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High Stakes, Problematic Gambling; Meanwhile, Elsewhere
Topic Started: Feb 1 2015, 11:53 PM (3,370 Views)
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Argos only briefly glanced at Illya as he approached, clearly not very interested in anything other than Arcadia. With her air cut off, and having taken a great deal of damage already, the shichibukai was hanging right on the edge of consciousness. Nom nom-chan also looked out for the count, whether because it's owner was also fading or because it had expended a lot of energy defending a moment earlier.

"Oh? What makes you think that you can stop it if I can't, then?" Arcadia was dropped without a second thought, but only so that Henan could take possession of her instead. It was so that Argos could turn to face Illya fully, with a rather stern face. "I'm not saying that I'm going to let you go free, but we have already completed out objective, and my time will be much better spent preventing casualties on the island rather than here." Pale blue flames licked around his limbs as he remained in his hyrbid form, ready to react the instant he saw Illya make a move. He was keeping himself a good few metres away, not interested in getting too close when his adversary had a seastone weapon. "But I'm not expecting you to just leave us alone." He nodded to Will. "If I've already got allies heading to the surface, maybe I can afford to continue this dance for a while."

Having returned to his green, long-legged form, Henan disappeared in a sudden soru past Illya, carrying Arcadia with him. His aim was the surface, of course. He wasn't expecting the centipede to just let him pass, but Argos was ready and waiting to respond to even the tiniest of movements that might be made.

But fortunately, he had little need to do so. Without any warning, the ceiling burst open in a bright flash of light, to come crashing down straight on Illya. It's width was easily that of the tunnel, likely more in fact, and the resulting explosion even larger. Argos, already on edge, made an emergency soru backwards to try to escape the explosion, but even the distance he managed to travel was not enough to escape it and his reaction was not fast enough to avoid it immediately. One of his arms was blown off entirely, leaving only a stump that was growing back at a fairly slow pace. Anyone else left in the tunnel would also be forced to endure it, though they wouldn't have crazy regenerative powers to help them. Even Henan, who had reached the hole through which the tunnel had been entered in one huge leap, still had to shield himself from the intense wave of heat that emanated past the barrier that had been busted through earlier.

The sturdy walls of the tunnel had luckily managed to survive the explosion itself, albeit with visible damage, but the gaping hole from which the laser had blast through showed that the blast that had gotten through had only been a weakened version of the actual attack. The part that was left after smashing through the incredibly sturdy tunnel walls still held a great deal of power, power which had crashed down right on top of Illya. Anyone looking up would be able to see the sky far up through the hole in the ceiling, bordered by smouldering wreckage.

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He hit the floor, the world going slightly odd in the way it always did when he went flat against things. Eve's roar sounded above, and he barked a short, savage laugh. Oh, he'd get it all right - Suhov would find his fights much more difficult without that spear of his, and he was sure the spear had gotten caught in the chains. All that would be needed was one good pull, and the damned dog would be disarmed. He wrenched the hammer to drag the chains behind it down, and by extension the spear, and the chains simply fell through, limp and broken.

That bastard. He'd somehow heated up that spear and cut through the chains that way. Uncarayne rose up from the ground, hammer aimed for that smug pill-popping face, but the man was already gone in a blur of movement, leaving nothing but empty space for his hammer to cleave through. It was an odd tableau: Arcadia, broken and bleeding in the hands of the CP9, while William and Raine looked on; Suhov, trying after his ferocious attacks to smile and sound reasonable. It sounded completely wrong, like a crocodile trying to turn people vegetarian. Didn't stop you from wanting to make a pair of shoes out of his skin, but you had to admire the damn nerve of him. Uncarayne strode forwards, standing behind the man forbiddingly.

William was having none of it, instead making up a plan. Apparently the den den mushi had said something really important, and Uncarayne had missed it... And there was something about magnets and electricity. He didn't remember having taught William any of that, which just went to show how drunk he must have been. Still - "The island is being destroyed? By something she built?!" he exclaimed, his hammer pointing at Arcadia. Damn it, did it just never end? "I bet if we knock her out it'll stop!" He'd even volunteer to do it himself...

...nope, that wasn't William's plan. The man wanted to fly up there and do... stuff. Magnetic, electrical stuff, to the thing hanging in the sky that destroyed islands. Uncarayne thought that last bit needed some emphasis. On the other hand, it was, well, destroying the island, which was kind of the only thing keeping them out of the sea. Put that way, it almost seemed reasonable.

It sounded even more reasonable the very next second as the ceiling of the tunnel erupted downwards in a roaring crash of energy, an explosion coming in its wake. It might not have exactly punched through to the bottom of the artificial island, but (by Uncarayne's expert estimate) it had sure come damned close to it. On the bright side, it had come down directly on top of Suhov, who had finally got what was coming to him. On the other hand, if that was the small version, what was the full version of that beam going to look like? Not pretty, that was for sure. Which meant really only one course of action. Uncarayne ran for William. "Okay! Okay! Let's get up there!"
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Would the average joe, Eve thought, think they were beset by hallucinations if they could see what was going on in that tunnel? With one blink, two people were due for a head on collision; the man radiating heat as if he was some malignant sun, and the woman a living maelstrom. On the next blink, they had both moved, flown to opposite ends of the tunnel at impossible speeds. Eve, with her target gone and nothing to stop her, tumbled and scraped out of light speed onto the hard floor. The fall was not utterly devoid of grace- to an outsider looking in. For Eve, it felt as if she had raked her face and body across a cheese-grater. Her wounds flared with a fresh twist of a knife and left her briefly stunned as her spine arched in pain and her fingers clutched vice-like at the scars in her flesh. There wasn’t much left in her. Her heart beat bruises into her ribs while her breath came in ragged and strained efforts. The fight would, one way or the other, end sooner rather than later. But, with a burning tenacity that bordered, perhaps, on suicidal, Eve struggled to her feet using her rifle as a crutch. Slowly, she started to limp back towards the group. Words started to float on by like mosquitoes, and every one sucked a little more energy from her already pale and battered frame.

