406 | John W. Warner IV read 100%. Their speed increased, 2970 kph. Hes jammed everything! He struggled with the maneuvering node power lever, but it was frozen. Bea looked to Alice. I cant gain altitude. Wake up the Professor! Bernie awoke in a snap with a huge gulp of air. Aaahhhhhgg…now what? Shit! Professor, wake up! yelled Alice, shaking him. Hmmff? Stop shaking me! said Porsche. Porsche! Ferd-in-andl Take the bottom of the damn panel apart. Gerlachs jammed all the fucking controls! yelled Bea over the blaring claxons. Suicidal maniac! yelled Porsche, groping for the back of a chair to steady himself. I could use some herbal tea. Gerlach arose and yelled at Porsche: Time to die for the Fatherland you coward! Klemperer socked him square. This time Gerlach reeled, then fell to the floor passed out cold. Bernie grabbed what was in the toolbox and began to furiously unbolt the bottom of the control panel with a socket wrench and hex screwdriver. If we disconnect the wrong cablesIf the Luftwaffe built this like all the others we.. .scheisse, transistors. Porsche took needle-nose pliers and began to pull apart a cable attached to an electronic panel; the panel sparked violently. Damn all this newfangled Wunderwaffe technology. Altitude, we need altitude first. He cut a cable housing, exposing the inner coiled cable. Here, pull gently.. .gently! Bernie did so carefully so as not to break it. Try it now Bea! Bea pulled up hard, the yoke stiff in response. Its going to be close… She skimmed the foothills then scaled up the face of the steep range. The Bear bumped hard as it hit a snowy section. Bea aimed for a gap between two peaks. Hang on Mumbly… She shot through the gap but the Bears underside hit a rack face; suddenly the ship began spinning violently end over end. T need reduced power now! Gravity forces were still minimal but felt. Were working on it, yelled Bernie. Alice struggled to reduce power with Klemperers help; they got the level down a few notches but it was firmly stuck. Bernie unbolted all he could. Ive never seen so many wires and guts and… Porsche began to disembowel the panels underside, pulling at everything. Then he saw a standard electrical cut-off switch he recognized as his own design. They rigged