OP: A Smash Adventure CH 106

Shipnapped! The Cornerian capitol was ambushed by Oikonny's fleet. Despite Cornerian's high defense systems, and the backup support they got from Starfox, and the Strawhat crew, Peppy got kidnapped, and was taken away as Starfox tried to go rescue him, but Luffy got in their way, thinking they were the bad guys. Meanwhile, the Thousand Sunny was also taken away by Oikonny's fleet as Franky was also taken along with the ride. Will he be okay?

Chapter 106: An extra captive, The Sharpclaw's faceoff!

Luffy cracked his knuckles as the staredown between his crew, and the Starfox team continued. Falco waited for anyone of the Strawhat crew to make a move, while Fox, Slippy, and Krystal were not sure what is going on.

"Krystal, what can you get from these guys?" Fox whispered.

Krystal closed her eyes as she probed into the Strawhat trio's minds, without them even noticing it. She then opened her eyes in surprise as she then looked at Fox.

"They're not our enemies." Krystal said, "That boy right there is the captain of the Strawhat pirates."

"Wha!" Slippy asked in shock. Falco overheard Krystal as he then looked back at his team with a baffled look.

"Are you kidding me! He's just a stupid kid! How can he be the captain!" Falco asked.

"It's not impossible." Fox said while putting his hand around his muzzle, "Afterall, they are humans. It's possible that they are in link with Franky, and the others. Why else would they be here?"

While the Starfox continued to talk amongst themselves, the Strawhat trio did not let their gazes off them. "What could they be saying over there?" Sanji asked while in his fighting pose.

"They must be coming up with some sort of scheme to kill us all!" Usopp whimpered while behind Sanji, "After that, they are going to eat our guts out, and drink all of our blood! Ugh... It hurts just thinking about it!"

"I hardly believe that's the case, but just keep a sharp eye out for any suspicious movement they make." Sanji said while gazing at the Starfox team, "These guys don't look like easy kind to deal with."

Luffy didn't say anything at all as he waited for the Starfox team to do some kind of move while cracking his knuckles. Fox then looked at Luffy for a brief moment, noticing that he was getting glared at.

"Look, we should tell them that we are not their enemies, and that we have their friends with us." Fox explained, "I'm sure they'll believe us."

"I don't know, Fox." Falco said as he glanced over his shoulder to look at the Strawhat trio, "They don't look like they are willing to talk with us."

"Let's find out right now." Slippy said, "Go ahead, Fox, ask them."

"Me? Well, okay." Fox said. The Starfox team then faced towards the Strawhat trio, alerting them a bit as they took a step back.

"St-Stay back! You don't want a piece of us! Especially these two!" Usopp yelled, referring to Luffy and Sanji.

"Hold on. I think we have a little misunderstanding here." Fox said while slowly approaching the crew, "My name is Fox McCloud, and we are the Starfox team. Now, if you could just hear me out for just a-"

"GOMU GOMU NO PISTOL!" Luffy stretched his arm forward, and punched Fox in the face, interrupting on what he was going to say as he flew past his team, and crashed into the wall behind him. Falco, Slippy, and Krystal were shocked as they quickly went to Fox's aid.

"Fox, are you alright!" Krystal asked as Fox fell on his hands and knees while panting. Slippy and Falco looked back at Luffy in surprise.

"Did you see that! He stretched his arm!" Slippy gasped. Luffy then took one step forward with his right clenched into a fist.

"Oi, you are going to pay for attacking the animal people, you stupid dog!" Luffy yelled. Fox stopped panting as he had a shocked look on his face.

"A dog...?" Fox asked as he sounded a bit offended. Krystal was a little worried for Fox, until Fox got up in one knee, and then got on his feet as clenched his fist in anger. "That does it!" Fox dashed towards Luffy with great speed, and did a running kick at him. Luffy blocked Fox's kick with his arms, but the force of it caused Luffy to get knocked off his feet, and crash into the destroyed arwing behind him.

"Luffy!" Usopp cried as he, and Sanji then looked at Fox as he jumped back to get some space. Fox then got into his fighting pose as Luffy got back in feet, and glared at Fox as he moves his arm in front of him.

"Come on!" Fox taunted with doing a hand gesture. This immediately caused Luffy to charge right towards Fox without warning.