The sky had fallen. The land above: shattered. At first Eve hadn’t noticed it, she had been too consumed in taking down Suhov... but the quakes were very real. They shook the tunnel, her skin, and her core. Her eyes, bloodshot and tired, looked up. She couldn’t see the destruction or hear the screams as whole histories burned with agony for a split second, before being snuffed out like candles in the dark. But she could visualise it all far too clearly. What was Eve doing? Hiding underground like a worm that feared the dawn. Arcadia just had to have one last surprise for them, after everything else she had put the world through. Eve’s rifle shook and rattled as it rose and took turbulent aim at Arcadia; captured, but still alive and safe and unpunished. It would be so easy to pull the trigger and send a bullet whizzing past Suhuv, past William and Raine and Unca. Past even the CP9, and straight into that woman’s skull. To just pull the trigger and blow out that one wicked candle that wanted to stand taller than the rest without ever melting. Eve stood like that, as if in a daze, her finger tapping the trigger back and forth, a swinging knife held up by the thinnest string. Lightning flashed around her body in unstable bolts, desperate to break free and have its way on the world. A shoulder twitched, followed by a cheek. And then... the rifle fell, followed closely by its partner’s knees on the solemn metal floor. A fist slammed into the panelling, then again and again, each time flashing with incandesce, until Eve’s knuckles were bloody. She looked up again, past the ceiling, just before the sky fell on them, too.

Eve felt no pain, and the noise was so loud as to be silent. Light became her world. She reached out to touch it, her own body a fizzling blue figure floating in a sea of white. Nothing. She could -and was dearly tempted to- fall asleep in that unearthly cradle. Few had that luxury however, and the heat and the force she knew to be there rippled on past and around her to clamp its jaws down on her comrades. The dream suddenly became vivid, and Eve was on her feet and running once the light faded. “Unca!” she cried through the smoke, steam and molten glow of the superheated tunnel. “Unca, where- Are you okay?!” She squinted, and there through the thick smog was her friends figure, alive and well. The locks on Eve’s lungs sprung loose.

Something had to be done. Suhov... Suhov would have to wait. She looked back at that despicable figure. He was nothing to Arcadia’s trump card, something they may have to let go if they -if she- wanted to do the “...Right thing...” Eve muttered. Beyond the new hole in the ceiling, clouds had started to gather, dark and promising rain at the very least. “...Okay... Okay...” she breathed. She looked to Will. Could she do what he had suggested, just before the light had fallen? What else could she do? Something so high, a machine that flew like that... it was out of reach for all of them. But it was a plan, it was something. “Okay,” she repeated, as a lump slid down her throat. “L-Let’s go.”

Quicksilver found itself nestled on Eve’s back. She trembled, and she hurt, but something needed done. The fight would end soon, and she had to hold out until then. One last deep breath, and she jumped upwards, grabbed at a rope of broken wires and twisted plating and climbed upwards, through the hole and out into the fading daylight. The island around her was blackened, every inch scorched. The few trees and plants lining the metal avenues had been fossilised in an instant and fires burned regardless of fuel. In the distance, something was splayed out in the middle of the road. Something charred beyond recognition, but the terror was still etched in what had been a human face. Eve spared a few moments to look at them and inscribe them to memory... before turning her attention to the tower. Taller even than Arcadia’s base, the spire rose from the waves and dominated the horizon at the center of the island. She had felt its pull when she had first arrived, and she felt it now more than ever. Somewhere far above, another monster lurked beyond her sight. “Salty,” she announced, eyes fixed on the tower. “I don’t know if this will work. But if it does and that... thing, that weapon... if it comes falling down, we need to get rid of it before it hits anything. Give me your gun. I want all the firepower I can get.” She presented him with an open palm. If she could even do that... she didn’t know. Time would tell, as it always did.

For a few moments, her gaze met the ground. “Let’s... let’s not screw this up anymore, okay? If you’ve got anything metal on you... hold on to it tight. Things might get a little crazy.” She offered a smile, tried her best to make it genuine. “See you all on the flipside, right?” And then she was gone, zapping up and up, far above Las Arcadas to the tallest point her feet could find purchase. The wind was vicious so high up. It ripped at her hair and coat and screamed in joy at the oncoming tempest. Gently, Eve put her equipment down. An access panel, decorated in shock warnings, unclipped and lifted itself easily under her straining muscles and gifted her with a mighty thick cable that hummed with power. The tower itself was like a huge battery, and Eve could feel the electricity running up and down its length, feel the pull stretching out for miles to guide in the ships. She grabbed at her rifle, unhinged the bayonet at its tip, and cut into the cable’s casing, through the wires themselves until sparks flew. Unflinching, she grabbed at the exposed ends and held them upwards. “I can do this,” she breathed. “I can do some good here. Justice... heh,” she chuckled and smile again. “...Justice can be done.”

With that sentiment, she pushed the power outwards and became part of the circuit. Everything she could muster, millions and millions of volts worth of energy, flowed in an instant into the great tower. The storm clouds above howled with glee and joined in the celebration, sending crackling bolts of white spearing throughout the sky. And, somewhere amongst all the noise and booming thunder, a voice rang out in determination.

