Chapter 20: Protocol Alpha Activated! The Takeover Team Disassembled!?
Colour Spread: The Strawhats are all playing a board game, with their own individual pieces. Brook's a black music note, Franky's a light blue spanner, Robin's a purple book, Chopper's a pink medical kit, Sanji's a blue ladle, Usopp's a yellow slingshot, Nami's an orange berri sign, Zoro's a dark green sword, Ellix's a dark blue scarf, Eri's a dark red bo staff, and Luffy's a red strawhat.
"Now then, are we gonna get moving, kiddos?" Gundar smirked.
"O-Of course!" I nodded, snapping out of my daze.
As we started walking the entire ship suddenly lurched. "W-What was t-that?" Sarah gasped.
"Woah! Lookatthat!" Roy gasped.
We all looked up to see the same mechanisms we saw in Ship 2, only these ones were shuddering and starting to work. "What's happening?" Annabel asked the air.
"Kobata has activated Protocol Alpha." Gundar hissed.
"Protocol Alpha?" Catherine repeated.
"A strategy for dealing with any escaped prisoners, only to be used in a crisis." Specter explained dully.
The gears and pulleys were really working now, grinding and spinning at a rapid rate. "Quickly! Move your asses up to the main deck!" Gundar snapped as we rapidly began climbing.
When we reached the deck we saw that the mast on this ship, in fact on ALL the ships had a beeping red light on top of them. "Are these ships or toy cars?" Thom thought wittily aloud.
"In a way...both, kiddo." Gundar said grimly.
The ship lurched once again as we held onto anything possible to avoid slipping off. "Ellix-sama! Have the looking of horrifying amazingment at that!" I looked where Dimo was pointing and my jaw dropped.
All the ships...were moving closer and closer to each other!
The 7 ships with rounded edges formed around the two with the bulky masts, the two aforementioned ships joining together, their four masts connecting together into one giant watchtower. The other 7 ships (including the one we were on.) started fixing together onto it, until they had made a complete circle,fitting together like a pizza. Finally, the captains ship latched onto the very front, completing what looked like an entire, coated, wooden island!
"This entire fleet is one just big jigsaw puzzle!" Annabel shouted in shock.
"Yes...this is the power of the Fleet of Thieves." Gundar nodded.
Suddenly the gears began clanking again. "Huh? It's not over?" I spoke up.
"EVERYONE GRAB ONTO SOMETHING AS HARD AS YOU CAN!" Gundar shouted, making us all latch onto something.
Then, the 7 ships forming the circled edges started spinning around like a UFO! The velocity forced me to cling on like my life depended on it, and it probably did!
"Aiyeeeee!" Dimo suddenly fell into the rushing wind!
"Dimo!" I yelled.
Then there was a powerful vacuum like sound, and Roy, Kalamar and Specter weren't with us anymore! "Wha-!? Where did they go!? Tack asked frantically.
"Keep your damn grip kiddo!" Gundar shouted over the wind, but it was too late, Tack was pulled away too!
"This suuuuuuucks!" Thom yelled as both he and Catherine were also thrown away. This was awful, it was just like back on Saboedy!
"Crap!" Was all I heard Annabel say before her scythe became dislodged and she fell away too.
"Oh no! No!" I shouted whilst still keeping my grip.
"E-Everyone...everyone..." Sarah clutched the barrel she was holding onto tightly, a little TOO tightly as her increased strength caused it to break, and she was gone as well.
And so finally, we stopped spinning. Except only me and Gundar were left. "...No...we lost everyone..." I breathed, feeling like my stomach was going to hurl from all the spinning.
"Pull yourself together, kiddo!" Gundar said as he lightly whacked me on the shoulder. "We're just a little seperated, that's all. The rotation isn't strong enough to throw 'em out the bubble and inta the ocean, just a different part of this 'jigsaw puzzle.'"
I trusted his words and nodded. "Okay then, let's start looking." I told him as we started walking.
"Matte, kiddo. If you trust in these 'nakama' of yours you will know they're strong, and can take care of themselves. We need to go after Kobata."
