Revolutionary Army Prepares

Percy sat back in his office and called for his second,

"Orange!"

There was a pause before his secretary rushed through the door,

"Admiral Kurosai!" she saluted, "rear admiral Orange has been assigned a mission. She is currently in West Blue at the moment. Admiral Rosati asked her to take care of a new pirate gang that has been making waves there and none of the marine forces in West Blue are capable of succeeding."

"Who are they?" Percy asked trying to recall if he remembered anyone coming from West Blue around this time.

"They are called the Crock pirates and their bounty is 60 million belli" replied his secretary.

"That is a little low for Rosati to send Orange don't you think?" Percy questioned.

"I thought so as well, so I tried to question him on your behalf knowing that you would do so in the future" the secretary answered. "He said that if it was just the bounty then a captain from headquarters would be strong enough; but, apparently the Crock pirates have an affiliation with a certain pirate crew in the New world."

"Which crew?" Percy wondered.

"Shiki"

"Shiki!?" Percy shouted and stood up. He thought Shiki's case would be over and done with. "He should still be in Impel down, no? How is his crew operating?"

"Well, admiral Kurosai, you remember Umen?"

"Umen? That cloud logia user Shiki recruited? What about him?" Percy asked

"Well after Shiki was imprisoned, he became Shiki's second-in-command and is now currently in charge of the Golden Armada".

"And what does that have to do with this Crock pirates?"

"The captain of the Crock pirates, captain Kimo "the Bomb" is Umen's third brother. We intercepted word that they made contact recently and are planning to merge pirate groups together. Admiral Rosati wanted to prevent that so he deployed rear admiral Orange and rear admiral Good Price to stop that."

There was a brief pause before Percy nodded his head in agreement,

"That makes sense. Let Orange go, it's about time for her to get promoted anyways. She can't always rely on me to bail her out of trouble and she needs her own recognition".

The secretary saluted and closed the door leaving Percy standing at his desk.

[Crock pirates, Never heard of them. Must be some no name crew.]

He picked up his den den mushi

*peroperopero peroperopero peroperopero*

a few more rings were heard before the person on the other line picked up,

"Percy" Dragon said.

"How are your new teammates?" asked the admiral.

"Good, they cried when they heard about their elders' deaths, but there was nothing that could have been done."

"True, if there was another way... no, I couldn't think of any anytime soon."

"So, is it done?" Dragon asked as if he was expecting this call.

"Yeah, Sakazuki will be promoted in the next coming days. Expect our allies to either switch sides quickly or we gain surprise aid from new people. Only time will tell."

"Yeah, this is a tipping point for the Revolutionary Army. As our army is growing, so is our demand for food and weapons. We need more money, clothing, supplies, and more than anything else, talent" Dragon sighed.

"We have Ivankov and Kuma" Percy argued. "On top of that, we have Lindbergh, Karasu, you should be at least at the admiral level already, if not at the cusp right?"

"Probably" Dragon didn't argue, "I should be as strong as Borsalino right now, at least I wouldn't lose."

"That's good enough for now" Percy stated. "Plus, we always have the ace in the hole should we need any quick powerful members."

"The devil fruits" Dragon said as he didn't forget. "I was going to talk to you about them. With the addition of the archaeological team in the Revolutionary Army, I think we need a leader amongst them. What do you think about giving one of them one of the fruits?"

"Who and which one?" Percy asked curiously.

"Well, the defacto leader at the moment is a woman named Nico Olvia. She has a child named Nico Robin. She agreed to join the cause immediately after we left the island and has been taken care of the residents since then. I was thinking of handing over the flame looking fruit to her. What do you think?"

"It's your army. I am mainly a spy, remember. I hardly have any say since the Revolutionary Army has grown to such a degree".

"HAHAHA, yeah right" Dragon laughed which made Percy pause. He knew that his friend rarely ever showed emotion, let alone laughed. The fact that he laughed at his joke showed just how much Dragon truly felt about Percy. "No really, what do you think?"

"How badly do you need commanders?" Percy asked seriously then.

"Well, we have Karasu, Lindbergh, Kuma, Ivankov, and I think I found one more potential person. So not enough."

"Ohhh, who's this new commander?"

"Her name is Morley, she is a giant. We saved her about a year ago and she stood out because of well you know, she's a giant. She recently has gained our trust and has been going on more and more missions, so I talked to the rest and we agreed to have her try out for a commander position."

"Morley huh? Giants are strong. They are quite fierce, better to have them as an ally than an enemy. It's up to you, if you think that she demonstrates commander material, then I trust your judgement. But on the Nico Olivia situation, I would hold out for a little while longer. We don't know if they have alternative motives just yet. They may just want to stabilize, find a home, and start over, we don't know. It would be a waste of a devil fruit, especially a logia one."

"True, so we wait then." Dragon said

"We wait" Percy agreed. "By the way, don't make any big plans at the moment. Right now is not safe."

"What do you mean?" Dragon scrunched his eyebrows together.

"Chief Vape of cp-0 is stepping down. Every cipher pol family is trying to replace him as we are speaking. It is an internal nightmare in Mary Geoise. Cipher pol agents are being killed left and right, so it is especially dangerous."

"This is a good thing" Dragon said as he examined the situation.

"The aftermath will be advantageous for us, but not right now. Right now, every family is looking for any victory they can get so they can prove to the gorosei or the world nobles that they deserve so be the next cp-0 chief. So they are hunting down criminals left and right."

"So that's why cipher pol has been more active than normal in paradise recently" Dragon said as he pinched his beard between his thumb and index finger.

"Since the Ohara incident, I've already been called to Mary Geoise three individual times to stop some of the cipher pol family members from killing one another."

"Why didn't the cp-0 agents do anything about it?" asked Dragon.

"I asked them the same thing. They said they won't move until the world nobles or the gorosei orders them to. Also, they are getting a kick watching all the lesser world government families fight over a position that has already been filled."

"It's been filled? Since when?" Dragon asked again.

"Since Vape stepped down" Percy shrugged his shoulders. "You don't think that he wouldn't recommend someone? He already did and it already got approved by the gorosei as well as the world nobles weeks before the chief's announcement."

"So who is it?"

"Rosati" Percy affirmed Dragon's thoughts.

"So it is him. Makes sense. He is certainly strong enough, he knows cp-0 well since he interacted with them as an admiral. When the announcement?"

"That's the thing" Percy sighed as he thought about how complicated his life has gotten. "He should have gotten promoted already, but he refused to come back to Marineford and Mary Geoise. After my next assignment with Sakazuki, I have to head out and find out what the f*ck the problem is with Rosati."

"So that's the main reason why you don't want the Revolutionary Army to move right now" Dragon said as if a missing puzzle was found and started to fit into place.

"Yeah, I have an idea where he is, but I can't just go there. If I do, I may start a war with an emperor."

"Bigmom" Dragon said what both of them were thinking.

"Bigmom" Percy affirmed

"Life's tough. Maybe you should apply for a vacation once this is all resolved."

"I probably will. Push all my tasks onto someone, take a couple of months off, who knows. Anyways, I gotta go now."

"All right, let me know if there are any changes" Dragon responded before he hung up.