Roger knew that their mission was probably the most dangerous out of the four, but he hadn't expected to lose any of his men. Yet Stripes was dragged away a few hours prior and none of them knew where he was being taken. Roger just had to wait for the signal, which was when the den den mushi at the head guard's desk rang four times before going to sleep. They listened to the guitar men string along and sing loudly. The guards came and threatened to break their guitars many times but they never did. Roger laid against the cold walls of the cell, he was shirtless and freezing. His normal shirt was given to Hiding so that he could make a new mask. The crew was restless as they waited for the signal. Rustage had told him that the signal would be the sound of his explosive expert destroying a good number of marine vessels. They waited and waited, it seemed like hours and hours passed as the night continued. Then they heard it , the giant explosion in the distance sent the whole base into panic. Roger looked at spooky as they both stood up. 2spooky put his hand on Roger's shoulder and he placed his hands on the bars. In seconds they were completely smirked as he let the sea stone cuffs fall through his acid arms and crumble on the ground. He then removed the cuffs from the rest of the crew with a very concentrated stream of acid fired in the lock hole.
"Excuse me, mister pirate...Mind coughing up some cutter brother, for the show I mean" The man with the guitar said.
"I don't carry cash on me" Roger answered. The man came out of the shadows, holding his blind friend's arm. Both were shackled with seastone and both rattled their chains and smiled. Roger saw no reason to fear them so he set them free. The crew rushed out of their cells and went to find where they could find their weapons. Marines came rushing down the corridor a few seconds later and were set on stopping the escape attempt. Hiding was in front and as the first marine approached him, he crouched down asd charged forward sweeping the man off his feet. With the marine on the floor, Hiding lifted his foot up and stomped down on his head. He reached down and grabbed a sword from the marine and threw the pistol to Reagen. With the sword in hand and a new found rage. He cut down a large number of the marines. One of them tried to get a message through with his den den mushi. As time went on he grew more and more desperate as the den den mushi wouldn't pick up. Hiding loomed over the marine who dropped the den den mushi out of fear for his life and Reagen put a single bullet in his head.
"Stop right there" Came a booming voice from the other side of the corridor. A huge man with gray skin and a horn on his face came charging at them with great speed. He had a marine uniform on and knives on a harness strapped across his chest. He was coming in and the crew were caught off guard with his proximity. 2spooky whipped his hand out and placed it on the marine's chest and he reverted back to a rather skinny looking man.
"What the-'' he said dumbfounded as spooky grabbed a knife from the marine's harness and slit his throat with it.
The crew ran until they found the room where they could find their weapons. King grabbed his glaive, Hiding got his cutlass and his bag back, Reagen quickly loaded her flintlocks. 2spooky grabbed his rifle and one or two pistols while Roger just put his shirt back on. They exited the room and made their way to the head of the base. Hiding talked to the den den mushi on the walls used as cameras to lead them there. When they reached the doors, they knocked very politely before King just kicked the thing done. A gorilla leaped at the group with a wild howl and the intent to kill. King saw him and dropped his glaive, he grabbed the gorillas arms and started fighting him. The others disposed of the other marines. Roger took out a good number of them with a wave of acid that melted most of the marines in two, the rest were mostly shot down quickly by Reagen. King continued to fight the gorilla. They punched each other in massive firies of anger. King would use his legs while the gorilla didn't but the gorilla could punch significantly harder than King. After a good minute 2spooky gt bored of the fighting. He took a running start and jumped on the gorilla's back, turning him back into a regular marine. King, seeing his chance took his glaive and cleaved through the marine's head.
"You almost cut my head off, what the hell?" spooky proclaimed angrily. King just laughed and looked around for any booze. Roger ignored them as he turned his acid on anything that might be useful to the marines at all. He melted full cabinets and chest along with diaries and official looking documents. He motioned for his crew to follow him as they charged through the prison. They cut down any marine they could see until they reached outside where right on cue, Rusatge showed up on a huge platform of cards, he was using what little cards he left to blow up connan fire as the base pirates hopped on the platform. Rusatge sped away from the base as the voices of commotion gre farther away.
"They took Stripes," Roger said.
"Yeah I know. Nux told me that he was essential to the plan now and to not worry about it. He also said Kor turned off the slave collar when Stripes was being processed."
"Ok then, so now what ? do we go back to the ship?"
"We have to pick up Tekking first so gear up for a fight" Rustage said, "well...atleast what is left of him"
Joel had been a really tough opponent for Kizaru. So much of a tough fight that Tekking could only clutch his head while on his knees at the sound of the sounds. Joel ripped through the air flipping and contorting his body around to attack Kizaru. Joel had more than a thousand holes in him at this point and was blown up at least eight times. Kizaru was a little beater=n but in general, the blunt kicks of Joel weren't the most effective. Eventually though, Kizaru sent two huge light beams through Joel's arms, pumping them with so much light they exploded. He then did the same to his legs and Joel was on the floor motionless. The sound of silence ripped through their heads again but ended much quicker and then neither silence or sound could be heard. Joel was dead. Tekking looked down at the corpse which was now just a torso. Blood spewed out of the four holes, but the blood were all different shades of red,.The ones from his arms were very light and almost looked orange while the ones from his legs were almost brown. Tekking didn't know whether to be relieved or worried. He head Rusatge's voice in the distance. He was picking up the stray members of his crew who had fled when Joel and Kizaru got really heated. Tekking clutched his sword as he turned to face a now sitting Kizaru.
"Get out of here...Tekking. Go and finish your mission" Kizaru said smiling lightly. Tekking had no reaction on his face when he spoke:
"So you knew?"
"Yes" He answered, "I already have one of the pirates here. As far as I'm concerned I stopped the first attempt on Cortez's life"
"Yeah I guess he did fail in his mission"
"Make sure you're side doesn't"