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Chapter 5 (continues)

Postby Tetsuwan Penguin » 10 years ago

At that moment the door at the far end of the room opened, and Diachi entered.
“Ohayo,” he said, with a polite bow. “Am I in time for breakfast?”

“Certainly, take a seat,” Hirohito replied, “You must be Diachi, I'm so glad we all were finally able to get together. Now then Astro, what is so important that you need the Emperor's ear?”

Atlas turned his head to give Astro a stern look. “I suspect my friend here wanted to tell you that the idea of war with the Americans was the idea of a Baka. I wouldn't listen to him.”

Astro's face glowed red with anger as he slammed his palms down on the table and turned to face Atlas.
“I thought you were opposed to the idea of war!” He blurted out.

“Not if means a better position for our country in the world standing!” Atlas replied back. “I've given the mater much thought during the night, and came to realize what a fool you are.”

The Emperor's face showed a look of extreme surprise, while Akihito looked back and forth between his two guests. Finally the prince spoke.
“What is the meaning of this?” He asked.

“I suspect that somehow your guests have guessed the purpose of my meeting this morning.” The Emperor replied. “I will be in conference with the Prime Minister and heads of the military. We have a decision of grave importance to make, and it does concern the possibility of war with the western world. But how did you two know this? Are you spies?”

“Current events make it obvious that our country is having difficulties with its neighbors in the world.” Astro quickly blurted out. “What other pressing matter could account for the look I saw on his majesty's face when I first walked in?”

“You have the observational skills and the mind of Conan Doyle's great detective.” The Emperor replied. He stared at both Astro and Diachi as he spoke. “Rest assured that I will make a sound decision for the fate of my country based on facts. I can promise you nothing else.”

The door slowly opened and the Emperor's secretary appeared at the doorway. “Our visitors have arrived your Excellency,” he said.

“Arigato.” The Emperor replied. Then turning to face his son and guests, “I must leave you now. Akihito, please keep your guests company until they are to leave. I will be quite busy for the foreseeable future.” The Emperor left the room with his secetary.

Astro and Atlas glared at each other for a moment. The prince looked at each of them in turn and then spoke. “While he was most polite, I saw in my father's eyes that he was annoyed by your outbursts.”

“I'm sorry, your highness,” Astro replied. “Diachi and I seem to see things differently,” he said as he glared at Atlas, “But we are both loyal countrymen.”

“Perhaps, but I think you should both leave before evening.” The prince said. “You may stay for the noon meal, but It would be best if you were not here when father's visitors are gone.”
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Chapter 5 (continues)

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Prime Minister Tojo, Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, Naval Minister Admiral Shimada, Admiral Nagano, and Army chief of staff Sugiyama entered the Emperor's study with the Emperor and his secretary, and the was locked. The study was off to the side of the building where it jutted out under a low roof line and had windows around three sides affording the Emperor a view of the gardens of the palace.

Atlas grabbed Astro and pushed him towards an outside door into the garden. From their vantage point outside the building near the Emperor's study they could see the room, but the window shades had been closed. The heavy glass panes in the windows made the room sound proof and neither of the two robots hearing was good enough to make out what was being said inside the room.

Atlas ran back into the building dragging Astro with him. There was a closet next to the Emperor's study in the hallway, and the two of them quietly snuck into it. Atlas pressed his ear against the wall adjacent to the Emperor's office, but he could hear nothing but muffled voices.

“Your hearing is better than mine, you try it!” Atlas barked at Astro in a muffled whisper. “We need to know what is going on in there!”

Astro tried as well, but even with his 1000x hearing the wall was too soundproofed. Atlas looked up and noticed a hatchway leading into the ceiling. “There is a crawlspace up there.” He piled a few empty boxes on top of each other and stood on them to open the hatch in the ceiling leading into the crawl way. He poked his head into the opening and quickly came back down.

“It's too tight for me up there.” Atlas said. “You're smaller than I am shrimp, you get in there and listen!”

Astro glared at Atlas. “You really trust me to tell you what I really hear?”

“Actually I do.” Atlas laughed. “I know your programming won't allow you to lie, not even to me.”

