Yamashiro continued pointing his gun at Seiya and the others. Misuta was pissed.
"What the fuck!? I thought you were a coward!?" Misuta yelled.
"Hands in the air. All of you." Yamashiro demanded.
Branch strared towards the ground with his permanent smile. His eyes hidden behind shadow.
"You killed a bunch of Marines with us during the escape." Yugami said.
"I didn't harm a single Marine that day. My job was to play prisoner and watch over the recently captured Coated Pirates. I already knew that idiot Hannyabal and that shit bag couldn't stop Frank G so I bargained with Renji in advance and joined Frank's crew to keep an eye on you until the next time we could capture you." Yamashiro explained.
"You god damn rat! And you probably tipped off Big Mom and CPN didn't you!?" Seiya snapped.
"Of course I informed CPN of our location, but Lin Lin, I had nothing to do with. Now be quiet and put your hands in the air. I won't tell you again." Yamashiro said.
"Are you sure?" Branch asked softly.
Yamashiro pointed his gun at Branch.
"Repeat yourself Long Legs." Yamashiro ordered.
"Are you sure... this is where you want to die?" Branch asked, his body slowly turning into wood.
"Frank and Stone Cold are unconscious. Fighting those two at full power, as well as all of you, would surely mean defeat, but I'm positive I can handle you all just fine." Yamashiro said.
"I warned you, cook... what would happen if you betrayed this crew..." Branch said as he got bigger.
Yamashiro continued to stare.
"The only ones dying will be you all when you're executed in front of a public audience. Your piracy must, no, will come to an end." Yamashiro said, "So put your hands up NOW and give up!" Yamashiro yelled.
POW!
Yamashiro shot a bullet sped up with wind straight at Branch, who let it go straight through him.
"What kind of haki was that Mr. Cipher Pol!?" Branch mocked.
SPLAT!
Misuta coughed up blood as the bullet hit his body. Branch looked back with shock.
"Misuta!" Branch yelled, looking back at Yamashiro, who landed.
"Chess not checkers, Long Leg." Yamashiro said, "His powers are still a mystery, he's too dangerous to allow in this fight. Now that he's taken care of that leaves Thor's Forgotten Son, Long Leg, The Puppet Master, and Saint."
Branch stared at Yamashiro.
"You're going to die on this island, I promise." Branch said through his smile.
"Unlikely, Long Leg." Yamashiro said, instantly spreading his wings and blasting off the ground.
Yamashiro hardened his talons with haki.
"Talon Bullet!" Yamashiro yelled while thrusting his talon forward, sending countless sharp blades of wind at Branch.
Branch raised his tree hand as it was pierced by the talons.
"This hurts!" Branch said.
Seiya, Rationingu, and Yugami watched on.
"Rationingu get the Captain, Renji, and Misuta on board! Yugami you're with me. We're going to end this guy!" Seiya yelled.
Rationingu nodded and grabbed Frank from Seiya, zapping onto the ship.
Seiya loaded up a few bows and looked at Yugami, who looked back and nodded.
Yugami ran towards Branch's tree body and Seiya fired two bows with ropes on them towards Yamashiro. Yamashiro took notice.
"The coated pirates are known for their teamwork, and I've witnessed it in person, I anticipated a handicap." Yamashiro said, dodging one of the arrows.
Yamashiro's eyes widened when he saw Yugami had grabbed the rope of the second arrow, using it to get close to Yamashiro. Yamashiro's eyes widened and he transformed into his hybrid Quetzcalcoatlus form.
"Nice try, Puppet master, but thanks to my time with you I'm very aware of your abilities." Yamashiro said, raising his wings and unleashing a gust of wind that blew Yugami away and forced Branch and Seiya to put their hands up.
"You have to be within a few feet of your opponents for your blood abilities to work Puppet Master, far away, you're useless." Yamashiro said, still bombarding the crew with heavy wind.
As the crew held up their guard Yamashiro opened his beak and sent waves of air blades at them. Seiya, Branch, and Yugami were all cut by the wind blades.
"ARGH!" Branch groaned.
"He's infusing the wind with haki!" Yugami yelled.
Seiya couldn't load his bow due to the wind pressure.
CRACKLE ZAP BOOM!
A pillar of lightning shot down on top of Yamashiro sending him into the ground.
When the smoke cleared, Rationingu was choking him.
The rest of the Coated Pirates recovered.
"Excellent Rationingu! Hold him there!" Branch said, turning his tree hand into a giant wooden mace.
Yamashiro glanced at Rationingu.
"You should have stayed on the boat." Yamashiro said before reverting back to his human form, freeing him from Rationingu's grasp.
Yamashiro quickly flew away and Rationingu zapped out of the way to dodge Branch's mace.
Branch looked in the sky to see Yamashiro flying gracefully as Rationingu blasted lightning at him.
Branch slammed his hands on the ground and everything around them became filled with grass and trees like a forest.
"SUMMER BOOST" Branch yelled as he absorbed the energy of the forest.
