Ch 21 - Enough
The marines meant business and weren't fooling around. They sent over two hundred of their Captains and Commanders out to attack the Straw Hats on the bridge and on the dock. Warships lined along the bridge with more waiting in the distance. The Lieutenants and marines of lower status stayed behind to man their warships. It was clear they wanted to swiftly take out the pirates. It was just a shame that their targets weren't so cooperative.
"Sunflower Star!" the sniper king cried as he slingshotted explosives towards the marines.
"Weapons Left!" Franky shouted as bullets flew out of his left arm.
"Whirl of Pain!" Nana yelled as she swung her red hot hammer around in circles.
Zoro leapt into the air and sliced through a group of marines that had jumped off their ship towards them. "Where the hell did that shitty cook go?!"
Boom!
An arm-held cannon was fired towards Franky and Nana quickly swung her hammer to bat the cannonball back towards the marine that shot it. The cannonball hit its target and sent him flying backwards. Nana looked around and realized that Zoro was right. Sanji was no longer with the group.
"He must've left right before the fight started," Usopp observed just as a marine came after him with a sword.
Out of the corner of her eye, Nana saw that a mini-cannon was aimed at Franky. Nana put her hammer on her back and raised her hand. "I'll take that," she said with a grin and the cannon shot out the marine's hold and into Nana's arms.
"Nana-brat," Franky warned, "Don't overuse the magnetic-"
"I know," Nana said as she patted the cannon, before turning the dial slightly on her wrist. She lifted the cannon onto her shoulders and fired it at the incoming marines, "I got this."
The sound of thunder drew Nana's attention towards the escape ship and she was alarmed to see a ball of yellow electricity coming from the metal weapon in Nami's hands. "What is that?!"
"That's Nami's Clima Tact," Zoro grunted as he fought off the marine, "Usopp made it for her. It can make weather or something."
"Whoa..." Nana marvelled. Franky elbowed her gently in the back.
"Ow! Nana-brat, now is not the time to be impressed!"
"Right," Nana mumbled and shot her cannon at another group of marines, "Where is Sogeking-sama anyways?"
She turned and was surprised to see the sniper standing at the edge of the bridge, watching Luffy. He had his mask off and he was holding onto it tightly. "LUFFY!" he screamed, "LUFFY!"
A group of marines started to run towards him and Nana quickly shot at them with her cannon before they could get close. She darted forward and guarded his back. "Usopp-sama, you shouldn't just stand here," she warned.
"Luffy, get up!" Usopp cried, not listening to Nana at all.
The sounds of stampeding footsteps took Nana's attention away from the sniper and she saw that fifty or so marines were running towards them. She aimed her cannon and then her eyes widened when she realized she was out of ammo. She threw the cannon high up into the air, grabbed her hammer, and swiftly batted it towards the group of marines. It knocked a handful of marines to the ground. She pressed a button on the handle to activate the buzz saw but nothing happened.
"Shit! I'm out of cola," she muttered.
The marine at the front of the group overheard her and he grinned. "Looks like you're pretty helpless."
Nana felt her temper flare. She leapt into the air at full force and swung the hammer hard into the marine's stomach. It sent him flying back and knocked out a few more marines.
"Who the fuck are you calling helpless?!" she demanded as she ran through the group, smashing them left and right. Her hammer was going crazy and Nana did not hold back. She knocked them in the stomach, in the groin, and even in the face.
Suddenly, a gleam of Zoro's swords caught her eye. He launched into the air and brought his sword down on a man with a white veil across his nose and mouth. The man caught the blade with his bare hands. The blade started to rust and disintegrate into a pile of dust. "What the-" Zoro gasped.
"I ate the Rust Rust Fruit," the veiled man declared as he reached out to grab another one of Zoro's swords, "I'm a rust man...You can't defeat me."
"Usopp-sama!" Nana shouted as she threw one of the Sea Prism Stone handcuffs at Usopp. He caught it and then let out a little scream when he realized what it was.
"You're proud swords are useless against me," the man said as he reached for Zoro's sword. Zoro quickly shifted over so that the man grabbed his elbow instead. To the swordsman's horror, his elbow started to rust and it started to reach up his arm.
"I...I can't move," Zoro gasped.
