Chapter 80 (1/2)

Grandline, Paradise, Marine Headquarters

The last few hours had been tense for the marines in the marine headquarters and yet no chaos ensued due to the iron grip the upper echelons had over their subordinates.

Though this all changed at one point in time, namely when the silver transpondersnail rang, the only one of its kind in the marine headquarter. It had only rung once before around 20 years ago when Ohara and its scientists had literally been wiped of the map. By nothing else than a Buster Call, the ultimate weapon of the marines and world government.

Thus it came as no surprise that pandemonium broke out once it rang and the vize-admiral activated the protocoll that stepped into place in a case such as this.

Red alarm lights began to illuminate the whole base while sirenes echoed over the normally quiet and peaceful island.

Marines began to run all over the base, carrying out orders of their superior's who had already began their walk towards the special buster call warsh.i.p.s that were equiped with enough weaponry to blast an island out of existence, as history had proven once before already.

While all the preperations were being made, nobody really had the time nor energy to notice one sole marine captain that stood stock still in the middle of all of it.

Said marine captain wore the name of Buck and was prominent for his directness. This though was only a mask to cover up what was sleeping in the depth of said mans mind. Ambition for transparency. Taking this little bit of knowledge into consideration it would surprise nobody if this man had ulterior motives to become part of the marines and exactly that was the case.

Following his bosses orders and his own ambition Buck had been put into the marines as a spy for none other then the Maichyo, the newspaper.

As Buck was standing there his brain had short circuited when the alarms and echoing orders for the ensuing buster call had been called out until it rebooted and he formulated an idea that would bring him alot further to the fullfillment of his dream. Thus he rushed out of the base, a small videotranspondersnail hidden in his coat while he called his boss to inform him of the news he had become privy to a few minutes ago and would surely be worth his cover to get blown up for should he be discovered while doing so.

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