Lingering Madness
AN: I am going to mash a few things into this fic of mine but the main focus will be on one piece
Note: There will be a disturbing scene within this chapter somewhere, so brace yourselves.
Chapter 01: living through those wasted years
Location: Fishman Island, Fishman district
"Hm?" a four year old mermaid girl perked up from her concentration
"Another vision Shyarly?" A gruff voice asked the four year old mermaid. "how many time do I have to say you can't predict the future, it's all pretentious crap .
"No Its not arlong san!" Shyarly argued "but this one's different" she muttered
"How different" Arlong Asked curiously on why she seemed a little bit distressed.
"I saw a vision, a pirate. He was facing a crowd, on his knees, both arms were in chains. He was speaking to the crowd with a very big grin on his face. I couldn't hear his voice but I could tell it had an effect on people. Even after he died he still had that grin on his face, and then the crowd started cheering after he finished what he was saying to them. "She said in a nervous voice.
'This is unusual, she has never envisioned anything this big before' arlong mused
Shyarly then fidgeted again. 'Ano, arlong san there Is another vision coming'
Arlong sighed 'all this seeing the future bullshit is giving me a headache, why have I been tasked to babysit her anyway, che' he thought irritably
Shyarly's face then turned pale as a sheet; as her eyes shot open from her concentration from the crystal ball. And then she screamed and grasped her head in fear.
"Oi oi, what's with all the screaming?"
"B- bl-black s-soldiers. Red eyes, everything's burning" she was then crying in fear " -that laugh."
(Shyarly's vision)
Soldiers garbed in black armour with designs that varies along with their black helmets and metal masks with red lenses. Some of the soldiers were marching in a 18x2 line formation, carrying firearms and armour that have never been seen before but looked devastating when they were used against their enemies. The marines were getting slaughtered by their rapid firing firearms when the soldiers stood in a firing formation and fired upon the marines with a deadly hailstorm as they tried in vain to fight back to fight back.
There were some marines that fought in a melee battle against them but these soldiers were no slackers in that area as well. More and more marines fell to soldiers who were wielding large black metal shields with a small window to see out of with white letters written on it that was unfamiliar to anyone else. They were also wielding various blades and blunt weapons that differs from the marines' cutlass, there were machetes built for combat, combat hatchets/tomahawks, Batons with electrical protrusions coming out of the top, Katanas and other weapons ranging from big to small, whatever it was it didn't matter to them they were weapons used with brutal proficiency.
The soldiers were also fighting the marines with a mixed range of martial arts that proved quite effective against their enemies, others just charged at the enemies like madmen and drop kicked a few marines in the face and others did bayonet charges and ran their blades through them or pistol whipped them across the face with their rifles, breaking their jaws and fracturing their skulls.
And some of these soldiers were suicidal as one of the soldiers was sprinting right through the enemy lines like he was running a marathon, carrying a bag full of explosives chucking one explosive for every important building or position. And there were pyromaniacs wreaking havoc with their flamethrowers and firebombs behind enemy as well, burning everything and anything that gets in their way.
There were also buildings exploding from rockets and projectiles that seemed to give out a terrifying whistling sound before destroying segments of the building or completely destroying it.
The buildings looked grandiose and huge in appearance, as did the city's streets and plateaus but now it was replaced with the appearance of a warzone.
The vision then cut to a black figure inside of a building that he wore the same armour and helmet and mask as the rest of the soldiers but his looked different than the rest. He was holding a man garbed in an elegant white spaceman like suit by the throat, choking him he was covered in blood, cuts bruises and his face slightly deformed from what looked like it was quite a beating. And then he started to speak to him with his voice that seemed to echo all around. "We are not the monsters that you claim us to be, but to those who dared desecrate our home, we will be more frightful than even your worst nightmares. We *SKIZZT!{ERROR!)* have always been a resilient people. We toil while others complain. We persevere when others give up, and when evil stares us in the eyes: We stare right back. THAT is who we are. My people fought and died for *FZZZT! SCREEE!* (Warning a virus has been detected) and I will do no less to reclaim my home from the ashes from those who intended for it to be destroyed. And I will rid this world from the evil and suffering that you and they have caused to this world, and I will not stop until of you have perished by my hand." The black armoured soldier spoke to him through his mask that synthesized his voice deeply to sound menacing. (AN: think of mael radec's voice from killzone.)
{Danger*SKREE!* TRI-*FZZZZTT!* has been engaged! Initiating protocol *pshhhzt!*} the vision was soon starting to get blurry like static and every so often you could hear screeching noises.
The soldier then dropped the man dressed in white on his knees, with him pleading rather pathetically as he brought out a long, sharp kukri style knife and beheaded him with blood spilling out of his neck like a fountain of red.
And the vision changed again with a view of static all around, it then dimmed down enough to identify another person in a dark alleyway. You couldn't make out his appearance because it was just a silhouette of him. His whole body was twitching erratically.
"HAAHAHAHAHA!" The figure laughed in mad like deranged tone A revving could now be heard as the figure brought out a chainsaw, as he brought it up to a marine recruit who was petrified with fear.
"LISTEN "he began to chant
{POWER}
"LISTEN"
{INNOCENCE}
"LISTEN!"
