One Piece Fan Fiction ❯ Catch Me If You Can ❯ Escape From Havoc ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: I do not own `One Piece' or any of its characters.

 

A/n: Thank you to the people who read this. I guessing it got a pretty good start. I hope I can stick to keeping it interesting as it goes along. My plans for look like a lot of fun….hope other people feel that way.

 

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Catch Me if you Can

 

Zoro was sidestepping lightly letting his back slide gently against the ruff wooden wall as he felt his way through the dark hallway. He felt a light switch, but didn't dare turn it on in chance of being caught. He wondered why the light was off in the first place.

 

 

Hearing some footsteps down at the end of the hall Zoro pressed himself tightly against the wall and stood rock solid in hope that the darkness would pose him a good cover. Holding his breath for keep himself soundless he watched the two marine soldiers laugh lightly at a joke one had just told. As they got closer Zoro pondered whether or not his blanket of shade would hide him.

 

 

A muscle in his arm started to twitch when he realized how close to the light switch he was. He was trying so hard to avoid conflict until he had his sword, but looked as if his attempt would be in vein if they flipped the switch. He started working up a plan to fight them as quickly and soundlessly as possible to buy him more time.

 

 

Numerous different maneuvers crossed his mind of how to keep one quiet as he fought the other. Then, he just decided he would punch them both in the gut and hope they wouldn't grunt to loud. The last thing he needed was a shit load of marines bothering him on his way to freedom.

 

 

Zoro still stood stock still as they closed in on him, still oblivious to his presence. Zoro felt his senses enhance at the thought of a fight. His finger tips could make out the details of the wooden wall perfectly. The musk of the marines became more intense as they continued towards him. Zoro narrowed his eyes and forced his breath to shallow to controlled movements as his heart beats sped up against his will.

 

 

The men inched by barely missing Zoro's nose without realization of his being there. Zoro raised an eyebrow at their lack of intelligence and even let out an irritated breath when they completely skipped past the light switch and continued walking down the hall.

 

 

“What dumb asses!” Zoro groaned inwardly. He shook his head and turned to continue down the hall in the opposite direction only to come face to face with another marine officer holding a blade to his throat. The lights flicked on and after hearing the click of guns behind him he turned his head slightly to see the marines had returned and were now aiming their firearms at him.

 

 

Zoro smirked and flicked the light switch back off with his elbow……..

 

 

 

Moments later Zoro was now pacing himself at a slow run down the hall sporting a new sword in his right hand.

 

 

Back at the original scene a few more marines were helping up there three thoroughly beaten friends as they babbled about the escaped pirate. They immediately dropped the wounded soldiers after they pointed the direction he left and ran after him.

 

 

Zoro groaned as he was about to round a corner when he saw a clan of five marines on their way down the direction he needed to go. He waited till they had just barely passed him before charging out at them.

 

 

Smoker shook off the flame from his match to light his cigar as he listened again for a noise that sounded like a muffled yell. He adjusted his jacket on his shoulders as he stood to calmly looked out the door.

 

 

Zoro passed the cracked door and peaked inside to see Smoker laying a pack of matches on the table and get ready to head his way. Zoro ran at full speed to the end of yet another hallway.

 

 

“How the hell big is this ship?” Zoro growled lightly. He turned a corner just as smoker turned his head to look in Zoro's direction.

 

 

When Smoker turned his head to look the other direction he saw no one but a janitor heading down his way. Then narrowing his eyes he walked back into his room and shut the door behind him.

 

 

From inside a janitor's closet close to the scene of Zoro's recent fight the scrunched marines moaned in pain in their unconscious state as a janitor opened the door and the bodies toppled on top of each other out of the closet. The janitor let out a yelp and this time Smoker flew through the door.

 

 

“What is…” Smoker cut off his own woods at seeing his fellow marines bodies scattered on the floor. He raised an eyebrow questioningly at the janitor who had a mop in hand and stood their shaking. His accusing glance made him feel like an idiot. “Who did this?”

 

 

The janitor just stood there shaking.

 

 

Smoker growled and ran across the hall pulling a trigger to the alarm system.

 

 

The marines who had been tipped off about Zoro finally made it to where Smoker stood tense and ready to fight. Their sweating and exhausted forms from the run took the time to catch their breaths and started to tell him about the injured marines down the hall they had just ran down. The one speaking halted his sentence noticing the pile of more injured marines.

