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...Actually that would make it all tasteless. Never mind, forget what I said. Just get on with the chapter.
"Talk"
'Think'
We got a cold reception when we reached Drum Island. Yes that was a pun, but when we arrived my balls were lodged into my chest. I never ever visited a winter island before. I never thought about how cold it was. And I certainly did not expect to get into a fight right off the bat. It was mainly due to Goldenweek creating our Jolly Roger, if you've read your history books it has my likeness with the whole infamous shark-like smile, blonde hair, and a whirlpool full of teeth in the background. If you haven't then how the hell did you come by this journal? God if it was from my dead body I would be pissed!
Kotetsu, Carmen, Igaram and I slowly made out way to the island, we slipped and slid all over that stupid dock. Kotetsu fell on his face a great many times, and so do Igaram. I found it amusing, though Carmen cheated using her high heels to dig into the ice. All was going well until we were ambushed by people wearing white camouflage parkas, the bastards blended with the snow so perfectly that none of us saw it coming.
There wasn't much of a confrontation. They threatened us because we were pirates (a claim I sort of disputed back then), and were promptly told to screw off somewhere that wasn't on their island. Kotetsu disarmed a few people by cutting their guns in half after things got heated, but before a major fight could break out...well things got very weird, very fast. First off one of out attackers was kicked by this old woman who dressed one-seventh her age, then we were practically dragged to her doctors office.
Once there Kureha, this one-hundred and thirty-nine year old woman treated our injuries from Cactus Island. And most of her treatments was either manhandling us or sedating us with drugs or a frying pan. Even now I wonder if that woman was a demon or a doctor. Before I got treated I met up with a guy called Dalton, he was apparently with that son of a bitch Wapol during the Revere. I got the satisfaction of hearing that he was heavily penalized for trying to shoot Vivi. He lost some doctors, a shit load of money, and later I heard he was forced to flee when some big shot pirate invaded their country, and then tried to take it back by force and got his ass kicked by Luffy. Apparently the Isshi-20 defected against him, his cronies Chess and Kuromarimo were jailed, and after some strange chemical was launched into the air, it turned the snow pink like sakura petals. I honestly didn't get it at the time, hell it wasn't until after another important event I went through to understand it, but that's left for another time. Also on a smaller note Igaram found out I was the guy who kicked Wapol in the face...it was a bit awkward when he thanked me profusely.
Anyways, Dalton was selected to be the new king, I say good for him. But Kureha couldn't cure Gin of his poison ailment. She stabilized him enough to travel, but cure? Nope, she just didn't have the plant to do it. However, she did have the knowledge of a young doctor a days sailing to the south who could fix him up. Needless to say we left there the very next day.
After a few days of sailing, and to my surprise it was one of Whitebeard's ships that we found. I scared the hell out of my crew by going after them, and scared some members of that ship by boldly coming aboard. Thankfully Namur, the Eight Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates greeted me. And long story short, Gin got his poisoned ass saved, I revealed a little bit of my past to my misfits that were traveling with me, including my apprenticeship with Jinbe.
But then another problem became apparent. Gin couldn't be moved, he needed to be looked after in case he took a turn for the worse.
So...I may or may not have called Whitebeard through Namur's Den Den Mushi to barter a deal...and I may or may not have basically challenged three of his nearest commanders to a fight in order to gain Shizune as our doctor...and if we lost we would have joined the Whitebeard Pirates.
Don't judge me. I would have liked to see you do better than me with my screwed up situation!
"He's not gonna come back." Vito boldly claimed after thirty minutes passed since a cease fire. The wounds of not only the Ocean Sword Pirates were fixed up using Capone Bege's best doctors, but also the members of the Saruyama Alliance. They even started fixing up the Utan Sonar just to have a reason to stay busy, and because Captain Bege said to.
Gin, now dressed in his usual clothing and weapons that came with it glared at the gangster. "Don't be an idiot. Uzumaki is a fishman, you think he's tough on land, well buddy he's now in his domain where a ton of freaky shit can happen."
"Gin, where did you get that sash?" Carmen demanded.
"I stole it from "Black" Jack Lee of course." Gin said.
"Wait, you stole it off that body? That's low, even for you." Vivi said.
Looking at both women, now dressed in their usual outfits, and glad Vivi was covered head to toe to keep Bege's pirates from not only ogling her, but to keep her identity safe. "Don't give me that look, I liked the sash. Uzumaki has a sash of orange Alabastian silk, and none of you were giving him grief for for taking that hatchet and sword for keepsakes." He said, patting the weapons Naruto left to him to look after.
"And here I thought I was the weird one." Vito remarked with a sweat-drop. "Seriously, do you guys always act like this?"
"We're the normal ones." Carmen gestured to Vivi and herself. "Gin here is an apathetic, remorseless, angry, trigger happy sociopath of a First Mate for our crew."
"I punch things with bullets." Gin said. If he showed any offense to what was said about him, he didn't show it.
"Well, what's stopping us from ventilating you as soon as all this goes south." Vito said, smirking with his trigger fingers itching near his revolvers. That was until he was beamed in the head by an irate Gotti.
"Quit acting like a big man Vito, Captain Bege gave his word, and damn it we won't go back on it." The assassin said before flicking his fellow crew mate's forehead. "Though he has been down there a long time, and we haven't seen any of those laser beams."
No sooner when he said that, they saw the sand rumble under their feet. Then two miles out they saw the ocean itself shaking and rumbling. Then there was a loud explosion that knocked everyone off their feet. The sun was soon blocked out as something big flew up into the air and the sound of a sledgehammer hitting metal echoed in their ears before the sound of something crashing near them not only sent up giant amounts of sand but also sea water that drenched them from head to toe.
"Argh, dammit what in the hell just happened?" Gin coughed out as he regained his bearings.
"Oh my God what the hell is that!?" Vito screamed.
Slowly the three crews turned to see a gigantic piece of machinery that was the length of a football stadium, and completely made of metal looking more like a crayfish than a lobster up close half submerged in the ocean and on land. Its entire body looked like someone had taken a battering ram to it, one of its claws was crushed shut, the other was futilely snapping in the air. Its red eyes looked at them with intense hatred before it slowly began to die away until it turned black.
"Oh man, that took longer than I thought." Naruto said and he literally walked out of the ocean. The blonde cracked his knuckles as he looked at them all with a confident grin. "Well, it's all clear now."
"Kid...what the hell did you do?" Cricket demanded. Like his crew he didn't have much to say. They got their asses kicked, and none of them had anything nice to say to the Fire Tank Pirates. But this, well he had something to say.
"I showed this monstrosity that I was top dog around here." Naruto said before he removed the water from his person, and made a show of it by warping it into various shapes until he tossed it over his shoulder into the sea. "Got a problem with that?"
