Chapter 3

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Three days had passed since Marty had been kidnapped from Billion's Cove. Apart from bathroom breaks and the meals shoved through the cage bar's the three girls had seen very little of the slavers crew.

"My father will rescue me," sniffed a doll-like girl with curly blond hair who had informed Marty her name was Charlene, though everybody called her Nee-nee, "He's the mayor and a very important person." Beth, a girl with short, pixie-like green hair, banged her forehead against the metal bars. It was the 27th time they had heard this speech. "He won't leave me here, the Marines know he is an important person, they will be out looking for us." Marty closed her eyes and rested the back of her head against the side of the cage causing her straw hat, which had somehow survived the kidnapping, to tip backwards.

Marty still couldn't believe this had happened. She had the good fortune to land in her favourite anime/manga, and she had winded up a slave. She echoed Beth's sentiments lightly thumping her head against the bars, and then sat up frowning. Beth looked over, surprised at her sudden movement.

"Marty wha-.."

"SHH!" Exclaimed Marty, holding up a finger still listening hard. Her fellow captives exchanged a worried glance, "… can you hear that?"

"Hear what?" Huffed Nee-nee angrily. Beth frowned.

"Yes actually, I do." ...Yelling? "What on Ear-WHOA!" Beth exclaimed as an explosion rocked the whole ship, throwing the girls around the cage. Nee-nee screamed!

"WE'RE UNDER ATTACK," wailed the blond girl

"Maybe it's your bloody marine friends," said Beth as the ship was thrown sideway by another explosion.

"Of Course," whooped Nee-nee, "they found me, I told you they would, I told you they would come."

"It won't do us any good if they sink us," Marty retorted angrily, she picked herself of the cage floor just in time for the third explosion. She was thrown backwards slamming her head against the bars causing her to use language that made Nee-nee look horrified and Beth impressed.

"Whoever they are they are either terrible shots with a cannon or are planning to board this dung heap," Marty complained rubbing the back of her head. On cue a shout rang out from overhead;

"Board them!"

"I told you they would rescue us," swooned Nee-nee.

"Board the Pirates!" Continued the voice. Nee-nee face fell.

"Out of the frying pan, into the fire," said Beth calmly.

. . .

Ace had been having a perfectly pleasant nap when a ship was sighted on the horizon. He tipped his hat back to glare at the clear blue sky. Maybe he could fit a couple more minutes in, he thought moving to tip his hat back down.

"ACE! UP!" Yelled Marco. Dang-nam-it.

Marco kicked Ace on his way to the portside, ignoring the protest of "Oi!" that resulted. They were in desperate need of supplies if they wanted to make it safely to the next island. They had gone through a storm yesterday, and some ABSOLUTE HOT-HEADED IDIOT had left a hatch into one of the store rooms open.

Marco gestured at a crewmate and was handed his telescope. He appraised the ship carefully.

"Commander," Said the crewmate, "it's not a pirate ship, nor is it a marine ship, and it's too dodgy looking to be a passenger or merchant ship."

"Which means it's probably a smugglers ship," said Jozu, commander of the third division, coming up to stand on Marcos right side. Marco handed him the telescope, "That's good for us because it means supplies."

"Why hasn't anyone sunk it yet," yawned Ace approaching Marcos other side. Marco took the telescope of Jozu and hit Ace with it.

"It hasn't been sunk yet because we need its supplies since you destroyed ours," he said, vein throbbing in his forehead. Ace rubbed the top of his head sulkily, gees you make one mistake…

"Alright lads," Whitebeard yelled from his usual seat on deck commanding the crews attention, "Ace, Marco, Thatch and Jozu, you boys search their storage rooms for food, equipment, sake, the rest of you, give 'em cover, don't let a single one of them on board, you hear me?" the crew roared their agreement. The ship was only a few meters away now.

Ace watched the ship approach eagerly; well he wouldn't be a D if he didn't. He could hear snippets of the crew's yelling from the other ship to, "Board them! Board the Pirate ship!"

He laughed. This, was gonna be fun.

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The girls were thrown sideways as the ships rammed each other. The sounds of fighting breaking out over head slowly changed to screaming. Marty whooped,

"HA, they're in trouble now," she said gleefully, Beth laughed in agreement.

"Are you ACTUALLY ENJOYING this?" asked Nee-nee indignantly. Marty and Beth glanced at each other.

"Hmm let me think," hummed Marty.

"They kidnapped us," Beth supplied.

"Locked us in a cage," continued Marty.

"Intending to sell us as slaves."

"They barely feed us anything."

"And we get only two bathroom breaks a day."

"So yeah, I'm enjoying this a little," Marty finished bracing herself against the cage bars as explosions made the ship shudder, "anyway Nee-nee it could be way worse, they could be fighting down her-"

And then the ceiling exploded, throwing the whole cage sideways with the girls still in it. Marty slammed against the side of the cage before it righted itself and gravity dragged her down to the floor. She could just barely hear Nee-nee screaming again over the ringing in her ears. Marty groaned. Me and my big mouth.

