Serious: The Dusk Pirates; Chapter 4: The big move (Open to the Dusk Pirates)

Frank was on the brink of sleep when the elevator door opened behind his head. "Can't you see I'm trying to get some rest?!" Frank shouted, turning his head to see who disturbed him. Frank turned his head only to face a gun barrel staring at him from point blank range. "What the hell?!" He shouted, jumping up to his feet. But, before he managed to do anything, Miguel shot him thrice, hitting his back.

The zombie's body became stiff when the first bullet hit it, but by the time the last one did, he was lying on the snow, limp as a dead body, after all, he was one. No blood came out of his wounds, since dead bodies don;t bleed. His face was buried deep in the snow and all three bullets could be seen jammed into his lats and lower back. He didn't make a sound, nor did he make a movement, he was just lying there.

Ellen merely watched and panted heavily from where she stood, quite exhausted after manging to rush into level five, and the fact that the energy pill was getting nearer and nearer to it's effect ending wasn't helping. Damn it! I never should of tooken that stupid pill! I was fine anyways, huh like hell, I was starving in that cell so it wasn't gonna change how weak I was then, luckily the only thing I need enery for is to throw my beauties. God sake Ellen suck it up and just toss some bombs around., she thought to herself, watching the battle between the wovles, and managing to light one of her cherry bombsand toss it one of the wolves, watching with satisfaction as it exploded in a bright yekllow of fiery pain as it knocked a few of the wolves away a few feet, and badly burning them, a few actually set on fire. As she grinned at this she saw an elevator slam down and open up to reveal Migule, much to Ellens dismay and fear. "Damn it!" she cried out, still breathing heavily, as she lthrew another of her cherry bombs at the chief guard, leaving her with merely three of them left in the tube.

As Koga was injected with Quincy's SIQ, he could feel the blood in his body flowing faster and faster. The big amounts of SIQ he received helped his body grow bigger and bigger in an extremely rapid rate, doubling his tiny body in size, as well as his shell. Along with that increase, the turtle received a boost in his lifespan because of the drug's effects and his strength was increased. Under normal circumstances, the drug would make the turtle more aggresive, but as Koga had already eaten IQ and gained human intelligence, that was slightly changed, making the turtle aggresive only in a case in which he would be engaged in a battle.

The turtle started crying as he was getting treated by Quincy. The tears were coming out of his eyes and were falling on the frozen ground in the same way they fell before when he was crying for R.A.M. 2. The turtle couldn't help his cyborg friend and now he was unable to help Alexander and Quincy. That hurt him very much... Especially in his heart. He thought that he was about to die and that these were his last moments. He was prepared to close his eyes and let his soul leave his body for all eternity. However, before the turtle did so, he received a steroid from the doctor of the crew, making his wound on his chest close. The turtle was recovering, thanks to his doctor. While closing his eyes that were full of tears, he opened them completely in an instant. With his double in size body that was not as tiny as before, but still quite big, he stood on his feet. He was prepared to take on the wolf that attacked his nakama...

The turtle looked at the wolf with a serious look on his face. This time, Koga was not as cheerful as he used to be. The SIQ's effect made him more aggresive while in battles and so he was determined to take on the wolf and defeat it. Seeing it dodging Alexander's attack at the last second with difficulty, he was more than ready to attack it. He said "Turtle...Fishman..." as he started concentrating his energy around his muscles, making his body go through a transformation. His muscles started taking the shape of a human body and his height started increasing to the point that he was almost 1,85 meters tall, much like a normal human. His legs took human form, as well as his arms. He had three fingers on each hand and three fingers on each leg, while he had a very big "X" shaped scar on his chest and a bald head. His skin color was green and he looked a lot like a turtle fishman...

