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Alabasta – Alubarna
While moving using Soru, Kaya asks, "Do you think Karoo can hold them off until we get there?"
At that moment, the intruders were already on top of the King, and the only one preventing them from getting close to Cobra was precisely Karoo.
"Let's pick up the pace. He can defeat them on his own, but having to protect the King at the same time he fights must be complicated", Nojiko says, the voices of the two sounding like a buzz to anyone they passed by.
The two then dashed at maximum speed, destroying the floor and the windows wherever they passed through.
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Meanwhile, a few moments earlier, Karoo arrives at the throne room to stand guard over the King.
However, when trying to open the doors, he finds that they won't open, seeming to be obstructed by something.
Frowning, Karoo forces the door a few more times while calling out to the King, before losing his patience and starting to kick the door hard, aiming to break it open.
In just two kicks, Karoo smashes the double doors inward, in the process destroying a wall of wax that had been blocking the way.
And as the doors tear free from their hinges and fall to the ground, Karoo enters the throne room, stepping over the pieces of the destroyed wax wall.
"HMMMMMM!", The first thing Karoo sees upon entering the throne room is a large man dragging King Cobra, who was gagged and shouting, toward a side entrance.
At that moment, in a matter of seconds, as everyone turns their gaze toward the door that had just been smashed open, Karoo deeply furrows his brow before charging at the kidnapper, crossing the throne room at high speed.
Closing in, Karoo leaps over the King, grabbing him by his clothes with his beak while kicking the kidnapper in the face, sending him flying away like a missile.
As soon as he lands on the ground, Karoo snaps the ropes that were binding the King and squawks upon seeing two more intruders, recognizing one of them, "Quack quack! Quack quack" "Baroque Works! You bastards!"
"A duck?", Miss Merry Christmas shouts in surprise at Karoo's appearance.
"Shit, even the duck is strong?", Mr. 3 curses upon recognizing Karoo from Little Garden.
Pushing aside the rubble of the wall he crashed into, Mr. 4 slowly gets to his feet while massaging his sore neck, his face being somewhat bruised from Karoo's kick.
In a drawling voice, Mr. 4 speaks slowly as he wipes the blood running down his nose. "That hurt."
Seeing Mr. 4 getting up, Miss Merry Christmas shouts irritably from the other side of the room, "You slowpoke!... Sloooow! Why didn't you dodge?"
"Huhhhhhhhh?", turning his gaze to his partner, Mr. 4 slowly processes what he heard, seeming to be almost in slow motion.
Complaining like a grumpy old woman, Miss Merry Christmas starts babbling nonstop, urging Mr. 4 to move quickly. "God give me patience to deal with you, Mr. 4! Where's the bazooka dog? Put him on the ground!"
"Laaaa... ssoo?", Mr. 4 asks slowly, his gaze slowly turning toward the case hanging on his back.
"We have to be careful", looking cautiously at the duck, Mr. 3 warns as he uses his wax to block again the entrance that Karoo had smashed open.
"For the love of God, you idiots! There are three of us against one, let's kill this duck already and get the hell out of here before my back kills me", snorting mockingly, Miss Merry Christmas says irritably while massaging her aching back.
As Miss Merry Christmas babbled irritably, Mr. 4 takes out his bazooka, Lassoo, from its case, letting the gun-dog run across the throne room.
Seeing all this interaction, Karoo realizes that he is completely surrounded, and that is not the problem; what complicates everything is that he has to worry about the King's safety while dealing with these guys at the same time.
No longer restrained by ropes, Cobra rips the cloth that was used as a gag from his mouth and says as he stands up, "Karoo, don't worry about me! I can defend myself."
Not a second later, Karoo is forced to dodge a baseball that is thrown at him by the bazooka dog, Lassoo.
Flying straight at a tremendous speed, the ball heads toward Mr. 3, who quickly creates a wax slide in front of him.
