Serious: The Clockwork Pirates Chapter 3 Beware the Devil's fruits (This Thread is now closed)

Mina partially jumped out of her skin when Victor suddenly seemed to appear out of thin air.
"Wh-who the heck are you?!" She blinked, listening to the interaction between he and Molly. Well, it wouldn't have taken a genius to realise that the two of them were, in fact, related and simple logic told Mina that this of course, must be the room-sharing/hogging sibling that Molly had been referring to earlier.
She opened her mouth, perhaps to react a little indignantly to Victor suddenly just inviting himself in- but she closed it again quickly, deciding to be tactful.
The ivory-haired girl raised an eyebrow and grinned to him. "Nice to meet you. In case you missed it, I'm Mina Layton. Glad you like the curry...and iffind the couch comfy, you're welcome to nap there..."
For a brief moment, she was rather curious as to what exactly was under the man's hood but she curbed her nosiness and looked to Molly and Kyren.

"So you need to get back to your ship first? And you imagine that the prison isn't so strong? Can't say I have any experience there, myself." Mina clicked her tongue and flicked her hair out of her eyes before giving him a smirk. "But I guess I won't know for certain until I see for myself."
She stood up. "I can take you to the docks, if you're so certain that your ship will be there."
Mina fingered the magazine clip of her pistol, tucked neatly into her garter.

Kyren nodded, "Yes I need to know where my ship is so when we break out we can get to it as quickly as possible as the Marines will be chasing us. I can imagine the prison will be strong and a few of the guards will even be devil fruits users but I'm not the kind of person to leave my friends behind. I would very grateful for your help." Kyren then thought about his crew mates locked away in the prison cells and knew he had to break them out Uta still owed him a song for the crew, plus he knew his crew was bored of eating raw food and wanted them to try some of Mina's cooking, he knew they would like it and hoped that if Mina did indeed choose to join she would become close with the rest of the crew.

He then looked at Molly and Victor, something looked a little strange about the man but he couldn't quite figure out what it was. Something about his skin tone seemed off and Molly looked very tanned and strong, she was probably a blacksmith or something like that was his guess from her appearance. Kyren thought about anyone else who could help him break in and one person came to mind.
Roko Cloud, he remembered meeting him years ago before he started off his crew and pushed the thought aside. No he had to prove he was strong enough to do this as a Captain.

Victor didn't respond out loud to Mina's words, despite the fact that she was trying to be polite. Instead, he reached up and tugged his hood down even further and settled down into the corner. He knew it was rude to just blow someone off like that, but he didn't care. In his experience people were only polite so that they could get close to you and then treat you like a freak when they found out about your secrets. Molly was the only exception to this rule that he had found. Technically his mother had been an exception as well, but she was just being a good mother. That didn't mean that she wouldn't have acted differently had he been someone else's child.

Molly was focused on Kyren, nodding slowly at what he had to say. So he had a ship...well, she had already figured that out on her own from the fact that he was a pirate. What she was really interested was what the ship might have to say about its crew. She had always found that they were very good judges of people. Perhaps this ship would be able to help her make her decision.

"Fine," Molly said. "I'll come with you, for now. But if I change my mind for whatever reason, my brother and I will not be sticking around." She reached over to pick up her hammer and she slung it across her shoulders. "So where is this ship of yours?"

Kyren listened to what Molly had to say and smiled realising she was agreeing to help him. He hoped there would be nothing to make her change her mind, he felt worried about his crew and just wanted to save them.
"Well Molly, I'm not sure where my ship is, but I'm guessing its at the docks, well I'm hoping its there. But I can't be too sure and if its not then I'm going to definitely get it back. I'm glad to hear though that you guys will help me, it means allot to me. So I guess we should head to the docks then and look for the Time Goes." Kyren was excited to see if his ship was there and seriously hoped it was, as he opened the door and walked out he saw that it was still light outside.

"Right which way is it to the docks?" asked Kyren looking back at Molly, Mina and the snoozing Victor. "I think we should find my ship if its at the docks then head to the prison, I hope you guys all stick with me, but if you don't then that's fine and understandable it is a bit too much to ask from people I've just met."

Mina sighed, a trifle irked at the strange brother's lack of cordial response but decided not to let it provoke her to anger; she'd need her physical energy later.
That and Molly hadn't commented on her brother's lack of sociable behaviour and as such, this was probably a norm for him- not a personal display of cynicism towards the young cook.
Turning to Kyren as she cleared the table, standing up, she noted. "The docks are to the east of the main town. We'll have to cut through the streets to get there..."

That said and her table clean, Mina proceeded to show her new companions to the town- the place already bustling with excitment before the upcoming festival.
"There it is," Mina said, pointing straight ahead, to the great body of blue that lay before them, criss-crossed with the silhouettes of towering masts. "That's Lunakirk harbour."

