Missy

Tick tock, Missy. You can't run from me forever.

I don't own One Piece. If I did, I'd have a Sea Train of my own.

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You were scared.

Not because you had a device around your neck that could immobilize you with the push of a button. Nor because you were dodging bullets left, right, and center. Neither were you scared because you were having to strike down those shooting at you, leaving bloodstains and bodies in your wake. Occasionally live ones. Mostly... not...

No. The one thing that almost made yourself shake, was how fast you got used to it.

As soon as your feet had touched the lawn behind the Galley La building, it was like a switch tripped in your brain. Your inhibitions had stopped. Your train of thought had paused. In a single moment you had switched from being you to being Missy.

And that terrified you.

"It is only natural, Missy. You grew up doing missions like this after all. It is a part of you."

'But I don't want it to be.' Your arm moved almost by itself to slash behind you. The poor foreman toppled to the ground, screaming. Flinching, you resisted the urge to turn back and just kept running. 'I thought I'd changed. I thought maybe I was a better person...'

"And you are. It is just..." Mello winced. "Old habits die hard. No matter how much we try to beat them out of ourselves."

Your lip tightened. 'Guess I should try harder then...'

A tiny zip of electricity got sent through the collar. "Stop dawdling and follow me," Blueno hissed under his breath, Robin watching impassively by his side.

Grimacing, you did as he asked. No matter how much you didn't want to do this, you would be no use to anyone as a twitching electrified pile on the ground. You had to keep going.

Eventually, after leading the foremen in circles around the lawn, Blueno stopped with his back against a wall. You glanced up. Underneath the sixteenth window to the left, hidden partly in showow by the building behind it.

This was the spot.

You and Robin paused either side of him, watching the swarm of angry workers slowly close in around you with various saws, machetes, and rifles in their hands.

"You can no longer escape, pirates!"

"Give up and show your faces!"

Blueno motioned with his head, a signal for you and Robin to shuffle closer. So close you were almost touching. With one very deliberate gesture he reached a hand inside his cloak. So deliberate, in fact, that it was almost obnoxious. Or perhaps that was you reading into things too much. At this point it was hard to tell.

It managed to fool the workers though, "He's gonna do something! Shoot them!"

From there it happened in seconds.

To the workers it just seemed like Blueno unveiled a large cape of bright red fabric and flicked it out in an effort to distract them. However, they were far from the truth. As soon as the fabric had left his hand, Blueno had grabbed both you and Robin around your waists and rotated to the other side of the wall.

Yes. You weren't describing that wrong. He rotated. As in span both him and the wall at his back around so you were on the inside of the building and the inner wall was on the outside, snapping back into place without so much as a sound. Damn near gave you a heart attack the first time you saw it.