With the deck of the warship now occupied exclusively with corpses, Bloodbeard set out to explore and annihilate the hull of the ship. The heavy steel door leading to the lower deck was locked by the time he got to it. Bloodbeard took a step back and put all of his weight into a decisive boot to the door. The door did not budge to his blow, nor did it to the several others that followed. Bloodbeard took a small distance from him and the door, took a deep breath, and took a charging sprint that ended with a shoulder bursting the steel door from its hinges.
Bloodbeard howled upon the painful realization that the shoulder he rammed the door with was the same he had recently been shot in, but nevertheless pushed on in spite of the pain. Behind the door was a staircase leading bellow the deck,
