Getting Hurt
Zoro grunted while pulling a small box of grenades up the ladder "Oi Luffy! Grab this box!"
Luffy quickly ran over to where he saw a box poking out from the ladder and pulled it up
"Thanks, here take some" Zoro popped it open throwing grenades to everyone on that level
"Okay, now get up there!" Luffy said getting back to his firing position
Zoro wiped the sweat off his brow and then tug the box onto the roof. "Okay grenades are here" He said grabbing his rifle and heading over to a ledge
It wasn't long before the loud hum of jets was heard
"Remember, jets are a primary target, if they get close they'll blow the AA cannon to pieces leaving us vulnerable to the rest of hell that's coming" Zoro shouted remembering his tactical classes on defending a base
"Nice to know I'm sitting in the primary target" Sanji shouted, just then two jets appeared soaring above the tree line
"Fuck, I can't get a lock on them!" Nami shouted out
"There too fast for the cannon" Sanji yelled back firing at them
"Here they come!" Law yelled
"Lock onto them when they start there run, fire when there in front of you!" Franky shouted
Nami and Law nodded
Zoro stood there looking on without anyways to help "God damn smart bastards, Oi! Sanji here come the bombers, open fire on them!"
"Don't have to tell me twice!" Sanji yelled
The crack of the AA cannon seemed to run right through Zoro's body, and deafened his ears; he hadn't been in a air raid in a long time
"Fire!" Franky shouted firing a rocket off, Nami and Law soon followed suit, the three rockets managed to hit the jets
"Fuck one let loose a missile, take cover!" Law yelled from the roof ducking behind the concrete legde
Zoro turned just as the missile hit the edge of the roof
Debris shot across the roof giving Zoro a nick on the arm
"Gotta love luck right Zoro!" He heard Sanji yell at him
"Focus on the assholes trying to kill us would ya?" Zoro shouted back
The AA cannon began firing again after only stopping briefly
"Fuck those bombers are fast!" Franky shouted
"Oi, where are the personnel carriers Usopp mentioned?" Law asked, and was answered with a bullet hitting the concrete by his exposed head "Fuck to close" Law said dropping to cover
"Well I guess that's why I'm up here!" Zoro said as he began to shoot from a bird's eye view, he also heard the crack of rifles from the mid floor of the base 'must have guessed they deploy the troops out of our sight' Zoro thought to himself thinking of Luffy 'smart guy'
"Jets 12 a clock" Sanji shouted
Franky quickly shot his head over the cover before ducking under it again "Fuck, there's five, let's go!"
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Chopper peered out of one of the metal shudders in the bottom level of Sunny looking trying to spot any enemy
"Oi chopper we need ammo up here!" he heard Luffy shout
"So that's why I'm down here" Chopper mumbled to himself while quickly grabbing some belts of ammo for the fifty's he heard firing and then a few clip belts for the rifles
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Luffy grabbed a few clips off of the belt Chopper wore, laying them at his feet and reloading before firing again
Chopper quickly raced over to Robin laying down the belts of ammo for her, then ran to Brook and gave him the rest of the clips
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"Oi Sanji get the hell out of the cannon, the jets are coming!" Franky Shouted while aiming at a jet
Sanji quickly saw the three of them fire, taking down only three of the five jets and quickly hopped out of the cannon just as the jets fired a barrage of missiles
"Oh fuck!" Zoro said to himself when he looked at the easily 20 missiles coming towards them
The missiles battered the right side and a few hit the roof blowing the AA cannon to bits sending shrapnel all over the roof
Zoro opened his eyes after he felt that most of the dust had settled and looked around, Franky was yelling in pain and holding his arm, although Zoro couldn't hear anything right now due to the explosions, Nami was examining Law, who laid motionless on the ground, bleeding, but Zoro couldn't see from where, Zoro looked over to the AA cannon, or what was left of it, and spotted Sanji, laying face down, Zoro quickly crawled over to where Sanji was, too shaken to walk and found that the box of grenades had exploded peppering Sanji's back with tiny bits of metal
"Fuck!" Zoro yelled unable to hear himself, he quickly check for a pulse, but he couldn't feel anything on his fingers, he quickly picked Sanji up, half walked half stumbled to the stairs, where he found Luffy gesturing for him to hand Sanji over
He quickly followed suit and brought over Law while Nami helped Franky over, Luffy handed them Sanji and then Law to Robin who handed them to Brook who laid them down in the bunker where Chopper was getting to work.