Astro shrugged his shoulders and climbed on top of the boxes and crawled into the ceiling. He slowly made his way to the middle of the space above the Emperor's study, being careful to keep his weight on the ceiling beams to avoid falling through the thin plaster.

“The review of your eleven points has been in vain.” Nagano said. “We've considered all of the possibilities and it appears unlikely that the Americans and the British will stand by idly while we continue our conquest of the Pacific. The American's are sure to cut off our supplies and will leave us no choice.”

The Emperor looked at his new prime minister and the army chief of staff. “Do you also agree with Nagano's assessment?” he asked.

“I do,” Tojo replied. “I see no alternative.” Sugiyama agreed. “We must make the first move in this game of chess with the west.”

“I see.” the Emperor sighed. “In that case, are you going to provide justification for the war?” he asked.

“I've already prepared the document for your approval, your highness.” The Foreign minister replied, opening his attache case to remove a thick document which he handed to Hirohito.

The Emperor quickly scanned though the document, pausing here and there to carefully study some sections. Finally he nodded his head. “I will need to see the detailed plans for our initial action against the enemy before I can give you my official go ahead.” he said.

“We will have them for your review tomorrow,” the military leaders responded in unison.


Astro slowly crawled out of the ceiling and landed on top of Atlas who was standing right underneath the hatchway in the ceiling. “Watch what you're doing you clumsy oaf!” he hissed. “What did you hear?”

“I hope you're happy,” Astro sighed. “The Emperor has given his initial approval for the attack on Pearl Harbor.”
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Chapter 5 (continued)

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The two robot boys got out of the closet and into the hallway just as the door to the Emperor's study opened and the group of government and military officials walked out. The Emperor's secretary escorted them out of the palace leaving Hirohito alone sitting at his desk. He motioned for them to enter his study.

“I'm sorry if we were out of place with our remarks earlier, Your Excellency.” Astro said bowing.

“I totally understand,” the Emperor replied. “I can also excuse youth of your age being a bit short sighted and single minded. War isn't something that should be taken lightly, however you are a little too young to understand world politics.”

Prince Akihito entered his father's office and his two guests standing there. “I'm sorry father, I had asked them to be gone by the time your visitors had left. I assumed that you were displeased with their actions earlier.”

“They were perhaps a bit strong minded, but not disrespectful, Akihito,” the Emperor replied. “Come, it is a bit late for the midday meal, but let us enjoy it together. I can use a break from the displeasure of dealing with government politics.”

The kitchen servants brought a cold lunch of sushi and green tea which the four of them ate in silence.

“Thank you for your hospitality,” Diachi said when the meal was finished, “But I think that we should be leaving.”

Astro and Atlas politely said goodbye, and left the palace grounds by the main entrance.
Astro looked Atlas in the face. “Just what do you have in mind now?”

“The best course of action for me is to sneak into the task force and see to it that the attack is done correctly.” Atlas said. “When the time comes the Navy and Aircore must finish the job, not leave it half done.”

“I still disagree.” Astro replied. “The attack should never happen. Only if Japan and the United States never cross swords will Japan be spared from the utter defeat and the two atomic bombs.”

“Do as you will then,” Atlas said holding a fist up to Astro's face. “Just keep out of my way, or you will regret it!” With that Diachi morphed back into the battle bot form and blasted skyward, flying towards the Northeast.
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Chapter 6

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The Final Countdown


Chapter 6.


The Present date


The rain came down in blinding sheets against the windows of the Japanese Science Ministry building. The sky had turned a vivid green as lightning flashes in the distance, each flash momentarily blinding anyone looking towards the horizon. The sound of a child's running footsteps grew stronger out in the hallway, and suddenly the door to Dr. O'Shay's office burst open as Uran ran into the room soaking wet and dripping puddles of water onto the tile floor.

“Thank God, you made it home from school alright.” the doctor said with some relief in his voice as the girl ran toward him and wrapped herself around her guardian in a wet bear hug.

“This is Uran, Astro's little sister.” O'Shay explained to the Admiral.

