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The pirate who'd doubted her before turned on Captain Sally savagely and bellowed out, "It's the Sea People! I told you they were a danger! They've undermined the city and fried our propulsion units with their lasers!"

"Shut up! What exactly have they done? Are they cutting holes and sinking the city?"

Another of the possessed crew spoke up, "No, they've focused on rendering us without navigational power and they've destroyed the underwater ed! They've cut all thelines but one They mean to cast us adrift!"

"Why? What purpose would that serve?" Captain Sally bellowed out in question, but she spied her anshen she glanced out a sideof the control roo evidence of what the Sea People had been about fro The city adrift and without navigational poould be broken up into pieces by such a storm

The city had to remain moored or there was no chance of survival, as the Sea People had seen to it that the city could not re-sube beneath the safety of the waves

In frantic alarm Captain Sally turned back to the others and screeched out, "Heat up the water at the last s out! Wecable!"

Poas redirected to the one corner of the city still moored and dumped into the seawater in an electric fury that soon caused the seawater to boil intensely The Sea People hard at ith their one technological attain the lasers that they had fashioned out of focalized crystals were pushed back by the suddenly scalding water

The pirates were on to theh the hot water to finish the job of severing the lastcable, but the water was too hot and several perished as their lungs were overcome by the heat of the water that they breathed

They had no other option but to pull back and help their brethren, ere busy rescuing as many of the sailors in the water as they could

"They're pulling back! It worked!" Said one pirate looking up fro spirit knew a o on! Theirwith fiendish joy she saw that the city had pivoted enough on its last e of the surviving towers She pivoted the attention of all of the towers onto the battleship and awaited in anticipation of watching its destruction