Ohara looked through his binoculars and smiled at the light show coming from the other side of the port. The loud sound of cannon fire and smell of burning corpses was one every pirate was accustomed to.

"Hey captain, it looks like Rustage's crew is getting into a scuffle" Ohara said with a chuckle. Tekking who was talking to the bunny girl named Saige looked over at Ohara and shrugged his shoulders. Instead of going to take a look, he walked up to the helm. There in front of the wheel was a brick sitting on top of a few stacked crates. He had googly eyes and a squiggly line for a mouth. Barry D. Brick was a brick, and the first mate. No one on the crew questioned it, at least they didn't infront of Tekking. There was a rumor going around that Barry became first mate because he couldn't decide who to make first mate.

"Captain, we should go out and help out Rustage, it could be fun", Joyboy said as he held a cannon over his shoulder. Tekking looked up at him and shook his head sternly. Tekking knew that Rustage could handle himself and more importantly he wanted to be the first one to leave the port and make for the North Blue.

"Hurry up and raise the sails, we need to get out of here before the marines realize that we're here." The confideatly of their mission made him confident that the marines would not have orders to let their ship pass. Such an order would be a dead giveaway that something was wrong.

"Hello, is the Devil Hunter Captain Tekking here?" came an unknown voice. The crew all looked to the origin of the unfamiliar sound to find a woman. She was tall and had very light blue hair. She had a button up shirt and a pink tie. Along with white pants and long boots that reached her knees. The most alarming sight was the Marine Coat she wore on her shoulders. The crew all brandished their swords and loaded their flintlocks. She looked out to the pirates with a soft smile and raised her hands innocently in a sort of mocking way. She looked around, clearly still searching for the captain. Tekking jumped onto the deck and strolled to the front of the crew so that he was directly in front of her.

"At your service" he said in a skeptical tone. She looked down and saw Tekking who was at least two feet shorter than her. Her face lit up and she shot out her hand, Tekking stared at it, very confused but after a few seconds shook it like a proper gentleman.

"I am Rear-Admiral Muna, I come to request a duel between the two of us" she said in a very cheerful tone. Tekking's eyebrow shot up as he struggled to make eye contact with the woman. Perhaps sensing his confusion she started talking again, "A fair duel between the two of us...If you win you can go on your way and if I win, I'm taking you into custody". Tekking didn't like the sound of the agreement, his face showed it. Misunderstanding the situation, Muna assumed Tekking was worried about entering battle against someone when he didn't know what their devil fruit was. She went on to explain it

"I have the polar polar no mi." she raised two of her fingers, one started glowing blue and the other started glowing orange. "When my hand or finger turns blue it repels anything I select away from me, when it's orange it pulls anything I chose towards me. The more surface that the glowing covers the more powerful" She points her blue finger towards a bottle of rum, a blue aura surrounding the bottle and it flew with immense speed to the ocean. She then uses her orange finger, the same thing happens except this time it flew to her hand. Tekking looked rather unimpressed, not at the fruit but at her absurd proposal. She puffed out her cheeks and pointed her hand at a member of his crew. The random man's head was surrounded by a blue aura while his body had an orange one. Then with a splash of blood that gushed out his neck like a fountain, his head was sent flying to the sea. The Crew all gasped and clutched their swords. She also looked freaked out, perhaps figuring that she had picked a stronger member of the crew to demonstrate her power against.

Not wasting a second, Tekking lunged forward with the intent to stab the marine in her gut with his blade. His whole body stopped before it could reach her. It was covered in a blue arau and he dug his feet into the deck trying to jam his sword through her.

"I thought we agreed on a fair fight?" she pouted and Tekking only looked at her.

"Honor? You're dealing with a pirate" Tekking respond in a monotone voice. The glowing on her hand shone brighter and he could feel the invisible force pushing him grow stronger.

"I wish you'd hear me out. I want to be vice admiral already but no matter what I do I can't seem to get promoted. I asked Tsuru senpai what I could do and she said that if I brought in a man worth half a billion berries they'd promote me in a heartbeat." Tekking was done listening to her and jumped up slightly letting the force of her fruit knock him through the door to his cabin. As he flew he saw her hand turn orange and started feeling his body being pulled back. Once hitting the floor he ducked behind the cabin wall, immediately ending the pulling sensation. 'Interesting, so the fruit only works if she can see the object.' he thought. Taking a deep breath, a coat of his own brand of armament haki covered him as he dashed out to cut her from behind. He got right behind her but alas Muna's pupil moved just in time to see him and hence repelled his blade so it wouldn't hit her. 'Shit' Tekking cursed.

"Why are you not fighting fairly? I was going to let your crew go after winning the duel you know. With a 600 million berry man I'd be promoted in no time" she said in an innocent voice. The sound of bullet firing forced Muna to turn away so she could repel it. With her eyes off him, Tekking attempted to slice her in two. However she was anticipating this and dodged his swing leaving only a superficial scratch on her rib cage. Tekking jumped over to his crew who were now spreading out so she couldn't see them all.