 

 

“WELL?” Smoker yelled.

 

 

At the marines questioning look smoker yelled once more. “Who did this?!?!”

 

 

“Zoro sir.”

 

 

“ZORO!!!” Smoker yelled, his voice echoing about the halls.

 

 

Zoro slowed his pace for a moment as he heard his voice being yelled even over the annoying alarm. He looked behind him and after seeing no one he continued to run until he saw more marines running at him with their swords drawn. “They must have an infinite stock of these idiots.”

 

 

Zoro found a door that wasn't locked and quickly ran inside shutting the door behind him and holding it shut as the marines started banging against the door to get in. Noting that a light was already on in this room he let his eyes linger over his shoulder. He allowed his head to lightly smack the door. He was in the cafeteria for these guys and lunch was in session.

 

 

 

Zoro found himself crashing out of a window in the ship holding the sword in his mouth and protecting his face with his hands. He prepared himself to land in the water only to painfully land on his feet in a small boat. He looked around shocked and noticed a ladder going back up onto the boat.

 

 

“I must get my swords” Zoro inwardly groaned, frantically climbing the ladder back aboard the ship as the shocked marines stared through the hole in window and started aiming shots at him. As soon as he got to the edge of the ship a troop of marines were already headed at him. He grabbed hold of the rope next to him and cut it loose from its taunt hold on the ship deck.

 

 

He felt the moment his feet left the ground that he had made a grave mistake. As he was propelled toward the crows nest he saw the sail he cut crashing down to the ship. At the power it was falling it would break a hole in the ship and sink it. He had to find his Katanas and fast. He watched the sail hit the deck shattering the floor to peices and by the time he looked back up to where he was flying he saw a broken jagged piece of wood from a newly broken sail facing the direction he was being pulled. He had to let go of the rope or be stabbed through the chest.

 

He chooses the fore thought. Letting go he watched and prepared himself for the shock landing he would make through and into the cabin of the ship. He was prepared for whatever fate he held.

 

 

Tashigi had woken suddenly at the loud burst of sound out on the deck. She fiddled around for her glasses not finding them and sat up on the bed. “So much for a nice sound nap” She thought in irritation. “What in the world is going on out there?”

 

 

She started to pull on her socks when another loud crash slammed through the ceiling of her room. She sat stunned as a body fell though the wood and onto the bed nearly missing her in the process. The bed broke and Tashigi was thrown into the mess of broken wood of the ceiling and bed. Tangled in the sheets she gave one last pull at the one over her head and hauled it free. She wiped the back of her hand across her face where a piece of wood branded her cheek to check if it was bleeding.

 

 

It wasn't until she heard a light groan from underneath her that she stared down with blurry eyes at the body she was straddling. She narrowed her eyes to try and see better as to whom it was. The green hair had given it away.

 

 

“Zoro?” She squeaked and screamed at the same time.

 

 

He opened one half lidded eyes and watched the being on top of him scramble around with their hands in the mess as if looking for something. His own eyes still seeing stars from the landing, closed to help clear them up faster. When he opened them again he finally realized who was spanning his hips. “Tashigi” His deep voice murmured.

 

 

Tashigi didn't stop what she was doing. She knew she had a small dagger hidden under her bed for protection and was somewhere in this mess. Her own sword was across the room and Tashigi wasn't going to give him the advantage if she left her position holding him on the ground to get it

 

 

Zoro noticed as he looked towards the door, his three Katanas neatly piled and labeled on Tashigi's desk. Zoro smirked and looked back towards her. Tashigi had seemed to notice something and was trying to pull it up from under a piece of wood from what was formerly her bed. Zoro smiled wider at his thoughts. “Tashigi?” He spoke trying to get her attention.

 

 

When Tashigi angrily replied with, “What!” as she continued to pull at the object, Zoro wondered how this women had ever become a marine. “Stop moving Tashigi your causing me a reaction.”

 

 

That was all that needed to be said to cause Tashigi to freeze and slowly turn to look at his grinning expression.

 

 

Before Zoro knew it he found himself with a piece of pointed wood at his throat. “Always at my throat.” Zoro spoke with an exasperated sigh. He allowed his head to drop back down on the floor.

 

 

“I can't get my dagger out so this will have to do.” Tashigi congratulated herself from her fresh improvising with the wood.

