Freaks among Freaks (open)

[Farris (Kuro)]

The log pose had lead the little girl and her large robot companion to the nearest inhabited Island to that of the one she had came to on. Traveling with Nine-ball was fast, they had reached the Island in only a day or so, but the little inventor was still a growing child and needed food. She hadn't eaten since they left Mihawk's castle. She frowned already missing the scary, vampire-looking man... especially his cooking but that was to be expected when you were hungry. "Nine-ball, I think I want to get out here, the log pose seems to be telling use to stop anyway." She told her mechanical friend, ready to disembark from the cockpit.

Once she had, Iria would look around and ask about the Island and the people and hopefully wouldn't sound too odd. Her long brown hair and clothing didn't look to odd but her bubblegum pink eyes sorta stood out. The 10 year old would beckon for Nine-ball to follow her into town, as she saw one a short distance away from the hills they landed on. This still left the question of how she was going to get food... Likely her money was far too old to be accepted, but she'd just have to think of something and figure out what to do about the log pose...

[Die]

Though it was considered to be the nearest island to where they had come from, it still was a ways a way. Within a day they had arrived to their destination. Nine-Ball nosed down through the clouds, coming down over the island. It's arms and legs unfolded as its lower half flipped down, allowing the robot to return to its normal mode. It slowly hovered over the ground before its feet touched down and deactivated its boosters.

Its head slid forward and tucked in, revealing the cockpit hatch which too slid open, allowing the little girl to clamber out of the cramped cockpit and breath in the fresh air of the island. Though at first glance, the place did not appear to be very fresh. It was actually as dark and dreary as Kuraigana Island. This was also the island of the dreaded Longarm Tribe, though neither Nine-Ball nor Iria knew this.

Its optics scanned the surrounding area, taking note of a town not too far from where their current position up on the hills. Nine-Ball then allowed the girl to walk onto its hand and placed her down on the ground. She began to walk towards the island, beckoning the robot to follow her, which it did.

[SHADE SMASH]

The towering figure of a man could be seen, standing above even the tallest of trees as he observed his surroundings with a calm disposition. His left arm held a something as it rested obediently over his heart, and if one was to carefully examine the symbols that graced the item, one would realize that it is a book labeled "Bible". For anyone knowledgable of the Shichibuki, one could instantly realize with a pale face that this man was nowhere near ordinary. He was none other than the Pacifista known as Bartholomew Kuma!

Why was the widely known tyrannical man here? Well, overhearing news of the whereabouts of a specific strawhat, he was ordered here by the marines to make sure that such a thing was untrue! Although he would have simply came and went on his merry way to report a false report, he wanted to know for himself if the skeleton man was indeed doing well here. He wanted to do his best to be secretive about it too, therefore hiding out in the trees and using good sight to track the mans wherabouts, but how much hiding could a seven foot man really accomplish?

Standing their as still as a statue, even with the most strongest of gales unable to push the stubborn fellow, only accomplishing to move his hair and crinkle up the mans odd hat. Then, out of the blue, there was a noise. It was a very soft sound and a dificult one to hear, but the man heard it no less and acknowledged it with the slight turn of his head, his eyes searching for the source.

There. He thought, spotting an interesting craft land on the island. It seemed like a full robot, but never before had he really encountered something so complexly seeming and thats saying something with all the time he spent with (that man whose name i forgot starting with a v and maybe ending with a punk.).

Moving his limbs for what seemed to be the first time in hours, he decided to further investigate who these people were before he left.

[Farris (Kuro)]

Iria had started off in the direction of town, before she heard the sound of movement. It seemed like their was someone else was outside the town beside Iria and Nineball. She stopped and gave her companion a curious look. "Nineball, did you detect anyone out here when we landed?" She asked him. She was sure that there were bio signs but wasn't sure if there were people outside of the village. Nine ball was a large mech and that meant that he might scare people so she had to make sure and prepare them for him first otherwise their might be trouble like their was with Mihawk when the three first met.

After a moment, Iria cleared her throat and said, "H-Hello? Is someone there?" She asked politely, although a bit hesitantly. She was also on her guard as though this was the nearest town that didn't make it the safest. At least there wasn't any Vampires like she thought Mihawk was (and still wasn't fully convinced he wasn't one, but he was a nice Vampire at least). After a moment of fidgeting the little girl realized that if there was someone, they might be scared of Nineball. "Oh! Me and Nineball aren't mean people so don't be scared." She added as an after thought. Her hunger subsiding in light of her curiosity of the idea of someone nearby.

