There stood the bodyguard dressed in black from head to foot, including the black mask with only his eyes showing, a big hairy sword handle towering above my head, and holding an AK-47 loosely with one hand, and two handguns on my left side. He looked like a one man army.
“Flight Computer!”
“Roger Flight Computer,” replies the pilot.
“Finished refueling,” says the Flight Computer.
“Roger Flight Computer.”
“Undock and pull away from the fueling pod,” commands the pilot.
“Roger,” replies the Flight Computer.
The Commander talked to the cruise ship Captain for a few minutes and then the Commander and his bodyguard left to a rapturous applause from everybody, but as they walked back to the top deck, people just stared at them.
The helicopter came back in over the deck and dropped a lift line.
The Commander was the first to be lifted back aboard the helicopter, then his bodyguard was second to be lifted aboard.
"Commander, says the command helicopter pilot: You wouldn’t believe the show the ladies have been putting on; on the top deck. They have been mooning us and flashing their boobs. It’s been quite a nice show Commander.”
The two helicopters pulled away from the cruise ship and headed back to Global Rescuer, which was sailing northbound in the Red Sea towards the Suez Canal.
####The End
Author’s Biography.
Since 2014, the author is creating the "Afternoon Book," a series of novelettes or short novels that can be read on a smart phone or reader in an afternoon. This series is known as "Global Rescuer Stories" and includes ebooks titled: "The Majorca Egyptian Affair," Jimmy and Isis continue their affair after four years while Jimmy is in Egypt teaching commandos the art of stealth. During a military parade, there is a major assassination attempt and a shootout," "Rape Day Wednesday," "Darlene Darlene" and "The Tubers Daughter
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