Yamashiro took notice.
"He transformed the rocky island of Glumburg into a forest, so his devil fruit is awakened, but what did he just do?" Yamashiro asked as he noticed a giant wooden fist coming straight for him!
Yamashiro grit his teeth and dodged as the fist retracted back to Branch who shot his tree body into the sky at super speeds!
"He boosted his speed!" Yamashiro said with surprised.
Branch cocked back a giant wooden fist and it turned into a different type of wood.
Seiya loaded up a flame bow and shot Branchs' arm lighting it on fire! Yamashiro widened his eyes.
"BONFIRE FIST!" Branch yelled, slamming the flaming fist into Yamashiro.
"Such a heavy punch! He boosted his attack power as well!" Yamashiro said to himself as he slammed into the ground.
Branch raised his fist to see Yamashiro laid out.
"NOW YUGAMI! CONTROL HIM!" Branch yelled as Yugami ran towards Yamashiro's body.
Yamashiro's eyes shot open and he blasted back into the air. Rationingu zapped into his line of flight.
"We're not letting you control the air!" Branch yelled, "BINDING ROOT!"
The trees of the forest shot for Yamashiro attempting to wrap him up and Rationingu shot more lightning. Yamashiro dodged it all.
Yamashiro then locked on to Rationingu and blasted in his direction, attempting to pierce the lightning man with his gigantic beak.
Rationingu dodged the attack and looked down towards Yamashiro but was slammed with a heavy kick in his back by Yamashiro, who used shave to teleport behind Rationingu!
"That damn speed!" Branch said.
As Rationingu began to fall, Branch called up a flower on a tall vine to catch Rationingu.
"BRANCH!" Seiya yelled, Branch looked down towards Yamashiro who was jetting in his direction.
Branch raised his hands and trees shot from the ground. Yamashiro rolled effortlessly out the way dodging the trees.
Seiya shot multiple arrows with rope around the trees and yanked the rope, causing them to be sliced and fall towards Yamashiro who still dodged them.
"It's over, Coated Pirates!" Yamashiro yelled as his talon turned black from haki.
Yamashiro's body let off a purple aura as he blasted towards Branch, slowly flipping and stretching his talon outwards to kick Branch.
"JUSTICE TALON!" Yamashiro yelled as he slammed straight through Branchs' chest, causing him to cough up blood.
"GUAG!" Branch let out as his giant tree body fell over.
"Branch!" Seiya yelled.
Yamashiro landed and reverted back to normal.
"You're dead... you rat..." Seiya said angrily.
"Puppet master, Saint. You're the last two left." Yamashiro said, "I'll be nice and say you can still surrender now and maybe you'll get to enjoy your prison stay with no torture before you're executed.
Seiya loaded a bow and Yugami made blood cleavers.
"Not a chance." They said in unison.
"That was the incorrect decision." Yamashiro said.
sprout
A small two leaf clover sprouted from the ground. Yamashiro reached down to grab it.
"Is this, an attack? No! It's-!" Yamashiro was interrupted by a tree coming straight down!
"I'll be crushed!" Yamashiro yelled as he put his hands up.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Branch, heavily exhausted, was able to leave his tree body as he was attacked by Yamashiro's last attack.
"There's... no way... he survived that!" Branch yelled, "You rat!"
"Yo! Coated Pirates!"
Seiya let out a breath of fresh air and Yugami lowered his weapons.
"Well, now we've got to patch our shipwright up too..." Seiya said.
"Just fire already!"
"Despite the cook being a rat, this all feels like somebody else's greater pla-"
BOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Yugami was interuppted by a giant explosion.
"No... what now!?" Seiya yelled.
The Coated Pirates were filled with shock and disgust at the Cipher Pol Nega ships that lined the sea.
Their head commander, The Man in the Black Mask, standing front and center.
"We've gotta stop meeting like this Coated Pirates! Where's uhhh, Where's Frank?" The Man asked.
The Coated Pirates stared angrily at CPN.
"What are we going to do..." Yugami asked.
Seiya was filled with rage. Seiya thought of what Branch was going through, what Frank, Renji, and Rationingu went through, and what they've all been through in the last day.
Branch stared at the ships at sea.
"I'm useless when they're out there..." Branch admitted.
"It's alright. You don't have to answer, because I already know!" The Man continued, "Look, I already know about the invasion of Whole Cake, but... you guys did the Government a favor I guess, so... we won't execute you, just give you life!" The Man bargained.
Seiya's arm started to glow a golden color and his armor slightly shone.
"Your Captain though... well, somebody's gotta be made an example! You know how many funerals Frank G is responsible for? Way too many! Now go ahead and make this easy for us all and surrender. Branch you're useless out there, Puppet master you're definitely useless, and unless you want every cannon ball we've got in our arsenal fired at that island, you'll keep those arrows over there this time, Saint." The Man said, showing the opening in his mask, revealing a light blue eye.
Seiya's arm continued to glow gold and his armor as well.
