Okay, I realized that I forgot to mention something, this story takes place AFTER episode 574 (chapter 654) and just before 579 (chapter 655) which is the Punk Hazard Arc.
"Should we make a run for it?" Usopp questioned, looking to his comrades.
Chas covered her ears as another cannon ball landed near the ship, making a load explosion that shook the ship. "Even if we run they'll only follow us and we'll have to deal with them again!"
"In other words," Zoro said, smirking as he cracked his knuckles, "it's better to deal with them now than in the future."
"I agree," Robin said, crossing her arms. "We wouldn't want to run into them again."
"Then it's settled," Luffy said, smirking as he popped his knuckles. He then turned towards the Marine ships behind them and slung his arm out, smiling happily. "Gomu Gomu no…" He grabbed Chas, who was fairly confused as to what was happening, until Luffy shouted cheerfully: "SLINGSHOT!" Thus, Chas quickly grabbed Zoro, the only thing close enough to grab, and dragged him along as the three shot through the air onto the marines' ship.
"It's Straw Hat Luffy and Roronoa Zoro!" a marine shouted franticly.
"Shotgun Chasaji is here too!" another shouted, as Chas stood to her feet after her recovery from getting flung through the air. "She's supposed to be dead!"
"When did she join the Straw Hats?!" The marines were left unanswered as Chas turned to Luffy.
"Don't ever do that again!" Chas shouted.
Luffy simply laughed at Chas and that seemed to be the only answer he gave Chas.
"I have dibs on the middle," Luffy said, smiling. He looked like a tiger about to pounce his pray from the way he was standing.
Zoro took out his swords and smiled too. "I'll have the left side."
Chas sighed. "Guess that means I go right…" Chas looked to the marines on her right and smiled. She, and the two men, were soon fighting all the marines on their given side, sending one after the other overboard or unconscious on deck.
As Chas was knocking over her twelfth, or more, marine, when she suddenly noticed another marine vessel approaching on her side. She side and shouted out to the others. "Seems we have more coming!"
"There's more on this side too," Zoro said.
Luffy laughed. "I can leave it to you guys, right?"
Zoro and Chas chuckled and smirked towards their Captain. "Even have to ask?" The two quickly ran across deck and jumped onto the two ships that were threatening to join the previous ship.
Luffy defeated every marine, even the extras he was left with on deck, and the others helped keep them from getting help. Luffy had quickly defeated his group of marines by swiping them all off deck. When the deck was clear he took a deep breath and sat down, watching Zoro and Chas fight.
Chas whipped her forehead and sighed, finally getting a break from all the punching she had been doing. She looked to the marines who were still standing in front of her. She laughed at them and their frightened expressions.
"Who's next out of ya all?" she said, placing her hands on her hips.
"Quit playing around and just finish them already," Zoro sighed. He had defeated all his enemies already, which just pissed Chas off for him finishing before herself.
"Yeah, Teaspoon, I'm hungry!" Luffy complained.
"Oh shut up!" Chas snapped. She then sighed once again and looked back to the marines, cracking her knuckles and stepping towards the large group. "All right, let's get this over with…"
Once the three were finish, they stood at the back of the boat watching the marine vessels get farther and farther as the Thousand Sunny continued its sailing.
"Should we really just leave them there like that?" Usopp asked, leaning against the railing.
Chas smirked, and laughed to herself. "I have a better idea."
Everyone looked to their side, towards Chas, and was surprised to see she had changed her hands into a Bazooka, pointing it right at the marine ships.
"W-Wait a minute," Zoro said, reaching out a hand to stop her.
"C-Chas, that's not-"
Chas stopped listening and focused on her aim. "Kaki Kaki no"-when the aim was just right, she smirked and said the final word, sending the rocket off-"Bazooka!"
The rocket flew through the air at an amazing speed, and rather loudly at that making everyone cover their ears.
"What the heck is going on out here?!" Sanji shouted, running outside to see what the big ruckus was. Then he laid eyes on the burning marine ship in the distance, which soon exploded.
