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IT IS TIME! CLIMATIC BATTLE TIME!! VALENTINE PIRATES VS CUDDLEBUTTS CREW & KENPO CREW!! What happens during the fight? READ TO FIND OUT!!!

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Voyage:
Fight for your life! War of Empty Town!!





Cannonfire exploded all around them throwing up wood, dirt, and water. Ching’s family and the Cuddlebutts Crew were pinned down on the docks, unable to retaliate. Ching hugged her daughters, Jules, and Beret close for protection as she gritted her teeth and watched her boat, their home, sink beneath the waves. She’d make them pay for that… she’d find SOME way to make them pay for that, but at the moment things were looking grim.

Chouji was still under the water and probably the safest of them all, Anne’s plushies were all enlarged to life size and hugging the cubchoo to protect her, and Petie held Gabriel protectively as the bawling fox was summoning up clouds all around them. Ching’s mind raced. They’d be no safer inside the house than out here and the village wouldn’t be any safer either. The only option she could see was fleeing deeper into the island but before she could try and tell the little ones this a bestial roar tore through the noise.

A full grown feral Beartic tore free from the tree line and galloped towards them on all fours, fangs bared and claws out. It was so sudden they barely had time to react, or notice the beartic seemed to be wearing a stretched version of a schoolgirls outfit, as it dove headfirst at Petie and Gabriel fully intending to bite a chunk out of them. The two boys let out a terrified scream as fluffy whiteness suddenly exploded from the zorua, hiding the two in a sphere of clouds as the ice type rammed into them and tried to bite down on the ball causing it to shoot out like a beachball being squeezed and bouncing down the pier before dissolving and sending Petie and Gabriel sprawling.

Shaking its head for a moment the beartic lunged for them again… as Ching delivered a fling kick to the side of its head hurling it through the air. The lucario growled, this creature was stronger than it looked. She’d intended to break its neck with that blow. Her eyes went wide as the huge ice type rotated in the air and shifted shape before landing elegantly on its feet, now a female buneary morph who looked about twelve wearing a more properly fitting schoolgirls outfit. She giggled and twirled her long hair innocently with a finger as she looked at Ching’s dumbfounded expression.

“What’s wrong? Never seen a Zoan Devil Fruit user before?”

The girl bounced in place and giggled, cheering in an eager and innocent voice “Yay! Yay! Yay! I get to eat em! I get to eat em! I wonder if young meat is tastier then the older kind? Yay, yay, yay!” she continued chanting as Ching and several members of Petie’s crew finally recognized this seemingly innocent girl… from a bounty poster. Rosemary “The Monster” worth 50,000,000 beri for systematically slaughtering towns without any rhyme or reason and devouring her kills, often leaving blood stained ghost towns in her wake. A serial killer and feared criminal of a high order.

“I’m sooooo glad I joined up with the sheepy lady! You all look soooo yummy yummy!”

“Rosemary!!!”

“Aaaawww, mean doggy lady again!”

More people emerged from the tree line. People wearing familiar pink and fluff accented outfits and scarfs all led by a Herdier lady carrying a shepherds crook and a stout Flareon lady carrying what looked like a cast iron wok stepped out into view. Petie, actually surprising himself, pieced it together almost immediately “The cannonfire was a distraction so they could get behind us!” he shouted, drawing everybody’s attention. The flareon let out a deep laugh and grinned “Well that’s a surprise; the diapered cherub got the strategy it took three explanations for the rest of you to get.” She said looking at the crew as they shot her dirty looks and grumbles in response.

Meanwhile the herdier’s attention was focused on Rosemary “Francesca TOLD you! She wanted all the fruit users ALIVE!” she shouted as the buneary’s attention seemed fully focused on balancing on one leg as she hopped back and forth, completely ignoring the lecture. Taking this chance Petie stepped forward, ready to reduce the lot of them to toddlers… as his sensitive ears picked up the tell-tale whistle of another incoming cannonball somewhere to his left… right where Jules and Beret had ended up after Ching had let go of them.

