"Urgh.." Usopp groaned. He was hurting.. a lot.. his head was hurting, his back-side was hurting, his mouth was hurting, his nose was hurting, his head was hurting, his left big toe.. every-thing. But he was alive, that would have to be the important thing. He had to be, dead people didn't feel this much soreness.. or this much annoyance by having sand absolutely every-where!
At last Usopp sat up and began to spat out sand, and even more of it! "Pew!" he hissed trying to get all of the sand of his tounge.
Usopp was on the shore of a bigger island.. and he had no idea which island it was. The moment Usopp had fallen down in the water after he had saved Chopper, he had been caught in a very strong undercurrent, and though he desperately had tried to swim back and reach the surface, so he could get up and re-join his crew right away, the current had pulled him away with a force that was impossible for him to fight against.
At last as he had broken the surface after what felt like half an hour, but was probably only two or three minutes, Usopp had found himself at a surprisingly calm surface.. obviously out-side of the storm. Turning around Usopp managed to see the edges of the storm far away from him, the dark clouds filling the sky, he could even see the thunder coming from over there.. trouble just was, the only island that Usopp could only just see, was in the opposite direction..
Closing his eyes Usopp took a decision, if he swam directly into the storm he could risk dying, if he swam to the island, maybe some-one there would have a boat and he could just meet up with the Straw-hats at their next decision, Citrus island, which shouldn't be that far from where he was.
The decision was made, and Usopp began swimming towards the island..
That island had been reeaaaally far away! It felt like Usopp had been swimming his entire life ones he had at last reached the shore. He could only thank god for how well trained he had kept himself.
His arms were throbbing so bad, and Usopp could definitely tell that he was dehydrated, wouldn't be the first time
"Why?" Usopp had to ask himself as he just laid there on the beach on his back. "I just had to go to sea didn't I?" he asked. "I'm going to the grand-line, I'm going to be a brave warrior of the sea." He mocked himself before he at last turned around. "Urgh." He hissed with squinted eyes desperate not to faint or throw any of the precious food that would still be remaining in his stomach from his last meal that seemed a life-time ago around now. And just on demand his stomach rumbled loudly. "Shut up." Usopp mumbled to his own stomach, just as he heard voices just right next to him, two men yelling.
"huh?" Usopp groaned as he turned his head then screamed. "HAYI! MARINES!" he exclaimed in a big yells as a big flock of marines came running straight towards him. "HOW DID THEY FIND ME THAT QUICK!? What do I do, what do I do?" he kept asking himself. "Argh! Of cause! Run!" Usopp exclaimed and jumped to his feet's to run as fast as he could.
Only… jumping up that quick proved itself to be a major flaw as suddenly all the blood rushed from Usopp's head and he fell head-first, right down in the sand ones again, burring his nose in the sand.
"HEY BOY!" a food poked to him making Usopp turned around.
"huh?" Usopp blinked with his eyes.
"Are you a pirate?" The marine whom was stepping on him asked.
"WHAT? No! Of cause not!" Usopp exclaimed. "I was just sun-bathing on this beach! Me a pirate? Ahahaha! Ridicules!" he stated in a big grin.
"Hmpf." The marine frowned as he stepped on Usopp's chest.
"Well I can't recall ever having seen his face on any wanted poster." A brown haired marine standing beside the one whom was stepping on Usopp commented as he scratched his hair. "He certainly isn't any of those we are searching for, if he is a part of their crew he can only at most be a cabin boy. Let him be." The marine shrugged.
Usopp groaned deeply annoyed. Cabin boy? CABIN BOY!? Didn't these stupid marines know whom they were dealing with!? The great sniper king of the straw-hat crew! Enemy of the world organisation! The man whom escaped an inescapable island! Helped freeing the fisher kingdom! Beaten people ranking as high as generals on different islands! And he was… completely unknown. No one know who Usopp was. He groaned deeply annoyed ramming his head into the sand, though as he looked up again the Marines were all-ready walking away having their backs to him. "HEY WHAT'S THE IDEA! COME BACK AND TAKE ME SERIOUSLY!" Usopp exclaimed.
Only for the marine whom had stepped on him to turn around and lower his sun-glasses. "Oh.. so you are a pirate after all, ready to cling up I presume!"
"Argh! No! I'm good!" Usopp exclaimed crawling backwards, making the marines laughed as they walked away and Usopp exhale deeply relieved. Before he raised his head.. wait? The marines were hunting pirates on this island?
