A lot of the heavier objects and anything that would have taken on water damage had to be discarded for the sake of survival.
That included any books that had been purchased or anything else that was much too big or heavy to bring along with them underwater.
The Log Pose had fit inside of the small bag at the waist of Pixel so it was well protected.
The materials that had been used to make the bag had allowed for the insides to be protected from Electro just like the rest of her clothes that did not get ruined when she used it.
Those that had purchased swords or other tools had attached them to their bodies or carried them along with them but it came at the cost of slowing them down a little more.
Once Pixel had appeared on the ship, her figure moved quickly and stealthily through it.
One person came around a corner as they patrolled and Pixel dropped down from above then held onto them.
Electro surrounded her body as she held on so they were shocked enough to make them fall down and not put up any resistance.
More bodies of Marines had fallen one after another as she suddenly appeared near the ones that were alone or were fewer in numbers.
The ship was taken control of very quickly without there being much of a resistance.
The time spent to take over the ship had been very small so it left enough time for her previous arrangements to take place.
It was not long before several figures emerged from underneath the water after they had swam over from the previous position they were in.
They moved as a group and had to stop at times while they came after Pixel so they did not get close enough to the ship to alert the Marines on the ship before Pixel had dealt with those onboard.
It had been arranged so that once the amount of time they were supposed to wait in place had run out, they would follow behind Pixel which would give her more than enough time to infiltrate the ship and subdue those onboard.
Each of them appeared on the ship one after another after they had emerged from the deep sea.
Felice was quickly taken to the room where the ships doctor had supplies stored and made use of while everyone else had started to tie up some of the Marines and placed them inside of the section of the ship that was used to contain criminals.
The ship started to move from its original place within the formation when a voice was heard from the Sea Snail on the ship.
"Number Six!"
"Report in!"
Pixel looked towards the small Sea Snail with a gaze full of curiosity. "Such a strange thing."
Micah picked it up and his eyes shined. "So this is the Transponder Snail I have read about. How interesting."
It was rare for Sea Snails to be found on and used on Zou but they had been documented by others.
Those that were in possession of them were very few and if they did have them they did not use them.
The Minks of some bigger families may have made use of Vivre Cards to keep track of their family members who had left Zou and to help them return back home so there were already some risks of the location of Zou being found by others just from that.
Each of the Sea Snails had many different uses but they seemed to work on some form of signal that the Minks did not understand.
Since they did not fully understand how it worked, they were naturally suspicious that such a tool could be listened into by others or even tracked.
Having too many things like that which could expose their home to the outside world was not good for them so they did not actively bring such things into Zou and strictly controlled who had them.
There were some cases in the past that had caused Zou to come under attack due to the carelessness of a single Mink that was using something they did not understand or just from having their Vivre Card snatched away from them when they were away from home.
Micah was very interested in how the Sea Snails functioned and wished to study it but his expertise was more suited to building mechanical inventions rather than the biological direction.
It left him feeling a little curious but also a little disappointed that he was lacking in knowledge in those areas.
The Marine ship made its way towards another Marine Ship as they were set forma collision.
Captain Fry had continued to yell through the Transponder Snail which had been ignored by those near it then it was followed up with the movements of his own ships.
Micah moved towards the cannons and began making his own preparations as he gave out various orders.
Compared to the mechanical ships, mechs, submarines and other tools that he had made use of during his days in Team Rocket, picking up how to make use of the less advanced cannons was easy for him.
Once the ship had been within range of the opposing Marine ship, the fuse was lit on one of them and he shouted. "Fire!"
Each of the Minks standing by had suddenly lit the fuses as the counterattack had begun.
——————
Author Update: I have had to make some adjustments recently to my overall priorities in what I am writing and what projects to focus on. Some projects will have to be put lower on my priorities in order to allow for me to still be able to keep everything going and to make more progress with some of the ones I want to focus on especially when I have been more distracted and busy as of late. Renegade Jenny and Pi-Gar-Chu will be put on a weekly update from now on instead of their usual update every five days.
My reason for deciding on those two for being made that way was due to RJ requiring more research and effort to keep track of everything so it usually takes longer to write than others that I have less to keep track of and look up to fill in for anything I had not been too knowledgeable about.
Pi-Gar-Chu! Had a similar reason for doing so but it was mostly due to it being a second One Piece fanfic that I spend less attention and time towards compared to Kan-Gar-Chu! So I hope you can understand my reasoning behind why I am choosing to spend less time on them over the others.
2 advanced chapters can be found on my Kofi page for Reader tier members! Link is in the synopsis. :)