His body moved before he could realize what he was doing as he barreled forwards and shoved the two HARD sending them sprawling off the pier and onto actual solid ground… just as the cannonball hit and the wood underneath him EXPLODED. The impact had been somewhere to his left but it had made that whole section of pier break as Petie screamed as he sailed through the air tumbling end over end and feeling wood chunks and splinters smash into him. The last thing he saw before he lost consciousness was the sea approaching fast before he splashed down hard and like all fruit users sank like a bag of hammers.

“PETIE!!!”

They couldn’t tell if it’d been Anne or Jules who’d screamed that as Francesca’s crew took that moment to launch an offensive “ATTACK!!” The herdier shouted as she pointed the crook at them and the mon behind her were happy to oblige as the charged forward. Grinning Rosemary shifted back into a beartic and made a beeline for the closest little one… only to meet Ching’s fist again followed closely by a spinning back-kick. The lucario grimaced as she could tell despite having type superiority she was doing very little damage… or maybe Rosemary was just too far gone to feel the pain. Either way she had her hands full as the beartic sprang at her again.

Jules found his path to dive in after Petie cut off by a vulpix with a pair of swords as the riolu pulled his rattle from its back-holster and let out a battle cry as he gave a flying leap into the vulpix’s face, surprising him. Meanwhile Beret ducked and rolled as she scurried around her attackers feet, leaving paint scribbles as she went which exploded in to Spark and Ember’s much to the pirates surprise. Meanwhile the triplets had taken up defensive positions around Gabriel since he was still curled up in a crying ball. So far they’d taken out anyone stupid enough to attack or try to get past them through teamwork and martial arts.

Anne meanwhile was on her knees leaning halfway over the water as she frantically searched for any signs of Petie since she couldn’t dive in after him. She made a huge target and the only thing standing between her and the attackers was Alice. A lopunny plush dressed like Alice in Wonderland with a bow instead of a hairband and carrying what looked like a croquet mallet as big as she was… which was plushie sized so it wasn’t to impressive. The attackers charged, weapons bared, and suddenly she swelled to stand around six feet tall. The mallet growing with her to larger than a sledgehammer. The surprised pirates barely had time to stop before she started swinging, taking two or three of them at a time with each swing and grinning the whole way.

Finally something broke the surface of the water. Chouji hauling a half drowned looking Petie as he swam for the shore. Anne rushed to meet him, Alice covering her as she went. “He’s unconscious and he swallowed a lot of water.” The fishmon said laying Petie out on the beach “And all the wood scratched him up goodooph!!” he stumbled as Anne shoved him out of the way and knelt down next to Petie. Keeping as level a head as she could she started trying to resuscitate him, barely able to keep herself from panic as there was no response. Finally he gave a few choking coughs as the water he breathed in came up. He was still unconscious and hurt but he was breathing, that was the important thing.

The cannonfire started up again making Anne scream and cover Petie as a shot crashed down a few feet from them, spraying up sand and throwing Chouji back into the water. The ship had sailed closer so the shots were getting more accurate meaning this was becoming a one sided fight. At least until a terrible sound like a tree being ripped from the ground was heard and Mr. Elroy came into view… carrying a comfortable looking one story cottage he’d apparently ripped from the ground. Naturally the fighting temporarily stopped as everybody stared at him.

“STOP BLOWING HOLES IN MY HOME!!!” he shouted as he actually THREW the house at the ship. Even from the distance they could hear screams at the huge projectile barreled down on them… only for a huge mass of silverfish colored cotton to swell up from the ship and catch the cottage making it bounce away and crash down somewhere in the village, which confirmed where Francesca was in all of this, but the cannonfire stopped so it seemed to have gotten the message across.

If the cottage wasn’t enough though Breda and Babyface burst onto the scene wheeling out what looked like a jerry rigged cart… with several cannons mounted on it. Working together with Babyface loading and Breda aiming they began to return fire on Francesca’s ship. At least one shot blasted the ship’s portside as the two prepared their next volley. The sail shifted and the ship began to draw further away, apparently not expecting this… though there was the faintest view of something taking flight off its deck even as it fled.

