"Wait, what did you--" Abigail heard a single loud shriek as her bolt came through the smoke and nailed the barrel of the cannon. There was the desperate sound of a shot being fired, and an explosion right at Sophia's feet. A mixture of smoke and steam clouded her, and as she charged at the young marine, she just stood and parried the blade with her hammer, although the hand behind it wasn't armored anymore. She had grabbed the maul with her left, the full arm now smoldering, wet, and covered in fragments of broken armor, crushed pipes, and a rubbery foam.

Well, turns out it wasn't some helpless midget inside, considering she actually managed to swing the damned thing. Hell, she probably wasn't even a head shorter than her, proportionately. Still, she was too weak to do more than just stop the blade, and staggered back a bit, dropping the maul after the one swing and stepping back, hesitating for only a moment.

"You broke it...you...you broke my armor..." Sophia was stammering a little, a hoarse chuckle escaping her. The loud hiss of steam followed her as she jabbed furiously at Abigail with her functioning right arm. "Alright, fine. Let's go ahead and end this, pirate!"

Yami was slow, that much was certain, and Asus easily made his way closer to his body after he was knocked back. But Yami was quick to morph back into his human form and dash to the side, dodging his hand by a sliver. But in doing so, a small remote was left in his place, the remote that opened the exit! "Shit!" He hissed, but it was too late for him to react. Asus had the remote in-hand now, and his chance to escape was nigh.

Lenny's eyes widened as the bomb was launched back at him. The small man began to dash, but a sharp pain went through his ribs. The pain paralysed his movement for a moment as this happened. As the bomb was moving at him, the small man quickly rose his daggers. He threw his left dagger at the incoming bomb, making it explode early. Despite that the bomb didn't manage to reach his body, the small man was still caught by the blast radius, sending him flying. He crashed into the wall at the end of the room.

The small man struggled to get back onto his feet, his entire body covered in burn wounds. He turned to Zypha with a deadly glare in his eyes. The confident grin on his face dissapeared entirely. "Well...ya sure have been the toughest opponent I've ever faced. But now it's time to finish this." He said. As all this had happened, Zypha had plenty of time to pull her scythes back if she chose too. The small man dashed forward at Zypha with great speed in a blur. He leaped into the air, and reached for his belt during this, grabbing another small bomb. He threw it at the ground further behind him. His current speeding momentum, along with the shockwave of the explosion, launched him at Zypha at insanely fast speed.

He grabbed a dagger from his belt in his hand again, and stretched his arms out. He spun around rapidly, as if he was some kind of incoming drill. With the speed he was moving at, it was nearly impossible to dodge. "Now....GO TO HELL!!" He shrieked. "KILLER DRILL!!!!"

"Hey it worked!?" Abigail said as she took a step back after her attack was parried. "Well that was a lucky break." She grinned and pointed down at the rubble with her sword. "Get it? Lucky break. Eh-eh. Well, I thought it was funny." She shrugged and put both hands on her sword. "Well, for what its worth. I'm amazed your still alive. That was a pretty big explosion, kid and your still standing without so much as having your entire body covered in third degree burns."

The redhead shrugged her shoulders before crouch down and readying her sword for slash. Red electricity surged from her left hand up the handle into the blade. "Hate hurting such a cutie like you, kid, but there's no way I'm leaving a marine behind to stab me in the back. Well, get ready, Kid, because here I come." She grinned without humor and shot forward.

"Here you come...and here I go!" The suit surged forward and...jumped straight onto Abigail's sword. The previously impenetrable armor found purchase in the front suddenly, as cracks appeared all over the breastplate. There was an explosion of boiling steam and water around the room, as the sword went clean through, the backside of the armor gone, the boiler now fallen from the back and burst open from over expanding. No flesh though, no blood, and nobody inside.

Instead, near the exit of the room, was a short blonde in a stained Navy uniform, goggles pulled up from her blue eyes, a key in her hand, and a smug look on her face. Her left arm was burned, with a few cuts from the exploding armor. Remnants of the armor were scattered about her; the backside of the suit was also the entrance. It was apparent now that she was almost Abigail's age. Being an immature brat 99% of the time was just a personality flaw.

