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Still somewhere sailing along in the North Blue

Sailing along in such a small shitty life boat from that Marine vessel Dogberry could feel his hunger getting the better of him and could hear and see Tamako's hunger was getting the better of her too. The night had rolled in and he was feeling tired. He didn't quite want to give up but his reactions were getting slower and slower and the night was growing colder and colder. He couldn't bare it and found it horrible to leave Tamako to get cold in the night but they were both so hungry and also so cold. PLacing his scalpels back Dogberry cuddled up beside Tamako with his eyes closing with glee of the rest they were to gain. His stomach growled and he couldn't do a thing to stop it. As he lay there hungrily holding Tamako to his chest he found himself in a matter of seconds asleep in the land of nod.

It was warm here and wherever he looked he found food to eat till his heart's content, drinks to quench his thirst and Tamako. The three things in life he needed and the only three he wanted. It was nice to be away from reality here in his head. He preferred it to the real world. Water splashed over his face from the ride in the small life boat. It was cold and horrid. Their ship had sprung a small leak from their rowdy sex earlier and since it had been such a small little thing they had mistaken it for water splashing in but as time had passed it had become more and more and as Dogberry had laid his head down there was still very little. They were snoozing comfortably and sinking too. This wasn't great. When they woke they expected to discover themselves in the horrible situation of having to swim for their lives.

In the land of nod dreaming away Dogberry was quite cheery and happy enjoying his time wining and dining Tamako treating her like the princess he saw her as whilst he was the pauper who hopefully stole her heart. Seeing as this was his mind he started to think he might not wow her and he'd lose her to someone else. His body felt pained by the thought and even more so of the wounds he'd sustained earlier. He could use a break he thought to himself in his dream world. His body even in the dream world ached unsure where the pains had come from.

Present

Opening his eyes with his mask attached to his belt Dogberry could feel his shoulders aching like they'd been holding on to something for a good few hours. His eyes slowly came to focus and as he looked in front of him he noticed another person staring directly back at him. A well built soldier, shaved head black chain tattoo going around his right bicep steely determined eyes square jaw, his left eye looked a little purple from the beatings he may have sustained during the war and his chest large muscular from what Dogberry could make out over his torn vest. his legs were small either powerful and looked as if they would rip if he tensed. The most distinguishing thing he noticed was the thick black chains around his ankles and wrists holding him in place. Dogberry noticed it looked as if he were chained to a stretched being held upright. Around his waist a thick black metal strap held him against the stretcher looking at it Dogberry gulped as he breathed out to feel something of similar design pushing against his stomach.

Looking down he noticed he too was chained up like the soldier he looked toward. Gulping he noticed the situation he was in. Noticing two large men wearing brown leather holsters, filthy shorts and hockey masks they were pushing a young man ahead of them shouting for him to move it or lose it. Dogberry remained quiet and watched as the young man in tank top and shorts attempted to run.

One of the men vanished from sight appearing in front of the young man where he swung the but of his rifle into the man's collar left collar bone, the sounds of bones cracking could be heard followed by screaming and after wards the man grabbed the attempted escapee by placing his hands under his arms and lifting him. Screaming the other man approached and leant a horrendous kick to both of his knee caps snapping them backwards. Bone tore through skin, blood hit the floor below alongside tears and splinters of bone. The two filthy guards of this wretched place gripped him an arm each and began to drag him wailing, screaming crying. From the scene. All other prisoners who were alongside Dogberry and the soldier opposite him strapped up in the same fashion seemed to be accustomed to it.

Seems this place was much worse than he'd previously thought.

As for Tamako she'd been carried off to the female wing of the ship which was on the other side of the ship. In similar restraints alongside many other female slaves and opposite a whole load more. Below her prison was the operation room. Screams day and night were heard from there and they never let up. No one was quite sure what went on down there but it had been said that the only people to leave there alive were the doctors. Even if they wanted to Dogberry & Tamako couldn't speak to one another and looking across to the gruff looking soldier realising he was in trouble and not knowing the whereabouts of his beloved Dogberry swallowed hard before asking.

"Where are we?"

Grinning at the man's question of stupidity he raise his shaven head looked Dogberry in the eyes and said to him in his low hush tone.

"Slave ship."

Tamako awoke among several women, most in tattered clothing and all wearing steel cuffs that were fixed together. The women were either crying or whispering to each other about what they feared would happen to them should they get to the island they were heading for.

As Tamako raised herself up, she felt the weight of the metal pull on her arms. Her ears instantly picked up the sudden cry of a poor woman being torture below. Another woman, quite a few years older than her, sat next to her, her chestnut hair turned filthy from burns.

"What's, um, going on?" She asked the woman. She looked around and found no men, including her beloved. And that meant that she had returned to her meek self from a time before.

"We picked you up a couple hours ago. We weren't sure if you were going to wake up. You two were pretty exhausted."

"Two?" That meant her love was on board, which gave her some hope. If he was on board, that meant that the two would be together soon.

"Yeah, your boyfriend is over in the male's section. They keep us separated so that they can keep our men from rebelling."

"I see." She tried to generate some fire to melt her cuffs, but she couldn't make herself get any hotter than a flush she was so hungry. And as if on cue, her stomach began to rumble quite a large groan.

"Don't hold your breath. The guards only feed us once a day to keep us week. I'm Sasha by the way. I was a school teacher vacationing with my husband."

As she introduced herself, Tamako felt somewhat better. Knowing a person's name was a big importance to knowing if you could trust them. "I'm Tamako. I was, um, on a honey moon with my, um, husband."

They were about to talk some some when they heard the door open. It was placed 2 meters above the ground and Tamako noticed that the entire flooring and walling were made of steel, no windows or light except from a few cracks between corners and the small hole in the door for looking in.