"You know what? No, no I do not." Gotti said before turning back towards the ship. "I'm gonna tell the Captain that we're clear to go. Good luck gathering all that treasure from that flooded base."
Naruto only rolled his eyes in response to that. Between the Saruyama Alliance, and him being awesome, they would have all that treasure out in a week tops. "Hmm...I need to contact Shizune." He mused to himself.
(The Nautilus – Fifteen minutes later
Shizune was not a happy doctor. But then again since arriving in Mock Town her happiness levels had dropped to abysmal levels. She was grouchy and prone to biting someone's head off if they got out of line. That was the hell both Kotetsu and Bashura were going through as Shizune scowled at them like they were children, it also didn't help that they were sitting on the chairs in the kitchen.
"You destroyed a bar," Shizune said to them with an impatient tap of her sandaled foot. "You two fought another pirate crew after losing a poker match." She said pointing at Bashura's larger form.
"I had three aces. That jerk used a sleight of hand trick to get himself a royal flush." The large navigator protested as he crossed his bandaged arms over his equally bandaged chest.
"And you caused just as much damage. What were you thinking?" Shizune demanded.
"I was eating my dinner with you, but when that crew of jackasses tried to surround Bashura did you really think I was going to just sit there?" Kotetsu asked with a raised and more recently stitched eyebrow. Rubbing his bruised knuckles he continued. "The answer is no, so I picked up my glass and beamed people over the head with it."
Letting out an irritated sigh, Shizune looked at them. During that fight, they received some cuts and bruises, nothing she couldn't fix, but it could have been prevented. "We could have stayed on the ship and made something simple. This night was supposed to be quiet, all we were supposed to do was eat, maybe play some pool or darts and come back. But then you caused all sorts of trouble."
"We're on an island of pirates. If we aren't going to start trouble, then someone else will." Kotetsu said with a light shrug of his shoulders. Leaning back on the chair he really couldn't say much else, pirates were assholes, if they thought they could get away with it, they would do whatever they wanted. Now granted he never went out of his way to start trouble, but trouble always seemed to find him.
Before Shizune could retort the sound of a den den mushi ringing caused her to freeze up. Besides the sounds of drunken debauchery that happened outside their ship and in the town, that ringing sound filled her with nothing but dread. Removing herself from the kitchen she went to the closet that held their multiple den den mushi's and answered the one Naruto had when he went off with Cricket. "Hello?"
"Shizune this is Naruto, I'm calling in to report something awesome." Naruto said over the den den mushi.
"Awesome? Naruto what did you find?" Shizune asked.
"You know that so-called lost treasure of "Black" Jack Lee? Well, we found it! And there is more than you can imagine!"
"Are you serious? Does that mean you got it all?"
"Not exactly..." Naruto's voice trailed off, that cause Shizune to frown. "Listen, we ran into another group of pirates, there was a fight, we kicked their asses. Problem is we're going to need the ship here asap. Is Bashura nearby?"
"I'm here Cap'n." Bashura's voice made Shizune's hair stand on end, she sharply turned to her right to see the tallest member of their crew standing next to her with Kotetsu behind him.
"Good, is there any way you guys can set off today to meet us at the island. Do you need the coordinates or anything to mark on a map?"
Taking the den den mushi, Bashura spoke into it. "No need Cap'n. I remember the location as clear as day. But we won't be able to set off today, maybe in a day or two so we could gather some supplies and make some minor repairs."
"Minor repairs? Oh God damn it what happened now?" Naruto demanded.
Kotetsu took the den den mushi and covered them from there. "Nothing bad Uzumaki, we picked a fight with some pirates that they retaliated. We showed them who's boss and stole their money to pay for the repairs for our ship."
"Ohhh tell me more, did you kick them into buildings or drown them?" Gin's voice echoed through the den den mushi.
"Gah! Dammit Gin, give that back I'm trying to talk to people!"
"No way! I need to know the specifics, oi Kujaku, Carmen did I tell you to stop with your exercises!?"
There was a sound of two people struggling over the den den mushi, and both Naruto and Gin swearing a lot. It caused the three remarkably more sane members that stayed behind to sweat-drop from their immaturity.
"Hey! Quit fucking around with that thing, Naruto I need to you to dive down into that mess you made again, my guys can't get to the treasure room!" Finally, Cricket's voice of reason stopped their nonsense.
"All right fine, Shizune when you get your stuff fixed come to us immediately, we got a lot to unload," Naruto said before he handed the den den mushi off to Gin. "Kotetsu, Bashura try to not get into any fights, we still need our ship to sail."
"Ah screw that, fight as much as you want it's the only way to get stronger! Get all the stuff you need and come on over, there is so much treasure guys. Over and out." Gin hung up the den den mushi and went back to doing whatever the hell was going on over there, Shizune honestly didn't want to know.
"Why did you lie to them, besides a few bar fights no one has ever set foot on our ship?" Shizune demanded.
"We needed to have a reason to find Goldenweek and Carue still, I mean they are one of us aren't they?" Kotetsu said.
"Of course they are, but we searched the entire island in over a week and found no trace of them. I honestly don't know what else to do." Heavily sighing, the doctor of the crew leaned against the wall. "If we don't find them in two days...we have to leave them behind."
Scratching the back of his shaved head, Bashura looked towards Kotetsu and shrugged his giant shoulders. "We have two days, I'll do a little more searching in my half-panther form."
"I would let Magara out, but no one wants that." That was the grandest extreme Kotetsu was willing to do to find the two of them, the nuclear option where no one would win.
Before Shizune could speak again, a gunshot stopped her in her tracks. "All right listen up you newbies, I know there are only three of you in that hunk of crap you call a ship! On the order of the Bellamy Pirates you're to come out and give us everything of value or we will torch this ship!"
"Are they fucking serious?" Kotetsu asked.
"You know them?" Bashura asked.
"Bellamy the Hyena"? Yes, I heard of him, he's supposed to be this super rookie pirate. He's got a bounty of fifty-five million beli." When he got an odd look from his crewmates he shrugged. "What? I saw the wanted posters around here, apparently "Big Knife" Sarquiss has a thirty-eight million beli bounty is apart of the crew too."
"Should be bag em and tag em?" Bashura asked.
"Oh no no no! You guys are just going to beat them up, if Carmen learns that you guys put heads in the freezer like Gin did, we're going to get chewed out." Shizune stamped out any ideas of head hunting right then and there.
"Whatever happened to that head I wonder?" Bashura bluntly asked. The last time he saw it was the day Gin got hit by a frying pan by an irate Carmen.
