Can We Make it Out?

I have been lost for SO LONG. I crumbled to my knees after I was met with another dead end, having enough of all of this. Some more navy soldiers brushed passed me until one of them stopped and walked up to me, squatting down to make eye contact with me. I looked up at him and frowned deeply, raising a brow in question.

"There something you need?" I asked. He stared some more before huffing and getting up.

"Yea, I need you to do your job and start cleaning the halls again," he grunted. My eyebrow twitched and when he tried to walk past me, I tripped him. He fell right onto his face. "What're you doing?!" he shouted in annoyance while he looked back at me after getting up. I chuckled and swiped my finger under my nose smugly.

"Huh? What're you talking about? Go do your job or something," I started walking away, sweeping as I walked.

I was suddenly grabbed from the back of my collar, being dragged across the floor to who knows where. I started yelling and kicking dramatically, not actually fighting back against him. It was more of just me complaining because this dude was being a prick. He eventually took me outside and I almost let out a sigh of relief. I've been inside of that damn maze for so long! He eventually dragged me across the base to a weird little compartment sticking out of the dirt wall. "See this? This is your punishment. I'm sure pirates are attracted to pretty ladies. Let's hope they don't escape, little custodian," he sang, opening the door. Right after he said that, I saw a black dress shoe smash into the top of his head.

He crumbled to the floor and standing behind him was the swirly browed cook. I grinned at him while the blond sneered something about not treating a lady like that. "Thanks, Sanjiiii~!" I sang, dusting my shoulder off. "He was super irritating."

"Anything for you, (y/n)-swannnn~!" he swooned, eyes turning to hearts and his lower half literally became a tornado.

Luffy wasn't having any of this, though, because he walked right past me and ran into the door behind me, yelling for Zoro and Usopp. I followed right after him since I never really know how to deal with Sanji's fawning. Usopp was the one who responded to his calls, and while we were running, the cook informed me that we were purposefully walking into a trap just to get it over with. It was kind of obvious with no soldiers being around here. I gave him a thumbs up, saying that it sounded good, and we went down some stairs to finally find the swordsman and sniper. They were just sitting in a cell looking perfectly fine with their hands cuffed behind their backs. Luffy reached forward to grab the bars, along with me, and I slumped. Weakly looking to my left, it seems Luffy had the same reaction.

"What's.. this..?" I murmured. 

"Oh! I see! This is the Sea Prism Stone's doing!" Usopp shouted. My hands were stuck to the bar, I couldn't let go while the rest of my torso pressed against the bar because I slumped against it numbly. Navy soldiers showed up on both sides of us after that, and Sanji kind of ignored them, trying to kick the bars of the cell down. According to the soldiers, we needed to use a cannon. This seemed to peak Usopp's attention and he told Sanji to grab an impact dial from his pocket. He grabbed one from his right pocket and set it against the bars. He pressed the dial and-

"This well tempered snake?"

"Pft.." I chuckled quietly while Sanji grew red in embarrassment. It was a tone dial.

The navy soldiers were all visibly confused. It took a second before one of them spoke up, "What's that? Are you trying to tell us that's your secret weapon?"

This envoked Sanji's anger and he stood up, looking at him with a threatening look, "Shut up! I'll gut you!"

Usopp apologized and told him to reach into his other pocket. He put another shell up and it was a flavor dial. I coughed when a violent fart came out of it. Luffy apologized when Usopp asked who in the world would do that. I turned my head slightly when I heard something sizzling. I called out to the blond and he seemed to notice it too. "Everyone get down!" I felt arms grab me and pull me off my feet, then a body cradling over mine. The explosion went off and I heard metal bars hit the ground. I opened an eye, seeing that it was Sanji who was wrapped around my body. Not in a weird way, more of like he was trying to protect me from the blast since I touched the "Sea Prism". That stuff sucks. The blond got up and shoved some rocks off of his back. 

"Are you alright, (y/n)-san?" he asked, his curly brows furrowed in concern.

I nodded, "Yea, don't worry, I'm not that weak." He smiled and agreed with me on that before getting up. Kinda made me feel good, I don't know. He doesn't think I'm a damsel in distress, he's just drinking a little too much respect waman juice. I grabbed his hand when he offered it to me and I got up.

"Is everyone else ok?" he called out, looking behind him to everyone else.

"Escape successful..?" Usopp wheezed out from his position between too rocks.

"Looks like it," Zoro hummed, breaking his wooden cuffs off. Sanji walked over to long nose and broke his cuffs off with a firm stomp. He raise his freed hands in pain since the blond stomped his hands too.

"H..help.." I heard Luffy mutter. I jumped up and saw he was stuck under the bars. Quickly, I reached forward and tried to lift them up, only to fall on top of the bars I was trying to pick up. "(y-y-y/n) why.."

"Are you an idiot?!" Zoro shouted at me from across the place, running over to me and throwing me over his shoulder. Oh, I see he got his swords. My strength slowly recovered while he picked the bars off of his captain, earning a big thanks.

I started to roll off if his shoulder so I could stand on my own feet, but the green haired man already started sprinting out of the place. Luffy cheered and followed, Sanji behind him and Usopp at the end. Sanji made eye contact with me, and then he comically caught on fire, yelling to the swordsman about how he was a muscle head who didn't know how to handle women. I would have laughed if Usopp didn't call out, "Hey wait! Don't let Zoro go first! It won't be my fault if we get lost!"