It had taken Molly a couple of tries to get Victor awake. She was pretty sure he had been faking it, though. He had always been a difficult brother, causing her trouble even when it interfered with what he was going to be doing anyway.

The two of them were now following in Mina and Kyren's wake. Molly looked over at her brother and noted his somber expression. He had been like this ever since they left Mina's house. Perhaps he was just disgruntled that he had not been able to rest. That always irritated him, but usually when he already knew he was going to have to go somewhere, he was at least a little bit cheerful. Well, cheerful was a relative term when it came to him. Talkative usually was his version of cheerful. She might not have cared one way or the other, but unfortunately a side effect of his silence was her own displeasure.

When they reached the harbor, Mina's outlook took a definite upswing. All of the ships, the activity, it swallowed her up. Victor took note of his sister's expression and he wisely took a step back. The next second, Molly took off, dashing in between Mina and Kyren and rushing back down towards the harbor. Victor calmly walked after her, not saying a word.

Kyren saw Molly rush off at the sight of the docks and he could see in the distance something which looked familiar. Could it be? The Time Goes? Kyren took a few more steps forward and noticed, it was.

The Time Goes was sitting in the docks unharmed and in the same shape as before. Kyren rushed towards it happily now that he knew his ship was safe and still here he ran up to it and placed a hand upon his ship and smiled.
"So my ship is here, its good to see you Time Goes, and I've happy your not damaged, but I'm curious why that bounty hunter didn't steal you."

Kyren turned to Mina, Molly and Victor and said, "This is my ship, here, he's called the Time Goes and thanks to my shipwright he flies hints the propellers. Right now that I know my ship is here shall we head to the prison?" Kyren looked around at them and noticed Victor seemed a little bit disgruntled probably from being woken up and Molly seemed excited to see the ships, looking at Mina she just seemed to be happy to help. Kyren looked out to the sea and thought about Annachie, Delphi and Wilfred. He didn't know what had happened to them and worried for their safety he hoped they were alright, he pushed the thoughts of his missing crew mates to the back of his mind as he was sure they were all safe, his main objective now was to rescue his crew from the prison.

"Lieutenant Gin, Sir. There seems to be a small group gathered around the ship that the bounty hunter Keith commandeered from the Clockwork Pirates. Our scouts have confirmed that among them is the Clockwork Captain."
"Hmm... so he did survive. Tell me... about those people with him..."
"Yes sir. Unfortunately, we are unable to identify the others. Most likely they are residents of the island and none seem to possess any sort of criminal record."
"Then for now, assume they are civilians."
"So... should we proceed to arrest them now, sir?"
"No. They are merely ants blindly walking into a spider's web. We will stick to the original plan. The Clockwork Captain will remain untouched until he takes his first step into this prison. Send a message to remind the warden. He and his guards are to watch the first two levels while we wait here in the third floor. Whether or not he listens to me, i don't care. It only means I have the right to punish him later."

Wolfgang coughed as he sat silently in his cell. The Warden and his men had stripped him of all his weapons, and even his dandy coat. It was all that bastard's Keith fault.

"When I get outta here..." Wolfgang began to mutter quietly. "I'm gonna find that asshole and put a round into his skull." First things were first though, Wolfgang had to apologize to Delphi and her servant. He was reluctant to give the servant an apology since their last parting was a hectic one. Still, Wolfgang could only bide his time, waiting for an opportunity to present itself.

Hexi Retika wasnt a normal person in this island, he wasnt even human and the only reason he was here was to explore. Since he had descended from Weatheria to the blue seas he had been exploring all this new world, now he knew lots of things because he enjoyed reading books and talking to people. He had a very good knowledge of situations and what could happen, and experience itself had been the greatest teacher.

Now, Hexi was fishing. Fishing because he needed something to eat, and he had made his own foshing rod learning from an old man from another island. Hexi had his guitar on his back and was standing in not very deep water, everything was calm, at least now, since there seemed to have been some kind of ruckus a while back, but he had no idea.

The fishing rod in his hands didnt move at all, but Hexi moved it around too, not very intelligent movement... But apparently the hook had catched something. Luckily this was a strong string and rod, because whatver had got stuck in his hook was heavy, VERY HEAVY.

Hexi used all his force to try and pull it out of the water, apparently it wasn't moving, but Hexi wasnt the strongest person in the planet. Yes, he was fast and had good reflexes, but strenght... Just wasnt his best attribute.

"This thing is damn heavy!!!"- Hexi exclaimed as he pulled.

The thing was starting to come out of the water but... What was it???

