After the announcement most of the Marines were left in a state of shock
"This can't be happening Rob Lucci is the most powerful member in CP9 history, to think he was taken out by a pirate!" a Marine yelled
"Heh they seem to be really scared now" Cray said
"You finally did it Straw Hat, its about time" Franky said
"ALL RIGHT EVERYONE LETS HEAD TO THE ESCAPE SHIP IMMEDIATELY!" Nami yelled
"YOU DID IT STRAW HAT!"
Everyone was then caught off gaurd as they heard a distant voice.
SHUT UP YOU IDIOT THEY CAN STILL HEAR US!" A female voice yelled
BRO!" Another Voice yelled
Wait that voice?" Ussop said
"Those Guys..." Zoro said with a smirk
Sumi heard it as well and his eyes went wide with joy
"Iza?" Sumi said with a huge smile
"It seems they made it out okay" Kokoro said
"Franky then started to Cry"
"YOU GUYS ARE OKAY!?" Franky yelled
(The side of the Main island)
The Two Giants alogn with the Two King bulls, the shipwrights, Franky Family, Yokozuna, Iza, and Paulie were all hanging on a huge Rope net hanging from the side of the main island and undetected,
"Were all okay the giants took all the cannon fire for us and there okay to" Zambai said
"Now if we take our sweet time here, the battleships will come again!" Paulie said
"Anyway we have a means to escape so don't worry about us!" Zambai said
(The Bridge)
"All right everyone lets get to the ship! Thunderbolt Tempo!" Nami yelled throwing everyone
"Oni Giri" Zoro yelled unleashing a Air slash attack towards a group of Marines blowing them away
"Cien Fluers" Robin said restraining Multilpe Marines
"Iro Whip club!" Cray yelled knocking a barrage of Marines as well.
"Tell em the status of Straw hats Luffy" An Admiral said
"One of the Marines looked through a pair of Binoculars and saw the Luffy wasn;t moving
"He Appears to be severly wounded, he's not moving!" The Marine yelled
"What!?" the Straw Hats said
"LUFFY COME ON! GET YOUR BUTT OVER HERE! WHAT THE MATTER!? USE YOU GUM GUM TO GET OVER HERE I'll CARRY YOU ALL THE WAY TO THE SHIP" Ussop yelled
As Ussop was still screamign at him Luffy,ws trying to get but the only he could do slightly twitch his body.
"QUICK LETS TAKE THE SHIP TO THE FIRST COLUMN AND PICK UP LUFFY FROM THERE!" Nami yelled
"BOOOOM!"
Nami and the rest of the Straw Hats quickly looked and noticed that the explosion came in the direction of where there escape ship was,
"No our escape ship...Chopper, Kokoro, Sumi, Gonbe, Chimney" Nami said as he collapsed to her knees
"Crap theirs no other way for us to escape now!" Franky yelled
Robin Looked closely through the smoke and as she did she saw Two Silloutes running out of it and when they ran out of the smoke, she was shckked when she saw Sanji Carrying Kokoro and Chopper and Sumi running out carrying Chimney and Gonbe with two Giant Paint arms coming out of his tail
"DON'T WORRY THERE OKAY!" Sanji yelled
"Good! You got them" Nami said
"Where the Hell have you Been Sanji!?" Cray yelled
"Was taking care of something,but at any rate, were in some deep shit right now." Sanji yelled
Sanji then Put Kokoro down as she got up. While Sumi put down Gonbe and Chimney,
"are you guys all right!?" Sumi said
were okay." Chimney said
"Nyah" Gonbe said
"FIRE!"
The Battleships then started to rain cannon balls all across the Bridge not only taking the bridge out but also the marines that are on it
"QUICK RUN!" Nami yelled as all of them started running as fast they could away from the cannon fire as the brdge started to crumble behind them
"DAMN THERE SO DESPERATE! THERE SHOOTING AT THERE OWN PEOPLE!" Cray yelled
"CORNER THEM AT THE SECOND COLUMN FIRE!"