Meanwhile Jules was fairing a lot better than even he expected. After seeing Petie dragged on shore and Anne tending to him he could focus fully on his fight… and had managed to disarm and knock his first opponent off the pier before bouncing another. Keeping his rattle spinning he jumped around making it harder for any other the pirates to hit he even as they tried to gang up. “Tenue Layette!!!” he shouted as he bumped his padded bottom against one of his attackers legs hard sending them tumbling off the pier the riolu bounced forward and clubbed another one in the side “Balestra se Dandiner!!!”

The pirates pursuit of Beret on the other end of the harbor wasn’t fairing too well for them either. Even without her weapons the smeargles intimate knowledge of all the nooks and crannies around and her leaving behind little attack scribbles had left the majority of them burned, shocked, and pissed the hell off as they were starting to tear the place apart trying to find her. Suddenly they heard a giggle and turned… to be caught in a blinding flash of light. Beret stood there, newly reunited with her hammer and her bag of tricks, holding a flash dial up and grinning “Lookie what I foooound!” she said before starting to club the blinded pirates one at a time.

Meanwhile Anne was working hard to bandage Petie’s cuts from the splinters as Chouji, having dragged himself back out of the bay, helped Alice fend off anybody trying to attack the bears. “Bebi-Ashitori!!” the fishmon shouted as he grabbed the leg of a surprised vulpix and sent him flipping through the air with a toss before Chouji wheeled about and jumped into the air delivering a crushing palm blow to another pirates cheek “Bebi-Hatakikomi Seiken!!” Meanwhile Alice was thumping off pirates herself, with much less shouted gibberish, as the living plush eagerly smacked them about with her hammer.

The triplets were fairing the best of all the little ones if just on pure teamwork. As they demonstrated by one knocking a pirate down and the other two grabbing him and using the screaming mon as a projectile against his fellows. They weren’t as powerful as their mom but they were bouncy, energetic, and creative as they pulled tricks that clearly weren’t normal martial arts fare. Like one sneaking behind a pirates legs and another shoving him tripping and sending the attacker screaming off the pier. So far nobody had gotten past them to get at Gabriel.

Back on the docks Ching and Rosemary’s fight had escalated into something truly dangerous. The lucario had underestimated the depths of the buneary’s madness… but seeing one of the beartic’s supposed allies clawed to ribbons by an attack meant for her and Rosemary eagerly trying to devour the corpse had made it quite clear. Ching was now fighting to seriously injure or kill since anything less might leave this monster able to go after her little ones. Rosemary just giggled as she shifted between her three states to make it harder for Ching’s attacks to land and tried to bite off the lucario’s hand.

Breda and Babyface were hard at work adjusting their makeshift cannon array to try and hit the fleeing ship while Mr. Elroy, apparently angry that his home, harbor, and guests were under attack, decided to take matters into his own hands… by picking up a spare support beam lying next to the pile of ship parts and using it as a club to send a good chunk of the pirates flying with a single swing. At this point the Valentine pirate’s numbers were dwindling rapidly… until a voice echoed out overhead.

“Well I see these idiots can’t do anything right without my help.”

“I flew you over here, now let go of my neck!”

“Shut up Calypso! Mitten!”

Before they could look up a huge hand made of wound cotton swept down from above and SMACKED Mr. Elroy sending the mamoswine flying into the distance as he crashed down somewhere in the village. Looking up they saw Francesca grinning as she rode a very annoyed looking altaria guy (one of her hands wrapped squarely around his neck). As the cotton receded back into her arm she jumped down, landing squarely on the Elroy’s roof as she looked out over the scene “It’s time to get serious! Show these brats who they’re dealing with!!!”


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As Jules swung his rattle around there was suddenly a metal clang as it hit something hard and bounced back, sending him stumbling “Sorry princess, but captains orders and all that.” A slightly remorseful voice said as Jules found himself looking up at the chubby flareon from earlier. She adjusted her bandana and easily twirled the huge iron wok in her hands before leveling it at him “No hard feelings.” She said with a smile… before dashing forward and nearly caving Jules’s skull in with the cooking implement as he squealed and barely managed to tumble out of the way.