Brook, Franky, and Chopper clapped their hands together, 'oh'ing and 'ah'ing at the marvelous array of lights the ship was giving off. Luffy joined them in their excitement, laughing until his sides hurt. The others, on the other hand, didn't join in. They could only stare at the large blazing lights in front of them.
Soon, all laughing and amazement turned to horror as the ship exploded another time, larger and more fearsome this time around, sending scarps everywhere. After that ship blew, the next blew up and then the next, until all three were burning bright and filling the sky with their smoke.
Luffy was once again laughing, sides aching and body rolling on the ground.
"I only meant to hit one…" Chas said, nervously trying to get rid of the lump in her throat. Then she finally noticed the sail with the marine base name on it. Crap…he's not going to be too happy… she thought, imagining the face of the Vice Admiral will have when he gets word of his ships being blown to pieces.
"What did you expect with all that gunpowder?!" everyone shouted at her, except from Brook, Franky, and Chopper who continued to clap at the wonderful display. Robin also stayed silent, laughing at the amusing argument in front of her.
Next Day: Somewhere on the open sea...
"Sir!" Tashigi said, running into the smoke filled navigation room. "Have you-"
"Yeah, I've seen it…" Smoker grumbled, clinching the paper in his hands. The words on the paper annoyed him beyond belief: "Straw Hat Pirates Destroy Three Marine Vessels". "At least we know where they're going now. Prepare to go after them, Tashigi."
"Right!" Tashigi said, saluting. "But there's something else you should know, Sir."
Smoker looked back over his shoulder, puffing out smoke from his mouth as he did so. He looked at Tashigi and saw the poster she was holding, only to show a hint of what seemed to be shock. He couldn't believe the face he saw on the poster, he really couldn't.
"It seems that Straw Hat Luffy has gotten a new crew member," Tashigi said, placing the wanted poster in Smokers outstretched hand. "They call her 'Shotgun Chasaji'."
Smoker chuckled, amused with the ironic situation. "Shotgun Chasaji, huh? Never expected…"
"You know her sir?" Tashigi said, looking a bit surprised.
Smoker didn't answer, he just continued smiling at the poster. His smile wasn't that of a proud father or what not, but that of determination to catch the criminal.
"Sir?" Smoker looked at Tashigi. "Would you mind explaining who she is?"
"You've never heard of her, huh?" Smoker said. He sighed and leaned forward, placing the poster on his desk. "Chasaji is Captain of the Shotgun Pirates… They had sailed the Grand Line twice and have broken out of two of the most heavily guarded marine bases in the past five years that they have been known."
"How come this is my first time hearing of them?" Tashigi asked.
Smoker took a deep breath and released it. "Because about a year ago they disappeared. Rumor had it that they were going after a Legendary Treasure hidden somewhere in the New World and had died at sea. After that, they were quickly forgotten about." Smoker snickered, grinding the leftover cigars from his mouth onto the wanted poster before standing and lighting two more. "But I always had a feeling she was still alive…" Smoker walked past Tashigi, stuffing his hands in his pockets. "Tashigi, let's go."
"R-Right…" Tashigi said.
Smoker quietly smiled to himself as he enthusiast walked down the hall with Tashigi, thinking to himself, Be seeing you soon, Bouzu…
Somewhere else in the same sea...
"You can do it, Chas!" Chopper cheered along with Luffy and Usopp.
Chas tried her best to push herself back up. She only needed one more. One more and she'd be done with the terrible and painful training.
"Nine Thousand Ninety-nine!" Usopp counted, watching as Chas desperately tried pushing her body, and weights, off the ground.
Come on, Chas, Chas thought, you can do it! One more and you'll be able to kick Zoro's ass into the sea! Chas froze for a moment, feeling her nose start to slowly itch. It twitched and began to irritate her into not focusing on the weights anymore. Not now…please not now… Then she sneezed, making her face hit the ground and dig deeper and deeper as each weight fell on her.
Zoro laughed from his spot on the stairs. "Looks like you have to start over."
"Shut up…" Chas mumbled in the grass.
"Chas?" Luffy called after a few minutes when he saw Chas wasn't getting up. Chas didn't move even when he called. "Chas?!" She still didn't move.
"She's dead!" Usopp shouted, jumping to the conclusion.
