*Serious: Hawks adventure in Treagon ; Magician meets Inventor (CLOSED)

Zuro decides to attack head on, making an over the shoulder strike at the nearest marine as he pulls something flexible from the inside of his coat in his left hand. Allowing the force from the strike to spin him around, he follows up with a fiery trail from the peculiar whip-like weapon that is now in his left hand.

Hawks dagger's tail grows larger and he sends it like a whip at the marines, taking out 2-3 in the process. With his other hand, Hawks fire using his flintlock. "You have an interesting arsenal" he comments on Zuro's attacks.

Zuro blocked two incoming sword strikes with the katana, an flicked the bladed whip at two of the other marines, felling them with a combination of blades and fire. "One of my inventions." Zuro replies.

(OOC Maybe you should introduce that Miss you said earlier, you know, the station's leader)

"Quite magnificent" Hawks comments "You are capable enough of a fighter and your skills in inventing will be useful for the crew."
Sasori attacks a marine by stinging him with poison. "That dagger "ate" a DF, quite interesting, na ?"

"I've heard of that phenomenon" Zuro replied, seeing that the marines were done for. Then he heard steps and he looked towards the stairs "These are the criminals, Ensign Wright" a marine accompanying the Ensing said. "Oh" came the reply "I know you" Wright shot a cold glare toward Zuro, drew a pair of pistols and fired them both, one toward Hawks and one toward Zuro.
Zuro leaped just in time, reaching inside the coat and switching the fire-whip for a half-shell. "See? She's a pain."

Hawks's Sasori blocks the bullet. "So she's the big head huh ? She seems a pain." Hawks comments. "Does she have any abilities ?"

"Not as far as I know." Zuro leaped forward towards the ensign, clicking the hose for the shell into place, he pointed the shell's open side towards Wright who, dropping into a stance, knocked the shell off and misaiming the blast with one gun and trying to drop a shot at Zuro with the other, only to get the pistol redirected by Zuro's hand. "Marines, get the other fugitive, I can handle this!" Wright shouted orders. The marines who had come with her, charged past Zuro and Wright to attack Hawks.

Hawks comments "We are the Black Cross Pirates" He whistles and the marines start holding their ears and stumbling. He then prepares to attack seriously, holding both his swords close to him and taking his stance.

"That supposed to scare us?" one of the marines shouts as he raises his sword, bringing it down towards Hawks, with the other four doing much the same thing.
Wright knocked Zuro's Directional bomb back a bit more and pulled the gun back, trying to shoot, only for Zuro to release the other gun and slash at the other with a sword, throwing it's bullet way off course. He then tried to use the bomb again, but Wright moved to the side and pistol whipped Zuro in the head, sending him stumbling towards the wall. She then fired a salvo at him, but he evaded to the side.

"Oh, above average grunts ?" Hawks comments. He then moves towards them at very high speed "Trick slash" he widens the swords and attack with such force it does damage in a small area.

"You've left me no choice." Zuro leaps up to avoid the barrage of bullets and re-stores the shell, taking it off from the hose. He then pulled a dagger on the run and made a wide sweeping strike at Wright's gun with his katana, throwing one of them away. Wright dodged backwards and dropped the other, drawing a pair of combat knives and blocking the subsequent dagger strike with them. Wright sent a return strike with one knife, which Zuro dodged, trying to break Wright's block with the katana, and attacked with the dagger again, with the strike getting dodged again.
The marines didn't even see Hawks as he careened past them with his attack, three of them falling right out and two getting severe cuts.

Hawks stands looking at Wright "At this point, the town's marine forces are on the hijacked train. You are at your weakest position. Accept defeat and give up. Show us the cells where his crew is held. Theres no way you can beat ... the 4 of us." Hawks comments, starting to talk a bit slow again.

Wright clenched her teeth and after a couple of seconds, dropped her knives. "Fine, pirates. I know an impossible fight when I see one" She put her hands up. Zuro sheathed his katana, but not the dagger. "Don't try anything funny, one nick from this, and you're done." Keeping the dagger at a striking range from the ensign, he let her lead them further into the complex.

Hawks nods to Zuro and says that Martha is around here, if something comes up, she will back them up "She is probably our crew's most dangerous person" he whispers. He then talks to Wright "Sasori is a scorpion, he can feel vibration changes that no other creature can, if you are up to something, he will be the first to know ..."

Wright simply nods, gulps and continues walking, threatened by the two extremely dangerous weapons. She turns a corner, hands still up and walks to a group of cells, containing 3 men and two women. The look up lazily, their eyes brightening "Hey! Zuro!" "I knew he'd get us" one of the other said.
"Which one of those is the key to this" Zuro asked Wright sharply looking at the chain full of keys at her waist. "Third from the left." Wright answered. Zuro took the key from the chain and opened the cell. "Okay guys, now we need to get out of here.. but. I won't be going with you."

Hawks looks at Zuro's former crew. "You are free to go, there are some small vessels at the port that are unguarded, at this point the town is in crisis so its the best timing for you to escape this place."
Marine, thank you for your cooperation, but now we must knock you down just in case..."
Martha, who was somehow clinked on the ceiling, falls down and injects Wright with a dose of scorpion poison, that was inside a needle "Its a light dose, so you wont die." Hawks comments and nods that they must go now.

"We need to get to ship." Zuro holsters his dagger back inside the labcoat as the former crew starts running out. Zuro simply keeps a walking pace "There might be marines on the way."

"I believe we dont have to worry about that." Martha comments and giggles devilishly. As they get out, they see roughly 8-10 marine grunts's bodies lying around slashed in various parts of their bodies. "This is disturbing." Hawks comments and Martha merely nods. "Lets go."
However some marines left are coming to the station, some1 managed to inform of an attack.

Zuro simply follows Martha and Hawks. "What's been going on to keep the marines so busy? With all the hiding, I haven't been able to keep up on the happenings here."

Martha explains, since Hawks has started talking slow again. "There is a notorious group of pirates that have hijacked a train that was having an important Goverment official on it. This island's marine forces along with 2 more squads directly from the Marine HQ are trying to regain control. We are here cause our captain sees this a good opportunity to enter the Shichibukai, sweetie." She ends with a rather cute (Oh God she's a granny xD) word.
Hawks comments that Zuro is lucky, being "spotted" by them at such a crisis, and that he expects him to be a special addition due to "fate".
(OOC This is actually happening, its in the role play page lol)

(OOC: that's the Shootout in Treagon thread right?)
"Oh okay" Zuro just says "No wonder the marines are thinly spread. Are we going to go in to help captain, or shall we just wait?"

(Yep, let's say that this was happening at the same time as the events there, so we can join in, its cool, supposedly in that other thread everyone was waiting for some time, so we say that your char joining happened during that period, it fits well)

Hawks comments that its best that they also go there, it would also be a good cover for what they did at the base. "Let's go, Martha, you steer the ship!"

"Okay then. How long till we get there?" Zuro asks "I might be able to make some more explosives in the meantime. It sounds like I'll need all the help I can get."

"It should take half an hour, do the best you can" Hawks slowly comments and they set off. He then says "Welcome btw.''

- THREAD CLOSED

(Well, we will enter the other thread soon, so no need to reply here dude)