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IT'S A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR MEME

IT'S TIME TO BE A PIRATE, NERDS. OR LIKE, A PIRATE HUNTER? OR TRY TO TURN PIRATES INTO HONEST MEN? LOOK, WORK WITH US HERE. Essentially this is where you can let loose all of your deep dark pirate desires while judged by both muppets and aliens so we mean best of all worlds, right? Be a pirate, sail the seas, steal shit. Be rich, get stolen from. Be the law, arrest some fucking pirates. Be a madam. We don't care. THE POINT IS, IF IT IS AT ALL TANGENTIALLY RELATED TO PIRATES? PLAY IT HERE. Even Space Pirates.

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[ ota! ]

[he may not look it but he's actually a pirate! Fourth Division Commander of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet yo]

[Well look who's here! Completely ignoring the existence of the very, very tall man.

Because there's food to be had and Luffy, following his stomach's desire, had pushed against Ideo's leg to get him out of the way.]

MEAT!!!!

Oi...

[excuse you shorty who's shoving him now? Get out of the...

...oh. Shit. It's the boss]

Straw Hat?!

...Yeah?

[Oh please don't be a marine, don't be a marine, don't be a marine, he's too hungry to fight right now, don't-]

Hey! I know you!

Yeah, you'd better!

[geez for a second there he didn't know what to do. It's not like they planned to stop off on this island or anything, so the surprise caught him off guard. Ideo is now hovering somewhere between relief and exasperation.]

Of all the restaurants on all the islands...of course a restaurant, though, what am I saying?

Huh?

[Yeah, what is he saying?]

Wait, what's your name?

[HARD DEADPAN

and then Ideo smacks a gloved hand to his face. For not the first time he's wondering if this whole fleet thing really was the right idea...]

Are you kidding me? I'm one of your...we told you to remember our names, didn't we?! We even fought each other in the coliseum and you seriously don't remember?

I remember! You fought with us and then you helped us escape!

[He laughs.]

But I can't remember your name!

[he'd be less exasperated if he realized Luffy also forgot Bellamy's name. And...everyone's.]

Ideo! Geez, what's wrong with you?

Ideo? What a weird name!

[He pouts, crossing his arms.]

There's nothing wrong with me!

[hands on hips!] It's a perfectly normal name! Just like everybody in your crew.

Eh? What about my crew?

...nothing, never mind.

[why did he agree to work under this guy again?]

You're really weird.

[He laughs, just as his stomach growls.]

Oh right, there's food!

[also actually a pirate captain and not nearly as nice as some. He'll pick a fight with anyone who looks like fun]

Crest head! You're here!

[Luffy had just wondered into the bar they were at, following the smell of what promised to be a great meal, when he noticed a very familiar person.]

Are you eating that?

[He's already going for the food really.]

[wait, that voice. That nickname! That aura that sends shivers up his spine!]

[IT CAN'T BE! ALREADY SO SOON OMG WAT]

L-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l...

L-L-LUFFY-SENPAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIII!

[cough]

Ah, no - go ahead! Be my guest!

Thanks!

[Good thing, because he had already grabbed the plate and was about to start shoving things in his mouth. Was that fish?]

Is there any more?

[allow him to take care of that!]

Oi! Bartender! Two more of what I just had.

[it doesn't even matter what it was, Barty is only too happy to sacrifice it all for his idol]

Sweet! Thanks Crest Head!

[He takes a sip of the drink in front of him, which probably belonged to Bartolomeo too, he's not really worried right now. It's kinda gross though, so he sticks his tongue out.]

Gross.

[He looks at Bartolomeo as if realizing he's there for the first time.]

Oh! Why are you here?

[well yeah, it's rum - he's a hard drinker, yo.

Bartolomeo blinks at him.]

Eh, we ran into a bit of trouble and had to get our sails repaired. This seemed like as good a port as any. Why? Surprised to see me?

[The bartender gives him some juice, thank god for this man.]

Yeah! I didn't think you'd be here.

[He looks around.]

Where's your crew?

Here, there, and everywhere. [taking his booze back, thanks. Shh he's not wibbling over drinking from the same mug as Luffy, you see nothing] Shore leave, yanno? Some of 'em are shopping, some are making sure nobody stiffs us on the ship repairs, the rest are probably pickin' up girls.

