Marine Academy
Part 2
Chapter 13
Akainu had accompanied her to the port, taking care to keep a suitable distance from the young woman. In any case, the goodbyes had already taken place in the house of the now rear admiral, in complete privacy...
However, he had insisted on accompanying her to the ship that would take her away from him for two months.
The blonde had finished her internship in the emergency service with honors but now had to continue her studies by going to an internship on a warship.
This time, there was no question of staying on the four seas, she had to embark for the New World, in a critical combat situation.
An island, previously under the protection of the World Government, had been decimated by Big Mom's crew. When she left, a civil war had ravaged the kingdom to elect a new leader. The two main political parties were now engaged in a bloody war for power, with the emperor's crew, who had run away once all the island's money had been stolen, completely uninterested.
Her mission was simple: the soldiers on the warship would fight to restore order on the island, and the medical team was ordered to stay behind and provide emergency care as soon as the soldiers returned to the ships. A second medical team would have to heal the civilians on site and would remain on land for another two months.
The entire mission was led by Vice Admiral Garp, seconded by Rear Admiral Kuzan. Sakazuki hadn't said a word about Kuzan when the blonde had briefly mentioned him, but she had felt a cold anger rising in him. He had quickly understood his colleague's little game but had sworn to the young woman that he would not get involved as long as she was still in training and had not obtained her diploma.
Only then would he have the right to burn whoever he wanted.
"Be careful. The high-ranking officers of this mission are not the most competent..." He mumbled as he tried to hold back yet another impulse of anger while he observed the iceman sleeping on his folding chair.
The blonde smiled at him, kissed him briefly out of sight and joined her fellow caregivers on the ship.
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"What the fuck is this!" the young woman screamed, her scalpel in her hand, her body shaken by the anarchic rhythm of the waves.
The patient in front of her, barely anesthetized, was losing a monstrous amount of blood. The operating room was covered in blood and soaked compresses, shaking the caregivers who were trying as best as they could to keep their balance to the rhythm of the explosions outside.
She absolutely had to amputate the soldier's leg before he bled out completely, but the explosions of the cannons outside were flying away the tools in all directions. Her nurse colleague was trying as best she could to place the catheter to which she could attach the vital blood bag.
BOOM.
"Fuck, can't they go fight on land instead of getting in our way? How many are we waiting?" the intern shouted at the anesthesiologist who regularly received the situation update.
BOOM.
"The four operating rooms are full, about twenty patients at regulation, five of which are in vital emergencies." The anesthesiologist quickly replied between two cannon detonations.
"Shit." The blonde grew impatient.
BOOM.
The medical team froze for a moment when they heard the main mast creak and collapse onto the ship. While everyone hoped that the mast would not fall on their heads, they felt the temperature drop drastically, ice penetrating the floor and roof of the room.
BOOM.
"Cover his extremities with the anti-hypothermia blankets." She ordered again, her heart racing under the stress.
BOOM.
"I just have to close it and..."
BOOM.
A cannonball slammed into the wall with force, racing across the room, ending up through the wooden floor. The impact tore a gaping hole in the wall. The medical team could see the rough seas on the other side of the ripped wall, coming into the operating room.
As Murphy gripped the operating table firmly fixed to the floor, she felt her body leave Earth's gravity.
"THE SHIP IS GOING TO REVERSE WATCH OUT!" The anesthesiologist yelled as they felt a powerful wave hit the other side of the ship, pushing them straight towards the ocean, just a few degrees away from capsizing.
Muprhy closed her eyes as the raging ocean came dangerously close to her. She then felt the cold of the sea pull her towards the wall, making her lose her grip on the operating table. In just a few seconds, the intern crossed the hole in the wall and felt the current drag her towards the abyss.
She had time to see the rest of the team and the patient also being swallowed up in the depths, the ship continuing to reverse towards her.
In a last survival reflex, she swam as fast as she could to get away from the carcass of the ship. The coast was only a few meters away, but the sea current and the freezing cold of the winter island complicated her task. She swam with all her strength and arrived at the cost of an incredible effort on dry land. She got up with difficulty, her white coat freezing against her skin.
The young woman turned around and could see the warship completely overturned, its hull eaten away by ice. She made signs to the soldiers and caregivers of the ship to guide them towards land and helped them get out of the water.
In shock, she didn't even feel the throbbing pain in her right arm. She thought of all her patients who were stuck in the ship, but the freezing cold didn't allow her to put a foot back in the water to try to save them, it was risking drowning in a few seconds.
She then felt a hand grab her head to force the blonde to bend down.
A second later she felt a cannonball fly above her and end its course in the ocean.
She finally heard the screams of the political anarchists behind her. A wave of men was charging towards the port, weapons in hand. The Marine soldiers were completely outnumbered. The fortress at the top of the island throwing cannonballs every second.
One by one, the Navy ships sank into the icy ocean, taking with them the caregivers she knew so well.
Murphy was frozen in place, as she saw a civilian charging at her, axe in hand, a veil of ice enveloped her and made her lose consciousness.