//------------------------------// // Chapter 17 - Machines and Blades // Story: My Little Strawhat // by edwinflores428 //------------------------------// “Franky….. Dead Weight!” yelled Franky as the Iron Pirate merely let gravity do its work crushing many enemies from the massive weight. “Great! They’re on the ropes now! Time to super finish this!” he yelled preparing his sword, when suddenly a massive spear came close to hitting the head. “What the!?” “You didn’t forget about us did you?” said Flim in their massive killing machine. “Of course, once we’ll kill you, you mechanical secrets will be belonging to us!” said Flam. “And thanks to Sombra, we’ll be rich!” as the duo finished. “hmph, well obviously you two underestimate this machine, you have yet to witness the rest of the weapons!” yelled Franky. “Franky….bull charge!!” as the Iron pirate suddenly used his whole body mass to accelerate towards the large machine, but he reaches contact, he is pushed away by a large shield almost a foot thick! “Don’t think you’re going to beat us that easily, cyborg! Take this, porcupine wall!” Flim yelled as suddenly hundreds of razor sharp spikes grew out from the shield as it then rapidly moves towards Franky. “Franky…” Franky readies his left arm for a defensive maneuver “ Shield!” he yell as the arm revel a tiny shield no bigger than his arm. “WHAT KIND OF SHIELD IS THAT!?” Flam yelled. “IT”S PUNY!” Franky merely smirked “you hesitated…. WEAPONS LEFT!” as suddenly thousands of bullets was unleashed ripping apart the massive shield as his left arms opens up revealing the weapons inside. “our shield!! Hurry brother! Unleash everything we got!” Flim said extremely worried. “On it brother, SUPER BARRAGE!!” as Flam pressed all the buttons causing hundreds upon hundreds of spears, battle axes, swords, arrows and experimental weapons upon the Iron Pirate causing a large smoke cloud to surround the massive machine. “There! That should kill him right there, I can’t believe he was so stupid enough to not try and dodge all those attacks.” Said Flim. But as the dust slowly clears, both Flim and Flam jaws dropped to the floor as the dust finally clears revelaing none other than the Iron Pirate shining in the sun, with no damage at all!! Not even a scratch. But in response, the machine lifts his arm up and gives a thumb up “OK!!” Franky yelled. “WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN!?” the duo yelled. “Time to end this!” Franky exclaimed as he put both of his arms together targeting directly at the heart of the murderous machine while at the same time the fore-arms of the Iron Pirate began inflating, “FRANKY……. GENARAL CANNON!!” as a massive light from where the hands were suddenly flashed up and fired a huge condensed beam that hit its mark blowing away changelings in the process and blasting away the brothers. “The Goan Cannon has reached land!!!” yelled Usopp with twinkling eyes “SO COOOL!!!” yelled monster Chopper who witnessed the entire thing. “HNNNNNNNNG………SSSSSUUUUUUPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEERRRRR!!!!!!!!!!” yelled Franky as he makes his signature pose. On the other side of the battlefield, Zoro is still fighting against the last of Sombra's generals...Gilda. “Grrrrr, What the hell is going on! Everyone is dropping like flies!” screamed Gilda. She had been fighting Zoro for quite some time now she was getting impatient. “but unlike them I will not lose!” as she readies her winged swords she charges at Zoro and starts spinning. “TORNADO BLADE!” “Is that the best you really got?” Zoro said calmly with his blades in a defensive position. “Oh there more to me than you think!” Gilda sneered as the twisting tornado of blades suddenly grew to enormous lengths. “Now this … is a challenge!” roared Zoro as he’s prepared to take the attack. One the blades collided, it sent a huge shockwave that resonated throughout the battlefield blowing away some of the changelings. From that attack, Zoro smirked “You’re strong…but, your strength is FAKE!!” “Santoryuu: Bull Horns!” yelled Zoro as he charged Gilda like a bull with 2 of his swords pointing right at her at great speed. “What the!?” yelled Gilda as she barely dodges but Zoro still made minor cuts on her legs. “GRRR, you going to pay for that you dweeb!” “Dweeb? I see now, you don’t have any friends….pity, Luffy would've liked to have you on his crew” Zoro said. “SHUT UP! GRIFFON SPEAR!!” Gilda yelled as she narrowed her body like a spear and catapulted herself towards Zoro’s head. But, Zoro easily sidesteps to avoid the attack as Gilda collides with a tree causing a chunk of the forest to be destroyed. “You’re geting sloppy, your swordplay is nothing but a joke.” He soon starts walking away “You’re not worth my time griffon…” As Gilda pulls herself out of the rubble, she gets angry, so angry that Sombra’s dark magic within he corrupted her even further. She grew horns, her tail turned into spiked twin tails, her coat became black as night as her wings multiplied to 4 bladed wings and her face elongated to that it almost look like a dragon than a griffon. And her eyes, they were completely blood-red, no pupils with Sombra’s dark aura emanating from them. “What… !?” as Zoro turned back to face the deformed Gilda, he is slightly surprised at her knew form. “DON’T YOU DARE TURN YOUR BACK ON ME YOU SON OF A BITCH!!” she yelled as she then charged at lightning speed at Zoro. “Fine, let’s see what you got…..chicken” Zoro smirked. “I’M NOT A CHICKEN! HELL’S BLADES!!” as she pointed all of her wing blades at Zoro’s heart, yet only made slight cuts as Zoro deflected the monster away. “So you were able to make a tiny scratch, don’t get too cocky….” The monster Gilda merely growled like a hungry beast ready to strike as she then roared at her opponent. “sigh, time to end this!” Zoro exclaimed as concentrated his soul into a new form. “We’ll see about that!” as she once more charged at him with her wings now aflame ready to strike. “wait, what are you?” as she is suddenly greeted by a multi-headed, multi-armed Zoro with his eyes red. “Doesn't matter, YOU’RE WIDE OPEN! NOW DIE!” as she is within inches between her and Zoro. And then ...Zoro unleashed his blades… “Kiki Kyutoryu ...…” he lifts up all of blades as the world around him appears in slow-motion, and then… he struck “ ASURA ICHIBUGIN!” Gilda was then sent flying with all of her winged blades broken, over 100 deep cuts throughout her body, with all of the blood spilling as she then plummets to the ground, defeated. “I…..lost, no…..i hate you….” She weakly said now clinging to life. Zoro then took one of his swords out of his mouth, “You had potential…but in the end….it was your hatred and bloodlust that brought you to your defeat, now if you’ll excuse me, I have a stupid cook to compete with…” “WHAT WAS THAT YOU MARIMO!?” Sanji yelled.