Canon Fodder

CHAPTER 96 ESCAPE

We didn’t know what to do with ourselves. Back from a fight and no one had to be wrapped up in bandages or laid up in bed for days while they recovered. 

By the time we got back the city was mostly back to normal after the large tsunami. As soon as we landed Franky was off the boat. He was already planning the ship and we left him to it. 

We cleared everything up with Iceberg. And were soon moved into a nice hotel after Franky’s people returned everything they stole from the Going Merry. Money in our pockets and a ship on the way, it was time to throw yet another party. 

It didn’t start that way of course. It started with all of us by the pool. Sanji working a charcoal grille. Nami and Robin in their 2 piece bathing suits. Us guys hanging out while Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper played in the pool. The other patrons of the hotel weren’t too keen on swimming with pirates so we had the place to ourselves. 

“Oy what are you doing?” Franky yelled. The big man lifted his sunglasses to see us more clearly. “I thought you wanted a ship. It’s time to work.”

“It’s called an after party,” I said. “Come on, join us.”

“I have work to do,” he said but was then jumping the fence and laying down in one of the beach chairs. After that his 100 man crew of workers got worried. Once they showed up it got a little out of hand. 

I felt bad for all the work they did to distract the marines so I paid for them to get meat and alcohol for everyone. As soon as they flashed money around town news got around. Then Icebergs shipwrights showed up. 

The pool was quickly a festering pot of games. Someone had brought in a bigger grille and Sanji was working it like mad to feed everyone. Zoro and I were having a drinking contest that I quickly lost. Nami and Robin were drawing eyes all over as I swore their swimsuits got tighter. The Franky crew was then challenging the Iceberg crew to everything they could think of. From tug of war to seeing who could hold their breath the longest. 

It wasn’t until well past midnight that it started to calm down as everyone’s tension from the fight was let loose for a good old fashioned night of fun. The parties were one thing I looked forward to after a fight. Almost a cleansing act for all of us as we forgot about the troubles of yesterday so we could be fresh and ready for tomorrow. 

“What are you thinking?” Robin asked. I jumped a little in surprise. Looking back she was leaning against the concrete wall around the pool. Wearing her tight swimsuit and a white button down shirt over it I couldn’t help but smirk. She really was a beauty. Dark tan skin, darker straight hair, a more prominent nose that somehow made her appear more beautiful. Skinny abs, ample chest, firm ass, I hadn’t touched her but I knew I would enjoy it if she let me. 

“Right now? That you’re very beautiful,” I said. A drunken smile split my face. I was still feeling my contest with Zoro. Enough to begin pushing out some Lust Aura chakra. 

Leaning back in my chair I left the ball in her court. Looking up at the stars as other small groups around the pool talked. Robin walked away from the wall. Showing off her long legs as she sat in the beach chair next to me. I wasn’t shy about looking up them. 

“You’re very drunk,” Robin said. 

“And you’re not?” I asked. “I saw those fruity drinks Sanji was making.” She had a darkening in her cheeks that was caused by the liquor and my aura. 

“They are quite good,” she noted. Pushing her hair behind her ears she leaned back in her chair. I thought it would take her a while, but she dove in. “Thank you.”

“Dang, you found a loophole,” I said. She side eyed me, confused. “You said you can only give 1 thanks a day. If you make it ambiguous enough, it could be for anything.”

She actually giggled. I didn’t know she could do that. It was usually a scoff or chuckle. No higher pitched quick giggle like some schoolgirl. Robin appeared surprised she could do it too. She blushed more. 

“And what should I be thanking you for?” She asked. 

“Hmm besides the eye candy?” I asked pointing down to my rock hard abs and thick chest muscles. She looked down, eventually drawing her eyes away to roll them. I laughed. “Hmm honestly I don’t think anything. You’re a crew member. I told you, thanks aren’t necessary. I’d do the same for Chopper.”

“You’d infiltrate a deadly spy network for Chopper?”

“Oh yes, in a heartbeat. He’s so cute. Who knows what they’d do to him in prison. He wouldn’t last a day,” I said. 

She chuckled. “I’m glad I’m your crewmate then.”

“Me too,” I mumbled. “So what next Robin?”

“Hmm I don’t know,” she said. “What’s the next island?”

“Island? The archipelago I think. I can’t remember the name. But we will have another adventure before that.”

“Oh yeah? Here on this island?”

“No, after we leave on our new ship,” I said. 

She bit her lip. Turning her full face to look at me. “You know, back when you had me in that room. You showed me images. Images of us. Images of us in sky island. Images of this place. And things I assumed would happen afterward.”

I waited for a question. It took some time. “Did you know this would happen? That I would go?”

“What do you think?” I asked. 

“Yes,” she said without hesitation. 

I nodded. “I did,” I admitted. Her eyes became moist as she fought tears. “I wanted to stop it at first. I was going to before we got here. But I saw you one morning after Skypiea. You were sitting on the deck in one of the chairs. Reading a book. Luffy and Usopp were fighting over a fishing pole. Something stupid. Something minor in the background. Do you remember it?”

She slowly nodded. Wiping tears from her eyes. “I watched you watch them. Just them being idiots. You scoffed, shook your head, and went back to your book. At that point I knew you loved the crew. I knew you would give anything for them.”

“Why not talk to me? Show it to me?”

“And let you miss the contentment you feel right now?” I asked. “Can you really tell me that if I had talked to you and you agreed to not go with CP9, that you would have as much confidence about your place in the crew?” I asked. Sitting up to stare at her reaction. “Can you tell me that it didn’t make your heart swell with joy when they declared war on the world for you?”

Robin was still crying. But there was a smile on her face. “Thank you,” she cried. 

“Woah, 2 in a day,” I said. “Don’t push it Robin.”

She chuckled again. Sitting up she kissed me on the cheek. Pulling back a little we stared in one another’s eyes. I would like to blame it on the alcohol, or my recent luck with multiple women, but it was all me. Leaning forward she did the same and we kissed on the lips. 

I always wondered what she tasted like. I thought it would be chocolate for some reason. But it was pineapple. Maybe from the fruity drinks, or maybe her, I didn’t care. Pushing forward I cast my pleasure touch as I moved my hand to her side. She shivered as her tongue entered my mouth. 

The kiss was long. Extended more and more as one of us caught our breath and began again. I kept my hands to exposed skin but she shivered and moaned with each touch. 

Only our swimming suits keeping our sexes from touching she moaned louder as her pussy lips crazed my rock hard dick. I pushed into her. Wanting to be inside her more. 

Maybe it was the thrill of the fight or the possibility of losing, but we both wanted to take it up a level. Our kiss only became more heated. Our hands explored more. Then my hand slipped and it moved to her breast. 

Barely crazing it she came. Gasping in my mouth, her whole body shuddered. I could feel her pussy grow wetter as she scratched my back from the powerful orgasm. I guessed it had been a while for her because it lasted a long time. 

When it was done she stared up at me. Her eyes wide and unsure of what just happened. I was going to tell her, but was interrupted. 

“What are you doing?” Nami asked. I looked up, she had come in from the back gate. Her eyes were wide as she put together the position Robin and I were in. She took a step toward us and I panicked. 

“World Escape,” I said.