Prompt: Mother Nature
Disclaimer: Eichiro Oda created One Piece not me. Shonen Jump licenses the manga and anime. I make no money from the writing of this fanfiction.
Something was starting to change from the hopeless scenes before her. Robin jerked her head up, trying to calm herself despite the spiked brandy. There before her on the screens she saw her crewmates facing Mother Nature in the form of stone, water, and air.
Perhaps it was the way that Zoro and Nami climbed up on a ledge to escape the rising water in the chamber they inhabited. Or the shares of stone crumbling under Luffy's fingers from the precarious hold he had slipping steadily away.
Usopp and Chopper both ploughing into the fishmen running up out of the bay. She spotted Franky on the far right monitor pushing his sunglasses down over his eyes. He charged, cupping both hands into an oval shape at the height of his massive chest. "Franky... Radical... Beam!"
"What's that metal moron think he's doing?" Marlin gasped, seeing the beam tear across and into the water.
For a split second the waters vaporized and Robin saw the cyborg peer into the camera. An instant later he leapt into the surf and grabbed the waver. Starting it up, he fired the mechanism up and started to steer it into a circle. Them he leapt off it, and vanished under the waves.
Usopp fired a pop green at the forest where the boats were. A spectacular explosion in th shape of a fiery skull rose up, scattering fishmen. When the smoke cleared, Marlin slammed his fist down.
"Find them!" He snapped.
She had recognized that calculating look on both men's faces. That tacet understanding between shipwright and sniper as fellow inventors. They must have come up with something because she saw no sign of the boats.
On another screen she watched Luffy let go of the wall, and plummet into darkness. Holding her breath she soon saw a figure running up from the bottom of the cistern. Riding on the cook's back safe and sound was Luffy.
Robin laughed aloud. "Forgot he could air walk did we?"
"Shut up!" Marlin snapped, smacking her across the face.
Dizzy, Robin stared through her pain at the screen where Nami and Zoro were displayed. He had set the navigator up on a narrow ledge wide enough for her to stand up with her arms spread out. Her eyes took in both of them heaving a big breath before Zoro formed a familiar pose. Was he going to risk that in a stone chamber? Marlin stared in fascination at the glowing figure swirling around like a drill, and Nami firing thunderbolts at the far wall to weaken it.
The entire chamber started to drain. Reaching up Zoro helped Nami down and they headed out via a service entrance they had spotted on the way in.
"Now that's just not fair!" Marlin shouted, slamming his fists down on the table hard enough to scatter his snails. "Find them and stop them!"
"At once boss!" Echoed a half dozen voices over the snails scattered on the floor.