It wasn;t long until all of the Straw Hats were running as fast they could the blast threw them off there feet as they were now stuck on last portion of the Bridge.
"They've finally taken out the entire Bridge!" sanji yelled
"Dammit were trapped!" cray yelled
"We have no choice we have to fight what little remains of the elites that are stuck here with us!" Nami yelled
"PREAPRE TO FIRE aLL CANNON ON THE FIRST COLUMN! ELIMINATE STRAW HAT LUFFY IMMEDIATELY!"
"LUFFY!" Ussop yelled
"Oh Crap" Luffy said trying to move
"we have to get him out of there somehow! Robin Could you do something!?" Cray yelled kicking away a Marine
"It won't work because of the distance, even if I try to pull him I'll drop him into the sea." Robin said
STRAW HAT!" Everyone Yelled out
Suddenly there was slight Whispering noise
"That Noise?" Ussop said
The Noises continued but only The Straw Hats could hear it
"Huh?" Zoro said
"Whats That Noise?" Cray said
"Where the hell is it coming from?" Sanji said
"I'm not mistaken it, its the same Noise I heard, What? Below?" Ussop said looking down
"Huh?...Its Telling us to look below!" Chopper yelled
Whats telling you what!? I don't hear anything." Kokoro said
"IN FIVE SECONDS FIRE AT THE FIRST COLUMN!"
Ussop was looking down as tears started to fall.
"I see...JUMP INTO THE SEA!" Ussop screamed
four seconds"
"INTO THE SEA!" ROBIN CAN YOU DROP LUFFY INTO THE SEA!" Ussop
"LEAVE IT TO ME!" Robin said
"YOU IDIOT WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOWS NOT THE TIME GET DESPERATE!" Zoro yelled
"Three seconds"
"SHE CAME TO RESCUE US ZORO! WE'VE GOT ONE MORE FRIEND STILL LOOKING AFTER US!" Ussop screamed at Zoro
"Two seconds"
"Chopper did you look below!?" Nami said
"I DID!" Chopper said about to Cry
"Wait, is that The.." Cray said shocked looking below to
"Cien Fluer Delphinium " Robin said as rows of arms started to roll Luffy out of the first column
"One"
"INTO THE SEA!" Sanji, Cray, Nami, and Chopper yelled
FOLLOW LUFFY!" Ussop yelled jumping off the Bridge
"HERE WE GO!" Sanji, Cray, Chopper, Franky, Robin, Sumi, Chimney, Gonbe, Kokoro, Zoro and Nami screamed jumping off as well fallign towards the ocean
"FIRE!"
the Cannons then fired completely destroying what left of the Bridge and the first column.
and As everyone looked with Smiles on there faces they noticed there ship The Going Merry ready for them to set sail out
"MERRY!" Luffy yelled
Lets go back everyone, back to the sea of adventure I came to get you all" The voice said
All of them then Jumped into the ocean ear the Going Merry Sanji was the first one to break out from under the water as a small ladder mysteriously was thrown to the side of the ship so that he was can climb up onto the ship. and then it was Nami, Zoro carrying Chimney and Gonbe, Franky and Kokoro carrying the Devil fruit users, and tossing them all onto the ship, With Robin landing in Frankys arms much to Sanjis disappointment, and Luffy, Chopper, Cray and Sumi landing on the deck of the ship with a thud.
"I can;t believe it, its The Merry." Cray said with a slight smile
"Chopper then started to slightly Cray
"Oh Merry, I love the merry" Chopper said
"I knew you wouldn't lets us down" Ussop said putting his and on the mast crying.
"But sailed it here?" Nami said
"Lets worry about that later give us instructions on what do!" Zoro yelled runnign into postion
"right, Lets get the out of here!" Nami yelled
"Man that was close, I thought I was going to get killed by those battleships" Luffy said turing towards Robin who had her back turned
"Hey Robin you saved me Thank y" Luffy was cut off by an arm coverign his mouth.