"I dunno, but that second freezer is filled with food...isn't it?" Kotetsu asked, looking at the newer fridge that looked severely out of place next to their out of date piece of junk fridge.
"I'm not going to look." Once was bad enough, Shizune didn't want any more nightmares floating in her head regarding decapitated heads.
"Hey listen here, I said-" The voice was cut off by a loud explosion that caused everyone to turn towards the wall of their ship. Then there was a metallic ping like a baseball bat hitting someone in the skull, it was shortly followed by the sound of the ground collapsing, a crashing noise and what sounded like knives impaling human flesh.
"What in the sam hill?" The three exited to the top of the ship to see something they could not believe. It was Goldenweek with Carue pecking the unconscious body of some poor bastard. Surrounding her was the ensemble of what used to be the Baroque Works Frontier Agents in prison uniforms, and some weird men surrounding them.
"Goldenweek...what in the actual hell is going on here?" Kotetsu demanded. His hands were already on the hilts of his swords, he did not forget what they did on Cactus Island.
"Goldenweek? So they only know you by that name, huh girlie?" Drophy said.
"Not surprising, none of us knew each others names." Gem remarked.
"Goldenweek, what is going on here? You better have a good explanation for why you have disappeared on us for over a week and came back with the enemy." Shizune honestly looked ready to explode. Between looking all over for both her and Carue, dealing with the terribleness of Mock Town, and now seeing former enemies that should have been on their way to Impel Down, she was at the end of her rope.
Dully looking at her crew mates, Marianne slowly held up her right hand and pat Carue on the top of his head. "I first saw the duck getting unloaded onto a ship by a bunch of pirates. Using my special abilities I bent them to my will and saw a newspaper article regarding my old organization."
"You went to save them?" Bashura demanded with a growl.
"Those who deserved to be saved. I had no intention of saving Crocodile or Mr. 1." Marianne's eyes held a cold blankness that sent shivers up their spines. "I was recruited by them because I had nowhere else to go, and no one to rely on. I owed them everything, and my debt is now repaid...and now they owe me."
"Goldenweek, what did you do?" Shizune calmly asked.
"A deal none of us could refuse."
("Black" Jack Lee's hideout – Three days later)
"Gin have you found anything out about that thing?" Vivi asked the First Mate of the crew. Tilting her head curiously, she watched as the irritable man loosened the metal from the giant mechanical lobster that they nicknamed the Leviathan; much to Naruto's displeasure, he claimed that was an insult to the real creature he claimed existed.
"I haven't learned much besides the fact this is beyond my understanding." Gin said as he pulled away the metal plating to expose the interior. There were so many gears and electronics that it made his head spin. "If I can learn how it shot that laser beam we will be set for life."
That honestly caused Vivi to roll her eyes. "And where would we put it? On the bow of our sinking ship using electricity we barely even have."
"We would put it somewhere!" Gin protested. No one was going to deny him a damn laser cannon!
"Will you quit messing around with that thing!?" Masira screeched at them and sounding like a chimp as he did. "We got more stuff coming up. Carmen and Naruto have been busting their butts hauling stuff up with the Utan Divers!"
"We're paying you to get the damn treasure, besides I'm hard at work here!" Gin angrily shouted at the monkey-looking man.
"I can hear you assholes yelling from inside the cave, knock it off!" Everyone on the beach turned towards the entrance to see Naruto hauling a lot of bound safes bound in rope on his back. Following after him was Carmen dressed in one of the diving suits with sacks of stuff over her shoulders, soon they saw Cricket and well over two dozen Utan Divers coming from behind hauling a huge load of treasure from the destroyed underwater hideout.
"Finally, we were about to run out of stuff." Shoujou didn't try to get out of the chair that was given to him, his legs were still healing from the multiple gunshot wounds. He couldn't dive so he stayed behind to document all their findings and split their shares between every crew.
Capone Bege and his crew left barely an hour after Naruto defeated the Leviathan. But before they left they fixed up the people they injured, and even fixed the Utan Sonar. After that, they were crazy busy. Every single day they hauled up dozens of chests, safes, a statue one day, and great amounts of silks and spices. During those past three days, Shoujou and Masira showed a surprising amount of knowledge by looking up the value of what they pulled up and documenting what their treasure would be worth on the open market...and in some cases the black market if they couldn't find the right person.
And while they were working hard on digging up "Black" Jack Lee's base, they weren't neglecting the shipwrecks around the area. The Utan Divers were hauling up unique artifacts, from treasure chests to safes or even bits and pieces of random objects they found scattered on the ocean floor. The amount of money that they could potentially make was making Gin drool like a dog.
"Shoujou, how much have we made so far?" Cricket said after depositing two very large chests at his subordinates feet.
"With that last crate filled with rubies you guys brought up, we're at four-hundred million beli." The green-haired monkey-looking man said. "Cricket, we can buy a fleet of ships and still have enough left over to buy an island!"
"We don't need a fleet of ships or an island you numbskull," Cricket said before popping a cigarette into his mouth. "We will need some new equipment. Perhaps a ship for myself, then we can prepare a new adventure."
No one could forget the odd image everyone saw after Bege departed. In the clouds, there was a loud noise like a bell ringing and a giant shadow of a very familiar-looking person with a straw hat that came right after it. Cricket began to cry, much to the shock of Naruto and everyone around him before declaring. "I can finally move forward." Naruto only muttered, "Show off."
Naruto set the safes next to the table where Shoujou was sitting and wiped his brow. "We got sixteen safes for you to crack, I'm going on break." He said before making his way to the Victory Hunter.
Carmen wordlessly dropped off her load of treasure and headed towards the Utan Sonar. She was exhausted already, they took three out of the planned ten dives that day and she was out of gas. It was another reminder that she was lacking the stamina for long drawn out confrontations, which lead to her remembering she was lacking strength, speed, and even flexibility.
She was a chef first, and a fighter second, that was how it had always been. If Carmen's younger self was told she would accidentally wind up joining a crew of pirates and forced to fight in some ridiculous battles she would have laughed and probably hit someone with a frying pan. Well, she certainly wasn't laughing now, and both Gin and Kotetsu knew her prowess with a frying pan.
"What the hell is this?" Masira exclaimed as she walked past them.
"I dunno boss they sort of look like seashells." Said one of the Utan Divers.
"Seashells?" Carmen instantly moved to their side, literally knocking Masira onto his ass as she looked into the large chest. Before leaving Alabasta, Kankuro showed her exactly what he used to make Temari's fan to deal such devastating air attacks. And in that chest, Carmen saw what Kankuro called a Jet Dial, and many others that she was told could do other things too. "Dibs!"
