Chapter 21: Rats

Desert

POV: Kaya

To think that Lunna would know someone as infamous as Fire Fist Ace is surprising but him being her brother is unbelievable. "So Lunna I gotta ask, would you like to join the Whitebeard Pirates? You and your friends can join too." Ace said. We all looked again with shock at the proposal to join one of the Yonko.

"No!" Lunna answered.

"Well that's a shame, by the way I will make Whitebeard the king. Not you or your partner will come between that."

"Me and Freddy will kick his ass in a second!" Lunna replied to her brother

"Oh yeah, well you'll have to get through me first. Where is your co-captain, Freddy you said it was?" He asked.

"We got separated but he'll be back soon." Lunna said.

"Well I'd love to meet him but I got some business to get to I'll see you guys later. Oh and Lunna take this card, if you have it then no matter what you'll be able to find me. Oh and please look after Lunna for me, she's such a troublemaker." He said before taking off on his one man boat and taking out a few ships in one fire punch attack,

"Alright guys let's go now where to Vivi?" Lunna asked.

"Well now we have to head for the rebel base in Yuba. Maybe one of us should stay to tell Freddy where we need to go." Vivi proposed.

"I'll stay!" Me and Quiet said at the same time.

"I guess you both could stay, well let's get going guys. We have to stop the rebels before they leave." And with that the crew got on the ship and sailed away. Me and Quiet just stood there in an awkward silence not really knowing what to do.

"I'll be back" Quiet said before dematerializing and running off. So now I was just standing by myself shuffling back and forth for about ten minutes before she came back. And she did not look happy. "The marines got him!"

"What! How is that possible?" I asked.

"It must've been Smoker, Freddy can't touch him. All I know is that I'm going to break him out" She was just about to take off again before I stopped her.

"Look can you beat Smoker?" I asked and she shook her head saying no. "Then how do you expect to get him off that ship. Look I think I have a plan."

Smoker's Ship

POV: Freddy

Here I am rotting away in a cell, again. If my hair wasn't in binded then I might have picked these locks but it's impossible. There's got to be some way out. As I was pondering this I noticed the guard was a woman. 'Oh I see where you're going with this, you're going to seduce her.' 'No you stupid perv, she's a girl so she'll know about hair problems and can relate to the status of my hair at the moment.' So I got her attention. "Hey uhh, excuse me miss marine can you do me a favor and unbraid my hair? It's getting a bit itchy and as you can tell i'm in no position to fix it." I held up my hands to show her my cuffs. She came over and I put my hair through the bars but she yanked it hard resulting in the back of my head meeting the bars.

"Damn pirate I know what you're trying to do, we've all been informed of your powers. Now just rot here like the scum you are." she said. Well there goes that plan, now I have a headache. As I was rubbing my head Tashigi came down. The guard greeted her and they both came to my cell. The guard unlocked my cell and Tashigi walked in.

"Smoker want to see you let's go." She said so I got up and started walking. She led me to Smoker's cabin and as I entered the room was dark and the only light was coming through the cracks of the blinds in the window and the light coming from his cigar. Tashigi closed the door behind me and locked it.

"I must apologize for my behavior earlier." Smoker said. "It was unprofessional, even if i'm talking to a scumbag pirate. Now where is your crew."

"I don't know" I answered honestly.

"Liar!" He screamed slamming his hands on his desk creating a mess. "How do you not know where your crew is let alone where they are going. Now if you don't confess then i'm going to lock you in the deepest part of Impel Down."

"Look Smoker, I know all you want is to catch me and my crew but what we're doing here is for the greater good. Something that not even your damn government can do." I said

"Oh yeah and what is that, please humor me."

"Try saving this country from a civil war plotted by one of the seven warlords." Smoker's face was of pure shock then a second later of rage and he bit his cigar.

"You better be lying about this, do you even know what you are saying!" He asked

"Look I don't know why I'm going to tell you this but look this is what happened. Once we entered the Grandline we got swallowed by a huge whale."

"Do you think this is a joke!" He interrupted.

"Just listen! We meet two weird people inside of the whale and gave them rides home. Once we got to their island they seduced us with their food, booze and women but we managed to break free from their trap and we found out these people were part of an organization that goes by the name of Baroque Works." He looked surprised when I brought up Baroque Works.

"So it does exist, keep going."

"Well one of the agents was actually a spy from this kingdom, and not only that it is their princess Vivi. We took on a quest to take her here and stop this pointless war because Baroque Works was pulling the strings behind the kingdom's back without them even knowing. All because one man wants to take over this country once it has fallen into ruin and that man is…"

"Crocodile" He finished for me. "No wonder he's been staying at this island for so long. If this is true then this kingdom is in grave danger. Tashigi!"

"Yessir!" She said as she entered the room.

"Take our guest here to his cell please I have a very important call to make." As she was escorting me out of the room I managed to say one more thing. "Smoker, I know what you're trying to do but it won't work. They have friends in high places." And with that I was escorted to my cell.

"What did you mean when you said it won't work? What won't work?" Tashigi asked. I then explained the situation to her and she gasped as she learned about the conspiracy. Unfortunately we weren't paying attention to the guard hiding behind a wall listening to our conversation and pulling out a transponder snail.