"Our Captain has put himself on the line countless times that we may escape with our lives! I will not die here unless I know the Captain would get out safe!"
Seiya's arm burst in a golden flame and his armor became gold. The shine could be easily seen from the ships.
The Man squinted his eye and veins appeared on his face.
"Th-Th-That's cosmos energy running through his body! He's got Lecnian blood in his veins!" The Man yelled.
Seiya's eyes glowed golden as he raied his bow, which had grown slightly bigger and also was golden, and aimed an arrow towards the sky.
"We are NOT going to DIE HERE!" Seiya yelled as he shot the arrow into the sky in a golden stream.
As the started to come down it burst into hundreds of thousands of golden arrows.
"Seiya..." Branch said.
"Wow..." Yugami said.
The Man smiled under his mask.
"Men! These arrows cannot be knocked off their path! Nor can they be blocked!" The Man said.
"Then what do we do, sir!?" A Marine asked.
"Use your observation haki to its highest level and pray to your lucky stars!" The man said as he stood and stared at the arrows as they fell.
The arrows crashed into the boats, heavily damaging them and killing many marines but some were able to stand still and not be hit, The Man with the Black mask was grazed by a few arrows.
When the bombardment stopped the Coated Pirates were gone.
"I knew it! It was a distraction!" The Man said.
Yamashiro flapped and landed on the ship.
"Agent Todao. It's a pleasure to see you were able fo escape that squishing." The Man said.
"Of course, sir." Yamashiro said.
"You've done your job well, there's only three of them left." The Man said.
"SIR THERE THEY ARE!" A Marine yelled.
The Man looked over to see the Coated Pirate ship making an exit.
"AFTER THEM!" The man yelled as the Marine ships made their way towards the ship.
The Man loaded up an obsidian cannon.
"JUSTICE OBSIDIAN CANNON!" The Man yelled, blasting the obsidian ball at the ship, completely destroying it.
The Marines celebrated, but Yamashiro and The Man were not happy.
"That wasn't them! It was a decoy!" The man said, as Seiya loaded up a bow from the other end of the island in another ship. The Man with fury in his eye loaded up another cannon.
"This is it... Cipher Pol!" Seiya said as his eyes glowed golden and he shot the arrow towards the obsidian ball.
A golden stream shined as Seiya's arrow was shot into The Man's cannon arm. Yamashiro and The Man were both shocked.
"IMPOSSIBLE!" The man yelled.
Seiya turned around.
"We will never meet again." Seiya said as a giant explosion destroyed the Marines.
EGGHEAD ISLAND
Vegapunk tried to call the Marines on his transponder snail.
"Please send backup to Egghead Island! Cyclone is here to kill me! I've told you everything I know about him please send someone to help me! Hello? Hello!"
No answer.
Vegapunk hung up the phone with regret. Cyclone suddenly appeared behind him.
Vegapunk turned around and looked at Cyclone with a defeated look. Cyclone stared at Vegapunk with rage mixed with insanity.
"Please... please no!" Vegapunk begged.
"So you know what you did..." Cyclone said, his clock eye active, "Without this eye... you would have ruined everything...
Vegapunk lowered his head. Cyclone was able to rewind time at the last second, saving DEATH HQ and every one there from their fate. Cyclone walked towards Vegapunk slowly.
"Even though destroying the base didn't work... and even when you kill me... I can still say... I still made history!.." Vegapunk said.
Cyclone picked Vegapunk up.
"And what history is that old man?" Cyclone asked.
Vegapunk smiled a goofy smile.
"I made the evil Cyclone... save people!" Vegapunk.
Cyclone completely blacked out and head butted Vegapunk, cutting him open and breaking his nose.
Cyclone jumped on top of Vegapunk and beat him until he wore bloody gloves.
Collector was busy grabbing things around the office.
"Sheesh... Cyclone getting like that never scares you?" Who's-Who asked.
"Be silent. I am busy collecting, do you know how many valuables are here? This entire island is one big fortune! And stop questioning how his excellency handles his enemies before he gives you the same beating." Collector warned.
Who's-who gulped and looked over at Cyclone who was now walking towards the two.
"That's another loose end tied up." Cyclone said.
"I will go into his pockets for anything valuable your excellency." Collector said.
"If you find his command switch for the pacifista give them to me." Cyclone said, "We're going back to the HQ. We've done what we had to."
Collector retrieved the command switch for the pacifista and the three left Vegapunk's office.
A bloody mess that used to be Vegapunk resting in the corner.
DEATH HQ
"With your abilites you can be in and out in nooo time. You'll find Robin in a jiffffyyy. As if!" A voice said in a sarcastic, mocking, tone.
DOOOOM!
Nagashima Kingo, the businessman from another part of the world with cosmos fruit powers, hid behind a giant wall at DEATH HQ.
"When you've got her just open a portal and come back to Dubois'. Yeah easy for you to say when you're not literally on DEATH's door! Kraken!" Nagashima said, annoyed.