Chapter 19: Stage One, Initiate! Retrieve Meat and Eternal Pose!
Cover Page: One Piece Pokemon, the Main Antagonists-Minccino T. Ellix and Eevee A. Erica hold up a sign that reads 'The Bastard Villains'. From left to right it's Buggy the Mr Mime, Persian Kuro, Aggron Krieg, Sharpedo Arlong, Tin-Plate Snorlax, Sir Krookodile, Bellamy the Big Time Spoink, Electivire Eneru, Murky the Silver Murkrow, Rob Liepard, Gengar Moria, Raikizaru, Boa Milotic, Warden Drapion, and Admiral Enteinu.
We all walked along the decks slowly climbing up, if we started smashing 'willy nilly' as Gundar put it we'd be crushed by millions of tons of water.
I noticed as we were walking that Annabel had a large, 5'ft long scythe with a light blue and silver blade strapped to her back. "Is that your weapon?"
She looked at me. "What? You mean my scythe? Yeah, its a family heirloom, passed down from mother to daughter.
"Mother to daughter? That's weird..." Roy mumbled.
Tack whacked him on the back of his head. "Don't be sexist."
Annabel looked at the two. "Actually, there's a reason. My great, great, great grandmother lived at Amazon Lily."
I raised an eyebrow. "Amazon Lily?"
"Yeah, it's a place where only women live and where men are very scarcely know, even hated by the rulers."
"You hate us!?" Me, Roy and Tack yelled in shock with gloomy auras.
"You hate us? I'm so sad I could weep buckets." Specter said dryly.
"Show a bit of emotion!" Us other three boys shouted at him.
"Nah, my ancient grandma came offshore to study men, and she settled down there with my ancient grandad. But I've still got a mighty warriors genes in me!" She proclaimed proudly.
"Sugoiiiii!" All of us, including Sarah, beamed.
"Sugoi." Specter stated.
"Is that it!?" Us boys yelled with shark teeth.
We reached the hatch up to the main deck, when Gundar stopped. "...Gyohohohoho!" He chuckled.
"What's so funny?" I asked.
"I don't think we have to worry about any crewmembers on deck, kiddo." He chuckled as he opened the hatch and we all climbed out.
Wow, Gundar wasn't kidding! Every single crew member had been knocked unconcious! But two people were standing on the deck seemingly fine.
The guy looked about 20, had loose brown hair, amber eyes, and was wearing an orange open shirt with black trousers. The girl looked around the same age, and had red hair like Tack's tyed into a ponytail and green eyes, wearing a white tank top and a blue skirt with heels.
"Hey Gundar, Specter." The guy said. "Sorry, but you missed the party, who are the late arrivals?"
"HOW DARE YOU!?" Gundar whacked him over the head. "Have more respect for an old man!"
"Take a chill pill, old geezer." He wittily replied.
"That's better." Gundar nodded. "These are new allies, Felix, Tank, Ronald, Sydney, Derik, and Arianne. Plus a squid and a bat."
"Those aren't our names..." We all said with a depressed aura as Kalamar and Tempo nodded.
"Ossan of foolishness! You shall make the wrath of Dimo explode like volcanoe of angriness!" Dimo went for the more dramatic option.
"Eh? No matter...listen up kiddos! These here are Donoku J. Thom and 'Snow' Catherine, but call 'em whatever the hell ya want." Gundar waved dismissively.
"Hey there." Thom waved.
"Good to meet you." Catherine shrugged.
"Sooo...what are they doing here?" I questioned the ossan.
"Hmm? Oh right, they were bakas who had the ass-faced stupidity to sneak on here for easy transport."
"Don't pull any punches, do you?" The duo sighed.
"I let 'em out a week ago and hid them until we landed somewhere else, unfortunately we've been doing nothing but sailing. And having to move them from ship fleet to ship fleet is a pain in the ass, they've been like really annoying, needy guinea pigs."
"We're standing right here..." Both said dully.
"But when you lot got captured, I reckon I had enough little kiddos to take over this fleet." He pointed his walking stick at the two. "It looks like you two actually did something useful for a change. Good job."
"Thanks...?" Both said uncertaintly.
"So, why did you guys get caught?" Catherine asked.
"I SAW them, such a crime..." Annabel sighed sarcastically.
"And we're on our way to Marineford!" I cheered.
They both stared at us. "Marineford? Where only the BIGGEST war ever is about to go down?" Thom started.
"To rescue Portgaz D. Ace?" Catherine finished.
"To you I say YES! We are having the rescuing of the Ace of Portgaz D.!" Dimo again, you should be able to tell by now.
"...That's ironic, we were heading there too." Thom laughed.
"NANIIII!?" Me, Roy, Tack and Annabel yelled.
"Nani?" Specter said gloomily.
"OH COME ON!"
"...Umm...W-Why would you want to...um...go to M-Marineford?" Sarah stammered nervously.
