Start the Assault!

Bringing Down the Gates!

"We are going to be the last ones to enter," said Henry, "since you guys have the lowest bounties out of the attacking group. Slash is going in first to use his acidic powers to melt through the heavy steel doors, Gunslinger will be right with him to provide cover fire. Then Zenmaru will enter soon after to start to defeat the enemies. Finally, you guys will arrive last to protect me all the way through as I am the only one who completely understands the mechanisms of the fort. Understood?"

"What about our ships?" asked Zesiro, "while we are running around in that fort our ships will be completely unprotected. Is that right?"

"No, Zenmaru's men will be holding back and staying stationed around the docks to protect the ships from all attacks," said Henry, "so no worries there."

"Its not like our ship can get trashed any more anyways," joked Enma. He bent down and picked a piece of debris up, "how did our ship even manage to get this far into the sea? We don't even have a shipwright."

"Yup," agreed Mikoto, "we got a very special ship. Despite the fact that it is overwhelmingly pathetic, I hand-me-down, and it lacks proper maintenance its still going strong."

"Sure," said Sage, "I'm starting to doubt whether or not this junk heap will be able to climb Reverse Mountain once we break down the fortress. It could fall apart halfway up and with more then half of its crew being Devil Fruit users we wouldn't survive that."

"Just have faith in this crummy ship," said Zesiro, "it'll hold out by some miracle."

"Nice to see that everyone has faith in a ship," said Ridley, "now if only that faith could be the truth. This ship is going to sink eventually and we may be on it."

"Thanks for the pep talk," said Henry, "anyways the ship should hold out for another day or two at least. I'm sure if something was wrong with it Slash or Zenmaru would've pointed it out."

The crew went quiet as a loud gunshot went off. Henry smiled, "it has begun. Start moving in closer!" The ship shuddered forward. Brilliant red flames exploded from the sides of the large compound.

The compound was large and white. The Marine's logo was tattooed all over the place. There were large stairways running down both sides of Reverse Mountain and every couple of yards there was a large, white tower. The place radiated the power and respect that the Marines commanded on several islands. There was a surprising lack of military equipment, such as cannons and warships.

"This place is still brand new," said Henry, "so their defense systems will be at an all time low. There are bound to be more Marines in there then they would be in a couple of weeks though, so prepare for the worst."

"Right," said Ridley with a nod of his head, "I'm more interested in the ten warriors you mentioned. I think those guys will be the most fun to fight."

"Like you could handle them," said Sage with a chuckle.

"Oh, yeah! Well, neither could you then! I won remember!" shouted Ridley.

"It was a draw," said Sage calmly as she focused on the island. She could easily make out Zenmaru's boat, Slash's boat was smaller and less obvious, but what was on her mind was the small rowboat-sized ship in between those two. It must belong to Gunslinger.

The boat soon docked. Zenmaru's men were gathered around the docks already. Sage took note that there were at least 50 of them, most of them men with swords. The dock was already littered with bodies. She was glad these guys were on their side. "Let's begin."

"I think the rest of the crew agrees," said Enma. Mikoto, Ridley, and Zesiro had already left the ship and were charging through the halls. "Watch your back, Sage." Enma began to walk towards the door.

Sage shared a smile with Henry, the only one who bothered to wait for her. "I better get moving," he said, "it's a long walk to the control room." With that he was off.

Sage was about to follow him when something on the horizon caught her eye. A small cluster of ships. They weren't Marine ships, but they didn't seem to have a Jolly Roger. She pointed them out to Zenmaru's men, but they just laughed and ignored her. It seemed like they weren't bother by those ships, so she guessed she shouldn't be either. She went into the building.

(-With Mikoto-)

Mikoto had morphed into his beast form due to the increase in speed it provided. He sped underneath a man's leg and then used his back as a springboard and launched off of it, sending the man to the ground. He slammed into another man sending it down. He suddenly stopped. He looked down the hall that went down to the right. The hallway was light brown and…squishy? It wasn't made out of a metal like the rest of the building…but he couldn't place his finger on what it was made out of. Suddenly, the material wrapped around his leg and started to drag him down the hall.

