8 days later, the entire crew is trekking through forest walking west.
"Why exactly are we going towards the marine base? There are plenty of villages for us to plunder. We passed through plenty didn't we?" Joshua asked.
"What fun is there in plundering helpless villagers? We'll introduce ourselves as pirates to west blue by looting the marine base dry!" Cliff answered.
"Introducing ourselves?" James asked.
"Yeah! We're new to West Blue and we got new members! We need to introduce ourselves especially you two!" Cliff said.
That seemed to satisfy the 2 gunners as they started small talk with the crew.
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Docking on the island where the marine base, the crew jumped off of a large boat they stole. It was nighttime, the perfect time for some thievery according to May.
The crew silently creeped into the village getting closer to the marine base in the centre of the town. Getting close they could see a marine soldier on duty guarding the door. He sat slumped near the gate.
The crew all sweatdropped perfectly in sync seeing the man sleeping on his duty. They all creeped past him into the base through the open gates.
Looking around, they couldn't see any patrols. So, they all went into the base compound and spread apart into duos and Taiga went alone. They were all searching for the treasury.
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Cliff went with May, looking and searching through room after room in the building they had chosen. Most were just empty rooms while few had paperwork scattered about. When they got to the second floor, they found a locked room.
May crouched down and started to pick the lock with a small pin she just produced out of nowhere. With a click the lock was unlocked, and the 2 got into the room. Inside they found 2 large chests (pirate chests) left halfway open.
Both opened one and gasped, as the chests were full of gold bars up to the top.
"So much gold!" May exclaimed.
"Shhh!" Cliff shushed her, "Gotta be quiet right now?"
May calmed down and got her bag out, an action which Cliff repeated as well. They started to stuff the gold into the bags, grateful to have brought large bags for this heist.
Once they were done with the chests, they looked around the room. Finding nothing they moved onto looking in other rooms they had yet to search.
It was as they had just finished searching the last room that an alarm went off. Pretty soon the place will be crawling with marines, so they hurried.
They were seen by plenty of marines as they left the building who then raised their own alarm and started to chase them.
Cliff had started to laugh as soon as they were discovering. They met up with the others, as they came to the centre of the base. The rest had already been surrounded by marines.
As Cliff came to stop beside his crew, he noticed 6 other bags that seemed full near the crews' feet. He deposited his own and May's bags there as well.
"So, we were not the only ones lucky, eh? Ours is full of gold, what about yours?" Cliff said not minding the marines who by now had encircled the crew.
"Me and James got chests full of beri's." Cassy said.
"I got a chest of silver bars." Mio said then looking to Joshua for him to tell what he got.
"I got a few maps of all 4 blues, a few books explaining the sword and spear stances. I found no chest; these were just lying around. So, I grabbed them." Joshua said.
Then the crew looked towards Taiga, "And what did you get?" (May)
"I found no chests lying around either. Found the armoury. Took as much of the ammunitions I could and stuffed a few guns, rifles and swords." Taiga said.
It was at this point that a voice came, "Roaring Tiger Pirates. This is Commander Nano. I command you to surrender or die."
At this Cliff turned around and upon spotting the man speaking he started to laugh uproariously, so much so he started rolling around on the ground. His own crew couldn't hold back laughter either. Taiga was in the same position as Cliff while the girls were still standing. The twins seemed to be shaking in laughter but otherwise managed to keep it down.
The Commander, a small man reaching no more than 4ft, had a face red from embarrassment as he watched the pirates laugh at him. His embarrassment fed into his anger at being awoken at night and he issued an order "CHARGE!" in an incredibly loud voice while hefting his battle axe and charging ahead himself.
Hearing the Commanders' orders, the pirates composed themselves and began to fight. The crew was finding this fight to be quite easy.
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Taiga was still laughing when the first marine reached him. Despite still being distracted, Taiga still fought. He did not even pickup his kanabo, choosing to fight barehanded. He was punching left and right, scoring a hit each time knocking a marine out.
Still, he was not used to fighting barehanded and was giving a few opportunities for marines, which were being exploited and leaving shallow wounds on him.
He paid such wounds no mind as he continued to fight, his laughter at the Commanders' height changing to a happy laugh at the fight he was getting.
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Mio too had let her claws rest for today, opting to use punches and kicks. Unlike Taiga, she was plenty used to fighting barehanded and had no problems dispatching marines as they came.
She still chuckled a little whenever she caught a glimpse of the Commander's fight against her Captain. She then focused back onto her own fight. Though calling it a fight wouldn't be fair…
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May was using the pommel of her dagger to knock people out though the dagger was still sheathed in its sheath. She was also using punches, kicks and knee shots whenever she could.
She like Taiga had her back to the fight between Cliff and the Commander, and hence was not getting distracted by the funny scene.
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Cassy was taking this fight very casually, not even unsheathing her sword and using the scabbard to great affect to knock marines out. She could see her Captain fight the Commander and was continuously getting distracted. She kept on chuckling.