I glared at him. "I'm going, to find my friends, first. So that we can take down Kobata together."
Gundar furrowed his eye covering white brows and sighed. "Kiddos these days."
"Screepth!" I looked up to see a familiar bat like thing perch on my head.
"Tempo! Glad to see your okay." I smiled as he nuzzled against my head. "Okay then, let's find our friends!"
Gundar just grumbled as he followed me.
With Roy...
"Owwww...that hurt..." Roy said as he rubbed his head with a childish grimace. "Kalamar? You okay, buddy?" The squid blooped a yes, albeit a little drunkenly from the spinning. "That's good." Roy smiled as he got out another water bottle and dumped its contents over his back, making the squid bloop in delight.
"Are you alright?" A dull voice asked.
"Huh? Specter!" Roy said as he finally acknowledged the boy behind him.
"That spinning was truly terrifying, I was completely terrified." He told the squid carrier without emotion.
"CANYOUSHOWALITTLEBITATLEAST!?" Roy practically yelled in anger. He then stopped and looked around, they were currently in a long metal corridor with the sounds of gears turning all around them. "Hey, where are we anyway?"
To answer Specter pointed to a hatch above his head. "I pulled us both down into here to escape the spinning. We're currently in what used to be the bowels of the ships."
"Guess so. Well, thanks for saving us, Specter! Let's get going, then." He grinned as he jumped up and grabbed the latch.
"Hold on a minute." Specter spoke up.
"Huh? Why?" Roy pouted as he let go of the hatch.
"My grandpa used to tell me about how when the ships activate Protocol Alpha, they create a core at the center that powers it all." Specter told him. "If we can find this core under here, and destroy it, then Protocol Alpha will fall apart."
Roy thought for a few seconds. "...And then WE can be the big heroes! Count me in!" Roy cheered as Kalamar blooped in agreement.
Specter nodded. "Now we just have to find it." And so the two started walking down the metal corridor.
With Thom and Catherine...
"Now where are we?" Thom asked.
The duo looked around the part of the new 'island' they were on, it was co9mpletely filled with weaponry of every kind. "I think this was Ship 7, the weapons ship." Catherine said.
"Didn't WE land in the friendliest place. So I guess everyone else got thrown all over the place, huh." Thom shrugged.
"I think so, we have to find them immediately." Catherine said.
"This way!" The two ducked behind some sword filled barrels as some more pirates ran past them and started grabbing weapons. "Grab anything you can! Commander Strahg is calling all able crew members to arms!"
"Commander Strahg? He must have had cruel parents." Thom huffed.
"They must be looking for everyone." Catherine thought aloud. "I don't think we can take this many armed members on..." She thought a bit longer before nodding. "I suppose our best possible action is to find this Commander Strahg, without his leadership the order will be disrupted, and we will be able to take over the fleet much easier in the ensuing chaos."
"Sure, let's do that." Thom shrugged.
The two snuck around and behind more large weapons until they came to a group of closets. Catherine descreetly opened them and pulled out two sets of scruffy clothes. "Put this on." Catherine said as she handed him the outfit.
"Disguises, easiest way to determine whether people are blind, or just plain stupid." Thom said as they slipped on the 'disguises.'
The two stepped out amongst the rushing crowd. "Now let's go." Catherine nodded to the side and both of them started walking in an underling like way.
With Annabel...
"Goddammit, get OUT already." Annabel huffed as she tried to pull her scythe out of the ground. When she had been sent flying she had had to use her scythe as a pickaxe to stop herself from flying off even more.
"Annnabel! Are you having the assistance of needing?"
"Oh no, you?" She sweatdropped as Dimo, wearing a purple parachute with yellow circles on it floated down beside her before it disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"I have been having the separation from Ellix-sama! Such cruel fateneeeeeeeess!" Dimo suddenly burst out into tears.
"H-Hey! Don't worry! We'll find 'em in no time." Annabel reassured him as she finally pulled her weapon out of the ground.
"Yes! Hope must not have the losing! I HAVE ENDUREMENT!" Dimo yelled, instantly changing his demeanor to a determined one.