Maybe he all-ready had reached the sunnys destination, maybe his comrades were in trouble!
Silently Usopp got up on his legs as he reached for his Kabuto, then get into the forest where he wouldn't be in full view, but he could see the marines and followed them. It didn't take long for the marines to turn into the forest as well, and Usopp continued following until the marines met up with some of their comrades.. and three men obviously tied to a tree.
Slowly, edging by a tree Usopp tried to get a better look at the people tied up, could it be? Hopefully it was! The Straw hats! Usopp grinned as they finally came into view, and then his face faltered.. it was not the straw-hats, but three people Usopp definitely didn't know.
Usopp sighed deeply, he really should have known better, none of his crew mates would have been taken in that easily.
Still though, a fellow pirate in need could become an potential ally, and those marines had dared to call Usopp a cabin boy! CABIN BOY! Usopp had grown out of his delusions of Captain hood, maybe one day he would be a captain, and then it would be for real. But Cabin boy was to much! Those Marines had to learn a lesson.
"Heh." Usopp grinned as he swinged his Kabuto in the air. "Well what a scene." He commented as he stepped out in the light.
Surprised the marines turned around.. 3,4,5,6,7 and 8 Usopp counted. Hah! Easy!
"Who's that?" a marine blinked… the same marine whom had been stepping on Usopp.
"OI YOU ARE NOT TAKING ME SERIOUSLY AGAIN!" Usopp yelled.
"Hey it's the cabin boy!" The other Marine exclaimed.
Usopp hissed. "I am not a cabin boy!" he gritted.
The pirates sitting on the ground tied to tree as well blinked at him. "Who is that?" a pirate with a bushy brown beard asked, only for his dark skinned crewmate to shrug. "No idea."
"ARGH!" Usopp hissed throwing up his arms. "I'm known as Sogeking the king of snipers!" he exclaimed.
Every-body just starred blankly at him. "Who?" a pirate asked. Making Usopp's jaw drop, then at last he composed himself.
"All-right then." He grinned spinning his Kabuto. "Be prepared to see some-thing out of the ordinary." He stated in a slight grin. "It's not just any weakling whom can be a part of the straw hat pirates."
That though at ones got the attention from every-one. "THE STRAW HAT PIRATES!?" they all exclaimed.
Only for one single pirate to shrug. "Meh, he is probably lying."
"AM NOT!" Usopp exclaimed. "Argh! Enough of this!" Usopp hissed as he aimed his Kabuto. "POP GREEN!" he exclaimed sending out a seed that immediately planted itself and grew to a tall man eating plant taking down three marines in one go.
The rest of the marines gaped. "What.. what is that thing?" one asked.
Usopp smirked tipping up his hat. "Just one of my many technics." He stated before sending out another bullet. "POOP GREEN!" he exclaimed ones again getting two other marines before he turned around.
"Oh no you don't." the marine now in front of him hissed. "You wont get away with that trick again."
Usopp smirked. "Well, good thing I have more tricks up my sleeve." He stated. "Explosion star!" he exclaimed firing three explosive bullets at ones. "Stone!" he very simply fired a stone at a marine, hiding him straight in the face so the marine was knocked out cold. "And for you." Usopp grinned at the last marine.. the bastard whom had been stepping on him. "Say that I am the great sniper king, Sogeking." He demanded.
"Why should I?" The Marine asked in a snort as he crossed his arms.
"Cause if you don't, you will regret it dearly." Usopp stated aming his kabuto at the marine. "Your comrades wont want to be around you, you would be ashamed unlike how you have ever be ashamed before." He grinned. "So be wise and just SAY IT!" Usopp demanded. "SAAAYY IT!" he yelled as if he was a big maniac.
"Never!" The marine hissed.
"Fine." Usopp snorted. "ROTTEN EGG!" he exclaimed sending an egg right into the marines face.
"ARGH! MY EYES!" The marine hissed falling to his knees. "Get it off!"
"EWW Tendo-Sama, you stink, get away from me!" A marine hopelessly caught in a huge fly trap.
"As I said." Usopp grinned. "No one wants to be around you." He laughed swinging his kabuto in the air and then stuffed it in his bag before he turned to the pirates whom looked wide-eyed at him. "So I guess I should help you out." He commented.
"If you would be so kind." The dark skinned pirate snorted.