"My bounty is actually 625 million ya know?" Tekking said with a cocky grin painted on his face.

Roger was throwing up acid wall after wall deflecting the cannon blasts that were coming at his ship. Hiding was behind him with a telescope. Despite the bag on his head, he could still somehow look through the telescope. Roger fired three highly pressurized blasts of acid at a wave of cannon balls that came at different speeds.

"Well?" he asked as his breathing became heavy. Hiding kept quiet for a slight second before answering.

"It appears to be a marine vessel."

"Who's the commanding officer?" Roger asked

"There doesn't seem to be one on board. The top sail says Muna on it, so I guess it's her ship". Roger smiled after hearing this. A few weak marines without a leader wouldn't be too hard to take out.

"Sink the ship!" He barked out. As he gave his command he pulled out a Katana from his sheath and started coating it with acid. The green liquid dripped onto the deck, leaving sizzling sounds humming in the air. Roger closed his eyes and concentrated. His blades were sizzling, he pulled the blade up above his head and slashed diagonally towards the mast of the ship. The slash of acid made its way towards the ship at lightning speed, melting through the sails and mast immediately upon coming into contact. Roger whistled long as he admired his work. He threw what was left of his sword into the ocean. Hiding looked out to the sea as a number of fishmen started climbing aboard and began attacking the marines.

"Hiding where are they regarding reinforcements?" Roger asked as he reached for a bottle of sake.

"I told their den den mushi to stay quiet so we should be good" Hiding answered

"Vega punk really does invent the craziest things, don't you think? I mean, who would have thought of creating a devil fruit that makes one able to control all den den mushi?"

"I don't know. Sounds rather impractical, but since I'm the one who ate it...I guess we can only thank him". Roger smirked at Hiding's response and sat back on a wooden chair that he could lie down on.

On the top of the crows nest, 2spooky and another pirate were trying to snipe marines. The other pirate had a dark skin complexion and of a very muscular build. He cowered over 2spooky, laughing at him when he missed. The pirate was known as the King of lightning and had a giant glaive slinged over his shoulder. His denim pants and leather vest hugged his body. He started cackling once 2spooky missed for the third time in a row.

"Shut the fuck up, King...I almost had him that time" 2spooky snarled. King only laughed harder and said,

"Maybe if you close your eyes you'll have a better shot at hitting him". 2spooky didn't respond, he just put his rifle down on the floor before starting to climb down. There was no point in continuing. Roger's division of Fishmen were finishing up the last of them.

Rustage and his crew had killed everyone on the ship. There weren't exactly any real spoils. These pirates had no treasure, no real weapons and in general were just weak. As Connor looked through the corpses for anything to make the fight worth their time, another pirate walked up to Rustage. He had a cap on and a light black beard.

"What is it Joshua?" Rustage asked, not looking up.

"I wanted to fight the captain...why'd you kill him ?". Joshua looked rather annoyed at losing the one fun fight he saw in his future. Rusage scoffed at his complaint. He had beheaded the captain of the crew before he could even get out of his cabin. He was going to respond when he sensed something coming at him so he ducked out of the way. It was a small bomb. It zoomed by him, hitting Joshua in the head. The collison knocked him off his feet to the floor and Rustage looked toward the culprit. Standing at the helm was a woman. She had a helmet on that was dark blue and had many dials on the front and sides. A long blonde ponytail hung out of the top. She brandished a purple jacket that was zipped up and blue denim pants. Rustage sent two glowing red cards towards her. She jumped down, avoiding the cards as they exploded. Jones grabbed her by the neck as she descended and forced her against the floor. Before he could prepare a sound wave, her two hands punched him in the ribs at the same time, loosening his grip. With newly found mobility she brought up her leg and kicked him back off her. As he went back, the two bombs she had placed on him when she had punched him went off. Not even a second later she was lunging to the side to avoid a descending Shwabadi. Deflecting his sword swings with her dagger. They exchanged blows for a few seconds before shwabadi was pushed back right into the bouncing betty mine that was planted earlier. The grenade detonated a mere centimeter away from his face. The woman, now breathing really hard, spun around and chucked a stick of dynamite towards rustage. He didn't react and instead just used a few cards to make a shield, blocking the blast.

"Impressive, it seems you pack a harder punch than your crew" she huffed. Rustage just looked at her.

