Capítulo 227: Yeti Cool Brothers
"Where are we?" Cabernet asked, staring out over a snow covered wasteland.
"Baaah." Merry answered.
"What do you mean I was leading the way? You were the one who pointed out the footprints!" Cabernet defended.
"Bah baaaah." Merry bleated.
"You're right, it's the others' fault. They should know better than to let two ships wander off without a navigator." Cabernet agreed, shifting the blame.
From a somewhat distant vantage point, two pairs of giant eyes watched the lunarian woman and golden sheep.
"Here she is. 275 million Beri, 'Bloodwine' Cabernet. Wanted alive." One of the hidden giants spoke to the other in a low voice.
"Annoying, but the money is good. If the marines want her alive we should be able to get a good price from Caesar too." The other grumbled.
"The details say she is unusually tough, so we shouldn't need to hold back too much. It should be easy to catch her, so long as she doesn't fly off outside our range." Said the first.
They both gave a nod and split ways, moving into position to set up an ambush.
Cabernet and Merry were oblivious to the plotting of two giant assassins as they tried to retrace their steps, only to find that the snow had covered them up.
Cabernet knew she could just follow her connection to Cherry, but it would be awfully embarrassing when she found out why.
'She'll probably call me Zoro 2.0…' Cabernet thought. She shook her head, she couldn't let that happen!
*BOOM*
A cannon ball exploded against Cabernet's back, causing Merry to jump in surprise.
Cabernet waved away the smoke as she spun around to locate her attacker.
*BOOM*
Another cannon ball landed on her back, this time from the opposite direction.
Although it was a vexing feeling to be flanked, Cabernet wore a menacing smile. She hadn't been able to fight properly earlier, so she hoped this would prove to be good exercise.
Cabernet started to transform into her figurehead form as she spun to face the second attacker. Only she didn't stop her spin there and continued on until she had spun a full 360 degrees.
A wooden hatch opened in her chest and fired her own cannon at a giant head that had popped up, presumably to shoot her in the back again. Sadly he ducked his head just in time for the cannon ball to sail over it.
Meanwhile, Merry had taken her own figurehead form of a large wooden sheep and charged towards the other sniper that was lining up a shot on Cabernet. The sniper turned his gun on the charging sheep and fired.
*BOOM*
Merry was hit square on the head, but it hardly slowed her down. She wasn't unharmed by it like Cabernet, but she was a Zoan type too and they were well known for their endurance.
The two giant assassins quickly realized ordinary munitions weren't the way to go. After only a moment of thought, they switched to incendiary rounds as the poison rounds might not work on their targets' wooden bodies. They weren't stupid of course. They didn't intend to use them on the one that was already on fire, instead they would prioritize taking out the weaker threat that was Merry.
By the time Cabernet reached the hiding spot of Rock, he was already on the move. Contrary to what their size would suggest, they were very swift, sneaky, and deceptive in their movements. Cabernet followed Rock's footsteps directly to a dead end, giving him time to make his move.
*BOOM BOOM*
Echoing explosions sounded out and Cabernet raced to their source where she found Merry rolling in the snow in an attempt to put out the flames she was engulfed in. That was easier said than done as she was soaked in an accelerant on top of being made of wood.
Cabernet was enraged at the sight. When the sound of two more shots were heard, Cabernet extinguished her flame to increase her speed and flew through the air fast enough to collide with both projectiles despite their very different angles of approach. She had made a slight miscalculation here as she now found herself covered in a quickly hardening foam, rather than burning fluids as she had expected.
She dropped to the ground on account of her now immobile wings. It wouldn't take much for her to break free from the foam with her strength, but two more giant rifle shots later both Cabernet and Merry were wrapped in thick, steel nets.
"We got 'em Rock!" Shouted Scotch.
"That we did, Scotch!" Shouted Rock.
The both of them rushed forward with the intent of beating any further resistance out of their new captives.
There was an odd visitor to this scene as they raised their guns high in the air, preparing to bring the rifle butts down on the trapped ship girls. It was a headless, legless torso wielding a sword. This visitor distracted Rock and Scotch just long enough for Cabernet to free her limbs from the foam and rip apart the steel net.
*BAM*
Rock was folded over from a disgustingly strong straight punch to the gut. Cabernet followed up with a Cherry specialty, a hard kick to the groin.
Scotch aimed his rifle at Cabernet and fired with great aim and speed, but not fast and accurately enough. The enraged lunarian rolled out of the way, resulting in the shot hitting his brother, Rock, instead.