 

 

“So there's a dagger right down here.” Zoro reached with his hand and felt the pointed tip touch his hand.

 

 

“Don't move you….you….pirate scum!” Tashigi growled.

 

 

Zoro raised an eyebrow. “Haven't we been in a situation like this before when you were holding another sharp object at me neck? People really shouldn't be giving you sharp objects.”

 

 

“Don't mock me! I won't let what happened happen again.”

 

 

Zoro needed a distraction. Right as he thought that he got one. The door to Tashigi's room flew open and in came Smoker with fire in his eyes.

 

 

“Tashigi are….” Smoker started to question and noticed her position on Zoro's lap.

 

 

Zoro took the chance and flipped Tashigi off of him and made a run for his Katanas. He reached them in time and unsheathed them, putting one in his mouth and readying himself. He was taken back to see Smoker not even paying attention to him.

 

 

Smoker had helped Tashigi up and was now checking to make sure she was alright. Zoro felt a pang of irritation at watching the scene. He told himself it was from Smokers lack of respecting him and not at Smokers hand on Tashigi's body.

 

 

After a moment Smoker finally turned to him with a grin of his own. “You think you can fight me boy? How about you just walk yourself back to your cell and think this out.”

 

 

“The ship is sinking.” Zoro commented.

 

 

“It's being fixed.”

 

 

“The ship it sinking!?!?” Tashigi frowned and looked to Smoker.

 

 

Again Zoro felt the pang of jealously, no…irritation, Zoro decided again, at Tashigi's looking to Smoker for answers.

 

 

When Smoker looked back out the door at the mess on the deck Zoro took another chance. He grabbed Tashigi and held his sword across her throat the other aimed at Smoker.

 

 

Smoker narrowed his eyes as Tashigi squirmed in Zoro's arms.

 

 

“Bad move boy.” Smoker growled, shifting poses and looking to be ready for an attack.

 

 

Zoro found holding Tashigi to be quite an irritating task when trying to keep his mind occupied on Smoker. Tashigi pounded an elbow backwards to hit Zoro in the gut only to be cut off by Zoro's elbow. She again tried to attack him this time with her foot kicking backwards aimed at his groin which he blocked with his knee.

 

 

“You wouldn't hurt her, you dirty pirate.” Smoker commented with his eyes still narrowed.

 

 

Zoro took Smokers anger as a slight hint that he was unsure if Zoro wouldn't hurt her. He regretted having to take someone hostage, but when it came down to it no one was going to kill him before he earned his title and if he had to hurt Tashigi to do it he would. Taking the knife he lightly let it bite into her neck drawing the slightest amount of blood onto his sword.

 

 

Smokers eyes widened in shock, but narrowed again just as quickly.

 

 

Tashigi grabbed his wrist and started pushing with all her might to push the sword away from her neck.

 

 

Realizing Smoker was about to use some of his devil powers he played the trump card he now held at Smoker.

 

 

“You try using your powers on me and the slightest wrong move on you part will force me to cut deeper into her. Do you want to risk it?” Zoro kept an impassive look on his face to seem all the more intimidating. “Back up.”

 

 

Smoker did so and left a good portion of the door open for Zoro to walk through but not enough. “You know what? Tell your marines to back off of me as I exit the room and allow me to leave in peace and I will promise to leave Tashigi unharmed.”

 

 

This seemed to satisfy Smoker so he did what he was asked of.

 

 

Zoro wanted to shake his head at how much of an idiot Smoker thought he was. Zoro guessed Smoker was going to let Zoro go…for a few minutes then attack him as he tried to leave. Smoker must not have thought Zoro had a plan. He waited for Smoker to finish yelling orders out to his men and smoker motioned in false politeness for Zoro to walk from the room.

 

 

He did so after kicking up the other sword Zoro had entered the room with and grabbing it quickly and attaching it to his waist band and put the sword from his mouth back in its safe containment at his side, all the while holding Tashigi in place. Now he had 4 sheaths at his side.

 

 

The only thing Smoker wasn't expecting was for Zoro to cut a new hole through the wall next to him with his left hand while still holding the other sword up to Tashigi's neck and leave through there instead.

 

 

Smoker walked through the door and followed Zoro and Tashigi as Zoro backed up towards the edge of the ship. He rounded some debris from the broken ship deck and looked in quickly to see marines down in the hole trying to board it up as quickly as possible. He pulled Tashigi up to the edge with him and watched as the marines crowed around them at a safe distance in awe at the site.