{KNOWLEDGE}
"LISTEN!"
{DEATH}
"LISTEN!"
{HATRED}
"LISTEN!"
{REVENGE}
"LISTEN TO THE SOUNDS OF MADNESS!
{YOU ALWAYS HEAR IT, YOU ALWAYS FEEL IT-}
Then he brought out a rectangular box out of nowhere and pressed a button with a triangle on its side pointing to the right. (AN: it's a boom box)
(AN:Play Custer by slipknot)
He then jammed his chainsaw into a marine recruit's chest area and then started to thrust in and out of his chest and rocking the wicked looking saw blade about, whilst he was whipping his head up and down and then in a circle to the rhythm of the music. The marine was screaming from the tormenting agony from where his chest area used to be.
"HEEEEHAHAHAHA!" the figure continued to laugh as blood and gore started to fly everywhere.
{BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO FEAR IT}
(End of vision)
Shyarly was cowering under a table with her hands grasping her head and tears pouring out of her eyes whimpering.
Arlong didn't know what to make of this; he has never dealt with anything like this before, not counting babysitting a brat which he didn't want to do in the first place. But beside the point, the child was now traumatised by her own mystic ball.
"Whoever's future she has looked into, I'm gonna kill the bastard for making my job twenty times harder than it already is." He grumbled in annoyance as he tried to calm her down.
(LOCATION: WEST BLUE, OHARA)
Located in west blue was one of the many islands located within the region, Ohara. The island of Ohara is home to a peaceful village with a giant tree sitting in the middle of the island which housed the oldest library in the world. The tree is also home to the archaeologists, whose job is to uncover historical relics and information about the past.
The island is also home to a seven year old girl who was currently walking through a forest after being kicked out yet again by her bitch of an aunt. She was kicked out because it was her daughter's birthday party and a lot of the neighbouring kids will be attending along with their parents which she doesn't want her around and neither would the parents and their kids.
The girl however didn't care, that meant more time alone to study in peace for the exam in archaeology over at the tree in the next three months.
Whilst she was musing in her own thoughts about the upcoming exams, she wandered deeper into the forest where apparently she hasn't yet been to. She then arrived at a cliff face on the north eastern part of the island.
'This spot shall do fine, at least I won't be bothered here as all the kids in the neighbourhood are at oba'san's house' she thought in a nonchalant way.
*CRACK!*
"!" the noise suddenly broke the girl out of her thoughts and straight into danger.
Unfortunately the cliff she was standing on was weakened due to last night's storms and was susceptible for landslides.
Everybody on the island was supposed to be warned about this to prevent their children from playing around steep hills and cliff faces, unfortunately her aunt wasn't the least bit concerned about warning the girl about it.
The ground gave way beneath her feet and collapsed inwards into a deep dark hole. She managed to use her devil fruit powers (the Hana Hana No Mi) by sprouting arms underneath her to soften the impact, which it sort of worked.
She still landed roughly but she was bleeding from her forehead, right elbow and her left knee and foot.
Trying to force back the pain and tears, she forced herself onto her feet with a lot of pain trying to force her back down.
She then noticed that she was in what appeared to be a cavern, but this cavern was filled with a lot of really large roots which was most likely from the giant tree, and there was also moss, and plants everywhere. She also noticed that there was a large pool of water that leaded out to the sea, But it was blocked off by the collapsed rubble of rock and dirt
She also noticed that it was freezing cold down the cave, like arctic cold. And the cave was very misty and icy.
Now that was indeed strange.
She cursed to herself for her own error and the fact that no one will be coming to rescue her soon. And she was going to freeze to death down here. She kicked a stone somewhere which just added more pain to her knee which made her wince in pain.
*clang!* the stone she just kicked struck a metallic surface.
'Was that…. Metal?'
She looked over to where she kicked the stone and what she saw was something that she fas never see before on this island.
There was a large metallic object that was buried beneath all of the entire frozen roots, weeds moss grime and it was half-submerged in water. And all of it was frozen, not to mention that it explained where the mist was coming from as the freezing mist was emanating straight from it.
The object looked big enough to fit a description of a small fishing boat for multiple people, and then she noticed the fins and propellers which came to a conclusion that it was a boat or as some of the adults mentioned, a submarine.
Curiosity getting the better of her seven year old mind she scrutinized the build of this strange machine that was somehow the cause of this underground freezer. She noticed that there were remnants of what looked like letter were either scratched off or worn off over time as she couldn't read any of it. Then she noticed that there twelve buttons, two were coloured differently than the rest, one in green and the other red.
She then walked over to the strange machine, right where the buttons were. And she did what any child would do when presented with an array of different buttons, she pressed them.
Surprisingly the machine responded with an electronic *beep* she recoiled from the strange noise but then pressed another button, and then another two grey coloured buttons and then pressed the green button.
*BEEP BEEP* "ACCESS DENIED *STATIC*, CRYO POD IS -*MORE STATIC*-STILL IN USE." A monotonous voice announced barely as the static more noticeable than the voice out of nowhere, although it sounded. The little girl jumped up in surprise thinking that she was not alone. She looked around to find out that there was no one behind her and it actually came from the machine.
