"Hoi! Everything ready, Lieutenant?" Emile asked loudly over the growing easterly winds. According to readouts from the Gunderson Corporation’s meteorological satellite, another severe storm was brewing up northward and would be coming this way in short order. Once underwater, he would be safe from the ravages of the hurricane, but the Conquistador would bear the full brunt of the tempest as it stayed to lower him to the underwater city nearly two full klicks below the surface.