Wealth, Fame, and Power! W. D. Gaster, The King of The Pirates, had all those and the rest of what the world had to offer! Through many battles and trials, he had reached the pinnacle of the world's virtues and had nothing left but an illness that plagued him.
He brought himself in and was held at a worldwide public execution. Before he was executed, a man from the crowd asked:
"Where did you hide all your treasure?!"
To which the King of Pirates smiled and said:
"You want my treasure? You can have it! I left the most important treasure in the world on an island! Go and find it! 'For the next pirate that finds the UnderPiece, will be claimed the new King of The Pirates!"
Those were his final words before he was executed. He smiled to his death.
With those words, the world was flipped upside down as he created The Golden Pirate Era! People and already existing pirates from around the works started to sail the seas in search of the treasure that W. D. Gaster claimed to be-
The UnderPiece!
It had been Twenty Years since, and people have yet to find the treasure he was talking about. Except for one girl, who is now going to change the world by storm for the sake of her people.
This is the story of Muffet D. Baker and her way to becoming Queen of the Pirates!
"Heh...This sucks doesn't it Captain?" Undyne said, taking time to suck in air through her teeth.
Muffet and her and been placed in this giant bronze room. There was nothing but grains of bronze and bronze enforced walls everywhere. No exit, no fresh air, and a giant endless shaft that dispensed hot air in the middle of the entire room.
Undyne had gathered that this was a torture room of the sorts. Over time the prisoners excepted to either fall to their deaths trying to escape, or lose hope and turn into the grains of bronze that traversed this landscape.
It was boiling in there.
"Yep...sucks a bunch dearie,~," said Muffet who tried to follow up with her polite laugh but, for starters, her entire left arm set was stiff and turn into bronze. On top of that, she didn't have the energy or hopes anymore to dispense a laugh.
"'M'...you don't have to act politely with me to have a forced contrasting vibe on the ship." Said Undyne cold and serious.
Muffet, despite having no energy, flicked her head towards her with the speed as if they weren't injured, dehydrated, fatigued, and hungry.
They sat up against one of the walls outer walls, next to the bronze decayed skeletons of people who sat there before.
"What do you mean?" Muffet said with a soft voice.
Undyne sighed.
"I mean...I enjoy you the most when you're yourself. I can't tell what is your true motive, or whether or not your polite and fancy schtick is your real self and the brash one isn't. I just want to know why you do it." Undyne said staring off into the giant hole dispersing increasingly hot air. Making some of their skin still to the bronze walls.
Undyne was injured with a gash on her shoulders and left thigh, with several bruises from the neck down. A broken rib and a fractured skull and femur. She tried her best not to show her pain...it hurt to just talk.
Muffet was 30% bronze, the more it stood to bronze the more it hurt. Which included her left set of arms and the left side of her face. The bronze slowly creeping over her body.
She suffered a fractured skull, cuts along the abdomen and her right set of arms, and bruises along with her head and chest.
They both weren't feeling up to talking and would much rather save the energy for finding some way to escape...if there was any.
However, they were best friends, they both owed each other that much before they would inevitably perish in this scorching bronze hell.
They could gather that the man in charge had the Devil Fruit ability to not only control and manipulate bronze, but it would most likely be a legit Logia this time. So they had no means of fighting him even if they escaped.
And Undyne was sure enough that her mother won't always be there to help her, so they couldn't rely on that.
"To be honest, both are parts of my personality. The brash side I've shown you is the side that I was my whole life, my polite side and demeanor is who I plan to be...Frisk always taught me about the laws of attraction..." Muffet said this with a frown and a short pout at the end.
Undyne frowned too, she mustered the energy to move position her head to look at Muffet who started to look more blurry now.
"Where, the happier and the more energy you put into something, the more positive, happy, and kind things happen to you in return. The "dearie" and my fake laugh are me trying to be like Frisk...everyone likes him...so if I am like him...I'll finally be likable." Said Muffet trying to shed a tear from her biggest set of eyes, which immediately turned into vapor.
At this point they were so sweaty, the fabric of their clothes was irritating them.
Undyne nodded and sighed, she felt like she struck a nerve in her.
"Look dude...keep it. It suits you...I thought you were trying to act differently around me. Just be more yourself! Everyone doesn't have to like you, it's impossible. I like you...that's all you need! Am I not enough-" said Undyne before Muffet place one of her free hands on Undyne's lips before collapsing on her lap.
