Impel Down lvl 5
"mmmm~~! What's the matter level 6!" a minute into the escape and Leo already had his hope snatched away from him by this witch.
My haki, it's gone haywire
Leo had been trying to get his leg free of the whip but the electric surge kept him from even thinking about it and now somehow this whip had managed to mess with his haki body. What he didn't know was that the electricity didn't only shock his physical body but it also disrupts the flow of his haki due to the electric shock sustained by his vital points. To make matters worse the shock followed by the constant bashing had worsened a barely healed injury he'd sustained earlier in the level 6 battle royale. This was not what he'd expected when he broke out of his cell earlier. Now he truly believed that he was totally and royally screwed.
"Surrender now convict or I'll increase the voltage!"
"NEVER!" Leo yelled figuring that the chance of escaping from this hellhole didn't come by very often, so he had to defeat this witch no matter what. He wasn't going back to his cell watching his life goes by day by day until he finally loses it, not as long as there's still hope.
"mmmm~~! I was hoping you'd say that. I assure you the pleasure is all mine mmmm~~" the woman said in her typical exaggerated manner.
"AARRGGHH!" Leo squirmed and jerked as another wave of high-voltage surge struck him, weakening him his body even more.
"moooree ohhh scream some moore!" the woman ran one of her hands through her fiery red hair as she released another surge, bigger this time.
Leo didn't know what to do now, this was too much for him. Every time he tried to get free or move his cuffed arms in an attempt to spin the thing out of his leg the surge always got to him first. He wondered if this was the end of the road for him.
"OOHHH I'M ALMOST THERE!" Leo could see the woman's body started to shudder and that her finger pushed the buttons repeatedly and frantically. He couldn't believe that there could be sick people like this woman who get off on frying people.
"Mangetsu daikon kiri!"
Leo expecting the surge to strike his body in a blink of an eye had already closed his eyes and grimaced, resigning to his fate. But he peeked out one of his eyes a few seconds later when he didn't feel the dreaded electrical surge. He didn't know what has gone wrong as the whip was still entangled around his leg. Was the surge so large it has completely fried my nervous system?
"I WAS NEARLY THERE!" the redheaded woman shrilled while Leo looked and at last saw what'd caused it. The whip, it'd been chopped in half. Despite of that she appeared to be more pissed at having her climax of her lifetime robbed off of her like that.
"WHAT'D YOU DO!?"
"How the hell should I know!?"
"YOU'LL PA…" the woman suddenly slumped onto the floor unconscious. Behind her was a fellow convict, the only guy that he could trust in this godforsaken place and the one that was going to get him out of here. Leo smiled.
"Long time no see Hayato" Leo said as the guy, Hayato, gave Leo his hand for him to get back on his feet.
"Nice to see you"
The guy, Hayato Munakata was a level 5 swordsman from a country in New World whom he'd met when they were being transported to Impel Down thirteen years ago. And during that quick trip, the guy has made an impression on Leo and he decided that if he was ever going to get out of this place, he'd need his skill.
"Where were you!? I thought you'd gone off with that okama"
"I went looking for this" he showed Leo his sword or katana whatever these people call it.
Leo groaned "Do you really have to make me as your bait just so you can go searching for your sword?"
"Leo" he said, his face looked serious, Leo realized that he'd said the wrong stuff. "This katana is different".
Leo took a look at it and saw that the sword had a complex but beautifully carved, sweeping hilts designed to protect the hand wielding the sword. But what stood out from the rest was the weird black ball-shaped pommel that looked like it might have other function than just being simply a counterweight to the blade. Now that he looked at it closely the blade itself has a quite distinct shade compared to other blade he's seen. Somehow it reminded him to the color of the sky and cloud blended together.
"Watch" Hayato suddenly pulled the sword and swung the sword towards a wall and at first he thought the sword wasn't going to reach it let alone slash it but then to his surprise, the blade suddenly distended itself like a whip and sliced the thick prison wall in half like it was a proper metal sword. Leo looked at the sword in his friend's hand eager to know what the trick was, only to found out that there was no trick. There was no machine, or magical enchantments or anything that could have explained the whip-like nature of the blade. Perhaps there really is something inside that pommel
"I named her 'kami no ken'" (God's sword) he explained while Leo was still too busy figuring the sword out to listen to what the guy was saying.
"They make this stuff in your hometown?"
Hayato looked down at his funky sword "No, I saw it falling from the sky one day and I swam against the current, fought several sea monsters and dove to the depth of the sea for half an hour to earn this"
Leo nodded, he wished he could do all those stuff though it still didn't make any sense to him and he was certain that his friend was keeping some secrets about the sword but he had other thing to worry right now.
"So are we going to get out of here or what?"
With the blade back to normal, Hayato sheathed the sword "follow me"
"Hey hey, my cuffs!" Leo yelled, he'd completely forgotten about the cuffs.
The swordsman looked back and saw that his fruit user friend was still cuffed. People with their abilities…the swordsman thought. He always thought fruit users are a bunch of arrogant people who are too confident of their fruit abilities. They think their ability alone will get them somewhere in the sea but more often than not it backfired on them. Weak or not, there was no way of having a fair fight against fruit users and he hates unfair fights. But with Leo, he was different, his haki was evidently more developed and prominent than his fruit ability. Hayato was sure he'd only use his power when he had no other choice.
