A snippet in time

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Notes:

Hey! Spring break started, and I'll try to post more! I know this is short, but I wanted to get something out to all of you guys. Thank you so much for reading.

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Great Age of Pirates, XX20

(2 years, 4 months, 5 days, before the fateful mission)

Ace felt his legs give out from underneath him. His head hit the ground with a thud. He always hates his birthday. Nobody watching his "training," if you could even call it that chastised or yelled at him for falling. There was no need to. Searing pain shot up his arm as magma burned it, punishment in itself. The seastone anklet he had on made glaringly obvious. He wants to cry out, but that would only worsen everything, and he knows that.

Blood filled his mouth as he bit down on his tongue to keep from crying out. He needed to MOVE. He shakily pushed himself over to the side just in time to miss another shot of magma. He pulled his eyes from the ground and looked up at Akainu. He saw the admiral sneer down at him, his fingers barely smoking from the shots of magma that he had just fired.

"Up scum" was the order he heard called out.

He tried to get up; he really did; he pushed himself up with his arm that felt like it would fall off. The arm had white-hot, sweltering, scorching pain shooting up it. He pushed himself to his knees even though everything ached and spasmed, but then his head felt like a hammer was pounding into it, and he collapsed from his knees, headfirst into the floor.

A hand uncomfortably warm picked him up from his wrist; he came face to face with Akainu, who had a look of disgust and contempt on his face.

"So fucking disobedient, I thought that was finally started to have been trained out of you. Guess you regressed, little cretin. What can you expect from a pirate bastard boy who comes from a whore for a mother?"

He didn't rise to the obvious bait, his head hurting too much to be able to say anything, and he learned a long time ago just to take the insults here. Everything would be worse if he talked back.

"Nothing to say, rat? Fine then," He felt himself be dropped before he hit the ground.

Akainu started barking at their current handler, standing in the corner of the training room. From the corner of his eye, he could see a horrified look on his face. Oh, this one isn't going to last long. The last handler died on his previous mission, and while this one didn't talk to the three of them and mostly ignored them, he was not actively searching for a reason to punish them. He was better than their last handler, that was for sure.

He hoped Luffy didn't get attached. This one was most definitely not going to last long if he was upset with how he was treated. Especially because he deserved this. he is why Luffy and Sabo were dragged into this mess. He was the reason they kept getting hurthurthurt.

"Isolation 2 weeks. Food once every other day along with water once a day, the rat will continue with his supplements and poison resistance training during this time. Then, using only the medkit in the isolation chambers, you may tend to his wounds how you see fit. Before you leave, he is to have canning of 15 strikes." That was relatively light. Why the fuck was his punishment so light?

"After you have done that, you will grab the girl and give her canning of 50 strikes and only half food rations for as long as the rat is in isolation." No, NO, that is why his punishment was so light. Of course, he would punish Lu. Oh god no, he opened his mouth to say something anything, but before anything came out, a steel-toed boot came crashing into his ribs as Akainu walked out of the room.

"Admiral you" Akainu whipped back around and roared out, interrupting their handler. "Are you questioning a direct order? Officer Dai?"

"No, sir." Is the quick response, and he can feel himself start to fade. Unwillingly his eyes close shut, and he finds himself losing consciousness.

Notes:

Hey! Spring break started, and I'll try to post more! I know this is short, but I wanted to get something out to all of you guys. Thank you so much for reading.

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