Ace's Second Chance 8
Hello readers :D happy Wednesday and I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Desperate Escape: Part 1
Kuzan and Hina were in the coastal city of Nanohana, they were mobilizing their troops in order to capture the Straw Hats and Ace, and trying to find the Thousand Sunny. Suddenly the former Admiral's snail phone rang. "What is it?"
"The pirates found us…" Kohza yelled. "Someone followed us to the Oasis."
"You know their faces from their wanted posters, I can't believe you did not notice any of them following you." Kuzan sounded altered.
"I've never seen this man before." The blond man said. "Vivi and I are ridding Carue but the pirates are chasing us with horses." Gun shots were heard. "We'll head to Rainbase so the marines and soldiers can slow them down as we escape the city and follow the river to Nanohana."
"I'll meet you half way." Kuzan stated as the sound of two more shots faded.
"They will flee once they see you and the marines will miss their chance to capture them… just follow my plan, we'll meet you in Nanohana." Kohza explained and ended the communication.
A group of 10 people followed Vivi, they were wearing white gowns and ridding black horses. Occasionally one person would get to close, making Kohza shoot them but they were fast enough to dodge. "Princess, we will cross the city and get to the river." Kohza said and Vivi nodded.
The soldiers at Rainbase were surprised to see the Princess but they got scared once they saw the pursuers. "Split!" The voice of a man commanded and the pirates separated as soon as they got to the city, so now they were five groups of two people against the princess. The loyal soldiers started to shoot and got in the way of the horses but the pirates jumped over them. At the center of the city the ten riders met again and surrounded Carue so Kohza used a whip-like weapon to scare the horses, then he grabbed the hand of a pirate to throw him or her away from the horse and shot other enemy in the head, using the distraction Carue got lost between the houses and the marines helped the soldiers to stall the enemies.
Moments later Carue was leaving the city and trying to reach the closest bridge to cross the river. It was time to make another call. "Kuzan, we left the city and the pirates behind, once we are on the other side of Alabasta we will be safe."
"I'll request the help of the Vice-Admirals… Dalmatian and Doberman are at Alubarna." The former marine said but Vivi interrupted him.
"We're approaching the bridge. Where are the pirates?" She yelled.
"Damn. They're taking down the Marines and Soldiers." Kohza said before ending the communication, but he did not mention that two pirates were gone before crossing the bridge, or that the Marines and Soldiers were taken down by a pirate's Conqueror Haki.
Carue crossed the bridge and Vivi saw a man wearing a dog mask and other man moving in their direction. The princess passed right next to Dalmatian and Doberman. Kohza noticed that the zoan type managed to take down two pirates with one kick for each. However, the other six increased their speed due to the swordsman catching up with them. "What's with that ridiculous speed?" He thought and aimed at one of the pirates but he missed the shot several times and ran out of bullets so he took out his weapon. Two pirates reached Carue and tried to grab the princess but Kohza repel them both with a movement of his whip.
Halfway to Nanohana Doberman tackled a horse and threw its rider to the closest animal, thus stopping two pirates. "Four to go." The Vice-Admiral laughed and took out his sword. The Princess prepared her peacock slashers to attack but Kohza told her to stay focused on the road and she was glad because she did not want to fight her friends, not even to keep a façade.
"I see Captain Tashigi." Kohza grinned and Vivi squeaked. The former rebel hit the sand in front of a horse and made the animal stop while the pirate raised his arm with a fist to curse the blond man. Suddenly Kohza used his whip to direct Tashigi to a pirate so she used her sword to make other enemy fall from a horse. "She got here faster than I thought, one stop more and we're done." He reassured the princess.
Minutes later Kohza and Vivi reached Nanohana and before entering the city, a pirate appeared in front of them and forced the duck to run to the coast. "You are not going anywhere." Hina yelled and restrained the pirate with her devil fruit powers, immediately she turned to the other and threw a cage to the horse's legs, making the pirate fall. The marine woman was wearing her official uniform again.
"Thank you Vice-Admiral." Vivi smiled and stopped at the beach, where Kuzan found her after Kohza called him. "It's almost over." She sighed and looked at her bodyguard but he shook his head, knowing how the princess felt at the thought of Ace and her friends leaving.
"It's for the best, you are a Princess and your kingdom is first." Kuzan said.
"I know and I want to thank you for taking care of me all this time." Vivi said. "You protected me from my desire to see the world as a pirate, you are protecting my heart from the feelings I have for Ace, and you will protect me once everyone is gone." She looked to the sea.
"The Straw Hats will always be your friends and Ace won't forget you." Kuzan knew that the Princess was strong, mentally a physically, but she was too emotional. "She is too calmed, I thought she would be crying already." He was suspicious.
Kohza was heartbroken to see his best friend sad and not be able to do anything about it, he felt so useless and he was angry at the pirates, especially Ace, for making her suffer. But he realized that he could not hate them because Vivi was really happy when she was with them.