"First things first." Usopp grunted. "You ought to have a ship around here, isn't that right?" he asked.
The pirates all nodded.
"All-right, promise me to get me some food and give me a row-boat, then I'll free you." Usopp demanded.
"BAKA!" The man with the bushy beard exclaimed. "Why would we!? We can just free ourselves!"
"Fine then, I wont help you." Usopp shrugged as he turned around and walked away.
"WAAAIT!" The pirates exclaimed.
"All-right, you win." The bushy bearded pirate hissed. "Now free us!"
"All-right then." Usopp sighed as he sat down on his knee and found a knife to free the pirates from their rope.
The third pirate sitting there hadn't said a word so far, he was just starring very sullen at Usopp, it was a man with a tanned skin tone, blond dreadlocks and right now, a pretty big front on his face.
Right as Usopp had freed them, that man raised his pistol and pointed it right at Usopp.
"HEY!?" Usopp exclaimed. "What are you!?" he wailed with the gun right in his face, as a voice sounded right behind him.
"YOU ARE GOING TO PAY!"
Frigthened Usopp turned around to face the marine whom had stepped on him.
"I am NOT going to be defeated by a damn rotten egg!" The marine hissed. "I would never be able to life down the shame!" He exclaimed pointing a gun right at Usopp, and then a big gun sound sounded.
Wide-eyed Usopp looked at the Marine in front of him, the Marine looked back at Usopp, then at his hand which had priory held the gun.. he had been disarmed, slowly Usopp turned his head to see pirate with the dreadlocks he had just freed, his gun was smoking.
"Don't mind me saying boy, but you're an idiot." The pirate stated as he blew the smoke of his gun. "Never turn your back on the enemy."
"Hmpf." Usopp snorted crossing his arms. "I'm not an idiot, at least it was not me getting captured by such weak marines."
"No, you would just have been killed by them." The dreadlock pirate stated.
"No I wouldn't!" Usopp exclaimed. "I would have dealt with him, I've come out of situations much tighter than that!"
The dreadlock pirate snorted as he lifted his gun and shot again without even looking.. and behind himself Usopp felt the ground shaking as a man fell to the ground, probably the marine. "Then you must be the luckiest person alive to make it this far, cause you are obviously to dumb to make it without luck."
Usopp gaped at the pirate. "Lucky? LUCKY!?" he exclaimed. "I've had to fight myself through fishermen, marine admirals, crazy scientist, delusional pirates, devil fruit users and sea monsters to get where I am! How is any of that LUCK!" he exclaimed.
"Must be lucky, with a fashion sense like that and still conscious banana pants." The dreadlock pirate snorted as he stood up, makings Usopp's jaw drop to the ground.
"Are you two really still bickering?" The bushy bearded pirate asked from where he stood far away from Usopp and the dreadlock pirate. "Get a move on all-ready." He snorted.
"Hmpf!" Both the dreadlock pirate and Usopp sniffed simultaneously, only to stare at each other with equal resentful gazes. "HEY QUIT IT!" they both yelled at each other, and then each turned around and away from the other crossing their arms.
That was until the dreadlock pirate saw what there was right in front of him and he widened his eyes. "BOY! GET DOWN!" He exclaimed grapping Usopp's shoulder throwing both of them into a bush.
"Hey what's!? OHHH!" Usopp exclaimed as saw what it was.. the eight marines he had defeated weren't alone, their friends had come.. and they had a big cannon with them which would have hit them had the dreadlock pirate not pushed Usopp away, right in front of them was a big smoking crater, and then there was two dusin of marines in front of them.. including what looked like their captain.
The dreadlock pirate rolled his eyes. "So what do we do now, oh great Sogeking?" he snorted in a very mocking voice.
Usopp sneered as he crossed his arms, then grinned lightly. "Well as it happens, I do have a way out of this, an excellent way." He told.
"Oh?" The dreadlock pirate asked.
"Yeah!" Usopp exclaimed as he loaded his Kabuto and aimed, before yelling. "SMOKE SCREEN!" letting a big smoke screen cover the entire area. "AND NOW RUUUUUN!" Usopp exclaimed turning around to spurt away.
"HEY WAIT A MINUTE!" the dreadlock pirate exclaiming barely keeping up with Usopp, though as he did. "Really!? Running? Brilliant sogeking."
"HEY!" Usopp exclaimed. "You know nothing about me! You have no right to judge me."
