Bab 52: The Puppetmaster becomes a Puppet
Doflamingo's ship sailed away and he sat down, veins on his head throbbing angrily. Just as he was thinking, a woman ran in shouting "Doffy-sama! Sugar's gone!" Doflamingo froze and shouted "What!?" before following her to a room with a burnt hole in the wall.
There were toys scattered around but they weren't moving, nor had any light in their eyes.
Doflamingo trembled and a powerful burst of Conqueror's Haki exploded from his body, shattering the room and sending the woman to the ground. After a few seconds he took it back and his veins throbbed more violently.
Just as he left the room, a small pirate on his ship, dressed in the Donquixote Family attire pointed out to the horizon, saying "Captain-sama! We heard news of Vice-Admiral Sakazuki's whereabouts! It seemed like he had only left recently and there was a small boat heading in the direction he was in!"
Doflamingo's eyes condensed and he cackled in anger "Chase him! I want to tear this bastard apart with my own hands!" The pirate nodded and ran away to spread the word, telling everyone where to go.
When the ship started moving, the pirate grinned and secretly jumped off the ship, diving into the water.
His body expanded and revealed himself to be Ryuga!
Ryuga chuckled and swam away extremely fast, he came to a little oasis island and took off the pirate uniform, pulling out a snail as he got dressed "Flamingo's returning to the Nest. Meet at the rendezvous point, mission complete." before pushing out a rowboat from the brush and rowing away.
The boat that Doflamingo was chasing suddenly moved quickly, leading them to Sakazuki's ship before submerging out of Doflamingo's view.
Bolin under the water crushed the boat before swimming away as Doflamingo locked his eyes on Sakazuki's ship, losing his mind. This guy killed Vergo and then kidnapped Sugar! Today he was going to kill him!
He shouted "Sakazuki! Give me back Sugar!" Sakazuki looked over at him and frowned "What the hell are you talking about, scum?" Doflamingo wasn't an idiot, many coincidental things happened today. He felt like he was being targeted by someone but he thought that person was Sakazuki.
Coming to see him now, he cooled down in an instant and frowned. Sakazuki had to die, he killed Vergo, but someone was working them both like puppets. And he was the one who was the Puppetmaster usually!
Lilica watched the commotion from far away holding a rifle with a scope, saying "Targets engaged. Taking the shot." her snake looked through the scope and moved the rifle slightly.
Lilica looked through the scope and took a knee before pulling the trigger.
The bullet shot through the air from a ways away, just as Doflamingo opened his mouth to ask some questions, the bullet passed through a window on the Marine ship's hull. The bullet hit the cannon in the window and sparked the fuse!
Lilica already punched a hole in the boat and jumped into the water, disappearing.
The Cannon blasted at Doflamingo's ship, causing an explosion! The Pirates were frenzied and returned fire, starting the battle as Sakazuki shouted angrily "Bastard! I'll kill you today!" as he punched out, shooting magma fists!
Doflamingo cursed and realized he was set up. But he was sweating a bit, this wasn't a normal operation. It was too professional! He knew he was a puppet but he couldn't do anything about it!
It was ironic for him to experience something like this!
Not only was he blocked at Dressrosa by Sengoku and Tsuru, but Garp appeared at G-5 after Vergo was killed by Sakazuki!
Then he realized!
It had to be Sakazuki!
Everything made sense in an instant!
Sakazuki wasn't stupid but he was extremely bullish. He didn't care what conspiracies were going on, he was just going to eliminate the target. Doflamingo had a throat full of flames, a beautiful move!
He couldn't even counterplay!
Even if he told Sakazuki he was being played by someone in the Marines, Sakazuki would kill him first then think about what he said and probably not choose to believe him!
Every road was blocked for him!
He only had a few choices to make at the moment;
First one was kill Sakazuki quickly and flee.
Second one was make a full retreat and cut your losses.
Third one was to go to war with Sakazuki right here and now.
Doflamingo frowned, the third option was what whoever did this wanted to see, most likely. Unfortunately, he was Doflamingo! He always had more options and counterplay! But he still chose to flee, telling the crew to retreat quickly.
He turned around but strangely, his ship was moving forward!
He turned back to see a giant anchor, sticking into his ship from the Marine's side, locking them both into place. Doflamingo was stunned and looked over to see a Marine taking off his cap at the back and grinning at him before jumping into the sea and disappearing with a bow.
Doflamingo had veins throbbing on his neck and he shouted "Cut the chains! It's a trap!" The Donquixote Pirates were stunned and said "Doffy?" Doflamingo was getting tired of the surprises and said "Hurry!" before frowning and running to the back of the ship.
He saw a slightly handsome man, saying "Well, we have a lot of great things!" Baby5 was in his arms and said "Well, mister. If you need me then I guess I'll come with you!" The Guy still wasn't used to it, laughing "Alright kid!" as he jumped off the ship, Doflamingo shouted "Die!" as he swiped his hand upwards, a spike of string shooting into the man's back from Doflamingo's sleeve.
The Man screamed and fell down, Baby5 bouncing out of his arms. Doflamingo let out a breath of relief, looking at Baby5 before freezing from head to toe.
The Baby5 in front of him was a doll!
Doflamingo turned over the Marine and it was a mannequin with words carved in the chest 'Gotcha~'
There was a click and the Baby 5 doll behind him suddenly exploded!
Doflamingo roared in anger as he escaped the explosion, smashing through the cabins and returning to the front of the ship. But the back of the ship was destroyed!
Meaning: No rudder!
On a boat a ways away, Nikolai wiped the sweat from his face and said "Close!" Baby5 in his arms looked at him asking "What happened?" Nikolai grinned at her and started rowing the boat, saying "I ate the Swap Swap fruit! I can swap things with other things and move around places!"
Baby5's eyes sparkled and she turned her hand into a gun, saying "I can do this!" Nikolai rubbed her head, smiling "Good girl! I need you to stop being bad, okay? Boss isn't gonna like me saving you." Baby5 pouted "Huh? Why? I'll be good! I promise!" as she clutched his coat.
Nikolai sighed and said "Because this wasn't part of the plan! Anyway, let's go."
Doflamingo got up and he was very, very angry. He turned around and started attacking the marines. There was virtually no escape! They could only count on Lao G to push the ship away from the Marines and make them retreat!
The rest of them were hammers!
He vowed to find out who did this to him. He was going to kill them at any cost!
Meanwhile-
Galan closed his notebook on Marineford with an expressionless face before taking it with him as he left the office, going back home.
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