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“Hello girls.” An obnoxiously smug voice called from overhead, making the triplets look up… just in time for a diving Calypso’s claws to grab one of them and carry them into the sky screaming “Sun-li!!” the other two scream as the altaria smirked and casually tossed her out into the bay where she splashed down. Luckily she surfaced a moment later and started doggy paddling back but that didn’t make her sisters any less angry as they tried to figure out how to get up at the bird… only to be force to hit the floor as he dove past them unleashing a DragonBreath and laughing arrogantly.


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Alice twirled her hammer as she sent another pirate flying before she turned and swung again intending to continue her spree… only for her hammer to meet something equally solid as she found herself looking at the herdier and her crook. The two stood there sizing each other up for a moment before launching into a fight without so much as a word. Wielding both their weapons like staffs there was a fast series of wooden impacts as the two collided at high speed, neither able to get a hit off on the other as they tried to land a decisive blow.


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Ching gritted her teeth as she was slammed into a shed, the wood cracking under the impact. Getting back up she glared at Rosemary as the maniac stood up on her hind legs in beartic form, grinning savagely. The ice type had several dark wounds and swellings from the attacks but it looked like short of multiple broken bones or worse Rosemary was too far gone to feel pain or care. Meanwhile Ching had several bleeding slashing from her opponent’s claws. She couldn’t afford to let herself get distracted… but when she heard Sun-li scream her head automatically snapped in that direction. This nearly cost Ching an arm as she barely managed to roll out of the way as Rosemary tried to bite her again.


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By now the pirates who’d been knocked into the water or around had mostly recovered and were coming back for round two… and since their commanders (and the psycho that scared the piss out of them) were taking care of the rest of the fighters it left Chouji and Beret facing overwhelming odds. Even Breda and Babyface were forced to fall back, Breda kicking an attacker in the head as she dragged Babyface to safety, as the reinvigorated pirates eagerly smashed up their cannon rig. Grinning wickedly they advanced on Anne, the cubchoo caught between the sword wielding brutes and the sea as she squeaked in panic, her scream catching in her throat.

Poof!!!

Suddenly a familiar cloud of sweet smell powder erupted forth, smothering the pirates about to pounce her and leaving bawling infants in their places. Anne looked in wide eyed surprise as Petie groaned and sat up, rubbing his head “What’d I miss?” he mumbled, only to squeak and blush as Anne hugged him. He babbled embarrassed gibberish for a moment before she let go of him so he could see what was happening. The fact they were losing was obvious as he climbed back onto his feet, and while he couldn’t powder them all at once without getting his crew and risking missing a few a plan was starting to form in his cute little head…

Francesca was sitting on the roof, gleefully watching the fighting with a smug grin. At least she was until she saw that familiar white cloud. Immediately jumping to her feet she began scanning the crowd for Petie, not going to make the same mistake of underestimating him this time. She caught a glimpse of something powder blue sneaking its way into a crowd of her men currently pinning the fishmon down, but before she could shout to warn them a chorus of “poofs” were heard as in rapid sequence they all turned into babies one at a time leaving her two toddler foes the only one standing.

“GET HIM!!!” she shouted while pointing at Petie, making most of her remaining troops turn from chasing the remaining Elroy’s or Beret to focus their attention on the teddiursa. She had to bite down on her own wool to restrain a scream of frustration as her lackeys, despite knowing his powers, simply charged him head on. Petie allowed himself a smug grin and threw his hands up, the powder billowing forth and catching the bulk of them before they could try to dodge single handedly cutting Francesca’s forces by over half as more crying babies joined the growing wail. Cussing under her breath the sheep turned her focus to her lieutenants. She knew THEY wouldn’t fail her at least.


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Jules panted as another resounding CLANG sounded as his rattle met the iron wok once again. He stumbled back and swung it again to meet her next strike. He was managing to hold his own… if just barely. Even the flareon seemed impressed “You have talent princess, I honestly wish I could let you live but orders are orders.” She spat out a small spurt of flame making Jules squeak and jump back “I hope you’ll forgive me in the next world.” She added before breathing a strong stream of flame into the bowl of the wok, heating the metal up almost instantly Jules could hear the air sizzle against it.

