Rishi who got numb from the moment he saw their wedding picture jerked hearing the bullet sounds,emitting from the speakers in the bus.

Even Mahesh & Sameer are startled but Sahana's yell for Karan & series of sounds after made them vaguely guess what would have happened. Karan must have taken the situation under control.

But Rishi is terrified at the realisation that Preetha is inside,with them.

Rishi(whisper): Mickey!

Without a second thought, he rapidly gets down the bus & runs towards the gates of the harbour ignoring the yells of Mahesh & Sameer.Realizing he won't come back, Mahesh talks to the Snipers,

Mahesh:Go with him and kill anyone but nothing should happen to those four.

Hearing his orders, the four snipers jump inside running towards the ship while Sameer mutters,

Sameer: Please be safe you all.

By the time, except the militants no one's there in the harbour.Sailors,officers, security etc ran away because of guns & fights.

Through the unguarded & open gates, Rishi breaks inside running towards the ship.
He listened their talks, knew what's going on but didn't acknowledge it. The bullet sounds brought him back to the world.

Jogging on the ramp,he reaches the bow of the deck.Except the sound of the ocean, there's not even a sound. It's all calm & eerily quiet.He's scared.

He doesn't know who they are, where are they, why they captured Karan or what will happen to himself but he is determined to get Preetha out of this. He wants her safe & sound.

With that thought, he yells for Preetha searching the deck not minding what danger he is in.

The information of the intrusion & Karan's identity reached Rakesh through one of his henchmen who saw everything while he was on the top deck waiting for the escorts.

Speechless was an understatement!

The man who he abducted had killed nearly 20 of his men with his own arms.And shockingly he's from the defence.But Arun Sharma didn't said anything about it,if he said he wouldn't have taken the risk.

Does Arun Sharma trap him?

Is it a secret operation?

Nevertheless,he's doomed.

No doubt it's an army thing otherwise how could this happen?

On the other side,the militants blood is boiling in anger.They loathe the country, it's citizens and especially the forces. Venomous things were seeped into their cells and now they want nothing but vengeance.

Seeing them, Rakesh knew it's a do or die for them. They won't escape like cowards they were not trained like that. But he needs his life. Whatever he does or did is for only money & nothing else.He's not ready to sacrifice his life but being with them will surely land him in trouble.

What should he do? That's when they hear Rishi's voice for Preetha,smirking it as an opportunity to save himself & if possible capture Karan again,he tells others to corner Rishi.

Rishi enters inside the navigation deck and there's no one. Through ladders, he is searching decks & cabins when one of the militants shuts his mouth from back and is about to force him inside when his neck is strangled by another.

Karan cuts his breath off resulting him leaving Rishi who scrambles away taking deep breathes. His eyes widen seeing how Karan twisted his neck when another few appears with rifles.

They start shooting but Karan keeps that militant before him safeguarding himself. Before anything happens, the snipers attack those four killing them. As he got a briefing from Sahana, Karan understands why they are here so he merely nods at them.

Rishi by now is aghast staring Karan.

Isn't he their cool & calm lecturer? Isn't he the man whose face doesn't show anything except peace?

But the cold & ruthless look on his face, stiff posture and bloody hands says otherwise.

Karan holds his arm roughly & brings him to the cabin in "C" deck where Preetha is placed on the floor unconscious.

Sahana & Amar brought her to another cabin otherwise Rishi would have been paralysed glancing at the heap of dead bodies in the mess.

Tensed, he runs to her and pats her cheek,

Rishi: Mickey get up! Mickey....Mickey...

He is frightened for his best friend,he couldn't take if anything happens to her.

Sahana: Behosh hogayi. Kuch nai hua.

Rishi just listens but doesn't turn and continues to wake her up,

Karan: Take her with you.

He says to Rishi who raises his head to look at him as he hears his lecturer's voice after so long. Peering at him for a second,Karan commands the snipers,

Karan: Guard them till they are safe.

Sniper: But Mahesh sir ...

He stops recieving Karan's glare,

Sahana: Aren't you coming?

Karan: My duty isn't finished yet.

He's talking about saving the children in containers.

Sahana: Karan you....

Before she speaks, he interrupts because he knew what she's gonna say,

Karan: I promised Ma.Whenever my country needs me I will never back off.

That stops her words as she realized he's not her son but a soldier.

Keeping a revolver at the back,few bombs in pockets, Karan takes a sleek black fatal firearm in hand and checks it. Satisfied,he turns to see Rishi staring at him afraid,

Karan: What are you looking at? Lift her up and follow me.

He slightly nods and lifts her while Karan turns away and takes the lead. After changing the boxes of arms to another deck as to make the militants shield less they use the elevator where the snipers are ready with the machine guns to shoot anybody if ambushes them.

They slowly and cautiously make it to the ramp.For safety, Karan shoots at the lights on the harbour making it all dark so that nobody could see them.

They all ready to get down,

Karan: Kuch nai hona chahiye. Kuch nai.

He warns the four snipers who gulp at his tone and climbs down followed by Amar.

Sahana stops & looks at him,

Sahana(whispers): Finish them off.

He stiffly nods and she gets down.

The last is Rishi standing there holding Preetha.

He nears them and looks into his eyes,

Karan: Take care.......of her.

Rishi doesn't know how to respond.

In the moon light,he saw how Karan's cold front and hard gaze broke looking at Preetha.

