Exit Strategy
Zoro, Luffy, and Sanji fought harder than they had fought in a long time. They had become used to fighting only a few stronger guys at once, due to them mostly fighting other pirate crews in the New World, but now they were fighting a giant mass of marines. It wasn't necessarily difficult to fight them, as they were all pretty weak, but there were just so many.
They were in this situation because of Zoro. The monster trio had unwittingly ended up following Zoro through the maze of the marine base they had broken into, because they needed some map for an adventure Luffy wanted to go on. They were caught rather quickly, and the entire crew was sent running in different directions. Eventually Luffy got tired of running, and wanted to fight, so when he stopped, Zoro and Sanji had no choice but to stop with him.
They were soon surrounded by marines, back to back, on the defensive. It was at this point that Zoro decided to ask, "So what's our exit strategy, captain?"
Luffy turned his head to look at Zoro, fists still raised and ready for a fight. "Our what?"
Zoro just about turned around to slice up his captain and claim the reward on his head, but restrained himself, and groaned instead. "Oh, God. We're all going to die."
Sanji turned to yell at Luffy, "You mean to tell me you turned to fight with no plan?! We could have kept running and found a way back to the ship!"
"But I was bored of running!" Luffy whined as a few more soldiers advanced on them. They were back to fighting for their lives.
Eventually, Sanji spotted a gap in the wall of soldiers, so he grabbed Luffy's stretched out arm, and yelled at Zoro to follow. The trio ran back the way they came, Luffy complaining whiled being dragged along by Sanji. The cook finally convinced Luffy to run on his own, and when he did they were much faster.
They looked behind them to see the marines hot on their tail. "This is really getting annoying." Zoro exclaimed as they ran. "If they don't stop we'll never get off this island."
Luffy stopped running again, skidding to a halt. Zoro and Sanji turned to yell at him, but quickly realized their captain had gotten serious about this. They felt a great surge of energy and power and watched as a large majority of the marines fell to the floor. The few that were left standing were trembling and looked rather weak, not daring to move, and not knowing what had just happened to their fellow soldiers.
Luffy turned back to Zoro and Sanji, chuckling. Zoro smiled a little. "I seem to forget that you can do that. It's quite useful."
Sanji nodded in agreement. "Yeah, but why didn't you use it earlier?"
Luffy responded with a laugh and said, "because I wanted to fight! Where's the fun in always using Haki on everyone?"
Zoro and Sanji just gaped at their captain, who had a smile still plastered on his face and was laughing through his teeth. "You're going to be the death of us," Sanji and Zoro said in unison.
Around the corner they could hear footsteps running towards them. The rest of the crew passed by moments later, led by Nami holding up the map. As she ran by she yelled, "Hey, we got the map, so let's get out of here!"
The monster trio ran down the hall to catch up, and the entire crew made it back safely onto the Sunny with Nami's guidance. They set sail with smiles on their faces and Berry symbols in Nami's eyes as she looked over the treasure map on Sunny's deck.