Mission #88, Damsel in Distress

[Anirion]

Mission #88
Your vessel has been boarded by hostile Pirates after treasure! They have decided to try to ransom you back to the Island you are nearest. Find a way to convince the pirates to let you go or defeat all ten pirates on board.

(Word Count excluding this section: 696 words)

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Jack was travelling away from Orange Town, he couldn't resolve the matter between the pirates and the citizens but what can you do? there's only so much Jack can do in his ability. He started travelling away and going near Loguetown, where he met the lady Cremuex, who was very kind and sweet. He had the idea to ask her to join his crew. He didn't have a place to belong and he feels like he's going all over the place just waiting for things to happen for him, he wanted a place to belong and stick to, to have a group of friends he can rely on in these seas which feels like he'll need in-case anything goes too bad.

Anyway, Jack is on his boat as usual, the suns out, the oceans beautiful just like every other mundane day. Despite what he was thinking he ironically enjoys such events which excite him and over the course of them, he starts to feel better and stronger. He realizes every event he goes through, he slowly gets better from them. Meanwhile, while Jack is travelling through the seas on the way to Loguetown on his boat, he sees a relatively small ship, much bigger then Jack's but it seems to carry a few people, probably around 10 or 20 based on Jack's calculation and educated guess. However the ship seems to go on an intercepting course which in about 20 seconds, would block Jack's way.

The flag then rolls up a pirate flag, they clearly aren't friendly. before the 20 seconds Jack quickly picks up the knives and puts them in a holster near his pants, he then tries to maneuver his boat to the side, to avoid a direct hit against the ship. But when he tries to Jack can hear a cannon going off and soon after one cannonball lands near his boat but it hits the back side, breaking off a small part then falling into the water, disrupting his direction of trying to maneuver.

Before Jack could do anything else a chain with an iron grappling hook is seen coming from the ship which lands directly on Jack's boat, then it appears to start reeling in. Jack tries to push the hook off but to no avail. Jack's boat is then right to the side of the pirate ship, then one jumps down on Jack's boat, before the pirate could recover from the jump Jack takes the initiative to push the pirate off the boat which he succeeds in doing, he then starts climbing up the chain that is attached to his boat to try and fight off the invaders, or to see if he can unhook his boat from the source.

As Jack jumps on he instantly brings out his knives and soon enough, he looks around him to see he is surrounded by men with swords, spears and pistols. Jack then tries to implant a spore into the ground to poison up a "safe zone" for himself, then his left forearm gets shot by a bullet, failing this. Jack then only has one working arm left with one knife, the situation looks bad as he is completely surrounded and injured now. Without noticing he gets kicked in the back of his leg, falling to the ground and then he gets held up by two men. A tall figure with a oversized red coat walks up. He then laughs, looking to his men then saying "Well done boys! it seems we caught a Devil fruit user."  Jack showed a surprising face, wondering how he knew. "Surprised? we capture people and sell them to either other pirates or slavers, word gets around when there's a devil fruit user and oh man... the price for a devil fruit user, you're going to make me a happy man, alright that's enough teasing I guess. Knock him out boys." Jack tries to struggle out of the hold on him by both of the men, but before he could get anywhere one of the men knocks Jack on the head with the bottom pommel of their sword, before long Jack falls to the ground losing consciousness.

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Dave Fisuto is not very happy. Maybe it's because there was a huge storm last week. Maybe it's because that same huge storm took his Captain. Maybe it's because of the fact that he felt completely helpless. Waking up in his bed warm, he gets up. Walking out to the bright, blue sea he feels empty, a hollow shell. It's not fun to know that your captain could be possibly dead in the sea. Looking at his cap on the floor, he picks it up. What will happen to the Fortune Pirates? Will he ever be the same? What about his dream? He starts pacing, a habit that the young boy picked up ever since Berry Kane fell overboard. Thinking about it, he had started to pick up new habits after the incident.

