Ch. 38- Assassins from Dressrosa
One Piece © Oda
Blizzard, Aika, Kumi, Jupiter, and Rita © Me
Romeo © Gakuto1991
It was over. At last, it was finally over. Luffy had defeated the dreaded Caesar Clown, who had been sent flying right through his laboratory, and finally, his "beloved followers" had seen him for the man he really was.
What's more…the criminal brokers around the New World had just witness his defeat…and needless to say, they did not seem happy about it.
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"What the fuck kind of a joke is this?!" asked a man in shadow as he snuffed out his cigar. "You call this a public demonstration, you ass?!"
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"He just took down Caesar!" cried a man wearing a fur coat.
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"Inform Mama, tout de suite!" commanded Baron Tamago.
"GRRR!" Pekoms growled before he ran off.
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"Joker won't take this lying down," said an old man smoking a cigarette and wearing a pilot's helmet.
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"Inform Jack about this…now."
"W-what?! You're not serious, are you?! You know thing are gonna get hairy!"
"I said NOW!"
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"I suspect they have an alliance," said a mysterious man in a top hat. "Inform the whole world of this. This is no longer a matter of mere criminal business!"
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Killer just stood there with Romeo, the former scratching his chin in thought.
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Meanwhile, on the 2nd floor of Building B, Chopper and the G-5 are racing through the hallway while still carrying the unconscious Mocha.
"Hurry! Hurry!" Chopper cried. "Hang on, Mocha!"
"Hey, Chopper! Can you hear me?!"
"Huh?!" Chopper muttered. "Usopp, is that you?!"
"Yeah, it's me! I'm in some kind of security room or something! Listen to me! Take the stairs ahead and to your route! It's your shortest route outta there! I'm closing the gate to Building R before the gas gets inside! Hurry!"
"O-oh! Okay! Thanks, Usopp!" Chopper said.
"MISTER CHOPPER! WAIT~!"
Chopper looked back and saw Brook running towards him…while carrying what looked like…a petrified Kin'emon!
"B-Brook?!" Chopper asked.
"Kin'emon was hit by the killer gas," Brook said, "and the results were…well…FATAL~!"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHH?!" Chopper shrieked.
"You see, while were freeing more children from the examination room, back there," Brook explained, "Kin'emon was searching for his lost son, and…"
Flashback
"Run away, children!" Brook exclaimed. "Run to Building R!"
"AAAAAAAH!" the children screamed as they ran away. "HIS FACE IS SCARY~!"
"WHAT?!" Kin'emon questioned as he talked to the little girl who spoke to Momonosuke before. "He turned into a little dragon?!"
"Yes, really!" the girl said. "It's really a secret, though."
"Oh, no!" Kin'emon cried, horrified. "What if he was the dragon that I cut down?! I HAVE TO GO BACK FOR HIM!"
"But the hallway is already filled with gas!" Brook cried.
"There is nothing that cannot be overcome through sheer will!" Kin'emon declared. "Come gas or flames, I will boldly stride through!"
Flashback end
"AND THEN THIS HAPPENED~!" Brook wailed.
"TALK ABOUT RECKLESS!" Chopper shouted.
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In the Secret Room, Usopp is seen, standing before a pile of defeated guards.
"Damn you," cursed one of them. "You'll pay for this!"
"That's what you clowns get for trying to put up a fight!" Usopp shouted as he held a longer version of Black Kabuto. "You want another blast from my ultimate slingshot, Grownup Black Kabuto?!"
CHOMP-CHOMP! What looked like a plant with sharp teeth that was one the end of Usopp's slingshot chomped its jaws.
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Down on the 1st floor of Building R, Aika stood in awe at Luffy's amazing display of physical prowess before she looked up at Luffy, who smiled at her.
"Well, Aika…it's over now," Luffy said.
"Yeah…it is, isn't it?" Aika asked.
"Not quite," Blizzard said. "We still gotta get outta here. That gas is still coming…and the others aren't here, yet!"
