Roger Pirates vs The Silver Fox

(3rd Person: POV)

As soon as Roger and Teressa gave their signals, the battle finally began in earnest.

Following the admiral's orders all remaining navy ships began firing volley's of cannonball's toward the Oro Jackson.

Some striking the ship, and some missing entirely.

While this happened the crew of the Oro Jackson did not just sit by and watch.

They returned fire, striking several of the remaining navy ships as they did so.

While this happened Roger unsheathed Ace and sent out a flying slash, cutting one of the remaining navy ships clean in two.

He then pointed the tip of his blade at Teressa's flagship.

"Some of you come with me, the rest stay behind." Roger told his crew.

"Aye, captain!" They shouted in unison.

After they did so Rayleigh and a few others went up to Rogers side and then jumped across to Teressa's flagship.

The moment they landed Teressa's entire body transformed into a silver-colored mass.

All thanks to her devil fruit powers.

Since again she ate the Mercury-Mercury fruit and became a Mercury human.

"Today is the day you all die." Teressa said. Her voice a bit distorted after her fully-body transformation. "Especially you Rayleigh." She spat out.

"Come now Teressa, can't you just let it go?" Rayleigh asked the admiral. "I promise I won't ever smack your butt again, that is unless you want me to of course."

The moment Rayleigh spoke and tried to make his joke the killing intent leaking from Teressa magnified even further.

Right now she is both angry and embarrassed.

If she were in her human form her face would be a bright shade of red.

Seeing Teressa's reaction to Rayleigh's comment Roger walked up to him and lightly patted him on the shoulder. "Old friend, good luck." He said.

"Hey Roger, what do you mean?" Rayleigh asked him.

"Boys we're going to deal with the other ships. Rayleigh will handle admiral Gitsune." Roger said.

Ignoring Rayleigh's question entirely.

"Yeah!" The other Roger pirates shouted.

They all then started running away towards the other navy ships.

Since they didn't want to be anywhere near admiral Gitsune at the moment.

All of them were thinking the same thing as well.

This is Rayleigh's fault so he should deal with it alone.

"Where do you think you're going?!" Teressa shouted at the scattering Roger pirates. "Don't think you can escape from me that easily!" She shouted.

Right after Teressa did so she began spreading mercury across the deck of her ship, creating spikes along it as she did so.

Her goal obviously to turn the Roger pirates into human meat skewers.

Seeing this Rayleigh took his sword and sent out several haki imbued flying slashes, destroying the mercury spikes Teressa made in an instant.

"Sorry, but I can't let you kill my friends. How about you and I play again today?" Rayleigh said.

"That's fine." Teressa mused. "I can deal with the others later after I finally kill you." She spoke.

"Then bring it on." Rayleigh said. Putting a small smirk on his face as she did so.

"Time to send that arrogant face of yours into a watery grave!" Teressa shouted.

The moment after she did so she fired several mercury-shaped bullets at Rayleigh from her main body mass.

But thanks to his observation haki Rayleigh dodged every single one of them.

Though right after he did this he jumped back and into the air.

The second after he did so several mercury spikes exited the ground right where he had been standing.

Courtesy of Teressa.

"Fufu, don't think you can get away from me that easily." Teressa said to Rayleigh.

After she did so she sent out several spike protrusions from all across her body towards him.

Seeing that he couldn't dodge this time Rayleigh coated his sword in armament haki and then unleashed a powerful slash.

As his attack raced towards Teressa she coated the tips of her spike protrusions in armament haki, allowing them to clash with Rayleigh's attack.

The second after this happened Rayleigh moved forward and closed the distance.

After he did so he coated his fist in armament haki and delivered a punch to Teressa's mercury body.

Scoring a direct hit he sent her flying back across the deck and crashing into the ship.

But that only kept Teressa down for a moment.

She quickly got back up and then re-took her fully human form.

Once she did so Teressa aimed her left palm at Rayleigh and then a second after she did so a high-speed mercury bullet launched from it, heading straight towards him.

Not losing his cool Rayleigh took his sword and slashed the bullet straight down the middle. Destroying it as he did so.

But when Rayleigh did this Teressa used Soru to close the distance, and then turned one of her fingers into mercury. She then used said finger to send a Shigan towards Rayleigh's chest.

He didn't have enough time to block, and thus took the attack head on.

Getting sent flying back after he did so.

