The Explorer of the Universe
12

Tanaka, Usopp, Zoro, Nami and Luffy are on a sloping road and are the only access to climb onto the cliff.

The atmosphere at that moment was already night and they were making plans.

"Well, they'll attack from the shore before dawn. But only one route uphill this is the road to the village. There was one other way through the rock but it was difficult to pass. So if we can keep this incline from them, the village won't be attacked!" Usopp.

"That's it, it's easy!" Luffy said casually.

"But we must guard it with our strength! What can you guys do?" Ask Usopp.

"Loving." Zoro.

"Long." Luffy.

"stealing." Nami.

"Using force power." Tanaka.

"Hidden." Say Usopp casually.

"You have to fight!!" Luffy, Zoro and Nami were angry.

Tanaka could only sigh at the silliness done by Usopp.

"Eh, I'm just kidding! I have a plan!" Usopp.

Usopp then carried a few barrels of oil and spilled them on the ramp.

"Yosh, perfect! Now they won't be able to climb this hill, because of the oil I poured into this road! We'll make them slip on this incline, then attack them while they're slipping!" Usopp.

"It's free, because they'll be anchored on the other side of the island." Thought Tanaka wanted to say it but kept it off.

"With oil, yes, will this work?" Ask Nami.

"Definitely! Whatever happens we'll protect this incline!" Usopp.

"Hopefully none of us would slip on this incline. Let's just say we're making a fire ant trap." Nami.

"You can think of this subtle way!" Praise Luffy.

"of course! What I'm most proud of in me is my cunning and my slingshot skills!" Usopp said with pride.

It was almost dawn but there was no sign of the pirates coming.

Tanaka had already left the place to head to the actual location of the Kuro pirates anchored and the position was yes where he had first set foot on the island.

He didn't tell them that and he could leave them on the grounds that there was something he had to take on the ship.

Luffy and the others easily believed what Tanaka said. Even Zoro gave a mockery that Tanaka was afraid and made such an excuse.

Of course Tanaka did not press him and immediately went to where the pirate ship Kuro docked.

"For so long they. Even the sky was already bright, what were they doing?" Luffy said at dawn but the pirates were nowhere to be seen.

"May they fall asleep?" Ask Zoro.

"No. Soon they'll show themselves." Said Usopp who was confident about it.

"Oh, yeah. Is it just my feelings? I heard a noise from somewhere." Said Nami who sharpened her hearing. "I really heard it!"

"Usopp, are you sure they're attacking this side of the beach?" My speech.

"Ka ... Come to think of it, on the north side of the island there is also a place to dock! Don't-don't..." Usopp was worried.

"So you're saying we're waiting in the wrong place?" Ask Luffy.

"Because this place was their secret meeting before, so I thought..." Said Usopp who began to feel very worried that he had been wrong.

Nami breathed hearing that.

"Hey, hurry! They can enter the village, where is the place?!" Ask Luffy.

"If you run straight north, you'll be there in three minutes! The condition of the area is more or less the same as this place, so we have to stop them there!" Usopp.

"Don't worry, we'll do something!" Luffy said casually.

"It's terrible!" Nami made us all look at her. "North coast is where our ship is! They can take my treasure!"

"Isn't Tanaka going to our ship?" Ask Zoro.

"Let's go right now, it'll be bad if Tanaka meets them!" Said Luffy who immediately left the place.

"Straight to the north! Straight to the north!" Luffy said as he ran.

"What a weird thing, I even got to the village! I've run off in a cooler direction!" Said the confused Luffy.

Meanwhile, Tanaka was standing on the top of a slightly sloping road and was the only road access to reach the top.

"I can see the pirate ship." Tanaka Mumbles.

Tanaka intends to hold Kuro's pirates until Luffy and the others realize they are in the wrong position so that they come to the real place and that is where Tanaka is at the moment.

"Uooo~"

"Yeaaa~"

"Let's plunder the city and the big house that's there!"

The members of the Kuro pirates have landed on the island and immediately run towards the village.

However, their steps immediately stopped because Tanaka pushed them back down when they were half way up the sloping road.

"What!"

"Why did we fall?"

"What are you guys doing? Go to the village!" Shouted Jango furiously.

"There's something pushing us down, vice-captain." Say one of the people.

"Don't make excuses, quickly leave before Captain Kuro comes and kills us all!" Jango.

