Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 346

Chapter 346 The Lower Iron Clearing

Baron’s POV

The interceptor gunboat didn’t simply cottide with the Sovereign Star.

It hit like a battering ram launched by the ocean itself.

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A wall of white seawater surged through the breach as the impact sent shockwaves racing through the massive vessel’s frame.

For a split second, the Atlantic itself seemed to roar louder than the engines.

Then I moved.

Before the swell could drag our gunboat away from the opening we’d carved into the liner’s side, I vaulted over the shattered windshield frame and landed hard on the flooded cargo deck.

My boots struck the steel plating with enough force to make the structure groan beneath me.

Behind me, the sound of gunfire erupted instantly.

“Vanguard, establish the entry anchor!” Flynn’s voice thundered through my earpiece.

Three Blackridge rifles barked almost simultaneously as the first wave of scouts poured through the breach behind me. “Keep the radar jammers running. Nobody leaves this ship. Nobody calls for help.”

I didn’t wait for the vanguard formation to settle.

Every instinct in my body could still feel the absence of the bond/

The maritime suppression grids woven through the Sovereign/Star were doing their job, burying her frequency beneath steel, saltwater, and reinforced shielding until not even our mate bond/could properly reach her.

But panic no longer controlled me.

Back in the filtration bay, panic had nearly broken me.

Now there was only purpose.

Natalie was alive.

Nyx was awake.

And every second between me and her was an obstacle waiting to be removed.

The corridor ahead stretched into darkness, illuminated only by flashing crimson emergency lights.

The air smelled of seawater, burning circuitry, diesel fuel, and hot metal.

Somewhere below us, damaged machinery groaned beneath the pressure of flooding compartments.

I barely registered any of it.

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My entire world had narrowed to one objective.

Find Natalie.

Everything else could burn.

A shout suddenly echoed from farther down the corridor.

“Intruders!”

Four armed syndicate enforcers burst from a side storage compartment nearly thirty meters ahead..

They moved quickly but not quickly enough.

The moment their rifles began to rise, I was already moving.

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The deck tilted beneath us as the damaged vessel rolled against another Atlantic swell, but the unstable footing didn’t matter.

My body blurred forward, closing the distance before the lead guard could even finish aligning his sights.

My burned hand locked around the barrel of his weapon.

Steel crumpled.

The rifle folded inward like paper beneath my grip.

Shock flashed across his face.

Then my other hand wrapped around his throat.

A sharp crack echoed through the corridor.

His body went limp instantly.

Without slowing down, I hurled him sideways into the second enforcer.

Both men crashed through a reinforced maintenance door, disappearing into the darkness beyond.

The remaining guards finally opened fire.

Muzzle flashes lit the corridor.

Rounds tore into the ceiling.

None of them touched me.

Two thunderous shots exploded behind my shoulder.

Flynn.

!

The heavy kinetic rounds slammed into both shooters, throwing their bodies across the deck before they even realized what had happened.

Silence returned almost immediately.

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“Levet B2 is secure,” Flynn reported as he stepped over the bodies.

His rifle was already reloaded.

His eyes never left the corridor ahead.

“The prison block is two levels below us. Level B4.”

I nodded.

The vessel vibrated beneath my feet.

I could feel it now.

The ship was dying.

“They’re taking on water faster than they can compensate,” I said quietly.

Flynn followed my gaze.

“The liner won’t survive much longer.”

“No.”

My eyes drifted toward the lower decks.

“But it only needs to survive long enough for me to get her out.”

The comm line crackled.

“Alpha.”

Renee.

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I pressed a hand against the wall as another violent tremor rolled through the ship.

“Report.”

“I’ve locked down every maritime registry connected to Port Blackwood,” Renee said immediately. “Captain Vance has officially been marked as rogue asset waste. No external support vessels can legally approach him without triggering immediate asset

seizure.”

A grim smile touched my lips.

Good.

Let him discover what it felt like to be abandoned.

“Maintain the blackout.”

“Understood.”

The connection closed.

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Ahead of us stood the reinforced stairwell hatch leading deeper into the vessel.

I didn’t bother reaching for the handle.

One kick was enough.

The steel door tore free from its hinges and crashed down the stairwell like an avalanche.

The sound echoed for several floors.

Then we descended.

Fast.

The deeper we went, the colder the air became.

Every level brought stronger traces of saltwater and ozone.

Every level carried heavier concentrations of suppression energy.

By the time we reached Level B4, the atmosphere itself felt hostile.

Silver–lined conduits ran through the ceiling.

Suppression emitters pulsed behind reinforced panels.

The entire deck had been designed to break wolves.

To crush dominance.

To force compliance.

The moment I stepped into the corridor, a wave of suppression energy rolled over me.

It hit like a physical wall.

Then shattered.

The frequency burning inside me simply consumed it.

Raze didn’t retreat.

He didn’t even acknowledge it.

The emitters weren’t strong enough.

Not tonight.

My eyes adjusted instantly to the darkness.

And there, at the far end of the corridor, I found him.

Jensen.

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The sight almost made me laugh.

The arrogant heir who had walked into my territory believing contracts and bank accounts could protect him was gone.

Completely gone.

What stood before me now wasn’t a strategist.

It was prey.

He was pressed against the wall outside Cell Twelve, soaked with seawater and grease..

His coat hung in tatters.

Purple bruises covered his throat where my hand had closed around it in the filtration bay.

I could see it happen.

Terro- flooded his face.

“Baron!”

His voice cracked.

“Stay back!”

I kept walking.

His panic intensified.

“The syndicates rigged the deck!” he shouted desperately. “If you start shooting, they’ll flood the lower ballast compartments! She’ll drown down here!”

I never broke stride.

Never answered.

Never slowed.

His fear became almost unbearable to watch.

Twenty meters.

Ten.

Five.

Then I was standing directly in front of him.

My hand closed around the front of his shirt.

One movement.

That’s all it took.

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His body left the floor.

The impact when I stammed him into the bulkhead shook the entire corridor.

Metal rang.

Ribs cracked.

His terminal flew from his hands and disappeared into the only water gathering across the deck.

I held him there effortlessly.

His feet dangled above the floor.

His eyes widened with terror.

“Where’s the key?”