Robin then slowly turned towards everyone with a smile on her face.
"Luffy... and Everyone...thank you." Robin said
everyone then gave her a smile of reassurance.
"Don"t worry about it" Luffy said
"Say Stupid stuff like that after we escape from here" zoro said noncchalntely
Suddenyl Sanji, Cray, and Chopper went to attack him
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN STUPID STUFF!? YOU DAMN MOSS HEAD!" Sanji yelled throwing kicks at Zoro with him blocking them with one of his sheathed swords
" YEAH YOU INSENSITIVE PRICK! ROBIN WAS JUST HAVING A MOMENT!" Cray yelled throwing punches at him with Zoro blocking them as well.
"YOU JERK!" Chopper yelled biting Zoros leg
"SHUT UP! IF WE DIE HERE IT'LL ALL COME TO NOTHING!" Zoro yelled
"APOLOGIZE TO HER RIGHT NOW!" Cray yelled
"THATS ENOUGH!...Hey Chopper you moving again." Zoro said looking down at his leg
Chopper then stopped and noticed it
"Hey your right I can move again...Well in that case." Chopper said going into Heavy Point and restraining Zoro painfully
"Apologize to Robin right now!" Chopper said
"do you give up yet?" Sanji said
"NO!" Zoro screamed
"All right guys stop fooling around, lets sail out of here" Nami said
the Going merry the continued forward as the Battleships surrounded them
On one of the Battleships Spandam with his swollen face ordered the battleships to blow them up.
"But I thought our orders was to capture Nico Robin!?" a Marine yelled
"Admiral Aokiji asked me to tell you all that Ready The cannons and fire!" Spandam screamed
"ALL SHIPS PREPARE TO FIRE!"
"That was a lie, I'm not gonna let them get away, I will take credit for killing them" Spandam said in his head
"So Spandam is alive" Franky said
"We need to keep going forward!" Cray yelled
"We can't were surrounded!" Zoro said
"FIRE!"
the Cannons then fired up at them but miraculously not a single one hit them and instead hit the neighboring battleship
"What the heck?!" a Marine yelled suddenly the ships then started to pull towards each other
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?"
The Marines looked and noticed that the Gate of Justice were slowly closing back up
"THE GATES OF JUSTICE IS CLOSING! THE CURRENT BLOCKED BY THE GATES ARE PRODUCING WHIRLPOOLS!" Someone yelled
"WE CAN'T CONTROL THE RUDDERS ON OUR SHIPS!"
"WERE OFF BALANCE!"
"Damn, this was more then I expected" Sanji said looking
"Wait, you mean that thing you were doing earlier, was trying to close the Gates?" Cray said
"Yep, And it looks like my planned worked" Sanji said with a smile
"I wouldn't be to thrilled those whirlpools will cause trouble for us to" Zoro said
"All the more reason to Haul ass out of here!" Cray said
the Going Merry continued forward at high speed as Cannons still triying to fire at them, Any Straggler cannonballs started headed there way.
"One sword style..36 Caliber Pheonix!" Zoro yelled releasing a powerful air slash Attack Towards the Cannonballs as they exploded Midair
"Collier Shoot!" Sanji yelled kicking a cannonball away back towards the Battleship
Cray Quickly jumped into the Air
"Iro Snapper Hand!" Cray yelled as he swung it Snagging Two Cannonballs and flinging the Cannonballs back at the battleships
"Spider Net" Robin said creating a Net made of Blooming Arms and catching Two Cannonball which dropped into Frankys arms which he then three back at them.
"Sunflower Star!" Ussop yelled shooting Cannonballls out of the air
"Luffy was then seen getting himself to the top level by his chin wanting to fight
"Luffy what are you doing!?" Cray yelled
"I Want..to fight..to" Luffy said crawling towards them with his chin.
