Meanwhile, somewhere else.
Usopp and Chopper were walking around their route. They hadn't met anyone thus far, and Usopp wished it stayed that way.
"Everyone is fighting, I wish we could help them." Chopper really wanted to help his friends. They were fighting CP agents, so of course he was worried about them—like come on, what if they got cut, or something much worse? He didn't know how he would act if that were to happen to them.
"Don't worry, the others are fine. This is nothing to them," Usopp would say. He didn't think the others would lose.
"Really?!" Chopper's eyes seemed to be shining.
"Yeah, Zoro, Sanji, and Luffy are monsters, and Nami has an overpowered devil fruit. They will be fine."
Chopper seemed to calm down at that. It was good to know his friends would be aight, but at the same time something was off.
The others were fighting right now, yet for some odd reason, they were fine. If Chopper remembered right, there should be more CP agents around here, yet he couldn't smell any of them at all—like they were nowhere near.
Yet as they turned around the corner...
Usopp's Observation Haki would activate.
And before anything could happen, he would grab Chopper. Before exhaling, an explosion would happen—
Pushing them back a couple of feet, narrowly avoiding getting speared by someone.
"Oh... shi— you entered this place without authorization... for that, you... must pay... with your life..." Standing there was a man who looked Japanese. He had white hair and all—basically the embodiment of the stereotype for a ninja.
"Jabababa, we need to kill them quickly, he wants us back as soon as possible," a zipper-mouth motherfucker would say.
He looked like he was inflated, and that was not even a joke.
"Ah... we almost died." Chopper was a bit stunned. They had almost lost their lives. If it wasn't for Usopp's quick position and action, they would have been in a pack right now, and Chopper's life would have ended way too damn short.
"You saved me." Chopper seemed hopeful, looking at Usopp, who would put a finger at himself and say—
"I told you, didn't I? With me here, you have nothing to worry about."
Chopper had stars in his eyes. Usopp was so cool. He wondered if in the future he could be like his GOAT.
"Oh... shi—" Once more the drunk man was speaking.
"We were just looking around, we mean no harm. We didn't even know this place was off-limits." Usopp would lie through his teeth.
"Right, Chopper!?" Usopp said, looking at his friend, wondering why his brow was twitching like that.
Internally, Chopper decided that maybe this was one of Usopp's super-duper plans, so he decided to trust him.
"Yes, we are new to the island and just wanted to explore."
This dumbass strategy shouldn't have worked at all, since, you know, the government has pictures. However, they currently only had pictures of the front runners...
Like Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Kairo (disguised self), and Nico Robin. But apart from that, they had no pictures of the rest of the crew, so this was believable. However, that shit fell apart the second you look deep into it.
"Oh, civilians. What are you guys doing down there?"
And the dumbass with the zipper mouth believed it.
"We like to explore... yeah... and saw this tunnel and wanted to explore." The bullshit-making skill was just insane in this one.
"...But why the tunnel?" The guy was confused, like why would civilians go to the tunnel?
"We heard the announcement about the scary pirates, so we wanted to be somewhere safe."
The bullshit was indeed believable—for an idiot like the flying fat guy.
"...That makes sense..."
Usopp breathed out a sigh of relief. Thank the heavens he wouldn't have to box.
"But Spandam and the Holy Knight guy did tell us to get rid of any witnesses."
As those words left his lips, Usopp felt a shudder in his spine. Holy fuck, he was so goddamn cooked.
"Sorry, but we will have to kill you."
Listening to someone apologizing before sliming you out was not on Usopp's bingo card today.
"Oh... shi— we will make it painless. May you not be that unlucky in your next life."
The man would get ready to slime them out.
Realizing the problem they were in, Usopp would grab a bunch of rocks from his pouch, load his slingshot, the glove he was wearing secreting some sweat into the rocks.
{STAR SHINE}
Not even giving them time to turn on their Iron Body, Usopp would release twenty or so explosive rocks toward his opponents, each of them carrying the force of a grenade. It didn't help that each rock exploded until it was vaporized, leaving nothing behind.
The terrain would be lit up in an intense ray of light. Usopp, however, wasn't going to stay there and wait to get smacked.
"Chopper, let's go!"
Grabbing Chopper, he would use the built-up sweat in his glove to create mini explosions, boosting himself out of there, zooming past them at mach speed, not daring to look back.
Their goal wasn't to box, and he was NOT trynna box those guys—they would fold him.
As the explosion cleared... the two CP agents lay on the floor, their eyes whited out. They had passed out—
No... each of them had ten rock-sized holes in their body. Fukuro even had some of his bones showing... they were not just passed out...
They... were dead.
A/N Ussop did not know it, but he imbue Ryo into those rocks, so the cp9 agents had their brain destroy first before the rock pierces their skin.