Asteroid vs. Earth Page #3

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On board the USS Polk.

This is Captain Rogers.

Captain it's now or never.

We're 18 feet below normal.

Make way to get under way.

Copy that.

Cast off!

Chief of the Polk.

Take us out.

Aye aye, Skipper.

All right guys. All ahead full.

All hands below deck.

Hustle up. Let's go.

Let's get down below. Come on.

All right guys, move it out.

Now.

I am telling you that one explosion,

no matter how big it is, isn't gonna do it.

I'm more worried about no explosions.

Remotely triggering warheads

at the bottom of the Trench?

On the outside chance that load, deliver,

unload, re-board, reload and re-deliver

AND trigger 2 differently timed

explosions all at once? No way.

We need to puncture the protruding

crust of the Trench

in order to pierce the asthenosphere

and expose the Earth's core.

And then with the secondary explosion,

induce tectonic displacement.

I can't manufacture time Marissa.

We won't make it.

And I can't accept that because this is

the only way that's gonna work!

You know I started diving when

I was probably 10 years old?

I'm more comfortable under

water then I am in dry land.

It's a whole world down there.

These amazing creatures that

manufacture life out of nothing.

And now they're asking you to blow it up.

I understand,

and I know how hard this is for you.

But we don't have

to go up with the Trench.

I'm sorry.

Don't be sorry. Just be right.

Because that's the only

thing that's gonna make this ok.

Fair enough.

Earthquake?

Rudy?

Terry?

Long time no talk.

Who else were you expecting?

It's 3:
30 in the morning.

I wasn't expecting anybody.

But what do you care?

Man, I always care.

All the time. You know that.

Are you laughing at me?

Good.

Chase told me to tell you

about my feelings.

He said it would lighten the mood.

Should I have sent you

a Whitman sample instead?

How is chase?

Why are you with him?

If you don't want to tell me

It's just whatever is going on is big.

Look, maybe you should pack

your bags and get out of town, ok?

You can stay with my mom.

You haven't lost your sense of humor.

I gotta teach in the morning, man. I

You know I can't abandon my kids.

We've got finals.

- Rudy?

- Terry. I gotta go.

What is it man?

- Take care man.

- Rudy?!

I NEED EVERYBODY INSIDE NOW!

Move move move!

For god sake protect these nukes!

It's probably just another tremor.

Ships absorbs hundreds of them every year.

We should be ok.

They why are there radio

transmitters on the warheads?

And you don't care if I think you

are still making a mistake?

You can tell me afterwards.

All right, at least we can put a few miles

between us and the explosion.

Let's hope this works.

What now?

No.

Dammit!

The door's fails is set to lock.

Power surge must of tripped the magnet.

We're sealed in here.

Status report.

Status report, please!

Shut that alarm.

I can't hear myself think.

COB, what the hell was that?

We got a fire in the modify

launch bay in tubes 1 and 2.

The wells must have

shorted out the wiring.

Comms.

Sir, not response. I'm trying.

We're getting an elevated geiger

counter and even the CRA as well.

The reactor cooling system is down?

No, sir. Launch base 1 and 2 only.

- Go check 1 and 2.

- All right. Yes, sir.

250 milliards on the dosimeter.

That's a year's worth of radiation.

I thought you said it was safer

down here then it is on the surface?

It should be, unless there something...

The W88s aren't heat shielded.

Unheated shielded missiles?

Are you kidding me?!

Base of it isn't heatshielded.

They wanted to reduce the weight.

Encased in a Trident Il it isn't an issue,

but the deuterium is

forming irradiated Helium.

The missiles are reacting?

The deuteriumtritium trigger

is starting to fuse in the heat.

It's random, but it's accelerating.

We have to get these warheads

into the water now.

Chief of the boat?

We have to flush the warheads.

Sir? XO Seward and Marissa Knox

haven't reported in yet.

But they've transported

four W88 warheads

into a launch bay that is currently on fire?

Yes, sir.

Open the bay doors Chief.

We have to launch the HROV.

Yes, sir.

Sir.

Open the bay doors.

What is that?

They're gonna flood the launch bay,

come on! We gotta move!

The doors failed to open, sir.

Probably the electrical short.

Lieutenant Rouse!

Is there anything you can do to prevent an

accidental explosion aboard my sub?

I can bypass the safeties, sir.

- Do it.

- Yes, sir.

30 seconds, sir.

All right.

Now we just got to get out of here.

Let's go demagnetize that door.

HROV launch successful, sir.

But we lost the bay door.

Thank you, Lieutenant.

Sir, Sonar's shot.

What are you talking about?

How long will it be down?

The boat is simply making too much noise.

The welds had been groaning

and leaving an aural wake miles long,

but now, we're almost

at a 1 to 1 signal to noise ratio.

Sir, I can hardly hear anything.

- Understood. Do what you can.

- Yes, sir.

- Nav. Fullstop.

- Aye aye, sir.

If we're dead in the water,

let's not stray from our destination.

Comms., Put me through on intercom.

Let's get department

communications back online.

Yes, sir.

Crew this is the Captain.

With the apparent death at sea of XO,

Commander Chase Seward

and civilian geophysicist Marissa Knox,

I must violate a command order

and reveal the reason

for our mission.

The Earth is on a collision

course with an Asteroid.

And while the Air Force

and STRATCOM are

attempting to deflect

to destroy the asteroid,

the USS Polk has been assigned

to serve as a last line of defense.

The plan from Air Force Chief

Masterson is to detonate

nuclear explosions in Yap Trench.

This will cause earthquakes,

over 18 on the Richter scale,

big enough to move the Earth

out of the pathasteroid.

This remains our job.

And we have to find a way.

I couldn't be the only one on board

who knew the truth.

So now we can all pull together,

and keep it together.

Everyone in the world that you love,

depends on it.

Over and out.

How we doing fellas?! Secure, sir.

What did you see out there, sir?

This cannot be good.

Gunny!

Let's go!

Metal! Metal!

Close it Metal!

Sir, we gotta move!

We gotta get these gone.

Let's go.

Clear!

Bring it. Bring it. Come on. Come on.

Come on! Come on!

That's it. That's it. That's it.

Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa.

There we go. Back it up. Back it up.

Gunny!

Yes, sir!

Get these people out of here!

Move it! Move! Everybody out!

Marines! Let's go!

Everybody out! Let's go! Let's go!

Move move! Let's go!

Gunnery Sergeant.

Were all your men accounted for?

Gunny?!

Yes, sir. We're all here, sir!

Good.

I need 2 details.

1 to guard these missiles.

The other, to retrieve the tools

and insulated cases from

the shelf that use to be

in that corner over there.

Tools and cases for what, sir?

We're evacuating this disaster zone. Ok?

We're looking for a room with a view.

And unless YOU

can lift more then I can realize,

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