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!
Muffet and Susie gained a substantial distance. They were still in the forest, but in a newer part of it, the grass seemed more lively and so did the trees.
Both could assume that the social divide in the country had that effect on this land. They were inching ever so closer to Mount Olympus.
They both hadn't heard from Ralsei, they had just assumed that she would take a detour or, knowing her, she would ask the natives for the lore of this country.
Speaking of which...
"Hey uh, Ares? Why is it that the World Government isn't escorting us? I get it you work for the king of this land but, doesn't this matter, like, not concern you?"
Ares didn't pay them any mind.
"Because raptor girl, they are already waiting for you at the meeting spot!"
He kept a sly smirk on his face that he didn't show to the women he was escorting.
Susie still kept her guard up, while Muffet seemingly was chirpy along the entire trip, mostly paying attention to its scenery.
However, Susie found something weird about her captain. She was...quiet?
Eerily quiet. Normally on the ship, they couldn't get her to shut up. However, this quietness for her seemed, calculated?
Like she was biding her time for something.
Did she say something wrong?
Did Ares?
Or maybe someone-
Muffet's head flicked around to her as she had that thought. She just gave her archeologist a very tacit and discreet nod and tap on the chest.
After the tap, she pushed past her and snapped her fingers quietly towards the direction behind Susie's right shoulder.
Muffet smirked. Susie was still in the dark.
Then suddenly.
"AH~ A BEE?! IM ALLERGIC!"
Muffet then hopped scared into Susie's arms, Ares sighed and just looked at them, halting the expedition. He was trying to find the bee for her so that he can eliminate it and be on their way.
Muffet took that staged play to whisper into Susie's ear.
"Whether or not Ares is behind this or related, is completely in the grey area. But Someone has been following us ten minutes after we lost sight of Ralsei. Whether or not she is okay will be decided by you. I'll handle Ares and guide him away from here. I'm confident you can win. Stay strong, and find Ralsei. We'll meet up back on the mountain."
Susie's eyes widened.
Muffet has her a cartoonish kiss on the cheek, nothing romantic, if anything, cheekily. As if she did it just to be silly for the tense moment.
Ares was furious after finding no bee.
"Oh, Ares dearie~ Is it okay if we make this a race?"
Ares flinched.
"W-what?! Ma'am, I highly suggest that we don't do that. You might get hurt and lost, I couldn't live with myself-"
"Cut the crap!"
Ares flinched again, this time, with extreme annoyance.
"We have to make our way to the Mountain a couple of miles away, that's blatant to see. And as your information fills you in on, I'm a pending Warlord, so I can handle myself out there. Unless there is something out there that can kill me."
Muffet chirped the last part in a teasing way, testing what kind of man Ares is.
Ares gave her an impatient but aggressive smile.
"You'd be surprised, there are much stronger than you."
Muffet returned the same smile. She lunged towards him, breaking the dirt formation beneath her as she went. She got up next to him, mid-lunge before she whispered into his ear.
"Are you one of them? Fuhuhuhu~"
She dashed into the forest, Ares chuckled and dashed after her.
Susie sighed and smile at how upbeat and interesting her captain makes of situations. Like the world revolves around her. Which, honestly, she can't quite be blamed for.
Susie took a deep breath, and waited in that single spot, eyeing the trees around her, acknowledging the sound of the wind and the leaves.
The more she paid attention, the more she felt a presence around them. Since everyone on her crew was not human, it was easily detectable, through animal instinct, that this person was not one of them.
This third party was indeed human.
Now, she just waited.
.
Click Clank!
BANG!
"Headshot! Hell yeah! Now to-"
Cassidy hopped down from one of the trees after immediately firing her shot. However, when she got a closer look, her target was far from dead.
In fact, her target looked stronger than before.
Susie turned around and showed Cassidy her own bullet, caught between her fingers.
The girl flinched when she saw that and dashed back into the trees.
Susie chuckled.
"Who are you? What do you want? And why is a girl as young as you brandishing weapons like that?"
Click Clank!
Bang!
Click Clank!
Bang!
Susie caught the two bullets between her fingers and cockily dropped them down to the floor.
Cassidy was perplexed.
How?
Cassidy hopped down from the tree behind her.
Susie turned to her.
"That won't work on me...sneak attacks I mean. You can try for the rest of your life, and you wouldn't hit me once."