"You've been wonderful...thank you Undyne...for sticking with this idiot." Said Muffet with a muffled voice of exhaustion into her first mate's lap.
"You're my idiot! And an idiot I'm proud to fight beside!" Undyne said before feeling...refreshed.
"The more kindness you possess at the time, the greater the effect!"... Ralsei...sorry...and thank you!
Undyne pondered.
In a wave of green over her body, all her injuries seem to heal entirely as great as refreshing her stamina. Making her severely less fatigued.
She picks up Muffet like lumber and stands proud.
"I'm getting us out of here captain! We have to make the Soul Barrier possible!" Undyne said with a pep in her step.
Muffet just weakly nodded, but if she could speak, she'd praise her first mate.
I'm so glad I have Undyne on my crew, I knew I made the right choice.
Undyne ran off, leaving a trail of raising the grain of bronze behind her. Each step pushes the surface of bronze aside and she searched for an exit.
The only possible way out of insight was the giant unending hole that shot out blaring hot air.
"Alright captain, you might not like what we have to do next, but if we drop down there...we might be able to find a ventilation shaft. I'll try and blitz through it as much as possible assuming it's 10 times hotter down there than up here... it's the only option we got!" Undyne said.
Muffet reluctantly shook her head.
"Okay...! One...Two...Thr-" said Undyne preparing a long jump.
However, a drop of purple liquid drips down in front of her from the ceiling.
Undyne impeded her progress and looked up in confusion.
Whatever the liquid was...was acidic? It was leaking a hole through the bronze ceiling. Undyne was trying to figure out what was causing that...were they being monitored and now one of the executives that have an acid Logia come to get them?!
She prayed that wasn't the case.
The hole opened, even more, then through it was...
A giant spider on a web?
It was a huge spider, shaped like a cupcake. Undyne didn't know how this was possible.
"Hey Muff, is this thing yours?" Said Undyne slightly scared.
Muffet looked up.
Her eyes widened.
The Spider Cupcake monster was no bigger than 4 feet tall. Its whole body perfectly mimics a shape of a cupcake which Undyne lowkey thought was cute.
The spider went up to Muffet after descending the whole way and bit Muffet on her neck. This alarmed Undyne who was ready to attack the thing, but Muffet has off-body cues that suggested she was okay.
The bronze on Muffet's body chipped off and completely disappeared. She also seemed to have a lot more energy than before.
Muffet pried herself off of Undyne's shoulder to hop down and start petting the cupcake spider, in return the cupcake spider started...licking her like a dog.
So many things were wrong here.
"Thank you Fuhu~," said Muffet as the cupcake monster kept licking her.
Wait...no way...all those times Muffet did that laugh ...it wasn't a laugh...she was...CALLING HER PET FROM HOME THIS ENTIRE TIME!
Undyne's mouth gaped open and her pupils completely faded in disbelief. She didn't want to believe it!
Muffet shot web, up to the hole in the ceiling where her pet came from.
She giggled to herself while Undyne was still angrily flustered.
"You can climb right dearie~," said Muffet still giggling.
Undyne took that as slight disrespect.
"Can I?! Heh, I don't need to!" Her first mate said as she power jumped to the ceiling of the room and pulled herself up.
Muffet laughed and web swung with her pet in her arms through the hole.
The tunnel her pet burned through led straight back to the surface at the opposite side of town.
They popped out like groundhogs are started panting heavily in relief and happiness.
They can't believe they escaped.
Muffet rolled over to her pet and hugged it. They seem to have dug out into an alleyway.
"You must've come off of Ralsei's ship! Is she around here Fuhu~?" She said to her pet happily.
This thing can understand English? Undyne thought.
The spider shook its head.
Muffet sighed.
"She must've dropped Fuhu off to bring him to me. I did send him to her ship after all." Said Muffet thinking as to why Ralsei would just drop by and leave immediately. She must've not wanted to face them again.
This thing is a he?! Undyne pondered. She was still not fully wrapping her head around this.
"I guess we better find a ship and get the hell out of here while they think we are still down there." Said Undyne rationally.
"No," Muffet said sternly while staring into the eyes of her pet.
"What?! You can't be serious right? We have a chance to leave this place without any confrontation and-" said Undyne in protest.