"...Huh?" The girl looked up at the now big tower to see a light blinking on it. "What the hell is that?" Suddenly th blinking light turned into a big powerful light, that shone down onto the 'island', searching over the 7 sections like a giant searchlights, quickly spinning to Annabel and Dimo's section.
"Get down!" Annabel said as she pulled Dimo behind a wall to avoid the searchlight, when she bumped into is however, the top opened up. "Huh?"
"Ah! Upon seeing the see of seeingness we are having the crates surrounding ourselves." Dimo said, which the midget was right, the area himself and the girl were in was completely filled with crates of different sizes, shapes, and materials, there were even crates made out of Keirosaki.
"Why would Kobata need an entire ship full of crates?" Annabel said as she looked in the crate. "...Figures." She said as a crateful of coins and jewels came into her vision.
"This one is having the containingment of Fruits of Devil!" Dimo said as he carefully opened a Keirosaki crate.
"Guess they aren't called the Thief Pirates for nothing." Annabel said as her attention was redirected to the tower/lighthouse. "Hey, Dimo?"
"To you I say yes?"
"You wanna see Ellix, right?"
"To you I say yes."
"Well, I'm pretty sure Kobata would be hiding at the top of that tower, and Ellix is headinbg after Kobata, so if we go and shut that lighthouse down to give everyone else with an advantage-"
"YAAAAAAH!" Dimo yelled as he actually picked up Annabel. "TO YOU I SAY WE ARE HAVING THE ARRIVING SOONIIIIIISH!"
'That worked.' She thought with a shrug as the two sped off towards the tower.
With Tack...
"Ahhhh..." Tack groaned as he stood up. "That hurt..."
"TACK" A voice cried as it wrapped him up in a bone crushing hug.
"ACK! SARH! TOO TIGHT! TOO TIGHT!" Tack yelled desperately.
""Eeep! S-Sorry!" Sarah squealed as she released him.
"It's alright, I'm just glad your safe." He smilked, before looking around, they appeared to be in some kind of entrance hall. "Where are we? How far did we get thrown by that spin?"
"T-Tack? I-Is everyone else okay?" Sarah asked nervously.
"Don't worry, they're strong, I'm sure they'll be fine." He smiled confidently. "Come on, let's see if we can find them." Sarah nodded as Tack took her hand.
"Well, well, well. Isn't this a surprise?"
Sarah gasped in fear and hid behind Tack as he turned around to come face to face with...
"KOBATA!"
The captain smiled darkly. "So we meet again, like the bird challenging the falcon."
Gasp! Now everyone's separated!...Oh well, at least they've got something to do.
Ellix: Stupid baka! My friends are gone!
I wasn't saying anything like that! Let us distract ourselves with reviews.
To HikariLight00: Two reviews again! And you shall have to wait and see.
Ellix: P-Poor Annabel! Suffering so much like that! Waaaaah!
Pull yourself together, man!
To ThiefofStealth: Yep. Words of wisdom right there.
Ellix: Fighting on an empty stomach is practically suicide!
Too far...By the way, the Drapion is Magellan, and the Murkrow is Foxy.
To Exile037:Cool ranks!
Ellix: I'm a mercenary!
No your not, that's just what the World Government thinks, your just lookout.
Ellix: Spoilsport...
To Zusenheim: Really? That's a keeper!
Ellix: In that case, SUSUMEEEEEEEE!
By the way, I'm thinking about making another One Piece Movie fanfic!
Ellix: I wonder if Eri-chan can join us!
I'll have to see. I'm currently debating between three options: Film Z, Omatsuri Island, and my own movie idea. Of course, there are problems with all.
Film Z: Spoilers for Ellix's post-timeskip moves.
Omatsuri Island: F****** creepy, plus, my dark mind will probably come up with something scarring.
My own movie idea: Lack of ideas, plus not sure it would be any good.
What do you guys think? Say so in a review! And now the disclaimer! From now on, whenever we say 'Nakama', it means: 'OPFan37 doesn't own One Piece, only his OC's, One Piece belongs to Oda-san.'. So let's do it!
Nakama!