This made me cackle obnoxiously while Zoro growled in irritation from the comment. I looked over my shoulder to look at the back of his head, "Zoro, if you could put me down that'd be great. I could lead the way instead."

"SHUT UP, IDIOT! I'M STAYING AT THE FRONT!" he shouted. I could see the vein popping out of his neck but he didn't throw me off for whatever reason. I continued giggling. I don't know what happened, but we somehow didn't go out of the one exit, we went out another way. I would have congratulated him for going the wrong way at the right time if I didn't want to get body slammed.

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We fought our way out of the hallways for a while until Luffy finally just punched some people off a cliff. We ran out to it so that we could go on the cliffside path. I ducked behind a rock when there was a bunch of shots fired at us.

"So you've finally showed yourself, Straw Hat!" a familiar voice called.

I looked up, seeing the strawberry blond from earlier. "The commander of Navarone!" Usopp whisper shouted. I slapped a hand over my mouth. So he really was someone important.

"Old fortress guy! What're you doing there?" Luffy asked as if they were friends. 

"This is my room," he replied. His eyes shifted to me and he smiled that same smile from earlier. "And you! To think such a beautiful woman had to become my enemy. I believed in you too."

"Well you let me down by being married so.."

"Eh? What was that?" Usopp piped in, looking straight at me after I uttered those words.

"Huh?" Zoro grunted, looking at me too.

"(y-y/n)-swan..?"

A cannon struck next to us, interrupting the moment as we all ran away. Glad I didn't have to answer all those stares.  A few seconds after that, we found out that the only way out was by taking a bridge that was cleared out. A trap, obviously. We went anyway, though, and bumped into a bunch of muscle head attackers. We each took on a few people, and I didn't want to kill them so I just stuck to punching and kicking while my devil fruit was activated. It was working so far. I planted another person into the steal beams when I turned and saw Zoro getting violently headbutted by some bald guy. I pulled the green haired man out of his grip and let the baldy headbutt me, watching him fall to his knees.

"Idiot," I grunted. He thinks his forehead is stronger than a metal alloy? I rolled my eyes to myself. Zoro was in the middle of saying he didn't need my help when Luffy smashed his foot into the steal beamed bridge. I sighed and accepted my fate, assuming a belly flop position as we all started to fall into the water below. I splashed into the ocean's surface and I started sinking to the bottom immediately.

My half lidded eyes made contact with Sanji's as he pulled me up to the surface by wrapping an arm around my waist and swimming. His face was serious and we quickly made it to land. I was laid down next to Luffy, who was spitting out water like a spout. I coughed up some salt water and stuck my tongue out. Disgusting. My devil fruit reactivated after a few minutes and Usopp got back up, then we all started running towards where the long nosed man said the ship was.

When we got there, we all stopped in our tracks as a whole army of navy soldiers stood in our way, including a guy that looked like he was in charge with really apparent side burns. "Take aim!" side burns shouted. A few people did as he said and the rest of us got ready to take on the barrage, with me activating my devil fruit while Sanji and Zoro took on a stance. It was all for nothing, though, when Luffy inflated himself, shoving all three of us aside while Usopp was behind him. I flew right onto Sanji and got back up immediately, shouting, "What're you doing?!" along with Zoro. Sanji was still on the floor looking at his hand with wide eyes. Did I crush it or something?

"Cannon Team #12, to the front!" side burns ordered. What looked like bazookas were now pointed in our direction in place of guns. When I raised my arms to block the attack, but whatever flew out of them just landed in front of us pathetically.

"Um.." I muttered. Luffy raised his brow beside me and mumbled, "Duds?"

Nope, not duds. I squinted my eyes when a bright flash exploded from the canisters, a purple smoke filling up our surroundings right after. I groaned and covered my eyes in pain, hearing Sanji and Luffy complain before Usopp told us it was a flash bomb. Next thing I knew, three people attacked me with swords. I just continued to rub at my face, though, considering swords can't hurt me. I looked at them through my red eyes and kicked them all with a single wide sweep of my leg, making them fly off into an unknown direction. I could hear Usopp and Sanji talking about goggles, and then Zoro's voice a bit farther away throwing a comment about how he didn't need eyes to see. A second later, I got the wind knocked out of me as a certain rubber leg came out of nowhere and flung me to the left of the room along with greenie and blondie.

"You dumbass!" Sanji shouted at his captain, who said sorry unapologetically. He then turned to Zoro, "Alright you dimwitted moron! What was that you said earlier?!" They both growled at each other before breaking out into a petty fight, which Luffy laughed at. The laughter didn't last long since he was caught in a Sea Prism net. I jumped out of the way when another one was launched my way. That's when Usopp got knocked in the back by a medical bed pushed by a purple haired woman and a familiar navigator, causing the whole situation to change.

I stood by Nami and whispered for her to just keep the boat going even if I wasn't on it, to which she hesitantly replied to. I sprinted back into the base and no navy solider really noticed since Chopper's huge form was pretty much covering the hallway entrance. I ran through a few hallways and then came across the straw straw bridge again, sprinting across it. They seemed to have their troops in certain places only. I laughed obnoxiously loud since I was still outside and no one was around, those fools! Now I can grab the gold and go!

I ran to where we were almost hit with a cannon ball and grinned up at the room that the Commander stared down at us from earlier.

_____Ayooooooo we getting there fam. We finna shorten this arc with this simple plan