"Alright stupid pirate, you win. Your damn lightning got into the boiler, and conducted the water. Overheated the reserves, and turned it into too much steam. I could feel the pipes creaking as the steam tried to get out, with the vents not going fast enough. If I kept fighting, I'd burn out in minutes, with the overheated pipes expanding and cracking the armor, and as you can see, let your sword go right through." As she spoke, Sophia moved a small panel from the wall, and stuck the key inside. With a turn, the doors at both the entrance and exit slid open, and she tossed the key across the room to the pirate.

"This hallway leads to the back rooms," she explained, sighing with exhaustion. She slid down to the floor, examining her injured arm now. "And that key is universal for all of these little battle chambers. You'll be able to get into Lenny's and Captain Yami's rooms from the back, and help your crewmates. What you do with them is your call, but I'm not feeling loyal enough to save those assholes."

After a moment, she looked up at Abigail now, smirking a little. "I thought I'd be angrier about you breaking my armor, but maybe it was at least a little fun getting to use it all-out against you. Go on and save your friends. I'll go ahead and take the loss fair and square. Could you do this kid a favor though and let me live in exchange?"

Part of Asus wanted to deal with Yami himself, but he knew that he wouldn't be unable without taking even bigger risks so instead he decided to use the remote and open the door. Still he had to make sure the currently human Marine Captain didn't attack him in the back as he ran towards the door.

Not believing that Kamen would work he sent out all thirty-seven of his remaining combat hornets to cover his escape knowing that Yami was unfortunately capable of killing them all. "Here is something to make sure you won't miss me when I'm gone. Bachi Bachi no Fuuha!"

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Total number of hornets in Asus' body is 100. Number of hornets used for combat 65, hornets currently in use 37/65, dead hornets 28/65

There wasn't the kind of resistance Abigail had been expecting. Instead of her sword bouncing off like it had done in the past or sink just deep enough to giver her a chance at using the dendo-dendo earthworm on the steel, but instead the blade passed through the black metallic body like the laws of dramatic finallies demanded. It was a bit of a curve ball and she almost tripped from the momentum she was sure would be waiting for her if she got to the other side.

Fear gripped her when she realized Sophia was behind her. She spun around on her heels, ready for another attack but none were coming. Instead the woman had not only surrendered but opened the door for the red haired pirate and even begged to be spared. Confused, and expecting it to be another ruse she took a step back but none came.

"Oh?" Abigail said, hanging her head low and sighing. "Well what can I say? Your not exactly my type, but it would be a shame to hurt such a pretty face." She shrugged and put her sword back into its sheath. "Anyways, I can't exactly kill you since you've surrendered, now can I?" She crouched down and gave her formal rival a quick peck on the lips. "Well Kid, until we meet again." Remote in hand she turned and hurried out the room.

The red pirate stopped in the main room and looked around. "Now which one did Asus go to again?" There was no reason why she couldn't go back and ask Sophia but the desire to leave that sweet farewell the way it was. "Oh screw it." She looked at the remaining buttons and pushed one at random.

Thankfully her gamble gave high rewards but Zypha was not about to let overconfidence get the better of her and as quickly as she could went back to get her scythes after her desperate maneuver. She considered reattaching the chains but it did not look like she had the time to do that as her opponent declared it was time to finish their fight. "I entirely agree, you've really overstayed your welcome."

Lenny decided to use one of his own bombs as a method of propulsion, meaning there was going to be no dodging his last technique that seemed remarkably similar to her own Death Lotus attack. Because she had such a similar skill she also knew the key weakness it inherently had. The technique depended on the momentum of the spin for its power, which also meant that both blades could only move in one direction. Now one could aim at two different heights of the body true, but even that was limited by arm length and weapon length so there was a slight window she could take advantage of, especially considering the fact Lenny was in the air and now incapable of changing direction.