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It seemed like they were not very keen on taking Illya up on his offer. While expected, it was certainly just a bit disappointed. The pirate could not help but chuckle at Will's piss poor attempt to keep him away by swinging the robot body in front of him. If the inventor really wanted to get to Arcadia, it would be as simple as using Soru to bypass the robot and appear by the Shichibukai's side. Unfortunately, that would put him right by Argos, one of the few people that would give him trouble. Plus having Arcadia in such close proximity to himself severely limited just what sort of attacks he could use to get her away, especially now that her shield was no longer working. "Well, lets see. I doubt that the orbital bombardment would stop with Arcadia's death so killing her or threatening to kill her won't really stop anything and it's doubtful that the Shichibukai would be so stupid as to design something that could be stopped by anyone else other than her unless specifically asked, which is certainly not the case here." the doctor said, his speech somewhat garbled as he tried to speak without biting down on the pill.

Even as he spoke, the one armed man really did not believe half of the things that he said. After all, the last couple of hours proved how much of an idiot Arcadia really was. So while she was smart enough design an orbital bombardment laser, it was doubtful that she even spent a minute thinking about other people trying to bring it down and defend against it. Hopefully these morons would not succeed but Illya was not holding his breath. As such, he really hoped that he would be able to talk his way out of this with Arcadia intact. "However, if you leave her in my care and allow me to leave, I am more than sure that she would be happy to provide you with a way of shutting the laser down." the inventor said, standing still as he waited for some sort of response to his query. Unfortunately, the response was not the one he was hoping for but one that he was not entirely surprised by, with Henan running like a little bitch towards the entrance with Arcadia in tow.

Before the doctor did not get a chance to decide whether or not he could chance chasing after the Shichibukai with Argos watching, the decision was somewhat made for him. There was really not a lot of time to react as the ceiling cracked above him before breaking open under the sheer force of the laser as it streaked towards the ground, centered right at the one armed man's position. With such a short time to react, there was not much he could do aside from trying to Soru in the direction that Henan took. Unfortunately, even using Soru, the bugman was unable to completely avoid the laser. While the heat did nothing to him, the explosion caused by the laser certainly did, picking him up and tossing him into a nearby wall with a rather large amount of force. Unlike when hit by the mass of lightning, which felt like tickles, the current damage on his body felt like needles pricking his skin. Certainly painful but nothing that would prevent him from moving.

As he got up to his feet and took a few steps, Illya knew that his body was in bad shape. If this amount of pain was reaching his brain then he must have sustained some massive damage. Biting down on the pill in his mouth, the pirate was pleased to find the pain lessening as his body began to fix itself. Popping the last pill into his mouth, but not biting down on it just yet, the inventor began to attempt to Geppou after Henan. He knew that he was pushing his body way past the limit but now was not the time to worry about it just yet. He would worry after Arcadia was safely in Izuru's arms. The and only then would he worry about the condition of his body. Truth be told, he just hoped that he would survive his encounter, though he was sure that he would end up losing a limb or something in the process.

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William watched as Henan bolted forward, disregarding Will’s invite to climb on his back. Raine didn’t seem in too much of a hurry to take him up on the offer either, but he still waited for Uncarayne since that guy clearly needed a ride to move as fast as the others. In the meantime, he responded to Eve’s warning and request: "Let’s just hope it’s not too big." as he handed her his gun.

The bounty hunter transformed into a full stymphalian bird, and as soon as Uncarayne climbed on his back, he darted using soru, and continued utilizing the momentum with his wings to get out of dodge as soon as possible.

He heard another rumbling noise just above him at one point and the crash of the tunnel coming down. He darted to the side and had it miss them narrowly. "Could you watch for these things Unca? I’m doing my best but I can’t guarantee anything." he said as he tried to fly as fast as possible.

Thankfully, the tunnel wasn’t very long, and it was too sturdy to be destroyed completely, even by an assault such as this. Bertrand could soon see the end of it.

As they came out, they found themselves in the docks. Will observed around him for a moment. He saw one of those gigantic lasers from the sky land uncomfortably near the already ravaged docks. He saw marine ships still burning and remembered the den den mushi report. When he saw Henan, he spoke to him: "If you don’t have a hidden ship, you can take ours to throw off Illya, there is no one in it right now who could possibly oppose you. I’m going to go see what Eve is up to. Unca, keep on if you want to go with me."

Regardless of whether Uncarayne got off his back, William would fly towards the center of the island as quickly as he could.
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Instead of climbing on t the back of the zoan user, Raine had decided she would make her way outside on her own. It was a combination of being too proud to rely on his wings for this as well as thinking logically. Salty had already taken quite a bit of damage and was carrying one passenger. It would have been quicker for both of them to just move separately. As they prepared to get moving she would use Life Return to alter her body's shape and muscle distribution to a form more suited for quick movements. It would decrease her power as well as drain a bi on her stamina but that was fine for the time being. It seemed the man from Cipher Pol with the strange flame powers would be the one to deal with Illya. The woman clicked her teeth in annoyance. Not at the fact that he was going to fight the pirate but rather at the fact that she wasn't the one to kill him. Even if he wasn't the priority target he was the strongest man she had encountered in a fight in a while. The only exception currently being her own father.