"Not quite" he responded. Before she could come up with a witty retort, the colossal hand of Gameboy Jones plunged her head into the ground. Sending a sound wave that shattered her helmet into thousands of pieces. Her face was bloody and in pain. She recovered however and threw three ping pong ball shaped explosives that were beeping. Jones put his hands up to shield his face as she got away from him. She ran right into Joshua's fist as it collided with her stomach, taking her off her feet. In his left hand, Joshua held a blade and was ready to thrust it through her chest. She smiled and ripped open her jacket to expose 6 bombs with lit fuses, the impact would at the very least blow off his arm. As the fuse drew closer down, six cards flew past them and cut the fuses so they wouldn't detonate. The woman jerked her head torwars rustage who was smiling. Seeing his chance Joshua thrust his sword, only for it to also be stopped by a single card. The woman fell to the floor, coughing and wheezing.

"It appears that you're the strongest member of your crew" Rustage said as he approached her.

"Me? Work with these weaklings? Please...I'm a pyrotechnic for hire"

"So you deal with fireworks?"

"Amongst other things, yes".

"What's your name ?"

"Dana"

"Wanna join my crew?"

It was 30 minutes before Nux emerged from his chambers. He had lost his jacket and was just in his silver pants and sneakers. His robot arm appeared to be out of power and just hung there. Occasional sparks went out every couple of minutes. He had suction cup marks all over his torso as well as some on his face. Animak was by the helm, polishing his vizor. He smiled when he saw nux walk out.

"So how was-"

"I don't wanna talk about it" Nux interrupted as he sat down in his chair. Animak smiled as he put his vizor back on.

"You should have just used your fruit to make her laugh ya know" he said in a matter of fact tone.

"She shoved a tentacle in my mouth, I couldn' laugh with my mouth like that and since I wasn't laughing my fruit wasn't activating...This is so sad." He said into his one hand. Animak laughed again at his commentary.

"Where's Briggs?" Nux asked as he fished for his strawberry milk. Animak pointed his finger off the ledge. Nux leaned over to see Briggo fighting a six head sea king in a tiny wooden dinghy. Nux decided not to ask and instead chugged his strawberry milk. Suddenly the milk was knocked out of his hand.

"What the hell?" He looked for the cause of his misfortune. There was a head. It was bleeding from the neck still and the expression looked confused. Nux inspected the head and saw how it appeared to be ripped off its body. He then chucked it into the ocean.

"How did she even get in you're room?" Animak asked.

"She used her devil fruit to squeeze through the keyhole" Nux answered.

"The octo octo no mi, I bet you're really kicking yourself for giving it to Melody in the first place huh?"

"Yeah I guess"

"Do you want me to change the lock on the door to a combination lock so she can't get in?"

"Nah" Nux answered as he opened a new carton of milk and chugged it as he walked.

Below the deck on the first floor of the multi level ship were the rooms of the division commanders. There sat three of them in Evan's room when Melody entered. She was wearing a pair of very short shorts that were connected to white suspenders. They had the word "hentai" on them. No one knew what it meant and Melody refused to tell them. She also had a very highly cropped top that went over her suspenders. Her Hair was multiple different shades of blue and was tied up with a black ribbon that looked like cat ears. She also had a band aid over her nose, though no one ever recalled her being attacked there. She had Nux's red jacket draped over her shoulders. She took a seat at the table where the other commanders were sitting and drinking. As she took her seat and looked at them...confused. Evan for one was depressed and taking shot after shot while Kor sat quiet.

"To die so young" Evan mused as he stared into his future, seeing nothing but death by the marines.

"Calm down, one of the supernovas attacked them a few months ago and he's still alive" Kor answered, not quite believing the words himself.

"Cheer up guys, it's not like we were exactly sailing smoothly before anyway. We're pirates. Having a bias based on position is bad ya know?" Mouse said.

"What are you guys all bummed out over" Melody asked

"Our captains have the brilliant idea to kill a world noble" Kor answered dejected as he poured a shot for all four of them.

"Yeah I know, Nux told me" She said smirking "So what if we kill a tenryuubito? If anything it could help cement our rep". Kor nodded and decided to look on the bright side.

"Easy for you to say" Evan barked while gulping down his shot. "No matter what happens to the crew, I'm positive Nux will take you with him. We'll have to fend for ourselves"

"The crew won't disband, either we prosper together or we all die" Mouse answered. Her voice did not match the grim statement, as she also took her shot. Kor smirked and picked up his glass.

"Wait!" yelled Melody. She grabbed her shot and downed it quickly. "Sorry Kor, but pussies drink last". Kor's face was horrified at Melody's betrayal. Melody herself was giggling as Kor stared at her. Then he smiled and said:

"Pussies drink last? That's not fair, Evan already drank his shot." Mouse snorted and Melody laughed. It was Evan's turn to look horrified. He pulled out a flintlock and pointed it directly at Kor.

"Don't test me, Kor." Unfazed, Kor pulled a knife from his sleeve and pressed it against his neck.

"Shut up Evan, that shit isn't even loaded"

After a uickmomet of tension, both snickered and put away their weapons, Kor proceeded to pour a new round of shots out.

"Whatever happens, let's try and clean up the mess our dumbass captains leave" Kor pledged holding up his glass. They all clinked glasses and drank.