57 I LOVE WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGHETHER! (PART 1)
Name: Faust
Nickname: [Iron Mask]
Age: 33 years
Profession: Pirate Captain in the West Blue
Dream/Goal: Collect a large amount of money, retire from piracy somewhere where no one will recognize him and spend the rest of his days living peacefully as an eccentric millionaire
A few days ago Faust found an Akuma No Mi and to achieve his goal he set out to sell it at the highest possible price. It wasn't easy, but after several attempts he finally managed to find a good buyer who would come to the island in a few days to make the exchange.
He thought he was close to fulfilling his dream, but because of an idiot minion several pirate gangs found out about his valuable possession and teamed up to steal it from him before he could sell it.
Fortunately, after several headaches, sacrifices, a lot of effort, some luck and a small massacre, he was about to defeat what had possibly been the most powerful pirate alliance in the history of the West Blue.
And now he only needed to defeat a few pirates more tired and injured than him, who from the beginning he always considered weaker than him.
In fact, he could already almost smell the scent of the money and additional deals he had made with his buyer to ensure his peaceful golden retirement...
But now... to top off the week and day...
The teenager and bounty hunter most feared by all the West Blue pirates that was even compared with the most famous bounty hunters from the Grand Line appeared before him!
And there was nothing that suggest that he was just passing through...
"YOU! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?" Faust yelled when he saw Fred come out of his lair after activating several traps
Especially after seeing him carry a huge sack on his back!
"What's evident sir 17.5 million...
I didn't want to bother you while you were playing so I began to collect scattered and hidden objects here and there in the meantime...
And by the way, also cash" Said Fred with a cheerful voice while emphasizing the large sack that he had on his back, to immediately say with a gloomy voice "Although since you've seen me I guess I'll have to join...
But...
If you don't mind I'm going to leave all of these in a safe place
I don't want to damage my pay while I kill you all…"
His presence, his reputation, his infamy against the people that worked in the pirate business… all this sank deep into the brains of all the wounded and weary pirates gathered there, who didn't dare to move for fear of making a false step
At most those with the greatest courage, strength and lucidity dared to ask...
"It just can't be...
Don't tell me you got the Akuma No Mi!?" Yelled Damian [The Backstabber] with eyes full of greed and uncertainty
However, that was nothing compared to Fred's greedy eyes, which had temporarily mutated to take the shape of the berrie symbol "It's possible that this is the case sir 54 million
However, if you don't mind I'm in a hurry!
But don't fear, especially you sir 54 million, 33.8 million, 26 million, 17.5 million and triple 12 million
In a few moments you will have the great opportunity to enter inside this sack and be able to discover it for yourself.
MUA HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
ADIOS!"
And after saying goodbye, Fred activated some kind of pocket detonator, which blew up various devices that Captain Mcnugget dropped from the sky around that location a few moments ago.
POM! POM! POM! POM!
Those devices were four bombs that released a voluminous, dense, and stinking curtain of black smoke that due to how they were distributed and the darkness of the night easily overshadowed the entire battlefield.
Leaving everyone blind and desperate!
Especially Fausto, who watched with helplessness and despair how very likely that hateful teenager was hijacking his retirement money ""CURSE!
EVERYBODY! LET'S GO AFTER HIM BEFORE HE ESC…"
"WAIT FAUST!" Damian yelled with extreme alarmism seeing... metaphorically... that everything could start to go wrong... for him... "DON'T FALL INTO HIS TRAP
A scream that almost miraculously managed to stop the adrenaline rush in Faust's brain to make him think minimally clearly again "WHAT!?"
"We are talking about Frederick Freed, also nicknamed as [Greedy Monster]…
You've seen the greed in his eyes before... he literally saw us as money... and that little monster has never, ever let out a single berri...
He works alone and you can be sure he'll come back for our heads and the ones on the ground too
He won't just run away with the Akuma No Mi and your money... and then, after making a good plan, we will have the chance to capture him and get our Akuma No Mi back.
