Better Days (OC x Azur Lane)

Chapter 16 - Injuries

Location: "Overseas/Sardegna Empire."
Date: "March 3nd."
Time: "0400."
POV: "Commander Alex Rose."
Status: "???."

I slowly began to open my eyes. Before I could even examine or . . Look around me to see where I was, I look over to the side and throw up a ton of salt water . . Maybe blood in the mix. I spit the remaining out and slowly began to stand, using the pipes as leverage. My legs were very weak.

I finally take a look around. I was in the ammo room.

There was water filled up underneath me. "How did . . Wasn't I under water drowning?" The water wasn't deep thankfully. At least like a foot. "Unless with all the damage or . . Ship falling it made a massive current and sucked me inside but that wouldn't exactly make sense with the laws of psychics or anything in this damned world . . Would it?"

I just shake my head and sigh. I don't know how I lived but I am grateful I am still alive.

When I was about to walk forward, I felt my stomach build up and hunch over, again, vomiting. It took me a second to get everything out of my system, again. Though, it wasn't much this time like the first. "Jesus . ." I wiped my mouth off with my barely remaining sleeve that I didn't tore off, though it was obviously wet. "I need to figure out a way to get out of here . . But taking a further look, it looks like I'm upside down."

Being upside down wasn't the shocking part of how the ship was able to turn over that quickly on such a small shore. What actually made me shocked was on how none of the ammo had detonated with Purifier sinking this ship.

Purifier . .

"She didn't kill me then . . She didn't kill me now . . What the hell is she up to?" I see a door way that was half sunken by water. That may be the only way to get out. It also looked like the only way to get out is by swimming anyway, which wouldn't really go well probably. "I feel like drowning will kill me today out of all things . ."

I jump into the water. After doing that, I dive down and swim around to find a possible opening or an area to take my head above water. Which eventually I do and put my head above water, grabbing a pipe in the process.

I look around to see . . Fish?

"That's right . ." I thought to myself, "The hulls were breached from the front and maybe the sides too. Wouldn't be a surprise if fish even swam in here. Though it would make sense since the ship did sink, I'm being a bit too obvious here . . I guess I do need to look out for sharks too if they gotten in here . . That makes me worried a little . ."

I dive down once more and try to look for a way out. It wouldn't be too hard since Javelin is a destroyer. If this was a battleship instead, I'd have a more difficult time trying to find a way out.

Eventually when swimming around for awhile, I find a breached hull. Not wide enough for me, it was pretty small. I don't think I can damage the hull anymore anyway unless I had explosives.

I swim up for oxygen. "Ok . . This is a bit of a problem. And I have a feeling the huge damaged hull is on the other side of the ship where the cargo is being held. Or maybe the quarters." I look at a couple of doors. One was completely dented out. Most likely because of water trying to break it down with force. Another was broken open entirely in half. "I don't have any other way."

I dive down and swim through the door, using the pipes to push and pull, guiding myself more easily since I was banged up.

It didn't take long to get to the cargo bay, which I was right about in the end.

But I hate to say that I was right about the shark problem too . .

I take myself above water and get on top of a crate. This situation wasn't too great for me considering that I was still bleeding. But the salt of the water was thankfully slowing it down, drying it up. But it wasn't a pleasant fucking feeling.