Chapter # 1 (Tyaga n Arjun)
[THIS IS A NEW ATTEMPT AT STORY TELLING BY TWO LUNATICS. ARJUN & TYAGA. YOUR VIEWS, SUPPORT AND SUGGESTIONS ARE NEEDED. ]
Location: Island 15312 [5.57° N 72.62° E]
Status: Classified (Indian Administration)
Time: 1830Hrs Date: NOV-7-2006
The Island was silent. The total area of the 15312 Island is 7 square miles. The eastern portion of the Island is marked by a small hillock rising for about 40 metres above sea level. Though there is a steep gradient of 9 degrees from the western coastal plains to the top, the opposite face is a steep 40-metre wall plunging into the Indian Ocean with sharp rocks jutting out all over the base. Overall the Island looks like the famous Indian Samosa cut into half. The top of the hillock spans an area of 2 miles flat.
To any unsuspecting viewer on the first sight it just looked like an uninhabited chunk of land in the Great Indian Ocean. Many thought that it was just a piece of land extending from the Lakshadweep archipelago. But many did not know the importance of activities going on in the island.
Covered with shrubs and grasslands on the eastern side, the vegetation improved as the elevation increased. The vegetation was quite exotic ranging from tundra trees to the typical palm and coconut trees densely placed on the top. This enormous canopy was a good cover for the one and only concrete structure on the top of the hill with a small-unpaved road connecting the building to one of the 4 hidden piers and barracks in the base of the hillock.
The Concrete structure was a 1.5-mile square block painted in military colors providing excellent camouflage and making it almost impossible for the naked eyes to spot from a distance. It was an engineering marvel in itself. The building housed 6 storeys. With the top floor used for storage and vehicle garages, other floors ran down deep into the ground. Though the top 3 storeys would be similar to any military base worldwide, the final 3 storeys marked the importance of this classified Indian Army Base known only to the top people in the government and Army Staff. Only the elite unit of Army was sanctioned to work in the base and it is the best-guarded secret of India.
The Island was silent. With the sun rapidly disappearing behind the hillock, darkness loomed over the Island. Apart from the usual eerie silence that was the characteristic of the island, there was something unusual about the building. The east wall of the building had a blast door with reinforced steel and lead. There were no windows on the other 3 sides of the building. The walls were concrete on 3 sides. But a portion of the wall for about 4 meters on the left side of the blast door was made of brick. It was initially used as the alternate access to the building while the blast door was being constructed. Since completion, the brick wall was left as it was and concealed for exits during emergency.
Everything was silent around the building. The whole island was dotted with state of the art security gadgets and it was monitored 24/7. The blast door was closed. The red LEDs marking the emergency situation was on near the blast door. Exactly at 1837hrs IST, the brick wall on the left side of the blast door exploded with a shattering noise that shook the building. From the broken wall came a black Indian Army spec-Scorpio smashing the remaining parts of the brick into smithereens. It thundered down the dark road towards Pier-1 and was driven with the skill of an F1 Pilot. Inside the Scorpio was 'THE HOUND', trying hard to concentrate on the path ahead. He was breathing hard with blood flowing from his forehead into his eye-sockets.
As the Indian Army-spec Scorpio swerved along the tricky mountain road to the Pier-1, the whole building exploded with a massive explosion shaking the island altogether. The flame emerged from the building plummeting the roof a mile up into the sky and erupting into an enormous mushroom cloud of fire. In moments pieces of the building and the materials inside it were raining down on the island and the waters surrounding it.
Just a few seconds before the explosion, the mountainous wall on the western part of the island had started moving. A portion of the wall had opened up a cavity in the mountain and revealed a rectangular hole – almost 50 metres in height and 150 metres in length - right at the centre of the wall. The epicentre of the explosion was at the 3 floor of the base and was at the blast door side of the building. The impact of the blast door forced the powerful forces to turn down inside the base and the flames rushed out of the cavity in the western wall. It was a majestic sight, and to any layman it would have looked like the mountain was breathing fire out.
The flames reached about 150 metres from the opening and started to fold back into the opening. Just then a black Sukhoi 47 Berkut MKI gunned out of the cavity like a phoenix out of the ashes. The pieces clinging on to the wings of the Su-47 Berkut MKI were still on fire and the big black and sleek bird looked like fiery eagle on its flight. Inside the cockpit of the worlds most advanced fighter jet was 'THE HAWK'. Soon the SU-47 Berkut MKI disappeared into the horizon shaking off the burnt pieces of the base into the Indian Ocean.
The Island would soon be silent once again, as the flames were dying out fast.