"you can;t even get up Luffy!" Cray yeleld
"I don;t care...I'll figure out a way!" Luffy said
"Well if your wanting to help, then" Zoro said Grabbing Luffys leg and Sanji grabbing Luffys arm they then started to spread him out as a huge Barrage of cannonballs started to gather up on Luffy.
"NOW!" Zoro yelled as he and Sanji propped the Cannonballs off of Luffy like a Sling Hitting the Battleships that were targeting them with incredible force thus forcing the battleships to stop there attempted bombardment towards the Merry,
"Alright, chopper Hard aport at 9 o clock." Nami said
"got it" chopper steering the rudder as it zipped past the other battleships. it wasn;t long until the Merry was to far away for the Battle ships to fire Accurately with there Cannons much to Spandams fury as he started slamming his fist on the deck of the battleship he was standing on.
" Dammit, Dammit, Those bastards! This Can't be happening...with the entire military force of Enies Lobby, the power of The Buster Call, as strong as an entire countries Military...Why..why in the hell can't we..take a Measly women...From a little band of puny PIRATES!" Spandam screamed out in Fury as he saw the Going Merry getting away.
suddenly multiple arms then started to sprout on Spandams body as it restrained him much to his shock and fear, the arms then started to violently bend him back as his legs was stationary. and on the Going Merry Robin could be seen standing by her friends as her arms were crossed staring at him in the distance.
"...Help" Spandam said weakly at the nearby marines
"CLUTCH!" Robin yelled
"SNAP"
a loud sickening noise of bone breaking was heard as Spandams back was completely snapped in half as he collapsed onto the deck of his battleship.
"Its about time someone shut him up...Are you Okay?" Cray said to Robin
"...Yeah" Robin said as she put her arms down
"FRANKY NOW!" nami yelled
"alright Everyone get ready to be shocked...COUP DE VENT!"Franky Screamed as he launched the ship high into the Air
"WHAT!? THE SHIP IS FLYING!?" a Marine yelled
"Special Attack: SUPER SMOKE STAR!" Ussop yelled as he Launched a Huge Smoke Screen towards the Battleships completely blinding them for a short time but jsut enough for them to get away.
(the Puffing Tom)
Everyone from the Mainland were now on the Puffing Tom Making a clean get away, everyone was on top of the Trains looking out at the destoyed island
"Glad to be out of that mess" Iza said
"It seems the The Straw hats and the others made it out okay." Zambai said
"Thats Good...Ugh I need a Drink" Iza said
"You said it, First round is on me" Pauli said
"With What? You don't have any money..which by the way.." Iza said as she turned towards Paulie
"REALLY!? YOUR STILL HOVERING THAT OVER ME AFTER EVERYTHING I DID!?" Paulie yelled
"Of course not what kind of person do you think I am!? I was going to say you only owe me half now!" Iza said
"YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!?" Paulie screamed
everyone then started to Laugh and cheer as they left Enies Lobby behind.
Out on the Distance Admiral Aokiji was looking out with his transponder snail in hand
""Admiral Aokiji I didn't realize you were here..We'll still pursue them, we can't let it end like this. To maintain our dignity as the Navy, no The World Government. We'll Bring down the Straw Hat Pirates, and recapture Nico Robin, We should have reinforcements arriving anyti...
"Don't bother" Aokiji said
"But Admiral.."
We used The Buster Call, an attack as strong as an entire countries military, when we see the Blunder this fleet made and the current situation of Enies Lobby, The symbol of Law, it quite Obvious, on this matter..we've been completely defeated" Aokiji said
On the open sea Ian along with a couple Dozen marines that were caught in the Bridge Explosion were floating in large Glass Floats created by him, ready to be picked up by Rescue ships.
