Chapter 80: Blueprints

Chapter 80: Blueprints

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"YOU CUT OFF MY HAND!" Screeched Spandam whilst the marines around him tried to give first aid.

"YOU ACTIVATED THE BUSTER CALL!" Robin screamed whilst shaking Cherry by the shoulders.

"That idiot would have pressed the button all on his own anyways. Rather than argue, let's just get going yeah?" Cherry tried to calm down Robin, but couldn't keep the satisfied smirk off her face.

"FUNKFREED!" Spandam cried out. The trumpeting of an elephant rang out. In his left hand The held a strange sword.

*FLASH*

"AHHHH!" Spandam screamed in shock and fury. The marines desperately tried to keep still so they could stop the bleeding of his second stump of the day.

"I'm not getting paid enough for this..." One of the marines said on the sidelines.

"Follow close behind me ladies." Cherry charged into the ranks of the marines, lightning surging out causing them to collapse and open a path.

"Chapapa! Where do you think you're going?!" A CP9 agent stepped in front of them. He was Fukurou, a ball shaped man with a zipper over his mouth.

"Get out of the way, loser." Cherry spoke simply, punching him in the chest and sending him flying.

"O-over 9,000 Doriki?!" He sputtered, before collapsing to the ground.

"What the heck is a Doriki?" Cherry wondered aloud. Robin and Nami recalled how Fukurou had tested the other CP9 agents' strength and that even Rob Lucci only received 4,000 Doriki. Of course when the old monster Wilson Alexander offered to test his strength, Fukurou had been very frightened of the idea and desperately, but politely refused.

The three ladies exited the building onto the balcony. To their left they saw Franky chewing on Wilson Alexander's arm which was gripping him by his own arm.

Across the deep abyss below them they saw Luffy and the other Straw Hats on the roof opposite them.

""""Robin, Nami!"""" They shouted out when they saw them.

"Luffy, catch!" Cherry shouted over the gap. Luffy tilted his head in confusion.

Cherry picked up Nami, much to her own confusion until she realized what was about the happen.

"Eh? Wait, you're not going to- AHHHHHH!" Nami screamed as she hurled across the gap where Luffy caught her.

Whilst that game of cat and mouse was playing out in the air, a newly unarmed Spandam appeared on the balcony. "What are you doing?! Go catch Nico Robin!"

CP9 moved immediately, crossing over the abyss towards the Straw Hats with Geppo. Cherry swiftly looked through the pages memorizing the contents while dodging Wilson and his attacks.

'No wonder Franky didn't mind letting Rob Lucci catch a glimpse of these blueprints. They're immensely complex and the room for error in construction is nonexistent.' Cherry thought.

She only needed a good look at each page to memorize them however, as she can simply meditate to recall them in perfect detail later. When she finished, she used lightning to incinerate the pages to ashes, then scatter the ashes into the abyss below.

"Ah, damn it. You young people have no respect for old things." Wilson said, ceasing his

pursuit.

"Are you talking about the blueprints or yourself?" Cherry asked him.

"Both, you brat. I guess it's over, it's a shame I wont' get my reward." He sighed.

"What reward could get someone as old as you to wag his tail? Surely you don't lack wealth, you should be able to obtain whatever you like with your power." Cherry asked curiously.

A crooked smile crossed the old man's face, one that seemed to reveal a deep madness underneath his professional exterior.

"You want to know? I guess I can tell you. My Reap Reap Fruit isn't called that for nothing you see. Once it awakened, it allowed me to send dead souls to the afterlife. Let me tell you, there

is no mortal pleasure that can beat personally sending an evil soul to hell, hekekeke!" He said, barely containing his joy just at the thought.

"Can't you just hunt pirates for that? Why would you need to World Government to give you evil people?" Cherry inquired.

"Not all evils are the same. They come in different... flavors. The flavor I can only get from the World Government... is Celestial Dragon." His eyes were wild with gluttony, but it quickly faded to disappointment. "However, that's impossible with this failure. It's not a chance that

comes often."

'This guy really is crazy.' Cherry thought. She kept her guard up in case he decided to take out his loss on her or the others.

"Well, goodbye. Perhaps we'll meet again some day." Her worries vanished when he simply

left, as if losing his reward was like dropping an ice cream cone.

The Straw Hats had started a retreat while fighting off CP9. From behind, the massive Gates of Justice started to open.