To be continued…
Status: Classified (Indian Administration)
Time: 1830Hrs Date: NOV-7-2006
The Island was silent. The total area of the 15312 Island is 7 square miles. The eastern portion of the Island is marked by a small hillock rising for about 40 metres above sea level. Though there is a steep gradient of 9 degrees from the western coastal plains to the top, the opposite face is a steep 40-metre wall plunging into the Indian Ocean with sharp rocks jutting out all over the base. Overall the Island looks like the famous Indian Samosa cut into half. The top of the hillock spans an area of 2 miles flat.
To any unsuspecting viewer on the first sight it just looked like an uninhabited chunk of land in the Great Indian Ocean. Many thought that it was just a piece of land extending from the Lakshadweep archipelago. But many did not know the importance of activities going on in the island.
Covered with shrubs and grasslands on the eastern side, the vegetation improved as the elevation increased. The vegetation was quite exotic ranging from tundra trees to the typical palm and coconut trees densely placed on the top. This enormous canopy was a good cover for the one and only concrete structure on the top of the hill with a small-unpaved road connecting the building to one of the 4 hidden piers and barracks in the base of the hillock.
The Concrete structure was a 1.5-mile square block painted in military colors providing excellent camouflage and making it almost impossible for the naked eyes to spot from a distance. It was an engineering marvel in itself. The building housed 6 storeys. With the top floor used for storage and vehicle garages, other floors ran down deep into the ground. Though the top 3 storeys would be similar to any military base worldwide, the final 3 storeys marked the importance of this classified Indian Army Base known only to the top people in the government and Army Staff. Only the elite unit of Army was sanctioned to work in the base and it is the best-guarded secret of India.
The Island was silent. With the sun rapidly disappearing behind the hillock, darkness loomed over the Island. Apart from the usual eerie silence that was the characteristic of the island, there was something unusual about the building. The east wall of the building had a blast door with reinforced steel and lead. There were no windows on the other 3 sides of the building. The walls were concrete on 3 sides. But a portion of the wall for about 4 meters on the left side of the blast door was made of brick. It was initially used as the alternate access to the building while the blast door was being constructed. Since completion, the brick wall was left as it was and concealed for exits during emergency.
Everything was silent around the building. The whole island was dotted with state of the art security gadgets and it was monitored 24/7. The blast door was closed. The red LEDs marking the emergency situation was on near the blast door. Exactly at 1837hrs IST, the brick wall on the left side of the blast door exploded with a shattering noise that shook the building. From the broken wall came a black Indian Army spec-Scorpio smashing the remaining parts of the brick into smithereens. It thundered down the dark road towards Pier-1 and was driven with the skill of an F1 Pilot. Inside the Scorpio was 'THE HOUND', trying hard to concentrate on the path ahead. He was breathing hard with blood flowing from his forehead into his eye-sockets.
As the Indian Army-spec Scorpio swerved along the tricky mountain road to the Pier-1, the whole building exploded with a massive explosion shaking the island altogether. The flame emerged from the building plummeting the roof a mile up into the sky and erupting into an enormous mushroom cloud of fire. In moments pieces of the building and the materials inside it were raining down on the island and the waters surrounding it.
Just a few seconds before the explosion, the mountainous wall on the western part of the island had started moving. A portion of the wall had opened up a cavity in the mountain and revealed a rectangular hole – almost 50 metres in height and 150 metres in length - right at the centre of the wall. The epicentre of the explosion was at the 3 floor of the base and was at the blast door side of the building. The impact of the blast door forced the powerful forces to turn down inside the base and the flames rushed out of the cavity in the western wall. It was a majestic sight, and to any layman it would have looked like the mountain was breathing fire out.
The flames reached about 150 metres from the opening and started to fold back into the opening. Just then a black Sukhoi 47 Berkut MKI gunned out of the cavity like a phoenix out of the ashes. The pieces clinging on to the wings of the Su-47 Berkut MKI were still on fire and the big black and sleek bird looked like fiery eagle on its flight. Inside the cockpit of the worlds most advanced fighter jet was 'THE HAWK'. Soon the SU-47 Berkut MKI disappeared into the horizon shaking off the burnt pieces of the base into the Indian Ocean.
The Island would soon be silent once again, as the flames were dying out fast.
To be continued…
posted by Arjun.C.N at 10:30 AM
1 Comments:
Arju
This one was pretty cool and so diff from all the other blogs..the pace it maintained throughout the blog was interesting. The air of mystery of whats hapenning and what exactly it means wud surely I think make the readers go till end of The blog. Gud Grip over the choice of words.. Bt blve me for 1st time i didnt get ny clue on this blog bt later was made to read each n vry word in the blog.kudos for that..eager to read the continuation on that :)
keep rocking dude 8)
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