"What the, hey now my guys were the ones who pulled those from the treasure room!" Masira bellowed, once again sounding like a screeching monkey. "We still need to document this and-" He was cut off when Carmen's head snapped towards him, her beautiful face becoming demonic with sharp teeth and flaming red eyes, she even growled like a demonic bear. "...On second thought go ahead. They're just stupid seashells."
"Thank you." Her face coming back to normal like nothing happened, Carmen closed the lid and lifted the chest by herself and made her way to the Victory Hunter to tell Naruto what she got. And Masira decided to never deny that scary woman what was hers ever again.
"Hey Naruto, look what I found!" Carmen exclaimed. Dressed in that bulky diving suit wasn't exactly what she wanted to wear when she showed off her newest claim. They had pilfered a lot from the treasure vault so far, and Naruto himself pilfered what looked like a blue fifty-six carat diamond and cut into a heart shape necklace from a safe from the Titani cruise ship.
"Carmen, are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Naruto blankly asked. He was standing on the bow of the ship with a baffled look on his face.
"Huh?" Setting the chest down, the pink-haired chef looked in his direction and tilted her head in confusion. "Is that our ship?"
"Yep."
"Is it being followed by a swan boat?"
"Yes...yes it is." Naruto raised a blonde eyebrow in confusion. Seriously what the hell happened in Mock Town?
Fifteen minutes later Naruto's left eye was twitching. Gin had refused to put his revolvers down. Carmen had her fan ready. And Vivi, well she certainly did not even look remotely happy. Shizune, Kotetsu, and Bashura were standing on the deck of the Nautilus, watching everything unfold.
"Goldenweek..." Naruto said, looking at their cabin girl standing in front of the former Officer Agents, and members of his own crew standing behind them. "You have one minute to explain what's going on before things get ugly on this island."
"Captain," Marianne dully said, gesturing to her former colleagues. "I explained this to Kotetsu and the others. In Mock Town I saw Carue getting unloaded onto a pirate ship, and using my special abilities I bent them to my will and saw a newspaper article regarding my old organization."
That seemed to calm Vivi down just a bit, looking at Carue looking at her with his dumb beady eyes, he scratched at one of his wings. The fact that he got himself kidnapped did not surprise Naruto, or anyone for that matter either. Good on Goldenweek to save him.
But even so, she brought a bunch of former enemies to their doorstep...literally, they were excavating a treasure vault for God's sake! "Why did you go and save them? Especially when you know what they did."
"I'm wondering that myself." Gin said, pointing Gem's old revolver at him, the other one was pointed at Babe and his gun-dog thing.
Marianne didn't even blink. "Have you ever been to the North Blue?" When Naruto didn't answer, she continued. "I was born there, my island Spider Miles was nothing more than a port town of trash. The only job the citizens had was at the waste processing plant that had nothing more than mountains of scrap metal and factories. My parents died working in those very factories, and if it wasn't for Baroque Works I would have died myself. I owed them my life."
"Shit girl, that's the saddest thing I have ever heard in my life." Gin slowly lowered his weapons.
Carmen also lowered her own giant fan, the sob story definitely affected her. Only Naruto and Vivi weren't putting their guards down. "And so you went to rescue them? Did you go with the intention of freeing Crocodile, Miss All-Sunday, and the rest?" Vivi hotly demanded.
Marianne turned her head towards Vivi and blinked once. "Crocodile made his own bed and he was going to lie in it. Daz Bonez deserves to go to Impel Down. The rest...I didn't think too far ahead, to be honest."
That honestly sounded like their lazy cabin girl. Naruto turned his attention towards a bunch of men wearing various types of clothing. "And...what about them, where the hell did they come from?"
"They are former Billions Agents, and once sailed with Bentham. He joined me with helping plan and conduct my rescue."
While Naruto looked confused, Carmen helped fill in the blanks. "He was Mr. 2 Bon Kurei. Don't you remember the drawings Mr. 13 gave us?"
"Honestly I forgot about those, a lot of stuff was happening in Alabasta." Naruto honestly replied before turning back towards Marianne. "What did you do when you got there, exactly?"
"Bentham and I fought the Marines who were on the ship, he knocked a lot of them out, I enslaved the rest to free them from their shackles. What happened next is something I swear my life on." Marianne took a deep breath before talking again. "Galdino...or Mr. 3 as you all remember him, was knocked unconscious by Daz Bonez...or Mr. 1 if you remember him, Crocodile pretty much demanded he stay behind. He along with Daz Bonez stayed behind while Bentham volunteered to go to Impel Down. I took the rest with me."
"And what exactly do you expect us to do with them?" Gin demanded.
Gem, dressed in a plain brown trench coat with black pants and shoes walked up to them, which caused Gin to raise his pistols once again. That caused the dark-skinned man to raised his hands in surrender. "Relax, I'm not here to cause any trouble. Listen, Marianne talked it over with your doctor, lookout, and navigator. Because we owe her our lives, we belong to you now."
"What?" Both Vivi and Naruto demanded in union.
"Your name is Marianne?" Carmen asked.
"Hold the fuck on." Gin said, trying to make sense of what was going on. "Are you telling me that these former bounty hunters are joining our crew?"
"Nu-ah, no freaking way!" Naruto raised his hands to halt everything. "We can't do that. Our ship can't hold five more people, and I am not going to have some swan ship follow us."
Zala, dressed in a purple tanktop, black low-riding pants and sandals walked over to them. She swung her hips over-exaggerating the "sexy" hip swing that raised some eyebrows. "We don't plan on following you all over the place honey. The plan is for us to set up shop in Mock Town, and fly under your banner. That is all."
Drophy, wearing what could be called a grandma sweater and purple pants and black shoes. "It ain't ideal, but we got no other place to go. We're not your enemies no more."
Mikita, dressed only in a yellow dress and pumps laughed before walking forward. "She's right, pretty soon we're gonna have some bounties on our heads. We need some protection, and you wouldn't be that heartless to little old us would you?" She even batted her eyelashes.
It had absolutely zero effect. Naruto held no sympathy for any of them, Vivi probably held even less. However, he remembered Queen Otohime's lessons, everything she taught the children, of how she preached forgiveness and understanding. Taking a few steps towards Goldenweek...no Marianne, he looked at her. "Are you still loyal to Baroque Works?"
"I am not loyal to something that doesn't exist anymore." Marianne said. She looked at the dimwitted Babe, wearing a orange scarf, yellow shirt and orange pants and shoes, and his gun-dog Lassoo, then the others she brought with her. "I was recruited by them because I had nowhere else to go, and no one to rely on. I owed them everything, and my debt is now repaid."
"And how are we supposed to believe this?" Vivi demanded, she pointed at Gem and Mikita. "You brought them here, and with you having Carue with you they know who I am!"