The goopy material eventually let Mikoto go, but they dropped him off in a secluded room. There was only one other person in the room. "Kin!"

(-With Zesiro-)

"Dang, that dumb mutt," said Zesiro as he brought another man down with a simple swipe of his sword. He charged forward. "He disappeared." Zesiro brought his sword back around and quickly dispatched another Marine soldier. "Where could that brat have gone?" He quickly came into an split in the hall. He could turn right, left, or continue on straight. He chose straight.

Zesiro had no idea on where to go from here, but he soon found himself in a large room. There were several wooden dummies scattered about. The majority of them were cut up into several pieces. Zesiro ignored the wide path of destruction and wandered through. He kept his eyes open and waited for enemy to jump out of nowhere, but there were none. He continued on his way through.

"Running away, pirate?"

(-With Ridley-)

Ridley was resting up against a wall. He was going to run straight on through, but he heard some screams. He had taken a turn down the hall and wound up in a prison block. He remembered Henry mentioning something about the fact that this place was used to temporarily hold prisoners that were caught in the East Blue before they were transferred over to Impel Down. There was only one guard in the room and he was asleep.

The prisoners immediately saw Ridley and began to beg him to grab the keys. He ignored them all. He walked through seeing if anything was worth his while. He found nothing, nothing except a perfect chance to exploit most of the people in here. He walked back over to the door and picked up the keys.

He wandered down the rows of prisoners once more to find a suspicious person in the end. At first, Ridley had dismissed her as it was just a female with nothing that exceptional about her, a normal girl and a normal bust. Nothing worth him feigning interest over, but then he noticed something…or a lack of something. Limbs.

The girl had long silver hair that swirled around her body just below her shoulder. She moved her head up and stared at Ridley for a brief moment with her purple eyes. She had on a black leather jacket, but the lack of limbs was still evident. She had on prisoner's shorts to cover her lower body. "What do you want, brat? Admiring my pretty body are we?" she said with a sarcastic tone.

Ridley shrugged. "Just amazed they bothered to arrest an amputee. Can't be much of a challenge."

"Hey!" shouted the woman, "I got prosthetic limbs and the Marines took them from me. If they hadn't I would be out of here."

Ridley shrugged and returned to the exploitation plan he had formed. "Who in here wants to break out?" shouted Ridley. The prisoners' immediately began to shout with joy.

"A breakout is a bit too much work, don't you all agree?" asked a man that was sitting behind him. Ridley spun around. He saw no one else, except the man who was asleep. He shrugged and went back to undoing locks. He didn't get very far when a fist was slammed into his face. Ridley spun around and hit the floor hard. He got back up. He still didn't see anyone, but he knew he got punched.

He took his guitar off of his back and began to play a couple of small melodies, "you can't hit me and then pretend that you aren't here."

"Who's pretending?" repeated the voice.

(-With Mikoto-)

"Kin? What are you doing here?" said Mikoto as he approached the young man dressed in a stark white Marine uniform. He glared at Mikoto with his brown eyes.

"I thought that was your ship," said Kin as he approached Mikoto. "I'm glad we could find the time out of our schedule to have another nice chat with each other."

"Yeah, I would've been happier if we never had our first chat," said Mikoto.

"Oh come on," said Kin as he made another step forward, "why are you so sour? You beat me, didn't you? Yeah…I pretty sure that you hit me and then left…it was a great day, but there was one small problem with it." Kin tapped his chin, "oh, yeah, I hate to lose." Dozens of spikes shot up out of the ground and all of them aimed at a different place on Mikoto's body. Another inch or so and Mikoto would've been a pincushion.

"Don't blame me," said Mikoto, "you guys attacked us with no reason." Kin didn't drop the clay spikes, he left them an inch away from Mikoto. Kin began to approach Mikoto.

"Yeah," said Kin, "I'm the bad guy. I was just the guy doing my job and hunting down a pirate who murdered an entire island. Actually, come to think about it…you didn't destroy the island, did you?" The clay spikes retracted a couple of inches from Mikoto's body. "No, the person who destroyed the island was none other then Renvont, wasn't it?"

"Yeah," said Mikoto, "so are you going to apologize for that?"

