"Gahh!!!" Leroy screamed as the thorns pierced into his skin! Trickles of blood flowing down his arms, legs, torso, stabbing into his wounds, and the sting of a thousand needles like pouring peroxide across his body!
The vines tightened as if they were ropes tightening into bondage! The hand of dante in the distance tightened, controlling the ability from a distance
"Ketaishokou…" Diva grit before leaping! Pain dearing through their body as she forced her body to secrete HGH and Stem Cell proteins to repair her split lung! This was a monumental task on her energy and focus due to the complexity of literally needing to mix chemicals in her conscious mind to produce these effects!
"Leroy!!" Her voice reported around the tundra, vines sticking and twisting, contorting Leroys body to painful angels that even his rubbery body could not fully prepare itself due to the pain he expirenced! Arms twisting to odd angles, legs wrapped, back bent, neck forced back as another vine wrapped and began to bleed his neck!
Divas hand began to glow as something began to manifest around their body from a haze of pink aura! But-
A pang of pain shoot through her! Her heart fluttered! "Gah!" Crashing into the ice and forming a tail of broken earth she came to a stop "Shit…Not now…" The injuries persistence and its struggle to be healed by her staggered concentration worsened her condition "I shoul-"
'I shouldn't be so weak…! If…I had time to to shake off all this rust…I'd be able to handle him on my own! Hora…This…This fight may be your last…' She looked at him keenly. With passion and worry in her eyes…
His body soared through the air, fist cocked back, and slamming into the side of the Wolven head! A tooth knocking loose as the mighty blow staggered Dante for long enough that the poisonous vines 'Carceral' stopped being tightened!
'But you're ready for that…Aren't you? You went through pain like no other. Through operations to turn you into a utility at your own behest…Because knew what it was like to suffer. To be opressed…'
She watched then as Hora slid along the ground, grabbed Dantes leg, before spinning him and tossing him away like a rag doll!
'You knew what it was like to seek freedom…And now you are giving us all just that…'
Slamming her fist into the ground with force to crack it, she staggered to her feet and ran towards Leroy! Coming down to a crouch, she saw as his body was now limp! His eyes seemed to have rolled into the back of his head, as his mouth laid open…
"Leroy! Leroy! Stay with me!" She said in a deep hasty breath
Quickly! She tore at the vines, feeling the stings of pain in her hands. "These vines…They're acidic to the touch and have some sort of poison in them!"
"Leroy…I'm surprised you stayed conscious for that long!" He had been wriggling and writhing in the thorns for minutes! But pain like that! It would've killed any one else from sheer shock!
The pain was as if stepping on glass, the sting of being swatted with a stick, the pain of intestinal pain or stones in the bowels, it was constant, persistent. Not dull, no ache.
Just
Sheer
Pain
"Cmon sweetboy…Stay with me now." Diva hoisted Leroy into her arms. Leroy eyes blinking quickly like would as someone tried to force a persons eyes open. "Low Fentanyl Dose, Epinephrine…and something to stablize the burns! I can deal with the poison once we get to safety…"
Thoom! Diva's head shot up! And in the distance a perfectly circular fire ball appeared! Dante, hanging from one of the stalactites, rocketed off it! And then slammed his hands together to boost himself!
"ARRROO!" The Snarling Wolven dante shot forward through the air! Engulfed in a plume of fire and acrid material! "Diva! Go!" Hora shouted, unable to get all of the syllables out before putting his hands forward and ceasing the movement of Dante!
the shockwave of the collison was so monumental that it shock the prison once again! The ground cratering in an explosion of dust, and mist! Both of their bodies colliding with such strength that it turned the ice around them into mist!
"Grr….Ah!" Hora screamed! Hands blackened and shining, the Wardens own limbs dowing the same, as he was lurched forward in an extreme lean! Almost directly parallel to Hora! The enhanced mans palms pushed back against the oversized paws!
Energy seemed to literally crackle to life in thin streaks of a reddish color! Zap! Zap! Zap! The sound of the crackle reported around!
Both of their eyes seemed to glow and streak in their movements as Horas eyes changed to a hue of deep yellow, pupils shrinking to the size of needle points!
"Hah…Hah!" Diva huffed and puffed as she quickly began to catch up to the others! She kept her fingers attacked to Leroy, delivering the medicine directly to his muscles and veins. His head bobbed limply, his mind going in and out of consciousness!
"The Middle! Go to the middle! Thats our only way down!" She shouted to the others, looking behind her for a brief moment, she saw the beams of lasers firing again and again through the air as both Dante and Hora were in mid air! Each of their collisions shocking the air while they bounced off it!
"Holy…Shit!" Bonney said "What the fuck are they doing!" He said in sheer surprise at pure power demonstrated before his eyes!
"How the heck are you still walking?!" Danny asked as they all stopped around a giant metallic structure in the middle of the room! The distance reverberations quaking beneath their feet "Its called stitch. And my chemical fruit…I'm surpressing blood flow and suspending feeling in my lower lung while my fruit repairs it…"
"That sound cool as hell!" Quinn said in that same bubbly voice "Yeah yeah! I'll explain it later!" She lied. She elbowed the button on the elevated panel. The lift went straight to Dantes office and were the submersibles were kept! There was no point in having guards or a lock on the lift. Who in the world would be crazy enough to enter the office of the strongest man in this prisons office?