Cassidy looked pissed, her skin boiling red.
"I suppose someone of your bounty count would be this difficult...at least you put up more of a fight than Undyne and goat girl!"
"INTERSTELLAR RETRIBUTION!"
A yellow ball of Justice struck Cassidy in the chest, rocketing her against the tree where she splattered in magma bits. She was caught off guard.
"What. Did. You. Do."
Susie's teeth were bared, ready for blood.
Cassidy laughed.
"Wow! That actually hurt, and don't worry. They are alive...barely, heh! Where they are, however, something to be left in the dark for you."
Susie brandished her war hammer.
"Ah, I see. Well, since you might give me a better fight than most, I'll answer your questions. One, I'm Cassidy. Two, I'm here to hunt every single one of you down. Three, let's just say, life hasn't presented me with anything else to do!"
She burst forward with an explosion of magma, with two shotguns in her hands.
"Ah okay. But no."
Susie shifted her hand down and Cassidy smacked against the floor, unable to move.
"No, imma need more than that. I'm aware now that you're a Logia, and since I don't have Armament Haki, I can't hurt you with my weapons or fist...but..."
Susie increased the gravity on Cassidy, turning her body into a chalky brown.
"I'm our ship's archeologist, as so, I'm the one with the most intellectual and wise insight on everything to ever come our way. One of those is how volcanoes work...let's just say that. Magma isn't as deadly when condensed. It's just an ingenious rock. But you can't control ingenious rocks, can you? Just magma? What a shame."
Cassidy just heard these words and started to quiver.
Shit! The reports said that she wasn't a Devil Fruit holder! This is a problem!
"Now you will tell me what exactly you did to my crewmates! Who are you working for?!"
Susie slightly increased the gravity on Cassidy after every sentence. She spat out a few saliva fluids as her organs were slowly getting compressed.
"You're crew is either paralyzed, dead, or immobilized a couple of kilometers behind us!"
Susie's pupils faded out, she bared her fangs.
She hadn't been this angry in a while.
Cassidy laughed.
"Don't worry, the goat and Undyne are alive and I plan to keep it that way...as for the girl-"
Susie smacked the side of her head with her war hammer. Cassidy almost blacked out.
This girl-! She hits harder than she looks!
"As a woman of Justice, murder and manslaughter don't fly over my radar. Retributive Justice is a pain, for those who cause it."
Cassidy gulped, she was getting exhausted with the gravity being applied to her. It was just enough to not kill her.
BOOM!
CRAACK!
Susie looked behind her in fear as she heard an explosion. In the distance to where Muffet and Ares left, there was a giant mushroom cloud, and coming out of it...were...Dragon heads?
She couldn't wrap her mind around this conundrum. However, this distraction was enough to nullify the gravity ability placed on Cassidy.
Cassidy equipped her shotguns.
"YOU SHOULD have NEVER TURNED AWAY FROM-"
"JUSTICE FORM NUMBER SEVEN! JURY'S VERDICT!"
Susie easily golf swung her hammer to Cassidy's chest, causing her to spit a bit of blood and send her tumbling back a good amount of meters and eventually into a small but sturdy rock formation.
"Heh! I told you earlier you twerp, sneak attacks will never work-"
Susie's confident smile turned into a frown as she saw a glimpse of Undyne who was tied up and paralyzed on the floor. Her eyepatch off, bleeding from her limbs, and looking at her, with pleading eyes of self-shame and agony.
What had she done to her?!
Cassidy, who was picking herself up from the debris, noticed Susie's attention to the helpless fish lady.
She was planning on keeping her out of sight but seeing as how strong Susie actually was compared to her. She liked a good fight.
She always liked the wild life.
"Well, what will you do now raptor freak? Save your friend, or join her?"
She took out her two old model flintlock Remington revolvers and coated her arms and her guns in Armament Haki. Also, she made her whole body turn into magma, the only thing not changing was her guns and hat.
Susie growled.
"I tried to talk this out, and you didn't take it. So don't be crying to me..."
Susie was brimming with Justice, holding her hammer with two arms instead of one, and got into a party stance.
"WHEN THEY HAVE TO CLEAN YOU OFF THE FLOOR!"
Susie and Cassidy clashed, an explosion of yellow and orange was all that could be seen.
Undyne just laid there.
Crying.
Then a portal opened.
And she was gone.