Orso's Tale of Woe! What Happened to the Marines!
"Well," began Orso McGee, "my bad run of luck started since you guys beat us…"
(~Flashback~)
"Due to the recent loss at the hands of the Infinity Pirates, Orso McGee, Valerie Steel, you have both been demoted," said a large marine official, "You are both being assigned the title of co-captain until you can prove yourselves worthy of being captain rank again."
"Okay, no problem!" shouted Orso, "We'll quickly work our way through the ranks! Nothing is a problem for Orso McGee! Right, Valerie?"
Valerie seemed distant. She didn't even respond, more importantly she wasn't even paying attention to the vice admiral who was assigned to give them the bad news. She was looking out the window.
"PAY ATTENTION TO ME!" shouted Orso.
Valerie snapped to attention. "Yeah…uh-huh…um…why have we been called to attendance here again?"
"You are both being demoted," said the vice admiral visibly annoyed. A large tick sat on his forehead.
"WHAT!" shouted Valerie, "Are you aware of how long we worked to obtain this title? Are you dense, dumb, or cruel!"
The tick on the vice-admiral's forehead grew and nearly tripled in size. "YOU WILL DO AS I SAY! I AM A HIGHER RANK THEN YOU!"
"Ranks, phbbt," said Valerie voicing her dislike, "fine, come on Orso, we have work to do."
"WAIT!" shouted the vice-admiral, "you are no longer assigned to the same crew. "Orso you will be under the supervision of captain Stephanie…" he pressed a button.
"Huh, she doesn't sound half-bad," said Orso, "never met her before, but I've heard she has done good work…" Orso feigned confidence in all reality he was extremely upset that he was going to be leaving Valerie. But he had to act brave, courageous, and strong for Valerie's sake.
A man in a bustier, skirt, and high heels came sauntering in. His triple butt chin scared the lights out of Orso. "Ah, look at the cute teddy bear," said Stephanie with a voice that was deeper then a bass drum, and made the sentence seem oddly out of context.
"I AIN'T CUTE! I AM MANLY IN A SMALL PACKAGE!" shouted Orso.
Stephanie bent down and picked Orso up and held him against her(?) flat as an ironing board chest. Valerie glared down Stephanie. Stephanie slowly walked out the room with Orso's defiant struggles against her bust sounding loudly. The door closed behind them.
Orso's shouts was quickly drowned out by Valerie's next scream, "ANYONE BUT HIM!"
(-Back to regular time-)
Orso spoke up, "I never did find out who was Valerie's new partner, but I'm guessing he wasn't her ideal partner. Anyways, over the span of the next few weeks, me and Stephanie brought in numerous bounties! She thanked me even! They were all brought down thanks to my amazing skills! I defeated over a hundred pirates over the span of a week! I was the strongest man among the seas!"
Zesiro, Sage, and Hiro-Shu all thumped him quickly on the head. "Tell the truth!"
"Fine, but we really did bring in a lot of bounties," said Orso, "we made a good fighting team, I just hated her guts. She was annoying…always calling me, cute little fu…anyways, back to the story! We were in town a little while ago…"
(~Flashback~)
Orso was strolling through town center. He was amazed by the voices and all the things they were selling 'Find-Your-True-Love' amulets, a golden apple seed, what rip-offs. He was strolling slower then every one else. Or his small footsteps just made it seem that way. All of the sudden a woman's voice shouted "WHO NEEDS A SHIRT ANYWAYS! NOT ME!" Orso recognized the voice he jumped up on top of the nearby bench, but he only caught a glimpse of the person as she was running away.
"HOLD IT! BY ORDERS OF THE MARINES!" shouted Orso, he leapt down and started chasing after her. He bobbed and weaved through the legs of bystanders. He was still going slower then everyone else. But he couldn't go any faster, he couldn't risk using Kumo Hokan in this busy street.
He quickly lost sight of the girl and gave up. He slowly trudged back to the ship. Somehow Stephanie was thrown into the sea. She growled at Orso on sight. "We are going after the Infinity Pirates! I want all hands on deck to chase after them A! S! A! P!"
Orso's new ship and crew slowly trailed after the ship and winded up on an island with a huge metal dome in the middle. Orso was the first one out on the ground running around trying to be the first one to get the crew. If he could take them down he would've proven himself to be captain-grade at least! Then he and Valerie would finally be reunited! She would thank him! Sadly, his plan didn't go as well as he wanted. He got lost…he was too small! The freakin' roses were about as tall him! He kept running though keep going straight! STRAIGHT! Sooner or later he would come across the building!
