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-Chapter Two Hundred and Forty-Two-
"Alright, Sniper King, just hold that posture—you are now a sword!" Zoro proclaimed.
"Somebody get me a lawyer! There is no way I'm not going to sue your ass off for this!" Sniper King cried.
"Whatever you say, in the meantime, I'd like my sword to shut up" Zoro grumbled, clearly annoyed with the sharpshooter's babbling. "Skylar, go somewhere safe and wait" I only nodded my head, grumbling to myself about the stupidity of this plan as I made my way off to the sidelines.
"Wake up! Wake up! This is only a dream!" Sniper King wailed. "Why won't the morning come?! Skylar, save me, please!" he begged.
"I would, Sniper King—but you see, neither of us has any say in this situation" I said. "Just suck it up, I'm sure you'll be fine…probably" I was quick to avoid eye contact with the masked man, not having the guts to look him in the face as I said this.
"Probably?! You don't sound too sure of yourself!" he cried.
"They're good for a laugh if nothing else" Kaku said.
"I love it!" the wolf laughed.
"Oni…" Zoro started getting into position as he prepared to attack.
"Wait! Do you think we can start off with a different move?!" Sniper King pleaded, his body shaking which in return caused the sword in his hands to rattle. "One that doesn't use swords, please?!" he sobbed.
"That's literally impossible for that man!" I called out to the long-nosed pirate.
"Giri!" Zoro shot forward, slashing down at the two agents who simply dodged his attack with utter ease.
"Ow! Ow, I'm seeing stars!" Sniper King whined after having taken the blow of one of Kaku's attacks.
"Don't move an inch!" Zoro ordered as he jumped into the air. "Tiger!" he began another attack.
"Let's just calm down—no violence! Let's talk this over!" Sniper King begged as the swordsman ignored him and slashed downwards, only to have the two agents dodge his attack once again and for the wolf to be the one to strike Sniper King this time.
"Yep, I think my nose is broken" the sharpshooter weakly groaned in a slight daze.
"I said not to move, didn't I?!" Zoro snapped.
"If it's so easy, then you do it!" Sniper King snapped right back.
"This whole plan was a disaster to begin with, stop arguing!" I snapped at the two.
"Are they making fun of us?" the wolf frowned.
"I'm not sure, maybe they're just that stupid" Kaku said.
"Looks like we're back to the rock, paper, scissors plan" Zoro said the moment he realized that this plan of his wasn't working. "Better to lose a hand than to lose the fight" he frowned.
"Are you fucking kidding me?!" I snapped. "Better to lose a fight than a hand sounds more appropriate!"
"No! Can't you come up with a better idea?! One that doesn't involve blood!" Sniper King cried. "Skylar, save me from your psychotic boyfriend!" he pleaded.
"No, no I can't" Zoro shook his head.
"Well, at least he's honest" I sweat dropped.
"You didn't even think about it, did you?!" Sniper King snapped when he had realized there had been no hesitance in the swordsman's answer.
"Actually, maybe I don't have a hand to spare after all" Zoro admitted. "Just give up yours, alright?" he glared.
"Zoro! He's on our side, stop trying to kill him!" I snapped.
"If CP9 doesn't kill me, Zoro will!" Sniper King wailed. "Hurry, Chopper, you got to save me! Or better yet, Skylar, get your man under control!" he sobbed as he quickly looked to me, tears streaming down his mask as he was practically begging me to save him.
"How?! You think he's going to listen to me?!" I asked, amazed that the sharpshooter even thought that I had that much control over that beast of a man.
"Just do something! He's going to kill me!" Sniper King screamed.
"Tempest Kick!" Kaku kicked out his foot which Zoro blocked with the sword Sniper King was holding onto.
"I'm starting to wonder if he's doing this on purpose now..." I muttered, covering my face and shaking my head. "Behind you!" I shouted the minute I looked up and spotted that the wolf was going in for a sneak attack behind the two. Turning around, the swordsman slashed Sniper King towards the wolf that quickly disappeared before the attack could land.
