(This chapter was written in a mood which swinged between the past and the present tenses..So, kindly forgive if you find any grammatical errors)

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The whole lab unit of the army was in a hurry burry..

Sanjay came to K who was so excited for the meeting..

He tapped his shoulder..

Enna machan..

Avlo gushi ah iruka..

K-Pinna illaya da?

Nee aniku news sonnapa evlo happy ah irundhudhu theriyuma..

S-Theriyume da..

Nee sollave vendaam..

Majaa pannu..

K-Sure da..

He punched his stomach..

The meeting started.

Mr.Joshi was the head..

He took up the meeting..

Hello friends..Hope half of you know well what this meeting is for..

He paused..

The response echoed, Yes Chief..

Jo-Good..So, the thing here is we are working for our nation..

Keep that in your mind..

To those, who don't know what this meeting is about, here I have something for you..

We, the Indian army is planning to do a special operation..

Operation E..

This operation isn't the same as we did before..

This is something different..

He paused..

The faces of the young army men were showing the anticipation..

He switched on the projector to show them an image..

The image of a remote?

The smallest probably..

It looked like a chip..

Jo-Well , the chip that be seen here..

Isn't

A chip..

It's a radar..

The small talks bursted out from the men..

Jo-Wait, young men..

Let me finish it..

This is an operation that is supposed to happen in a confidential way..

Only 15 of us are going to work on it..

The list of the people is personally selected by the minister himself..

So, the selected young, enthusiastic men are sitting before me right now..

So, shall we move on to the plan?

The crowd said, Yes..

He explained the thing..

How it works..

What they are going to do with that..

The abstract is, the chip is going to work as a spy for observing what's happening in the border..

The operation E is highly confidential..

It's an operation that's purely done for testing purpose..

Of the 15 members crew, 3 are from technical team and the rest are from various regiments of army..

They are supposed to start by next day late evening..

The whole thing will end within a week and they will be back to their place..

Since the people were chosen on the basis of their love, passion, loyalty amd sincerity towards the Nation, they were truly eagerly waiting for the operation..

The meeting got over..

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Kathir was on cloud nine..

The things what he wished for were coming true in front of his eyes..

It was just 4 weeks since Mullai entered into his life, and the Godmother was showering him with plethora of serendipity..

Sanjay hugged him..

Machan..Romba happy ah iruken da..

K reciprocated the love..

Naanum da..

Romba..

Ivlo per irukapa namma choose pannirkaanga na, we should really be proud of it..

What if this operation tastes the success and we are supposed to be the reason behind it?

Am so happy..

They talked for sometime, and parted away..

Kathir really wanted to convey this happiness to Mullai..

He called her..

She picked it up..

Hello..

K-Hello..

M-Sollunga..enna indha nerathula phone?

K-Yen nga.. Panna koodadhaa?

M-Illa..epodhum 9 ku mela dhana pannuveenga..

Inniku avlo..

Time..

Aagalaye nu..

K-Busy ah irukeengalo..

M-Illa nga..sollunga..

Those 4 weeks/4 saturdays gave them so much liberty over each other and for the first time in her entire life, M opened up a bit..

For him..

To him..

K-Adhu..

Adhu onnum illa nga..

Inga, enna nambi oru chinna vela kuduthurukaanga..

Neraya per la enna choose panni..

Adhan..

Happy ah irundhuchu..

Unga kitta sollalame nu..

M-Super nga.. Congratulations..

K-Thank you.. Adha sollalame nu dhan koopten..

M-Romba sandhosham nga..

K-Hmmm.. Enakkum..

Romba naal aasai..

Idhellam pannanum nu..

Ipo kannu munnadi nadakkudhu..

Neenga en life la vandhadhukku apram dhan..

Adhan..

M-Adhunala?

K-Illa nga..

Half wife ah irukapave ipdi..

Full ah aana, evlo happy ah irupen nu yosichu paathen..

Adhan..

Vera onnum illa..

M-Naan vandhadhala laam illa nga..

Unga sincerity ku kedachadhu adhu..

K-Adhu unga perception..

He chuckles..

M-Hmmm..

They talked for sometime about the preps that were happening in both the homes..

They shared some sweet nothings and ended up the call..

Kathir called up the PS family and conveyed in the same way...

He didn't want to disclose the things..

They were also super happy..

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The next day..!!

After having the basic medical checkup and the guidance and with loads of instructions, they boarded on the aircraft..

The Minister personally came and sent them off..

No media..

No drama..

Nothing..

The aircraft was a specially made one for those kind of purposes..

The men were highly nervous..

The sweat started precipitating profusely..

Things started getting better once the flight took off..

They had majaa for some time..

They were from one nation..

One passion..

One army..

And what not?

After 60 minutes of travel, the hijack began...

By the crew of three in the cockpit with two flight attendants..

The ambience in the flight was dark as they switched off the lights and the men in the camouflage were slept off..

The crew planned everything in a perfect way..

The plane was being hijacked..

The strange evening got stranger..

The men weren't aware that they were being travelling through some other way..

As the flight moved further and further from the original path, the messages were communicated to the passengers, or started spreading among them..

No riffles were travelled with them..

No guns..

No weapons..

Nothing..

But how?

After all, the black sheep within the young men, took them off..

Things got heated up quickly..

They weren't aware of it from the beginning because, they were troubled in no way..

No dramas or stunts could be done right then, as the camouflage men had zero support and weapons..

They just had to obey the rules or conditions by the pilot..

If it was by the road, they could have got the string of where they were..

But, it was in the cloud..

In-between the clouds..

They didn't know where they were...

They were rounding around an area for more than 15 hours..

Half of the men felt like puking..

No food..

No water..

It was just getting worser..

By then,the captain of the army men, Mr.Louis, asked the pilot what they needed..

What was their demand..

The Pilot asked to shut him up and the plane landed in the middle of a forest..

As soon as the plane landed, it was surrounded with 30 members in black dress whose faces were masked and with weapons..

They didn't want the hostages to know their whereabouts..

They used English for communication in front of them..

The hostages were taken to the dark cells..

They pilot went to their head and informed about their success..

So, what was their motive?

Why they hijacked the plane?

What happened to the Army men?

TBC..