Chapter 41: Jailbreak Pt 2
Luffy could count how many times he had fallen asleep during a battle on his fingers. It was eight. Out of those eight times, Zoro, Nami, Sanji or Ussop had been at his side to watch over him. It was mostly Sanji and Zoro as the other two were the weakest of their group. He had yet to fall asleep during a fight with Brook, Franky, Chopper or Robin. It wasn't that he didn't trust them, hardly, he just didn't want to appear weak before them; so he always pushed himself to be the strongest. A captain should be; after all, Shanks was.
So it was strange that he felt comfortable around Jinbe, who was quite literally a stranger to him, and just relax for a moment. He had been awake for more than 24 hours and his body needed the rest. Even with Ivankov's Emperio Hormones, he needed just a minute to regain some strength.
Buggy glared at the wall of venom that was left behind after Mr. 3 removed his wax. It stinks. He thought. Though it doesn't seem to be giving off poisonous vapors. How the hell am I suppose to get rid of this so we can escape to level 1? "Magellan, you lout! You are the fucking king of diarrhea!" Everyone looked at him like he was nuts.
"I think Captain Buggy is loosing it." An inmate stated.
"You should wear a toilet seat for a crown you fucking asshole!" Buggy cursed.
"He's throwing insults at the poison vapor?" Another prisoner said with confusion on his face.
"I get it." Mr. 3 said as an idea came to him. "Since the poison is apart of Magellan, it must have a connection to him. So by throwing insults at it, he's hoping to weaken the poisonous ooze."
"That's brilliant!" The prisoners said as the cheered Buggy on.
"Your mom should've flushed you, you turd!" He screamed loudly at the wall of venom. This isn't working but I certainly feel a bit better. "Speaking of turds, you're a big fat one that needs to be flushed! Oh wait you're constantly needing the toilet because of it already. You really should glue your fucking ass to that toilet so you'll never miss it."
Buggy paused when he heard what Mr. 3 was saying, but it was totally not what he was doing. I just needed to vent. He stretched his back. "Guess this guy is tougher than he looks if he's taking all the abuse I'm throwing at him." He said. Might as well play into this. "I'm gonna use the toilet for a second."
"Don't tell me.."
"He gave himself diarrhea after a few minutes of yelling at that?" The men looked squeamish for a second.
Buggy looked at them over his shoulder with a grin. "Nope. Just gotta piss."
"Oh! That's a good idea." The inmates all agreed. "We haven't used the bathroom in hours."As the men went to the communal bathroom, Buggy tried to think what he was going to do. If they didn't get that wall cleared his reputation was going to suffer. He couldn't allow that, but he was also totally out of ideas.
One by one the men all left the room to return to where the ooze was to see what Buggy would do next. When a cry came from the room. Buggy quickly finished to see what was going on when he found his jaw dropping. From top to bottom of the doorway, a single large line was drawn, as if someone with a large blade had passed through and cut the ooze apart. I don't think I did that. Buggy thought.
"I can't believe it, it actually worked." Mr. 3 said.
"Err…yeah, of course it did." Buggy stated as he crossed his arms over his chest. Buggy began laughing. "And here I thought I was going to have to do this for hours on end. My barrage of insults must've find have gotten to him and made his confidence and concentration finally crack; literally." He eyed the large crack. "It's big enough that we can escape one at a time into the next level even!"
"This makes no sense." Mr. 3 muttered to himself.
"Okay. I cracked it. So let's get moving! One at a time and NO PUSHING!" He yelled out. "So line up behind me and follow me to freedom!"
"HOORAY!"
Magellan growled. "Sir?" One of his men questioned sending the change in the Wardens mood.
"My blockade on level 2 has been cut through." He stated angrily. "I just felt the energy release itself back to me." The only one who could've done that is Shiryu, but why would he- His train of thought was cut through when they came to the door to level 3, it was completely destroyed; much like level 4. "Damn it. This means those lucky bastards that I wasn't able to catch on level 2 will be able to get through to level 1."
"We're some flashily lucky bastards!" Buggy yelled as they burst through the doors to level 1. "Guys! We have finally made it to level 1!" We actually made it! What luck! "Okay! Everyone, we're going out, but we've gotta be careful. There are some marine out there and we can't have 'em knowing we're escaping!" All the inmates nodded at Buggy agreeing with his words.
Turning to Mr. 3, he continued a bit quietly. "Did you do something to the wall?" He hissed under his breath.
"Wasn't me." Mr. 3 admitted. "You mean-" He began trying to keep his shocked expression from showing. "It wasn't you?"
