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Chapter 9: Time to run!
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Smoker is fuming, still angered by the man who made it possible for Nami, Zoro, Sanji and Karen to get away. More angered at the fact that he and his fellow naval officers couldn't catch him either. His only comfort is in knowing that by stationing members of his naval fleet around the Going Merry that there was no way the Straw Hats were on or could get to their ship. He walks slowly down the main road of Salmon Town looking side to side, making sure he doesn't miss a single alley way or window in his search for the Straw Hats. He's sure that they ran back to the others, and knows that it would be more difficult for them to find a place to hide, especially since they don't have their ship.

As he thinks to himself, Elora peeks out from behind a wall. Upon seeing Smoker, she grins mischievously.

"Let the games begin." She says quietly to herself. She then begins to signal the others by shaking her butt rapidly as continues to keep an eye on Smoker.

"Dammit, Elora! Why the hell did you have to choose that as the signal?!" Karen growls through her teeth.

"Why that answer is ever so simple, it's for my man." She says as she brushes up against Sanji who's already in Mellorine overdrive.

"Does it really matter what the signal is just as long as we get the job done?" Beckah in her man voice snaps at them.

Elora growls and gnashes her teeth at Beckah. "Just you wait 'til we get back to the ship, then oooo'boy you're gonna get it."

"Ah, what technique?" Karen asks, getting off track again.

"Can you say pile driver?"

"Sweet, I'll get the camera."

"GET BACK ON TASK DAMMIT!!" Nami screams, knocking their heads together.

"Okay, Usopp, Zoro, Karen!" Emma calls, "We're up!"

"Right!" Karen makes a thumbs up sign and does her stiff legged run over to Zoro and grabs him by his arm and starts dragging him along.

"Dammit, woman! I CAN walk you know!"

Usopp grudgingly follows, "I don't have a good feeling about this.." He groans.

"Wimp!" Karen pumps her fist in the air, her arm not even meeting the half way point on her giant hair.

"Oui!" Usopp shouts, holding his hand up with a pissed off face.

Emma, walks up beside him and pats him on the shoulder, "Just let it go..."

"But she-"

"Like I said, just let it go."

Karen and Zoro, with Usopp and Emma right behind them, approach the end of the corner they'd been hiding behind and turn onto the street which Smoker is walking down. He looks up and notices them, however, he doesn't recognize them and thinks that Zoro and Karen are just a pair of aristocrats and that Usopp and Emma are their guard and maid. He notices Zoro's straight legged limp, but just figures that he was a former soldier who was wounded in battle. He sees Karen's strange walk, but coupled with her wig and fan, he just assumes that she's an eccentric aristocrat (when in all truth, she's simply just eccentric).

"Oh ho ho!" Karen chuckles in high voice as she rapidly flips her fan back and forth in front of her face, "Isn't this day just looooovely? Would you say it's about as looooovely as meeeee?" She says as she looks at Zoro, batting her eyes pestiferously.

Zoro, is annoyed by this and yet because of Smoker, he is obligated to reply. "Y-yes it is..." He says, trying his best to attempt an older gentleman's voice while glaring at her dangerously through the corner of his eye.

"Oh ho ho ho ho ho hoooooo!" Karen chuckles louder. As she does this, Usopp thinks to himself, 'We're doomed'. And Emma can't help but giggle to herself.