The seven pirates all walked onto their ships, each thinking about the proposal very deeply.
Tekking walked over to where his ship was docked. His face was one of a man in deep thought. In reality though he wasn't thinking about anything. He had already decided he was going to take the job, however a job like this was very dangerous and Tekking didn't want to give his crew the impression that he made a decision that could potentially kill them on a whim. He reached his ship and continued the facade of being deeply conflicted. A girl with long black hair came running up to him.
"What's wrong captain?" She asked with a worried expression on her face. The girl had striking purple eyes and fake bunny ears on her head. She wore a pink shirt cropped at her stomach and a black jacket that had the words 'not a furry' on the back. She had a skirt as well as cutlass on her hip. Tekking stared at her and couldn't help it any longer. He swung his arm around her shoulder and smiled a giant toothy grin.
"Joyboy! Ohara! Go and tell Barry to set course for the North blue, we're going on another adventure" A man with puffy hair that covered his eyes and another with a white fox mask nodded and ran to the helm to go tell the first mate, Barry D. Brick to set course.
Roger and 2spooky walked silently next to each other. They passed through all the markets in town. Buying little trinkets here and there but making haste to try and make it to their ship quickly. They approached the dock and saw another pirate right next to it. The man had a paper bag over his head. He also wore a striped shirt and ripped calico jacket. His pants were also made of Calico. Roger walked up to his crew mate but was cut off.
"I already know of our mission Captain. I have informed miss Reagen to set a course for the North Blue." Roger looked at him. His name was Hiding in public, and he was the group's tactician. Before he could ask, Hiding elaborated on how he acquired his information.
"I saw sir Tekking tie up a drunk spooky earlier today and heard him say something about a meeting with the marines. Knowing that they weren't going to offer you two shichibukai positions I snuck into the marine base. While inside I found letters with a world Noble's seal on them saying he would not allow any of the holy tribute money to go to the navy. I was positive that the marines were going to do something very underhanded so I went through the bars and taverns and found out from a drunk marine that one St. Cortez was making a trip to the north in a month for the Spring diamond feasts. With that information I got the crew to stock up on extra supplies and got miss Reagan to map us a path to the North."
Roger was stunned to silence, 2spooky on the other hand was furious.
"You mean to tell me you saw the Devil Hunter grab me and did nothing to help me out?" He fumed.
"Sir Tekking is strong, and I was not going to risk my neck fighting that crazy man". Hiding responded. 2spooky continued to yell at him while Roger hit them both on the head and ordered them to get on the ship.
Nux, Briggo and Animak were sprinting to the ship, trampling anyone in their way. They made way to their giant vessel. Their crew of over 300 pirates all waved and cheered for their return as they basically clawed their way through the crew. They reached their helm and Nux started shouting for the helmsman to hurry up and show himself.
"What are you shouting about?" The three captains turned around to see the owner of the very high pitched voice. It was their second division commander, Iron mouse. She had vibrant pink hair and two horns coming from the sides of her head. She was short and wore a pink dress that clashed with her leather combat boots. In her hand she had a huge spiked club that she handled as if it didn't weigh anything. The club was bloody and had a dismembered arm stuck on the spike. Animak, not batting an eye at the arm on the club turned to her and asked,
"Do you know where Evanit0 is?". Mouse looked at him for a second before responding,
"Yeah he's helping Kor with inventory". Upon hearing this, Briggo sprinted down and in a matter of seconds was dragging both the third and fourth division commanders to the helm. The third was a tall imposing man with dark skin and was covered from head to toe with flint locks and rifles. The fourth commander was shorter and wore glasses, he had two cutlasses on opposite sides of his waist.
"Evan it 0, hurry up and set us off to the North blue" Nux commanded in his best stern captain voice.
"It's Evanit0, and sure I guess" Kor looked at Nux and asked, "what's going on Nuxy?" The three captains looked at each other and said in unison. "We're going to kill a tenryuubito". The deck went silent, you could hear a pin drop. It was so quiet. Iron mouse dropped her club and Evanit0 was frozen in place.
"Don't worry you guys, it's gonna be a lot of fun!" Nux proclaimed. Evanit0 started to tear up as he mapped the course. Kor was stuttering as he tried to say something while Mouse just stared at them.
"Wh-wh-what d-do you mean we are g-g-gonna kill a world noble?" Kor finally got out.
"Don't worry about it Kor, the marines themselves hired us...Even if they do start coming down on us harder they wont send us the three admirals at once like if we were to just kill one at random" Animak reassured him. Nux yawned and started to head down to his cabin.
"This is gonna be a riot, I'm going to bed. Wake me up when we set sail" he said. He walked down the stairs and entered into his chambers.
"By the way, where is the first division commander?" Briggo asked Mouse who had gotten over her shock slightly. She stared at him for a second before answering him again.
"Oh, I saw her go into Nux's room earlier," She said casually. A loud shriek ran out from the Captain's chamber. Nux kicked the door open and dug his metal arm to the ship deck as the tentacles latched onto his legs.
"Help! Help! Help" he screeched, his jovial smile now gone. Kor jumped down and looked down at his captain. He took his cutlass out and jimmied out Nux's robot arm from the floor, much to his horror.
"Noooooooo" he yelled as he was dragged to the room.
"Don't run away from me, daddy Nux" came a soft sultry voice from the room as it dragged him in.
"Kor you bastard!" Nux fumed as the door shut. A faint, "thank you kor' was also heard a few seconds later.
Kor climbed back to the deck and said, "I'm pretty sure Commander Melody is busy right now"
Rustage walked to ship in deep thought. He hummed some random melody out loud as he walked. He approached the dock and saw two of his crew mates there. One of them was huge and imposing with dark skin and a bright pink pirate coat that reached to his ankles. He had a beaming smile and was snapping a little rhythm to himself. The man next to him was rather skinny with a crew cut and multiple knives and daggers throughout his body in different sheathes. He wore a short sleeved shirt and brown shorts. He was tapping his feet in rhythm with the crew member's snapping. They saw their captain and approached him awaiting his orders.
"How was it ?" the larger man asked?
"A complete waste of time" Answered Rustage with his arms crossed. He looked at both of them and said, "Conner, Jones...set course to the North blue". The two of them looked at each other with puzzled expressions as they followed their captain. Rustage's cards flew out of his deck and made foot hold for the three men to walk out to their ship that they never bothered to dock. When they took a step the cards would go apart and then swerve forward to make the next step. They landed at the helm. A loud bang that sounded like cannon fire rang out and Rustage was pushed out of the way by Jones. With his captain out of the way, Gameboy jones shot his hand out and sent a sound shock wave directly toward the cannon ball, shattering it. Rustage looked up from the floor and quickly stood up.
"Thank you Jones. Who are those pirates?". Jones looked at their flag and said, "Just some random pirate group that has been loitering around here for a few hours now...They look weak though." Rustage nodded.
"They're not even worth raising our swords against. Prepare to set sail. Where's Shwabadi?" As Rustage spoke, a man with flowing black hair and beard swung from the mast of Rustage's ship. He had no shirt on and a rapier in one hand, he swung over to the other ship and took the heads of three pirates.
"I think he was there captain" Connor Quest chuckled, pulling out two blades. Rustage sighed. He summoned two cards and after a second they started to glow dark red. He pointed his finger toward the ship and the cards zoomed to the mast blowing up upon impact and knocking the mast over.
"Cut them down" he commanded.