Zoro stumbled over to the firing position on the mid level and grabbed the machine gun, and began to fire at the enemy, shouting hatred with every word, that he couldn't hear, Soon enough Luffy was beside him also firing, along with Nami and Robin
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"Fuck! Stay with me! Brook hand me the stick of adrenaline, and need to keep their hearts beating!" Chopper yelled from over Sanji and Law
Brook quickly complied, and they both felt the next bomb that hit
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"Luffy, the roof won't hold forever we need a plan!" Robin shouted from where she was firing
Luffy let go of his rifle and grabbed Zoro
Zoro felt his hearing come back, just when Luffy grabbed him
"Zoro can you hear me!?" Luffy shouted
Zoro nodded, just barely hearing Luffy
"Okay, follow me, we are going to the bunker to get some rockets and then we are going to go out side and shoot them down, do you understand that?" Luffy asked
"Yeah I got you" Zoro shouted a little too loud
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Franky let go of his arm "Oi, Chopper they need me up there, give me a pain killer or something so I get back up there"
Chopper didn't even look up from where he was pulling debris out of Law "Med kit, blue vile only drink a little bit, or you'll compromise you ability to think clear"
Franky quickly grabbed it and popped the top off of it and took a sip, before returning it, he instantly felt the pain dim "Thanks" he quickly ran to the stairs but had to wait for Luffy and Zoro to get off be froe he went up
"Brook, keep the light on the wound" Chopper shouted
Brook quickly complied returning his vision to the wound from Zoro and Luffy
"Here" Luffy handed a rocket launcher and rocket pack to Zoro who quickly took them and then headed towards the door
Zoro looked back to Luffy who had his eyes hooded by his straw hat, Zoro simply nodded and opened the door and began to jog around to the side
Luffy quickly caught up to Zoro, and signaled for them to run across the road to the hill where Sanji had been during the armor attack on their first day at the base. They quickly ran the short distance, not drawing any attention for the enemy soldiers on the tree line.
"Alright, you get the bombers I'll get the jets!" Luffy said dropping to one knee and began looking for a target
Zoro nodded and quickly spotted a Bomber that was heading in for a run at the base.
The both fired, less than a second apart, both missiles taking down their targets, there was no relief felt though, they both automatically dropped the head of the launcher down and loaded the next rocket into the chamber, before taking aim again
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Usopp quickly stopped his running when he saw the enemy line on the tree line about 200 meters ahead of him, he looked around, hearing the bombs explode on the base, he spotted a long path way around them line and began running along it, doing his best to keep hidden
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Luffy and Zoro brought down there third set of lanes and quickly went to reload, however Zoro dropped his pack and the rocket rolled a little ways away, he quickly went for it, but a bullet right in front of his hand
He shot his head up to see about four enemies with their guns aimed at him, he quickly went for his pistol, but a shot went through his arm
Luffy quickly turned and got shot right through the side, he stared at the soldiers who shot him, 2 aimed at Zoro while two prepared to fire at him, but right before they fired and bullet went through two of their heads, causing the remaining two to get distracted enough for Zoro to pull his pistol and shoot at them sending them diving for cover
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Usopp quickly pumped the bolt of his sniper rifle and aim at the remaining two men who dove for cover "Come one give me a shot" he mumbled to himself, and took another shot, dropping another one of them, he pumped the bolt again, and aim for the last one, he began to run away from Luffy and Zoro, but right into Usopp's sight "Gotcha" Usopp said and he squeezed the trigger steadily, and dropped him, usopp then hopped to his feet, and in a rush pulled the bipod on the front of his sniper rifle up and slung it onto his back, and begun sprinted towards where Zoro and Luffy were
