Chapter 14: The Doctor of Vertain-Miles Penn!
Previously on One Piece: The Next Story! - After finally getting out of Taloon, our heroes discover that Maze had sustained more injuries than first thought. Right after learning a little more about Maze's abilities, the decision was made to head to Vertain, a city known for being a breeding room for some of the more underhanded inhabitants of the Blues, in search of a doctor that can help with Maze's injuries. With some unsuccessful attempts at finding a doctor Maze and Connie ran into a suspiciously friendly man by the name of Franklin von Stein. Our heroes are now following Franklin as he leads them to a doctor, who will hopefully be able to help them.
Downtown Vertain-
Maze and Connie followed Franklin as he took them through a bunch of back alleys and winding streets.
"Hey, are you sure you know where to find a doctor?" asked Connie to Franklin in a skeptical voice.
"Do not fret my dear, we are almost there" said Franklin.
"Yeah Connie, don't be so cynical, nobody who loves cinnamon rolls can be a bad guy" said Maze confidently.
Despite Maze's confidence in Franklin, Connie couldn't help but feel as though he was hiding something, and that they were heading into a an ambush.
Soon the pirates arrived in front of a green, brick building. With the exception of a metal door, nothing caught your attention about, not to mention absolutely no sign of any kind that would make you think this was a doctor's clinic.
"Well here we are the doctor is right through that door, now if you would excuse me I must be going" said Franklin as he started walking away.
"Hold on, aren't you coming in to introduce us to the doctor or something?" said Connie.
"And what about the Cinnamon Rolls!" said Maze a little heartbroken.
"I do apologize for my sudden departure, but unfortunately I am late for a prior engagement, I do hope we meet again my new friends" said Franklin with a small smile on his face.
Franklin walked away and disappeared into the bustling city streets.
Maze and Connie starred at the metal door that would allegedly lead them to what they have been looking for.
"Well, I guess we should go inside" said Maze as he reached for the door handle.
Connie stopped him.
"You can't be serious, this is obviously some kind of trap" said Connie.
"What do you mean?" asked Maze.
"Maze, think about it, we spend hours looking for someone to help us find a doctor and after no one does, this Franklin guy shows up and he just helps us for no reason, and then when he finally takes us to where we want to go, he suddenly has to leave out of nowhere. You don't find that even the slightest bit suspicious" said Connie.
Maze gave some serious thought about what Connie was saying.
"Nope" said Maze quickly.
Maze opened the metal door.
"Excuse me were looking for a doctor" said Maze.
As soon as Maze walked into the green building a sharp objects flew right at him and imbedded itself into the wall next to Maze. Before Maze could react to what just happened a flurry of more sharp objects were sent at him. He quickly jumped to his left and behind a couple of beds for cover.
Connie, in response to what was happening in the building was taking cover against the outside wall. She looked through the open door to find who was attacking them, but every time she stuck her head into the building one of the attackers' knives was thrown at her, but as she was about to try in get into the building, she notice the knives that were thrown at her weren't knives at all, they were scalpels.
Maze was still hiding behind the bed when he noticed a shadow moving along the wall in front of him. Maze knew this meant that the attacker was on the other side of the bed; he used this information to his advantage. He buffed his left arm and gripped the underside of the bed and tossed it behind him. While the bed was flipping in midair he turned and threw a left jab at it, splitting it in half, right after Maze's fist made contact with the attacker and they were sent crashing into the back wall.
After Maze made sure their assailant was down for the count he called for Connie to come in.
As soon as Connie entered the building both she and Maze were finally able to get a good look at who was attacking them.
Lying on the ground unconscious was a man around 5'7 in his late thirties with short dark red hair and a pale complexion. He was wearing a white lab coat over a black shirt with a design of a yellow sun on it and orange pants.
Connie quickly pulled out a piece of twine from her bag and placed it around the unconscious man then proceeded to turn the twine into a ring of rock candy to keep him from being able to attack them again.
After they took care of that our heroes were able to finally get a good look around the room they were in. There was a bunch of beds around the room along with a medical table and equipment. In the back there was a room that was filled with pills and other medicines. The duo then realized what they had just done.
"Connie" said Maze.
"Yeah Maze" said Connie.
"I think we just knocked out the doctor we were looking for" said Maze.
"I know Maze" said Connie.
One hour later-
After a little while the red haired man woke up to find himself bound by a giant piece of candy. He struggled to get free but the ring of candy just wouldn't give way. It was then that he noticed Maze and Connie sitting down in a couple of chairs they found in the room.
"What are you waiting for kill me, that's what you came here for right" said the doctor with a gruff voice.
"Hold on, we weren't the ones throwing scalpels at you for no reason" said Connie.
"Who are you trying to fool here, a couple of people who I have never seen before just happen to know a doctor was here, I know boss Falcone sent you to stop me from treating the people of the city" said the doctor.