Orso crashed next to the building's wall. He found a wall! Finally! He rested upon the wall his back leaning on it. Oh, well, he came this far a short nap wouldn't hurt him…right? He was about to settle down when a loud thud came from inside the building. Just a rock falling or something. Then Orso heard a loud ticking sound. He stood up, and put his ear next to the wall. Yup, the ticking sound is still there, hmm, Orso wondered what could be going on. Next thing the wall expanded towards him with a loud boom. Orso was sent flying through the air.
Orso quickly regained consciousness. He got up and with a huff and a puff he began to continue his path around the dome, this time with renewed vigor at the thought of beating up the person that caused the explosion. He found a door after a long jaunt, probably about 1 mile.
The door was large, especially compared to him, he ran up against it and tried to force it open, but it being probably ten times bigger then him he had a lot of trouble forcing it open. He smiled. He came prepared for this. He put his right paw on the door. "Kumo Tekken!" he cried. The Impact Dial he stored in his right hand went off blasting the door off of the hinges with enough force to put a cannon to shame.
Orso ran through the halls courageously ignoring the numerous bodies of some random person's henchmen that were already defeated by his fellow marines. He leapt over another body wishing that there were still a few around. Maybe ten or so? You know enough to give him a warm-up for the upcoming fight. That would be nice.
He bumped square into Stephanie's leg. She turned around about to say something rude, but at the sight of Orso her face lit up with sheer happiness. She bent down and squeezed him once again to her flat chest. Orso wondered what Valerie was doing right now as he missed her plump and soft chest which would've given him cushioning to this rough and unwanted embrace.
Stephanie looked pretty banged up and Roger, a marine who went under cover posing as a member for the Black Market's king's gang…wait! Was this island the hideout for Karasu! He felt personally offended that no one mentioned that to him. Maybe they talked about it after he ran off…yeah, it could've been his fault. His teammates would never forget about him!
"Okay, with the information saying that Karasu is here, we must drop all ideas of capturing the Infinity Pirates out of our mind!" said Stephanie. Orso's heart fell…he had to beat them. He had to prove his worth to the Marines….he had to! "Instead we will focus all of our man power on Karasu! He may have a 58 million belie bounty but we are still the strongest force in the seas! We are Marines! If we all attack simultaneously after he is worn out from his fight with the Infinity Pirates we might just have a chance!" Orso was baffled they had to do all that! He could probably take Karasu out all by himself!… ergh, no, probably not, but he wouldn't be sneaky about such a coward. They were marines!
Orso nodded. The first chance he got he would take Karasu's head off with his Impact Dial! Wait…he had already used his Impact Dial. That put a damper on things…maybe he could use his chainsaw. He reached behind him and tried to pull it out, he failed. He tugged at Stephanie's skirt.
"Um…Stephanie," said Orso, mortified, embarrassed, and slightly dejected, "will you get my chainsaw out?"
"What's the magic word?" asked Stephanie in a sing-song voice. Her sing-song voice, those words, his regular masculine heavy bass-like words…Orso's stomach churned.
"Will you please get my chainsaw out?" asked Orso, ignoring the heckling coming from the remaining Marines.
"Nope!" said Stephanie cheerfully, "Little boys shouldn't play with such dangerous things you could hurt someone!"
"I AIN'T A LITTLE BOY! AS A MATTER OF FACT I AM OLDER THEN YOU ARE!" shouted Orso.
"That's not really anything to brag about," said Stephanie as she got up and started to swish around in her skirt towards the next pair of doors. The Marines continued after her chuckling.
"Come here and laugh in my face!" shouted Orso.
"No, thanks, I don't think I bend down that far!" shouted a Marine back.
"Idiot," said Orso. He quickly galloped off after them.
The next few minutes were something that Orso would've loved to have forgotten. Karasu dispatched the entire army of Marines with quick and relentless attacks. They were soon laid out on the ground, bloody, bruised, and beaten. Orso was lucky, he guessed, he was one of the last three standing. Soon it was only him, Stephanie, and Roger. He never considered either one of the other two really good fighters, only hearing how crazy Roger was or how funny Stephanie looked (he guessed he was in the same boat as her as he was in the body of a Teddy bear), but Roger was managing to hold his own in the fight with several flashes of cold blooded attacks, despite his hand bleeding profusely through the bandages. Stephanie was capable of taking attacks, too, but soon she quickly fell.