Although Jango ordered it like that, but every time it was halfway through, they were pushed back down.

"Vice captain, there's someone on top there!" Said a member of Kuro's pirates while pointing upwards.

Jango looked up and she could see Tanaka standing still while crossing her arms.

"Are you doing this to us? Who're you?" Ask Jango.

"You don't need to know who I am, but for sure I won't let you pass me!" Said Tanaka haughtily.

"Damn it! Do you know who we are?" Ask Jango.

Tanaka just kept quiet not responding to such petty questions. "If you know, then why? Is there a reward when I answer that question?" Think Tanaka.

"You will have terrible consequences if you stand in our way!" Jango Threatened.

Tanaka did not care or fear the threat. He continuously pushed the members of the Kuro pirates who were climbing. Some even threw Tanaka into the sea.

"Vice captain, he has a strange ability, we can't fight him." Said a member of the Kuro pirates.

Jango begins to feel frustrated by Tanaka's actions. He began to fear that his captain's plan had failed because of this.

Meanwhile Luffy still continued to run towards the north.

"Straight to the north! Straight to the north! Straight to the north!"

While Zoro who fell down the cliff because of Nami, trying to climb to the top. However, because the road has been shed by oil, making the road slippery and Zoro continued to fall down many times.

Nami and Usopp who were running quickly towards where Tanaka was at last arrived and they were surprised to see the presence of Kuro's pirate army which was still under the cliff.

"You're late." Tanaka said when he saw Nami and Usopp.

"Good work, Tanaka, now you can rest easy because this great captain Usopp has come to fight them aaaaa~!" Shouted Usopp who was frightened because the horde of Kuro pirate members came attacking.

Tanaka used force force, pushing them back down.

"Fuhh~ I'm safe." Said Usopp who breathed a sigh of relief.

Tanaka looked at Usopp with a flat facial expression.

"So shall I hand them over to you, great captain Usopp?" Ask Tanaka.

"Ehem, it should be like that, but come to think of it, they don't deserve to go against this great me, you can fight them." Usopp said arrogantly.

Tanaka just let out a long sigh and shook his head.

At that very instant, the sound of a gun spewing bullets rang out very loudly.

Tanaka quickly held back the small cannonball that shot towards him.

"Fuuh~ thankfully I've been practicing a lot." Tanaka.

Usopp and Nami are shocked to see Tanaka holding the small cannon. The bullet floated in front of Tanaka which was only about 15 cm away.

"How did you do it?" Ask Usopp.

"Of course with force." Answer Tanaka briefly.

The bullet immediately fell to the ground and rolled down.

"He's not human! How can he withstand bullets if not monsters?" Said a frightened member of Kuro's pirates.

"Damn it, shit, I will definitely be killed by captain Kuro!" Frustrated Jango said.

At some point in time, the treasure stored by Nami on the ship is discovered by a member of the Kuro pirates.

"Vice captain, there's a treasure worth 4 to 5 million berries on this ship!" Said the pirate Kuro who found the treasure.

Of course Nami who heard and saw it immediately panicked. While Usopp who was surprised by the value of the treasure easily confessed his owner and gave it to the Kuro pirates as long as they left.

Of course Nami did not stay still, her property was taken for granted and she hit Usopp on the head with a long stick.

"Don't say anything! And you don't touch my treasure! I won't let you take my treasure, even if it's just one berry." Nami Strictly.

Nami immediately looked towards me and gave the order to take the treasure.

"Why should you do it? It's your treasure so you'll have to take it for yourself." Said Tanaka with ease.

"I'm a girl, how can I fight so many people like that." Nami Ngeles.

"You'll have stealing skills and the target of the stolen goods is pirate treasure, they're pirates so you can do it." Tanaka.

Tanaka and Nami continue to argue while Jango feels very worried because her captain's plan has gone awry. His life will be a bet if it gets late, especially until the captain comes to the place.

"Get them down, do whatever you can, we have to get to the village and the mansion as the captain had planned!" Jango Commandments.

"Oooo~" shouted all the members of Kuro's pirates.

They ran up to the top to climb.

"Aaaaa~ they're coming!" Usopp Shouts.

"Do something, Tanaka! Shouted Nami who gave the order.

"Sorry, my strength is up, I can't fight anymore." Said Tanaka who lied.

