Three months prior to the current events of the story, in the middle of the Hopian Sea.

King Metallica's P.O.V.

"Hey! Which one of my awesome pals wants to hear another godlike story?! But not as godly as the Five Kings of course." I disclose to my new great pals! I know they can be quiet at times, but nonetheless it's nothing some quality socializing can't patch up. And what better way to do just that than with a great tale!

"What?! No way! We already listened to like twenty of them just today, I'd way rather listen to the sound of my fists destroying this thing, haha!" My young trusty crewmate, who goes by the name of "Popshot" laughs as he continues slamming his red boxing glove covered fists into a worse for wear white punching bag, with his long orange hair flailing everytime he launches a punch. Speaking of which I'll have to admit his hits can kick some major senile-oil-licker bot ass, YASHASHASHA!

"Don't be rude, he's our new companion and so we should treat him as such." Popshot's captain, Adesia, responds back in a D.E.A.D.L.Y. tone as she sits at a white clothed circular table with her eyes shut next to the awesome warrior in training, along with the rest of the super old training equipment which is in the small enclosed wooden room we're bonding in at the moment.

The many pals I've seen in here the past few days have always been telling me about "Arm Day". Sounds like a fancy, outstanding phrase I could use in the future!

"Huh? Oh come on, we won him from that fight with those sketchy guys on Magthera four days ago. His "newbie" status is already expired by a longshot so he should expect to get his ass pushed around a little." Popshot responds in a super annoyed tone as he continues to swing his arms into the punching bag, this time in a sloppier fashion.

On another note, if she really is his captain, I do find it quite certainly odd how he acts around her! If I ever met my idol, Hopian- or any of the Five Kings for that matter, I would treat them with my upmost, tip-top respect! Although, I suppose that would be impossible, as they're... dead.

"Hm? What was that? Do you need to get your "ass pushed around" a little too? I have been lacking on my training recently..." The curly black haired Captain says as she clicks her long finger nails along the table.

"Um, haha, no that's alright, sorry but I need to work on my jabs some more." Popshot says nervously like a scaredy-cat, continuing to avoid eye-contact with us as we watch him from behind. I'm sure he'll like me eventually, we just need to spend more time together!

"I thought that would be the case." She says with an E.V.I.L. smirk planted on her face as she raises her thin, red, long sleeved shirt covered arm to her face, covering her mouth with her hand as she yawns.

Speaking of mouths- I personally have always found it strange how humans have a constant need and adoration for consuming things! I've seen Popshot drink at least two of those brown mugs full of liquid today...

I know! I have a mouth too, so who says I can't eat! That'll make Popshot like me more, that way I'll be more like him- because through all of these long years, one of the things I've confirmed is that humans absolutely D.E.S.P.I.S.E. anything that's unlike themselves! Heck- some humans even hate other humans!

"Captain, are you in here?" The voice of a young lad says as he knocks from outside of the door to the training room.

"Yes, what is it?" She eviscerates the smirk off of her face as the mysterious messenger enters, "We've come within a kilometer of the trench- we're starting to throw the anchors and send out the explorer boats." He says as Popshot finally stops beating up the poor old bag.

"Alright, thank you, we'll be up on deck momentarily." She responds as the man nods, exiting the room in a flash and slamming the door shut.

"Finally, I've been hyped for this for so long, haha!" Popshot laughs as he rips off his gloves, cracking his neck and immediately running towards the door and swinging it back open like one of those canine meatbags who beg their owners to go outside.

"Honestly, ever since the day I saved you and started this crew, you've haven't changed one bit." Adesia says with a big old smile on her face as she stands up from the table and calmly walks towards the door Popshot's holding open for us, just like any pal should!

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"So, pals, just what are kind of shenanigans are we pulling again?" I ask as we sit atop of one of the many small but long wooden handy explorer boats in the middle of the ocean, moving towards our destination at a snail's pace like a fleet with our "engines" being a bunch of Adesia's men paddling, with paddles of course.