Two guards looked in on them before revealing another tattered girl. This one was the same age as Tamako. She had black hair that had been recently been given a horrible trim. It was uneven and torn in some areas, as if someone had ripped the hair right out of her head. She was beaten and bruised in the face and stomach.

As she fell to the ground, one of the guards laughed and jumped after her. He then kicked her, rolling her over to where Tamako and Sasha were.

"Poor girl. This is the tenth time this week. I'm afraid she's become a favorite of our little master here."

Looking over the girl's tattered and beaten body, it was a miracle she was still breathing. "Who would do such a thing?" She asked, holding her arms close as they shook. She was afraid she might get picked next for whatever treatment this girl endured.

The girl lifted her eyes some what and took notice of Tamako. "The worst scumbag to ever be born on this earth." Her voice was scratched and hardly understandable. Her throat was covered in bruises that hinted towards chocking as well as bondage. Her wrists her busied as well to confirm this.

Dogberry

Dogberry didn't like the sounds of being in a slave ship he gulped at the sound of it and looked around him. He could see many people around him in similar locks and straps. Angry at his situation he figured he couldn't break through these locks with any ease. Either this soldier in front of him would've done so by now. At least thats what he thought to himself.

"So where are we headed?"

Dogberry asked him curiously.

"Who knows. All I know is I've been here for a good while and I need to get out of here. They took me and Simmkins over there as the only two survivors from a war we were part of, and that was a good three weeks ago. We were fighting the good war alongside some revolutionaries."

"Right. Well if I were to help you escape would you be willing to help me free the other slaves find my girlfriend and escape?"

"You can get out of here?"

"I might be able to. I can see they've taken my scalpels so I'll need to get those things back but other wise I should be fine. I just need to get my hands on some food. But I think I may have enough energy to get out of these things."

"oh really?"

Dogberry nodded.

"Well if I had a way of getting out of here I wouldn't wait, get going boyo the sooner we get out of these damn restraints the better so come on. Chop fucking chop boy."

Attempting to summon up enough strength Dogberry hung there breathing heavily. He needed just enough to break these damn restrains. As he hung their attempting to gain enough energy the soldier looked at him curiously.

"Come on then mate. you gonna break these damn restrains or not?"

"Just give me some time. What I need to do will take some time alright."

"Fucksake man, you had me all excited here and now here you are giving me bull shit about needing to gather energy come. Come on man I'm a bloody soldier I don't like to be kept waiting around I want shit done now! Not in 5 minutes time but now."

"Well you'll have to wait!" Dogberry spat back at him. The other prisoners seemed to be too exhausted and malnourished to care about anything other than their day dreams of food. The two masked men walked back down the corridor and looked at Dogberry and the soldier. As they walked on past the guards felt like these two should be suffering like the rest. Digging their rifle butts into both of their stomachs the soldier grunted and started shouting profanities at them whilst Dogberry grunted a little and left his body hanging loosely. That impact would definitely leave a bruise.

As the men left Dogberry gave the soldier a look and shouted to him.

"Stop shouting and conserve your energy!"

"I've got plenty of energy mate. I don't need to take any advice from you, you bull shiter!"

Dogberry shook his head. He didn't have time to be wasting on guys like this. He was already behind on his summoning of energy. He hung there loosely as the soldier attempted to gain his attention. Refusing to acknowledge him he managed to lock himself in his won personal bubble in which he felt safe and happy free from all sounds.

He could feel the beginning of the energy storing inside of himself and grinned. His eyes closed he knew soon he would be able to escape these restraints and leave this bastard behind. He didn't deserve to join him.

Tamako

Entering through the door to the female holding cell was a large man with aviators slicked back brown hair and a stripe of white hair. He even had a pinstripe black suit and a red tie. Looking at the women around he sucked on a cigarette.

My, my, my, You ladies all look so very depressed. Cheer up things could get much much worse."

Walking down through the group he blew smoke out into a few of their faces then stepped on past Tamako to his favourite girl. Looking at her he leaned in and noticed her bruises and much more.Realising something he hadn't noticed first he took a step back and looked up and down.

"Well, well, well, what have we here?"

He looked up and down the woman before him in such a tight sexy school uniform. He grinned.

"And why haven't we been introduced yet?"

The man leant in and sniffed her scent. She was gorgeous and looked feisty which would be perfect for him. He loved those feisty girls. The men guards who entered with him and grabbed hold of the woman with the bruises and locked her into her restraints.

"I am Mr Hopkins, and you well I think we all know your a very beautiful young woman but your also going to be so much more than that."

He winked to her and kissed her neck.

"I think we could have some great fun. You and myself in my office. After all since your a naughty little school girl I think you'll find a very friendly headmaster in me."

Hopkins then gripped her tie and pulled on it to pull her breasts closer. As she was pulled closer he grinned and leant forward to place his face then stopped.

"I'll save such luxuries as these for our meet later. They'll have a dress for you all laid out and you'll be escorted to my office. I look forward to seeing you later"

Hopkin's winked then walked back down the corridor through the exit grinning to himself. He took another drag on his cigarette and blew the smoke behind him as he exited the guards following behind.

Tamako tried to glare at the man in disgust, but she was too timid. She kepted her face down low and tried to avoid eye contact for the most bit. He smelled a tad and he had a pudgy face. If she wasn't so afraid of him she might have given a giggle at how humorous he looked.

As he approached her, she cringed as she feared he would take her then and there. She loved Dogberry and could never think of sleeping with another man except him. And this man wasn't even attractive. She could see as to why he needed to torture girls to fulfill his desire.

