Jenkins, Berry J

The jet landed. An identification process began. After the scans and the quadratic maths equations, the floor began to move. The valve split open and the floor started moving down. As the floor came towards the bottom, it stopped. A series of tracks emerged on which the plane locked itself and started rolling forwards. Many automatic robots can it motion as the plane passed, checking the plane for damages and repairing it instantly. As the tracks came to an end, the plane stopped. The door hissed open and our hero walked out.

Entering his laboratory/room/inventing room/machinery was even more complicated with more scans. After completing the scans, the man’s robot came to life. “Hello sir! I hope you’re dealings with the Naxine’s went well!” the droid asked, offering a glass of fresh water. “Thank you S623, ” and with that he took the glass of water. The Naxines were a pretty rough group who had acquired a device that hijacked the frequency of the enemies communication. This was old technology to the Florida base where our hero worked but could be serious threat to other countries. The Naxines operated out of a base in Sweden, of all places. “Computer active, ” a voice said, “Identification required.” After a palm scan a voice recognition was need. ” Jenkins, Berry J.” The computer came to life.

“How’s operation Spidetank going on? How much time left before we can test it?” “Sir operation Spidetank is 82% complete. Our first model shall arrive in 6 days, however coding and programming is necessary.””Thank you S623.”Berry Jenkins was a deputy commander at the U.S. military base in Florida. Nothing much happened in Florida and so this was a military base cum technology centre. Berry was the chief technologist at the base and took care of developing. Operation Spidetank was a project on increasing manoeuvrability of tanks. It was a tank suspended in air by eight legs, like a crawler. It could move fast and its agility was brilliant. Its weapon array could move around in all directions and its comeback to a fall was amazing. Operation Spidetank had begun 3 months ago and was all most complete.

Berry Jenkins was a simple man. He came from a humble family. His father was a retired engineer who revolutionised missiles. His mother a teacher in a public school. He had one younger brother who was completing his studies at Stanford university for law. He himself was a graduate from Georgia Tech. His fascination for inventing military grade technology never ended.

He was just about to start coding when he received a call from the commander. “Berry Jenkins please get down to the Situations Room right now.” Without hesitation he leaped out of his seat, turned off his computer and ran down the stairs. He reached the situation room just in time to see the commander come in. Forgetting to change out of his gear, he was still dressed in his Naxine outfit. It raised a few eyebrows from the admirals dressed in perfect suits but notwithstanding,  he took his place on the table. “I have called this emergency meeting, for at exactly 1603 hours our Observation team discovered an enemy fleet coming into U.S. coastline. We tracked them down from then onwards and at the moment they are halting just outside the U.S. coastline. Their fleet contains 4 aircraft carriers, 50 tank carriers and more than 400 planes have been zipping in the air above. At the moment we also think they are in possession of 3 submarines. We have sent drones to give us a clear picture and are also tracking their movements,” said the commander. Above him the screen flickered on, only to reveal the entire fleet of this army. The radar scans showed that there were indeed 400 planes in the air and the drones showed that there were easily 25 aircrafts more on the carriers. That made a total of 500 planes. However Berry’s eyes were tuned on to what was behind this mess. “Commander,” Berry said, “Please give me access to the controls of a drone.” The commander knowing Berry’s intentions gave him access to a drone. Berry carefully got the drone into the air and flew slowly but surely farther into the fleet. Once he got past the fleet he started to ascend further and further into the air. The figure he saw started to come more into focus. He went even further and the drones signals started to indicate that the altitude limit was about to be passed. He ignored the beeping then abruptly stopped. The figure had taken a shape. The shape of a floating aircraft carrier.

“Impossible!” cried a chief, “What kind of organisation could have made such a big aircraft without our knowledge? “As the admirals started squabbling, Berry got up. “This means war.”

End of Part 1

Part 2 of Jenkins, Berry J coming soon.