"Princess, we don't give a damn about you. Our mission was a failure, get over it." Gem rudely said, scoffing and spitting to the side. "We won't say anything about you, scouts honor."
Cricket and company, who were standing off to the side watching the drama unfold puffed on a cigarette. "A princess, eh? Now I've seen everything." He looked to see Shoujou and Masira on their knees with their forehands on the ground. Remembering that they called Vivi ugly a few weeks prior, he couldn't help but shake his head. What idiots his surrogate sons were.
Sighing out in irritation, Naruto pinched the bridge of his nose. Shizune, Kotetsu, and Bashura knew of this and did not try to kick their asses into the sea. Marianne really made no attempt to deceive them, she could have betrayed them numerous times, but didn't. "Fine, from now on you lot serve under me. Now get to work, we got treasure to dig up."
"Naruto you can't be serious!" Vivi honestly couldn't believe her ears. Just like that, they were inviting the people who nearly destroyed her country into their fold. But it was happening, Gem and Mikita strolled past her towards Cricket while Drophy, Babe, and Lassoo made their way to the Utan Sonar. Even Zala went back to their ship with members of Bentham's crew moving with her.
"I am Vivi. They may have been our enemies, but they aren't now. I'm not asking you to trust them, but I am asking you to trust me. And you..." He pointed at Marianne. "You and I are going to have a talk." Grabbing their cabin girl by the back of her shirt, Naruto literally picked her up and walked away to conduct Captain business.
While Vivi was looking after him, a flabbergasted expression slapped on her masked face, Gin made his way over and patted her on the back. "I know this sucks, but it's probably the best action we can take. Who knows, they might prove useful."
"I can't trust them Gin...I mean after what they did to my people."
"Listen, Uzumaki's crew is amassed of former enemies. Bashura was part of Kuro's crew, I was apart of Don Krieg's pirates, Kotetsu was a fucking Marine at some point, and Marianne's been with us enough for us to trust her." The First Mate, however, scowled at Carue waddling up to them. "The only odd ducks are Carmen, yourself and that stupid thing. Just trust the kid, I know I do."
"But what happened to Miss All-Sunday?" Vivi asked.
"Fuck if I know. And quite frankly I do not care."
(One week later)
After almost a week and a half of hard work excavating Jack Lee's formerly secret hideout, Cricket estimated that they managed to retrieve roughly forty percent of everything valuable. The reason why it wasn't more was due to Naruto doing all the heavy lifting. Thanks to his heritage as a fishman he was able to stay underwater longer than any diver, and thanks to his training in Fishman Karate and Jujitsu, all heavy slabs of rocks blocking the pathways to the treasure room, and every other area the Utan Divers came upon was cleared out thanks to him.
The spoils included eighty chests, two-hundred crates, and fifty safes so far, each loaded to the brim with jewelry, gems, beli, gold and silver bars, and in one case blueprints. Gin had to be restrained a few times in order for him to not hoard all the loot for himself and build a gold brick fort to hold all the treasure like some sort of dragon. Mikita proved invaluable by simply sitting on him until he calmed down, Naruto approved.
There, however, were also complications to go along with this success. People were getting gold fever and arguments and minor scuffles occurred between not only the original members of the Ocean Sword Pirates, but also the former Frontier Agents-turned pirates/new members and Crickets Saruyama Alliance.
"Dammit, I said I called dibs on this!" Masira screeched as he tugged on a chest.
"Hey! Uzumaki pulled the damn thing up, we call dibs!" Gin growled, tugging on the chest the monkey-looking man had on the other end.
"This gold in here is worth over fifty-five million beli!"
"You assholes already have more than enough!"
"Stinger Finger!" Four finger spikes penetrated through the chest and ripped it from both their hands, bringing it and its contents towards an irate-looking Zala. "Honestly you two, it was amusing the first few times, but after the tenth it got old. Knock it off!"
Both Naruto and Cricket could only nod in agreement. So far Naruto wasn't hating the people that were forced to join them. Zala may have been weird with that walk of hers, and her Spike-Spike Fruit was a bit off-putting, but she had a decent head her shoulders.
The same sort of could be said about Drophy...sort of. Naruto had not exactly interacted with the woman much because she was a chatterbox, complained about her back a lot, and her Mole-Mole Fruit sort of freaked him out. She dug a lot of holes for the Utan Divers to get through to new areas with ease though and best of all didn't accidentally drown herself when she neared the walls.
Then there was Babe, the only person who didn't have a devil fruit among the group. The guy, however, was slow, and a dimwit. He didn't do anything unless someone, mainly Drophy told him to do something. But he was physically strong, able to lift thousands of pounds without any trouble. But his gun-dog Lassoo, he was all sorts of trouble. From what Kotetsu said, this was an actual gun that "ate" a devil fruit, now how the hell that happened or how it was done was beyond all of them, but this gun-dog who ate the Dog-Dog Fruit, Model: Dachshund was one sick puppy...literally. Every time the damn thing sneezed it shot an exploding cannonball out and almost killed everyone.
Shizune spent the entire week trying to treat the things sinus infection. Bless her heart.
"Hey! I told you to stay twenty-five feet away from me!"
"Damn it, princess, I'm working here!"
Naruto winced and looked to where Vivi was yelling at both Gem and Mikita. Out of all the problems Vivi was, unfortunately, sixty percent of them, she was either yelling at the former Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine or...the others really. Their normally calm, and extremely nice princess turned into an angry hellion whenever the former Baroque Works members even walked past her.
Now Naruto didn't exactly blame her. Gem left a few scars on his arms with his damn Bomb-Bomb Fruit, and Bashura hissed like a cat at him more than once. And Mikita with her Kilo-Kilo Fruit, while useful for subduing Gin, seemed to enjoy doing it too much, either it was a freaky fetish of hers or her being remarkably cruel.
"Hey! Give that back you bastard, I haven't even counted it yet!" Shoujou barked at the latest offender.
"I'm just checking it out, seriously take a chill pill!" Kotetsu snarled in return.
Pinching the bridge of his nose in irritation, Naruto briskly walked over to Cricket who looked like he smoked well over eighty cigarettes on this day if the butts in the sand were and indication. "Cricket, we need to talk."
"Yea...we do." The man with the giant chestnut on his head flicked his latest cigarette butt away. "I think your crew have overstayed your welcome."
"Our welcome? Motherfucker if it wasn't for us you wouldn't have found this place." This was easily a punchable offense, and Naruto really wanted to punch away some of his irritation. But he didn't, Vivi would have bitten his head off if he did. "Sorry, sorry, this has been hard on all of us. Listen, we paid you twenty million beli, and I think we have given you thirty percent of our findings. Well with all that is going on I want out."