“I'm pleased to meet you Uran.” Yelland replied.

“Who are you?” Uran asked.

“I'm a friend of your brother,” Yelland replied, “We met a long time ago, and haven't seen each other forever.”

“Have you seen your brother?” O'Shay asked the girl.

“Īe” Uran said. “I don't know what happened to him, and I had to walk all the way back here from school through the rain by myself!”

“Doctor,” The Admiral said motioning for O'Shay to come closer. “I think we both know what has happened to Astro.” he said in a whisper.

“Excuse us for a minute please, Uran.” The doctor said, pressing a button on his intercom. Yuko entered the office. “Please take Uran to the cafeteria for some ice cream” The doctor asked. Yuko escorted the robot child out of the office, Uran went along willingly, she never refused an offer of ice cream.

“If Astro has been caught in that storm and yanked backwards in time, when would he return?” The doctor asked.

“I don't know, Dr. O'Shay.” Yelland replied. “In our case although we were in 1941 for nearly two days, when we got back to 1980 it was as if we were only gone a few hours. But,” he said pointing to the box that contained the head of the boy robot, “He might not return. He might have been destroyed and have remained in the past.”

“In that case, we might yet find his remains somewhere between Hawaii and Japan.” The doctor sighed.
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Chapter 7

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The Final Countdown


Chapter 7.


Atlas stood at attention on the deck of the aircraft carrier Akagi, anchored in Hitokappu Harbor. He was dressed in the uniform of Naval flight officer assigned to the Admiral Nagumo's flagship. It had taken him two and a half weeks to work his way into the position, carefully forging identification documents to create a new identity for himself. Back in the 21st century the task could have been done in days by hacking into military computer systems, here in the early 20th century all records were on paper and one had to physically forge the required papers. With the attack force now scheduled to leave the island in two days, he was in position to insure that mistakes that had been made the first time would not be repeated.


Astro waited outside Admiral Yamamoto's office. For the past two weeks he had kept up a vigil researching historical naval battles since the 16th century at the Tokyo University. He had managed to enlist the aid of a professor who was also a supporter of the pacifist cause, wishing to keep his country out of a possible war with America. Armed with several letters of introduction from the staff of the university signed by professors of the history department, Astro hoped to sway the Admiral from his plan of war. He was surprised that his effort had succeeded to the point where Yamamoto was willing to see him, although he had been a bit deceptive on the actual purpose of his visit.

The intercom phone on the desk of the Admiral's secretary buzzed and the officer picked up the receiver. He made eye contact with Astro and spoke. “The Admiral will see you now.” He opened the door and motioned for Astro to enter the office.

Yamamoto Isoroku stood by the window looking out at the garden outside of the command office. “I understand that you are a student of naval history,” The Admiral said, “What is it that you wish to learn from me?”

Astro had rehearsed in his mind what he had wanted to say to Yamamoto, but he was still unsure how to actually approach the leader of Japan's navy. He didn't know the man, except for what he had read in the history books back home. “I'm sure that there is a great deal I'd like to ask you Yamamoto Teitoku,” Astro said, “But as a concerned student of naval history I've come to offer you advice.”

The Admiral turned to face his visitor. “Really? What do you think I have missed from my studies of history?”

“Perhaps underestimating the strength of your enemies.” Astro replied in a slow soft voice. “We can't win a war against the Americans. They have too much capacity to build a fighting force many times what Japan can ever hope to muster. In the end, a war with America will devastate us.”

“You must be able to read tea leaves.” The Admiral laughed.

“What do you mean?” Astro asked.

“I mean you have guessed right in that war is imminent.” He said. “You are correct, Japan can not win a protracted war against the United States. Our only chance is to deliver a massive surprise attack that will cripple the Americans badly enough that they will negotiate for a peaceful solution.”

“That will not work, Teitoku,” Astro said. “America is too strong, too resourceful. Surly the events of the great war should be an example to you.”

“You are wrong,” The Admiral answered. “America is currently still in economic turmoil, and politically engaged in isolationist polices. She is vulnerable.”

“Perhaps.” Astro replied. “But consider the risk to Japan.”