Kyren didn't know what Molly, Victor or Mina's replies would be but hoped they would say yes and was so eager to free his crew that he even turned away from his ship and began walking towards what looked to be the prison up in the mountains. There was a walkway leading up there with a grey dull looking facility on top which looked like it could be the prison. Walking towards it Kyren could feel his freshly stitched wound tear a little looking down at it he saw blood and ignored it. His crew meant more to him than a little flesh wound.

Still being motionless Wilfred's arm was grabbed by a hook and pulled above the surface of the water. His body shifted a tiny amount closer towards the shore. His glass face scratched against the stones on the water below and his head rose out from the water below a tiny bit. His body had seaweed and a small squid wrapped around his body. A frog was sitting on the back of his head and jumped off towards the Skypiean who'd dragged this cyborg from the water.

Hexi's eyes widened when he saw the robot coming out of the water... It was almost totally made out of glass and it's internal parts could be seen. Hexi couldnt believe what he had taken out of the water, and when it started moving he was even more surprised, but also worried for the robot. He had heard and read that many people that were about to die saved their bodies with mechanical parts... Maybe this was an extreme of it.

The frog in Wilfred's head jumped towards Hexi, it looked cute and Hexi just left it play around in the water, but he also approached the glass man and starteted to take all the seaweed that surrounded his body and throw it back into the ocean.

Hexi dragged the robot to the sandy shore and started moving it a little with his hand, to see if it woke up or something like that.

Being knocked offline Wilfred was still unconscious and wouldn't be waking up any time soon. His brain was disconnected from the rest of his body made up of clockwork cogs and and his heart had been disconnected too. As the body came out from the water it lay limp on the shore of Lunakirk Island. Wilfred had his bag with him slung over his shoulder which was full of cogs, clockwork bombs and other tools. In his mind the last thing he remembered was steering the ship then nothing.

Victor walked towards the Time Goes to examine it and Molly soon returned to do the same thing. Neither of them spoke at first, but took in the parts of the ship that were most interesting to them. Victor, being an inventor, was enthralled by the propellers, wondering how exactly they worked. Molly was more interested in the ship itself and its structure. Being a shipwright from Water 7, her overly critical gaze immediately picked out a couple of points on the ship that she did not like. Here and there were weak spots that she was sure could be improved upon. Even so, she had to admit that it was, overall, a well-built and stable vessel.

Kyren chose this moment to leave them and started to head back into the village. Molly was a bit irritated by his sudden departure since he didn't wait around for them, but she decided that if he was going to act like that, then apparently he didn't really want their help. It never occurred to her that he was just worried about his crew, but that was to be expected. Molly found it a little bit hard to concentrate when she was at a place like this one.

Kyren had not gotten far though, so Molly figured both she and Victor could catch up to him when they were finished. If she decided to help him at all.

Taking a step forward, Molly rapped the side of the ship with the back of her hammer's handle. She cleared her throat and said, "Time Goes, front and center, right now!"

Although no one else could see it, a human-shaped, blue-skinned figure shimmered into existence before Molly's eyes. It was the Klabautermann of the Time Goes. Under normal circumstances, these creatures could not be seen unless the ship they were a part of was about to be destroyed. However, from the time she was born, Molly had been able to see them regardless of the ship's current condition. This helped in a multitude of ways. Not only could Molly ask a Klabautermann how much damage a ship had received, but she could also converse with them about other topics as well. They were odd beings that knew quite a lot about the ocean and weather and so forth.

This particular Klabautermann stood slightly hunched over, its eyes barely open as it stared at Molly. <What's up?> the Klabautermann asked. <I'm trying to rest. Some idiots thought it would be a good idea to start a fight on my deck and caused some damage to me.> The Klabautermann blinked, seeming to have just noticed Molly for the first time. <Oh, it's just a human. I thought it was someone who could hear me...>

"I can hear you!" Molly snapped.

The Klabautermann's eyes widened and it leaned towards Molly. <That's funny. I thought you just said you could hear me. Did I land in the middle of a conversation?>

Molly sighed. This was one dimwitted Klabautermann. Usually they caught on by this point.

"Okay, look," Molly said. "The thing is..." She reached out and seized the Klabautermann by its head and held her hammer up in her other hand threateningly. "...I can see you, hear you, and even touch you, and I'm going to smash you unless you get a clue and stop treating me like I'm not here!"

The Klabautermann recoiled, its eyes blinking rapidly. <I, uh...wait human...hang on..I don't....> he stammered. Suddenly he came to a pause which was followed by, <Did she just say that she could see me?>

The next thing the Klabautermann knew, it was laying face-down on the ground in front of Molly with a growing bump on the back of its head. Molly slung her hammer back over her shoulder and poked the Klabautermann with her foot.