"No." Buggy admitted. "This can only mean one thing, that Strawhat has taken so much of Magellan's attention that he's either failing elsewhere or-"
"There's another threat in this prison." Mr. 3 stated sounding terrified.
"Question is, is this threat worse than Magellan or can we get him to side with us?" Buggy's thoughts were interrupted by the inmates chanting his name. I've gotta get these idiots out of here.
Luffy woke up to heat on his skin and could recall this heat very easily. They were on level 3. Slowly lifting his head, he saw that he was on Jinbe's back. "Oh, you're awake." Jinbe stated acknowledging his wakefulness.
"Yeah." Luffy said sounding a bit groggy. He then heard screaming. Turning his head he saw the poison hydra's from Magellan's attacks. Shit. He thought as he looked on.
"Don't bother." Jinbe told him. "Those men are willing to die for this chance both to fight and escape."
"Keep running!" Bon Clays voice came from ahead of them. "Trust me, you don't want to look back!"Luffy could see Crocodile way ahead of them with Ivankov and the Mr. 1, he wasn't too sure, running with Bon Clay slightly ahead of them.
Ivankov was still in his female form when he did another death wink, this time it was directed at the level 2 entrance staircase. Inazuma stood on the opposite way with his dagger claws at the ready for any stupid guards wanting to play hero. Luffy watched as the two vanished from his sight when Jinbe passed them by. He hoped they'd be alright.
Iva watched as his people and the next group of prisoners passed easily through to the next level. "Those were the last." He sighed sadly as he spotted Magellan's form getting closer. "Everyone else has been exterminated by him." Looking towards his companion, Iva smiled. "You know what to do."
"Yes. Since that's everyone." Inazuma held out his hands on either side. "GREAT SCISSORS." He then ran up the level 2 staircase cutting the walls as he went. As he came to the top he ushered the last ones to keep going before he turned to finish the job, however he hesitated. Iva. He thought knowing the Queen of Queers would be okay but still feared for him. "As you wish my friend." He then finished the last cut. Upon finishing the entire staircase fell in ruins.
Below the escaping inmates Iva and Magellan began their fight. "This is suicide! There's no escaping now!" Magellan yelled at the prisoner.
"Ha! If you can't figure it out, you must be slow!" Iva then stabbed herself and returned to his original male self. "In other words; STUPID!" He then got into a fighting form and yelled "DEATH WINK!" A shockwave of energy slammed into the poison hydra on Magellan's back. Poisonous ooze splashing everywhere. Several more hydra heads formed off his back. Iva whistled at the two new ones. "So how many heads do you have to show me big guy?"
Magellan snarled which caused the hydra's to growl and hiss at him. " Even if you play as their distraction, Strawhat and his people will never escape they have no way of getting off this island prison."
"A distraction? Little ole me? Do you really think that you're gonna defeat me?" Iva asked, yes he was pulling the tigers tail here but seriously, who did this guy think he was; a rookie?
"HEEHAW!"
With those words Ivankov began his next round of attacks.
As Luffy and the escapees ran through level 2, Luffy having jumped off of Jinbe's back upon entering the level, Luffy and the fish man noticed something. "Somebody has released of the prisoners on this level." Jinbe voiced their thoughts.
"Yeah, but I wonder who?" Luffy said as they passed several dozen empty cells.
"If our luck keeps up, we just may be able to escape this prison by using the prison ships that surround Impell Down." Jinbe told the younger captain.
"Hopefully." Luffy agreed before a wide grin appeared on his visage. His chest was thumping loudly as they got closer towards the entrance of level 1 staircase. He touched his chest. What is this? Why is my heart thumping so strangely? Is it the injections from Iva? The strength in his body had yet to waiver. I'll need to remember to tell Chopper. He felt a tightening in his chest at the thought of his friends. I hope they're alright. He frowned. First I'll worry about Ace; then my friends. He told himself as they came to the staircase. "It's strange that none of the beast guards have tried to stop us."
Crocodile spoke up. "They're hiding because we are too many for them to handle." He stated before grasping Luffy by the collar of his shirt. "Now keep running boy!" He then threw Luffy into the next staircase as his senses picked up something happening across the prison floor.
At the entrance of level 2 where Inazuma waited for Ivankov, the floor below began to shake and tremble. Thinking it was Iva, Inazuma gasped in fright when in fact it was Magellan who came out of the floor at him. When the dust settled, Magellan growled. "So you are the next distraction for me to fight!?"
"Do not presume me to be weak." Inazuma told the warden as he cut the cells nearest to him and sent them flying towards the poison master.
