Seconds later, Luffy shot back up to his feet, all energised. Ivankov felt strange, but didn't think anything of it. Probably because Dragon has a son… he thought.
Ivankov led Luffy to Level 6, generally kicking butt and being awesome while trashing the marines. "STUPID MARINES! You won't stop me from getting to ACE!" Luffy screamed, smacking a marine on the nose while kicking another.
"Ace huh… then you're all ready too late." The head of the group of marines sneered at the pirate, receiving a bloody nose in return. "What do you mean too late!?"
"Never mind that now, Mugiwara-boi! We must get to Level 6 as fast as possible!" Ivankov yelled, grabbing the boy.
At Level 6
"Great. Now I'm bored." Kidd mumbled. Ace had just been taken away, and Jinbe had tried his best to prevent them from taking him away, but to no avail. He did earn several punches for his efforts.
Law checked on his own wound. It was healing , slowly but surely. He felt much better since Bonney and Kidd had fallen asleep, making it much quieter. Now if only he could get out of his damn handcuffs, and have some water… that would be perfect. He was REALLY thirsty. That was, until Kidd woke up.
Law grimanced at the condition the fishman was in. Clearly, being locked up for so long, being fed so little, and being used as a punching bag for the marines wasn't good for anyone, but Jinbe still seemed as strong as determined as before. He tried to shake that thought out of his head, deciding to tease Kidd, as usual, instead. However, Apoo beat him to the punch.
"Really Kidd? We're locked up in IMPEL DOWN of all places, and you're bored." Apoo grumbled, kicking the Supernova lightly in the shin. Killer rolled his eyes behind his mask, before growling slightly to protect his captain.
The guard posted outside their cell glared at them, before the Den Den Mushi rang. He hurried to pick it up.
"Hello?... Yes…. What? Damn it! Alright…" He put down the snail.
"Damn you *beep * *beep * *beep * *beep *" He cursed under his breath with many choice words following. Jineb glanced up upon hearing that, and the Supernovas got curious.
"What on earth is going on?" Drake mumbled. "None of your business Pirate Scum!" The marine snapped. The pirates decided to have a little fun with the pissed off marine. Risky? Sure. Gonna lead to them getting hurt? Probably. Fun? Definitely! Dry out their throat even more? Yup!
"Ohhh looks like the marine is mad!" Apoo sang. "I guess the marines just SUCK at their jobs huh?" Kid snickered an glanced at the guard while Killer glared at the marine. Law gave the marine a cocky grin. Drake continued, "Yeah, getting frustrated at a pirate. A rookie at that!" Before the rest could say anything, the marine screeched in frustration, "Shut up!"
Suddenly, the ceiling somewhere along the hallway collapsed, bringing up a large cloud of dust. The guard muttered, "Shit." before taking out his gun and rushing into the smoke to find the perpetrator, or in this case, the perpetrators.
"What the hell was that!?" Kidd growled while coughing from the smoke. Honestly, dehydration sucks. Killer tried to fan the dust away with his hands to no avail. Law tried to peer outside their cell, but his vision was obscured by the smoke. Drake merely looked up in interest, and Bonney once again complained about, you guessed it, food. Bege snapped at Bonney for thinking about food at this time and Urouge just laughing looking at the messy commotion in their cell. Apoo laughed, singing, "Well shit just hit the fan!" before coughing.
Hawkins pulled out his cards, again, and said, "There is a 100% chance that something surprising will happen." "Why the hell do you still have those!?" Kidd grumbled and Law muttered, "Not very surprising if you tell us it is gonna happen."
"Hey… I think I see someone walking outta the smoke… wait two…. Three people?" Drake muttered, spying the silhouette of several figures.
"ACE! ACE!"
Just a few minutes before
Luffy, Ivankov and Inazume dropped in from the ceiling into a cloud of dust.
Seconds later, a guard rushed out brandishing his gun. Luffy immediately smacked him out cold. Another guard near the other end of the hallway confronted them, before gawking.
"This…. This ain't possible! You're dead!" The guard exclaimed, shakily raising his gun.
"Hey, where's Ace?" Luffy growled.
"And why would I tell you, pirate!?" The guard demanded, aiming his gun at the rubber pirate.
Ivankov swiftly made his way to the guard, overtowering him completely. He grabbed the guard, causing him to drop his gun and squirm in fright. "We're looking for the Whitebeard Pirate, Portgas D. Ace. Would vyou be so kind as to tell us? The place where he's kept…"
Trying to keep his cool, the guard shrieked in Ivankov's face, "Never!" It was supposed to sound all manly and menacing, but instead it sounded like a hoarse kitten.
"Oh what a dilemna." Ivankov fake-sighed. Dropping the guard, he said, "Vyou have to be a more honest individual!"
"What are you gonna do!?" The guard asked, trying to crawl away from the Devil Fruit User.