The anticipation of getting the F*** out of there grew even stronger, but she in no way had the energy in herself to use her power. If she tried to generate even just a visible flame, she might pass out from hunger alone, and then what? wait for headmaster over there to come pick her up while she slept? No way, she needed to eat first.

She looked over at the girl from before and shivered as she imagined coming out half as bad.

"It's times like these I'm glad i'm flat chested." Sasha said, making Tamako realize why Dogberry felt she was attractive. It was true that even in Skypea, the larger a woman's breasts were, the more attractive she was to men, but there were plenty of women with equal sized breasts compared to her, so it never really fell upon her as attractive, but here, she shivered at what might have happened had she run into someone not as nice as Dogberry.

"We shouldn't be punished for being attractive."

Dogberry

Still hanging there Dogberry grunted as he tried pulling himself up and lowering himself down. Whilst he was here he figured it couldn't hurt to do some exercise. he could feel some energy slipping away but he needed some strength if he was going to burn through these things he would need to be able to push as well. The soldier opposite him watched him and shook his head. He didn't understand the man and hated his words which had raised his hope earlier.

A door opened and thats when Mr Hopkins walked in. He noticed the newbie straight away as he was pointed out to him by his men who accompanied him on either side. Looking at the new male they'd discovered with Tamako Hopkins noticed Dogberry still doing exercise.

Flicking the end of his cigarette off in Dogberry's direction he felt it burn slightly on his chest and grunted as he held himself still half way through a pull up.

Raising his head he noticed how Hopkins removed his mask and began flicking it. He put his cigarette out on the mask and Dogberry watched him angrily. Hopkins began to speak.

"So I believe your our new slave. I heard you were picked up along with that beautiful busty woman in the female room. I hope you know what i am planning to do with her."

"Don't you touch her."

Dogberry muttered. He knew what he could do and wanted to tear this guy's throat out but couldn't. The restraints stopped him and he knew he wasn't yet strong enough to burn through the restraints but when he was he would be happy to tear him to pieces. He hated how this man had burnt his mask and when he placed it back on his belt he watched him walk away accompanied by his two guards.

The soldier began to chuckle at Dogberry.

"So you got a girl then?"

Dogberry nodded and looked at the soldier and started working out even more doing pull ups. He was angry how the stupid older man was so confident and wanted to do such things. He gritted his teeth and sped up as he exercised.

Tamako

In the female side of the ship water splashed in around their feet from the heavy waves and a woman on the end didn't do well with ships. As the Rocked heavily from side to side she began to allow her cheeks to fill up with something and seconds later as another strong wave crashed into the ship throwing them her mouth sprung open and from her mouth chunks were spat out.

The girl crying at how hungry she was and how ill she'd been she looked as if she were on death's door and didn't want to be here any more. Her body so thin her bones could be seen and her hair turning slightly grey and straggly. She was obviously stressed and deathly ill. Being here hadn't helped her one bit. She needed to get out. She needed to escape and by the looks of it if she didn't escape soon this would be her grave.

Tamako stared worriedly at the bunch of girls lying in pain from hunger and sickness. Was there no sympathy at all on this ship. Did none of the guards have and compassion for these horrible travesties happening right in from of them?

Her prayers seemed to be answered though, as three guards came into the pin, each carrying a basket and a bucket. The bucket had a small bowl fitted inside the top, most likely to serve it in. The basket carried strips of salted pork. She guessed that the meat wasn't in good condition. Pork needed some care to be processed right, and She doubted they would put much effort in their healthy and safety. Not if what that girl in the corner looked like.

As the guy came over to her side of the area, she watched as one of the men lifted the beaten-up girl's head and poured water into her mouth. He didn't do a nice job with it though, cause she nearly chocked on the water. then he shoved a slice of the pork into her mouth and moved on the Tamako.

"Drink up, b*tch. You'll need your strength for what the boss has planned for you." He poured water into the bowl and placed it to her lips. She opened them and began drinking the water. It was hard, what with him not giving her a pause to breath and all. They probably wanted them to get as little nutrient as they could get away with.

"Shouldn't you take better care of your prisoners? If you don't start helping some of these girls, they won't be alive by the time we get to port."

"Eh. We tend to loose around 10% of the trash we pick up. But that's not that bad. Besides, we'll be in port by the end of the week, so these girls'll live. They won't be living long, but they'll live." He shoved a slice of Pork before moving on. He then moved on to Sasha, chuckling at his own joke.


As the guard left, she finished properly chewing the slice of pork, hoping to get as much nutrients as she could out of it. As she swallowed bit and pieces of finely chewed meat, she could feel her stamina increase. Her internal furnaced burned once more, though she still would need time. She didn't get too much nutrients out of that meat.

"Just one more week, huh?" Sasha said, sounding rather melancholic about it. She didn't look terrified or please with the idea, but it didn't look like it left much of an impression.

"Don't worry. I'll get all of us out of here. Then I can take you all to a proper doctor."

The girl from before groaned, pulling herself together as her body literally creaked and moaned.

"What's your name? If you don't mind me asking?"

"Kimberly" She said, her throat somewhat better thanks to that drink of water.

"Well Kimberly, don't fret. That man will soon know why a woman's wrath is something to be feared." Kimberly smiled at that comment before drifting off into slumberland.

Sasha looked over towards Kimberly before staring at Tamako. "Can you really get us out of here?"

"Of course. And even if I can't, Dogberry is a bazillion times smarter than me. He'll definitely think of a way out of this."

Hanging exhausted from his exercise Dogberry felt stronger and could feel his adrenaline working as a form of energy. Grinning he began to use his Life Return: Second Flame technique. Dogberry's body caught alight and in a matter of seconds his body burning and he was focusing on his fists in the shackles. The flames left his body focusing on his hands. As they heated up he began to sweat straining a little to burn melt these steely shackles. Dogberry didn't want to be in here any longer than he was.