Cabernet grabbed hold of the torso which immediately became aggressive, then she hurled it at Scotch so hard that he couldn't hope to dodge even with his unusually agile movements.
The torso, which happened to belong to the samurai, didn't much care about who it was slashing. So it brought down its sword on the swiftly approaching presence it felt.
Scotch tried to block the attack with his rifle, but it meant nothing to a swordsman of this caliber. The torso's sword cleaved straight through the rifle and sliced a deep wound into Scotch's chest.
Scotch didn't fall at that moment, however. Giants weren't known for being easy to kill. No, Scotch only fell over when half his teeth were knocked out of his head by a flying dropkick from Cabernet, leaving two flaming footprints on his cheek.
With both the white furred giants lying in the snow, bleeding and moaning, Cabernet rushed over to Merry and helped to put out the remaining flaming licking her wooden exterior. Thankfully the burns were largely superficial, at least they were for Merry. They would be quite painful if she were to switch into her full sheep form, though.
"I'm so glad you're okay, Merry! I'm sorry for running off and leaving you alone!" Cabernet said, squeezing Merry in a hug and rubbing her cheek against Merry's cheek.
"Bah!" Merry bleated curtly.
"Yes, yes, you had it all handled by yourself." Cabernet mollified.
The samurai's torso was still waving his sword about as he spun in place, waiting to fend off another attack on his body. Cabernet rushed him from behind faster than he could turn around and lifted him into a big bear hug.
"Thank you dismembered torso friend!" Cabernet said, not really caring if it could actually hear her or not. "Should I bring you with us? I could introduce you to Leggy, I'm sure you'd make a great team!"
Cabernet unilaterally decided to bring the torso with her despite its fierce protests, in other words attempting to hit her with its sword from the awkward angle it was being held in.
Not wanting to run across any more sneaky, furry giants, Cabernet elected to just follow her connection towards Cherry. She'd just say that she missed her or something if Cherry asked her about it.
As the three of the trotted off, Rock had managed to catch his breath after having his ribs and pelvis broken. He covertly brought out his den den mushi to contact Caesae, but then thought better of it. Rather than risk Caesar turning on himself and his brother for failing, it would be better to leave the island while they still can.
Capítulo 228: Law's Proposal
"Hehehehehe!" Cherry laughed.
"Stop it! Why don't you think of a way to fix us instead of mocking us!" Chopper (Nami) shouted at her.
"Hehehe! I must say that Law's devil fruit is very mysterious. To think he could swap your consciousnesses…" Cherry said. "As for putting you all back in the right bodies, I'm not really sure to even start. Some devil fruit powers will cease to function when the user is knocked unconscious or killed, but I don't think the odds are high that Law's devil fruit is that type."
"It's worth a try. Go kick his ass, Cherry!" Chopper (Nami) demanded.
"No need to hurry. We'll run into him eventually." Cherry dismissed.
"Chopper, where are those rumble ball things that turn you into a monster? I need them to teach Cherry a lesson." Chopper (Nami) said to Jinbe (Chopper).
"Oiiii!" A distant shout called their attention and saved Chopper's body from getting beat up, much to Jinbe's (Chopper's) relief.
The rest of the crew, minus Cabernet and Merry, came wandering over atop an alligator centaur who didn't seem very happy to be a mode of transportation.
"Shishishi, you guys are here too!" Luffy chuckled.
"My legs?!" The samurai's head cried out at the sight of his lower half stuck to Luffy's back.
After a brief altercation in which Luffy didn't want to surrender the legs, losing his own centaur status in the process, the samurai cried tears of relief and joy at being made at least partially whole once again.
"I'll never take my legs for granted ever again! I swear it on my life!" the samurai cried.
Momonosuke seemed to be trying to take something from this lesson as well, looking down at his own legs with a serious expression.
"Where are we going to go now? All these kids won't fit comfortably on the Sunny, and we definitely won't be able to feed them all." Nami (Franky) said in a rare moment of seriousness that was ruined by the fact that the winter coat the samurai made for him was wide open as he posed with his arms in the air.
"Franky, I told you to stop making my body do weird things, damn it!" Chopper (Nami) shouted at him.
"Franky?" Luffy asked, looking at Nami's body in confusion.
After a brief explanation, Luffy was laughing on the ground at the fate of half his crew. Robin tried to cheer up Nami by saying that at least she didn't wind up in Franky's body, which seemed to help a fair bit as Nami felt a shiver down her spine and nodded. Sanji on the other hand was currently swearing vengeance against Franky who dared to get swapped into Nami's body.