"Get up," she ordered. "I need to ask you something. Your crew, what are they like?"

<My crew?> the Klabautermann repeated. It hopped back onto its feet and cocked its head to one side. <They're okay I guess. The captain is not such a bad guy. I like him. He tries to take care of me. And some of the others are pretty nice as well. There's only one guy I don't like.> The Klabautermann shuddered. <He's this weird devil fruit guy who can turn into weapons. He breaks me a lot.> The Klabautermann looked over at Molly curiously. <Why do you want to know? And how is it that you can see me?>

"I want to know because I am considering whether or not I will help your captain with a little problem he has," Molly explained. "As for my being able to see you, I've been able to see Klabautermann all of my life."

<Oh...> the Klabautermann paused again to absorb this information. <...huh, well, that is interesting...I guess. Good luck with the captain. If you decide to help him. You will help him, right?>

"Don't worry," Molly turned away from the Klabautermann. "If what you say is true, then I will have no problem with helping out. Anyone who takes care of their ship is okay in my eyes."

Victor, who, of course, could only hear half of this conversation, followed after his sister. He knew her mind was made up. He only hoped that neither of them would get killed.

Mina watched with slight intrigue as Captain Kyren briefly approached his vessel, The Time Goes.
She was truly a princess of a ship- though a little battered- and vaguely reminded her of the ship that her parents' nakama had resided on during the courses of their adventures. What had her father called it?
<i>Experienced, rugged beauty</i>.
True beauty is only ever seen in battlescars, according to her father, Rick Layton, not unmarred, porcelain flesh.

Mina took a moment to admire the ship's fine hull but raised an eyebrow at the sight of Kyren actually walking away from the ship, not even climbing aboard for ammon.
Wow, he really must have been eager to save his crew.
"Admirable," thought Mina, smiling faintly and starting to follow him. "Maybe a little stupid. But admirable."
She looked over her shoulder for a moment to regard Molly and Victor- the silent, hooded brother standing just as silently as before and his viviacious, hammer wielding sister seemed to be conversing with...the hull of the ship? Or thin air?

Mina thought it a little strange but she chose not to comment on it. Maybe it was a pre-fight ritual for her? Perhaps to shipwrights, ships were good listeners? Mina personally could see why. After all, they'd probably seen a lot and been through a lot and they indiscriminately carried crews through the stormiest of seas.
And the spunky young cook often talked to herself whenever she felt it necessary to do so- so she couldn't judge anyone.

She headed up to walk beside Kyren, looking up at the prison with an unfazed expression. "Hmph. Ready for this, Captain?"

Kyren heard Molly behind him speaking to someone and thought it was Victor when he looked over his shoulder to see Molly talking to the Time Goes he was confused he didn't know what she was doing and wondered why she was talking to a ship instead of her brother who looked at her. Kyren was confused and just didn't understand, he figured he would ask later once all of this was sorted. As Kyren looked up at the prison he could feel the atmosphere change as he got closer the weather seemed to become darker and much less pleasant, dark clouds formed and a light drizzle began pitter pattering on the ground.

Feeling the distilled water tip toeing upon his body Kyren realised how serious and dangerous this assault was even if it was only a small prison it was still dangerous. No where near as dangerous as Impel Down but for a new crew who had never really had any sustained battle experience this would be something pretty big. Kyren hoped that these people he was happy to call his friends were all still on board with helping him, he would need the help and he knew it, but wasn't about to tell them that. He didn't want them to put them under pressure.

Noticing Mina joining him as he walked towards the prison Kyren smiled he was happy to have such a pretty young woman beside him and even happier to have her helping him.When she asked if he was ready for this he felt his head want to shake desperately and cry out no. He never would've guessed his 1st form of piracy would be assaulting a prison but it seemed this is what it came down to, the only fight against the Marines he ever been in was when he met his 1st crew mates, but that wasn't scary compared to this which could end in his death, he swallowed and replied, "Can you ever be ready to do something death defying and law breaking?"

At the top of the little mountain of Lunakirk a light breeze had picked up and the atmosphere had gotten much colder. Kyren was beginning to feel the cold along with a little sick but ignored it all as he was about to indulge in a fight with Marines putting his own safety on the line along with Mina's Molly's and Victor's if they still wanted to help him. Kyren stopped before reaching the top and being in clear view of the prison, he had no idea they were expecting him.

The prison had two simple guards standing outside on either side of the door, already this assault was seeming too easy, but why? Kyren asked himself. It was almost as if they were expecting him.
A transponder snail was in place to keep an eye on the entrance to the prison.