The other prisoners looked to him in shock including the soldier opposite him whose face held the expression of a shocked person. As Dogberry began pushing his hands through the melting metal shackles he found it difficult but he managed to slip his fist towards the front and a few seconds later his right fist was out.

Pulling his left fist he struggled grunted, groaned and tried as hard as he could to rip his left hand out then realised the heat on his right hand he could use to increase the heat on his left. As he flames left his right tightly clenched fist and joined his left he was running low on energy and his wrists were in pain from the shackles but as he melted through it with such ease Dogberry fell to the ground landing on his knees and began to breathe heavily.

He had stopped using the technique and found his own body in agony. Looking up at everyone else. he noticed how they had sprung to life with calls of "FREE ME FREE ME FREE ME!" He hated how all called for him and thats when the door opened and he was exhausted. Two guards walked in with food & water which was dropped when Dogberry noticed it. He pulled his mask on to his face and threw the still wet steaming hot drops of the melted metal shackles from his hands to the guards.

A few splotches landed upon them one getting blinded by it the other feeling the burning sensation on his right knee. Both were sent screaming and Dogberry reached for his scalpels which weren't there then gulped realising he had to think quickly.

Unsure of what he'd just started to do he realised how he was going through some sort of vomiting procedure. As whatever it was rose up to his mouth he found himself being forced to spitting it out.

Opening up and spitting the liquid from his mouth as it shot out he discovered what it was as soon as it hit the guards who were sent into more horrendous screams which echoed through out the ship. They were burning from the stomach acid Dogberry had spat at them.

Grinning beneath the mask Dogberry snatched the bowl of water and placed it over one of the guard's heads followed by a crushing kick with his heel which smashed the bowl over his head and using the other foot sent a strong kick into the other guard's knee snapping it backwards the other way sending him into howls of pain.

Hearing the screams he heard how the slaves around him cheered for his success and defeat of the guards. Looking down at the guards they'd both passed out from the pain and the food had spilt on to the floor. He knew how they were all so hungry and how they wanted to be freed but he hadn't the strength to free them and needed the food himself to rescue them.

Reaching down and snapping up the remains which had fallen Dogberry seemed selfish and uncaring as he walked through the door slamming it shut behind him and vanishing down the stairwell. He was going to find Tamako and get out of here. It was the least he could do. It was the only thing he wanted to do. He was angry and only getting stronger with each passing day he'd met Tamako and wanted so much more.

As the palms of her hands glowed red hot, she focused all of her her heat into the shackles around her ankles. If she only had enough heat for one set of braces, she might as well use it on her legs to give her some mobility. The shackles started cooking, glowing red hot as they slowly started to melt. She didn't have nearly enough raw power to tear the shackles apart, so instead she simply waited until the heat had grown enough to liquify the metal surrounding her ankles. It would leave a small burn, but it wasn't like she wasn't prepared to get hurt.

As the shackles started to drip, she pushes the melted parts away from each other, effectively tearing the shackles apart like warm taffy.

Getting up, she stretched her legs and received plenty of amazed stares from the girls who could still stare. She then re-directed the heat to her wrists and felt them slip off her wrists like hot mud.

She then crawled under the door way and tried to listen for the guards to hear when the coast would be cleared. She had to restrain herself from bursting through the door when she overheard the two of them discussing why one girl would look more attractive getting raped than another. Were all the men on this ship a pack of scum?

Dogberry

Heading down the stairwell Dogberry noticed more guards at the bottom of the stairwell. He had been looking down between the stairs and noticed them. Running down he launched himself towards them both. As he came closer to them he grabbed the backs of their heads and allowed his momentum to carry himself and them forwards smacking their faces into the concrete floor.

As the hit the ground hard with Dogberry's further weight on them they were knocked unconscious. Dogberry needed to find Hopkin's office and grab hold of the keys to the restraints. As he walked out at the bottom of the stair case he walked through and along a corridor. Looking out for any guards along the way he made his way into another room which seemed to be the storage.

Grinning at the site of such food he knew he could gain allot of energy he'd need for the future. Shutting the door behind him he started out on eating away at the food.

Tamako

The two men on the other side of the door had heard some of the chains moving about and found these sounds strange. They didn't want the slaves to know they knew and waited for them to enter as they would. One of the men stepped away from the door but took aim with his gun whilst the other grabbed the door knob and pulled the door open just so he could get a good view of where the escapee may be. As both of them turned to look through the door they had their guns aiming on the door and quickly spotted Tamako.

"You cheeky bitch! Thought you could sneak up on us eh?" One of them said as he opened fire on her.

The bullet went straight into her shoulder, just missing the top of her lung. She clutched her shoulder in pain. It hurt much more that the bullet to her gut from before. But that bullet probably hadn't splintered bone. As she sprawled over the ground, one of the guards, the one holding the pistol, jumped down and sacked the but of the pistol into her temple, nocking her lights out for a short time.

"C'mon. while she's out, let's take her to Mr. Hopkins. He know exactly how to deal with rebellious youths like her."

"No!" Sasha yelled, scared for her young friend as she was dragged out of the cage.

"shut it B*TCH." The guard screened at her, startling her, causing her to shut up.

As the guard closed the door, one of them lifted Tamako up and tossed her over his shoulder like a sack of grain.

"I'll take her to Mr. Hopkins. You man the door in case any other girls find a way to escape."

"Right. Just don't take toooo long with her. Mr. Hopkins doesn't like it when we play with his toys."

"Don't worry, I finish fast anyway."

Eating more and more food to replenish his energy Dogberry could feel his body gaining allot of strength. He could feel himself getting fatter at the same time and disliked it but food was food and he needed it.

