49. Marine's Disturbance
Buggy decides to stay on Toroa for 5 days. The reason isn't just to wait & search for Robin, but also for his crewmates. They need to enjoy some time on the land, not just sailing on the sea every day.
Toroa is a rather big town, so they can enjoy themselves here. They have money, so they can spend some in here. Money is made to be enjoyed, not just to be kept.
However, they can only enjoy their calm & slow life moment for a day. The next day after they arrived on Toroa, a Marine Unit appear. Even worse, the Marine Unit sees their ship when they arrive.
"Tch, just when I want to relax, big trouble arrived. Why won't they find us while we're sailing? Sigh, so troublesome."-Buggy
"Well, we're in a big town, so their spies must've found us."-Mantis
"Sigh, it seems we can't stay here any longer. Prepare to sail! We can try to get Robin at another time."-Buggy
"AYE AYE!"-Cricket
"Eh, why? Can't we just defeat them to solve the problem?"-Jude
"No, it won't solve the problem, it will just make the problem worse. If we defeat this unit, the Marine Base will send a stronger unit or even some units. There will be no end if we keep fighting them."-Buggy
"Oh, it's really a big problem then."-Jude
They prepare their ship to sail and they're ready to fight anytime. The Marine ship also keeps getting closer to them, and now they can see who's unit is that. Buggy look at the marine leader in that unit, and grin.
"Rear Admiral on West Blue, Diez Barrels, huh? This will be interesting."-Buggy grin
Buggy has investigated every important Marine officer on West Blue. One such officer is Diez Barrels, a Rear Admiral. What makes Buggy interested is that this guy will be a pirate in the future, he is X-Drake's father.
"You know him, Captain?"-Jude
"Yeah, he is one of 5 Rear Admirals on West Blue. Rear Admiral is the highest rank on Blues, so his unit must be rather strong too. This will be a good exercise for us."-Buggy
"Captain, everything's ready, we can sail now."-Cricket
"Wait! Let's play with them from here. Jude, let me show you how to utilize your devil fruit."-Buggy
Buggy goes to the ship's railing and faces the incoming Marine ship. The Marines on the battleship look at Buggy confusedly.
"They don't want to run?"-Marine 1
"I don't know, maybe that guy want to defend the ship?"-Marine 2 point at Buggy
"Is he stupid? Did he think just because he has 50 million bounty, he has become invincible?"-Marine 3
"Don't think too much about it! If he wants to die, then we will give him that. Get closer and bombard them!"-Diez
""Yes!""-Marines
The battleship gets closer to the Clown's ship and it starts to bombard them. Buggy grins and he covered his hands with armament haki. Then he split his hands into 1 cm3 cubes and send them to block the cannonballs.
"Look carefully, Jude! Your ash power is more suitable for something like this. You can spread it and cover the ship with your ash. It will block the incoming cannonballs with ease. You don't even need to use haki like me because it won't injure you."-Buggy
"Y-yes."-Jude
Buggy blocks the incoming cannonballs with ease. With his observation haki, he can see where the cannonballs are and block them.
"Re-Rear Admiral Diez, our attacks aren't working."-Marine Lieutenant
"I can see that."-Diez grit his teeth
They've read from the report that Buggy is a devil fruit user. They know that he is strong, but they ignore the fact that he has blocked the cannonballs attacks from T-Bone's unit on North Blue before.
"Get ashore! We'll attack them on land."-Diez
The battleship gets ashore and all Marines disembark to the land. Some stay on the battleship in case the Clowns decide to run away.
But Buggy doesn't even plan to run away now. He wants to use this battle to train his crew. Besides, their ship won't be able to outrun a Marine battleship.
"Let's destroy this Marine Unit!"-Cricket
"That's a good spirit. Let's go!"-Buggy
The Clown pirates get down from their ship and face the Marine Unit.
"4 vs 58, isn't this unfair?"-Buggy
"Nothing is fair in this world, only power and money matter."-Diez
"Indeed."-Buggy grin
The Marines & pirates get ready to fight. All civilians who come after hearing the loud cannon shots now scatter away. They can't get close to a war between a Marine Unit and a Pirate Crew, or they might become the victims.
""ATTACK!""-Buggy & Diez
The marine soldiers rush forward and the pirates also do the same. Buggy draws his new swords, Cricket takes his pistols, Mantis uses her bat, and Jude now decides to just use her hand-to-hand combat, utilizing her devil fruit more.
Both sides clash and the pirates are clearly above the marine soldiers. They fight the marine soldiers easily and defeat them. Buggy didn't even need to use his devil fruit and only use his swords.
"WHAT'S UP, MARINE? YOU HAVEN'T EAT YOUR BREAKFAST?"-Buggy grin
Cricket shoots his pistols to shoot and hit the marines. He moves & jumps around to dodge the attacks while striking the enemies. His fighting skills have become more versatile now after he combines his pistols usage and martial art.
Mantis also can easily strike the soldiers with her bat. Her bat is light so she can move it around rather fast. She also aims more on joints or vital areas to give more damage.
Mantis also uses her legs to kick, and her movements look like a dance. She spin, do some flips and use many unusual moves to fight. This is the first time she show this kind of fighting style, and it surprises even her crewmates.
"When did she start dancing?"-Cricket
"I don't know, she just cooks every day right?"-Buggy
Buggy & Cricket are stunned at Mantis' dance-like fighting style. They are too surprised by this that they let their guard down and almost get hit. But luckily, Jude use her ash to block the attacks.
"Captain, Cricket-san, please don't let your guard down!"-Jude
"Oh, sorry about that."-Buggy
"Yeah, we're just too surprised."-Cricket
They continue their battle, and now Jude also gets better in her fight & devil fruit usage. She mainly just use her ash to hit by making them into balls. She also ignores defense, as the enemies can't touch her without haki.
It's okay for now, so Buggy let her ignore the attacks because there's no haki user among these marines. He will teach haki to her slowly like the other 2. Haki will be very crucial in New World, so it's not that urgent now. He wants Jude to prioritize her devil fruit mastery & fighting skill for now.
The pirates are overwhelming the marines, making Diez & other officers mad. They finally move to fight the pirates themselves. Diez goes for Buggy, while his lieutenant goes for Cricket. The other marines go for Mantis & Jude to gang upon them.
"Diez Barrels, did you think you can stop me by yourself?"-Buggy
"Don't get too much of yourself, lowly pirate! Justice will always win."-Diez
"Hahahaha, justice will win? Surely justice will win, winning itself is justice."-Buggy grin
Buggy rushes to Diez and swings the white sword, Pollux in his right hand. Diez jumps back to avoid the sword and sends a punch at Buggy. Buggy duck down and dodge the punch.
"You're too slow."-Buggy
Buggy put his hands on the ground and he use his legs to kick Diez's chin. Diez got pushed back, but Buggy hasn't finished. He propels himself up using his hands and gets closer to Diez.
"Take this as a reminder to never underestimate your enemy! And also, you are weak."-Buggy smirk
Buggy slashes both his swords diagonally at Diez's body in an X shape. The wound that he makes is deep because his swords are very sharp.
"Swords' grade really make a big difference."-Buggy
Diez gets defeated very easily, and this makes his subordinates' morale drop. Clown pirates use this chance to attack them and defeat them easily.
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