Chapter 6 – Demonic Conflict

They didn't know whether it had been hours or even days since they had arrived in this strange world, but either way Foxy and his two cronies had been looking through all of G's personal belongings for ages. To be more specific, they had been rummaging through all of his files on every character he had encountered in his lifetime, which luckily enough were categorised within their own cabinet in the filing room.

"Hey, this guy looks interesting," Hamburg stated, holding up one of the papers. "Captain Korwin…"

However Foxy merely slapped the paper out of Hamburg's hand before he could finish reading.

"NO!" he snapped. "No Captains! The only captain around here is gonna be me! Got it!?"

"Y… yes sir," Hamburg replied nervously, not daring to push his Captain's anger further.

Needless to say it has been a stressful time for all three of them, more so for Foxy since he was the only one who refused to get any sleep while they worked, and the fact that no one could tell whether it was night or day in this world only made things worse.

"What about this one?" Porche suggested with another paper, hoping to lighten up the mood. "Someone called… Machine Queen. A very skilled engineer, able to build nearly and device, including parts of her own body…"

However Foxy only repeated his rejection process upon hearing that.

"Nah, I don't like anyone who thinks they're royalty, even if it is merely by name," he said, much to Porche's disappointment, "Besides I think we should start small, I mean check out the star rating."

"Star rating?" Porche repeated, raising an eyebrow and looking closer at the paper.

As it turned out, G had his own method of categorising the characters he encounters, specifically a five-star rating system. In a nutshell, the more dangerous a character is, the more red stars they get underneath the picture. However from Foxy's idiotic perspective the more stars a character gets, the higher the chance for a new potential crewmate, and frankly he considered anything two stars or lower not even worth his time. Suddenly one particular document caught Porche's eye.

"Hey, boss this is your file!" she gasped, pulling the document.

Needless to say, Foxy's ego quickly reacted upon hearing that and snatched the paper out of Porche's hands.

"Oh really?" He said with an evil smirk. "Well let's just see how I raaaaaaa…."

However the star-rating was not what Foxy was hoping for, in fact it couldn't have been a worse rating as far as anything goes.

"One… s… star?" Foxy gasped, reading the document aloud.

Then, just like every other time Foxy's sensitive ego was insulted, the Pirate Captain collapsed to the floor in a deep depression, after which Porche quickly tried to comfort him and Hamburg giggled to himself.

"The Boss is as dangerous as a box full of kittens," he muttered. "Pupupupupupupu."

However the large pirate made no effort to conceal his comment, making Porche scowl at him with anger in her eyes.

"You're gonna make him cry, Hamburg!" she snapped.

However soon enough, Foxy and his two comrades gained a much bigger problem than a crappy rating, a problem that seemed to literally kick Foxy in the rear without being seen, forcing him to slide on his belly into the table.

"Boss!" Porche gasped as she and Hamburg ran to his aid. "Are you okay?"

But Foxy never got to give his answer, within a matter of seconds he felt another powerful kick to his gut, the bombarded him upward and sent him flying across the room, his was soon followed by an inane laughter that echoed in everyone's ears. However the laugh was the only thing that could be noticed since no one could see who it was, suddenly that laughter was joined by a mocking voice.

"So you're the ones we've been dying to meet," it said, "Gotta say, you're a funny looking bunch, and that's rich coming from me."

Suddenly several piles of paper came flying off the work desk as if someone had tossed them into the air, some even hovered for a moment before floating to the ground.

"So you guys have been trying to do some recruiting huh?" the voice continued. "Well sorry to tell ya this boyo, but this swinger don't take orders from any stumpy, big-nose, fox-headed… OW!"

Bebop may have been able to help it, but thanks to his big mouth, it didn't take long for Porche to figure out where the invisible warthog was and follow his voice long enough to deliver a punch to his gut, thus forcing his invisibility field to drop.

"Aw man, how'd you find me?" he asked, confused as to how he was discovered so quickly.

"Cause you don't shut up!" Porche snapped, a deadpanned look spread across her face at the Pig-man's stupidity. "And just who are you anyway?"

Bebop smirked at that.

"Wouldn't you like to know?" he mocked, raising both his eyebrows in a seductive manner. "Though in all honesty I wouldn't mind getting to KNOW you."

At those words Porche cringed and turned pale, every syllable Bebop said making her sick to her stomach.

"Oh come on, now a pig-boy too!?" she yelled. "Am I ever NOT gonna get hit on by some weirdo any time soon!?"

However those were the wrong choice of words on Porche's part, since Bebop was now growling with anger upon hearing them.

