Voyage Name: Welcome Guests
Location: Alibasta
Participant(s): Solo
Description: The Marines of the Roaring Lion are out learning to fire cannons on the shoreline; they will be firing at red circle targets floating on the ocean. A pirate crew will choose this route to attempt to attack .alaibasta  the marines must hit them,shoot them and fundamentally put them into the ocean.  

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The day was visited by a blazing sun, and oh it was really blazing hot but with the ocean wind grizzling on the faces of everyone visiting the beaches of Alabaster on this fine day, they would find the temperature to be perfectly ideal for a relaxing day. However, for Victoria, the experience would be ruined because she was a marine and they were not visiting the Beach for fun but to instead train in the usage of cannon firing, how to aim, and what parts of a ship one would need to hit in order to sink it. The marines had placed a total of 8 cannons on the Beach with each being within 5 meters of one another. Each cannon had a total of five marines assigned to manage their firing, reloading and aiming, however, most teams couldn’t decide who would do what job until a member of each team would step up as the leader. In Victoria group, she herself would step up ordering the strongest to push the cannon back into place after each shot. The weakest to be in charge of charting previous shot trajectory in order to aim the next shot with more accuracy and the remaining two would do the reloading. After 30 minutes of time, all teams would be ready to fire their cannons and as such Commodore RoaringSon would be standing in front of the water.


“Right Marines for this exercise, you will be firing upon the targets out at sea; more will appear during the event in front of each teams area. The closer the targets are the more points they are worth unless a target is 100% red instead of the target crosshairs of the normal ones, they are worth 100 points furthermore there will be cannon countermeasures supplied by the targets but id leaves that for you to calculate.” The Commodore would leave the firing range and shout “FIRE”. *BANG BANG BANG BANG*, ALL Cannons would begin firing.     
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While most of the marine teams would find it difficult to hit there was one group that seemed to have a knack for this kind of work, with every shot not just hitting its mark but the very center of it, not to mention they were even firing faster than the other teams. The group's leader was a somewhat older chap with a messy beard, dark black hair and a strange professional look about him; however, despite his outside seeming quite mature and mundane he *Bang* was anything but. In fact, one would even call this man a polar opposite in nature as with every shot this marine would be jumping up *Bang* and down waving his hands in the air like a baboon shouting "WE ARE THE BOYS, WE ARE THE SCOPES AND WE PUT EVERYONE ON TARGET". Victoria and several of the other marines weren't sure if they hated or liked this man by the name of Skullen Chiporocky as no one had *Bang* even noticed him until this moment; it seemed he had been spending his time practicing his skills instead of socialising and *Bang* during the dinner rushes at the barracks was always one of the first to hit the ground.
The reason for his enthusiasm *Bang* for this exercise wasn't because he was beating the other *Bang teams but he, in fact, had a dream completely unrelated to the marine world, he wanted to become a sports master; the sports that had caught *Bang* his attention all required for skilled shots to be made in order to earn points, just like in this situation. However, everyone just *Bang* assumed he was a cocky prick thus motivating the groups to try harder. *Bang*. 

Everyone was still firing their cannons in the attempt to master their skills and as time went on cheers would appear from the tension-filled silence when a group would finally hit a target.  "WE ARE THE BOYS, WE ARE THE SCOPES AND WE PUT EVERYONE ON TARGET"! *BANG BANG*. That was it a female recruit by the name of Furiocious had enough of the constant taunting and would walk over to Skullen Chiporocky who would smile as she approached him as if to welcome his fellow marine. *BANG* *Thud*. Without warning and a sarcastic smile of her own Furiocious would swing her right arm thrusting her closed hand into the face of Skullen Chiporocky who would rapidly fall to the ground hard. [Furiocious] "YOU ARE THE BOYS... YOU ARE THE SCOPES and YOUR NOW ON TARGET....GRRR" she would then return to her own team in satisfaction. 


Victoria would find this action to be extremely foul and thus her emotions would start to rise up, gritting her teeth together clenching her knuckles and shugging her shoulders back wouldn't be enough to hold back her frustration and for the first time in quite some time Victoria for a somewhat illogical reason; even more so as she was tempted to do something similar to Skullen Victoria would let loose. She would tell her team to practice without her for a bit, as she walked towards Furiocious. Furiociuoswas suspicious of Victoria and as such would swing the first punch towards Victoria with a wide right swing. Victoria would dash forward and move into the shoulder of Furiociuospunching her twice in her abdomen before rotating to Furiociuosright up grabbing it firmly. With Victoria grabbing the arm of Furiociuosand using as a shield for the other she is able to freely launch 2 left jabs into Furiocious's face.  Victoria was somewhat alone while Ferocious had her team right next to her, and soon Victoria would find herself in a five vs one situation. Victoria is surrounded with 4 marines circling her with the 5th clutched in her grasp. 