However, if we go blindly in the middle of this smoke, the only thing we will surely achieve is to fall into the multiple hidden traps that [Dark Mind] will have prepared for us
We never saw how he put the smoke bombs around us and it's possible that there will be more unexpected surprises
Also, in case he wanted to run away you couldn't catch [Flash Dead] in a race no matter how hard you wanted, he's so much faster than us…just like the stories say" Said Damian, the rational, meticulous, and calculating control-freak ex-killer that without a doubt had thoroughly studied one of the greatest threats to his life
Damian knew about the dangerous Fred after study him with the information obtained in the newspaper and that he bought from various informants, so he knew many of his tactics, resources and even patterns
That's why he knew perfectly well that if he wanted to survive the several evil plans of that twisted bounty hunter he shouldn't only act with extreme caution, but also get all the necessary support, especially from competent people like Faust.
"Grjjj" Faust growled, who despite wanting to run to catch Fred, had no choice but to stop since he knew that this reasoning was correct "So what do you propose?"
"First… keep an eye out in case it's actually hidden around here waiting for the right moment to attack us blindly.
Second... wait for the smoke to clear before taking any further action, there may be mortal al non mortal traps hidden everywhere here...
Third... send my scouts and master assassins together with your gunners to find his ship without being found and or falling into his traps… It should be on the opposite side of the beach, between the cliffs if I'm not mistake
Fourth... when Fred comes for us, we will order that group to enter his ship, take the Akuma No Mi out of there and immediately blow it to pieces so that he cannot escape.
And between the second and the fourth step you, me and the rest will have to prepare to fight him, so we will need to rest a bit and bring all possible weapons
Do you all agree?" Damian replied with that detailed plan to stay alive and recover the Akuma No Mi... and he also took advantage of the moment in which the smoke began to dissipate to launch that question to the rest of the pirates with whom he had been fighting to the death a few moments ago
Enemy pirates who until now inside the smoke had been listening attentively to Damien
"Yes... no problem..." Rolondo [The sniper] agreed, as did all the men of his band who were still alive.
And in the same way, Stasky [Rapid Fist] and the rest of the pirates did too "Yeah, would be fine form an alliance… again"
Despite the fact that they had been killing each other recently and there was undoubtedly a great hatred between them, they knew that what Damian said was true. If they wanted to not only survive, but also have another chance to get the Akuma No Mi and betray each other again, they first had to face this global threat together.
"Grjjh...
Okay! Organize the troops Damian, it seems that they listen to you!" Faust yelled, visibly frustrated by this whole situation.
A frustration that increased even more when he saw that Damian seemed to be more charismatic than him... and that he had managed to increase his support for the next phases of his plan, when he's going to betray him.
And Damian, a little happier than a few seconds ago, said "Great...
Let's get to work... but by the way Faust...
Where are you going?"
"I'M GOING FOR WEAPONS!" Faust yelled as he ran into his somewhat wrecked headquarters 'Fuck...
I have to be sure that…'
Before throwing the smoke bomb and running away like a ninja, when questioned, Fred didn't display the Akuma No Mi for all to see, neither specifically state that he found it and that was inside the sack
And that great uncertainty stuck like a nettle in Faust's brain, who partly out of curiosity, precaution and some masochism ran to where he had hidden the Akuma No Mi and see if it had been stolen or not like almost any person do
For that reason, ignoring the destruction and the corpses of his subordinates, Faust ran towards the torture room, where until recently he had been beating up the fat idiot subordinate who had caused this whole annoying situation... and went straight towards his headless corpse. ...
'It's possible that...'
Without wasting another second he took a knife that was nearby and used it to open the stomach of that corpse
Slash!
Immediately after that he used his hands to remove the stomach and entrails and...
He took out a small wooden box from inside of it, something that relieved and unsettled Faust even before opening it
"Un mom..."
SLASH!!!
But before he could finish that sentence his head was lopped off by Fred, who appeared from behind decapitated him with terrifying speed.
"Bingo" Fred said as he quickly snatched the small chest containing the Akuma No Mi from Faust's decapitated body with his left arm.
And at that precise moment, while his decapitated head was still in the air and was still able to process information, as if it were an epiphany, Faust understood everything...
While they were fighting, or maybe even before, Fred infiltrated the main base to find the Akuma No Mi, but had no luck.
Surely he overheard his conversation with the other pirates and not knowing when the enigmatic buyer might arrive, Fred decided to make a somewhat risky move to find the Akuma No Mi and assassinate him with relative ease.
To do this he stole part of his treasure, activated a lot of traps and alarms in the loot room on purpose to get everyone's attention... but especially him... and somewhat ambiguously made everyone believe that the Akuma No Mi was also among the stolen items and disappeared, promising that he would come back to kill them to prevent a persecution
But in reality everything... or at least almost everything... was a hoax...