"Undyne." Muffet said in a chilling and serious tone which made Undyne stiff, "He is a Bronze Logia, correct?" Instructed as if she was a teacher and Undyne was a student who didn't know any better.
"Yeah..." Undyne said trying to trail along with her thoughts.
"He can create and manipulate bronze...has the potential to turn other people into bronze as a way of killing them...am I wrong?" Said Muffet still with the cold voice.
Undyne stiffly shook your head.
"No, you're right captain..." She said still trying to find where she was going with this.
"And all the citizens here are covered in bronze and so are the buildings...you see where I'm going with this." Said Muffet seeming to end her lecture.
Undyne flinched in fear.
Everyone here can be wiped out in an instant by this man! Just a snap of his fingers and everyone gets turned into bronze statues.
"I can't stand by and watch innocent people get hurt! Even as a pirate, I want to become Queen of the Pirates through ethical and moral means. If there's good we must do, then we do it! So even if we have a free ticket out of here...I want to kick that bronze guy's ass!" Said Muffet screaming throughout the alleyway. Her pupils glowed a bright purple.
Muffet was filled with...
Perseverance!
This inspired Undyne, and frankly, after what he saw what that Marshall guy did to Muffet and how he talked to him...the cheek touching...the flirting...trying to force her to...
Undyne flared with her anger and pride with the same wavelength as Muffet!
Both their eyes glowing the passion of their soul, a blaring green and purple!
They looked above them simultaneously, to see a snail camcorder. Snails that we're able to record audio and visuals with their eyes and display them to a channel system that the user decides to place them in.
They both let out a giant drop of sweat while laughing nervously.
Blaring alarms went off around the whole island. Each of the yellow lights turning into red lights and the monitors and flat screens around the town and casino all changes from advertisements to Muffet and Undyne's faces and position.
"Zzzt- Ladies and gentlemen, these two are the escaped convicts and no goods who owe the casino a huge debt. The ones to capture them and bring them back to me, Marshall Bronzio, gets their debt completely lifted as a prize...have fun darlings~"
Both Muffet and Undyne gulped as they heard the stampede of people about to pop the corner.
"I don't want to hurt civilians Undyne, this time I suggest we leave!" Said Muffet increasing the speed of her words in panic.
"Say less!" Said Undyne and she carried Fuhu on her back and both of them left the alleyway. Parkouring on top of the rooftops paved in bronze.
All they heard was the increasingly greedy and hungry mob of people who they can assume were the others we had lost a heavy bet against Marshall Bronzio and can't leave the island.
They tried finding a place where they could hide. But every street either had one of those cam snails or people waiting there.
Muffet caught something in the corner of her eye.
"Bingo!" Muffet said before wrapping her left set of arms around Undyne's waist and stretching her other set of arms onto a needle on top of one of the buildings.
Undyne didn't mind the waist holding, not at all. However, she did mind what followed after that, Muffet had done this only once before.
She then proceeded to slingshot all three of them across the island and over the shore.
Muffet landed safely on top of the purple and orange grass. Fuhu landed on her head safely, Muffet giggled at that.
Undyne planted face-first onto the mast of the ship, peeling off it like a weak sticker before landing on top of the grass in front of her captain.
"I always hate that-!" Undyne said rubbing her nose.
"Yeah, well I don't like this either." Said a familiar voice.
Undyne flicked her head to the voice and she saw her again.
Ralsei.
"Why are you two back on my ship, I can't allow you guys to ride this time," Ralsei said angrily.
Muffet knew she had to do all the talking, if Undyne spoke it was over.
"Listen, we are not going to ride with you, we are just resting her for a couple of hours so we can think of a strategy to beat that bronze dude," Muffet said nonchalantly while petting her cupcake spider.
Fuhu looked at Ralsei and started panting heavily like a dog.
"Wait, you plan on beating Marshall Bronzio...and his executives?!" Ralsei said.
Muffet nodded.
"What- wait-! What happened with you two on the island?" Ralsei anxious bit off a big part of the peach she was eating." It had been an hour since dusk. The sea was calm.
.
.
"Hmm, so I see." said Ralsei as she took another bite off of the peach, "You guys want to plan a counter-assault now that you figured out his whole ordeal?" Ralsei said trying to wrap her head around the situation.
She had grown lenient on them and grew sympathy towards them the more she heard how their day went. She didn't want to show it though, they'd harass her and ask for more if she did.