"GOMU GOMU NO MUCHI!" Luffy stretched his leg, and horizontally swung it towards Fox, who quickly jumped over it, and headed towards Luffy while doing a lower drill kick. Luffy quickly jumped back to avoid, and countered with a right fist, which Fox dodged, and countered by swinging his tail at Luffy. Luffy quickly caught Fox's tail, and whipped Fox towards a wall, who stopped himself by landing on his arms, and countered with a back elbow to Luffy's face, causing him to let go of Fox's tail as he staggered back. Fox then ran at Luffy, and did vertical roundhouse kick, but before it could connect, Luffy caught him in midair, and slammed him on the ground.

"Ergh!" Fox grunted as he then saw Luffy pulling back his fist. "HAA!" Fox quickly did the same as he got on his knees, and punched Luffy's incoming fist, creating a small shockforce that knocked both of them slightly away from eachother.

"Gah!" Luffy fell on his back as Fox skidded back away a bit as well. The Starfox team were amazed how strong Luffy was as much Usopp, and Sanji were to Fox's strength. Falco then noticed that Luffy was having a little trouble getting up.

"He's still down! This is the perfect chance to strike!" Falco said as he then left Slippy, and Krystal while charging at Luffy. As Luffy got on one knee, he saw that Falco was going to kick him, until Sanji stopped him by blocking Falco's kick with his leg. "Huh!"

"Two on one isn't something I'd like to see." Sanji said with a glare, "If you need someone to fight with, then I'm your guy."

Falco smirked as he then did a somersault to catch Sanji off guard. Once Falco landed back on his feet, Sanji delivered a side kick to his gut, causing Falco to stagger a bit as Sanji then leaped towards him while raising his leg. Falco did a dodge roll as Sanji lowered his leg to kick the steel ground, nearly leaving a dent on it as Falco then countered with horizontal roundhouse kick, kicking Sanji in the face as he then staggered back. Sanji glared at Falco as Sanji then did a handstand with his legs spread out, and span around in circles while Falco attempted to counter by spinning around as well, only with his arms spreaded.

Their attacks hits eachother with great force as they jumped back while panting a bit. "Not bad... but it takes more than kicks to stop me!" Falco yelled while leaping towards Sanji. Sanji did the same as he, and Falco flew towards eachother with great speed.

"Trust me; my kicks are going to knock your-huh!" While in midair, Sanji noticed Krystal for the first time as this caused him to lose his focus as he then had a huge heart over his visible. "OH MY GOD! WHAT A BEAUTIFUL LA-"

BAM!

"Guah!" Sanji got kicked in the face by Falco as he flew across the floor, and nearly crashed into the destroyed Arwing behind him. Krystal wondered why Sanji lost his focus as Luffy, and Fox were back on their feet, and charged at eachother once more.

Sanji got back up, and charged at Falco as well, as Slippy, and Krystal had to move closed towards the back wall in order to prevent themselves getting mixed within their battles. They saw how their battles went on, with each opponent delivering their all as this was making Slippy excited, yet nervous at the same time.

"We have to do something to help our friends!" Slippy said. Krystal watched the battle between Luffy and Fox go on as this caused her to worry more.

"Okay... but let's be careful." Krystal as she was about to take out something.

"Not so fast, you two!"

"Huh?" Slippy and Krystal turned towards Usopp, who called on them earlier as he cautiously approached the duo.

"I won't let you attack my men, for I am the bravest warrior of the seas, and will not let you harm my crew!" Usopp said in a courageous manner.

"Br-Brave warrior of the seas!" Slippy asked in shock, believing what Usopp told him while Krystal didn't faze.

"That's right! And now that you know who I am, it is time for you to suffer the wrath of my 8000 enforcers!" Usopp yelled with open arms. Slippy was so shocked at the fact that Usopp said he had 8000 men, he fell on his rear in complete fear. "Yes, it's true! Surrender now, and your deaths will be painless under the hands of Captain Usopp!"

"You lie." Krystal said bluntly.

"E-Excuse me?" Usopp said while blinking in confusion.

"First of all, it's impossible to have 8000 people in this ship, and secondly, you came here with only two men, making it only two out of the 8000 enforcers you previously mentioned being with you." Krystal said simply. This completely surprised Usopp as by his expression proved Krystal's point.

"What! He was lying!" Slippy asked in shock. Usopp then got back to his pose as he dramatically glared at Krystal.

