Deathball
“Alright Finzione,” announced Morgans, “we’ll continue onto the second round as soon as Buggy has made a choice to steal from Apoo! Which crew member here??”
“Obviously pick Urouge,” everyone told Buggy.
“Fine, Urouge, get your big scary butt over here!”
Buggy’s crewmen cheered as Urouge walked over. Apoo sighed, “this is not gonna be easy.”
Morgans then said, “alright for the next round, we have a dodgeball game. It’ll be 5 v 5 with anyone but the captains! And just to make it spicy,” some of the civilians rolled out barrels of which the tops were taken off. Inside were, “cannonballs will be used. Some just hurt, other explode. If you get hit, you can keep playing until your knocked unconscious or dead!
Apoo decided for his five, “Inbi, Ichiji, Niji, Yonji, and Habdurra.”
“Man, I thought we were gonna get away with doing nothing,” Ichiji joked and Niji laughed.
“We shouldn’t even be here,” Reiju commented. The team wore Beast pirate style outfits with the horns and all black leather.
“How is that thing allowed to play???” Buggy asked about the Oni.
Inbi flicked him away while Apoo said, “apapapapa, if he can fit in the tent then you can get bent.”
“Alright, I’ll choose Mihawk for his aim, Crocodile, Caesar, and Horror Girl for their intangibility, and then Urouge for that mean throwing arm. You can throw mean, right?”
“Sure, captain.”
“Actually, let me sub in for Sir Crocodile,” suggested Daz. “I think this will fair better in the long run.”
“Let him play, I’m gonna go smoke,” Croco said.
“Sure, whatever, don’t disappoint Daz!”
“I did not say I wanted to play,” Mihawk clarified.
“You really are fodder, you can’t even throw a cannonball,” Perona pointed out. Mihawk glared at her.
“If I’m playing, you’re playing,” Caesar said, “all you have to do is dodge, they fly in a straight line idiot.” Mihawk groaned and hung his head.
So the two teams stood at opposite sides of the battlefield while the barrels of cannons sat in the middle. They stared at each other intently. Heyritten was writing in a book, muttering, “every theatre relies on archetypical characters in a common setting for a unique comedy. The archetypes are important for people to better relate to the characters. Buggy’s type is the lying bragging old soldier, ‘the Captain’. A personal favorite.”
Morgans fired a gun in the air, “begin!”
Using soru, Habdurra stole an entire barrel of cannons. Caesar snapped his fingers igniting the air around one of the barrels. That caused a chain explosion from every barrel sending the cannonballs everywhere. One flew for Perona but she said “going ghost” before it passed through her. It bounced off Buggy’s stupid face and she giggled at him, “horororo”. Urouge and Daz cuaght a couple while Mihawk just avoided them. On the other side, Habdurra was surprised that Niji and Ichiji were right next to him, each holding a barrel.
“We almost got caught up in that,” Niji said.
“I see you caught up with us, Cat Boss,” Ichiji said with a cheeky smirk.
Habdurra told the Vinsmokes, “your technology’s ridiculous.”
Inbi collected several balls in his big hands while Yonji caught some on his extended winch arm. Morgans commented, “and we started with a BOOM! I hope not all of the explosives blew up so soon.”
Ichiji said, “We aren’t powered right now. Now watch my form”. He raised a leg and reached his arm back before giving a pitch perfect throw at Mihawk.
Caesar teased at him, “look at your petty predicament, you don’t wanna play for Buggy but if you take a dive here, it’ll ruin your reputation super publicly. Morgans is here.”
Mihawk caught the ball with ease. Then he got a second one from Niji. They waved middle fingers. “Toss it on your own accord,” he said handing them over to Caesar.
“Tekkai” the balls from Urouge and Daz bounced off Habdurra. Niji and Ichiji jumped back to Yonji, “give us your balls brother.”
“Ew. Here’s two for you both. Clear the way, I’ve got a killer throw to make.”
“Shut up I’m already throwing before you,” Ichiji said shooting forward. Niji jumped up. “Whatever, don’t care,” Yonji replied. He extended the winch and start whiling the arm.
“Haha-” Ichiji laugh got interrupted by a curve ball from Daz. Habdurra threw a ball spiked with Flying Shigun at Urouge who grabbed Daz to block it. Daz caught the ball and then was thrown by Urouge. In the middle of the field, Daz and Ichiji collided, “shit shit shit, I went too perfectly fast,” Ichiji excused. Daz was quick to recover, dunking the ball on Ichiji’s face. Ichiji’s head bounced off the ground. He held the ball in both palms and blasted it “Sparkling Bomba”. The ball hit Daz’s gut harmlessly and then shattered into shrapnel. A piece flew across Mihawk’s cheek ever so closely but he tilted so it missed. Caesar and Perona went without feeling them again while Urouge picked it off his chest.