POV: Smoker

"No! I won't hold any longer! I've been on hold two times already and the news I have is urge.." I was interrupted by some music coming from the snail. 'Damn it they put me on hold again' I've been trying to get a hold of HQ ever since Freddy told me about this conspiracy but for some reason I keep getting put on hold. After two minutes someone picked up. "Yes this is Captain Smoker of the marines."

"Ah yes Captain Smoker this is Vice Admiral John Giant what is your urgent news." He said through the snail. As I explained everything Green Hair said to me he didn't say a word. "This conspiracy you are saying, can land you in the third floor of Impel Down for these accusations." I was shocked, why wouldn't he believe me.

"But sir this is too much evidence to be just a coincidence."

"Have you seen the princess? She's been missing for a while and you're saying that she's sailing with pirates so they could save her kingdom! You're such a fool to believe such a childish story. Now I won't tell anyone of this so you don't get in trouble so Smoker I am commanding you to return to loguetown and continue to thwart off the pirates there. I expect you back there by the end of the month you are dismissed." He hung up and I was just shocked. The receiver still held up before slamming it down on the table and trashing the whole cabin in rage. As I started coming down from the rage I put the receiver back on the snail and went down to the brig. On the way I saw the guard hiding behind a wall and talking on a transponder snail.

"All is complete? All right sir I'll keep spying on the captain." She said to the snail before hanging it up and putting it away. When she turned to leave she crashed into my chest. "Hey watch where you're… Oh sorry Captain Smoker heh heh" I grabbed her by the throat and shot my smoke arm towards a cell and she was pinned.

POV: Freddy

"So I don't care if it kills me, I will escape and save Vivi and her country." I said.

"Wow, I didn't know you were so heroic." Tashigi said.

"Yeah well it's the right thing to do" Tashigi was about to respond but we were interrupted by the guard crashing into one of the cells. "What the fuck!" we ran out the cell to see what was going on.

Smoker then came from the stairs with his smoke arms still outstretched. "We've got a rat." He said.

"Captain Smoker, I don't know what you're talking about" She said before the smoke formed around her mouth stopping her from speaking. "Tashigi, arrest her for treason and throw her in his cell. After that bring him to my cabin." And as he left and dropped the girl she started coughing and she stood up and pulled out a pistol and loaded an unusual looking bullet and pointed it at Smoker. "Take this you bastar…" She didn't get to finish because I whipped her with my braided hair. Since the hair was all restricted it did more damage than usual and she was flung across the room being knocked out.

"Now you owe me one Smoker." I said with a smile. He sneered and continued walking.

"This bullet is sea stone! It would have killed Smoker!" Tashigi said.

"Good thing I got her when I did then."

"Thank you Freddy I don't know why you'd like to save a marine but you proved you're a good person in my book. Even if you're a pirate." We laughed and after she threw the new prisoner in my cell she escorted me into Smoker's cabin. She was going to leave but Smoker told her to stay and lock the door.

"Look, I don't know how you knew this was going to happen but that girl contacted someone at HQ and now I can't get any backup. Even worse now I have to return to the East Blue. Well i'm not going without a fight!" He said.

"Captain do you even know what you're saying?" Tashigi asked.

"Yes, the Marines will not save this kingdom, but Freddy and his crew can. Now Freddy where do you need to go. We'll escort you wherever you want as long as you stop this kingdom from falling in ruin. You'll still be in handcuffs but other then that you'll have full freedom. Not only will you be saving the kingdom, you'll also be saving my job so I have more to lose."

I smiled at this proposition. "I guess if it's to help you keep your job then i'll do it. Just take me wherever Crocodile is and I'll kick his ass." I said.

He laughed "Tashigi get ready and for god sakes untie that man's hair. We leave in five minutes. Tell the men to set sail for Rainbase

POV: Quiet

"Damn it looks like they're about to set sail. You really think these outfits will fool them?" I asked Kaya.

"Trust me this plan is flawless. Those Marines we beat up were heading here anyways." She said. We boarded the ship with little to no resistance and sneakily headed to the brig. We looked for Freddy but all we found was some Marine chick inside a cell. "Maybe he broke out?" Kaya said.

"Hmm maybe"

"Hey who are you two?" We both froze up and turned around to see Freddy being escorted by that chick from Loguetown. His face was surprised and her's was of confusion. "Wait I know you guys. You're part of his crew!" Before she could do anything we both charged her and knocked her out.

"Let's go Freddy before more people come." I said. I tried to pull Freddy's hand but he wasn't moving.

"Damn she won't be happy about this" He said.

"Who cares! Let's go!" Kaya said now pulling his other hand but he still wasn't budging. Freddy facepalmed and explained to us what their plan is. We also facepalmed noticing our unconscious ally. When she woke up she wasn't happy. But instead of lashing out at us she started hitting Freddy. "So mind if we tag along?" I asked

"I guess you guys could join, I'll go inform Smoker." She said before leaving.

"So while the others stop the rebels we'll take care of Crocodile. Man Lunna is not going to be happy about this" I said.

"Well who knows, we might see her on the way" Freddy said.

Author's Note

Hey Guys Freddy here once again. This may not have been a long chapter but it's still a chapter. And it's not like two months after the last one. Now I want to clear something up really quick, I'm only going to do a brief part in the next chapter about what the others are doing. They are basically going through the canon story and I hate writing canon because it does get mundane so it will mostly be me, Quiet, Kaya and the marines next chapter. Also I would like to give some shout outs to some people who favorited or followed in the past few days. So special thanks to:

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