Karan is restricting himself not to look at her who is in Rishi's arms but his heart just doesn't listen.

She is his dragon.

His Sweetheart.

His Savior.

His wife.

Whatever may happen, she will remain same.

Gaining all the strength he requires, he kisses her forehead for a long minute and urges him to move.

He watches till they disappear into the darkness.Believing all his family is safe, Karan returns to his Commando role.

Loading the barrel, he at once turns to finish another mission. Only this one is unplanned & uncalled for.

Karan & the snipers, slowly enter the battle field that is inside the ship again.This time it's him who attacked and it's the militants who defended.They shot
anyone in sight without mercy because no one in the gang deserved to breathe.

A long shoot out is going on resulting in most of the militants laying dead.

Meanwhile, Rakesh & his henchmen, who are not militants, decided to jump from the monkey Island into the Sea through life savers & escape. He called another ship which is few nautical miles away from the shore & is ready to pick them up. If he could get into it, he can escape because staying there leads him to jail or death. It's the only option and the best they had as they thought no body could swim or shoot in sea waters so they get into the life boats & launch themselves into the sea.

But how wrong they are!

One thing they missed is that Karan is a MARCOS commander who is capable of  undertaking operations in any terrain but an expert in marine wars.

Karan with a sniper reaches the top deck & glances at the orange life boat driving away far from the ship. He takes a bomb from his pocket, pulls the pin & throws it before the boat causing a huge water blast due to which the boat flies in air and the people in it fall in the waters.

Within a blink of an eye, he jumps into the sea & swims for a distance then the sniper hurls the firearm at him,he grabs it & kills without missing anyone except Rakesh, under the moon glade.

Rakesh is the big cheese for the NIA and they are waiting to devour him in the right way.

So Karan shoots him in the shoulders & brings his body near the ship where the other snipers help him in bringing inside.They are bandaging his bullet wound when a loud siren is heard from the sea,they all look that side to see a coast guard ship,

Sniper: It's an offshore patrol vessel Sir!

As there's a blast the coast guards came into action.Asking for a phone from the snipers, Karan immediately dials a number which he thought he never would........again!

MARCOS......Marine Commando Forces is the dangerous and deadliest special forces in the World. They stand next to US Navy SEAL'S but are better than them.

From childhood, Karan was highly inspired by his mother who was an army officer. Marriage came with obligations and responsibilities so she had to give up her dreams.

But Karan didn't. Looking at his mother's pics & uniform from childhood, he turned out to be just like her.After high school, He is adamant on joining forces & even got recruited for Army at an young age but the strong desire to be in a powerful force made him apply for Navi because only Navi people are eligible for MARCOS.

He got selected and underwent the hardest physical as well as mental training for nearly three years.Their moto " The Few The Fearless" defines who they are.

His journey as a commando was going adventurously when the country shook coz of Pulwama attack. That time Karan along with others was in Kashmir patrolling the Wular lake. As soon as they heard the news,they prepared for counter stroke which gained them huge applause from the nation.

But one person is not at all happy with all the happenings and she is Sahana.Being an army officer herself once upon a time,she never wanted any of her children to join the forces especially Karan who is a softie. Ironically, he is the one who became a Commando.Though she is proud of her son, his achievements but she is scared. Scared for his life because his horoscope always showed a danger.

Every time every day she used to pray for his safety and many a time she even coerced him to return but he never listened. Once he was deployed in Afghanistan and he suffered a major injury in Taliban attack.Seeing his condition, Sahana firmly decided not to send him and this time Mahesh supported her as he even needed his son to take over his business.

After a lot of emotional blackmail and tons of tears, Karan gave up his dear job and applied for MBA in Mumbai itself. It took him sometime to behave and become normal because they were meant to be trained as rocks. No feelings. No emotions. Only targets.

During his metamorphosis, Karan learnt he  liked teaching so went to London after completing his MBA and applied for Oxford and you know the rest of the story.

Though he capitulated his dream for his mother but couldn't help the regret.

And Arun Sharma unknowingly gave him that fat chance , the battle he needed to satiate himself, to again give something to his country. He woke up one of the perilous man the country has ever known who is in thirst of blood.

SPANDANA

Preetha is taken to the top floor of the hospital which is specifically reserved for their family. Raghuveer & Sarla are informed and they reached there only to see their daughter lying lifeless on the stretcher.

Raghuveer took a back step seeing her, no matter how brilliant of a doctor he is his hands shake & mind goes frizzy whenever it comes to his family. He just couldn't cut their bodies & see their blood.

Mahi & Varun are shocked seeing her state,  they couldn't move. Preetha is always as fit as a fiddle so they never saw her like that.

Seeing their head of the departments frozen,the other doctors also stood there not knowing what to do when they heard a voice,

"Change her & Get the scan room ready. I am coming .Quick."

It's Sarla who's ordering them.

The nurses change her to a light blue comfortable dress & push the stretcher to the scan room where they scan her head. Sarla comes in wearing an apron,a mask& a stethoscope in hand.

Sudden shocks lead to trauma so she wants to check if there's any blood clot. Thankfully there's nothing.

They take her to the bed in the room where she pierce a needle into Preetha's wrist and connects it to the saline.

She then takes a blood sample from her,

Sarla: Get all the tests done.I need the reports immediately.

The nurses run outside while she wipes the tear off her eyes looking at her. The love for her daughter made her get back on her profession.

Yes she's a doctor before becoming a mother.

And continues in the next chapter.......