The mission briefing was simple.
A massive bomb had been discovered in open waters.
Large enough to erase a coastal city.
Aircraft engines roared into the night.
Riven sat silently inside one of them.
Expression unreadable.
Ahead—
One of the planes malfunctioned.
It spiraled downward toward the sea.
General Ardent acted instantly, firing to force pilot ejection.
The pilot was launched into the air—
Then fell.
Into the black ocean.
He struck the surface—
Landing on the back of a massive boneless shark.
The most dangerous species in those waters.