She then notices that there was another red button but it was bigger than the rest. She reached down towards the big red button and pressed it, although it required more strength to push it because of the ice.
More beeping noises started to blare out from the pod and a dim red light started flashing.
"WARNING- EMERGENCY STOP- INITIATED, STAND BY- FOR CRYO THAWING- PROCESS" The static voice announced.
*PISHHHHHH!* All of a sudden the Object started to heat up melting all of the ice covering it and slightly singing all of the moss and branches surrounding it
"WARNING,- UNABLE TO OPEN CRYO POD DOOR DISENGAGING MAGNETIC SEAL LOCKS TO REPEL x100. PLEASE STEP AWAY FROM THE POD" The voice warned the girl and she did what she was told.
A door suddenly flew off the cryo pod at great speeds, breaking away all of the burnt branches and frozen foliage hitting the earth wall on the other side of the cavern.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, HAVE A NICE DAY. "Said the static voice
The girl walked forward slightly nervous, looked into the pod where there was steam now emanating from the inside. From the thickness of the steam now emanating inside the pod she noticed a dark figure. When she tried to look further a hand suddenly appeared from steamy abyss and grabbed the door frame pulling himself out of the pod and into the light.
The figure then took a step outside of the pod. The figure was drenched in melted ice as he revealed himself to the girl. The figure was wearing a black trench coat, dark grey combat trousers, a matte black combat vest and a matte black helmet with a dark grey mask attached onto it.
The dark figure was just standing there, no motion, nothing.
The girl just stared at the figure in bewilderment at the fact that a man has just appeared out of nowhere from a machine that was buried under the island. She then decided to check if the man is okay by walking over to him.
When she took one step forward, the ice underneath her right foot made a crunching sound through the ice.
The man then suddenly whipped around with his hand on his Ranger Sequoia 500 magnum revolver grip,(think of a crossover between a S&W 500 magnum and a ranger sequoia but black with gold markings and a muzzle break.)The gun was still in its holster, finger on the trigger guard and thumb on the hammer.
"Hm?" the man now let go of his gun and straightened his back. "A kid? What are you doing here, don't you know that there is a war going on."
The girl now turned her head to side in confusion "War, what war? We never had a war before. This island is too peaceful for that."
"You mean you don't know, where exactly am….SHIT! WHERE EXACTLY AM I!
"Ohara, in west blue." She said nervously from him shouting.
"Never heard of it! And where the hell is that on the damn map!
"I-I-I don't know said now frightened by the scary soldier, tears now leaking from her eyes.
The soldier then sighed now cooling down, knowing better ten to start venting off on a kid that didn't deserve it. He walked up to the girl and kneeled down to her height and patted her on the head.
"Look I'm sorry kid, it's just I need to know where I am so I can get back to my home. Now let's start this again." He then proceeds to remove his helmet and mask with the disengaging the safety lock on his helmet to fix it in place over his head. He waited for his mask to finish depressurising and then removed it revealing a man in his late teens with a black spiky shaggy hairstyle that was covering his forehead and half of his neck. And his eyes were dark blue and had minor bags under his eyes with dark circles all from lack of sleep.
"My name is Alexander D Marcus, may I know what your name is" He said politely
She sniffed and rubbed her eyes and then smiled sweetly "Nico Robin"
I smiled back and nodded and then stood back up.
I noticed that I was in a cavern and that my sub was half submerged in the freezing cold water. 'Oh that's right' Marcus took of his trench coat and wrapped it around robin to protect her from the cold. "That's better, now what is a child doing in a cavern all alone?"
She thanked him for the coat which was surprising for her because no one she knew apart from her friends over at the tree was this nice to her. Usually most of the adults on this island would just ignore her, isolate her from going near their children, even they sometimes sneer at her. The children and her aunt were even worse.
"I was supposed to be studying for an archaeology exam that is coming in the next three months. I decided to study near a cliff face because people don't come here that much, and then the floor crumble beneath me. Now that I think about it there was a big storm last night that was really strong."
"Land slide most likely, and if you look over at the rubble of dirt and ice, I bet that was the entrance to this ice cavern. By the way what were you doing walking wearing a sundress, isn't it winter out there?" He asked her
Robin shook her head "No its summer."
Marcus scratched his head in confusion "Then where did all of this ice come from"
Robin pointed at the cryopod/sub
Marcus turned around and his eyes lit up in recognition. 'That's a Lurker one man attack submarine, but it looks larger than the usual model.' Marcus then walked towards the sub's cockpit and noticed all of the intricate pipes and all of the water vapour and cold mist drifting through the air. He reached into the cockpit and brought out a toolbox located in the large glove compartment and then walked around the sub towards a panel. Marcus pulled a switch that was right next to the panel….. Nothing happened. Marcus sighed and then brought out a crowbar and jammed it into the gaps of the panel and with a great heave he forced it open.
Inside the panel was the mini subs engine, a nuclear fusion quantum reactor which was strange because you could find several of these on the bigger submarines capable of firing warheads. 'It made more sense for them to have one of these, but a mini sub does not use that much power to keep on running, what else does it need for this sub to carry one, besides this minisub barely uses any power and this reactor can last for centuries , that's how amazing these things are.'