"Thanks Quincy..." he said as he grabbed his shell with his newfound power. The power that he got thanks to the Energy Steroid and the SIQ was something more than enough. While he was in the Turtle Fishman form, he would be much stronger than usual as well, even if that was only a short period of time. He had to attack the wolf with an attack that would finish it off completely. "Get lost..." he said as he moved the shell forward quickly and whispering "Shellwave." before using the technique on the air, apparently creating a medium sized shockwave, much like Maximillion that hit the wolf and broke its bones easily, probably because of the power boost Koga received thanks to the steroids.

Seeing what happened, Koga started sweating, even if the area around him was cold. He was too tired from using that technique that he fell on his knees and his vision started getting blurry. He said while taking a deep breath "Sorry... for being weak... Alexander... Quincy...". The turtle was ashamed of himself, even if he just defeated the powerful beast of the fifth floor of the underwater prison. Now, the turtle was in need of assistance from his crew members, probably because his body was worn out... He was so tired from using a technique he had never used before and the body couldn't stand the sudden changes, at all.

Meanwhile, near the elevator...

Seeing the zombie falling on the ground, Miguel laughed and looked at him. He slowly walked towards him and stepped on him in order to show that he was superior compared to him. He said "One down..." with an evil look on his face, before noticing Ellen that launched a cherry bomb towards him. Without losing any time, he used a strange technique to disappear from his spot and reappear behind her dodging the bomb and making it explode inside the elevator. The elevator broke down and it fell downwards, probably to the last level of the prison. Then, he raised his gun once again and shot three times, just like he did before, aiming for the woman's arms so that she would be unable to throw any bombs with them at all. Miguel was more than serious...

Quincy couldn't believe what happened to Koga....his body had completely changed. It was bigger and faster much like himself. He would have to experiment on this more on other animals. "Koga what the hell happened to you? You look different." It was clear that Koga wasn't in the mood to talk. Then he knocked the wolf out in one single attack. The result of Quincy's treatmen were incredible! Quincy ran to help Koga "Weak Nonsense! There are no weak dusk pirates. Just overpowered villians ha ha ha ha. You might want to rest for awhile."

As soon as he listened to the words of his comrade, Koga started smiling, even if his body was in pain. He said "Tuhahahahahahaha. You might be right..." as more sweat started coming out of his body. He moved his right hand on the frozen ground and touched it. He could not even stand on his legs. "All these things... These sudden changes to my body and that new technique I used... They really exhausted me..." he said and his body turned to that of his normal form, as he was unable to stand the form at all...

Meanwhile, in the Tarai Current... The ships that started sailing from Marineford towards Impel Down in order to help the prison officers deal with the invaders had almost arrived. The underwater prison could not be seen from the place they were at, but it would be a matter of time for them to reach them... In a few minutes, the marines would finally arrive at the place! What would happen when the Dusk Pirates would encounter the Exi-Generals again? They definitely wouldn't have a party...

As Ellen's cherry bomb exploded, she smiled in relife that it hit it's target, as the elevator tumbled downwards to whatever was held bellow, and taking the chief guard with it. Or so she thought. She then felt asd if someone was about to stab her in the back and turned round in confusion to see none other than Chief Guard Migule right behind her. "Awwww crap!", she exclaimed fearfully, as he shot her in the arms, to which she cried out in pain, and admedietly started running. [/i] Damn it, I'm useless like this! I've got to warn the others first, the sooner they know the better chance they have against him! I'm just lucky that he only took out my arms.[i], she thought to herself panicly, seeing the wolves and the Dusk pirates battle it out in the distance.

Miguel smiled as he looked at the girl that was running away from him in order to escape from her doom. Definitely, if she stayed with him, she would end up dying by the shots of his gun. However, even if she tried to run away, she would eventually die, too. With an evil look on his face, the former Warden of the prison disappeared from his previous spot and appeared next to her. He was so fast that it looked like he was teleporting... That man was a very dangerous enemy. Upon arriving next to her, he raised his gun and pointed towards her leg. He shot twice so that she would fall down and would not run away from him anymore... He only hoped that she would be hit by the attack, something that was not difficult since he was aiming at her from a very close distance.