"Oh, yeah, you're right!" Luffy said. "Nami and the others aren't here!"
"Kumi's not here yet, either," Aika said. "Where could she be?"
"Well, let's hope she's not too far," Blizzard said. "If anything, she's on her way here with the others. We should see her soon."
"LUFFY~!"
Luffy gasped before he turned and saw Nami, as well as Robin, Sanji, Zoro, Tashigi, G-5, and the children!
"Nami! You're okay!" Luffy exclaimed before she ran into his arms and he spun her around in his embrace, but then, the navigator gasped upon seeing the unconscious Brownbeard.
"Oh, my god!" Nami cried. "Brownie's knocked out! Is he okay?!"
"Yeah, he's fine!" Luffy replied. "Oh, wait, no! He's not fine!"
"The…the children…?!" Momonosuke whispered in shock.
Flashback
"Don't you worry about the other kids," Luffy said. "My crew's saving them as we speak! And believe me when I say that when they say they'll do something, they do it! So don't worry about it, okay?!"
Flashback end
"Shishishi!" Luffy laughed. "See, Momo? I told you!"
Momonosuke stared at Luffy…before he smiled and nodded his head.
"Hurry up!" Sanji ordered. "Keep going until you reach the gate!"
"Wait! What about Chopper and the others?!" Zoro asked.
"I think they're tending to that poor girl!" Robin answered. "I hope they catch up, in time!"
Robin was right. Building B is almost entirely full of the deadly gas, Shinokuni, and the only escape route off the island is the R-66 Gate!
"Straw Hat-ya!"
Luffy looked back and saw Law, Jupiter, and Smoker appeared, pulling a giant cart behind them.
"Is this thing really necessary?!" Smoker questioned.
"It's the cart they used to haul the S.A.D.!" Law answered. "We can fit everyone on here! This escape attempt won't have a moment to spare!"
"Good thing White Wolf and I found the tunnel, huh?" Jupiter asked.
"Oh! Traffy! Juppy! Smokey!" Luffy said. "There you guys are!"
"AAAAAAH! SMOKEY!" the G-5 men cheered.
"You're okay! Thank god!"
"We're so glad you're all right! W-we got a lot of stuff to tell ya!"
"Yeah! All kinds of stuff!"
Tashigi sighed in relief, glad to see her superior in one piece (no pun intended).
Law looked around as he approached Luffy.
"Hey," he said. "What happened to Caesar?!"
"Luffy sent him flying," Aika answered.
"He what?!" Law questioned.
"Oh, yeah!" Luffy said. "You see that door that was there? I smashed him through it and he flew off somewhere!"
"You idiot!" Law shouted. "The plan was to capture him, not send him flying!"
"But I don't even wanna capture that jerk, anymore!" Luffy barked.
"That's not the point!" Law argued. "The plan calls for his capture! What if he gets away?!"
"So what?!" Luffy asked before he hocked up a loogey and spat it on the ground.
"White Wolf! Did you let him do that?!" Jupiter shouted.
"To be honest, I agree with Luffy," Blizzard answered. "And you can say what you want, I don't listen to shady guys like you, Blot."
Jupiter growled at this.
"You can't just change the plan on a whim!" Law said to Luffy. "I knew I shouldn't have trusted you! Now we gotta go after before he escapes!"
"Whatever," Luffy grumbled.
A short time ago…
In the sky near Punk Hazard, Baby-5 is seen riding on a large man wearing an orange fur coat and a chain around his body. He has two large buck-teeth with Doflamingo's insignia on them. For some reason, his hair and his shoes are spinning around, like helicopter rotors.
He is Buffalo, a fighter for the Doflamingo Pirates. He ate the Spin-Spin Devil Fruit, which makes him a revolving man.
"Once this job is done," Baby-5 said, "it's time for a clean break. What I get back, I'm finishing him off, once and for all! Joker, you damn scumbag! You blew up my fiancé AND his entire town! Someone's gotta do you in, and dammit, it's gonna be me! I'm putting my foot down! 8 times is ENOUGH! 8 times, I've sworn my love and future to a man, 8 towns! What does he have against my happiness?!"