They wouldn't have much time to waste as the ceiling above began to rumble once again, this time even worse than before. Will had already taken off and she wasn't far behind as she used Soru to follow his own and continuing at a full speed sprint upon reaching the maximum distance and managing to keep up with two of them. She only glanced back once to see what the result of that devastating blast was, the CP agent missing an arm but seemingly growing it back and Illya apparently being more or less fine. What the hell kind of weapon did Arcadia build that was able to blast through these walls and still carry this much power. She was truly a mad scientist. It didn't take long before they reached the mouth of the tunnel and for the first time in a while Raine found herself greeted by natural lighting of the sun. Unfortunately it was also accompanied by the flames and smoke of havoc caused from that orbital blast.

"Let's keep moving. We have little time to waste. Unless you'd rather be a smoldering heap on the floor like them." She commented rather briskly to both William and Uncarayne. Whether or not he decided to come with them to deal with this he would need to make that choice now. The amount of damage and casualties were already pretty staggering and would only rise by hesitating. While Raine wasn't one to normally do things for 'justice' or similar beliefs she still despised cowardly tactics like this and to take out this thing was to also ensure her own survival. Looking towards the tower at the center of the island where the spire resided she could see sparks of electricity beginning to dance around it. It seemed that the marine was doing her job so far.
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"Got it. But we should have Illya dealt with soon..."

Argos quickly pulled himself out of the fractured wall, rubbing his head and cracking his neck as he began to take a few steps forward again. "No, no. You've got completely the wrong grasp of this. That superweapon has already started up, and there's not much left to salvage on this island. We'll only lose more if we just hand her over to you. Besides, this entire place was made by Arcadia. She's probably got a lot of illegal stuff hidden about, so she's doing us a favour by destroying it." The agent carefully noted that the centipede man had used yet another one of those pills, which he was surely beginning to run short of by now. "How could I expect you to hold your side of the bargain anyway? You'll just take her and go. Do you think I'm stupid?" His arm was still missing, but the other more minor injuries he had received from the laser had all but disappeared.

"Where are you going?" His arm may have been missing, but his legs were still fully functional. A quick flick with one sent a shockwave barrelling towards Illya, and Argos immediately followed up with a soru to appear straight behind his target. His remaining arm gleamed with a shiny black coating, before he slammed it towards Illya's back.

Henan, at almost the same time and with clearly practised coordination, spun around just before Argos had used soru, lashing out with his own rankyaku. It was only brief, since his focus was on carrying Arcadia, but he had turned around for that brief period. "Hold it there." However, he wasn't simply holding her. In one hand he gripped one of his knives, which he was holding up to Arcadia's throat. "We sure want her alive, but that doesn't mean we can't have her dead either. Drop your weapon quietly, or I might just slip."



All of a sudden, there was a distinct rumbling throughout the island. Not just because of the orbital lasers crashing down on it, because they had in fact eerily stopped. The last one had hit the water a fair distance away from the island, very off-target for some reason. There was an unnatural vibe in the air, which anyone with some decent perception could trace to the huge and durable tower in the centre of the island. It was crackling with electricity, jumping and sparking off it like a living creature. The energy being supplied to the magnetic field generator was being greatly increased overloading the limiters and vastly boosting the capacity. At first, only pins and other small metallic items near the tower would leap up towards it, but that effect greatly increased as the capacitors charged up even further. Cutlery, weapons and appliances were shooting towards it from all over the island, and it still wasn't stopping. What Will and Eve had failed to take into account in their plan was that Las Arcadas was an island with a lot more metal than other islands. After all, it was composed of the stuff entirely from the ground up. Loud bending and twisting of metal could be heard from all over the island, as the metal plates that made up it's base were slowly deformed. The edges of the island began to ever so slightly curl up, like the petals of a gigantic flower.

And, to add to all of that, up in the sky a tiny dot could be seen. It was only small at first, but soon it came down from low orbit and into the lower atmosphere. The magnetic pull of the tower had only slightly affected it, but in a stationary orbit that was enough for it to begin to fall. It had correctional measures of course, but without Arcadia to oversee them it was not enough. The shape of the satellite was deforming, no longer resembling a space invader quite so much as the friction of re-entry burnt away pieces of the outside. The weapon had never been designed for such a violent descent back to sea level, causing it to gradually break up and glow red hot as it fell. However, it was still the size of a small ship, and was heading straight towards Las Arcadas at subsonic speeds.

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"See you up there!" shouted Uncarayne to Eve's rapidly departing (back? Figure? Shape? Did she even have any of those things in her logia-form?) from aboard William's metallic-feathered back. Flattening himself against the bird-man's surface, he could feel beneath him the places on William where the feathers hadn't fully come back after the pitched battle against Mac earlier. In a sense, this next part would be both the most exhilarating part of their mission on Las Arcadas; in another sense, it was looking like the most workmanlike task so far.

Riding the back of a metallic myth-bird up through a tunnel carved into an artificial island by a giant death laser fired from an orbital satellite, on the way to destroy said satellite the only way they all knew how, before it utterly wiped out the rest of the island. Uncarayne chuckled, then laughed, then outright whooped as William picked up speed. Having the oncoming bits of debris come into their way only exacerbated it, as he moved over William's back onto the man's shoulders, taking care as he went to not get in the way of the fiercely beating wings. "No problem at all, boss man," he said happily, and partially-unflattened himself so that his upper body stuck out of William's back. His hammers came out, the knife-edge in his left and the dead-blow in his right. He swung, and a shockwave blasted out to cleave a falling chunk of plaster in two. Another swing launched a shockwave that blasted away a jutting fragment of beam that threatened to bar their way forwards; and before he knew it, they were out in the sun, the smell of sea salt spray strong in his nose.