"Wait, obviously there has been some kind of misunderstanding, we don't work for this Falcone guy or whoever, we're just here to get my hand fixed" said Maze while showing his bandaged hand to the doctor.
The doctor had a look of deep thought on his face.
"Okay, let's say I believe you, how exactly did you know where to find me?" asked the doctor.
"A guy named Franklin showed us where to find you" said Maze.
The doctor now had a look of confusion on his face.
"Who's Franklin?" said the doctor.
Just then a pair of men busted through the metal door. It was the small man and portly man in the black suits from earlier.
"What I tell ya Georgie, didn't I tell you if we followed em we would find somethin good" said the small man with the bowtie.
"When you're right you're right Marco" said the portly man in the porkpie hat.
They were both carrying a tommy gun.
"Now, why don't you two get out of here so me and my associate can have… conversation with the doctor here" said Marco to Maze and Connie.
Both and Maze got between the doctor and the two men.
"I think it's you two that need to leave" said Maze.
"Oh really" said Marco.
"Really" said Connie.
"Really" said Marco with some agitation in his voice.
"Really" said Maze and Connie in unison.
"Light em up Georgie" said Marco.
The two men open fired on our heroes with their guns.
Luckily Connie had pulled out a sheet of paper from her bag and turned into a wall of licorice, shielding them from the onslaught of bullets.
"You, candy girl get this ring off of me now" said the doctor.
"Okay" said Connie.
Connie did as the doctor said and turned the candy ring back into twine.
The doctor then reached into his lab coat and pulled out a pair of scalpels.
"Now when I tell you to, bring down this wall got it" said the doctor.
Connie nodded in agreement.
Just then Marco and Georgie had just run out of ammo and were in the middle of loading more.
"Now!" said the doctor.
Just like that Connie turned the wall back into a sheet of paper and the doctor threw the scalpels at the two gunmen, nailing them both between the eyes. Marco and Georgie dropped to the floor.
Maze, Connie, and the doctor looked over the now dead attackers.
"Crap, now I gotta leave" said the doctor.
"What?" said Connie?
"You two might not work for Falcone, but these two did, and I can't run the risk that they told someone else that I'm here, so I have to move over to one of my backup clinics, and since you two lead them here, you're going to help me move all my stuff there" said the doctor as he pulled out a bunch of boxes.
"Only if you promise to fix his hand" said Connie pointing at Maze.
"Fine whatever, now start filling these boxes" said the doctor.
"Well then, I'm Maze and this is Connie, nice to finally meet you doc" said Maze.
"Don't call me doc the names Miles, Dr. Miles Penn" said the doctor.
In a far off Marine base-
Captain Gran was in the office of Vice Admiral Chum and he had a look of immense anger on his face.
"Vice Admiral Chum sir, you need to understand that this pirate is far too dangerous to leave him alone, please allow me to go after him" said Gran.
"Gran we do not have the man power to waste it on a hunt for so no name pirate, now drop this thing and get back to your duties" said Chum.
Gran walked out of Chum's office and into a small hallway where Lieutenant Kasuga was waiting for him.
Kasuga gave a look to Gran.
"No the Vice Admiral isn't letting me go after him" said Gran.
Kasuga gave him the same look as before.
"I'll just have to take another route, but I swear I'm going to kill Maze, one way or another" said Gran.
Back in Chum's office-
"Is he going to cause problems Chum?" said a man that had walked through a hidden door behind a large portrait of a marine fleet.
The man was in his mid forties, 6'4 feet tall, and he had black, closely cropped hair. He wore a black pinstripe suit, black tie, and black dress shoes underneath a marine Vice Admiral coat. He was also carrying a guitar case in his right hand.
"Don't worry about him Calais, he won't cause any problems, and even if he did it's not like he couldn't be dealt with" said Chum with a smile.
"That's why I keep you around Chum, you're not afraid to get your hands dirty if you have to" said Calais as he sat down in a nearby chair.
"So what brings you here Calais, I thought we weren't meeting up until next week" said Chum.
"Change of plans, they just found another one of Falcone's underlings with his head chopped off, I need you to get me some info on what's going on down there immediately, got it" said Calais.
"Yeah I got it, I have a few informants still in Vertain, I'll let you know as soon as hear anything" said Chum.
"Good, we can't have people killing my underlings' underlings, it's bad for business" said Calais.
On this note Calais left Chum's office and back through the secret passage way he came through.
A/N: Well that's all for today folks, I hope you enjoyed it.
I would like to Thank "The Imposter" for submitting Vice Admiral Calais who will become a very important character in the story.
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In the next chapter of One Piece: The Next Story- After finally finding a doctor Maze can finally get his hand fixed, but little do they know, with the death of Marco and Georgie, they just entered into a war with very dangerous people. How will our heroes deal with this new threat check out the next chapter to find out!
Chapter 15: The Falcone Family is on the Rampage!