That's when a idea hit him. Maybe he could go and find some people to help, in his old town? He's already confident that his friends and family will help him, and that brings hope. Turning the boat to the direction to Logue Town, all that he needs to do now is wait. Wait until he gets there, and so to pass the time, Dave decides to make some food. Jogging down to the kitchen, he starts creating a dish. While doing so, the compliments of the captain linger at the back of his head. Dave gets distracted, almost chopping off a finger while cutting up some meat. That had never happened to him before. Looking at the plate, he sits down and takes a bite.

The plate AND the food goes out the window, a thing that Dave had started doing. He wasn't starving himself, no, but he was refusing to eat that much food without the Captain eating. Dave always put the captain first. Looking at his hands, he feels like as if he was a failure of a first mate. How could he let something like this happen? The young lad angrily bashes his head against the wall, causing his head to slightly bleed. Wiping it off with a handkerchief that he soon put in the bin, he walks out to work out.

While improving himself, Dave Fisuto looks back at his goals in his pirate life. He wishes to become the Melee Champion yeah, but how can he do that without a crew? Maybe he should fix that. Becoming a Melee Champion with a crew beside him. Yeah, that seems about right. Maybe he could find that lady who had the captain at her fingers. He never really liked her though, but she was a doctor. But is he going to be a captain? Nah. He'll continue the crew, waiting for the captain to return. Two hours in, he stops to avoid over working himself. That was a issue that he managed to overcome thanks to Berry Kane. 

Taking a average stroll on the deck, Dave sees something unexpected. A small boat and a slightly big ship, connected together. Taking a look at who is on the small boat, Dave sees a.. green man being attacked by around 10 men? Now hold on a second, a green- no time to think! Dave quickly turns the ship around to attack the boat that has captured the poor person.

After this potential battle, he WILL be back to himself. Well, at least he hopes so.

[Anirion]

Jack woken up from a dream where he was thinking about his old life back in his town, where he had a decent job, had good popularity with the island and he was accepted. But he was soon awoken by a splash of water on his head, one of the pirates pulled him up and holding him, taunting Jack by saying "Wakey wakey sunshine. had a good dream? it'll probably be the last good one you get." Jack, still in the feeling of his old town tries to- oh, now he remembers. he was shot in the forearm and beaten by these pirates, however when he looks to his left forearm it's all patched up and bandaged, he still can't move it but it certainly is healing. "That's my magic, wouldn't want you to bleed out on us when we sell ya." Jack then gets dragged before what appears to be the tall man he met before, who is assumingly the leader of this gang.

"Had a good sleep? I hope so. Were nearly at Loguetown, say kid... I wanted to ask you, how did you come across this mask?" he then brings out of his coat the mask which was given to him by his master, Maryal. Jack gets pissed off and tries to struggle out of the hold, but another man came in and now two men are holding Jack very tight. "Assuming by that weak attempt to break the hold of my men, I'm guessing you're close to the guy then? Maryal... I knew him, took my men out fair and square and gave me this scar quite a while back." the man puts his coat off, then lifts up his black shirt to show a massive scar across his stomach. "It was life-threatening as it looked, say kid... I usually don't offer this, but if the old man raised you himself there might be more to you then what meets the eye. How about an invitation to my crew?" then the other men get surprised by this, looking at each other and rabble could be heard among them.

Jack starts to speak, as soon as he does the other men instantly go quiet, curious to hear Jack's answer. "No, that's not what Maryal raised me to do, not to be a servant under someone else." the man shakes his head, then saying "It wouldn't be like that, but I respect your decision anyway. Looks like you'll spend the rest of your life serving some high-end noble and keeping his boots clean, a shame." then one of the pirates look out on the horizon to find a man on a boat in an intercepting course, "Eh... hey captain! this guy is trying to follow us, what should we do?" the captain then walks to the side of the ship, looking at the guy all alone. "This will be easy, attack. We'll have another person to sell." and so, from what Jack can gather they are about to attack another poor soul who was just minding his own business.

