Ocean Master

Inside sleeping quarters A-1.

[You have activated skill: Sound Control.]

[You have created a sound translation construct: Atlantis language.]

"I'm asking you for one last time, tell me the exit door location of this military base or you're dying with me". 

Doctor Mrs. Josephine pursed her lips as a sad and complicated feeling invaded her heart, but her lips remained tightly sealed.

Though she heard it more than 20 times already, she still couldn't get over the fact that this Megalodon was communicating with her language. It felt strange, satisfying, but spooky at the same time.

For the past 10 minutes, as Sebastian expected, almost every Atlantian was already evacuated from the A series sleeping quarters, leaving only the soldiers behind to obstruct Sebastian and his crew.

This way, they exerted effort to break and pass through all the traps that were set by the Atlantian soldiers, ruthlessly killing them at every opportunity.

At this moment, Sebastian and his companions already suffered a lot of injuries, their chances of escape kept on decreasing with time which was the main reason why Sebastian kept on pressuring this Doctor.

Seeing the resolute look on the Doctor's face, though Sebastian felt like ending her life immediately, in the end, he couldn't bring himself to do it.

After over 10 minutes, he already understood this doctor's personality. 

She was knowledgeable, highly inquisitive, curious, was scared of him, and was annoyingly honest. 

Sebastian already understood that look on her face, that honest look that even in death, she would never sell out her race. Even though she was really afraid, she was ready to take the trauma than let others suffer for her decision.

At this moment, he really felt like killing her but still couldn't.

In the end, he simply yanked her inside her airbag again before sealing her up. He was taking her with him, if in the Defense Domain, he was really going to die, this middle-aged woman was going down with him.

"Let's continue".

Without a word, the predators continued their escape journey. About a minute later, they arrived at the Medical Quarters which was also the Crimson Fleet's main hospital.

Entering this environment and seeing how deserted it was, Doctor Josephine revealed a complicated expression on her face but Sebastian paid her no heed.

In this chamber, unlike the previous chambers, no soldiers were left behind to intercept and wear out Sebastian and his crew. The hospital was eerily silent, just like the scene in a graveyard.

Instead of feeling happy at this scene, Sebastian's shark face turned grave. The tension was increasing, the water pressure seemed to be increasing rapidly.

With a heavy heart, they continued their escape in silence.

Just 2 minutes later, they arrived at their last and possibly their greatest hurdle of all, the Crimson Fleet's Defense Domain.

The door that led to this final chamber was a dark brown color, it stood mightily like the legendary door that led to heaven. Its metal surface revealed such a sturdy and firm vibe that it seemed indestructible.

With a solemn expression, Tonado got prepared to use his killer move to tear down this enormous metal door that seemed to be made out of Vibranium but the most inconceivable of things happened the next moment.

Clang!

This enormous door opened! It opened on its own accord!

Its opening was extremely slow, perhaps deliberately done by the Atlantians but Sebastian swore that it was effective in messing up with his mind. The water now felt as thick as a quagmire to him. 

It took about 45 seconds before the door opened completely to reveal what was behind it, and it was mind-blowing.

Sebastian felt like laughing to himself bitterly, the Crimson Fleet was indeed now prepared for them. The indomitable Atlantians were prepared to deal with the escapee predators. 

The Defense Domain was a huge square-shaped chamber, and this huge chamber was already filled with heavily armed Atlantian soldiers.

The Atlantian soldiers already formed a heavy defense line.

The first line of defense was the biggest and was filled with about 300 soldiers holding enormous circular shields and spears, their formation was exactly like the legendary 300 Spartan defense-offense formation.

Behind this line of defense was the ranged group which consisted of about 200 soldiers that were all ranged experts.

Most of the soldiers that made up this defense line hovered high in the water for a wilder field of vision. Most held different types of hot guns, while others wielded cold weapons like spears, bow and arrows, and other strange weapons.

The last 2 defense lines were the versatile group. Apart from wielding different types of weapons, both for close and ranged combat, this group had heavy war machines in their midst.

Apart from the crab-like war underwater vehicles, the underwater tanks, the truck-like harpoon launchers, and the metal war hounds that roamed their formations, there were 4 most conspicuous war machines on the battlefield. 

Roaming freely at the back of the defense lines were 2 enormous battle submarines, an enormous mechanical metal shark, and a huge menacing tank-like underwater vehicle with a muzzle as big as Sebastian's head.

At the top of this menacing tank-like underwater war vehicle was written a name in bold. Being the only war machine among all of them to have a name written so boldly, it told of its status.

>The Destroyer!<

10 seconds passed, the Atlantian soldiers remained silent, and the 5 predators including Tonado remained frozen in their position. They all seemed to be in deep thought, but a loud voice awoke them the next moment.

"Surrender!"

Sebastian looked up only to see a huge mechanical shuttle floating in the water at the top of this chamber. This mechanical shuttle carried 2 familiar figures and a bunch of elite Atlantian soldiers.

From this shuttle, Staff Sergeant Barnes, Sergeant Raila, and their elite subordinates looked down directly at the enormous Megalodon who used a skill to shrink his size.

"Surrender!" The Staff Sergeant intoned loudly again to drive home his point.

Seeing no reaction from the other predators nor the Megalodon after more than a minute, Staff Sergeant Barnes calmly opened his mouth to speak again.

"You're surrounded! You're cornered!"

"This Defense Domain is indestructible, at least to the means available to all 5 of you. The cliff walls are also impenetrable to your skills, so forget any hopes of breaking a path to your escape".

"There are over 800 soldiers currently gathered inside this domain".

"Putting aside the other war machines, our experimental battle pet, the Doom Metal Shark can contend equally with your strongest".

"The Destroyer is worse; it can destroy any of you 5 in just one shot".

"Be grateful that Doctor Statham still has a use for the 5 of you in his lab, that is the only reason why you have a chance of living after all the atrocities that you committed".

"You beat me once does not mean you can beat me again".

"Surrender!"

After this, the Defense Domain was plunged into a grave silence again. The silence was suffocating to both sides, the inactivity was grating at their nerves, the tension in the water was almost solidifying.

Tonado wavered, seeing this enormous force, his will to fight started evaporating but still, he hardened his face and turned to face the Ocean Master.

As for the other predators, fear was already planted on their faces. After enduring attacks for so long, having to pass through an overwhelming force like this completely evaporated all their confidence.

They failed! They failed to escape!

With his electroreceptors active, Sebastian saw all that was going on, including the minute changes in his companion's bodies and expressions.

"Well played Atlantian". He commended in his mind as a word that the Atlantian Staff Sergeant said kept on playing in his mind. "You beat me once does not mean you can beat me again".

2 minutes after Barnes finished speaking, Sebastian finally replied.

"You think so?"

"Huh?" The soldiers were confused, including Staff Sergeant Barnes. While they speculated about what this Megalodon meant, Sebastian continued.

"You beat me once does not mean you can beat me again, you really think so?"

Hearing this, Staff Sergeant Barnes immediately felt a bad feeling creeping up his mind, his heart tightened.

"If you had phrased it in another way, I may have indeed surrendered, but unfortunately, I'll have to prove to you that I can beat you again".

Sebastian took a deep breath before ordering loudly.

"ADVANCE!"

The final battle began!