"Prison Break"
Author's note:
Hey reader,
This is part two of the "Merry Dance Sunny Go School for Young Adults" fic. If you wanna know what happened, or understand certain references, please read it. Yeh, shameless punt for my writing, I cant force you to read anthing. But hopefully you will ;) please?
Anyway, please read, review and enjoy. XD
Elichan.
Trapped
The screeching sirens above Eli's head were calling. Then, a speedbump taken too fast made her jump off the chair and wake up.
"Shite!" she yelled, waking with a start. She landed and found her head on something like a very hard pillow. She opened the eyes she'd closed on landing. A face was staring at her. She ghasped and was against the door of the...car?
"Where am i? What's happening?!" last thing she remembered was being in Ace's office and there were two creeps. Who were currently driving the car.
"Lemme out!" she screamed.
"Eli." The man whose lap she'd been lying on said soothingly.
"Fuck it Ace. I want to get out!" she tugged on the door. "Why did you hand me over to them!? WHY!?"
Ace hung his head. "Eli it wasn't as if i…"
"THERE'S ALWAYS A CHOICE! I didn't want to go back to them!" She shuddered, remembering how badly she'd been treated as a patient at the mental institute.
Ace gave her a searching glance under the brim of his orange crocodile dundee style hat. So she still thought she was being taken to the institute?
That was the alibi used by the two men sitting in the front of this policecar. Doctors from the mental asylum she'd been kept in for ten years before attending the once prestigious Merry Sunny School. But he'd only found that out at the same time as he'd been arrested by these oddballs.
"Yoyoi! Pleeeeeeeeeease beeeeee silllllllent!" a tall man with a vast amount of pink rinsed hair turned over to look at the two on the back seat.
"Go stick your head in a pig, freak!" she screamed at him.
"Chapapapa, you have no people skills Kumadori."
"Fu-Fukurou!" the monkey with the pink hair looked towards the walking potato at the wheel with indignation.
"Chapapapa, you're giving me a headache. Just shut up the lot of you so we can get to HQ and get this lot into their prison cells."
"Prison?" Eli's eyes widened.
"I'm going to prison." Said Ace.
"Tziganu's going there till we can allocate a decent mental ward, chapapapapa."
"Fukurou, the…the ziiiiiiip's there foooor a reeeeeeeason!"
"I forgot! Chapapapa."
Ace heaved an exasperated sigh. If Eli deserved to go into a mental ward, then these two deserved straight jackets and to be hung from the ceiling.
"Ace, what is going on?" the girl's tone had changed. She wasn't yelling anymore. She was staring wide eyed at the backs of the two mens heads.
"Robin, Brook, Franky, Zoro, Nami and myself have been arrested. I don't know why the others are."
She nodded. She didn't want to ask pointed questions. She sat stock still, barely moving a muscle.
"Agh, chapapapa. Why couldn't we have taken the train?" Complained Potato Head
"Be Becaaaause Spandam taicho didn't have the moooney."
"And it's a week's drive to the capital." Ace sighed. Eli shot him a look.
"How long have I been asleep?"
"Ages."
"Precisely?"
"the sedative should last 24 hours minimum, chapapapapa."
The girl half smiled. "That explains why I'm hungry."
Oddball passed her an apple. "Rrrrrrrrrrations."
"I'm not touching anything you give me." she was calm. Ace understood her completely. Who would take food from someone who'd practically kidnapped them, not to mention sedated them.
"And I'd stop the car if I were you." Her tone was dangerous. "If you don't want a mess on your nice leather seats.
The men turned to face each other horrified. She couldn't mean…
"what?"
None of them knew what to say.
"If you don't want piss everywhere, I suggest you stop." A great sigh of relief. Eli's expression became questionning, then she twigged the common fear. "God, guys immediately jump to the weirdest conclusions."
They were in convoi. There were three cars. Robin, Zoro and Franky found themselves packed in the back of one behind Spandam who was letting Lucci drive.
"Turn left." He ordered. The car veered right. "Left I said!"
"Spam has such a bad sense of direction, when he says left he mean's right." Lucci's face remained passive.
"Ah, I see." Franky sounded as though all his horizons had been broadened by that small comment. Spandam on the other hand was spitting feathers, as he had been doing for the past 24 hour drive.
Lucci looked into the rearview mirror. His car was leading, as you'd expect, what with the Head in it.
The car just behind him was flashing it's headlights. Three flashes. The sign for "pitstop". He turned to Spadam.
"Well?"
"Well what, Lucci!? You don't treat your boss that way if you want to stay employed."
