Chapter 42: Operation Party Part 4

Gao and the other's dashed outside with their card ready for anything. A sudden sound resonated and the ship trembled again. This time, the buddies were ready for the impact, but not the humans who lost their balance except Kyoya.

"Where's the enemy?" Gao asked. He looked around and found it weird that no one else was outside.

"There's something there," Drum pointed to their left.

They saw one ship that looked antic by its form.

"Are we around 300 years in the past or what?" Gao asked.

It was a massive ship made of wood, looking more fragile than the cruise ship they were in, but that ship had cannons pointing at them.

"Guess it is, I see a pirate flag," Kuguru pointed at.

They looked at it. "Where's everyone else?" Gao asked as he looked around.

"Not everyone knows what's going on and might try to find somewhere safe. If some buddies see we are attacked, words will spread and they will come outside," Kyoya replied.

"If only Paruko was there, it would have been faster," Kuguru commented.

"That's right... Aw!" Cat Sith yelled.

One of the cannon fired toward them. The humans would have been hit if Azi didn't step in front of them and blocked the blast with one hand.

He's really tough, Drum thought when he saw no damage on Azi's palm.

Azi chuckled and said, "So they are the enemies. They aren't so tough."

"You know who they are Azi?" Drum grunted.

"Yes," Azi replied.

"Elaborate please," Tenbu asked.

"They come from a minor world. The name is Pirate World," Azi explained.

"That explain the pirate theme," Kuguru commented.

"What's the plan?" Kiri asked.

Joker raised his blades and replied, "We could fly toward them, but they will sink the ship before we reach them."

"Let's just board them when they are near us," Azi said.

"For that, we need someone to pilot the ship toward it," Kyoya commented. He then said, "I don't think the captain has the guts to do that."

"Then let them board us. If they are in range, we can fight more fairly," Tenbu said. He saw Azi glaring at him and added, "That's the only option. You just have to defend for now."

The cannon fired again and the buddies prevented the impacts against the ship, but it destabilised it for a few seconds. One cannon ball charged toward Tenbu who grabbed it with one hand.

"I think I should kindly give this back to them," Tenbu commented before throwing it back.

The cannon ball exploded against the other ship and one mast of the pirate ship broke.

"Guess they will come at us now," Tenbu said as he stretched himself.

Drum was amazed by the skill Tenbu did in his mini form, "That was incredible!"

Azi grumbled, "Not that much."

"I cannot do more than that. Sorry, but my power is too great to be used and I don't control it like Azi," Tenbu warned the group. He then added, "Also, this is a good opportunity for all of you to grow stronger."

"That was still powerful," Drum said.

"Looks like they decided to board us instead of bombarding us," Joker commented.

Tenbu nodded and replied, "Of course they'll do that. No one likes to be shot by their own weapons, nobody."

"We need to have a plan," Gao said.

Kuguru smiled and said, "I think I got one. I think they didn't see us, so here's my suggestion."

They assembled around Kuguru and listened to her plan. Kyoya smiled as he heard it and thought, what a sneaky plan. I like it.

"That plan have to be respected until the others are coming. When everyone is here, we will be ready to greet them," Kuguru concluded with a smile.

"I like it. Let's take position," Kyoya said.

Baku ran as fast as he could to the control room and passed around the passengers and the buddies. He saw Tasuku and Jack talking with Hinako, who seemed to have sober up like Azi.

"Tasuku!" Baku yelled.

They turned toward him and asked, "What is it?"

Hinako politely added, "We are trying to figure out what happen you know."

Baku stopped and retook his breath before replying, "T-the ship is under attack... I'm going to alert everyone. Gao and a few others are getting ready to greet them."

Tasuku and Jackknife frowned, "We are going outside and provide help."

Tasuku and Jackknife ran toward the exit.

Hinako said, "I'm going with you. The command room is just at the upper floor. I'm surprised no one sent the alert already."

The two climbed at the command room when Hinako stopped him. She put her fingers over her lips and looked inside.

She saw no one was present in the control room. Baku also looked inside and saw nothing. They both knew something was wrong if they let the ship out of control, unless someone was still inside.

Hinako cracked her neck and her ankles before standing up and walking inside. Once she was inside, she heard something from her left.

"There she is! Get her!"

She grabbed whoever tried to ambush her and threw him on the ground.

"That felt scaly," she commented when she heard another voice shouting at her. She turned around and dodged a punch coming to her face and countered by a kick in the gut of her attacker.

Her attacked lost his breath and took a few steps back. It was a biped fishman with blue scales on his body, two big amber bubbled eyes with one fin on each cheek. He wore a coral chest plate with a skull at the middle of it and an unknown tissue as a loincloth.

He glared at her and charged again. Hinako saw the fishman grabbing a knife sculpted on bones and grabbed the wrist of the fishman. She heard the other one standing up and charging at her.

Dammit, she grunted at herself.

"NIN!" a voice suddenly yelled.

Tsukikage appeared in his real form and tackled the fishman behind Hinako.

"M-Move away!" Zanya nervously said to the woman.

Hinako twisted the wrist of the fishman before rolling on the ground.

Zanya appeared behind the fishman with his katana and slashed the chest of his enemy and broke the knife. He put the blade on his throat and said, "S-surrender n-now!"

"Ignore me Zanya," Hinako said.

"Not helping!" Zanya nervously replied.

"O-Okay!" the fishman said.

Tsukikage tossed the other one and took out his scroll. What's going on?

"I think those guys are boarding the ship and seemed after me," Hinako commented before looking around, "Where's the captain and the other's?"