While the intense battle between Rayleigh and Teressa was raging, the other Roger Pirates were making good work of the remaining navy ships.

Despite them having thousands of more men none of them could stand up against the Roger pirates for very long.

It was a truly a case of quality over quantity.

Especially where Roger himself was concerned.

In just this short amount of time he had taken down two navy ships on his own, a bright smile on his face as he did so.

As this happened the battle between Teressa and Rayleigh continued.

A bleeding wound on his chest Rayleigh looked at Teressa, cracking his neck as he did so. "So rough." He said.

"Keep talking, you won't be for much longer." Teressa told him.

"Really, are you sure about that?" Rayleigh asked her. "Because from where I'm looking we're the ones who are going to win this battle." He said.

"Oh really, I wonder about that?" Teressa mused.

Putting a small smirk on her face as she did so.

Seeing this Rayleigh instantly knew Teressa had a trick up her sleeve.

And a few moments later he found out what it was.

Sensing something heading towards the battlefield from the right with his observation haki Rayleigh looked in that direction.

When he did so he saw more naval vessels approaching.

About 20 to be exact.

Which is all according to Teressa's plan after all.

She is a follower of "smart" justice.

When facing an enemy she tries to gather as much information about them as possible, and put into motion several plans at once to bring them down. Making sure the lives of her men are not thrown away in the process.

Like right now for instance.

Most of the personnel under Teressa's command are fleeing toward the incoming reinforcements on life boats.

Just as she had told them to do before the battle started.

Since she knew that most of them would stand no chance against even one of the Roger Pirates.

Really, the personnel she brought with her were only there to lure the Roger Pirates into her trap, and now that they are here she isn't letting them go.

This is one of the reasons Teressa Argent was given the codename Silver Fox.

You never know what she might have up her sleeve.

"Ah, looks like we might be in trouble." Rayleigh spoke. Rubbing his beard as he did so.

"You are in trouble." Teressa said. "So like I said earlier, surrender or be sunk. The choice is yours."

"No, I'll go with option three. My crew and I escape." Rayleigh said.

Right after he did so he sent a powerful slash into the deck of the ship, splitting it apart without any hesiation.

Seeing this Teressa clicked her tongue and then started using Geppo.

Because as a devil fruit eater if she fell into the water then it was game over.

As Teressa worked to stay away from the water Rayleigh made his way back to the Oro Jackson. The other Roger Pirates who had joined him in attacking the enemy vessels doing so as well.

Including Roger himself.

The moment they all arrived on deck Gaban began maneuvering the ship to flee.

As he did so Teressa made her way to the reinforcement vessels and landed on the deck of one. She then turned to look at the Oro Jackson.

"Sink them." She said. "Don't let them escape." She ordered.

"Yes, admiral!" One of her subordinates shouted.

He then relayed her message to the other naval vessels.

Once this happened all ships started firing at the Oro Jackson without pause.

While a lot of the shots missed, some managed to hit the hull of the Roger pirates ship, rocking it and shaking it violently when they did so.

"Damn, to think she had this trick up her sleeve But I guess that's the Silver Fox for you." Gaban said.

"Yeah, so right now we need to run away from her as fast as possible." Roger said.

"Even though that's easier said than done." Seagull Guns spoke.

Just as he did so a cannonball fired from one of the navy ships managed to strike the Oro Jackson right in the mast.

It didn't break, but it did splinter.

Seeing this the Roger pirates knew that if the mast got hit again it would probably slow them down and allow the navy to catch up with them.

A scenario they could not allow to happen.

So they started thinking of ways out of the mess they were in.

Then while the Roger pirates were thinking the sky itself suddenly darkened.

Right after it did so all the Roger pirates looked up.

When they did so they found themselves looking at several raging waterspouts forming all around them.

The moment Roger saw this he put a grin on his face.

Seeing this everyone on board could practically hear this thoughts.

"Men, straight ahead. We'll sail through these waterspouts and use them to get the navy off our tail." Roger said.

'That's what I'd thought you say.' Everyone of the Roger pirates thought the moment Roger opened his mouth.

But seeing as he was the captain they had chosen to follow no one spoke up.

Instead they just followed his orders.

Steering the ship Gaban directed the Oro Jackson directly into the path of the waterspouts in front of them.

Several more forming and the storm around then getting even more violent as he did so.