"I was asking permission concerning the other's request."
"What request?"
"They are asking for a pitstop."
Robin listened to this conversation in silent contemplation. They'd had a pitstop a few hours ago. Either Ace had been given too much to drink or…
"Thank god." She muttered, getting strange glances from her fellow backseat passengers.
"What do you feel like saying, idiot woman?!" Spandam's fuse was rapidly losing it's length.
Taking Lucci as an example, she ignored him and turned to Zoro and Franky. "Eli's awake." She said.
"Ahh that's good." Franky sounded as though he was genuinely relieved. Zoro, on the other hand, wasn't quiet as happy about the situation.
"Pah. Is that anything to be happy about?"
"Will you stop ignoring me!" Spandam yelled, almost literally hitting the roof. "We continue." He added to Lucci.
Who pulled over at the next petrol station.
"LUCCI!"
"If the child is awake, she'll need the toilet. We'd be in trouble if something happened to those cars."
Spandams mouth would've hit the floor if that were at all possible. Why did no one EVER listen to him. He was the leader right. Behind him, Zoro chuckled.
"Serves you right, metal nose."
"Nice one!" Franky appreciated the insult.
Robin sighed. "Do either of you have any idea how serious the situation is?"
"Who cares?"
"It's hard to take it seriously when the operation's run by a moron, cut us some slack, Robbie."
"Robbie?" zoro looked questionningly at Franky, who shrugged.
"Just rolled off my tongue."
Lucci let them out of the car. Zoro immediately started doing squats to remove the stiffness from his legs, while Franky started inhaling.
"I LOVE the smell of petrol!" he declared for the umpteenth time. He then looked at the other cars and motorbikes hanging around, listening avidly to the sound of a motor as the owner revved it.
"That one doesn't sound healthy! Lemme fix it!" he made towards a guy in his early twenties, only to be yanked back by Lucci.
"They gave you a very apt title, Cyborg."
"Oi bub! Gerrof! That bike's gonna die, along with the driver!"
"But the driver's already left."
Next to this heated discussion, Potato Head and Oddball had opened the door to let the German woman take Eli to the toilet. Ace got out to stretch his muscles. Nami and Brook were standing by their car, a man with a long nose keeping a close eye on them. Nami looked as though she'd been crying and Brook looked like he'd been dragged through a hedge backwards.
"Where are Nero and Blueno?" Spandam asked. "Stupid layabouts. I'm surrounded by idiots!"
Just then two men left the petrol station's shop. One looked like he belonged in "Wind in the Willows", so much did he resemble a weasel. The other wouldn't have looked out of place chasing a red flag around a ring in Pamplona.
"Oh, Spam san has arrived." Said Weasel man.
"Nero, be quiet." Said the Bull in a voice so deep you'd think the earth itself had spoken.
"When did you two arrive?" asked Spandam, eyes on stalks.
"Hours ago, we've been waiting for you." Weaselly Nero said, looking at the captives with what could only be expressed as glee.
There was a large commotion inside the shop.
"Hell's Bells, what now?" Nero seemed too interested in everything for anyone's personal comfort. "There's a bratty girl running around the shop."
"Kalifa's not with her?"
"She's chasing her, catching up." Then they heard a stifled yell. "Well she was, the kid just kicked her in the stomach. She's landed on her back." The gleeful grin on Nero's face was probably what gave him the right to be named after the. megalomaniac emperor
At that moment Eli ran out from the exit on the other side. And ran straight into the guy with the long nose.
"Well done, Kaku!" Cheered Spandam. "A promotion in the ranks."
"Thank you sir." Kaku replied, though his tone was bored. Spandam smirked and walked up to the girl struggling against Kaku's grip in vain, like a fish in a net.
"Poor little mental child. It's alright, you'll be in a safe place soon."
"FUCK YOU AND YOUR SAFE PLACE! I WANNA GO HOME!" she spat in his face.
"Assaulting an officer. A criminal offence." Spandam wiped the saliva off his face. Perfect, now he had a reason to arrest her as well. He'd get his promotion for this. "You, Tziganu Eli are under arrest."
"I wanna go HOME!" she yelled at him, kicking him between the legs. She was still screaming for them to let her go home as they bundled her into the police wagon.
"Don't worry." Nero said to the onlookers. "she's an escapee from a mental institute. We're taking her into custody so we can get her better care." His smile never wavered. Everyone nodded, looking relieved and went back to their tasks.
"Come on the rest of you, into the cars."
And pushing and shoving, the others were stuffed into their cars and were driven off towards the capital.