Raising an eyebrow, Cricket lightly twirled an unlit cigarette between his fingers. "You're going to leave the rest of this for us?"
"I expect you to work with Zala and the others and give them proper shares. After the treasure is all counted for you can dive for whatever is on the seafloor."
"Including her crew of Billions?"
"Especially them. They have been pulling their weight as well." Mr. 2's former crew may have been the oddest people to fly under his flag with their occasional ballet routine, but appearances were deceiving. They were far from being useless, they risked their lives diving into Jack Lee's hideout, sorted with Shoujou, and even separated the two quarreling factions when things got heated. Naruto really had to respect that.
Stroking his chin, Cricket didn't hold back a scowl. As much as he hated to admit it, the blonde fishman may have been a pain in his ass, but he grew on him, plus he owed the kid for saving his ass and that of his men. "That's still a lot of money you're just giving us."
"We came here for enough beli to fix, or buy a new ship, I think we got that in spades now," Naruto said, gesturing towards his ship and their claimed pile of treasure. "To take any more would just be plain greedy. I know it's not apart of our original deal, but make sure you fork over some gold to Zala. They're going to need it."
"Fine. We're going to need to make several trips before I can safely say we're finished. After that we're going to come back here for some more salvaging, then after that...well who knows. We might just move on to another dream." Cricket had been wanting to search for Nakrowa, the island of dreams ever since he learned of it during his search for the lost City of Gold.
"Well, I wish you luck with that." Naruto honestly meant that too. Cricket may have been an asshole, but he was straight with them. He then left the man to head over to his ship, he planned on setting sail tomorrow at first light.
"This is an abomination!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Well, how the hell else was I supposed to get all our stuff on here?" Gin demanded.
The Nautilus indeed did look like an abomination. Gin wrapped as much metal from the Leviathan as he could in layers around the hull of their ship with rope, chains and bungee cords. Between its rough appearance with patched up boards, stitched up sails, and now layers of grey metal wrapped all around their ship.
"Gin, why do we even need all those things?" Vivi asked.
"Hey, we're going to need all the protection we can get when we get our ship rebuilt, I'm thinking a heavy metal ship with loads of protection." Gin replied.
"Are we even going to be able to float with all that stuff? I mean we got a lot of treasure to deal with too." Marianne stated. To her, it honestly looked like their ship was sinking into the sand with all that weight.
"You leave that to me. None of us will sink." Naruto promised her. If it looked like they were going to sink, he would use his water manipulation training to keep them afloat.
"You're going to need more than just some iron plating to protect your butts from drowning," Cricket said with a frown on his face, he was carrying a small chest under his arm, one of his most recent finds. He really wasn't impressed by their ship at all. "Do you even have any shipwrights?"
"What you see is what you get," Kotetsu said, gesturing towards all of them. Him the swordsman/watchman, Bashura the navigator, Carmen the chef, Marianne the cabin girl, Gin the First Mate, Vivi their Staff Officer/diplomat-in-training, Carue the lifeguard, Shizune the doctor, and of course Naruto their Captain.
"You kids are killing me here." Cricket groused. He grew to like them, they were diamonds in the rough, but not exactly bad people. "Listen, I know of a place that can help you. Go to Water 7, they have the best shipwrights there, most importantly can fix your ship."
Cricket had their attention now. Apparently, he underestimated their hatred living on that hunk of junk. "We got a lot of money, we could make this ship almost brand new," Bashura said.
"Fuck that, we can sell this thing for scrap and have them build us a new one." Ever the realist, Gin already had a plan to spend their ill-gotten gains, especially with the dastardly ideas he had in mind.
"Bashura, how far is it to Water 7?" Naruto asked.
"We could make it there in a week, maybe less if the wind is in our favor." Their navigator said.
"That's all I need to hear!" Shizune exclaimed. Unlike everyone who went and hauled treasure from the death trap of a hideout, Shizune stayed on dry land and worked her trade. There were some injuries, nothing more than bumps and bruises, but she did a lot of check up on everyone. From Lassoo to Shoujou, to Bentham's former crew, she kept busy, but now it was time to set sail again. "Lets go everyone!"
"Wow...she's in a hurry." Vivi commented.
"She has had a long couple of weeks in Mock Town." Kotetsu dully said before making his way towards the ship.
While the others were heading back to the cesspool that was their home on the sea, Cricket placed a large hand on Carmen's shoulder to draw her attention. He handed her the small chest that he had tucked under his arm. "Take this."
Blinking her large pink eyes, Carmen opened the chest, and her eyes got wider before slamming it shut. "Where did you find that?" She demanded.
"It was in the last haul yesterday, I told Shoujou that I would be handling it," Cricket said, crossing his arms across his thick chest. "Listen, I've seen you working your butt off while not diving for treasure. You're getting there, but this will give you a bit of a boost."
"And possibly doom me." Carmen protested.
"Listen, I don't care what you do with it. You can sell it or throw it into the ocean for all I care." Cricket waved his hand in response before turning away. "I'm just giving you a choice, it's up to you what happens afterward."
Biting her lip, Carmen looked at the chest and turned to go back to the ship. She had a lot to think about now.
(Three days later)
"Naruto that is the most outrageous claim I have ever heard in my life." Ace said from the other end of the line before laughing. "Only you would find some long-lost treasure and fight off "Gang" Capone Bege."
"It wasn't an easy fight either. I literally had to flood the entire base in order to beat the guy." He took Bege's fedora though, it was one of his latest trophies resting next to Kuro's Cat Gloves, and "Black" Jack Lee's hatchet and cutlass displayed on the wall.
"The man is worth one-hundred and thirty-eight million beli, and I hear he is nothing to scoff at even before he became a pirate. You were lucky to beat him."
"Luck? I don't need luck, I made a promise to not lose until I fought you again." The thing with Crocodile did not count, the man not only cheated, but Naruto himself was also not in top shape either. "Anyway, when I told all this to Vista and Namur, they were impressed, but also asked after you."
"And what exactly did you tell them?" Ace's voice had a bit of a dangerous edge to it.
"I simply told them the truth. I found you, but you weren't going to listen and went off on that flaming boat of yours." If Ace wanted to avenge Thatch, who was he to get in the way of it? Whoever this Blackbeard was, he deserved whatever was coming to him. Sliding a stray chest that rocked its way to the middle of his room, Naruto slid it over to the foot of his bed. "Did you find the guy yet?"
"Blackbeard is not easy to find. I could travel from island to island, and still not find him for months." Ace said, and Naruto swore he heard some splashing in the background. Was he talking while on that boat of his? That was as dangerous as his narcolepsy. "Now about those people of yours, how's the princess handling it?"