"Straw Hats." Dalmatian growled as the two pirates removed their gowns. Sanji was furious because he didn't want to be separated from Vivi, Robin and Nami, and Chopper was in his Heavy Point and a little scared but he couldn't afford to show it. The Vice-Admiral attacked immediately and kicked the doctor. "The weak must be eliminated first." He said and used Soru to appear above his fellow zoan type and send him straight to the river. Sanji would not allow it so he used another CP9 technique to jumped in the air and rescue his friend. "Geppo?" The marine gritted his teeth and used the same technique to avoid falling in the water. Once he was in land Chopper transformed into his Walk Point and charged against the enemy followed by Sanji. The reindeer tried to stab Dalmatian with his antlers but he used Tekkai to strengthen his body and threw him against the other pirate. Chopper changed to Guard Point and Sanji kicked him towards the enemy, Chopper transformed into Kung Fu Point and the cook charged at the marine with his black leg style. After the combined attack Dalmatian was buried in the sand and after a while he stood up laughing.
Usopp and Brook were scared to death from the menacing-looking marine. He was a powerful swordsman with several X-shaped scars on his face and neck, the man did not talk he just stood there narrowing his eyes to the pirates. Suddenly he drew his sword and attacked Brook, completely ignoring the sniper. "Are you trying to kill me? Wait, I'm already death. Yohohoho." He made his skeleton joke but Doberman just fought with more power. The marine's speed was amazing, even for Brook, so the pirate had to back off and hit immediately. Since the skeleton was putting a good fight the Vice-Admiral wouldn't take the risk to let the other back him up, so he managed to avoid one of Brook's techniques and went after Usopp. He punched the sniper in the stomach and hit his head with an elbow, making sure the pirate coughed blood. Usopp stood up with trouble and shot pop greens to the sky that turned into bamboo-like plants, which almost stab Doberman. The marine tried to strike the sniper once more but the enraged musician intercepted him. "Do not touch my friends."
Zoro cursed under his breath and promised to take down Kohza for what he did, the blond man stopped him on purpose to fight Tashigi and she was the only woman he couldn't deal with. Ace was angry too, he was supposed to allow the marines to stop him for a while but he wanted to keep following Vivi and as soon as the former rebel recognized Fire Fist he sent the marine straight to him. "Damn Kohza, I'll get you for this." Both pirates thought. Captain Tashigi knew she was in trouble, Roronoa was too strong for her and Fire Fist Ace was way beyond her, still she had to do her best and stop them even if it killed her. The girl drew her sword at the same time as Zoro did, Ace moved discretely to her left and tried to make a run for it but Tashigi threw a knife enhanced with armament Haki, which stopped the pirate. "Interesting, so that's what they call Haki?" Zoro smirked and clashed swords with her.
Luffy was once more stuck with Hina's iron shackles, the rubber-man wasn't hurt but it took him to long to squish his body and free himself. Meanwhile Robin was trying to make her body parts appear on the marine's body but it was impossible due to the sea-stone particles on her clothes. "I can't touch her because of the sea-stone and I can't let her touch me because of her Devil Fruit powers, there must ne a flaw somewhere." Robin thought, a little annoyed that Luffy kept repeating her that she must kick the marine's ass. Hina charged at Robin with Soru and dragged a knife from her jacket. "A CP9 technique? I was the only one who didn't fight one of them." She frowned and dodged the attack but slightly touched Hina's clothes. "That was careless." She gasped. Luffy was finally free but Hina threw another iron Shackle. "Luffy, stay focused." Robin was frustrated because the distracted captain kept falling for the black cages.
Nami tossed away her gown and entered the Hawk Casino with ease once all the marines were gone. She went to the Hideout and took a detour to the golden statue for her personal reasons. Then she went back to the aquarium. Nami sighed, she was really mad at Kohza because he made her fall from the horse and all her body was hurting. Seconds later she saw Franky preparing the Sunny to leave, the cyborg had built a human size doll and attached it to the horse to pretend it was a pirate, the one Kohza shot in the head. He swam from Yuba and entered the hideout the same way the Sunny did. "Are you ready girly? We are going full speed." He grinned and made a pose. The navigator nodded and started to give directions to her friend.
"I want to avoid the Marines for a while but I don't want to leave Vivi, we really missed her and somehow I had the feeling that she would come with us this time." The redhead said out of the blue.
"She'll stay." Franky said with a nostalgic tone. "She knows that Alabasta depends on her, and even though she longs to come with us, she won't leave unless you force her to do so."
"I know… that's how you became our Nakama." Nami turned to him and narrowed her eyes. "Don't you dare to cry."
"I'm not crying." He sobbed. "But the memory is too painful."
To Be Continued
Excuses so you won't kill me:
… I hope it's not confusing (the dummy that received the bullet, etc)…
Saveme57: Thanks for the review :D Sadly, Hina has no choice because of a deal she made with Akainu… (did I mention I hate him? XD).
Milika94: I'm so glad you like the humor, and you are right Gedatsu is the priest. He is so the best XD.
Son of Whitebeard: I love that idea, the thing is that I won't be able to make it work in the story. T_T Sorry.