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"I can barely contain myself.." His body almost vibrating in excitement, it's been so long since Dave had a chance to fight and here it is! However, he has do a thing about the hostage. He doesn't really want a citizen to get in the way while he fights.. well, unless the guy can fight as well. Maybe both of them can take out four of them, and then wombo combo the two together? Hold on a second, he doesn't even know the green dude! Wearing his usual attire for battles, he walks out, ready to fight. Looking at the pirates not only fuels him with andreline, but with anger as well. How can some guy go around without getting captured by some ugly old pirates?

"HEY! UH, LET THAT GUY GO OR ELSE I'LL KICK YOUR ASS!" Dave attempts to threaten them but then realizes the error. "WELL, I WAS GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS EITHER WAY BUT I DON'T WANT SOME GUY GETTING HURT!" There. That's what he meant. Looking at the ten of them, Dave starts thinking about possibilities about his opponents. What if they tried to use the poor man as some type of blackmail? That wouldn't be good. Or maybe they tried to sink him? No, wait. All this thinking hurts him, so he takes a seat. Maybe he should wait for them to come. 
"ALRIGHT!" Dave starts actually getting ready, his eyes sparkling with determination.  He notices the captain looking at him, and so he returns with a cocky smirk.

"YOU WANT TO GO FIRST, BIG GUY?" Dave challenges who he guesses to be the leader first, since he knows that if he gets the leader down, his chances of victory will be skyrocketing. Suddenly, another possibility comes in. What if they want to sell him as well? No, he thinks, shaking his head. That can't be possible, can it?

[Anirion]

The pirates then look at their boss, who appears to just have been challenged by this man who is trying to rescue Jack, all though Jack is relieved someone is trying to rescue him the man can't possibly take on all these guys at the same time? from what Jack could get, the man did seem pretty strong. Before he could think anymore on this, the tall leader unsheathed two cutlass's. "Challenge accepted, I'd like to shake my legs a bit." in response to the challenge, he then jumps down on Jack's boat to possibly use it to reach the other man's boat.

Meanwhile, the majority of the pirates are on the side of the boat watching the fight possibly go down, Jack is held at gunpoint by one man. He notices another one of the pirates carrying a rifle meaning there are only two gunmen. If Jack can take out both of these guys he can have an advantage over the other pirates who only have swords and spears. Jack casts a spore to the ground while the pirate holding Jack at gunpoint wasn't looking, it slowly starts to spread and when the man starts to itch his leg, Jack takes advantage and grabs the gun off the man, shooting him in the chest and kicking him out of the spore poison zone.

the other pirates heard the noise and as soon as he could, Jack tries aiming the pistol at the man with the rifle, Jack misses two shots but the third shot hits the man in the stomach, he falls over the side of the boat and into the water, along with his rifle. Now no one else has a gun beside Jack.

"Back off you guys, this poison cloud is well... poisonous, any of you try to get too close and I'll shoot you." by this time, the poison zone has finally reached the full 5 meters. Jack knew his poison can only make people itch which only slightly affects their movements, but nothing serious. But the pirates didn't need to know that, as long as they thought the poison was deadly. They got the idea to back off, so they walk around the zone Jack is in, waiting for any opening or weakness to attack Jack, Jack hopes the man wins against the leader so he might be able to back up Jack with these other pirates.

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The air is cool, and it gently breezes through the Gambit. Dave Fisuto, who is a person who fights with his hands and feet, faces the man who walks towards him. The floorboard creaks, and Dave notices his glistening cutlasses, wielded in both hands. He hasn't had a chance to fight in so long so he welcomes the challenge. But first, a few questions before they fight.

"Why did you kidnap the guy?"

"What do you think? To make some money, stupid." Followed with a laughter, as the captain in the red coat replied. "Devil Fruit users make big money when sold, you know."

"You wanted to sell him? And he's a devil fruit user?"

"Some people have do to things to get food on their plate. This is what I do."

"..Enough talking. Let's fight."