Knowing that there was no other way of getting in Kyren approached the guards at the front door and withdrew his scalpels one in each hand and began twirling them quickly. The drizzle poured down heavier and began to make the ground beneath his feet mushy.
The guards were both taller than Kyren and muscular armed with a large rifle in their hands as Kyren approached they blocked the entrance with their rifles.
"Who are you?" asked on of them still holding his rifle in the way.
Kyren didn't even look up from the floor instead a grin grew across his face and after a short pause the scalpels in his hands stopped spinning.
Kyren used his Signature Slash cutting the letter K in the sides of both guards deeply followed by a quick deadly slash the the jugular vein. Both guards dropped their rifles and fell to their knees.

"I'm Kyren Antler Captain of the Clockwork Pirates and I believe you've been expecting me."

A hatch on the roof of this small looking prison opened and 10 guards poured out filling the roof, all guards knelt along the roof and aimed their guns at Kyren followed by a further 7 guards who burst through another door on the side of this small building. It was hard to believe this small rectangular building was a prison, but what most people didn't know was that the prisoners locked away in cells were beneath the ground and locked away in sea stone cells deep within the mountain.

Kyren saw the 10 rifles aimed at him and the 7 swordsmen surround him and unsheathe their swords. Looking around at them he wasn't sure if he could handle them all easily but would sure have fun finding out. The swordsmen were well built, 3 were tall and slim with what only seemed to be muscle on their bodies and 4 were much wider and shorter men with bloodthirsty looking grins on their faces. The men armed with rifles all looked like standard Marines.

Molly and Victor came to a halt as they noticed Kyren's current predicament. It appeared that he had already announced his presence in a rather bloody manner. Molly lifted her hammer from her shoulder and started forward with the intention to attack before the Marines saw her and realized that she was a threat. She was shocked, however, when Victor took the initiative.

Her brother jumped high into the air and landed on his sister's shoulders with one foot on each shoulder. His body then almost seemed to collapse in on itself, like a spring, as he bent down. Suddenly he sprang forward, launching himself over the group of Marines. His lithe form flipped through the air and his hood fell back, unveiling his albino skin for all to see. Barely a second later, his legs shot out, aiming for the head of one of the Marine swordsmen.

Molly snapped out of her shock, realizing that she had been just standing there stupidly as her brother attacked. She moved in a different direction, circling around the crowd and heading for the building itself while her brother continued to provide a distraction. As she was coming into range of the building, she jumped and raised her hammer over her head.

"FOUR TON HAMMER!"

Molly swung her hammer down towards the building with the force of four tons behind it. Assuming that no one got in her way and the building wasn't made out of something besides concrete, Molly was fully intending to smash a hole in the side of the building and maybe even upset the balance of the gunners on top.

The Marines on the roof of the prison opened fire on Kyren and the two other people who'd joined the fight. Kyren saw Molly and Victor join to help him and smiled, he hoped they would join to help him and when the hail of gunfire rained down along with the gentle breeze and raindrops which made the ground mushy. Kyren turned to see the gun men and used Bullet Slice slicing all bullets which came his way the halves of bullet fell to the sides and Marine swordsmen were all stunned at the speed Kyren's arms worked.

The swordsman who had been kicked by Victor fell to his knees then quickly swung his sword back towards him standing up hoping to land a hit. Seeing that Victor was an albino didn't surprise Kyren as he could tell something was different about him when he first saw him now he knew what it was .

The prison building was strong and when Molly's hammer impact it a large dent was made in the wall and it began slowly cracking the Marines on the roof top stopped firing to steady themselves and 3 feel from the roof 1 fell backwards down the mountain side and the other two fell over the front landing directly behind Molly.

The gunmen were thrown off guard long enough for Kyren to turn to the swordsmen and use his Heart Stopper. A swordsman lunged at Kyren trying to dig the sword into Kyren's chest but missed as Kyren turned on his side then turned to face the Marine head on and called out, Heart Stopper, the swordsman screamed as blood shot out from his mouth and he placed his foot on the floor behind him to stop himself from falling. The swordsman was in pain and Kyren knew it, it seemed his heart stopper hadn't done what he hoped but instead it had broken his ribs. Smiling Kyren called out again Heart Stopper and saw this swordsman fall to the ground holding his chest. The broken bone fragments embedded themselves into his heart and were causing him great pain.

The two gunmen who landed behind Molly stood up and took aim at Molly and called out, "Stop were you are, put the hammer down cause your coming with us." The barrage of gunfire started up again. The amount of gunfire was varied this time as 3 fired at Molly 2 at Victor and 2 at Kyren

Kyren saw that there were 7 men left firing and 5 swordsmen left to take care of he hoped Mina was still planning on helping and threw a glance to her.