Hadn't thought they were so near there; they'd been one bad shot or one collapse away from being drowned in the tunnels, if the laser had punched through where the tunnel ceiling met the ocean... Uncarayne shuddered, his good mood scattered by it. William was discussing logistics with Henan, and then -

"Of course I'm with you," said Uncarayne, grinning as he sank back into/onto William's back, looking at the tower in the middle of the island and the electrical storm swirling around its topmost point. "Wouldn't miss it for the world." There was a slight modification of that sentiment as, he noticed, the entire island was rumbling. Ah, of course. The tower, and most of all the point where Eve was. A giant electromagnet, sitting smack dab in the middle of an island-sized mass of metal. He felt his hammers and their chains shake in his hands, and the nails in his bandoleer pulling. Around them, screws were tearing loose of their moorings, weapons and appliances were shooting out of places Uncarayne hadn't even known there were places, and in fact the whole island was starting to fold up, the edges raising and pulling towards the center... And a red-hot mass the size of a small ship coming down right on top of it. "Okay, William, remember what I told you about magnets and electricity?" Uncarayne said into the man's ear, grinning hard enough to crack walnuts. "It's time to assault that battery!"
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It felt like Eve was losing herself. Her body, the extent of her nervous system, felt like it was being pulled and stretched into impossible shapes over an equally impossible area. Part of her wanted to slip away into the current of the tower and flow around it like just another set of mindless electrons. Another part wanted to leap into the clouds and make a cozy hammock among the rain and the static. There was even an urge to just implode into a tiny singularity that no-one, not even with the keenest eyes, would be able to find. She didn't realize what her powers were doing to the island itself - the noise, and her tightly closed lids shielded her from the chaos of the folding land. She didn't even know if what she was doing would work, whether it would be in vain or not. Eve didn't want to know, not until she had to.

The storm felt like it went on for ages. The tower, with its greedy capacitors and coils, drank of her gift non-stop and felt ever eager for more as its fingers pulled downward on every bullet casing on Eve's person. In reality, the experience lasted a few minutes at best, when Eve simply gave out and the power flowed no more. Without the energy to feed it, the tower's greed vanished and the huge pylon fell silent. Nuts, bolts, and all kinds of miscellaneous metal suddenly found themselves back in the real world, where such things did not fly. They plummeted, some mid-air, others already stuck to the shell of the tower that had almost buckled in on itself. Hundreds of little splashes sounded in the waters below as tool and weapon alike fell to a watery grave. Eve, with harsh breath, opened her eyes to look around just in time to see the outer reaches of Las Arcadas sag and moan in a way only grinding metal can.

Eve went down, too. She slumped, cross-legged, to the floor, alongside the cable ends she had used to fuel the whole shebang. Quietly, she wheezed to herself, though it was largely lost in the billowing wind and remnants of the storm she had created. A few rogue arcs still flashed near the top of the tower, but gradually faded in frequency. She lay back and watched as the red eye formed in the clouds and stared at the entire earth with a frothing hatred that only grew as it fell ever closer. One last push. She needed one last push and after that, she would be at her limit. The scars in her stomach and shoulder ached, her lungs couldn't get enough sweet oxygen, and her muscles felt like they were lined with lead. The clouds up above started to part and the carnage of a descending sun reached her ears. Fire, force and tearing metal. One last push.

Both weapons, Quicksilver and Salty's own gun, found fingers circling their stocks. "...C'mon..." Eve hissed. She made it to her feet, though her back was still hunched from need of breath. "...One last push..." The island lay trapped below her. She couldn't see them, but there were people, hiding, just like they were in the oceans beyond. People she didn't know and probably never would. So why? She didn't know. Maybe it was jut instinct, primal altruism. Maybe it was petty spite to get back at a woman who had wronged her, hurt her and would see her own island burn with orbital fire. Or, maybe, it was a certain Captain taking a volley of gunfire to protect her, all the way back in Goa. Eve didn't know. What she did know was that Arcadia had been a fool in thinking she could unleash a storm on the world.

Eve was the goddamn storm.

"Twin..."

One leg slid back to brace her form. Sparks started to return, slithered their way up her arms into the two guns. The satellite fell faster and faster, a meteor rushing to consume the world.

"...Mass..."

The snakes became larger, the weapons started to hum with energy and their barrels glowed with magnetic power. The satellite drew ever closer, a red hot ball of rage that wanted take everything else down with its mistress. Wanted to.

Eve pulled the two guns back, loading her arms like springs. Another small storm brewed around her arms, only to vanish as quick as it had arrived. There was a brief moment of silence and still, save for the satellite flying further into range. And then, with speed that would trick most eyes and a flash of thunder, Eve's arms flew forward and the gun barrels exploded.

"...DRIVER!!"

A pair of orange beams sheared the air, cracked the sound barrier multiple times and spiraled around one another like an ethereal drill. Round and round they went, speeding for a head-on collision with the satellite until they seemingly merged into a single, destructive wave that spewed a cone of super-heated air in its wake.

But Eve could not remain conscious long enough to see the conclusion of her efforts. The guns fell and clacked to the ground, where she soon joined them. Her body hit the metal with a ringing thud and there she lay, splayed out and motionless save for the gradual rise and fall of her chest. Her Marine coat made for a fine blanket, and in the few moments before the darkness soothed her to sleep, a funny feeling of having done something good gurgled happily away in the pit of her stomach.

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Illya was breathing heavily as he sailed through the air and landed onto the same floor where Henan currently was. The pirate knew he was pushing himself past his own limits but there was nothing that he could do about that unless he was ready to give up here and now and he was certainly not. That left only one option to him, push himself to the point where he could no longer move and then push himself some more. Once he got Arcadia, he would worry about the consequences of his actions, but until then, there was nothing that he could do. Being so focuses on Henan, the inventor was not aware of Argos behind him, which was really a mistake that he should not have made but was probably due to his exhaustion, until a shockwave slammed into his back. The doctor stumbled forward before Soru'ing to Henan's side, knowing that Argos would undoubtedly have something up his sleeve and he did not intend to find exactly what it was. The one armed man was pleased with his decision to Soru to Henan's side instead of the front, which allowed him to avoid another shockwave.