Oh! So they do like our crew! Though I don't think Sanji picks up girls, he's always too busy getting food!

[He laughs, and his mouth waters when the bartender brings his food. Which he inhales right the moment it's set down.]

Woah, so good!

[he waves to have it put on his tab, since we all know no one is paying any kind of tab today. Ahaha...]

Black Leg? Eeeee does he really? Is he here? I haven't met him yet, I wanna meet him!

YEAH! He’s our cook so he gets all these delicious fruits and meat! So much meat!

[His stomach growls and he signals the bartender for more food.]

Bring all the meat you have!

[He looks at Crest Head and nods.]

Yup! He’s here, getting food!

[ Not a pirate, but definitely the hidden/cursed "treasure" one would look for. ]

[No Last Jedi spoilers in tags please, trailer or otherwise. Space Pirates/Smugglers or Earth Pirates.]

(OH MY GOD! Let's do this!)

[[ at the flag of revolution, she lives in grace ]]

[[Intially, he wanted to be a pirate... ]]

[ i'm good with canon & cross canon! ]

(( Loosely based on this fic and slightly modified for space travel... ))

Naruto.

[ It was like an ice punch to the chest, lungs aching as she stepped out from the burning heat of the Engine Room and into the freezing temperatures of the walkway, straining to breathe in the frosted air. Out there, the grind and clank of the gears were muffled, the slide of the door behind her silent by comparison as it closed with her exit. Giving a gruff growl, she watched as the heat of it swirled in a clouded puff, breaking against her chest as the mechanic moved forward and slowly disappearing back into nothingness as it rose and coiled towards the ceiling.

Her boots were heavy, thudding against the grated floor panels with purpose as she stalked from one end of the ship to the other, taking the stairs leading up to the cockpit two at a time. All the while, the wrench in her hands swayed with her movements, clutched tight in the woman's grip and dripping with killing intent.

It was practically radiating from Tenten's skin. ]

You better have a damn good reason for nearly killing us with that stunt. Because I swear, if you try to do that slingshot move again, I'm gonna kill you, myself!

[ It's sometimes a wonder that they even let him fly a ship. He's so reckless with his decisions that putting the ships well-being in danger is becoming a commonplace occurrence by this point. The only reason he hasn't been demoted or pushed out of his seat is simply because - so far - his plans haven't failed and no-one has been hurt because of them. Like he'd let that happen... he might be an airhead and an adrenaline junkie with enough balls to steer the ship manually into some impossible slingshot manoeuvre, but he'd never do so if he thought it'd cause anyone he cares about any kind of harm. Clearly, he's still got a few things to learn.

When he hears the door slide open he's half way through a double fisted air punch celebrating his own ability, and turns with a grin that promptly drops when he sees who it is.. and the look she's giving him. ]

Oi oi, it worked didn't it?

[ He cries out, dodging behind whatever he can find that might put some protection between him and the wrench-wielding engineer. ]

[ Seeing the fear in him at the sight of her only seemed to fuel Tenten's wrath, jutting out the wrench with purpose and intent to punctuate key words in hopes that they'd actually reach the blond's brain. For once. ]

Yeah, and nearly took out the hyperbolic capacitor, in the process. [ Swinging her arms wide in a grand gesture, she hardly took care to watch just where the heavy head of her tool flailed. ] Do you know how much those things cost? We're not exactly pulling in big loot, right now.

[ Not to mention she was still saving up to replace some of the heat panels that were currently full of very crispy laser holes. It was already hard enough to take off-world jobs when every time they re-entered into atmo, the whole ship started glowing red from the burn. ]

Not to mention we would've been left in the black, sittin' pretty like ducks just waiting for those guys to swallow us up and rob us blind. Then where would we be?

[ He's watching the tool in her hand carefully from where he cowers behind the control deck. Not for the first time he wishes the cockpit wasn't so small, that he had a co-pilot (though that seat has sat empty for a long while now and no-one could ever really fill it, not for Naruto at least) so he'd have some witness to the brutal murder he's about to fall victim to.