"Redemption star!" Usopp cried as he shot out the Sea Prism Stone cuffs. It latched onto the rust man and to Zoro, "Success!"
"Success?!" Zoro snapped as the rust man fell to his knees, "How is this a success? Why am I always the one getting cuffed?!"
Nana ran over and knocked the rust man with her hammer before fitting the #2 key back into the handcuffs to free Zoro. She confiscated the key and cuffs back to her bag. "To be fair...it got who he intended to get."
BOOM!
A huge explosion came from the front column and they all stopped to look at the source. The column was utterly destroyed and Nana could not see past the smoke and debris.
"LUFFY!" Usopp cried.
"Luffy!" Robin gasped.
"T-T-This is a report to all ships," came a voice through the speakers, "This is a report to all ships! Rob Lucci of CP9 has just…has just..has just been defeated by the pirate 'Straw Hat' Luffy!"
Everyone stopped in their tracks and everything fell into a stunned silence.
"WE'RE GOING BACK TOGETHER…" Luffy cry pierced through the air, "...ROBIN!"
Robin's eyes filled with tears and she smiled with so much hope and relief that Nana couldn't help but get choked up herself.
"Luffy won!" Usopp exclaimed with his fists pumping the air.
"About damn time!" Nana barked back.
"Get on the escape ship! We need to set sail!" Nami called out to everyone.
"YEEESSS!" a roaring cheer came through the speakers, "You did it, Straw Hat!"
Franky and Nana froze at the sound of the familiar voice.
"Y-Y-You morons!" Paulie's voice interrupted, "They can hear us!"
"That's okay. We need to let them know we're okay!" the first voice that was clearly Zambai's shouted.
"Idiots! They're all idiots!" Nana choked with relief as tears flooded out of her eyes. She covered her hands with her face.
"What? Who are those voices?" Zoro asked, looking around in confusion.
"BROOOOOOOOOO!" Zambai screamed through the speakers.
"Stop it! If we had just taken off, the government would've considered us dead!" Paulie interrupted sternly.
"But then Nana-chan would think we were dead too and then she'd be upset," came Lulu's gentle voice and Nana let out a snort behind her hands.
"Idiot. She'd know when she sees us later, wouldn't she?!" Paulie snapped.
"AHHHH!" Tilestone roared, "BUT THEN SHE'D HAVE TO SAIL ALL THIS WAY BACK THINKING WE WERE DEAD. SHE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO ENJOY HER TRIP!"
"It's not like she's on vacation!" Paulie yelled.
"NANA-CHAN! WE'RE OKAY!" Tilestone roared.
"Shut up, you idiot!" Paulie exclaimed.
Nana was a mess and she didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She wished they were there with her so she could either cuss them out or just knock their heads together. She peaked over her hands and saw that Franky wasn't faring much better.
"Bro!" one of the twins shouted, "We're all okay!"
"Sodom and Gomorrah are okay too!" the other twin reported.
"Anyway...we have a means to escape, so don't worry about us!" Zambai yelled, "We'll see you after we make it out of here alive!"
"You guys…" Frankie wept, "You guys! I wasn't worried at all about you guys! You dummies! Those idiots are alive! I'm glad...I'm so glad!"
"Yes, we're all relieved," Zoro grunted, "But there's no point if we die right here, right?"
"Yeah...you're right," Franky blubbered, without even trying to hold back anything while Nana tried her hardest to regain her composure.
The marines had gotten over the shock of the interrupted transmission and had started to raise their weapons. They were about to strike when another speaker announcement made everyone pause.
"The pirate 'Straw Hat' Luffy appears to be heavily wounded! He still hasn't moved from that spot!"
Usopp scrambled over to the ledge. "Oy! Luffy! What're you doing?! Hurry up and get your butt over here! We have to run or we won't survive!"
Luffy panted heavily but he could not even respond back to his friend.
"What's the matter with you?!" Usopp screamed, "We're almost there! Use your power to shoot over here! Once you're here. I'll carry you. We're surrounded by the sea and a bunch of battleships. If we stay here, we'll be killed! Luffy!"
"I...I can't…" Luffy grunted, "I..I can't move."