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The situation was reaching its peak and all bets were off, Victoria wasn't about to back down she was running on her emotions and how the other marines behind Furiociuoshad decided to approach the situation this was a fight and quite a serious one at that; knowing she had to make the first move before being overwhelmed by the group of them Victoria tugs on Furiociuosarm causing a trickle of pain to pass through the joints and before the other four could move Victoria would rapidly kick Furiociuosin her unguarded stomach  and again in the right side of her skull. This assault would knock Furiociuosout yet with Victoria still holding her arm she would not fall. The other four marines rush in to attack Victoria at which moment Victoria moves towards one from her standing position, to lower position in order to through Furiociuosbody over her shoulder and into the marine[1]. 

Marine[4] grabs Victoria by her lower waste and begins to push her into the nearby cannon "Ahhhh" Victoria calls as pain temporary surges through her and yet it simply would make her angrier.  As Marine [4] holds her in place marine [2] and [3] move into punching positions. Victoria knees [4] in the face three times before he finally is forced to release her due to a broken nose and blood pouring down his face however 2 and 3 do punch Victoria two time each on her torso. At this moment time stops or at least it appears to for Victoria as something in her subconscious mind tells her what to do; before this moment she didn't know what her devil fruit did or had any idea as to what it could possibly do outside of a laboratory. Things return to normal as Victoria mumbles the words More More under her breath before unloaded a flurry of punches one after another, though while it wasn't clear at the time her punches seemed to be landing twice, a total of 5 punches would be thrown with 10 hits landing [6 on Marine3 and 4 on Marine2]. 

The two marines would drop to the floor with several injuries to their faces; [1] and [4] were still in the fight and yet as Victoria muttered under her breath once more "More more" she thrust her right arm forward into the already broken nose of [4] taking him out of the fight. As Victoria walks towards marine 1 and him to her, a cannonball hits the beach exploding near Victoria and [1] causing them both to be somewhat launched in the sand beside them. Everyone turns to look to its origin before the majority of the Marines shout "Pirates".  Commodore Roaringson licked his lips as this was perfect, not only did it stop the fighting he was ignoring up to this point, but it would provide a living target for Cannon practice "TO ARMS". *BANG* *BANG* *Bang* *Bang*.
A pirate ship has appeared on the ocean heading straight for the training marines and was firing all frontal cannons, meanwhile, the Marines had started to fire back. 

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Skills Used.
More Landing Combo.
More Thrust.

The battle was on the way and nearly the first real piece of combat *Bang* the marines had ever faced not that they were truly aware of it at the time, most thinking it was just a test staged by the Commodore*Bang* With the pirate's fire located specifically on the marines location, and the nearby civilians not reacting to the pirate's approach at all; it would be hard for anyone to work out that these were real Pirates. *Bang*. Cannons continue to fly in both directions with none really landing on their mark and the ship was only getting closer. *Bang* *Bang*. Victoria would come up with the idea, to bring all cannons together and fire them as a group meanwhile several  Marines would kick up the sand to provide visual cover. 

The Pirate continues and while they wouldn't land any direct hits several Marines would find themselves taken injuries from those that landed nearby. Commodore Roarinson would start aiding his recruits as several cannonballs would be stopped by him simply punching them. The group was ready and together as one unit they fired all cannons at the pirate's ship; while most of the shots either flew passed or fell short two cannonballs would go crashing into the base of the ship; breaking through the wood and tearing the bone of several pirates they managed to hit. 

They would fire again, and again with every wave of balls being more accurate and more accurate; they were winning. The group was working together and spreading the incoming ship to bits and killing a good amount of pirates. While they would never manage to sink the vessel due to the lack of pinpoint accuracy to hit vital areas, they would kill every pirate onboard with lethal shots impacting their bodies, or breaking debree piercing vital organs.   The pirate ship would eventually land on the beach with its decks covered in the blood of those who died on this battlefield.
 
The marines would finish the days training, and return back to base; Victoria feeling somewhat pleased with herself, having led the marines to unique strategies, finding the route to her devil fruit and dealing with her emotions. 

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