[Die]

((Kuma's like 22 feet tall o3o))

It was apparent to Nine-Ball after the fact it had landed on the island that they were not the only ones on the island outside of the down. Having switched to thermal vision, the robot could see a massive heat signature not too far from where they were. In that instand, a small window to the side of its vision opened up, which showed a list of people registered in the World Government's database. It kept scrolling until it ran a positive ID on Bartholomew Kuma. "Iria," it said in its monotonous voice. "Stay behind"

The robot lifted its right arm and aimed it right at the Shichibukai. Two machine gun barrel extended from its arm. It knew the inherent danger of a Shichibukai on the island. Though it did not know what he was doing here on the island, which was search for a Straw Hat pirate, it still interpreted his presence as a threat as it was approaching them. "Halt. Shichibukai Bartholomew Kuma" it said. If the Shichibukai did not halt his advance, Nine-Ball would open a barrage of 30mm armor-piercing incendiary rounds.

[SHADE SMASH]

Kuma continued his small movements toward them, somehow making his steps lighter so that the earth didn't tremble to his every movement as he made his way towards the duo. The girl obviously seemed frightened and she had an odd looking robot beside her. It became clear her name was Iria when the robot spoke and Kuma wondered momentarily if he had any sort of free will in this predicament or if he too was to be subject to a life as he was. However, he suddenly stopped in his tracks when it suddenly spoke his name, but not because he commanded him to halt. More out of slight shock over his quick reveal.

Even though his face stayed monogamous, his thoughts were racing on how much of a nuisances these two will prove to be if it ever got out that Kuma was on the same island as a strawhat and did nothing. It proved to be extremely problematic. He had to get rid of them before any more got out about his presence here and hopefully they haven't stayed long enough to even discover the strawhat presence on the island.

He once again resumed his movement towards the two, prepared to cast his hand forth if the machine decided to actually wield that gun of his. A frightening aura enveloped him moved his hand ever so slightly, putting his head down before suddenly appearing before the young girl.

"If you were to go on a trip...where would you like to go?" He asked, as he moved his hand towards her.

[Farris (Kuro)]

The brunette ten year old looked up at her friend puzzled. What was a Shichibukai? It didn't sound like something she wanted to find out about, especially with how on guard it put Nine-Ball. "Nine-Ball... I-I'm scared." She said in a tiny almost unaudiable voice. Then there it was right before she knew it a Giant of a man, well not quiet a Giant... They were much larger. But a very,very large Human, suddenly was standing before her. The towering man held a bible in his hand and seemed to have a lot of cybernetic implantations. Her large bubblegum pink eyes looked at him for a brief moment wondering what sorta parts he was made with and what functions he had before hearing him address her with not a "Hello, My name is ____." or anything along the lines of a normal greeting.

Where a proper greeting should have been for any polite individual, a scary aura, a descending palm and the words, "If you were to go on a trip...where would you like to go?" were. That's when her pink eyes widened with fear. "...Mommy... I-I wanna go some place safe..." She said loosing herself in fear at the intimidating form of Bartholomew Kuma was about to lay a hand on the small inventor. At that moment the large shichibukai was perhaps more frightening than Vampire Mihawk... with the lights turned on, but still more than enough to terrify a ten year old girl.

[SHADE SMASH]

His padded palm finally descended onto her head where it rested momentariously, taking in her request to be near her mother into account. As wierd as it sounded, he did in fact take serious thought into where people went and he was sure this one would be safe on an island widely known for it's robots. He knew they were of course no contest to the one she had beside her, but it was still a quaint place where she may feel better and safer than here on the grandline.

Although his thought sounded long, it occured for just a split second as she suddenly appeared to go to the island of which he thought of. He stood there momentarily, taking care to judge his surroundings and what the robot was about to do next to him moving his hand from the place Iria's head once was and placing it back by his side. Suddenly, he moved almost at the speed of sound, placing himself on the otherside of the robot fearless of whatever attacks were being sent his way as he once again repeated the question.

"If you were to go on a trip...where would you like to go?"

If the robot did not reply to his question by the time his hand descended onto his head, then he would just send him somewhere near where the girl was since his fruit kept him from sending more than one person to the same place. His fruits weakness was similar to that of lightning.

(this way Sukka can reply saying that he disappeared and I could start concentrating on the arc!)

[Die]

The robot had watched as the Shichibukai worked his powers on her, sending her to a place faraway. Calculations of trajectories took place at lightspeed within its systems. From the looks of things, she was headed for North Blue. The robot began to feel something, but it was unsure as to what it even was. It felt something though, as if its AI core had sunk even though it did not move in its locked position. Was this a feeling of...sadness? Nine-Ball fired several rounds at Kuma, enough to do some noticeable damage, but all of them had missed as he had used his powers to travel in the blink of an eye.

"If you were to go on a trip...where would you like to go?" asked the Shichibukai.

Nine-Ball did not answer as his hand made contact with the armored robot. In the blink of an eye, it vanished from where it stood. Thirty feet of metal, gone just like that. It was unable to calculate its trajectory as its navigation systems went haywire from the sudden change in position before calming down and being able to function. However, Nine-Ball was traveling too fast to get an accurate fix on its path of travel.

It was heading for South Blue.