If I'm being completely 100% honest here, even one of those oil licker bots are more technologically advanced than my pals here, I'll have to enlighten them with Hopian's tech too one day!

"What? We already told you like ten times didn't we? All five hundred and sixty three of us are going down into Trench Demise, there's rumors of a crapload of treasure being down there- and more importantly some guys down there for us to fight too." My orange haired pal says to me as he helps his pals paddle as well- with me of course sitting aside. After all my pals need this training, I don't even have muscles, YASHASHASHA!

"Ah, thanks for the heads up pal! But- don't you guys need to breathe? After all, if we are going into one of those D.E.E.P. parts of the ocean, are they not filled to the brim with nutritious but salty H2O?" I ask, as after all I wouldn't want my pals foolishness to get them killed!

"Huh? You blind or something? Look ahead, bolts for brains." Popshot says with a smirk as he and all the other swole paddling men lift their brown wooden paddles from the ocean, and taking the time to check out the view, I can see that there's a ginormous circular hole in the water just in front of us!

"Alright, everyone, the gravitational powers in place here should stick us to the water currents, so just hold on!" Adesia declares, as she and the rest of my new pals grip onto the sides of the boat real tight and secure their legs in what seem to be some special holsters beneath the rows of seats that each boat has.

"Here it comes, this is insane haha!" Popshot laughs as our tinsy boat is drawn towards the massive hole due to the crazy current that's yanking all of the surrounding water into the empty V.O.I.D. in front of us, and not even a second later we drive right over the edge of the completely vertical falls!

"Hey pals, I know I can be a jokester myself but, now isn't the best time for hide and go seek!" I shout out to my pals as I start to fall through the endless trench due to being launched off of the boat during our janky change in gravity. I thought they were serious about this mission, and then they just leave me hanging like this?

"...Well, can this go any faster, my inexperienced pals are waiting for me at the bottom of the falls ya know!" I complain with a soured mood as I continue to fall straight down while I cross my arms and continuously tap them with my index finger, my awesome red robe flailing in the wind above me of course.

"Ah, there they are!" I exclaim as I look down the hole and see the many wooden boats of my few hundred pals floating atop of the dark blue water.

"YAAAAAAASHASHASHA!" I let out a mighty belly laugh in order to alert my pals of my great descent, which causes all of them to look up at my glorious self, and some of my pals even looking scared for some reason!

*CRASH* I land, my shiny metal feet slamming into the moist ground of the shallow H2O which is just below the bottom of my fiery robe.

Popshot yells, "Ow! My God my ears-"

"You were supposed to hold on you fool- are you all right?!" Adesia says with concern as she jumps out of her boat and speed walks towards me through the shallow water of the bottom of the dark and spooky trench that just bathes our feet.

"Hm? Of course I am, you guys were the ones who I was worried about!" I respond in a scolding- but teaching tone to my pals, after all of course I can take a tinsy little fall like that!

"Whoa, you really aren't injured or anything..." Popshot says in amazement as he finishes being a B.A.B.Y. about his ears and starts to examine my almighty self. Are we finally forming a bond?!

"YASHASHASHA, but of course! Speaking of not being injured, this reminds me of a famous tale! Who wants to hear it?" I declare out of sheer joy, after all these five hundred and sixty three people stuck in this massive and empty trench have to be entertained somehow!

My orange haired pal then tries to sabotage me by yelling, "Hah?! No one wants to hea-"

"ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a-" I'm about to spout, until even I get interrupted!

"Rank to Exterminate... B!" I say in a serious tone, and for good reason as the entire Earth beneath us starts to rumble with terrifying might!

A/N: Seeing as you guys seemed to enjoy Popshot a fair bit, I decided to bring him back with this backstory of the Long Sleeved Pirates- as well as trying to practice using King Metallica's P.O.V. which was pretty fun, I hope it turned out well.

As you can probably tell- this chapter left on a cliffhanger. So, the next time I have a break chapter, this side story will continue (and conclude)!

I hope you consider voting or commenting if you enjoyed, and see you guys next week on Chapter 41!