Whilst Marcus was having a tinker around the engine compartment he noticed a couple of wires leading to another section within the engine compartment. He then opened it to then feel a breeze of -146 degrees Celsius of mist that froze up parts of his helmet and armour but his armour prevented him from gaining frostbite because of his armours heating system. 'oooohhh that explains it.' It was a leaking liquid nitrogen fuel cell that somehow got damaged and leaked the freezing liquid out of its cell and turned the outside of the sub into a miniature ice cavern. 'At least I was protected from the inside, thank fuck for that, but what's it doing in here?'
Marcus walked back up to the cockpit and climbed back in ignoring the cold and heat, and checked the primary computer on the dashboard and searched for more details, until he noticed something peculiar 'Huh that's strange nuclear fusion quantum is said to last hundreds over 500 years at best, so why is the power percentage at two percent. What happened did the manufactures not charge it enough before distributing it or something?' deciding to shrug off the minor distraction and attempted to log on to the dashboard computer, robin was trying to climb up but the cold was sapping her strength. Marcus noticed this and pulled her up into the cockpit and shut the cockpit and sealed it.
Marcus saw she was shaking badly due to the cold temperatures, even he was feeling it. The cockpit was still in its thawing process but it was cooling down rapidly, He flicked on air conditioner on the dashboard to try and heat up the sub which actually worked. As the cockpit was now nice and warm Marcus then turned on the computer which also worked surprisingly, all thanks to new and improved computer technology and engineering.
"What is that? Robin asked curiously
"This is a computer, You can use this to write up documents using these buttons here, play games, music and videos and browse the internet."
"What is the internet?"
"ERRR, it's a bit too complicated to explain right now so I'll explain later. Ah ha I'm in!" Marcus was now logged into the computer, but there were a load of problems with it, the databanks were damaged due to corruption, except one file that was untouched.
This document was named "IMPORTANT: Please read" well this better be good.
Marcus opened up the file to read that it was addressed to him.
{TO Marcus}
"If you are watching this then that means the cryopod has successfully worked, in fact we don't even know when you will wake up. And again I really am sorry for doing this to you but it has to be done.
"As I promised before I will give you a brief explanation on what the fruit you just ate actually does. In hindsight the fruit gave you powers, I don't know what kind of powers it actually is as I have not conducted enough tests on it yet. But I believe the fruit is meant for creation of certain objects, it can be anything like: clothing, tools, accessories, weapons, vehicles or maybe yourself or other people. It all depends on how you use it. It should be pretty simple if you just think about it."
"Another thing I have to tell you before I go, your uncle told me that the weapon that was supposed to a retaliation weapon that we used was to be strictly forbidden unless it was an emergency. Its name was project Uranus, the weapon itself was in its prototype stage. Just as it was about to fire, the system mainframe's data got corrupted with a virus, which was odd because our computers are far superior to just catch a simple virus."
"But when we realised what this virus actually was, we discovered the virus was actually a sentient being and took advantage of the weapons targeting controls. It was another project of ours, we were trying to resurrect the dead and turn them into loyal soldiers, now I know it was mad of us to attempt such a thing, but we were not creating the flesh eating zombies, the corpses were fitted with a neural transplant chip into the back of the neck and a few chips into the brain, unfortunately we didn't do a background check on one of the undead soldiers, I don't know who it was if the person that was alive before was mentally unstable then that could have negative effects on the transplant and could turn against us. I have no idea how he did it, but he managed to turn the tides on all of us when we needed it most. I am writing this to you now before he sets it off."
"Marcus I don't know if you will ever meet him but be careful, this man is dangerous he will not hesitate to kill you. His name is-" *FIZZZZKT!* [ERROR 5685876857]. "What the NONONONO! Damn it!"I shouted at the screen as the video just suddenly cut out from a file corruption. Then the computer suddenly Marcus heard a notification sound effect on the computers own email program, he looked at the screen and read the received email. [So that's where you were hiding you sneaky little shit, thought you could hide from me for this long eh. but you are not ready yet, not to worry I can be patient. Oh and one more thing Marcus, you might want keep your head on your shoulders, because all it takes is one bad day to turn the sanest man, to madness. Oh and as for my name, you don't deserve to hear that as of yet, but you may call me Tricky, got that. JA NE, LOL! XD]
'How does he know my name? What the hell does he want from me?' were some of the thoughts going on in Marcus's head.
"Marcus? Are you in trouble?" robin asked him.
Marcus almost forgot that robin as still sitting on his lap.
"in a way, but you don't need to worry I can take care of myself. But enough about me, we need to get out of this cavern and we cannot go out the exit because of the cave in, so we have to go deeper into the cavern and hope for another exit."
"Can't we blast through it?" robin suggested.
"Why What makes you say that?" Marcus raised left eyebrow at that
"You have the look of a soldier, and soldiers blow things up."
"Clever girl, but no I'd rather not because the cavern's ceiling may collapse on top of us."
Robin nodded "but we may freeze to death out there, if we make it we might have to cut off our frozen arms and legs." She said rather bluntly
Marcus blinked "true you do have a point, but did you have to be so blunt about it."
Robin shrugged "you know it's true, we don't have any winter clothes."