Muffet nodded.
"Yeah, I'll take the liberty of handling Bronzio myself. Most of my beef is with him!" Muffet said punching her palm.
Undyne was just leaning against the mast, listening to the conversation but not participating. She passed the time by letting Fuhu play with her leg.
"You do realize that this feat requires strength and a strategy that you two most likely might not have, right?" Said Ralsei being real with them.
Muffet smiled, "That's why we are here, may you please help us?"
"Wha- no way-" said Ralsei before Muffet cut her off mid-sentence by bowing to her by setting her forehead to the grass. Placing her clenched fist on the grass as well while kneeling so far down that her shins were parallel with the grass.
"Please Ralsei, we need your expertise on this. We need your brain to help us come up with a plan. If not for us, then for the people of the island who are burdened by the death threats of bronze they live with every day and for the rest of their lives! Please...help us out this one last time..." Muffet said almost begging.
Undyne saw this and looked away...how could her captain be seen like that.
How can someone, who's the strongest here...beg? Is this something that I don't get?! I thought begging and groveling was for wimps?! What does she have that I don't, mom? Why is she more worthy?
Undyne just chalked it off to let it go and understood the situation they were in, she most likely would've begged too, but not happily.
"I'm not asking we leave on your ship, I'm not asking you join our crew, I'm not asking you fight with us. We just need medical help, and a plan, after that, we'll leave you alone for good, I know that's what you want." Muffet said lifting her arms and head up.
Ralsei felt her heart tug. That wasn't really what she wanted...
"Your venom completely nullifies Devil Fruits and its abilities...? We'll have to analyze your venom and have the be the basis around your plan." Ralsei said with her arms crossed.
Muffet's eyes widened and her mouth was open with excitement.
She giggled.
"You're most likely to get more venom samples off of Fuhu before me, he has much more than I do and can produce it more easily," Muffet said calling her pet to her.
Ralsei nodded.
"You two. Follow me" Ralsei said as she lifted Fuhu with struggle. Fuhu was almost taller than her.
Undyne and Muffet followed Ralsei into the downstairs area of the ship once more. To come up with a plan to beat the bronze man and his lackeys.
(Meanwhile at the Private Room)
Emeralda walked up to Marshall Bronzio who seemed quite peeved to be sitting on his bronze throne.
"Your next plan of action sir?" Emeralda requested.
He just interlocked his fingers and placed his lips on it, trying to think.
"They're most likely planning to come back here and re-challenge me. We'd want that to happen, make sure you and the other executives get ready for tomorrow. We are going to evaluate how far their golden hearts will last them in this island made of bronze!" Marshall said with a frozen and non-animated face.
Emeralda flinched at that.
"Sir...we can't keep doing this...you can't keep holding this grudge." Said Emeralda solemnly.
He raised his hand at her, she flinched. But, he didn't strike her...he wasn't feeling it today.
Those stupid pirates !
"Welcome to Marshall Bronzio's cup game!" Said Bronzio with his three friends behind them.
It was him and his three executives when they were kids. All of them were around the same age of nine while Marshall was 11. The leader of the group.
They were all born in the same poor town of Jariemois, a small island in the South Blue.
The world was separated into five segments.
The North, The South, The East, and West Blue. Four of the world's biggest oceans.
Separating these oceans is a giant line called the Grand Line. A giant and dangerous strip of land that circles the globe. Where all the professional pirates and government bases are and the most dangerous islands and seas are.
Getting there was a feat of its own, as you had to go up a water mountain and descend it while dealing with the blockade of sea kings.
If someone wanted to be King of the Pirates, they would have to travel across the whole Grand Line.
And here they were, in the South Blue, running a scam against pirates in a simple cup game. Where the ball was placed under one of the three cups while he shifted the cups around. It was the patron's job to guess where the ball is, and if they got it right, they won their share of the money.
However, these kids planned on scamming this band of pirates because they needed the money.
Badly.
They used Cobalt to use Devil Fruit, the Shift-Shift Fruit, to make a portal with his hand underneath the cup that had the ball and shifting it under another cup to make sure the player always picks the wrong cup. It was underhanded, but that was how they got their money to eat for the day.
They attempted it with this set band of pirates since they knew these pirates had money. They were semi-famous.
The Rorschach Pirates.