The two looked at each other. "Let's just say Ace is a good friend and he helped us out of a tight jam once." Thom shrugged.
"Okay..." Tack said in an unsure tone.
I, meanwhile, walked over to the railing and looked over. All ten ships were going through the ocean, obviously with the main one at the front. Unfortunately it looked like we were the one at the very back.
"Hey, Gundar, how do we get to a different ship?" I called to him.
The ossan turned to me. "That's easy, we have small, deployable, coated rafts in each ships hull so we can travel wherever we want. Ya see each ship is numbered, to show their different purposes. Just ta give ya an example Ship 7 stores all the weapons."
"Cute little rhyme for you there." Thom chuckled.
"Aaaaaanyway." Gundar continued with a tic-pulse. "The ships are ordered from 2 to 9, with 1 leading, it all works in a system."
"That's a stupid numbering system." I deadpanned.
"I designed it." He stated.
"Oh..." I said with a nervous sweatdrop. "W-Well now we know how to get to the lead ship, let's get moving!" I started to walk to the steps.
"Hold your horses kiddo." Gundar said, making me stop. "Do you even know how to get to Marineford?"
"...Err...no, honestly." I sweatdropped.
"Thought as much. In that case we need to make a stop at Ship 3, that's where they keep all the Log Poses and Eternal Poses they've stolen. There's gotta be one for Marineford as well.
I nodded. "Okay then!"
All of us went below deck and found a big red raft with oars, and it was coated as well! "Alright, kiddos. Everyone hop in." We all climbed in as Gundar seized the oars. "Here we go!" He pushed off with the oars and were sent ou into open water, protected from the pressure only by our little bubble.
"Ship 3 is right there." Specter said dully, pointing to one of the weird rounded edge ships with an Eternal Pose painted on the back.
Then a deep rumbling was heard from inside my stomach. "Aww, man. I'm hungry." I looked around at all the ships, and I saw that the vessel opposite the one we were heading to had a picture of a piece of meat drawn on the back of it. "Gundar! What's that one!?"
"Hrmph!? That one? That's Ship 4 kiddo, stores all the food."
"WE HAVE TO GO THERE FIRST!" I practically yelled.
"Isn't rescuing Ace more important then food?" Catherine asked.
"Obviously, but a pirate can't fight on an empty stomach." I quoted my captain.
"Have the agreeing with Ellix-sama's plan of awesomeness!" Dimo yelled.
"Gyohohohoho! I like ya style kiddo, lets grab a bite ta eat first." Gundar agreed as he steered us toward Ship 4.
We docked in the hull where I looked around frantically. "Where's the food?"
"Hidden." Thom wittily answered.
"Through there." Specter said, pointing at a door.
I opened it to find myself staring at lots of boxes and freezers containing food! "Woohoo! Food!" I cheered as I started rummaging around in the boxes for cooked meat.
Everyone got at it as I found some meat and cheese and devoured them both. "What are you eating, Annabel?" I asked as I walked past.
"Seafood, it's pretty good." She nodded.
"They have seafood here too!? I hope I can find some prawns or salmon!"
Soon we were all full. "There, now I don't have to worry about being hungry during the war!" I declared as I patted my full stomach.
"That's...actually a good point." Tack nodded.
As we walked out of the room we were met with a hundred armed pirates. "Freeze, prisoners!" They yelled.
"Only one hundred? This'll be easy." Roy shrugged as he and Kalamar got out their guns.
"Payback time." Annabel smirked as she held out her scythe.
"I reckon a few more couldn't hurt." Thom shrugged.
"Yaaaaah!" Both sides said as we charged.
"Rankakyu Ogama!" I yelled as I sliced most of them with a leg whipped air wave.
"Blood Slash!" Tack's blood shot across the ground like a shockwave, cutting through a path of the pirates.
"Crazy Shooting!" Roy yelled as he and Kalamar shot wildly, hitting a few others.
"Arnament Hardening!" Thom's fist turned jet black and he punched a pirate in the face.
"Frost Covering." Catherine blasted cold air from her hands that covered most of the pirates in frost, weakening them.
"Hey! Thom, you know Haki!" I pointed out. "And Catherine, you ate a Devil Fruit?"
She nodded. "The Fro-Fro Fruit, I'm a Frost woman. It allows me to create frost that cripples opponents movements."
Dimo pulled a big purple bazooka out of his notepad. "NOW FIRE AWESOME PURPLE BAZOOKA OF DOOM!" He screeched as he shot a powerful blast which ripped through their defences.
Even Sarah picked up several pirates and threw them at others. "S-Sorry!" She apologised afterwards.
In pretty much no time at all we were done. "Gyohohoho! You kiddos sure pulled your weight, there!" Gundar chuckled. "Now then, annyone up for going to Ship 3?"
"Me!" I raised my hand as we all got into the coated raft.