Turning to a large jug of water he lifted it and started drinking it quickly allowing some of it to spill down over his torso. As the water dripped down his body he placed it down and grinned as he could feel how much more he was energized. He felt cold and clean which was a nice change to his sweaty feeling before hand. As he waited there for his body to dry off and for his stomach to settle he thought about Tamako and the things he'd learnt from her. So far he'd learnt.

Life Return: Second Flame-A technique in which he could increase his body heat and set his own body alight to melt through things if in contact long enough and burn others through contact.

Scorching Surgery-A technique in which he used Second Flame to heat up his scalpels in his hands and was able to slice through materials with greater ease due to the burning effect his scalpels would have.

As for things he'd learnt himself and was quite proud of learning due to his knowledge about Life Return he'd managed to teach himself to do such things as increase his own accuracy, increase his adrenaline & clot any wounds. He'd also learnt:

Life Return: Sleep Defence-A technique in which the user allowed the body to go limp and then would be able to take on more devastating attacks to their own body but come off with less damage than the attack would normally deal out.

Life Return: Stomach Acid-A technique in which the user spits out stomach acid at his foes to burn them.

Cartoid Stinger-A technique in which he aimed to slice his foe's cartoid artery causing them to hopefully bleed to death if not patched up quickly enough.

Chiropractor-A technique in which he slammed his palms into areas situated near the bottom of his foe's spinal cord causing them temporary paralysis.

Toppler-A technique in which he tried to slice his foe's Achilles tenant and slice off either one or both of their big toes to make it much more difficult to stand or even walk.

Thinking back at all of this medical knowledge he realised there was another place on the body he could attack which would bring death along with much mess. Grinning he now knew how he wanted to kill this me who planned on sleeping with Tamako.

He'd let him bleed to death.

As the guard walked down the hallway, he smiled proudly to himself. His mother had told him that he would never amount to anything and that no woman would ever love him. Well now here he was. He had a good job keeping these fat b*tches in line, and he was just about to make this woman his forever. Screw Mr. Hopkins, this woman was too good for his fat and greasy hands.

He turned the corner and made his way towards Mr. Hopkin's "private" quarters, where he preferred to keep all of his nice "toys".

Getting inside, he looked over the nice assortment of "toys" too easier to pick. He set Tamako down on the ground and locked the door behind him, walking over to the more "interesting" collection.

There was a metal dildo with some rust on it from constant re-heating. It could burn a woman's womanhood real fast and make her scream like crazy. But that could alert Mr. Hopkins, so he might want to use a rape-mussel. But he really wanted to embrace the full act of bdsm, so he would need to hear her.

Maybe he could strangle her? That might work. There were a collection of interesting chokers. There was a spiky dog collar, some rough rope, some barbwire. But then his eyes drifted towards the whip, and he knew exactly what he wanted to do. In the words of the great prophet DEVO, if there is a hot, busty schoolgirl lying on the ground with a large collection of torture equipment,

"You Must Whip Her!" He screamed, taking the whip and swinging it at her, only to find her gone and right in front of him. She took the hand hold in the whip in one of her hands, and grabbed his neck with the other. Her hands slowly started to heat up, burning his flesh somewhat.

"You must have thought you were pretty tough. Taking what looked like a defenseless girl, beating her up, and locking her in a room full of torture equipment. But you got it all wrong sugar. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with ME"

The man screamed in terror as the fire slowly took light and passed out from shock, foam forming at the mouth. She let go of him and the flames quickly died. Her shoulder was bleeding really bad and she needed to apply a lot of heat to keep it from giving her bloodless. She had to direct all of her remaining heat to the wound, so she would have to find another way to get out of here. The door was made of steel and dead bolted to the wall, so she wouldn't have been able to burn her way out anyway, not with her current fire power.

She decided to wait it out and wait for someone to show up. When they open the door, she would surprise them and nock them out. But if Mr. Hopkins showed up, she might just have to courage to reach around and burn his @$$hole shut and set his d*ck alight.

Feeling his stomach full he decided it was time he venture outside and explore for the man's office. From what he'd seen he could attempt to figure out where his office would be. He had seemed to have been a flashy man with fine clothes lots of jewellery on his fingers. He was left handed when he was smoking and he happened to be quite well spoken. These were all factors pointing towards him having an office on the top of the boat due to the fact that he would want t show himself off and look down on people.

Grinning at noticing what he had he began to head for the stairs when he heard some screaming. Heading towards it he tightly clenched his fists hoping he could take whatever was on the inside down with ease if he needed to.

As he reached the door he unlocked it and kicked the door open letting it slowly creak inwards. He took on a fighting stance and gulped. He had no idea what would be on the inside but looked on wondering out of curiosity. Looking through his mask he breathed deeply.

Tamako had been hiding behind the door, her unconscious victim lay in the chair facing away from the door so that anyone who came in wouldn't be able to tell what was wrong. They would then be forced to enter the room, where Tamako would use this opportunity to attack them from behind.

But as she watched the target come in, she immediately recognized his mask and instead decided to surprise him in a much more pleasant way. She jumped onto him, squeezing her breasts into his back and embracing him in her arms.

"Darling! I missed you sooo much!"

Feeling the arms squeeze around him and something press into his back Dogberry could already tell this wasn't a guard. This was none other than Tamako. As Dogberry tried pulling her from his back he said to her.

"I missed you too."

With a quick kiss on the cheek he said to her.

"We've got to get out of here. I think we're still at sea and have been here for some time. Although I think our best first move would be to head to the Captain's office which I'm guessing from what I could tell about the leader is on the top floor highest point of the ship."

looking into the room then at Tamako he was disgraced with what he saw and kicked the door shut behind him locking the guard in there.