"Oh thank you Captain Ian Thank you" A Group of Marines screamed out
"Just Shut up" Ian said angry and pissed that he was humiliated by Cray and the Straw Hats
"Next time Cray" Ian said tightening his fist
(Back On The Going Merry)
as everyone caught there breath, Luffy was put down a top of the figure head
"I'm so glad that your our friend Merry" Luffy said as he laid down on the figurehead
"You guys sure did pull one outrageous stunt back there. to start with..to think you would shoot the world Goverment flag" Franky said
"Its not a big deal..all we did was take back a friend who was taken away from us..Thanks for helping us save Robin" Luffy said Franky
"Well. to me it was no big deal" Franky said
"anyway..this fight...is over...AND WE WON!"Luffy yelled
"YEAH!" Everyone Screamed out in accomplishment
(Sometime Later)
About an hour later, Luffy was finally able to move on his own and as he did the first thing that he was doing was looking for Ussop with Chopper who by then put his mask back on and pose as Sogeking.
"USSOP!? USSOP!? WHERE ARE YOU!? "Luffy yelled looking
"USSOP!?" Chopper yelled
Cray just sat down annoyed
"Ussop could you please take off that mask so that they can stop looking for you?" Cray said annoyed
"Ussop just ignored him.
Hey Sogeking! do you know where Ussop went?" Luffy said
"Oh Uh, he wanted me to tell you that he went back ahead of us on a small boat earlier
"WHAT!? WHY!?" Luffy and Chopper screamed
Sumi was scratching his head in confusion
"Uh don't they realize that Ussop is right there? " Sumi said confused
"Just what is it that they need in order to recognize Ussop?" Zoro said
"Its called common sense Zoro, which in this case might as well be nonexistent to those two at this point" Cray said rolling his eyes
Nami was searching the The Merry to, but not for Ussop but for the thing that got The Merry to them in the first place
"Not here Either, I checked everywhere i still can;t find the person or thing that got The Going Merry to us" Nami said
"Thats Strange" Sanji said
"Who could've sailed it?" Cray said
"We Definetly heard a voice calling out to us." Zoro said
"Like I said before it was Merrys voice" Luffy said
"Ships don't talk Luffy quit talking nonsense" Zoro said
"HEY GUYS I SEE ANOTHER SHIP!" Sumi yelled putting down his eyescope
"Oh no is it more of the Marines?" Cray said
"No Look!" sumi yellled
All of them looked and noticed the Sails that read Galley-La Company.
"AHOY ICE POPS!" Luffy yelled
"Its Stupid-berg heh, glad he's alright" Franky said with a smirk.
Suddenly the entire ship started to Rumble Violently until Suddenly sounds of wood Breaking echoed in everyones ears and To everyone Shock the Merry then Broke in half causing everyone to fall down on the deckk with a thud
"Merry!" Sogeking said shocked
"Wha...What the Hell Happened!?" Cray said shocked as he looked down and noticed The damage.
"what do you mean what the hell happened? isn't it natural? we were told that the ship was on its lasts legs" sanji said
"Luffy quickly ran to the top of the figure head and shouted out to Iceburg on his ship.
"Ice Pops this is bad the Merry is in trouble you got to do something? All of you are Shipwrights right? You can fix her back up!? Please she saved us so now we have to save her! I'm begging you!" Luffy screamed
Ice pops then sadly closed his eyes with his arms cross
"I've already done everything I could for her Luffy, Theres nothing more I can do" Iceberg said
"Luffy eyes went wide
"What?" Luffy said
Iceberg went on to explain back on Water 7 He heard a strange noise coming from the outskirts of Water 7, it was there where he found The Going Merry washed up in the Junk pile, He went to explain how the ship was speaking to him, begging him to fix her so that she can sail out just one more time, and so he did, and when he was finished The Merry thanked him as the Upcoming Waves of Agua Laguna carried it off to the open sea.