Upon listening to the shots, Koga tried to look around. He could barely see two figures... Somebody of the two had shot each other. However, the distance was quite big so it was difficult to recognise Ellen and Miguel... He said to Alexander and to Quincy "What...is...going on...there..." while taking deep breaths so that his body would rest from all these sudden changes.

As Ellen ran she stared in shock as Migule suddenly appeared in front of her, to which she tried to swerve round him but found her leg was shot and started to tumble across the ground for a while. she tried to get up, but the suddenly she felt as if she was going to collapse. "Damnit, the pill has to run out now?", she complained, as she struggled to remain concious, before she collapsed into the complete opposite.

"I am sorry lady... This is where you die..." Miguel said with a smile on his face as he pointed towards Ellen's head with his gun in order to shoot her to death. "Miss Niarbel... It is a shame that you killed my subordinate. You see, out of all these pirates, you are the one I wanted to kill first. You are the one whose existence I wanted to eliminate more than anything... These foolish pirates I sent to level 4... Clayman... I hired those idiots because of Clayman's Bomb Bomb ability... Too bad the bastard failed before killing you.". Then he stopped for a moment and sighed. He stretched himself, while still pointing towards the woman and kicked her in the face violently (no damage intended, just for the scene). He continued saying to her "Where is your strength now, huh? Where are your bombs? Pirate scum... It's the end for you!" and was ready to pull the trigger to shoot her in order to kill her...

Meanwhile, somewhere else...

In a dark room, a man walks towards a bed. He says "Wake up. We got to get moving..."

"Not bad Koga," Alexander murmured. "Not bad at all."

The young man was going to sheath his sword, but then he spotted Ellen, who was under assault by Miguel. In an instant, Alexander was gone. He reappeared in front of Miguel and slashed at his gun, attempting to cut it in half or at least knock its barrel away from Ellen.

"I've had enough!" Alexander roared in a voice that didn't sound quite like his own.

"No, you haven't had anything..." Miguel said with a serious voice as he disappeared from his previous spot, making Alexander's sword attack slash the air instead of him. The Chief Guard reappeared behind his enemy and his gun was safe and sound. He raised his gun and said "I am the one who had enough..." as he raised his gun and shot twice, aiming for the place on Alexander's back from which his wings came out. If he hit him in the basement of his wings, it would be difficult for him to fly... And he hoped that he would hit him as Alexander was probably very tired since he had been in many battles before.

Meanwhile, seeing Alexander moving towards the two people, Koga started realising that something was going on... He jumped to the ground from Quincy's legs and now in his turtle form, he started walking slowly towards Miguel, Alexander, Ellen and Frank in order to see what was going on... He did not know what he was about to encounter... He would get engaged in a battle in his current state, something that would be fatal for him...

And in the meantime, in the Tarai Current...

At the deck of his ship, Manolo is staring at Impel Down... The man could see the underwater prison from afar... It would be a matter of minutes until he and the rest of the Exi-Generals arrived at the place... And when they arrived, they would definitely take their revenge for what the Dusk Pirates did to them in G-8... Especially Manolo who had to ensure that they would not say anything about Zigfreed's mysterious disappearance...

Wako watched as a man beat Ellen by kicking her. He was going to intervene till a man with a sword stopped the attack. After that Wako had much more important things to do... one being writing his name on the snow. Wako went inside a bush, as the small sound of someone relaxing was let lose from the bush. Wako returned out with WAKO (In yellow letters) spelled on the snow, he was satisfied with his work. The environment was not something that Wako was used to, since in level 3 the only problem was the Heat, there was never any sort of cold, he had NO immunity towards it. After leaving the area he was in and shivering he noticed the Gunman was not actually hit, he fired 2 shots at the swordsmens back, Wako could not let this opportunity pass since He himself hadn't had an actual battle. Running as fast as he could Wako appeared behind the gunner, "Bottle opener!" taking his 1 foot boot and swinging it towards the gunners face. "HAHAHAHAHA!!!! I haven't had any fun yet, Care to entertain me Miguel?" as the warden Wako had to know him, he recognized him as he got near him.