"Well come on then Tamako, lets get going. We've got an escape to pull off."

Tamako giggled as she heard where he assumed the Captain was. "That sounds like a villain from a children's story."

Following him out of the torture room, she waved goodbye to the unconscious man and followed her love wherever he planned to go. Then she realized what she had promised from before. "We need to go rescue those girls. Those people have them in such horrible conditions, I'm afraid that some might die during the time we aren't with them."

Hearing her mention about saving the girls and how the guy sounds like a villain from a children's story he grinned.

"Right well we should probably still head to the Office as the keys for the locks may be there and we can also take the guy down too. Once we take him down the other guards should fall then we can unlock a few prisoners and steer the ship towards the closest island and let these guys all go. That sound like a plan?"

She nodded at his plan. It was solid, just like any other one of his plans. She felt so much safer whenever she was around him. It wasn't just physical safety either though. He made her feel open and welcome to be herself. She wasn't as unashamed of her body, nor was she as meek or shy around others.

"Lead the way, Handsome, I'll follow you wherever"

nodding to her he headed towards the nearest stairwell and looked up it then back to Tamako.

"Well lets get going I figure once we reach the top though we will encounter allot of guards."

Heading up the stairs at almost a sprinting pace Dogberry reached the top quickly and noticed a very firmly locked door. As he pushed on the door and attempted to knock it in he realised he wasn't getting through this door so easily. reaching for his scalpels again he realised he didn't have them.

Using his Second Flame technique thanks to Tamako his lover he melt a hole through the door with ease. Reached through and unlocked it. Pushing the door open he walked out on to the large deck where he could see a massive deck with guards relaxing and a few pacing around the sides.

Gulping at the site of how many he could see Dogberry knew they had a fight on their hands if they weren't careful.

Staying against the walls Dogberry crept around them hoping to find some stairs. As he did it took no time at all till they were both noticed and quickly death would be heading towards them both. 100 rifles pointing at the both of them, and no where to run both Dogberry & Tamako were going to have some serious trouble her.

Looking on towards the many armed guards Dogberry looked to Tamako for a plan hoping at least that she had one. He himself knew dodging these bullets although probably possible also very difficult.

The guards had begun to walk in closer and from the window of his office up above the deck high above stood hopkins looking down on them both grinning with cigarette in hand. Laughing as thunder & lightning began to strike rain poured down and he found this the perfect time to lose the cigarette. Dropping it he turned back and headed inside his office.

As the cigarette fell through the air Dogberry felt something burn into his hair.

Tamako's face paled as she looked over the one hundred rifles staring at her, but as her vision deviated from them and stared at Dogberry. The color returned to her face and she stepped foreword. She didn't have any firepower, which made this an excellent time to use the Willow Walk. It was a move used for getting out of danger, and there wasn't anything more dangerous than this.

Calming her nerves to icy levels, shed eyes dropped slightly as her body went limp. She began walking forward towards the guards with rifles. One of them got startled by this new found courage and fired at her, but she shifted her weight and just dodged the bullet. Another tried to hit her then and she dodged that one.

Seeing the rifles open fire and Tamako begin to dodge bullets in a strange way Dogberry's eyes flung open as a bullet ripped through the side of his mask he realised he was still in the middle of a battle and closed his eyes. As his eyes closed he looked out and it seemed as if everything were in slow motion. His heart was beating quickly and his body flooded with adrenaline and endorphins to remove any pain his body would feel.

This wasn't quite a technique of Dogberry's but more a fortunate natural skill of his. His heart beats allot quicker than a normal person's allowing him quicker reaction times and the adrenaline helped too.

Removing his scalpels from their holsters Dogberry began his journey into mutilation hell. Dashing towards the first two on deck he sliced through their waists so deeply that even his fingers vanished into their bodies a little and blood sprayed out quickly at an increased pressure. Both guards dropped their rifles and fell to their knees spraying blood screaming at the top of their voices. Carrying on at such a quickened pace bullets continued to zip past him but in such a drugged up state of the bodily functions Dogberry didn't realise them as much.

Leaping up into the air he quickly came crashing down towards another Marine who raised his rifle but thanks to his footing Dogberry kicked it to the side along with the guards left hand which was stilling clinging to it. As he came closer Dogberry dug his scalpels into the guard's chest and both of them landed roughly upon the deck the guard dead. Dogberry rolled from the corpse over and as he landed back on his feet in a crouch position he slashed quickly at the knee caps of guards either side of him. Both fell screaming in agony dropping their rifles. Standing back up Dogberry could still feel time slowed around him and looked back to see a line of 5 guards dead behind him.

Hearing screams and clashing all around him he quickly realised how many guards he still had left to defeat. Time still felt slow to him and as Guards rushed to him with swords he quickly made use of his quicker reactions. 1st guard ran at him bringing the sword down towards his shoulder and Dogberry side stepped him placing his left arm over the guards arm holding the sword and pulled his arm the other way breaking his arm. grabbing hold of his sword Dogberry realised this would have to be as good a time as any to learn to become a swordsman. Spinning around to deal with more guards whilst the one whose sword he took screamed stumbling back.

Looking at the 3 guards who charged at him Dogberry used his Second Flame technique to heat the sword in his hand and used the sword to block attacks which came his way. He could still feel some bullets whooshing past him and turned to see even more guards coming after him. Unable to block every sword attack and feeling his body quickly getting weaker he ceased the Second Flame technique and screamed out loudly.

Shock tactics, they always worked well.

The guards all jumped back scared at the unexpected sound. Grinning beneath the mask Dogberry stabbed the scorching sword into the deck. Distracting the guards he took this as an opportunity to use his Life Return: Stomach Acid technique he'd learnt about.

