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"AAAAAAAAAAhh! I've been shot! Bleeding! I'm bleeding! I'm gonna dieeeee!"
Zoro and I sweat dropped at his reaction as he rolled around on the floor. We could see that he had been shot quite high up in his left shoulder. It was understandable for him to freak out a little, I mean I would if I got shot, but he was definitely in no danger of dying. My attention was suddenly diverted to the tower though, as I heard a large troop of feet start up inside. Zoro had caught sight of my head movement and seemed to understand what was happening instantly. The kid calmed down a little and started to sit up.
"Are you alright? I think you should run, they're almost here."
"No!..I've...got to free you...as soon as possible."
That's really nice of him, but at this rate the Marines might kill him. I had no idea they would act that harshly against him though, aren't Marines meant to be the good guys? I mean, Mihawk was, and he worked for them...I bet Luffy got them angry...
" You don't need to worry about us. We can stand this for a month just hurry and lea-"
"THEY WON'T SET YOU FREE! They're going to execute you in three days!"
WHAT? Never mind that I wouldn't have been able to survive this for a month, now he tells me that they were going to kill us anyway? GARARRGHGHGH, HELMEPPO YOU ARE SO DEAD!
"He never intended to keep his promise. That's why Luffy-san punched him on your behalf. He was just toying with you!"
We looked at him for a moment, stunned about what we had just heard.
"W-what did you just say?"
Huh...so I'm not the only one who punches Marines when they're angry. It was nice of him to do that for us though.
"The Navy will never let the three of you off. Please! After I set you free, please help rescue Luffy-san! I won't force you to become pirates, but he is the one who saved me. Luffy-san is very strong. If you join forces then you will definitely be able to escape this town!"
As soon as his speech was over, I saw that the Marines had finally left the tower and were running towards us.
Oh this is just great! Why couldn't he have been untying us as he spoke?
"That's enough! The three of you have betrayed Lieutenant Morgan. DIE!"
CRAP!
As the Marines arranged themselves so that they all had clear shots, I looked at my companions and saw that their faces represented my thoughts exactly. That was when the booming voice I had heard earlier was matched to a man who was now walking towards us, he looked odd.
"Surround the base! Don't let the guy with the straw hat escape!"
Yeah I knew it, Luffy didn't look like the type of guy to do anything quietly.
"How interesting...were the four of you trying to cause a political upheaval?"
What the – yes...yes that was EXACTLY what we were going for whilst tied to a pole...
As he came closer, I was able to confirm that my eyes hadn't gone AWOL on me and that I really was seeing a man who had a giant axe for a hand and a steel plated jaw. He was wearing dark clothing and boots with a white Marine coat that was undone, flapping behind him like a cape. The only resemblance he had to the Stupid was that he was male and had blond hair.
"Roronoa Zoro, I've heard your name before, but don't underestimate me! When compared to my great strength, you're all just garbage! READY!"
All I could do was look at the guns pointed in our direction. I couldn't quite believe that all this was happening. I had no idea what my feelings were doing, I felt weirdly calm. Don't get me wrong, I didn't want to die, I just couldn't work up a strong reaction to it, I think I was still trying to get over the fact that I was in a different world.
Everything seemed to happen at once.
I heard a crash from the Marine tower just as Morgan shouted "FIRE". As I looked up reflexively at the loud noises, I saw Luffy come flying in this direction before landing to our side, directly in front of the Marines who had just let off a volley of bullets. My hyped up eyes allowed me to see, track and identify the features of each bullet as they came hurtling towards us, somehow also allowing me to instantly know the trajectory of each bullet. Luffy had managed to stand in the exact spot where they would all hit. As soon as I understood this, the bullets hit him.
To say that I was shocked a random kid/pirate had done this for people he had only just met would have been a severe understatement. The only person on the field who didn't look shocked seemed to be Morgan who, for some reason, looked annoyed.
W-why?..He-th-bullets...died for us?
I was proved wrong though as the bullets then proceeded to bounce back from him, instead of going through him.
Okay that's it, I give up on this world with the evil marines with odd limb replacements and the pirates on the same side as said marines along with the RANDOM PIRATE KID THAT CAN BOUNCE BACK BULLETS!
As the marines ducked the rebounding bullets, I finished freaking out about my ridiculous luck and ignored the strange wounded child on the floor to stare at Luffy.
"WHAT KIND OF HUMAN ARE YOU?"
There was a pause where he slowly turned back to face us whilst Zoro and I waited for the answer.
"Hehe, the one who will become the Pirate King!"
The both of us sweat dropped at that reply.
Yeah, that wasn't the type of answer we were going for there...
Ignoring the marines who were still falling over each other in shock, Luffy walked over to Zoro and held out the three katana that I saw him wearing back before we were tied to the posts.
"Look, which one is your treasured katana? I couldn't figure it out so I brought all three of them."
"All three belong to me, I use santoryu*"
As Zoro replied, I couldn't help but feel a bit worried. His face was void of all expression and he had answered in a monotone.
I think Luffy broke him...All this random and stress mustn't be good for his poor ickle brain.
Quickly stifling a shudder from a sudden bout of killing intent aimed at me from said man (THE HELL?! How did he know I insulted him?) We all turned back to the marines as they seemed to have finally sorted themselves out and were once again pointing lethal weapons in our direction.