"All I see is a boy trying to be a man out in the big ocean." The dreadlock pirate snorted.
"WHAT!?" Usopp exclaimed. "Are you blind!? I'm a man, not a kid. So stop calling me BOY!"
"Well, if you really are oh so mature, stop acting like a bloody brat, boy." the dreadlock pirate snorted.
"YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND ME!" Usopp wailed with tears almost coming out of his eyes, making the dread-lock pirate roll his eyes.
"Of all people I would had to be stuck with the brat." The dreadlock pirate mumbled annoyed.
"Of all people I had to be stuck with an old fart." Usopp responded in an equally annoyed hiss.
"HEY!" the dreadlock pirate exclaimed. "Respect your elders boy!" he demanded.
"You still don't understand me!" Usopp returned, only for both of them to stop.
"SHIT!" The dreadlock pirate exclaimed. "YOU IDIOT! We have been running in a circle!" He exclaimed by the sight of a bunch of marines still coughing due to the smoke screen.
Usopp how-ever didn't look shocked at all as he smirked. "I know." He told.
"What! Then what the hell!? Just how big an idiot are you!?" Dreadlock pirate asked.
Usopp better knowlingly shook his head acting cool. "Keeping marines distracted for a little while is nice, keeping them distracted for longer is even better." He told as he grabbed Dreadlock pirates shoulder and dragged him backwards.
"What are you?" Dreadlock pirate asked.
Usopp merely grinned, as suddenly, in a wink of an eye a big wall of plants grew in a circle around the marines whom all looked surprised at it, entangled in the world were several of those nasty fly traps, trying to bite at the marines.
Dreadlock pirate gaped at it with big wide eyes, starring at the wall Usopp had just created.
"Heh." Usopp grinned. "I was dropping my seeds as we ran our little circle." He told. "It is going to take a good while for those marines to get out, my wines are strong as metal, and my flytraps quite nasty."
"What are you? A devil fruit user?" The dreadlock pirate asked turning wide-eyed to Usopp.
"Nope, don't need any bloody devil fruit to be strong." Usopp grinned. "I all-ready told you who I am, I am the sniper of the straw-hat pirates. People out in the world knows me as Sogeking, the sniper king! And you are?" he asked in almost a bored tone.
The dreadlock pirate coughed in his hand and composed himself to strike what he hoped was an impressive pose. "Straw hat pirates ei?" he asked. "Hah! I can beat that, I'm of Shanks the reds crew, and sniper king my ass boy. That would be me! I am the sniper king of the world, sniper of Shanks crew, and I don't need a damn secret identity, Yasopp is the name!" he grinned pointing at himself.
First Usopp didn't get at all what the pirate had just said, he just looked at the pirate with squinted eyes, then he put his head askew, then he frowned as his forehead wrinkled, then he looked at the dreadlock pirate again as he tried to go over what the pirate had said what felt so strange, he was just about to shrug and turn around as his eyes suddenly widened. "WHAAAAAT!?" Usopp exclaimed with both his arms in the air.
"Yeah you heard right, sniper of the great shanks." Yasopp smirked. "Who's sniper king now?" he asked in a grin pointing at himself. "Boy." He added in a smirkl
Usopp just starred wide-eyed at him. "You… you… you.." he tried to say as he pointed at the older man.
"Huh?" Yasopp asked.
And then suddenly Usopp felt it, it had all been to much, his long swim through the strong currents, his lack of substance for at least twenty hours, his sudden fight with the marines, his little run and now this shock. Combine all of that it was to much.. Usopp felt himself slipping away as the world turned into a blur in front of him.
"BOY!" Yasopp exclaimed grapping Usopp as he sunk to his knees. "Oh no don't faint on me now! Real pirates don't faint!" he exclaimed. "I SAID DON'T FAINT! I AINT GONNA TO CARRY YA!"
Well.. apparently this pirate could faint, Usopp noted as he was slipping away.. he just needed a bit to eat and he would be right as rain.. but for now. He almost welcomed the darkness as it gave him the time to comprehend. And then he was gone.
AN; well people, I hope you like my more... original re-union of these two. Going more for the comedic angle than the soppy angle.. But it isn't all bad, the two of them are all-ready acting like father and son! isn't it great? I had a lot of fun writing this, laughing at my own stupid jokes. Poor Usopp, he never catches a break in any-thing XD