Zypha crouched down on one knee, making herself both a smaller target and as a way to help cement her position for the incoming assault. Gritting her teeth she put one scythe, blade pointing up while making sure it rose above her head, in a position to block the circling daggers, her other scythe she rested in the notch of the previous scythe, blade pointed at the incoming Lenny who would be unable to stop himself from impaling himself on the blade with his current direction. She braced herself as much as she could, as the fight depended on if she could hold her ground or not, her entire body tensed up as much as possible in anticipation of the enormous impact that was about to happen only a split second after she got in position.

If her plan succeeded the next words out of her mouth were going to be, "I'll see you in hell, just not for a long time. I have quite a lot planned for myself after all."

As Lenny speeded towards Zypha, he rammed powerfully into her first scythe that she used to block the daggers. She was pushed towards the wall as Lenny smirked. His eyes widened as Zypha got to a halt and managed to stop his fast momentum right before her back would slam into the wall. At the same time, her second scythe shredded Lenny's body as he spun into it. "EEYAAARGHHH!!" The small man shrieked, as his spinning body eventually came to a halt. His entire body went limp, and the man collapsed into the ground. Lenny was now severely injured, and was still barely breathing. He was knocked out due to the intense pain, and would not wake up for several days. Zypha had won.

As Lenny went down, the doors at the beginning and end of the rooms swung open. It seemed that whoever faced the Captain had gotten the remote and pressed it. Now, all the doors of all three rooms were open. As Abigail pushed one of the buttons, she ended up closing the doors at the beginning and end of Sophia's room, trapping her inside. It was probably best that way, to prevent her from trying anything for the time being.

As Abigail stood within the main room, Asus came running in from the right room after his last attack on Yami. If Zypha were to enter through the door at the end of her room, the three would be reunited.

Zypha breathed quite heavily, it had worked and now her shredded opponent was sprawled across the floor, unconscious. For a few seconds she was stuck in her defensive posture, unable to move until finally her body allowed her some movement. Getting up she went over to collect the chain and started the process of wrapping it around her body and then reattaching the ends to her scythe. "While I say a bunch of crap about you, I'll admit you were a decent opponent. Really had to think my way through this one. Ouch."

As Zypha looked at Lenny's body while she was finishing getting everything the adrenaline from the battle was starting to fade, meaning the pain was becoming much more obvious. Her muscles ached and her right leg was messed up pretty bad, she would be limping for the rest of the day at least. Using some of Lenny's marine uniform she bad a makeshift bandage to control the bleeding. "There'd better be some alcohol in here cause I need some antiseptic, good for drinking and as medicine."

After making sure she had everything and that Lenny was out cold for good, she considered killing him on the spot but, well in battle was one thing and he had put up a decent fight. In any case the villagers could decide his fate and there was no way he was going anywhere soon so she just left him as she limped toward the exit of that room and the entrance to the main room.

It appeared the other two had finished before her. "Well ain't ya two looking chipper." She commented with a bit of annoyance that she appeared to be the one with the most injuries out of the three. "Well let's get this done, we need to tell out the rest of the marines with the rest of the equipment here and then find where they've been keeping all the loot. Now if only we had a flag to raise over this box..."

Zypha couldn't help but ask though, as she had a sneaking suspicion that maybe not everything was completely over and done with. "You guys did win, right?"

"Oh shoot." Abigail muttered after she accidentally locked Sophia into her room. "Sorry about that." She played with the idea of opening it but it was probably better if that was held off till they left. Even though she spared the marine there was no way to ensure with one hundred percent certainty that there wouldn't be a moment where a knife was suddenly sticking out of someone's back. She made a mental note to open the door before she left.

"Hey guys" the red pirate said, smiling wide and waving at both of them. "It's good to see neither of you are bags of gore. HOnestly, was a bit afraid that would be the case." She paused when a better look at Zypha was presented. "Well your almost there, but your intestines are still in your gut so that doesn't count." Another pause. "Your not going to collapse are you? If you need to sit down I'm sure there's time." A last and final pause. "Yep. It wasn't easy but I managed to luck my way out." She laughed.