The bullets never reached Alexander's natural flesh. The young man let out a scream of fury and black, scaly wings burst from his shoulder blades and blocked the bullets. They did not totally absorb the impact and since Alexander was in midair, he was pushed forward a couple of feet, but he was up and whirling on Miguel within a second. It was almost like Alex had taken control of their body again. Alexander was breathing heavily and there was a strange, murderous light in his eyes.

"I HATE YOU!" he yelled at the top of his lungs.

Wako's sudden interference caught Alexander off guard and for a moment, that strange light vanished to be replaced by a confused expression. Alexander floated back and reached up to touch his head with his good hand. He looked from Miguel to Wako and then back again, frowning like he didn't know where he was or what he was doing.

"R-Right," Alexander said. "You take care of things...whoever you are..."

Oooooh...what was that? Alex groaned. I completely lost control there for a second. Usually I can kinda operate as your co-pilot and step in when you need me to, but for a moment there it was like you pushed me out of the cockpit completely.

"I know what you mean," Alexander murmured, as he reached down and seized Ellen by her elbow. He was so focused on his conversation that he did not even realize her arm was damaged. He began flying backwards, dragging her along with him as he continued his conversation, "I felt the same way. We should investigate this phenomenon later. For now, let us seek medical attention for our wounded ally."

Miguel spinned his body at the right gracefully, dodging Wako's attack effortlessly. As soon as he dodged, he disappeared from his spot using the strange technique he was using before and reappeared on the top of a building that happened to be around. He stared at the Dusk Pirates. He could see all of them from the building... Quincy could be seen afar, Koga was coming towards them, Ellen was lying unconscious on the frozen ground in a similar way with Frank and Alexander and Wako were kind of safe. Two of the Dusk Pirates were unable to battle and two of them seemed to be in normal condition... He just had to concentrate on them... The Chief Guard and former Warden would take on Alexander and Wako in an all-out battle. Without even thinking about it, he raised his hand with his gun and reloaded his weapon. Afterwards, he shot towards Alexander twice and towards Wako twice, too, aiming to hit Alexander on his hands and Wako on his legs...

Meanwhile, at some corridors... A man is walking down the stairs... The man is walking slowly and his face cannot be seen because of the lack of light at the stairs...

Quincy ran toward Miguel in order to help his friends. He couldn't use his chemical juggling because his friends were so close. Quincy figured that he wouldn't expect an attack from him, so he leaped toward the stranger and proceded to deliver a fist full of dusk justice. He had fired upon a woman and Alexander. Quincy couldn't let him hurt anymore people. That only made more work for him.

"HAHAHA!! I'll take care of this man, i owe him alot after all!!, don't interfere!" Wako jumped with the bullets aiming at his feet, running towards his opponent as the bullets hit the ground under him. Wako was going crazy as he ran towards Miguel, he was certain he would have fun with him. Using his incredible speed Wako jumped on the building and used its rubble to get to Miguel,"Margarita SPIN!!" Taking his Foot Wako spinned forward in a fast manner while a few feet from him, Having his foots heel aim towards hitting Miguel in the top of his head.

Miguel smiled as he raised his leg and blocked the kick attack of his enemy with his own, while he moved his left hand to grab and block Quincy's fist that was going to punch him. He looked at both of them seriously and said "Imbeciles..." as he jumped high afterwards, and escaped from them quite easily. Then, while keeping his serious look, just like most times, he raised his gun and attempted to shoot towards Wako with his gun, while aiming for his leg in an attempt to damage him and most importantly weaken the body part that he used the most in his battles... That was his plan...

Meanwhile, Koga was staring at his friends that were trying their best to stop the extremely strong guard. He wanted to help them, but his body could not let him help them. He was so tired from the sudden transformations that he was not ready yet to go to assist them. He knew that he would be better soon, but the question was... When would he be in a good shape to go and help his friends?!

And at the same time, in level 4...