The group then stepped onto the lift. And began to descend downwards…
Horas body slammed into the ground! Another quake! And explosion of force! "Gah!" Hora screamed! His blackened hand slammed into the side of the paw impaling him to the ground!
"I'd say you're worth the fight! But I currently sense that another is here with in the prison…When I'm done with you…I'm gonna my time and go after them next!" He snarled and leaned down.
Snow and ice crunched! And Rifff ran up next to Dante! Rifle at the ready! But the moment he pulled the trigger, the secondary head on the wardens right shoulder snapped to life! And bit Riff in two! Blood spewing across the snow as ichor and viscera fell limply
"You gave a decent fight…Extremist! But, I am the one who rules this prison! It is me who decides who is guilty and who is to be forgivable!" He slammed Hora down again! Cracks forming nearly across the entire level! "For I..."
"I am the Law!"
"Your crimes are multiple homicide, illegal activities on government premises, insighting of insurrection" He pressed his body harder and harder… "Destruction of Government Property, Destruction of Private Property both domestic, corporate, and abroad. And the the murder of Government Employees and Officals!" He leaned forward, the acid from his spittle burning his skin while the Carceral vines began to wrap around him
"How do you plead!" He screamed!
"Ptew!" Hora, in act of defiance against a man that utterly outclassed him, spit in the burning wolves face…
"Defense Noted…"
The elevator shook with such extreme force that it was as if a high level quake enraptured the prison! "Holy Shit! What was that?!" Bonney said again, Delirium caused by the effects of the devil fruit now subsiding…
"Thank you…Hora…" Diva said beneath her breath…
The Lift stopped and opened into a giant lavish, black and deep brown wooden office. It was total utilitarian in design, almost brutalist, but had this sense of authority by the sharp lighting and aesthetic of the giant desk that was made of sleek black rock, smoothed on the surface, as golden cracks spread through the top
"Augh..Hrng…ahh! Ahh! AHHhH!" Leroy screamed! "Augh…Damn…It hurts…" Sweat beaded down his face in a cool pool. "Shh shh shh!" Diva tried to sooth him… "Are you okay? I've been flushing your system with an Antitoxin and Pain killers! Your adrenal glands are probably going into overdrive right now!"
"Augh…Hgn…I can…Stand…ha…Ha…Can't say i've felt worse…But Its come close…I feel better…Just…" She put him down and he slumped against the wall "Just give me a sec…"
His fist balled and he breathed. The pain of Rangos Morph Morph fruit…The pain of Barbery, Condent…It had tested his mettle the same as this did…He survived all of those…Even if this felt like he was dying…He needed to keep going!
"This place…Its hell isn't it?" He said. "Theres no rehabilitation…Only punishment. And yet the warden lives so lavish like this huh?" He pushed himself off the wall and walked to the desk, and in one move, split the stone half!
"Now lets go get my fucking brother…"
The submersible was attached directly to the left of the room. It was a dark black and silver mess of metal and edges. It seemed almost rudimentary if it weren't for its decent size and heft. The inside however were industrial, and basic. But extremely well made. A section for a prisoner, a row for an entire squad of Guards.
A single slit of a window was at the side of the vessel. Which bonney looked out of… "Shit…Theres an entire damn fleet of Ships above us now!"
"Thats not the problem currently. We'll find a solution once we find Azar…" Diva said with confidence as she kept a hand on leroys shoulder, feeding more medicine into him to keep him lucid and aware…
Bubbles spewed from behind the sub as it approached Tartarus. An automated 'Punchcard' dictated the exact movements to go back and forth. So that no internal or external control was necessary unless taken over.
The sub surfaced inside of a moon pool surrounding by sheer colorless and dark walls. The lights emitted from the sides offered only a dim and dull illumination. Leaving all in darkness.
Mar-Syl was the first one out. Producing a flare that emitted a bright white light to properly expose the surroundings…There were…No guards. No security systems as the quintet walked down the first corridor. Cells that were thick in gears and locks with a single slit on the from allowed for visual inside…
People forced to kneel with their hands attached into the ground and their heads covered inhabited the cells. One per. Some had distinctions like one that had a glass slit as inside was a what looked to be a dark brow, grainy figure shifting in and out of corporeal form. Mist perpetually surrounding him…
They then entered the main area , with 3 levels of cells, all seemingly flush against the wall with no catwalks or stairs to access them. Almost as if the only way to reach them was the same way to reach highly elevated lock boxes in a bank
In the middle sat what looked to be cells embedded into the ground, like lockers stacked one next to another to form a fully flush ground.
Larger Cells sat protruding from these spots. Allowing for routine 'Air time'. Meaning prisoners got to remember where they were.
The Groups foot steps echoed as they looked from cage to cage. Many chained forms shadowed and hidden from light until Mar-Syls torch illuminated them.
But then. A voice sounded next to them accompanied by the clinking of chains and pattering bare feet.
The groups eyes turned to focus. A deep voice reverberating… "Long Time No See…Red Sash…"
From the shadow stepped out a familiar face. The voice that had been talking to Azar…
Hornigold Rackham