"Curse you, you crafty tactician!" Usopp yelled. He then smuggishly smirked while placing his thumb on his chin, "It's true that I don't have my 8000 enforcers with me, but I do have the strength of that quantity, so prepare to see my awesome power!" Usopp then spread his arms apart, and closed his eyes, making some humming sounds as Slippy was curious for what Usopp was planning. "USOPP SPELL!"

The sounds of drumrolls could be heard, only to Usopp of course, as Usopp gulped before speaking. "You have swallowed five gallons of vomit! Guaaaaaaahhhgeeehhhh!" Usopp cried while making odd sounds.

"Ewwww! I can actually feel like I am going to puke!" Slippy said while shivering in disgust, "He must have some kind of mind powers!"

"Ahhh ha ha ha ha! Feel my power!" Usopp yelled proudly.

"It's no power." Krystal said bluntly again, "You're just saying gross things so we can feel sick. That's hardly any way to fight."

"How can you possibly know that!" Usopp asked while whimpering.

Back on the Cornerian capitol, Robin stared at Great Fox as she could hear the loud cries coming from inside. "What's wrong, Robin?" Chopper asked.

"Something is wrong..." Robin said, "Why haven't they picked us up yet, and why is the ship just floating there?" Robin then sprouted multiple arms from underneath the Great Fox's entrance, creating a very long ladder of arms as Robin grabbed it once it was close to her. "Come along, Doctor-san."

"Okay, Robin." Chopper said. After Chopper grabbed onto the ladder, the arms automatically pulled him, and Robin all the way to the Great Fox. Once they finally got up there, they pulled themselves inside the hangar bay entrance, and looked up to the higher floors where the battles were going on. Chopper and Robin briefly looked at eachother concernedly before running up the stairs against the walls to see what was going on.

Once they reached to the top floor, they saw the the mayhem between their comrades, and the Starfox team. "Hey, what's going on here!" Chopper gasped.

"GOMU GOMU NO GATLING GUN!" Luffy repeatedly stretched his arms back in forth as Fox did his best to avoid most of the incoming blows. Fox then jumped back as he then started to do something while Luffy charged at him.

"FIRE..." Suddenly, Fox had fire all around him as this startled Luffy, "FOX!" Fox leaped towards Luffy like a rocket while covered in flames.

"YAH!" Luffy didn't see that attack coming as he tried to avoid it, but the end of his vest was caught on fire as Fox went passed him. "Fire! Fire!" Luffy started to roll around the ground, causing the fire to deplete as Luffy panted heavily afterwards. "Oh... damn you!" Luffy got back up, and charged at Fox again.

Sanji and Falco were exchanging multiple kicks as Sanji did a butterfly kick, which Falco avoided by ducking as he then countered with a low leg sweep, which Sanji avoided by backflipping. Sanji then did a roundhouse kick, which Falco managed to avoid as he then took something from around his waist. "REFLECTOR KICK!" Falco kicked his reflector towards Sanji as he got hit by it's reflecting barrier.

"Ugh!" Sanji got knocked off his feet, but recovered in midair as he then landed on his feet, and countered by leaping towards Falco. "BROCHETTE!" Sanji did a one leg drill kick as Falco barely dodged by jumping out of the way. After the attack, Sanji, and Falco then kicked eachother's attacking legs. They both took the moment to glare to smirk at eachother before continuing their onslaught.

"Your toenails have been ripped off out of your toes! AAAAAuuughhhh!" Usopp cried, as this made Slippy shiver in fear, while this didn't faze Krystal at all.

"That's another lie." Krystal said.

"Well, how about that your fur has been peeled off by a spoon!"

"Also a lie."

"Um... a turnip came out of nowhere, and ate your head?"

"That sounds ridiculous..."

"WHY WON'T YOU BELIEVE ANYTHING I SAY! WHY!"

As Usopp dramatically cried in pain, Chopper, and Robin tried to figure out how to stop these meaningless battles from going any further. "I'll end this." Robin said while crossing her limbs. Before Sanji, and Falco could strike eachother again, several arms sprouted from their bodies as they held them in place.

"Huh!" Falco gasped as Sanji recognized the arms on him. He turned towards his right, and saw Robin, which made him super happy.

"Robin-chwan!" Sanji yelled happily. Usopp heard Sanji yelling as he then too noticed Chopper and Robin.

"Chopper? Robin? What are you two doing here?" Usopp asked. Slippy, Krystal, and Falco noticed how Usopp, and Sanji seem to know Chopper, and Robin, causing them to realize that they are not their enemies.