"How should I know, she's in Alabasta." The tiger shark fishman said. When he said no one was supposed to know Vivi was with them, he meant it. Cricket and the rest of the Saruyama Alliance didn't care, and the former Baroque Works members didn't care either. Vivi was still miffed that he allowed them to fly under his flag though.
"Oh really now? No den den mushi from a grateful princess of a kingdom you helped save. Where are the midnight talks? The secrets whispered to each other? The-"
"Ace, if you are insinuating something I suggest you knock it off. There is nothing going on between us." Thank God Ace was on the other side of his den den mushi, and his crew of jackasses were doing other things because if he was caught with a red face no one would let him forget it.
"Seriously, nothing? You're boring Naruto."
"Why are trying to bring up my love life, or lack thereof? I'm too busy with my own stuff to worry about relationships."
"Naruto there is always time to find that special someone, or ones if you're bold enough." That caused the blonde to roll his eyes. "But for your sake, I'll drop it, now about these guys you recruited. What can you tell me about them besides the fact they got bounties?"
"I don't really have much to say, all of the except Babe and the former Billions have devil fruits. I exchanged den den mushi's with Zala and that's it." Naruto really didn't want to think about their swan ship, he hoped they would get a new one. "Anyways, while I'm unsure how they will behave, they said they would be sticking to Mock Town and-"
"AHHHHHHHH!" Carmen's blood-curdling scream knocked Naruto off his feet.
"What the hell was that!?" Ace demanded.
"I don't know, I'll call you back." Hanging up with Ace, Naruto hurried out of his bedroom, tripped over several chests, and cursed the fact that they stuffed their ship full of treasure. Every empty room, ever free amount of space they had, it was used to store everything they laid claim to.
Entering the kitchen, the blonde was hit by an atrocious smell that nearly knocked him on his ass. "What the hell is that smell?"
"The outlet for the fridge shorted out, out food...it's spoiled." Carmen looked at the open fridge in horror. "How...how did this happen?"
"Carmen what in the- oh my God!" Covering his nose, Kotetsu gagged from the smell. "What in the heck is that smell?"
"What the hell is going on? Bashura is hiding in the corner and covering his nose, and I think Vivi had a panic attack." Gin demanded, covering his own nose.
"Kotetsu...what happened to my fridge!?" Carmen demanded. "You were on the ship the entire time, how did you not know what was happening to my fridge!?"
"We ate out most of the time while in Mock Town." Kotetsu protested. "And we ate on that swan ship most of the time. We didn't know!"
"Wait, are you telling us we ate rotten food?" Gin demanded. It had been three days since they last left.
"It all looks recent, this was either a good fridge or..." Carmen shook her head before she began to pull the food out. "It doesn't matter, right now we're out of food no thanks to our shoddy electrical system. Naruto I need you to go fishing."
"I'm not a fisherman, we don't even have bait or fishing gear." Naruto protested.
"I know, that is why we're going to need to rely on you. Between Gin's torture sessions and all of us saying busy on the ship we need the calories." The chef said, pulling out greenish meat with a grimace. It looked like a lot of things were going to be thrown overboard. "Until we make it to Water 7, we're going to have to rely on you for an all fish diet."
"Goldenweek really doesn't like fish." Gin commented.
"Her name is Marianne," Naruto said.
"I know what I said." The First Mate stubbornly replied.
Rubbing the bridge of his nose, Naruto sighed out in irritation, this was just going to last until Water 7, and then they would be free of this ship. "Fucking Kuro. Fine, Gin you're in charge. Kotetsu, tell Bashura to keep taking up to Water 7. I will find you all when I catch something for lunch or dinner if I'm unlucky enough."
When Naruto stepped out of the kitchen, Gin looked over at them with a smirk adorning his face. "Well, you heard him, ladies. It looks like I'm in charge now."
"I hate you Naruto." Kotetsu sighed out.
An hour later Gin and the entirety of the crew were standing on deck. Each of them were dressed in their usual clothing, and holding their usual weapons standing in a straight line. Gin himself, however, was marching up and down the length of them, inspecting and observing them.
"All right here's the deal. We got roughly five-hundred million beli on this ship, maybe even more, and a bunch of blueprints that I...liberated from Cricket."
"Don't you mean stole?" Kotetsu bluntly asked.
"I said liberated! We're going to need every bit of technology we can get to get an edge in the Grand Line." He didn't spare any details towards Shizune and the others about what they faced. They faced the likes of Crocodile, and Capone Bege, both who were some pretty bad people. They needed to up their game not only with training but equipment.
"Still stealing." Marianne dully intoned.
Gin ignored her, he was still mad about her new bounty as well. Honestly, what did a guy have to do to increase it around here? "We're pirates. Did you forget that? We steal stuff, and what we need to do is push ourselves to the breaking point now."
"Gin..." Bashura spoke up.
"Not now, devil fruits or physical power, I will do my best to make sure you can fight your enemies."
"Gin..." Shizune said.
"One minute. Now trust me, I am going to be hated by all of you, but-"
"Gin..." Vivi spoke with some urgency in her voice, Carue even let out a loud quack.
"I swear if you all interrupt me one more time I will make you all swim to Water 7!" Gin growled finally snapping from being interrupted so many times.
"Gin look behind you!" Carmen finally screamed at the First Mate.
Unfortunately, it was too late. When Gin turned around he was a massive ship behind them, its prow topped with a massive fox's head, while an equally massive tail hanging from the stern. Set at the bottom of the ship's prow are two paws attached to chains, the left which crushed the railings of their ship and the claws dig into the wood. They also saw the Jolly Roger, it was...some sort of badly drawn cat or something with the name Fox underneath it in crude letters.
"Fuehfehfehfeh! You fools I caught you in my trap!" An obnoxious voice laughed. The weight of the larger ship began to push the crew of the Ocean Sword Pirates far away from where Naruto dived into the sea.
Gin was not amused. Growling he pulled out his tonfas, and began to twirl them in his hands. "Who the hell are you people!?"
"They don't know me!?" The voice screamed and soon became very depressed. "Why don't they know me? I'm famous aren't I?"
"Boss you're famous, they just haven't seen your face just yet!" A female voice tried to comfort the first. Then there was some laughing following it. "Shut up Hambug!"
"Fuehfehfehfeh! You're right, listen up you lot. I am Foxy "The Silver Fox" And I challenge you to a duel, this Davy Back Fight will determine your fates!"
"And what if we don't want to!?" Shizune demanded.
"Then I will simply sink your ship, the choice is yours! Fuehfehfehfeh!"
"They aren't giving us a choice at all." Kotetsu said, frowning in anger. He looked towards the prowl and spat to the side. "This is bad."
"What exactly is going on?" Bashura asked.