The captain seemed to be this 12-foot tall lady, she seemed to be a cyborg at that too. She wore a man's tuxedo with basketball shorts..she wore no shoes, her mechanical legs made her shins look bulky and smooth. Her forearms had the same look but had fleshy fingers. Half her face was metal and the other had flesh, one mechanical eye, and one real eye. Both being light blue eyes.
This lady had blonde that that was so long it reached just below her waist.
She walked with her very short crew of five people. One is a woman who looked exactly like her, except 5'6, with red eyes, and was just a human. They all were except their captain. A woman who had short curly black hair and blue eyes and a hazel skin complexion.
The other two women seemed to be sisters, one severely older than the other. They had a matching nature of a purple and green aesthetic. The older one, about the other two's age, looked the most serious out of the six. The younger one looked the most innocent since she was only five at the time.
The last woman seemed to be the most crazy-looking. She had brown hair up to her collarbone, torn shorts, and an open blouse that split around the thighs. She had an eerie pink collar on.
"So, I just have to find the ball huh?" Said the Cyborg lady.
Marshal nodded and grin with a missing tooth.
"Okay, how about this, if I win, you and your friends get to have to pay me one trillion dollars!" The Cyborg lady said with an interested and sinister smile.
Marshall raised her one.
"And If I win, you get to pay me and my friends one trillion!" said Marshal with his hand out to shake her enormous hands. Capable of gripping his whole body like chalk.
The lady shook his hand.
Marshall and his three friends started laughing in secrecy. This was their big break!
Finally! We don't have to struggle for food daily, we can live a rich life! After working for years, my best friends and I can live free!
Marshall started the game, showing her the cup that had the ball. Then he started shuffling them around super fast. The lady was looking at the cups passed through.
"Name's Vortanya by the way, yours?" Said Vortanya, Captain of the Rorschach Pirates.
"Name's Bronzio ma'am!" Said Marshall as he finished shuffling the cups the most confusing way he could.
"Now miss! Pick! Choose wisely!" Said Marshall with his childish innocent grin.
"Hmmm" Vortanya trailed her finger along each of the cups trying to decide which.
"The ball is..." Vortanya's robotic eye turned from blue to pitch black, "In your friend's hand."
This made Marshall flinch.
"Uh uh, no it's not! Choose a cup-" said Marshall as Vortanya raised her finger towards Cobalt.
"Open the kid's hand." She said in a cold voice.
Immediately, much faster than a blink of an eye. The crazy lady with brown hair dashed towards Cobalt and opened his hand so forcefully and fast his fingers broke.
Cobalt let out a cry of pain that installed dread and fear into the other three.
And dropping from his hand...was the ball.
A second of silence went by.
Vortanya stood up.
"I was joking about the wager and was willing to give you your money if you won...Emphasis on was! But now since you cheated...seeing how much I hate cheaters...you owe me the money. If you don't pay me up by the time you turn 80...then...I'll turn the other way and let this happen to you." Vortanya said as she snapped her fingers.
All of the other women, except the little girl, lunged at them and started to beat them senselessly and torture them. Cracks of bones, the sounds of gurgling on blood and teeth. The screams of little kids echo throughout the island.
They continued this for hours.
It was raining. Vortanya had watched these four kids get tortured for hours and laughed through the entire thing. Every time someone in the village tried to stop them, she killed them herself.
She walked up to the mentally and physically scarred kids. So petrified they couldn't scream or cry anymore.
"Look, kids...if you don't have a heart of gold or a silver lining in your step...you're doomed to stay in bronze!" Vortanya laughed.
The Rorschach Pirates walked away together.
"I expect my money! I'll send these wonderful ladies back to you if you don't! See ya later bronzies!"
Bronzio punched the ground in the private room and continued doing so.
"FUCKING PIRATES DESERVE TO BURN! I'LL SLAUGHTER EVERY SINGLE ONE...THEY WILL FACE THE SAME PAIN OF NOT ONLY LOSING THEIR MONEY. BUT THEIR HOPES. THEIR DREAMS. THEIR LOVED ONES. AND I'LL FORCED THEM TO-
RISK!
IT!
ALL!"
Bronzio proceeded to laugh crazily as he kept punching the bronze ground. Emeralda knelt there frozen and fearful the entire time. She had known her boss lost it.
He lost it long ago.
The biggest gamble in his life.
**To Be Continued**