'Why couldn't I have been the one in Nami's body?!' Sanji cursed in his heart, although he knew it was probably for the best that he wasn't. Who knew what he'd get up to if that happened? He'd definitely lose all his hard fought progress on the path to become a true gentleman and revert to being a well dressed pervert.
Robin walked over to Cherry and gave her a chaste kiss.
"Cabernet wandered off with Merry somewhere. I wasn't paying enough attention to them, it seems." Robin said with some guilt in her tone, though the amused smile on her face spoke louder than her words.
"Will they be okay?" Franky (Usopp) asked worriedly. He was very protective of Merry given they were from the same hometown. He looked forward to the day he could introduce Merry to everyone back home, especially eager to see the look on her namesake's face when he found out his old ship was alive now.
"They'll be fine. A couple of giants can't be a match for Cabernet, and Merry's a zoan type so she's tough too." Cherry said, waving away his concerns.
Usopp's concerns weren't waved away at all though. "Giants?!"
"Don't think that all giants are as strong as Brogy and Dory, Usopp. Those two are monsters even amongst giant kind. Maybe… I can count the number of giants I've met on two hands after all and I wasn't counting Oars and zombie Oars with Luffy's shadow in it." Cherry said, once again not helping assuage Usopp's worries at all.
"Or perhaps they're in a stew at this very moment, being seasoned to perfection before they get swallowed in one gulp." Robin piled wood onto the fire.
Sanji started reciting various tidbits of information to keep in mind when cooking a mutton stew. That was the last straw as Usopp took off running into the snowy wasteland in search of Merry, shouting "I'll save you, Merry!"
"I didn't know Franky cared so much about Merry." Luffy commented.
"That's Usopp, remember?" Zoro corrected.
"Oh, right! Hahaha!" Luffy laughed.
"So what's your story, gater-legs? We've got some time to kill, so tell me how you came to be a henchman on Punk Hazard." Cherry said to Brownbeard.
Too delighted to be treated as a fellow human being rather than a vehicle to realize that Cherry might be fishing for information, Brownbeard happily told his life story. He thankfully didn't linger too long on his childhood and promptly got to the part where he and his crew got wiped out by rookie pirates of the Worst Generation. Afterwards they found themselves on this island where Caesar Clown saved them and later Law gave them new legs.
Cherry was only half listening before the part about his master, Caesar Clown. She asked "This Caesar Clown is a scientist who worked with Vegapunk? Is that true?"
"Of course it's true, but don't misunderstand! Vegapunk cannot compare to our wonderful master! He's a genius who will soon be known to the world as the best scientist instead of that fiend Vegapunk!" Brownbeard spewed out the propaganda he'd been fed.
Something occurred to Cherry at that moment. A nugget of truth hidden amongst the lies. "Was your master the one who said he'd soon be recognised as the world's greatest scientist soon?"
"Yes, of course! I don't know a thing about science, so naturally I'd listen to my betters on the subject." Brownbeard spoke with pride.
His words painted an image of arrogance in the minds of those who bothered to listen, but Cherry's mind was connecting bits and pieces of information. She suddenly stood up with a jolt.
"We have to get off this island." Cherry said. "As soon as possible."
"Why do we have to do that?" Jinbe (Chopper) asked, fluttering his eyelashes innocently.
'Since when were my eyelashes so long?' Usopp (Jinbe) wondered.
"There's a high chance Punk Hazard is going to have a second disaster, and soon. This one is likely much worse than the one that destroyed all life on the island four years ago." Cherry said darkly.
"You think Vegapunk is coming back to stop my master from usurping his title?!" Brownbeard asked with shock.
"No, idiot. Your master was the one who ruined the island the first time. I mean, the guy literally gave you fools poison gas weapons and you never stopped to think maybe he was the one who made the massive poison weapon four years ago?" Cherry looked at him scornfully, scarcely believing somebody could be so stupid.
"T-that can't be… can it…?" Brownbeard found it hard to be confident, but his loyalty to the man who saved him and his crew wasn't easily shaken either.
"That's all the more reason we should act quickly. If you're willing to make an alliance with me, Straw Hat Luffy." Trafalgar Law said, appearing from around a corner.
"Hm? What for?" Luffy asked.
"To take down one of the Four Emperors." Law said, eyes blazing with determination.
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