"So it's really true..." Krystal said, "These people aren't our enemies afterall."

"HAAA!" Luffy swung his leg at Fox, who dodged as he then countered with a right fist. Luffy blocked it as he, and Fox then jumped away from eachother in order to pant a bit.

"Robin, Luffy and Fox are still fighting!" Chopper said.

"No problem." Robin said as Luffy charged at Fox, who quickly took out his gun.

"Take this!" Both Luffy, and Fox said at the same time as they were about to strike eachother, until Robin sprouted a pair of hands beneath Luffy as they caught his legs while he was in midair.

"Whoa!" Luffy tripped as he accidentally fell over Fox, who accidentally activated his reflector as it's shields knocked Luffy up in the air.

"Ugh!" Fox watched as Luffy was limplessly falling towards him while screaming.

SMOOCH!

Everyone in the hangar were so shocked, they were completely silent as they saw Luffy accidentally kissing Fox upon landing on him.

"BUUUUUUAAAAGGHHH!" Luffy and Fox got away from eachother instantly as they felt like they were going to puke while spitting out the saliva in their mouths. While they were doing that, everyone else looked Robin, who was the blame for that kiss to happen in the first place.

"I apologize..." Robin said shamefully.

Meanwhile...

Back in Oikonny's humongous mothership, the smaller mothership that attacked Corneria flew next to his ship as they connected it's entrypoint to theirs. The soldiers inside walked out into Oikonny's ship, with Peppy in handcuffs as they walked along the big hallways. Once they made it to the bridge, they pushed Peppy down to his knees as somebody than walked in front of him.

"Ergh... Oikonny." Peppy muttered as Andrew looked down at Peppy while smirking.

"Well, if it isn't my old friend, Peppy." Andrew said, "It's funny how things turn out in my favor for a change, don't you agree?"

"What do you want with me, Oikonny?" Peppy asked with a glare.

"Dont act as if you dont know, old man." Andrew replied, "You're here just for the simple fact that you are now my hostage. With you here, there is no way that Starfox could lay a finger on me."

"You think that having me here will guarantee your victory! That will never happen!" Peppy replied. Andrew grew annoyed with Peppy's words as he then kicked Peppy in the face, causing Peppy to fall on his back in pain.

"I will be the new Emperor of the Lylat system, so I demand that you show me your respect!" Andrew said angrily, but Peppy didn't reply, "-sigh-... Don't you get it yet, old man? I was destined to conquer your peaceful kind from the beginning! It's time that you see how things are suppose to run around here, and you will be my slave for the rest of your days!"

Suddenly, the hangar doors of Oikonny's ship then opened, which caught Oikonny's attention. "What's going on!" Andrew asked.

"Our allies are bringing something else into the ship." Replied one of his pilots. This annoyed Andrew a bit as he then faced back at Peppy.

"I will explain to you my intentions later on. Right now, you can rot in one my cellars." Oikonny said as he then looked at his guards, "Take him away."

The guards picked Peppy from the floor as they then took him out of the bridge. Andrew sighed as he then made his way into the hangar area. After taking the long way there, he entered the hangar, and saw something being brought into an empty dock.

"What the!" Andrew asked as he saw the Thousand Sunny, which was being moved by several hooks from the ceiling as they placed it over an empty dock. Andrew was furious as he then walked up to one of his men next to the dock. "What is this piece of garbage doing here!"

"We don't know, Emperor Oikonny." Replied his guard, "All I know is that one of our motherships wanted us to put this ship here."

"What! I did not authorize this! I want this thing outta here right now!" Andrew replied furiously.

"We cant. The men in the mothership that brought it here refuse to take it back. They also sounded pretty scared for some reason."

"Those idiots! How dare they do this without my permission!" Andrew yelled as he then glared at the Thousand Sunny, "You know what, forget it! You can do whatever you want with this ship, but if it gets in my way, then dispose of it immediately!"

"Really! Thank you, Emperor Oikonny!" The soldier said with delight. He then got onboard, and looked around the ship, "Wow, this ship looks completely fantastic! Let's see what's inside." The soldier headed to men's quarters as he then opened the door.

BAM!

"Gah!" The soldier got punched hard in the face as he flew off the ship, and landed hard on his back.

This caught Andrew's attention as he then faced towards the ship angrily. "What the heck was that!"

Franky then came barging out of the men's quarters, and looked at his surroundings with a furious look on his face. "YOU ARE ALL GOING TO PAY!"