"Asus." Abigail said as she just noticed there was a luck in his face. "Are you alright? You seem troubled. I hope facing off against someone like that didn't mess with you too badly" She put a reassuring hand on the man's shoulder. "This is the life we've chosen and sometimes we're not going to have any choice but to put someone down hard. Don't feel guilty, alright. You did what you had to do."

Yami began to chase after Asus, but stopped short as he unleashed a flurry of wasps towards him in a last ditch effort to escape. They were spread out far too wide for him to use his saliva, or simply eat them. The turtle-man backed away slowly as they rushed him, and quickly fell onto his back, turning into a turtle once again, and withdrawing his limbs and head into his rock-hard shell. He waited until the swarm of intruders were just about to reach him, and began to rotate slowly...


Yami shouted loudly and picked up speed, spinning rapidly on the back of his shell as the bugs swarmed him. Each one was promptly dealt with as they collided with his rough exterior, ground into a goey paste, or violently blown away by the resulting wind that his spinning produced. When he was finished, the marine captain morphed back into his human form and rose to his feet, grinding his teeth angrily as Asus escaped. Yami ran after his promptly afterwards, only to witness that all three of the invading pirates were now grouped up, face to face with the marine leader.

"Eh? Where are Lenny and Sophia!? How did you shrimps- Gah!" Yami shouted, stomping his foot against the ground angrily. He cheek bones tensed and his eyes reddened, glazed over with a thin film of tears. "No! No no no! Pirate scum!!"

"Not sure what happened to Lenny but Sophia couldn't really fight any more." Abigail thought about drawing her sword, the hand was already on the handle, but there was just something unwholesome about readying a weapon in front of someone in tears. "Her armor is a pile of scraps and there's a debilitating wound on her arm. If it makes you feel any better it wasn't easy."

Abigail's eyes narrowed at the last enemy. "Your not going to go away are you?" The woman in red let out a slow breath then took a step forwards and then another but stopped there. "WEll then, if your set on this path I can't stop you." She drew her sword and started walking towards their last enemy, red electricity surged around her unarmed hand.

Abigail tried to reassure Asus that everything was all right but the moment was rudely interrupted by the appearance of the marine captain. Zypha's bad vibes turned out to be there for good reason as the marine captain looked like he was about ready to ripe them apart in a rage. This also meant that Abigail's comfortings had absolutely no meaning at all.

This was a big complication, to put it mildly.

"He didn't put him down hard; he let him off easy!" Zypha shot a glare at Asus, quite displeased with what was happening. Now was not the time for reprimands however. "If you surrender now you might be able to save your officer's life. Needless to say even with medical treatment he won't be getting up anytime soon." She decided to offer up that line just in case, though considering how upset the captain was it was doubtful to work.

Zypha tried to position herself away from the others and Yami, so she could get a better vantage point. She was not in the best of condition at the moment so she would stay back until an opportunity presented itself. Until then she to give herself room to dodge and let Abigail, the most suited for combat against captain, fight for the moment.

"As if I'd listen to the word of a pirate, much less accept their help! My comrades would rather die than accept helps from the likes of you!" Yami growled, falling forward, onto his hands and knees. He took note of Abigail's devil fruit, but didn't pay it much mind as he morphed back into his giant turtle form once again. "Stupid, stupid, stupid! You're all idiotic miscreants! I'll show you where you belong- In the ground!" Yami didn't waste time after he responded, immediately withdrawing into his shell in the blink of an eye, and rocking back onto the tail of his spine until he was balanced pefectly with his rock-hard under-belly facing Abigail and Co. "Kame~Kame Cow-Catcher!" He roared, suddenly tipping forward and launching towards Abigail, the top of his shell now threatening to crash into her with devastating effect.

Rather than explain himself to the new pirate captain he decided to let Zypha experience just how tough Yami was thus how ineffective his hornets were. That didn't mean he was gonna sacrifice the remainder of his forces though so he ordered the ones that were blown away rather than killed to come back. Even though the majority apparently had survived he was still running low.

He watched the turtle-man attack Abi without any way for his hornets to interfere. Still he knew it was his fault she was in danger right now, so he tried to push her out of the way.