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James and Joshua hadn't separated much and were using their guns to down the marines. James would shoot using a flintlock pistol, targeting only where the marines would not get permanent damage but be out of this fight. Meanwhile Joshua was using a rifle's stock and butt plate to get in close.
He was grinning, having fun while fighting the marines. James to was grinning, shooting while taking little to no time to aim.
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The moment Nano started charging to Cliff, Cliff was back up on his feet. The commander swung his double-bladed battle axe towards Cliff. Cliff quickly got his cutlass out to intercept the axe.
Now he found himself in an awkward position. Because Nano was 4ft tall, the axe itself barely reached Cliff's shoulders when the Commander held it up above his head. Right now, it barely reached Cliff's chest when it was blocked.
In this position, Cliff couldn't exert much force back onto the axe and could only hold it back. So, in response Cliff kicked out, easily reaching Nano and pushing him back and then swung his cutlass at him.
Though the swing was blocked, the position was really funny. It looked like a small incredibly hairy child with an extremely long beard was on his knees while his hands held onto an axe that was blocking an adult's sword that said adult (Cliff) had placed onto the axe while still holding onto the sword.
Now normally when in a fight the sword is blocked somewhere around chest height, rarely getting blocked as low as the stomach. Right now, Cliff's sword was blocked at just below waist level. This was very much a new ground for Cliff and was very awkward for him. This pose was what the crew found funny.
Commander Nano was finding it to be very hard to hold back Cliff and was straining to block the attack. It was then that he saw a leg coming for his face. Then it was all black.
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"This was so funny!" Cassy said while Cliff was laughing alongside Taiga.
"Alright! Change of Plans!" Cliff said and once everyone was paying attention he continued, "Strip them all!"
"EEHHH?!"
"We'll tie up their clothes in the market so that when they wake up, they'll have to go to the market to get them back! We'll leave a note here to make sure they know where their clothes are and we'll leave one in the market so that the island will know who did it." Cliff continued oblivious to the reaction by his crew to his first sentence.
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By the time the 1st rays of sunlight reached Ilussia Kingdom, The Roaring Tiger Pirates were back on the sea on their way to Ballywood Kingdom, a kingdom situated on the Red Line which almost bordered the Calm Belt.
While by noon, everyone in Ilussia Kingdom knew that the marine base had been robbed and by whom, curtesy of a large sign made on cloth that had been hanged up in the market by Cliff. That sign was also accompanied by all the clothes that the marines owned, prompting them to have to walk out in their underwear to get it. By the end of the day, the entire island nation knew of the humiliation of the marines and the circumstances behind it.
Needless to say, the marines did not muster up the courage to leave the base for weeks…
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Meanwhile on the deck of The Roaring Tigress, a party was afoot. They were having fun, playing games when a News Coo landed and grabbed their attention.
Mio walked forward, paid the seagull and took a newspaper. She started to read before she just chuckled and passed on the paper to Cliff.
'The Roaring Tiger Pirates, a vicious pirate crew that originated from South Blue and has been the cause of several atrocities such as decimating several of their fellow sailors' ships and leaving them to drown and massacring upwards of 400 people has crossed into the West Blue.
Their Captain Cliff Calloway wears a blue Captains' Coat and wields a cutlass. His bounty is of 60 Million Beri and is attached with the newspaper today. All members of his crew have bounties on their heads (which too have been attached). Recently, this pirate crew was seen in Ilussia Kingdom where they robbed the Marine Base of everything. According to an inside source the loss is estimated to be 200 Million Beri worth of Gold and 100 Million Beri worth of Silver. In addition to this, the crew also got their hands on the armoury maintained by the marines. Several weapons such as guns, rifles, and swords were reported to be missing.
The crew; which seemed to have grown by two members since they were last spotted in Las Camp, West Blue; did not stop their and went on to further humiliate the marines by taking all of their clothes and hanging them up in the market of the island the marine base is on alongside a sign which told us who robbed the marine base. The marines had to endure the embarrassment of having to retrieve their clothing from the market while they themselves wore nothing more than their underwear. (multiple pictures attached showing just that)
Since then, not a single marine officer has left their base and as such we have been unable to get any comments from them.'
"RAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…" Cliff fell over laughing…
"TRARARARARARA…" "HEHEHEHEHEHE…" "HAHAHEHEHAHA…" "MIOIOIOIOIOIOIO…" "HAHAHAHAHA…" "HAHAHAHAHA…"
… and the rest of the crew were no better themselves.
A few minutes later, Cliff checked the bounty posters and found the posters of everyone in the crew. While no one had an increased bounty, Joshua and James seemed to have gotten a bounty for themselves.
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE, 'FATAL TWINS' JOSHUA & JAMES, 20 MILLION BERI, with a picture of both Joshua and James holding their guns on their shoulders and grinning.
The crew congratulated the twins when Cliff opened his mouth a spoke 2 words, "LET'S PARTY!"