"What the!" Andrew gasped. He then pointed towards Franky, "Get him! Don't let him escape!"

Oikonny's guards then started firing laser beams at Franky, who charged at them while getting off his ship. "FRANKY BOXING!" Franky punched every single guard in front of them, knocking them all out. Andrew gasped at the sight of this as he quickly ran towards a communicator behind him.

"I need all infantrymen in the hangar on the double! There is an intruder in here!" Oikonny yelled at the top of his lungs in the communicator. In an instant, more of Oikonny's men came into the hangar, and charged at Franky, who fought back with everything he had.

"You are not going to stop me! You will pay for taking my ship!" Franky yelled while punching some soldiers away. He then faced towards a huge of guards headed towards him. "STRONG RIGHT!" Franky launched his right arm through the group of soldiers, knocking them all out of the way as Andrew fell on his rear in shock.

"What is that thing!" Andrew asked as Franky then noticed him. Franky glared at Andrew as he then faced towards him while aiming his left arm at him. "Ah! Someone help me!"

"BEANS LEFT!" Franky fired bullets out of his wrist as Andrew cowered up against the wall. Andrew would have been dead by now if the bullets wouldn't have dropped out of Franky's wrist instead of flying off. Franky's hair then lost it's regular shape as this meant that Franky ran out of cola power. "Tsk! Why now!"

Andrew noticed Franky struggling as this gave him a chance to strike back. "Get him! Get him! GET HIM!" Andrew yelled as multiple surrounded Franky, and charged right at him.

"Grr! Why you... take that!" Franky was delivering punches, and headbutts to every guard that came close to him, but the numbers proved to be too much for him as he got dogpiled by the remaining soldiers. The soldiers then placed some kind of laser handcuffs around Franky's arms, including big cuff around his body, and legs. "Let me go, dammit!"

The soldiers then got off of Franky as he couldn't much due to the cuffs on him. Andrew sighed in relief as then got up, and approached Franky. "Now then..." Andrew said with a glare, "Who are you, and what are you doing here!" The only answer Andrew got from Franky was a headbutt to the face. "AAAHHH!" Andrew fell on his back as his men then started beating on Franky for attacking their Emperor.

"Oof! Guah!" Franky cried as he then fell on his chest. Andrew got up, and glared at him while holding his face in pain.

"GET HIM OUT OF HERE! PUT HIM IN THE CELLAR!" Andrew yelled. Multiple guards then picked Franky up, and took him away, leaving their Emperor alone with a bloody nose.

Meanwhile...

Zoro climbed up a ladder from a big well as he was now outside again. "How does anybody walk through these places like this?" Zoro asked himself.

"Hi." Tricky said while facing Zoro.

"WHA!" Zoro was startled upon seeing Tricky in front of him. He looked back at the well, and then back at Tricky as he wondered how he got in front of him so quickly. "Ho-How did you...?"

"I pop up when nobody wants me around." Tricky said with a smile, "It's one of my natural abilities."

Zoro looked at Tricky oddly. "That still doesn't explain how you got here." Zoro said.

"Look, I'm here, so just deal with it." Tricky said as he turned the other way, "Cape Claw is just ahead. Come on."

Tricky led Zoro along a path as Zoro could then hear the sound of the ocean. At the end of the path lied Cape Claw, a beautiful scenery with a clean river, and some palm trees on the beaches. There was also a ruin that had a figure of an odd looking face up against the back side of Cape Claw as the water was seemed to be flowing from out of there. Zoro, and Tricky walked towards the edge of a cliff.

"Here we are. Ain't it sweet?" Tricky asked.

"Hmm..." Zoro replied as he didn't care much of the scenery.

"Okay, there are some stuff here that needs to be done, so follow me." Tricky said as he walked ahead. Zoro was about to follow until he once again felt an odd wind flow by, only this time, Zoro was very alarmed. He felt multiple kinds of presences, all having cruel intentions as Zoro's eyes widened in anger.

"We're surrounded..." Zoro muttered. Zoro then looked up, and saw three figures jumping off the mountain, and were about to strike down at Tricky. "Damn!" Zoro quickly grabbed Tricky's tail, and pulled him back.

"Yah!" Tricky gasped as he was pulled away in the nick of time before the figures could have killed him as they landed on their feet. Tricky didn't notice them yet as he then glared at Zoro. "What's your problem! I haven't even given your task yet!"

"We finally found you, Tricky!"