"Zoro killed Chas!" Chopper cried, making everyone looked at Zoro (who looked quite worried about the accusation). "You heartless ba-"
"I'M NOT DEAD DAMNIT!" Chas shouted as she poked her head up out of the grass.
Chopper ran over to Chas and hugged her head. Chopper was then hugged by Luffy, then hugged by Usopp.
"Thank god you're alive!" they said, crying tears of joy.
"Uh…" Chas tried moving, but still found herself trapped under weights. "Can someone get me out from under these…?"
It took all three of them to get one weight off of Chase, but that still left three more on her. The three boys tried their best to get the weights off and had managed to do so, only to tire themselves out.
Nami looked back over her shoulder, seeing the trouble going on behind her. "Chas, why don't you go take a bath? You're all sweaty from that difficult work out, and I'm sure it'll help with those sore muscles."
Chas stood to her feet, popping her shoulders. "I guess yer right. Thanks Nami!" Chas then walked away without another word.
"Where's Chas?" Robin questioned when she saw everyone gather at the table for dinner but the red head wasn't present.
"She's taking a bath," Luffy answered, already stuffing his face.
"Oi!" Sanji shouted, hitting Luffy on the back of the head. "I told you not to eat until Chas-san was here!"
"But I'm hungry!" Luffy complained.
"I don't care!"
"Maybe we should go check on her…" Chopper suggested, looking to Nami. "She was pretty tired from the training Zoro was putting her through."
Everyone narrowed their eyes at the swordsman, making him freeze in place. "It's not my fault she couldn't handle it."
"Yes it is!" Usopp shouted. "We should at least check on her to see if she's all right!"
"Fine!" Zoro said, standing to his feet. "I'll go check on her." Zoro then walked out before anyone could process what he had fully said. When they finally did, they quickly ran after him, trying to get him to stop.
"Oi, Manju!" Zoro said, pounding on the door to the bath. "You in there?" There was silence from the other side. "Oi!" Still silence. "You all right, Manju?" There was still no answer, and Zoro began getting a bit worried about whether she was dead or not. Of course he knew that she wouldn't have died from such a simple exercise, but there was the possibility she had fallen asleep or with her being a devil fruit user, drowned in the water.
"I'm coming in!" Zoro said, turning the knob and opening the door slightly, only to be tackled second later by Sanji, Usopp, Luffy, Brook, and Chopper.
"What the hell do you think you're doing, Marimo?!" Sanji shouted. He was about to shout at him again until he realized that the door was fully open and Chas was standing in front of them, back turned as she was slipping on a clean shirt.
Chas looked back over her shoulder, which held her trademarked tattoo from her previous crew, and saw the boys laying in the doorway, wide-eyed and pink faced.
"What do you guys think yer doin'?" Chas growled, slipping on her shirt and looking at them, face full of rage.
"We thought you collapsed…" they answered, except Sanji who was unable to answer due to his…well…perverted tendencies.
Chas's eye twitched and she soon pointed her hands at the boys, only to have them form into a machinegun. "Get. Out. Now."
The boys quickly got up onto their feet, grabbing Sanji, and leaving before Chas was able to puncture each and every one of them with bullets.
Hey everyone, so my wrist was feeling a bit better, so, I wrote this. I do hope you enjoyed and thank you for wishing me to feel better. Although, my wrist is still hurting and it might be a few days before the next update. I do hope you all can wait.
I also realized that I never fully explained the language in which I sometimes use, so I'm going to explain it now.
Kaki means 'firearm' which is kind of obvious by Chas's devil fruit abilities. Like I said earlier, it's very similar to Baby 5's abilities, but also very different (you'll see in future chapters)
Most of the nicknames Zoro calls Chas either have to do with something fat and squishy, or has red bean paste in it (because of her hair). The nickname changes every now and then since there are so many things to call her. But Luffy's nickname for her will never change.
Bouzu is sort of like 'squirt'. It's an honorific, but the way Smoker used it wasn't, it was just a nickname.
I hope that explains everything. Thank you for reading!
I look forward to hearing your thoughts! (Please) Thank you for the support!
