Here we go.

After a long wait, the 4th chapter.

Thank you all for being so patient with me and waiting.

And I hope you enjoy.
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Somewhere out at sea, far away from the battle aboard the ship, loud screaming could be heard.

That screaming was from Nami, who was clinging for dear life on a large sharp rock poking above the waves.

All while Marx was laughing his ass off hovering around her, his wings out.

"GET ME TO DRY LAND YOU PSYCHO!" Nami yelled Panic in her voice as the calamitous clown kept on laughing at her predicament he put her in.

Marx had already taken her bag of stuff and placed it on the deck of the Starcutter.

He took her out here just to torture her further.

"Yes! Haha, keep screaming, it's the best part of the torture process!" He mocked giving his signature high pitched laugh.

Marx then suddenly made himself gag and cough confusing Nami.

That confusion soon turned to horror as she suddenly saw him barf out a large circus ball somehow.

His throat and body had to deform to do it but he didn't seem bothered at all as the moment he completely barfed it out he caught it on the tip of his foot and said ball began spinning.

The Jester then quickly kicked the ball at Nami and it collided with the rock.

Nami let out a yelp of terror as it exploded into fireworks.

Nami nearly slipped off the rocks and fell into the watery abyss as a result.

Marx laughed even harder at this.

Nami couldn't believe it, she would die out here in the ocean at the hands of a literal clown.

She saw no way out of this, he was too crazy to reason with or trick, she was done.

"Okay Marx, you've had your fun, now stop torturing this woman." Came another voice making them all look up to see a figure floating down.

This figure turned out to be Magolor, in one hand he had the bag that Marx took from Nami and he gave the Jester a disapproving glare.

"Oh great." Marx said rolling his eyes and gaining a frown.

The sorcerer hovered over to Nami who was now more confused than she originally was.

"Forgive my friend Miss, we try to keep him under control." Magolor sighed snapping the fingers of his free hand which opened up a star-shaped portal.

From that portal fell one of the lifeboats from the cruise ship that was under assault from Alvida along with the ores.

"Party Pooper." Marx said with a pout as Magolor placed the bag of her stolen goods on the boat.

"Marx, we really don't need all this, so why did you take them?" Magolor asked as he held out his hand for Nami to take.

The poor girl could not process what was happening now, but she still slowly reached out to take his.

"Because I wanted those things...so I took them." Marx replied simply making Magolor roll his eyes as he picked Nami up bridal style.

"Again, I apologize Miss." Magolor said as he gently lowered her into the lifeboat.

Nami had a small but noticeable blush as he did.

"Do you need directions back to dry land?" Magolor asked snapping Nami out of her daze.

"O-oh...n-no...I'll be fine...th-thanks." She managed to stutter out.

"Are you sure?" He asked concern in his voice.

Nami's blush intensified as she shook her head.

"U-um...y-yeah...I'm a navigator...I-I'll be fine." She assured.

"Okay good." The sorcerer said with a nod as he flew back up to Marx. "Okay, Marx let's go."

The clown scoffed but begrudgingly agreed and began following his friend.

"You used to be more fun." He muttered as they both floated off.

"A-am...I in a fever dream?" Nami asked holding head before sliding her hand down to her cheek which were still warm with a blush.

She shook her head.

"Okay Nami, don't overthink it, you're fine and still alive and that's all that matters." She thought as she turned to her bag of stolen valuables.

She decided it would be best to check and see if everything was there.

Nami opened her bag and upon seeing the contents within gained a look of confusion.

Instead of all her stolen stuff there were multiple red apple-shaped jewels.

"Oh...I got tricked" Nami said gaining a flat look. "Oh well, I'm sure these things are a lot more valuable..."

Nami immediately stopped what she was saying when she saw one of the gem apples on top were...blinking...and pulsating.

Meanwhile, Marx was still complaining to Magolor, uspet he stopped his fun.

"Seriously, when did you become so charitable?" Marx groaned as Magolor seemingly ignored the jester.

"Three, two, one." Magolor thought and suddenly a loud yelp could he heard back where they left Nami.

"Huh?" Marx asked confused as Magolor snapped his fingers.

Back with Nami, the blinking Gem apple had suddenly released a bright flash of light which blinded her.

She nearly stumbled off the boat as a result, while she was blinded a star-shaped portal opened under the bag of genuine gem apples and fell through.

Back with Marx and Magolor, a star-shaped portal opened above the sorcerer and from it fell the bag of gem apples which Magolor caught.

Marx just stood there, mouth agape and shocked.

"Come on, your stolen junk is back at the Starcutter." Magolor said as he once again started flying back to the Starcutter.