It was when he came out of Soru beside Henan that he just barely stopped in his tracks as he saw that the CP9 agent had a knife to Arcadia's neck, threatening to kill her if the bug man did not drop his weapon. Illya took a few moments to consider that proposition. With the knife so close to the Shichibukai's throat, it was doubtful that even if he used his heat beams, he would be able to kill the man was enough to prevent the blade from cutting into the flesh. And even if he did manage to kill Henan fast enough, there was a very good chance that the body would jerk and slash the throat anyways. And that was something that the pirate could not leave up to chance. After all, Izuru would be very cross with him if he discovered that he was the reason behind Arcadia's death. Plus, it was looking more and more likely that he would not be able to rescue the Shichibukai all by himself. And if he did surrender, he would get another chance at a rescue, or at least until they reached Impel Down. Hopefully Izuru would reach him before that happened.

"Now, now, no reason to be hasty. But where do we go from here?" the inventor said, keeping his voice light and non-threatening as he dropped his spear to the ground. Even without, he certainly had more than enough ways to attack if he would get a chance to do so. After all, no reason to hope that he could escape on the ship if an opportunity presented itself here and now. As he waited for either Argos or Henan to do something, the doctor noticed his spear trying to float up into the air at the same time as he felt an upward pull on his own armour. Seeing as how he had no intention of losing the spear, he put his foot on top of it to prevent it from flying off. All around he could hear the screeching of metal as it was bent out of shape. Whatever was going on, he had to keep his attention on the two men here with him. Let someone else deal with the laser. If it destroyed the island, oh well, that was not his problem.

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William flew towards the magnetic tower as fast as he could, only after a time, he realized that he was accelerating more than his wings were capable of, and the realization dawned on him. He himself, seeing as his feathers were made of metal, along with Uncarayne on his back were being pulled towards the tower. They were of course also surrounded by a storm of metallic objects going in the same direction, and every time William needed to dodge the collision with one of them as he passed it in flight, he realized more and more how difficult it had become for him to control his trajectory.

Right at the moment when he decided the best way not to die is to transform into a human again and crash while his speed wasn’t too great, as they had reached the middle of the island, Unacarayne spoke indicating that the… battery was falling, and Will could see Eve emerge from the tower still in the distance, as well as what seemed to be all else, though in truth it was just the majority of everything metallic that was polluting the air like a sand storm with much bigger grains.

Now William stopped moving his wings to decelerate and be able to turn, and looked at the plummeting metallic dome that was Arcadia’s weapon, and only now realized that it had stopped firing on the island. "That is one huge ass battery we have there. Reckon we can push it to the sea?"

Without hesitation or the wait for a response, William touched the ground with his feet, and immediately used soru to propel himself upward, then moved his wings once more to help change direction and fly up to meet the projectile. It was falling more towards the extremity of the island than the center. He went into his hunter form, his wings spanned over a much larger distance and he was bigger, but the most important change was that he was able to dish out a lot more power into his strikes.


"LET’S GO GUYS!!!" he said, hoping Raine, wherever she was, and Eve would hear him. Two flashes of electricity zoomed past him towards the massive satellite, so he knew Eve didn’t actually wait for him. The projectile actually moved out of its trajectory just a little bit as it was hit. William hastened in swinging his swords, sending a big tornado towards it, before zooming after it. He was able to see the projectile take another, smaller, bump in its trajectory.

"Brace yourself!" he told the marine on his back, as he started raining feathers on it as fast as he could, and continued going towards it. It wasn’t until he was near it that he used his swords again, without stopping with the feathers. He used them to continue pummeling it with all he had. He was intent on continuing with the assault until it was completely off the island.
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She could hardly recall the last time she had to move so much and cover such a great distance. Honestly it was pretty tiring especially after having just been locked in a fight with Arcadia and her lackey's but she would have time to rest later. In order to keep up with the airborne Will and Unca though she was forced to run across the rooftops of several small buildings making it a bit more taxing of a run. As they grew closer to the tower towards the island's center Raine could see it begin to charge up with more and more electricity with each passing moment. It seemed the marine with the logia was really giving it her all and in a short manner of time that hard work would begin to show as things began to lift from the ground. All sorts of metallic objects suddenly appearing to be freed of the oppression of gravity and making their way towards the magnet. As she continued to run Raine could feel her body begin to lighten for some a reason before soon lifting off of the ground and moving along side William's from the air rather than the rooftops she had been using to move about.

By this point her feet were pretty much just kicking against empty air and she found herself continuing to be drawn toward the tower. "Tch. What a nuisance." She muttered calmly while reassessing her position. While the magnet plan seemed to be doing alright so far, the huntress had completely neglected the fact that her body was covered in metal armor along with the short sword on her back that was now trying to fight its way free from its sheath. In the end she decided the best option right about now was just removing the armor and retaining control of her own movements. It seemed will was having trouble with his metal body and all, but at least he had control over aerial maneuvers. That was much more than what she could say for herself. Her hair springing to life much like how it had done countless times before she split it into three lifelike arms. Two of them went to work on removing the straps and such from her armor and allowing it to simply fly free while the third arm latched on to a large metallic column of some sort and used it as a fulcrum to pull herself away from a set of chairs, fan blades, knives, and other household appliances that found themselves caught in this metallic blizzard.