And with that she swung at him again. He squealed and swung to meet her resulting in another clang as the weapons met… and he could hear his rattle start to burn as well as the woks heat make him sweat from how close he was to it. Pulling out of the confrontation he frantically scurried back along the pier making the flareon laugh as she pulled one of several bottles from the belt she was wearing over her apron. “It’s too late for that princess.” She said dumping all of it into the hot wok as it burst into flames and Jules smelled some kind of cooking oil. With an apologetic look and a flick of the wrist she sent all of the burning liquid hurtling at Jules as he stumbled and tried to run.

“YOUJI AMIUCHI!!”

Suddenly a large, for lack of a better term, bubble of seawater came flying up and smashed into the oil exploding like a water balloon and scattering it before it could hit Jules. As Jules stared wide eyed in confusion Chouji leapt right out of the water and landed with a thud in front of him, nearly caving that part of the pier in. “Your fight is with me now!” he shouted as he thrust his palm out at the flareon. She just raised an eyebrow and breathed more fire into the wok “Well I must admire your camaraderie, but sending a fish to fight a cook seems like a bad call.” She said stepping forward.

Chouji didn’t give her a chance to continue as he suddenly leapt into the air way higher then you’d think someone of his girth could. “CANNONBALL!!!” he shouted as he came down hard less than a foot in front of her shattering the pier under them and dropping them both into the water. Jules scurried over and peeked through the newly made hole to find the flareon, who apparently lost her wok in the fall, gasping and treading water pretty good for a fire type. At least until something grabbed her and pulled her under with the words “Lets see how a cook fights on a fish’s turf! Na-sari-Dohyo!!” bubbled up in Chouji’s voice. Jules decided if they’d survived he’d ask Chouji what that meant later.


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“Ahahahahaaa! You ladies enjoying this?” Calypso called mockingly as he did another fly-by, keeping the two remaining triplets pinned down. He paused to look around and see the current state of things “Hmmm, seems we’re losing… pity. I was enjoying playing with the dolls.” He said lightly before doing a midair twirl and pulling his two daggers out before dropping and catching them in his talons. “Sorry girls but goodbye.” He said, launching into another dive as the two were trying to pick themselves back up, fully intending to plant the daggers in their backs.

“N-NO!”

Suddenly a thick white wall exploded from the little zorua he’d been ignoring and covered the two. Before he could pull up he crashed into it and bounced off, dropping his two favorite daggers as he tumbled through the air trying to right himself. As he tried to figure out what just happened something wrapped around his leg and yanked the out of control bird onto a crash course with the ground where a smeargle girl was waiting for him with a hammer “Heeeeeey there flyboy!” she chirped as Calypso tried to pull up as he saw her swing the hammer. After that all he saw was stars.


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The clacks of wooden weapons colliding at high speeds echoed out as Mary and Alice continued to go at it. The heated battle between the two was as impressive to watch as it was to hear as the herdier tried to use her crook to disarm Alice and the lopunny tried to hammer a decisive blow down on Mary. For the moment it seemed the two were evenly matched before Mary suddenly shifted strategies and brought her crook down on Alice’s head with an overhead sledge, finally landing a blow. She smirked slightly till she realize she’d felt no give under the impact and saw that Alice was completely fine.

“Being stuffed with sawdust makes me a bit more durable than the rest of my family.” The lopunny said, grabbing the crook with one paw “That and you look tired.” Sure enough Mary was breathing hard by now “Thanks to my little sisters powers I don’t get tired myself…” as the herdier abandoned the crook to get out of range Alice whipped her hammer around with one hand and brought it crashing into Mary’s side making her fall to her knees “So why don’t you have a rest.” She finished with a smirk as one more hammer strike to the head knocked Mary out cold “And thanks, it was a fun fight.”