"Your stall tactics won't work!" He growled out as he blocked the bricks from harming him. Pushing them to the side, the warden began to approach the man who feared he was about to be at deaths door very soon.
Buggy gasped. "How'd this happen!?" He screamed as he and his fellow escapees were being chased by the four demon beasts of Mistress Sadi. "These guys were supposed to be on level 4!" Suddenly Buggy slammed into someone, only to grabbed by that person before falling. Looking up he saw a slick black haired man with a hook in hand. Crocodile! He mentally screamed. I'm dead.
"Buggy?" Mr. 3 questioned when he saw who held his friend. "B-B-Boss!?" He was shocked.
"Oh? It's been awhile Mr. 3." Crocodile greeted his former employee. "I see you're acting like a coward, like always."
Who the heck and release this pain in the butt? Mr. 3 thought sadly. I never wanted to see this guy again.
"CAPTAIN BUGGY!" The inmates following the jester yelled.
"Look, those guys defeated the Demon Beasts!" Another pointed out.
Buggy peered around his people. "STRAWHAT!"
"That's Warlord Jinbe!" Mr. 3 gasped.
Luffy turned towards the screaming. "Hey! It's Buggy! Mr. 3 too!" Luffy greeted them. "Good job at freeing everyone!" Just as the two groups of over two hundred joined Luffy felt it.
"HYDRA!"
Everyone turned in fear as Magellan appeared on level 1. "Magellan is on this floor too!" Buggy screamed.
"Crap! Something bad happened to Iva and Crab guy!" Luffy yelled out causing Bon Clay to tear up.
"I've dealt with that pervert and his friend very easily. Now it's your turn!" Magellan yelled out causing the prisoners to scream and run in panic.
Luffy growled. I'll have to do it again. "Jinbe, Buggy, get them out of here!" He order the two.
"No complaints from me!" Buggy stated as he turned towards the panicking inmates. "Stop crying like babies for their mamas you idiots! Head for the door!"
"CANDLEWALL!"
Everyone stared in shock as the onslaught of hydra poison attacks were suddenly stopped by Mr. 3's wax attack. The poor man looked exhausted after covering the space between them and Magellan from floor to ceiling in wax.
"Impressive." The former sand king complimented. "You've must've been practicing that one."
"Don't let this distraction be for nothing." Mr. 3 said. "It'll only hold for so long."
"You heard him!" Luffy yelled as he turned towards the exhausted man he continued. "You go with them."
"But-"
"I have a plan." He assured him. "Think you can make me one thing first?" He asked before whispering into his ear.
"I think I can do that but it'll be all for awhile." Mr. 3 admitted. Gathering his energy he formed a ball of wax, sculpted it before throwing it at Luffy. The wax hardened into armor gloved and feet for the young captain to fight with.
"Thanks for giving me this chance. Now go!" He pointed towards the exit. Mr. 3 quickly stood and followed his orders. "I've got this." Jumping over the wall, Luffy landing on top before pushing himself at Magellan. As the hydra came at him with three heads, Luffy dodged them mid-air. "Gomu, Gomu, Champion Rifle!" The first gloved fist hit Magellan who blocked it with his arms. The man did grunt at the pressure from the fist. Luffy grinned because now this guy thought both fists would be the same.
As pulled back, Magellan's hydra went to hit him only for Luffy to bounce with his new armor boots that Mr. 3 had created for him. Once in the air both of the other two hydra's attacked only to be dodged mid-air again. As Luffy came down onto Magellan he screamed out "Gomu, Gomu, Champion Bazooka!" This time under the waxes gloved Luffy infused his arms with armament haki, giving him a bit more strength to his hits. This hit made its mark as they separated Luffy saw a single line of blood drip from Magellan's forehead to his chin.
"Very well." Magellan stated. "If you want a fight like this, I shall give you one you'll never forget; even in death."
As the group of prisoners escaped into the light, some seeing it for the first time in years, they all gasped horror as they saw no ships in sight! "All of that and we're still prisoners!" One yelled.
"I can't believe it." Mr. 3 moaned in horror.
"They can't sense them." Jinbe stated lowly.
"Hmm?" Crocodile asked looking at the other former warlord questioningly.
"They're all out there." Jinbe stated. He then walked over to the prison door.
"Unfortunately we can't get to them." He looked at the water. "Even if we all could swim, the calm belt is notoriously filled with deadly sea kings. This is why Impel Down is the perfect prison."