"Nin," Tsukikage replied, pointing under a table.

They looked under it and saw the crew.

"I'll detach them, you should go outside and help the other's," Hinako suggested.

"I'll send the alert right now," Baku said as he took the mic.

Tetsuya and Asmodai were walking back in the main room and looked around. A lot of people and their buddies were assembled there out of instinct as it seemed the safest place with what was going on.

To their right, Shido was nervously and to the verge of panicking with Gallows worsening the situation.

"-And then the ship will sink, you and everyone here will freeze to dead as your skin turned blue and life slowly get out of you while I'll be floating and enjoying it. Sha. Sha. Sha," Gallows concluded his story, the most realistic part that caused the fear wasn't heard by Tetsuya and Asmodai.

"Seems like someone is enjoying it a little too much," Asmodai commented.

"That's not cool yo! What if you are trap here and sink too?" Tetsuya asked.

"We will have something to enjoy as we die," Sophia heartlessly replied.

Gallows gasped and crossed his arms, "Like this will really happen anyway."

"Does anyone know what's going on? Because this feels like it's very important to know right now," Paruko asked.

Everyone raised their shoulder when they heard, "-This is Baku here. I'm one of the visitors in the ship and you have to take your deck right now. The ship is currently boarded by some fishman! Also, I'm not pranking. The buddypolice force and Kyoya are currently outside, but everyone must be ready to fight them off.-"

They then heard a weak voice said something and then:

"-Everyone. This is Hinako, the minister of defense and I can affirm you that this is serious. Get ready to fight them. Made your buddy proud of you!-"

Everyone prepared their deck, including Shido, even if he was nervous. Most of them weren't feeling at ease to go fight outside, but the grasped their courage.

"Guess we'll have more action than I thought," Asmodai grinned.

Gallows cracked his bones, "Finally a fight. I was afraid that my bones might get rusty eventually. Although I can't think the second part of what Hinako said come true," he glanced at Shido who glared back.

As if on cue, everyone walked outside the main room to join the other's.

Kuguru commented as she saw the ship coming closer, "They are almost here... And the ship is bigger than I thought."

Only the humans were present on the ship while the buddies were gone from the deck.

They heard the message by Baku.

"Looks like help is coming soon," Tenbu grumbled somewhere.

"Like we didn't get it," Azi replied, rolling his eyes.

Tenbu grumbled a few things against Azi before watching the ship.

"Let's go with the plan," Kuguru said.

All buddies remained silent.

The humans waited for the ship to start boarding them and the beings from Pirate world didn't lose any second. They jumped in the water and boarded them in the matter of seconds. The humans were surrounded by around 20 pirates, all looking like Fishman with saber at their arm.

"What do you want?" Kyoya asked, acting as the leader of the humans, which he technically was as he hosted the party.

One of the fishmen chuckled and replied, "All your possession of course. For a ship as big as this one, there must be tons of treasures and food here."

All humans couldn't help but said in their mind, If they came from Pirate world, why don't go all typical pirate style.

Kyoya looked in their eyes and felt there was something else.

The fishmen saw their unimpressed glare and their absence of fear.

"What is it? Too scare to show anything at all?" A fishman asked, trying to awake the fear in them.

"I'm not good at being scared. Sorry," Gao replied with a smirk.

That pissed the pirates off and moved their saber near them. Kiri gulped and took a few steps backward. Gao looked at him and nodded, reassuring him. Kiri saw the nodding and calmed down.

Kuguru lighten her decoration in her hair and said, "Kyoya has a proposition for you. Maybe it will interest you," before pointing at him.

"What is your... proposition? Maybe our captain will be satisfied," the fishman replied.

The other's laughed, clearly indicating that they don't care what they have.

Kyoya smirked before saying, "Two choices. Either you surrender to us and the Buddy Police force, or you die. I'm sorry if there isn't any other alternative," the fishmen laughed loudly at the threat until Kyoya concluded, "If not. You will have to deal with the department complain."

"The what of what?" the fishman asked.

The buddies jumped from their hiding spot, around the pirates and started beating them.

Cat Sith attacked one with his rapier, skillful enough to push the pirate backward. Another one appeared behind him with his saber. Kuguru took a card and turned it into a bow and fired an arrow on the saber.

Gao summoned his sword and joined the fight, only Kiri and Kyoya stayed out of the skirmish. It wasn't long until the 20 pirates were Knocked Out.

"Nice plan," Kyoya commented.

"You could have joined the fight you know!" Drum yelled.

"I need to stay at my best, because a ship that big has many more pirates you know," Kyoya replied.

"As Kyoya said, that was the easy part. We need to be ready and face the army," Tenbu warned them.

Azi grunted and said, "I think I see some of them jumping in the water."

Drum started his drill and replied, "Let's get ready to greet them."

All buddies were ready to fight when 200 fishmen from Pirate world surrounded them.

Drum sweat dropped and replied, "I'm not that ready sadly."

"I'm sure there are many more of them," Azi replied. He looked at them and grunted, we cannot win if there is that many of them and knowing that this is only the first wave, I might have to get serious way too soon.

"I think I'll have to enter in the fight," Kyoya said as he took a few steps forward and grinning at them.

"Reinforcements are here," they heard Tasuku yelling.

Tasuku, the other children and their buddies were ready for battle.

"Let the fun begin. Sha. Sha. Sha," Gallows chuckled.

AC: This is the end of chapter 42.

Chapter 43: Chapter 42: Operation Party Part 5