The Whitebeard Pirates' Playground

Ch.4 - Intruder (Christmas-fic)

Since the story in here also happens the morning before Christmas, I'ma post it today already!

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Ace was proud, during his watch a weird guy dressed in red had tried to infiltrate the ship!

The other watchman hadn't even noticed, but he had, and he stopped him and took care of him!

Thatch however was not amused when he told him of his heroic acts...

"It's our fault-yoi."

"HOW IS IT OUR FAULT THAT HE BEAT UP SANTA CLAUS!"

"Because Ace did the right thing, he-"

"THAT WAS NO-"

"Thatch. Can I speak please?"

"Sorry, go ahead."

"So, as I was saying. Ace was right in what he did-yoi. He stopped an intruder from getting into the ship and didn't let some stupid excuse sway him."

"HAH THATCH, IN UR FACE!"

"Ace, shut up-yoi."

Marco ignored the childish action of the fire-user sticking out his tongue at the chef, who was for some reason pulling on his hair, and continued after a sigh, "We, everyone who knew that this guy was coming onboard, should have informed Ace, the one on watch, that someone was indeed going to be coming onboard during the night and that this person had permission to do so."

"So....... He did have a deal with Oyaji?"

"He did-yoi, we do this every year here. We should have informed you beforehand, you couldn't have known since it's your first time with us during this time of year. So, even if it was a false alarm tonight, good job Ace."

While his fellow commanders were talking as if nothing was wrong, Thatch however was thinking of the actual questions and decided to interfere. "Alright, Alright, I get it! But now that everything is cleared up. Can I know what happened to the guy? Where is he?"

"I ehm..... he is...."

"What?"

"......."

"Ace, please speak up, what did you do with the poor guy."

".... He is definitely not tied up and strung to the top of that big tree in the town square"

"....... WHAT?!"

"HE KEPT SAYING HE HAD A DEAL! DEAL THIS, DEAL THAT! AND THAT HE WAS BRINGING THE LIGHT FOR THE TOP OF THE TREE AND WHATNOT, SO I HELPED HIM GET UP!" Crossing his arms, he huffed and added under his breath that the man should be thanking him. If he had to climb up himself, it would have taken ages.

"Oh Neptune, I can't handle you this early in the morning" -His pompadour won't survive the pulling on it either with the way it's going.- "Ace, you are an absolute menace. First of all, we have a tree in the mess-hall too" - "We do?" - "Yea, how have you not noticed.... WAIT, that's not the problem. Don't distract me. Second of all, how, for the love of Pops, how did you even get him up there, that tree is like twice the size of Oyaji."

"I threw him."

"You... threw him?"

"Yea, with some firepower."