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Ching let out a cry of pain as she was smashed through what was probably the last shed in the shipyard standing at this point. Rosemary had given up trying to take a bite out of her by now and was just trying to kill her… which she could honest deal with better than the whole cannibal thing. She was battered, cut up, and bloody but the lucario was used to pain and thanks to her incredible endurance had no broken bones. Rosemary on the other hand was an ugly mess of bruises as she staggered forwards, shifting back to her buneary form “I… don’t… why… why won’t my body move right?” she whined like a confused child.

“Because not feeling pain isn’t the same as not getting hurt.” Ching said as she stood up and wiped blood from her mouth “Just because you’re too insane to understand you’ve been injured doesn’t mean your body can continue after that kind of beating.” She starting to walk over to Rosemary. The bunny was frothing at the mouth at this point “Shut up! You stupid know-nothing lady! I’m not hurt! I’m never hurt! I’m gonna keep playing with all these tasty people! And playing, and playing, and no stupid meanie head like you gonna stop” she was cut off before she could finish by Ching punching her hard in the gut, doubling the psycho over and knocking her out.

“Forgive me if I disagree.”


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Francesca stood on the roof, her eyes hidden by her hat, as one by one her lieutenants (and the psycho) were defeated. She watched as the fishmon dragged an unconcious Mei Lien to shore before helping one of those triplets back onto land. She watched as the remaining two triplets rushed over to their bleeding mother as she reassured them she was okay. She watched the small group reassemble in front of her. For a brief moment she considered trying to kill them all then and there… but even she could see the bad odds so it was time for plan B.

Petie looked up at Francesca as he slowly reached into the pocket of his coat for his slingshot. Before he could pull it out though her body sparked and she unleashed a blinding Flash that made them all cover their eyes. When their vision returned she had gone from the roof to the land as she was dragging Mei Lien over to where Mary had fallen. Rather than try to figure out what had just happen Petie jumped forward and thrust his hands out sending a billow of powder after her. Before it hit though Francesca shot a rope of wound wool out and grabbed the dock, pulling herself up onto it as the powder passed leaving an infant lilpup and eevee in its wake.

Petie didn’t give up as he launched one of his powder marbles after her, making her duck to the side as it flew over her head… and ended up smacking into the unconscious Calypso as he was reduced to a swablu. Francesca seemed genuinely surprised by this before groaning and shaking her head “Damn you stupid bird…” she muttered as Petie loaded another marble, before he could fire she spun around and unleashed another Flash blinding them again. As their eyes cleared they could see her carrying her three shrunken lieutenants in her arms.

“This was my loss for now brat.” She snarled through gritted teeth as they realized she’d unleashed Cotton Spore as the sticky pieces of fluff kept them from charging her “But don’t think you’ve seen the last of me! Not by a longshot!!!” she shouted as she took off into the trees while they struggled to pull off the cotton. As she vanished they heard her shout “And thanks for shrinking my friend, and Calypso, down! You can keep that damned psycho as a reward! The nut tried to eat my crew!!” and with that she was gone leaving them alone with a large hoard of unconscious or babyfied pirates.

Before they could say anything Breda came rushing back onto the scene, carrying what looked like a ships cannon modified for single person carry and firing “OKAY! WHO WANTS SOME...” she paused as she looked around realizing the fight was over “Damn it!!” she cussed and stomped her foot as she waved the large cannon in frustration, making everybody else a little uncomfortable “I missed it! It’s all Babyface’s fault cause I had to get him to safety!!” she shouted as a small voice from the house shouted “No it’s not!!!”

The two started arguing back and forth as Mr. Elroy came back up the path carrying the support beam from before. He paused to look around at the destruction and defeated pirates before looking at Petie’s small group “Fights over?” he asked in an almost casual tone. When they nodded he set the beam back down where he got it from “Okay then, I’ll be inside making coffee and contacting the marines. Would anyone like a cup?” not sure what to make of this reaction they all shook their heads as he walked inside, telling Breda and Babyface to knock it off as he went… before sticking his head back out the door.

“Oh and you three girls bring Ching inside. We’ll need to bandage her wounds up and treat them.”

“I’m fine really…”

“You’re bleeding all over my docks. What’s left of them anyway.”

“Right…”


To Be Continued…