"Okay, you chose the wrong day to insult me girl!" he snarled, the energy lines in his skin glowing more ferociously than ever.

"Oh and just what are you gonna do about it?" Porche retorted, a sly grin spreading across her face.

Hearing this, Bebop grinned too, much to everyone's confusion.

"Not me," he said bluntly. "I would never hit a lady … but THEY will."

At first neither Porche, Foxy, nor Hamburg had any idea as to what the warthog was talking about, however after hearing a ferocious growl from behind them, all three of them turned to see the fierce faces of Rahzar and Rocksteady, edging their way towards them. Needless to say, all three pirates couldn't help but jump back in fright and Rahzar's yellow eyes glows with pure ferocity.

"Break every bone if you have to," he instructed with a deep growl in his throat. "Just make sure they're able to talk afterward."

Rocksteady chuckled at that.

"Is no problem," he said, cracking his knuckles. "Just as long as Rocksteady gets to pop fox-boy's head like blueberry."

Foxy froze in fear upon hearing that, he didn't like the way the giant talking rhino was looking at him in the slightest. However that didn't mean that he was going to go down without a fight, after all he was Silver Fox Foxy, one of the greatest pirates on the Grand Line, and there was no way he was going to let some zoo-animals get the better of him.

"Fehfefefefefefefefefe!" he laughed, putting a brave grin. "Tough talk for someone about to die. Porche, Hamburg, show these filthy beasts who's the most powerful shall we."

Both giving an understanding nod, Porch and Hamburg ran to their captain's side and readied their weapons. However Rahzar merely chuckled at Foxy's statement.

"Oh, this is gonna be fun," he said, before giving off a loud howl.

The second the howl left Rahzar's bony jaw, the battle commenced. With a loud roar, Rocksteady blew steam from his nostrils and charged directly at Foxy like the rhino he was, however before he could impale his horn through the grinning pirate, he soon became the victim of one of Foxy's greatest traps.

"SLOW-SLOW BEAM!" he cried.

Within moments Rocksteady was caught in Foxy's power and his speedy charge turned into nothing more than a slow crawl.

"What the…!?" Rahzar gasped, completely astounded at what he was seeing.

"Hamburg, if you please," Foxy instructed, his grin spreading even wider.

Grinning upon hearing his Captain's order, Hamburg drew back his club and swung it with all of his might into Rocksteady's face. After a short time of know reactions, soon the 30 seconds we up and Rocksteady was sent flying across the room and crashed into one of the nearby cabinets, luckily thanks to his thick rhino hide the impact didn't do much damage.

"Hehehe, Wolf-man is right," he said, dusting himself off. "This IS going to be fun."

And so the battle between the pirates and the mutants went into full swing, with Rocksteady rumbling with Hamburg, Porche duking it out with Rahzar and Foxy going up against Bebop. With Hamburg and Rocksteady it was a battle of power, while Hamburg was able to land a few blows with his metal clubs, Rocksteady's brute strength and thick hide provided the perfect defence, plus with his golden sickle and hammer, he was able to counter almost every single blow save for a few lucky shots to the face and stomach.

"FLOWER SHURIKEN!" Porche screamed as she delivered her attack upon Rahzar.

However while some of the flower-concealed blades did manage to strike a few spots on the wolf-mutants body, his nerves were so badly impaired by his mutation that they felt little more like a tickle.

"Cute," he chuckled, brushing off the blades and readying his claws. "But I'm afraid that's not gonna be enough to save you."

Then with a loud roar Rahzar launched himself towards the screaming pirate, who in response ran for the exit as quickly as she could. Meanwhile, even is Porche and Hamburg's loosing battles seem to be one-sided, Foxy was certainly having more luck while fighting Bebop, mostly due to the fact that he kept using his Devil Fruit Power to slow him down.

"Dang it!" the warthog snapped after once again recovering from the attack. "Would you stop…"

But before bebop could finish speaking, Foxy delivered a cheap punt to his snout and ran for the exit.

"OW! My Piggy-nose!" Bebop squealed, gasping his snout in pain. "Why the hell do they always go for that!?"

However Bebop's pitiful squeals were of no concern for the other fighters, because at the very same time Rocksteady threw Hamburg out of the room and went out after him along with Rahzar, within moments the fight between pirate and mutant had escalated to the gravity-defying staircases outside. Watching everything from one of these staircases, Scanty and Kneesocks couldn't help but smirk at the display.

"This has turned into quite the show, wouldn't you agree Scanty?" Kneesocks asked.

"Oh absolutely darling," Scanty answered, nodding her head in agreement. "But we can't let those inbred monsters have all the fun, can we?"

