Just as Lucy opened the door, she hears the marines say, "Vice admiral momonga! We've arrived at Impal Down!" "Hurry and open the gates!"
Lucy anxiously sweated, what kind of horrid place is this going to be? She've heard lots of horrible rumors, even if the people in it are criminals, they don't deserve this.
Lucy looked up as the giant gates, slowly opened, the sky grey, with fog surrounding them, even the weather is gloomy.
Lucy wondered if it was called the largest prison in the world based on its gates?
"Call Hancock!" Oh, she should go to Hancock now, as soon as the marines finished calling Hancock Lucy entered the room, "currently this is the most dangerous place in the world. It is obvious that it would be well-guarded."
"Wow is that white beard guy that strong? He seems terrifying" Hancock nodded, before turning to Luffy, with a shocked expression "But are you telling me you witnessed buster call? I've only heard rumors of it..." Hancock started to retail what she heard from the rumors.
While Lucy looked at Luffy with a new found admiration, ' he is like a cockroach, so hard to kill' she mused.
"Now hide under My clothes" Lucy will never get used to hearing that..
As they got out of the ship, other marines started to woo and coo, at Hancock and Lucy, Hancock of course bluntly ignored them, while Lucy gave them a smile and waved.
Hancock stopped, and looked at them from the corner of her eyes, "what is all the fuss about? They're noisy, May I petrify them?"
"Please don't, the navy doesn't need any more humiliation" mononoga said, sweating. Lucy couldn't help the giggle that escaped her.
"Your condition for helping us, was you wanted to see the center of this attention, portgas D. Ace, for yourself, correct? I told you before, but this place is-" Lucy kind of just tuned them out, and looked at impal down, she already heard what momonga said before, no need to hear it again.
" - You will be restrained with sea stone shackles" is what caught her attention. "As well as your companion" he referred to Lucy, "I've heard that she has some strange powers as well, which can only mean she has a devil fruit" "wait-" Lucy stopped, thinking about it, isn't it better if they believed she ate a devil fruit? Cause then it would be easier to escape and go help, "Yes that is correct" Lucy played along, Hancock nodding at her in approval.
"You'll also have to go through a full body check at the entrance" Lucy couldn't help but to wrap her arms around herself, it's going to be done by a woman right?
Of course, or else someone is going to get Lucy kicked to edoles.
"I don't mind" " I do!" Lucy silently said, beside how is Luffy going to sneak away?! What if they get caught and thrown into impal down themselves?!
The gates opened, and Lucy could hear their screams, "help! Someone! Help!" She shivered. Is this hell? Lucy inquired, it is for the people in it probably.
Lucy would've summoned plue, but the poor spirit wouldn't be able to handle this place, he'd be traumatized for eternity!
A pharaohs looking man greeted them, Lucy blinked at him, people here just get weirder and weirder. His name is hannyabal (Why are all the names hard?!)
"And you must be Empress Hancock-dono? My Empress hancock-dono? Oh im sorry I'm being ambitious," Lucy cringed, and even momonga looked at hannyabal like he was mad. Hancock was unimpressed.
"and this is?" He looked at Lucy, "that is Lucy, a companion of Hancock and an Amazon, she is to stay here supervised by someone" "ah, Lucy-dono, my Lucy dono ah sorry I'm being ambitious again" Lucy smiled at him, I say smiled, but it was just a twitch of her lips. As she couldn't (did not want to) give him a genuine smile.
"warden Magellan is in his office on level 4. You will be taken there right now. Your escorts will be vice chief jailor Domino here, and myself" the woman gave a salute. Then eyed Lucy and Hancock through her sunglasses while saying,
"You're short on time, so please, come this way, vice admiral you go over there and undergo your body check" Lucy sighed in relief.
While walking, the domino started to explain things. "our prisoners are all sent to these cells," she pointed at the cells across of them, "where they are stripped, and lowered into a pot of boiling water"
Oh my God, this place is horrible, Lucy thought, staring at the woman that's explaining everything as if they aren't torturing people, and this is just a museum tour.
"We call this process the 'Lukewarm bath of hell' we use it to 'disinfect' and baptize our prisoners, before they are put in their cells" it was a good decision not to summon plue.
"Even among those prisoners, there are some who are tougher then others, a few of our recent inmates, fire fist ace..." Lucy could tell Luffy tensed at the mention of his brother.
She mentioned another two, who went through that without batting an eyelash, who are these people?
"Here you are, guests check in inside this private room"
As they entered they were warned about any attempts to do anything suspicious, and there are snail moniters. That transmit everything to the security office.
Lucy could just hear the battle song in the back of her head.
Everything was tense, as Hancock kept on glancing at the sea stone shackles and the snail moniters.
Suddenly, Hancocks expression turned soft, "Please, be gentle.."
Eh?
Domino blushed, Hancock petrified her and the snail moniters. "Luffy, you can come out now" Luffy came out, "Wow! That was so smooth!" "You did it!" Lucy and Luffy cheered. "That was close! I thought I'd have to make a break for it when they weren't watching...you can turn anything to stone, huh?" Luffy admired, putting on his hat.
Hancock had a sad expression, "this seems to be as far as I can take you, after this my powers will be restrained by sea stone, and you won't be able to hide once they've taken my cloak. I had hoped to be of more use to you..."
Lucy felt like she was intruding, but she couldn't exactly go anywhere else, so now it was extremely awkward as she squirmed in her place.
Luffy denied, saying he couldn't have gone anywhere near here without their help, 'even though I did nothing' Lucy thought guilty.
Hancock warned Luffy, as to not make an uproar while they're here. If he happens to get captured, he won't be able to get out.
As Luffy promised not to cause an uproar, he held hancocks hand, Lucy kept on switching glances between their faces, Luffy looking like he's not phased at all,
And Hancock looking like she's about to faint.
Lucy tried to stifle her laugh, manging to do so, and could barely even do that when Hancock. Fell to the ground, a blush coating her cheeks, "my life is complete now!" She confirmed.
Entering the lift, the gate started to close, when suddenly Hancock gasped, putting a hand on her mouth, and stepping back a bit, Lucy looked at her confused, and then looked at where she was looking just in time to see Luffy hide again.
Hancock collapsed, "are you okay?" Wow a Hancock in love sure likes to exaggerate, Luffy probably said something normal and she programmed it to be romantic.
After waking up, the first thing Hancock heard was the screams of the prisoners.
Dark I know.
"Such a cruel punishment" Lucy grimaced, "you're kidding" Domino said, "this is the punshimant for the lighter crimes"
"The first undersea level of impal down is the crimson floor" "Why is it called that?" "That's a secret! Continuing further down, the second level houses the accursed beasts. The third undersea level is the floor of famine. And the fourth floor, where we are going, is the inferno. Lucy-dono, while Hancock-dono meets fire fist, you'll be left in Magellan office with one of our marine's" Lucy nodded.
Since it's a marine, it shouldn't be too hard to sneak away from him. Maybe she can even help luffy?
Well that's for when she actually gets there.