“Now you are talking politics, not tactics.” Yamamoto said, staring Astro in the eyes. “Are you a traitor, or a pacifist?”

“Neither.” Astro said. “I am a friend of the royal family.”

“I see.” Yamamoto replied. “But I've already spoken at length with the Emperor.”

Astro realized that he would not be able to change the tide of events with Yamamoto. “Thank you for your time, Teitoku.” he said bowing.

The Admiral waved him towards the door and he turned to face the window again. Astro left the naval compound, considering his next move.
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Chapter 7 (continues)

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Atlas adjusted his goggles and scarf for a comfortable fit before running though the preflight checklist. He flipped the ignition switch and the Nakajima A6M2 Model 21's Sakae 12 940 hp engine roared to life. He kept his eyes on the linemen who were directing the aircraft towards the flight line. The Akagi had already turned into the wind making 10 kts over the deck of the carrier. Given the go ahead signal, Atlas firewalled the throttle and his aircraft leaped toward the end of the runway. Once airborne he followed his wingman in the rehearsed flight formation. This was his second training flight of the day. The squadron made several practice runs over the Akagi, dropping weighted paper mache bombs. The A6M2's providing cover from any enemy fighters for the B5N torpedo bombers.

It did seem a bit weird to the blue and red battle bot to be flying in a vintage piston powered Zero, but if he wanted to fit in as part of the attack force, this was the best way. He'd already advanced himself up the ranks by proving his flight skills, his computer brain and lighting quick reflexes were no match for any human pilot. By the time the battle group reached their destination, he would be sure to be one of the squadron leaders.

Admiral Nagano watched from the bridge as the last flight group returned from their practice runs. Tomorrow the Akagi along with five other aircraft carriers and other ships of the attack force would leave the waters around Iturup Island for the Eastern Pacific. His fighters appeared ready for the task, he was confident that they would succeed. Intelligence reports indicated that most, perhaps all of the American carriers were sitting ducks the Hawaiian Pearl Harbor naval base. With just a little luck he would be able to knock the Americans out of the Pacific conflict before they could even enter it.


Astro sat in his berth along with other sailors in the crew quarters of the Kaga. He had managed to forge himself a set of enlistment papers under a fictitious name and secret himself aboard the aircraft carrier just before it had left the harbor. For the past few days he had been doing manual labor along with the other enlisted 'grunts', doing everything from swabbing the deck, to loading practice bombs on aircraft. At least when the time came he might be in the right position to do something to stop the attack, though at the moment he hadn't a clue what that might be.
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Chapter 7 (continues)

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Cordel Hull made his way across town though the capital towards the Embassy district. This section of Washington DC contained many of the foreign embassies, and early on the morning of November 26, 1941, the Japanese embassy was the destination for the Secretary of State. The US state department, under the direction of President Roosevelt, had decided that the conditions for continued trade with the Japanese would be the withdrawal of all of that nation's troops from French Indochina and China. Hull had drawn up an official document stating these conditions, and was now in route to hand deliver this to the Japanese ambassador to the US personally.

Senator Samuel Chapman looked up from his desk towards his secretary. Laurel Scott sat at her desk in the senator's office typing up a letter which the senator had just dictated to her. Her dog Charlie sat quietly under the desk at her feet. “Are the arrangements for our inspection tour of the Pacific fleet based in Hawaii ready?” the senator asked.
“Yes, your private yacht will be waiting for us at Pearl.” Laurel replied.
“Good.” Chapman responded. “Things are coming to a head, but nobody believes me. The Japanese are going to declare war against this country, they may possibly even launch a sneak attack sometime early next year. I can't understand why the President keeps ignoring my memos.”

Early on the morning of November 26, 1941, the attack force consisting of six aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu, Shokaku, Zuikaku, with over 420 aircraft between them. There were also five fast battleships, cruisers, and destroyers, along with numerous tankers to to fuel the ships, left the waters near Iturup island. An advance Expeditionary force of large submarines, five of which carried midget submarines was sent ahead to scout around Hawaii to attack any American warships that might escape to sea.