In a matter of seconds, the slide redirects the ball upward, where it explodes as it nears the ceiling, making the throne room shake while chunks of the ceiling crack and fall over the heads of those present.
Then, when the debris stops falling and the dust settles, Mr. 3 shouts angrily at Lassoo, "What the fuck is this? Can't you see the duck is with our target? We still need the King, we can't kill him!"
"Don't taalk liike thaat to Laassoo", not liking the way Mr. 3 spoke, Mr. 4 slowly comes to the defense of his bazooka dog.
Putting an end to the argument, Miss Merry Christmas shouts irritably at Mr. 3, "That's enough, you two! And don't be an idiot, candlehead! I thought you were smart. The way things are, the duck can't attack us freely. If we separate them, we'll lose that advantage."
"Annoying old bitch! Fine, if that's how it is, then let's work!... Doru Doru Arts: Harpoon!", muttering irritably, Mr. 3 claps his hands before shouting, launching wax from both of his hands at tremendous speed.
Midway, the tips of the two jets of wax turn into harpoons, heading straight toward Karoo and Cobra like guided missiles.
His idea in attacking Cobra is to force Karoo to protect him, making him susceptible to other attacks.
Seeing this, Karoo moves quickly, stepping on Cobra's head and making him fall to the ground just in time to dodge one of the harpoons, which passes straight between the two.
Meanwhile, Karoo spins in the air, narrowly dodging the harpoon coming his way.
However, while the harpoons pass by without hitting anything, Lassoo fires a ball toward Mr. 4, who hits it hard toward Karoo using his baseball bat.
Deforming through the air, the ball reaches above Karoo in a matter of seconds, exploding right in his face, sending him forcefully to the ground.
Falling on top of Cobra, Karoo shields him from the explosion's flames with his wings and back, his feathers getting scorched because of it.
"Karoo, we're not going to get anywhere like this if you keep just protecting me!", Cobra says, still under Karoo's wings.
"Quack quack quack?" "So what do we do?", Karoo grumbles without taking his eyes off the enemy.
"Give me cover, I have an idea", even without understanding what was said, Cobra says before running out from under Karoo's wings, toward the bazooka dog.
As soon as he sees the King running toward him, Lassoo fires an explosive ball in his direction.
Despite reacting a few seconds late to the King's run, Karoo takes off after him at his maximum speed, intercepting the ball halfway to Cobra.
He then kicks the ball away from Cobra, who keeps running toward Lassoo in long strides while an explosion goes off behind him, nearly throwing him off balance.
Quickly closing the distance between them, Cobra reaches the bazooka dog before it can fire another projectile in his direction.
He then grabs Lassoo as the poor thing struggles in his arms, trying to break free from his grip.
"Karoo, it's time for the counterattack! I'll give you cover, come on, little doggy, you're a bazooka, right? Where do I press for you to shoot?", dodging a bite attempt, Cobra firmly restrains the bazooka dog before shouting to Karoo, pointing Lassoo at Mr. 3 while patting all over his body trying to make him fire.
Feeling completely violated by Cobra, Lassoo barks desperately, "Arff arff arff, arff arff, arff! Arff, arff, Arff!" "Don't press there, take your hand off that, you pervert! Let me go, help, Babe!"
"Let Laassoo gooo!", shouting practically in slow motion, Mr. 4 fires toward Cobra at a staggering speed, not consistent with his large body and slow manner.
Seeing that tank in motion, coming at Cobra at tremendous speed, Karoo rushes toward him, intercepting him midway with a kick, which Mr. 4 meets head-on with his baseball bat.
Colliding with a loud boom, the two repel each other, their strengths matched, at least at first.
Landing on the ground and sliding a few meters backward, Karoo notices movement in his peripheral vision, which allows him to narrowly dodge the claws of Miss Merry Christmas in her mole hybrid form, losing some feathers in the process.
As she passes by him, Miss Merry Christmas tries to dig a hole to reposition herself, but ends up falling to the floor below the throne room, which means that, due to the unfavorable environment, she would be limited during this fight.