"True, so what do you suggest we do?"
"That man said that you have a power to create things and it should be pretty simple if you think about it."
"Well that explains the fruit, but how does it work? If I just think about it, is that how it works?" Marcus closed his eyes and thought of arctic clothing for robin. Then suddenly in a burst of red and black flames, a purple coloured with a white fur trims on the hood with a white scarf and purple gloves. "Holy cra—Ahem! Now that is really handy. Here put this on, and can I have my coat back."
Marcus helped robin put on the coat and when she was done you could not resist the urge to awwww.
"Awww, now aren't you a cute and adorable little Eskimo.
Robin blushed with a bit of pink and looked at the ground with her head. She was hardly ever complimented by other people.
"I'm not cute" she mumbled, but Marcus heard it.
"Oh come on it suits you perfectly, what makes you think you are not cute." Marcus asked
"Demons are not cute and adorable, they are scary and horrifying and they hurt other people. So how can I be cute and adorable when I can do this." She lifted her hand up and suddenly hands sprouted out from Marcus's shoulders and back.
Normally other people would be revolted and would be stricken with fear at such a sight, but Marcus…no.
"Wow that's interesting." Robin's eyes widened in surprise, he wasn't even bothered in the slightest at such a sight. "Now who said that all that to make you think in such a way, because to me that is a pretty call ability you have."
"Most of the children and some of the adults say that I am a demon because of my powers."
"Robin that's just ridiculous who cares what other people think, to hell with them. Many people fear what they don't understand all the time its human nature, or as I call it moronic ignorance. Don't you have parents around; shouldn't they be keeping an eye out for you?"
Robin shook her head sadly "my father passed away a few years ago but I barely know him, and I don't even remember my mother."
"I'm sorry to hear about that but what about guardians, like other family members or friends, you must have friends at least" Marcus said with a bit of concern.
"I only live with my aunt Roji, cousin and my uncle (I don't know the names of the last two because they are unknown, and frankly I don't care about them)" she flinched at the name of her aunt that caught Marcus's eye which in turn caused him to frown at the action. "The only friends I truly have are the archaeologists over at the tree library."
"Why were you on your own in the first place?"
"Aunt Roji, kicked me out because she doesn't want me being there for my cousins birthday"
My face scowled even further with disappointment and a little bit of anger.
'Hmmm well that won't do at all; I suppose I should pay her a visit later on.' He thought with a bit of malice covering his thoughts, but decided to deal with it later. "Anyway let's get going"
Robin nodded and Marcus opened up the cockpit and climbed out with Robin. Marcus put back on his mask/helmet and coat to protect him from the cold, and just as they were about to leave Marcus spawned in a flashlight/torch with his thoughts 'I am beginning to love to love this power, does it work with weapons?' he brought out his hand and with a burst of dark flames a Remington 870 shot gun that was extended to fit more ammo inside, a red dot sight and a detachable choke to reduce the spread 'yes it does, Sweeeet!' he cheered inside of his head
Marcus would be considered as a gun loving nut, as he was a massive fan of the 20th to early 21st century old earth guns even though the energy weapons were issued to replace gunpowder weapons at some point. Even Marcus test fired a few prototypes even though its power was quite impressive, but the problem was with reliability of said weapon. The energy rifle's barrel heats up more quickly than a regular barrel from the gunpowder variant, so it didn't live up to his expectation at that moment, but he still loved the classic guns that were legendary in the old earth.
"Just in case" I informed robin about the necessity I then attached or merged the flashlight to the shotgun, and then went on their way.
They then stopped at a slope which looked like water rapid should be, instead there was a lack of water and most of the ice was covering the slope. And it looked incredibly slippery.
' I think this part of the cavern was supposed to be fully filled with water. Hmmm? Guess I have No choice then.' He spawned in a kayak that burst out of nowhere in a black and crimson red flames. The kayak looked durable with the oars and everything, He sat down in the kayak seat and picked up robin and placed her in front of him, luckily it came with a water proof cover to protect her waist area from the cold water.
"Marcus are you really sure this is a good idea?" robin asked with nervous anticipation.
"Positive, trust me on this I've done this plenty of times. Now are you ready?"
"Erm, i-"
"Too late this is more fun!" he pushed the kayak down the rapids. "Hang on tight now, it's going to get really fast." He said that as he pushed the kayak down the rapids.
"Wait Marcus! KYAAAAAA!" She screamed all the way down to the bottom.
The ride was an absolute adrenaline packed blast, not to mention quite dangerous and the water is bloody cold.
The water rapids had a fast straight, sharp corners and large drops which thankfully robin didn't fall out.
Strange thing was that the water splashes seemed a bit heavy when it made contact with my body, robin mentioned it before that she was feeling weak from the water.
After the fun ride down, we reached the bottom and found out that there was an underground lake, fully frozen.
"Woo! That was fun, wasn't it Robin….. Robin."
Robin just sat there with a blank look on their face.
"Woops I think I broke her." I said with a sweat drop forming.
Robin then turned around to face me with her eyes sparkling from excitement. "Can we go again?" She asked
Marcus laughed which in turn made her giggle" Another time, but first we need to keep moving"
They drifted over to the ice and climbed on top of it, and the ice itself was sturdy enough to stand on which was a good thing because I couldn't afford to be trapped under ice.
