Missions 66, 65, 100!! OF WILD MEETINGS

"Mmm."

Brook brought the teacup away from his face, having taken the first sip of it's contents, black with one sugar. He casually lifted the curtain and glanced out the train's window, viewing the waves speed by for the first time in a while. "Oh my, we're traveling so fast." After he took one more sip from the cup and placed it on the table in front of him, he threw his hands up into the air and slammed them against the side of his face, screeching as he did so. "YOOOOOOOOOOO! IT'S A RUNAWAY TRAAAAIN!" The longarms sitting across from him and next to him held him down against the seat, assuring him the train had been moving at that speed the whole time and nothing was wrong. One of them was going to slap him but had decided against it, Brook needed to be in a good mood if he was going to make them any money.

Several people in their seats looked at the flailing afro at the front of the car as he panicked but they each returned to what they were doing (reading, rocking babies, etc.) as he settled down. "How exciting, I've never been on a train before. My heart is racing." One of the longarms rolled his eyes because he knew what was coming next. There was a brief pause in speech as Brook pressed his face and hands against the window, smiling like only he could. "...even though I don't have one. YOHOHOHOHOHOHO!" His arms flew up into the air once againas his jaw flapped up and down, producing the maniacal laugh and drawing everyone's attention to the front of the car once more.

"Well, I believe I have had enough tea for now." The four of them sat silently for a moment. The longarms were finally glad that their meal ticket had finally simmered down long enough for them to relax. That's when he began whispering to the one next to him. "Um, excuse me..."

"What?"

"Well, It's just that I've had enough tea so, um..."

"What is it?"

"I have to go to the bathroom."

There was a groan among the group that expressed a heavy annoyance. "Didn't you go before we got on?"

"I tried to but nothing happened. So I have to go now." He fluffed his afro a little bit, partially from stress and partially because he wanted to look his best for all the beautiful girls he might be passing on his journey to the toilet.

"Fine." The Longarm stood up and allowed brook to get out of the seat. As he made his way to the back of the cart, the longarm followed close behind to make sure he didn't try anything funny to escape. The people that caught a glimpse of Brook's face double taked to make sure they saw what they thought they saw, but the longarm's hands had a habit of suddenly getting in the way of the view. They moved through 2 carts before coming to a cart that had loads of animals and their owners.

"What the, what are all these things doing on the train? Shouldn't animals be in cargo or something?"

"We could always ask why people have their animals with them."

Brook leaned down to face one of the passengers, a young lady wearing quite a bit of black. He tipped his hat to her and began to ask about the animals "Excuse me miss, but may I inspect your panties?" The long arm gently slapped Brook's skull with the back of his hand. "That has absolutely nothing to do with these things."

Meanwhile, a certain cyborg was sitting in the same carriage. Alek was minding his business, enjoying the quiet ride, save for the erratic screaming of bad jokes from two carriages away. It annoyed him greatly, since he "was a king", people should act a little more formally around him. However, ever since he trained on Battalia Island, his upgrades had made him look a little less royal. People now talked to him as if he was some rambunctious teen which, in a way, he was.

The captain of the Chess Pirates didn't know why he was here in Water 7, but he knew that whenever he was around things got interesting. Besides, he would be able to tell his crew about his excursions. It wasn't often that they got the time to sit down and chat, they were too busy fleeing from the marines for that. However, when they did get the time they made the most of it. From Silo's colour changing impressions to Riley's HiLighter illusions, the Chess Pirates had barrels of fun every time they got the chance.

"YOU ARE A SKELETON!!!"

A shriek pulled Alek from his thoughts momentarily. Such a ridiculous sentence intigued him. He looked up, his eyes revealing that such a ridiculous sentence could in fact be true. There in front of him was a living skeleton...with an afro. What surprised Alek even more was the fact that the other inhabitants of the car refused to believe it. Protesting that in fact this skeleton was in fact a very very thin human. Alek remained silent as the carriage rose up in a joint effort to rebuke any attempt of presenting a different opinion.

"This...is not a man...this is a skeleton...with an afro."

Alek supported the girls claim. Of course, in this world of devil fruits and fishpeople and rock skinned chefs, one could not be as so short sighted as to completely ignore what was clearly the truth. A speech over the intercom stopped the cyborg from hearing whatever anyone else had to say. Silence fell over the carriage, making the situation slightly awkward as the intercom speech finished. Alek sighed to himself, and looked towards the zombie-esque woman that started the argument in the first place. He shrugged, and pulled out a chess set. Playing with himself, Alek became engrossed in the game, only waiting for another disturbance.