Nami and Usopp were in a panic while Tanaka just stood still, watching the pirate Kuro members getting closer without doing anything to them like before.

"I have a good weapon, a star mine." Said Usopp who immediately reached into his sling bag and threw it on the sloping ground.

"Auch!"

"Aaaa~!"

The members of Kuro's pirates were in pain at his feet from stepping on the star mines thrown by Usopp.

"Successfully they stop!" Said Nami who was excited.

Not stopping there, Usopp opened fire with his flagship catapult towards the pirates Kuro one by one.

"Feel this, deadly marbles!" Usopp said with passion.

Nami schemingly wants to hide and leaves everything to Usopp which makes her angry.

"Oh, no!" Nami said in shock.

"What?" Usopp's question turned around and stopped his catapult shot.

"The star mine is here too." Nami said as she pointed to where the star mine was on the ground.

"It's your own fault! Why throw it in that place." Shouted Usopp who was angry.

Tanaka laughed at the comedy done by the two men. However, his laughter stopped when he saw that someone wanted to hit Usopp from behind with a blunt stone axe.

Tanaka quickly stopped him. Using force power, he threw the man back onto the pirate ship Kuro so violently that it damaged one of the mast.

"Don't turn your back on your opponent when you're fighting, Usopp." Said Tanaka giving advice.

"Thank you, Tanaka!" Usopp said with relief.

A few moments later there were screaming sounds behind Tanaka, Usopp and Nami.

"Fucking nami, how dare you step on my head and drop me where the oil is!" Zoro said furiously.

"Usopp! Next time tell me where the North is!" Shouted Luffy who was angry because he continuously returned to the village.

"Then two monsters came." Said Tanaka with a sigh.

"You're a monster too!" Shouted Nami and Usopp simultaneously.

With the arrival of the two monsters, Tanaka completely retreated from the battle and handed the battle arena to Zoro and Luffy.

"Time is far past the plan, Captain Kuro must be a little angry at us. Hey all of you, aren't you ashamed of being defeated by a brat like him?!" Jango shouted at his subordinates.

After that one by one the members of the Kuro Pirates attacked again.

"Zoro, captain, I leave them to you two, I'm too tired to hold them!" Tanaka.

"Sure, I'll beat them all up!" Luffy said excitedly.

"Should have been, you took me from the beginning, Tanaka!" Zoro.

Meanwhile, Jango who had panicked took out her flagship weapon, a pendulum that she used as a hypnotic device.

"Look, we don't have much time to play around here! If our enemy is strong, we just need to become stronger again! Now take a good look at this thing! If I say 'one, two, Jango' you will become stronger. Your wounds will heal completely, and you will become stronger and stronger!" Said Jango who gave motivational words in the hypnotist.

"What are they doing?" Ask Luffy.

"It's hypnotism! He tried to hypnotize them into becoming strong! So stupid!" Obviously Nami.

After Jango hypnotizes them all, they all become stronger but, Jango does not realize that Luffy is also hypnotized so she becomes stronger.

"Yahoooo!" Shouted Luffy.

"You're also hypnotized!" Shouted Nami and Zoro.

Tanaka who saw it laughed.

Luffy immediately ran towards Kuro's pirate army aggressively. He chastises all those people who scare them and cry despite being hypnotized to become stronger by Jango.

"Why is he so easily influenced?!" Ask Nami.

"Because he's a fool, a fool is easily hypnotized." Tanaka answered and sighed.

It seemed like sighing had become a new habit for Tanaka because ever since she was in the one piece world, she had often sighed.

"Captain Kuro is brash, he really has miscalculated. That boy is no ordinary boy." Jango said in a panic.

Luffy kept running after Kuro's pirate herd all the way to their ship and took one part of their ship to attack the herd.

Panicked Jango stops Luffy by hypnotizing him to fall asleep and it works. Luffy's body was crushed by that part of the ship.

"It seems they've all been defeated!" Nami.

"Maybe." Zoro.

"Hey, is Luffy going to be okay with being hit like that?" Usopp.

"He won't die that easily." Zoro.

"Yes, fools don't die easily." Tanaka Sahut.

"That boy is really insolent! Our plan is falling apart! If Captain Kuro saw all this, we would all definitely be killed!" Jango said angry and panicked.

