<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="floatleft">(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/USS_Stark.jpg)</div></div>The actions of both Ebony Shield and Selkie did the job.  The shield units Daniel had brought out to the field were keeping the damage now to the<em>Bryes'</em>to something approaching manageable, and the keel was no longer trying to tear itself apart.  The emergency pumps as well as other damage control operations were once more effective and the crew of the<em>Bryes</em>did not look a gift horse in the mouth and got right to work, hope now causing once exhausted muscles to push themselves as death from hypothermia in the cold North Atlantic was now a fate which could be avoided.<br/><br/>Not all the crew were busy with damage control efforts as a team of agents still had their weapons trained on Helios as other agents moved to secure him.  It was clear they were dealing with some form of enhanced, so they brought out an old set of inhibitor cuffs.  The problem they did not know about was the cuffs were set for humans.  Even mutants on some level possessed some of the same RNA strands as humans, so the cuffs worked for them as well.  Helios was not human, he was an Eternal and the cuffs were no than such, cuffs, even if made out of stronger materials than mere steel.  It did not dampen or interfere with any of his other abilities, should he want to do so.  Something which he may want to consider as the new threat to the<em>Bryes</em>made themselves known.  Atlantian soliders surfaced and started to open fire upon the<em>Bryes</em>, catching most of the crew by surprise as they were focused on keeping the<em>Bryes</em>afloat.