Brandishing his nails, Ivankov yelled, "Emporio Onna Hormone!" He stabbed his nails into the guard. The guard started spasming and trashing for a while, until he….. her…. finally stopped, looking at…. her new body in shock, "What…. the…"
"Woah! He turned into a woman!" Luffy exclaimed. Ignoring the rubber boy, Ivankov bent down to show the now female guard her new face, and said, "So? How does it feel to have been awakened to vyour true self?"
"What? Is this…. me?" The guard said in shock, taking the mirror to examin herself more closely.
"Vyou have been reborn! Vyou are no longer a guard, but a Newkama!" Ivankov exclaimed while the guard was gushing over herself, "Oh how beautiful! Thank you very much, Iva-sama! I realised who I really am!"
"Oh no, don't thank vme! More importantly…" he was cut off by Luffy.
"Where's Ace!?"
"He's that way!" The guard turned Newkama pointed down a hallway. Luffy ran down the hallway, screaming Ace's name.
"ACE! ACE!"
Luffy ran and stopped in front of Jinbe's cage, "Is this it? Ace?"
But all he saw was the blue fishman in shackles and a set of empty shackles hanging from a wall. Panting, he declared, "He's not here."
"Are vyou sure this is the right cell?" Ivankov asked the former guard, who replied, "Yes I am! I'm not lying…" before crying.
"We're a bit too late." Inazume said.
Seeing the kid, Jinbe got the shock of his life. It's a straw hat! So he must be…. Yes! He's really here! He broke into the inpregnable Impel Down! And made it all the way to Level 6! Jinbe thought.
The rest of the Supernovas were as shocked as he was.
Law's jaw dropped mentally, "I don't believe it."
"You have got to be kidding me!" Kid and Apoo whispered in unison. Hawkins' eyes grew wider. He had expected surprising, like maybe a random giant chicken snake crashing to the ground, but HIM? No way.
"Is that HIM!?" Bonney hissed, her eyes bulging out. Urogue nodded. "How the hell did he get in here!?" Drake squeaked. Impel Down, the most fortified place in the seas for pirates, and it was infiltrated by a brainless rookie pirate brat who was too stupid for his own good?! And, Drake swore on his life, wasn't the clueless guard at the other end of the hallway male?!
"You're Mugiwara no Luffy, aren't you?" Jinbe asked. Upon hearing his name, Luffy turned to the fishman, replying, "Yeah?"
"They took him just now! Go! They've taken Ace-san to the elevator! Go! You can still catch him!" Jinbe quickly told Luffy.
His voice came out hoarsly…. Law noted…. Fishman and lack of water, definitely not a good mix. Especially since he had been in there muck longer than they had….
To everyone's surprise, Luffy said, "Who're you, old man?"
Law sighed mentally. This kid was gonna be the reason all the Supernovas were gonna get their jaws shattered, considering how many times their jaws have dropped from his….. smart-ass remarks, putting it mildly.
"He's a big deal! Don't you know who he is!?" Ivankov screeched, as Luffy and Jinbe paid no attention to the okama, opting for a staring contest.
In the end, Luffy nodded, "Okay! I got it! Thank you! Whoever you are!" With that, Luffy ran back from the elevator. Surely, one of the Supernovas would have called out to the rubber pirate, right? Well, all of them were STILL in shock that Luffy made it all the way down. Surely he would have run into Magellan at some point right? It's not like Luffy was that god forsaken Caesar Salad… wait, not salad, Caesar Clown with that poison gas fruit. And they had sore throats. Horrible. Sore throats suck. So yeah.
I don't believe it! Even after risking your life, it's almost impossible to get all the way here! Did he really get through all five hells?! Jinbe thought, impressed by the pirate. The last jailbreak was twenty years ago by a renowned pirate called Shiki the Golden Lion. Now, it was a rookie that hasn't even been sailing for a year. Either the marines are doing a horrible job or the kid is that good. And according to Ace, it's probably the latter. He thought.
"They took that to the upper floors! Let's go!" Ivankov said, "They left the iron door to the elevator open!"
"Nice!" The rookie exclaimed, only for Ivankov to continue, "The operation system is locked! It's no good!"
"It doesn't work?!" Well now, time for some Monkey business, "But we can just climb." Yup that was gonna – no screw it, some random marine just made a spikey donut fall down the elevator shaft, along with the chains. Ouch! What if they squished someone under it – never mind.
"T-that was close!" Luffy panted.
Examining the situation, Ivankov just sighed, "Of course they wouldn't allow us to climb it! It's not usable! They're already keeping an eye on it! Let's go back up the stairs!"
And everyone rushed to the stairs. Upon reaching, Luffy said, "Hey! They blocked the staircase!"