"What do you mean?!" Usopp yelled, "Don't be stupid! Didn't you defeat your enemy?! And we already saved Robin! Now all we have to do is run! Please just try your best!"
"Usopp!" Nami shouted, "Let's just take the ship to the column where Luffy is and-"
Nana's head jerked towards the ship as the sound of heavy cannon fire screamed into her ear. "SHITTTTT!" Nana yelled as she frantically ran towards the ship.
BOOM!
Their escape ship burst into flames as multiple cannonballs hit it from all sides.
"No!" Nami gasped, "Our escape ship is…"
"Chopper and the others were still on it!" Usopp screeched.
"PYGMY!" Nana screamed as she ran towards the ship, "GRANNY! CHIM-"
"Stop, Nana-brat! You'll just get yourself killed," Franky called as he grabbed her by the arm to hold her back. He stared at the flames. "Crap. That was our only way out."
Nana watched the ship break into dark ash as the sounds of cascading cannonballs emitted behind her. She covered her ears and squeezed her eyes shut. The sound of cannon fire was something she usually enjoyed. They were the sounds of hope and the future to her but now all she can hear was death and destruction.
"We have no ship," Usopp wailed, "What are we going to do? We're completely helpless now!"
Nana's head snapped up and a glazed look came over her eyes. The government had went after Iceberg, Franky, Paulie, Tilestone, Lulu, and now Pygmy. Even their escape ship, their last shred of hope, was blown up to bits just seconds when they thought they had caught a break. It was too much and rage took over her body. Franky's eyes bugged out when he saw that Nana was reaching for the dial on her wrist. She turned it one full rotation clockwise. "What are you doing?!" the cyborg demanded.
"I've...had enough," Nana seethed. She ran towards the very edge of the bridge, where she grabbed Usopp by the shoulder and flung him backwards at Zoro. She stood at the very edge, far away from the Straw Hats, and raised her arm into the air. Her whole arm was shaking furiously but the rest of her body was stoic and she glared up at her hand.
"Ow! Nana-brat, stop! You're going to-" Franky yelled.
"NANA SPECIAL!" she thundered, "METAL PLANET!"
A roaring sound of metal moving and creaking roared through the bridge like a violent storm. The vibrations and pressure from the sound made everyone cover their ears. The iron and steel that wrapped around the battleships deformed and bent closer to Nana. Franky, himself, was getting pulled towards her at an accelerating pace.
"WHOAHHH!" Franky cried and he grabbed onto the floor to stop himself from getting flying off. Zoro's swords looked like they were stuck in midair with the swordsman holding onto the hilts. Nami and Usopp both clung onto their weapons while Robin used her many hands to hold them back.
"TURN IT OFF!" Franky yelled, "Nana-brat! TURN IT OFF!"
The cannons on the warships closest to the bridge burst through the walls and crashed into the sea. Guns, swords, and cannonballs flew out into the air as well and they started to orbit around Nana. The whole front of the two ships closest to Nana ripped off, exposing the marines on the lower deck. Nana fell to her knees, with her hand still above her head.
Nami's eyes widened when she saw the metal objects swirl and orbit around Nana. "Her glove! The magnet!"
"Somebody stop her!" Franky cried as he clung to a stone pillar. He was waving in the air like a human flag, "That glove...manipulates magnetic fields and if it gets super high enough, it can interfere with your heart and your brain if you get too close! It's going to kill the brat if she keeps going!"
"What?!" the Straw Hats gasped.
"Shoot her down!" one of the captains called and the marines raised their weapons but their guns quickly flew out of their hands and towards Nana.
Nana gasped as blood came out of her mouth and she panted heavily. Her heart was beating out of control and at times it was even skipping beats. She pounded her chest with her other fist to keep her heart going. Her eyesight was going in and out but she gritted her teeth. The only thought she had in her head was to teach those marines a fucking lesson.
"Don't...," she roared as loudly as she could, "FUCK with me and my family!"
"I can't move," Usopp cried as he struggled to pull Kabuto back from him. The loose metal objects had now formed a makeshift bubble around Nana and they could barely see her as cannons, metal ship pieces, and weapons encased around her, like a spinning metal shell.
"I...I can't make any more arms," Robin stressed as she kept her arms crossed in front of her and fought to hold Nami and Usopp still.