He had just created a situation for Faust to single-handedly reveal the location of the Akuma No Mi at the time when he went to check whether it had been stolen or not, and at the height of confusion, he kill him and claimed the prize
A hoax that wouldn't have been as credible and successful if it had been perpetrated by someone other than the famous Frederick Freed.
Taking advantage of his famous and infamous reputation he made them believe… although that was totally true… that he wasn't going to leave the island even with the acclaimed Akuma No Mi in his possession until he claimed all the rewards
An infamous reputation that also forced everyone to be extremely cautious and not blindly chase after him to retrieve the Akuma No Mi that he didn't even have.
And with that Faust didn't chase him and instead did exactly what the 99,99% of people do when someone tells them that something bad has happened with his properties, go see if that had really happened and if it had been that bad
In this way, Fred took advantage of all those elements to create this almost perfect situation.
"MUA HAHAHAHAHA!
I LOVE WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGHETHER!" Fred said with extreme satisfaction just as Faust's decapitated head fell to the ground.
Although it had been a plan with some cracks where his enemies had to fill those gaps for Fred, he managed to cleanly solve his two most immediate concerns
¡Obtaining the Akuma No Mi and kill the pirate that surely more problems without even fighting!
And what better way than beheading? The most guaranteed form of murder of all!
Now, as he had planned before, he just had to leave that building without being seen, kill the guys who wanted to steal and destroy his submarine, kill the rest of the bounty pirates, collect all the bounty heads, brainwash the filler pirates to make them sail their own boats to his Marine base to sell them, along the way [recycle] some pirates, receive a lot of money from his favorite Marine, sell the [smuggled goods] again in Port Velvet and find out what kind of Akuma No Mi he had obtained and decide whether to eat it or sell it
Glup...
However, before he could even open the small chest that with 100% certainty contained his beloved Akuma No Mi and think about what would be the most suitable method to exterminate the pirates that were still alive
A fucking snake came out of Faust's decapitated neck and pounced on Fred's neck!
SPLASH!!
'NANI!?'
Fortunately... although he didn't expect this at all... thanks to his failed training to acquire Kenbunshoku haki and his even more strange training in which he had urged for years the entire Steel family to attack him by surprise whenever they wanted to always be prepared for surprise atacks... he was able to avoid by the hairs that that surely lethal attack
However...
SPLASH!!
He wasn't prepared enough to anticipate and avoid the second fucking giant snake head that came out of Faust's neck!
CLAF!!
A second head that went straight for Fred's left arm, the one that was holding the Akuma No Mi
"FUCK!" Fred yelled as he tried to calm his mind, ignore the pain he felt, use his hair to grab the chest containing the Akuma No mi and with his right arm...
SLASHHHHHH!!!
Cut off that enigmatic snake head that was tearing at his left arm!
Only then was he able to step back far enough to have the luxury of examining his arm slightly 'Fuck...
The wound is deep and...
Shit...
That shit has poisoned me and it's a potent poison!'
Without further delay and ignoring other immediate dangers, Fred used the Seimei Kikan at full power.
First, he completely stopped the blood circulation of the poisoned arm
And second, he used part of his hair to act as a tourniquet.
And although the limited control he had when it came to manipulating his own body in this way he also wanted to try sending all the blood that could have been contaminated back to the injured area and expel the poison from his body
CLAF!!
CLAF!!
However, he didn't have time to do much experimentation, as he noticed three giant snake heads with an eerily humanoid face and purple hair pounced on him again.
"Damn it!" Fred yelled as he dodged two of those heads, sliced off another that was impossible for him to dodge, and backed away again.
And this time, without missing any detail, he saw how two more heads came out of the head he had cut off.
Heads that shared the exact same face and were all connected to the same body, the body of Faust [Iron Mask], which also transformed to a totally reptilian appearance and even broke the ceiling due to his size increasing
And Fred, after tying up all the loose ends and gaining even more distance to get out of the attack range of the snakeheads he asked "It can't be...
This is the Hebi Hebi no Mi, Model Hydra!?
You...
Who the hell are you?!"
"I AM YOUR END!
YOU FUCKING KID!" Faust's four reptilian heads shouted in unison.
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