Her armor coming off bit by bit now Raine would now found herself reduced to her set of black tights that were underneath as the pieces flew off with the rest of the junk of Las Arcadas. It was fine, they needed to be replaced anyway after what Suhov had done earlier. "That's the thing we're supposed to be stopping from smashing the island?" She questioned aloud as she saw the object falling from the sky now and blast of lightning come from the surface after the magnetic field had calmed itself. The blast collided with the object and began to knock it off course. It seemed the rest of the job would be left to the three of them then, huh? Things were never simple around here.

Using her extra limbs one last time She grabbed some of the still flying debris and catapulted herself upwards, leaping from bit to bit of large metal in order to reach the same altitude as Will and Unca or at least come close. It was difficult without a set of wings after all, fortunately the tower had left plenty of foot holds for her even after the magnetic force died off and the huntress was feeling pretty light on her feet upon being freed from her armor even if it was supposed to be a 'light set'. Once in position however one would be able to see a shift in her physique. The slim appearance shape had just a moment ago would return to her normal size before continuing to grow and become that of a bulkier and more muscular form, most of said muscle going into her arms. The three hair limbs would remain active but now would twist and intertwine to form one massive fist rather multiple long arms. Unlike the attack she had used to overwhelm Arcadia with, right now she just needed crushing might all in one moment. Her right arm and the mass of hair would both cock back before simultaneously shooting forward at high speeds. "Aku Jugon: Deuce."

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Henan was careful to keep his distance, backing off so that he was several metres from Illya after the pirate had soru'd towards him. Argos was standing behind the man, but was refraining from striking out again just yet. Illya had dropped his weapons, which was a step in the right direction and a sign that things were going well. Although, the constant rumbling and creaking of metal around them sort of balanced that out.

Then, Henan threw something towards Illya, which skidded towards him on the ground. "Put those on. Your only chance to retrieve Arcadia now will be to get captured with her, am I right? But capturing you is beneficial to us too." The CP9 agent standing behind Illya grinned, almost playfully. "But I can assure you, we won't let you do that~"



Smouldering rubble crashed down from the huge piece of falling debris, even more so with the barrage of attacks beginning to break it apart. It was coming down at a blinding speed, which made hitting it rather difficult on top of how far away it was anyway. It was on a diagonal path towards the edge of the island anyway, but the burst of lightning from eve combined with Will's constant stream of feathers managed to push it past the edge. With a deafening splash, it crashed into the water just at the edge of the island, sending a several metre high wave up to engulf one of the platforms. Though, anything on there had already been burnt to ashes and rubble from the lasers, so there wasn't much more damage left to do. Ripples could still be seen across the water as the waves spread out in every other direction, and steam was rising from the point that the meteor had hit. What was left of the island had been saved, except for the Marine ship which had been under the impact zone, and had consequently been smashed to pieces instantly. Similar shards of broken and tattered ships floated about the waters all around the island, a sign for just how much damage Arcadia had done in her last-ditch effort to escape. Only a handful of ships remained, a tiny percentage of the population of Las Arcadas and the Marines that had been stationed around it.

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The air tasted of ozone. If Uncarayne had been flying a kite right then it would probably have fried. As it was, he figured somebody should make a good portrait of it some day. It wasn't every day you saw a man riding a giant metal-feathered bird towards a tower where blue lightning was arcing about, while all around it metal pieces flew and off in the distance, a great red burning orb fell towards them like a plunging exclamation mark. It would make a great rock album cover, is what he was saying.

And then it cut out, as all good things must. The tip-top of the tower went dull, and a moment later the last of the pulsating waves of electricity washed past Uncarayne and William, travelling out towards the farthest reaches of the artificial island and fizzling out a little past the shore-line. In the wake of the electrical pulse, things began falling, bereft of the attractive force that had started them on their brief, doomed, beautiful flights through the air. Some of them landed, relatively harmlessly, in the water. Some of them landed on the ground and broke apart. The really good ones, which had probably been made by Arcadia, hit the ground with satisfying explosions. He was too high up to hear them, but they made a pretty sight.

Twin beams flared out from the tower-top, lancing into the oncoming red star (and, for a moment, stirring the electromagnetic waves above the island with backwash). More accurately they lanced right into the red star that they were approaching; the beams struck into it, and at the same time William and Raine went at it with their shockwaves and hair and power. Uncarayne grinned. "Brace yourself yourself!" he said, all but his feet un-flattened and leaning forwards. The moment William's swords connected, his hammers did too, crunching into the superheated metal to break pieces off and drive it off its course. It was a glorious time to be alive.

There was slow, but definite progress at first, and then it accelerated as their combined attacks had the desired effect: the red-hot thing tumbled down and away, tilted away from the main landmass and crashing into the sea just shy of the docks. There was a great splash, which was almost drowned out in the cloud of steam and the loud hissing noise that it released as it rapidly went from red-hot to charcoal-black, the metals of the thing badly corroded and damaged by its unscheduled and distinctly unsafe flight through the atmosphere. Uncarayne sucked at his lower lip. Yeah, it probably hadn't helped that they'd put all those dents in it, either. And those two bullet holes were almost definitely Eve...

Where was Eve?

