Over 16 months after the “Jörmungandr Incident” in the Baltic, the confidential information regarding it had long been forgotten about - claimed by inquiries as a Russian attack, a whale, and even Nakhamov’s own doing.
All of the surviving crew members were tested positive for radiation poisoning, further leading to the belief it was a Russian attack - wanting to believe that Russia was behind in nuclear power. It isn’t known if any of them have survived.
Russia has enforced their navy in the Baltic after the US did so to keep an eye on any “shipping”.
SOVIET UNION NAVY AIRCRAFT CARRIER NOVOROSSIYSK
10:43:12 LOCAL TIME
”US Cruiser south of us, do not engage.”
The bridge is busy. The admiral, Mozkow, has been alert. He has rarely slept the past week. He cautiously watches a ship in the distance pass - a merchant fishing trawler told to dock back in Poland.
Mozkow flicks a lighter and ignites a cigarette. The bridge telephone goes off like multiple church bells. A crew member grabs it and answers.
”BATTLECRUISER FRUNZE UNDER ATTACK! IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE!” came from the line. The crew member drops the phone and rushes down the bridge to the captains quarters and yells. “US has attacked!” he cries.
The captain gets up, quickly gets into uniform, and runs to the bridge.
”Are you sure it’s an attack?”
”We can confirm from multiple ships.”
”Get ready to assist the Frunze. Send aircraft!”
”Yes, captain!”
The aircraft deck erupted - engines whirring to life, men shouting, waves crashing. Multiple fighters launched at a time from the deck to intercept the Frunze.
The leader of the fighters barked out. ”Follow south, squadron.”
From the deck of a Russian destroyer, men watched as planes flew by and ships turned position.
”Sukhoi Su-17 group B inbound to Frunze’s position.”
The Frunze’s starboard side was on fire, with smoke pouring out making it impossible to see.
An American battleship was beside the Frunze.
”Fire at target!”
”Holy sh*t!” yelled a man on the deck. “What are they doing?!”
The Sukhoi turned around to try another firing run when-
BOOM
A scaly tail intercepts the jet and blows it to pieces. “WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!”
A large, dinosaurian monster rose from the smoke and grabbed onto a turret. It threw it at a fighter with ease.
Another shot at the creature, ineffectively. Missiles shot out from the American battleship and bombarded the dinosaurs backspines. It roared and turned around, facing the ship.
Suddenly, it dipped beneath the waves and, for a moment, everybody was calm.
”How should I tell my son I saw a dinosaur..?” said a crew member on the battleship.
Faster than anybody could react, the battleship capsized and split - the backspines had shredded the ship. A blue incandescent light shone where the creature was and continued in a long, continuous stream inside the water, evaporating it in seconds. The Frunze was stricken and exploded into shrapnel.
”Evacuate the area!” was the only command yelled. The Frunze was nuclear powered and any more second near it could mean certain death.
The theropod swam near the wreck of the Frunze, digested water and metal, and finally swam away.