"I'm witnessing a Miracle right now..I've been a shipwright for may years and I never seen a Pirate ship this Incredible, its had a splendid life...and now...its time to put her to rest" Iceberg said kind of sadly
"Luffy then Gripped his hands tightly and then stood up understanding what needs to be don
"...Okay" Luffy said leaving everyone with mixed emotions
Everyone was now off The Going Merry on a large raft staring out towards it while Luffy was on a separate raft with a Torch in hand
"Well then...Are you guuys ready?" Luffy said
"Yeah" Zoro and Sanji said
"...Yeah" Chopper said
"Cray then took a huge breath
"Yeah." Cray said
Luffy then raised the torch.
"Merry the Sea bed is dark and lonesome, so we'll watch you till the end" Luffy said as he placed the torch on the merry making the ship slowly ignite
"Maybe its good that Ussop is not here, theres no way he could stand this" Luffy said
"What do you think ?"Zoro said to Sogeking
" I disagree,, everyone must someday say farewell, this is mans parting, not even a single tear should be shed" Sogeking said
it wasn't long until the the Going Merry bursted into a ball of burning fire.
"He to...is Prepared" Sogeking said kind of chocking up.
"Thank you for carrying us for such a long time...Merry" Luffy said
"Thne Suddenly snow then started to fall much to everyone surprise as they still looked on towards there burning ship, as they did all fo them were thinkign back on all the good times they had while they were on the Going Merry. The time they first got it, the time when they declared what they were going to do when they arrive to the Grandline when they left Loguetown, when they traversed up the Redline etc. Cray was thinking back to the time while they were at Jaya when He decorated the Wings that they put on the Going Merry when they were preparing to go to Sky Island
I still don't get why you made the The Going Merry look like a chicken though Ussop? Its a good thing I designed those wings in order to secure "some" Dignity" Cray said
"Yeah, great Idea Cray, what is that Suppose to represent anyway? going up in flames? "Ussop yelled
"No of course not its suppose to represent a fiery spirit!" Cray yelled back at him
Cray was then starting to hold back tears as he had his eyes slightly closed.
"I'm sorry"
Everyone was shocked as they heard the same voice when they were at Enies Lobby
"I wanted to Carry you all...just a little further,...I'm sorry" the Merry said
Nami collapsed to her knees as she wept,
Sogeking was seen weeping to as a he bit his lower lip,
Cray was now pinching the bridge of his nose, as he shut his eyes tightly as his tears started to fall down his face as well as he clenched his teeth in sadness.
Sumi pulled his hoodie down to his eyes with both of his arms as he started to cry to. Everyone was weeping in there own way,
"Merry!" Chopper yelled crying
"But I.." The Merry continued
"IT'S US THAT NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE MERRY!...I'M NOT GOOD AT STEERING! I WAS ALWAYS RUNNING YOU INTO ICEBERGS ALL THE TIME, AND I TORE OFF YOUR SAILS AND YOUR MAST TO...(Sniffling)...ZORO AND SANJI ARE STUPID SO THEY BROKE ALL SORT OF THINGS!...AND USSOP WOULD FIX YOU THE BEST HE COULD BUT HE WAS NEVER GOOD AT IT...SO ITS US WHO HAVE TO..." Luffy tearfully yelled out as he collapsed to his knees.
"But I've been Happy...Thank you very much...for taking good care of me all this time..I really have been happy..Because I had you all...Thank you...My Friends" the Merry said as the flames completely took the ship.
"MERRYYYYYYYYYY!" Luffy Screamed
Phew...Oh my god...That scene no matter how many times I've seen it, always hits me every time..But on Happy note we are now officially done with the Enies Lobby Arc, I've been on this arc for nearly a year, and I just can't believe I made it this far into the story, this story has been going on for three years now, and I would like to thank everyone who has read, reviewed, and Favorited this story after all this time, and special thanks to Everyone who has stuck by this story since the very beginning and thank you all to the newcomers to this story to, I hope that you are all enjoying it, I do plan on taking a break from this story for a while, so I hope you all understand, I don't want to suffer another burnout, but I do hope that you all stay tune when the new chapter comes out whenever it does...Once again thank you all for you support and I will see you all next time. Bye for Now.