"Indeed not," Kneesocks replied. "After all we don't want them destroying each other before we get our answers."

"Then let's get to it!" Scanty declared before jumping off the railing of the staircases, quickly followed by her sister.

Meanwhile as the fight moved from the filing room to the many staircases that made up G's home, all six fighters somehow managed to find a battleground in the form of a large balcony in the front of one of the large pictures on the many walls. At this point, everyone seemed to be at an impasse, mainly due to the mutants' strength and Foxy's constant interference with his Devil Fruit Power, however this all changed when Foxy and Rahzar felt an impact to the back of their skulls. As the two skidded across the floor and slammed into the wall, everyone then turned to see their leaders' attackers. As it turned out, Scanty and Kneesocks used both Foxy and Rahzar's heads as a landing pad after making their jump, after which they jumped onto the railing of the current balcony to make a grand entrance.

"Now what!?" Rocksteady snapped.

"Who are these clowns?" Porche added, sharing in the rhino-man's fury.

However scanty merely chuckled at that enquiry.

"Clowns?" she repeated mockingly. "Now is that any way to treat a pair of high-class citizens such as us?"

"I think this bitch needs some schooling in respect," Kneesocks added. "Shall we Scanty?"

Suddenly, both of the red skinned girls became enveloped in a fiery red aura, both of them sprouting a pair of luminous bat wings and an arrow-tipped tail as they began their chant.

Break, oh Earth,

Dry up, oh sea,

Burn out, oh sun,

Grant us power, Earthly leaders and Gatekeepers of Hell!

Guide us, makers of the underworld!

We are high-class Demon Commanders!

As both girls chanted both of them removed an article of clothing from their person, Scanty two pairs of black thongs, and Kneesocks stripped off both her white socks. What made this display all the more weird was the fact that these pieces of clothing became shrouded in the same magical aura and transformed into weapons, with Scanty her thongs turned into a pair of black and gold revolvers, and Kneesocks had her sock transform into a pair of black and gold scythes. When they were done, the two Demon Sisters presented their weapons and introduced themselves in an opposing manner.

"I'm Scanty!" the eldest declared, brandishing her guns.

"And I'm her darling little sister, Kneesocks!" the youngest added, raising one scythe to Hamburg's neck.

Needless to say, the sudden appearance and magical abilities of the two new arrivals instantly gave both the mutants and the pirates a great deal of chills down all their spines.

"You're shitting me, they're frigging DEMONS!?" Porche screamed fearfully, her stature shrinking under the sisters' evil gaze.

Rahzar on the other hand merely chuckled after dusting himself off from the impact.

"Oh this gets more and more interesting by the minute," he growled readying himself for another attack.

However before he could take a single step, Rahzar felt a sharp pain in his foot where Scanty had just shot him, his nerves may have been almost dead but bullets made from the flames of hell and fired from a demonic pistol would cause even the most hardened creatures to writhe in pain. As Rahzar sat there, clutching his foot in agony, everyone else raised their hands in fear, not wanting to push the demonic girl any further.

"Now you're going to be as quiet as possible, or the next one is going into your stomach, understood?" Scanty demanded, earning a painful nod from the wolf.

"Now who do we have to speak to about this accused place?" Kneesocks demanded before turning towards Bebop. "Speak vile creature!"

Bebop narrowed his eyes at that.

"Okay, that was just rude!" he snapped, suddenly shrinking back as Kneesocks narrowed her gazed. "Uh… I mean, I don't know what's going on, Yo! Ask split-head over there, he's the brains of the outfit!"

At those words, Kneesocks and Scanty turned their heads towards Foxy, who at this point had once again collapsed with depression upon hearing Bebop's hurtful comment. Upon seeing this pitiful display neither sister was impressed.

"Yeah, I seriously find that hard to believe," Scanty scoffed, aiming her revolvers at Bebop's snout. "You want to lie to me again?"

"I AIN'T LYING, I SWEAR!" Bebop pleaded, desperately not wanting to get shot by this scary woman. "I saw the papers up in that filing room! He and his two cronies are planning some recruitment job or something!"

Both Scanty and Kneesocks raised an eyebrow at that and jumped off the railing, after edging their way towards the snivelling Pirate Captain, Kneesocks placed one of her scythes to his throat while Scanty kept Porche and Hamburg at bay with her guns. At any other time Foxy would have used his Devil Fruit Power to escape this situation, however as her looked up into the Demon Sisters' piercing yellow eyes, he felt too scared to move since he knew that they would most likely blow his brains out if he did anything stupid.

"Alright, needle-nose!" Scanty growled. "You are going to tell us exactly what's going on here, or I'm gonna blow so many holes in you, your guts will be leaking demonic lead!"

