Lorelei Page #4

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Among the designated targets,

top priority is...

Tokyo.

May I come in?

Asakura defied high command

so his orders are invalid.

We've lost contact with base.

Returning home

would not be unreasonable.

That may be right.

However...

We bought this on the Ginza...

Tokyo's full of memories of her.

She's no longer with me

but what we shared

sustains me even now.

I'll defend it with my very life.

I feel the same.

It's a personal matter.

You don't have to get involved.

We've shared destiny since

Pearl Harbor.

Let's go out with a bang.

This is your Captain.

We're going to break through

the US defensive cordon

and attack Tinian.

We'll shell the airfield

and stop the atom bomb in its tracks.

However...

Stay still.

We're not operating under orders

from H.Q.

It's a voluntary mission.

This war is nearly over.

I don't know if Asakura's prediction

will come true or not.

All I know,

is that we can't stand by while

an atom bomb is dropped on Tokyo.

I won't force this mission on you.

Come forward if you wish

to opt out.

Rebuilding our nation

is also a worthy mission.

Survival brings its own duties.

Each man must think.

Decide for himself.

That's all.

Engine room, here. I'll go.

I'm the only one who's seen Tinian.

I remember the layout,

the undersea topography, too.

Good man...

Medical room, too.

Stern launch crew will go.

Torpedo loaders, count us in.

Maintenance, too.

Generator room, we'll go.

Me, too.

What the hell... as you wish.

Heck. Me too, I guess.

What have you been fighting for?

I never gave it any thought.

Never? Isn't there something?

You?

For my country.

Me...

I just like singing...

As long as I'm alive, I can sing.

That's it.

What is it?

Please take me, too.

One thing...

About Paula...

She's different. We should let her off.

Plot this course.

Captain?

We need Lorelei

for this mission to succeed.

But it breaks down...

Don't give up on her.

Paula...

You're taking me to Japan?

That's if we survive...

Don't give up on me.

You're leaving, too?

Sorry.

I'm just so scared.

Take this.

I want someone to appreciate it.

Make your future with it.

Salute.

I didn't think so many would leave.

They're our hope for the future.

The 25 men who departed

headed for a Japanese-held island

and made it safely back to Japan.

and made it safely back to Japan.

August 11th

Tokyo

2 hours, 30 minutes

to target plane's departure.

Sorry to keep you waiting.

A car's ready to take you.

Maybe we're already too late...

The Mariana Islands- Tinian

Take her down!

All hands, battle stations!

We're heading straight

for their perimeter

We have to be fast.

Give it all you've got.

Via the shallows is quickest.

We can't maintain any depth.

Safer to go through the trench.

I know that.

It'd take too long.

Plot the shortest course.

1 hour, 20 minutes

to target plane's departure

Entering the shallows.

Hug the sea bed.

Many destroyers passing overhead.

It's strangely quiet.

They want the Lorelei intact.

It could be easily salvaged here.

Another fleet ahead!

Rear fleet closing...

Forward fleet turning to us.

A pincer move...

Multiple charges from the fleet ahead.

The new patterned charge...

One hits and triggers the rest.

Defensive positions.

Evasive action, full speed.

Dive planes, full ahead.

Fractures to ballast pipes!

All stations, damage report.

Flooding in no. 4 ballast.

Aft launch area, fighting leaks!

Nothing wrong, here.

All clear.

Let's check the mini-sub.

Ship's stores flooding.

Seal it and get pumping.

Broken pipe in bow quarters.

What's going on topside?

Vibrations aren't subsiding.

The sonar's useless here.

Are you going?

Sure.

I can't let her go.

Mini-sub to bridge.

Superficial damage.

Okay for launch.

Forget it. The mini-sub's

no use on its own.

I...

will go...

Paula, stay there.

I'll go.

Can you?

Deploy Lorelei,

to evade the depth charges.

Paula, board the mini-sub.

Origasa, how is it?

All systems normal.

Flood the access tube.

Origasa!

Kiyonaga?

What the hell are you doing?

Goddamn.

My arm's stuck!

Stop the flooding.

I'm going to help.

Origasa. Don't leave your post.

I've got to help him.

Enemy ahead.

Distance 40 and closing.

We won't be able to get away.

We must continue in order

to deploy the mini-sub.

20 meters, 10... enemy overhead.

They've dropped charges.

Origasa, go back.

What about Kiyonaga?

I said go back.

But Captain!

Are you trying to sink us?

Origasa...

Go.

Get out!

Get out!

Flood it.

Resume flooding.

Detach the mini-sub.

Keep your mind on the job.

Repay our debt to him.

Captain...

Engage Lorelei.

Full left rudder!

We dodged the first salvo.

Enemy ahead, line abreast.

How many are they?

25 minutes to

target plane's departure

We must counter attack.

Ready tubes 1 through 4.

Target the lead fleet.

Wait a minute.

It might kill Paula, too.

We have a plan.

Flood tubes 1 and 2.

Fire!

You removed the fuses...

Disabling, not sinking them...

Minimizing Paula's agony.

But she suffers anyway.

Is Paula alright?

I don't know...

I can still go on.

Be strong, my dear...

Engine, give us full power.

It won't be enough!

Full revs!

Full revs in a dive? Insanity.

Chief.

What?

We can do it.

Really?

Well done.

Cap'n, we can do it!

Owada Relay Station

Signals from the Marianas...

Radio traffic around Tinian

increasing this past hour.

Something to do with Asakura?

Maybe it's code?

I keep hearing the word "Lorelei"...

15 minutes to

target plane's departure

No. 5 and 7, direct hit.

No. 8, on target, too.

That's all our torpedoes gone.

All ships in our path taken care of.

Keep your guard up.

Torpedoes off port bow!

What?

Hard to port!

All stations, report.

Main circuits, no power.

Switch to auxiliary power.

We're in bad shape, Cap'n.

Battery room hydrogen level

is soaring.

Damaged batteries, huh?

Blow main ballast.

No good.

Start the engines.

It's impossible... without reconnecting

main power.

Switch out the bad battery by hand?

If we could access the battery room.

Forget it. You'd never survive.

Captain...

They've stopped.

We're sitting ducks.

I hear 1, 2, 3, 4 charges dropping!

Power restored.

Kizaki!

Kizaki!

Blow main ballast!

Into reverse!

Listen up, both of you.

It's our last chance.

We'll use your torpedoes.

They're armed.

What'll happen to Paula?

I'll be okay.

If you're by my side.

Mini-sub, prepare to fire.

Origasa... Paula...

We're counting on you.

Dive planes up.

Fire!

We did it.

They think we're sunk.

Let's go save Tokyo!

I'm okay.

I'm okay.

Request permission to dock

for Paula's sake.

Captain?

Can you hear me?

Prepare to discard mini-sub.

We will not dock.

What's going on?

Mini-sub crew, leave the combat zone.

Find your own way home

and to the future. Out.

Please take us with you.

It's not fair. Don't abandon us.

It's our responsibility from here.

We older generation started this war.

Yet we relied on you youngsters

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