When she starts talking about costs and loot and all of that negative stuff, though, he can't help but roll his eyes. ]

Yeah yeah, Sakura-chan keeps tellin' me how we're not pullin' anythin' big in at the minute but the point is that nothin' got taken out, and we're not back there being robbed, we're here an' we made it, so it's fine, right?

[ Right, Tenten? Can you resist that sunshine smile he's throwing your way? Probably. Just try not to knock out any of his teeth, okay? ]

Hardly the point.

[ More than once, she tapped the headrest of the co-pilot's seat, emphasizing key words in her long-winded spiel about the state of her ship. Hers because there was no one who took better care of it despite the fact that it was Naruto's name on the official papers. Hers because Tenten was about the only person who knew how to keep the Rasengan together on little more than hopes and fairy dust. ]

You're just lucky that you're lucky.

[ But even as she fumed and raged and gritted her teeth at the recklessness, the young woman could already feel a little bit of her anger slowly melt away. Because no, not even she could fully resist that bright ray of sunshine. And that only frustrated her even more.

Sighing at her fate, the resident grease monkey stepped over to the front console and flipped a switch to bring the rear view up on screen. ]

Looks like it's all clear. No one's following us. Not that very many could after that.

[ Naruto listens and does his level best not to sigh or roll his eyes or do anything he's always tempted to do when he's being subjected to a speech designed to tell him off, and once at the end he throws a glance at the co-pilots seat as though someone were sitting there, the kind of look that says 'Can you believe I'm being treated this way? before his attention is stolen instead by watching her moving across the floor. ]

Yeah, right? And you're still makin' out like what I did back there wasn't great. It worked and it looked super cool.

[ That's the last he'll boast about it. Promise. Well.... At least to her. ]

Anyway, I promise I'll be more careful the next time. But ya know I'd never let anythin' happen to her, right? As long as I'm sittin' in that chair, she'll be safe in my hands.

And all any of that means is that I need to come up with a plan of what to do in case it doesn't work, next time. Cool or not.

[ She's not being unreasonable. He could boast about his talent and luck of getting out of tight situations until the stars fell from the sky; sulk and whine about how hard she was being on him or how unfun she was being about his actions. But all of that was not enough to convince Tenten that her nagging wasn't coming from a good place. Because for them, the ship was more than just a ship.

It was home.

And the last thing any of them wanted was to lose it. ]

Look, just be careful, next time, alright? Gave me a heart attack back there, and then where would you and this hunk of junk be, huh?

[ Naruto's expression, as expected, sours a bit. His lower lip pops out, he folds his arms, creases his eyebrows. ]

I already promised to be careful, I'm not wastin' time sayin' it again.

[ He stands up, all fear of her thwacking him with a screwdriver apparently gone as he walks plain as anything over to his seat, flips a switch and enables the remote auto-pilot before stepping away from the two pilot seats. ]

I get why you're scared, but this is my home too. An' it's his home. I'm not gonna do somethin' so stupid that he doesn't have anythin' to come back to when we find him.

[ He chews on his lip, then turns toward the door she came in through. ]

If it'll make ya feel better, I can try to think more about how to get out of stuff like that. But everyone picked me to fly this thing for a reason, y'know. If they needed someone careful, I never woulda got the seat.

[ Or maybe he was picked because of the influence his co-pilot had on him when he was still here, and now his position is just a placeholder. He thinks about that sometimes, but it hurts too much to linger on. ]

It doesn't, but that's what I'm here for, right? To clean up after your crazy ideas.

[ It was, perhaps, a harsh comment. But it was said in good humor. Or at least that was the way she hoped Naruto took it. Intent and execution were not always the same thing. The anger she initially felt was all but gone from her, though, now that the fear and anxiety had run its course. And with nothing big or scary chasing after them, Tenten was allowed a moment to see the big picture.

They'd managed to escape. And it was all because of the trust they'd placed in Naruto's ability to keep them flying through the black. ]

It's a good thing I like your face, Sunshine. Otherwise I'd have to consider rearrange it.

[ Reaching over with an empty palm, Tenten proceeded to viciously ruffle and scrabble the mess of blond Naruto liked to call his hair to prove that there were no hard feelings. She came in peace. ]

Just at least tell me nearly stalling out the engine and doubling my work was worth it? Did we get the payload?

/points at my eye, points at you

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