Marx finally snapped out of his awestruck stupor and flew beside his friend.

"Wait so you?" He asked, only for Magolor to nod.

"Yes, instead of the things you stole that bag was filled with Gem Apples and one of those Gem Apples were one of my new flash Gem Apple bombs." Magolor explained. "I won't kill or torture her, but I'll be damned if I give up a chance of making money."

Marx immediately hugged Magolor after he explained that.

"Yay, you're still the same greedy liar I became friends with." The jester cheered squeezing the sorcerer out of sheer joy. "You can sell all of her junk that I don't want."

Magolor struggled to breathe in the clown's tight embrace, but thankfully he let go after a bit before he suffocated.

"Okay...(huff)...you(cough) go back...I need to...(huff)...catch my breath now!" He stated between deep breaths and coughs.

"You got it pal!" Marx said before flying away back to the Starcutter.

As his figure vanished across the ocean, Magolor sighed and turned to look back.

He could hear Nami in the distance, raging and screaming having no doubt realized she had been bamboozled.

Indeed back with Nami she was fuming red, she'd be stomping around in anger if she weren't on a lifeboat.

So she's just screaming.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, I GOT TRICKED, I'M SUPPOSED TO DO THE TRICKING AND THE LYING!" She screamed before burying her face in her palms out of frustration.

Her screams and rants were cut off by her letting out 3 painful yells of "OWS!"

The reason being, 3 hard objects suddenly fell on her head.

This resulted in her being stuck in a daze for a while with stars swirling around her head.

One she snapped out of it she looked down and saw 3 gem apples.

"Huh?" She asked before looking up and saw a star-shaped portal.

Back with Magolor he let out a sigh as he tossed another gem apple into the portal he had opened up.

Back with Nami she let out a yelp as she narrowly avoided gaining another concussion from a gem apple that came through.

Then another fell through leaving 5 in total for her before the portal closed.

Nami was at a loss, she had been through a lot in a very short amount of time.

She cautiously tapped the gem apples with her foot to see if they would flashbang her again.

"They're genuine, I assure you." Came a voice from behind her which nearly made her jump out of her skin.

She turned and saw Magolor behind her.

"I saw the stuff you stole and believe me these five gem apples I'm giving you are worth a lot more than all of those things." Magolor assured.

The orange-haired navigator narrowed her eyes at the sorcerer still suspicious.

"Why are you giving me these?" She asked.

Magolor seemed to be in thought for a moment.

"Mostly to just apologize for the way my friend treated you...and I think you're pretty." He said making Naomi's face explode in a blush.

"H-huh...I-I...y-you..." She stuttered out.

"Don't you want them?" Magolor asked with a raised brow. "If you don't I'll take..."

"No no no, I'll take them!" Nami yelled out quickly picking up the fruit-shaped jewels.

"That's what I thought." The sorcerer chuckled. "Well, ciao."

With that, Magolor flew off leaving a blushing red Nami as she clutched her chest.

The orange-haired girl let out a sigh as she turned her gaze to the gem apples Magolor left her.

"Oh well, can't look a gift horse in the mouth." She thought sitting back down and got ready to travel to dry land.

Meanwhile:

"You worthless little gnat!" Alvida yelled as she attempted to slam her mace down onto Bandana Dee.

Fortunately the Bandana wearing warrior was fast enough to sidestep the attack which left a hole in the wooden floor.

Bandana Dee then quickly used the blunt end of his spear to hit Alvida in the stomach.

He did this with enough force to send her flying back and crash through a wall.

The spear-wielder chuckled and rested his spear over his shoulder.

"Come on Troll Lady, don't go down too quickly." He said confidently.

Alvida seemed to comply as she immediately got back up and charged at him once again.

Bandana Dee, quick as ever ran under Alvida's legs as she approached, jumped up and kicked her right in the back of the head knocking her flat on her face.

This in-turn caused the entire ship to shake and rock nearly knocking Coby off balance.

Meanwhile Daroach who was still rummaging around the many rooms tyring to find something of value when he felt the ship rock due to Alvida's crash.

He was nearly knocked off his balance but managed to steady himself.

"Come on, I've found nothing...it's like someone stole everything already and I doubt I have much time left!" He yelled mentally while scratching his head.

Daroach's thoughts were cut off when suddenly the whole wall in the room he was in suddenly broke down.

"What the Hell!?" Daroach asked shocked as you suddenly jumped in from the water carrying Kirby.

You had jumped in the water to retrieve Kirby to make your grand escape.

"Captain?" Daroach asked Meta Knight flew down to join you.

"Hi." Kirby greeted as you tucked him under your arm.

"Daroach, we gotta leave, that Troll woman's back!" You yelled terrified.