9 gunmen
6 swordsmen

Kyren thought and guessed that this would be an easy fight, things would only get worse once they were inside, as there would be no where to run.

Hexi scratched the top of his head as the robot didnt move at all... maybe it had been deactivated, like his Weather Guitar! He actually needed to turn on the weather causing mechanisms with a switch that enabled the dials inside to work when he played the right notes in sequence. Maybe the robot had some kind of switch somewhere...

Hexi started to revise all around Wilfred, trying to move his arms, pusing him a bit to the side... but he didn't seem to find anything. Maybe in the other side. Hexi used his force to pull him up to then roll him over, but it wasnt enough, so he had to force himself much more and at last he rolled Wilfred over. He looked for the switch but he couldnt find one... so he started pushing the robot towards the town.

Mina looked over to Kyren, giving him a wink, her posture completely relaxed as she followed them through the shattered prison wall.
Sure, she was a little cold and wet but adrenaline and the prospect of a battle reminded her that it was nothing a little bath wouldn't fix later.
She noticed Victor's lowered hood and raised a slight eyebrow. He was an albino? That's why he was hiding?
She was a 19 year old girl with hair as white as a 90 year old's. If anything, she could see nothing wrong with him.

Mina made a quick mental note to tell him this later somehow and quickly plunged her hand beneath her skirt, rifling for the pistol in her garter. Her eyes picked out nine gunmen and six swordsmen.
It was best, she immediately decided, to knock off the ones that could potentially kill them the fastest and Mina swiftly aimed for the first three gunmen, calling her attack.

"Bellybutton blast shot!"
She fired at all three of them, directly into the naval before rounding on a fourth, raising her gun.
"Boomerang bullet shot!"
The bullet seemed to pass her target, bouncing off the wall behind him and then heading straight for the back of his head.

(OOC: I'll do a tiny bit of editing of Lore's post as it seems she may have read it wrong or I may have posted something wrong. But either we will still end up in the same place, so its ok.)

Kyren saw Mina wink at him and felt happiness spread through his body as it seemed she was still going to help him but he also felt a little awkward, he smiled back at her and was almost caught off guard looking at her stunning beauty. A swordsman lunged at Kyren stabbing his swords directly at him.

When Kyren heard the swordsman's battle cry Kyren turned to see a swords speeding towards his stomach and ready to go through his wound. Instead of moving he panicked and the sword came closer.
Until, one of the many bullets from Mina fired plunged itself into the man's belly button and ripped through the back.

As the swordsman fell to the ground paralysed Kyren looked down to see the swordsman and noticed that her bullet had gone through one of the small platelets in his spine.
Looking up and all around Kyren saw that all of the Marine guards had been shot and we're on their knees or on the floor clutching their belly buttons, and there was an excessive amount of blood pooling around each one of them.
"Wow, t-t-thanks Mina. I guess its time we head in."

Kyren walked over to the wall which was heavily damaged of the prison and took a look at Molly, Victor and Mina. "Thank you all for your help. I appreciate it and Victor there's no need to hide the fact that your an albino, I'm not going to stare. I was also really surprised at your strength Molly, it seems you've weakened this wall allot, so much that all I have to do is,"Cross Slash Kyren's arms worked quickly so quickly it looked as if his arms multiplied as he cut the heavily damaged wall, the wall then a few seconds later crumbled leaving a large hole in the wall large enough for them to all walk through.

Before entering Kyren looked back at Mina, "Mina you have some really amazing sharpshooter skills, I think you kinda saved my life back there, so I owe you one." Kyren then headed into the prison.

Inside this small building was a desk to the right and a room next to the desk then opposite Kyren was a set of stairs and a large lift on his left. Kyren walked in and saw that it was empty curious why he looked around more closely to see they had more transponder snails monitoring their progress.

"Come on guys its empty, but their watching us and I'm guessing waiting downstairs for us too."

Down below on the 1st of the 3 floors Percy the prison warden sits in a control room watching Kyren and sees him enter with 3 other people. Percy picks up a speaker phone and announces into it, "Be on your guard, Kyren Antler Captain of the Clockwork Pirates has entered the building, he has company so be prepared." Percy's voice echoed all around the lower levels as the bulk of Marine guards readied themselves for their encounter.

2 larger men stood among the guards, 10 stood directly in front of the stairway aiming guns and 5 stood further away behind them aiming bazooka type weapons at the stairway.
1 stood in the lift, waiting to be raised up.

In the 1st floor were petty thieves and minor criminals, 20 Marines were lined up either side of the room 10 aiming at the lift and 10 at the stairs. 9 were surrounding the 2 larger men and 10 were blocking the stairs to the 2nd' level.

