Operation Whitewaters: The Wrath of the Unknown Enemy – XIX

Disclaimer: This is a pure work of fiction and any resemblance to any events or characters is purely coincidental.
Any Indian Military designations used are also imaginary and may or many not exist in real life.

Continued from : Operation Whitewaters: The Wrath of the Unknown Enemy – XVIII

Getting hold of the Big crocodile
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It wasn’t as if Tamzer had not faced adversity before. However, he knew that the tide of the battle had been turned against them. He had to decide whether to ask for the mission to be aborted. That decision would come with a lot of personal image loss. Yet he just had 6 planes remaining, with others either damaged, or lost to enemy.
The loss of Ronh was the worst.
Yet if he remained and fought with courage, there was no guarantee if anyone would survive.
He had to decide fast, and fast enough.

XN12 to XN27: “Sir, 10 planes approaching us- engage or change course?”
“Change course for now, affirm: change course for now.”
Tamzer too turned North-West to avoid engaging the incoming planes.
However, he had to decide fast enough.
Suddenly he felt a jerk from the left side. It looked like a sudden air turbulence.
He tried to steer slightly towards the right side. However, he felt a jerk on the right side too.
For a few minutes, he could not make out what had happened.
However, after a few minutes what he saw shocked him.
He was escorted by 3 planes- bigger in size than his Eagles. Such a thing was rarely done and he did not expect his enemies to do such an arrangement.
The three planes had affixed like Nuts and bolts to his planes and were taking him downwards to the base.

A few minutes earlier, at the Colt III base,
Captain Ranbir asked Area commander Vikram Singh “How do we tame the crocodile of the pack. We ought to get him alive.”
To this Commander Vikram Singh said “Look, we can unleash our Turbines.”
He then started playing a video on his laptop “Watch.”
Captain Ranbir watched a simulation of how first a group of two aircraft carrier planes and then three and then four surrounded a fighter plane, and then glued on to the surface of that fighter plane using some kind of fasteners, and then escorted the plane down to the ground.
“Amazing Commander Vikram.”
“Yes Ranbir and we have named these as our Turbines- well I was a Mechanical Engineer student and had a fascination with turbines. So I kept there name as Turbines. Moreover, nobody will suspect Turbines to fly so high and capture a fighter plane!
And we are going to unleash these to get hold of the crocodile.”

It was early winter morning when Tamzer’s plane was bought down to the base- the chill was in full blow at 6:30 in the morning at Colt III, as the battle was taking a new turn…….
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