"Hnee!" Buffalo laughed. "That's just the Master's form of love, Baby-5! He thinks of you as his little sister is all! Him blowing up a town is just a sign of how much he cares about you! And yet, you still keep refuse to turn down a guy!"
"What was so wrong with my decision?!" Baby-5 questioned as her tears began to flood her goggles. "He NEEDED me! He said so, himself!"
Flashback
Baby-5 was approached by a rather homely man and his two shady-looking friends.
"It was love at first sight!" the man said. "Marry me!"
Flashback end
"And that's something you gotta fix!" Buffalo said. "It's okay to turn down a request, you know! You don't need 50 newspaper subscriptions, you can't lend so many people money, and you get tricked into buying crap you don't even need! You know how deep in debt you are?!"
"Oh, shut up, Buffalo!" Baby-5 shouted. "I only own about 98 million Berries, is all!"
"You mind lending me an extra 2 mil?" asked Buffalo, causing Baby-5 to gasp and blush.
'He…he needs me!' she thought.
"Um…when do you need it?" she asked.
"I'm gonna hit up the casino when we get back," Buffalo said.
"Okay, I'll go ahead and borrow it for you when the job's over!" Baby-5 said. "I'll do what Joker asks of me…BUT I SWEAR I'LL KILL HIM, ONE DAY!"
"Hnee!" Buffalo laughed. "Look! There's Punk Hazard up ahead!"
Baby-5 looked to see Pun Hazard, still cloaked in Shinokuni.
"Caesar's gas is smothering the place!" Baby-5 said as she grabbed a giant revolver gun. "Will it disappear if I blow it up?"
"Nah, let me handle this," said Buffalo. "Hop up and gimme some space, Baby-5."
"Alright," Baby-5 said before she jumped up, and soon, Buffalo's whole body started spinning around.
"Here goes…the strength…of a typhoon!" he exclaimed. "Storm Gust…MATASABURO!"
WOOOOOOOSH! Buffalo created a huge wind, blowing some, but not all of Shinokuni away from the shore, revealing a large tanker ship moored there.
"I can see the tanker," said Baby-5. "Caesar, Monet, and Vergo should show up if we wait there!"
"Hee-hee-hee!" Buffalo laughed. "Can't wait to get back and hit the roulette tables!"
Suddenly, KABOOM! Something flew out of the lab and hit the tanker!
"What happened?!" asked Baby-5. "Did the tanker just blow up?!"
"Nah, something hit it!" Buffalo answered.
It is revealed to be Caesar…lying down on the ground, his body having shrunk back into its normal size.
"What the…?!" Baby-5 muttered. "That's…that's Caesar!"
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At Dressrosa, Doflamingo is sitting in his room, petting Rita when he received a call on his Transponder Snail and picked it up.
"Joker! This is Buffalo at Punk Hazard! For some reason, it looks like Master Caesar…just got walloped off the entire island!"
"What did you say…?!" Doflamingo questioned…before he grinned. "Collect Caesar at once and come back here to Dressrosa!"
"But what about Monet and Vergo?!" asked Baby-5.
"Do as he says!" Buffalo said. "He's got his reasons!"
With that, they hung up while Doflamingo laughed to himself.
'The fools!' he thought. 'Heaven's on my side, kiddies! With Caesar still under my control, I can always make more S.A.D.!'
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Back on Punk Hazard, Baby-5 and Buffalo are about to get Caesar…when they spotted something else on the tanker.
"Huh? Look down on the deck," Baby-5 said. "Is someone there?"
"No way," Buffalo answered. "You saw that gas! There's no way anybody could've survived that!"
But then, upon taking a closer, they saw that it was…the Iron Pirate: General Franky!
"A robot?!" Baby-5 questioned.
"Huh?" Franky muttered as he sat inside the cockpit, making the General Franky look up. "What the…? What kind of a bird is that?!"
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