"We need to find a way to turn the dial around her wrist. Just turn it counterclockwise and it'll negate the force," Franky explained. He was still waving in the air as he gripped a stone pillar for support, "Turn it clockwise and you'll give it too much power and her heart might explode."
"WHAT A SCARY THING TO WEAR!" Usopp screeched.
"Nana Special…" Nana breathed and then turned her dial counterclockwise two full turns, "Big Bang."
There was an eerie silence and the metal shell around Nana stopped spinning. Then, every piece burst forth at a breakneck speed and Franky was pushed back the other way.
The metal pieces shot in every direction, blasting through the Tower of Law, puncturing the battleships around them, and hitting the base of the bridge. The six battleships nearest to Nana resembled swiss cheese and soon they started to sink.
"What the-?" Zoro shouted as he sliced an incoming cannon that was repelled towards him.
"AHHH, DUCK!" Usopp cried as he and Nami hit the floor. Hundreds of swords and guns flew past their heads. A string of cannonballs came sailing forward towards the sniper and the navigator. "AHHHHHHHHH! We're going to die!"
"NAMI-SWAN! I'm coming!"
Thud! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!
Usopp lifted his head up from the ground and gasped when he saw Sanji standing in front of them, smoking a cigarette. Without even missing a beat, he had dropped Chopper, Pygmy, Granny Kokoro, and Gonbe by Usopp and Nami and kicked away the cannonballs. He took a deep drag and narrowed his eyes at Nana, who had collapsed on the ground as the pieces of her planet continued to shoot out.
"SANJI!" Usopp cried with relief.
"Nami-san, are you okay?" he asked without looking away from the fracturing metal sphere.
"En, thank you, Sanji-kun," Nami answered.
"Where the hell have you been?!" Zoro barked.
Without another word, Sanji sprinted towards the angel.
"Oy! Since the pieces went the other way, you'll need to turn it-," Franky called after him.
"I know!" Sanji snarled as he avoided some incoming swords.
"But if you turn it too much-"
"Her heart will explode! I heard you!" Sanji snapped as he got to her side and he lifted her to his lap. Just by being so close to the magnetic field, Sanji could feel the effects on his own heart and his blood pressure was beginning to rise. He was even having trouble focusing and he had only been in the middle of it for a second.
"What are you doing to your heart, Nana-chan?" he asked as he held up her wrist.
"Turn it twice clockwise!" Franky shouted.
"No! Twice counterclockwise," Usopp corrected.
"No, turn it up once!" Zoro yelled.
"Shut up, you idiots!" Sanji shot back, "And that doesn't even make sense, you shitty morimo!"
He turned the dial clockwise one full turn. Immediately, his heart was beating normally and the metal pieces around them dropped into the sea below. He pressed his ear against Nana's heart and he was relieved to hear it's light beating.
"Oy, Prince Charming," Nana growled lowly with her eyes closed but with one of her eyebrows raised just slightly, "I thought I said not to help me unless I actually asked for it."
Sanji's head lifted up and he looked solemnly back at her. He rubbed his thumb over her bottom lip to wipe off the blood. "I wasn't helping you, Nana-chan. I was helping the others."
"That better be true," Nana muttered before passing out, "I'm no damsel in distress."
On a warship in the distance, Vice Admiral Momonga narrowed his eyes as he lowered the binoculars from his face. "Get me a snail," he ordered without taking his focus away from the bridge, "Get me Vegapunk."
The marine beside him started to sweat with anxiety. "B-B-B-But we're not allowed to disturb him unless there's an emergency."
Momonga glared at the marine. "Idiot! Can't you see that this is an emergency? That girl is not a Devil Fruit user and yet she just took down our first wave of attack in a single blow with that weapon of hers. Get Vegapunk on the phone now!"
"How do you know she's not a Devil Fruit power holder, sir?" the marine asked while pulling out a transponder snail.
"Because," Momonga grunted, "There's already news of someone with that power from the South Blue and it's definitely not her." He took the transponder snail from the marine's hands and he turned his attention back to the bridge. "Whatever that girl has...it's man made and nothing like what Vegapunk has come up with yet. We need to get our hands on it."