"I'm starting to get the hang of this" Zoro said, now starting to get used to throwing the sharpshooter around like he was another one of his swords.
"Yeah? Because I'm starting to get sick" Sniper King weakly moaned.
"I don't want to hear that crap coming from a sailor!" Zoro frowned.
"What? I'm a hero from Sniper Island—you must be mistaking me for someone else!" Sniper King exclaimed as he quickly regained his composure. "My good buddy—Usopp—is a sailor, remember?" he nervously laughed.
"Yeah, we know" I deadpanned, wondering why he was even bothering to keep up the act with us when Luffy and Chopper were nowhere to be seen. They're the only ones that really believed in his superhero getup, no one else.
"Well, you're a sword now, so deal with it" Zoro huffed before quickly moving the long-nosed pirate out of the way of one of the wolf guy's attacks.
"Nice dodge!" the wolf grinned.
"Oh, scary!" Sniper King whimpered.
"Don't let your guard down!" Zoro frowned when he saw how lax the masked man had gone.
"Yeah, right" the sharpshooter nodded as he quickly straightened his posture back out.
"And stop doing stupid stuff!" Zoro huffed.
"Uh...yes, sir" Sniper King slowly nodded. "Wait! What do you mean "stupid stuff?" That's rude, jerk!" he angrily snapped before suddenly all went silent the minute the sound of a ringing Transponder Snail sounded out through the room.
"Hello? Hello?" came Spandam's voice from the snail the minute it was answered.
"What is it, chief?" Kaku asked.
"Oh! Now I get through—this is the one I was trying to use! Not that it matters anymore, there's no turning back now" Spandam angrily grumbled. "I pushed the button, of all things, I triggered the Buster Call!" he bemoaned.
"What?!" I gasped my eyes widening—he can't be serious, he didn't really trigger one, especially not on a government island of all places.
"You have to cancel it right away!" came Robin's frantic voice on the other end. "Don't you realize what you've done?! Everyone is going to die!" she cried out.
"Robin...?" I breathed out, worry filling me upon knowing that she was still with that jerk. How close were they to the Gates of Justice now?
"Cancel it? Ha! Are you kidding?!" Spandam laughed in disbelief. "Who do you think you're talking to? You can't boss me around, and so what? I mean, what's wrong with the Buster Call anyways?" he asked, not seeming to really understand the gravity of the situation.
"He can't be that fucking dumb, can he?" I grounded out through clenched teeth.
"There's no reason for me to get so worked up over this, making that call was well within my power, I am the Chief of Cipher Pol Number Nine after all!" Spandam boasted and I couldn't tell if his ego was that big or if he was just trying to make excuses in an attempt to not admit to his mistake. "To ensure that your transfer goes over smoothly, I requested a Buster Call—there's not a thing wrong with that. Who cares if it's a little overkill? Better safe than sorry, it's a small price to pay to make sure those pirates get eliminated" the more he talked, the more I felt my blood start to boil.
"You're a fool! I told you before, that won't be the end of it!" Robin snapped. "This is an attack without mercy—without humanity! The Buster Call will burn everything on Enies Lobby to the ground—the people, the buildings, even the island itself!" she grounded out. "It will sacrifice anything and everything in its path, the nightmare won't end 'til nothing remains, that's the power you're invoking! If you had any idea what happened in Ohara years ago, you wouldn't be doing this!"
"The government is well aware of the sacrifices involved, that's how important this mission is!" Spandam angrily snapped. "Since Cutty Flam burned the blueprints to the Pluton, we can't afford to make a mistake! You're the last hope we have of reviving the ancient weapon, we're talking about a military power that can turn this whole era upside down!" he proclaimed. "Even if we have to sacrifice a few thousand soldiers, it's better than letting you slip out of our hands again—I know the consequences, I just don't care! Don't think of it as murder, it's the sacrifice to protect the future—and speaking of protecting the future, my promotion is depending on this as well" I felt sick the moment I heard such words leave his lips...is that really all he cared about?
