Chapter 2: The Argument That Morning
Luffy woke up. Where am I? he thought. The last thing I remember is I was deflecting a cannonball and there was an explosion on my back. How did I get knocked out? And why can't I move? It was true. He could squirm a little, but he couldn't really move. Then he saw the man.
Luffy was on the floor of a cabin, and a man with a gray uniform was standing right outside the entrance, facing the ocean with his back to Luffy. "Rise and shine" he greeted, still with his back to Luffy.
"Who are you?" Luffy asked.
The man responded, "I am Vard, the captain of Grim Kraken's Iron Security pirates".
"Grim Kraken?"
"Oh right," Vard replied as he turned around, "you slept through the intro's".
Luffy asked another question. "How did I pass out anyway?"
Vard answered, "Remember that cannonball I shot from behind you? It contained knock-out gas."
"Wait!" Luffy said back angrily, "So you're the one who shot me?"
"Then again, we can have the introductions later" then Vard pulled out a small remote control from his uniform and pressed a button.
Luffy was about to ask "What's that?" when he passed out again.
Nobody was on the Going Merry. All its occupants were now on Hugo's ship.
Sanji, Nami, and Usopp were tied up in a cellar, as well as Zoro, who was still unconscious and trapped in some sort of straitjacket. Nobody talked.
Usopp, being the scaredy cat that he is, would be surprised if he could talk at all. Then he thought back to his argument with Zoro right before they got captured, less than an hour before.
"Just shut up about all your "The Great Usopp" talk! I'm sick of it! You're just a wimp, and you know it!"
The way Zoro said it made Usopp angry.
"Hey, I've helped out plenty of times! I'm no wimp!"
Luffy, Sanji, and Nami, of course, weren't there.
"Haven't you ever thought how easy you got it? You always get the sissy part!"
"I've fought many times before!"
"You use a frickin' slingshot! You're a weakling!"
"Shut up! I'm a brave warrior of the sea!"
That was when the cannonball struck.
What would a brave warrior of the sea do right now? He should cut the ropes, wait until the guard comes, ambush him, and escape.
Unfortunately, none of them had a knife (A guard took Zoro's swords), the ropes were made of some wire that they couldn't break out of, even if they had the strength to break normal rope, and there was still the other Security ship...maybe-
The door slammed open. "All right, we're here! Now let's take them to Master Kraken!"