Launching a mouthful of stomach acid out the guards screamed in agony as it met their faces and they all stepped back from him. Each scared to go near him and each terrified to be on the receiving end of an attack from him.

Guards in the better vantage points attempted to hit Dogberry with their rifles whilst ones closest to Tamako attempted to hack and slash her with their swords, maces & hammers. Dashing into the crowd of guards once again Dogberry used his Toppler technique slashing the big toes off of two separate guards and then slicing behind their tenants.

Hearing the screams made him chuckle as they fell over clutching their toes. He kicked another guard in the knee bending it backwards and sending out more screams followed by a sudden realisation Dogberry had landed himself in the centre of a still strong 86 guards.

Gulping as he looked to them all he realised he needed help and quick.

A sharp pain struck him in the chest and he found himself falling back to meet the ground with a blood patch growing on his shirt. Breathing heavily at exerting so much energy only to beat 14 guards he had to catch his breath again. The ground felt cold and hard against his back and he could feel his chest aching badly. Were there simply too many guards for him to handle? Was this it? Was this how his end would come about? These were all questions Dogberry thought in what he started to believe would be his final moments.

Their attacks were useless as Tamako was in complete control of her movements. All of the enemies appeared to be in slow-motion, all trying to beat her or cut her or shoot her. One guy swung at her with a mace, she grabbed his wrist and swung around him, looping her free hand and arm around his head, then pulled, snapping his neck.

5 more guards fell, her kill count had reached 7, but she couldn't do many large scale moves as she was still stuck in Willow Walk. As she moved inward, she soon got surrounded, but her nerves remained icy. Ducking low to dodge a man's bayonet, he stabbed another on the other side of her. She lifted her leg and stomped on his foot, making him loose his footing. She grabbed his rifle and smashed the but into his face, nocking his out.

Another mace, she stopped it with the but of the rifle, while firing in the opposite direction at a guard swinging high with a sword. They were all chaotic while she was in complete control.

Then a collapse. She noticed Dogberry drop to the ground and her icy stare dropped too. Her eyes filled with tears and a guard tried to smash into her with a spiky mace. She grabbed it with a flame covered hand. Her rage giving her fuel to burn her flames. She pulled at him, tugging him in and set his clothes on fire before hurling him at the guards surrounding Dogberry. 10 crashed down in the heap, all covered in a quick spreading fire. her oil count: 24.

Her body erupted into flames as she screamed at them to back off. She ran over to Dogberry, helping him up, but avoiding any burns in the process.

Hearing guards being attacked and beaten up badly Dogberry knew that Tamako was definitely offering him the helping hand he needed and he grinned closing his eyes feeling the prescience of guards close in to him. As he could hear crying and screaming out loud he flicked his eyes opened in time to see Tamako's crying face over him helping him up. Taking her hand and reaching his feet again Dogberry felt his body was still aching a little. He could feel blood draining from his body and knew he couldn't clot the wound with a bullet still inside of him so Dogberry chose to remove his scalpels again and begin his massacre once again.

"Thanks Tamako, seems like we've got ourselves some trouble here. All I guess I can tell you right now is good luck and to stay safe."

Thrusting a scalpel wielding hand forward Dogberry managed to slice through a guard's cartoid and he dropped his sword gripping his neck tightly. Grinning as the sword clattered to the ground Dogberry stepped on the sword to prevent anyone else from grabbing it. As another guard came at him and attempted to slash at his chest Dogberry leant backwards avoiding the blow only just then sprung himself towards the guard with scalpels in each hand and drew them down in a X from his ears down his face.

Agonizing screams filled the air as he clutched his face and Dogberry continued on spinning around and slicing the hips of two more guards. the gripped their hips in pain followed by their noses which Dogberry punched before bringing both arms down from their noses with scalpels pointing out the other way to stab them in the stomach.

Raising his scalpels up to avoid them slashing through his next enemy Dogberry spun to the left to avoid the falling bodies of the two he'd just stabbed and used his Chiropractor technique slamming his palms into the guard's lower back paralysing him momentarily. Grabbing the scruff of his collar at the back Dogberry thrusted him into the first sword which came his way and allowed this corpse to take the bullets which came his way too. Holding a scalpel in the other hand he stabbed it into the spinal cord or a guard facing the other way. As the guard had the blade removed his body fell to the ground paralysed but still conscious. The corpse in his hand crumbling away Dogberry took this as an opportunity to distract once more.

Throwing the corpse which fell apart as it flew through the air towards the guards who came at him Dogberry removed a pistol from his belt. The guards screamed in horror at their deceased friend coming at them whilst Dogberry used his Life Return to increase his eye sight and took aim at the guards who were taking shots from their vantage points.

Squeezing off a few bullets towards one in the crow's nest Dogberry grinned seeing his body falling from the nest to the deck beside Tamako and then he realised it was time to deal with more close combat guards. as the guards rushed towards him feeling his mouth fill again Dogberry projectile vomited stomach acid from his mouth after raising the mask a little. The guards took a hit straight to the face and Dogberry grinned looking at them squirming in agony on the floor as it burnt away at them.

Turning to face more guards coming at him Dogberry used his scalpels to slice down through their knee caps and into their feet where he slashed through them. One foot on each of the two guards who came at him and they hit the floor in pain.

Looking around Dogberry could see a significant difference as now a good 52 guards had been taken down only 48 were left to deal with now. Grinning to himself he could see a significant difference and couldn't help but smile with glee behind his mask at the revolting creatures which were responsible for the slaves aboard the ship.

Seeing how much more worried and reserved the guards were Dogberry knew that they would have to make the first move to attack as they wanted to hopefully counter them both. Raising a scalpel to attack a guard in the eye Dogberry felt a powerful fist to the gut. This man was much stronger than expected. As the punch met and Dogberry's eyes bulged due to pain he grunted and gripping the guard and dropping his scalpels. The guard grabbed Dogberry's neck and began squeezing. Suffocating the other guards turned to face Tamako.