His promotion? Is that how little the lives of his fellow comrades meant to him that he'd let them all be killed just for something as insignificant as a higher position?
"Think about this! Human lives are at stake!" Robin pleaded.
"Allow me to remind you, CP9 can kill in the name of justice—therefore, if we think one hundred deaths are needed to save one thousand lives, then we will kill those one hundred immediately without question" Spandam explained. "For true justice, you must be merciless at times. Besides, if those idiot soldiers couldn't even stop a few pirates from invading a government base of this size, they're better off dead anyway!" he mockingly laughed.
"That's just wrong" I frowned, slowly clenching my fist as my body started to shake with barely contained rage.
"I think the line is still connected on your Transponder Snail" Robin suddenly pointed out.
"Huh? Oh, you got to be frickin kidding me?!" Spandam cried out. "Everyone heard all of that?! By the way, this is your Straw Hat Luffy speaking" he desperately tried to cover himself up.
"Everyone, get off this island! Hurry! A Buster Call has been invoked on Enies Lobby—if you don't get away from here immediately, you'll die!" Robin shouted.
"Hey! Don't tell them things they don't need to know!" Spandam snapped and with that, the line went dead, leaving us all in an uncomfortable tense silence as we tried to process what we had just heard.
"I can't say I'm happy, but there's nothing we can do" Kaku grumbled.
"I should have seen it coming with that idiot in charge!" the wolf scoffed, looking annoyed with this sudden revelation that a Buster Call had been initiated.
"Sounds like they're in some sort of trouble" Zoro said.
"The one in trouble here is me!" Sniper King cried.
"Suck it up, Sniper King!" I snapped. "You two need to hurry up and get those twos key, we have to go on!" I urged.
"Right!" they nodded.
"We can't afford to screw around anymore" the wolf huffed.
"Then let's finish them off quickly and get to the Gates of Justice while we still can" Kaku nodded.
"I just thought of something" Zoro suddenly said.
"Oh yeah? Like a way to get these handcuffs off without any blood or maybe a way to get out of here?" Sniper King asked.
"As a sword, you will be known as the Great Blade: Nose Storm" Zoro said.
"Of course, that's what he thought of" I sweat dropped as whatever hope that had swelled up in my chest the moment I heard he had an idea was quickly snuffed out.
"That's kind of awesome, but now's not the time!" Sniper King cried. "Chopper, where are you?!" he screamed.
"Hurry! Before the Buster Call starts!" Kaku ordered.
"You don't have to tell me twice!" the wolf nodded as both he and the giraffe shot forward towards Sniper King and Zoro.
"Tempest Kick!"
"Finger Pistol!" they both attacked at the same time which caused a frightened Sniper King to wildly wave the sword in his hands around—blocking all of the attacks by some miracle.
"Wow, he actually did it" I whistled in slight amazement.
"Good, now keep it up" Zoro praised.
"Tempest Kick!"
"Finger Pistol!"
"Not again!" Sniper King cried as the two attacked once again, quick was he to do the same thing as before—wildly waving that sword of his around without any real thought. Expect this time it didn't exactly work as Zoro had to quickly yank him out of the way of the attacks before he got hit. "Hey, no offense, but this plan of yours is awful" he whimpered. "Let's call it quits before I get dismembered, okay?" he weakly asked.
"No, wait" Zoro said. "Look, our enemies are afraid to attack, they fear the wrath of the Nose Storm!" he proclaimed, taking advantage of the fact that the two agents weren't moving in for another attack.
"Honey, no" I sweat dropped.
"Yeah, you think so?" Sniper King asked, looking at the two animals before suddenly puffing his chest out in pride, a newfound sense of confidence overtaking him. "Alright!" he grinned.
A/N: Enjoy
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