Atlas and the other pilots aboard the Akagi drilled several times a day to keep ready for the expected attack. During the passage across the Pacific some of the aircraft were kept ready to launch at a moments notice in case they were spotted by the enemy and had to defend the task force. Mostly the pilots attended group briefings where the battle plan was drilled into their heads.

Astro kept track of the passage of time on board the Kaga. He knew that by dawn of December 7, they would be stationed less than three hundred miles to the north of Pearl Harbor. He realized that if he could come up with no other option, he would have to fly toward the American naval base and try to warn them of the impending attack. Exactly how he might do this, was still a mystery to him.
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Chapter 8

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The Final Countdown


Chapter 8.


Friday, December 5th


Senator Chapman and his secretary Laurel Scott met with Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh aboard the USS Arizona during the afternoon. The ship had just returned from night surface practice, conducting gunnery exercises.

“So what do you think of our readiness Senator?” Captain Valkenburgh asked. “I know you are convinced that the president isn't taking the Japanese threat seriously, but I hope we've shown you that the Navy is ready for them.”

“What makes you think they won't attack us here, or even on the mainland west coast?” Chapman asked. “From what I've seen here we have the strength to counter any aggression the enemy might offer to us in the Pacific, but you seem rather complacent about the possibility of them showing up here.”

The Captain of the Arizona pointed toward a point in the distance higher up on the island. “Do you see that installation up there, Senator?”

Chapman looked to where the Captain pointed, he could just barely make out that there was anything out on the bit of land jutting out toward the ocean.

“That equipment is the latest in long distance radio detection.” he said. “I'm told it is called RADAR, and that it can warn us of the approach of enemy planes or ships long before they are visible to our field glasses. Don't worry, we won't be taken by surprise.”

After his tour of the Arizona Chapman and Scott made their way to the slip where the Senator's yacht was tied up. The captain and two of the senator's invited guests were already on board the small vessel.

“Are we ready to shove off Harvey?” Chapman asked one of the two associates he had invited to accompany him on the pleasure craft.

“All set Senator. The captain said we can leave whenever you want.”

“Excellent!” Chapman replied. “Laurel, will you verify that all of our gear has been stowed on board? I can't wait to get out of here, I've been dreaming of fishing for weeks!”



Saturday December 6th


The attack task force slowed their approach towards Hawaii. Akagi captain Kiichi Hasegawa ordered a flight of A6M2's to patrol the immediate area to search for any enemy ships. Atlas and two other pilots took off to the south east and flew a circular pattern a hundred miles in radius around their fleet of ships. They spotted nothing, and reported back to the Akagi that they were in the clear and had not been spotted. Admiral Nagano greeted the news with enthusiasm, his orders were to abort the operation if the attack fleet were to be discovered.

Aboard the Kaga, Astro overheard Captain Jisaku Okada in contact with the Akagi. He had a thin smile on his face as he picked up an intercom mike and announced to his crew that a surveillance flight launched from the command ship had not encountered any resistance. The attack was on.


Just beyond the radar horizon of the Naval base at Pearl Harbor the USS Nimitz was fighting with a freak storm that blinded the ship's electronic communications systems. A training flight of F14 Tomcats was struggling to stay in landing formation. After several harrowing minutes the clouds began to dissipate, and the electrical interference with the ships systems cleared. Once again the flight deck was filled with the screams of jet engines as the twin engine supersonic fighters resumed pounding onto the deck of the ship.

As soon as the last of the F14's had returned safely, including one that had to land into barrier nets due to a defective tail hook, the bridge crew turned their attention to a more serious issue.
“I can't raise Pearl,” the ship's radio officer informed Captain Yelland. “In fact, the entire VHF and UHF bands are dead. The only thing that seems to be working are the low bands.”

“Any radar contacts?” Yelland asked.

“Just one, looks like a small vessel to our north west.”

“Launch an AWACS flight, and send out a few patrols.” Yelland ordered. “I want to know exactly what's out there.”


The flight of three A6M2's were heading back toward the Akagi when they spotted the yacht flying the American flag. There were three people on the deck who pointed upwards at the aircraft. “They've spotted us!” one of the two pilots flying lower down cried out on his radio. “We're going to make another pass and silence them!”

