg Virus. Its as deadly as the Ebola virus and like it; there is no antidote.

The two men with dark shades got into their SUV and was driven off by a third man. Soon they arrived at their destination which is a large rectangular building with high windows, and air vents on the top wall. The only entrance is the roller shutter main door at the front of the building. There are two side doors which are constructed of metal plating. The SUV drove in when the shutter door was opened, and behinds the shutter door is a space for three cars width. On the left side of the car space area, is the small room with a half wall and glass partition. In there is a console with multiple screens that covers the whole establishment and its manned by two armed men with machine guns. I front of the car parked area, is a glass wall with two doorways, across the walls. Each doorway is equipped with a HAZMAT Decon corridor before the person can come in the or out of the lab. Beyond that glass wall is the microbiological lab with the full array of lab equipments and machines. The men got out of the SUV and hand carried the suitcase to the entrance to the decon corridor and was shown to a small room with a table inside. The men laid the suitcase down and waits for the attending Professor to come and examine the suitcase.

The lab is under the care of a Doctor in Virology and Biotechnology, named Professor One or he prefers to be known as Doctor One. Doctor One is an average man with a superb mind on the subject of microbiology and chemistry. He had his name printed on his name tag and it stands for his position here.

‘Placed it in here’. He indicated in the lead metal case.

The man holding the suitcase puts it into the lead case and the Doctor sealed it immediately. The metal case has a built in scanner processor and a small screen to show the printout.

‘Imbeciles! Shoot them!’ hissed the Doctor in disgust.

The personal guard of Doctor One who followed the doctor in, took out the Taurus 92 9mm with 17 rounds  and shot the three men once in the chest each. The impact of the 9mm caused the trio to fall down a few feet behind, but the reinforced glass panels did not shatter.

‘Burn the body and decontaminate the lab now. The container in the suitcase was leaking. They could be infected. Do it now.’ The four Lab technicians and two doctors went to work; decontamination takes time and patience.

Dr One rubbed his chin in anxiety and then proceeded to walk to the portable decontamination booth and had himself sprayed down. He came out later to the open ground and took out his packet of cigarette.

‘Reminds you of year 1990? How sad?’

The doctor looked at the man who was talking to him. If the virus did get released, there will be twelve persons under lockdown position by now including himself. But it was only a small trace of leakage but in this line of works, one cannot be less careful.

‘Yes, Major. We live in troubled times now’ as he muttered to himself.

1503hrs

The human courier sitting at the far end of the ferry was coughing badly, and has difficulty breathing. He grabbed hold of the side of the seat as the pain in the chest increased.

Five minutes later, the human courier was being treated by the staff of the ferry for possible cardiac arrest but he was already in a coma. The ferry was still in the jetty so they removed the sick man to the jetty office, while waiting for the ambulance.

1523hrs

A light plane flew by some small islands in the surrounding sea. The pilot flying it is doing some aerial survey for the tourist ministry and he just snapping photos of the beaches and blue sea. He did make a slight detour to reach a small isolated island. On reaching that particular island, he dropped off a small metal with the mini parachute to the island. He then flew back onto his normal course, resuming his photography trail.

2052hrs

The doctor rushed out of the Pathology Lab and ran to the nearest phone. He told the operator to get him the Director of Medical.

2213hrs

The whole hospital was in lockdown situation and the perimeter sealed off. The Medical Commission has just declared the hospital as off limits to any visitors.

Critical Diseases Centres worldwide was advised on the new outbreak.

The Hospital consist of ten levels in its building structure but its designed to split into two wings; right and left. The first three levels served in its function as per the needs of the hospital clinics and labs setup. The upper floors are the recovery wards for the different faculties of the hospital.

Today the right Wing of the Third Level was declared as the CDC centre and all medical personnels are only allowed on authorisation. They also posted in security guards to the lobby of the Second Level.

A panel of available specialists’ was assembled as the interim team and sent to work at the Right Wing on the Third Level. An array of equipments were requisitioned from the nerarby Universities and Medical Labs. All unused equipments are removed and space created for the incoming ones.

There was only three specialists found willing to work in the current dire conditions, along with six nurses. The rest of the medical staffs refused or threatened to leave if they are forced to work in there.

Some of the patients on the upper floors were moved to other clinics or hospitals. The number of patients was reduced to one third by dawn.

The project was called ‘Overload’.

2312hrs

A young teenager finds herself back at her old home place.

Alicia is all alone and tired.

And there are no Mummy or Uncle Marius around.

Nor is Uncle Marcel.

2359hrs

Three players are troubled at the recent outcome from their last two games which they had won. With the two games in their favor, they thought they had won the competition. But this recent outcome is forcing them to play harder again in the next final game.

That final game has introduced the new rules and it involves a non-player as the prize to be won in the playoffs.

The players are now warming up for the final game.