Meanwhile, Karoo charges at Mr. 4, who has just recovered from their previous exchange of blows.
At the same time this happens, Cobra manages to make Lassoo fire an explosive ball toward Mr. 3. It only took inducing him to sneeze for an accidental shot to occur.
Mr. 3, who at that moment was about to attack Karoo, hears Lassoo firing, but it is already too late; when his gaze turns toward the direction of the shot, a point-blank explosion launches him like a missile against one of the walls of the throne room.
While Cobra deals with Mr. 3, Karoo gets close to Mr. 4; however, just as he is about to jump to attack him with a kick, a hole opens beneath him, from which Miss Merry Christmas emerges and pulls him down to the lower floor.
As Karoo is dragged to the lower floor, Mr. 4 advances and swings his baseball bat with all his strength, striking the duck squarely on the head, sending him flying backward and downward at tremendous speed, colliding with the edges of the hole before continuing down.
"Karoo!", Cobra shouts before aiming Lassoo at Mr. 4. However, as soon as he does this, he hears heavy footsteps coming quickly toward him.
And when he looks toward the source of the footsteps, Cobra sees Mr. 3, dressed in a giant wax armor, coming toward him like a war tank.
Midway, Mr. 3 shouts angrily as he continues advancing at full speed, his face quite battered from the previous explosion, "Feel the power of the Candle Champion!!!"
Aiming quickly, Cobra tickles Lassoo's neck, causing the bazooka dog to fire an explosive ball at the runaway train coming toward him.
Deforming through the air, the ball quickly explodes upon contact with the giant golem; the result, however, is at best disappointing, as Mr. 3 simply walks through the explosion without slowing down, merely shielding his exposed face with his armored arms.
Then, as Cobra hurriedly tries to make Lassoo fire again, Mr. 3 rapidly closes the distance between them, flinging the King away with a slap, sending him flying to the other side of the room like an out-of-control missile.
While this was happening in the throne room, Karoo, on the lower floor, had been engaged in close-quarters combat with Miss Merry Christmas since the moment he recovered from Mr. 4's previous attack.
At the present moment, he sidesteps a claw attack from Miss Merry Christmas before taking a step forward, gaining a clear view of the old mole's exposed back.
Then, extending his right wing, Karoo tenses his muscles before shouting and attacking with all his strength, striking Miss Merry Christmas squarely in the back, "Quack Quack!!!" "Iron Wing!!!"
"ARGHHH!!! MY BACK!!!", with a massive crack in her spine, Miss Merry Christmas screams in pain as she is hurled away like a missile.
Without wasting time, as Miss Merry Christmas crashes into the wall of the room they are in, Karoo launches himself upward with a jump, returning to the throne room through the same hole he was pulled through earlier.
As he passes through the hole, Karoo sees Cobra's body crossing the room at tremendous speed before colliding with a wall.
He then twists his body in the air and plunges to the ground with a powerful flap of his wings, charging at full speed toward where the King was.
However, midway, Mr. 4 appears, swinging his baseball bat toward him, an attack Karoo dodges by throwing himself to the ground and sliding underneath.
Still sliding, Karoo quickly gets back up and tries to keep advancing toward the King, only to find himself blocked by the Baroque Works agent again, who seemed like a shadow on his heels, constantly attacking him with his baseball bat.
Back to Cobra, the cloud of dust from his collision with the wall settles, revealing his injured and completely unconscious state; in his arms lay Lassoo, also completely unconscious.
Seeing Cobra's condition, Mr. 3 murmurs with a smug smile as he launches a shapeless mass of wax at him, "Candle Lock!"
Then, as the wax was about to hit him, a boom from the door previously sealed by Mr. 3 strikes everyone's ears.
In a matter of seconds, the wax wall blocking the entrance explodes completely, and appearing in front of the King was Nojiko, with her shield raised, fully blocking Mr. 3's attack.
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