Atlas had the sun between him and the yacht, his aircraft remained hidden from view. He watched as the two pilots under his command dived lower to strafe the ship with gun fire.
“Leave them alone BAKA!” Atlas cried out on the radio. “Our mission is reconnaissance, not to attack civilian ships. Now you have really put the attack mission in jeopardy!”

The two younger pilots ignored their leader and turned about to make another pass. One of them managed to hit the fuel tanks in the small vessel and it exploded into a huge fireball. Suddenly, a pair of F14 fighters with squadron markings of a skull and cross bones, flew past the two Zekes.

“WTF!” Atlas gasped. “Those aircraft don't belong here in 1941! Those are 1980 vintage US supersonic fighters!” He firewalled his throttle and pulled back on the stick to climb as fast has his aircraft would go. Keeping the sun between him and the Tomcats, he made his way back to the carrier.

The two American fighters engaged the Zeros. Atlas heard the chatter in his headphones as one of his companions was shot up by machine gun fire, and the second was blasted out of the sky by a heat seeking missile.
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Chapter 8 (continues)

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Astro peeled off the naval uniform he'd been wearing for more than a week. Waiting for his chance to sneak away unnoticed, he took off under his own power heading to the south east. There was nothing else he could do, he'd have to warn the American naval base that the attack was coming. As he flew closer towards Hawaii, he suddenly hit a backwash of a horizontal vortex. Astro immediately recognized the air pattern he'd just flown though as wake turbulence caused by the passage of an aircraft larger and faster than he was. He scanned the sky ahead of him and spotted the two Tomcat's heading in for a landing on a lone aircraft carrier. Astro's computer brain quickly compared the image of the ship to those in his historical database, and he identified the aircraft carrier as the USS Nimitz. As the ship had been commissioned in 1972, it was obvious to Astro that he and Atlas were not the only ones that had been sucked backwards in time to 1941.

Astro followed the two supersonic aircraft towards the flattop, and he landed next to the command bridge where Captain Yelland was now making his way onto the flight deck. Astro spotted the captain and recognized his rank by the insignia bars on his uniform.
Yelland had been striding towards the two aircraft that had just returned from patrol when he noticed the bare chested boy wearing short black pants and red boots heading in his direction.

“Captain!” Astro called out, “I need to talk to you!”

“Who are you, and how did you get here?” Yelland demanded as soon as he was within a few feet of the robot boy.

“My name is Astro, and I'm from the future, just as you are.” Astro replied, “And I flew here.”

“I don't know of any unknown aircraft landing on my ship.” The captain replied.

“That's not what I meant.” Astro answered. “My body is capable of flight. I'm a robot. I'm also Japanese.” Astro slowly opened his chest panel so the captain could see his inner mechanics.

Yelland's eyes widened for an instant, but at once he understood and believed. He reached over to the wall of the command tower and grabbed for the intercom handset. “Mr. Thurman I need to see you on the bridge at once.” He quickly got a response, and relayed orders to his executive officer. “Clear the bridge of unessential personal at once, and get me the smallest size officer's uniform we have in stores, I don't care about the rank.”

Yelland then turned back to Astro, “Come with me!” he ordered.

Astro and the captain climbed up the steps to the bridge and entered The captain looked around and was satisfied that he could trust the personal remaining on the bridge. “Gentlemen, what you are about to hear shall remain off the official records, mostly because I don't think anyone will believe it.”

Astro turned to the captain. “In less than a day from now Japanese naval aircraft will launch a surprise attack on the sea base at Pearl harbor.” he said. “They will sink at least one major ship and damage many others. There will be a substantial loss of life in the attack. Your forces are sitting ducks where they remain, the base must be warned and the fleet docked there needs to get out to sea.”

“We are quite aware of the events that will happen.” Yelland replied. “We have already figured out what has happened to this ship.”

The executive officer entered the bridge holding a folded up Ensign's uniform. “This was the smallest officer's uniform I could find.” he replied. Yelland took the package from Thurman and handed it to Astro. “Put this on.” he replied. “You'll blend in much better than if you walk around this ship nearly naked.” Astro quickly donned the uniform, it was quite baggy on him, but it looked believable.