Even in her seemingly increasing dire situation, she couldn't help but blanch at the preposterousness of the skeleton before her. Was he so dense to simply forget about his current shape of health? She doubted she would forget if she were a skeleton. Probably pretend to be on the top of the world and scream like Tarzan in her books... Tarzan, what a great idea to be nex- WAIT FOCUS BELLA!

Currently, analyzing her situation, she had one pair of blazing angry eyes glaring at her like she was an orange ready to beaten to a pulp, thousand of hungry eyes looking at her like a piece of meat *hint* they are not humans, the rest simply staring for no apparent reason, and one guy simply playing a game of chess. Wow thanks for caring buddy!! To make it all worst, the skeleton just had to say the most preposturous thing the young girl has probably ever heard in a tension filled room. It certainly made everyone do a face-plant!

"I feel a headache coming on." She thought pressing her hand to her head.

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Just a few cars ahead, a large scene was going down. The man who made the announcement that just went unheard by the three people, set down the Den Den Mushi with a wide smirk and maniacal eyes making him look crazier than ever, a cigarette in his mouth. He wasn't the only one there, his 4 other partners standing right beside him with the same low leveled thinking as their boss. It was odd, though. They didn't seem to be regular robbers but there was something about them that brought on a criminal look. Black pinstriped suits, colorful tucked in ties and fedoras was adorned by every one of them.

"Yo, boss. Think we shook 'em up?" One of the men beside him said as he shook like a mad man on a sugar high. It went unnoticed by the others making one consider it to be a common thing with the man. The so called 'boss' didn't answer and the man just kept talking. "M-maybe we don't have to stop with th-th-them! Huh boss? Lets slaughter the whole train! Let's-" His words were cut off by a bullet in the head and he fell still shaking like a rat. The others seemed unfazed by the actions of their leader.

"That one was always a talker, I couldn't stand him." The 'boss' said as he breathed on the disease ridden stick that poked out of his mouth. "Anyways, now that we made our announcement, we just have to wait for some marines to try and calm us down. Try to stop us, our name will be known now! As the greatest Mobsters to ever LIVE! I can't WAIT!"

((Sorry for keeping everyone waiting. School work avalanche sorta stuff kept me from getting to this.))

"In all this commotion I couldn't make out what that thing on the wall said. Did you hear it?" Brook tugged at the sleeve of the Longarm to get his attention. In response, he brushed off Brook's grip and continued staring at the Den Den Mushi on the wall that had broadcasted the announcement. "Yeah. It would seem that the train has been hijacked."

"WHAT? OH MY-" The longarm pressed his hand against Brook's mouth to keep him from screaming again. "Relax. The others probably heard the announcement too. They'll take care of it while we're gone but we should start heading back to help them out. How's that sound?" When he turned to look at Brook, he was leaning back in one of the cart seats trying to hold a conversation with one of the older women sitting next to him. "-borrow some money?"

The woman agreed to of course, believing Brook to be a starving homeless man. She handed him 5 Beri and continued petting her dog which was staring at Brook with it's tongue out, thinking of leaping out of it's master's arms and chewing on the walking suit of bones sitting in front of it.

"Ahem." The longarm grabbed him by the shoulder and pulled him out of the seat and made his way to the front of the train, back where the two had come from. "Ah, W-wait a minute. The bathroom's the other way!"

(OOC: Thanks >_>. Nah, jk, jk.)

Alek moved forward, not daring to look back. His attention needed to be fully focused on what was in front of him. There was at least one firearm on board, a weapon that in the hands of someone not good under pressure could lead to unnecessary casualties. He had not heard anyone follow him as he opened the door from one carriage to the next, but he wasn't really listening for their sounds anyway. If he looked behind him he wouldn't be able to smooth-talk his way out of anything. Mind racing about all the possibilities unfolding on the Sea Train, Alek only just barely heard the announcement over the intercom.

So we're on our own then. Good too, I wouldn't like to have to fight marines right now.

The marines had, rather unhelpfully, notified everyone on board that there was nothing they could do to help them. An eerie silence descended over the carriage Alek was currently walking through, before carnage erupted.

"We're going to die!"

