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Bitter smoke billowed across the water like a woolen blanket. In the air above them, there was only noise and flames, bellowing madness mixed with pitiful screams. Then a dark shadow swept across the lock as something massive blocked out the sun and was gone.

Hawkins started to shout something, then realized Phoenix Force wasn’t alone in the lock. A cargo ship was only yards away, the rust-streaked hull rising like an iron wall alongside the men.

“Move!” McCarter shouted, lurching into a furious swim. Starting low and slow, a swell began to lift the team from the water being compressed between the ship and the wall of the lock.

A split second of panic engulfed the Stony Man team as the hull came straight for them.