Yelland continued to address the crew. “As we all know, that storm we went through dragged us back in time. Even stranger is the fact that we were not the only ones effected by that strange bit of weather.” Yelland put his hand on Astro's shoulder. “Astro here is a humanoid robot from our future. He also wants to change history so the events of the next day do not happen.”

“I don't believe this!” Dan Thurman spat out. “This is a war ship, or it at least it used to be, or will be! My God, this is crazy!”

“What are you going to do, Captain?” Astro asked.

“The duty of this ship is to protect the interests of the United States.” The captain replied. “I take my orders from the president.”

“Would that be, FDR?” Warren Lasky asked.

His mind made up, Yelland opened the ship's intercom to address the crew.
“This is the Captain,” he began. “As many of you have begun to realize, that strange storm we recently went through sent us back in time to December 6, 1941. In a few hours, we will fight a battle that was lost before most of you were born. This time things are going to be different!”
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Chapter 9

Postby Tetsuwan Penguin » 10 years ago

The Final Countdown


Chapter 9.


Sunday, December 7th


The sky was clear as the sun came over the horizon. Already the line crew were loading bombs onto the undercarriages of the B5N Kates, and loading the coils of ammo in the machine guns of them, as well as the A6M2 Zeros. Atlas was up before dawn getting ready. He attended the final briefing with the rest of the Akagi's pilots and stood by his plane waiting for the signal to launch with the rest of his squadron.

He would be flying in the first sortie, and he hoped that he would be back in time to join the third wave of the attack, the one that hadn't happened and the one that would have dealt a final killing blow to the US forces that would have kept them out of the war long enough for Japan to finish their conquest of the Pacific. Atlas also knew that the reason Nagumo had not ordered the third wave attack was because he didn't know where the missing American aircraft carriers were. Atlas decided that he would locate them, even if he had do it without his aircraft.
There was just one thing that Atlas had forgotten, well actually two. In a few hours he would realize his mistake.


Meanwhile, the flight crews aboard the USS Nimitz were also getting ready. They were anxious to try and change history and possibly stop the war in the pacific before it had a chance to get started. Astro stood in the bridge next to the Captain and watched as the flight deck became crowded with Tomcats winding up their engines.

“Are you sure we are doing the right thing, sir?” Astro asked. “We might be about to create a time paradox or something.”

“I'm no Einstein, and I don't know if it's even possible to change history, Astro.” Yelland replied. “But if we actually can deliver a shock and awe to the Japanese Navy that will have Yamamoto shitting in his pants the, Pacific war might not even get started.”

“Very well.” Astro agreed, “but I'm going to fly along with your pilots. If anything goes wrong, well I'm actually more heavily armed than several of those F14's put together!”

“What?” Yelland asked in shock.

“It's true. I have 500 rounds of armor piercing shells in my fanny guns, two super high powered lasers in my index fingers, and a particle beam cannon in my left arm that can take the top of a mountain off.” Astro replied. “Plus, I can hit Mach 5 in level atmospheric flight, and can reach orbital velocity once I've cleared the top of the stratosphere.”

“Sir, the AWACS just reported seeing the first wave of the Japanese strike force lifting off their carriers,” the radio officer said, looking up from his station.

“Right!” Yelland replied, picking up his intercom microphone. “All fighters, launch! Intercept course!”

The line crew began directing the fighters toward the catapults. One by one the Tomcats took to the air, just seconds behind each other. Astro peeled the Ensign's uniform off and handed it to the Captain. “I won't be needing this in the air,” he replied.

It didn't take Astro very long to catch up to the lead fighter. His super sensitive eyesight soon detected the first of the incoming Kates and Zeros minutes before any of the F14 pilots had them painted on their radars.


Atlas flew his Zero a few thousand feet above the Kates. From this vantage point he would have a good view of any incoming enemy fighters, although he knew from history that the only resistance the attack force would encounter would come from AA fire once they were over the islands.
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