They figured Dogberry was as good as dead. Looking into the eyes of the large guard who had hold of him Dogberry launched a punch at the guard's throat. Gasping for breath he let go and Dogberry hit the ground himself gasping. grabbing one of his two scalpels he uppercutted the guard with the scalpel sticking out between his fingers and picked up the next scalpel as he stumbled backwards and began punching away at the guard's face with scalpels between his fingers.

Blood sprayed up and splattered Dogberry's clothing but he didn't care when he turned around he could see 47 less guards to deal with and took a second to breath before he ran back in grabbed a guard's hair pulling his head back slit his throat, turning his right arm to punch a guard Dogberry sliced across his eyes and then back again blinding them. Approaching the next two he stabbed his scalpels into the upper parts of their spinal cords and removed them allowing their bodies to crumble. Seeing another guard realising what was going on a guard wielding a large axe charged his way.

Gripping the back of the blade he threw his right knee up into the guard's chin causing him to let go and spun around still gripping the back of the axe but as he spun around so quickly he had changed his grip so the blade was now coming for the guard. As it came around and the guard was still in pain after biting his tongue in half the axe blade sliced down through the guard's shoulder.

Letting go Dogberry noticed a man to his right leaning in to squeeze of a bullet into his head and grabbed his hand and swung under dragging the guard's arm with him then turned around so he was back to back with the guard. Screaming as Dogberry pressed in on his thumb knuckle there was a crack and Dogberry had successfully broken his thumb and disarmed the gun man. With the pistol in hand he fired over his shoulder removing life from the foolish guard.

41 guards left to deal with. The crowd was getting smaller and smaller and Dogberry was liking this. As he looked around he noticed how terrified of them the guards really were and couldn't help but feel a grin over his face grow. Looking up to the sharp shooters in great vantage points Dogberry noticed how they were the only ones who seemed confident in their safety.

With her love alright now, Tamiko calmed down and extinguished her fire. She side-stepped, dodging a sword that was being thrusted in her direction. The sword whizzed by her and stabbed a guard on her other side. The real problem with fighting in groups was that it lead to things like this. Uncoordinated teammates all trying to win and survive. Tamiko and Dofberry were trying for the same thing, but they didn't have to worry about each other bothering the other while they fought.

1 nose=shattered, 2 left big toes=shattered, 1 rib-cage=broken. Her enemies were falling with one hit each. This was how you were supposed to take down a mob. One hit for each of them. If you didn't do it that way, you risked getting double or triple-teamed.

Twelve guards surrounded her, they all had a sword pointed downward with her name on it. She dropped low and stomped on the left foot of the guard to her 6 O'Clock position and the right foot of the guard to her 5 O'Clock position. They fell in opposite directions, pushing the rest of the guards with them. Tamiko made her way out of the circle and proceeded to take down an additional 6 more guards.

12 guards down.

Tamiko leaped over two guards charging in with swords and they charged right into two other guards charging in with swords. 4 more down.

Then she spotted Dogberry getting chocked and her anger welled up again. Her body went alit with flames and she grabbed a guard's collar. She set his clothes on fire and swung him around, smashing him into twelve other guards, setting them all alit as well.

One guard got wise and took off his shirt before the flames did any damage, so she rushed him. Two guards double teamed her from the sides, so she jumped up and smashed her fists down on their greasy hair. They screamed in pain as the fire burned their faces. She lifted herself up using their bodies and used a Burning Battle Axe on the man she had rushed, smashing him down unconscious.

Kill count=30

She spotted Dogberry ok, so her flames died down again. There was only 11 of these guys still active now. She returned to Dogberry and stood back to back with him, ready to get this done.

"This has been quite an event, hash't it been, Love?"

Seeing the numbers of guards drop vastly Dogberry grinned and looked around to see an remaining 11. Smiling as he approached them he looked to Tamako who seemed pretty much unharmed.

"Well, well, well, seems like its come down to the very last few. Its time you were all taken down and removed from life itself. You see your goals to kill myself & dear Tamako here will fail, you will lose your lives and you will wonder why as you fall to your deaths. But you won't be able to do a single thing about it. You can shoot me but you will still fall to your deaths."

From the direction Dogberry was standing he was looking out ahead of the ship and as sharp shooters in their perches took up their rifles and aimed upon him as their fingers gripped the triggers and wrapped around tightly they even fired off a bullet or two but not until the ship was hit hard by the large death bringing wave Dogberry had seen ahead and coming their way.

Dogberry saw the guards fall from their perches down towards the deck, necks snapped, and rifles were broken in half. As Dogberry grabbed Tamakoe he made sure to grip at the floor boards tightly to stop himself and her from being thrown over board by the powerful wave which washed over the deck sweeping the guards they'd beaten away and over board.

Gripping as tightly as he could manage he kept his eyes & mouth closed. The water crashed over them and cleansed the ship of the evil of the guards.

Sitting in his office looking over the deck at Dogberry & Tamako Hopkins grinned as water splashed off of his window and simply drifted around the edge of his room. He put his cigarette out on the ash tray and nodded to himself.

"So it seems these two are quite a troublesome two. It seems I may need your assistance after all. I was hoping to avoid it but needs must. I never thought I'd need to use you but it seems I was wrong. Just get up here as soon as possible."

As Hopkins slammed the den den mushi back down he lay back in his chair waiting for the troublesome two to arrive and take his head. He knew it was what they were coming for and could wait but knew that he should't but now it was his only option as his 1st & 2nd mate would be on their ways from the lower depths of the ship.