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Total number of hornets in Asus' body is 100. Number of hornets used for combat 65, hornets currently in use 0/65, dead hornets 40/65

Abigail had seen sea turtles before. Normally they were cute little things that made her smile. This guy wasn't anything like them. Sure, he didn't look any different from the ones she normally saw, but because of its size, the malice in his eyes, and the fact he was rushing towards her like the a green half ball of death, there wasn't any feeling of affection. Which was good. It made the decision to blast him with a dendo-dendo snake that much easier. So she raised her hand and readied her attack, but didn't get the shot off before she saw Asus running towards her.

It wasn't expected, so Abigail panicked and discharged the energy she gathered up because if Asus touched her hand there was a good chance he'd be cooked. Then she felt his hands on her, shoving her away from the attack. "Wait." Was all she had time to say before Yami's massive shell took up the space they'd been standing on and she was flying backwards from being pushed out of the way. She hit her shoulder, and came up after a quick roll.

"Damn it!" She shouted. AT some point during the attack the sword was knocked out of her hand. She didn't see it so that meant she had to move to plan B and to do that she had to have a plan B. "What to do? What to do?" Red electricity start flickering around her hands. "Meh. Guess there's not much else I can do." She raised her open palm and pointed it at the enemy. "Dendo-Dendo Snake." An arch of red lightning left her hand, rushing towards the turtle like a snake after a mouse.

Zypha watched as Yami turned into his Turtle form and launched himself at the group. Thankfully Zypha was more than prepared and easily got out of the way but her crewmates were not quite as lucky. Abigail lost her sword and Asus had put himself in harm's way but there was nothing that she could do at the moment but observe.

Yami was a Zoan fruit user, which meant he was no doubt quite strong and resilient because of his animal. Her scythe would just bounce off of the shell and probably damage the blades so there was little point in attacking, yet. She needed an opening if she was going to do any good. The only other thing she could try was to be a distraction, but in her current state that would prove quite dangerous, so for now she waited.

"You light-weight! How about manning up and come out of your lame shell!"

Yami slid across the ground, crashing into Asus as he pushed Abigail out of harms way, and stopping hard on his two front feet. When his body came to a stop, his head poked out and his back feet fell down, slamming against the ground. Abigail's Dendo-Dendo snake struck the back of his shell immediately afterwards, but given his excessive size, and the limited conductivity of his shell, it barely stung the entirety of Yami's back upon hitting him. He jumped and spun around in midair after getting struck, and coughed up a glob of his acidic saliva, sending it towards Abigail. A peculiar ability for a Zoan-user, turtles didn't have acidic saliva, so why was it so dangerous? It didn't really matter, and Yami wasn't about to stop and explain it. Yami grinned and turned his sights to Asus, who'd been far close than Abigail. He pulled his front feet and head back into his shell, using his back feet as an axis to hammer his entire shell into Asus from above.

"Kame~Kame Protractor!"

"Why didn't that do more?" The corner of Abigail's eye twitched as she watched the electrical attack hit its mark like Robin Hood's arrow going through the firs arrow waiting at the center of the target. It was a bigger target so not as impressive but the point was the hit was full on. Yet, the creature before her didn't seem to have been hurt in the slightest. There wasn't any time to stand there and wonder about it, because something was coming out of the creature's mouth and heading right towards her. It was liquid and she had the nearly unshakable feeling it wasn't water. The color kind of gave it away, and the smell. Questions forgotten she leaped out of the way of the fluid it so it impacted harmlessly on the ground where she'd just been standing.

Frowning, she quickly dusted herself up and turned back to look at the ground and the sizzling chemicals on the ground. Her face twisted around as if someone just shoved a lemon covered in salt between her lips. "Oh. God I hope that's not stomach acid and the guy's attacking us with foodless vomit." She grimaced further at the idea and was unable to keep herself from shuddering. "Whatever it is, its disgusting."

"Well, if I can't cook him into turtle stew maybe I can cut him up." Her blade appeared in her hand. "Maybe I can cut him up?" Sword in hands she rushed forwards with the intention of jamming her blade into one of the holes used for Yami's limbs to stick out.