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Zoro torn off a piece of his shirt and wrapped it around the bullet hole in his arm and grabbed the rocket, he turned and saw Luffy holding his sides "Fuck what happened?" Zoro said dropping the rocket
"They got me right through my side"
Just then Usopp appeared from the bushes panting
"Usopp, carry Luffy back to the bunker to Chopper, I am going to stay here and blow the rest of these fuckers to hell" Zoro said grabbing his rocket and loading it and taking aim
"Ahh, god damn it" Luffy said as Usopp pick him up and set him across his shoulders "Zoro there going to kill you!" Luffy shouted
"Get him out of here!" Zoro shouted setting a stern glare onto Usopp
Usopp simply looked back and Nodded and began down the hill
"Zoro!" Luffy shouted as he was being carried away
Zoro hefted the rocket launcher back onto his shoulder "Good luck guys" zoro mumbled to them and fired, bringing down another bomber
He reloaded it and took count of what was left, just two jets, he aimed it again, and fired again, he felt a shooting pain surge through his wounded arm and the rocket missed and began chasing the jet "Fuck!" Zoro doubled over in pain "Ahh" Zoro slowly crawled back to one knee, he loaded the launcher again and took aim at one of the two jets "Focus Zoro" He mumbled to himself like a chant and then he steadily fired, this time it hit the jet, causing it to explode in the air
"Oh fucking shit!" Zoro yelled as his armed began to shoot pains again this time stronger "Ahh, oh fuck, come on, one more, one more" Zoro slowly loaded the last rocket, and took aim at the jet, he put his finger on the trigger, but a strong shooting pain went through his arm causing the aim to go off, "ahh, come on focus" Zoro exhaled and in haled deeply, repeating that for a few times, he aimed at the jet, and saw it do a u turn in the air "Oh fuck" he saw the jet heading straight for him
He quickly made sure his sight was right, and quickly pulled the trigger, just as the jet released a missile, he briefly saw the rocket hit the jet, and in the milliseconds before the missile hit him he thought, of Sanji, the golden hair, the sweet scent of tobacco, and his piercing blue eyes
The missile hit a few feet away from Zoro sending dirt and metal all over the place, and throwing Zoro into the fork of a tree about 20 feet away from where he was standing
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"Oi Chopper, Luffy's hit!" Usopp yelled as he burst through the door into the bunker, he took a quick look around, spotting the two on the ground "Oh fuck"
"Set him down over there" Chopper pointed to a nearby space, then returned to his work
"Okay" Usopp quickly put Luffy down in the space
"Oi Usopp, go get Zoro, bring him back here" Luffy said in a strained voice
Usopp looked at Luffy, his eyes watering slightly Okay, I'll bring him right back" Usopp turned and began running towards the door, and then to the small hill
Luffy looked after him, before falling back down and passing out
"Brook, check to see what's wrong with him" Chopper shouted pointing towards Luffy while still working Law and Sanji
"Looks like he got shot" Brook responded quickly
"Is the bullet still in him?" Chopper asked nervously
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"out of ammo on this gun" Franky shouted
"Here" Nami tossed him another gun
"It looks like Zoro and Luffy brought down the last planes" Robin mentioned while firing
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Usopp quickly made his way to the hill, spotting some metal and no Zoro "Fuck, ZORO, where the hell are you" He quickly began scanning the nearby foliage, just barely spotting the bloody body of Zoro in a tree "Zoro?" he ran towards the tree."Holy hell, Zoro, don't you be dead on us" Usopp yelled climbing up to him "Zoro" Usopp quickly put his first two fingers on his right hand up to Zoro's throat and waited, at feeling a very weak pulse.