"Huh?" Tricky looked in front of them to see three figures, who turned out to be Sharpclaws, as they all had smuggish smirks on their faces. Zoro stared at them as Tricky couldn't believe who he was looking at. "Sharpclaws! That can't be! What are you guys doing around here!"

"General Scales have ordered us to bring you to him!" One of the Sharpclaws said as he pointed his axe at Tricky, "You'll be coming with us, and surrender your leadership of this world to him!"

Tricky was terrified just by hearing General Scales' name. "Ge-General Scales! That's impossible! He's back!" Tricky asked in shock.

"That's right; and he will take over this world under his new rule!" The Sharpclaws then slowly started approaching Tricky, "You cannot hide from us this time! Give up!"

"Eh! Oh no!" Tricky cried while taking some steps back. Zoro was not intimated by the Sharpclaw as he continued looking at them.

"Oi... are they enemies?" Zoro asked Tricky.

"Wha!" Tricky asked nervously.

"I asked if they are your enemies?" Zoro asked. Tricky was having troubling replying as Zoro then looked at him, "Look, if you want me to help you, then you better tell me if they are your enemies or not. Because if they are, I can take care of them for you."

"Ha ha ha ha ha! Did you hear that! This creature thinks he can beat us!" A Sharpclaw said as he and his comrades laughed at Zoro. While they laughed, Tricky could see the confidence in Zoro's eyes, allowing Tricky to speak up.

"Y-Yeah, they are!" Tricky shouted out, "Do something to make them go away!"

"That's all I needed to hear..." Zoro said. With a quick glare to the Sharpclaw, he dashed towards one of them, and delivered a backhand across one of them in the face in a matter of milliseconds.

"Oaagh!" The Sharpclaw fell down the hill, and rolled backwards until crashing into the mountain behind him before falling unconscious. His comrades were shocked to see his pal getting defeated so easily as they then looked at Zoro, only for the both of them to get punched really hard in the gut by him.

"Aaagh..." Both of the Sharpclaws doubled over as Zoro then grabbed one of them, and threw them over the fence as he fell to the other side of the hillside hard. He then faced towards the other Sharpclaw, and rammed his face into the mountain to his left.

The Sharpclaws were dealt with as Zoro brushed the dust off his hands. Tricky was completely amazed at how Zoro was able to take care of the Sharpclaw so quickly, and easily, he was staring at Zoro in awe. "Whoa... not only you are strong, but you have skills, man!" Tricky said excitedly.

"Careful... there are still more of them here." Zoro said while looking at his surroundings with a blunt look. Tricky looked at his surroundings, and saw no Sharpclaw in sight.

"What are you talking about? There is no one-" Suddenly, Zoro and Tricky heard something being fired, "... What was that?"

Zoro looked at his left, and gasped as he saw a cannonball heading towards him, and Tricky. "Look out!" Zoro, and Tricky jumped forwardly as they avoided the cannonball then exploded on the mountain wall behind them. Tricky was frightened as Zoro looked where the cannonball came from, which was a cannon on top of a rectangular platform being controlled by a Sharpclaw on the other side of the river. "Run for it!"

The Sharpclaw fired another cannonball as Zoro, and Tricky quickly made their way along the hillside. While avoiding the second cannonball, Zoro noticed several Sharpclaws running up some wooden stairs next to the hillside he, and Tricky were on. He quickly grabbed one of the Sharpclaw he knocked out earlier, and threw him down the stairs, knocking down all the Sharpclaw on it as some of them fell into the river behind them.

Zoro, and Tricky then made turned around the corner hill, and went along a pathway that lead towards a small waterfall next to a small bridge. Tricky ran ahead of Zoro, until he then stopped as he soon as he saw two Sharpclaw with swords jumping out of some shrubs.

"Ah!" Tricky cried as Zoro then jumped on Tricky, and then kneed one of the Sharpclaws in their forehead, getting knocked back into the ruin wall behind him before losing conscious. The other Sharpclaw then raised his sword as Zoro landed his feet, and waited until the sword came closer.

"SHINKEN SHIRAHATORI!" Zoro was about to clasp his hands on the edge's of the incoming blade, until Tricky poked Zoro in the but with his horn. "Geheck!" Zoro fell forward with his head facing up, causing him to get hit in the face by the hilt of the Sharpclaw's sword. Zoro clasped his hands together afterwards as a huge bump formed on his forehead as he then glared at Tricky. "What the hell was that for, you idiot!"

