Knowledge is love

Part 58: Foe turned to ally

The boys join the girls and they all board the boat. Ryusui and Nikki take the paddles as y/n and Kirno push the boat into the water. They hop back inside and Ryusui starts to row with Nikki's help. With that, they try to catch up with Magma and head to the Persues. Gen notices them approaching and gets excited.

"Ha-Haaa! You came for me," Gen said, excited. "Senku and the gang's all here. Get me off this wild ride!"

"Ha-Ha! We're sailing straight into the heart of the enemy," Ryusui stated.

Gen went from a relieved to a horrified expression. "You're kidding me."

"Nope. We're going on a rampage to slow down Ibara," Senku said. "The statue retrieval team needs some time so it's up to us to buy them every millisecond that we can."

"Huh?!? But there's only ten of us tho," Gen pointed out. "And we're against hundreds of hardened soldiers. Your plan's a bust."

Magma fires the gun at them but misses as they get closer. They reach the loading dock and Magma charges at the enemy like a madman. Kinro follows next to him while Nikki follows close behind him and the rest of them behind her.

"Time to die Ibara," Magma exclaimed.

He fires the gun again but misses. He shots one more time and again misses. The two bullets bounce around, destroying the boat. This scares some of the soldiers and they abandon ship.

Magma chuckles. "Now, just drop dead"

"How about you drop dead," Nikki said.

She then hit Magma in the head with a hard hammerfist. This makes Magma drop the gun and turn around, pissed at her.

"If anyone's dying, it'll be you," Magma said.

"How are you standing after that? I'm almost kind of impressed," Nikki admitted. "Well, if you wanna dance, let's dance."

They are then surrounded and Yo grabs the gun. He checks the gun to see there are only three bullets left. So Senku gets an idea. Using some magnesium, he makes Yo use one of the bullets to shoot a firework in the air, confusing and scarring the soldiers.

"Spear of light! Unleash your furry," Gen exclaimed. "There are fifty sorcerers aboard this vessel. And every last one is gonna go pew-pew and light up the place!"

More soldiers jump off the ship, trying to save themselves.

"Alright. That bluff worked wonders," Chrome said.

Senku chuckled. "Well it kind of helps that it's not actually a bluff. That gun is legit."

"Yeah, and we're gonna need it," y/n said.

"Hey check it out," Chrome said, looking at the water. "A boat is coming towards us instead of fleeing."

They look at the water to see the person aboard the boat was Moz who seemed very pissed off.

"Shit. Of course he'd be here," y/n grumbled.

Senku chuckled. "Somebody's certainly punctuation. Won't be escaping or talking our way out of this one."

"It's a head on battle with the biggest and baddest of them all," Ryusui stated.

Moz gets off the boat and charges at them. Yo comes in with his gun and aims it at Moz. Moz jumps and gets ready to attack Yo as he pulls the trigger. And as luck would have it, Moz was faster than Yo and struck first.

He strikes Yo and sends him flying away into the water. And just like that, their big shot against Moz was gone. Kinro goes to attack Moz with his spear as they escape inside the ship. But Moz easy doges Kinro's attacks and makes quick work of him by hitting hard in the gut, knocking him out.