"Shit Zoro, I don't know if you're going to make it if I move you" Usopp thought about it 'if I move him he might die, if I don't he does die, simple as that' "Okay hold on, cling to life you stubborn bastard, here we go" Usopp said wrapping Zoro one of his shoulders and then hopped out of the tree and started running as fast as he could towards the base
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"We pushed them back" nami said in a quiet voice, not quite comprehending her own words, nor believing them, but the firing had died out "We did it" she said this time a little bit more joyous.
"but at what cost" Robin said dropping the gun "Three days into this fucking mission and we nearly lose half of us" She said and started crying softly
Nami quickly stood, and walked towards the ladder
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Chopper wiped his brow and turned to Luffy "Okay, I just have to make sure there's no internal damage that I can't handle" he started into the wound and began closing up what he could "It doesn't look to bad, he will be fine, Brook hand me the pliers, so that I can get the bullet out"
Brook quickly complied, briefly seeing Nami and Robin come down the ladder followed by franky
"Okay, now I'll wrap him up and he'll be good" Chopper wiped his brow again and stood from his finished work and looked at the three injured.
Usopp ran through the open door and went straight for Chopper "Oi, he, he, he's barely alive" Usopp quickly set him down
Chopper quickly went to work on the arm "This isn't enough to kill him, what happened?" Chopper looked over to Usopp
"I think a missile hit him, or near him or something"
Chopper's eyes widen and he quickly tore off Zoro's shirt, revealing a long scar, but on top of that, a huge chest wide bruise "Fuck, Zoro god damn it, stay with me" Chopper quickly went for his surgery equipment and pulled out a marker and set to work on marking the areas that would be most likely to have internal bleeding "Every one out, except Brook, and Brook, start getting this place sanitized" Chopper pulled out a scalpel "He needs impediment surgery"
Brook set to work un wrapping clean sheets and setting them up, making a make shift operating room
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Robin quickly went to the roof, and surveyed the damage, they was still black smoke puffing out of the AA cannon, that laid mainly in the middle of the roof, with pieces laying all over the roof, along with some small chunks of concrete and some mangled rifles and warped bits of metal from the missiles, she went to the edge and looked towards the tree line, truly a suicide mission, Shanks needed them to live though, for 997 more days, but now they were left with four critically injured members, and then there was Franky, with his injured arm, thankfully the rest of them, the last five were still fine, only 50% operable, and she had to get them through this until Luffy or Sanji or Zoro was back up, if they got back up… she let some stray tears trail down her face, she looked into the now setting sun
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Chopper exited the makeshift operating room and took his gloves off, he then climbed the ladder and found everyone on the second floor, the inside lights on since it was now night outside, he took a seat on the floor when everyone came towards him, Robin handing him a cup of coffee
"So?" Nami asked gently "What, is their condition?"
Chopper took a few deep breaths to make sure he didn't crack "They are all breathing on their own, but I don't know if it will stay that way, Sanji lost a lot of blood, and I pulled over 200 pieces of shrapnel from his back, Law has a broken leg and a few broken ribs, I think he is going to make it, but it will be months until he is fine" Chopper began to break a little, a few tears falling "Luffy, is in the best condition, he is just sleeping, he didn't have to much internal damage and I closed the wound, but, but Zoro" Chopper cracked fully, begging to sob "He is the worst off, he has most of his ribs broken, and both legs, his left fore arm is immensely broken in five parts, he whole body is bruised and he had a lot of internal bleeding, if he is so much as nudged, I think we will lose him" by the end Chopper was bawling
The small group digested the news, a few breaking out into tears, Franky simply punched the wall and Robin tried her best to keep a level head at the news but they all had the same thought on their mind 'Zoro is going to be another dead war hero'
The End
A/N: Sorry this one being a little late, I had a lot to get done before I could work on this, by the way, the road that the tanks drive threw is on the left side of the base, the airstrip is a small walk from the back of the base, the tree line is in front of the base. Sorry for any confusion that might of caused because I didn't explain that Cleary earlier in the story… Please Read and Review