Tricky glared at Zoro, "Damn... you think you can just jump on me like some kind of boulder, and get away with it! I don't think so!" Tricky yelled.

Zoro then faced towards Tricky while glaring right up in his face. "I'm trying to protect you! You have a problem with that!"

"I wouldn't if you atleast do it right!" Tricky replied angrily, "Fox would've never jump on me!"

"FOX ISN'T HERE!" Zoro yelled. The Sharpclaw that was still there then tried to slash at Zoro again. Zoro saw it coming as Tricky got out of the way. "SHINKEN SHIRAHOTO-Wah!" Tricky interrupted Zoro's defensive maneuver again, only he poked Sharpclaw's rear, causing him to move forward as Zoro clasped his hands around the Sharpclaw's head. "Will you knock it off!" Zoro asked while looking at Tricky.

"I'm trying to help you! I am not going to let you have all the fun!" Tricky replied from behind the Sharpclaw.

"Do me a favor, and don't! I can do this by myself!" Zoro yelled. He then looked at the Sharpclaw he was still holding as the Sharpclaw blinked in confusion in front of Zoro. "Get out of here!" Zoro delivered an uppercut, sending the Sharpclaw flying out of Cape Claw. "Now let's go!" Zoro, and Tricky then made their way in front of the ruin, but stopped as they saw three Sharpclaw carrying swords, and shields. Tricky hid behind Zoro, while he was happy to see them. "Perfect."

"Attack!" Yelled the sharpclaw as they charged at the duo. In a split second, Zoro ran right past them, taking their swords off their hands in the process. It took two seconds for the Sharpclaw to realize that their swords were gone as they turned around to see Zoro holding one of them with his teeth.

"Now this feels more comfortable." Zoro said as the Sharpclaws then charged towards him. "TAKANAMI!" Zoro unleashed a gust of wind, knocking the Sharpclaws off their feet as they then fell into the river. Tricky stared in awe, until he saw the Sharpclaw controlling the cannon firing another cannonball at them. Zoro heard it coming as he then turned the blades around horizontally, and hits the cannonball with the back of the blades.

The cannonball then flew all the way back to the Sharpclaw cannoneer as he was about to escape, but the cannonball exploded into the cannon, blowing it up to bits as the explosion knocked the Sharpclaw out of the platform, and into the river.

"Zoro!" Tricky yelled as he saw many more Sharpclaws coming from the hillside he, and Zoro were on earlier. Zoro noticed as he then jumped down off the ruin floor, and into the beach on the left side of the river. Once he did, he saw a very buff, and yellow Sharpclaw with a big axe coming out of a small cave as he chuckled while walking towards Zoro.

Zoro quickly started parrying the Sharpclaw's attacks as he then rolled behind him. "Tricky, jump!" Zoro yelled. The Sharpclaw was about to turn around, until he saw Tricky jumping off the ruin floor, and was about to fall on him. The big Sharpclaw was then crushed under Tricky's immense weight as Tricky got off him, and looked back at the right side of Cape Claw, seeing that it's nearly filled with Sharpclaw.

"Oh man..." Tricky gulped. The Sharpclaws over the right side of the river then took out what appeared to be crossbows as they aimed towards the duo.

"Heh! That's nothing I cant hand-LE!" Tricky grabbed Zoro's shirt with his mouth, and ran as he dragged Zoro to the other corner of the beach. "Oi, let me go!"

"No, we have to get out of here!" Tricky yelled. The Sharpclaws then fired their crossbows as the arrows headed towards the duo. Zoro then raised his swords while Tricky was still running.

"NANAJUU-NI POUNDOU HOU!" Zoro created a cutting wave that destroyed the incoming arrows as the wave also crashed into crossbowers, knocking them all off their feet as they got knocked in different directions. "Got them!"

"Yeah, that'll show them who's boss!" Tricky laughed while looking at the unconscious Sharpclaws while running. Due to that, Tricky wasn't paying attention to where he was going as he headed towards some big rocks at the lower left corner of Cape Claw. When Zoro noticed this, his eyes popped out of his head in shock.

"YOU MORON! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!" Zoro snapped.

"Huh?" Tricky looked where he was going, and was already a few feet away from the rocks as it was too late to for Tricky to stop himself. "Oh, shoot!"

CRASH!

Tricky, and Zoro crashed right through the rocks as they then fell off Cape Claw, and fell down it's big waterfall. They screamed as they fell into the darkness below.

