When Caleb woke up the other people on the ship were just beginning stir. Bodies were strewn everywhere as people had passed out from contact with the pulse. Caleb was surprised that pulse didn't seem to do any damage to anything inanimate. Tables were still standing, even most cups hadn't fallen over. He looked around for Ally, who was still next to him. Shaking her he commanded, "Ally? Wake up!"
"What is it," she murmured as she rose to her feet. Looking around her she asked, "We've stopped moving. Are we in Germany already?"
"Really," Caleb told her, "Look around everyone got knocked out like us. I think the captain did too."
"That sucks. How are we supposed to perform on time?"
"Your priorities impress me."
"Thank-you"
"We have to do something!"
"Good idea." Ally, still groggy, pulled out her phone and to call someone as they walked to the center of the ship to find someone in charge. She had wanted to log on to the ship's wi-fi to do it, but her phone was dead, which was weird because it was at 73% when the pulse hit. Caleb found the silence of the ship a little unnerving. Only the rolling of the sea broke the silence. They walked around and couldn't find anybody in charge that had woken up yet. They tried opening doors that said 'employees only' to no avail. Eventually, they resorted to plucking keys off the sleeping workers. "Why don't we just wake one up?" asked Ally.
"What for? They won't know what's going on either, and then they'd stop us from going to find the captain or something."
Suddenly the deck trembled as though they were experiencing an earthquake. "I think something hit the bottom of the ship" said Ally.
CRAAAASSSSH!
The ship trembled again, but harder this time. Whatever it was that was causing it had broken the surface of the waters. The sound of crashing water didn't stop, though. Whatever had come out of the water was still coming out, and it was big. Ally and Caleb staggered to the edge of the ship to see what was going on. Before they could make it, the ship trembled a third time, and this time the port side of the ship began to rise dramatically. So much so, that everyone on the ship began slide to the starboard side.
Bodies, most of them still knocked out slipped into the water silently, but some screamed and flailed about. Caleb slid into a bunch of tables that stopped his path. "Ally!" He yelled, motioning her to slide his way, to safety. Ally had been close enough to grab the portside railing, so now she was hanging on to it for dear life. She shook her head in fear. "Slide this way! You be safe!" Caleb called.
Then Ally let go.
The ship perpetually tipped higher, so by the time Ally let go of the railing, she fell so fast that she knocked Caleb and the tables he was standing on off their perch. Now both were plummeting to the icy waters.