Just then everyone turned towards the sound of something ripping and saw Jinbe pulling the door, which was at least twenty feet tall, off of its hinges like it was as light as a feather before tossing it into the water. Going under it, acting like it's propeller, Jinbe chuckled when only Crocodile and Mr. 1 got onto the raft. "Only two of you?" He asked.
Buggy suddenly jumped onto it as well. "Well, I best go too. You'll never survive without my geniusness." He stated even though he was terrified.
"I knew I could count on you." Jinbe joked lightly.
"You can do it Captain Buggy!" The inmates all cheered.
Just how did this guy get their loyalty? Crocodile wondered with amazement. He knew the clown was a jokester and wasn't even a serious pirate. So how?
"What?!" Buggy asked.
Maybe he's something else? Crocodile wondered. "Nothing. I'm just observing."
"Eh?" Buggy questioned. "Observe something else then."
Crocodile raised an eyebrow at that statement. Oh?
Jinbe swam their raft towards the blockade of ships before throwing the raft at one. All three prisoners jumped as the ships canons tore the raft to pieces. Making onboard the ship, Crocodile and Mr. 1 were quickly surrounded by the marines. "So who's going to be the first to try to throw us off the ship?"
"Don't be stupid." Mr. 1 threatened as his hands turned into daggers.
Meanwhile Buggy, had grasped the sail as he'd fallen onto the ship. Had he not done so he may have ended on the dead bloodied before the fighting had started. Looking down he could take advantage of his vantage point. Looking around he saw that the sniper wasn't paying attention in the crows nest and quickly flew over to the spot, slammed his fist into the guy's head and knocked him unconscious. Picking his pockets, he found two daggers and an explosive pack. This might come in handy. He thought as he pocketed the explosive. If anything I can use that to make a couple of Buggy Balls.
Just then a whirlpool appeared in the sea. At the center of it Jinbe rose out of the water. "Behold my true fish man Karate! Spear wave!" A wave of energy and water sliced through the ship. Many fell into the sea as others fell onto the deck the other two were on.
"Watch your aim." Crocodile said nonchalantly.
The soldiers gasped at the power displayed by the ex-warlord. "Oops. I forgot we were using that ship. My bad."
Buggy gasped. What an idiot. A powerful idiot; but an idiot anyway. He groaned. Please don't let that one join Strawhat. That's all we need. He groaned inwardly.
"Gomu, Gomu, Champion Gatling!"
"Hydra!"
Luffy's attacks hit the poisonous hydra's like they were noting even if they reformed they were still getting hit. Until finally he battled away all of the hydra formations and hit Magellan squarely in the face with his armament haki infused wax fists. His hands snapped back as the warden fell backwards.
Magellan spat out blood from his mouth. "Even if you escape to the top, you'll never escape. I've ordered all ships away from Impel Down."
"So that explains why they weren't there when I got to the control center." A voice sounded causing both Luffy and Magellan to look off towards their right.
"Shiryu, where have you been?" Magellan inquired angrily. "It doesn't matter. I'll deal with you later. For now help me stop this man."
Luffy looked at this Shiryu guy. He looked to be strong, very strong. I might not be able to use my haki on him. He looked back at Magellan. I almost have him to the point I can use it on him but- Luffy knew he might lose if the new guy joined up with Magellan.
Shiryu grasped his sword and unsheathed it. The blade turned black, though Luffy could see the armament haki covered blade; Magellan could not see the haki and only saw the blade as it was regularly seen. "You know, I should thank you for releasing me." Shiryu told Magellan.
"Later." Magellan stated as he thought he had gained a new ally.
Shiryu got close to his former underling. "You are a fool." Shiryu stated as he sliced Magellan's right arm off. "You shouldn't have let me get near you."
Magellan screamed in absolute pain as his arm was sheered off by the former head warden. "Ahhh!"
"Whoa." Luffy gasped.
"Boy. Leave." Shiryu told him. "Because the next time we meet I'll be taking your head." He sneered gleefully as Magellan began to glow red. "For now, I'll settle for yours!"
Luffy quickly turned on his heel. "Right." Luffy quickly made it to the entrance only to find Bon Clay, Mr. 3 and the others waiting. "What's going on !?"
"STRAWHAT!?" Bon Clay and Mr. 3 gasped in surprise.
"Wax release!" Mr. 3 yelled releasing the wax on Luffy's arms and legs.
"Hey, thanks!" He thanked the wax user. Looking at Bon Clay he spoke again. "Why hasn't anyone left?"
"There's no boats in the harbor!" He answered. "They're all out of range in the fog. Jinbe, Buggy, Crocodile and Mr. 1 went to get us a ship but all we've heard is fighting."