"The Davy Back Fight is a very old game played by pirates. Basically we play a set of three games, and if we lose the Captain of the opposing crew can take either one of us, and we have to immediately swear loyalty to them, they can also take down our Jolly Roger and never fly it again if we fail to retrieve it." Being a veteran pirate, Gin knew about the Davy Back Fight games, but he never participated in them. Don Krieg was too much of a coward to do something like that.
"No way! No way are we doing that!" Carmen exclaimed. "Gin we can't do this, not after all we've done to get this far."
"Carmen is right, we can just refuse." Vivi quickly said.
As soon as she said that a stout man with skinny arms and legs showed himself. He had almost a cleft lip-like mouth and a unique hairstyle, with his hair split into two spikes pointing upwards. He had thick, triangle-like eyebrows, and a red colored nose. He wore yellow-orange pants, held up by suspenders, with large, rotund buckles on the edges, tucked inside black boots, which were white on the front part of the legs and had orange strings. Under his pants some sort of strange indument circling his waist could be seen, which was light-green with leaf-like motifs on it, and had orange laces on the front. Buckled on his belt he carried a short wooden sword. He also had an elaborate necklace hanging on his chest, with many circular orange and yellow pendants, and a blue, bigger and more elaborate central one, with ears on it resembling those of a fox. He also sported a purple fur-lined coat, with a large collar and big buttons on the right side.
The extremely strange-looking man laughed his obnoxious laugh. "You cannot refuse, I the great Foxy won't let you!"
"Gin, what are the chances of beating him?" Marianne asked.
Behind Foxy emerged several people, then a dozen, two dozen, and then finally hundreds. They even saw several fishmen, that caused several loud gulps of fear. They all could see what Naruto could do, and it wasn't pretty. They were outnumbered, and definitely unprepared. Especially without their Captain to offically accept this.
"Gin, you're acting Captain now. It's up to you." Carmen said.
They weren't going to lose their treasure thanks to this jackass, and he sure as hell wasn't going to go down against this tool. As acting Captain Gin had to make the call, and he had to live with the consequences. Biting the inside of his cheek, the First Mate sheathed his tonfas and pulled out one of his flintlock pistols. Raising it above his head, Gin pulled the trigger. "Fine then. We accept you bastard."
Cackling, Foxy was handed his own flintlock pistol and fired it into the air. The Davy Back Fight had just begun.
(Omake: The problems with infamy)
"What the hell are you going to do with a golden anchor?" Naruto bluntly asked. It may have sounded odd, but that was the latest thing he pulled up from the bottom of Jack Lee's hideout on the sixth day since they started their little excavation. "More importantly, what kind of idiot had a golden anchor?"
"Hell if I know kid, their loss is our gain." Cricked shrugged in response to that.
"WHHHYY!?"
"Was that Gin?" Naruto didn't waste any time running over to where his First Mate was. The older man was by their ship in the fetal position with Carue sitting next to him, and using his wing to pat him as if saying 'There, there, it'll be all right'.
"What the hell is going on?" Cricket demanded.
"Um...he just got some new bounties from a news pigeon." Carmen said looking at the newspaper, and the posters that came with it.
"And what is he crying over, his bounty is twelve million beli after all." Shizune demanded.
Carmen dully showed off the posters, and went back to reading the paper. Apparently it was detailing Crocodile arriving in Impel Down and the escape of a few of his companions.
The first poster showed the mugshot of a woman with curly dark-blue hair, and dark green eyes tilting her head to the right and had a finger placed at the corner of her lips in a seductive manner.
Wanted Dead or Alive
"Poison Spider" Zala
$35,000,000 Beli
The second poster showed off a young girl with relatively large dark eyes and circles of blush on her cheeks. She was wearing her dark red hair tied in braided pigtails, and wide-brimmed pink hat with a green band staring dully at nothing.
Wanted Dead or Alive
"Flag-Bearer of Freedom" Marianne
$29,000,000 Beli
The third poster showed off a man with messy blonde hair, fat lips, and beady black eyes with a dumb expression. It also showed Lassoo being carried by him.
Wanted Dead or Alive
"Catcher-Killing" Babe
$3,200,000 Beli
The fourth showed a middle-aged woman with frizzy red hair, purple sunglasses with yellow rims, and thick purple lips screaming at something.
Wanted Dead or Alive
"Town-Collapser" Drophy
$14,000,000 Beli
The fifth poster showed a dark-skinned man with black hair in short spiky dreadlocks wearing a brown trench coat with a pink cravat and a pair of dark sunglasses. Behind him was some kind of explosion that made him look pretty badass.
Wanted Dead or Alive
"Gem of the Border"
$10,000,000 Beli
The final poster showed a woman with short blonde hair and bright green eyes, her right hand was covering her mouth as if she was laughing at something.
Wanted Dead or Alive
"Courier" Mikita
$7,500,000 Beli
"This is what has you so upset?" Naruto asked in disbelief.
"Yep...seems Marianne caused quite the trouble when she broke them out." Carmen idly said, flipping through the paper to find the article.
"Why is the girls bounty higher than mine...why is the old lady's bounty higher than mine!?" Gin hysterically demanded. He was not the nicest person, why the hell was his bounty so low? Why!? A good lot of their epithets were crap too!
"Well congratulations kid, if my math is right your entire crew has a total of two-hundred and twenty million, seventy thousand beli combined in total. Not bad for a rookie."
Naruto's eyes bulged at the number and felt remarkably faint. "I think I need to lie down." He said before stumbling towards his ship in a daze.
Cricket looked over at Gin with a huff at his pathetic state. "What a baby."
Armageddon: Hello my loyal viewers, I must say this chapter had some twists and turns. Now I'm still looking for my degenerate soldiers who are still somewhere in Vegas, so if you see them tell me. Now onto some things that you're wondering what the hell am I thinking?
Well, between liking the fact this is fanfiction I can do almost anything. But the real reason is...well frankly the Frontier Agents had a lot of potential. I like Oda, and if you all read the last two chapters he's doing a lot of unique/awsome/perverted stuff. But there could have been more with Zala, Gem and everyone else besides them running away and opening up a cafe. I'm thinking long-term here people...and with One Piece not likely to end for maybe ten more years I got a lot to do still.
Now Goldenweek's backstory is unknown. Yes, I know her real name is Marianne but I'm not going to remember it off the top of my head, so something tragic leaving her with no parents for (insert reason) and why she acts the way she does will shed some light on it. And I make no excuses for it.
I got nothing else to add for now, except we're fighting Foxy next!
...Wait you're not happy about that? Well too bad, how else are they going to get a shipwright? I'm not getting Paulie like Kenchi618, I've had this person on my brain while Agurra and I were talking about who would join them or not. That's all I got so stay tuned for next time!