"SAVE THE CHILDREN!"

"WE'RE GOING TO DIE!"

Random screams served only as obstacles to Alek's goal. He needed to think right now, he needed his mind to be clear. He exited the carriage, hoping for a more measured group of people to inhabit the next. No such luck. This was even worse than the previous carriage, with animals running rampant and even a few birds flying out of the door while Alek was still there. They could sense the panic, the danger, the fear. They were the lucky ones. Little children wept, asking their parents frantically why they were suddenly clasping their hands together and whispering. Alek sighed, and moved on.

"So it begins. A game of risk, pressure and intense strategy."

Alek resumed his game of chess.

It was not that the man with the epithet of "Checkmate King" wasn't a serious man, Alek was often the most serious person in a room, it was just that he needed to warm up his mind. Situations like this required plans of monumental complexity, plans that he wasn't prepared to put together in the current environment of wailing children, diabolic pets and chaotic adults. Chess was to Alek like oil was to a machine; to make the latter run better, you needed the former. This was a warm up, to get his brain into gear. It seemed to be working too -Whites one in only 46 moves.

Alek put the chess set away, and moved on to the next carriage. He cracked his knuckles, preparing, if necessary, to unleash a whole world of pain never before thought possible on the ones responsible for hijacking this train.

(OOC: Rather annoyingly, my post got deleted and I forgot half of it. I was unable to take the thread anywhere, so it's up to you Mimic!)

(NUUU I DONT WANNA TAKE THE THREAD ANYWHERE!! DX Cirrus, its back up to you! Fight against that post deleter on your Comp!)

Bella slammed the door behind her just as the sounds of a commotion began to rise in the car. She sighed, happy to be out of that hellish car of the train before she finally glanced around at where she was. That place happened to be on a small bridge between the two cars. Now, when we saw small, we MEAN small! It was tinier than anything you may have ever seen and yet there it is! She carefully walked to the door, their being no railing to hold her in place and all, and hastily opened the door towards her having it swing full out and almost pushing her off the train.

Without a seconds hesitation, she jumped inside and yanked the door in with all her might which took a minute or so due to the wind pressure, but it was finally accomplished! Only then did she turn around to come face to face with the acrid smell of smoke and a man wearing a pinstriped hate.

"Who the F*CK! are YOU!?" He yelled pulling a gun on her. Even though she was sent into a coughing fit due to the smoke, she was very much surprised as he was. She looked around seeing people whimpering in fear as they did their best to cover loved ones, watching the scene to their horror, while she attempted to sooth her sore throat. Why was he back here though? ON TOP OF THAT, WHO WAS HE?! So, did that mean there really was something going on in the front?! She felt automatically bad for ditching the man to come back here, but at least she could save these people!

"I would like to know the same thing" She replied hoarsely as she crouched down, quickly unsheathing her brasier as she did so, and launched herself at the man gut, pushing him back and onto the floor. Thinking this was a great oppurtunity for her to unhand him, she was only kicked off painfully onto the door which broke. Only by her grabbing the wall did she manage not to fly off as the door did into the sea.

Now, caught between both trains, she watched as the man pointed the gun at her from inside. Eyes, widening, she jumped off the small pathway, holding onto the side of the train with painful grip just as she heard the bullet go through the door into the next car. Screaming could be heard but now was not the time to think of what may have happened, she had to get on the roof before he came out looking for her. Finding something that looked like ladder on the side of the train, she climbed and made it onto the roof just as her appeared.

Not only that but she saw another man on the roof with a den den mushi in his hand. SHIT! She thought, trying to get to him, but water 7 train speed is amazing. She couldn't even get up without surely being tossed into the wind. That horrible truth only got her caught as the man turned around and saw her. He quickly talked into the mushi before he came at her. Double shit.

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The mob boss stood in the lead car as he heard commotion in the one right behind them. Yet, even so he dismissed it as simple people going insane after the announcement. They're successful capture was surely making a delectible reaction. He stood, watching the speed of the ship. He was going to put it into a jerking halt! He already told all his men on the roofs to get off, now was time for the brake! Before he could however, two things happened. One, a man suddenly came in. Two, one of his men came on the radio reporting that a violet haired girl was rebelling. He almost wanted to laugh! Really, people so weak were rebelling against them!

"I don't suppose you know her?" He asked before grasping the brake lever, holding onto something and yanking it down.