章節 25: Chapter 24 Satellite

"Why don't you join our crew aswell?" Luffy asked looking at Augustus, his face and body bandaged up.

"No, I am not a Pirate", Augustus answered with a smile.

"Anyways, here is Chopper. He wants to join you"; he is also the one that healed all of you guys", Augustus bumped Chopper, who was hiding behind Augustus's leg and peeking shyly at Luffy and the others forward.

Chopper shyly stepped forward and spoke with a bit of a stammer and occasional shuffling of his hooves nervously, looking up at Luffy with big, hopeful eyes. "U-umm, hi, I-I'm Chopper. I-I'm a doctor."

Nami crouched down to Chopper's level, her eyes sparkling and hands clasped together, exclaiming, "Aww, look at those tiny hooves! He's absolutely adorable!"

"We have to accept him" Nami said looking back at the sitting Luffy.

"Chopper, I am going to be the man who is going to be the Pirate King!"

"Do you want to join?!" Luffy leapt up with a huge grin, practically bouncing on his feet, his fists clenched in excitement.

*mhm* Chopper nodded excitedly.

"We're gonna have the best crew ever!" Luffy pumped his fist in the air with a laugh.

"Very well, I'll let you guys get to know each other better," Augustus said as he flicked his wrist, and the archaic portal opened again.

"Whoa, did you see that?" Usop exclaimed as Augsutus left the place and the portal closed.

Luffy looked around frantically, his eyes wide with curiosity and excitement, as he said, "Whoa, he disappeared just like that! How did he do that?!"

"He can teleport" Chopper said with a hint of smugness.

"What?!" they all exclaimed in unison, their eyes bulging and jaws dropping. Luffy leaned in closer to Chopper, eyes sparkling with wonder.

"Teleport? Like, poof and you're gone? That's so cool!" Luffy said with excitement.

"Guys," Usop said as he turned to look at the others, wide-eyed, "We need to get one of those!" Usop exclaimed.

...

Stepping into the throne room, Augustus resumed his daily activities.

Taking care of the development of various sectors with the assistance of Alfred, Grayes had long taken a back seat to the administration, he didn't have to, but he still participated.

Augustus formed a portal and stepped through appearing onto a large field with tents a little bit of distance away.

Stepping in that direction, Augustus reached it and walked into the tents.

Contrary to its basic looks from the outside, the inside was filled with computers with lots of data on them; Tony and Vegapunk were busy operating the computers with precision and speed, complex amounts of calculations all being performed very quickly.

Tony was tapping his foot impatiently, his fingers drumming on the console, while Vegapunk adjusted his glasses, his eyes glued to the screen, a small, excited smile playing on his lips.

"This is it, Tony," Vegapunk said, his voice barely containing his excitement. "This is what we've been working for."

"So how long till launch?" Augustus asked as he found a chair and sat in behind them.

"10 minutes, your Majesty", Tony said without looking away from the computer.

minute by minute, time quickly passed until the final few minutes approached, and both Tony and Vegapunk stopped their operations.

"Your Majesty, We have done everything we can; now it's time to see if we succeed", Vegapunk said with stars in his eyes.

"Oh, we will; We are the ones who made it after all; of course, it will succeed", Tony laughed and sat back on the chair, completely relaxed.

Vegapunk stood up from his chair and switched on the den den mushi and a projection appeared on the tents walls showing just a regular field.

"This is the result of 2 and a half month's worth of effort!" Vegapunk said as he punched down on a big red button.

The empty field in the video was silent for a second before it started to tremble.

A deep rumbling resounded as the ground itself opened up for about a minute, and a pointed tip was elevated from underground.

rising to the surface a tall rocket appeared, coloured in white with the emblem of Golfield Kingdom engraved onto it.

"let's go outside. We should be able to see it,", Tony said as he stood up from the chair and headed outside the tent with Vegapunk and Augustus, who followed behind the two.

As they stepped out, The rocket came into view; the tall rocket stood proudly up there, towering over the tallest trees, almost making them like midgets in front of its height.

"And you are telling me you built this in 2 months?" Augustus asked dumbfounded.

"Were we too slow?" Vegapunk asked confused.

"No, I am just feeling a little incredulous; you two have truly blown away my expectations."

"Well, we still have to see if this will make it to space and survive", Tony said rather nonchalantly.

"Automated Launch System begins" A voice resounded from within the the tent.

"Excuse me,", Vegapunk said as he walked into the tent to monitor and make sure the Rocket met the calculations they had done.

"10"

"9"

"3"

"2"

"1"

"Launch Initiated," The voice said as the sound of the thrusters spread through the atmosphere.

"Blasters Initiated", the voice said. The sound of thrusters grew rapidly, and the rocket in the distance also began moving up into the air, getting through the initial resistance of gravity.

"Full Thruster power", The voice as the roar of the thrusters drastically grew, and the rocket began to leave the ground at high speeds.

A huge white dust cloud spread in all directions as it rose into the air further and further from the ground.

Climbing higher and higher into the Sky leaving a long trail of white smoke.

"Initial fuel container Empty, Eject," The voice from within the tent said as Augustus saw a huge lower part of the rocket detach.

"I hope that doesn't hit any land,", Augustus said to Tony.

"Although it was hard to estimate the landing zone of the initial fuel container, we narrowed the landing zone down to an empty sea" Tony said with a relaxed smile.

"Did you confirm that it was empty with Stephen?" Augustus asked.

"Of course, I did, don't question my professionalism"

"Good, the last time you met, you started a fight with him", Augustus glanced at Tony, who went quiet.

"Back in my Multi-verse, there are versions where I am alive according to strange, even in timelines where the Avengers succeeded in defeating Thanos.

It's just unfair that I had to sacrifice myself because of him when there was a different path," Tony said, his eyes looking towards the rocket.

Augustus didn't say and just looked at the rocket as well in silence.

"Final Fuel Dump initiated" The voice sounded as another huge part was shed.

"Thrusters initializing" the voice as the top bit of the rocket reached extremely high.

"Breaking through Stratosphere", The voice said as the rocket disappeared from vision; the only thing it left behind that proved its existence was the long smoke trail left by it still prominently in the sky.

"Soo, what did you guys name the satellite?" Augsutus asked.

"Tony Satellite" Tony looked at Augustus with a smirk.

"Of course" Augustus muttered to himself with a sigh.