It was only him and Roger then. His Impact Dial was being used to the brink of uselessness. He had absorbed probably close to seven attacks, but he had gotten hit by probably fifteen of them. If it wasn't for the fact that he lacked blood he would've been passed out by now, too. He was losing a little stuffing, but nothing too important. His right hand tightened, it was still charged. He had to find the perfect time to use it. It would probably break soon from overuse. A normal dial would've, but the Impact Dial was designed to get hit over and over and over again. He'd have to risk it all with this next hit. He would've done just that, but a stray punch from Karasu had hit him. Knocking him out and sending him flying.
He had woken up about over an hour before Sage did and was wandering around wondering what happened to his crew. He guessed that they didn't see him due to his small body and had set sail without him. How they noticed the lack of his super cool, super charismatic attitude bewildered him, but it must be possible.
(~Back to regular time~)
"And so I am stuck here and I need some help to get back to the base," said Orso, " and if you don't oblige I will take your ship by force!"
"Why don't you just take our ship by force now?" said Zesiro, "I mean we were asleep you could've easily have gotten the drop on us and steal our ship and at the same time you could've collected our bounties."
Orso mumbled something.
"Speak up," said Zesiro.
Orso mumbled it louder still not wanting to actually say what the problem was.
"Come on," said Zesiro, "if you don't tell us I'll make sure that we leave you here on this island."
"I can't reach the steering wheel," said Orso looking away from the crew, "I'm too small."
"Okay, fine then," said Zesiro, "you still can't come though."
"What?" said Orso, "isn't it the captain's choice!" Mikoto rolled over in response not wishing to add his two cents. "Fine, uhhhh…how about a vote! That's nice and fair!"
"We are pirates," said Zesiro, "we aren't exactly ones for fairness, especially since we could slit you Marine throat right now and be on our way. I think we are already being nicer then your average pirate." Orso gulped loudly.
"Come on, Zesi," said Sage, Zesiro looked at her angrily wishing to make her pay for that nickname, "we might as well take him with us. If worse comes to worse we can throw him into the ocean. I mean he can't swim anyways."
"I agree with Sage!" shouted Orso.
"You don't count!" shouted Zesiro he then turned to Sage, "I was against inviting Alfred along, but you, Mikoto, Hiro-Shu, and Ridley were all for it! Now look where we are! We are one crew member short, Mikoto was nearly beaten to death, you broke your leg, me and Hiro-Shu are also completely exhausted, then we still don't know what kind of condition our ship is in! It could've been blown to smithereens by Karasu while we were knocked out!"
"Want us to leave him behind then?" said Sage, "he didn't arrest, he didn't attack us, he's done nothing wrong! He needs our help!"
"Neither did Alfred!" said Zesiro, "he could be bugged, he could hand us over to the Marines! I am putting my foot down and I say NO!"
Sage twisted her head and around and looked away from Zesiro. "Hiro-Shu you decide."
Hiro-Shu groaned. He hated being put on the spot like this. No matter what he said he would tick someone off. Hiro-Shu contemplated it. "I agree with Sage," he said finally, "With Ridley missing we are on person short. That's one less person to do chores, take shifts to watch for Sea Kings, and things of that sort. We'll need all the help we can get."
Zesiro grumbled grabbed onto Mikoto through him onto his back and walked away in the direction of the ship. Sage cheerfully ran in front of him and started doing a skip-like pace. So much for her broken foot…Orso smiled and started to walk right after them, but a sharp tug at his neck stopped him cold.
Hiro-Shu bent down and stared him in the face. "If you dare to betray Sage's trust, I will personally make sure that getting thrown into the ocean will be the least of your worries."
Orso smiled and gave Hiro-Shu a thumbs up. "Don't worry! I am an honest man through and through!"
How the Iron Golem was Forged! Hiro-Shu's Memories!
Well, it seems like I'm back on my roll! Two chapters in two weeks! Anyways, onto the actual story (you probably don't care much about my life). Who is Valerie's new partner? Is Orso trying to trick the crew? Where is Ridley? Is Ridley really going to die? None of these questions will be answered in the next chapter! But since it is about our favorite iron golem's past you should read it anyways!