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Where the hell was that awful noise coming from, wondered Ace looking around the store room he'd just blown into, was someone killing a cat? He turned in a circle, searching the room for the source of the noise. There were plenty of food crates, he concluded happily, then caught sight of the cage. Were there people inside? He walked towards the barred enclosure tentatively; at least he knew where the noise was coming from. The was a blond girl sitting upright in the cage, staring straight at him, hollering away at the top of her lungs.

"Alright! ALRIGHT! SHUT UP!" Ace hollered at her, surprised when it worked. Then he noticed the straw hat, "Luffy?! What the hell are you doing here!?" He ran over to the cage and grabbed his brothers shoulder, "Hey are you alr-"he pulled up short as the person wearing the hat turned to face him. It wasn't his brother, hell it was even MALE. The girl looked surprised to see him and for a second, Ace thought he saw a flash of recognition in her eyes, but it was gone before he could be sure it was there at all. Then the crazy blond chick got over the shock of being told to shut up.

"HE'S ON FIRE!" she screamed, and for some reason the girl wearing his brother's hat found this extremely funny. She covered her mouth with her hand to smother giggles and bent her head forwards slightly. This enabled Ace to see the red bow on the back of her hat, meaning it wasn't his brothers. He moved back from the cage slightly to get a better look at its occupants.

"What are you three doing in there," Ace asked crossly. The girl with the straw hat raised her eyebrows at his tone.

"We're on holiday, can't you tell, we're having such a jolly old time," the straw-hat girl retorted. A girl with green hair moved up beside the first girl putting a hand on her shoulder.

"We were kidnapped at the last port, a place called Billion's Cove," she said quietly, "the crew planned to sell us as slaves." Ace frowned, that named sounded familiar. Regardless he couldn't just leave the girls in the cage, well maybe the blonde one, who chose that moment to re-join the conversation.

"M-M-MY DADDY is the Mayor of Billion's and I order you to help us escape," Marty grinned at the look of disbelief that crossed Ace's face. Ace (the FIREFIST ACE) shook his head as if to clear it, then stood up and walked to the giant hole he had created.

"Marco! Thatch! Jozu! Can I get some help down here?" Ace yelled, and then returned to the cage.

He knelt down in front of the cage door and proceeded to melt the lock.

"You're lucky the cage isn't sea stone," Ace said evenly as Marco, followed closely by Thatch and Jozu, jumped down through Ace's hole.

"What kno-… Who are they?" Asked Marco catching sight of the girls.

"Kidnapped, on route to be slaves," Ace summarised shortly, "can you get the supplies while I get them out of here?" Ace glanced behind him to see the commander already hard at work. Grinning he turned back to the cage door to see the girl in the straw hat had crawled over to watch him work, Seeing his glare she grinned and moved back to where the other girls were huddled.

She's weird, Ace decided, then grabbed the door and pulled back sharply to avoid hitting the girls with the hot molten metal. He gestured over his shoulder as the hatch and ladder.

"Out."

The blonde chick wasted no time, racing to be the first out of the cage, leaving the other girls to follow more calmly behind. Blondie ran over to the hatch then halted hearing the sounds of battle overhead.

"One of you go first," she demanded pointing at the other girls.

Marty sighed and pushed past Nee-nee to reach the ladder. She had just begun climbing when Ace grabbed her arm.

"I'll go first," he said calmly. Marty blinked and nodded her understanding and waited for Ace to let go of her arm.

"Race you," she said and shot up the ladder.

Marco who had been watching the exchange burst out laughing at the indignant look on his friends face. He wasn't the only one either. The pretty green haired girl giggled-

"After being caged for days, one is less likely to obey orders," she said, smiling then followed the first girl. Blondie looked at the ladder then at Ace.

"Come back and retrieve me once it's safe," the girl ordered, Ace looked at her in disbelief.

"What is wrong with you girls?" He wondered, then grabbed her round the waist and dragged her kicking and screaming up the ladder onto the upper deck.

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Upon climbing onto the upper deck, Marty found the nearest weapon which happened to be a plank of wood, and proceeded enthusiastically join in beating up the slavers. Beth was right behind her with her own plank of wood and Ace brought up the rear dragging a screaming Nee-nee.

Ace couldn't believe his eyes, he could understand Blondie, but how did this lot manage to capture straw hat and the green pixie? While not overly impressive they were holding their own, hitting everything that dared to move with their planks.

"PUT! ME! DOWN!," demanded Blondie. Ace just grinned at the squirming girl and moved over to the ships railing, "What, what are you doing?! Don't you dare throw me overboard!" Ace ignored her, it was simpler that way.

"Oi RORY," Ace yelled, a big lad appeared on the Moby Dick's deck.

"What is it Commander?"

"CATCH."

"WHAT! DON'T, NO, WAIT!" Blondie screamed as Ace drew his arm back then hurled her over the gap between the two ships. She screamed as she flew, using some very inventive words that Ace had never heard before and filed away for future use. She reached the Moby Dick and was caught flawlessly by Rory. It was quiet for a few seconds; Ace began to wonder if she'd fainted.

"YOU. BASTARD!"

Ace Laughed, nope, he wasn't that lucky.

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Thank you so much for reading please review, next chapter the girls meet Whitebeard! Can they get a lift back to billion's cove? Do they really want to? Will Haruta attempt to convince them otherwise? Will someone end up slipping a micky into Nee-nees food to shut her up?

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