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Who: The Spade Pirates
Where: Nuevo Empieza, an unnamed Military Base
When: 11/29 - 12/1
What: The Spade Pirates fall into a trap
Warnings: V for Violence, R for possible gore
Style: Action!
Status: Closed to Spade Pirates and anyone on Nuevo Empieza

The comments below are going to represent focal points during this plot!

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[Ikki doesn't really care about stories being told, mostly because back home even if no one survived, somehow the stories of what he had done travelled even to the Underworld. He had never stopped to think how the stories reached out that far, but now that Ace mentions it he can see the logic of it. If they killed everyone then the rest of the Navy of this world could come to think that it had been a natural disaster or something even.]

Hn, I suppose... But how many people are needed to tell the story? The more people there are babbling about it the more corrupted the story will become, won't it?

[It's a serious question on his part as well, having those soldiers telling others how a bunch of pirates destroyed the fort? Sure, he's all in for that. Having them make up stories because of the shock or exaggerating the facts so that next time they attack them prepared to fight dancing Godzillas? He doesn't like that.]

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[So, Ace casually ignored Marco screaming at him in the background, stumbling onto the deck so he could answer Ikki. Ace, pointedly, remained quiet the whole time, looking to the sky with his eyes rolled before he gave himself another pause to rethink Ikki's question. When all was done and said, he returned to the task at hand.]

But, that's kind of what I want. They won't get my name wrong, y'know. At least, my name may sound a little different to everybody, but the core of the story is gonna be the same. There's no way they'll ignore the fact that the base is being messed up.

[He made a wide gesture towards the square--which Ace nearly tore in half.]

Even if I'm a giant monster or just a regular pirate blowing this place to pieces--the crazier it sounds, the more likely they'll be to believe the one thing I want 'em to remember. I did it.

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Hn...

[Ikki eyes the square silently, glaring, fury and hate clearly still swarming inside him, right under the surface, ready to be spilled out in his next attack or fight. He thinks of what Ace just said for a long moment before he shakes his head.]

No.

[It's a simple but firm refusal and he eyes Ace next, with the same intensity he looked at the square seconds before.]

We did it. The Spade Pirates, they better remember that as well. Or we will have to remind them that it wasn't just you.

[With that he turns his back to the fort, deciding to follow Ace's wishes and let them all live instead of continuing with the destruction. After all, if they don't learn their lesson today, there's always another day, and a phoenix has many days in his life to give lessons to others.]

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[Ace watched Ikki a moment. He paused, waiting to see if he cracked--if it was just pride or if it was genuine. Despite the fact that Ikki hadn't once lied to him since he joined their crew, it was something he wanted to do simply because it was his own ego as the captain to worry about. If it was his crew, he had to be certain they had ambitions as well. Simply 'surviving' wasn't enough. Especially not in those circumstances.]

Well, now. It's something that's bound to make me proud.

[His smile was plain, relaxed and all too tired.]

Proof of an ambitious crew.

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[Ikki isn't a liar, he doesn't lie, plain and simple. He may not say the whole truth, but it has been ages since he did that, he doesn't enjoy lying or approve of it. He was lied to way too much in the past for his liking after all.]

We have to be ambitious if we want things to roll our way, don't we?

[And he was pretty ambitious, and more than ready to risk condemning the world if it meant even a slim chance for something better to happen, or just to get rid of something that was plain bad. Even if the result may end being worse, he wasn't the type to sit and accept things just like that.]

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[By then, he could hear Marco yelling at him from off the deck. What was with that guy? Showing up the moment he was being cool and handling things all on his own.

Or, so he screamed. Ace knew he wasn't the only guy doing things, but it made life easier for him the more he tossed on his shoulders--since he worried more about his crew getting even one scratch on them than himself getting gutted.]

...Oi, the bird-brain.

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[Ikki can hear Marco as well and he stops to eye in the direction of the other phoenix.]

He has a point, you know.