"Are you going to continue to be a pirate?" asked Kin, "I can pull a few strings and recall your bounty as you haven't done any real crimes…but if you continue to be a pirate I'll have to kill you."

"Sorry, bud," said Mikoto, "but once a pirate, always a pirate."

"Agreed," said Kin. The clay spikes returned into the ground, "Claymore." A long sword composed of clay extended from Kin's hand. "Let your death by an example to the Revolutionaries that broke in with you!" Kin charged at Mikoto, Mikoto rolled to the side letting the drive dig into the wall behind him.

"Revolutionaries?" asked Mikoto, "not a single Revolutionary broke into this place with me. Just Henry, Zenmaru, and Slash. Just pirates came in with me."

"Do you really think I am as stupid as you?" asked Kin as he drove his sword back at Mikoto. The blade screeched in the air just above Mikoto's head. Mikoto recoiled and launched a kick straight into Kin's stomach. Kin's body became clay and Mikoto's legs quickly stuck in Kin's body. Kin simply laughed. "Who am I kidding? No one is as stupid as you are!" Kin brought his blade straight down aimed at Mikoto's throat.

Mikoto brought both of his arms up simultaneously and smashed his sword into pieces. Kin's body opened up and allowed Mikoto the fall to the floor. Kin brought his arm into the air. His hand swelled into a large clay sphere. He brought the heavy sphere into the ground smashing the floor.

Mikoto backed a few feet away and breathed heavily watching Kin approaching him. "I don't know what you are talking about! I just want to get to the other side of Reverse Mountain! I'm trying to get to the Grand Line! The same goes with the rest of the crews that joined me!"

"You are so naïve!" shouted Kin as he brought his wrecking ball of a hand back down into the ground destroying the ground. "Those guys are world famous revolutionaries! How do you suppose that their bounties have already exceeded 50 million?"

"50 million?" asked Mikoto from his spot on the ground.

"They destroyed Marine Bases! They killed our supporters! They are nothing more then murderers!" Kin shouted as he brought his heavy hand into the wall to show emphasis. "They are planning to take over this base and gain control of Reverse Mountain!"

"Yeah, right," said Mikoto, "why would someone want to do that?"

"Think about it," said Kin. "There are only a few ways from the East Blue to the Grand Line, right? The most common is Reverse Mountain, if they control that they can control Marine Flow into the East Blue. Our Admirals wouldn't be able to get in while their strongest soldiers could."

"They would take over the East Blue," said Mikoto out loud.

"Correct," said Kin, "we would've lost one of the four Blues. That's enough to tip the powers in favors of the Revolutionaries right now. It won't matter that Dragon died, their force would triple in a matter of years. The World Government would lose a fourth of their power! It would be the end of the world as we know it!"

"How is that bad?" shouted Mikoto.

"You don't read the newspapers, do you?" said Kin. "When Dragon died the Revolutionaries began breaking up due to a conflict of interest. One of them were people who wanted to replace the modern the government with a 'better' government, another wanted to gain a position of power for unknown reasons, finally, the third group, the one you helped break into this place wants anarchy. They want the government to completely dissolve and bloodshed to break into an all time high."

"Yeah, right," said Mikoto. "None of them want that!"

"You mentioned that 'Hands' Henry, 'The Lazy Demon' Zenmaru, and 'Acid Touch' Slash Calico all broke in with you. Are you aware of who the fourth person who broke in with you is?"

"Yeah," said Mikoto, "Gunslinger."

"Yeah! 'Gunslinger' Renvont!" shouted Kin, "the same man who blew up an island and blamed you! He wants nothing more then bloodshed! That's what all of them want!"

A Revolutionary Assault!

'Hands' Henry's Conquest!

The crew has gotten themselves into a tough spot already. Just one chapter in! Ridley, Mikoto, and Zesiro already meeting powerful warriors. Also Henry's plan revealed. He is not a pirate, he is a revolutionary whose plan is to eliminate the current government! Also congratulations to those of you who guessed that Gunslinger was in fact Mavrik Zero's character, Dominic Renvont.

Also just to point something out the prisoner that Ridley was having a nice little chat with was an OC who I promise you will see more of as this arc progresses. The OC belongs to Draco Oblivion.