"What happened with Magellan?" Mr. 3 inquired quite surprised Luffy had actually won.
"Some other guy showed up to fight him with a sword." Luffy shrugged. "He even cut Magellan's arm off!"
The two former baroque works members looked at each other. "A man with a sword?" Mr. 3 asked Bon Clay who shrugged.
"I think the warden guy called him Shiryu?" Luffy said not sure if that was correct or not.
"SHIRYU!?" Everyone shouted.
"We really need to leave." Mr. 3 stated as he worried that they weren't going to make it out.
Suddenly the ground shook as Ivankov came barreling through the floor barely alive with Inazuma in his arms from level 2 below them. Just at that moment Shiryu and Magellan rounded the corner. Shiryu being pushed back by the red demon that Magellan had created using his most poisonous ability.
"What the hell is that?!" Luffy screamed.
"I don't know, but I don't think we want it touching us!" Bon Clay yelled out. He looked at Iva. "But thank goodness you're alive! We can't lose you!"
"Iva!" All the Okama yelled out as their Queen passed out from his head injury whilst still holding onto an unconscious Inazuma.
One of the Okama threw a baby denden transponder snail at Luffy. "It's from Jinbe!"
On the skip Buggy sat on the former ship's captain while wearing his jacket. "That was more fun I've had in a long time!" He said keeping the daggers against the captain's neck.
Crocodile looked at the man annoyed as he, Jinbe and Mr. 1 had taken out the rest of the all the while Buggy had felt with the captain, vice-captain and a single sniper. "Now he shows up." Crocodile complained.
Jinbe shook his head before raising the snail up. "Are you at the exit?" He asked the younger captain.
"Yeah. But Magellan is still after us! He's fighting some guy named Shiryu." Luffy stated.
"Just trust me then!" Jinbe told him. "We've got a ship now. You may have to jump into the sea but we will be there! Trust me." He ended the call.
"Trust him!?" Mr. 3 asked. "You and I are devil fruit users. We'll die!"
"We'll all die if that demon touches us!" Bon Clay yelled out with fear.
"I trust him." Luffy stated when suddenly a few screamed when the red monster got closer. "Mr. 3, another wall please?" Luffy asked.
"This is the last time!" He yelled at the crazy young man.
As soon as the wall of wax was formed thickly, the red poison demon hit it. "Gear 3!" Luffy yelled out. "Gomu, Gomu, Giant Stomp!" He blew up his foot with air turning it into a giant foot. Concentrating, he covered it with armament haki and slammed the giant foot into the wall of wax at the same moment the red poison demon slammed into the wall of wax only for the beast that Magellan had become to be kicked across the room by the haki coated foot.
Luffy's air suddenly spewed out causing him to become tiny Luffy. "Shit!" He squeaked. "Iva! Wake up! I'm too tiny to fight! Get your fat head up off of the ground!"
"Huh?" Iva asked deliriously.
"Do a death wink or hell wink!" Tiny Luffy yelled. "You're the strongest person here right now!" As he jumped his body regained its teenage form. "Everyone jump onto Iva big fat head!"
"They wouldn't!" Magellan growled out.
Shiryu smirked. "You don't know the desperation of these people."
"They'll die the moment they touch water!" Magellan countered.
Even as it was spoken every single prisoner jumped onto the Queen of Queers massive body. "HELL WINK!" The prisoners were sent flying through the air, passing the Impel Down gates, over the water when Iva lost consciousness. His body began to fall. Everyone cried out in fear only for the group to be caught by giant whale sharks.
"Jinbe must've called for them!" Someone yelled out. "It's a school of them!"
"Shishishi!" Luffy laughed. Knew I could count on him.
The whale sharks brought them to the commandeered ship. "You have no idea what I had to go through to get you all here." Jinbe stated as Luffy and the others began to look over the ship. "Leave the rest tome. I'll get us out of here and then we'll go save your brother."
"How can he be so calm?" Buggy asked. "We still have over a dozen ships after us." Just as he said that a canon flew by.
"Relax." Luffy told everyone panicking. "I trust Jinbe. He'll get us to safety." He gave the ex-warlord a thumbs up. "Do your best."
"He's either stupid or brave." Buggy muttered. "I can't tell anymore."
"He knows Jinbe will do as he says." Crocodile stated as he took a seat on a crate. "So do as Strawhat says. Relax a little because soon the real battle begins and we can't be tired for that." He grinned at the thought of causing a little more chaos before the days ends.
M-Angel: Sorry, I tried to get this out sooner but the website was having problems today. So I was finally able to get it out only now. Hope everyone's week is a good one!