Ichiji then quickly zipped past the middle line punching Daz straight into the ground. Daz’s body bounced up just to get kicked by Ichiji who flew back over. Mihawk saw this, “hey, he went over the line! Isn’t that against the rules?” The ref shrugged at him, “I didn’t see it.”
Ichiji relaxed as he hovered through the air, “I didn’t hear that rule at all.”
Morgans exclaimed, “I didn’t explain the rules?? Oh well, we’ll punish them when we see them.”
“What kind of game…” Mihawk started.
“I’ll walk it off,” Daz said. “With the balls being used, this will be a game of attrition.”
Niji whispered something into Inbi’s ear who giggled. Caesar told Perona, “hey look at my special move, ‘Air Vacuum Cannon’!” He sucked all the balls on the ground and air-carried them in a funnel which spun them around before firing at high speeds at Habdurra. Habdurra used “kami-e” avoiding them and shout out, “catch them you Red Scoundrel”. Ichiji zigged and zagged, “don’t command me like I’m not better than you”.
“Damn, he’s using one of those Marine techs,” Caesar stated, “I should have charged them to explode.”
“Master Gassy, look at my special move,” Perona said holding one ball. “Horo Horo Echo,” four more Peronas spawned each holding their own ball. “Horo Horo Armada!” In unison, they all fired their balls at Habdurra. He wondered, “so some of them are just ghastly illusions? I’ll catch the real one with Observation.” They all flew together and he caught one while the others just exploded shockwaves on him. “Striiiike,” cheered Perona. He got back up and growled at her. “nyaaaah,” Perona stuck out her tongue and stretched her eye. “I see you lost a thumb. Did you lose that fighting the Strawhats, loser?”
“Shut up,” Habdurra sent over a rankyaku that the team variously defended themselves against.
“That’s just a regular attack, how is that within the rules?” Mihawk asked the ref.
“What attack?”
Inbi then waved his hand sending down a rainstorm of cannonballs. Niji was secretly among the ball. “With an electric pep, I’ll control where they go. Begone Mihawk.” Electricity flowed from Niji into all of the balls. Some of the balls then started launching at Mihawk. He looked up, “ah an aerial assaults from the oni. Hold on, clearly the blue curly brow is up there.” Mihawk dodged two of the balls and then asked, “ref, can you not see?”
“Eyes on the battlefield, Hawkeye,”
Mihawk then turned to catch something from Ichiji. “Aw man, I almost got him.”
More electric balls gave chase to Mihawk and some of the others. “Don’t Care,” Caesar said checking on his nails. Then bam, an armament ball from Habdurra hit Caesar’s face. “Got to catch you distracted.” A few balls flew into Daz electrocuting him, “damn!” Urouge dodged the ones after him and jumped up into the cloud. “Think you’ll find me…” Niji muttered. He shocked all the balls sending them after Mihawk. Then he pulled back his fist and sent a static punch onto Urouge. Urouge ignored this and grabbed him, breaking the Vinsmoke’s back over his new. Niji yelled in shocked pain. The ref was reading a book.
Now Mihawk was under assaults from about twenty balls, which he counted. Yonji was finally done winding up his arm. This is something that even if your Observation spotted, it would never be stopped, especially with my brother’s distraction. Begone Hawkeye. “Winch Green Bastille!” His arm unwounded sending the cannonball at high speeds for Mihawk. Mihawk saw this too…time slowed down for him. This is a great tactic coming from the cook’s siblings. They have to take me out first so they barrage me. The blue one is cheating though and the green is more honest. He unleashed Yoru and used, “Skander’s Beg,” slashing all the balls in half.
“FWEEEEEEEEEE, cheating! You are not to use weapons in this game! Mihawk, you are eliminated due to breaking the rules!!!”
Mihawk was shocked and appalled. Buggy, Galdino, and Alvida shouted, “Mihawk! How could you!!?”
“I- I- I-“
“Well it looks like they eliminated Mihawk, possibly their best dodger since he had no throwing arm,” Morgans announced. Niji landed back on his side of the field and gave a middle finger while Ichiji held up in L. Mihawk kneeled in defeat. “Let’s move on!”
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