 

 

Smoker let a puff of smoke from his nose and watched closely.

 

 

“And just what do you plan on doing now?” Smoker asked. “Let Tashigi go.”

 

 

Zoro laughed and returned the sword in his left hand to its cover. He brought his lips up Tashigi's ear, not only to mock Smoker, but to whisper warning into her ear. “I would hold your breath it if were you.” Zoro whispered just for her to hear. Zoro gave a tilted smile at Smoker and dropped backwards into the water.

 

 

Smoker and the marines all ran to the edge and looked down into the water where they dropped and saw no sign of them except for some bubbles where they splashed.

 

 

Smoker pushed a few men in after them to find them. “Why don't you go sir?” One oblivious marine asked. Smoker grabbed the collar of his shirt. “Because I ate the devils fruit you idiot.” Smoker yelled shaking him.

 

 

Zoro popped back up from the water dragging Tashigi along with him. She took a deep heave of air as they resurfaced. Zoro checked to see if she was okay only to notice that after her deep breath she had passed out. Zoro groaned and located the little boat floating next to the marine's big one and swam quickly over to it. He shifted Tashigi on board first and then pulled himself up. He looked up at the edge of the ship grinning knowing they were still on the other side looking for them.

 

 

As Zoro set the sail and allowed a breeze to catch and pull them away from the ship he lost his grin. He had planned to make Tashigi climb back up to the ship and out of his hair but had lost that part of his plan to her lack of oxygen. He checked her pulse and made sure she was alright before he heard Smoker yelling curses out to him and promising to follow him to his grave.

 

 

Zoro looked to see Smoker and the marines watching them drift off. Zoro held his undecided look of what to do with Tashigi and smoothed his fingers through his wet hair to stop it from dripping into his face.

 

 

“Prepare the cannons.” A marine next to Smoker called out.

 

 

“No, you dumbass Tashigi's on that boat!” Smoker rebutted.

 

 

“Looks like your coming with me for now. I'll leave you at the next Island. I'm sure they will come for you there, but for now I need to leave some time for me to get away.” Zoro spoke to the unconscious Tashigi.

 

 

Zoro watched unhappily as the back of the boat started to turn as if to follow them. “That's my cue.” Zoro pulled out the extra sword he brought with him, aimed, and flung it like a javelin at the propeller of the boat. He listened as the boat creaked and groaned in opposition to the foreign object but in the end couldn't fight it and the boat ended up failing to move. Zoro also found happiness in the fact that he had broken the main sail also in his plight so the marines now had no mode of transportation, at least for a little while.

 

 

Smoker dropped his head into his hands and watched helplessly as the small boat sailed away. “Just wait Pirate…Just wait.”

 

 

With a smirk of satisfaction he threw the sheath of the used sword out into the ocean and decided to keep heading in the path he was in hope of land. The thought hadn't occurred to him until after the marines ship was out of sight that they had no food.

 

 

Zoro ignored the thought and decided not to dwell on it until the hunger hit him hard. He once again noticed Tashigi and checked her neck to see the damage. Thankfully he hadn't had to cut her bad at all. It wouldn't even need stitches. Now the only thing to worry about was the lack of oxygen to her brain that she might have suffered.

 

 

Zoro sat back and got comfortable leaning against the side of the small boat. He watched her realizing she didn't have her sword or her glasses with her. He glared at her face hard in disbelief in her resemblance to Kuina. He felt himself go soft and reached for her pulling her over to his side so she could lean her head on his shoulder. Watching her lying completely helpless on the hard wood of the boat was too much for him. He had to get rid of her. Those were the last thoughts on his mind as he also fell into the darkness of sleep.

 

 

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A/n: And chapter 2 is done!! YEAH! It was hard to cut corners around the anatomy of the ship….because I don't know it to well. Hope you guys still understood. Please keep an open mind to all that for me. Thanks for reading. The reviews I got for just the first chapter blew me out of the water. I haven't been this happy in a while. Hope this was just as good.

 

I'm sitting here editing this while eating some cheese in can lol and I noticed that I didn't put in how Zoro got capture….I think I will put that into the next chapter somehow. I don't want it in this one…..sorry about that.

 

~Iceis~