Hayato then plucked a hair out and used it to open the lock to Leo's cuffs. It was the same trick that he'd done in front of him years ago, that'd certainly impressed Leo.
"You've got to teach me this as soon as we reach the other side"
Hayato just nodded "now quick, we don't have much time"
"Let's go, I just can't wait to see the sunlight again" both men started running towards the stairs leading to the fourth floor.
"Why are you so sure?" Hayato asked with that accent of his (Japanese accent)
"With so much chaos happening around here the only one that we must anticipate is-"
"Magellan"
"That's righ…"
BOOOMMM
A loud sound followed by some sort of splashing noise came from beneath their feet and to Leo, judging from the continuous noise, the lunatic giant has finally done it.
"And that too"
"What the hell happened in here?" the journey upstairs had been swift for both men until they realized that the way up to the second floor has been somehow 'cut' like a piece of paper. "This is really weird man"
"Looks like a fruit user's doing"
"You know where the elevator is?"
"I do, but I can't guarantee that Magellan hasn't already put it out of commission…you're a logia, why don't you fly?"
"I can do that?"
Hayato realized that his pal's knowledge about his own devil fruit ability was fewer than he originally had thought. "Just follow me"
"You know, it really amazes me that you still remember these things even when you've been locked up in level 5 for decades"
"There's just not that many things to remember when you're locked up in here"
"That's true, I guess"
"Look at all these poisons…do you think we can fight it?"
"With haki we can…" he looked at Hayato "…we can right?"
"I don't know, in logia fights, haki doesn't neutralize their logia powers but it let us to touch their physical body. So even though we can land a blow or two at Magellan, there's always risks of us touching his hydras and his other poisons"
"He's a logia?"
"I'm not sure but he looks like one"
The pair was now roaming around the ground floor thanks to the elevator and just as Leo was about to turn into the main corridor that'd lead them to the main gate and freedom Hayato stopped him dead in his tracks and told him to be quiet.
"What is it?" freedom was already within his reach, he just couldn't be bothered with anything else right now and without waiting for a reply Leo peeked through the cells and saw the fat man and his new crews. The chief warden was lying on the floor, with one of the fat man's feet standing on his chest.
"Zehahahaha just as I thought, you're nothing without your useless power! Look at him, the CHIEF!" the fat man scoffed as the rest of his crews laughed.
"You sh…shall not escape form my prison **cough**" it was an unbelievable sight, seeing the chief warden, the guy Leo thought was unbeatable and strong as hell could be beaten to a pulp like this by the fat guy…no, he obviously had his guys ganging up on him, there was just no way could he take Magellan on all by himself. Except for the sickly looking fellow who rode on his horse, the rest of the crews seemed to be formidable.
"Just watch me zehahahahaha!" the fat guy stepped off the defeated warden and motioned his crews to follow him outside. Leo thanked them silently for taking care of Magellan. Leo just couldn't believe the escape would be this easy, with almost every gaolers and guards already defeated without them having to do anything. Except for the lunatic woman-in-red downstairs, this escape has been nothing but a walk in the park.
With the Pirates gone and Magellan too spent to stop the two of them, they ran outside where the sun shines. Leo couldn't remember a time when he smiled this wide, at last they've done it, they've become free men again. Leo looked up at the sky and never thought that he'd get the chance to see it again, to bask in the sunlight, to hear the seagulls' gentle call and to breathe the fresh air, it was wonderful to be free again.
"Uhm…Leo…I hate to break this to you but there doesn't seem to be any ship around…" Hayato said and it only required that one sentence, that one magic sentence to crush all of that. Magellan he'd take him on, the Marines, the Pirates, convicts or any other kind of monsters the world could throw at him he'd fight them just to get himself and his friends a shot at freedom but for this, for once he didn't know how to get out of this situation.
"Wh…no no no no, we've come this far!" Leo ran around the big pier, looked under it, looked for any sign of vessel on the misty horizon but nothing could be seen except for the gate of justice which was closing on them. The pirates, with whatever tricks they've got up their sleeves have somehow managed to open and pass it before it closes down.
"This is cruel…" both men stood on the very edge of the pier, the farthest point from Impel Down that they could possibly reach, both men staring longingly at the horizon, the sea, and the blue sky knowing that this might be the last time they could see them.
"Hold your hands up" the pair looked back to see a whole legion of gaolers, the crimson woman and her band of mutant animals, Hannybal, and Magellan already standing behind them.
"Leander R. Rendish, former lieutenant of the Revolutionary Army from Thule Kingdom, North Blue"
"Hayato Munakata, condemned ronin of Wano Country, New World"
"Your escape ends here"
The escape attempt has ended before they even realized it…this was the closest to freedom that they were ever going to get
Both men put their hands up and turned towards the gate of the great prison once more, turning their back on the freedom that they so desired and embracing their inevitable fate.
We're so close…but again…it is the sea that has to separate us…just wait for me a little bit longer won't you Nessa…