"Look!!!"
Distracted by the shout of alarm Captain Sally glanced off from her intended focus of destruction. Her eyes found the new threat almost instantly as it surged toward the city out of the burning oil slick of the first battleship's watery grave site.
"Switch all fire to that ship! Now!!!" She rang out in hellish desperation.
"We can't! It's out of range of the remaining towers!"
"What???" Captain Sally burst out with and then in dawning comprehension she realized that the slight drift of the city on its remaining mooring cable that had brought the battleship back into range had just made the approaching cruiser out of range.
In sickening horror she watched as the smoking cruiser that shouldn't even be floating given how much damage it had taken, plow into the corner of the city where the last mooring line was located.
All of the pirates were knocked from off their feet as the cruiser exploded magnificently. The screens within the room went dark and all firing from the city's towers ceased.
The pirates had but made it back up to their feet, when they were jerked flat on their backs again. The city was adrift and moving quickly as it was ferried along by some unknown source.
Captain Sally raised up to see that the city was but half its former size as the cruiser had split a large part of it off with its explosion. Looking back she could see that the cruiser and several parts of the city were already submerging beneath the waves. Looking forward she got a glimpse of the backs of several powerful underwater beasts. They were the Sea People's dragons and they were dragging the city directly towards the fast approaching storm that ran the length of the horizon.
Moans of despair erupted around the control room as the realization that their long escape from the prison of the Deep was about to come full circle. There was no escaping from it this time by sealing themselves into an object of dark inspired thought.
The moans turned to wails as the storm picked the city up on a wave ridge only to drop it in the next moment into a deep trough. The city broke up under the weight of the downward crashing waves and sank forever into the deep.