Another cool thing was that I can dismiss the spawned weapons and objects like disassembling it and putting it in storage or reserves. So I used it on the kayak and it disintegrated into nothing. After that was done we were on our way.
(20 minutes later: still in the same ice cavern)
It had been 20 minutes since robin and Marcus left the sub behind, it had to stay there for the time being until Marcus knew where he currently is.
'Still no exit in sight, and why in the hell is it still icy all the way over here, that is some powerful stuff back in the sub' Marcus thought with bewilderment.
Robin however didn't mind the underground winter wonderland in fact she was enjoying it as she was exhaling and watching her breath freeze in the air.
For some reason the further on they went inside of the cavern they eventually discovered snow, inside a cavern.
Robin was on the ground creating a snow angel, as she has never done that before. Marcus seeing the moments of happiness, although it was brief but it was still something. He frowned at the past conversation that they had on the way.
Earlier Marcus enquired more about life with her aunt, uncle and cousin, and on their end it was looking good for them.
From what he gathered about her aunt, she is a self-centred/selfish, abusive, and uncaring and an absolute slave driving bitch, which sums her up accurately. She never hesitated to abuse or even threatens to hit her for crying. She never even cared for her niece but only cares for herself, her husband and her child. She just wanted her gone but she can't, because the uncle has promised someone to take care of her which was most likely the mother, for whatever reason that could be as to why she would abandon her child like that could be something serious. Then again the uncle has barely done fuck all to care for her, in fact he was a massive pushover for his wife, an absolute pussy in his opinion. And the child was just as bad as the mother; he was a cruel boy who loved nothing but tormenting robin.
It was so tempting to just shoot them for the worthless scum they were, but I didn't come here to be a wanted man because I don't have a bloody clue of where I am.
Now robin had her back turned looking at her work in the snow, I suddenly had a mischievous smile formed behind my mask I bent down and gathered snow into my hand and chucked into the air and hit the top of robin's hood.
"KYA!" she yelped in surprise and turned around to see Marcus was laughing. "Never let your guard down in unknown territory." And I kept on laughing as she pouted and then smiled mischievously.
*PAF!* all of a sudden a large snow ball struck the right side of my face out of nowhere, I turned to my right to see that no one was there, in my state of confusion another snowball struck the back of my head causing me to turn around towards the trajectory point towards the thrower, again no one was there.
Then I remembered something, I turned around to robin "are you using your powers?"
"Maybe, but you were the one who started it, and I will be one who will end it." As she said that an army of arms formed with snowballs in their hands surrounding Marcus ready to throw.
Marcus sweat dropped "now that's just fair" he groaned.
"Life's not fair, deal with it." She countered
Then al hell broke loose as Marcus got bombarded with a hail of snowballs. After taken a lot of hits from all of the snowballs which were surprisingly accurate, he jumped behind a frozen tree near a deep frozen pool.
As the two were having fun with the massive snowball fight, Marcus's motion tracker device inside his helmet was triggered by something that moving to their position, and then he spotted from the corner of his eye that there was a shadow forming underneath the deep iced over lake, he then noticed that the shadow was heading for robin who was standing on top of the icy lake. Deciding to make a mad sprint and ignoring all of the oncoming snowballs coming from robin he whipped her up in his arms when suddenly a bright light flashed from underneath them, Marcus fortunately heard his instincts to get away from that area just in time as he jumped up high towards his right when suddenly the ice just exploded underneath them as a giant sea creature just smashed through the ice with its mouth wide open missing the both of them only just, and then it landed back into the water. Marcus threw robin towards on to safe land which was far from his current position. As robin landed safely without injuries onto the soft snow, Marcus turned back to the creature that attacked him,
The creature looked like a demonised fish with green scales, four eyes that were acting like headlights that you would find on vehicle driving at night but blinding to look at and not to mention the sharp looking teeth. (AN: it's a Tateobesu from devil may cry 2, for his first boss fight) and it was fast, really fast as he could see it swimming in the water back up towards him, and when it was close it opened its mouth let out a piercing shriek.
*SHEAAAAAAAAAAAAA!* (Same shriek from the game)
(Play devil may cry 2 soundtracks music – parasitic evil)
I dived to left as the demon fish crashed through the ice again. Now I saw my chance to get back onto land, but then the fish decided to cut off my chances of escape and used his tail to whip the ice under me to send me back to where I was, as if he knew where I was.
This is bad, this fish is intelligent, and he knows where I am even if he is not looking.
"Behind you!" robin called out.
The fish was now behind him, half submerged in water, swimming up to him fast. 'What! How did he get behind me so fast?' He jumped onto another section of ice to avoid a watery death.
'If he manages to get me in the water I am a dead man.' Marcus thought as he brought up his shotgun that was loaded with a 12 gauge 3.5 magnum shells and fired three shots into its side wich did some damage but not much, as it went past him it then dived back into the water. I then noticed that there was more to this fish than it seems, it literally vanished from my sight leaving only an apparition that was hard to spot. 'Great it has a stealth cloak, since when did evolution become so messed up, and scary.'