"Hei Buchi, look at this bad!" Said one who was on the ship.

"What's up, Sham?!" Ask Buchi.

"The front of our ship is gone!" Answer Sham.

"What! You're right, where are you missing?" Ask Buchi.

Hearing that voice made Zoro again act alert.

"Ah right, we still have a mainstay army! Come out, Nyaban Brothers!" Shouted Jango.

"You called me, Vice-Captain Jango?" Say Sham.

"You calling?" Buchi.

Tanaka just stared at them with a flat face and then smiled.

"Buby! Sham! We have to get through this climb, but you see for yourself we're being blocked! Take care of them." Jango Commandments.

"We-We couldn't have done it! Isn't that right, Buchi?!" Say Sham.

"Yes, he seems strong!" Buchi.

"A-What? So they're not a mainstay team." Usopp.

"They were just pretending to let the opponent off guard because they thought they were weak." Answer Tanaka.

"They're sneaky like you, Nami." Firmly Tanaka while looking at Nami.

The woman just snorted without speaking at all.

"Sham, get ready!" Jango.

"W-me?!" Say Sham.

"Hurry now!" Jango.

"Well, I'll do it!" Sham said with a slight tremble.

"She was crying, what was she going to do?! Why did he force her to fight?" Ask Nami.

"Hey you, get ready! I'll scratch you with these sharp nails." Say Sham.

"Hey you, stop fast or I'll cut down!" Threat Zoro.

"If you can, just do it!" Sham said then attacked Zoro with cat-shaped gloves that have sharp nails suddenly but Zoro can hold it.

"You! You underestimated me, huh? I'm impressed you can fend off my wild cat's claw attack! It seems you're pretty decent too, but don't underestimate Sham of the Nyaban Brothers." Praise Sham.

Zoro then realizes both of his swords have been stolen by Sham.

"Lost something? I don't know, yeah." Said Sham while holding both of Zoro's swords.

"Give me the sword!" Shouted Zoro.

"Return? Don't you have a sword in your hand? It's just annoying, right?" Sham then threw away Zoro's sword.

Seeing his sword being thrown away just like trash, Zoro was furious.

As a swordsman, a sword is a very important object and should be treated very well because after all it is a comrade-in-arms who will never betray.

"You should appreciate the things that other people have!" Zoro slashed Sham and tried to take his sword but Sham was not hit by Zoro.

Sham then restrains Zoro's body by dropping to the ground from behind.

"Your turn is Buchi, finish him off!" Sham said then it was Buchi's turn to attack Zoro.

When Buchi was about to attack Zoro, it was fortunate that she was able to avoid it.

"Damn it, he can break free!" Say Sham.

"Hey, hold him tight, Sham!" Buchi said angrily.

"Sorry, sorry! That brash is better than I thought!" Say Sham. "This time he won't be able to escape!"

"Of course!" Buchi.

"I am not a swordsman, but..." Zoro said, preparing to fight even with only one sword in his hand.

"Let's go ahead, Buchi!" Say Sham.

"Yes! let's go, Sham!" Buchi.

Zoro continued to resist Sham and Buchi's attacks even with just one sword. Usop tries to help Zoro, but the bullet hits Zoro, causing Zoro to be attacked by the Nyaban Brothers.

"Why did you shoot Zoro!" Shouted Nami who was angry at Usopp.

"No, he used his own body to block my shot." Usopp Bela.

"What!" Nami was surprised.

"Usopp! Don't bother Zoro! This is the fight, if you do it again, I'll beat you up!" Threat Tanaka.

"What! Do you want him dead!" Nami was angry with Tanaka.

But Tanaka just kept silent not to criticize Nami at all. Although he explained, Nami still would not understand the pride and honor of the swordsman who was fighting.

Then the fight between Zoro and Nyaban Brothers continued with Zoro who continued to resist their attacks.

As the duel progressed, it suddenly came to a halt. The bodies of Kuro's pirates shook in fear.

Everyone was looking in the same direction - the top of the cliff. Kuro appeared and made everyone fixated.

"Ah no, I can explain all this!" Jango said with trembling and sweat from fear.

"Time is far past the plan and it seems our plan has really failed." Kuro.

"Captain Kuro!"

"We're going to die!"

"What the fuck is all this?!" Kuro shouted with an extremely intimidating look in his eyes.