In almost no time at all, Dave takes a step forward and swings his fist at Jacket's left cheek, knocking him almost to the ground. Jacket stumbles and tries to create some distance however Dave isn't done and gives a blow to his head by headbutting him, causing both sides extreme agony. But surprise, surprise! A shocking recovery by Captain J, and he successfully gives Dave pain, by launching his feet at his side. Almost falling over, Dave tries to sweep kick Jacket back but then gets slashed diagonally across his stomach, slight blood already coming out. It seems like Jacket isn't finished, as the man then tries to jab his other cutlass into Dave, Dave narrowly escapes. Light steps away from Jacket, Dave places his palm on his stomach. Taking a look at his hands show crimson blood, however it isn't that much. It is still a worry though.

Suddenly, he gets charged at by the pirate. A sinister grin on his face as he slashes both cutlasses at Dave, the blades aimed at his neck. Ducking down to avoid them, the brawler then swings upwards with a uppercut, causing Jacket to trip and fall to the ground. A cutlass escapes his grip and lands on the floor. Due to the fact that his enemy is dangerous with this  weapon, he thinks about disposing of it before almost getting killed by a downwards swing at his head. Jumping away, he rolls and makes a safe recovery. Captain Jacket then collects his other cutlass, seeming to be a worthy challenge. Dashing directly to Jacket, he spins and thrusts out his foot to his stomach, it being blocked by a 'x' with his cutlasses. Dave feels the vibration as his power is not lost. A quick attempt to cut off his foot is missed, as the fighter forces onto Jacket a roundhouse kick to the head. Immediately after the attack, while Jacket tries to regain his balance Dave rushes to his stomach with a-

"Fisuto STRIKE!" Dave's fist almost seems to inside Captain Jacket's stomach, his face almost the word agony, making him step back a few steps backwards. This power allows Dave to go into a combo, throwing out punches that are based around the upper area. Throwing around a total of six punches, only four make contact. The look of fear in Captain Jack's eyes as he goes down to one knee frightens Dave.

"H-Hey.. we don't have to do this.. you could j-just join my cre-!" Before he can finish his sentence, Dave had already kneed him in the jaw, and he falls to the ground. Yet Dave is a simple person, and as he checks to see if he had done enough damage, a upwards hit with the elbow hits his nose, causing it to bleed. Falling down to his butt, the colored boy watches as the captain struggles to get on his feet. Jacket gets prepared to stab into the martial artist's head, raising both cutlasses in the air.

To counter this unfairness, Dave strikes his fist at Jacket's crotch. There is a pause of silence, as the sound of clattering shows that the red jacket wearing captain had dropped his weapons. Getting up calmly, Dave proceeds to punch him in the face. And again. And again. Each punch seems to get faster, until he is releasing a furry of punches that smash against Red-Jacket's head, the sound seems to be echoing, with his unique battle cry.

"DORARARARARARARARARARARARARARA!" His fists get a bit bloody, but he completes the combo with a, "ASHI SWEEP!", sweeping the captain off his ship and into the sea. Picking up his hat, that he somehow dropped during the fight, he wears it and goes over to look at the situation regarding the hostage.

[Anirion]

(OOC Comment: Sorry this is too short, couldn't think of more to write in that time duration.)

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Jack still have the pirates backing off from Jack's safe zone, he aims the gun at any pirate who looks like they are about to try anything. From what could be heard from outside of the boat, it sounds like a intense battle is going on. "You hear that? I'll go check I'm sure the captain is winning." then the pirate walks over to show a shocked face. "The hell? this guy is equally taking on the captain! the captains losing from the looks of it... if he wins..." the pirates then look at each other, looking at Jack and seeing no way to get to him. One of them grabs a spear, then saying "Seems like I have no choice, I have to try." he then throws a spear right at where Jack is supposed to be, Jack reacting fast enough to jump out of the way, but no longer being in his safe zone, before he could quickly retaliate and jump back in he gets grabbed by one of the pirates.

They then go to the front of the ship with what numbers they have left, fortifying heavily in one spot, one pirate is especially holding Jack tight at the back of the formation and he's holding the pistol Jack had directly to Jack's head. "Don't try anything dumb, I'll shoot this time if you do and I don't care what the captain says if I do kill you." yikes, Jack is in quite a sticky situation here now. His only hope left is riding on the guy to beat the captain and hopefully beat these guys.