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Clockwork Island though the island itself is small, there is a humongous tower at the center that supports a fairly large city at the top. The most important part of the island is the "key" that supports the city's weight. Vampire couldn't help but wonder why anyone would want to live on an island that could just fall over. The tower is strong but one good hit or a big storm could knock it down. Not to mention the waves over time would wear away the stone pillar. And it gets stranger from there as she has seen many strange places. It was like someone went and made things as strange as they could with this world. (1)

"So what pirates are we looking at here?" Silk ask who is at the ship's wheel.

"Here are their wanted posters," Vampire said handing her the posters for the pirates with bounties on their heads.

Silk looks over the posters after handing the wheel to Vampire. Making note of their names, what they look like, and if they have powers or not. And also how much they're worth.

Bear King is a large man with black hair and whiskers, who is dressed in clothes that match his card and animal themes, which includes a furred captain's jacket with the collar shaped like a golden spade, a blue shirt underneath with the clover, heart and diamond pips (symbols) it with the top part unbuttoned, and a large teddy bear hat. His relatively thin arms and chest are covered in hair, with fur armbands on his wrist.

He ate the Hard-Hard fruit, which allows his body to become hard as rock to augment his defenses, as well as letting his strikes hit harder. Another effect of his Devil Fruit is that it allows him to heat up his fist, and possibly other parts of his body, at will, which will serve to burn his opponents on contact.

Bounty 11,600,000 Berries.

Pin Joker has long black hair tied up in a ponytail and a stitched scar across his face, extending from the right forehead to the left cheek. He has red marking on the right side of his face, and a tear-like design on the left. He also wears a strapped vest over purple clothes that has diamond design, with a yellow furred collar. Overall, he resembles a court jester. He's a swordsman that uses poison on his blades.

Bounty 9,900,000 Berries.

Honey Queen is a tall, slender woman with long blonde wavy hair tied in two tails, and dark brown eyes. She wears revealing yellow clothes with a purple fur coat with pink spots on it. She also wears red high-heels and a fishnet stocking over her right leg.

She ate the Jelly-Jelly fruit. A Logia-type fruit that allows her to alter into some unknown kind of liquid. She can utilize her ability to launch a wave of liquid with enough force to knock people off their feet, and to travel faster by flowing through things like pipes.

Bounty 7,800,000 Berries.

Skunk One wears a helmet with a number "1" on it, goggles, and brown shirt, which gives him an appearance of an airplane pilot. He also wears a fluffy jet-pack, with the thruster located at his rear end. Under his helmet he has slick black hair, parted to one side. He also has pointed ears.

Bounty 6,000,000 Berries.

Boo Jack is a fat man with a pig-themed outfit. He wears a bandanna-like hat with a pig's head design, a yellow shirt with a "J" printed on the front, as well as suspenders, and a white furred-back that is his Toge Toge Armor. Which is his main weapon as it's covered in spikes. He also has furred arm- and elbow-bands.

Bounty 3,200,000 Berries.

"So, in all 38,500,000 berries," Silk said.

"Yup a good bounty," Vampire said.

"So, what's the plan?" Silk ask.

"You stay on the boat while, I handle things," Vampire said.

"What?" Silk ask.

"Seeing how the entire island rest on top of a single pillar. I'm betting the pirates have like a bomb that they can set off to cause it to fall over. I can't risk that if I take you with me. I need to be using flash step to catch all the pirates before they know what hit them and then check out the pillar anything to cause it to fall. I seen this kind of thing before," Vampire explains.

"So, you're going to do that super speed thing to take them all out at once?" Silk asks. She's been around Vampire long enough to see some of her powers, which Vampire explained away as stuff like haki or advance flash stepping.

"Yes, or having to deal with an island falling over," Vampire said.

"But didn't you say you can't use that super speed flash step alot?" Silk ask.

"So, I'll be sore for awhile and be hungry. Better than having to save everyone on the island while it's falling," Vampire said.

"And the engine does need fixing," Silk said. The stream engine hasn't been working well and they sailed to Clockwork island to get it fix. And maybe find someone who can join them as a crewmate who can fix it.

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Clockwork Island -

Max Stocks a short, stout woman could only stare in amazement at the Dreadful Whale. It's the first stream ship she had ever seen before. The bounty hunter Monkey D Vampire owned the ship, who had just somehow captured all the pirates who had taken over the island. For everyone on the island it was like a blur had just grabbed the pirates before they knew what hit them. (2)

Now the pirates are all locked up waiting for the marines to come and pick them up. Which is why Vampire and Silk will be staying on the island till the marines get here with their payment. Which allows Max the time she needs to get them to allow her to join them before they leave.

"So, you want to join my crew?" Vampire ask, having checked out the pillar and removed the stuff the pirates had place to destroy it. And when she got back to the ship, she found Silk talking with a native islander.

"I been wanting to go out and see the world and learn of the many machines that are out there," Max explains.

"Well I do need a mechanic and most of you people are scientists," Vampire said. Looking Max over, she is much shorter then her or Silk but is of age. She is also pudgy but does have a big butt and nice set of breasts. "Well there is something you should know, I'm into girls."

"So, you and Silk are...," Max began but was cut off by Silk.

"No, we're not," Silk said.

"So, are you ok with me hitting on you?" Vampire ask.

"I guess," Max said blushing.

"Ok so if you're going to be the ship's mechanic, you're going to have to so me what you got," Vampire said. "Get your tools and fix up the engine."

"Yes captain," Max said running off to get her tools and show her new captain that she can fix the engine and earn her place on the ship.

"Well looks like we got a mechanic," Silk said.

"Well we do need to see what she can do first," Vampire said.

"I just hope you don't scare her off," Silk said.

"Don't worry I'm not one to force myself onto others," Vampire said. "Or you'll be on my bed already."

"Well seeing how we'll be on a ship for weeks or months at a time. We'll just be having sex all the time if I was willing to have sex with you. I have been traveling with you for 4 months already and gotten to know what you'll be like," Silk said. (3)

"And you saying like that's a bad thing," Vampire said.

"Just find a whore house and have fun. I'm sure there be plenty of women who will want to show how grateful they are," Silk said.

"Already way ahead of you," Vampire said heading to the closest whore house to have some fun.

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Later –

Silk laid on her bed onboard the Dreadful Whale, trying to sleep. Which is easier said than done. She could hear the sounds of flesh slapping against bare skin. Both Vampire and Max aren't making that much noise but from the light moans and slurping noises. It's only because their mouths are too busy. Silk knew that Max was eager to please Vampire for letting her join the crew, but not so eager to just jump into bed with her. Silk just hope that they won't be too noisy if this is going to be a nightly event.

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Author's Notes -

1 - With how strange the island and the very planet that the One Piece story takes place on. Something must had made it that way besides the real life fact that it's all made up.

2 - Seeing how if Superman just used super speed that while not as fast as Flash's super speed, is still super fast where the normal eye wouldn't be able to keep up. Or like in Mega Mind where Metroman was able to use his superspeed to do tons of stuff in the span between mirco seconds. There be no plot in the comics seeing how there isn't anyway a villain who doesn't have super speed or reaction or something else would be able to do anything against that.

3 - Seeing how in real life traveling by boat using sail can take weeks or months. I'm going that it takes several weeks or months to travel from one island to another.

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