The two larger men where 1/4 giants one was dressed in furry brown pants and boots with no top on but a very disgruntled look on his face and a shaven head. He was holding a sword bigger than most of the guards and the other one had a brown beard which covered the lower half of his face, he had long straggly brown hair which ended as his beard started and wore a long grey trench coat black trousers and large formal black shoes.

Kyren looked at the lift then at the stairs, knowing they were expecting him they probably had both stairs and lift covered so he decided he would use distraction tactics, once he'd dealt with the snail. Kyren was never one to be mean, he approached the snail on the wall and plucked it off. Kyren didn't want to be watched and placed the snail down outside the prison gently on the ground.

"Right guys we're going down the stairs, we'll have to be careful as there will probably be allot guards down their waiting for us, but if we bring the lift up which I'm sure their guarding too that should give us the slight tactic of surprise."

Seeing Kyren come closer to the snail Warden Percy was fuming but kept his cool and announced, "remain vigilant on both stairs and lift, target has removed a transponder snail!" Warden Percy was following orders he had been given.

Kyren grabbed hold of a level next to the lift and pulled it, the lift began rising and Kyren took a deep breath as he headed down the stairs as quietly as he could manage.

As the gunmen had fired on her, Molly spun around and used her Endure technique. She held out her hammer at a sideways angle to protect her from above and in front and then she hid behind its head. The bullets simply hit the hammer and sunk into it a short ways. This damaged it, but not enough to make it unusable. Then, as soon as she was given a reprieve, Molly raised her hammer and swung it at the two gunmen in front of her from the side.

"Grand Slam!"

Victor hopped lightly over the swordsman's blade as it was swung at him. He spun, lashing out with a kick at the man's face and then kicked off of the ground with his other foot to launch himself away from the man. Two bullets hit the space where he had been standing moments before. Victor landed lightly by his sister, just in time to hear Kyren's words.

"Yeah, surprised," Molly muttered, shouldering her weapon. "Strange how everyone underestimates my power. I didn't spend the best years of my life building battleships for nothing." Her voice lowered to a low, agitated muttering.

Again, Victor did not reply vocally. His response was to simply pull his hood back up over his head once more and tuck it down so that his face was hidden. His heart had been stirred momentarily by Kyren's words, but then he remembered how the kids and teachers at school reacted to him. They had acted nice at first, but then they had turned on him as soon as he was just starting to feel comfortable. And his life had never been the same since. Some things just never changed, and this was one of them.

"Ah well," Molly continued, speaking loud enough to be heard. "I guess we'll just stick around out here and finish these guys off. You better get going-" She paused when she noticed that Kyren was no longer with them. "I'm really starting to hate that guy," Molly groaned.

The lift rose up and the guards on the 1st floor turned to face the lift, all except for the 10 aiming at the stairs and the 5 with bazooka type weapons. Kyren heard Molly mutter about Kyren being surprised and felt bad as he seemed to have insulted her.

The Marines outside were slowly getting back up, no gunmen were left but 4 swordsmen were. The swordsmen surrounded Molly and Victor, 2 lunged at them both whilst the other two slashed high and low.

Kyren heard Molly call out that her and her brother would deal with the swordsmen and he nodded. As the lift rose the man in it smirked and cracked his knuckles, which cracked loudly. The man in the lift wore black bandages wrapped around his knuckles and up his arms, his hair light blue and spiky, eyes yellow. This man was troublesome and dangerous, he wore white pants and black bandages wrapped around his feet too. His body was covered by a small black coat with the sleeve ripped off and open, showing his toned body. His name, "Night Light". Kyren heard the lift rising and headed to the stairwell with Mina.

As Kyren tiptoed down the stairwell he could hear soldiers at the bottom of the stair well around the exit, talking.
"Do you think Night Light will get them?"
"Of course he will, he's a bad ass, did you hear what he did to the last prisoner who argued with him?"
"No what?"
"He removed the guys balls then fed them force fed them back to himself."
"Ugh, thats, ugh. What a sick freak."
Kyren didn't like the sound of this Night Light guy and hoped Molly and Victor were safe, but after he'd seen their strength and fighting skills outside he figured they would be just fine.

The lift reached ground level and the door opened, Night Light looked out too see no one there but a hole in the wall he stepped out and cracked his neck. He was a small man but a dangerous one, he looked out of the hole in the wall and stood there looking at the swordsmen and the two individuals surrounded by them.

Back in the stairwell...

Kyren crept closer to the bottom and removed one of his scalpels and positioned it so he could see the reflection of what was awaiting him on level 1. Seeing a huge a large amount of Guards awaiting himself Kyren swallowed then looked to Mina and knew they couldn't simply just run in they would have to use a strategy of some sort.