Meanwhile...

In space, Pigma was taking a nap inside his ship as he was snoring loudly, and disturbingly. A beeping sound could then be heard as this woke up Pigma instantly. "Wha! Whuh! Huh!" Pigma noticed the blinking red button on his control panel as he then sighed irritatedly. "Just when I was having a nice dream..."

Pigma pushed button as made a holographic monitor appear in front of him as it showed Andrew on the screen. "Pigma! Where are you! Why haven't you come back to base!" Andrew asked.

"I was taking my daily snooze." Pigma said, "A good-looking guy like me must be fully rested, you know? Hmm?" Pigma then noticed that Andrew was covering his nose with a napkin, which had some blood on it. "What happened to you? Did you look at another girl again?"

"Shut up! I don't want to talk about it!" Andrew replied angrily, "Listen, I have another mission for you."

"Oh? That's going to cost you extra." Pigma said.

"I'll pay you when I conquer the Lylat System." Andrew said, "Anyway, what I need you to do is to go find Starwolf, and kill them in sight." Pigma almost choked on his saliva from hearing that.

"Whoa, whoa! That's something way out of my league there!" Pigma said while waving his arms in front of him, "If you think that I am going to do that, then you're crazy!"

"I'll assure you that I will make you the most richest man in the Lylat System." Andrew said, "Better yet, I'll make you the richest man in the universe! All I want from you is that you get rid of the people that made a fool out of me! I will have my revenge on them, and you will kill them for me whether you like it or not!"

"Hegh..." Pigma wasn't too sure about this until he then had a smirk on his face, "Well, I do want to be rich, so what the heck! It's all or nothing now! You can count me on, Oikonny!"

"Excellent! I would also like for you to send Wolf, and his measly gang, my regards before you kill them." Andrew said while facing the other way, "I'm counting on you, Pigma!"

The screen then disappeared as Pigma happily started his ship's engines. "Bweh heh heh! The richest man in the universe... now that is something I'd want to be! Get ready, my old Starwolf pals, your days are numbered! Bweh heh heh heh heh!"

Pigma then flew his rusty old ship away as he then went to find Starwolf.

Back on Sauria...

General Scales was relaxing on some debris that were shaped into a chair. He was watching a live show he made up called 'Bringing fear to weaklings' as it was based upon a Sharpclaw beating up a defenseless Cloudrunner while some other Sharpclaw laugh. As this 'show' continued on, something about it made Scales get up from his chair unpleasantly.

"You're doing it all wrong!" General Scales said angrily as he walked in front of main actor, and behind the beaten Cloudrunner. "Your kicks are too soft! The way you're suppose to kick them is like this!"

General Scales turned towards the Cloudrunner, and kicked him so hard, that the poor creature crashed into the wall behind him. As he laid unconscious upon impacting the ground, the Sharpclaw applaud to Scales' strength.

"From now on, I want everybody to kick as hard as I have demonstrated!" General Scales said, "Anyone who fails to do so will have their legs broken!"

The Sharpclaw agreed to that as as another Sharpclaw came into the area, "Sir, the soldiers you sent out have returned."

"Heh heh heh! It's about time!" General Scales said. He then turned around to see his men were covered in bruises, and bumps all over their bodies. Scales smile faded away instantly as he was now furious. "What happened! Where's Tricky!"

"Ge-General... ow!" Cried one of the injured Sharpclaw, "We couldn't capture Tricky! We lost against this friend of his, and he got away from us."

"Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!" General Scales was so angry hearing that, he grabbed one of his men next to him, "YOU LOST!?" Scales then threw his soldier right into the injured, and were knocked down like bowling pins, injuring the guards even more. "How was it possible that you lost sight of Tricky!" Scales eyes widened as he realized what he was told, "Wait, you said friend. Was it Fox? Grrr! I know he would try to ruin my plans again!"

The injured soldiers, including the one that was thrown, got up groggily as one of them took a step forward, "General, it wasnt Fox this time!" He said, "It was someone else, and he was a terrifying man!"

"What!" General Scales asked in confusion, "Another man dares to oppose General Scales!" General Scales then seemed very frustrated as he couldn't stand still from hearing that kind of news. "Ah! I have had enough of people opposing my laws! That's enough, I will take care of this matter now! That man protecting Tricky will soon pay for his interference in my way of world domination!"

TO BE CONTINUED...