Manta smiled as he placed his scythe back on his back. He smiled and he turned his head towards his crew members. He could see most of them there... None of them helped him at all with his enemies, but that wasn't a real problem at all... The temporary captain of the Dusk Pirates looked at his clothes. They were completely covered in red because of the blood of the guards he killed. He started licking his clothes for a while to taste the blood of his enemies. A few seconds later, he stopped and started moving on the corpses of his enemies. He said "It was a shame that you attacked me... Have a nice time in afterlife..." and he dropped his coat on the floor in order to give a "gift" to his victims for their travel to the other world... That man was completely crazy...

Then, he turned his head towards his crew members. He was ready to say to them to start going to the next floor... However, something strange was going on... Somebody was missing... And that man was the weirdo he found in level 3, who created darkness around him... Dio was out of Manta's sight...

Gabriel, who was busy singing and killing men in his raspy voice, then saw Manta in the distance. Since Manta seemed to be the 'mastermind' behind this breakout, he viewed him as his leader. He walked over to Manta, greeting anyone who tried to stop him with a barrage of bullets and when he reached him he looked up.

"What do you need now sir?" he asked in a childish voice, swinging his sword about

Wako Jumped once again, using his legs muscles he was able to jump high quite easily, having both the bullets hit where he would've been. "HAHAHA, lets get more serious Warden!!" Tapping both his feet in mid air, 2 swords popped out of the front of the shoe, each 1 foot in height. Making himself lean downwards towards his opponent Wako took 4 blue marbles and threw them around him, the clear liquid was a specialty of Wako able to make things slippery and hard to move around, the marbles were blue therefore barely noticeable in the white snow surrounding the area, once they popped on the ground each marble left a foot of the slime around Miguel, each clear and unsealable in the snow, making it a surprise. Wako finally took a red marble, knowing his opponent woundn't be able to fathom what Wako was doing, and threw it on the area he threw the clear liquid. Once the red Marble touched the ground it let out an explosion, directly in front of Miguel, along with that the almost invisible liquid around Miguel turned on fire, Burning him if hit.

Wako landed 30 feet from Miguel, getting ready for a counter if necessary.

Alexander moved his scaly wings in the way of the bullets, grunting as they slammed into him. Alone they were not painful. However, the force of the shots rattled his body and, of course, his injuries.

Alexander decided not to retaliate. Miguel had enough trouble as it was. So the swordsman saw no need for him to get involved as well. He continued to drag Ellen from the fight and set her down in a corner where her injuries would be frozen by the snow. Hopefully that would keep her from dying of blood loss. The biggest danger for her now was frostbite.

Manta smiled to the boy as he took a look at him... That boy was very strange, yet he liked him very much. He said while keeping the evil smile he had "Well, well, well... What I need at the moment has no importance at all. We will wait over here and we will guard the place so that no guards will move to level 4. Now, tell me... What is your name?". The man was definitely a great tactician... Would his plan about guarding the place work or not?!

Meanwhile, in level 5...

Miguel sighed as he looked at his enemy that was desperately attacking him in order to defeat him. With little to no effort, Miguel kicked the ground with force, giving himself force to jump high and he jumped on the air, dodging the attack. While he was on the air, his legs reached the top of the floor. As soon as they did, he pushed his body downwards and he was moving fast towards Wako in an attempt to attack him with a kick on the face that would cause him a little bit damage.

Looks like that clown guy is having some trouble, Alex commented.

"He'll be fine," Alexander replied. "And if he isn't..." He shrugged. "No great loss, I suppose. He is a newbie after all."

So is girl you saved, Alex pointed out.

"She was already beaten and I had a chance to save her," Alexander said calmly. "You know how I hate to waste resources."

You are so weird, Alex told him.

[OOC: In case Sk doesn't come back, I'll be using his char as a NPC because he was important for the thread]

As Miguel was about to kick Wako with his powerful kick, something unexpected happened. A huge muscular man with white haired and a body that was quite injured moved in front of him. The man raised his arm in order to block the kick with it in order to block the attack... And that man was none other than Quincy, the doctor of the Dusk Pirates who just entered the battle in order to help his friends and stop the dangerous Chief Guard before it was too late.