I was now waiting for the fish to finally surface but all I knew was that this could end really badly for me, I needed more eyes around. 'Wait eyes' that's it's!' I then focused my fruits power into to spawning a living thing, and through the fire and flames out came another person which turned out to be a copy of me. As I stood there in utter surprise, the clone then spoke to me.
"OI Twat! Now is not the time to stop and admire yourself, give me a damn weapon already I can't spawn them myself!" he shouted at me.
I shook my head to bring me back into reality "Any specific type." "anything above a 5.56 mm and a good penetration against him.
I nodded and spawned in an AK 12 with five clips and handed it over to him. "You might want to spawn in more guys with weapons with them and have them spread out, and spawn in some grenades." His clone suggested to him.
"Err alright." He focused on creating a squad of eight clone soldiers with high calibre weapons such as a HCAR (Heavy Counter Assault Rifle), M240 LMG, Scar 17, AA12 Auto shotgun, Colt M4 sopmod with M203 grenade launcher, FN FAL and a G36A4. "That should do it." a bit over kill don't you think" said a clone wielding the FAL. "There is no such thing as overkill; it's called getting the job done. Marcus replied as he reloaded his shotgun to 10 gauge.
Robin saw the whole cloning thing with wide eyes, she just saw nine Marcus lookalikes just appear from nothing just like her ability.
"Robin! Keep your distance, don't worry this won't take long." The original Marcus called out to her.
Marcus turned back to the task at hand, where did the monster fish go?
Marcus turned on his motion tracker feature inside his helmet's lenses and focused on the water below them. "Everyone keep your attention on your motion trackers, now. And keep your eye open around our surroundings" I ordered them and they complied. Good, they are not stupid.
After what was like the longest minute wait of all time, we all stayed completely still, waiting for it to make its move.
"Marcus- san, is it gone?" robin asked from the piece of dry land still frightened from what happened before, not that he could blame her, who wouldn't.
"No, it's still around." One of the clones said.
"The fish is playing it smart, like what a natural predator does in long grass; it waits for an opportunity to strike." Another clone said
"Yea what they said" Marcus said sweat dropping. 'Now that's just plain creepy, can't I change their appearance and personalities instead of just an exact carbon copy of me.
"Yes, you can do that." Said the first clone.
"Wha-how did-?"
"Incoming! At our six!" one of the clones shouted.
"I'll explain later, just shoot the bastard fish!" he shouted
Marcus brought up my shot gun that was now loaded with a more powerful 10 gauge shells for extra power.
The fish finally surfaced and headed straight for the nearest prey, which happened to be Marcus because he got distracted by my own surprise.
Luckily his clones turned around just in time and opened fire with a hailstorm of bullets tearing through its scales, the combination of rounds that were used, were working effectively against its target. But the fish was shrugging off the pain like it wasn't anything to worry about; it was just determined to catch its prey. It could be incredibly stubborn, stupidly suicidal or it knows that he is the main threat, which he personally believes the third is the most likely case.
The fish was beginning to open its jaw in attempting to consume him, but Marcus was in the perfect spot.
He raised his shotgun and focused down the sights, triggering his 6th sense feeling when he is concentrating, he didn't need to use the V.A.T.S much because in his opinion it takes away the skill of being a marksmen.
As he focused on the fish in front of him, he focused on one of the fishes eyes and squeezed the trigger. The shotgun let off a tremendous bang and The 10 gauge magnum rounds struck one of its eyes and exploded in a shower of blood and gore.
The monster shrieked in pain from having its bottom right eye shot out and started thrashing about destroying more ice in the lake sending pieces of ice everywhere and whipping its tail as it went berserk. It tail glowed white and whipped at barely trackable speeds and hit two of my clones, instantly killing them by slicing them apart. Strangely enough they didn't have blood in them, instead of blood it was crimson red and black smouldering ash spraying out of their bodies and their bodies just disintegrated rather quickly along with their weapons.
*RATATATATAT!* *BANG!BANG!BANG!* were the sounds echoing in the cavernsasthe clones carried on firing accurately at the monster fish's weak parts like its fins, eyes and underbelly when it was visible. Marcus shot all of his remaining shells in his Remington and switched to his ranger sequoia 500 and spawned in another copy of the same gun with more ammunition. 'I always wanted to do this.' He thought gleefully' he aimed both of the huge 500 magnums at the exposed areas, open wounds or soft areas on the fish, he breathed in and fired a shot in-between a loose scale splitting it apart exposing the flesh within, he fired another shot from his other gun at the exposed flesh blasting pieces of it off from the power of the round penetrating straight through the flesh and striking one of its kidneys.
The fish shrieked in agony as it was now starting to feel the pain coming from its scales being torn apart and the bullets penetrating its flesh by the constant gunfire.
In an act of desperation it dived back into the water, but Marcus and the clones were not having any of that happening.
In Marcus's hand was a primed grenade and a few other clones were also holding grenades "Frags out!" he chucked it in where the fish was and detonated underwater just beside the fish.
The multiple grenade barrages just fuelled the fish further into pissing it off more, and diverted itself back to face them and charged at a random person.