Ivankov insisted on breaking through, and tried to have Inazuma cut through the bars with his Choki Choki no Mi powers. Suddenly, they heard a loud hissing sound, and quickly jumped backwards as a green coloured gas rushed down towards them. They all jumped backwards.
"That's a lot of gas! Is it poisonous?!" Inazume covered his mouth and nose. On a completely unrelated note, how on earth does he do all that without spilling his wine? "Again!?" Luffy whined. He had enough of poison gas.
"I don't know who you guys are, but don't make us suffer with you!" A prisoner complained.
"Shut up, you Level 6 people!" Ivankov yelled in indignition.
"I don't care if it's poisonous or not!" Luffy yelled determindly, running through the cloud of gas, or would have if it wasn't sleeping gas.
"Wait!" the okama tried to stop the pirate, but it was too late. Luffy had fallen asleep, lying on the ground. "How reckless are you, Mugi-boy!"
"You really need to stop…. We don't want to…." Fall asleep?
"They wanna make us sleep to stop us in our tracks." Inazume stated calmly, a huge contrast to Ivankov's panicked yelled, "We're completely trapped!"
On Level 1 somewhere
"How unfortunate. Mugiwara just made it to Level 6 just after you left." Magellan said.
Ace's eye's widened, "Luffy!"
"The emergency sleeping gas has just been released! It's only a matter of time before they catch Mugiwara! The Freezing Hell wasn't punishment enough for him! Since the cell you were in is open right now…" the warden continued without a care that Ace was glaring at him.
"Don't even continue that sentence!" Ace lashed out, kicking a guard who had poked him from the rear, and all the guards surrounding him.
"You!" Another guard rushed him with a fork-like spear, but Ace expertly bit the prongs of the gigantic fork, using the long shaft to smack all the other guards away. Even with his Kairoseki cuffs, Ace was still more that capable of taking care of the remaining guards. After all, the trident-ish weapon was long and thin, just like his pipe from his childhood, except the prongs though.
Towering over the fire user, Magellan grabbed the trident right out of his bound arms, snapping it like a toothpick. Glaring at Magellan, Ace took a few steps back before trying to run back to the elevator shaft, only to get pinned down by the poison user's gigantic hand.
"You better not resist because it's useless!"
Just as the head warden said that, a metal gate covered the entrance to the elevator. "Your brother is also a pirate! There's no way he'll walk out of here alive! In fact, he should have been writhing in agony now!" Magellan growled, still confused how the rookie was running around after he was poisoned by yours truly just a day and a couple of hours ago, but didn't let the Whitebeard pirate know his real thoughts. How did you recover from my mixture of deadly poison, Mugiwara!? There isn't even an antidote. You running around like you just woke up is incomprehensible!
Ace let out a desperate shout, "Luffy!" I wish she had been lying…. Why did you come to this hellhole Luffy!?
Back to Level 6
"Do something! The floor's gonna be filled with gas! Help me!" The prisons started banging on their cells desperately.
Law could hear echoes from their cramped cell, and felt the urge to correct them. Technically the floor is already filled with gas. Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, argon…. He started rattling off a bunch of gases in his head.
Inazuma tossed his drink to Ivankov, and using his abilities, Inazume skillfully sliced up the floor like it was paper with his newly transformed scissor-like hands, and threw them against the staircase, successfully sealing the gas. He retrived his drink from Ivankov.
Luffy got up, rubbed his eyes, slumped forward and fell asleep again.
"Wake up! I'm fighting the urge to sleep but I.. I….DON'T SLEEP!" Ivankov screeched, waking up Luffy in the process. "I wanna keep going, Crab-chan! You blocked the stairase but now I can't catch up with Ace!"
"That was the only way to stop the gas. If you're unconscious, you can't save him!" Inazuma calmly stated.
"I'm gonna save him even if I'm unconscious! I don't want him to die!" Luffy whined.
"Their plan worked. We are now confined to Level 6. I'm sorry but this is all I can do now!" Ivankov sighed, earning an angry pout from the rubber pirate, before sending a Death Wink to the Den Den Mushi on the wall.
Grinning, Ivankov said, "Now they can't see us." He turned to face Luffy, "You have to realise we're too late. They must have gotton to the top floor with Ace-boy by now. On the other hand, we have many obstacles standing in our way! The Marine's convoy is pretty quick! Look at the Vivre card! It's not pointing straight up, is it? I think Ace-boy has already been handed over to the Marines!"
Taking out the Vivre Card, Luffy realised that Ivankov was right. "We need to move on now!" The Okama exclaimed, "I'll do my best to help you break out of this great prison safely! They'll hand Ace-boy to the Marine Headquarters at any cost! You need to give up on him! I mean….. You need to trust Whitebeard. He's not gonna give up on one of his own."
Gritting his teeth, Luffy clenched his fist, "I'm going."
Ye… sorry for not updating for a long time hahahha! Hope you enjoy this chapter.