In order to avoid Quincy, as he knew that if he went with his kick attack against his concentrated and powerful guard he would lose, Miguel spinned his body and landed on the ground safe and sound, without any harm on his body at all. He smiled and said "So... All against one, huh? Interesting...". Then, he disappeared for a second and reappeared next to Frank. He pointed towards the dead-looking zombie, showing him to his comrades in order to scare them off. "Hahahaha! Look, Dusk Pirates! That man was the first one to fall? Who is going to be next? Ahahahahahaha!". The brutal Chief Guard was more than serious...

Seeing this, Koga started crying. Apparently, the turtle had probably lost one more of his comrades and the first one he got to know. The Dusk Pirates started with Maximillion, Koga and Frank. The turtle started thinking of moments with Frank. He remembered the time, he, Maximillion and Frank were sailing for the first time. Maximillion was using his shockwaves to make the ship move faster while the others were kind of against it... He used to have fun with the zombie as much as he had with R.A.M. 2... Koga was looking at his friends getting defeated one by one and that hurt him a lot... But little did he know, that he was wrong... Very wrong...

A white guard wolf was passing behind Miguel. The wolf knew that when Miguel was involved, he should stay away from whoever he is trying to kill. The wolf was there for another reason, he sniffed someone Miguel has already killed: Frank.

As the animal's pitch-black nose danced as it prepared for a feast, A twitch passed down Frank's back. The animal opened it's jaws and moved in to take a chunk out of Frank shoulder, but as it did, a huge purple hand grabbed it's snout and closed it's mouth shut.

It was Frank, who finally came around after getting shot by Miguel. The zombie couldn't die from such wounds, but they were still as painful as they were to any other man. With the wolf unable to get free from the zombie's grip, or make any sound with it's mouth closed against it's tongue, Frank got up slowly, behind Miguel who was busy trash talking about him. His eyes caught Koga's for a brief moment, to tell him without words that everything was fine, a task that was not easy without any pupils in his eyes.

While Miguel was talking to the Dusk pirates, a raging voice boomed from behind him. "Apparently you never fought a zombie..." Frank then moved his face over Miguels shoulder and shouted right into his ear: "BOOOOOOOOOH!". As he did so, he threw the white wolf away from him, sending him flying for a few meters, and sent the mightiest punch he could muster, aimed at Miguel's head.

While Miguel was showing Frank's body that was lying on the ground, Quincy and Koga started smiling as they saw something that Miguel would never expect. Koga stopped crying and started clearing his face from his tears while Quincy just stared and waited to see... Their friend, Frank, stood up and was ready to attack Miguel while he was off-guard! That was something they did not expect at all! Frank was fine and ready to strike back.

At the moment he was speaking, Miguel was so fond of himself for the fact that he managed to defeat the zombie. He would never stop speaking at all, if he did not listen to a sound... And that sound was none other than Frank's voice. He turned his head slowly towards Frank and took a look at the zombie that was moving his fist and punched him in the face, sending him several meters away. Miguel's face was bleeding and a few teeth of his were broken. His back was slammed on a giant frozen rock and he screamed in pain. The zombie's attack was something that the Chief Guard would never expect. It looked like the tables had turned...

"Darn you... " the Immortal said as he got up. "How is it possible?! How can you live? TELL ME HOW?!" he continued while raising his gun towards his enemy. "HOWEVER, IT DOESN'T MATTER TO ME! I SHALL ELIMINATE YOUR EXISTENCE WITH THIS GUN ZOMBIE! NOBODY EVER DARED TO HIT ME LIKE THAT... AND YOU WILL PAY FOR DOING SO!" were his last words before he started shooting quickly towards Frank in an attempt to hit him and cause him pain... The battle between Miguel and Frank had just started.

"Wow... Amazing..." Koga said while moving next to Quincy. "Indeed..." the doctor said and they started looking at the battle that had just started.