"Hey! We gotta go back for Eve!" he shouted into William's ear, flattening himself back down onto the metallic back and stowing his hammers away. "Betcha she's still on there trying to figure out how to get down or something!"
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The air trembled and the tower shook so violently some of its screws threatened to rattle right out of their holdings, culminating in an ear-popping roar as the molten-mass tore dangerously close before speeding away into the ocean’s grip. A small tsunami was born and reached out to try and wash away all the hurt of the burnt island, before quietly receding back into the infinite blue. Bits of flaming shrapnel continued to rain down, though most fell harmlessly into the water below, and the satellite itself exploded a few more times before starting to sink into the black depths where whatever remained would be crushed as penance. What followed, despite all the destruction, was a strange calm. Where there had been gale-force winds and a raging tempest of lightning was instead a light breeze, as if the earth itself had been exhausted by the ordeal and could only manage to provide a meagre effort.

Eve did not manage to notice much of it all. She was stuck in the limbo between true sleep and some minor form of conscious, where the environment and senses provide just enough to fuel one’s dreams but aren’t quite there as separate objects in and of themselves. She stirred and smiled as the satellite crashed into the waters, then rolled onto her back and stretched her limbs out even further. The fringe of her hair flowed softly in the breeze and tickled at her forehead as the clouds were carried out to sea. A few sunrays glittered through the scars the satellite had punched in the atmosphere. Even though Las Arcadas was little more than a corpse, the light softened its burnt features. There had been some small victory there today. Far from ideal, far from what anyone must have wanted, but it was something and, well… one could work with something. They could rebuild, build new memories. Little consolation to those already gone, wiped away by the satellite’s glowing hand, but there had to be something. Eve could not bear the thought of it all being for nothing.

Her eyelids flickered, and she stared up at the sky. It was a beautiful sight, and she didn’t want to look down below, not yet anyway. Slowly the aches started to set in as her nerves came back to life and her muscles immediately sent in angry complaints at their treatment. Her arms were the worst, but the pains pulsed right in her core. She was utterly drained. A part of her detested the idea and knew there was so much more to do - there always was - but another part still demanded pure and simple rest. A few days would be gorgeous, if nothing else. If need be, she would rise to the challenge, but nor would she complain to being allowed to take on a little leave. The world had survived fine enough without her, it could do so a little longer.

A deep breath saturated her lungs, and Eve pulled herself into a sitting position. Columns of angry smoke rose into the sky, and the sea itself burned where the satellite had hit. Worst of all was the debris, the whole island had become a refuse of debris. It was everywhere; whole buildings had been taken girder by girder, others had collapsed into so many shards of metal while the docks was a mess of splinters from the smashed fleet. The damage was intense and absolute. It would take years, maybe decades for Las Arcadas to walk without a crutch, and who knows if Eve would still be around to see it. The sky seemed so much more tempting, and Eve looked up to see her comrades in arms soaring nearby. Unca and Salty. No doubt they had helped take down the satellite. It hurt to move, but Eve managed to wave. “Hey,” she called. Her voice was a little wheezy. “We did it.” It was almost as if she didn’t believe it. “We did it,” she repeated, cool and quiet. Her eyes fell back to the wounded city. “It’s not the worst case, scenario, right? Things’ll be okay?” The fires didn’t seem to want to stop and would probably require human intervention. But Eve simply could bring herself to do it. “I’ll… I’ll catch up. I want to stay up here a little longer. I’ll try not be too long.” She locked gazes with both, and there was something imploring behind her eyes. A little time alone was all she wanted.

Alone with certain people, anyway. Eve’s thoughts drifted to woodland and Tellwin City, of simple days hunting. Without any real provocation, her hands drifted into the pocket of her jacket and coat and from them retrieved a pen and some paper. And she started to write. It wasn’t particularly neat, but it would be legible to its intended recipient.



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Hey Mom
I know it’s been a long time since I last wrote. I’m sorry. Life has been pretty crazy, a lot of things have changed, and I’ve done a lot of things. Pretty big things, I think. You might see it in the newspaper. I don’t know if all those things were good, but I like to think they were. I don’t want to make you worry, but being in the Marines, there’s a lot of fighting. I’ve killed people, Mom. I tell myself they were bad people. But even when I do that, when I look back and I say that I didn’t want to kill them, I still
did. I must have wanted to. Do you think you ever get comfortable with having blood on your hands? We’ve always killed things, animals and stuff, sometimes just for sport. But people? I don’t know. I want to say more, something smart about it, but it always comes back to ‘I don’t know’. I’m really good at it too, Mom. I’m not the same as I was. When you’re next in Tellwin, go to the library and look up what a ‘Devil Fruit’ is. I ate one, Mom, and now I’m not the same. I can do things that most people can’t do, really crazy things. Sometimes, when I look at people, I think they’re scared of me. I want to protect them and help them, but sometimes I think, maybe the only thing I can do is fight? People can’t even touch me, Mom. They literally can’t touch me. I don’t even know if I’m really human anymore or if I’m strong enough to keep helping people and make them happy, when all I can do is hurt them. When I think about the future, I try to hope, I really try to hope. But sometimes I get scared too, because there’s just so many things I don’t know.

I want to see you Mom, but I’ve come so far I’m not sure I can go back. There’s a whole ocean between us. One day though, I promise I’ll work something out. I’ll come see you, and we can forget about all this and go see Dad’s grave. Do you think he’d be proud of me?

Please write back soon.

Love, Eve.


There was not a raincloud for miles, but a few droplets still stained her pants and corners of the paper. Slowly, she folded it up and put it back in her pocket. The first chance she got, it would be going to the News Coos. A single sniff left her, and was lost in the wind. She wiped at her face and stood to look down on the city. A few bright sparks of electricity coursed through her arm and formed a sphere of plasma in her hand. She stared coolly at its core, then crushed it into nothing before her whole body glowed and disappeared in a flash.

There was still so much to be done.

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