So this time we rowed across to the other ship, where we climbed into what looked like a library of Log Poses, they were stacked in shelves everywhere! And there were a lot of them!
"You think he has enough Log Poses?" Thom asked no-one in particular.
"Come on, kiddos, let's get looking." Gundar said as he walked off.
We all started looking around, I was expecting them to be in alphabetical order, but it just looked like they were placed there randomly, much to my annoyance.
"Hey, kiddo!" I heard Gundar call, so I walked over to him. "I think this is it?" He asked as he pointed at a Log Pose that had 'Marineford' written across its base.
"Yes! This is it!" I cheered as I took it and held it gently in my hand, making everyone crowd around me.
"It's the real deal." Tack nodded.
"Yeah, but it looks like its the only Eternal Pose to Marineford here, so ya gotta keep a close eye on it, kiddo." Gundar told me.
"I promise." I said as I pocketed it.
Suddenly the door burst open and guess who it was. If you guessed more pirates then you were right.
"What the hell are these guys doing in the Log Pose room?" One spoke up.
As we all got ready for battle Gundar suddenly blocked us with his walking stick. "Leave these pussys to me, kiddos." He said as he walked forward.
"Gundar! Wait!" I called, but he wouldn't stop.
Specter walked up and next to him as the two confronted the attackers. "This'll be easy! It's just some old geezer and a kid." One smirked.
"Thank you for the compliment." Gundar bowed keeping his super long peg legs straight. "But I've still got a trick or two up my sleeve."
Suddenly he imbued his walking stick with Haki and swiped it in a wide arc, taking out almost half of them! Specter readied his pipes and slammed them against the other pirates with skilled expertise. Gundar did a handstand and imbued both his peg legs with Haki, spinning around like Sanji's Party Table Kick Course before standing back up and whacking the rest of them with his deadly wooden prosthetics. It was over in a matter of seconds.
"Young men are far too cocky these days." Gundar said as we all stared at him with dropped jaws. "Now come on, kiddos, we gotta get to Ship 1 AQAL."
"...Err...don't you mean ASAP?" Annabel asked dumbly.
"Meh? Ahhh I can't get heads or tails of young terms, in my day we just said things good and proper! Now move your lazy asses." He then hobbled off in an elderly grump.
"...Ossans have scary hiddenness." Dimo said.
"Agreed." The rest of us nodded.
Meanwhile...
Kobata sat in his chair, tapping the ashes from his cigar into the pot as he took a long sip of his wine. The room he was sitting in was the captains quarters, and different fabulous treasures in glass cages surrounded him, including a solid gold crown with diamonds, and an emerald encrusted ruby as big as your head.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Kobata let out a deep puff on his cigarette. "What the hell is it?"
"C-Captain! We've got reports about attacks on Ships 2, 3 and 4!" A feeble voice squeaked from behind the door.
"2, 3 and 4?" Kobata bit down on his cigar. "Nightmare and his goon squad..." He stood up out of his chair. "The snake will dishonour the leopard by entering its domain...initiate Protocol Apple."
"...D-Do you mean Protocol Alpha, Captain?"
"EHHHHH!?...Yes, yes, that's what I meant."
"R-Right away, Captain!" The sound of footsteps indicated his leaving.
Kobata sat back down and downed the rest of his wine, leaving a tiny bit at the bottom which he swirled in his glass. Suddenly a figure appeared in the shadows. "Captain..." He said in a raspy voice. "You are-click-not worried about this-click?"
He shook his head, before peering at the wine puddle at the bottom of his glass. "Have you ever heard the phrase...'Drink life to the lees?'"
"No-click-Captain."
"It means to seize everything life has to offer you..." He smirked darkly. "And I believe that I was put on this planet to be the very embodiment of that phrase, to take EVERYTHING life offers to me. And a mere mercenary will not change my destiny."
And with that, he drank the rest of the wine, until there was nothing left.
There's another jerk trait of Kobata for you there, and your REALLY gonna hate him after these next few chapters. Plus we have two more OC's! Donoku J. Thom and Snow Catherine from Exile037! Be thankful I managed to fit 'em in...onto reviews!
To ThiefofStealth: Yep, that's basically ME facing the worst ever torture, those were LITERALLY my torture nightmares put to writing, enjoy them.
To HikariLight00: Yep, he's doomed. I've actually already got the rematch completely planned out, and I am STOKED to write it!
To TheRealEvanSG: And now the counterattack begins! But what is 'Protocol Alpha'? So many questions...
To Exile037: Here they are, you got here just in time I do believe.
To Zusenheim: Susumeeee! What does that even meeeeeean!? Oh weeeeeeell!
And now dear readers, reviews are always appreciated, and thank you for reading.
Ellix: NANI!? DID YOU JUST DO THE ENDING WITHOUT ME!? I ONLY JUST GOT HERE!
*Gets out Alpacacino* Wanna say anything else?
Ellix: Nope...
Good. Alpacacino, you can do the disclaimer.
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