"Oh so that's what's that shipquake was." Daroach realized.

"So come on we gotta go, I don't think my stomach can handle her Makin moves on me again." You said before shuddering at the thought.

"Aside from that, there's no real reason to stay here anymore." Meta Knight said as he folded his wings back into a cape.

"Aye aye captain." Daroach said sounding a bit dejected, sad he didn't get to take anything.

Meanwhile Alvida had gotten back up and was once again swinging at Bandana Dee who kept easily dodging her attacks.

Suddenly, Bandana Dee placed his spear back on his back and easily grabbed ahold of Alvida's mace as it came down on him.

Both Coby and Alvida were shocked as Bandana Dee easily held the mace smirking under his bandana.

He simply shook his head saying:

"No."

Before kicking her right in her big round belly and sent her flying through the ship causing another shipquake.

Bandana Dee turned back to Coby who looked up at him in awe and he  smiled down at the boy.

"Now Coby..." Before Bandana Dee could say anything else to the boy, you, Kirby, Daroach and Meta Knight all came in and you immediately grabbed Bandana Dee before running off with him leaving Coby behind.

"We're leaving!" You told Bandana Dee who you held onto by the head as you dragged him off.

"Sir, what about him!" Bandana Dee asked pointing at Coby who was now freaking out.

"He'll be fine, that guy in the straw hat'll help him out." You assured as you kept running.

"Didn't you knock him out?" Bandana Dee asked curiously.

"He'll wake up soon and take care of that troll don't worry." Meta Knight assured. "I've compared their strength and fret not that boy in the straw hat can easily beat her."

Bandana Dee sighed and looked back at Coby.

"Good luck then Coby." He stated waving as you jumped through the celling and onto the deck of the ship.

Then you with the others all lept off the ship back onto the deck of the StarCutter.

You immediately began banging at the hatch yelling at someone to let you back in.

"OPEN THIS DOOR, SUSIE, MAGOLOR, ANYONE!" You screamed desperately while everyone else around you merely stared on.

The hatch opened and Taranza poked his head out.

"Easy, it's not locked." He stated only to be slammed back down by you and you immediately jumped down the hatch.

Kirby followed, then Meta Knight, then Bandana Dee and Daroach.

Poor Taranza was the one who took all the weight as everyone fell on top of him.

The spider Sorcerer let out a groan due to all the weight atop him.

You threw everyone off and began looking around frantically.

"Where's Houdini, where's Gear Girl!?" You asked frantically looking for Magolor or Susie. "WE NEED TO LEAVE NOW!"

As if on cue, Susie opened the engine room doors and stepped out with her orange visor on.

"Okay, I finally managed to get all the mashed potatos out of the pipes." She sighed. "Now let's hope a certain jester doesn't try anything again."

"Oh you know I'm never gonna stop Bitch!" Marx chuckled poking his head out of the pile of stuff he claimed he found.

Susie in response took out her blaster and shot at him.

Marx was quick enough to split his face in half to let the blast pass between the two halves.

Marx stuck his tongue out and blew a raspberry at Susie.

Only to suddenly get clonked on the head by her visor helmet which she threw at him and thanks to her enhanced cyborg body, that throw had a lot of power behind it.

Now the Jester was seeing stars...literally, stars were circling his head.

"I think I bith my tongue." Marx muttered before falling back.

"Maybe now you'll learn to hold it." Magolor said looking down at his best friend with amusement.

"YOU TWO, PILOT THE SHIP, WE GOTTA LEAVE!" You yelled scaring both Susie and Magolor.

"Uh Captain...wh..." Magolor tried to ask only for you to  suddenly grab him by the shirt and giving him one Helluva death glare.

"Get this ship moving NOW!" You snarled and Magolor just immediately nodded before going to start the ship up. "Hurry hurry Houdini!"

As this happened, everyone got off Taranza who was literally flattened was peeled off the ground by Kirby.

"Thank you." Taranza squeaked out.

"No problem." Kirby replied happily.

As the Lor StarCutter began to take off, Susie walked over to everyone else with a raised brow.

"What's his problem?" She asked and Meta Knight simply shook his head.

"We don't want to talk about it." He replied.

"Okay, I actually don't care too much." Susie replied with a shrug.

The Lor StarCutter whirred to life as a battle between Luffy and Alvida raged back on her boat.

The advanced ship reversed from the rock it was Parked against and immediately sailed off far away from Alvida.

And you hoped to never run into her again.

Your hopes will be dashed.

TO BE CONTINUED:
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And there we go, hope the wait was worth it and that you all enjoyed the work I put in to make this chapter.

See you all later and enjoy the rest of your day.