Kyren tried thinking of what to do since raising the lift up hadn't drawn their attention. Kyren walked into the middle of the threshold with his scalpels in their holsters and his hands in the air. "Guess there's no point in trying to stop the inevitable." said Kyren as he smiled at the Guards. No one opened fire and instead three Guards stepped forward to arrest him. As they got closer to him Kyren tensed his muscles and focused as much of his strength as he could manage. As a Marine got either side of him and reached to grab Kyren's hands he sprung his hands forward using, Heart Stopper.

The Marine received the blow to his neck and stumbled back unable to breath and losing conciousness, now knowing this would cause the men to attack, whilst their comrade was still falling back and in the way, Kyren quickly removed his scalpels from their holsters and sliced down through the front of the Marine either side of him. He managed to harm them just in time to stop their guns from being raised then spun over the body and leaned against the wall of the stair well again.

The Marines who'd been sliced by Kyren fell to the floor clutching at their faces which had a deep long bloody slash down the centre of their face and chest. Looking at one of them Kyren saw he'd sliced through one of their eyes. "Sorry guys but you stand in between me and my crew."

Unfortunately for the 7 guards remaining by the door one of the 5 people behind them had fired an explosive projectile which smashed into the wall and caused it to crumble killing the men who were blocking the entrance to level 1 and slightly blocking the entrance.

Meanwhile....

Wilfred was being carried by Hexi, still offline and unable to do anything, as the robot and Hexi were headed to town an engineer from the docks was heading into town for lunch and noticed something leaking, he followed the trail to see it was oozing from a young guy with wings holding a large robot?
The engineer chased after Hexi calling out, "Hey kid!"

"Geez, this "Night Light" guy sounds like a real sweetheart, doesn't he?" hissed Mina scathingly as she followed Kyren quietly down the stairwell.
She couldn't help, however, but shiver at the description of the nothing-short-of -nasty deed that this man had committed.
When they got to the bottom of the stairwell, Mina watched as the Captain/doctor at her side, held out a scalpel to reflect what was awaiting them on the floor.

As Kyren examined the guards ahead, Mina looked around. Molly and Victor Cross were no longer following them. Her white brows furrowed and she silently prayed that they hadn't been caught.
Then again, the sister was one tough cookie and her brother seemed like a formidable fighting force himself. That was precisely why Mina already had such great respect for them and felt a sharp pang of concern for their well-beings.
Kyren suddenly looked back to Mina and she, too, caught sight of the guards. The captain of the Clockwork pirates looked at her with a glance that clearly said: "We need a strategy."

Mina Layton opened her mouth to offer an idea but before she could, Kyren walked straight out into the guards, his scalpels hollistered! He was giving himself up?!
Mina stayed exactly where she was, her mouth going slightly slack. What was he doing?! He wasn't going to be able to help his crew like that!

However, no sooner had the guards dropped their vigilant stances and two moved to grab him- Kyren whipped out his scalpels and attacked them with skill.
"Ah, it was a rouse! Savvy!" thought Mina as she ran out with a grin, pulling out her pistol and firing bullets into the legs of as many marines as she could- disarming and unbalancing the ones that didn't meet the wrong end of Kyren's scalpels.

Mina looked to Kyren, taking his wrist and pulling him to follow her to the next exit. "If you want to find your crew, we'll need to figure out which level they're being kept on and what cell they're in. If you want to take the risk of randomly blasting open cells, I'm not going to stop you. But there are worse criminals than you and I in here and they might pose a bigger threat to your mission than the guards..."

Mina's shooting was precise as you would expect. She managed to injure the remaining seven guards at the base of the stairs and four of the bazookas standing guard a little further from the stairway as well as a few guards further back. It was then that the fifth bazooka unit, out of panic, fired his round. It was a clear miss caused by his hesitation. The round hit just left of the stairwell, causing rubble to fall on the seven felled guards and slightly blocking the entrance. A small pool of blood flowed from the bottom of the rubble...

"Sealor! Clear up that rubble. We need to confirm any casualties on both sides." By Sealor, Percy meant the fourth-giant that wielded the sword. Without hesitation, Sealor walked over and began to push the rubble aside. Seeing that just picking it up was ineffective, Sealor took his sword and made a great sweep with the broad side. The rubble was blasted to the left corner of the room, embedding itself into the wall and collapsing one of the many cells lined up along the wall.

Once the dust cleared, Sealor took a look downward. Seeing how Kyren and Mina were completely unscathed, he announced "Nope. We still have two bugs running around." Sealor then picked up his great sword and performed a stab aimed at Kyren. The remaining guards on the level took a fighting stance for the off chance that the intruders would get past Sealor. The man with the bazooka began to run to the back of the level to reload his weapon.