Foxy gulped at that.

"Calm yourself sister!" Kneesocks calmly said. "Let the man explain before you go shooting anything."

However the answer Foxy gave the two sisters wasn't what they wanted at all.

"I swear I'm not up to anything!" he whimpered. "I don't even know who you weirdos are, much less how you got here. I don't even know how WE got here, really!"

He may have been telling the truth for the most part, but unfortunately Scanty was not the most rational of demons when her blood begins to boil.

"Oh you are just begging to be blown away aren't you!?" she snapped, pointing both her guns directly at Foxy's face, who in turn screamed in terror.

"Honestly, must everything always end in violence?" Kneesocks complained with a deadpanned expression, which quickly turned into a smirk. "Not that I mind gutting a few low-lives now and then, it has become somewhat of an interesting piece of entertainment for us, hasn't it?"

"Exactly," Scanty replied. "And in truth, we only need ONE of you alive to tell us what we need to know, so we're just going to end this right here and know!"

At those words, Scanty pointed her guns and Bebop and Rocksteady while Kneesocks aimed her scythes towards Porche and Hamburg. Seeing this as the perfect opportunity to attack, Foxy then stood up and attempted to use his Devil Fruit Power.

"SLOW-SLOW…" he began, his fingers already beginning to glow.

However before he could launch his magical light, another voice distract him enough to make him stop in his tracks.

"ENOUGH!" the voice screamed.

The voice was loud enough that it echoed throughout the entire area, thus grabbing everyone's attention and making turn towards the nearest setoff staircases, the top of which was occupied by another, much younger red-skinned girl with crab-claws and a tail, along with a pale-faced girl wearing a pink kimono.

"Yo, who invited the kids?" Bebop asked openly, earning himself a shrug from rocksteady and an iron to the face, complements of Mimi.

"Thank you Mimi," Chi complimented, ever so enjoying her friend's ability to pull objects out of thin air. "Now perhaps we can all just calm down so we can get to the bottom of this."

However no one seemed to be interested in what the Daughter of Aku had to say.

"Stay out of this child!" Kneesocks demanded. "This has nothing to do with... WAHH!"

Suddenly Kneesocks was cut off by another attack from Mimi, this time in the form of a harpoon that was shot from a gun Mimi had pulled out her dress, which narrowly missed her head by inches.

"Next time Mimi won't miss!" Chi yelled, clearly not liking being interrupted. "Look, clearly this is confusing for all of us, and Fox-boy here clearly knows more than he's saying…"

"I don't, I swear!" Foxy lied, only to be struck across the head by Rocksteady for both his whimpering and Rocksteady's amusement.

Needless to say, no one was buying any of Foxy's lies, for each and every one of them has had some form of experience in the matter that was clearly much better than this pathetic example of a Captain. During the whole situation Mimi remained silent as always and kept the stoic expression on her face.

"We all came here by the same means if I'm not mistaken," Chi continued. "A large glowing crack right?"

At those words, Chi received a hesitant nod from everyone except Foxy, Porche and Hamburg, which in turn only confirmed her suspicions about the Pirate.

"I may have a rough idea about where we are," Chi announced, quickly grabbing everyone's attention. "After all, I have heard many stories about this place but was never allowed to come here. But perhaps we should also listen to what that stubby weirdo has to say and save the fighting until we learn what in the hell if going on… then maybe we can kill each other later."

Sighing in defeat, everyone then dropped their guard towards each other, though they still kept a close eye on Foxy and his two crewmates, knowing full well that what Chi suggesting was made the most sense.

"Da, pale-faced girl makes good point," Rocksteady commented, lowering his hammer.

"Agreed," Scanty added, keeping one gun on Foxy. "After all we cannot establish a solution if we don't have a way of civilised communication, there ARE rules to this sort of thing."

Hearing this Rahzar growled and struggled to pull himself up, after limping his way towards Foxy, he then grabbed the Captain by the throat and slammed him into the nearby wall, forming another small sliver in the already damaged wall behind him.

"Boss!" Porche yelled worriedly.

However before either she nor Hamburg could do something to save their Captain, Scanty aimed both of her revolvers at them, freezing them in place. Leaving the zombie-wolf to snarl in Foxy's face.

"Alright, Needle-nose," he growled. "I'm willing to play this game, now start talking…"

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Author's Notes:

The Mentioned Character Machine Queen Belongs to :iconlordtalesman100:

The Mentioned Character Captain Korwin Belongs to :iconkorwin-straden:

The Characters Chi and Mimi belong to Bleedman / :iconbleedman: