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!
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It had been a few days of jungle adventuring since their departure onto the unnamed island.
After that forsaken night they had read up upon the third Legend of Deltarune book.
They took up almost the entire night explaining to Cassidy the importance of the Deltarune Chapters and what happened to them at Yetera and what it means to them moving forward.
It chilled Cassidy to the bone hearing the stories and honestly made her respect the two she was momentarily traveling with.
However, despite that, the one that took the news the hardest was...Susie.
All she was thinking about from then on was the existence of those two books.
Mainly Kris.
Her journey wasn't over...
Upon reading the book, it seemed to show that the third installment, in the timeline, goes before the second one. So technically, the book they had collected from Lancer back at Yetera ultimately meant that their conquest to save Chris won't come until way later than she hoped.
Not that she didn't mind traveling with her current group. She would rather die than admit it, but she loves them. It's just that.
Kris is...Kris.
And to her, that meant everything. The whole reason she is even here following her passion for learning the history of the world and the fights and power she has obtained is because of him.
This was the life she wanted to live and he sacrificed everything so that she could have exactly that. So now that she sees two more adventures that need to be done, it almost feels as if her life will forever tell the tale of a book, and not be able to tell a book of her story.
Like she is on strings, controlled by someone else.
Regardless, when they read the book, it told the tale of a few new characters they had to look for.
It told the tale of eight Lightners. Everyone but the original three were of indecipherable descriptions. It was ambiguous who they might be, but if this might be soon, then they must be curious of another three people that might join their voyage.
To Undyne and Susie, according to the book, assuming that their crew finds it, they already fill five out of the eight slots of Lightners.
Which got them wondering...
If it need five of them to barely be able to defeat the Chaos King, and ever since then they got way stronger...
Then how strong was this new for guarding the second fountain?
On top of that, it was said that every fountain wasn't actually created by the person who guards it, but instead, a singular character called 'The Knight' that rules over all of them.
If that's the case, then that Knight guy has to be around the same level as the Jester Demon, if not, stronger. Which gave them chills down their spine.
Undyne, surprisingly being the power scaler person since she was the most knowledgeable about power differences and someone's stats, claimed that even though they were stronger since Yetera, their strength compared to Jevil means no difference. They will all still be slaughtered at the same time as if they didn't train.
Undyne's reasoning was both scary, but also helpful.
It was discouraging, yes. However, it also made everyone not get over their heads due to their previous successes. It also made everyone want to work that much harder so that the monstrous foes up ahead won't stop their journeys and dream.
According to the book, the only thing they knew about their journey, was three things:
Their foe was a user of manipulation of mind and body. A psychological fighter.
The world they were going to traverse would be blinding and ahead of their time, like a travel to the future.
Finally...one person was going to die...
They didn't try to think of that last fact. At least for now, they were trying to find out who the next three Lightners were going to be.
"So...how are you holding up?" Undyne said to Susie.
They walked in a line with a two feet gap between each other. In front was Undyne, in the middle was Cassidy, and in the back was Susie.
They didn't completely trust the other party just yet, so just in case they wanted to walk together in a way where she couldn't try anything.
"Yeah, I feel like a million bucks." She said with her head down.
Undyne didn't want to push it any further.
"So, let me get this straight. Your group of pirates are...heroes?"
Undyne scoffed.
"I wouldn't say heroes, but we aren't bad or here to cause any intentional evil. However, if prompted, a few heads are knocked and structures ruined."
"Uh-huh." She said not wanting to test Undyne.
It was silent for a while.
"...So, do you know where you are going?" Cassidy said while looking through the scope of her lens to see if it needed cleaning.
"No fuckin' clue- hey! How about you magma burst yourself in the air again and get an aerial view." Undyne said.
Susie looked up at Cassidy and was ready to gravitize her back down if she tried to leave after the magma burst and ditch them.
Cassidy gave Undyne a stink eye as if she was bothered by her asking that. Regardless, she did as so.
Susie keeping a keen eye.
The catgirl was seen doing a careful but quick scan of the surrounding area. She seemed to jump in place before coming back down.
"So?" Undyne said with her arms folded.
"There seems to be a...hut?" Cassidy said with both genuine concern and confusion.
"What do you mean a hut?" Both Undyne and Susie said also as concerned.
"Like, it's a hut, like a shack, but Uhm, it's not...?" Cassidy just rubbed the back of her head embarrassed by her words.
To be fair, she wasn't lying either. She genuinely couldn't describe what she saw.
Susie and Undyne gave each other a neutral face of displeasement.
"The Lion, the witch..." Susie said before Undyne finished her sentence.
"And the audacity of this bitch."
"What?! I mean it! You don't believe me? Go see it yourself!" She said pointing in the direction of the shack she saw.
"There's no way you're telling us you can't describe a single formation," Undyne said.
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"This is uhm, uh, the fucking- uhm, it's the, uh..." Undyne started snapping her fingers aggressively trying to find an answer.
"The fuck is this?" Susie said almost disgusted as she saw the building that was before them.
"See! It's almost impossible to classify!"
They all stared at a small weirdly constructed, but fortified structure. Its material was constructed of a weird white substance.
It was oddly lumpy and had a singular door that was the size of the entire front side of the structure.
"Should we go inside?"
"I'm not sure. It looks so..."
"So very..."
"Incredible..."
"Stupid." They all said.
Just then, they heard grunts coming from inside.
Cassidy instantly screamed out of fear into Undyne's arms.
"Heh. Scaredy cat."
"Shut up!"
"Both of you shut up! There's someone inside..." Susie said as she drew her weapon and flew with her Justice.
Undyne nodded and summoned about fifty spears of different varieties behind her, ready to send to the person inside.
Cassidy got off Undyne and drew her two sawed-off shotguns while making her legs magma.
They menacingly stood in an array of glowing Yellow, Blue, and Red.
They heard another grunt coming from the stall.
Then an even angrier grunt.
They all got tenser.
Then they heard an aggressive humming and growling from beyond the door.
And then!
*Plop*
*Flush*
Their faces slowly turned into a face of disgust and embarrassment as they realized what was going on.
They unreadied their weapons and abilities as they heard the flushing happening.
This was an outhouse.
After the flush, the door swung open.
"Finally! That shit took forever-" said a woman walking out of the stall.
She stood in shock as she saw three people waiting outside already blushing.
That woman slowly realized what was going on and her face began turning red.
"This is uh, well uh, how do you ladies do?" The woman said.
She was thin in frame, her clothes consisted of a women's tuxedo and ballroom shoes. Her hair was a dark purple with lime green eyes. However, she had bangs that covered her left eye. There was a small spot on the top of her head that was just a small circle of green.
This woman always seemed to have a constantly annoyed face but spoke genuinely, as if she was always under physical pressure of stress.
Cassidy raised a brow to this new person.
Susie raised a brow to this new person.
Undyne, upon seeing her, started to run.
A full sprint.
"APOLOGIES MA'AM!"
Susie looked back at her and so did Cassidy in confusion.
Why was she running?
Just then, Undyne froze in place. This made the other two jump in shock as they saw Undyne get lifted while in still motion and slammed back in the position she was before she ran.
Susie and Cassidy readied their weapons.
"Hey, it's not nice to run at the sight of someone. That's rude." The woman said yawning.
Undyne was finally able to move. She got up from the ground slowly.
"Yo! Who is this chick?!" Susie said.
Undyne looked back at that woman with fear in her eyes.
"That is Lillian Ziegler...and she...is part of the Rorschach Pirates...she is one of the many Commanders on the crew."
Susie and Cassidy started to shakingly fidget in their weapons out of slight fear.
This was one of the examples Undyne said that the opponent had the ability to wipe them out in an instant.
"Keen eye, Morial's daughter."
"Did you mean that because I have good sight or because I have only one eye?"
"Eh, both."
"Figures."
All four of them stood there, looking at each other.
"How do you know my name?"
"Because Vortanya wouldn't stop talking about you after the stunt you pulled on StarDrop. Impressive really, I even saw you before we came to take Marshal."
"Hey, neato!"
Susie and Cassidy couldn't believe how casually they were talking to each other.
"Uh hello? Why are you here? Shouldn't you be with your crew right now?!" Susie said confused.
"Captain made me go on a personally temporary leave to go take care of business. I was told that I do so in secrecy for the mission I've been sent on, and to kill anyone who sees me on the way." The woman said putting her hands into her pant pockets.
The other three women got cold. They didn't want to hear those words. As strong as they were, Lillian was a Commander for an Emporer, the gap was already too big.
Undyne gulped while looking at her.
"Can you uh...not?"
"Hmm...I'll think about it." She said as she raised her hands to both Susie and Cassidy.
Both of them froze physically and were lifted while being in still animation into the air.
"How hard I go depends if you can answer this question...how much is my bounty?"
Susie and Cassidy looked at Undyne.
"You better get this right!" They both said.
"Also, what's your ability?! This is obviously the work of a Devil Fruit!" Susie said.
Lillian nodded and looked back at Undyne.
"I'll throw in that answer too if you can answer that question."
Undyne slowly got down and sat down with crossed legs and began thinking.
"..."
She snapped her fingers.
"If I remember, isn't it $1,098,000,000?" Undyne said as Susie and Cassidy both screamed out in shock.
"OVER ONE BILLION?!"
Lillian gave a surprised look towards Undyne.
"That's kinda freaky. My bounty was never shown anywhere in the world except to the crew. That being said, you somehow guessed the right amount."
"Heh! It's a weird talent I have, I can accurately guess someone's bounty without having to know them."
"Your mom was said to have the same talent. Well, a deal is a deal." She lowered the other two back down.
Slowly.
And gave them free roam again.
"For your question Dino girl, my Devil Fruit is the Tele Tele No Mi. I'm a Telekinetic Woman. A Paramecia that allows me to control objects, people, and on occasion, concepts, with my mind."
Everyone was immediately humbled upon hearing her bounty, let alone her ability.
They all gulped.
"What happened to the rest of your crew?"
The Danger Trio looked at each other before sighing.
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They had told Lillian all that happened that lead them here.
Undyne had to cut out the part where Cobalt helped them. If she had included his name, they would hunt and kill him.
Lillian nodded.
"I see. You girls got yourself into another mess again."
"Pretty much," Susie said.
The three girls were still on edge, they didn't know whether they were in the clear.
The Rorschach Pirates were known to be mildly cruel and gruesome to most that came in their path. You needed to have some pull in the world for them to actually acknowledge and spare you.
Lillian gave Cassidy and Susie a little quick ocular pat-down and seemed to smirk.
"Well, if I didn't know any better all three of you have some form of lineage-power. But none of you realize it yet. Shame."
The ladies were confused as to what that meant.
Lillian yawned and looked at the sky.
"Well, if you ladies don't mind, I gotta get going," Lillian said dusting off her tux one last time before turning around.
However, Undyne called out.
"Um, excuse me! As we said in our story, we are kinda lost right now. So uh, could'ya do us a favor and point us in the right direction to the quickest way to Constricta?"
Lillian gave her an over-the-shoulder stare before scoffing.
"Why should I? I'm busy. See ya."
Undyne flinched in that response. As much as she wanted to know how to leave this jungle, she knew not to push her luck. It was honestly a blessing that she is leaving without harming them.
She began to levitate, then started to drift towards the sky.
However...
"Hey!"
A gunshot was heard.
A bullet was fired right at the back of Lillian's head.
Upon contact, the bullet shattered into fragments at the back of her head. She slowly turned around, not believing what just happened.
Susie's jaw dropped.
Undyne's jaw dropped.
Cassidy...was pissed.
Undyne and Susie slowly turn their heads over to Cassidy as they saw it...the end of the road for them.
Cassidy was there, her sniper rifle aimed at Lillian with the muzzle puffing smoke from just being used.
"We are lost! What you have to do isn't that important! Just help us out real quick and stop being lazy!" Cassidy said lowering her sniper.
Lillian's eyes started to glow more green as a vein appeared on her forehead out of stress.
"...Lazy...?" Lillian said slowly.
Undyne and Susie were shaken at the knees, they were frozen looking up at Lillian with desperate eyes and even with tears forming.
"Yes! I said it!"
"Shut up!" Both Undyne and Susie said.
"No no. Let her speak." Lillian said in a particular raised tone as she started to glide back down over to Cassidy.
Undyne and Susie didn't know what to do, they wanted to run away. Cassidy was making one of the strongest people in the world angry.
However, Cassidy...
Was filled with...
d!
"Yeah! Emporer Commander or not, you have the ability to take us with you to Constricta, but you don't! You barely leave your ship and you genuinely look like you close off yourself from everyone around you with your emo haircut-"
Undyne and Susie started to panic cry as they truly accepted their deaths.
Lillian only kept nodding with her arms crossed as she stared down at Cassidy. Lillian was around 5'8 so the height worked for her.
"What do you got to do so bad huh? Take another shit?! Come on get off your ass and help us get back to where we need to be." Cassidy said folding her arms.
Lillian just nodded and gave a stern accepting look. Her lower lip curled over her upper lip.
"Uh-huh, mhmm."
She then pointed over to Undyne and Susie who were trying to dig underground and measuring their height and width so that they can know how big they needed their caskets to be.
"Is she done?"
Susie poked her head out of the hole.
"Maybe? I hope so."
"Me too," they both said.
"Ah. Okay. Just making sure."
Lillian, at a speed they couldn't even see, grabbed Cassidy by the stomach part of her shirt. She then placed her other free hand on top of her head.
"Hey! Let me go!"
"Easily hot-headed, are you?"
"What do you even mean?!"
"A person who has a hot head, shouldn't have the need to be heated more, does she?" Lillian said as her eye flew into a blinding light.
It was like a solar flare, everyone who was witness to it was temporarily blinded.
Debris and chunks of dirt were flying everywhere as Lillian did what she did to Cassidy. Undyne and Susie were ironically safe in the hole they dug themselves into as it blocked most of the blinding rays and chunks of debris.
This lasted for several minutes.
Then, finally, it stopped.
Susie and Undyne had their hands over their heads as they slowly opened one eye at a time. Not at first believing if they were actually alive.
They started to grasp at each other frantically to really make sure, like they were giving each other a patdown.
Once they confirmed they were still alive.
They peaked out the hole.
And what they saw...made them much rather wish to stay in that hole.
"Dude..."
"No fuckin' way..."
They crawled out the hole and started looking around themselves in a 360 view.
The island they were on...
Got leveled.
It was an island-wide plateau. The jungle that they were in was gone. They were on a flat surface for miles, no bumps, no formations, it was as if she just took off the layer of the island like a cake.
The only two noticeable things Lillian were standing there looking down at the ground...and Cassidy who was unconscious on the ground seemingly devoid of any hydration or nutrients.
"What did you do?!" Susie said, running over to Cassidy, trying to see if she was still alive.
Before Susie could crouch down Lillian get her a leg sweep coated in a Haki of Color they hadn't seen before and sent her tumbling back to Undyne.
When she struck her, it felt like where she hit her was burning and smoldering, as if she was hit by lightning just as the kick was made.
Her Haki was serious.
Undyne held out her hand to Susie and used her Kindness Soul. The raptor girl was just groveling on the ground clutching her chest from the pain. Undyne was trying her best to heal her.
She was able to, just barely. It was enough to calm Susie down out of bodily shock.
"Hey. You alright Susie?" Undyne said holding her by her shoulders, trying to look her in the eye.
Susie gave back to her a thousand-yard stare. Undyne knew that face, she knew she had unlocked something, a memory or understanding.
It was weird, the face Susie was making wasn't from the pain she suffered, but it was as if she understood pain instead, what someone else had to go through.
They both looked back at Lillian.
She was holding...A Devil Fruit.
Lillian held it in her hands and started playing with it before tossing it with her Telekinesis so far they couldn't see it in their view as they saw it pierce a cloud in the horizon.
"She'll find it back at home," Lillian said before looking at the two ladies.
"I'm glad you two have a brain and actually know your place in all this. She didn't. So I'm here to teach her a lesson about who deserves to say what, and when."
Lillian said before turning her back to them and attempting to slowly fly away again.
However...
She heard the sound of a Devil Fruit ability at play.
She knew whose it was.
Lillian sighed and turned around.
"You know...I had hope for you...I didn't want to have to hurt you. This is really stupid of you, you know?" Lillian said as she saw Undyne who summoned two Quadrents in her hands and protectively stood in front of Susie.
Susie was wide-eyed.
"Undyne..."
"Hey! You can kick the shit out of the twerp all you want...but no one..."
Her eye glew a tiny red.
She summoned a Forest Green chest plate out of her Determination.
"Ever..."
She summoned Forest Green Gauntlets.
"Hurts my fucking archeologist!"
Susie was speechless when she heard that. The ground around Undyne was shaking. She knew Undyne was going all out.
Lillian sighed.
"Understood. That's my fault. Now show me, what's stopping me?"
Undyne turned her head to Susie and gave her a...
Scared, but, happy smile...
One filled with regret, but strong hope.
"You're pretty strong. You'll make a better first commander than I ever was. You weren't there but...Muffet hates my guts...things only got this out of hand cause I failed to be a strong enough right-hand man to our Captain. You had to fight her, Ralsei got brutalized, Muffet lost cause her team should've been with her...I failed as your superior...and as your friend. If I die here, then it means I was meant to die here, and I'm fine with that. Muffet has shown me sides of life and places I didn't know existed, feelings I thought I'd never feel, people I thought I'd never meet. Even if I couldn't finish my goal, I'd know in my heart the journey was worth it...But if you die here, not only would my soul not rest, but yours either. You still have a man waiting for you in Impel Down, he needs you. And you need him, so go. Live your dream. And if that is your dream..."
Undyne, for once, her eye was devoid of any pupil.
Instead.
Her whole eye was glowing red, a solid color.
She then summoned.
A Full Suit of Forest Green Armor made out of her Determination.
A Red and Green aura enveloped her as the ground around her started cracking and elevating itself.
This was the strongest she has ever seen Undyne.
"THEN IT'S A DREAM WORTH DYING FOR!"
Undyne summoned a board of spears below Susie and it started to fly her away towards the sky. She wanted Susie to escape.
"UNDYNE! NO!" Susie said reaching out to Undyne in vain as she was sent away.
Undyne looked up as she saw her friend leave and smiled through the armor before looking back at Lillian.
"This isn't about me anymore! I know I'm not winning this, but if atleast my second Commander can leave in safety, then I've known I'd won!" Undyne said as she summoned over one thousand spears behind her.
It was causing such light that Undyne looked like a shadow amongst the spears.
More ground around her started to break away and levitate.
Lillian straightened her tie.
"This strength...Before I do anything...let me first apologize for being rude...At first, I thought you were a coward and an idiot...But now I see that you're just like your mom. A warrior. I'll respect this fight-" Lillian said as she was immediately socked in the face by a right hook from Undyne.
It sent Lillian grinding her feet against the floor a good couple of meters back before she gained her footing.
She looked back at Undyne, unphased, but also, not angry.
She was filled with...
Patience!
Undyne roared as she held Bonetrousle in her hands and coated it in her inept Armament Haki. She then held Bonetrousle in her mouth.
She was now wielding a Trident in her mouth, and a quadrent in each hand.
Three Sword Style
Lillian, now smirked.
She then dashed towards Undyne to which Undyne then unleashed thousands of spears at her.
They came rushing at over sound speeds as Lillian dodged and evaded all of them.
It was as if she knew where they were going.
Some of the spears turned yellow and ricocheted back to her off in different angles, hundreds of them at a time.
All at the same Undyne came at her with her two found fighting style. She twirled into Lillian using her three blades.
The telekinetic woman backflipped over a few of them while kicking off Undyne's attack by coating her legs in adept Armament Haki and proceeded to navigate her body through all the hundreds of homing and ricocheting spears.
Undyne, while in the sea of wild spears continued her berserker assault. She ran at her while tossing her two Quadrents at her.
Lillian was untouched by any of the spears as she was moving at over sound speed herself, easily dodging every single spear and even deflecting some of them off her body with her hardened Haki.
Once she saw Undyne toss them, she used her Devil Fruit to hold all the spears still and then smashed them into each other, exploding all of them in a giant cloud of smoke.
Undyne ran at her with a personal new record of speed she newly achieved. She now then held Bonetrousle in her hands as she went for a thrust attack with her trident.
Lillian side-stepped and gave her the same kick she gave Susie. However, after the kick, she couldn't move her leg.
Undyne, who took the brunt of the attack, looked up with a grin that Lillian felt through the armor.
"Gotcha!" Undyne said as it was now revealed to Lillian that Undyne predicted she'd go for the kick and had grabbed her whole leg.
Before Lillian could react, Undyne lifted her by her leg and slammed her on the ground. She then proceeded to do so again on the opposite side from where she slammed here.
She kept doing so repeatedly, each time being more aggressive until she ended it with her letting go of her leg to deliver an uppercut to her stomach.
It sent Lillian upward as it left her in a daze.
Once she got a clear view again, Undyne was gone.
Before she could even ponder where she was, Undyne gave her a hard right hook to the top of her head. Sending her right into the ground again.
Lillian landed back on the ground and immediately coated her arms in Armament Haki and got up immediately.
Undyne landed next to her and went for a left hook to her face. However, as if she knew she would do that, she effortlessly caught her punch.
She then gave the fish woman an uppercut to the chin that almost shattered her helmet. That being said, Undyne recovered off that with a backflip and once she landed, came driving at her again.
Lillian's eyes widened as Undyne tackled her.
She then jumped several hundreds of meters in the air before coming down at an even faster speed. Lillian tried to break free of her grip, but couldn't.
"GIGA SUPLEX-! ROYAL SPEAR!' Undyne said as she finally committed to her favorite move in her arsenal.
The attack left a red dome-like explosion that covered around 50 meters in diameter.
It left a serious crater where they landed.
After the smoke cleared and debris finished flying, Undyne picked herself up to see Lillian doing the same.
The fish woman got up faster and came at Lillian with incredible speed and kicked her on the top of the head and into the upward curve of the crater.
She then came towards Lillian with two Quadrents and tossed them at her. They both made contact with her body. Undyne got there and started wailing on her, hook after hook leaving Lillian no room to breathe.
She was giving it 100% with each blow.
This kept going on for a minute before she delivered her strongest punch that uprooted the roof of the tunnel she was punching Lillian through.
She stopped to go catch a breath. She starts panting hard.
"Well, I'm glad we had fun. But I really gotta go." Lillian said as she suddenly appeared next to Undyne.
Undyne got shook, as she saw Lillian randomly appear there. When she saw her, Lillian looked unscathed.
Nothing she did hurt her.
Every attack, every punch, did nothing.
Lillian coated her arm in Haki and gave Undyne a full-powered punch that broke all her armor like old soap and sent her to the opposite side of the crater.
She then appeared in front of her again.
"I got someone to see, and I'd hate to let a Fishman get in the way of that," Lillian said as she charged up another punch.
Undyne knew that this next punch, to her, was overkill. However, she knew that there wasn't much to do since the start.
She lost. Again.
"I'm sorry in advance Morial, but this is the law of the sea, the law of pirates," Lillian said as she went forward with the punch.
...
..
.
A loud thud was heard.
Lillian struggled to move, she couldn't move an inch.
"What the..." Lillian struggled but managed to turn around.
Undyne looked past her and just looked in awe.
"What kind of cheesy shit was that! You taught me to never do cliches!" Susie said, using her ability on Lillian.
Undyne gave a weak chuckle.
"Yet, here you are."
Undyne was beyond messed up just from that one punch. She felt like she was in the same state of pain as she felt towards the end of the fight against the Chaos King.
"Your friend had enough resolve to sacrifice themself for you. And you deny them that?" Lillian said.
"Yeah, I'm sorry. If I met Kris if I had run away, he wouldn't recognize me. I'm not a coward, nor a runner. He'd much rather have me fight in my dream than to see me miserable again." Susie said sternly with great conviction.
Lillian...smiled.
"Good. Now then." Lillian said as she used her Devil Fruit to hold Susie in place and then slammed her on the ground with enough force to shake the ground.
That had enough force to undo the gravity effect on her.
She dusted herself off.
"Both of you fought well. I actually feel a bruise coming in a day or two. You really managed to crack my jaw. I applaud you too. I know that may come off as sarcastic but, for fresh out East Blue Rookies, you guys have talent. Shame though, that it ends here."
Lillian then used her Devil Fruit to lift two rocks from the ground and was ready to shoot them at both their heads with alarming force, enough to shatter their skull.
However...
A gunshot was heard.
This time, Lillian caught the bullet.
Her catching the bullet made the rocks fizzle out and lose their connection to her Devil Fruit.
She looked at the top of the crater and saw Cassidy, weakened, tired, drained, shaking, and breathing hard, with a revolver pistol with a smoky muzzle.
"Did you really expect that to work?"
Cassidy dropped her gun as it sadly rolled down the crater.
She then lifted her head.
"You...don't give us a ride back...you destroy this land...you...you... somehow took my Devil Fruit...and now you have the audacity to tell me if my desperate attempt worked?" Cassidy said with a tired, angry, and sad face.
Lillian grinned.
"Yeah. I think I will."
Cassidy, in return, gave a grin even bigger than the one Lillian gave.
"You're holding the bullet, right? Then it did!"
Lillian, confused about what she meant, looked at the bullet...
And for once in this fight...
It wasn't Undyne transforming, it was her ultimate attack, it wasn't Susie showing up...
For once in this fight...she felt fear.
The bullet she caught...was made out of Sea Prism stone.
Lillian's body felt really weak. Since she was a Devil Fruit user, Sea Prism made her 90% weaker, she felt woozy and quickly let go of the bullet to try to relieve herself of that feeling as soon as possible.
"Serves you right...hope you...choke on it...!" Cassidy said as she passed out.
While Lillian felt drained she trained her best to get in touch with her Devil Fruit so that she could fly away.
However, she heard the sound of an activation of a Devil Fruit.
She knew whose it was.
She also knew that it was Undyne, and she left Undyne in an almost fatal state, even herself at 10% could handle Undyne when she was close to death.
Lillian turned around and readied a punch.
However. What she saw in front of her.
Wasn't Undyne.
Morial stood there, unamused.
She held out her hand to Lillian and...healed her.
Lillian flinched as she did so, she was expecting Morial to hit her. However, she healed her instead.
She even felt at 100%.
"You good?" Morial said.
"Yes, I uh, think I'm fine now. Why did you do that?"
Just then, she felt herself being weighed down again.
It was Susie, who was attempting this one last time.
Morial grinned.
"So I can show you what a real punch looks like!" She said as she gave Lillian, who was using 100% of her strength to cushion the attack, a right hook to the face.
The punch made Morial crumble as it reverted back to Undyne.
The punch knocked Lillian out of Susie's gravity and back into one of the upward curves of the crater.
She laid there motionless.
Everyone in this fight lay there motionless.
It stood like that for five minutes. Giving Undyne time to heal herself enough to do basic motor actions. Susie had enough to time to calm down her body and relax her breathing.
There was silence.
"...Okay! Before I get up, does ANYONE ELSE want to do some last effort attack? Maybe even an underhanded strategy?" Lillian said annoyed.
Undyne and Susie scoffed at the fact that Morial's punch still wasn't enough. They hadn't weakened her enough.
"...No." Both Susie and Undyne played along.
"Okay, just checking." She said as she sprung out from the hole she was in with creases in her tux, blood dripping down her head and come out her mouth, ruffled hair, and a bruise on her cheek.
At least they knew that even when Lillian was at 100% one of Morial's semi-serious punches got her this hurt.
She slowly walked in between all three of them.
"You guys are something else...really. I walked all the way here to kill you but...after everything that happened. I'm not feeling it right now. So I'll uh, leave you guys to find your way from here...so uh, bye. I got myself a plague doctor to go hunt down."
She started to levitate toward the sky.
Susie then realized something.
Back in the Emerald Peninsula...
"Wait! You're looking for Nidus Domes?" Susie said.
Lillian froze.
She turned around slowly.
"You know where he is?"
"I do. And I'll tell you under one condition."
Lillian for once looked desperate.
"Anything. I need to find him immediately, I finally have time to see him but in this huge world, god knows where he is."
"I'll tell you...if you take us to the nearest island here towards the direction of Constricta, not directly in Constricta, but in an island where there is a doctor."
Lillian stood there for a moment.
She sighed.
"Fine...guess you guys deserve it."
Lillian came down and picked up Susie and Undyne with one hand. She then started to take off.
"Wait! What about Cassidy?" Undyne said.
Susie surprisingly gave Undyne a weird look. The way she said it, it sounded...motherly.
Lillian sighed and reluctantly brought Cassidy's unconscious body along.
Somehow, they owed Cassidy for this. Technically, she got them the deal to get them closer to Constricta and also did save them from death when she didn't have to.
They owed her enough to bring her with them and not leave her to be stranded.
.
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( Meanwhile: Team Triple 'S')
Petrichor was steering the ship along course using the log pose stowed away on the ship to find the island up east.
The Island was called Veuryid. It was an island of moderate wealth and economical advancement, just a regular village.
Once the tides had cooled down, she went down to go check up on how the bodies in the rooms were doing.
After that day it hadn't been the same. What she saw happen to those two, made the trip for a while very quiet and almost empty feeling.
She slowly opened the door to the room which smelled of dried blood and sweat.
...
"NO WAY! IM NOT SCRATCHING YOUR BACK! GET AWAY!"
"IT'S ITCHY DEARIE~! I BRING YOU BACK TO FUCKING LIFE AND ALL I ASK IS THAT YOU HELP ME WITH THIS ITCH!"
"MY SOUL IS NOW YELLOW AND PURPLE! I DON'T WANT PART OF YOU IN ME! PURPLE AND YELLOW DON'T EVEN GO WELL TOGETHER!"
Yep, Petrichor missed those quiet times.
It turns out that Muffet injecting Christie with her Perseverance did work, the same way it worked for Hera back before they set sail for The Emerald Peninsula, they had infused her soul into hers. Since she knew that Perseverance helped the user persevere through death as long as the head or heart wasn't damaged, she knew that it would help keep Christie alive long enough until they find a doctor. Since her Justice was more dominant, the effects of her new Perseverance weren't as strong as Muffet's so she had less time to be alive in this state.
In a shorter version to explain it as Petrichor once put it:
Until Christie gets treated, she is technically a zombie.
"Fine, I'll scratch your goddamn back! But again-! I'm not cuddling with you tonight- or ever! You smell like an unfiltered pool."
"But dearie~ I'm a cuddler when I sleep. And you have no room to talk, you smell like fermented earwax."
Christie bopped her on the top of her squishy head.
"Hey!"
"Shut up while I do this!"
Petrichor covered her mouth from laughing.
Their banter was almost...intimate. They were truly rivals but, it seemed more friendly and personal. It was really something to look at.
They were really the same person, just they were raised differently. Their ideals were always conflicting.
But when it came to in-person confrontation. They seemed like sisters that hated each other but can't really admit that they actually care for each other.
It was somewhat adorable.
A loud thud was heard outside.
Petrichor turned to her left to see what it was.
"Yeah, when you see the split in the Eastern side of the Grand Line, keep heading straight until you see Mew Mew's flag, he'll be there."
"Thanks. I can leave you here in hopes this ship has a doctor, and if not, they're heading to an island anyways."
"Thanks again. And tell Nidus I said hi!"
"I will!"
Petrichor saw as a woman who was flying, dropped off fish woman, a raptor girl, and an unconscious teenage cat girl with way too many firearms.
Those same women looked at Petrichor.
Silence went by.
Petrichor slowly peaked her head in the room with Christie and Muffet and saw them pulling each other's hair.
She then looked back at the people on the deck.
"Soooo...um...you know what, fuck it," Petrichor said as she quickly wrapped her tail around all three of them, and before they could even say anything about it, she slammed them in the room with Christie and Muffet.
They all stood there in silence as they had to gauge who they were looking at.
...To Be Continued...