One of the clones wielding the Scar battle rifle saw it coming straight for him and he couldn't get off the ice he was on because there wasn't near any ice to jump to. So he then brought out two hand grenades in each hand and then pulled out both pins with his teeth and spat them out priming his grenades.
Just as the fish dived out of the water with its jaws wide open, the clone just heroically dived straight at the fish whilst yelling "BANZAI! " *BOOM!* A big explosion met the face of the demon fish, effectively scarring and wounding its face.
'What the fuck?! Bollocks are these clones like me! I am not crazy enough to be that suicidal!'
"As I said before I will explain later." the first clone said to me. 'Seriously how is he doing that?' Marcus thought with a raised eyebrow.
The fish was gravely wounded but it still had a lot of fight left in him, and soon found an easier target that was standing a bit too close to water.
The fish turned around and dashed towards robin, Marcus noticed this and shouted towards the grenadier clone "203, now!" and then turned around back to Robin. "Robin! Get away from the water NOW!" He yelled at her.
Robin saw the fishes figure in the water and she turn around and ran, then just as the fish leapt out of the water attempting to snatch up robin in its jaws. A 40mm high velocity grenade struck its face with a deafening explosion courtesy of the grenadier clone which he then reloaded his m203 grenade launcher.
Part of the demon fish's face was incredibly scarred with blood pouring out of the burning gashes on its face. And it was now thrashing about along the shore and whipping its tail fin around smashing into parts of the pillars and ceiling completely destroying it.
*rumble!* the ice and rock was now starting to collapse and it was at that point in time where everyone needed to leg it.
"Everybody out!" Marcus called out to everyone and jumped from one ice section to another until he reached the shore to pick up robin and run for an exit.
The clones did the same and followed his lead, unfortunately so did the fish, who then decided he wanted to be a snake. The fish was now slithering across the icy floor, decimating anything in its way.
"Go! We will cover you!" three of the clones decided to stay behind to lay suppressive fire on the fish.
"You guys are literally crazy, but thanks anyway." He thanked them and then ran ahead with robin in his arms
The clones laid heavy suppressing fire onto the fish with an M240, AA12 and an m4 with the M203. But with all the bullets and explosions the fish stopped at nothing and smashed straight through them, determined to catch its prey.
After furiously running for a few minutes Marcus spotted a hole in the ceiling of the cavern with a piece of rope dangling down the hole with a bucket attached to it.
'Finally an exit, Just hope that well is stable enough.' He thought.
They all ran in the water which fortunately was shallow enough but it was still bloody freezing to go in but they all ignored that except for Robin who was being carried by Marcus. They came towards the large bucket and rope and Marcus grabbed onto the rope only for the piece of wood that it was tied around above them snapped in two because the well was old and decaying.
"Ahh, crap." he groaned in annoyance. What made it worse was that the fish was gaining on us and we hit a dead end. All that is left is to perform a last stand against a giant pissed off monster fish.
Robin then leapt into action and used her fruit powers to create hands on the well going down to pull them up. They all grabbed on one of the hands and she pulled them up with a bit of a struggle because of her age.
The fish then caught up and leapt up at us and snapped its jaws which caught my boot and tore it off leaving my foot unscathed.
Robin pulled Marcus, his first clone and two other clones out of the well safe from any more harm.
(End of the music)
"Robin?" Marcus called to her.
Robin looked up at Marcus nervously as he reached his hand out towards her, and she shut her eyes with a bit of tears leaking out.
Marcus then patted her head in an affectionate way "Thank you."
Robin stroked her head, never before had someone pated her head like a big brother would do to praise her little sister. Then the floodgates poured open and she clutched onto Marcus's leg and cried.
"It's okay it's all over now, he cannot get to us now" Marcus comforted her as his first clone looked over to the well seeing that there was a beam of light flashing out of it, and then it disappeared.
"It's gone for now." The first clone confirmed. The clone then turned around towards Marcus "I assume you want more information concerning your power, yes." Marcus nodded.
"It will have to be later, first we have to get robin home."
Robin sniffed and rubbed her eyes "But the party is still going on."
"Can your friends help you?" Marcus asked
Robin nodded.
"We will head over to her friends first and then deal with THEM later."
"What are you going to do?" she asked with a bit of nervousness in her voice.
I- I mean we, are going to have a nice chat with your friends first, and then your aunt.
(Chapter end)
Thank you for reading, please leave a review as I would like to know what your thoughts about this are.
Character bio:
Name: Alexander D Marcus
Occupation: Elite Ranger
Rank: 2nd lieutenant
Skills: Elite Ranger Training, Marksmanship, leadership, melee weapons, martial arts, explosives, stealth/covert training, Etc. there may be more when the opportunity arrives.
Powers: Devil fruit- Spawn Spawn fruit. (I have no idea what it's supposed to be called in the anime/manga. If anyone can leave a message about what it's called that would be cool.)
Pairings will be included but much later, and no it's not going to be robin the way she is, Paedophilia will not be tolerated here.
Robin is too young for a relationship, so she will have to wait like twenty years.
Hancock will be included.
But wait Marcus is much older than they are, well that can be fixed by the power of my writing powers. How am I going to do it, Spoilers ;)
Till next time, see ya then ;)