"Resisting the Navy here will make you an outlaw. Do you really want to die?"
Zoro contemplated this for a second before turning back to Luffy. It looked like he had made a decision.
Does he not have a single normal expression? I almost prefer that creepy blank face to the sadistic looking grin he has on now.
"You must be some sort of demon. Fine, I've decided. Instead of dying here I will join you to fulfil my dream and will also become a pirate!"
I decided to have a brief mental breakdown.
NOOOOO ZOROOOO! What have you done?! We were meant to be a united stand! Now who's going to help me say no to the ridiculously cute puppy dog face that I know the idiot is capable of pulling? I thought that you were actually somewhat sane here but NO. For some reason everyone I've met since getting to this world is INSANE! You're not evil, you can't be a pirate, I've decided so there...
...
...I miss my vvvooooiiiicccce. RANTS DON'T WORK WHEN YOU'RE MUTE!
I hung my head and fumed for a while, ignoring Luffy who was trying to untie Zoro and failing miserably. Hearing someone start to speak, I looked up and saw that it was Helmeppo's dad, he was muttering to his subordinates.
"That rascal isn't normal; he must have eaten one of the 'Devil Fruits'!"
This sparked up a round of murmurs throughout the marine group.
"He ate the ocean's secret treasure?" "Then he has a special ability?" "What the hell is that?" "So that's how he did it." "I don't believe it" "How are we meant to fight that?" "We should use our swords!" "You really think that'll work?" "That doesn't make sense."
As the marines started to psyche themselves out, the kid on the ground (whose name I still didn't know) managed to wake himself up out of the odd coma type thing he had been in and joined Luffy in the untying of the poor people tied to the poles, although he was a bit frantic and didn't actually seem to be getting anywhere. Unfortunately this is obviously when the marines turned their brains back on and realised that people were setting their prisoners free right in front of them.
Cue rabid screaming and stampeding of men in our general direction.
As I cringed from the sudden loud influx of noise (extremely happy about my double layer of insulation on my ears) both Luffy and the kid managed to free one of our arms each, sadly that was all they managed to untie due to a couple of reasons.
1) Luffy was busy happily holding up the untied piece of rope for Zoro to look at, not even starting to help untie any more of the ropes. Zoro wasn't very happy.
2) The kid had started to freak out even more than he had been as he saw the marines rushing towards us with swords drawn.
Thankfully Zoro retained enough brain function under the pressure and yelled at Luffy to give him his swords while I contorted my arm and tried to reach the small of my back for the dagger that I had hidden there.
In a rush of movement I had only seen so far with Mihawk, Zoro cut himself loose, grabbed a sword in both hands and his mouth, then proceeded to block all the swords wielded by the marines with his back facing them.
That...was badass...and a totally weird way to fight.
"You better not move. If you do - then I'll kill you."
While everyone freaked out or grinned (Luffy) I pouted and shifted my feet, still standing in front of the pink haired kid. In the same amount of time it took Zoro to pull off his epic badassery, all I had managed to do was cut myself free and get into a sort of relaxed ready stance in front of the kid with my knife held out to the front. Even though I hadn't actually moved that far or done anything impressive, it had been pretty speedy of me. Scrap that. I was much faster than I had been before, nothing up to Zoro and nowhere near Mihawk's speed but still pretty speedy. It hadn't been as awesome as what Zoro did, but I was still feeling a tad bit happy with myself.
Just before the pause become too long and just as the marines looked like they would actually try to do something now, Zoro started to speak.
"After this incident, I'm sure to become a fugitive now so I might as well become a pirate, but that's okay...I still have my own goals! I'm going to become the world's greatest swordsman. I don't care if my name is clean or not anymore. As long as it's known worldwide, then I've decided that it doesn't matter if it's as a good guy or a bad guy. But if you do anything that gets in the way of my goal, then I'll kill you, understand?"
Strangely enough, instead of being even slightly apprehensive, Luffy started laughing.
"Shishishishi! Good! If you're going to be a crew member of the Pirate King, then if you can't even accomplish something that small then I would be very embarrassed."
This reply seemed to please Zoro.
"Heh. Well said!"
Death threats, crazy dreams and odd goals. Is this some sort of male thing? Or pirate thing? Or are people here just crazy?
Morgan seemed to have had enough with all the wild exclamations and the inaction of his minions/subordinates.
"What are you guys just STANDING there for? Hurry up and finish them off!"
As everyone finished flinching at Stupid senior's obnoxiously loud voice we saw Luffy change his stance and swing one of his legs behind him. I could then see his muscles and tendons start to tense in an odd way. It looked like the pattern for him to kick his leg forwards, but had an odd...looseness to it?
"Zoro duck! Gomu gomu no MUCHI*"
And with that he did kick his leg forwards. It's just that it managed to stretch several meters and kick all the marines standing behind Zoro with enough force to send them all flying into the air and land at least ten meters away. Zoro then asked the question on everyone's mind and I for one was hoping for the answer that we were actually looking for this time.
"What are you?"
With a large grin on his face and his leg held off the ground still, he replied.
"I am ... a rubber man!"
This world makes no sense.
Santoryu – three sword style
Gomu gomu no Muchi – rubber rubber whip
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